From Pop to the Top - Funtastic Adventures in the Summer Sun!

[DWGal210]

Welcome home!!! Can't wait to hear all about it!

 

[shannon47142]

Welcome home!!!

 

[stace208]

Welcome home! I'm glad you had a good trip and I really enjoyed all your FB updates!!

I also really enjoyed getting to meet you guys. I wish it had been for longer!!

I know what you mean about coming back to real life. I came home to a house full of family for the holiday weekend and have two graduate classes that I started for my recertification. I haven't even started my TR yet but do hope to get it up soon--I've been fighting with photobucket, not sure what the trouble there is.

Can't wait to hear all about your trip!

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

Welcome home!

It was such fun to follow along with your trip on facebook. Can't wait for the full report!

 

[Spartangirl]

Welcome home! Can't wait to hear about your trip!

 

[janloz]

Welcome Home to Memom, Jill and family!! Followed your adventures on FB and enjoyed the pictures so much. Cant wait to hear the details.

 

[dancin_princess]

Welcome home!!!! It was a pleasure meeting your family. My dad keeps saying I really like those DIS people. They are some cool folk. (His exact words.)

 

[scottny]

Welcome home

looking forward to you starting.

 

[uncw89]

Welcome home! Can't wait to hear about your trip. Hope I can keep up this time! Between your's and Wigd's, the reports go fast!

 

[brookelizabeth]

Welcome back!!! I really enjoyed what I caught of the updates and pictures on FB!! It looked like, and sounded like, a very magical trip.

I love that Trent just wanted to hang out at the kiddie pool at Pop-just wanted to be with his family and the girls. He's such a good guy, I know you are proud of him!!

 

[twob4him]

Glad you all are home safe and sound.

Jill....I just LOVED your FB updates and pics....the girls are so adorable and it was nice to "go on the trip" with you via pictures!!!

I know you must be tired and have lots to do so I am patiently going to wait for memom pics to fill the next 100 pages of this tr! Yaaaaa~

 

[Native NYer]

Welcome back!
Can't wait to read all about your trip.

 

[CanadianWDWfan]

Morning ladies! Are you still sleeping?

for BrooklynnsMommy's first day back at work. It must have been harder to get going without a park to go to.

I made our countdown callendar yesterday, I'll post pics tonight.

Have a great day!

 

[disneyfan61]

Welcome home!! Cannot wait to see all your pics & hear all about it.

 

[Happy Elf]

Welcome Home! I enjoyed the FB updates! I'm glad you were able to spend some time with Trent.

 

[MeMom]

I hope you guys will be okay with us not going back to respond to each post and just moving on with the report. Jill checked in a couple of times and I did once during the trip. We were very appreciative of all the well wishes, and we are so glad you enjoyed the updates and Facebook pictures along the way. It is a lot of fun to follow along with our friends while they are in WDW, so we are glad to know you felt the same way about joining us.

There were a couple of Mouseketeers that joined us on the trip.

They stayed in the room and just gave periodic updates. With two girls and two strollers and Limpalong, as Jill has so kindly dubbed me, it would have been too hard for us to take Mickey and Minnie to the parks, too.

Jill's bunch arrived here in the mid-afternoon of June 30th. Everything was situated in the car, the girls were put into pajamas in order to put them straight to bed upon arrival at Pop, and we were ready to roll. We opened the door to leave, with Brooklynn leading the way. She was excited and had some bounce in her step as she skipped out the door, only to have my silly cat dart out in front of her and get her off balance. She fell kerplat onto the driveway and almost hit face first into the front of my car. Luckily, she only had a scraped knee, but it was a pretty good scrape. Poor baby and her scraped knees!

After a few minutes with Nurse Jill, she was ready to go again.

In the car, still happy to be going to Disney World, but a little more subdued than pre-crash time.

For those of you who haven't been with us before, her two front teeth were cracked in two separate incidents. They really didn't grow in looking like that. We're hoping that when her permanent ones come in she won't follow in the footsteps of her Uncle Bubby and crack those off, too!

Bella didn't know where we were going, but she was definitely in for the fun!

Fun at the airport.

The flight was delayed for quite a while, and Bella finally gave up on the fun.

Far later than we had anticipated, we arrived in Orlando.

Brooklynn is zapped out in the stroller.

If you arrive after ten now, you have to retrieve your own bags, so I sat with the girls while Jill and John went and got those.

The line to the buses was not even being used.

They took us over to the seating area and then just had us board the bus from there.

We sat on the bus about 45 minutes.

Not magical.

When the driver got on, he spoke not a word. Didn't welcome us, didn't tell us what resorts he was going to, didn't say one word.

After a few minutes, he played the welcome video, but it was so low, you could not hear it.

The journey to and through the magical Disney arches was so blah that I, the picture-taker of all picture-takers, did not even feel like taking a picture.

Check in at Pop was a breeze, and within minutes, we were in our connecting and refurbished rooms.

A friendly CM brought up a pack & play, and we were all set.

It was good to finally be where we had longed to be, and in spite of the somewhat rough start, ten days of Disney adventures lay ahead of us, so we were still very happy.

Very tired, but very happy.

I got a shower and hit the bed about 3 a.m.

I woke up around 6, and shortly after went for my first morning walk around Pop.

We were on the other side of the Walkman Building, around the corner from the Computer Pool.

 

[brookelizabeth]

What a very UNmagical beginning after a scrapped knee, a delayed flight and a meh ME driver!

I know it's only gotta improve, so I'm looking forward to that!

I haven't seen the pics of the refurbs rooms at Pop, they look great! Is the comforter a real comforter instead of the itchy cover thing? They look soft and cozy!

Love that pic of Bella crashed at the airport, so cute!

 

[moparop]

I'm sorry the trip started off on an unmagical note, but I bet it made you appreciate the future magic that much more.

I am sure the nickname Limpalong came with plenty of love! Seeing the pictures of the sleeping girls just melts my heart. What darlings!!!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Boo to an UNmagical start. I'm sure the trip got better and better though.

My Mom just had knee surgery on Thursday, maybe I should start calling her limpalong too.

 

[Charleston Princess]

Hurray for the start of your trip although it was not a very auspicious beginning between the skinned knees, the delayed flight, and the Unmagical Express driver!

I can't wait to see what Mickey and Minnie have to say about everything while they were holding down the fort at Pop!

Bella pulling her suitcase around and then konking out is too cute!!! I don't blame Brooklyn for falling asleep in her stroller -- I would have wanted to do the same thing!