Tammi67
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After our December trip in 07, my DBF and I talked of taking a multifamily trip in December of 08. After much planning, it has finally come (and gone 
). We decided on the week after Thanksgiving, to celebrate my DS's birthday, plus it's right before the APs expire 
. So here's the cast:
Me: Tammi
DS: Nicholas (8, turning 9)
DD: Alyssa (6)
DBF: Bob
His DD: Bethany (6)
My parents
Bob's sister, Connie, and niece, Shay (35)
DAY 1
Our flight from DC, was uneventful but very rough. We got into MCO around 10:30 and headed to the Magical Express counter, where there was about a 10 minute wait. Bob called Connie and Shay, who drove down a few days ahead of us (going to Universal and Sea World) to let them know we had arrived. There plan for this morning was to go to all the monorail resorts and look at the Christmas decorations. But when he called they said they had already checked into OKW, which I knew was going to screw up our Magical Gathering, but more on that later. My parents flight from Pittsburgh arrived at 11:00 so we waited for them before getting on ME. After the met up with us we waited maybe 5 minutes to board the bus to OKW. While we were waiting the heavens opened and it began to pour. The sky was gray and very ominus looking. On the drive it would clear up, and then pour, and then clear. When we arrived at OKW it was raining again. I had booked my ressie as well as my parents' (2 studios) on my points. Bob, Bethany, Connie and Shay were in another studio. So when my dad and I checked in, our rooms were in building 30, right next to each other, and because Connie had already checked in for them, for whatever reason, they were in building 50, nowhere near us. We didn't mess with moving rooms around, but had we all checked in together, I'm sure it would have been easier. Next, my DDP wasn't added to my ressie. I don't know how this happened as I made both ressies at the same time, and my parents' had the DDP. Luckily there was a VERY helpful manager working who let them add it.
So after quite some time at check-in we finally headed over to AK, IN THE RAIN! By the time we got there it was only a light drizzle and we were all very hungry. We had a 3:30 ADR at Tusker but went there to see if we could be seated early. Since the rain had practically cleared the park out it was no problem. We've eaten breakfast here before and really liked it so we wanted to try lunch. It got 2
from everyone!
Next we jumped on the Safari, which was a walk-on.
Remember I said the rain cleared out the park.
We didn't see many animals, only one elephant, no cheetahs or lions. I guess they didn't want to be wet either. When we exited, Bob and his clan ventured off to do their own thing. The parade was going on so we watched it, then went on Dinosaur.
Alyssa rode Primeval Whirl for the first time and liked it, except for when it stopped suddenly and her tummy got rammed into the lap bar.
As we were leaving Dinoland we were discussing what to do next. Since we had our raincoats on and we were already wet, we figured this would be the perfect time to ride Kali River Rapids. In the 8 or 9 times we've been to WDW, we had never ridden this. So Mom, the kids and I doned our raingear and walked right on. Dad wasn't up for it. We were seated with 2 young men who were comical. Had we not had raincoats, we would have been soaked! We all laughed the whole time and when we approached the unload area the CM asked if we wanted to ride again. All of us said SURE so we went for round 2.
We could have kept doing this but decided to get off and go to ITTBAB. I took some pictures of the Tree as we exited Bug's Life.
It was getting close to closing time so we decided to call it a day. At the exit of the park we saw the Fab 4. I don't know if they always do this, since we've never closed AK before. Our wait for a bus wasn't long and we headed back to the room to get a good nights rest.
Tomorrow we are off to MGM. (I still can't call it HS).
). We decided on the week after Thanksgiving, to celebrate my DS's birthday, plus it's right before the APs expire . So here's the cast:Me: Tammi
DS: Nicholas (8, turning 9)
DD: Alyssa (6)
DBF: Bob
His DD: Bethany (6)
My parents
Bob's sister, Connie, and niece, Shay (35)
DAY 1
Our flight from DC, was uneventful but very rough. We got into MCO around 10:30 and headed to the Magical Express counter, where there was about a 10 minute wait. Bob called Connie and Shay, who drove down a few days ahead of us (going to Universal and Sea World) to let them know we had arrived. There plan for this morning was to go to all the monorail resorts and look at the Christmas decorations. But when he called they said they had already checked into OKW, which I knew was going to screw up our Magical Gathering, but more on that later. My parents flight from Pittsburgh arrived at 11:00 so we waited for them before getting on ME. After the met up with us we waited maybe 5 minutes to board the bus to OKW. While we were waiting the heavens opened and it began to pour. The sky was gray and very ominus looking. On the drive it would clear up, and then pour, and then clear. When we arrived at OKW it was raining again. I had booked my ressie as well as my parents' (2 studios) on my points. Bob, Bethany, Connie and Shay were in another studio. So when my dad and I checked in, our rooms were in building 30, right next to each other, and because Connie had already checked in for them, for whatever reason, they were in building 50, nowhere near us. We didn't mess with moving rooms around, but had we all checked in together, I'm sure it would have been easier. Next, my DDP wasn't added to my ressie. I don't know how this happened as I made both ressies at the same time, and my parents' had the DDP. Luckily there was a VERY helpful manager working who let them add it.
So after quite some time at check-in we finally headed over to AK, IN THE RAIN! By the time we got there it was only a light drizzle and we were all very hungry. We had a 3:30 ADR at Tusker but went there to see if we could be seated early. Since the rain had practically cleared the park out it was no problem. We've eaten breakfast here before and really liked it so we wanted to try lunch. It got 2
from everyone! Next we jumped on the Safari, which was a walk-on.
Remember I said the rain cleared out the park.
We didn't see many animals, only one elephant, no cheetahs or lions. I guess they didn't want to be wet either. When we exited, Bob and his clan ventured off to do their own thing. The parade was going on so we watched it, then went on Dinosaur.
Alyssa rode Primeval Whirl for the first time and liked it, except for when it stopped suddenly and her tummy got rammed into the lap bar.
As we were leaving Dinoland we were discussing what to do next. Since we had our raincoats on and we were already wet, we figured this would be the perfect time to ride Kali River Rapids. In the 8 or 9 times we've been to WDW, we had never ridden this. So Mom, the kids and I doned our raingear and walked right on. Dad wasn't up for it. We were seated with 2 young men who were comical. Had we not had raincoats, we would have been soaked! We all laughed the whole time and when we approached the unload area the CM asked if we wanted to ride again. All of us said SURE so we went for round 2.
We could have kept doing this but decided to get off and go to ITTBAB. I took some pictures of the Tree as we exited Bug's Life.
It was getting close to closing time so we decided to call it a day. At the exit of the park we saw the Fab 4. I don't know if they always do this, since we've never closed AK before. Our wait for a bus wasn't long and we headed back to the room to get a good nights rest.
Tomorrow we are off to MGM. (I still can't call it HS).
I will be leaving Saturday for 8 days (first 4 will be by myself and then my DD, her DBF and 1-year old baby will be joining me for the last 4 days. I can hardly wait! Am renting points to stay at BWV in a boardwalk view room - will look forward to sitting on the balcony and relaxing in the mornings and evenings (at least til the GS gets there lol).
Poor kid wanted her face painted too but Bob was being a mean daddy. 
