Crazy for Disney's Trip Report

CrazyforDisney

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Before I start I need to do some introductions.

This is group one in one room:
Me.....yeah you know me.
Eddie-My husband.
Chris-my one year old son
Carrie-my best friend
Debbie-my mother-in-law

Here is group two in the adjoining room:
Becky-my sister-in-law
Jason-my brother-in-law (becky's husband)
Jon- my 6 year old nephew
Selena- my 5 year old neice
Lynnie-My one year old neice

Day 1 Tuesday Sept 12 2006.

We spent the night at a friends house the night before so it was easy for us to get to the airport, our plane was to take off at 7am. We arrived in Orlando at 10:20am and was boarded on the Magical Express by 10:40am. We arrived at All star Music Resort at 11:20am and meet up with my mother-in-law who has my neice and nephew with her. My sister-in-law was suppose to be there by 11:30am so we could go to MGM that day but she didn't show up until 3:30pm. We sat around the hotel lobby with a one year old, a 6 year old and a 5 year old. Can you imagine? We are in Disney and sitting around the hotel. Well when they FINALY get there they decide they want to unload everything into their room IMMEDIATELY! So we make the 1/4 mile treck with all the luggage to our rooms which are adjoining..and may I say my brother-in-law was NOT happy about that, only to find a parking lot right in front of our room. So finally at about 4:30pm my sister-in-law is ready to go, but Jason decideds that he has been driving too long and doesn't want to go. So we all head out without him. We get to MGM studios and run into a circle of Charactors but Becky doesn't want to stop she wants to try to catch the Power Rangers for Jon...missed them by 15 min. So we went and saw Lights, action, motor cars. That was an awesome show and Carrie and I wanted to take the drivers home with us....LOL. After that we went to go eat at the Buzz Lightyears Pizza place. It was pizza, nothing exciting except that Selena tried to steal a pin. But that crisis was averted when Becky paid for the pin. From there we went to the Great Movie Ride and Selena got REALLY scared......she spent the whole ride tucked into my mother-in-law- crying. I really don't see the scariness....but oh well...need to see it from the eyes of a 5 year old I guess. After that the party split off, Carrie and I went to go get seats for Fantasmic while the rest of them went to go get on Tower of Terror. We all met up to watch Fantasmic. It seems to me that Fantasmic has shortened a bit. The boats with the princesses no longer bring ALL the princesses, only a few. And at the end when they have the boat with all the charactors has stopped, all the charactors come out and dance on the rocks. During the show my husband told that someone swiped his cell phone in the bathroom........I thought "man, what next!" After the show, my mother-in-law-pulls out his phone and asks him what he was missing. Another crisis averted. Sorry no pictures from today, didn't take any. End day 1....next day 2. Magic Kingdom for my birthday!
 
All that waiting on your family would have made me :crazy: How did you get through that?
 
Lots of video games and pin buying. It was very nerve wracking. And calling Becky every 5 minutes wasn't helping anything much at all.
 

I woke up at 7:00am because I told everyone the night before that I was going to go see the opening of Magic Kingdom with or without them. Well they really didn't like that idea...they mainly being my husband...I think it had something to do with the fact that I was going to leave him with Chris, I don't know. So I ended up waiting until 9:30am before we finally left for MK. We had ressie's that day for Crystal Palace at 11:45am so we decided we would hit a couple rides before it was time to go to lunch. We managed to make it on Pooh's Ride and then into the gift shop. Now getting my mother out of the gift shop was something all together.....she LOVES anything Pooh!While I was trying to pry Debbie out of there I sent Eddie to go get the tables and Jason and Becky decided to go on Dumbo. I finally pry Debbie out of the gift shop because Eddie won't let my cell phone stop ringing "Where are you?" I meet up with Jason and Becky and the kids....I tell Becky "The kids can ride, and after we will go to lunch." She thought I said that the kids can't ride, so she got mad and lifted the kids over the rail to get out of line. Now we have two crying kids and a yelling Jason asking why the kids can't do it. I just started walking to let them deal with their own problems. They met us at CP about 10 min later. After all the arguing and jibbering from my family we actually had a good time.

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One picture with Tigger is my son and the other is me and my hubby. The one with Pooh is Selena, Jon and Chris, Lynnie is sooooo scared of the characters that they can't come with in 5 feet of her. The one with Piglet is my mother-in-law. We had a great lunch.
After lunch the party split up again. Carrie, Chris and I went to go get hair cuts. Unfortantly I forgot my camera and have no pictures of Chris's first hair cut. Also while I was there the barber shop quartet came in while I was getting my hair cut. They sang while I was in there and Chris fell asleep as soon as they started singing. When Marylou was done with my hair they came over and actually saranaded me with Bela Note', it was amazing. I tell you if I wasn't sitting I would have fallen flat on the ground. When I was done with that I headed back to meet my family at Haunted Mansion, on my way I met DisneyAggie.

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Once I met up with my family we decided to go to Splash Mountain and Thunder Mountain. I rode Splash with the hubby, Becky, Jason, Jon , and Selena. The line was so short we just got right on and we even got to stay on it for one more ride. I was sooo suprise that Selena liked it. From there went to Thunder Mountain and I rode that with Jon. I had so much fun with that and that was the most memerable moment of vacation with my nephew I think he learned on that ride that girls aren't all that bad. LOL. He was high fivein me for at least an hour after that. From there we went to go to Pirates, now this is what I had been waiting for the whole time. After I got off the ride this is what I saw.....for you LizzYSwan!


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My nephew got to participate in the show and got his scroll and all. From their we headed to Buzz Lightyear but the kids wanted to stop at Swiss Robinson Treehouse so Me, Chris and Carrie stayed on the ground and waited. When they got off we went to Buzz and walked straight on to Buzz. My husband still brags that he beat me. From there we went to Stitch. I don't know about that ride, I think they ruined it. After Stitch Me, Eddie, Carrie, Debbie, and Chris left. Eddie and I had ressie's for Victoria and Alberts.
Up next: Victoria and Alberts and Day 3 Apartment searching.
 
It is very challenging (to say the least) when you are travelling with family and friends. It's like you have a plan in your mind how things will go -and in what order, and then everyone pulls in different directions.

Kudos to you for being so easy going and not letting it get you down.

Hope there were smoother days than day 1!
 
You have my sympathy as another Disser who can't stand it when people are fiddling around when we ARE ON THE DISNEY CLOCK! :furious:
So glad you'll be spending lots more time there. :thumbsup2
 
Cass said:
It is very challenging (to say the least) when you are travelling with family and friends. It's like you have a plan in your mind how things will go -and in what order, and then everyone pulls in different directions.

Kudos to you for being so easy going and not letting it get you down.

Hope there were smoother days than day 1!

not really they are all kind of rough. but fun fun fun!
 
Hello everyone. Sorry about the lagging behind in finishing my report. I have successfully moved from Chicago, IL to Orlando, FL. It took us three days to do the drive but now we are here in our new apartment and loving it! We are about 20 minutes from Disney! LOVE IT!
 
I am so happy for you. I hope the move is everything you have dreamed it could be.
 
Congratulatinos again you lucky ducky! Hmmmm, you have more patience than I, I don't think I would've been able to handle all of those personalities together at one time. Sounds like you had a nice birthday--happy birthday!
 
Ummmm...you have WAY more patience then me! We just went as a group of 8. I think I would have had serious meltdowns if I had to wait like that. I am very selfish when it comes to my WDW trips.
(BTW we were probably just leaving Crystal Palace as you were arriving!!!Sorry that I missed ya!)
 












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