Aug/Sept TR Bats , Babies,Cameraissues&Hospitals what else could happen?New 11/10

[Goofy22]

HI! Everyone this is my very first TR so please excuse me as I'm still learning .
We experienced many different things on this trip so if you want to see what it's all about Come On Along for the ride!

We have been going to Disney since 2000 as a family and we all became hooked !
After our first visit we went again in two yrs ! It seemed we went every two years until we experienced Free Dining then we became hooked on Bounceback !
For a family of Four Free Dining is probably one of the best discounts.

The Main Cast is
Me aka Colleen (GOOFY22)
Dh aka Jim
DD
DS
DGN (dear great niece )
We also were joined by another Diser OneTreeHillAddictand her family for a few Grand Gatherings more to come on those later.

Some great Disers I met up with along the way
Tammy * OneTreeHillAddict
Jennifer * Thunderbird1
Alicia * AKSunshine
Danica * ZerotoHero

Although I did miss a few of you !
Sarah*Wdwgirl03
Danielle * Villainess
Stephanie * Nu2disney
EastYorkDisneyFan (Sorry I never got your first name)

Some Highlights

Safari Grand Gathering at the Tusker House in Animal Kingdom

Illuminations Grand Gathering Epcot

Front Row Stage Seats at HDDMR


Crazy Stuff that happened

My Camera goes to visit the Bats in the Bat Cage

We find a Baby in the elevator at Disney Quest

Ambulance Ride to ER

So stay tuned it's about to get pretty crazy around here !

 

[Goofy22]

This was definitely a great trip we had alot of fun and met some great new friends! Tammy and Family were the nicest people and so easy to get along with! Dash and my DS hit off and were buds the entire trip! Bolt and my DGN were just too cute together it was so funny more on that later! Gabby and my DD were gals pals during the trip ! I'm glad I got to meet Tammy and Sidney and family and Jennifer aka Thunderbird1 and her daughter were also very nice we met up with them in the food court at pop on a rainy night! Then I met with was Danica aka Zero to Hero at the AIE experience and got to see her BF Lou perform he was great!
and Alicia aka AKSunshine and her family ! I'm really looking foward to sharing this trip it was a great time and were all crazy! LOL and we had alot of interesting things happen as Tammy gave you lil glimpses above! Well until later I guess thats all I have!

 

[Goofy22]

Ok , So our day started at about 3:30am well I should really say my day! I woke up started to get evryone's clothes out and everything ready to go! I had my boarding passes printed from the night prior so they were already in my bag! I woke everyone up and around 4:15am we were off to I-95 to the Philadelphia Airport but first we had to goto Winner Airport parking where we would check our van in and then get driven in our car to airport by a valet driver, We arrived at the airport about 5am exactly what I had planned since we had a 7am flight! We got our bags out and headed to the Airtran counter as we had to check 2 suitcases! It went really quick even though there were quite a few ppl in line! Now we're headed to the metal detectors and I panic!!! I was suppose to ask the Orthopedic Dr if DD would beep since she has a metal pin and clip in her knee from her reconstruction surgery and I don't have a note to explain!!!

Well of course I send DD through first because I figure if she don't get through we can't go anyways! So she goes through the metal detector and it didn't beep!!! I was soo relieved I really thought it was going to and I didn't know what would happen then! now we were headed to our gate to wait for our flight. We went to get some breakfast sandwiches and coffe while we were waiting there was alot of ppl up and out to fly at 7am I was actually a lil surprised our flight was full.

So at 6:20am we started boarding and we were off on time actually I think it was like a min early! Upon take off we had alot of turbulence and DGN's face was like what the heck is happening?
I was like ohhh this isn't going to be good! So I got the puke bag ready just in case! She was fine after a bit it did lighten up some! Other than the turbulence and a few screaming kids we had a pretty nice flight we had arrived in MCO at 9:15am ! When we landed I turned my cell phone on and within minutes I had a text from tammy wondering if we had arrived yet? I sid funny you asked we literally just landed! then we were off to The DME line where we gave our passes and were shown which line to get into! Our bus made 4 stops ! We stopped First at CBR then POP then it was going to the Swan and Dolphin.

We only waited in the DME line maybe 5 minutes before boarding the bus it took us about 35 minutes to get to POP ! We're finally at Pop we grab our carry on bags and Dh, DD and Ds, DGN head to the Kids seating area and watch Tv while I head to the online check in! There was maybe 2 ppl in front of me while the reg line had about 11 ppl in it! It took me a few minutes I was checked in and had all my info and guess what our room was ready! We were in the 60's RM#5110 it was ok but couldve been better.
We were between Baloo and the greeen Yo yo closest to the kiddie pool!

Continued to next post.......................................

 

[Goofy22]

COLOR="Red"]So we were in the room a few minutes and Myself and DS headed around the back of our Building to Meet Tammy and family as they were waiting for us!
We spent a lil bit of time with them but didn't want to hold them up as they were getting ready to hit the parks!!!

My DS and Dash hit it off immediately almost like they had been friends for quite some time!
Like I have already said Tammy and Sidney and the kids are the nicest and funny too!
So after a bit we headed back to the room because the last thing DH and DD said was they were hungry!

So we headed to Pop Foodcourt while Tammy and family headed to DHS!

After lunch they all headed to the pool but me I stayed to book next years bounceback I wanted to get it done before it slipped my mind as that easily happens in Disney!

Then I joined the rest of the crew at the pool and after a while we showered and headed off to MK as this is usually our first park to visit since the first time we took our kids to Disney because DD was about 5 and she sttod on Masin street starring at the Castle CRYING and LAUGHING at the same time! Mommy !! Daddy!!! Mommy do you see that ???? It's Cinderella's castle!!
You had to be there it was the best feeling!

Well we went on a few things at MK and we were going to meet back up with Tammy and family but everyone was tired from the long day so we decided to go back to the room and relax before our dinner at 6pm at Trex!

We got to Trex in time for our Ressie and it was pretty empty! We were seated immediately this place is so neat!

This guy was above us!!!

DD's Chicken Cesear salad

Bread

My dinner Paleo Shrimp! It was yummy had a lil spice to it but I like spicy things!

Ds and DGN had the same thing!

I guess DH's dinner was one that I accidentally deleted.

I have no pics from like the first 2 days as I somehow accidentally deleted all of them!!! ( But we had my camera and DD's and DD's was the one we were mainly using this night and I never really used it before and on 8/26 I deleted all the pics on it from 8/24-8/26 if it wasn't for 2 cameras I wouldnt have any pics of those days! )

That's the first of things that happened!
Dinner was good!

Then the kids begged to go off to the Marketplace and walk around and we did I wasn't paying attention to time and I was suppose to be at DHS to meet Sarah and that didn't happen

SORRY

Sarah I hope our trips cross another time so we can meet!

So after a few hours we left DTD and headed back to POP we were hot so we got changed and went to the pool for awhile then called it a night!

I think that about sums up day #1 ( How's that for you Tammy? lol)

Note: Trex is not on the dining paln in case you were wondering we paid OOP as we did (3)
2 credit TS's and they were all sooo worth it!!! Plus tips were included in those!
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[Goofy22]

OK! So I know what I didn't tell you all about day one! When I was booking my Bounceback for next August/Sept .

I had already had a trip booked that was 2 rooms that I wanted to change to the bounceback the girl that answered told me I couldn't do that! It had to be a new ressie! I felt like I was working in a bank again cross selling everything had to be new money ! I said to her well that is ridiculous! I will just cancel it totally!

She said well let me see if I can get an approval from Guest relations!
So I said ok! Needless to say I was on hold forvever the entire phone call took over an hour and they picked up right away no wait!
Well I finally did get them to change it and all was well but it took forever!

OK! Now onto to Day #2 8/25/09
We woke up early! We were headed to Blizzard Beach our intentions
were to spend the day there. So we packed up some PBJ sandwiches and juice boxes and chips etc.. as we were using our CS for something else!
We arrived at BB around 10:30am and didn't leave until about 3pm .

We all had alot of fun here and did alot of slides and pools etc.. We went on the Family or Team raft whatever they call it as it was really the only BIG slide baby dgn could do! She loved it! She laughed hysterically the entire way down! So hard that listening to her laugh was making us all laugh!

The lazy river if you have never been all the way around you have to do it! At one point near the end there is this house you pass by I think it''s goofy's voice you hear talking can't remember ! And then a BIG Sneeze if your right there a water comes out of the chimney onto you!
It's hysterical the kids were like EWE!
They also like the wave pool! and baby dgn loved the lil tikes water park area with the lil slides and all!

At some point after lunch we met up with Tammy and family we were getting off the Lazy river and they were getting in line to get on..

We stayed with them for a lil bit then we went our seperate ways.
I also recieved a text from danica Zerotohero while we were there saying that she had arrived safely and was really excited!

Let me tell you after spending the entire day at the waterpark we didn't do that again! We were all soo tired and didn't want to do anything else! And Burnt Oucch! OMG we looked like lobsters our 2nd day!

Well like I said around 3pm we were all ready to go back to POP !
We got showered and dressed as we planned on eating somewhere in DTD but it wasn't planned as it was OOP and we wouldve been happy with Counter service or something like that.
While we were getting ready DH had a phone call it was his cousin that lives in Ocala it was her day off and her and his Aunt and the kids wanted to come have dinner with us! So since we were tired and had no plans it worked out!
We met up with them at DTD and had dinner at the Rainforest cafe.
and hung out and chatted for awhile.

We were suppose to meet up with Tammy and Sidney and the kids at Disney Quest but that didn't work out since the family stayed to hang out.
We hung around for awhile and then they headed off as they had a long drive about an hour or so!
We then headed back to pop because it was raining and already about 9pm!
During our bus ride back I got a text from Tammy saying the pool party was still on we were just going to move it inside to the pop food court around
10pm!
Well we did we hung at at the foodcourt and Jennifer Thunderbird1 and her dd stopped by and chatted for a bit! they were really nice !
My family and Tammy's closed the foodcourt at Midnight!
The cm's kept looking at us like wth are they still doing in here!

So we then called it a night and headed back to our rooms for some sleep!

 

[Goofy22]

Hippity Dippity Pool from 4th floor building 5 60's section!

 

[Goofy22]

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The Legendary years side!

And that's all I have for tonite !

 

[Goofy22]

OK! So like I said I had no luck with cameras on this trip as you wil hear more about on 8/27! Before we left for this trip my good camera died so we brung along my cheappy HP Camera and DD's Sanyo.
Well mostly I used DD's camera don't know why but I did I don't think I have any pics but I'll post them if I do! So I was very inexperienceed with DD's camera!

So now with that said i'll start our day.

We didn't do much as we had Chef MIckey's planned for lunch at 1pm . So we decided to sleep in and I got some laundry done .
I hate having dirty laundry around and I refuse to pack dirty laundry.
We went in the pool for a few hours then went back to the room and got showered and then we were off to CHEF MICKEY's this is (well was) our must do every trip!
So we arrive at Chef Mickey's if you haven't been there since the renovations the big plate where you take your pic with Chef Mickeys is off to your right now! By the time we were done taking our photo our buzzer was going off!
We were seated all the way in the back room which was fine it wasnt far from the buffet. The characters were great! They all came around Baby DGN was scared to death of Donald and Goofy! She wanted no parts of them!
It was Hysterical! But she did eventually warm up to Minnie and Mickey .

The food was not that great this time we were really disappointed. Out of everything I wound up eating Mickey Ravioli not what I had planned.
But I must say the service was great !
They did bring Baby DGN out a Big cupcake for her 3rd bday(which we celebrated there but it wasn't until 9/23) but like I said I delted it I was really mad when this happened.
The Mickey Domes and brownies were really good!

After Chef Mickey's we headed to the monorail and we were off to Epcot!
When we arrived at the front of Epcot we stopped to have our photo taken by the photopass photographer.
While we were there we road the Seas w/Nemo and Test Track, Soarin, Figment Ride, Honey I shrunk the audience and spaceship earth the green side of course.
We had planned on eating CS at Sunshine Seasons but that didn't work out the kids didn't care for the menu so we asked if they wanted to head back to POP and eat at Everything Pop? The vote was yes! So around 7pm we were back off to POP! We arrived at Pop and went right to the foodcourt and had some dinner.
After dinner we went to our room and got our swimsuits on and went back in the pool! As you will the kids are waterbugs! So we stayed in the pool for awhile then we headed back to the room and called it a night I believe!

Well now that its like 2am I will post pics after I'm done work.
I need to go get some sleep but I wanted to catch up to Tammy.

I hope your all enjoying this TR so far .
Sometime after 5pm thats like another 13 hrs
i'll check through my pics I may have some pics I'm not sure.

 

[Goofy22]

SIZE="5"]HI! Everyone!
Sorry it took me so long to get back here sometimes life gets busy and takes over.
Today is Animal Kingdom day as we have our 1st GG tonite!
We actually woke up late again today and had breakfast in the room.
Unfortunately I may not have many pics from today either as an incident with my camera and the Bats occured and afterwards I had no batteries!(well not enough batteries)
But i'll get to that later
We arrived at Ak around 10:30am as we planned to spend the entire day here today as we have never once spent an entire day at AK ! We first headed to Expedition Everest as DD has been wanting to do this but last year we never got around to it! So off we headed to EE but along the way we stopped to check these guys out!

Then we turned the bend there and had a view of our destination Expedition Everest!

So we made our way there and DD and DH rode this time as myself , Ds and Dgn stayed and waited in the gift shop!
After DD and DH came out we were headed back towards the Tusker House .
I think we were planning on heading to Kali River Rapids we were trying to get all the rides that would have long lines done first.
On our way we ran into Tammy and Dash guess where they were headed? You got it Expedition Everest .
So Dash talked my Ds into trying out EE even though he was really scared he went because dash went.
I also rode this time along with Tammy and Dd rode by herself.
It's a really fast ride and let me tell you if it's been awhile since you rode something like that look out! So after we got off EE for the second time the boys wanted to hang out so we found my DH and DGN and then headed to find Sidney, Gabby and Bolt.
So I think we all agreed to head on over to Dinoland at this point and we rode a few things there then I believe we headed on over to Dinoasaur.
So this time I decided to opt out as I wasn't feeling that great from EE!
I guess it's been to long because that stuff never use to bother me.
So I believe Tammy and Dash and my Dh and Ds and DD rode Dinosaur while the rest of us waited for them!
When they came out we all headed to the bathrooms as the car Tammy and Dash, DS were in had something wet on the seat belt so Tammy had the guy move them but it was too late because a few of them already touched it not having a clue what it was only thnking the worst.
So we went to sanitize hands etc....
I think our next ride was Kali River Rapids this was great although we all got really soaked we had a blast! The wave literally went over some of us! I don't think there was one dry person in our raft.
I think we rode this 2x's as dearest lil dgn didn't make the height requirement so someone had to stay back. She is a short lil thing .
Now we started heading towards Yak N Yeti as Tammy and her family had a lunch ADR there.
But along the way we walked through the Animal trek forgive me I'm drawing a blank on the name!
I guess that's because I was more focused on what happened here and kinda mad!
We walked through and checked out all the animals it was really neat! Well when you get to the BATS there is this area where you can choose to enter or not to enter to get a closer look .
]It's not like their hanging over your heads or anything just a better area to watch from. The bats weren't that exciting as it was there nap time they were just kinda hanging around like this

Well this is where my camera story comes in the area that you go onto to look at the bats in case you never have is like a covered porch area but its all enclosed the look out area has these wooden slats.

You can put your camera like in between them and take pics!
Well needless to say I don't have a strap on my camera as it is old.
I was holding dgn and leaning foward to take pics and dgn was trying to get down or moved and I lost my balance and the camera went flying in with the bats and the back popped off the batteries flew out!!!!!
I'm laughing now but I was really mad then!
So now I'm like great our GG is tonite and I don't have a camera it's in with the bats!! !!!!!
So the CM that was supervising this room called in for help for someone to at least extract my camera from the bat area!
A girl came a few minutes later with the long arm clamp like thing and she retrieved the camera then the back to the get the door for the battery area! Then she actually found one of the two batteries but that was it!
It'a a good thing I packed extras!
BTW the camera did and still does work which I'm surprised because it took a hard hit on the way down!
You wanna talk about camera luck!!
So needless to say I had no camera the rest of the day ! DD's camera was dead the batteries needed to be charged.
So can you top that ?!!
So after I had the camera back we all headed out and finished checking out the rest of the animals but now it was nearing Tammy's ADR time so they headed towards Yak N Yeti and we were debating on doing Pizzafari and Tammy and Sidney Suggested Yak N Yeti counter sevice since we had planned to use a CS.
So I think I'm going to leave you with that for tonight as I am tired and need some sleep .
I have a wedding tommorrow night.
So lets' see if anyone can guess where we went for our CS would it be Pizzafari or Yak N Yeti CS ????????
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[Goofy22]

I vote.... Pizzafari!

I wondered how they were going to get the camera out - that's pretty cool! I can't believe they even found a battery for you!


Can't wait to hear about the GG!

I love Expedition Everest! So much fun.

I am going to vote Pizzafari too just because I like it there.

Well That answer is for later when I get back from my cousins wedding because if I don't get off here and get in the shower I'm going to be in trouble when my parents arrive and have to wait!

Great update colleen.

((Tammy)) sorry you cant come now.
I prolly wont see ya for another year or 2 now..BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Thanks Farrah!

I'll be back later and I'm going to be starting a new TR so that I can update things etc... you all are welcome to follow me over there when I do! But that won't be until later after the wedding.

Hopefully I'll be able to figure out the link thing once I do! I'm not very computer savy!

 

[Goofy22]

OK so for those of you who don't know I had a TR going that is being cancelled so I am moving it over to here so I can update things etc.. as I was not the originator on that one so I couldn't do all that . That is why you see the continous posts above.But I think I'm done now!

So hopefully I will get some new readers and hopefully all of the ones that were with me will come on over here and join the fun!

Danica and Sarah if you find me here I will update with the rest of Animal Kingdom day in the morning so you will find out if your guess was right or wrong. Until then have a Good Night and I'm off to bed!

 

[jenseib]

I'm here with you!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Found you! I'm here!

 

[ZeroToHero]

I'm in & on the first page!

 

[thunderbird1]

I'm here--and I'm on page one (I hope)!

I was MIA for a while, but I'm back, and looking forward to the ride!

 

[Me&3]

I'm here. You will do a great job good luck.

 

[ibedancin824]

Joining in

 

[Goofy22]

I'm here with you!

Found you! I'm here!

I'm in & on the first page!

I'm here--and I'm on page one (I hope)!

I was MIA for a while, but I'm back, and looking forward to the ride!

I'm here. You will do a great job good luck.

Joining in

Thank You all for joining in! I will be back in just a bit with the rest of my update from 8/27 ! I hope I can keep you all interested

HI! Jen , I'm glad to see you back. BTW you are on page 1 .
Did you start a TR? lmk I want to hear all about it!

 

[teedee]

I'm mostly a lurker, I was enjoying your tr on the other thread and am so glad you posted a link over to here. I can't wait to read about the rest of it.

Terri

 

[Goofy22]

I'm mostly a lurker, I was enjoying your tr on the other thread and am so glad you posted a link over to here. I can't wait to read about the rest of it.

Terri

Welcome and Thanks for coming over ! In a few minutes I will posting more on Day 3 !