Friends, Alcohol, and Romance?? **The Finale!!!!

"It's a Race...and a hard flight home"

I will apologize now that there are now pictures. I have no idea why, I know we went to MGM that day and we did so much in so little time that we didn't have time to take pictures! But a little treat...although this is the last day for this trip, my report does not end here....

Our last day, so sad :sad1: . But we were going to make it a good one. We had a late flight so we packed up and then headed to MGM!!! I really do love the Magic Kingdom, but all the thrill rides and movie stuff make MGM sooo great. Our top priorities were Tower of Terror and Rock N Roller Coaster. They would be a first for all!!! Julia skipped out on ToT, didn't like the whole drop you into now where idea and she wanted to get some shopping in. But we all loved it!!! :love: Same goes for RnR!! Being so pressed for time, that is all we got to do.

But we had learned our lessons about ADRs so the night before we made one for Mama Melrose's. It was so fun! Kind of one last hurrahh before we had to head home. I even tried calamari :sick: didn't like that too well! It was just a great meal.

Then came the sad part...we had to go home. I never am ready to leave the World, especially after so short a time. But we had to all get home for that Thanksgiving family thing. :goodvibes At least we didn't have to go straight back to school!!!

Andy and I managed to get two seats alone on the plane so we could discuss our predicament (sp??) and wallow in our own self pity! :rotfl: It really was a horrible flight home, we were at an impass. I had been in my relationship for 4 years and he had been in his for 7! That isn't something you just end on a wim.

When we landed in St. Louis, most of us said our goodbye's (all but three of us lived in St. Louis). So us remaining three went to stay at my grandmothers since it was too late to drive back home. And again Andy and I spent time just sitting and making no headway. It was tough especially since we just had to turn right around and go home to our sig. others and be apart for 5 days. While a difficult thing to do, it was a good thing - we were getting no where talking it over together.

So, we did just that..went home the next morning seperately. I must say it was the worst Thanksgiving break. We hadn't cheated but just felt wrong, ya know. This wasn't something that was just going to go away...which it didn't and there is still so much more to go.....

Well, that was my trip. We had a blast, I say go with a big group of friends if you ever get the chance!!! :grouphug: I love the World. It had been way too long since I had gone, the most recent before being 1992!!! And believe me, I have been back and plan on going back much more!
 
Ok, so it doesn't end there...WE WANT MORE!!
 
aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!! please please finish up the whole andy and sig others problem!!!! you can't leave us hanging here!!! what happened, how did you work through it all, and where are you at now!!!!
cliff hangers worse then hangovers you can drink your hangover away!!!
 
:rotfl: Okay, okay. I will give you a little more. Well, Thanksgiving sucked. The family part was great, but...you can understand.

And then we had to go back to school. I don't know which was worse. :confused: This whole feeling and what are we going to do went on for quite a while. We though we were so sneaky...HA! everyone knew something was brewing...we had become quite the celebrities of our school. :rotfl:
Still, we wouldn't believe it. We stuck with our sig. others and pretended everything was just peachy. The craziest thing was we each new the sig. others! We even went to parties together (they both lived out of town, but we always saw them) We all even managed to get a long...
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I don't know how we made it. The worst was new year's eve 2003. We had planned this before the Disney trip and had already paid for it, so we were stuck. Us two couples, and three other friends did a whole night on the town party at a hotel in Kansas City. It could have been sooo much fun, but instead of deal with it, I just drank it :drinking1 ...whoa I have never been so miserable! I ended up getting sick :sick: and literaly bawling the whole night. Not a pretty sight. Needless to say, I have never again drank this much!
So this had gone on from about Nov 22 until late January...it was crazy! Well, that about summed it up for us. We had to do something. Soon after that Andy split up with his girlfriend and about two weeks later I got up the courage to do the same. I so am not good at confrontation! We ended our little charade and became a real couple.
To justify it to ourselves we say that Andy was really just staying with her because that had been for so long and she needed him (true actually) and me and mine were going to have problems soon because I had to leave home for graduate school. He is small town and did not want to move. It all worked out for the better! Can you believe he had no desire what so ever to go to Disney World!!! What had I been thinking? :confused3 :rotfl:

So fast forward to late March 2004! I got to go back to the World!!!! :banana: Yep, hadn't had enough, so I talked Andy and two friends into going back. The only downer was staying offsite (we're poor college kids). And wouldn't you know it, Andy and I did it right this time...No crying involved.
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This trip was even better!! We had three full days in the park. We did Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and MGM. We saw all the fireworks rode ToT and RnR tons of times. Can you believe that Andy doesn't like Roller Coasters, but that he rides them just for me? :lovestruc Andy and I stayed an extra day and hung out at the pool and DTD! It was so great.

Keep on reading, there is more to come.
 

YAY! So glad you guys are finally a couple.

Hopefully things are working out great for the two of you. Please give us an update.
 
ok ok that is a bit better......except for the part where you left us HANGING again!!!!!!!!

glad that you and andy did finally come to terms with the (now) x's. i think at that age and in that situation, i would have had the same new years eve.

on another note.........the bangs are much better in the '04 pic!!!

i want to thank you for sharing your story with hopless romantic dissers. what could be better then this.......a trip report with pics, and a love :love: story!!


now on to the rest PLEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps tell andy hi, and what a guy on the coaster deal!
 
Okay, I admit, I've been sucked in. Inquiring minds want to know.
 
okay..you guys are really impatient...HA Just kidding. :rotfl:

Well, fast forward through the next year. We both graduated in May 2004! Whoo hoo. It was great, but oddly I miss college! Andy and I were still going strong - it's really kind of sappy, we never fought and totally got along. :cloud9:
I moved to Kansas City for grad school...which surprise surprise is where Andy works! HA. It was a great year. We were inseperable, except at night, cause we were good and did not live together - boy was that hard!!! We had dinner everynight together, and went on trips and to Chiefs games...very blissfull.

Then comes December...Andy and I were going to Las Vegas!!!! We had purchased the trip in early August and were so excited. Really not big gamblers...I just wanted to see the Bellagio fountain. We had decided to exchange gifts there, because when we got back I was going home to spend the holidays with my parents. So, our plane lands and there is a guy waiting to pick us up...Andy got us a limo! I had never been in one. Very cool. When we got to the Rio, we waited a bit and finally got our room. Up we went, and literally not five minutes later, Andy was like.."Let's open gifts". I'm like..."Okay, I didn't get you much" (why in the heck is he so excited). We had said we weren't going to do much.
He open's mine...a hat he had been wanting. Then he hands me mine. It's in a necklace size box, very nicely wrapped. So I open it and I think..oh a pretty necklace. Then I notice that Andy is down on one knee...And wait there is a ring on the necklace. What!! I get all shaky.. :rotfl: and then Andy asks me "Will you do me the honor and be my wife?" Heck Yeah! (duh..like he thought I would say no! :goodvibes ) We then had to call everybody we knew..my parents first. They knew already cause he had asked for their blessing. He had been planning this for months! Isn't he just precious.
The rest of the trip was great. We gambled a bit..actually broke even, saw the fountains, and took a tour of Hoover Dam. One of our better trips.
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Well, now we (and by that I mean I) had a lot of work to do. I am sure you get the gist of what happened next (as lucky aready knows :) ). But I'll inform you next and show pics!!!
 
Aw, I'm loving this thread! It has to be the best trip report ever.... Congratulations, Froggy! Now let's see some wedding pics!!
 
I promise wedding info will be up later tonight or tomorrow morning! Thanks to everyone for paying attention. It has been fun to write!
 
i knew it i knew it i knew it!!!!!!!!!! :cool1:
can't wait for the wedding info and the pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :goodvibes


don't you just love happy endings????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????
 
HEHEHE!! Thanks, Froggy, for taking the pressure off me. I did a search on your name and found some posts you had written about your "DH", Andy.

Congrats! And I hope you enjoy your upcoming trip!
 
Oh wow, I love happy endings. This is a fantastic meant to be story and you two are gorgeous together. I can't wait to see the photos. Gotta know though, did you honeymoon at WDW? :flower:

Congratulations and much pixie dust for the future,
Claire xx
 












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