My parents were already at Pop waiting for us. They are snowbirds and were in FL so they just had a short drive over to Pop to meet us. They were very eager to see Adam (it had been 6 weeks) so they were waiting at Pop before our flight even landed! I called my mom when we could see the guard shack at Pop so they knew when to expect us. We intentionally sat on the right side of the bus so Adam would be able to look out of the bus window and hopefully see my parents waiting. He saw them as soon as we pulled up and started calling for them. Let me just say it's good we say where we did so I was able to get him off the bus fast and into the the waiting arms of his grandparents!
I didn't even notice the red carpet or the greeter with the Mickey hands until I went to help DH grab the stroller off the bus. It's a nice touch, I wish I would have paid more attention!
My dad took Adam for a walk around the lobby while my mom and I checked in and DH sat with our carry ons. I think he was trying to catch a nap and wasn't doing to good of a job paying attention to our stuff.
The check in line looked a lot scarier than it really was. I didn't do on line check in, I'm not really sure why I just never did. The only request we had was connecting rooms. My parents room was ready but our room was not. The funny thing is they couldn't give me the room # but was able to tell me it connected with my parents. Ummm, yeah I think I can figure out what room # it was based on that!
. Anyway, I gave them my cell phone and asked to be text messaged when it was ready. *side note, when I stayed at Pop with my parents a few years prior, our room was about 10 doors away from where we were this trip!*
We were in the 50's building, I forget the building # but it was the one with the jukebox, 4th floor facing some trees. I think we were 2418 and 2419 but I'm not positive. We dropped our stuff off in my parents room, washed up and headed down to the food court. I also peeked in the windows of what would be our room and the people's stuff was still in it and it was after 1130 at that point.
We headed down to the food court as we were starving since all DH and I had were the bricks, I mean bagels we bought at the airport. Adam was in love with the elevator and all of the over sized icons. We had to walk past Lady and the Tramp every day and he loved to stop and say hi to the "woof woof".
The food court was empty! I was surprised to see how empty it was, but my parents and I said we think it's the first time any of us had ever been there in the middle of the day. We are normally only there early morning and late night. My parents sat down with Adam and gave him some fruit while DH and I tried to figure out what we wanted. I was trying to explain the dining plan to DH and I wasn't doing a very good job. Not to mention I don't think it's marked very well what is considered a snack or dessert option. At one point DH goes, why can't we just switch to a room discount instead of this free dining!??! It was really overwhelming, we were hungry and tired so it wasn't the best first experience with FD. I was really disappointed in myself because I thought I understood it inside and out. DH settled on some form of a burger and I got the supreme nachos, DH was very excited when I told him he can have a sundae for dessert lol. DH saw what lunch would have cost us without FD and was starting to like it better already! We had our receipt stamped so we could get the sundaes when we were finished.
DH took my food back to the table so I could figure out what to do for Adam's lunch. Per Chef Dan he told me to go to the pizza pick up counter and tell them I had a food allergy order. I was really impressed with how quickly they sprang into action paging a chef and how quickly someone came out. I was greeted by Chef Elizabeth who was super nice. I never introduced myself (once again, tired and lack of food did not have me at my best) but told her my son had peanut, tree nut and egg allergies and she responded with you must be Rebekah! This totally blew me away! I couldn't believe that they were really expecting us like that! When I talked to Chef Dan on the phone 2 and 1/2 weeks prior he said he'd make them aware of our arrival but I wasn't expecting that! Needless to say this started our first allergy meal off in a very positive note. I ordered him pizza with a side of grapes and strawberries.
That was the lid on his pizza, it was really cute! Adam loved the fruit, the pizza on the hand was awful. Adam tried one bite and said "no, no, no!" and then put it back on my plate. I tried it and it was bad. It's no fault of the chef but it was the super duper allergy friendly stuff, so it covered all sorts of allergies leaving it pretty tasteless. He had enough other stuff to eat, so I didn't worry about it, it was just a shame to toss the whole thing.
The first thing I tell anyone I know who is heading to the World, is "Make sure you are at the park at least 15 minutes before it opens". Even this, our "relaxed, adult trip", we are doing RD the first 4 days! The last 2 days before we leave will be the relaxed, sleep in days. I think the RD thing was hammered into my brain when we took DH's family on Labor Day one year - we hit MK at RD, and were done with everything by 1pm...with 16 people!
I haven't read your whole report yet, but I see you're a fellow asthma mom freaking out about keeping DS well! 
I kept the boys home from mother's day out today just in hopes of keeping the germies away!! DS's is also viral/URI induced. I'm bringing the nebulizer and his rescue inhaler (in addition of course, to his normal preventative inhaler) in hopes that if I'm overly prepared, then he'll stay well! 
Anyways- I'll need to catch up on the rest of your report- but hope you have a great trip! See you there!! (We'll be the ones with the twin boys in the bright blue stroller!! 
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Hope all of your meals work out for you!
to my new readers! Too bad we have yucky things in common like asthma and allergies!!
oh and I didn't pack today 
