Blue Skies, Sunshine, and Unseasonably HOT Pixie Dust! Update 3/6 Final Thoughts!

[johnsonmatt3]

second page. good enough, Im in

 

[disney<333]

Ughh! Second page! Great start! Bella is such a cutie pie! Her comment about being up high is too funny! Everyone looks so excited! I'm glad to hear the flight was fine. See, you worried for nothing about it.

 

[smithpack]

Yay!! I can't wait to hear all about your trip! I hope you took lots of pictures, and I am sure you probably did. I guess when sitting in a plane on the ground, you are pretty high up. That is so cute!!

 

[kcandbella]

Hey! Kayce I'm here...great start!!! can't wait to continue to travel along with you and your family...and I can't wait to see all Bella's outfits

BTW: I think the same thing about the Fab 5 and Daisy all the time

I love Daisy! I think she should be included. Thanks for joining in!

WOW Kaycee!!!!! Thank you sooo much You just made me SO excited. We are totally going for the Donald group in MK and EPCOT. What a time saver I think we are making the right choice by using them as fastpasses. I am sure you were glad to have them seeing that there were so many more people there than you thought!!

One more question...are you able to do a baby swap with the fastpasses? We will have my little man with us, so I was thinking we could split the group up into two different rides. We will have 7 riders (including Abby) .

No Katie, you get three from Donald AND three from Daisy--even better! You don't have to pick. We didn't do baby swap since my parents don't ride thrill rides, so they stayed with Bella while we rode. But the FP that comes out of the FP machine is exactly like a regular FP, only it has the time that you put the card in the machine on it instead of the regular return time. So I would imagine it would work just how it does with any FP.

Joining in!
Can't wait to hear all about your trip

Welcome! Thanks for joining in!

second page. good enough, Im in

Yay! Thanks for joining!

Ughh! Second page! Great start! Bella is such a cutie pie! Her comment about being up high is too funny! Everyone looks so excited! I'm glad to hear the flight was fine. See, you worried for nothing about it.

Thank you! I know, it was fine. I was very nervous, but it worked out fine! Glad you're here!!!

Yay!! I can't wait to hear all about your trip! I hope you took lots of pictures, and I am sure you probably did. I guess when sitting in a plane on the ground, you are pretty high up. That is so cute!!

Oh don't worry, I took plenty! Plus I will have some from my dad's and my sister's cameras. And we have about 100 photopass pics, which I thought was kind of a low number! Thanks for joining in!!!

 

[kcandbella]

When I left off, we were boarding the Magical Express to our resort.

Bella on the ME bus:

I’m sure several of you have been wondering what the backs of our seats looked like, well, wonder no more. Bella took my camera and got some pictures!

I was a little disappointed because the video wasn’t working. It was on, it just kept saying Disney’s Magical Express over and over and playing the music. But pretty soon, I cheered up because we saw this:

If you squint really hard and look directly in the middle, you can see it. We were in the back of the bus, so I couldn’t get a very good picture. But here is the side:

And soon after that, we saw these:

We got off the ME and were blasted for the first time by the Florida heat and humidity! Bella and Noah humored me by posing for a pic.

I had done online check-in, so we grabbed our carry on’s and headed in. The lobby of POR is very nice, Bella even said that it looked like a castle! We had two rooms, so I went to get ours and Kellie got hers and the boys. I had requested buildings 14, 15, 16, or 18, but we ended up in 17. It worked out fine, it was just a longer walk to the lobby and the bus stop. We were right next to a quiet pool, so that was nice. When we checked in, they said my room wasn’t ready. Kellie’s was and she was in 1702 so we headed that way. Five minutes later I got the text that mine was ready—1701. We did get the connecting rooms, which was the most important part of our request. Here are some pics of the room:

Bella wasted no time getting comfortable!

Cont in next post

 

[kcandbella]

After we looked around for a few minutes, we realized we were all starving, so we headed to the River Roost, Riverside's CS. Here are some views along the way:

We ate (no food pics, sorry) and all felt better! I don't remember what everyone had but I had a grilled chicken sandwich and Bella had chicken nuggets. I barely even tasted it, I was ready to head to the parks!!!

After lunch, we got picked up our GG order. While there, they gave us TONS of the Mickey stickers they passed out! I forgot to take a pic, though! But we had enough to bring some home for Bella's preschool class and also my class.

We walked back to the room and three out of our five suitcases were already there. We were a little worried about the other two, but decided not to panic about it yet. Everyone freshened up, and we headed out! This is my dad and the kids waiting on my mom and sister to get ready:

In case you haven't figured it out yet, Bella is a little bit of a ham. She loves to pose for pictures, dance around, and act silly. I did not tell her to pose in any of these pictures. You will see a lot of her poses and silly faces in this TR!!! I think she was born to be on a stage somewhere!

We made it to the bus stop and the kids were looking at the park map deciding what we had to do when we got there.

Finally the bus arrived and we were on our way!


Up next: Our first park!

 

[SoonerGirl]

Oh my gosh Kayce, Bella is just too stinkin' adorable! And I'm so happy to be able to see exactly what the back of those seats looked like on the bus

Glad you were able to get connecting rooms at least.

Can't wait to see where you are off to!

 

[BippityBoo]

Wow! Your TR is moving so fast! The kids look so excited...it is just adorable!

Your rooms are really nice! How great you guys were so close to one another. I can't wait to see how Bella likes her first day at the parks!

 

[disney<333]

Thank you Bella for showing me what the ME bus looks like.
Everyone looks so excited to be at POR! How great that you guys got connecting rooms. Hope you got your other bags!
Can't wait to hear all about the first park. My guess is it will be the Magic Kingdom.

 

[dismagiclover]

Yay you made it to the resort! And I really was wondering what the back of those seats looked like! They look good POR looks lovely and I can't wait for you to get to the park!

 

[Cory's Gal]

Yeah!!! You started your TR!!!! GREAT pics Kayce!!! Bella is so cute when she's doing all of her dancing around and posing!! LOVE IT! We missed the really high heat and humidity by a week it seems!! Getting connecting rooms was our #1 request too!! Love the look of the AB rooms, we stayed back in '05 in the mansions, I like the look of the AB much much better!!! Can't wait to see and hear about the first park!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[manntra]

Great start to your TR!! It was so nice to meet you on the 5th Looking forward to your adventures during that HOT week!!

Tracy

 

[kcandbella]

Oh my gosh Kayce, Bella is just too stinkin' adorable! And I'm so happy to be able to see exactly what the back of those seats looked like on the bus

Glad you were able to get connecting rooms at least.

Can't wait to see where you are off to!

Thank you! I think she's pretty cute of course. And she thinks so too!

Wow! Your TR is moving so fast! The kids look so excited...it is just adorable!

Your rooms are really nice! How great you guys were so close to one another. I can't wait to see how Bella likes her first day at the parks!

I'm anxious to get to the good part--the parks! I can't wait to tell everyone all about it!

Thank you Bella for showing me what the ME bus looks like.
Everyone looks so excited to be at POR! How great that you guys got connecting rooms. Hope you got your other bags!
Can't wait to hear all about the first park. My guess is it will be the Magic Kingdom.

She is quite the photographer! I may have to post some of the pics she took with her own camera--she takes pictures of EVERYTHING!

Good guess!

Yay you made it to the resort! And I really was wondering what the back of those seats looked like! They look good POR looks lovely and I can't wait for you to get to the park!

POR was very pretty. I should have our first park update ready in the next couple of days!

Yeah!!! You started your TR!!!! GREAT pics Kayce!!! Bella is so cute when she's doing all of her dancing around and posing!! LOVE IT! We missed the really high heat and humidity by a week it seems!! Getting connecting rooms was our #1 request too!! Love the look of the AB rooms, we stayed back in '05 in the mansions, I like the look of the AB much much better!!! Can't wait to see and hear about the first park!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We didn't really go over to the mansions, so I can't compare, but AB was nice! You were lucky to go the week you did, the temps were much nicer! Thanks for joining in!!!

Great start to your TR!! It was so nice to meet you on the 5th Looking forward to your adventures during that HOT week!!

Tracy

It was great to meet you too! Are you doing a TR? I would love to read about your week!!!

 

[smithpack]

Oh my Goodness, I don't think Bella could be any more cute. She has to be one of the cutest girls I have ever seen. I love her little faces and poses. I can not wait to see her reaction when she gets to the parks. What park did you go to first? She is definitely born to be an actress.

 

[The4bits]

I can't believe I have been gone from the boards for a while and I missed your trip. Thank goodness for TRs. I didn't even get to countdown with you. That teaches me not to be gone so long. Well, welcome back. Now I'm off to to read your TR.

 

[ladybugmom]

I'm here Kayce!! And I'm all caught up!! Bella reminds me a lot of Ally! She poses for pics and acts like she's always on stage!! Sooo fun! Can't wait to read more!!

 

[Disneychix]

Wow! Great start! I love how happy everyone looks, especially Bella!

Can't wait for you to get to the parks

 

[kcandbella]

Oh my Goodness, I don't think Bella could be any more cute. She has to be one of the cutest girls I have ever seen. I love her little faces and poses. I can not wait to see her reaction when she gets to the parks. What park did you go to first? She is definitely born to be an actress.

Awww, thanks! I think your Princess is a doll, too! And your boys of course!

I can't believe I have been gone from the boards for a while and I missed your trip. Thank goodness for TRs. I didn't even get to countdown with you. That teaches me not to be gone so long. Well, welcome back. Now I'm off to to read your TR.

I'm glad you're here now! The final days before we left went SO fast...blink and you miss them!

I'm here Kayce!! And I'm all caught up!! Bella reminds me a lot of Ally! She poses for pics and acts like she's always on stage!! Sooo fun! Can't wait to read more!!

Thanks for coming over! I don't know about Ally, but the only bad part about it is that she can be a total drama queen. When she's happy, that is a fun thing, but when she is mad (or tired) look out! We're working on that, though...

Wow! Great start! I love how happy everyone looks, especially Bella!

Can't wait for you to get to the parks

We were very happy! Bella couldn't wait to get there. I will have another update soon!

 

[charming23]

Count me in. I just read your PTR a few weeks ago and was excited to see you had started your TR. Bella is adorable. Can't wait to hear more.

 

[Lovemy3babes]

You've got a great start to your TR. I can't wait to read more!