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[annnewjerz]

Feb 2013 not 2012... I just can't do the heat again!

Here I thought you meant 2012 also! The wheels already started turning on putting together a DIS meet when we're there. Oh well!

 

[labsrus1]

Hi Jenn,
Just wanted to say hi, and that it was great meeting you, Bob, Kayle and Jack. Those kids were real troopers at the restraunt, much better than most. I won't say much more than that because I know it will be in your TR later.

Mary & Chuck

 

[inkedupmomma]

Here I thought you meant 2012 also! The wheels already started turning on putting together a DIS meet when we're there. Oh well!

oh, don't I wish!!! 2013 is a long time away though.. just sayin.. maybe a dismeet can still happen

Hi Jenn,
Just wanted to say hi, and that it was great meeting you, Bob, Kayle and Jack. Those kids were real troopers at the restraunt, much better than most. I won't say much more than that because I know it will be in your TR later.

Mary & Chuck

It was so nice to meet you as well! and thank you! I can't believe they sat through it! Jack had a few rough patches, but he did pretty good considering how tired he was, and still not feeling great from the night before!

are you doing a TR?

 

[MamaJessie]

For those of you that recall, Kayla had gotten sick the week of our trip! Yikes, I know!

We had a last minute kid issue too, and a long drive as well. Love your bags. I tried making bags for state borders since I read that idea here on the DIS but I did not care for it, so next time maybe they will each get a bag at the beginning of the trip.

I wasn't as excited as usual on the ride down either and I don't know if it was because this is my first Post Dis vacation (the obsessive planning instead of the regular planning = higher expectations) or because of DS. Either way, hope you found your magic

 

[inkedupmomma]

We had a last minute kid issue too, and a long drive as well. Love your bags. I tried making bags for state borders since I read that idea here on the DIS but I did not care for it, so next time maybe they will each get a bag at the beginning of the trip.

I wasn't as excited as usual on the ride down either and I don't know if it was because this is my first Post Dis vacation (the obsessive planning instead of the regular planning = higher expectations) or because of DS. Either way, hope you found your magic

ugh, having a sick kid right before vacay is not fun! it totally stressed me out! and wow, state border bags sounds fun, but my kids woulda been asleep! me too actually lol!

I still dont know why my excitement took so long to kick in, but it was annoying!

 

[mickeysmyboy]

Woo hoo!! Sounds like a pretty good drive! I give you a lot of props for driving all the way to FL! I don't think I could do that, especially with kids!

 

[MelMel11]

Joining in!!!

 

[inkedupmomma]

Woo hoo!! Sounds like a pretty good drive! I give you a lot of props for driving all the way to FL! I don't think I could do that, especially with kids!

hehhee, everyone keeps saying this! I'm gonna take the props and run

Joining in!!!

woot! welcome! thanks for joining this crazy town express train!

 

[inkedupmomma]

Say hello to Bob everyone! He is lurking on here!!

With that said, DANG, i'm still on day one?

I left you off with us pulling in on time like rock stars! We found a spot and walked through the doors to the lobby! I remember being surprised at how small it was! I loved it already! I didn't have my camera out at that point, so no pics yet..yet!

I forget what or where Bob and the kids did or went, but while they did what they were doing, I went over to the online check-in station. NO lines.. at all! I got in line and the very friendly CM's said come right up!

Within seconds I was done! Online check in ruled! I am never good at reading maps, so I wasn't sure what room we had gotten, and at that point I didn't care! I was starving!

It was at this point that I broke my no CS meal rule :O We decided we would grab a quick bite here, how bad could it be?

Bad, that's how bad. Bob is a dude and pretty easy to please, so he didn't seem to mind much. But I hated mine.

I got the bounty platter. It was just not good. and my oh my were the CM's rude and unwilling to help me figure out the DxDP. I am well versed in it, but not when it comes to CS. This wouldn't be the last encounter with rude staff either!

We also got an order of the beignets... another HUGE let down! Even Bob was let down by these!

I did take some iPhone pics for ya

Bobs french toast with sausage and the beignets

My bounty platter

Jack's Mickey waffles, which were actually decent!

Kayla's chocolate chip pancakes... she barely ate them!

We had also gotten our mugs while there as they are free with DxDP...I was sad to see that other resorts had many color options and ours only had the black, pink and blue ones!

I swore I took an iPhone pic of the bill but I can not find it. The bill was something ridiculous like $83 or something!

Once we were done we decided to go to our room and unpack.. OH right, did I mention that our room was READY at 9 am?? I thank online check in for that one!

We got out the map, bob looked at it and headed to parking lot 1! We were the first building!

Room 1140 to be exact:

What's so special about room 1140 you ask?? WELL, it was a corner room (first request met..2nd if you count room being ready at 9!), it was a ground floor room ( 2nd request met!) and it was right by the river! and had a courtyard view! Pixie dust had hit us! Oh and even better, we were RIGHT BY the boat that takes you to DTD!

I loved waking up every day and walking out our door to the beautiful courtyard!

When we got in our room I was pleasantly surprised by the size and the beautiful new refurb!

Having this guy on our bed made me pretty happy too!

We immediately started unpacking and getting things organized. Id like to stop here again to compliment Bob on his mega awesome packing and now unpacking skills! God, I'd like to thank him for any help at all! We had that room unpacked and organized in under 30 minutes! Already this trip was different from anything I had ever experienced! (read, oh man, how nice to have help and not have to unpack,organize, take care of kids, and self all by myself!)

Take a look at this awesomeness! and YES, you aren't seeing things, we did bring our Keurig! I know you all hate that nescafe crap as much as me! and hey we drove, so why not!

Me texting Jophia and Michele that we had made it safe!

After unpacking we all got ready ! We had found out a few weeks before the trip that the water park and more option meant that we had 10 park days and 10 water park and more entrances.. How in all of my Disney travels I had never known this is beyond me!

What this meant though, was that we could now go to a water park or Quest on our first day!

So that is exactly what we did, got dressed and headed to the boat for DTD to try our Quest! We are after all a nerdy gamer family!

(Bob was really excited lol!)

poor Kayla still looked and felt awful!)

Pretty construction that was taking place the whole time we were there lol

the ride from POFQ to DTD was lovely and surprisingly quick! It was very cool to see the Tree House Villas along the way as well! I would punch a baby to stay at one of those!!

Finally we got to DTD and realized it was gonna be a hike to get to Quest as we were dropped off by EOS. Much to our delight though was a boat on its way to take people over to the other side of DTD! Within a few minutes we were on that boat and dropped off.

We then made our way over to.....

Bob is going to kill me, but I did not love Quest. Sadly we never made it back there though. I think if I wasn't so annoyed by the staff at the CS and not so tired I would have liked it a lot more! I also think my mind was on Magic Kingdom and I couldn't get past it!

It was def a cook place though! Everyone had a great time!

The pirates of the Caribbean ride is def awesome and not to be missed!

(you get to wear these awesome looking goggles for the POTC ride!)

giant Tetris rules!

We stuck around Quest for about 2.5/3 hours and then figured we should head back to our resort so that we could shower and get ready for our 1st Disney table service meal of the trip! Spirit of Aloha!

I figured this would be a great way to start off our trip! Who doesn't love Polynesian food and fire dancers? Bob lived in Hawaii for a bit in his 20's and I knew he would love this!

The boat ride back was nice again, and I do not recall waiting very long!

 

[inkedupmomma]

We got ready rather quickly and were on our way over to the Poly! Best tip/secret, take the service road to avoid driving all the way around!

We found parking pretty easily, walk ed to where SOA is and were checked in in no time! Then it happened.. The sky opened up and down came that rain!

But not before a few quick photos (some are from along the way to check in!)

(YES, I am aware I look like I am carrying Bobs love child.. however don't get too excited, it's just chub..I told you not many pics would make it in!)

and THIS is what happens when you let children direct the photo ops! LOLOLOLOL Def a reflection of all of ur personalities!

Jack took this..hence my no head!

After these pics is when we were finally let in and when the rain REALLY started coming down! I had no clue how they were supposed to have a show...

Next up- do we get to start our trip off with some sweet fire dancers and Polynesian grub, or does everything get washed out???

 

[Trentmom]

Glad the red lobster food was good after all that wait

I could not drive at night either. I would fall right asleep

Those foodles, I think they were called, are so cute!!! Where did you find them at?

POFQ looks gorgeous. I only have ever stayed at POR, but landscaping on both is beautiful

Yay for room being ready early and all your requets being made

Disney Quest looks fun, but couple times I went, just could not get into it. Too Crowded, didn't want to wait around to play games, when I could be having fun in the parks

Hope the SOA show does not get washed out

You all look great all dressed up Hawaiian.

 

[Synndy]

Let me begin with... how the heck did I not know about this TR?? If I recall I was on your Facebook not to long ago demanding one

It makes me so sad Kayla was sick pre-trip.

I swear, I wish I could hang out with Kayla. We could exchange Dis trivia, ha ha. Plus the confidence she has is awesome. Most kids don't want to be nerds or like Disney or things like that. You are very lucky to be the mom of such a smart awesome lil girl.

And Jack is a doll. That smile he has is killer.

I have to say I am super impressed that you guys drove straight thru. Big props to Bob for night time driving. I HATE night driving myself and I totally get where you're coming from. My BF loves to drive too but I don't know if he would ever go for driving. I think you guys are only like 3 hours from us so it would be like 24 hours for us but that's pretty intense. Plus suffering from narcolepsy, long drives + me aren't a good combo.

Also, what happened with getting the pins from Ebay? Did you have issues? If so, not cool! I hope your kids had fun with the pin trading & made it worth it.

It bums me out that you weren't crazy about Disney Quest but then again after such a long drive, I cant say I blame you. I loved the Astro Blaster game! Did you see the creepy Pinocchio face in DQ too? Ill have to look, I have a pic of it somewhere but all I remember is how creepy it was!

Loves the fact you had such a good time with online check in. I will have to do that next trip, our check in was a DISASTER so I will have to remember to do online check in next time.

I am subbing and looking forward to more updates!

 

[shan23877]

We stayed at POFQ in August, and my only gripe about the whole resort was the CMs at the counter service! There was one lady in particular that was downright surly. She was working at the middle station-the chicken ceasar/waffle counter. The beinigt ladies were super nice when we were there tho. Love the room location!

Disney Quest looks fun, but we've never tried it. Maybe when DD4 is a little older.

Looking forward to reading more!

 

[inkedupmomma]

Glad the red lobster food was good after all that wait

I could not drive at night either. I would fall right asleep

Those foodles, I think they were called, are so cute!!! Where did you find them at?

POFQ looks gorgeous. I only have ever stayed at POR, but landscaping on both is beautiful

Yay for room being ready early and all your requets being made

Disney Quest looks fun, but couple times I went, just could not get into it. Too Crowded, didn't want to wait around to play games, when I could be having fun in the parks

Hope the SOA show does not get washed out

You all look great all dressed up Hawaiian.

The food was SOOOOO good! I'd eat it any day! I felt terrible asking him to drive so soon, but man, I wold have killed us! lesson learned, jenn drives first shift!

The foodles are at my local super market!
POFQ was very beautiful, I loved how small it was as well! we were stoked that it was ready for us too! and all that fun requests and extras had happened!

I am on the same page as you about Quest! Although I wanna give it another shot one day!

Thanks for the compliments!

Let me begin with... how the heck did I not know about this TR?? If I recall I was on your Facebook not to long ago demanding one
idk how you missed it either lol! I started cause of your demands
It makes me so sad Kayla was sick pre-trip.
ugh, it was def not fun!

I swear, I wish I could hang out with Kayla. We could exchange Dis trivia, ha ha. Plus the confidence she has is awesome. Most kids don't want to be nerds or like Disney or things like that. You are very lucky to be the mom of such a smart awesome lil girl.
thank you she is def my lil buddy! she honestly blows me away with her confidence, so glad she has that, because I sure never did!
And Jack is a doll. That smile he has is killer.
he's the lady killer.. that smile is there for a reason.. to keep him alive lol
I have to say I am super impressed that you guys drove straight thru. Big props to Bob for night time driving. I HATE night driving myself and I totally get where you're coming from. My BF loves to drive too but I don't know if he would ever go for driving. I think you guys are only like 3 hours from us so it would be like 24 hours for us but that's pretty intense. Plus suffering from narcolepsy, long drives + me aren't a good combo.
It was a long drive, but well worth it! I odnt get how all you people fly.. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Also, what happened with getting the pins from Ebay? Did you have issues? If so, not cool! I hope your kids had fun with the pin trading & made it worth it.
ugh.. long story! ill inbox you!
It bums me out that you weren't crazy about Disney Quest but then again after such a long drive, I cant say I blame you. I loved the Astro Blaster game! Did you see the creepy Pinocchio face in DQ too? Ill have to look, I have a pic of it somewhere but all I remember is how creepy it was!
i did see that creepster face.. weird! Ill go back to try it again!
Loves the fact you had such a good time with online check in. I will have to do that next trip, our check in was a DISASTER so I will have to remember to do online check in next time.
YES!!!!!!!!!!! will def do from now on!
I am subbing and looking forward to more updates!

yay :HUGS:

We stayed at POFQ in August, and my only gripe about the whole resort was the CMs at the counter service! There was one lady in particular that was downright surly. She was working at the middle station-the chicken ceasar/waffle counter. The beinigt ladies were super nice when we were there tho. Love the room location!

Disney Quest looks fun, but we've never tried it. Maybe when DD4 is a little older.

Looking forward to reading more!

yes, they were nasty little people! so did not want to explain the DDP to yet another person.. sorry lady!

glad you could stop by and read!

 

[annnewjerz]

Say hello to Bob everyone! He is lurking on here!!

Hi Bob!

I would punch a baby to stay at one of those!!

I know it's wrong to find this funny, but I do anyway!

 

[KatMark]

Great update, Jenn.

First, to your room being ready.

Second, on the not so pleasant CM at the food court (we had that problem there once too).

Third, glad you went to Disney Quest. We were there when it first opened and we NEVER went back (I told the kids it didn't go over well and they closed it...I know I am a bad mother).

Fourth, I love the pics of ALL of you as you go to the show...the dresses you and Kayla are wearing are adorable.

And does Bob ever take a bad picture?

 

[annnewjerz]

We were there when it first opened and we NEVER went back (I told the kids it didn't go over well and they closed it...I know I am a bad mother).

 

[Synndy]

Third, glad you went to Disney Quest. We were there when it first opened and we NEVER went back (I told the kids it didn't go over well and they closed it...I know I am a bad mother).

I have to say that literally made me laugh out loud

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

Hi, Bob!!!

I love your POFQ room! (Sorry about the food, though!) I got really excited when I saw the keurig until I read it was yours and not the hotel's. Oh, well. One can dream that one day Disney will have good coffee. Great idea to bring your own machine! BRAVO!!

 

[inkedupmomma]

Hi Bob!





I know it's wrong to find this funny, but I do anyway!

Great update, Jenn.
thanks
First, to your room being ready.

Second, on the not so pleasant CM at the food court (we had that problem there once too).

Third, glad you went to Disney Quest. We were there when it first opened and we NEVER went back (I told the kids it didn't go over well and they closed it...I know I am a bad mother).
Kat this made me tinkle in muh pants!! what do they say now?
Fourth, I love the pics of ALL of you as you go to the show...the dresses you and Kayla are wearing are adorable.
thank you! but I hate how i look in almost every picture.. I just wanted this trip to be different.. I wanted to look different! next time!
And does Bob ever take a bad picture?

NO HE DOESN"T! and god if he doesn't look the same as he did in high school, man does not age!!! he's adorable

I have to say that literally made me laugh out loud

me too!

Hi, Bob!!!

I love your POFQ room! (Sorry about the food, though!) I got really excited when I saw the keurig until I read it was yours and not the hotel's. Oh, well. One can dream that one day Disney will have good coffee. Great idea to bring your own machine! BRAVO!!

we liked it there..although had a few probs.. stay tuned for that! Thank you, it was a life saver! the beauty of driving!