Back from 11 days in the World

[hulabird]

I will post pictures and a trip report in the trip reports area sometime today. We had a great time. We ended up staying at CBR the whole trip because I was outvoted by my entire family, who fell in love with CBR and didn't want to move and my DH didn't back me up because he think splitting stays is dumb to begin with, so I didn't get to stay at BWI AGAIN this year. He promised that he and I will make a return trip in a few months with the $$$ we saved. I love CBR though and we did have fun.

I took lots of pictures and we paid visits to WL, FW, BWI, and CSR. I even remembered to take shots of some of the food, so I will post links to all photos later.

I made a grave mistake when my sister said "put on the sunscreen" and I declined, so on day 1 I was so burned that I could not sleep for about 4 days. I will NEVER not use sunscreen again. You can read all about it in our trip report that I will start posting today.

By the way for those wondering about the FITS passes, they were really great and all you do is go to guest services at any park and exchange the voucher for park passes. All they required was name and birthdate. The passes are the same paper ones you get as park hoppers. All the parks, attractions etc...were on this pass, including Kennedy Space Center. Very convenient. No problems whatsoever at any time with these passes, I say they are a GREAT deal, so don't be afraid to buy these.

Ok, I am doing my photos now, hope to start trip report and include pics in that as well as links to shutterfly so you can see them all.

Happy to answer any CBR questions as well.

 

[lovelyk68]

Welcome back! Sorry to hear about your sunburn . I am glad you had a good time in spite of it.

 

[FINFAN]

Glad you had a great time....and that your DH says you can go back again in a few months...Christmas perhaps! How was your early flight? we usually fly out of Midway and love it, but will be departing from O'Hare in Dec. Sorry about the bad burn...that must have been misrable. I bet the parks were very maneagable this time of year.


Pam

 

[hulabird]

Hi guys, I posted 2 threads on the Trip Report board so far. Will do more tomorrow.

You guys will not believe this, not only did I get burned the first day of our trip, but after that day I wore t-shirts into the pool to prevent any further burning, plus absolutely LOADED on SPF 50 sunscreen from that day on. Well, on Sunday we went to the beach (Siesta Key near Sarasota---beautiful beach and super clean) and I loaded on the sunscreen and this time felt ok enough not to wear a t shirt, and I was fine, so I thought. I got back to the room and took a shower and this time my legs and top of my feet were burnt to a crisp, especially my ankles....they swelled up too, even with the sun screen, which I kept applying...my calves and ankles felt like they were on fire, so that night all I felt like doing was sit in the movie theater at Pleasure Island, and then we came back and DH got us dinner to eat in our room from OPR. The last day in Disney was Monday and we went to MK, I hobbled along, and felt like an old lady as I tried to get in and out of rides because my ankles were not cooperating too well. I still have alittle swelling, but my feet are back to normal now and not looking like Fred Flintstone feet.

By the way, our best meal at WDW was at Hollywood and Vine, it was so delicious and the food quality was exceptional. I had prime rib, fresh shrimp and a bunch of other stuff, and the Turkey Pot Roast was to die for!!!!! So tender it melts in your mouth and the flavor was awesome. What a great place to eat and plus we got to see Fantasmic to end the evening. I will post some photos as soon as I can. When I got home my DSL modem had burned out and I have to buy a new one so just to get online today I had to go back to dial up and free AOL, I was desperate. But downloading my pictures to shutterfly takes forever on dialup, so I will do some more later. I have some pics on my trip report already.

Our flight out of Midway was good, only now when you check your bags, they weigh them like usual, but now instead of taking them from you at the counter, you have to carry them to another location to be xrayed and then they take them from you, kind of a pain, but it was like that at MCO too. Oh well.