I'm gonna push the button!!!

[teacher2525]

Well that didn't work I must not have saved it properly.

 

[Becky521]

Your boys are really cute. I loved your Aunty Dory stories. We had an "Aunty Dory" too but we called her "where's K" because we never knew where we may find her. I love the idea that you surprised your boys. We were going to surprise our girls for our Christmas trip last year. Yea, about 5 hours after booking we told them everything They're not even little!

 

[teacher2525]

Your boys are really cute. I loved your Aunty Dory stories. We had an "Aunty Dory" too but we called her "where's K" because we never knew where we may find her. I love the idea that you surprised your boys. We were going to surprise our girls for our Christmas trip last year. Yea, about 5 hours after booking we told them everything They're not even little!
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Thanks,
Seems like there is quite a few Aunty dory's out there, She made it interesting and quit commical. Surprising the boys was really tough but totally worth it, I can't tell you how many times I almost spilled the beans. Hope to add more to the trip this weekend.

 

[teacher2525]

Let’s see, last time I posted we were on the plane. The kids were crazy with excitement and my little one (who doesn’t sit still, but what 3 year old does) still wanted to sit with daddy. Yeah! The plane takes off on time and without issue. The sit with daddy thing lasted about 30 minutes and then the little wiggle worm moved up with me and the fun began, tray up tray down, where’s my backpack, let’s color, I need to go to the bathroom, let’s change the channel. Not even the old stand by of Dora the Explorer could keep him busy for a while. DS #2 watched the map of the US and our journey down the East Coast the whole time, it is the quietest he has ever been, I think he still didn’t believe we were going to Disney and had to watch the map to make sure. DS #1 wasn’t heard from due to his video game addiction. We land at 8:50 am, 40 minutes early, woo hoo! We head to Alamo car rental to pick up our SUV that we got for 9 days for only $209.00 after all various charges (thanks to codes and coupons), What a deal! There was no line, no waiting and our was ready to go. The travel Gods are with us, I am hoping they stay with us and our room is ready but I am not to hopeful because we are there so early. We ended up with a Toyota Highlander, which held all of our luggage, a carriage (I’ve never been to Disney without a carriage since I’ve been married, the whole baby thing came upon us quite quickly and some what unexpectedly) our carry ons and us very comfortably.
Off we go to the Beach Club Villas hoping we can check in. Well, the travel Gods are still with us because at 10:30 in the morning we are unpacking all our belongings in the 1 bedroom villa we requested. I wanted a view of Spaceship earth.

The boys all took turns in the Jacuzzi tub while I unpacked and sent DH to the supermarket for lots of liquids, I hate paying almost $3.00 for water and as a family of 5 we drink a lot of water. We were having lunch by the pool at noon, . We were on the dining plan because we liked it last time but I don’t think we would do it again. The counter services were lousy. We were spoiled because last time we stayed at Saratoga Springs, which has really good counter service and we also frequented Wolfgang Puck Express and the Earl of Sandwich at downtown Disney. I have heard many people complain about counter services but I really enjoyed the counter services. Now I get it, we did not have 1 good counter service the whole trip.
The swimming complex at the Yacht and Beach club is amazing and somewhat overwhelming. My DH was still at the supermarket so I was in charge of all 3 boys and let me tell you their little heads were spinning. They didn’t know where to go first. I directed them to the water slide and DS #3 and I waited at the bottom while they went on the water slide. They came down saying how awesome it was, let me warn you that my definition of awesome is very different from the definition of a 7 year old and a 9 year old, I did not think the slide was awesome . You begin the ride by shooting through a dark tube, which induces a feeling of motion sickness. You exit the tube, very thankfully I might add, only to be drowned under a waterfall. Once you stop choking from the surprise waterfall, begin to breathe again and harbor hopes of enjoying the rest of the slide you are again pummeled by another waterfall and then you are spit into the pool. Consider yourself officially warned about the “awesome” slide at the Yacht and Beach Club. You can experience a much more pleasant ride at the Boardwalk or Saratoga Springs. Also, the water temperature of the pools wasn’t very refreshing but I suppose that is due to the fact that it was 152 degrees and cloudless. We had many more refreshing swims once the sun started to go down plus it was much less crowded. The pool also had a section that was a constant whirlpool and the boys really enjoyed that. Then there was the lazy river, home to many ducks, these ducks had no problem jumping in the pool with you. Many people thought the duck thing was great, I however have a huge bird phobia due to a near miss by a pterodactyl in the birdhouse at the zoo paired with watching the movie The Birds at a young age and did not welcome the company of the ducks. Finally, there was the sand dune section with low level water, which was great for little kids. We swam for a couple hours then went back to the room to shower and get ready for dinner at the Flying Fish.

 

[luvmyboys]

Great beginning! Very funny (coming from a fellow "dry-humored" mom of 3 boys. Well, technically only 2, but if you met my DH, you'd agree that it's really more like 3!)

Anyway, I love your signature pic, only.... can I get that in a 5 x 7?

 

[PrincessMomto2]

Hi there! I'm joining in too! Love your report so far. Your boys are just adorable! Our 3 year olds sound so smiliar! Can't wait to hear more and your Aunt Dory stories were a riot! I also laughed when you boys didn't believe you at first! You must have a great sense of humor!

 

[betsywdw]

Hi I just found your trippie and it's so funny! Your boys are so cute! Can't wait to hear more about your trip!!!

 

[WDW Poly Princess]

You're already a pro at this trip report stuff!

Can't wait for the rest!

 

[jw50]

I have a little question. I was wandering around the site reading trip reports and I encountered a warning that said to be nice or the thread would be shut down, following some replies that were missing but must have not been nice. Then there was an apology and some talk about the alert button. What is the alert button? What happens when you press it?

If you look at the bottom left of each post you will see a red and white triangle with a ! in it. If you click on the triangle you can report that post to a moderator. "This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts."

 

[teacher2525]

If you look at the bottom left of each post you will see a red and white triangle with a ! in it. If you click on the triangle you can report that post to a moderator. "This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts."

Thanks for the info, I can't imagine fighting on a Disney sight I thought this was a place for happy vibes

 

[teacher2525]

You're already a pro at this trip report stuff!

Can't wait for the rest!

Thanks, it's nice to hear from people who read it, especially since it is my first report .

 

[teacher2525]

Great beginning! Very funny (coming from a fellow "dry-humored" mom of 3 boys. Well, technically only 2, but if you met my DH, you'd agree that it's really more like 3!)

Anyway, I love your signature pic, only.... can I get that in a 5 x 7?

Well, if we are counting husbands then I have 4 boys and he is currently home with a broken foot and driving me insane I am quite thankful he didn't do this right before the trip or I would have been pushing him around in a wheel chair because I certainly wasn't missing my long awaited trip . Took me a minute to get the 5x7 joke but it gave me a chuckle.

 

[teacher2525]

Hi there! I'm joining in too! Love your report so far. Your boys are just adorable! Our 3 year olds sound so smiliar! Can't wait to hear more and your Aunt Dory stories were a riot! I also laughed when you boys didn't believe you at first! You must have a great sense of humor!

I'm glad your enjoying my report. Tell your husband that I can relate to being out numbered, I don't have a dog but 3 sons and a husband proves to be enough of a challenge. The toilet seat is always up in my house drives me crazy! I must say that 3 years old is a magical age for disney, especially when they are so happy. My little guy would just about jump out of his skin with excitement everytime he saw a character, have you been recently with your little one? Hope to post again before the week is out.

 

[teacher2525]

We had opening ADR for the flying fish. I didn’t know strict the dress code was so I made everyone wear a collar shirt and this was not well received. You would have thought that I was making them wear tuxedo .

The preferred style of dress for my lot is jean shorts and t-shirts and God forbid I try to change it up a bit and a button down shirt or something with a collar. So, we are all dressed and we head to the Flying Fish. We decide to walk over from the Beach Club villas and we could see over the horizon what looked to be pouring rain over MGM Studios, it was an incredible site. We were worried that the skies were going to open up on us and hustled it to the Flying Fish. The skies did not open up and that was as close as we got to rain all week.
We were seated at the restaurant and introduced to our waiter Curly (that was what it said on his name tag), he was well over six feet tall, big, bald and looked some what intimidating but very nice. I mention that he looked intimidating because he proved to be an important behavioral management tool when dealing with my 3 year old all week. Remember, we were up at 4:00 AM that morning and even with a nap my DS#3 was cranky. He wanted no part of this restaurant business and was not very cooperative.
We ordered, I got the Snapper, which was delicious, I believe DH got a steak of some sort and was pleased with it. My oldest 2 got steak and thought that they were being tortured because it was a real meal and not a junk pizza meal or chicken nugget meal. The little guy got Mickey pasta and thought it was the best thing ever. He did not want to stay seated or do anything we asked for that matter but if Curly mentioned anything he would comply. Therefore, when we wanted him to comply with anything we told him Curly said …… whatever. The child’s dessert was really cool, it was this white chocolate puzzle that you assembled and painted with edible paints, here is a picture.

We took the boat back to our villa and DS#3 thought that was the best thing ever. We put the little guy to bed with the help of Curly’s authoritative persona and the rest of us passed out from exhaustion. Day 2 our Epcot adventure

 

[WeluvE.Y.]

Cant get over Aunt Dory and the bloomers. That is just too funny. Enjoying your review.

 

[teacher2525]

We woke up bright and early Thursday morning ; well I woke up bright and early and got ready 1st. Then Stitch called and woke the boys up. We were headed to Epcot for opening ceremonies. This was our 1st time opening Epcot. We had a quick bite to eat, I packed the infamous baggalini, and with a touring plan in hand we were ready to go. We exit the room to take the 9 mile hike to the elevator when it starts, my middle son goes racing towards the elevator and says, “I’m gonna push the button!’ Well, you can see where this is going. My oldest then says well if your pushing that button then I’m pushing the inside button. In turn the youngest says, I wanna push the button toooo! We negotiate the whole button thing but this turns out to be quite an issue throughout the trip (hence, my trip title) by the end, I was ready to push the button, the eject button .
We decide to drive to Epcot because of the issue we read about in the unofficial guide and wanted to get fast passes for soaring ASAP. They let us into the park up until the rope and my husband and I separate. His job is to shoot to Soaring for FP and meet us at Test Track. Well, opening ceremonies take place, my little guy is jumping out of his skin at the sight of the characters and the whole park opens up. I head to Test Track with the boys to wait for DH. However there is a little something you should know about me, I suffer from a direction disability , maybe I inherited it from aunty Dory , who knows? I get lost in the mall, and my husband will say we just came from that direction, how could you not know this? I honestly don’t know, I just have no sense of direction. Well, in all the hustle and bustle I head in the wrong direction and run into my DH and I yell to him, hey, over here! At this point I am thoroughly impressed with how quickly he picked up the fast passes, so I let him know how impressed I am and he is just shaking his head . He informs me, well he doesn’t really inform as much as he belittles me. He says how can I possibly have picked up the fast passes when they just opened the park. Well, I don’t know that’s why I am so impressed . Then he says your going the wrong way, um yeah, yeah, I knew that , just wanted to check on you .
Finally I make it to Test track with the boys where we wait for my DH in front of a fan in the shade, boy does that feel good because it is already hot, hot, hot ! While I’m in line I have a brainstorm , I should get a child swap pass just in case DS#3 doesn’t make the height requirement, he is about ¼ inch short but we have been teaching him how to stand tall. DH gets back quite quickly and doesn’t even mention the little direction mishap (smart move on his part). We walk right on Test Track, no line no waiting and DS#3 passes all height checkpoints, yeah! My oldest DS was nervous because it was his 1st time but he loved it. My little guy would not go back n for all the tea in China. Now we still have the fast pass for three people from the child swap and we can’t let them go to waste, we will use them this evening after dinner.
We head over to mission space for the non-spinning version. The boys are nervous because they think they are responsible for pushing the button at the appropriate time of lift off and if they mess up something bad will happen. The get in line and I take DS# 3 to the exit of mission space and decide to see if I can get a child swap pass so I can go on with them again. We find an awesome play structure at the exit of mission space and DS#3 is having a blast while we wait. However, we have been waiting a very long time and I start to wonder if they came out and I missed them. I’m thinking that I couldn’t possibly of missed them because I was right at the exit but after the whole direction issue earlier, I’m second guessing myself. Finally I gather up DS#3 and the carriage and head out into the daylight (it is very dark in mission space) and I see them. DH is not looking happy and I think I hear a Donald Duck tantrum coming on. Well, I guess the boy’s anxiety got the best of them and they were afraid that if they didn’t push the appropriate button in time then the whole spaceship would blow up or something. DH was not very understanding and said he was not going to stand in line again if they changed their mind. He can be such a baby sometimes so we just ignored him for a while and headed over to the living seas (I think that is what it is called). We went on the ride which we all liked and then saw Turtle talk with Crush. That was really funny! The show let out just in time for out fast pass time at soaring. I hated to rush out because there was so much to look at there but fast passes aren’t good forever,
We arrive just in time to use our fast passes and go through the rigorous height screening process, which we pass again. I am so excited , I love this ride. We buckle up and off we go, soaring into the wild blue yonder. I sat the little guy between my husband and myself and the poor little thing thought we were really soaring and held on for dear life. He didn’t hate it like test track but he was glad it was over because he said the fireworks gave him a heart attack. We had lunch at the land; rode the boat ride and got fast passes for soaring again after dinner. Hopefully we can talk DS#3 into going on again. We left the park for a swim and nap break.
We get back to the Villas, hit the lobby and it starts, I’m gonna push the button!

 

[magicaldisney11]

this is great so far!!!!

I am a Mom of 4 boys and 2 male dogs and 1 male guinea pig , first thing I taught all my sons was that the "lid" staying up meant cleaning the whole bathroom!! The second was how to make Mom a pot of coffee and clear the table after dinner
Your boys are gorgeous! The elevator button pushing problem is something that stays with them even when they are 21,18, 15 and 8,lol.

 

[teacher2525]

this is great so far!!!!

I am a Mom of 4 boys and 2 male dogs and 1 male guinea pig , first thing I taught all my sons was that the "lid" staying up meant cleaning the whole bathroom!! The second was how to make Mom a pot of coffee and clear the table after dinner
Your boys are gorgeous! The elevator button pushing problem is something that stays with them even when they are 21,18, 15 and 8,lol.

Wow, you win, that is a lot of testosterone running through your house. I like to look at it this way, it is like we are the queens of our households. If the toilet lid thing doesn't improve I may try your idea or maybe I'll just flush the perp Thanks for the response!

 

[teacher2525]

I have to send out a big kudos to all who have completed trip reports. This is more of an undertaking than I anticipated, I'll keep reporting it is just taking me a lot longer than I thought.

 

[teacher2525]

After a lengthy argument about who was gonna push the button we get to the room and encounter the next issue, I wanna do the card (to open the door). My God people, we are in Disney world, there is no need for this! All the fun the there is to be had and you’re going to argue over this ! They all look at me with their big brown eyes and say sorry mother we are so grateful for this trip and realize how fortunate we are to have this experience. YEAH RIGHT! The argument continues until I declare from this point forward nobody is to push a button or open the door with the card key ever, ever for the whole trip! Now there, I set them straight !
We enter the room to settle the little guy in for a nap. To do this we have to pretend everyone is taking a nap but really the other guys are waiting for him to pass out so they can go to the quiet pool, fortunately this doesn’t take long. While they are there they figure out a magical way to make the 101-degree pool seem refreshing, you sit in the hot tub for about 3 minutes and then jump in the pool, it feels great !
I organize, pack the baggalini, shower and get ready while they are out. We had 5:45 reservations in Italy and fast passes to use. Unfortunately the nap was never ending and we had to wake him up and get him ready to go, waking him up is never good . My happy little guy is again in a fowl mood for dinner again and as usual he’ll sit next to me. We walked over to Italy and were seated quickly but it was packed! I know the restaurant is now closed but it is true what they say about the fettuccini it was out of this world! I was not bright enough to order it but my DH got the sampler and I tried it. I got the gnocchi, which were o.k. I should know better than to order anything with gravy (this is Italian for marinara sauce) because I am Italian and very picky when it comes to any gravy. The boys all got pasta with butter, what kind of Italians am I raising, pasta with butter ? Dessert was delicious but I forget what it was, something chocolaty.
After dinner we ran to catch the boat because we could see it coming and did not want to walk to future world after our enormous Italian meal. We hauled our very full selves to soaring just in time to use our fast passes. We walked by all those people in the 90-minute stand by line and were very thankful we had our fast passes. How anyone could stand in a line that long is beyond me . It is all about planning people, don’t you get that? I guess not because they were all in line, very sad for them. Next we headed to imagination to ride the figment ride. I’ve always loved figment and all my boys enjoyed it but DS#3 loved, loved, loved figment. He thought Figment was the funniest thing ever, especially the part when he turned into a skunk, he is still talking about it! He bought himself a figment shirt and small stuffed animal with his Disney dollars. He loves his oversized, purple tied dyed figment shirt. While we shopped the guys went over to use the child swap fast pass for test track from this morning. Now, I wonder if saving child swap passes when you didn’t really need to use them in the first place constitute unethical Disney behavior but I figure you got to take advantage of the bonuses where you can find them . So I also got them for soaring and mission space, now I’m definitely going to Disney HE double hockey sticks. Oh well I hope they have soaring there.
The boys still don’t want to go on mission space due to their fear of not pushing the button at the right time and blowing the whole thing up or possible ride ejection, plus DH is refusing to go on even if they want to because of the issue in the morning. You would think that he would have got over that by now and perhaps develop some empathy for their fear, but Nooo! You see my DH suffers from a common male syndrome called assaholism (I’ll only use this word once in case it is considered offensive and if it is I am sorry it is just a name I made up to define his male personality affliction). From this point forward I will refer to it as his syndrome or affliction. I know all you women out there with brothers, husbands, male co-workers, or friends know of the syndrome which I speak, all those ridiculous things that they turn into huge issues and in turn drive us crazy. For example, my DH loses his mind if you open the refrigerator door for more than 2.5 seconds to perhaps look for what you need and yells shut the door, shut the door, hurry up and shut the door! The poor children have developed a nervous twitch every time the refrigerator door opens. I think we need a map on the refrigerator door to help us get in and out quicker. We have a similar issue when the air conditioning is on and he is home. I have to carefully plan the exit out the door with military precision, it is like a military mission, we line up at the door with all our gear, I open the door and yell GO, GO, GO! I am happy to report that I haven’t lost a man yet . Unfortunately there is not a 12-step program for this syndrome and the female species with all the patience she can muster works hard at managing and shaping the behaviors affiliated with this affliction . To all of you sisters out there dealing with this syndrome fight the good fight, know that we are making this world a better place and you are not alone.
Anyway, since we weren’t going to use the child swap fast passes, I thought I would give them away and make someone’s day. I ended up finding 3 teenagers who were psyched to get it; it feels nice to spread the magic around.
The original plan was to go home but DH wanted to stay for the laser show and fireworks and being the accommodating person that I am I agreed.

We didn’t have the best view, we were on the bridge near the backdoor exit of the park but the kids were happy with their Disney lollipops and enjoyed what they could see.

We walked back to the villas and nobody was there to say welcome home. Where were they ? Maybe a shift change? How could the mouse leave the lobby unattended? I was very upset, who was going to say welcome home to me? Sensing my disappointment DS#3 said, welcome home mama, and I was thinking how sweet he was and then he followed that up with, can I push the button? Oh man !