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Drive Like The Wind, Bullseye!!
INTRO
Hello everyone!!
We are home from another fabulous Spring Break Disney Trip. As usual, we had a great time and I can’t wait to tell you all about it.
Here is the Who, What, Why and Where …..
Who:
Crane family
Me – my name is Susan. 49 years old. Irrigation designer and seamstress. I am the main Disney fanatic of this group with DD as a close second. I am basically the most unphotogenic person alive, so I don’t have a lot of photos of myself. Here is proof.
DH – his name is Jerry. He turned 64 on this trip. He is in management at a Chemical company. He acts like going on these trips is the worst thing ever, but once we get there he always has a great time. I just have to get him in the right mindset to go.
DS and the girlfriend. DS is 17 and will be 18 soon and the GF is 18. I will mostly refer to them as the big kids and they pretty much did their own thing while on this trip. They would meet up with us for dinners and things, but otherwise, they had their own fast passes and even a table service or two all to themselves. They seemed to enjoy themselves.
DD – Her name is Hannah and she is 14. On this trip she took a lot of her own photos and I will share them with you as they are much better than mine. She took some great ones. She was allowed more freedom during this trip. She stayed in the same park as us, but was allowed to venture off on her own for a short while to explore what she wanted and we will see that in her photos. This goofy girl. Most of the time it is tough to get good photos of her. Here is a decent one
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She makes me smile
What and Why: Spring Break Disney Trip. This is something we have been doing every year since 2009. It is always busy during Spring Break, but it really is the best time for our family to go. With the kids’ school schedules and work schedules, it is just almost always the perfect time. We just pack our patience expecting large crowds and go with the flow. We have lived in South Carolina for decades and due to a recent change in my husband’s career, we now live in Corpus Christi, Texas. DH is starting up a chemical plant here and he has been working a lot and has been under a lot of stress. He tried to get me to cancel the trip, but I refused. I needed it and so did he. He was worried that the start up schedule for the new plant would interfere with our trip, but at just 19 days before we left – WHEW!! – he was cleared to go. Thank goodness there was a construction delay in the project. DH really needed to get away, so we were all so happy that he could come.
Where: We are DVC members, so this time we were able to snag a 1 bedroom villa at Bay Lake Tower. We LOVED this resort and the convenience to Magic Kingdom allowed the kids to head over to there almost every night on their own and close down the park and then have an easy walk back to the resort.
Since we just bought a (very lovely) brand new house, DH refused to allow me to spend even more money on plane tickets and insisted upon driving. From South Carolina, it was an easy 7-8 hours. From Corpus Christi, Texas, google maps said it was 16-17 hours, but with traffic and stops it was more like 19 - UGH.
DH drove straight through on the way there and on the way back. He used to work shift work, so staying up all night driving is something that isn’t too difficult for him. I’m still super impressed by it. When we moved here, I had to stop and spend the night on the way. I just couldn’t do the drive straight through. Thus, the trip report name – Drive Like The Wind Bullseye. It was a long drive and it was agonizing at times, but I would do it again to visit our happy place. Haha – I will push harder for plane tickets next time though.
I booked this trip at 7 months out when we had just moved here to Texas and I found out the dates for Spring Break when I registered the kids for their new schools. We sold our house last April and we were given 3 weeks to move out as the new owners needed to be in the house by April 28, 2016. DH had already been living in Texas for several months already, so I was dealing with everything. Renovating the house, getting it on the market, dealing with my own job and two sullen teenagers who were NOT happy about moving halfway across the country.
After we sold our house we had 6 weeks remaining in the school year, so the kids and I moved in with my wonderful sister until school was over. We shipped all of our stuff to Texas where DH had an apartment for us that we would live in while our new house was being built. We left for Texas when the kids got out of school and finally moved in to our new house in August, 2016. So, we lived in FOUR different places last year and we ALL needed a fun vacation. The kind of vacation that being in the Disney bubble provides.
We purchased the dining plan and I will be doing a dining report as well. I will post links to it here so you see what and where we ate.
I hope you all will follow along on our adventures and please do stop in and say hello if you can!!
First up - The much maligned Chef Mickey's and breakfast at Contempo Cafe!!
INTRO
Hello everyone!!
We are home from another fabulous Spring Break Disney Trip. As usual, we had a great time and I can’t wait to tell you all about it.
Here is the Who, What, Why and Where …..
Who:
Crane family
Me – my name is Susan. 49 years old. Irrigation designer and seamstress. I am the main Disney fanatic of this group with DD as a close second. I am basically the most unphotogenic person alive, so I don’t have a lot of photos of myself. Here is proof.
DH – his name is Jerry. He turned 64 on this trip. He is in management at a Chemical company. He acts like going on these trips is the worst thing ever, but once we get there he always has a great time. I just have to get him in the right mindset to go.
DS and the girlfriend. DS is 17 and will be 18 soon and the GF is 18. I will mostly refer to them as the big kids and they pretty much did their own thing while on this trip. They would meet up with us for dinners and things, but otherwise, they had their own fast passes and even a table service or two all to themselves. They seemed to enjoy themselves.
DD – Her name is Hannah and she is 14. On this trip she took a lot of her own photos and I will share them with you as they are much better than mine. She took some great ones. She was allowed more freedom during this trip. She stayed in the same park as us, but was allowed to venture off on her own for a short while to explore what she wanted and we will see that in her photos. This goofy girl. Most of the time it is tough to get good photos of her. Here is a decent one
[/URL]But most of the time, I get this.
[/URL]Or this
[/URL]She makes me smile
What and Why: Spring Break Disney Trip. This is something we have been doing every year since 2009. It is always busy during Spring Break, but it really is the best time for our family to go. With the kids’ school schedules and work schedules, it is just almost always the perfect time. We just pack our patience expecting large crowds and go with the flow. We have lived in South Carolina for decades and due to a recent change in my husband’s career, we now live in Corpus Christi, Texas. DH is starting up a chemical plant here and he has been working a lot and has been under a lot of stress. He tried to get me to cancel the trip, but I refused. I needed it and so did he. He was worried that the start up schedule for the new plant would interfere with our trip, but at just 19 days before we left – WHEW!! – he was cleared to go. Thank goodness there was a construction delay in the project. DH really needed to get away, so we were all so happy that he could come.
Where: We are DVC members, so this time we were able to snag a 1 bedroom villa at Bay Lake Tower. We LOVED this resort and the convenience to Magic Kingdom allowed the kids to head over to there almost every night on their own and close down the park and then have an easy walk back to the resort.
Since we just bought a (very lovely) brand new house, DH refused to allow me to spend even more money on plane tickets and insisted upon driving. From South Carolina, it was an easy 7-8 hours. From Corpus Christi, Texas, google maps said it was 16-17 hours, but with traffic and stops it was more like 19 - UGH.
DH drove straight through on the way there and on the way back. He used to work shift work, so staying up all night driving is something that isn’t too difficult for him. I’m still super impressed by it. When we moved here, I had to stop and spend the night on the way. I just couldn’t do the drive straight through. Thus, the trip report name – Drive Like The Wind Bullseye. It was a long drive and it was agonizing at times, but I would do it again to visit our happy place. Haha – I will push harder for plane tickets next time though.
I booked this trip at 7 months out when we had just moved here to Texas and I found out the dates for Spring Break when I registered the kids for their new schools. We sold our house last April and we were given 3 weeks to move out as the new owners needed to be in the house by April 28, 2016. DH had already been living in Texas for several months already, so I was dealing with everything. Renovating the house, getting it on the market, dealing with my own job and two sullen teenagers who were NOT happy about moving halfway across the country.
After we sold our house we had 6 weeks remaining in the school year, so the kids and I moved in with my wonderful sister until school was over. We shipped all of our stuff to Texas where DH had an apartment for us that we would live in while our new house was being built. We left for Texas when the kids got out of school and finally moved in to our new house in August, 2016. So, we lived in FOUR different places last year and we ALL needed a fun vacation. The kind of vacation that being in the Disney bubble provides.
We purchased the dining plan and I will be doing a dining report as well. I will post links to it here so you see what and where we ate.
I hope you all will follow along on our adventures and please do stop in and say hello if you can!!
First up - The much maligned Chef Mickey's and breakfast at Contempo Cafe!!
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