Pixeldust Fairy
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Hello everyone, here is my attempt at my trip report to celebrate our first family trip to WDW. Please keep your hands and feet in the vehicle and I hope you enjoy the ride
Trip Dates: June 27-July 4 Arriving on the 27th and leaving on the 4th.
Cast of Characters
Me: Sharon, 35 years old Mom extrordinair of 3 boys and 1 girl. Happily married for 17 years and a complete Disney Freak. Been all my life and doesnt look like im growing out of it. I have been trying to get back to Disney for 20 years now. Have not been able to for one reason or another. I grew up at Disneyland with my Dad and have loved all things Disney from then on.
DS : Kiefer 16, has a great appriciation for his moms love of all things Disney. He is going to compete in the US Open ISKA tournament durring this trip.
DTwinS9: #1 Tristan and #2 Bryce, Like Mom lovin everything Disney, between the two of them they have more Disney stuffed toys than allowed by law.
DD2: Brinley my only daughter. Out of 3 boys I finally got my Princess
, Raising her right, the Disney princess way. I her first word was princess. LOL Not exactly but it was one of her first.
Pre trip bio:
We are traveling to WDW because my DS16 is competing in the US Open Iska Tournament held at the Coronado Springs Resort
. Spent 4 months raising money just to be able to go. We figured out our budget, looked for deals and kept our eye on the gold. Everytime we earned money, we paid something off. By mid June we had all the money we needed, paid for our airfare, competition fees, had our hotel and meal money, made our ressies and were set for travel.
Day 1 June 27 2006
3:50 am alarm goes off. Time to wake the crew and head to the airport. I am so excited I can hardly stand myself
. But playing it off cool because DH can not go with us 
and dont want to make him feel bad. (Inside though, Im am doing the happy dance 
)
We arrive at the airport to find that our plane is delayed for 2 hours.
bummer.... wouldnt know how much of a bummer till later. But anyway....when we finally left we found that the first delay had caused us to miss all our consecutive flights. Our airline confirmed us on a later flight that would put us in Orlando at 10:50pm. Now I dont know if your getting the picture, but this is the picture in my mind at that point, 4am kids up excited about Disney 10:50pm kids still up and screaming wanting to be there already... BUMMER MAJOR. We decided to fly standby on every flight afterward, so this meant we had to run from terminal to terminal to stand by for every available flight until our confirmed flight. So here we go carry- on items in tow along with 4 children. Missing our original flight also caused us to have to cancel our ressies for our Spirit of Aloha....This was so dissapointing since I had called every day for weeks to get this ressie. I called WDW dining and explained our situation and after a few minutes they said they would refund our money (as this was a pre paid show) and had set us up for the Hoop dee doo review the next evening. GOTTA LOVE DISNEY 
. We finally lucked out after 2 attempts and made it out the airport and were headed to Orlando. We arive at MCO at aprox 8:20 and were so ready to be wisked away by Disneys Magical Express and to start our adventure. Sure enough in true Disney style, as soon as we reached the desk at ME we were in another world where people were happier and more friendly than most. Hmmm..... wonder if that pixie dust 
has anything to do with it. We enjoyed the short ride from the airport to CSR and arrived to a beautiful resort. Pictures do not do this property justice. It is more beautiful than I imagined. Again that disney magic was evident when we checked in.... all our requests were honored and were on our way to our room. I was a little worried about our luggage though. We were told with the change of flight plans we might not get our luggage for some time, but I was pleasantly suprized to find our luggage in our room already when we opened the door. WOW TALK ABOUT MAGIC.
THIS IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. We walked down to the Pepper Market to get something to eat. The food was really good that night, I dont really know if it was the food or if we were just so hungry. Any way off to bed for an early start in the morning.
Trip Dates: June 27-July 4 Arriving on the 27th and leaving on the 4th.
Cast of Characters
Me: Sharon, 35 years old Mom extrordinair of 3 boys and 1 girl. Happily married for 17 years and a complete Disney Freak. Been all my life and doesnt look like im growing out of it. I have been trying to get back to Disney for 20 years now. Have not been able to for one reason or another. I grew up at Disneyland with my Dad and have loved all things Disney from then on.
DS : Kiefer 16, has a great appriciation for his moms love of all things Disney. He is going to compete in the US Open ISKA tournament durring this trip.
DTwinS9: #1 Tristan and #2 Bryce, Like Mom lovin everything Disney, between the two of them they have more Disney stuffed toys than allowed by law.
DD2: Brinley my only daughter. Out of 3 boys I finally got my Princess
, Raising her right, the Disney princess way. I her first word was princess. LOL Not exactly but it was one of her first.Pre trip bio:
We are traveling to WDW because my DS16 is competing in the US Open Iska Tournament held at the Coronado Springs Resort
. Spent 4 months raising money just to be able to go. We figured out our budget, looked for deals and kept our eye on the gold. Everytime we earned money, we paid something off. By mid June we had all the money we needed, paid for our airfare, competition fees, had our hotel and meal money, made our ressies and were set for travel.Day 1 June 27 2006
3:50 am alarm goes off. Time to wake the crew and head to the airport. I am so excited I can hardly stand myself
. But playing it off cool because DH can not go with us and dont want to make him feel bad. (Inside though, Im am doing the happy dance ) We arrive at the airport to find that our plane is delayed for 2 hours.
bummer.... wouldnt know how much of a bummer till later. But anyway....when we finally left we found that the first delay had caused us to miss all our consecutive flights. Our airline confirmed us on a later flight that would put us in Orlando at 10:50pm. Now I dont know if your getting the picture, but this is the picture in my mind at that point, 4am kids up excited about Disney 10:50pm kids still up and screaming wanting to be there already... BUMMER MAJOR. We decided to fly standby on every flight afterward, so this meant we had to run from terminal to terminal to stand by for every available flight until our confirmed flight. So here we go carry- on items in tow along with 4 children. Missing our original flight also caused us to have to cancel our ressies for our Spirit of Aloha....This was so dissapointing since I had called every day for weeks to get this ressie. I called WDW dining and explained our situation and after a few minutes they said they would refund our money (as this was a pre paid show) and had set us up for the Hoop dee doo review the next evening. GOTTA LOVE DISNEY . We finally lucked out after 2 attempts and made it out the airport and were headed to Orlando. We arive at MCO at aprox 8:20 and were so ready to be wisked away by Disneys Magical Express and to start our adventure. Sure enough in true Disney style, as soon as we reached the desk at ME we were in another world where people were happier and more friendly than most. Hmmm..... wonder if that pixie dust has anything to do with it. We enjoyed the short ride from the airport to CSR and arrived to a beautiful resort. Pictures do not do this property justice. It is more beautiful than I imagined. Again that disney magic was evident when we checked in.... all our requests were honored and were on our way to our room. I was a little worried about our luggage though. We were told with the change of flight plans we might not get our luggage for some time, but I was pleasantly suprized to find our luggage in our room already when we opened the door. WOW TALK ABOUT MAGIC. THIS IS THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. We walked down to the Pepper Market to get something to eat. The food was really good that night, I dont really know if it was the food or if we were just so hungry. Any way off to bed for an early start in the morning.
Day 2 will be comming up soon. Thanks for everyones posts.
. Woke the kids fed them some cereal and got them dressed and ready to go pretty quickly we were at the bus stop by 8:00 waiting for the next bus to MK. After 20 years of waiting it was finally happening, I was returning to the Magic of Disney, boy was I excited 
. We arrived at MK 30minutes before opening and that gave us time to slather on some sun screen, look at the park map and check out shows and times. All of this adding to the anticipation 
. Finally they have the morning welcoming ceremony and I know it might sound silly, but as they were singing and dancing, It brought tears to my eyes and I was overcome with emotion 
. I guess after wanting for so many years to return and finally realizing my dream I just lost it.
. I followed a similar park pattern that we used to do when I was a child at 
from across the way wondering how he was going to get back. Funny now, but not at that moment. Poor guy! From that time on I kept him on an invisible leash. 
. I didnt want to do a commando park tactic, knowing that my son had to compete in a couple of days so we were going to take it easy. We had a pretty long nap back at the resort and woke up just in time to freshen up, and catch the bus back to MK. We only had about half an hour to kill before we had to be at the Hoop Dee Doo, so we entered the park and hung around City Hall getting character autographs. This was great because everyone else was deeper in the park or leaving and the lines for the characters were really short. 
OMG Hoop dee doo was GREAT fun 
. I heard that if you dont reserve early you might not get a good seat. With only a days notice we had Fabulous seats.... not front row center, but we had clear view of the stage and were so close to the kitchen access that our food was always delivered first. We were close enough that the performers came to our table several times during the show and I just cant tell you how much fun we had. The kids were hoopin and hollerin, dancin and smiling so big It was all worth it. 
