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<font color=deeppink>Married 10-5-02<br><font colo
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Link to pre-trip report for some background
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=913275
Link to day 1
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=932643
Day 2 Sunday A bad day CAN get worse! Or Wrong, Wrong, and Rude!
I wake up at 6:30 am. I am like a kid on Christmas, I cant wait to get to Disneyworld! I still had to wait for the rest of the clan to get their bony buts out of bed and I did it very patiently yeah right! Im am not good at waiting patiently when I am excited. I turned on the radio softly but it was soft enough so I turned it UP a little bit, but Katie and Alyson just changed positions. I turned off the radio and turned on the TV for a weather report but they still didnt wake up. I moved around a bit and bumped into Alyson about 10-20 times before she woke up but Katie took a bit more. I went over to her bed and laid down to snuggle her and wake her up nice but it backfired. I didnt realize she was spread eagle on the bed and laid on top of her instead. LOL! It woke her up, so, I got my wish but not the way I wanted to. I apologized and she got up to get dressed like Alyson and I were. We were not completely ready when I sent Alyson next door to get her brush from my DHs room. Turns out nobody was awake in that room either. DH, Elizabeth, Brenden, and Garren like to sleep a little later than I do. I was lucky that I had just gotten up and my DH was not going to be mad at me this morning.
(He will be many times later through no complete fault of my own.)
It took forever to finish getting ready and make sure we were all dressed and had everything. We slicked on suntan lotion all over (us New Englanders burn easily) and I went to check out and grab the car. (Upon check in, the nice lady at the front desk told me we were in building 2 and to stay where I was parked since I was right there and proceeded to give us keys to 2 rooms in building 3. At least I could have sworn she said building 2 or else why would she tell me to leave my car where it was??) Got all of the luggage back in the car and headed off to find breakfast. Wasnt an easy task with that huge stroller from Delta. We passed an IHOP and decide to eat there. After reading the menu, we all agreed we should have just went back to the Steak N Shake. The food was okay but the check agreed we should have just eaten elsewhere. It was almost double the bill of last night with not as great food. Ugh!!
Convinced my DH to let me go to the discount store across the parking lot. I decide it would be better to let each kid get a shirt from there rather than pay the $20 in park prices. I wanted so bad to get a shirt that had a picture of Dopey but said, Im with Grumpy! It would have been perfect whenever I stood next to Elizabeth. I regret not buying the shirt! I also tried to get her to pick a shirt that said I dont do perky but she wouldnt go for it., it was too big anyway. Couldve made a great nightgown for her. We settled on a cute tank and boy short PJ set.
Followed an upset DH out of the store after paying to cashiers who didnt speak or seem to understand a word of English. Id ask a question and they all looked at me like I had 5 heads. On the drive over, I pleaded with my DH to get a pic of the welcome sign for my album and he did but took Minnie too, I deleted that one by mistake.
I dropped off everybody but Garren with at Typhoon Lagoon so they could spend the day cooling off and having fun while I grocery shopped, checked in to the Boardwalk Villas and anything else I had to do. I drive away and about 7 minutes later, I get a call saying that the CM says our tickets wont work and DH tells me the CM said that a water park is not a plus. I was shocked and sure he got it wrong. I drove while he was talking and was mad at me. I finally found a place to pull over and it happened to be the Old Key West entrance. The guard came out and asked what was wrong. As I searched through my stuff to find something that proved that a water park could be used as a plus option, I told her what had just happened. She sent me up to the main building to see if anyone could help me. I stood in a line of only about 10 people but it took ½ and hour to get to my turn. Garren was getting hungry and cranky as it was very hot and past his normal lunchtime. I talked to one nice Cm but she wasnt sure what could be done so she grabbed the manager. He came over and after I explained what happened he said he couldnt really help me because I was not staying there, but he did help me a little. He told me to contact the DisneyStore where I bought the tickets and tell them what was going on. He said to get some of my money back or something. Then the pixie Dust came out and he gave me a free pass to Typhoon Lagoon for all of my family that was there waiting. He was awesome! Thanks Michael for making my families morning!! It was almost 2 hrs after dropping the family off that I came back with the tickets. My DH had called very mad several times and had even hung up on me once so I was glad that I had something that would make him very happy.
I finally got to the BWVs and checked in. Both the studio and 2 bedroom were next to each other but werent ready yet. I decided I didnt really feel like shopping yet. I got Garren and I dressed in our bathing suits and went for a dip in the quiet pool. Now whoever said that there was a changing room by the pool was either lying or does not care much about their hygiene. I was told the only place to change near your room was the bathrooms. YUCK!! I do not consider a bathroom a changing room at all. The floors are so nasty, I would not want to have bare feet on those floors. Garren loved the pool. The big pool was too loud but his one was perfect. He loves to swim and loved having so many slides to himself. He thought all of the green chairs with footrests were slides. Everyone that was out there was watching him and commented quite a few times on how happy he was and that he seemed to love the water.
We finally felt cool enough to get out of the water and grabbed the car from the valet to get our groceries. (Yes, I used valet and Bell services. There was no way I was getting all my bags and Garren in the hotel myself and then going to park the car. I did tip well too.) I didnt know where I was going, I just went back towards the Sheraton to see what I could find. I ran into the Commons (I think that is what it was called) and found the Premium outlets. I hit the Character Warehouse but was not impressed by outlet pricing or the small selection. I did buy a couple of things, like a frame and a Tinkerbell thing for my babysitter. I called my DH to see how things were going but no answer. I asked him to leave there originally by 2:30 but with the mornings hassle, I told him as long as he left by 3:30/4:00 I would be happy. He called me Back and I still was at Publix, he decided to take the bus back to the resort instead of waiting for me. I ended up at the resort before him, bus stalled out when they were trying to get a wheelchair off of it. It was a little after 4 and Daves Mother, Uncle, Aunt, and baby cousin showed up on the Magical Express bus as I pulled up. I took everything out of the van since it had to be returned to the Dolphin by 4:30. I left the stroller full of food with the in-laws (who were not happy the room might not be ready yet) DH said he would be there soon. I drove to the Dolphin returned the car but now was tired, hot and walking back to the BWVs carrying a 2 yr. old and backpack. Made DH meet me halfway but he went by the quiet pool and I went around the other way. 2 bedroom was ready so all the food was there and so were most of the kids.
Trying to get sleeping arrangements was a nightmare1 I knew that we had the studio room for an additional night after the in-laws left and wanted the girls to sleep in that room with MIL. But Uncle said that his 1-yr. old needed his own bed and they were taking that room for his family. So they were 3 people with two beds in the room and I had 4 other people that were to sleep in the one king bed. Whatever! DH tried talking to them but it was no use. MIL got mad cuz she said she didnt know that Katie (the babysitter) was coming along even though we had mentioned it from the beginning and told her repeatedly that she was going to have the 3 girls in her room. She never questioned it before but was unhappy cuz she didnt know her. Sorry but she was invited way before MIL decided to come along on her own. MIL got mad, Dh was upset and he stresses enough, none of us needed it. We were already running late. Our studio was ready about a ½ hr after the 2 bed was. We all grabbed our stuff, I threw the food in the fridge (since nobody else did and it was going bad) and we got ready for the MNSSHP that night. We went down to wait for the bus. There was one family waiting already and we figured it shouldnt be long before a bus showed up. A lot more people came and when the bus showed up, it got mobbed. About 20 people got off and people started to go in both doors (didnt ever see the no entry sign until Tuesday morning on the way to AK) so half the family was on the bus and this rude, rude woman stood on the right side of the back doors and started screaming that there was no more room and to get off the bus. She was just yelling and starting to get in my face. Even the bus driver started to close the back door but this woman would not let me all the way on by blocking the stairs. (There were two and a half rows of empty seats in the back of the bus so there was room.) I screamed that I was in the doorway to the bus driver and got in this womans face that she better move cuz half my family was on the bus and my kids were not going to the park by themselves so she better move or I would do it for her. She shut up and moved. My entire family got a seat. None of us stood. She was just in a bad mood and pissing me off. The bus was not full! By the time we got to the party it was 8 P.M. A lot later than I wanted to be but what could I do.
We immediately got our photo taken in front of the castle from a park photographer. The in-laws all wanted to eat and it turns out my DH forgot about lunch so only Garren and I had eaten anything that day. They grabbed some food and wanted to sit and eat. I wanted to go, we had already missed enough. His Uncle takes forever to eat! We left his Uncle and Aunt eating and hit half the park, walking on everything, sometimes 2 or 3 times in a row. I passed on some magic by handing out glow bracelets to people at random. Mostly it was little kids who were stuck waiting for older siblings on a ride and they were too small for it. It helped a lot to stop crying and a lot of parents were surprised I was just giving them away. I didnt give away nearly enough! We got our pictures done at the hall of presidents (I think) and had a lot of fun trick-or-treating. The boys were too hot in their costumes so we took them off after a few hours. We got the three older kids and the babysitters face painted near Toontown. It had rained a little while we were in Philarmagic, we went potty afterwards and on the way back, Katie slipped and landed flat on her but on the pavement. She was so shocked that she didnt make a peep. I wish I had my camera ready. We didnt make I out of there til they closed the park and we had bags full of candy. I didnt realize how few pictures I took though. Wish I had gotten more.
day 3
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=913275
Link to day 1
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=932643
Day 2 Sunday A bad day CAN get worse! Or Wrong, Wrong, and Rude!
I wake up at 6:30 am. I am like a kid on Christmas, I cant wait to get to Disneyworld! I still had to wait for the rest of the clan to get their bony buts out of bed and I did it very patiently yeah right! Im am not good at waiting patiently when I am excited. I turned on the radio softly but it was soft enough so I turned it UP a little bit, but Katie and Alyson just changed positions. I turned off the radio and turned on the TV for a weather report but they still didnt wake up. I moved around a bit and bumped into Alyson about 10-20 times before she woke up but Katie took a bit more. I went over to her bed and laid down to snuggle her and wake her up nice but it backfired. I didnt realize she was spread eagle on the bed and laid on top of her instead. LOL! It woke her up, so, I got my wish but not the way I wanted to. I apologized and she got up to get dressed like Alyson and I were. We were not completely ready when I sent Alyson next door to get her brush from my DHs room. Turns out nobody was awake in that room either. DH, Elizabeth, Brenden, and Garren like to sleep a little later than I do. I was lucky that I had just gotten up and my DH was not going to be mad at me this morning.
(He will be many times later through no complete fault of my own.)
It took forever to finish getting ready and make sure we were all dressed and had everything. We slicked on suntan lotion all over (us New Englanders burn easily) and I went to check out and grab the car. (Upon check in, the nice lady at the front desk told me we were in building 2 and to stay where I was parked since I was right there and proceeded to give us keys to 2 rooms in building 3. At least I could have sworn she said building 2 or else why would she tell me to leave my car where it was??) Got all of the luggage back in the car and headed off to find breakfast. Wasnt an easy task with that huge stroller from Delta. We passed an IHOP and decide to eat there. After reading the menu, we all agreed we should have just went back to the Steak N Shake. The food was okay but the check agreed we should have just eaten elsewhere. It was almost double the bill of last night with not as great food. Ugh!!
Convinced my DH to let me go to the discount store across the parking lot. I decide it would be better to let each kid get a shirt from there rather than pay the $20 in park prices. I wanted so bad to get a shirt that had a picture of Dopey but said, Im with Grumpy! It would have been perfect whenever I stood next to Elizabeth. I regret not buying the shirt! I also tried to get her to pick a shirt that said I dont do perky but she wouldnt go for it., it was too big anyway. Couldve made a great nightgown for her. We settled on a cute tank and boy short PJ set.
Followed an upset DH out of the store after paying to cashiers who didnt speak or seem to understand a word of English. Id ask a question and they all looked at me like I had 5 heads. On the drive over, I pleaded with my DH to get a pic of the welcome sign for my album and he did but took Minnie too, I deleted that one by mistake.
I dropped off everybody but Garren with at Typhoon Lagoon so they could spend the day cooling off and having fun while I grocery shopped, checked in to the Boardwalk Villas and anything else I had to do. I drive away and about 7 minutes later, I get a call saying that the CM says our tickets wont work and DH tells me the CM said that a water park is not a plus. I was shocked and sure he got it wrong. I drove while he was talking and was mad at me. I finally found a place to pull over and it happened to be the Old Key West entrance. The guard came out and asked what was wrong. As I searched through my stuff to find something that proved that a water park could be used as a plus option, I told her what had just happened. She sent me up to the main building to see if anyone could help me. I stood in a line of only about 10 people but it took ½ and hour to get to my turn. Garren was getting hungry and cranky as it was very hot and past his normal lunchtime. I talked to one nice Cm but she wasnt sure what could be done so she grabbed the manager. He came over and after I explained what happened he said he couldnt really help me because I was not staying there, but he did help me a little. He told me to contact the DisneyStore where I bought the tickets and tell them what was going on. He said to get some of my money back or something. Then the pixie Dust came out and he gave me a free pass to Typhoon Lagoon for all of my family that was there waiting. He was awesome! Thanks Michael for making my families morning!! It was almost 2 hrs after dropping the family off that I came back with the tickets. My DH had called very mad several times and had even hung up on me once so I was glad that I had something that would make him very happy.
I finally got to the BWVs and checked in. Both the studio and 2 bedroom were next to each other but werent ready yet. I decided I didnt really feel like shopping yet. I got Garren and I dressed in our bathing suits and went for a dip in the quiet pool. Now whoever said that there was a changing room by the pool was either lying or does not care much about their hygiene. I was told the only place to change near your room was the bathrooms. YUCK!! I do not consider a bathroom a changing room at all. The floors are so nasty, I would not want to have bare feet on those floors. Garren loved the pool. The big pool was too loud but his one was perfect. He loves to swim and loved having so many slides to himself. He thought all of the green chairs with footrests were slides. Everyone that was out there was watching him and commented quite a few times on how happy he was and that he seemed to love the water.
We finally felt cool enough to get out of the water and grabbed the car from the valet to get our groceries. (Yes, I used valet and Bell services. There was no way I was getting all my bags and Garren in the hotel myself and then going to park the car. I did tip well too.) I didnt know where I was going, I just went back towards the Sheraton to see what I could find. I ran into the Commons (I think that is what it was called) and found the Premium outlets. I hit the Character Warehouse but was not impressed by outlet pricing or the small selection. I did buy a couple of things, like a frame and a Tinkerbell thing for my babysitter. I called my DH to see how things were going but no answer. I asked him to leave there originally by 2:30 but with the mornings hassle, I told him as long as he left by 3:30/4:00 I would be happy. He called me Back and I still was at Publix, he decided to take the bus back to the resort instead of waiting for me. I ended up at the resort before him, bus stalled out when they were trying to get a wheelchair off of it. It was a little after 4 and Daves Mother, Uncle, Aunt, and baby cousin showed up on the Magical Express bus as I pulled up. I took everything out of the van since it had to be returned to the Dolphin by 4:30. I left the stroller full of food with the in-laws (who were not happy the room might not be ready yet) DH said he would be there soon. I drove to the Dolphin returned the car but now was tired, hot and walking back to the BWVs carrying a 2 yr. old and backpack. Made DH meet me halfway but he went by the quiet pool and I went around the other way. 2 bedroom was ready so all the food was there and so were most of the kids.
Trying to get sleeping arrangements was a nightmare1 I knew that we had the studio room for an additional night after the in-laws left and wanted the girls to sleep in that room with MIL. But Uncle said that his 1-yr. old needed his own bed and they were taking that room for his family. So they were 3 people with two beds in the room and I had 4 other people that were to sleep in the one king bed. Whatever! DH tried talking to them but it was no use. MIL got mad cuz she said she didnt know that Katie (the babysitter) was coming along even though we had mentioned it from the beginning and told her repeatedly that she was going to have the 3 girls in her room. She never questioned it before but was unhappy cuz she didnt know her. Sorry but she was invited way before MIL decided to come along on her own. MIL got mad, Dh was upset and he stresses enough, none of us needed it. We were already running late. Our studio was ready about a ½ hr after the 2 bed was. We all grabbed our stuff, I threw the food in the fridge (since nobody else did and it was going bad) and we got ready for the MNSSHP that night. We went down to wait for the bus. There was one family waiting already and we figured it shouldnt be long before a bus showed up. A lot more people came and when the bus showed up, it got mobbed. About 20 people got off and people started to go in both doors (didnt ever see the no entry sign until Tuesday morning on the way to AK) so half the family was on the bus and this rude, rude woman stood on the right side of the back doors and started screaming that there was no more room and to get off the bus. She was just yelling and starting to get in my face. Even the bus driver started to close the back door but this woman would not let me all the way on by blocking the stairs. (There were two and a half rows of empty seats in the back of the bus so there was room.) I screamed that I was in the doorway to the bus driver and got in this womans face that she better move cuz half my family was on the bus and my kids were not going to the park by themselves so she better move or I would do it for her. She shut up and moved. My entire family got a seat. None of us stood. She was just in a bad mood and pissing me off. The bus was not full! By the time we got to the party it was 8 P.M. A lot later than I wanted to be but what could I do.
We immediately got our photo taken in front of the castle from a park photographer. The in-laws all wanted to eat and it turns out my DH forgot about lunch so only Garren and I had eaten anything that day. They grabbed some food and wanted to sit and eat. I wanted to go, we had already missed enough. His Uncle takes forever to eat! We left his Uncle and Aunt eating and hit half the park, walking on everything, sometimes 2 or 3 times in a row. I passed on some magic by handing out glow bracelets to people at random. Mostly it was little kids who were stuck waiting for older siblings on a ride and they were too small for it. It helped a lot to stop crying and a lot of parents were surprised I was just giving them away. I didnt give away nearly enough! We got our pictures done at the hall of presidents (I think) and had a lot of fun trick-or-treating. The boys were too hot in their costumes so we took them off after a few hours. We got the three older kids and the babysitters face painted near Toontown. It had rained a little while we were in Philarmagic, we went potty afterwards and on the way back, Katie slipped and landed flat on her but on the pavement. She was so shocked that she didnt make a peep. I wish I had my camera ready. We didnt make I out of there til they closed the park and we had bags full of candy. I didnt realize how few pictures I took though. Wish I had gotten more.
day 3
Ours calmed down after the first few days. Can''t wait to read more.
