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Some of you have read my Pretrip Report and it wasn't easy gettin gready for this trip but I was determined to make this trip special for everyone. We went from November 16 to 20. And I tried to squeeze in a lot in a short time. Here's what happened the day we are to get to the airport.
Cast:
Me ( DisneyAunt) the obsessive planner, even have potty breaks scheduled
DF (The Wanderer) My father who has been to Disney several times before but has no idea what he is in store for when traveling with us. BTW youll understand why we call him the wanderer as the story progresses.
DM (Queen Mommy) Never been to Disney and has no idea how much walking is involved even though we told her. She is a mother, always worrying about everyone else and make sure that we all eat.
DSIL Pregnant with 3rd child last hooray before baby
DN#1 (Happy) 7 year old nephew also 3rd trip. Pretty smart kid. Sometimes to smart for his own good.
DN#2 (Dopey) 4 year old nephew also 3rd trip. Does not stop moving, does his own stunts, and doesnt smoke (youll understand this later)
The day started out very early for me 5:30am. I had to finish packing and go to work before we could get on our 6:15pm flight. I had planned on being at my office until 4pm but that changed when a friend who works for Continental told me that I must leave earlier. You dont have to tell me twice, so the plan was to leave by 3:15 and be home by 3:30. And since I am the one that signs everyones payroll checks at the office no one was going to tell me I couldnt
. So there was a mad dash to reschedule some things for me at the office. Did I care they had to work extra hard so I wouldnt miss my flight
.not at all. After all they were going to be working less hours in the office while I was gone and still get paid for their regular hours. Yes I know I am a nice boss 
.
The plan was we would all meet at my mothers house and my brother would drive us to the airport. A little information about my brother, he has a problem telling time.and is perpetually late. This was a little nerve racking for me since I am always early and we were on a bit of a time crunch. I think I may have drove my DSIL: crazy with how many times I called her to make sure that he was going to be there on time. The plan was that they were both going to pick up the kids from school and head over straight to moms and she promised that she wouldnt let him out of her sight. He was also to drive my SUV since it seats 7 passengers. I was a little nervous about that also not because he is a bad driver, in fact he is an excellent driver. The only problem is that he drives like he is in a Formula 1 race, and my SUV is just not built for that kind of a race. So that was the plan.
Before leaving the house in the morning I had all my bags packed and ready and dropped them off at moms, she lives next door. Now my mother is ALWAYS the last one out of the house even though she insists she is ready somehow she never is. I drilled into her that the have to be ready to get in the car when I get home. No Lollygagging!! At one point she says to me stop worrying we will be ready. I told her I will be home around 1pm for a few minutes to make some phone calls. She wanted to know what she should cook for lunch and that she had to cook something for the kids when they got out of school.
Im looking at her like she has three heads
.what part of make sure you are ready did you not understand. Hey Mom did you ever here of a sandwhich. That would make everyones life a lot easier. We dont have time for a sit down pasta lunch. Ok ok she says but we still have to eat. At that point I gave up because I knew she wasnt going to listen to me. So off to work I went.
I got to the office by 8am and started doing some paperwork and getting ready before my office staff comes in at 9am. And of course I went online to check the DIS boards. Staff gets in a 9am and all hell breaks loose. Everyone seem to have some sort of problem today
. It was not a fun morning. In between trying to figure everything out at work. My DSIL calls me and tells me she will meet me at Moms at 1pm so that we can put all the luggage in the SUV then and have it all in my car when I get home later. Good thinkin
that will save a ton of time. I leave the office at 1pm and head to my mothers and what do I find a whole spread of food on the table
.it looked like we were going to hibernate for the winter and needed to eat all that food. It was very nice of Mom to cook but not necessary, and me being the good daughter told her that and added just make sure you are ready to when I get home. DSIL just arrived and I went outside to situate the luggage which was successfully crammed in. We go back inside to have a quick bite to eat and Mom asks if there is room for a cooler bag. A cooler bag?? 
Now wher ethe heck am I going to fit that. DSIL says she is bringing a few snacks for the kids on the plane and some bottled water. My mother says she has made some extra meatballs and chicken cutlets and a loaf of bread and few other things to which I stopped listening 
. She took one look at me and said never mind I will just put the bag by my feet in the car. I as so proud of myself I didnt say anything
.I just walked away. I really wanted to say make sure you are ready when I get home. I made my phone calls and was back to my office. No sooner did I get back to my office, my cell phone rings it is the lady from WEGOSHOP. She said she was calling to confirm I said yes I got your e-mail. Then she says
..we have a problem 
. What kind of problem do we have. She replies that they are having problems with their credit card machine and cant run my card through. Hmmm sounds like you have the problem not me. But I didnt say that, cause after all she was bringing us our breakfast groceries and yummy snacks. She asks if instead of delivering it this evening to Bell Services like planned could she deliver in the afternoon the following day. WHAT!! Are you nuts lady
your not in my scheduled detail of events, you cant screw up my schedule before we even start!! I calmly tell her no and it must be delivered that evening or I am tell all my fellow DISers that WEGOSHOP screwed up. Well I didnt say that last part. She asked what time our flight was to get in I told her 9:30pm provided their were no delays. We were expecting a storm in NJ that evening and hopefully that plan would get out before that. I told her I would call her before we take off and let her know if the flight was on time. She told me that would be great, and she would meet us personally at our hotel to take our cash or check. Ok problem resolvedThe rest of the afternoon was uneventful.
I finally leave the office and head home.. I actually make it home by 3:15pm. When I got home .my clan was actually all ready with jackets and shoes on. And my brother was actually there and there was no food on the table or any sign of any kind of a mess. They actually listened to me .I was impressed with myself. I asked everyone if they went to the bathroom and everyone said yes except Dopey, well because Dopey gets to involved in what he is doing sometimes he doesnt make it to the bathroom. Well guess what Dopey had an accident . Thank goodness mom always has extra clothes and underwear at her house for both kids. DSIL did a quick change with him as I herded 
everyone into the car. everyone except my DF the Wanderer. Anyone see that Wanderer??? What do you mean NO!! Where did he go? I just saw him a minute ago. I went outside looking for him and he was nowhere to be found. NO this cant be happening
doesnt he know we have a schedule to keep. My brother spots him down the block, he whistles for him to come home. He makes a beeline to the house. Now the Wanderer is almost 77years old so his beeline doesnt move quite as fast as mine or yours. He finally makes it to the car
.and he is the last one in. What were you thinking Wanderer we are supposed to leave to beat the traffic. If you leave the group you must tell someone. Got it? And that goes for everyone? I could here my borther giggling in the front seat.
Ok so we are off to the airport. I warn my brother that my large SUV is not a Ferarri and that my mechanic is picking it up tomorrow to put new brakes on. Surprisingly he takes it easy and gets us to the airport in record time. There was no traffic, no crowds at the airport, I had printed our boarding passes so all we had to do was drop off the luggage. Success!! We say our goodbyes to brother who I can tell is disappointed that he cant go as we all are. I wish he could have come too.
We go through security without a hitch. As we were about to start walking the man who drives the people cart ( those things that give people a ride) he asks if wanted a ride of course .do you see who is in my group 2 seniors, 2 kids and a pregnant lady. We hop on and the kids ride in front. This vehicle lacked a horn .so the kids had a blast saying beep beep coming through
Sorry if we offended anyone.
We get to the gate with and had a ton of time to spare it was about 4:30pm. Ah sit and relax. The kids had their snack and played for a bit. Then Happy asks where is the Wanderer? I frantically looked around he is no where to be seen. Oh no not again. Happy says to me .DisneyAunt I thought you told him not to do that again. I just look at him. I told him from now on it is your job to make sure he stays with us, got it. He agreed. I finally spot him
making his way towards us from the other side of the terminal. He gets back to us and I dont even have to say anything Happy takes care of the lecture for me. Boy I am training this kid right. I inform the Wanderer that he needs to take it easy since we will be doing a lot of walking in WDW. Although he doesnt know it yet but I am getting an ECV for him and QueenMommy so that they can keep up. The Wanderer has been sick lately and not doing to well, so it is important he not exert himself.
Both kids keep asking when is the plane leaving .I keep telling them soon. It gets annoying very quickly when they keep asking especially Dopey. He keeps asking me every 2-3 minutes. Happy was ok he was on Wanderer duty and they were both looking at planes taking off. But not my Dopey .so I say to Dopey yaknow we arent going to Florida we are going to Michigan to see the lakes. Well the kid starts bawling
. Happy runs over to see what the fuss was and Dopey tells him. In between his sobs I tell him I was just joking. He instantly stops crying and looks at me and says the was mean DisneyAunt, dont do that again. We were all hysterical laughing. 
As we are getting closer to the time of departure we were told by Continental that our flight would be delayed because the pilot is coming from another flight and that flight is delayed. What?? Hey thats not in my schedule. It was a delay of 20 minutes. I think I could live with that. I then remembered I had to call the WEGO SHOP lady .I did and told her our flight would be delayed. She then asked me to call her when we landed ok I thought that is reasonable.
We get on the flight and it takes, the flight was uneverntful. It took off, we flew, we landed. We get out. Roll Call is everyone here?? Yes even Wanderer. Hey my phone is ringing who could be calling me now. It was the WEGOSHOP lady. Yes we landed .no I have my own car .no we havent gotten our luggage .no we havent gotten our car yet either, ok you will meet us at OKW, no problem see you there.
We do our potty break and head to get our luggage. We get our luggage and a nice man with a big cart takes our luggage and brings us to the National counter. We head to pick up the car phone ringing ..WEGOSHOP Lady again .yes we got our luggage ..no we havent gotten the car yet .we are going now, ok see in a bit. My clan was ahead of me because I was concentrating on my phone call. Happy shouts to me from the other end of the Emerald Aisle .hey DisneyAunt .I picked this new minivan ..I shout back ..No we cant have a white one!!! At this point everyone on the level looks at me. Happy shouts back why not its nice and it has a TV ..I shout back NO WHITE MINIVAN
. That nice man with the luggage along with my family though I was nuts. As I approach them I try to explain that there are way to many white Minivans in Disney, so we went to the next one which was Silver
.which I didnt want either because it is the next favorite color
.but I was overruled by the guy with the luggage he just started loading the van. Oh well this will have to do.
We make our way out of the Parking lot with DSIL navigating me with TGMs directions to OKW.(which BTW were perfect) Uh ooo phone ringing again .should I pick it up while I am driving whos calling me now ..its the WEGOSHOP Lady .of course who else could it be. What do you mean where are we .we are on our way ..oh you are there already .well we arent yet .your where in the parking lot of the checkin building well listen Im not writing anything down now because I am DRIVING I dont know how much longer I will be .we are driving there right now ..ok Ill tell you what Im driving and on the phone and I dont normally do that at home where I know where I am going so this is not a good idea and the more you keep calling the longer it will take until I get there ..good Im glad you understand .see you later
. Anyway
.I hope they have my perishables in a cooler.
We finally get to OKW and there was the WEGO Lady and her husband. No I cant the groceries at this minute because I have 6 people in a minivan with 5 pieces of luggage. So you have to wait a few minutes longer until I can unload this stuff in the room ..what you will follow us to the room and unload the groceries for us .good idea.
We check in without a hitch and the WEGO lady follows us to our Villa ..we bring the luggage in and they bring the groceries. I pay them, the leave. That was a pain in the neck. Note to self do your own grocery shopping next time. We get acquainted with our room It is very nice .this is the first time I am using my DVC and I am feeling spoiled already. It's now about 12:30am everyone goes to there designated rooms unpacks and goes to bed,
Stay Tuned for our full day at the park.
Cast:
Me ( DisneyAunt) the obsessive planner, even have potty breaks scheduled
DF (The Wanderer) My father who has been to Disney several times before but has no idea what he is in store for when traveling with us. BTW youll understand why we call him the wanderer as the story progresses.
DM (Queen Mommy) Never been to Disney and has no idea how much walking is involved even though we told her. She is a mother, always worrying about everyone else and make sure that we all eat.
DSIL Pregnant with 3rd child last hooray before baby
DN#1 (Happy) 7 year old nephew also 3rd trip. Pretty smart kid. Sometimes to smart for his own good.
DN#2 (Dopey) 4 year old nephew also 3rd trip. Does not stop moving, does his own stunts, and doesnt smoke (youll understand this later)
The day started out very early for me 5:30am. I had to finish packing and go to work before we could get on our 6:15pm flight. I had planned on being at my office until 4pm but that changed when a friend who works for Continental told me that I must leave earlier. You dont have to tell me twice, so the plan was to leave by 3:15 and be home by 3:30. And since I am the one that signs everyones payroll checks at the office no one was going to tell me I couldnt
. So there was a mad dash to reschedule some things for me at the office. Did I care they had to work extra hard so I wouldnt miss my flight
.not at all. After all they were going to be working less hours in the office while I was gone and still get paid for their regular hours. Yes I know I am a nice boss .The plan was we would all meet at my mothers house and my brother would drive us to the airport. A little information about my brother, he has a problem telling time.and is perpetually late. This was a little nerve racking for me since I am always early and we were on a bit of a time crunch. I think I may have drove my DSIL: crazy with how many times I called her to make sure that he was going to be there on time. The plan was that they were both going to pick up the kids from school and head over straight to moms and she promised that she wouldnt let him out of her sight. He was also to drive my SUV since it seats 7 passengers. I was a little nervous about that also not because he is a bad driver, in fact he is an excellent driver. The only problem is that he drives like he is in a Formula 1 race, and my SUV is just not built for that kind of a race. So that was the plan.
Before leaving the house in the morning I had all my bags packed and ready and dropped them off at moms, she lives next door. Now my mother is ALWAYS the last one out of the house even though she insists she is ready somehow she never is. I drilled into her that the have to be ready to get in the car when I get home. No Lollygagging!! At one point she says to me stop worrying we will be ready. I told her I will be home around 1pm for a few minutes to make some phone calls. She wanted to know what she should cook for lunch and that she had to cook something for the kids when they got out of school.
Im looking at her like she has three heads
.what part of make sure you are ready did you not understand. Hey Mom did you ever here of a sandwhich. That would make everyones life a lot easier. We dont have time for a sit down pasta lunch. Ok ok she says but we still have to eat. At that point I gave up because I knew she wasnt going to listen to me. So off to work I went.I got to the office by 8am and started doing some paperwork and getting ready before my office staff comes in at 9am. And of course I went online to check the DIS boards. Staff gets in a 9am and all hell breaks loose. Everyone seem to have some sort of problem today
. It was not a fun morning. In between trying to figure everything out at work. My DSIL calls me and tells me she will meet me at Moms at 1pm so that we can put all the luggage in the SUV then and have it all in my car when I get home later. Good thinkin
that will save a ton of time. I leave the office at 1pm and head to my mothers and what do I find a whole spread of food on the table
.it looked like we were going to hibernate for the winter and needed to eat all that food. It was very nice of Mom to cook but not necessary, and me being the good daughter told her that and added just make sure you are ready to when I get home. DSIL just arrived and I went outside to situate the luggage which was successfully crammed in. We go back inside to have a quick bite to eat and Mom asks if there is room for a cooler bag. A cooler bag?? Now wher ethe heck am I going to fit that. DSIL says she is bringing a few snacks for the kids on the plane and some bottled water. My mother says she has made some extra meatballs and chicken cutlets and a loaf of bread and few other things to which I stopped listening . She took one look at me and said never mind I will just put the bag by my feet in the car. I as so proud of myself I didnt say anything
.I just walked away. I really wanted to say make sure you are ready when I get home. I made my phone calls and was back to my office. No sooner did I get back to my office, my cell phone rings it is the lady from WEGOSHOP. She said she was calling to confirm I said yes I got your e-mail. Then she says
..we have a problem . What kind of problem do we have. She replies that they are having problems with their credit card machine and cant run my card through. Hmmm sounds like you have the problem not me. But I didnt say that, cause after all she was bringing us our breakfast groceries and yummy snacks. She asks if instead of delivering it this evening to Bell Services like planned could she deliver in the afternoon the following day. WHAT!! Are you nuts lady
your not in my scheduled detail of events, you cant screw up my schedule before we even start!! I calmly tell her no and it must be delivered that evening or I am tell all my fellow DISers that WEGOSHOP screwed up. Well I didnt say that last part. She asked what time our flight was to get in I told her 9:30pm provided their were no delays. We were expecting a storm in NJ that evening and hopefully that plan would get out before that. I told her I would call her before we take off and let her know if the flight was on time. She told me that would be great, and she would meet us personally at our hotel to take our cash or check. Ok problem resolvedThe rest of the afternoon was uneventful.I finally leave the office and head home.. I actually make it home by 3:15pm. When I got home .my clan was actually all ready with jackets and shoes on. And my brother was actually there and there was no food on the table or any sign of any kind of a mess. They actually listened to me .I was impressed with myself. I asked everyone if they went to the bathroom and everyone said yes except Dopey, well because Dopey gets to involved in what he is doing sometimes he doesnt make it to the bathroom. Well guess what Dopey had an accident
. Thank goodness mom always has extra clothes and underwear at her house for both kids. DSIL did a quick change with him as I herded everyone into the car. everyone except my DF the Wanderer. Anyone see that Wanderer??? What do you mean NO!! Where did he go? I just saw him a minute ago. I went outside looking for him and he was nowhere to be found. NO this cant be happening
doesnt he know we have a schedule to keep. My brother spots him down the block, he whistles for him to come home. He makes a beeline to the house. Now the Wanderer is almost 77years old so his beeline doesnt move quite as fast as mine or yours. He finally makes it to the car
.and he is the last one in. What were you thinking Wanderer we are supposed to leave to beat the traffic. If you leave the group you must tell someone. Got it? And that goes for everyone? I could here my borther giggling in the front seat.Ok so we are off to the airport. I warn my brother that my large SUV is not a Ferarri and that my mechanic is picking it up tomorrow to put new brakes on. Surprisingly he takes it easy and gets us to the airport in record time. There was no traffic, no crowds at the airport, I had printed our boarding passes so all we had to do was drop off the luggage. Success!! We say our goodbyes to brother who I can tell is disappointed that he cant go as we all are. I wish he could have come too.
We go through security without a hitch. As we were about to start walking the man who drives the people cart ( those things that give people a ride) he asks if wanted a ride of course .do you see who is in my group 2 seniors, 2 kids and a pregnant lady. We hop on and the kids ride in front. This vehicle lacked a horn .so the kids had a blast saying beep beep coming through
Sorry if we offended anyone.We get to the gate with and had a ton of time to spare it was about 4:30pm. Ah sit and relax. The kids had their snack and played for a bit. Then Happy asks where is the Wanderer? I frantically looked around he is no where to be seen. Oh no not again. Happy says to me .DisneyAunt I thought you told him not to do that again. I just look at him. I told him from now on it is your job to make sure he stays with us, got it. He agreed. I finally spot him
making his way towards us from the other side of the terminal. He gets back to us and I dont even have to say anything Happy takes care of the lecture for me. Boy I am training this kid right. I inform the Wanderer that he needs to take it easy since we will be doing a lot of walking in WDW. Although he doesnt know it yet but I am getting an ECV for him and QueenMommy so that they can keep up. The Wanderer has been sick lately and not doing to well, so it is important he not exert himself. Both kids keep asking when is the plane leaving .I keep telling them soon. It gets annoying very quickly when they keep asking especially Dopey. He keeps asking me every 2-3 minutes. Happy was ok he was on Wanderer duty and they were both looking at planes taking off. But not my Dopey .so I say to Dopey yaknow we arent going to Florida we are going to Michigan to see the lakes. Well the kid starts bawling
. Happy runs over to see what the fuss was and Dopey tells him. In between his sobs I tell him I was just joking. He instantly stops crying and looks at me and says the was mean DisneyAunt, dont do that again. We were all hysterical laughing. As we are getting closer to the time of departure we were told by Continental that our flight would be delayed because the pilot is coming from another flight and that flight is delayed. What?? Hey thats not in my schedule. It was a delay of 20 minutes. I think I could live with that. I then remembered I had to call the WEGO SHOP lady .I did and told her our flight would be delayed. She then asked me to call her when we landed ok I thought that is reasonable.
We get on the flight and it takes, the flight was uneverntful. It took off, we flew, we landed. We get out. Roll Call is everyone here?? Yes even Wanderer. Hey my phone is ringing who could be calling me now. It was the WEGOSHOP lady. Yes we landed .no I have my own car .no we havent gotten our luggage .no we havent gotten our car yet either, ok you will meet us at OKW, no problem see you there.
We do our potty break and head to get our luggage. We get our luggage and a nice man with a big cart takes our luggage and brings us to the National counter. We head to pick up the car phone ringing ..WEGOSHOP Lady again .yes we got our luggage ..no we havent gotten the car yet .we are going now, ok see in a bit. My clan was ahead of me because I was concentrating on my phone call. Happy shouts to me from the other end of the Emerald Aisle .hey DisneyAunt .I picked this new minivan ..I shout back ..No we cant have a white one!!! At this point everyone on the level looks at me. Happy shouts back why not its nice and it has a TV ..I shout back NO WHITE MINIVAN
. That nice man with the luggage along with my family though I was nuts. As I approach them I try to explain that there are way to many white Minivans in Disney, so we went to the next one which was Silver
.which I didnt want either because it is the next favorite color
.but I was overruled by the guy with the luggage he just started loading the van. Oh well this will have to do. We make our way out of the Parking lot with DSIL navigating me with TGMs directions to OKW.(which BTW were perfect) Uh ooo phone ringing again .should I pick it up while I am driving whos calling me now ..its the WEGOSHOP Lady .of course who else could it be. What do you mean where are we .we are on our way ..oh you are there already .well we arent yet .your where in the parking lot of the checkin building well listen Im not writing anything down now because I am DRIVING I dont know how much longer I will be .we are driving there right now ..ok Ill tell you what Im driving and on the phone and I dont normally do that at home where I know where I am going so this is not a good idea and the more you keep calling the longer it will take until I get there ..good Im glad you understand .see you later
. Anyway
.I hope they have my perishables in a cooler.We finally get to OKW and there was the WEGO Lady and her husband. No I cant the groceries at this minute because I have 6 people in a minivan with 5 pieces of luggage. So you have to wait a few minutes longer until I can unload this stuff in the room ..what you will follow us to the room and unload the groceries for us .good idea.
We check in without a hitch and the WEGO lady follows us to our Villa ..we bring the luggage in and they bring the groceries. I pay them, the leave. That was a pain in the neck. Note to self do your own grocery shopping next time. We get acquainted with our room It is very nice .this is the first time I am using my DVC and I am feeling spoiled already. It's now about 12:30am everyone goes to there designated rooms unpacks and goes to bed,
Stay Tuned for our full day at the park.
