joanchris
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Planning our trip/Day 1
Cast:
Me, 30 something in charge of planning everything, last time at WDW was 1992, and the one thing I remember from that trip was that my feet hurt
DH, 30 something who wants to eat well and have fun, remembers every detail about our trip to WDW in 1992.
Wishgirl, DD10 who’s wish was granted to go to WDW (uses a wheelchair, well, we actually use it, she sits there like a princess!)
Toothless, DD6 who lost her top 2 front teeth on our last night at WDW
We’ll be joined our first 4 days by:
Popa, 60 something, my dad
Mimi, 60 something, my mom
Birdlover, 40 something, sister to Mimi
So, we’re going to WDW, for a full week, October 8-15, staying at the Contemporary to make life with a wheelchair a little easier when we can use the monorail. Airline tickets, the room and 7 day park hoppers are all set, as well as $1000 spending money. All through a great wish-granting organization called Dream Come True.
BUT there’s still soooo much planning to do!
I start by searching for good sandals to wear; I am determined to NOT have sore feet this trip. DH insists I need sneakers (so I buy new ones to appease him, I wear them our first day, on the plane, and our last day). I search high and low, trying on sandals everywhere. I read about Crocs, I order some. They're ok, but not for me, not very comfy on my foot. I keep them for garden shoes. I break down and go to the "expensive shoe store" in a small local mall. I look around, lots of ugly shoes, lots of expensive shoes. I dont' even know what to try on. I tell the sales clerk that I was going to WDW, I dont' want sore feet and I'm currently wearing my favorite sandals, but dont' think they're quite comfy enough for all week at WDW. She goes directly to a particular pair of shoes on the wall, and hands them to me. Not horrible looking, so she measures my foot and goes back to find me a pair that fits. That's when I look at the price tag. I almost faint. I figure I'll try them on and just go. So, I do. They feel FABULOUS! But, I can't spend over $110 on a pair of shoes. I look around, try on a few more pairs, but nothing is as comfy as those shoes! I give in and buy them.
Over the 5 months or so that we’re planning I buy a Passporter book, find the Dis, subscribe to TourGuideMike, and buy the Passporter For Your Special Needs. I spend HOURS every day searching, researching and planning, determined to have the perfect trip for DD10 (and the rest of us). I get so much information I have a hard time organizing things!
However, I come up with a fairly detailed itinerary for our trip, schedule at least one table service meal for every day, 3 character meals, including getting our first choice of day and time for Cinderella breakfast!
After chatting with my extended family that will be driving from South Carolina for the 8th thru the 11th I make a few adjustments but am happy with my plan.
Meanwhile, DH is getting a bit concerned about our “schedule”….. I assure him that it is there as a guide, I’ve planned what I think is workable, and the only 2 ADRs I am determined to make are Cindy’s breakfast on Tuesday am, and breakfast at the Polynesian Thursday am so I can try Tonga Toast, it sounds like heaven for me!
DAY 1
The plan: we were initially told that we would be provided transportation to and from the airport in New York (LGA). However, with our choice of the Contemporary Resort, we’ve gone up to the limit of the budget and will now have to provide our own transport, so we plan to drive to the airport, park in long term parking there. We were to get up at 415 am, wake the kids at 5am, leave the house by 515am. Be at the airport by 645 for our 808am flight.
Arrive at our hotel around noon after taking magical express, check in, leave bags as room should not be ready, and head to Epcot for a 2pm ADR in Mexico (just for munchies as dinner is at 530 at Ohana where we should be joined by the rest of the cast), then wander around Epcot til 4, go back to the hotel, see our room, then go to the Poly for dinner.
What happened:
Well, we woke before our alarms, too excited. That was good as we used every minute we had since it’s too early for us to function optimally! Kids wake without protest, we’re going to Disney! They’ve never flown either so that’s a big thing.
We drive in light rain to LGA, decide to park as it’s getting late, rather than have DH drop me and the kids off first. We go to long term parking, it’s full………No time for figuring out what to do, we head to short term parking (it is not actually defined as to what short term is) we just park in the Handicapped spots right near the elevator, and go, almost forgetting to put up the Handicapped placard!
Luckily someone had left a baggage cart right near where we parked, so we load up the suitcases and go. By the time we go in, check in, get the boarding passes and check the bags there’s barely time to use the facilities before heading to the gate. Then, as soon as we get to the gate, someone spots us and the Wishgirl in her chair, and says they can board us right away. Luckily I got off a few pictures of Toothless looking out the window amazed at the size of the plane.
We’re all set to go, the plane pulls away from the gate, and we’re ON TIME…….THEN, the pilot announces that there’s a problem with an indicator light for the hydraulics (yikes) and we have to go back to the gate. Now, 20 min later, all is well with the hydraulics, and the pilot announces we should be on our way………but wait, 10 min later he comes back on and says we’re STUCK to the terminal, they cannot disconnect the plane……..Finally, we take off, an hour late, but we’re off.
The girls love the plane, Toothless is fascinated by the clouds, by the ground when we can finally see it (in Fl) and by everything aeronautical. We’re off to less than perfect, but ok start.
We arrive and head right to the Magical Express Desk. Well, that’s not exactly it, we head away from the gate (after waiting for the wheelchair to be brought back up to us), and keep going and going……I had no idea how far it would be to get to the desk. We finally make it there, DH goes to the men’s room, and I see the HUGE line. UGH. Then a cast member spots us, and Wishgirl and her chair, asks for our vouchers, and escorts us to the CM at the front, they check us in and mention that we’ll have to wait for a special bus, they escort us to the doors and say we can wait there. I ask how much time I have, they said 15 min at least, so I take Wishgirl to the potty (this is no small or quick endeavor with her, mind you). I use the facilities, promising her I’ll get her on in a minute….when I hear DH talking to a CM outside the ladies room, he sends Toothless in to get me. They’re ready to board us! Well, Wishgirl uses the facilities only when she feels like it, so must wear protection all the time, so I tell her it’s ok, just do her thing if she must and we’ll go as soon as we get to the hotel (I feel down below and it seems as if she’s gone ahead and done her thing already anyhow, so I try not to feel guilty for depriving her!).
The driver loads us up on the bus, then lets everyone else on. Then he comes back and informs us that he’ll do us a favor and make us the last stop so we won’t be rushed unloading. WHAT? A favor making us LAST? I wouldn’t have cared if that’s the way it ended up, but hey, it’s no favor for us to be last! No big deal, a few stops and we’re at our hotel, checking in (me) and taking care of Wishgirl (DH).
The CM at the desk checking us in was fabulous. It was only about 1pm (about one hour off our schedule) and he first mentions that there is a note from the package center that our packages had arrived (we had shipped some of Wishgirl’s supplies ahead of us). Hooray. I mention our request for a Castle view room (which I had mentioned the week before when inquiring about shipping the package, mentioning the fact that it was a wish trip too). He asks if it will make my day if he said our room was ready, I ask first if it’s a castle view (figure if it’s not I’ll wait and see if we can get a castle view later that day!), he says yes and we’re on the 12th floor (room 484x)! Hooray.
So, after assigning charging privileges to mine and DH’s cards, we go up to our room. We are amazed at the great view and the girls get their first view of the Magic Kingdom and the Castle. I get pictures.
We’re off again to get the monorail (more pictures, please).
Toothless is fascinated with all modes of travel, and the monorail has been calling her for months! We make our way to the TTC and then to Epcot,
proceed to Guest Services to get a Guest Assistance Card (GAC) for Wishgirl and head to………..Well, this was supposed to be Soarin for some FP s but since we’re so off our schedule we just head to the World Showcase. It’s too late for our ADR in Mexico, but we do need to eat something. We go towards Mexico (figure we can at least do the boat ride), but need to find food. It is the Food and Wine fest and all…….
We get to Norway, see the Kringla Bakery and decide (well, toothless and I decide) we need food from there. It’s 3 pm and we haven’t eaten anything “real” all day. I see chocolate cake I want, Toothless sees waffles. The person directly in front of me had asked for a waffle and was given one of the ones in the case. I ask for a waffle and they need to make more. Ok. Person behind me asks for two waffles, another asks for two waffles…….They take the two waffles out of the iron and prepare them, and hand them to the person behind me! I tried to say something but the person was already walking off to pay. They prepare 2 more (very long to make waffles!) I remind them as they take some waffles out of the maker that I need a plain one, sugar only, no apple. The CM replies that these waffles are not mine either! I ask Toothless if she really must have waffles, YES she says. OK. DH is outside wondering what’s up…..I start yelling out the door of Kringla that “somehow people who come in behind me keep getting served ahead of me and this is not a very magical start to my vacation!” Someone get this lady a drink, NOW!
I’m almost devouring my chocolate cake despite my lack of utensils……..Finaly we get our waffle, I pay, get utensils, and we’re off! I do devour my cake in about one minute once outside. Toothless at least really enjoys her waffle.
We wanted to go to the boatride in Norway, but it’s closed for the day. We head to Mexico for their boatride. As soon as we’re near the ride a CM sees us and we get shown in the exit, and get on the next boat. Hooray, finally a ride! As we exit Mexico I see the Margarita stand outside. DH and Toothless head off to find DH some food and Wishgirl and I wait in line to get me a much needed margarita!
Did I mention it’s really hot out? Well, I’m still kind of hungry, and really thirsty, and hot. Pushing Wishgirl and her chair is hard work………..I DOWN my margarita pretty quick. Whew, that tastes good. Meanwhile I’m walking to meet up with DH. Now what did he say? Something about meeting where the paths meet up? I keep walking looking for paths meeting up. I get to the fountain just before the big ball……still no DH. So Wishgirl and I just stop and wait there. Wow, that drink was strong. I’m actually wondering if I’m safe to be pushing Wishgirl in her chair! I figure we’ll just stay still for a bit. Still no DH. I use my cell phone (there will be lots of that during this trip) and call DH. Apparantly I was supposed to go down the side path, near the baby care center or something. I tell him to come to me, I’m at the fountain in front of the ball. He calls me back and says he’s at the fountain…..where am I? How much did I drink again. I look next to me, yes, there’s a fountain there. I tell him I’m at a really BIG fountain, where is he? Finally, we meet up.
We decide to go on Spaceship Earth, since we’ve already been in our room there’s no need to go back to the room so we can spend more time at Epcot and go directly to the Poly and our Ohana ADR from there. Again, we’re able to go in the exit, we do have to wait, but at least it’s in the airconditioning and Wishgirl certainly needs that (she doesn’t sweat, gets overheated easily---we though October would be a bit cooler and less humid than it was--we’ll go in December next time!).
We’re waiting and my cell rings, I get a static-y sounding Popa on the other end, I think they’re at their hotel, but I lose him. I’m pleased as I had planned our first night at Ohana’s for all of us together and they had said they may not make it in time for dinner that night and would just see us the next day. Well, they had always lived nearby us but moved to South Carolina in May, and we hadn’t seem them since. We all missed them a lot and wanted every minute with them we could. Wishgirl and Popa are great together, noone can make Wishgirl smile and laugh like her Popa!
We’re all enjoying Spaceship Earth when my cell rings again. It’s Popa again, a bit clearer now. He’s saying something about meeting us at OUR hotel at 530 and I’m trying to tell him NO, meet at the Poly. We lose him again. So, we’re off the ride and I call him back from outside. We finally speak clearly and I explain where we were, I’m surprised we got through to each other at all inside there.
So, we leave Epcot for our ADR. Take the Monorail to the TTC. We were going to transfer to the resort monorail, but I tell DH that we can walk to the Poly from the TTC and maybe it’d be easier than going back up the ramp, and waiting for the next monorail. We had a nice leisurely walk around the Poly. I’d love to stay there sometime, it was beautiful!
We met up with the rest of my family at Ohana for dinner. All the adults ordered Lapu Lapus to drink. Fabulous!
Dinner was pretty good, DH loved the shrimp, we all loved the potatoes! The meats were ok, but I’m not sure I’d go back there again. Toothless did NOT like the meats (she usually likes turkey and steak), so the server got her some mac n cheese, which she also didn’t like (it looked different than Kraft, what can I say)! I think she was just really tired. We all had some of the fabulous bread pudding and ice cream for dessert, Toothless ate some ice cream.
We said goodbye for the night after some shopping in the Poly stores, planned to meet up at MGM the next morning and left. We got back to the room, got the girls settled, let them look out at the Castle all lit up (they were amazed) and they went to sleep.
DH and I got settled, into bed, it was very early but we were up very early. I knew the MK fireworks would be at 10 pm that night, and it was 945. So, I mentioned it to DH, and he says I should go ahead and watch them. Disappointed that he doesn’t want to see them, I mention that it would be romantic and get up and go out to the balcony. A few minutes later DH comes out. We get to enjoy the fireworks together our first night there, all alone on our balcony. How romantic. I think that was our last peaceful moment of the trip!
Next, Day 2, The Plan: Animal Kingdom AND Blizzard Beach
Cast:
Me, 30 something in charge of planning everything, last time at WDW was 1992, and the one thing I remember from that trip was that my feet hurt
DH, 30 something who wants to eat well and have fun, remembers every detail about our trip to WDW in 1992.
Wishgirl, DD10 who’s wish was granted to go to WDW (uses a wheelchair, well, we actually use it, she sits there like a princess!)
Toothless, DD6 who lost her top 2 front teeth on our last night at WDW
We’ll be joined our first 4 days by:
Popa, 60 something, my dad
Mimi, 60 something, my mom
Birdlover, 40 something, sister to Mimi
So, we’re going to WDW, for a full week, October 8-15, staying at the Contemporary to make life with a wheelchair a little easier when we can use the monorail. Airline tickets, the room and 7 day park hoppers are all set, as well as $1000 spending money. All through a great wish-granting organization called Dream Come True.
BUT there’s still soooo much planning to do!
I start by searching for good sandals to wear; I am determined to NOT have sore feet this trip. DH insists I need sneakers (so I buy new ones to appease him, I wear them our first day, on the plane, and our last day). I search high and low, trying on sandals everywhere. I read about Crocs, I order some. They're ok, but not for me, not very comfy on my foot. I keep them for garden shoes. I break down and go to the "expensive shoe store" in a small local mall. I look around, lots of ugly shoes, lots of expensive shoes. I dont' even know what to try on. I tell the sales clerk that I was going to WDW, I dont' want sore feet and I'm currently wearing my favorite sandals, but dont' think they're quite comfy enough for all week at WDW. She goes directly to a particular pair of shoes on the wall, and hands them to me. Not horrible looking, so she measures my foot and goes back to find me a pair that fits. That's when I look at the price tag. I almost faint. I figure I'll try them on and just go. So, I do. They feel FABULOUS! But, I can't spend over $110 on a pair of shoes. I look around, try on a few more pairs, but nothing is as comfy as those shoes! I give in and buy them.
Over the 5 months or so that we’re planning I buy a Passporter book, find the Dis, subscribe to TourGuideMike, and buy the Passporter For Your Special Needs. I spend HOURS every day searching, researching and planning, determined to have the perfect trip for DD10 (and the rest of us). I get so much information I have a hard time organizing things!
However, I come up with a fairly detailed itinerary for our trip, schedule at least one table service meal for every day, 3 character meals, including getting our first choice of day and time for Cinderella breakfast!
After chatting with my extended family that will be driving from South Carolina for the 8th thru the 11th I make a few adjustments but am happy with my plan.
Meanwhile, DH is getting a bit concerned about our “schedule”….. I assure him that it is there as a guide, I’ve planned what I think is workable, and the only 2 ADRs I am determined to make are Cindy’s breakfast on Tuesday am, and breakfast at the Polynesian Thursday am so I can try Tonga Toast, it sounds like heaven for me!
DAY 1
The plan: we were initially told that we would be provided transportation to and from the airport in New York (LGA). However, with our choice of the Contemporary Resort, we’ve gone up to the limit of the budget and will now have to provide our own transport, so we plan to drive to the airport, park in long term parking there. We were to get up at 415 am, wake the kids at 5am, leave the house by 515am. Be at the airport by 645 for our 808am flight.
Arrive at our hotel around noon after taking magical express, check in, leave bags as room should not be ready, and head to Epcot for a 2pm ADR in Mexico (just for munchies as dinner is at 530 at Ohana where we should be joined by the rest of the cast), then wander around Epcot til 4, go back to the hotel, see our room, then go to the Poly for dinner.
What happened:
Well, we woke before our alarms, too excited. That was good as we used every minute we had since it’s too early for us to function optimally! Kids wake without protest, we’re going to Disney! They’ve never flown either so that’s a big thing.
We drive in light rain to LGA, decide to park as it’s getting late, rather than have DH drop me and the kids off first. We go to long term parking, it’s full………No time for figuring out what to do, we head to short term parking (it is not actually defined as to what short term is) we just park in the Handicapped spots right near the elevator, and go, almost forgetting to put up the Handicapped placard!
Luckily someone had left a baggage cart right near where we parked, so we load up the suitcases and go. By the time we go in, check in, get the boarding passes and check the bags there’s barely time to use the facilities before heading to the gate. Then, as soon as we get to the gate, someone spots us and the Wishgirl in her chair, and says they can board us right away. Luckily I got off a few pictures of Toothless looking out the window amazed at the size of the plane.
We’re all set to go, the plane pulls away from the gate, and we’re ON TIME…….THEN, the pilot announces that there’s a problem with an indicator light for the hydraulics (yikes) and we have to go back to the gate. Now, 20 min later, all is well with the hydraulics, and the pilot announces we should be on our way………but wait, 10 min later he comes back on and says we’re STUCK to the terminal, they cannot disconnect the plane……..Finally, we take off, an hour late, but we’re off.
The girls love the plane, Toothless is fascinated by the clouds, by the ground when we can finally see it (in Fl) and by everything aeronautical. We’re off to less than perfect, but ok start.
We arrive and head right to the Magical Express Desk. Well, that’s not exactly it, we head away from the gate (after waiting for the wheelchair to be brought back up to us), and keep going and going……I had no idea how far it would be to get to the desk. We finally make it there, DH goes to the men’s room, and I see the HUGE line. UGH. Then a cast member spots us, and Wishgirl and her chair, asks for our vouchers, and escorts us to the CM at the front, they check us in and mention that we’ll have to wait for a special bus, they escort us to the doors and say we can wait there. I ask how much time I have, they said 15 min at least, so I take Wishgirl to the potty (this is no small or quick endeavor with her, mind you). I use the facilities, promising her I’ll get her on in a minute….when I hear DH talking to a CM outside the ladies room, he sends Toothless in to get me. They’re ready to board us! Well, Wishgirl uses the facilities only when she feels like it, so must wear protection all the time, so I tell her it’s ok, just do her thing if she must and we’ll go as soon as we get to the hotel (I feel down below and it seems as if she’s gone ahead and done her thing already anyhow, so I try not to feel guilty for depriving her!).
The driver loads us up on the bus, then lets everyone else on. Then he comes back and informs us that he’ll do us a favor and make us the last stop so we won’t be rushed unloading. WHAT? A favor making us LAST? I wouldn’t have cared if that’s the way it ended up, but hey, it’s no favor for us to be last! No big deal, a few stops and we’re at our hotel, checking in (me) and taking care of Wishgirl (DH).
The CM at the desk checking us in was fabulous. It was only about 1pm (about one hour off our schedule) and he first mentions that there is a note from the package center that our packages had arrived (we had shipped some of Wishgirl’s supplies ahead of us). Hooray. I mention our request for a Castle view room (which I had mentioned the week before when inquiring about shipping the package, mentioning the fact that it was a wish trip too). He asks if it will make my day if he said our room was ready, I ask first if it’s a castle view (figure if it’s not I’ll wait and see if we can get a castle view later that day!), he says yes and we’re on the 12th floor (room 484x)! Hooray.
So, after assigning charging privileges to mine and DH’s cards, we go up to our room. We are amazed at the great view and the girls get their first view of the Magic Kingdom and the Castle. I get pictures.
We’re off again to get the monorail (more pictures, please).
Toothless is fascinated with all modes of travel, and the monorail has been calling her for months! We make our way to the TTC and then to Epcot,
proceed to Guest Services to get a Guest Assistance Card (GAC) for Wishgirl and head to………..Well, this was supposed to be Soarin for some FP s but since we’re so off our schedule we just head to the World Showcase. It’s too late for our ADR in Mexico, but we do need to eat something. We go towards Mexico (figure we can at least do the boat ride), but need to find food. It is the Food and Wine fest and all…….
We get to Norway, see the Kringla Bakery and decide (well, toothless and I decide) we need food from there. It’s 3 pm and we haven’t eaten anything “real” all day. I see chocolate cake I want, Toothless sees waffles. The person directly in front of me had asked for a waffle and was given one of the ones in the case. I ask for a waffle and they need to make more. Ok. Person behind me asks for two waffles, another asks for two waffles…….They take the two waffles out of the iron and prepare them, and hand them to the person behind me! I tried to say something but the person was already walking off to pay. They prepare 2 more (very long to make waffles!) I remind them as they take some waffles out of the maker that I need a plain one, sugar only, no apple. The CM replies that these waffles are not mine either! I ask Toothless if she really must have waffles, YES she says. OK. DH is outside wondering what’s up…..I start yelling out the door of Kringla that “somehow people who come in behind me keep getting served ahead of me and this is not a very magical start to my vacation!” Someone get this lady a drink, NOW!
I’m almost devouring my chocolate cake despite my lack of utensils……..Finaly we get our waffle, I pay, get utensils, and we’re off! I do devour my cake in about one minute once outside. Toothless at least really enjoys her waffle.
We wanted to go to the boatride in Norway, but it’s closed for the day. We head to Mexico for their boatride. As soon as we’re near the ride a CM sees us and we get shown in the exit, and get on the next boat. Hooray, finally a ride! As we exit Mexico I see the Margarita stand outside. DH and Toothless head off to find DH some food and Wishgirl and I wait in line to get me a much needed margarita!
Did I mention it’s really hot out? Well, I’m still kind of hungry, and really thirsty, and hot. Pushing Wishgirl and her chair is hard work………..I DOWN my margarita pretty quick. Whew, that tastes good. Meanwhile I’m walking to meet up with DH. Now what did he say? Something about meeting where the paths meet up? I keep walking looking for paths meeting up. I get to the fountain just before the big ball……still no DH. So Wishgirl and I just stop and wait there. Wow, that drink was strong. I’m actually wondering if I’m safe to be pushing Wishgirl in her chair! I figure we’ll just stay still for a bit. Still no DH. I use my cell phone (there will be lots of that during this trip) and call DH. Apparantly I was supposed to go down the side path, near the baby care center or something. I tell him to come to me, I’m at the fountain in front of the ball. He calls me back and says he’s at the fountain…..where am I? How much did I drink again. I look next to me, yes, there’s a fountain there. I tell him I’m at a really BIG fountain, where is he? Finally, we meet up.
We decide to go on Spaceship Earth, since we’ve already been in our room there’s no need to go back to the room so we can spend more time at Epcot and go directly to the Poly and our Ohana ADR from there. Again, we’re able to go in the exit, we do have to wait, but at least it’s in the airconditioning and Wishgirl certainly needs that (she doesn’t sweat, gets overheated easily---we though October would be a bit cooler and less humid than it was--we’ll go in December next time!).
We’re waiting and my cell rings, I get a static-y sounding Popa on the other end, I think they’re at their hotel, but I lose him. I’m pleased as I had planned our first night at Ohana’s for all of us together and they had said they may not make it in time for dinner that night and would just see us the next day. Well, they had always lived nearby us but moved to South Carolina in May, and we hadn’t seem them since. We all missed them a lot and wanted every minute with them we could. Wishgirl and Popa are great together, noone can make Wishgirl smile and laugh like her Popa!
We’re all enjoying Spaceship Earth when my cell rings again. It’s Popa again, a bit clearer now. He’s saying something about meeting us at OUR hotel at 530 and I’m trying to tell him NO, meet at the Poly. We lose him again. So, we’re off the ride and I call him back from outside. We finally speak clearly and I explain where we were, I’m surprised we got through to each other at all inside there.
So, we leave Epcot for our ADR. Take the Monorail to the TTC. We were going to transfer to the resort monorail, but I tell DH that we can walk to the Poly from the TTC and maybe it’d be easier than going back up the ramp, and waiting for the next monorail. We had a nice leisurely walk around the Poly. I’d love to stay there sometime, it was beautiful!
We met up with the rest of my family at Ohana for dinner. All the adults ordered Lapu Lapus to drink. Fabulous!
Dinner was pretty good, DH loved the shrimp, we all loved the potatoes! The meats were ok, but I’m not sure I’d go back there again. Toothless did NOT like the meats (she usually likes turkey and steak), so the server got her some mac n cheese, which she also didn’t like (it looked different than Kraft, what can I say)! I think she was just really tired. We all had some of the fabulous bread pudding and ice cream for dessert, Toothless ate some ice cream.
We said goodbye for the night after some shopping in the Poly stores, planned to meet up at MGM the next morning and left. We got back to the room, got the girls settled, let them look out at the Castle all lit up (they were amazed) and they went to sleep.
DH and I got settled, into bed, it was very early but we were up very early. I knew the MK fireworks would be at 10 pm that night, and it was 945. So, I mentioned it to DH, and he says I should go ahead and watch them. Disappointed that he doesn’t want to see them, I mention that it would be romantic and get up and go out to the balcony. A few minutes later DH comes out. We get to enjoy the fireworks together our first night there, all alone on our balcony. How romantic. I think that was our last peaceful moment of the trip!
Next, Day 2, The Plan: Animal Kingdom AND Blizzard Beach
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