Dreaming Of My Next Trip... Oh Wait It's Here!! The (Hopefully) Live Trip Report!!

[amandaluvsgoofy]

Can't wait to read your TR when you get back! Have a wonderful time!!

 

[mickeystoontown]

Have a super trip! Can't wait to read more live from WDW!

 

[eandesmom]

subbing

Have a great trip! I am so jealous of all your "couple" time with your DH! Our next trip will likely be in with the in-laws and I plan to take advantage of that at least one night!

 

[donnajean17]

Have a wonderful time on your trip. Can't wait to read about it as we leave in 40 days!!!!!!!

It sounds like a great trip you have planned. I cant wait to read about it. Have a great time. Travel safe today!
Cathy

Have a great time!

Can't wait to read your TR when you get back! Have a wonderful time!!

Have a super trip! Can't wait to read more live from WDW!

subbing

Have a great trip! I am so jealous of all your "couple" time with your DH! Our next trip will likely be in with the in-laws and I plan to take advantage of that at least one night!

Thanks to all who have joined!!

 

[donnajean17]

Whew! We've made it to the airport! Everything went smooth so far and luckily according to plan.

We've got a little over an hour to kill before boarding so we're half way there!!

Again I hope to post once we're at the world, but with internet/wifi being sketchy, I can only hope!!!

 

[donnajean17]

Ok so my dreams for a live trip report did not come true! I am so sorry for those that were waiting patiently!! Wi-fi was not as readily available as I'd hoped and I was too darn busy (and too darn cheap) to buy a connection. But the good news is my trip report is almost completely written, thanks to a delay at the airport! I will post my first adventure as soon as I get out of this post vacation haze (we got in at 12:30am) and unpack!!! Stay tuned!

 

[mickeystoontown]

I'll keep patiently waiting. I know that I would hate to take time away from my vacation to post on the boards no matter how much I love 'em. Looking forward to the report.

 

[donnajean17]

FYI I wrote this report while I was actually at WDW. Each night I'd just open my laptop and just write a review the days events... so here's goes!!


Day 1
We made it!!!
So we are here!!! It’s soooooo exciting!!!! It is about 10:15pm on Sunday, and we are resting comfortably in our room, patiently waiting for our luggage to arrive from DME, since we landed at 7pm, the luggage could come… well any hour now.

Here is how today played out. We left just as planned, at 9:30am.

DD and DS in the van ready to go!

We arrived at IL’s house about 10:45, we hung out there until about 11:30 and then hit the road!

Parking was a breeze. We got to the lot at about 12:15pm. We did offsite parking about 10 mins from Logan. We arrived at the lot, parked and before we were even out of the car, the shuttle had pulled up right behind us! We zipped off to the airport...

On the shuttle to the airport
DD and FIL

DS

We got checked in and through security with no issues, we were ready for lunch by 1:15. Pretty good!! At this point we hit the only hic up in the day (though I may be speaking too soon, since our luggage has yet to arrive). We planned on a nice slow, leisurely lunch at a place DH loves called Boston Beer Works, (they have one right outside of Fenway park that he has been to many times). We thought it was a sit down restaurant, and when we got to it at the terminal, it was really just a bar, and a few small tables, not nearly big enough for the 6 of us. So we made do. We got burgers at Johnny Rockets, parked ourselves a nice big table by a window and ate lunch. Much to the delight of DS, who I mentioned before, loves anything that moves (i.e. planes, trains or automobiles) he was in awe, watching the plans take off and land.

DD Before lunch

We finished up lunch and headed for the gate. By the time we got to the gate it was only 2:00. Our flight was not until 4:00pm, and boarding was set to start at 3:30. The kids did pretty good killing time. We had books, puzzles and a few games, there were a few walks around the terminal (really just so DH could check the score of the Celtics game) and right on time, we boarded. The flight was pretty uneventful, everyone was fairly well behaved and the kids really enjoyed take off and landing. DS got a little restless (he has ADHD) but he really did great!

DD and MIL waiting at the gate

DS and me

DS Ready for take off

Once we got to MCO and (I wiped the tears from my eyes) we headed to DME. As much as a planner as I am I somehow forgot to double check exactly where the DME boarding was (now I know Terminal B lower level) and we ended up in terminal A. My IL and DH got a kick out of picking on me, because they thought I knew everything Disney!! In my defense, in my prior 9 trips I had only done DME once, and I told DH we should ask to be sure, and he was all manly and like ‘no I remember where it is’. Clearly he did not. But no harm no foul. We walked right on board DME and headed to POP, no lines no waiting.

On board DME
DD and MIL

DS and FIL

DH

We arrived at POP about 8:20pm, and checked in. There were no lines at the check in counter either and online check in was a breeze! We are in room 8251. My IL’s are right next door in an adjoining room, which I did not ask for, and really didn’t want, (we like our space) but the kids think it’s neat that we share a door. If I had to complain about anything, it would be that, and our location. (I guess that makes two things) I fully diagnosed the POP map and thread prior to our arrival and thought to fax ahead a room request, but I opted to leave it to the resort gods to figure out what building we would get. The one area I did not want is the one we are in. 80’s building by the computer pool, pretty much the longest walk to Classic Hall (if you don’t cut across the parking lot) Oh well, that’s what you get when you roll the dice. We will see how it plays out.

After we went to check out the room and dump off some stuff, we headed to the food court. I had to see what everyone was raving about!!! I’ve read POP has the best food court. I don’t want to be too quick to judge after just one meal, but IMNSHO it was pretty average. I got the Chicken Penne Alfredo, loved the pasta and alfredo, but thought the chicken was too salty. DH got the Nachos which he devoured(then again he eats anything!), and the kids shared an order of vegatable Lo Mein, which no one really liked the taste of. I also tried the tye-dyed cheesecake, which I also heard raves about. I thought it was OK. Maybe I’m just tired or whatever, but the food court I’d say was mediocre at best. With ADR’s and such we probably won’t get a chance to eat a full meal there again, but I’m willing to give it a second chance.

DD having her 1st Mickey Pop

We bought one refillable mug to use throughout the week too.
After dinner (by now it was 9:30pm) I headed to luggage services to check on our garden grocer order and a fridge I reserved through a fridge swap (thank you DIS!). It was all there and the CM followed me to my room, no problems!

I have to admit, there were several times today when I got seriously choked up. Once when we were taking off, once when we landed, on the DME bus when DS got so excited just by the movie they played, and once when we went under the WDW ‘arch’ at the entrance. Tomorrow, I will definitely cry when we walk down Main Street… I always do…. Sigh…

So now I wait. DH, DS are asleep, DD is almost asleep and I wait for the luggage. Its 10:40pm, it’s been 2hrs40 minutes since we landed mmmmm… I wonder how much longer it will take…. I’m getting sleepy… very sleepy…


UP NEXT: Will the luggage ever come?? and if so, what time???

 

[mkandjpsmom]

Great report so far. I can't wait to read more! Your kids are so cute! They look so happy.

 

[luckylady]

Welcome back. Can't wait to read more about the trip and when your luggage got in.

 

[romtea]

subbing... can't wait to hear more

 

[crgfsu1]

Holy smokes! How late will they deliver luggage to the room?!?!?!

 

[donnajean17]

Great report so far. I can't wait to read more! Your kids are so cute! They look so happy.

Thanks! They were very excited!

Welcome back. Can't wait to read more about the trip and when your luggage got in.

subbing... can't wait to hear more

Holy smokes! How late will they deliver luggage to the room?!?!?!

Luggage update comming tonight!

 

[Cinderelly5507]

I'm in!!

 

[amandaluvsgoofy]

WOW!! What's gonna happen!?!?

 

[eandesmom]

wow, I hope the luggage gets there soon. I love the idea of DME handling the luggage but unless I arrived before 2pm I think I'd be too nervous to risk a delay. We grabbed our own luggage for our 10pm arrival last time and carried it to DME, worked great and would probably do that again, just for peace of mind

Great report so far!

 

[donnajean17]

So , I decided to stop waiting for the luggage man around 11pm. Before going to sleep, I called the front desk and inquired about it. I was told it can take 3-4 hours from when you check in for luggage to arrive (which I knew but I just needed confirmation) and that if it was after midnight they would not come knocking on your door, but rather leave you a voicemail on your in-room phone, so if you saw the red light flashing you had a message and could call them back and they would deliver the bags if you were awake. Ok I thought, we checked in about 8:30, so that ment technically we had until 12:30, no need waiting I was tired. So fully dressed (since I had no PJ’s, I lied down and drifted off to sleep.

I woke up around 3:30 and tried not to panic, but it was too late I was panicing!! I was in a slight sleep daze but looked at the phone, no flashing red light… oh-oh this could not be good. I calmed myself down and decided to give it some more time and forced myself back to sleep, though I was freaking out on the inside.

Around 5:45am I woke up and there was no light on the phone!!!! I was convinced that our luggage had somehow gotten lost in the shuffle!!!!! Our 4 bags were out there, somewhere. Maybe sitting alone, cold and scared at the airport, or worse yet, still on the ground in Boston! I contimplated what to do until DS woke up around 6am. I figured now was a good a time as any to get on the phone and figure out what the deal was. I called luggage services and explained my situation, the CM put me on hold. Seriously 5 minutes later he came back and asked me my first name, not last name, just first and then proceeded to put me on hold again, at least I thought I was hold. Another 10 minutes goes by and DH is up now and he deciedes to just take a walk down there. I wait on hold a few more minutes and hang up with no more answers then when I starteed, 20 minutes before. This was not very magical!!!

A few minutes later DH called on the cell and said that the luggge guy apologized, but we got disconnected and he tried to call me back but only got a busy signal. Duh, that was because I was on hold!

Anyway, the luggage mystery was solved... it turns out the luggage was delivered last night around 11, only not to our room, but next door to MIL and FIL’s room. Huh?? They do that? Give luggage to people to whom it does not belong? I was iritated! We woke up MIL and FIL and indeed found our luggage in their room! MIL decided that when the luggage guy came knocking on their door that she would just have him leave our bags in their room, because she thought we were asleep. Grrrrrrrr. Guess she thought I would enjoy sleeping in my clothes. I had a restless night sleep for nothing. I tried not to be too irrated, she was afterall, only trying to help, but I was very annoyed. I tried to move on. Once the luggage was in our room, I immediately started the unpacking and organizing. It was now 6:30 am and we had to be at MK rope drop by 8:45. At least that was the plan.

We wereheading out to the bus about 8:20 when I realized I had somehow lost my KTW card (already!!!!!), so we had to stop at guest services to get a new one for me, luckily it was super easy. We were on the bus heading to MK by 8:35. We got to MK just as the rope drop ceremony was happening. Yah! We did it!!

DD waiting at the bus stop

DS ready for the sun on day 1!

Now I had decided early on not to let people irrate me on this trip. OK MIL already irrated me but that doesn't count, I mean strangers in the parks! I have experienced first hand, rude, nasty people while at WDW. I know it’s hot, I know people get tired, but there is not need to by nasty!! I was definitely not one of those people and tried really hard to treat people the way I wanted to be treated, nicely. Well I was not even through the gate when I experienced one of those nasty people. I was pushing DD in her stroller and had to go through the gate once we put our tickets through. Now we were last minute to rope drop so the people waiting already were backed up almost to the entrance gate. As I tried to get through the gate with DD’s stroller there was a woman stopped in front of the gate, apparently waiting for the ceremony to end. Ok, understood , it was crowded and she wanted to see. I said excuse me several times, but with the rope drop ceremony music going, this woman did not hear me and I could not reach her to tap her shoulder and get her attention. Now I knew their was a line forming behind me waiting for me to continue throught the gate, but this woman was keeping me from going any further! I reassesed the situation and thought I had enough room between her foot and the gate to get the stroller through. I tried to squeeze through and it was tight. I again said excuse me a couple of times, but she again did not hear me. I ended up rubbing the wheel of stroller against the side of her sneaker. At that point she finally turned around and said, and I quote “apparently you don’t know how to say excuse me”. Now I wanted to say back to her a number of quick and equally as nasty comebacks, but I took the high road. I calmly and polietly said, “I’m sorry, but I did say excuse me several times, you must not of heard me over the music.” And I gave her a great big magical smile. (even though she didn’t deserve it!) She glared and me, said nothing and turned and walked away since the rope drop ceremony was now over. I tried not to let it bother me, but I fumed for a few more minutes.

All of that negative energy immediately melted away, as soon as we set foot on Main street and saw the castle. I choked up, per usual, and my mood was instantly better. There is just something about seeing the castle for the first time that is so... well magical. It was even better when DD andDS saw the castle and freaked out, it was great.

DD and DS on Main St.

The plan was to head to Fantasyland. We started that way, got stopped by the photopass photographer, then MIL needed a coffee. Grrrr. Did she not know there was a plan???? (little did I know that the “plan” would soon go out the window) Here is how that went. MIL orders coffe, pays for coffee, waits for coffee, takes coffee over to counter to get cream and sugar, puts in cream and sugar, sips. No not right, more cream, more sugar, another sip., struggles to put cover on. Finally we were on the move again. She is not top on my list this morning, first the luggage, now this!

We got to fantasyland rode, the Carrousel, Snowwhite, and the Teacups. Alice and Wonderland was actually riding the Teacups the same time as DD it was sooo cool!!

DS and DD on the Carrousel

DH, DD and FIL on Teacups

Alice In Wonderland on Teacups

From there DS saw the tomorrowland speedway and were diverted. Remember his love of all things wheels, this was just up his alley.

DS and FIL on Tomorrowland Speedway

After that, we headed back to Fantasy land and rode Dumbo.

DD and FIL on Dumbo

From there we went to Mickey’s toon town, rode Goofy’s Barnstormer, visited Minnie’s house, Mickey’s house and went to the Judge’s tent to see the man and woman themsleves. Now DD did not want to go see Micky, or so she thought. She was a little freaked out by the darkness of the queue in the Judge’s tent and partically pitched a fit. This was because Snowwhite scared her and since it was dark in the queue she thought it was the same type of scary ride. I tried to explain that it was not a scary, and that we were goiong to meet Minnie and Mickey. She was reluctant and complained most of the wait. Once we got into the small room where Minnie and Mickey were she immediately changed her tune, and was estatic. We took a group photo.

DD and Minnie

Then I wanted to do a photo with DD and DS with Mickey and Minnie. DD did not want to be near Mickey at all. She did take to Minnie and even hugged her. The funniest thing was when we were walking away, Mickey thought DD wanted to hug him too, and as she walked towards him to head to the door he leaned out to hug her. She was having none of it and did a move I have can only describe as something out of the Matrix movie. She managed to bend he body around his reach and ran out the door! Too funny!

After that it was time to ride the WDW RR. We boarded in Toontown and rode it all the way around the park, getting off where we started, DS loved it. From there we walked to Tomorrowland and rode Buzz. After that it was lunch time. Cosmic Rays. Yum. After lunch as we headed towards the Castle we noticed there seemed to be a parade of somesort going on. Hmmm,I honestly did not know what it was. Come to find out it was the "Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It! Street Party" Where everyone dances and there are floats with all the characters on it. It was fun!

Jessie

Minnie

There were all sorts of characters there. The Incredibles, Geanie from Aladdin, Toy Story, Jungle Book... tons!

Lumiere

Now we had orginally stoped at the WDW barber on our way into the park, but the line was already too long and we decided to check back in after lunch, which is where we headed to next, and the line was not bad at all. DS got his first haircut here when he was 11 months old, and he has been back every time we go, this would make haircut number 4.

Ta da!

After the haircut, we did a little shopping, check out DD mickey ears!

We then headed back to the hotel for a swim and a rest, it was 2:00pm.
Did I mention the weather? HOT. In the mid 80’s an d expected to be 90 by weeks end. No rain in sight! Yeah!

We had dinner ADR’s at Boma, we played out our options of getting to the AKL and decided to hop a bus to DTD and then transfer to the AKL bus. We waited for the DTD bus, and waited for about a ½ hour. It was now 5:30 and reservtions were at 6:20. We decided to skip the bus and got a taxi to AKL. $17.00 later, we were there. An expensive ride because there was construction going on and we litterally sat at one intersection forever and just watched the meter tick away. That mess probably explains why the bus took forever.
We had dinner at Boma, my first time there and I enjoyed it a lot. The potatoe bacon soup was my favorite! DH ate so much! It was a great meal.

The plan was to head to DHS, but we opted instead to got to DTD. Big mistake. It was crowded, DD and DS were much more tired then we thought. We stayed about 45 minutes, bought nothing and headed back to POP to get a good nights rest.

Earlier in the night DH complained of a slight upset stomach and thought it was something he ate, let’s just say it was a good thing we got back to the hotel early, beause poor DH needed to be near the bathroom. (Sorry for the TMI). I started to worry that it could be that nasty norwalk virus I’ve read so much about on the boards, or worse, the swine flu that was making headlines the day we left. He says he doesn’t feel feverish or like he’s going to vomit, just… well… the other stuff. We’ll see how the night goes as everyone is settling in to got to sleep…. Stay tuned!

Next: Our Second Full Day, Epcot and a new dining experience

 

[donnajean17]

So last night as we headed off to sleep DH was battling an ‘upset stomach’ and I was wondering if he was going to make it through the night. Luckily he did, and by morning he was feeling much better… Yah!

We all woke up at around 7am, so the possibility of making it to EPCOT for EMH at 8am was out of the question, but we were OK with that. As time goes on, I realize more and more that the extensive and elaborate details of my plan, were slowly falling to the way side. With 6 people, 2 of them kids and 2 of them 60-something’s, sticking to the plan was not as easy as I thought or hoped.

We arrived at EPCOT at just about 8:45am, headed over the Land to get FP for Soarin’ and waited for the Seas to open at 9. When it did we rode Nemo, explored around the inside and hit the Turtle Talk with Crush show at 9:40. I had never done Crush before and it was a hoot! So cool how they do that!!

From there we headed back to the Land for our Soarin’ FP time. DH, FIL, DD and myself rode. DD did not know really what to make of it. Again this was soomething I hadn ‘t done before, and I was glad I did it this time! We headed over to Test Track and got FP and then explored innoventions east and west.

Inside Innoventions

At 11 WS opened and we hit Mexico and rode the Three Caberellos, DD decided this was her favorite ride so far. But beore boarding, it was just at the entrance to Mexico when DD had her first melt down of the trip. We had just exited the ladies room and she was not happy that I would not let her get her own paper towels. It’s not that I didn’t want her to do it, I just did it out of habbit for her. Well since she is about to turn 5 in four days she has discovered this new found independence, and was none to pleased with me. I let her throw her fit and when she settled down we boarded the ride in Mexico, which she loved and wanted to do again immediately. We had FP times for 11:35 for TT, so we headed back to TT. Now DS was coming on this. Now I’ve mentioned his love of cars but I also said he gets very nervous when he is around new things he is unsure about. As much as I thought he would enjoy test track I had a feeling he would be hesistant. And he was. I dragged him on (I know I am that person) and of course he enjoyed it, but was pretty freaked out by the speeding at the end. Though he likely won’t do it again anytime soon, it’s important to me that he over come his fears and not be afraid to try new things.

We headed back to Mexico for lunch at Catina de San Angle. It was awesome per usuall. MIL and FIL did not want to eat Mexican so they wandered off to find lunch of their own. They are pretty “traditional eaters” and don’t experiment much and DH called it when he said they probably went to the American pavillion and had chicken nuggets. We caught up with about an hour later and sure enough hat is exactally what they did for lunch.

The Flower and Garden Show was gloing on and we were able to see some of the cool exhibits, another thing I had never seen in any of my previous trips.

Minnie

Butterfly

Lagoon

We then made our way around the worlds. It was hot, so we did not explore the worlds that much. It was in Epcot when DD decided she wanted to learn to use the camera, here are some of the photos she took:

Me

DH

DS loves the Monorail so we decided we would head for the exit and take him on a spin, by now it was 1:45. We rode the monorial to MK, hopped on a POP bus and headed back to the hotel. Swimming commenced at 3pm!

I was also experiening some cell phone troubles, it just wasn’t holding a charge, which was proving difficult for me to reach my friend who lives in Orlando that we are meeting up with on Thrusday. She called me but I never heard it, then she never left her FL number, and her number came up as restricted on my cell.UGHHHH. Finally today I was able to let my phone charge all day and she called again this time from a phone that was not restricted and I was able to call her back. Yah! We confirmed plans for her and huer hubby to pick us up Thursday night after our dinner at Chef Mickey’s. She is taking us to Universal City Walk. I love Karaoke, and they have a karaoke bar, where you don’t sing with a recording, but with an actual LIVE BAND. Woah. I can finally live my secret fantasy of being a rock star.

Back to tonight, we had dinner reservations at 5:30 at Raglan Road, but we started thinking that was too early. I really wanted O’hana, but when I called WDWDine it of course was sold out for tonight, and given the IL’s releuctance to try new things, it probably was for the beter . The best time I could get was 7:30 at the Trail’s End Restaurant at Fort Wilderness, never been there so we were indeed curious.

Luckily Trail’s End ended up being a huge hit, especially with the in-laws. They are simple people, and the food there was simple and all american, pretty tasty too. . The waitress there was super good too. I may not have mentioned that besides my DD birthday we are celebrating my IL 39th wedding annviersary, I say “apparenly” because when checking in the CM asked if we are celebrating anything else and my MIL said it was her anniversary, which technically isn’t until May16th. So the CM gave them butons and everywhere, I mean everywhere we went someone was wishing them a Happy Anniversary. It was kind of annoying. But the waitress at TE took it a step further and brought them over a small cake and made everyone say “Yee-Haw” ! Still annoying but they really enjoyed it.

We took the boat from the MK to get there, and for me that was the most fun. After we left Fort Wilderness we headed back to POP and the kids played happily at the arcade for an hour. We had the arcade cards that we got with our package, but ended up buying more because the cards that came with the package you could not use for games that gave out tickets, which is half the games. It’s OK though, DD and DS love video games and we knew we’d go through both cards quickly during the week.
The day ended nicely and we were in bed by 10… boy my feet are starting to hurt.

Day 4-DHS and the DDP Mix Up

 

[amandaluvsgoofy]

How fun!!!! You guys sound like y'all were having a great time! I might have to steal your schedule for Epcot in the morning! Everything worked out perfect!

 

[donnajean17]

We were still full this morning after all the ribs and fried chicken we ate last night at Trails End, so breakfast was not even a consideration for DH and I.

We hit the road for DHS around 8:30 and got there for opening at 9. We headed right for Toy Story because I knew it was going to be crazy! The FP line was pretty long but we got some FP to come back at 11:25, not too bad. From there we headed to the backlot tour. Unfortunately they were experiencing technical issues and he first ½ of the tour, where they do the part of the show with the water. That was a bummer because DH and I had been picked back in 1998 to take part in the show. :- ( So we had to walk throught that section and went right to the trams. DH and DD were freaked out by the Tractor Trailer scene, but I thought it was cool. We got off the backlot tour and headed to Muppets 3-D. Love the show! DD and DS really got a kick out of it.

After that we caught the HSM3 show, which DD loved since she is constantly dancing around. It was time for our TSMM FP and we headed over to the ride. I had read here on the on the DIS that this ride was cool, but you have to experience it I think to really get how awesome it is. We LOVED it! DD wanted to do it again, but the wait was now an hour and the FP time was like 5:55pm, we promised her we would come back sometime this week to do it. It was now time for lunch. MIL wanted a hot dog and frankly (no pun intended) anything deep fried or grilled was not appealing to me or DH. We opted to go to the Pizza Planet Arcade. We took the kids and went there and MIL and FIL went somewhere else. We caught up with them after and DD and DS played in the Honey I Shrunk The Kids playground for a while.

Some photos around DHS

The arch at the TSMM ride

Inside TSMM
DH

DD

Scoreboard

DS and DH Seeing Lightening and Mater

There was a 1:20 Lights, Motor, Action show and we headed for the theater. Now we thought DS would love this since he is really into cars. The problem we found out is that he gets really freaked out by loud noises too. I guess we didn’t realize how loud this show was, and DS was too freaked out most of the time by the sound to really enjoy it, but there were times when I could see he liked it. Smiling one minute and hiding his face another. The adults all thought it was amazing, so cool how they do that stuff. And who knew how big that theater was? It was humoungous!!!!

Lights Motor Action

After the show ended, DD wanted to go swimming, it was about 2pm and MIL and FIL agreed to take the kids back to POP so they could swim. DH really wanted to ride RnR and I wanted to ride TOT. DH won’t do TOT so when we got there I grabbed a fast past for myself and we headed to the standby line of RnR which was 30 minutes. Now back in the day I used to ride all these wild rides all the time with no issues. I’ve been in denial that I can’t ride them like I used to. We finised RnR and quite frankly I felt naseaus and yucky. But I was not going to let my 37 year old body tell my 18 year old mind that I couldn’t handle it!!! I soldiered on. Stopped for a popcicle in hopes that might make me feel better. I headed to TOT alone and walked right on with my FP. It was good, but the 37 year old body was winning the fight against the 18 year old brain, and I felt like crap. Ughhhhh. We headed to the bus and waited what seemed like forever, especially since there were 2 scooters that needed to board when the bus did finally arrive, and it took like an extra 20 minutes. We finally got back to the hotel about 4pm. I laid down immediately and did not move for 45 minutes. The cool air of the air conditioning and the not moving helped, thankfully.

We changed and headed out the door for dinner. We had notADR tonight, as MIL loves sports and wanted to go to ESPN club. I was not that excited about this because I could care less about sports, but we went there for her.

MIL at ESPN club

Things got off to a bad start when they sat us at a high top table that was totally uneven and rocked all over the place. I was sure one of the kids would rock it and spill something. They did not have another table to give us. OK. We ordered and appetizer and drinks and things were going good. We got our dinners and after we ate the kids were getting restless and so I took them over to the arcade next to the ESPN Club while DH, MIL and FIL watched the Red Sox game. After a little while we went back to the table and apparently the waitress had forgotten about us and had not reappeared with the bill for sometime. MIL took the kids outside and we waited for the waitress. She finally came back and because we had 2 diffferent meal plans. (MIL and FIL on one and the rest of us on the other) we had to have the bill separated. Now other restaurants had no problem with this thus far. But this waitress just couldn’t get it. She came back and told us we had no Kid meals left. Impossible I told her, we had only ate out twice so far! We asked for a manager to check it out. She finally came back and said it was all set. We left and I as looked at the receipt it said we had only 8 adult TS meals left. 8? We had a total of 16 since we were there for eight night, we had ate at a TS restaurant only 3 times so that wold be six used and 10 left. I deceided to deal with it with a concierage at the hotel since the ESPN club didn’t know what they were doing. We headed to Epcot.

DD and DS at Epcot

It was a beautful night to walk around WS. A great breeze and not cold at all. DD wanted to ride the Three Cabrello’s again, so we stopped there before heading towards the exit. I wanted to stay for Illuminations, but with DS fear of anything loud, this was not going to be possible. We got to the bus just as they were started. On the bus back home, that nasuseas feeling I had earlier in the day and I wanted off the bus bad by the time we got to the hotel. I headed to talk with the concierage about the TS meal mixup. Come to find out, the ESPN club had deducted 4 adult meals from us, and 2 adult meals from MIL and FIL. The CM fixed it and were b ack to 10 adult meals again. I headed back to the room and we all crashed, ready for a day of swimming at Typhoon Lagoon tomorrow!

Day 5- Water, water everywhere!