mom2taylorandemily
Not so patiently waiting our next trip to Disney..
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- Jun 14, 2006
Wow! Everytime I turn around time just slips away from me! Today was a Holiday for us and our kids, but it is also my the day my daddy would have celebrated his 85th Birthday, but unfortunately my daddy lost his battle with a very agressive form of cancer 2 years ago. Its so hard to believe he's been gone that long. He lived such a wonderful life. He loved Disney too! He actually loved Epcot, he said he could spend a day in every country pavillion, and never go anywhere else in the world and he'd be happy. Oh well, lets see if I can get back to my mini TR from Dec.
When I left off, I'd just finished Taylor's Birthday Dinner. And Saturday, Dec. 5th was our down day. We slept late, had breakfast at POFQ, then strolled over to POR. We wanted to see if it was a resort we might like to stay at, it was very nice and we even thought it might be where our next "try it and see if you like it" resort. Both DDs decided to go swimming, I don't know why, it was cold. The water was freezing, I think that they turned the heaters off on the pools (it was really cold at POFQ too!).
But they said that they were fine, so we gave them directions on when we wanted them back at POFQ and DH and I headed out to DTD for lunch and some shopping. We ate at Earl's and it was wonderful as usual!!! I picked out some souvies and stuff for the girls for Christmas then we went back to POFQ and the girls had come in showered, dressed and left us a note that they were in the Arcade, burning up those cards that they got with our package. Then went over to Wilderness Lodge for dinner. Well that was the experience from H***! Our ADR was for 5:00, we showed up at 4:45 and checked in. A few minutes later we were seated and told our server was "Bob". Terrific, so we start to look at our menus and we wait for "Bob", 15 minutes later, still no show. Tables all around us are being visited by their server and getting drinks and ordering their meals. Finally "Bob" showed up, he was slurring his words, tried to write our drink orders with a crayon, and finally figured out he had a Sharpie. He then fumbled with that! He couldn't even quote the Milkshake order properly, he added a few that we knew made no sense. We gave our drink order and he walked off to go get them. We wait another 5 minutes or so, and he comes back and forgot he had taken our order already? HUH? Whats up with this dude? DH and I just keep looking at each other absolutely puzzled, we can only assume he's having a medical condition or he's drunk or stoned! He then comes back again, to take our order again and still has no drinks, then tries to take our meal order. When he left the table that time, I was worried about what we were going to eat that night, so DH decided to talk to a manager. The next thing we see is the Manager come out of an office up front and our server follow her to the front and then he comes out and tells his buddy he is being sent home. So, they then send over another server, who is already stretched but we had to be taken care of, only to find out 30 minutes into our evening, no orders for us had ever been turned in, no drinks made and meals not ordered. So, we had to start all over. We didn't mind re-doing it, but it sure has left a bad taste in our mouth for WCC. We won't go there again, that was quite the experience. We were rushed, once they got to us, and our evening was just not what we expected. After that was over, we finally went back to the resort and hung out, had a cocktail and regrouped for tomorrow. Maybe it will be better. This is DDs in WL:
We got up and headed straight over to DHS, we wanted breakfast at Starring Rolls. We started off the day with a trip to TSM as usual!!!! This our favorite thing to do at DHS!!! We walked around, saw Indy, the DDs rode Star Wars, then we at lunch at Pizza Planet. We have read reviews about this place, but we loved it there. The Pizza and Caprese Salad is fantastic. Anyway, we enjoyed it, and then let the kids ride TOT and RRC, and DH and I headed over to Beauty and the Beast. I love this show, it very good. The girls got done with their rides and met us. When we left here, we decided we'd head back to resort to get some laundry done and maybe start putting some stuff in bags to go home, and get our box started to ship back home. We had dinner at Cape May that night, and they had crab legs on the buffet. We loved this meal!!! This is Taylor with her Birthday Dessert!
After, we went to DHS for the Osborne Lights and EMHs. We also wanted to go the the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Dance Party and see the characters.
We left the park around 10:00 and went straight to bed, we were exhausted.
The next day we headed back to MK. So, we had breakfast again at Main Street (as its our favorite place for breakfast). Today started off great, first we headed for Fantasyland and we saw Alice and Rabbit. We've never met the Rabbit before so we made sure to get in line for them.
Then we let the girls each pick out a ride that they both wanted to ride and we did those. As we were walking along, we see that McScrooge Duck was out, and again, we've never seen him either, so we went over to see him and as luck would have it, the CM said we may not make it, he's going in for a break but we'll see. Oh, we really wanted a picture here!! Well we made it:
Then we walked on into Liberty Square and we had seen the River Boat show the other day, but we wanted to see if we could meet Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen, so we had to ask where they were seeing people and we got in line, we were 3rd OH YAY!!!!
Then we walked on over to Splash Mtn., in all the trips we gone, the girls have never ridden this ride. It's either been down for refurb or they've had to close for some problem or another, or its been too cold to ride, so we made sure we rode. It was so nice, we barely got wet!!! But as we got off, we saw Woody and Jessie doing a Meet and Greet and we've never seen Jessie, so guess what we got in line for that too!!!
This day turned out to be a good day in the park for us. We got to have autographs and photos with characters we've never seen. It was wonderful!!
We decided to go and take a break and let the girls swim a little and really start the packing process. We ship a box down with stuff, so we always try to send some stuff home that we wont' need the rest of the week so it literally meets us at home the day after we get home. It has worked really well for us to do this for the past 3 years. We had dinner at Ohana that night, and we were going to go back to MK for Wishes, but I wasn't feeling well. I'd been on an antibiotic for a sinus infection during our trip and I wasn't staying well hydrated, and I felt like I was going to pass out, so we decided to go on back to POFQ. The girls were a bit bummed but they knew I wouldn't cancel if I didn't really feel bad, so they were ok.
This day turned out to be the best day of our trip!!! We got breakfast and headed out to Epcot. The girls had been looking forward to this day all week. They had gotten to try Kim Possible during our last trip and we promised them that they could spend the whole day doing every mission that they could do. Well, we rode Test Track 1st thing, then once 11:00 hit, they were off. We told them to keep the phone handy incase we called. We decided to hit as many pavillions as we could. Then when we got to the American Pavillion, we noticed that Santa was there after 1:30, it was then about 12:15, so we were going to call the kids and tell them to come on for lunch and then we'd get in line for Santa. As I was calling the kids, DH began talking to a CM and as I hung up, he says "Honey would you like to meet the lady that was Tiana's voice in the movie?" OMG!!! Are you kidding me, I had just seen her on Good Morning America and thought she was fabulous!!!! Yes, I want to meet her!!! So, we called the girls back and told them to hurry, we had to get a bracelet to get in her line, she was going to be there at 1:30. So, they show up, we all got bracelets, then we had lunch. We finished and got in line, as we were waiting DH went into the store at the pavillion and bought both DDs the story book and me Tiana's Cookbook for autographs. We got pictures with her and she spent so much time with my DDs, she was wonderful!!
She and my DD Emily have since we came home been chatting through FaceBook. It is unbelieveable. We had such a Magical Experience with her! It truely made our trip memorable.
Then we continued on to the various pavillions and we met Marie, another we've never seen before!
We had dinner that night at Nine Dragons. We will never eat here again, the food was mediocre at best. The kids hated it, and the service was awful. This was our last full day of the trip and it sure was memorable. The good stuff far outweighed the bad. We left while Illuminations was going on. We got on the bus and went back to the resort to pack up for the next day.
We got up early, took our bags to Bell Svc. and headed out to AK. We an ADR for breakfast, but DH began to have an allergic reaction to something he had eaten in the last 24 hours. He got his medicine in him, but he was not feeling good at all. So, we got to the Tusker House, ate and then his medicine started to kick in, he was sleepy and both girls wanted to ride EE. So, I sent them on to EE and I sat with DH on a bench over near Camp Minnie Mickey to wait on DDs so we can see FOLK. Well, as they started to come near us, I woke DH up and we got up to head over to FOLK. DH had taken his bag off and hung it on the bench, and in his drugged state forgot he put it there, and we walked off. When he realized it, it had been about 15 minutes since we walked away. It had his $$, phone, camera (with all our photos on it) and most importantly, his ID to get on the plane in 4 hours. We went into a panic, we went back to the bench, it was gone. Now real panic sets in, he's upset, the kids are upset. I pick up my phone and call it. Well while I'm calling his number, my mom is calling me, I ignore it. I'm talking to a person who identifies himself as a CM who has DH's bag!!! Oh YAY!!! In the mean time, my mom then calls DD and tells her, that a CM has DHs bag!! HUH!!???? How does she know that? Well, the CM called the ICE and my brother is the person on the list, so he called my mom because he was in a blizzard in Maine!!! Needless to say thanks to a whole bunch of people we were able to get DHs bag back and everything was in it!!!!!!!! We left AK and went to DTD to have lunch at Earl's and finish shopping to go home. We had a very eventful trip. It was met with happiness, fear and frustration! Will we ever stay at POFQ again, probably not, its just not for us. It was nice enough, but not our place, we just like CBR better.
That leads me into our next trip in Aug. 2010, we originally booked it as a Bounce Back and staying at POFQ for 10 nights and now we don't want to stay there, so heres hoping that they'll let us change it to CBR and keep our Free Dining!!!
Thanks for reading if you made it through this. We had a good trip, but we were ready to go home. I'll update on our progress for our Aug. trip in the next installment.
Mary
When I left off, I'd just finished Taylor's Birthday Dinner. And Saturday, Dec. 5th was our down day. We slept late, had breakfast at POFQ, then strolled over to POR. We wanted to see if it was a resort we might like to stay at, it was very nice and we even thought it might be where our next "try it and see if you like it" resort. Both DDs decided to go swimming, I don't know why, it was cold. The water was freezing, I think that they turned the heaters off on the pools (it was really cold at POFQ too!).
But they said that they were fine, so we gave them directions on when we wanted them back at POFQ and DH and I headed out to DTD for lunch and some shopping. We ate at Earl's and it was wonderful as usual!!! I picked out some souvies and stuff for the girls for Christmas then we went back to POFQ and the girls had come in showered, dressed and left us a note that they were in the Arcade, burning up those cards that they got with our package. Then went over to Wilderness Lodge for dinner. Well that was the experience from H***! Our ADR was for 5:00, we showed up at 4:45 and checked in. A few minutes later we were seated and told our server was "Bob". Terrific, so we start to look at our menus and we wait for "Bob", 15 minutes later, still no show. Tables all around us are being visited by their server and getting drinks and ordering their meals. Finally "Bob" showed up, he was slurring his words, tried to write our drink orders with a crayon, and finally figured out he had a Sharpie. He then fumbled with that! He couldn't even quote the Milkshake order properly, he added a few that we knew made no sense. We gave our drink order and he walked off to go get them. We wait another 5 minutes or so, and he comes back and forgot he had taken our order already? HUH? Whats up with this dude? DH and I just keep looking at each other absolutely puzzled, we can only assume he's having a medical condition or he's drunk or stoned! He then comes back again, to take our order again and still has no drinks, then tries to take our meal order. When he left the table that time, I was worried about what we were going to eat that night, so DH decided to talk to a manager. The next thing we see is the Manager come out of an office up front and our server follow her to the front and then he comes out and tells his buddy he is being sent home. So, they then send over another server, who is already stretched but we had to be taken care of, only to find out 30 minutes into our evening, no orders for us had ever been turned in, no drinks made and meals not ordered. So, we had to start all over. We didn't mind re-doing it, but it sure has left a bad taste in our mouth for WCC. We won't go there again, that was quite the experience. We were rushed, once they got to us, and our evening was just not what we expected. After that was over, we finally went back to the resort and hung out, had a cocktail and regrouped for tomorrow. Maybe it will be better. This is DDs in WL:
We got up and headed straight over to DHS, we wanted breakfast at Starring Rolls. We started off the day with a trip to TSM as usual!!!! This our favorite thing to do at DHS!!! We walked around, saw Indy, the DDs rode Star Wars, then we at lunch at Pizza Planet. We have read reviews about this place, but we loved it there. The Pizza and Caprese Salad is fantastic. Anyway, we enjoyed it, and then let the kids ride TOT and RRC, and DH and I headed over to Beauty and the Beast. I love this show, it very good. The girls got done with their rides and met us. When we left here, we decided we'd head back to resort to get some laundry done and maybe start putting some stuff in bags to go home, and get our box started to ship back home. We had dinner at Cape May that night, and they had crab legs on the buffet. We loved this meal!!! This is Taylor with her Birthday Dessert!
After, we went to DHS for the Osborne Lights and EMHs. We also wanted to go the the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Dance Party and see the characters.
We left the park around 10:00 and went straight to bed, we were exhausted.
The next day we headed back to MK. So, we had breakfast again at Main Street (as its our favorite place for breakfast). Today started off great, first we headed for Fantasyland and we saw Alice and Rabbit. We've never met the Rabbit before so we made sure to get in line for them.
Then we let the girls each pick out a ride that they both wanted to ride and we did those. As we were walking along, we see that McScrooge Duck was out, and again, we've never seen him either, so we went over to see him and as luck would have it, the CM said we may not make it, he's going in for a break but we'll see. Oh, we really wanted a picture here!! Well we made it:
Then we walked on into Liberty Square and we had seen the River Boat show the other day, but we wanted to see if we could meet Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen, so we had to ask where they were seeing people and we got in line, we were 3rd OH YAY!!!!
Then we walked on over to Splash Mtn., in all the trips we gone, the girls have never ridden this ride. It's either been down for refurb or they've had to close for some problem or another, or its been too cold to ride, so we made sure we rode. It was so nice, we barely got wet!!! But as we got off, we saw Woody and Jessie doing a Meet and Greet and we've never seen Jessie, so guess what we got in line for that too!!!
This day turned out to be a good day in the park for us. We got to have autographs and photos with characters we've never seen. It was wonderful!!
We decided to go and take a break and let the girls swim a little and really start the packing process. We ship a box down with stuff, so we always try to send some stuff home that we wont' need the rest of the week so it literally meets us at home the day after we get home. It has worked really well for us to do this for the past 3 years. We had dinner at Ohana that night, and we were going to go back to MK for Wishes, but I wasn't feeling well. I'd been on an antibiotic for a sinus infection during our trip and I wasn't staying well hydrated, and I felt like I was going to pass out, so we decided to go on back to POFQ. The girls were a bit bummed but they knew I wouldn't cancel if I didn't really feel bad, so they were ok.
This day turned out to be the best day of our trip!!! We got breakfast and headed out to Epcot. The girls had been looking forward to this day all week. They had gotten to try Kim Possible during our last trip and we promised them that they could spend the whole day doing every mission that they could do. Well, we rode Test Track 1st thing, then once 11:00 hit, they were off. We told them to keep the phone handy incase we called. We decided to hit as many pavillions as we could. Then when we got to the American Pavillion, we noticed that Santa was there after 1:30, it was then about 12:15, so we were going to call the kids and tell them to come on for lunch and then we'd get in line for Santa. As I was calling the kids, DH began talking to a CM and as I hung up, he says "Honey would you like to meet the lady that was Tiana's voice in the movie?" OMG!!! Are you kidding me, I had just seen her on Good Morning America and thought she was fabulous!!!! Yes, I want to meet her!!! So, we called the girls back and told them to hurry, we had to get a bracelet to get in her line, she was going to be there at 1:30. So, they show up, we all got bracelets, then we had lunch. We finished and got in line, as we were waiting DH went into the store at the pavillion and bought both DDs the story book and me Tiana's Cookbook for autographs. We got pictures with her and she spent so much time with my DDs, she was wonderful!!
She and my DD Emily have since we came home been chatting through FaceBook. It is unbelieveable. We had such a Magical Experience with her! It truely made our trip memorable.
Then we continued on to the various pavillions and we met Marie, another we've never seen before!
We had dinner that night at Nine Dragons. We will never eat here again, the food was mediocre at best. The kids hated it, and the service was awful. This was our last full day of the trip and it sure was memorable. The good stuff far outweighed the bad. We left while Illuminations was going on. We got on the bus and went back to the resort to pack up for the next day.
We got up early, took our bags to Bell Svc. and headed out to AK. We an ADR for breakfast, but DH began to have an allergic reaction to something he had eaten in the last 24 hours. He got his medicine in him, but he was not feeling good at all. So, we got to the Tusker House, ate and then his medicine started to kick in, he was sleepy and both girls wanted to ride EE. So, I sent them on to EE and I sat with DH on a bench over near Camp Minnie Mickey to wait on DDs so we can see FOLK. Well, as they started to come near us, I woke DH up and we got up to head over to FOLK. DH had taken his bag off and hung it on the bench, and in his drugged state forgot he put it there, and we walked off. When he realized it, it had been about 15 minutes since we walked away. It had his $$, phone, camera (with all our photos on it) and most importantly, his ID to get on the plane in 4 hours. We went into a panic, we went back to the bench, it was gone. Now real panic sets in, he's upset, the kids are upset. I pick up my phone and call it. Well while I'm calling his number, my mom is calling me, I ignore it. I'm talking to a person who identifies himself as a CM who has DH's bag!!! Oh YAY!!! In the mean time, my mom then calls DD and tells her, that a CM has DHs bag!! HUH!!???? How does she know that? Well, the CM called the ICE and my brother is the person on the list, so he called my mom because he was in a blizzard in Maine!!! Needless to say thanks to a whole bunch of people we were able to get DHs bag back and everything was in it!!!!!!!! We left AK and went to DTD to have lunch at Earl's and finish shopping to go home. We had a very eventful trip. It was met with happiness, fear and frustration! Will we ever stay at POFQ again, probably not, its just not for us. It was nice enough, but not our place, we just like CBR better.
That leads me into our next trip in Aug. 2010, we originally booked it as a Bounce Back and staying at POFQ for 10 nights and now we don't want to stay there, so heres hoping that they'll let us change it to CBR and keep our Free Dining!!!
Thanks for reading if you made it through this. We had a good trip, but we were ready to go home. I'll update on our progress for our Aug. trip in the next installment.
Mary
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