Can a trip w/ friends make up for an unmagical trip with the BF?-Final Updates 12/30!

Great updates! Do you know that I have NEVER had anything to eat from the Main Street bakery? I really need to rectify that in January.

Are you getting excited????????????????????????
 
Good job avoiding the crowds going to the MK!! It's funny how people just take the shortest path possible, and a lot of times you can easily bypass them! :laughing:

I've never had a MSB cinnamon roll, but that sounds awesome right about now!
 
Great updates! Do you know that I have NEVER had anything to eat from the Main Street bakery? I really need to rectify that in January.

Are you getting excited????????????????????????

:scared1: You must rectify that problem with your January trip! I always get a cinnamon roll, this time I had an edge roll, when I'm there this weekend I'm asking for a middle roll. I'm not a fan of edges. Like that brownie pan that makes every brownie an edge brownie? So not for me! I want the middle!

Good job avoiding the crowds going to the MK!! It's funny how people just take the shortest path possible, and a lot of times you can easily bypass them! :laughing:

I've never had a MSB cinnamon roll, but that sounds awesome right about now!

Just think if those people were smarter we wouldn't be able to avoid them! its like a Cinnabon but bigger and sometimes gooeyier.
 
I apoligze now. This part has no photos. It takes place out of parks and in a car and it should have you shaking your head more than you have before. But its nothing compared to Part 4! I'm hoping to get to that today too!

So I met up with g and b at the Contemporary. There was at least an hour between them saying they would meet me there and picking me up. They had to make a CVS run. But this is when I was hanging out in MK and meeting princesses so by the time I walked to the Contemporary it was about 5 minutes or less.

g and b were sitting in the front seats. I climbed in the back and we headed off to Epcot. We went through these crazy back roads and saw all sorts of random things you never see when at Disney. Eventually we got on a main street and I think I went to checking my emails and messages. I was in my own world when I looked up and saw that there was a sign that said Epcot Turn Right. Literally the right turn was there where I saw the sign, so I mentioned it to g and he pulled a u-turn at the next light and then turned left towards Epcot. What were g and b doing in the front seat that made them so obvilious to the sign that told them to turn and any directions what so ever? b was looking at g's cds in the car and they were talking about music.

So we head down the street toward Epcot and I go back to texting or reading or something. There's no reason for me to talk to them because they are in their own world talking and I'm just sort of there to get them the free parking (at least its how I felt). Eventually I look up because its been awhile and we should be there or near by and I see a sign for Port Orleans and the Best Friends Kennel. Huh? :confused3 How did we get here? I've never seen this area before. I mention something to g and he says do you think we went too far? Uh yea! We turn around and head back and this time I don't do anything but look for signs. g makes some comment about why didn't I tell them there was a sign to turn. I respond with I'm sitting in the back, I can't really see the signs and there are two of you in the front. Maybe if you paid half as much attention to the signs as you were in your conversation you would have seen them! Frustration Level is now a 3 out of 10. How do you ask someone who can barely see out the windows to give you directions? There's two peopel up front why can't they see? Eventually we pull into Epcot. I give b my AP to flash and we head off to park.

Up Next: Frustration level 12!
 

Shaking my head is right? I just don't understand all these issues and why they couldn't be watching for the sign and how they missed the turn the first time when you told them????

I'm truly afraid to read Part IV. :scared1:
 
Shaking my head is right? I just don't understand all these issues and why they couldn't be watching for the sign and how they missed the turn the first time when you told them????

I'm truly afraid to read Part IV. :scared1:

You have no idea! I have 3 1/2 hours until being picked up by BF and brought to the airport. I think today will be a double post day. I'm not worried about Ann catching up because I talked to her A LOT this day!
 
I remember that this day I had been checking on the Lines app how the other parks were. And Test Track was down for some reason?!? We parked the car here:

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We headed for the gates and I picked up a times guide. I still had to meet Snow White! I saw she was going to be in Germany at 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm, and 4:30pm. Oh and I had to check when the next Indiana Jones was for b and Lights Motor Action for g. Well g mentions that the 3:30 and 4:30 Snow White visits is not going to work since LMA was at 4 (or near to that). So we headed to Innovations for our Disney Visa photo since it was almost 1:30pm, but there was a long line wrapped back past all the video games. So we went to see if Test Track might be up yet, but it wasn't. At this point, we were going to wait in line for the Disney Visa photo, but b decided she was hungry and g decided he could eat too. I told them I wasn't hungry because I just ate that cinnamon roll and I was going to get in the Disney Visa line. They said fine, they were going to grab food and meet me over there.

So I go back to Innovations and get in line. And wait and wait and wait. Either there are really long lines in Electric Umbrella or something happened. Eventually I make the turn by the bench and have my back against the wall that leads to the meet and greet. While there the family I met the day before come up and say they are going to HS to see what happens at 4:50pm. I tell them I might see them there. I'm not really into sitting on a bleacher seat for LMA so maybe I can tell them I'll meet them there after seeing what characters come out? I'm still waiting. By now its almost 2pm. I text them to ask where they are because I'm almost to the front of the line. I get a reply of that they'll be there in 7 minutes. The gentleman running the line is nice enough to let me step to the side and wait for them and tells me once they show up I'll be the next group to go in. g comes in and joins me and I ask where b is? She'll be a minute she's throwing our food away and told me to go ahead. Umm okay. I thought you were grabbing food and joining me. That means eating while in line. I guess not since they sat down and enjoyed their meal while I got to wait in line like a fool!

We go in and get our photo taken, pick up a FP for Kim Possible that b decided she wanted to try, and get outside and g wants to sit down and talk about what's going on in the next 48 hours. :confused3 It's now 2:15pm and Snow White comes out at 2:30! They sit me down and I start with well I want to see Snow White and that's at 2:30, then we can do Kim Possible, head to HS for LMA and Indiana Jones. Then tomorrow we have to check out and my flight is at 6pm and b's is at 7pm. Then g tells me that b wants to go check out the Kennedy Space Center and he was thinking we could get up early (see a problem yet?) pack up his car, let b drop us off at a park and she'd take his car with our luggage to the Kennedy Space Center and pick us up around 4pm so we could go to the airport for my 6pm flight. My face must have gone from this :sad2: to this :scared1: to this :headache: to this :mad: And if you coudl find worse my face was probably at it. When I get angry, if you give me some time to myself I usually calm down quickly. I'm annoyed that its 2:15pm and I have to make my way to Germany for 2:30 and they think this is the best time to tell me of this plan!?! Let the person who is off in her own world with no concept of time to take our one car and all the luggage and go off on her own? I stand up quickly and say that I can't deal with this right now, you know I want to meet Snow White in Germany and I don't have the time. I either call my mom or Ann when I'm out of earshot and tell them what's going on. When I'm in Germany I meet a couple nice people in front of me that helps calm me down, but I keep getting texts from g says what the fudge? why did you jsut wlak way while we were trying to work things out? My reply: cause I wanted to get to the snow white line before it got too long. Also that was the first time I heard the plans that b was taking the car. My flight leaves at 6pm not sure if picking us up at 4 leaves time for me to check my luggage. g replies: we talked about it over lunch. she will come back in plenty of time. we coudl have talked about it but you left before we could.

So I calm down a little and get my photo with Snow White. I was on the phone with Ann right beforehand calming down for the photo.

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After the photo I get a text asking where I am and we decide that they are heading to HS to get seats for LMA and I'll join them there (in my head I'm saying not if I'm still annoyed!) I look at the Times Guide and decide to finish another Princess I haven't met yet.

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I then head to Mexico and get some Churros. I think I'm still calling Ann and my mom fuming and trying to calm down. I think I have Ann call me in England. Then I take the boat to HS and decide I'm just not going to make it to LMA, I haven't calmed down yet. I walk into the Animation Building, see my friends from the other day. We sit and talk for couple minutes when the mom and daughter get into the Incredibles line. They are in line for like two minutes when the doors open and characters come out. I skipped any characters I already saw, but I was really really happy with the turn out.

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I was so excited to meet the Evil Queen it took why I was upset mostly away enough for me to meet g and b at Indiana Jones. I got a soft serve while waiting and when we were all together we watched the show.

Up Next: Power walking HS to Epcot. :headache:
 
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All I can say is UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why would anyone want to give the least responsible person in the group the car?

I'm glad you went to see Snow White without the others and that you met the Evil Queen (she is one we have never met).
 
All I can say is UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why would anyone want to give the least responsible person in the group the car?

I'm glad you went to see Snow White without the others and that you met the Evil Queen (she is one we have never met).

I knew you were going to love that update for all the wrong reasons! :lmao::rotfl::lmao:

Ann Update: Her Boarding # was B2 and B3, so I was telling her to board with the family section, but that was right before the B section so I kept searching... (Yes I know I'm a control freak over planner, but aren't most of us?) there is preboarding for people with needs. Told Ann to check at the Gate counter and they were the 3rd group on the plane! :banana:
 
I knew you were going to love that update for all the wrong reasons! :lmao::rotfl::lmao:

Ann Update: Her Boarding # was B2 and B3, so I was telling her to board with the family section, but that was right before the B section so I kept searching... (Yes I know I'm a control freak over planner, but aren't most of us?) there is preboarding for people with needs. Told Ann to check at the Gate counter and they were the 3rd group on the plane! :banana:

I'm glad Ann has you in her corner. :thumbsup2 That is great news. I'll keep checking back for updates (I'm not friends with any of the group on FB, so I'll be checking here).
 
First of all... Betsy you are amazingly caring and I love how you are so attentive to Ann and Zoe!! :grouphug:

Secondly, because of above statement... your friend b is just... hmmm... bless her heart. :rolleyes1 Second Kathy's comment - why would you give someone a vehicle who bears little to no responsibility for schedules, other people's feelings, and feel good about it...
 
:sad2: This is pretty much all I can do after reading that! How frustrating and annoying and how could the Space Center plan be a good idea???? Interested to see how this one works out, my first instinct would be to just get a taxi!
 
I'm glad Ann has you in her corner. :thumbsup2 That is great news. I'll keep checking back for updates (I'm not friends with any of the group on FB, so I'll be checking here).

Hope we gave you enough updates and photos. It was interesting iwth our crazied running around!

First of all... Betsy you are amazingly caring and I love how you are so attentive to Ann and Zoe!! :grouphug:

Secondly, because of above statement... your friend b is just... hmmm... bless her heart. :rolleyes1 Second Kathy's comment - why would you give someone a vehicle who bears little to no responsibility for schedules, other people's feelings, and feel good about it...

Oh yes! I forgot to add all my " bless her heart" to the last update. I was already a bit on vacation mode by that time. This weekend was crazy, exhausting, but awesome. We made rules for next time.

:sad2: This is pretty much all I can do after reading that! How frustrating and annoying and how could the Space Center plan be a good idea???? Interested to see how this one works out, my first instinct would be to just get a taxi!

In one of my many phone calls to Ann on that day, she told me a story about them going to the Space Center and its about a 2 hour drive. I could see b in her own world thinking we'd call her when it was time to leave or something like that. Two hours is a huge drive especially when you trusting someone else when time is sensitive and all the possibilities of things going wrong.

I need to finish up this report, after I get some MUCH needed sleep filled nights so I can start my Dec TR and hopefully have that done by January's trip. We have a title for December and I took notes, plus we took food photos and a bunch of other ones.
 
Rest! Can't wait to hear about your quick weekend trip in which you never slept! :goodvibes
 
After Indiana Jones was over g, b, and I head out the exit. When we get out g looks at me and I look back and b isn't there. Where's b? We take a spot near the exit and watch everyone walk out and no b! A few minutes after everyone else had left the building here comes b strolling out like she's skipping out early on something. Bless her heart! G asked what we want to do next. I'm getting frustrated again because we're doing what b wants, and only what b wants for the last couple days and she's off doing her own thing with no respect for there being other people on this trip, one who has other plans! b mentions to us that there is a backlot tour that she's interested in, starting in 20 minutes. Okay when did she start looking at times guides or disney apps on her phone to figure out when things were happening? Oh and she wanted to do Star Tours because she missed it on the day we were there without her. :sad2::confused:

I really can't put up with b or imagine having to sit next to her on the tram so I excuse myself and tell them I'm going to head back to Epcot and pick up the photo.As I head out of HS, I'm getting more and more frustrated about how g keeps choosing to do things b wants to do instead of asking both of us what we want to do. And he seems to be supporting her wanting to drive two hours each way with all our luggage on departure day, and how come navigating to Epcot was my fault we missed turns when there were two other people up front? I'm all worked up now and see that the water shuttle has just left and I decide I'm going to hoof it to Epcot to hope I calm down. Also, my battery keeps saying its low so I think this is a great time to turn my phone off and just be in my own world. By the time I make it to Boardwalk, I'm still fuming so I go up to the lobby over to congiere and ask if I call up Disney Reservations and there is a room is it possible that I can get ME to take me to the airport tomorrow? I go on and on to this girl who is earning her ears about how I can't deal with the people that I'm on the trip with and I don't really want to be around them anymore, nor do I want to be at Disney. After finding out I only need three hours before my flight to notify ME, I'm feeling much better. If b still wants to go with her hairbrain scheme, I'll have g drop me off at a hotel, or take a taxi to the hotel and be done with them. I can't wait to back up my things and be gone!

I stop by the Boardwalk Bakery and pick up this little beauty to go.

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Note to self: Either eat in the same day or put in the refridgerator. Not so good left out at room temperature the next day. :sad2:

From there I make my way to the International Gateway where I offer some of the cupcake to the lady doing security. I walk to England, where Ann is busy with her mom so I have my mom call me in England and we talk and I vent. Eventually I walk over to get my photo and text g that's where I am and my battery is about to die. And it does, just as a text from g pops up on my screen. I get my photo and head over to Guest Services where since his number is on my phone I can't call g, but I leave a message thinking that g used to work for Disney so he'd think to check and see if I left a message. I ask what time it is and look at the shuttle bus schedule and see I can make one back and start packing. Which is exactly what I do! I plug in my phone and once I can turn it back on, I let g know I'm back in the room. Then I call Ann and put her on speaker while throwing my stuff in the luggage. We talk from 8:40ish until 9:45pm when g and b finally get back. That's an awful long drive from Epcot to the room. I hear some excuse about an accident leaving and their making food and do I want something. Nope, but did you happen to bring my sweatshirt from the car? Oh you saw it but didn't think to bring it in? Thanks guys! I'll go grab it myself. I get told the car is on the 2nd level by the stairs, so I walk to the far end of the parking lot up to the 2nd level and guess what!?! No car! It was parking on the 2nd level of the near stairs which we had never parked at any other night. I get my sweatshirt and head back in for what's sure to be a long night.

Up Next: Finishing Day 6, Departure Day, Goodies from the trip, Cell Phone Photos, and Where in the World were those photos from!
 
Wow. I'm interested to see if ME does get called to take you to the airport! That had to be so frustrating to not want to be in Disney anymore! I hope your last day was better!
 
I believe I was still on the phone with Ann the whole time that I was getting my sweatshirt out of the car and returning back to the room. She brought up a good point of them texting me at like 8:40pm and saying they were headed out, but not getting to the room until an hour later, it was like a 10 minute drive. And saying there was a car accident. (Remember this) Eventually Ann and I had talked enough that I calmed down and needed to explain to them that I was not entrusting my luggage and getting myself to the airport to someone who hadn't been on time for anything the entire trip!

They were hanging out probably watching Stacy TV, one of the good things about Bonnet Creek, when I told them that if they or just b wanted to go to the Space Center that was fine, but I'd book myself a room at Disney for the night so that I knew that myself and my luggage would get to the airport for my flight. I pointed out that the drive was about 2 hours and it made me nervous since tomorrow would be time sensitive that b would be getting back, that she wouldn't run into an accident or traffic or anything. At this point g breaks out his Ipad and looks up the directions almost to see if I was joking about the two hour drive. Its an hour and 40 minutes. Close enough! At this point b is on the fence about going because she is driving from LA back to Seattle and she doesn't really want to spend 4 hours in the car by herself when she has that long drive coming up in a few days. So g looks up ticket prices for the Space Center, its about $50 which he states he can't swing right now. I would have been uber pissed if he swung the $50 for the Space Center, but they never did anything about the Halloween Party, especially after I bought all the accessories we needed for our cosutmes. So the sun is finally shining on their brillant plan maybe isn't so brillant. And g asks me what I want to do, I tell them I said if we wanted to do another park the only one we should go to tomorrow is AK, but we didn't upgrade b's ticket for the 7th day, so I'd shop at the outlets or Downtown Disney and relax and then go to the airport. This option sounds good to all, so we make the plan to go to the outlets. b says she's going to head over the main building around 9:30am to check out (checkout time is 10am) and talk to them about the bug problem, and with that we finish our packing and go to bed.

Finally! Day 7, Cell Photo Photos, Souveniors, and Where Was That Answers!
 
Well, I'm glad they FINALLY came to their senses. I was wondering how they were planning on paying for that when they didn't want to do the party.
 
Well, I'm glad they FINALLY came to their senses. I was wondering how they were planning on paying for that when they didn't want to do the party.

I have never had a moment that I didn't want to be in Disney as much as I did at that point. Even when I did a marathon 16 hour full day jumping between MK and Epcot and feeling horrible from the heat and thinking I was going to pass out, I still wanted to be in Disney. I really really really tried not to spread my "I want out of here" feelings on anyone else I met who was there. Its just not fair..
 

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