2 Disneymoons (Oct. and Dec. 2007) and 1 Anniversary Trip (Sept. 2008)--Updated 2/20

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When we were done there, the Villain show in front of the Castle was getting ready to start, so we headed over there, so we could see the show and then maybe meet Cruella, because we really wanted to get a picture with her. So, we found a decent spot and watched the show, and then jumped in line to meet Cruella. We were not too far back in the line, and we made a deal with the people in front of us, we'll take their picture with her if they'll take our picture with her...no problem. So just before we get up front, we feel a little sprinkle, nothing much, but we heard the character handlers say that if it got worse, they were going to have to pull the characters in. So it doesn't get worse, but we hear them say it's the last people to meet the character and they go in...and of course it's the people in front of us...so we took their picture and off Cruella ran. Ugh! It wasn't even raining anymore at that point! We were so frustrated and upset! If it was starting to pour, that would be one thing, but a quick sprinkle that had already passed, we don't know what they were thinking. So disappointed, we headed back towards where AIl & UIL were still at, in front of the Crystal Palace. So we join them at their table, and Riley immediately puts his head down and falls asleep! The parade was going to be starting soon, and I really wanted to see the Headless Horseman, so we just waited, and let Riley nap. Right before the Headless Horseman did his ride, I went up and stood behind a group that was sitting down so I could still see and was able to see him ride by and get it on video. I decided to just go ahead and stay in my spot and video tape the parade as well. By this time Riley was awake too, and they stood with me and watched the parade. DH decided he couldn't get any good pictures, although he did try to snap this one of Capt. Jack:

After the parade was over, it was getting to be around 11, I think, and we still wanted to get a family shot with the big Mouse himself, so we headed over to his house to find him and get in line.

While we were in line, we found this hidden Mickey:

We also found out that Riley had been sneaking a lot of his candy when we weren't looking and was not feeling good at that point, said he was going to throw up, which thank goodness he didn't! But you can tell in the picture that he was pretty worn out!

Well, after we did that picture, Mickey really took note of my bride ears and my pin and was giving me big kisses, so excited for me and Roy! And then he started waving at the Photopass people because he had a picture he wanted them to take. He shooed Roy and Riley out of the way and got down on one knee for me, and we got pictures...of course I was embarrassed and beet red in the pictures!

But it was a fun memory! And I hope Minnie doesn't find out

After we left there, we decided to do the treat trail again. We went to this one line where the girl was giving arm fulls of candy out. I had grabbed a new bag and it was empty when I got to her. She made me put the bag in her bucket and she just scooped a TON of candy in my bag! I swear, it was 3/4 of the way full after she was done with my bag! I had heard of this happening, and this was the first time in 2 MNSSHP that it had happened to me!

Anyway, after we got through the treat trail, we headed to the new Laugh Floor Comedy Club since we wanted to check it out and we finally got a chance to. So we go in and find a seat and the show starts, and guess who gets chosen to be a part of the show?! Of course it's me, the girl who hates attention. I guess I was asking for it with still having my bride ears on. I was part of the mind reader bit, where besides picking a number, he guessed I was a newlywed, which was so hard to figure out, I'm sure! Anyway, even though I hate attention, it was fun being a part of the show.

After we left there, they were letting people in for the last ride of the night on the Stitch ride. I didn't really want to go on that, and neither did AIL, so she and I sat and chatted while the guys went on the ride. I guess it was about 12:20 when we were finally making our way up Main Street to the park entrance. Got on the monorail, got back to our car, and in typical fashion for us, we got lost leaving Magic Kingdom. We can never go back to our timeshare the way we got there, we always end up lost! But we quickly found out where we were at and got ourselves pointed in the right direction and back to our home for the week. It was pretty late when we got back and I think we all passed out as soon as we got back. Well, not before I took a picture of all my loot from the party!

This is just the candy I got...good thing I'm a picky eater and wouldn't eat most of it!

Up next a lazy day and a visit to CityWalk...

 

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Riley in the pirate beard is just soo cute Darn my kids, they won't let me put anything on their faces. Sounds like you are having a great time.

Yay!!! A visitor!!!!!

I loved, loved, loved how Riley looked in his costume! Although he wasn't much on getting all that stuff on his face, we convinced him that he needed it to look the part!

 

[DisneyDaughter5589]

I love that you got engaged in DisneyWorld that is like my dream!!!!
Ever since I went to MVMCP I've wanted to go to MNSSHP and looking at yout TR makes me want to go even more. So I can dress up like Tink and meet all of those characters!
Also we meet Mike and Sully before going to ABC when we there in January and we asked mike if he wanted to eat with us and he literally walked all the way to the doors with us until a CM insisted he come back and meet with the other familys!
Cant wait to read more!

 

[TheLastPrincess]

Hey remember me?

I saw your pics and remembered you from your proposal story!!!! Congrats on your wedding and disneymoons! How sweet that you got not one, but 2!!!

 

[PinkPrincessZ]

You are so lucky to have gone to MNSSHP on Halloween! And I loved Riley's costume, especially that moustache and beard!

Looking forward to more!

 

[LSchrow]

great TR ~ loved the pics & your great narration i felt like i was actually there (especially as tho i love WDW dearly, & go at least 2x a year, i'm a ride chicken too. people watching is a vastly underrated pasttime ).

glad to hear you had a beautiful wedding (especially love the picture your friend took) & honeymoon. and, congratulations ~ the three of you make a beautiful family!

 

[TLC371]

I love that you got engaged in DisneyWorld that is like my dream!!!!
Ever since I went to MVMCP I've wanted to go to MNSSHP and looking at yout TR makes me want to go even more. So I can dress up like Tink and meet all of those characters!
Also we meet Mike and Sully before going to ABC when we there in January and we asked mike if he wanted to eat with us and he literally walked all the way to the doors with us until a CM insisted he come back and meet with the other familys!
Cant wait to read more!

I was so excited that he proposed at Disney...it was something I was so not expecting to happen when it did, and it's very hard to surprise me, so for him to do that at my favorite place, with my favorite characters watching was just so amazing!
Oh my gosh, if you can do it, you need to go to MNSSHP...it is soooo much better than MVMCP, at least that is what we thought! I told DH that we need to plan a trip now to the Pirate and Princess party so we can accurately compare all 3 parties.
Oh my gosh, love when Mike walked away with you! I had something similar happen when we saw Remy & Emile in December.

Hey remember me?

I saw your pics and remembered you from your proposal story!!!! Congrats on your wedding and disneymoons! How sweet that you got not one, but 2!!!

Hi! Of course I remember you...I actually started reading about your honeymoon the other day but didn't finish, and didn't want to post until I caught up! I'm so glad you are here!

You are so lucky to have gone to MNSSHP on Halloween! And I loved Riley's costume, especially that moustache and beard!

Looking forward to more!

I was so excited about going ot MNSSHP on Halloween night, although there's a great debate on if we'll go back on Halloween night again. It was crowded since it was sold out, but we managed to get almost everything done that we wanted, so I was happy. DH thinks it would be a waste to go again on Halloween night, we can go any other night but that one. So we'll see who wins that argument next Halloween week trip!
Thanks for the compliments on Riley's costume, we were so proud of how it turned out! We were so excited when we found that facial hair for him! I wish he had kept it on all night!

great TR ~ loved the pics & your great narration i felt like i was actually there (especially as tho i love WDW dearly, & go at least 2x a year, i'm a ride chicken too. people watching is a vastly underrated pasttime ).

glad to hear you had a beautiful wedding (especially love the picture your friend took) & honeymoon. and, congratulations ~ the three of you make a beautiful family!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you are enjoying my TR! Oh yes, I agree, people watching is vastly underrated! It's funny because DH always worries about leaving me while he goes on rides, but I'm like whatever, I can sit here and watch everyone, I'm so good!

Thank you for the compliments on the pictures! I'll have to post a picture of the entire family...he's got 2 more kids besides Riley...we just take them one at a time when we go on our yearly trips, that way each kid gets some alone time with us, we feel like we've gotten some sort of vacation, and we can afford to do more with them.

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I'm going to try to finish up the October trip this afternoon so I can start on the December trip. I should have some free time in the afternoon.

 

[TLC371]

Wanted to post a picture of the whole family before I started on the TR again. Roy's got 3 kids from his first marriage, as I said. Roy Jr. is 13, Brittany is 15 and Riley of course, and he's 10.

Here's our family shot at the wedding:

 

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On with the trip report....

Thursday, November 1, 2007

We didn't really have anything planned for our last 2 days in Orlando/Kissimmee, we were just going to play it all by ear. For us, we knew we were coming back in December and would get to see and do more, so for this trip, we tried to keep this trip a little more casual. It was nice to have 2 trips to spread it out over. And thankfully, Riley didn't really care what we did.

And to prove my point, the kid ditched us on this day! He wanted to go with his uncle to an indoor skate park instead of hang with his boring old dad and step mom! That was fine by us though, gave us some alone time.

So after getting to sleep in because we were out so late the night before, we dropped Riley off with my BIL and we decided we wanted to go over to City Walk for a bit. We hadn't been there since the first year I had gone to FL with him, back in 2003, so we thought it would be fun to go walk around.

We got to Universal, parked and made the trek over to City Walk. This is one thing I don't like about going to City Walk...you have to pay to park. I realized how much nicer it is to be able to go to Downtown Disney and park for free. I mean, I understand the paying thing, they have no clue if you are going to the parks all day or just walk around City Walk, but still, it stinks to have to pay!

Anyway, of course when we get over to City Walk, it starts to drizzle a bit, thank goodness it didn't last long!

We love the movie Forrest Gump, and last time we were there, I am not sure if they had the Bubba Gump restaurant or not, but we had to take a few pictures, because we love Bubba and all his many ways you can cook up shrimp.

We walked into a store that looked like it was an enviroment friendly, save the endangered animals, etc. type of store, looked around there for a bit. While we were in there, I got a phone call from my mom, just to let me know that she was out of the hospital and back home, which was good to hear. She wanted to keep chatting, and while I love my mom, first of all, we were in the middle of a store, and I hate walking around and bothering people with my phone conversations, and second of all, I am still on vacation, I'll be home in a few days, talk to me all you wan then.

Anyway, on our way out of the store, had to take a few pictures:

We did some more wandering around, and then headed towards our main reason for being there, we wanted to go to the Hard Rock for lunch.

On our way over, we stopped for some pictures:

We made our way over to the Universal Globe, where Roy took this amazing picture, I think it looks like a post card

And of course, us in front of the Globe:

 

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We finally made it over to the Hard Rock, and got right in....but of course not before they took our picture!

And of course I'm a sucker and bought it!

It was pretty crowded when we got there, I guess it was a little too close to lunch time. We like to hit it in a bit of the "off" hours so we can go around and look, but it didn't look like that was going to happen. Oh well!

Roy and I at our table:

Roy ordered the southwest spring rolls, which now are his most favorite ever, and wants to go back to Hard Rock every chance we get so he can have them. I keep looking for a copycat recipe and can't find one.

Lunch was good, and after we ate, we walked around the Hard Rock store for a bit, before heading back towards the front of City Walk. We went into a few stores, but they don't have that many places that we wanted to go into. We did go into the Margaritaville store and I got a shotglass for my collection, and then back to the Bubba Gump store to get a t-shirt for my dad and a cookbook for my mom. Oh yes, and we made a stop at Cinnabun so I could get a cinnamon bun, which was amazingly delicious. I was in heaven.

While we were on our way home, my BIL called and asked if we would watch his baby girl that night. My MIL and FIL had taken a trip up to the Savannah, GA area for the day, taking FIL's sister home and they were due back later in the evenng so the would watch my niece once they got back, so they needed someone to watch her until then. Since he had taken Riley for the day, and we had no plans for the night, we said it was no problem. So we went over, got Riley and the baby, and headed to Target to find something to make for dinner that night. We walked all over, and couldn't find anything that "we" (meaning me, cuz I knew DH wasn't going to cook) felt like cooking, so we ended up hitting Taco Bell on our way back to the timeshare. We dropped the baby off with MIL & FIL then went back to our villa, ate dinner and watched "Meet The Robinsons". Very nice, quiet, low key evening.

 

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Friday, November 2nd, 2007

This was our last full day in Orlando/Kissimmee. I hate knowing that I was going to have to leave the next day!

We had tickets that night for the Dixie Stampede. AIL really wanted to go so we decided to go with everyone. And now, with it being closed down, I'm glad we decided to go!

But I am getting a head of myself! We had last minute souvenir shopping to do, I had some Disney Dollars and I was going to spend them! So off to Downtown Disney we went so we could look around. It was so busy when we were there earlier in the week, so we didn't get much of a chance to look. It was nice to go back when it was a bit calmer.

First stop, was to the McDonald's for a quick lunch. Then we headed to the scrapbooking store to look around, and get disappointed in, and then made our way around the stores, ended up in the World of Disney store, where I happily spent my Disney Dollars!

Some random shots around Downtown Disney:

We finally had to head out, even though I wasn't ready to leave yet, but then again, I don't think I'm ever ready to leave when we are there.

We headed back to the timeshare so we could start getting our stuff together and get ready for our night out. We had to be there by 5:30, which was kind of early to me, but what are you going to do about it, ya know?! Thank goodness we weren't too far from where the place was at.

The Dixie Stampede was good....but they had started their Christmas show that week, and to me it was still just a bit early to be doing Christmas, but it was still a great show. And the food was so good! So much better than the food we got at Capones!
Here's our picture from when we went into Dixie Stampede:

And here's me and Roy at our seats. We couldn't get any pictures of the show, they said no photography.

The show ended at a pretty early time, I want to say just after 8. It was nice because we could go back, finish packing and still get to bed at a decent time, since we wanted to get up early to head home the next morning.

And finally, Saturday, November 3, 2007

We had to go home....I hate going home day....always so depressing! We got up bright and early again, and we were on the road at 6:15 am. We made pretty good time, no long stops or anything, just at fast food places to eat, and stops to go potty, and we were home by 7 that night. The only thing that made leaving and going home was knowing that I'd be back down again in just a few weeks for my real honeymoon with my new DH!

Anyway...that's the end of our first Disneymoon trip....I'll start the December trip later, as I'll be going home from work soon and I want time to be able to do the start of it and not rush through it!

 

[Vivianne]

What a fun trip report to read. You've really done a great job. Your wedding pictures are wonderful! I love the candid black & white pic too. Now nice for you your DH likes Disney too. It's great you spend time with your step children individually. I'm sure they'll remember their experience for years to come.

It's funny after so many trips to MK over the years, I've always avoided Splash Mountain until our trip last Oct. (Because of the drop) I was curious because I heard there's more than just the ride. Yep, it was something. You should try it next time. My favorite fireworks viewing spot is on the bridge from Tomorrowland right after Stitch (no trees).

We also went to Sea World after years, and I loved Shamu and the baby.

I'll look out for your Dec. trip report. Good job.

 

[TLC371]

What a fun trip report to read. You've really done a great job. Your wedding pictures are wonderful! I love the candid black & white pic too. Now nice for you your DH likes Disney too. It's great you spend time with your step children individually. I'm sure they'll remember their experience for years to come.

It's funny after so many trips to MK over the years, I've always avoided Splash Mountain until our trip last Oct. (Because of the drop) I was curious because I heard there's more than just the ride. Yep, it was something. You should try it next time. My favorite fireworks viewing spot is on the bridge from Tomorrowland right after Stitch (no trees).

We also went to Sea World after years, and I loved Shamu and the baby.

I'll look out for your Dec. trip report. Good job.

I had to come to post to make sure you didn't start to think you killed my thread!

Thank you so much for all your compliments on the wedding pictures and my trip report!
That firework spot you mentioned is somewhat near where we found to watch the fireworks from on our December trip, awesome spot!

Hopefully I'll start the December portion of the trip report soon. I need to get working on it again!

 

[Vivianne]

I'll be looking forward to it...no rush....I know you're busy....don't forget...

 

[TLC371]

I'll be looking forward to it...no rush....I know you're busy....don't forget...

Thanks for being so understanding!

I'm about to start the first of our honeymoon trip, since it's a SLOW day at work!!!

 

[TLC371]

Yay....time to start the actual December Disneymoon part of our two trips!!!! I had been waiting for this trip since September 21, 2006 when DH proposed and then said we could plan our honeymoon for December, no matter what time of year we decided to get married, so that I could see Disney done up for Christmas. He knows I've always wanted to go at that time, not necessarily Christmas week, because we knew that would be insane, but at least sometime during the month.

Again, we stayed at Star Island, as my MIL has a timeshare there, and when she traded the week from September to the week we wanted in December, she automatically chose Star Island. I kinda wished we could have chosen a different place to stay for the week, but at least this was a place we knew. I found out that she could have traded and we could have stayed on Disney property, but I guess it's hard to get in on Disney property with a trade...I don't know.

Anyway, we've stayed at Star Island for 7 trips and I have to say, this time it was bad! I hate to say that, because it is a nice place to stay, but we had one too many things happen there this time, and it's mainly because of the location of the room, and I think that's because of the trade of the week.

Anyway....enough of that right now...you'll see the problems as I get to them...

This trip, I had talked DH into flying down. I wanted it to be something special since it was our honeymoon, and I didn't want to lose a day of it by driving! He had never been on a plane before, so he was excited to finally fly some place. (He's addicted now, and I think we are even going to fly this September when we go back to Disney!) MIL's timeshare is usually Sunday to Sunday, but I had her change it so that it was Saturday to Saturday for us. We planned our dates for our honeymoon from Saturday, December 8th to Saturday, December 15th.

Saturday, December 8, 2007:

We got up bright and early, at 6 am. Our flight wasn't leaving until 9:15, but since I haven't flown since 1993 and Roy hasn't flown at all, we didn't know how the airports would be with security and all of that, we had no clue what to expect. We got ourselves ready, finished the last minute packing stuff, and just after 7 am, our SIL showed up to take us to the airport. We live really close to the airport, like it's no more than a 5 to 10 minute drive to get there, so we got to the airport in no time at all.

We were flying Southwest, and I had checked us in at the 24 hour mark and printed our boarding passes ahead of time, so when we got to the airport, SIL dropped us off at the curb and we checked our bags there, and we were on our way. This is when we realzied how dead it was at the airport! I guess because it was so early, but it was pretty empty. We went into the gift shop and looked around, and then finally just found a seat and we were reading for a bit.

Around 8:15 or so, we decided to head down to where the gate that we needed to go to was. We had no lines, no problem going through all the security areas, and we headed to our gate, to sit and read some more. When it was time to board, we were one of the first ones on the plane, thanks to being able to check in right at the 24 hour mark. We found seats right at the front, and I let Roy sit by the window since it was his first time flying. We got settled in, and it was not a full flight, so it was nice not to have someone sitting on the other side of me!

The flight was good, and I even had a first...the first time I've used one of those tiny airplane bathrooms Wow...that thing was small!

Anyway....here's Roy on the plane:

Looking out the window:

Clouds!

The Florida coastline

The flight was great, the flight crew was wonderful. When we were landing, one of them was on the speaker, telling jokes as we were making our way to the gate. Our flight was supposed to be a 2 hour flight, getting in around 11:15, but they got us there 20 minutes early. Gotta love that! While we were on the plane, I asked Roy what he wanted to do, since we couldn't check into Star Island until 4, and he had no clue what he wanted to do. So I suggested that we go to Downtown Disney, and head to Planet Hollywood for lunch. That sounded good to him, and I was happy that the first place we were going to head to once we got to FL was on Disney property.

When we got off the plane, we were in shock how big the airport was, since the Norfolk airport is kind of small! But we found our way pretty easily, got to baggage claim no problem, got our bags, and found where the rental cars were with no problem either. We got to the line at Budget, and it was pretty long, but thankfully it moved pretty quickly. We had originally reserved an ecomomy car, and what she had was a sub-compact 2 door car for us and first asked if we wanted to upgrade to a convertible Mustang for $100 more for the week, and we decided for that much money, nope! So then she said she would see what else they had, and came up with a Ford Fusion for $6 more a day. Since we were on our honeymoon, and that was more affordable, we decided to go with that instead. We also opted to pre-pay for gas so we didn't have to worry about finding a place to fill it up before we brought it back. We finished up there, and headed over to get the keys. When we walked up to the car we were going to have for the week, we were so happy we decided to go with that one. It was beautiful! A gorgeous red color, and we fell in love with the car. (It's now tops on my list for when we buy me a new car!).

When we started on our journey out of the airport, I realized that there were toll roads to get out of the area and my money was in my carry on, which was now located in the trunk of our pretty car! Oops! Roy found a spot to pull over and got my wallet out of the carry on, and we were on our way again! We never really realized how far out the airport was until we were leaving there.

We got to Downtown Disney in no time, and it was packed there! But we found a place to park the pretty car:

And before we got too far, I went to the trunk and decided I need to change into my Croc-flops, since it was so warm out! Plus we needed to get my Baggalini out and put my wallet, video camera and camera into it, since that was going to be my purse for the week, and of course we needed our Just Married pins!

We headed right over to Planet Hollywood, and for the first time ever, we had to wait to be seated! We've never been there when it's been so crowded! I guess that's when I first realized that this wasn't going to be as slow of a week as I thought it was going to be. Now, I know slow times is all relative to people, what you expect, what you are used to. We go in September, and we think that's a really slow time, and to us, when we go in October, that's much busier of a time to go. We picked this time thinking it was going to be more of a September type of crowd situation, but were quickly getting the feeling that it was going to be more like an October crowd situation.

Anyway, I almost forgot this picture, of us when we were going in:

It didn't take too long to get a table, and we got our first congratulations from our waitress when we sat down. Actually she said Happy Anniversary at first, since she got the buttons mixed up. But that was ok, since techincally it was an "anniversary" for us that day, we had been together 5 years that day, it was the anniversary of our first date, the first time we had met (we were set up on a blind date). So we told her that and she said "Well, congratulations and happy anniversary to you then!"

We ordered, and surprisingly, with how busy it was, we got our food pretty quickly! Also had them come around with the pictures that we took on the way in, and being the sucker I am, of course we bought them!

After lunch, we walked around the West Side for a bit, went into Mickey's Groove, where I saw the Princess ears and I had to have them. I guess they are new, since I didn't see them in October. They are so cute!

While we were walking around, we found this photo spot and a CM took a picture for us...too bad it's not our greatest picture!

We decided since it was so busy, we weren't going to go to the Marketplace side, since it was probably busier than the West Side. Instead we went to the outlets by Star Island and looked around for a bit. At this point it was close enough to 4 that we decided to go see if we could check in at SI yet, and thank goodness we could.

Next up...checking in...and the first of problems....

 

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Oooh....I guess I forgot to re-size some pictures....sorry those are so huge! I need to go through my Photobucket album and do some re-sizing before I add more to the TR! Hopefully when I do that, maybe it will fix how big these pictures are!

 

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So, let's see...where did I leave off....

We went looking around the outlets by SI and decided that it was time to go and try to check in, so we headed over. When MIL transferred her week, she told them it was not her that was staying but her son and DIL instead, but they still put the reservation in her name. When we were down there in October, she had to check to make sure everything was in order, and one of the guys at the resort told her that when we checked in, if they asked, we had to say that she was joining us, she was on her way, and we were checking in for her. Kind of odd, but that's what we had to do when we checked in. I'm glad it all went smoothly, as I am not a good liar at all!

We got to our room and we were so happy to finally be there! Roy immediately had to call his mom to let her know we had no problems, and I took pictures of the room before we had our stuff all over the place!

Standing by the door, looking in:

The kitchen, right after you walk in:

Then our dining area, next to the living room:

Living room with doors out the back:

Our bedroom with the jacuzzi tub, huge shower and king size bed

The view outside our room

After I took pictures, we went out to unload the car, and unpack our stuff, then rest for a few minutes. I mean, we hadn't done much, but at the same time, we had a pretty full day already! I tested out the internet connection on my new lap top that DH had just bought me, and then we decided to head out and get some groceries for the week. We went to the Super Target on 192, just up the road from where we were staying. We've given up on going to the Super Walmart, it's always way too packed...there's never huge crowds at the Target! We got what we wanted/needed for the week and took it back to the villa before heading back out to dinner. We decided to just go to the Cracker Barrel down the road from where we were staying at.

When we got back, we wanted to go and just relax and we found out that while our room was nice, and the view was pretty, yeah, the noise was not so great! Across the little lake from us was the pool area, along with the pool bar, and people doing karaoke....loudly! It was so irritating! Especially for someone that is a light sleeper like me, but thank goodness they had to be done with it by 11. We couldn't really complain and ask for another room either, because we weren't sure if they were going to ask for MIL or not, so we just had to make the best of it for the week. The other problem for me, I noticed the next morning, was that they would turn the fountain in the water back on pretty early, and it woke me up every morning. Darn it for being a light sleeper! None of it ever bothered Roy, but it did me!

 

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Sunday, December 9, 2007

I don't have much to post about this day, since we spent the day hanging out with my friends that are down in Clermont, FL, just outside of Orlando. Their daughter was celebrating her first birthday and we went to her birthday party.

We started out the morning, trying to sleep in, and then we got ourselves ready. We didn't know what time we'd be eating at the birthday party for my friend's daughter, of if they were doing anything other than cake and ice cream, so we decided to go find something for lunch. We drove around, and finally ended up going to Old Town and having pizza at Flippers Pizzeria. After lunch, we started heading out to Clermont, and clearly mis-judged how long it was going to take us to get there, and we ended up late for the birthday party. But it was great to see my friends again, and be there for their daughter's first birthday!

I wasn't even going to post about this day, since I won't post pictures of them for their privacy, but I didn't want anyone to wonder what happend with Sunday (if anyone is actually reading still). And also to say, I can't believe the country side when you get outside of Orlando! There were rolling hills and stretches of orange groves all over the place on the drive out to my friend's house! I get so sheltered in just staying out in our little area of Kissimmee when we go, and just see ST, WDW, Sea World and the rare trips out to Universal...it was amazing to me to see all the wide open spaces on the way to their house!

I did take some pictures of the orange trees:

And the Citrus Tower in Clermont:

We were there, visiting most of the day and it was around 7 when we got back to our timeshare. We decided to just stay in, have leftover pizza and relax since we knew we'd be going to Epcot in the morning!

Up next....Epcot!

 

[Vivianne]

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I realize doing a TR takes alot of work. But you write such good ones and your pics help the flow of your report. Your MIL's timeshare looks really nice. Too bad about the noise. Good thing they have time limits. I'm looking forward to the rest.