Inspired by "Did you ever lose it", Did you ever disolve in tears at WDW?

[joshsmom]

I had a COMPLETE meltdown at TOT last trip. First of all, neither me, mom, nor Josh had ever been on TOT--we had heard things that scared the stuffings out of us!! I got brave enough to try it and I had a BLAST!! Mom and Josh were waiting on the benches by the pictures at the end and I got off RAVING about how much fun it was. I told Josh he would LOVE it and I knew my mom would. Well, Josh wasn't budging. He was scared and that was it. Ok, I can deal with that. Mom went on and got in line. Josh and I waited down by the pictures again. Josh kept going on and on about how I was trying to "force" him to do something he didn't want to do, etc. Hello??? I'm waiting with him at the END of the ride. Then he started in about how I always do this to him, how he's not having any fun and he just wants to go back to the room (Yes, my sweet little boy started melting down). Well, I lost it RIGHT THERE. I think we were both tired and that was the last straw. I just cried and cried. My mom came off the ride, GLOWING because she loved it, and here me and Josh are sitting there with out backs to each other, both of us crying. It wasn't pretty.

Later that day Josh said he wanted to try TOT--UGGGGGG. Now it's his favorite ride. Go figure.

 

[experiment626mom]

I sat on the TTA by myself crying my eyes out. I was at DW with my sister and I was just having the worst time. She went off to ride Space Mountain and I got on the TTA. Now my husband and I love this ride and when I got on by myself I just lost it. (Jeez I'm tearing up just thinking about this.) You should have seen the look on the CM's face when I came around all tear stained!! He must have thought I was a looney!!

 

[TiggerXx]

Yes. The heat and exhaustion of walking finally got to me and I broke down into tears...

 

[trappednabox]

I did finally get my pins-it didn't occur to me til I stopped crying that fortunately I happened to have my VISA with me too. Whew!

OMG! that's way way WAY too funny!

 

[newholidayx2]

Nov 27, 2002 3pm

not at Disney but because of Disney

 

[MaryKatesMom]

The Wednesday after Easter 2002. Pre-disboards or UG or Passporter. I had no idea the crowd level. We had a 5:20AM flight and got to the parks about 2:30 and had a PS for CT at 5:30pm.

The FP's for everything except a 10pm Pooh were gone. We rode one ride and that was it. We couldn't go on anything else because the wait was too long and we'd miss CT. Dumbo was an 1 and 40 minutes. We just wandered around and I saw a CM in Fantasyland standing on a stool with orange flashlights trying to break up the gridlock. You couldn't move.

The thought of the video of the little girl holding Cinderella's hand skipping up an empty Castle ramp (or something similiar we broke that VHS) was sooooooo different from that madhouse.

We just stood there under a lighted tree and I cried because this was NOT the vacation I was expecting. I was standing in Disney with nothing to do!

Wow. Even thinking about it my chest freezes up.

My in-laws are down there now. I'm sure I sounded B*** why I tried to get them to expect peak crowds, but because it wasn't Easter itself they were expecting low crowds. I never want anyone to experience that.

 

[gabbygrennell]

Apparently I must be really emotional about disney!

I get tears in my eyes every time we get near wdw... especially when the kids are singing some song as we pass under the sings that say welcome to wdw! Anyways...
last trip, the one with my parents, my bro, sil & niece, and my fam of 5...
(trip from H**L)
towards the end of the trip, our one and only day at MK, bro & sil have a huge mega fight , and it causes the entire day to not go as planned...

Hubby and I finally said we would find another way back to the house... we werent letting them ruin our day... so dh, the kids and I hop on the train to head to frontierland, it was there that it hit me.... our last day at disney, (our only day in the MK) on our first trip with our kids, it was after 5pm, and this was not what I had spent months planning! I started bawling!

My kids looked at me like i had lost my mind! Hubby knew it had all come to a head and i could take no more! He put his arm around me and assured me it would all work out ok, and promised next time it would only be our fam of 5 on our trip to wdw....

So, after getting off the train, we all got a mickey bar which somehow made it all better... and made the most of the time we had left!
lots of lessons learned from that trip! lol!
at least i can laugh about it all now!

 

[duck_adoo]

Our first 'real' vacation we could afford (after our twins were no longer in daycare). Planned everything down to the order of the rides. But wasn't commando style, just wanted a loose plan. Then...it happened. Our forth night and..gasp...I had to do laundry on vacation!!! Oh the horror
If I recall, it was the same thing that makes me angry anyway..when everyone doesn't offer to help, but sits around relaxing while I do the work! I'm sure it had nothing to do with being tired from chasing after 2 5 yr old dd's and 1 dh So there I was crying in a hammock at CSR. Oh, well. We're all entitled to a little breakdown now and then. But it all worked out in the end and we had a great vacation

Cheryl

 

[Daxx]

Daxx's Wife here -- OK, we were there in June 2003 and it rained every single day we were there. I remember being at MK for E-night, miserable in a rain poncho and knew I had to have an umbrella. My body was wet, I was cold and we paid extra to play in the rain. I remember leaving my DH, DS and Grandma at Country Bear Jamboree so I could search out an umbrella. Well, on E-night, not everything is open and I had to trek to Main Street USA to find an umbrella. I remember crying the whole walk to MS-USA b/c I was soooo uncomfortable and felt that E-night in the rain was a waste of our money. Suffice to say, I was feeling sorry for myself. However, nobody knew I was crying b/c it was raining so hard that it looked like my face was wet w/rain, not tears.

It got better, though. What made that so great!? Well, even though they were out of umbrellas (except for the very expensive golf umbrellas), we rode some rides and decided to head back to our resort. On our way, we ducked into the Castle walkway to avoid a deluge. To our surprise, nobody was there except for Mickey, Minnie, Pluto and Goofy. We had a blast w/them. Took loads of photos w/nobody else around! Pluto plopped himself down right next to Grandma and held his ear over her head, as if to protect her from any drips in the castle! Then, Goofy sat on the other side of her. That was a pretty magical moment ... to see this 83 yo woman interacting w/the two characters! And, of course, DS was delighted to play w/his favorite characters.

So, a crummy, rainy evening turned out to be a priceless one for us!

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

I cried at the opening of AK last year. Not a meltdown, but I got teary-eyed because DH and I are not "park commandos' and usually arrive an hour or so late and this time we just happened to get there a few minutes before opening and saw the magical part at the beginning.

I did have a meltdown in Paris in 2000 that's worth mentioning, though. My then-boyfriend (now DH) and I, along with his brother, went to the top of the Eiffel Tower. We stood in line forever and when we got to the top, a HUGE storm –– lightning, wind and all –– blew in. We were trapped at the top with 200 Italian middle schoolers screaming as they ALL rushed to the elevators. My husband's brother decided to take the stairs, but I have asthma so we waited in the pushing crowd (I nearly got knocked over several times) for the elevator. We got turned around and had to walk back to our hotel in the blinding, freezing hailstorm. To top it all off, I had expected DH to propose to me at the top of the Eiffel Tower, which he hadn't, so I was a sobbing, hysterical mess by the time we got back. And pissed.

He proposed a month later. Guess the timing –– and Mother Nature –– just wasn't right.

 

[dis-happy]

My experience happened at Disneyland, when I was pregnant with our first child who is now 15. DH and I were eating ice cream at the Carnation Pavillion towards the end of a wonderful day.....I LOVE Disney....anyway, my contact lense started acting up and caused these big tears to keep running down my face, which I kept blotting away while we were sitting there talking. These two older women at a nearby table kept GLARING at DH, as if to say...you are such a jerk making that girl cry while at Disney. It was so funny...

 

[Strawberry Lemonade]

I had a meltdown on my last trip to WDW this past February. On our last day, our flight wasn't scheduled to leave until the evening so we decided to go back to MK for one last walk around. As soon as we got there, I decided I wanted to go on a horse-drawn carriage ride down Main Street. Unfortunately, the carriage wasn't running at that time and no CM seemed able to tell us if and when they were going to run that morning. Well, I lost it. I broke down in tears and had to leave the park.

I'm sure it was because of hormones - I was about 5 months pregnant at the time and the trip took a lot out of me. Poor DH had no idea what to do with me.

 

[Texian@WDW]

My DH lost it on Main St. one time.

 

[akur]

Okay, you have to understand that I was undergoing daily (and PAINFUL!) hormone injections for infertility, and that our day at the beach had been cancelled the day before. Still, DH and I were on a cruise for my birthday and we were docked at Nassau overnight. In the morning, we got room service and opened up the curtains to have breakfast in the balcony, and what is sitting right across from us? One of the Disney ships. I lost it and bawled!

 

[JDarling]

Not because something went wrong, but I've shed more than a few tears at Disneyworld.

It probably started in 1999. I was dating this guy long distance. I lived in San Diego, he lived in Boston. You can't get much further apart and be in the Continental US! We met in Disneyworld for a week. We had a wonderful time - very romantic. Everything was perfect... Except when the week was drawing to a close and it started to sink in that I didn't know when we'd be able to see each other again. We both cried that last night, on the bus back from MVMCP... but it doesn't help that we were stressed out because we'd been stranded at the bus stop for over 2 hours...

The other times were all happy tears. Illuminations:Reflections of Earth moved me to tears a couple times.

Now... wondering what happened with that guy? Now I get to see him every night and every morning. We were married in 2001. And honeymooned in Disneyworld.

 

[foxtrotter]

September 25, 2004. Hurricane Jeanne.

We had my parents and my sister with us and we had a PS for Chef Mickey's that night for my daughter's 2nd birthday. We had only been at WDW for half of the vacation we had planned but we had to make a decision about Jeanne. Would we stay an extra day or two? Or would we start home now (we had driven down) so as to beat the storm and lose half of our vacation?

My sister and my father needed to be back at work and couldn't afford to lose another couple days. They *had* to leave. DH and I wanted to stay. My mom didn't care either way.

We had all driven down together and had to go back together so we canceled out PS for CM (and another one for PSB breakfast the next morning) and packed up. I cried the whole time, I was so disappointed! I had planned the trip for 7 months, getting all our PS's at exactly 90 days out, planning everything so that my daughter's first trip to WDW would be perfect. She celebrated her birthday in a Georgia hotel room with a cake from Kroger.

To make matters worse, I couldn't stop tearing up for the whole 2 days it took to get home, thinking about our ruined trip. And my sister was in a foul mood the whole way, yelling that she wanted us to drop her off at the nearest airport so she could fly home by herself so she could get back to work, yelling at me because she thought I was blaming her for ruining the vacation which ticked my dad off so he started yelling at her, etc. etc.

All ended up well though, as I started planning a return trip for 6 weeks later while we were driving home. And my parents and sister were NOT coming with us! We had a great time!

 

[agnes!]

I cried the day a stranger helped me. My daughter has a doll (her lovey) that she has had for a very long time. AT closing at the MK one night we were walking to the buses and she must have dropped it. I notice that a very scary looking man was following us. Tattoes, piercings, leather. He was very tall and very muscular. I walked faster and faster. Finally I just couldn't get away, he grabs my arm. . . . .


"Hi, Is this your daughters doll? It looks well loved and I thought she would miss it." After I thanked him, it turned out he wasn't even staying on site and walked all that extra way to bring it to us. I cried right then and there because I was so grateful and so guilty at the same time. When I tried to explain, why I was crying like a lunatic, he said he understood and was just glad to help keep someones vacation happy.

Oh my...sometimes angels are amongst us unawares, aren't they ...

agnes!

 

[alyssa810]

I cried happy tears when my husband proposed by the castle, but it wasn't until we were walking back toward Tomorrowland....

 

[HoneyPooh]

Yep, when the friend I was traveling with had a low blood sugar problem and screamed at me in Epcot that if she fell over and died it would be all my fault.