1st Trip Ever - Over 2000 Pictures!!!

[jpmandan]

I like POP too. Love the TR. Looks like Y'all had fun. We will be at POFQ 5/29 till 6/5 CAN't WAIT! I'm going to do a live TR from my phone, hope it turnes out good.

 

[budafam]

I remember hearing thunder and seeing lots of lightening right around 3am. I was so worried about the weather, I hardly slept that night. We all got up at 5:30am that Sunday morning. Mickey had visited and left the kids a welcome note under the door. They were so excited!

We all wore our matching shirts that day until later on when we changed. We also had our 1st time visitor pins and my birthday pin. I want to comment on that as well... I must've had 300 people say Happy Birthday to me while I was there. It was fun but somewhat annoying after awhile. Although I do recommend wearing a pin like that when you go to eat. We got extra perks because of that (good views, yummy cupcakes and souvenirs).

Anyways, back to that morning. We ate breakfast in our room & headed out by 6:45. We took the monorail over to MK. The whole trip over was so surreal to me. I just couldn't believe this was it! There were workers sweeping water everywhere. I just LOVE how Disney takes care of everything (even mother nature) as much as they can.

Within a minute of arriving to the park, they chose the family of the day and they were literally about 5 feet away from us (argh!) I was so hoping to get chosen. Oh well, maybe another day. We had a CM come over by us and he gave the kids pixie dust (little Mickey confetti). It was great! They loved it and put it in their pockets to keep safe. He took our family picture and then we waited. When the music came on, I almost cried. I said *almost*. I was so worried about crying during this whole trip that I never once shed a tear. I had watched the youtube videos at home of all the shows and bawled my eyes out then (DH thinks I'm crazy) but I was just so excited to see what my kids thought of it all. The park officially opened at 9am with fireworks and all. Here are some pictures from the morning:

Lucy's first monorail ride.

Next up: Seeing the castle for the first time!!! ​

 

[budafam]

Can't wait to read your trip report, we were there the some time. We stayed over in the 80's building though. The weather was perfect, we had a flight delay due to the rain on the 14th. Thought it was funny that they said they were hving a cold front.

We really loved the 80's building too.. a lot of neat stuff over there. That rain was crazy. We got so lucky with the weather being good!

 

[budafam]

Just came in to say that I just took my first trip: May 16-May 23 & we stayed at the Pop Century as well

Yay! Welcome

 

[budafam]

Sounds like a great trip. I can't wait to hear all about it.

Thanks! I hope I can get it done quickly before I forget too much... so far so good.

 

[budafam]

Hey, just found your report and I'm in!!! We are going in July, and taking my 2 cousins who are the same ages as your children (Solomon is 4 and Abigail is 2). Love your pictures and detail so far!!! Can't wait to read more!!!

Thank you I think it's a great age to take the kids. We're planning on waiting a few more years till the next time but I think every child should experience it young. It's so magical then!

 

[budafam]

Hi joining in to hear all about your trip, so sorry to hear about your mom I lost my mom when I was in my twenties also so I know how hard that is. Gland to see it looks like your first trip looks like you and your lovely family had fun.

Thank you so much. It has been hard. Disney really made me feel happy again. She would be so excited to hear that we did finally get to go.

 

[budafam]

I like POP too. Love the TR. Looks like Y'all had fun. We will be at POFQ 5/29 till 6/5 CAN't WAIT! I'm going to do a live TR from my phone, hope it turnes out good.

Ooo, I sooo need to get a fancier phone so I can do all that kinda stuff. Thanks for reading

 

[heaven2dc]

Fun trip so far! You have a beautiful family! Perfect ages to take to WDW - I can't wait to take my DS again one day (he was 14 mos old the first visit) and can't wait to introduce Disney to my new granddaughter

I loved that you got the Walt Disney World sign without any other vehicles

 

[budafam]

So we finally get through the crowd and turn the corner onto Mainstreet. It took my breath away. The kids on the other hand, acted like they were looking at an old, run down building... no reaction whatsoever! lol... I loved how the CM's were all out giving big Mickey hand high fives. It was just the happiest place ever, immediately. Awesome. Here are pics:

Next up... let's scare the kiddos right off the bat! Oy...​

 

[budafam]

So here we are, Fantasyland and what's the first ride we see? Snow White's Scary Adventure. Okay, we'll try it out. I knew it was supposed to be scary but wow. Once going through the doors, it was dark and eerie. Both DS & DD were crying... lol... they quickly got over it once they saw the dwarfs but ugh, what a way to start off, huh?

We followed with It's a Small World. That made everyone a lot happier.

Next up: Haunted Mansion - DS's favorite ride.​

 

[emma212010]

Great start!!! Yay for your first trip!!! It sounds like you had a blast! You're kids are too cute!! I love all of your movie nights and countdowns! To cool! Looking forward to more!! Oh and GREAT pics!!! What kind of camera do you have?

 

[budafam]

So ever since we started planning this vacation, Dominic has been DEAD set on riding the Haunted Mansion ride and let me tell you, it did NOT disappoint.

Lucy was scared before we even got up to it.

We loved everything in the line... too bad it was pretty much a walk on, we would've liked to have spent more time playing!

After the first room stretched out, the guy was standing right near us and he scared both of the kids when he started talking... too funny. I tried to record some of the ride. Pictures were a no go in there but it was very neat to see all of the special effects. Dominic loved it and Lucy never got scared once she was riding. We took a walk back to Fantasyland to use up our Peter Pan FP's.

Up next: Off to Never Never Land!​

 

[budafam]

Fun trip so far! You have a beautiful family! Perfect ages to take to WDW - I can't wait to take my DS again one day (he was 14 mos old the first visit) and can't wait to introduce Disney to my new granddaughter

I loved that you got the Walt Disney World sign without any other vehicles

Thank you! Yes, there was hardly any traffic when we arrived. We thought we were in the wrong place! lol..

 

[budafam]

Great start!!! Yay for your first trip!!! It sounds like you had a blast! You're kids are too cute!! I love all of your movie nights and countdowns! To cool! Looking forward to more!! Oh and GREAT pics!!! What kind of camera do you have?

Thank you! I have a Nikon D5000 and absolutely LOVE that thing. I've had it for a year now and could never be without it again. I don't know much about it but we play around with settings and somehow manage. I really should learn more and probably purchase another lens sometime soon.

 

[budafam]

Peter Pan's Flight was a really neat ride. I was impressed with such detail as the moving cars below (DH pointed them out as I was busy trying to get a decent picture). I had not expected the boats to fly either but duh... Peter Pan's FLIGHT. lol...

Afterwards we went over to Philharmagic. We had received bonus FP's for this but there was no need to use them since it was a walk on. I loved this show. I thought it was one of the coolest things we did there. As we were leaving the theater, I noticed one of Lucy's minnie bows were missing. DH tried to go back and find it but it was no where to be seen Good thing that her outfit change was coming up! We headed over to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. I knew Dominic was not going to like this (we had taken him on the Whizzer at Six Flags about a year ago and he hated that). But we told him to just give everything a try once while we're here so he did. Of course, he hated it, hid his head the entire time and refused to ride with daddy afterwards so daddy had to do it by himself. Here we are getting off the of the ride:

Then daddy is on it by himself:

On our way over to the Pooh ride, we stopped to try out the sword.

No such luck.

Next up: Winnie the Pooh​

 

[budafam]

We had FP's for Pooh so we got to skip the 30 min. line (which looked like a lot of fun actually) and get on it within about 5 minutes of waiting.

After getting off the ride we were approached by a guy to do a short survey. The short survey took us about 5 minutes and I thought maybe we'd get something in return, nope. That was the last "short" survey I did while we were there. I mean really... we're at Disney and we're helping you by answering these questions... couldn't we get a FP out of it or something? Argh...

Next up: Peter Pan is the man & some Bibbity Bobbity Boo!​

 

[mermaid764]

Joining in

Your kiddos are adorable and it looks like you guys had a great first vacation, we love staying at POP

Can't wait to hear more

 

[budafam]

After we got off of Pooh and did the survey, we ventured back towards Peter Pan's Flight where we saw Peter Pan earlier and sure enough, he was still there. We got some quick pics with him and our first autograph!

Then we were headed towards the Crystal Palace when we saw the Fairy Godmother getting ready to take pictures. We were 2nd in line. She also said Happy Birthday to me. Bibbity, bobbity, boo!

We did a quick wardrobe change for Lucy and caught a part of the Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It parade... there were people in front of us so we didn't take too many pics... we knew we'd have to catch that parade again later on.

Lucy's Winnie the Pooh dress that I made:

Both kids together in front of the castle:

Next up: Crystal Palace Lunch​

 

[budafam]

Joining in

Your kiddos are adorable and it looks like you guys had a great first vacation, we love staying at POP

Can't wait to hear more

Welcome