princess&her4princes
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- Mar 16, 2008
Ok, so in my previous update I promised that I would sum up the TR and post my final thoughts, but instead I jumped right into the PTR for our next vacation.
Backing up a little, here is my final update:
First of all, my thoughts on Orange Lake. It was our first time staying here, and I meant to talk about it more during the TR but never did. While this place was very beautiful, villa was very bright and clean, etc., we decided that we will not be staying here again. If we do stay off site in the future, it it will be Vistana. I hated having to drive everywhere, even to the pool or the market, at this resort. And the customer service was terrible. We tried calling for extra towels one day-it took three calls (we kept being disconnected) and 20 minutes on the phone to be told we'd be charged 7 dollars a towel! We also blew a fuse in the bathroom one morning, and we were scolded by the front desk for using two blowdryers at once (eeek!) and it took two more phone calls and 10 hours before someone come to fix it!! Those are just a couple examples, but the list goes on and on...no offense to anyone who likes it here, but we were not big fans!
All right, enough of the negative stuff! That was the only glitch of the trip...the rest of it was amazing! The location of the resort was great, 5 mins to Disney. Having our own car was great, we had a quick ride everywhere and the blue diamond parking from AAA got us a very close spot at every park. The weather this trip was PERFECT, sunny and at least 75 everyday! It only rained once and it was while we were inside.
Getting engaged didn't hurt the trip eitherIt is one I will always remember, and all week we would walk by the spot where DF proposed and call it "our spot"
And finally, I am totally stealing this idea from Kristen, princess&her4princes, but she is a sweetheart so I am sure she won't mind! She did a top ten list from her trip on her TR and I decided it was a great idea. So here it is, the top ten highlights of our trip:
10. Shuffleboard! We felt like old people on a cruise shipbut we discovered this on our trip and it was so much fun! There were some serious tournaments going on in our family with this game.
9. No waits! The longest we waited in standby the entire week was 40 mins which was fine by us, but we had a few days where everything was a walk-on pretty much.
8. Riding TSM for the first time! I wondered if this ride would live up to all of the hype and it certainly did! We absolutely loved it!
7. Pre-ordering the photopass CD. A great idea learned about here on the boards of course, it was mom's Christmas gift from us kids and she loved it. The pictures came out great and it was the first time we got all of us in them! Such great momentos
6. Mom being brave and getting on both ToT and Space Mountain. Growing up she never did many of the wilder rides, but for some reason as she gets older she loves them. Well, not so much ToT but she said she'll do Space every time from now on and it's great that she's not sitting out anymore.
5. My brother getting picked to be in the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular. This was on his "must-do" list, it was really the only thing he was dying to do, and it happened! The whole thing was hilarious and he had so much fun.
4. Whispering Canyon Cafe! We love trying new restaurants, and this is one we will definitely revisit. The food was awesome, the place was so fun, and our server was great. It made for a great last night of the trip.
3. Engagement buttons and free dessert! Everyone was so nice to DF and I, everywhere we went people were congratulating us and asking about our proposal story and to see my ringThe free cupcake we got at CP was also a nice perk, the yummiest one I've had in awhile!
2. Being together as a family! Cheesy, I know but now that we are all "grown up" and living away from home, it is nice to be together again for a week in our favorite place. My parents especially really enjoyed this.
1. The proposal! I think you guys probably guessed I'd put that as numero uno. And for obvious reasons
That's all folks!! Thanks again for reading, and if you haven't yet, coming say hi over at my new PTR!!
Hi!! Love your top ten list girlie! Especially that #1 was your engagement!!
And I'm glad you liked the idea well enough to use it on your TR, it's a great way to end your TR, and recap things!! Thanks for sharing your special moments with us!!!! Loving your new PTR!!
Thanks for reading 
