SOUTHERNtinkerBELLE
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- Jan 14, 2010
Yay for your room being ready! CBR looks so nice! I might need to add it to my list of possible future resorts!
I love all the pictures of CBR. It just looks so relaxing! Beautiful!
Jackie, guess what I just found out....
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Great pics of the CBR (we've visited and walked around a couple of times). I love "sibling" affection. My boys (now 24 and 22) were very affectionate from the time the youngest was born until they were about 5 and 3. Then it ended. To this day, they do not get along and barely speak. They love each other and would DO anything for each other, they are just so TOTALLY opposite in personality, style, etc. Can't wait to read about the "cute waiters."
After giving you a heart attack about going to Teppan Edo the King of Teppan Edo decides to go with the original plan! Guess next time he better take that nap!
Your pictures make me realize how pretty CBR is. I stayed there during my second on-site stay and I loved the spread out, tropical feel. What a pretty resort. I may be due for a quick trip back there.
So funny that the kids knew the right way to the room. I remember getting all twisted around in different directions when I stayed there until I FINALLY found room.
So what's this about your sense of direction? Can I accuse you of having a Denny and Charles moment?
Loved you pic of the kids together on the bridge.
Good job, CP!
The folks at Caribbean Beach apparently knew they were hosting some DIS celebrities.
Are there really cute waiters?
Aaah, yes, our little Chelsea is definitely a teenager!
Sounds like an awesome location! Did you book standard or preferred? Beautiful picture of Chelsea and Connor!
My sense of direction is terrible! I can completely relate. How wonderful that your room was ready. After the drive (because Charles worked so hard at it) I'm sure you wanted a longer rest before heading straight to dinner. Still, semi surprising he gave up Teppan!
Cute waiters never even occurred to me when I booked Tutto for us....now I'm really excited!
Great resort pictures!
The kids are too cute! The picture of them on the bridge is precious!
ooh, cute Italian waiters?! Sign me up!!
Late to the party but I'm here!
9 stops from GA! We didn't even have that many when we drove from MA!
I hope Chelsea took pictures of the cute waiters at Tutto! I've never been there
We used to eat at Alfredo's (before it was Tutto) all the time when I was growing up. The waiters always flirted with my older sister and she would turn bright red!
Too funny that it was the cute waiters that made her forget about Teppan Edo.
The CBR looks like a beautiful resort, this is one I definitely want to stay at some time.
Another great update, looking forward to the next one
Great Updates. I love the CBR and your pics of it are beautiful.
What a beautiful resort! This is the one I want to try next!
I hope we get to see some pics from your room!
What??? After the near heart attack he gave you about wanting to eat there???
Loving your report Jackie. I'm with you on finding the room first without the luggage.
Come on, is ANYONE interested in finding out who this family was?
We got in our room about 1 hour before Jackie, room 5103. We were walking out of our room to go to the main pool for a swim, when this familiar looking man walked by, then when I saw the rest of his family, I knew instantly that it was Jackie. It happened so fast, and totally unexpected. This was the first time I saw a DISer on our many trips to DW.
I have no sense of directions at all.
The resort photo are beautiful. It looks so relaxing.
My kids like each other better at Disney too.
Did Charles get a small nap in before dinner since he didn't nap on the drive down?
Looking forward to dinner.
Great pics of CBR! I love that Charles was persuading Chelsea with hopes of looking at hot waiters!! Crack me up. What you will do sometimes for rest.
I think it is funny that your kids liked to chase the birds. Cooper, my oldest, does not bother a bird at all until he gets to WDW and then it is his favorite activity to try to catch one. He harassed one at the GF so much I had to make him stop and come sit down and eat at Gasparillas.
Great pictures of CBR! It was the first ever Disney resort I stayed at. it's been almost 10 years since that trip, how time flies...
Chelsea is too funny asking about the waiters at Tutto I hope she used her camera there!
Yay, an update!!
CBR is BEAUTIFUL! I don't know if I have ever looked at many pictures of it, wow!! Wonderful pictures around the resort, thanks for the walk! The picture of the kids on the bridge is adorable.
Chelsea truly is a teenager isn't she? And Charles must have REALLY wanted some relaxing time to point out the cute waiters fact!
Me, me! I was interested! How very cool that you randomly ran into each other!
LOL!!! So glad Chelsea was okay with Tutto Italia after it was confirmed there were cute waiters there!! Of course I want to find out for myself if the waiters are cute there too LOL!!
What a great room! I remember when you texted me about the room I was so happy for you!!! Nothing beats a great room and a great view!!!!! That resort just looks gorgeous!!!
Our stay at CB was so much fun in the mornings. We would get breafast & eat outside. The birds would gather with some alighting on the chair backs, so we would slip them tidbits. They were so tame & added to our enjoyment.
I love the small cay, it was nice to walk in & explore.
I've been reading this report since it was started, but just made an account yesterday. Just wanted to say how great it is! Can't wait to read more!
CBR is our favorite mod resort. We love it there! Thanks for sharing your pictures. Great update!
I love their gift shop too.
i love it!
your pictures of CBR are really beautiful! makes me want to stay there someday.
I love that Alice quote.
I'm sure the kids were just tickled that they were right and you were wrong. Pretty cool that you had a little DIS meet though!
Glad to hear that your room was great besides being a bit far from the bus stops! Love the pics of the grounds. CBR is such a beautiful resort! I would have been dying to try out that pool myself.
I hope you framed that picture of the kids hugging.
I just love this picture of Connor. He is such a character!
Chelsea and the cute waiters.
Looking forward to hearing about your dinner!
Thanks for the tour of CBR, your pictures were wonderful.
CBR always looks so pretty! We have friends headed there in less than two months, ( I am the trip planner) so I just love these pics!
Tutto yummo! Can you tell I have class through dinner hour and could clearly use some good food before say 8 tonight!
Love the sibling kindness pics. Luke goes around hitting his sisters.... so we have no love right now!
I'm late to the game but thanks to your super handy links, I am all caught up. Welcome back Jackie! Isn't it funny how we always have great intentions of leaving early but last minute things always sneak up? I'm glad you got to enjoy a little leisure time, strolling around CBR. It looks so pretty!!!
Wow! Congrats on capturing the ever elusive sibling affection! WDW just brings out the best in all of us!
Connor's face while he's contemplating the locked door is too cute. Would love to know what he was thinking about at the time b/c am sure he had a whole back story put together as to what was going on behind there!
No photos of the cute waiters?? Two of you w/ cameras and nothing???
Sorry you had to forego Teppan Edo (or did you fit it in later in the week?) but it's always fun to have something to look forward to on the next trip. Charles likes it so much maybe he'll make a trip just to eat there?
The resort looks gorgeous!!!
Thanks for the super update!
So funny about the waiters! Ah, to be a teenage girl again!
Great pictures and view from your room! It is always nice to see sibling affection and is amazing how Disney can bring that out.
Charles is too funny telling Chelsea about the cute Italian waiters. I remember going there as a teenager and eating in Italy for that very reason!
Looking forward to seeing if Chelsea was able to see any cute waiters!
Charles will learn the hard way one of these days about taking all the bags to the room before you inspect the room. Makes switching rooms if there is a problem all the more a hassle. I speak from experience....
Did you smell the coconut scent at the gift shop?? I loved that when I was there.
Great view!
I love how cute waiters make Tutto more appealing
I need to make an ADR tonight
So glad everyone was happy with the Resort!
Can't wait to hear about your 1st meal. And those cute waiters!
I am so spoiled this year. It started last Oct. I got my trip since my annual World Waterpark conference was at the Coronado. At that time, I had friends all ready to do a trip in the next year. I upgraded to the annual pass. The trip with friends was New Years.
On to Sept. My DS 16 has off labor day and 2 days at the end of that week. Since I took when my DD when she turned 16 and did the Backstage safari tour, I felt I owed my DS.
The Oct Trip ( trips really )are bookends on the conference again. The problem is the conference is in San Antonio this year. The year of the annual pass.
Oh Yeah, the July trip was a bonus trip. The fireworks, ToT and of course that parade ( that I hear just got extended) was luring me down. So I gave in.
Will look for MSEP.
I saw Aruba and started thinking the trip I went with my DD we stayed at CBR in Aruba. I happen to have the resort map handy ( don't ask ) and we were in 5130. Great location. right by the bridge and pool. Right in between the 2 bus stops but if you could do a straight line through the parking lot I don't remember it being too bad.
Love the Alice in Wonderland quote.
I am I am. Can I start singing that song... about the not so large orb we live on? I am trying not to have everyone singing it for days.
So great that you "bumped" into each other.
Such pretty pictures of the resort and grounds!
Love the picture of Connor at the door.....perhaps he was thinking of a new storyline for a future movie!
Hope you have some pictures of the cute waiters!
How fun that you had an impromptu Dismeet!
Tracy
How did I miss your travel report? Okay nine stops? We would have never arrived!
Love the pic of you at check-in!! The resort looks great!
Seems like no matter which way I walk around one of those buildings, I always choose the wrong-translate-long-way.
Glad you're there and your room location seems to have been met with approval!
Love the resort pictures, Disney does such a fantastic job of taking you away to exotic locations!
As usual Connor is a hoot with his poses, and Chelsea, well, yes, she is a teen!
Our waiter at Tutto must have been 70....
and I nabbed that MSEP cd way back the end of MAY!!!
All I can say is WOW...that resort is even more beautiful than I could imagine!
Don't ya love when they point our they were right and we were wrong.....
Beautiful resort! Too bad it was far from the bus stops, but close to everything else!
I love that she trusted your opinion on the waiters. If we wanted to convince Tessa to go to Tutto, all we would have had to do was say that we wanted Teppan.
John and I were in Aruba on our second anniversary trip. We were right across front he bus stop though and quite a ways away from the path across the island.
YAY! You started and I'm already behind! Love Charles' incognito Disney ice cream picture
Looks like Chelsea had a great birthday!! Can't believe she's a teenager already!
I just love your car rides..there's definitely always an adventure for you during them! I'm so excited you stayed at CBR, we always stayed there when I was a little kid, so I haven't been back there since 2002. It's funny though, I love the rooms, but I always always ALWAYS get turned around at the way the rooms are set up, it's like a maze sometimes trying to locate your room!
hey jackie!! better late than never! I'm here! alrighty, i'm going back to catch up!
great updates so far! Loving the pics of the birthday celebration! So cute!! and of course I'm loving the pics of your arrival at WDW...especially CBR!! Makes me want to be there again! You got a great room location!! Aruba is where we stayed also but not that close to the bridge! so convenient! Can't wait to see what happens next!
Signing onto your TR. Can't wait to hear about more of your trip!
Yay for your room being ready! CBR looks so nice! I might need to add it to my list of possible future resorts!
Here just found you can't wait to hear about the parks we are going in Sept. for a few days
Looks like you had a beautiful location!!
Can't wait to hear about the waiters!
You slid that update in yesterday and I missed it! Well just read now, and gee, it looks like someone reserved the whole resort! I didn't see a soul in those photos! It was like you were by yourself! I often notice that at Disney resorts .. you can feel really alone, or really "squished!" Nice pictures that Chelsea took!
Oh that was too funny about the waiters... Well that is one way to get a teenage girl to cooperate!!! The grounds at CBR are so pretty!
Jackie, You have one fast-moving TR. I can't miss a day or I'm pages behind. Just out of curiosity, did you get any photos of your room interior at CBR? I'd love to see one if you did.
So, are you doing the Backstage Safari with your DS? That would be so neat!
You should definitely add it to your list! It was a lovely place to stay!
Are you doing Free Dining?
Yeap we got the free tickets for volunteering and doing the free dinning we are staying at pop Because we just wanted to do counter service (it is the first time hubby and I are goin alone we usely go with my parents) so we are staying at pop. Wanted to stay at ak but you have to do delux dinning.
I had offered up the Segway tour to him. He is not as big of an animal lover as my DD is. He does not really want to spend 3 hours of park time on the segway tour and that price tag for both of us is steep. We are going to stop by Innoventions early in the trip for the free demo and if he likes it and wants more there is a 1 hour I believe.
I have done the Segway at work. We have a nature preserve in our County park and rec. and we were guinea pigs when they started offering segway tours for the public. I think My DS would like it, but he was a bit bicycle phobic so I am sure the thought of it makes him nervous but I am sure he will have fun.
Yeap we got the free tickets for volunteering and doing the free dinning we are staying at pop Because we just wanted to do counter service (it is the first time hubby and I are goin alone we usely go with my parents) so we are staying at pop. Wanted to stay at ak but you have to do delux dinning.