Colleen's Aug/Sept trip report....

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Colleen and Tammy (and family) head to Disney for a wild and crazy (way too long) vacation.....





WOW! What a GRAND GATHERING this was! The main crew was to consist of Colleen (Goofy22), myself (Tammy AKA OneTreeHillAddict), and Christine (DisneyQuilter). Christine had to reschedule but Colleen and I went ahead with our plans and along the way we met up with several other Dis friends vacationing at the same time. I was lucky enough to meet ~

Stephanie (nu2wdisneyw)
Alicia* (AKSunshine)
Danielle (Viallainess)
Jennifer* (Thunderbird1)
Danica* (ZeroToHero)

Colleen met those with *'s above as well as my sister, CHIMERE, and Tabatha! Colleen and I were instant friends. She and her family are GREAT! I can't wait to see them again in November!

Of course we missed out on a few of ya'll too. We're both still sad about that. We wanted to meet everyone so bad. Every single "pool party" we planned got changed around. The first night we planned to meet up we actually hung out inside the food court at Pop due to rain. The second night we ended up at CBR with Alicia and her family. On the third night we ended up out at Pop instead of the Boardwalk because Danielle's lil one got really sick. Poor baby. BTW she has the cutest kids! She had them dressed up for the Halloween party and they were so adorable! The last meeting was rained out. Ugh! Craziness I know. That's why I hate making plans at Disney. Something always comes up.

Some highlights you will experience here:

Illuminations Grand Gathering at Epcot (This is very hard to find any info on but you will have it now!!!)

Safari Grand Gathering at the Animal Kingdom

Front row seats at the HDDMR!

Food pictures galore!



Crazy Stuff that happened:

Ambulance ride to the ER

WDW steals $300+ from me!

My hotel room had more cobwebs, dirt dobbers (not sure how you spell that one.....they look like wasps), and mold than the Haunted Mansion!

Ashley, Chimere, and Tabatha get in a HUGE fight and want us to referee

Colleen and her family find a baby!

Colleens camera falls into the bat cage!

"Where did all these STUPID people come from!?"

 

[Goofy22]

OKie doke and were off!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

I know right. Took long enough. I will go forth with both days so we're on the same page tonight. I promise! Go ahead and let them know your dates or whatever. I hate that pic but it's the first one I saw on PB so it's there. You look good in that one though. Have to run out for a bit...

 

[MiaBella05]

joining in on the crazy fun!!

 

[Goofy22]

I know right. Took long enough. I will go forth with both days so we're on the same page tonight. I promise! Go ahead and let them know your dates or whatever. I hate that pic but it's the first one I saw on PB so it's there. You look good in that one though. Have to run out for a bit...

Yeah! ok! I look like crap and all sweaty! But it's all good! lol!

Ok sounds good !

 

[Goofy22]

OK! So first let me say welcome everyone from our PTR! and welcome all new readers to this should be really funny and interesting!
So my Cast will consist of 5 of us!
Colleen Aka Goofy22
DH AKA Jim
DD 14
DS 10
DGN 2 1/2

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]

joining in on the crazy fun!!

Welcome! I'm glad you came over!

 

[Me&3]

Another TR by OneTreeHillAddict and I'm really on the first page. Can't wait for more

 

[Goofy22]

Another TR by OneTreeHillAddict and I'm really on the first page. Can't wait for more

Welcome and yes you are on the First page!

 

[xoktenox]

Hey I'm here!

 

[Rozz]

I'm in! Can't wait to read all about it!

 

[MaryAz]

Yay, first page. Sounds like quite a trip!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

As promised I am going to go ahead and add my first couple of days so Colleen can get in on this baby! One Tree Hill starts up tonight so I have to hurry! So change of plan....instead of sleeping for a bit then waking up at 4 we went ahead and hit the road. We arrived fairly early in the day but we were dog tired. Of course the kids had slept most of the way down so they were wired and ready to play. We told them NAP for 2 hours then we'll go out and don something. BTW we called CBR to make sure we could check in once we got there knowing we'd be ready for bed and they said to come on. These Pirate rooms were so cool! The kids loved them! I will say this.....they are a really really long way from everything so make sure you have your car if you book those. Seeing that I have 10 minutes to spare right now I'm going to show you the pics from the room for now.

Oh, and of course this one!

The table top

The carpet! I LOVED this carpet!

Bathroom area...

The furniture was cool too! (A little bulky for the room but still cool!)

Continued in next post...

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Boy do they look happy!

The curtain closed with the light on leading into the bathroom. This was flipping cool!

I liked this. Dash noticed it.

Bolt with his Pirate bear we bought last Summer. He LOVES that bear!

And now my friends it's time for One Tree Hill! I'll be back later to finish up this first night. Thanks everyone for coming over! XOXO

 

[wdwgirl03]

I'm here! Still bummed we couldn't meet up at all. I'm such a loser, I have no DIS friends.

Can't wait to hear about your trip...I can tell this is going to be interesting!

 

[ZeroToHero]

Woohoo, I'm finally here! Stupid work kept me from being on the first page...

 

[hlrababy]

Geez louise...2 pages already!!! Hmm, I dont' like starting on the 2nd page!

 

[joy13]

I'm in! I can't wait to hear all about this trip! Those Pirate rooms are awesome! The kids look REALLY tired - I can only imagine how you guys felt.

 

[pmama]

I'm here. Looking forward to hearing more. Those pirate themed rooms are just too much fun.

 

[Goofy22]

Tammy.
Those pirate rooms are just the cutest things! Definitely had alot of imagination in those rooms! OMG! One tree Hill I can't believe that Chic is going to set up Nathan! I like that Brooke and Julian are finally becoming a couple! But I'm not sure how I'm going to like the fact that my top 2 favorite characters are no longer on the show I don't know if I'm going to like it with out Lucas and Peyton!!!!!!!!!!!! I like the others but was partial to those 2! Why can't they come back??????????????
Tammy go over to that River court and tell them I want Lucas and Peyton BACK!!!!!!!!!!! Well I'm sure I'll have alot to catch up on tommorrow since I work from 8 til 3:30pm and then have to go pick my DS up from school then I'm going to be fighting him for the computer because I made the mistake of signing him up for Facebook tonight so he can talk to Dash and he's already addicted to YoVille and This Fish Game!!! I had to make him get off and goto bed!!!