deedee2177
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Honeymoon Redo Trip Report!!
Hello All! I’m looking forward to reliving this trip through this trip report! If you are following from my Pre-Trip Report…WELCOME, and thanks for following along! If you are new joiner to this journey…WELCOME to the craziness!! If you feel like a roller coaster ride of changes, please feel free to check out my Pre-Trip Report (link is in my signature).
Hello All! I’m looking forward to reliving this trip through this trip report! If you are following from my Pre-Trip Report…WELCOME, and thanks for following along! If you are new joiner to this journey…WELCOME to the craziness!! If you feel like a roller coaster ride of changes, please feel free to check out my Pre-Trip Report (link is in my signature).
So, let me start with a little background for anyone that didn’t follow along in the PTR. This trip was a Honeymoon Redo for me and my husband. We attempted a Disneymoon when we were first married, but my husband cracked his tooth and was in a lot of pain the entire trip. We have been back to Disney with the kids in November 2012 and with the Kids and Grandmas in April 2014. It was during a date night on the April trip that Keith and I decided we should try to come back just the 2 of us, and do a Honeymoon Redo.
After a bunch of decisions and changes we had our Honeymoon #2 from 11/14-11/20! J It was a very different trip just the 2 of us, we missed the kids but we also had a blast and the pace of the trip was very different! I hope you enjoy this report, and thanks for following along!
Let’s get started!!!! Let’s get the boring travel day out of the way and onto the good stuff!
11/14/15 – Departure Day
This day involved a morning of a lot of running around and getting all the final things taken care of because Keith and I hit the road! My Mom arrived around 11am and watched the kids while Keith took me over to the Rental Car place to pick up our rental car for the trip. Luckily, everything went really smooth with the car pick up (that has not always been the case in the past). I headed back to the house and a bit later I took my Step-daughter over to her Mommy’s place.
Keith packed up the car, we said out good byes to my Mom and Son and we were on the road from NC around 3pm (an hour earlier than originally planned!).
The plan was to stay overnight at about the ½ way point near Savannah, GA. We had originally thought about finding something to eat once checked into the hotel, but we both ended up getting hungry before that time. We stopped around 6:30 at an Arby’s for dinner…exciting huh? LOL
We got back on the road and arrived at our hotel about 8pm. Our good friend Billie lined up a stay for us at the Sleep Inn in Port Wentworth, GA...it was perfect! Clean, quiet and comfy bed.
We crashed pretty early, but neither of us slept too well that night....we were just so excited to get to Disney.
My goal was to be on the road by 6am the next morning…did we do it??
11/15/15 – Disney Day!!!
I can’t do an update without it actually involving some Disney! My alarm went off at 5am, and Keith actually got up and started getting ready…I think he was excited too! Not to mention I told him he can sleep in the car while I drove.
Packing up was super easy since I had just packed an overnight bag to bring in for this quick overnight stay. We both ate a quick breakfast of some items we had brought with us, and headed out to the car. So, did we hit my goal of being on the road at 6am?
YAY!!! We succeeded! After a little battle with the Map App on my phone we were on our way! The remaining trip was uneventful. We made a couple of stops, and Keith took over the driving for the last stretch. I had not received the “your room is ready” text, but I decided to check my email and lo and behold I had an email stating the room was ready!!! We were in Ranchos 6330. I of course then jumped on the TP website to find out exactly where the room was and discovered we had a corner room!!!! YAY!!!
Before we knew it we were seeing this wonderful sight!!
https://flic.kr/p/BnLR6N
Then we followed the signs to our home for the next 5 nights!
We saw our first view of the resort and it was so beautiful! We made our way around to our room. Keith and I were able to bring in all the stuff in one trip…that was new. We ran into a bit of problem with the elevators though. A CM was cleaning the one elevator and since he had the door open the other elevator would not come down. I tried to explain this to him, but he insisted I was wrong. We tried to find another elevator bank but that was the only one we could find. I asked the CM if he could close the door of the elevator or make sure it was switched “off” which would allow the other elevator to come down. He again insisted I was wrong, but he began pushing some buttons in the elevator and whatever he did it allowed the 2nd elevator to come down and get us!
Our room was not far from the elevator at all. I was super happy with the corner room…which means we have 2 windows.
I unpacked everything and we headed over to Disney Springs. We decided to drive the car so I was a bit worried about all the horror stories I had heard about the parking, but we did not have any issue at all! There were plenty of spots available in the parking deck.
Our first mission was to find something to eat, we were starving! I went and got in line at Bongo’s Cuban Café Express and Keith went down to The Smokehouse. We met back up at Bongo’s and ate our lunch. I got the Cuban Sandwich with fries and a cookie. Keith got a BBQ sandwich. The line at Bongo's was pretty long, so by the time I got back over to Keith he was pretty much done with this meal. I remembered to take a picture of my lunch.
https://flic.kr/p/BqcMkt
Once we were both full, we decided to look around at the shops. It was at this time I got a message from Wendy (AKA: @teekathepony ) who was also at Disney Springs with her husband. So, we scheduled to meet up.
Wendy and I found each other, and it was so great to meet her! We had great little chat and Keith wanted to hear all about where she lived. Wendy and I remembered to grab a picture.
After a wonderful dismeet with Wendy, Keith and checked out some more shops.
https://flic.kr/p/APo48c
We bought a few things for the kids and then decided it was time to head over to our next destination.
I think this will be a good stopping place for now. Thanks again for following along!
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