Tracey1974
Maybe a 2009 babymoon before our family of 3 turns
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Illnesses, tissues, poopie diapers, gas shortages and accidents- all this just on the way there!
Here is a trip report from our very short excursion to WDW for our son's first trip and to capitalize on the free dining. Mmmm........
Cast- Me, hubby, our son Christopher (3 mo) and my sister Sarah, 21 (an extra set of hands)
Mode of transport- 2006 New (this will come into play later) Jetta TDI
Wed 9/28
Today is our 3 year anniversary and I am starting to get a stinking head cold. We leave tomorrow and I can barely swallow- haven't been sick since before I got pregnant last October. My throat is killing me and I still have a million things to do. Surely this must be a joke, me being sick. Took baby to Dr to make sure he was all set to go, got a dozen roses delivered
from hubby, finished packing and went to dinner. All was good and fine until I decided to take a Tylenol cold non drowsy at 9:30pm. Yeah....great. Went to bed at 11:30pm, alarm clock set for 4am since we are driving down.
DIDN'T NEED THE ALARM CLOCK- I WAS UP ALL NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so wired, I think I may know what being on crack feels like. So- now I'm totally pissed, overtired, nervous about the trip and mad at everyone sleeping soundly in their beds. Then I think, not to worry! We are going to Disney! Surely everything will be right with the world as soon as we get to Florida!
Wrong.
Thurs, 9/29
Nursed Christopher at 4:15am and we were out of the house by 5:30am. No problems! Had the DVD player going in the backseat, Christopher was sleeping and everything was going fine until we hit some traffic in DC. At this point, I had gone through 1/3 of a box of Kleenex and was rapidly going through the rest in record time. I was also trying to catch up on the lost sleep from the night before. Christopher decided it was time to poop by looking to see if I was 1/2 asleep before it was bombs away. We stopped quite alot and finally we were at South of the Border. I was so excited to stop there that I didn't realize what a stinky place it really was. Here I am so deliriously tired and stuffed up that I thought the bathrooms were clean! Sarah is gagging the entire time she is in there because it stinks so bad and I'm thinking how clean everything is because it didn't smell. But- I digress. Sinec we stopped so much, we came up 60 miles short of our goal and ended up bunking for the night at a Marriott in Savannah, GA. We are READY for WDW tomorrow!! Everyone is very excited and I finally got some sleep.
Fri, 9/30
Who-hoo!!! Out of the hotel by 8 and ready to go. Stopped at the Fl welcome center for some free oj and cheesy shell souveniers for Mom and Dad. It is now my turn to drive and I notice that we are running pretty low on fuel. Now- we have a car that runs on diesel. We are driving I-95, a main road for major trucks and there is diesel all over the place. UNTIL- we get to Fl. NO DIESEL ANYWHERE!!! We are down to 20 miles before we run out. Hubby is sweating running out of gas, baby is crying and I am going through the maps looking for places to stop and getting out my AAA card just in case. We stop at every exit looking and finally fill up with 15 miles to empty. Whew!!! I think, hmm.... that was a bad thing but we are only 30 mins from Disney- what could go wrong??? Well- Christopher was quite distressed and was not waiting to get to our hotel to eat so we pull over at a maintenance parking lot 10 mins from the Disney exit on I-4 to nurse. Baby fed? Check. Tank filled? Check. Hotel vouchers ready? Check. I pull out back onto the highway and prepare to get back onto to I-4.
Have you ever played the video game Frogger? When you have to get the frog from one end of the pond to the other without him falling off or getting hit? Well, that was me and we lost. I was too busy watching the semi and swerving to keep from hitting it that I didn't see the car in front of me and BAM! Crashed the front quarter panel and wheel of our brand new car that is only 2 days older than Christopher. So- man we hit was pretty upset but not freaking out. Everyone is ok and I am surprisingly calm. I can't think of what would have happened if the car had hit us farther back or head on or I would have lost it. Sarah entertains Christopher in the car with the baby Einstein video and we wait for the police in 100 degree weather 10 minutes from Disney! Police come and since it is my fault, it doesn't take long and miraculously I don't get a ticket. Thanks officer Eric! So- hubby is freaking out about our new car, (you'd think we totaled the thing and now he wants to go home and why did we HAVE to go to Disney again, blah blah blah) he can't find our hotel (Port Orleans), I am on the phone with Geico giving our family tree and history and we finally pull into the hotel. Car is seriously pulling to the left but is driveable.
I'll have to work on this more tomorrow. My head cold has turned into a sinus infection with a touch of bronchitis so I think I should get to bed now. Tomorrow we will actually get to the Disney part of the Disney report!
Here is a trip report from our very short excursion to WDW for our son's first trip and to capitalize on the free dining. Mmmm........
Cast- Me, hubby, our son Christopher (3 mo) and my sister Sarah, 21 (an extra set of hands)
Mode of transport- 2006 New (this will come into play later) Jetta TDI
Wed 9/28
Today is our 3 year anniversary and I am starting to get a stinking head cold. We leave tomorrow and I can barely swallow- haven't been sick since before I got pregnant last October. My throat is killing me and I still have a million things to do. Surely this must be a joke, me being sick. Took baby to Dr to make sure he was all set to go, got a dozen roses delivered
from hubby, finished packing and went to dinner. All was good and fine until I decided to take a Tylenol cold non drowsy at 9:30pm. Yeah....great. Went to bed at 11:30pm, alarm clock set for 4am since we are driving down. DIDN'T NEED THE ALARM CLOCK- I WAS UP ALL NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so wired, I think I may know what being on crack feels like. So- now I'm totally pissed, overtired, nervous about the trip and mad at everyone sleeping soundly in their beds. Then I think, not to worry! We are going to Disney! Surely everything will be right with the world as soon as we get to Florida!
Wrong.
Thurs, 9/29
Nursed Christopher at 4:15am and we were out of the house by 5:30am. No problems! Had the DVD player going in the backseat, Christopher was sleeping and everything was going fine until we hit some traffic in DC. At this point, I had gone through 1/3 of a box of Kleenex and was rapidly going through the rest in record time. I was also trying to catch up on the lost sleep from the night before. Christopher decided it was time to poop by looking to see if I was 1/2 asleep before it was bombs away. We stopped quite alot and finally we were at South of the Border. I was so excited to stop there that I didn't realize what a stinky place it really was. Here I am so deliriously tired and stuffed up that I thought the bathrooms were clean! Sarah is gagging the entire time she is in there because it stinks so bad and I'm thinking how clean everything is because it didn't smell. But- I digress. Sinec we stopped so much, we came up 60 miles short of our goal and ended up bunking for the night at a Marriott in Savannah, GA. We are READY for WDW tomorrow!! Everyone is very excited and I finally got some sleep.
Fri, 9/30
Who-hoo!!! Out of the hotel by 8 and ready to go. Stopped at the Fl welcome center for some free oj and cheesy shell souveniers for Mom and Dad. It is now my turn to drive and I notice that we are running pretty low on fuel. Now- we have a car that runs on diesel. We are driving I-95, a main road for major trucks and there is diesel all over the place. UNTIL- we get to Fl. NO DIESEL ANYWHERE!!! We are down to 20 miles before we run out. Hubby is sweating running out of gas, baby is crying and I am going through the maps looking for places to stop and getting out my AAA card just in case. We stop at every exit looking and finally fill up with 15 miles to empty. Whew!!! I think, hmm.... that was a bad thing but we are only 30 mins from Disney- what could go wrong??? Well- Christopher was quite distressed and was not waiting to get to our hotel to eat so we pull over at a maintenance parking lot 10 mins from the Disney exit on I-4 to nurse. Baby fed? Check. Tank filled? Check. Hotel vouchers ready? Check. I pull out back onto the highway and prepare to get back onto to I-4.
Have you ever played the video game Frogger? When you have to get the frog from one end of the pond to the other without him falling off or getting hit? Well, that was me and we lost. I was too busy watching the semi and swerving to keep from hitting it that I didn't see the car in front of me and BAM! Crashed the front quarter panel and wheel of our brand new car that is only 2 days older than Christopher. So- man we hit was pretty upset but not freaking out. Everyone is ok and I am surprisingly calm. I can't think of what would have happened if the car had hit us farther back or head on or I would have lost it. Sarah entertains Christopher in the car with the baby Einstein video and we wait for the police in 100 degree weather 10 minutes from Disney! Police come and since it is my fault, it doesn't take long and miraculously I don't get a ticket. Thanks officer Eric! So- hubby is freaking out about our new car, (you'd think we totaled the thing and now he wants to go home and why did we HAVE to go to Disney again, blah blah blah) he can't find our hotel (Port Orleans), I am on the phone with Geico giving our family tree and history and we finally pull into the hotel. Car is seriously pulling to the left but is driveable.
I'll have to work on this more tomorrow. My head cold has turned into a sinus infection with a touch of bronchitis so I think I should get to bed now. Tomorrow we will actually get to the Disney part of the Disney report!
Glad you made it through the rough times! I see that you're 
the Disney Wonder! We loved our 2 Disney Cruises. We had our 1 yr old grandson on the Disney Magic with us. I'll never forget how the CM at Flounder's Reef told us that Snow White rocked him to sleep one night. If you and hubby need some time alone, maybe at Palo's, know that Flounder's Reef is an awesome place to leave your little one for a few hours! 
What to do? I sneak over to Boatwrights and snag an 8:40pm ADR. Yes, it is very late for us but I figured we would eat a quick CS at the food court (it is now 4pm), sneak down to DTD for some shopping and be back in time for a nice dinner at 8:40pm. DTD is good, here we are with Buzz.
. Don't worry it took me a while to figure all this out. At least you got your photos posted, so that's a good start (it took me weeks just to do that!). Try photobucket and see what happens.
She was very rude and I hope they served her the old remnants of the eggs since she had to be the last person to get breakfast. 
So- we were stuck in the heat waiting for our 7pm ADR at Le Cellier. Decide to get the tile done- so mad that they can't fot the 3 of us in there so the very patient photo people and us get Christopher to finally smile and he is now preserved for the next 15 years at EPCOT. 
