First Time To Disney In July? Are We CRAZY!? YEP! !!PICS!! .. *NEW* ~PAGE 3!!!~ 8/17

[disney0704]

Hey everyone!! You probably don't know me because I;ve been a lurker for a whileish, i had another username but i forgot the password, so i made a new one!! Anyway, the week after the 4th my family went to disney for the first time... I'll give you a little history ...

I have been obsessed with Disney since birth, as is everyone. I grew up with the Lion King, and the Great Mouse Detective, and Peter Pan, all the classics =] In 4th grade, I stumbled across the Unofficial Guide to WDW and have been obsessed ever since, reading each edition cover to cover every year. I watched every travel channel special, food network special, discovered disboards and read all the trip reports dreaming about writing my own! haha. I WAS CRAZY in 7th grade i printed out a 34 page itenerary for my mom complete with hotel and restaurants!! Yupp!!

Sooo ooh i like all these colors. OKAY

On Easter, I'm a junior in high school, me and my brother and sister go to our easter baskets get candy blahdy blah. and then we see our little toys that we used to play with everyday in our easter baskets. Mine had my Nala, my sister's had Belle, and my brother's had mickey. I think my sister said "cute mom, we're not 5 anymore."

My parents just shook their heads and were like...umm think a LITTLE HARDER

I just gasped and then we all screamed and jumped up and down for a good hour and i called all my friends and was estatic for well... UNTILL THE TRIP BASICALLY!!

it was a dream come true :]

Okay, Every trip report ive read has been so good, so funny, and im sure I cannot live up to all of them, but im gonna try!!! So here we go! sorry no pictures so far! They'll come later!!

INDEX
part one: history & introduction //page 1
part two: meet the cast //page 1
part three: the PLAN // page 1
part four: DAY ONE // page 1​

part five: DAY TWO & THREE [North Carolina & South Carolina] // page 2
part six: ARRIVING AT DISNEYY!! FINALLY!! // page 3! ​

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[flipturngirl]

OH!!! Yah! I am in! it is good! I am glad another teen is doing a trip report! I would be so excited if that happened to me!

 

[disney0704]

Okieee... Now you get to meet all of usss!!

FIRST OFF, i had pictures! but i guess my post count is too low? BRB IM GONNA GO POST LIKE CRAZY!! How many do i need?

Haley 16, aka ME. Im the complete disney FREAK of the family. You see that in the first post haha. I love sports, my friends, hanging out, and lots of other stuff. I basically planned the entire vacation! =] I am a go go go type person and hate just sitting around and being lazy, hence i had a EMH bracelet EVERY night. mmmhmmm thats right!!

Lily 15, aka. MY SISTER. she loves disney too. but shed rather go to the hotel at night and call her boyfriend then keep going all night long. but still mucho excited that its our first time in disney! We're so close in age, that we're like really close as well =]

Brady 10, aka. MY BROTHER. wasnt estatic about going to disney. youll see if his mind changes! maybeee maybe not. picky eater. can get really annoying when hes tired. wants to have his way. 24/7 not really into the whole disney character cutesy stuff :[ argh. boys.

Dad no comment, hes like me. wants to keep going and going. hes not a typical guy in the least. he loves disney haha. hes goofy and very very outgoing and friendly. very goofy. and VERY EMBARASSING.

Mommmy ditto, loves crowds, heat, and constant activity. NOT. honestly, my mom wanted to go to a florida beach and lay out everyday. She didnt complain that much, but crowds and stress.. not her thing at all. ;] Which is good i guess, cause she had no problem taking the cranky brother and boyfriend crazy sister to the hotel at night.

ps. how can i make it so i dont have to upload all the pictures to photobucket. takes forever!!

so thatsss us

next installment = our itinerary and plans.

come on, i know you can hardly sit in your chair, right?

hopefully more people will start following this! haha. maybe? *crickets chirp*

 

[rushing]

I'm looking forward to your report.

 

[disney0704]

OKAY YAY I CAN ADD PICS NOW.
you can see pictures of myself, lily and brady!

 

[TnkrBoo]

I WAS CRAZY in 7th grade i printed out a 34 page itenerary for my mom complete with hotel and restaurants!! Yupp!!

That's insane! You really do love disney! I can't for your report to start!

 

[disney0704]

hahaha you have no idea my mom always told me to calm down and find other interests haha

 

[disney0704]

THE PLAN

OKay. We live all the way in good ol freezing cold Massachusetts. So of course we would fly to Florida, right? Yeahhhh NOPE. We decide to drive! All of oh you know 20 hours! Don't worry, it wasn't so bad. We left on July 4th and planned to check in on July 8th so.. we made lots of stops. Here's our itinerary!

Day One Leave, spend the night in Washington DC visit my aunt and her day old newborn baby!

Day 2 Drive to lovely North Carolina and college visit [of course had to sneak some of that into our trip!] Duke and UNC! spend night in North Carolina!

Day 3 Drive to South Carolina See Fort Sumtner [gag me and then shoot me in the face] and have dinner in Chahhhhhhlston with some friends!

Day 4 Drive to Savannagh, eat in Paula Deens Restaurant and spend one night there!!

and then drumroll... FINALLY

Day 5 FINALLY ARRIVE AT PORT ORLEANS RESORT IN THE AFTERNOON and relax by the pool for the day [ or so we thought ]

Day 6 FIRST DAY AT DISNEY. EPCOT. and EMH at MK :] maybe? ADRs at L'Oringale blah blah

Day 7 SECOND DAY AT DISNEY. MGM STUDIOS. fantasmic that night =] and ADRs at 50s prime time!

DAY 8 THIRD DAY AT DISNEY. MAGIC KINGDOM. ADRs at Concourse Steakhouse!

DAY 9 LAST DAY IN DISNEY Animal Kingdom. ADRs in BoMa. Day 10 The drive home begins.

all this was planned by yours truly. with the unofficial guidebook in one hand, and the disboards in the other hand. [well, sort of]

DID EVERYTHING GO AS PLANNED? DID WE REALLY DRIVE FROM MASS. TO DISNEY?

find out next time!

dundundun

 

[zigzagzerr]

We ate at Paula Deen's with my daughter's girl scout troop in May -- thought it was awesome!

Hope you had a wonderful trip!!!!

 

[scottny]

Ooh paula Deens' I would love to go there. Port Orleans was great i got there the day u left.

Sounds like a great plan cannot wait to read the rest.

 

[wdwgirl03]

Great start! Can't wait to hear what you thought of Disney World!!!

 

[disney0704]

zigzagger. that was our plan to go there! we didnt know you had to line up at 2 o clock for dinner! it was so busy! [didnt help we were there on a saturday!] but i wish went!

scotty ny thats so cool how you got there as we were leaving. maybe we bumped into each other haha!

wdwgirl ohh you just wait

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Sounds like your trip is off to a great start. I love all the cities that you are visiting on your drive down and of course I love Disney World! I hope you include info on your journey to the world as that is half the fun. Here on the DIS we like to know every single little detail Can't wait to hear all about your trip!

 

[Donald is #1]

So let's see --- 5 people x 1 car x 4 days ???

 

[disney0704]

DAY ONE.

driving! So it's July 4th and we get up at the crack of dawn [6 am] to leave for our vacation. My moms so excited she grabs my camera and takes a picture of all of us. Too bad some of us don't like getting photographed at 6 in the morning... ahem. ME

look at him go, watching a movie, and playing gameboy.

Lily looking happpy to be on our wayyy

Me-? It's 6 am! oh and that bracelet looks SO MUCH like an EMH bracelet! but we had a 4th of July Party thing before, where you had to wear bracelets to go see the concert thing. but when i was looking at this i was like OMG EMH BRACELET! =]

Daddy Dearest, our driver

Okay so basically we drove ALLLL MORNING. stopped for lunch, OH funny story! So my best friend left on vacation the same day as us. They're going to South Carolina, we were like OMG what if we see each other! So when we get lunch, in this random rest stop! there's their family! A random rest stop in Maryland! sooo weird! We made plans later to meet up for dinner! But it was so strange seeing them!

Anyway. We arrived at my aunts house in DC --> To see her newborn baby! born a couple days before!

Isn't she precious?

Lily and her! =]

Then we just hung out with our aunt and baby and her one year old sister all afternoon / went out to dinner that night cause we would be leaving in the morning to see North Carolina ;]

 

[disney0704]

lifelong dreamer yahh i loved charleston and savanagh! i was born in DC so we go there allll the time! but yeah I'm going day by day

donald oh boy we all absolutely loved each other by the end. NOT.
it was... difficult, lots of bonding time! the ride there --> not so bad. but after we finished disney and were driving home. complete and utter H***

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Your new cousin is beautiful! How funny is that to run into your friends family. What are the chances?

 

[Trevor797]

Hey there
Great trip report!!!! Makes me even more excited for my trip in october.
3 Weeks in the wildernes lodge.
Might i say me and fiance think you are very cute.
Cheers
trev

 

[disney100666]

this is great, your cousin is so cute!

 

[disney0704]

Your new cousin is beautiful! How funny is that to run into your friends family. What are the chances?

I know it's so weird!! We were just like, OMG for the next 2 hours of the carride. isnt she adorable =] ?

Hey there
Great trip report!!!! Makes me even more excited for my trip in october.
3 Weeks in the wildernes lodge.
Might i say me and fiance think you are very cute.
Cheers
trev

3 weeks! you lucky duck awe. that's so nice! i can't wait to read yours. aka. YOU BETTER MAKE ONE =]

this is great, your cousin is so cute!

awee shes so cute!

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