I Miss WDW already.... only the pics keep me going til next time...

[mari360]

Let me introduce my cast.....

Me - wife of a forgetful man, mother of a scared princess... and a WDW manic...

DH - a not so crazy about WDW man... i don't know how you cannot absolutly love WDW but hey his loss.

DD - age 2 my little scared princess... also her 2nd time to the world.

We went to WDW May 10th - May 16th this was our 2nd time going at thie time of the year. We stayed at CSR. Nice resort. But next time will go back to CBR. We had a Great Vacation. I will post lots of pics. We took over 1700 (not including the photopass pics) pics i won't post them all but will have enough. This is my first ever TR so please bear with me..... not used to doing this..... giving it a try..... lets see how it goes....

 

[mari360]

Well the story starts out crazy. I get up at around 4:30am to make sure we make it to airport at 6:00am. we have a 7:30 flight. We get to the airport and we are on line to check in our bags when i turn to my DH and ask him to give me his license.... he then looks at me with that worried face and blurts out "oh s#@t i left it at home on top of the dresser" I start to freak out. I tell him how can you forget something like that... but the person that dropped us off was willing to go to our house to pick up his license. She was already on her way home but heads to our house she has keys. I know it's going to be atleast 1 hour so i told my DH that i'm going to go through security and everything and for him to meet me at the gate. i'm sitting there waiting... i start to panic.... So final boarding call comes on for my flight..... i call DH and tell him i'm getting on i'lll see u in MCO. Hey i wasn't going to miss WDW because he decided to forget his wallet. does that make me a bad wife?????? Hmmmm....

Wasn't too bad he was able to get on the next flight which was only 45 min after mine. So i wait for him at the airport I go into the Disney store there and my DD decided that she wants pirates of the carribean pin set. I get it for her then we go to the ME line to check in... Let me tell you i waited 30 min before i was able to check in that line was CRAZY..... so my DH calls me that he's at the airport so i tell him i'm at the ME line and to meet me there.... so we check in and wait on line... here is my DD thinking she can pull the carryon luggage

So our ME bus comes and we're off to CSR.....

We got the building I wanted Cabanas 9A and we got a great room on the second floor.

The hotel itself was beautiful it just wasn't for my family. I'm used to CBR and the pool was on one side and the main eating area was on another. I feel it was too spaced out for me. But again the Resort was Beautiful. The food at PM was ok. Maya grill I loved. Sorry i got off topic.

So our first day we decided to just relax at the resort and grab dinner at Maya grill......
For appetizer i had the Shrimp cocktail....

I had the Maya's Filet Mignon with mashed potatos and grilled veggies for dinner.

My DH had the St. Louis Style Ribs

and DD just had beef tenderloin tips... i didn't grab a pic of that though....

for desert i had the Creme Brulee (i think better then the one at LeCellier)

All our meals were great. I loved them and we had a nice waitor. But it was very slow getting the check at the end of the meal. That much i did not like of the DDxP.

After dinner we went to the room and fell asleep early. We had ADR's at CRT at 8:50am.

 

[NewCrew42]

Yeah Mari! I am so glad you are doing a TR!

Can't wait to read it all!

 

[NewCrew42]

Is that a King size bed? That bed looks huge!

 

[mari360]

Yeah that was a king. That is what we have at home so i figured a full size we wouldn't feel too comfortable. Worked out GREAT for us. especially since DD didn't want to sleep on that crib they give....

 

[cjhinch]

Oh, I can't wait to read more! I love trip reports with lots of pictures, makes me feel like I am there with you! Your DD is just gorgeous!

 

[CleKait]

Good start Mari

I can't believe you took that many pictures!

 

[Momof2Disneyboys]

Great TR Mari!

Love the pics! I feel like I was there with you!! Oh wait, I was there!!!

I have to agree, not totally in love with CSR either. CBR is much better! CSR is very pretty and the pool is great, just a crazy set up I think.

Can't wait to read more!!

 

[jeniferjuniper]

great report!

Your daughter is a doll!

 

[JoBird]

yay Mari! I'm in! great start!



jo

 

[mari360]

Today was mother's day and we decided to go to MK for the day. I didn't realize it was also EMH until after i made my ADR's. it wasn't too bad. So I get everybody up at 7:15 to start getting ready. Both my DH and DD are mad at me since we went to bed late the night before. We decided to take a walk around the resort to get familiar with it. So i get us all up to make our Morning ADR with CRT. We had a car for the day so we drove to MK. We arrive at MK at around 8:30am. I am freaking out thinking we would not make it on time. So we are on our way to get on the monorail to MK and noticed this mickey i thought it was so cute... i forgot all about it since last year i used the Dis transportation so you don't get to see this...

that is the pirate lanyard with pins she made me buy at the airport waiting for my DH...

So we are on the monorail and i hear my DD chatting away.... i turn to look and she is talking with this other 2 year old. It was the cutest thing. I don't know what they were talking about but they were sure chatting it up....

So we get to MK and i practically am running to the castle to make our ADR. we get there like 8:55 so we have to wait a little.... no problem as long as we can go i don't mind... here is a pic of my DD with cinderella...

It was very cute. The poor CM tried to give my DD a wand but she told her "no not that one i want a sword" so the very nice CM gave my DD a sword and a wand. throughout the day she played with the sword. I even had to apologize to people she really thought she was a pirate and was walking around poking people with it. So we get upstairs and it is very nice. My DH and I both got the traditional breakfast..

it was good. I mean you really can't go wrong with breakfast. But my DD was so excited to see all the princess. She finally called them by their right name.... instead of cinderbeauty it was finally Sleeping beauty.... it was funny that she ran into the little girl again from the monorail.

We were caught up there for another 10 minutes while they "talked" it was so funny. They were comparing tattoo's and stuff... we were laughing i just remembered her name was Linden. too cute... we never did see them again throughout the park....

Here are a couple of pictures of my DD with the princess'

Sorry the pics are so big i don't know how to make them smaller....

Next Up: Snow white ride..... my scared princess....

 

[NewCrew42]

Love the CRT report!!!

Especially your little princess!

 

[mari360]

Sorry i just scanned and uploaded the pic that we received at CRT..

 

[RachelNinja]

Great TR! Your DD is adorable! It's so cute that she wanted the sword instead of the wand!

 

[Katiebell]

Great start on your TR, Mari, and love the pics! Can't wait to read more...

 

[2xcited2sleep]

I'm in! You're off to a great start. And your DD is adorable!!

I will post lots of pics. We took over 1700 (not including the photopass pics)

Yikes! I took ~400 on my last trip and my family gave me a hard time!! That's awesome!!!

i turn to my DH and ask him to give me his license.... he then looks at me with that worried face and blurts out "oh s#@t i left it at home on top of the dresser" I start to freak out.

Oh my goodness! I would have been near melt-down. Lucky that your friend had keys to your house and he was able to get on the next flight!!

i call DH and tell him i'm getting on i'lll see u in MCO. Hey i wasn't going to miss WDW because he decided to forget his wallet. does that make me a bad wife?????? Hmmmm....

I would have done the same thing

 

[ta2edgoofy]

cant wait to hear more! its so great that kids have a certain "secret" way about them. even the most meek child can turn into quite the chatty cathy once they enter the world! i still think there is something in the water....

 

[mari360]

Thank you all.

 

[mari360]

Ok so after CRT we decided to go to some rides. I thought that i did my research but i was mistaken. We decided to take my DD onto the Snow white ride and let me tell you that was the WORST thing we did. So we make our line my DD gets excited because she sees Snow White on the wall... we get on the ride and it's ok for the first 2 seconds then i see

and i automatically look over at my DD and she is

My poor honey... she was holding onto my hand so tight. I liked the ride very cute but she didn't see anything after the first 3 seconds. towards the end the ride got brighter and showed nice scenes of Snow white and the 7 dwarfs but when we were about to get off i looked over at her again and still

After that she did not want to get on anything. I tried to get her on the Peter Pan ride but she was not having it. So we decided to walk around for a little on main street and such. Remember we still had that rent a car so we had to leave the park. So we left like 12ish. As we were walking out of the park i saw chalk marks on the floor and i noticed these

I thought it was so cute. I mean my DH didn't do that but it was still cute.
So we went to return the car and then went back to the resort to freshen up. My DD was sleeping when we got to the resort.

We decided to stay there until like 5pm and then we headed back to MK. Again i tried to take her on the Peter Pan ride but nope that was a no go. So then I decided i'll go on it alone... again that was a no go. My DD told me "mommy no it's scary" and then proceded to cover her eyes and scream. Everyone around us looked over to us and just looked. I felt like I grew a 2nd head. So we then go over the CP for our dinner ADR. we were seated in a matter of minutes. We all enjoyed our dinners my DD LOVED meeting the all the characters....

so we finish up our dinner and walk outside. Incase you don't know where CP is it is located on the left side of main street in front of the castle. Here is a pic of the view from CP.

Doesn't the castle look beautiful.... well anyways all of a sudden i hear the loud speaker in the park. and i realize that the fireworks are about to start. so we wait there since it's a great view. My DD was in awe during the fireworks. My DH forgot to take a pic of her facial expression i could kill him sometimes. but here is what she was looking at.

I'm telling you as soon as they finish it starts to drizzle. Plus i wanted everybody to leave the park before we tried. So we go into the stores on Main street and hang out there for about 30 min then head back to the resort to sleep. It was a great mothers day. Oh yeah plus i got to make my hat....

 

[mari360]

Wait i'm lying....i remember we got another car cause my DH had to go do something the next day in the morning in Kissimmee.... so i had the bright idea of parking in contemporary so that we don't have to take the rush back to TTA.....so anyway we get on the monorail to Contemporary and we decided to go to the arcade there for a bit...

We didn't get back to resort until like 12 am.... it was a long day. We were all drained......