A spoonful of sugar helps me to keep my mouth shut!

[Stacybaeasm]

I seriously can't believe that woman is still walking around with all her body parts. You showed great restraint and proved that you are a good parent. I don't think I would have been able to stop screaming at her, even if my daughter was crying. I hope you and your daughter get a do-over trip and that you have the time of your life.

 

[meeko_33785]

Wow, Cruella is Cruella right up to the end! It was a fantastic trip report, but I'm so sorry that the trip didn't go as well as you'd planned. Hopefully the next one will be much better.

I've really enjoyed reading this, and I hope that you'll drop by my trip report too. It's been really nice meeting you here.

 

[MAJ RN]

Wanted to let you know that I enjoyed reading your trip report. Now I know to NEVER travel with someone I am not really familiar with!!! I also have to say that you were truly amazing to keep your cool with her as long as you did, most would have lost it after a day or two! I hope your next trip with your family is extraordinary to make of for this past trip. Thanks for sharing!!


Melissa

 

[heartofdisney]

Okay, this is for you . I am awaiting the finale. I have spent the last couple of hours glued to my screen. There were times when I was reading through my fingers like I was watching a very scary movie . You have told a very good story thus far and I look forward to the end.

Thank you so much for joining in! I am glad you enjoyed reading my trip report.

What an ending! I felt so bad for you and your daughter on the last day. Are the girls still friends as normal? You remind me so much of my best friend as she is just plain nice to everybody, too. Maybe Cruella didn't realize that what goes around comes around and maybe there was a reason she kept losing all her stuff?

I really enjoyed your report and hope your family gets a do-over trip soon!

The girls are both still best friends,but I have noticed some subtle differences here and there. They both are doing more things with other friends,without the other being there. I guess it is just a natural thing as they are growing older and more into the boys and different extra curricular activities.

I am slowly trying to work on a trip of some sort for my family. It may not be Disney or all Disney,but I will just be thrilled for all of us to be together!

Wow Cruella is handful. I hope disney don't give her anything back. I use to work in the hotel industry as a manager I you won't believe what people do and lie to get free stuff. The one that I remember the most was this lady that wanted all her money back because it snow everyday on her vacation but I use to work in a ski resort where is snows 9 months out of the year I don't know what she was expecting.

I really don't think Disney will give her any money back. Isn't it a shame that there are people out there who think the world owes them something just for existing! That story of the woman is too funny! She must have beenthe only person in that ski resort upset that it snowed! Too crazy!!!

Way good story. I read from the very beginning. You sound very similar to me. I'm so sorry you had such a rough trip. Hopefully you'll get back soon and be able to enjoy even more because realizing how precious it is.

Thanks for a good read!
Beth

Your welcome! And thank you for reading! I am hoping for another trip soon.I know I will get back there again some day though!

I don't know if I can say I "enjoyed" your trip report, since I was cringing most of the time for you. I don't know why some people feel that they can be so mean to other people. We live in such a world of entitlement.

My trip report link is in my siggy. I would love for you to pop over.

I cringed myself for alot of the trip,so I guess it is to be expected that my readers would as well..haha.Sorry that it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows,but despite that,it hasn't changed how much I love Disney World. It makes me appreciate it so much more actually.Thank you for reading along,and I will be sure to read your trip report!

I would sure have loved a happier ending. I am so sorry for you and both the girls as none of you, should have had to have those memories. I hope that you can just hang on to the good moments that you had with your DD and the few you had with the with the others also. Thank you for sharing.

Despite some of those sticky tension filled times,there were still times when I did enjoy myself. Especially the mother daughter day. I think though when I think like that,it hurts worse,because I realize I could have had 10 days like that.....Oh well...Disney will always be there!

I seriously can't believe that woman is still walking around with all her body parts. You showed great restraint and proved that you are a good parent. I don't think I would have been able to stop screaming at her, even if my daughter was crying. I hope you and your daughter get a do-over trip and that you have the time of your life.

Yes,I am sure that there will be a time when Kaitlyn and I will be able to take another trip again,and I am postive that she won't bring a friend and her mother along next time!

Wow, Cruella is Cruella right up to the end! It was a fantastic trip report, but I'm so sorry that the trip didn't go as well as you'd planned. Hopefully the next one will be much better.

I've really enjoyed reading this, and I hope that you'll drop by my trip report too. It's been really nice meeting you here.

I did start reading your trip report Meeko,and now that I am finished writting mine,I will have more time to enjoy others.!

Wanted to let you know that I enjoyed reading your trip report. Now I know to NEVER travel with someone I am not really familiar with!!! I also have to say that you were truly amazing to keep your cool with her as long as you did, most would have lost it after a day or two! I hope your next trip with your family is extraordinary to make of for this past trip. Thanks for sharing!!

Oh,I am working on trying to get some sort of trip together.It gets harder to get everyone on the same schedule the older my dd's grow,but I know it will happen again eventually!

Melissa

 

[leslie826]

Wow. That was the worst trip report I have read yet. You can take that as a compliment if you like. My mouth dropped open when I read that you lost your photos. So glad you got them back! Thanks for sharing this with us.

 

[dizneedoll]

We just got back from Disneyland and I got all caught up with the end of your TR. Wow, Lisa, I think you really handled that whole trip with a lot of grace and dignity. Even though you let her have it on the phone on the last day, it doesn't sound to me like you said anything that was out of line or untrue. I'm sorry that there were so many bad moments on this trip but it sounds like there were some happy ones too and hopefully you will be able to look back on this trip and be grateful for the happy moments you had with your DD and that she had with her BF and be able to laugh about the outrageous Cruella DeVil moments! Thank you for sharing the TR, unlike other "we had a great time" TR's this one had a lot of emotions and some deep stuff going on and it couldn't have been easy to write it all up and share it. I'm really glad you got your pics back too. I gasped out loud when I read they had been lost!

 

[disneyaddicted]

Lisa that has got to be one of the worst vavcations I have ever heard of, I got so angry at Cruella I found myself gritting my teeth while reading that last post. Good job laying into her and defending Kaitlynn, that women is a waste of good breathing air.

I really hope you get back to WDW soon and can have a calm relaxing vacation like it should have been. If anybody gets anything from this trip report it's what you said, only go with the people you know and love.

Thank you so much for sharing, I'm sure it must have hurt to relive alot of it, but hopefully in some ways it was also healing for you.

Keep in touch on the boards, I feel like you are one of my friends now and I want us to continue to talk.

Ty

 

[heartofdisney]

Wow. That was the worst trip report I have read yet. You can take that as a compliment if you like. My mouth dropped open when I read that you lost your photos. So glad you got them back! Thanks for sharing this with us.

We just got back from Disneyland and I got all caught up with the end of your TR. Wow, Lisa, I think you really handled that whole trip with a lot of grace and dignity. Even though you let her have it on the phone on the last day, it doesn't sound to me like you said anything that was out of line or untrue. I'm sorry that there were so many bad moments on this trip but it sounds like there were some happy ones too and hopefully you will be able to look back on this trip and be grateful for the happy moments you had with your DD and that she had with her BF and be able to laugh about the outrageous Cruella DeVil moments! Thank you for sharing the TR, unlike other "we had a great time" TR's this one had a lot of emotions and some deep stuff going on and it couldn't have been easy to write it all up and share it. I'm really glad you got your pics back too. I gasped out loud when I read they had been lost!

Lisa that has got to be one of the worst vavcations I have ever heard of, I got so angry at Cruella I found myself gritting my teeth while reading that last post. Good job laying into her and defending Kaitlynn, that women is a waste of good breathing air.

I really hope you get back to WDW soon and can have a calm relaxing vacation like it should have been. If anybody gets anything from this trip report it's what you said, only go with the people you know and love.

Thank you so much for sharing, I'm sure it must have hurt to relive alot of it, but hopefully in some ways it was also healing for you.

Keep in touch on the boards, I feel like you are one of my friends now and I want us to continue to talk.

Ty

I will be referring to the above posts all at once,but this is for all of you.

I want to thank everyone here for reading this trip report. I think it was very therueputic for me in some way. I did relive some bad moments,and I did feel alot of pain and regret as I write this. But in the same way,I also realized something just now as I was reading these last few comments.

When I began writting this trip report,I wrote it in some way still questioning myself and my actions,wondering what I could have done differently or what went wrong,how this trip could have become everything I had hoped it could have been. It truly was the worst vacation experience I have ever had. It really did drain me emotionally and when I think of it,I still have this heavy ache inside my heart in which I try to replace with the good memories I have. Truth be told,there are times I am still trying to convince myself that I was still blessed to have gone to Disney World and had the good times that I did have.But I will admit,sometimes it is more mind over matter.
Anyway,I got very teary eyed as I read the comments at the end telling me it was the worst trip report,ect. The reason is because I finally feel validated in feeling the way I was feeling. In the beginning some people questioned my decision in talking about some of the experiences with Cruella. I began to feel guilty for it,and think maybe I really was wrong to write about this trip.
Now,I don't feel that way anymore. I feel like there are some people out there ,who love Disney as much as I do,and who understand my reasons for needing to write this trip report. I tried to be honest in everything,but at the same time,I tended to give myself a hard time for writting it all down as well. But you all have made it alright for me to feel the way I do. I didn't even realize it until now,but now I feel justified for my bad feelings and dissapointment regarding this trip,and that is helping me so much right now. So thank you all for the support and understanding. I have told one or two others who are close to me,and while they were sympathetic,they didn't really understand the dissapointment that came home with me.It means alot that all of you who love Disney as I do,who live with that anticipation months before you go,and spend countless hours planning to give the people with you the time of thier lives,who sacrifice and save for the trip,and who get more excited to be going then your own children do....it helps that all of you really do understand my feelings and then validated them for me. So thank you.
Now how do I get this moved over to the completed trip reports board???

 

[Missus Toad]

Just wanted to chime in and say how sorry I am that your trip was ruined by such a nightmarish traveling companion. Start planning your next trip, and make it every wonderful thing you can imagine to erase all the nonsense from your memory. You are a more than good person for enduring this crap for your daughter, and you could not have done any more than you already did (which is way more than I would have done) to make it better. Great job on a difficult TR.

 

[Becx N Gav]

Super big to you. Thank you for sharing, I'm sure at times it was tough and hard to re-live it - but I also think it has helped you (from reading your last post).
It's easy to blame yourself or try and explain away someone elses behaviour but sometimes it really is them being a total idiot/rude/thoughtless/selfish person - delete as appropriate.
I have had experiences which should have been happy but were ruined by another. I tried to see what I could have done differently or how I could have prevented it, but without hindsight I had no idea! I just think (this is the only way I can accept why such things can happen to good poeple) that it is a way of you learning and growing from the experience (I'm not being specific here BTW) and that it helps you develop as a person. Maybe the next time you are faced with a Cruella you'll have a better idea of how to handle them/what to say/how to react.

Also - I was almost in tears when I read you lost all your pics So pleased you were able to rescue them
And I agree with a previous poster that maybe the things Cruella lost were karma's way of making up for her awful behaviour

Here's to your next trip being a happy one - Disney or not You NEED it

PS see the link in my signature for my recently started TR - I'll be updating it when I stop getting addicted to reading other people TR's

 

[tinkerbells mum]

i think you handled this trip really well and your comment to cruella at the airport of "i am a nice person" was the perfect response. i really hope that you manage to have a trip with your family soon to make up for this trip and knowing that Disney is better with people you love is an amazing thing to learn, thank you for sharing xx

 

[chanti]

Reading your report brings back a lot of memories for me. I have had similar trips where I was on holiday with people I did not really know well enough.

It's tough when personalities don't mix. Each person has their own perception of things and usually misunderstandings can lead to aggravations. The fact that you had to spend 10 days together in the same room, probably did not help. Reading your first few lines, when you introduced everyone, and seeing the name 'cruella' for Kylies mom, I had a sneaking suspicion that your trip with your daughters best friend and her mom wasn't going to be all roses and butterflies

I hope that despite all the mutual frustration you and cruella have shared, that you did have more fun than frustration during this trip. And I hope next time your hubby will go along with you again and that you can enjoy a lovely family trip.