Nov. 12, 2003
Let me first begin by saying we moved our rooms at AKL. After two nights of listening to children and adults yelling in the hallway, we decided that we didn't care if we had to walk 3 miles to get to a room, we needed some sleep!
We had room 3427 in the second building to the Zebra Trail savannah... we saw some zebar and some lorn horned anelope thing as well as the brown bull things! But that wa it. But AKL is one huge hallway so people have to pass by every single room to get to the main building/ lobby area. People just don't realize that not everyone sleeps like the dead especially when you have a medically fagile child who has seizures. So we don't sleep well at the best of times but we weren't happy either when children are screaming for mommy and daddy to hurry up at either 6:30am or 1:30 am! That's not cool!
So we were moved to room 3593 at the very end of the hall! The CM I spoke to at the front desk wasn't very pleasant, and said to me that if I cahnge your room don't complain when you don't get the same view of the animals. In fact we had a better view. the animals were closer and there every morning and night! We saw water buffalo, giraffe, zebra and those othertwo things I decribed before hand. Rom was the same size but had more dressers due to the fact that it wasn't a connecting room!
Magic Kingdom...... we arrived at the monorail @ 8:55am and got on in five minutes. Security was fast and we had to meet the photographer from Gifts of a Lifetime @ 9:30 under the train. he was early and after we fed Ryleigh a danish, off we went. He took 4 rolls of flim and followed us around for 2 hours. He was a very pleasant gentleman and took a lot of shots unnoticed as well as some posed ones. I haven't taken them into to be processed yet but I'll post some when we do!
We rode Dumbo, Winnie the Pooh, The Tea Cups, the Carousel, the Train twice, The Jungle Queen.... Then we had lunch at Tony's and watched the Share a Dream Parade, which Ryleigh got to participate in twice!!! Since we were having dinner at GF's 1900 Park Fare that night, we decided to go back to the hotel for a nap and freshen up.
We left for the Grand Floridian at 6:10 for a 6:50 seating of Cinderella's Royal Feast. When we arrived, we discovered that parking was closed due to the fact that Governer and President Bush would be at the GF Convention Centre the following day. They were doing valet parking for free but were very short handed and slow! We didn't get to the podeim until 7:05 and still had to wait 10 minutes for seating! Wishes had started so we tried to catch some of that! The GF guests have a great view of this display!!!! It's a very pretty resort and we loved the band that plays in the lobby!
We had Michael as our waiter who was very good at keeping the large costumed mice away from the table. Cinderella and the prince came by for a visit, brought Ryleigh a "Happy Birthday" Crown and cupcake and sang to her She was beaming!
We liked the buffet at GF. Lots of variety and it was very hot so you still ate warm food when you sat down
After dinner, Ryleigh went back to Simba's Cubhouse for child care and we got to venture off to the Adventurer's Club again for some one on one time! Got picked on for being Canadaina and not putting my hand up when asked if there were any forgeiners in the house? Are we really forgeiners? We are connected by bridges? We can drive down there? And Alaska is up with us here too!!!
All in all a great day!!!
Part 5- Day 2 in Magic Kingdom!!!!
Let me first begin by saying we moved our rooms at AKL. After two nights of listening to children and adults yelling in the hallway, we decided that we didn't care if we had to walk 3 miles to get to a room, we needed some sleep!
We had room 3427 in the second building to the Zebra Trail savannah... we saw some zebar and some lorn horned anelope thing as well as the brown bull things! But that wa it. But AKL is one huge hallway so people have to pass by every single room to get to the main building/ lobby area. People just don't realize that not everyone sleeps like the dead especially when you have a medically fagile child who has seizures. So we don't sleep well at the best of times but we weren't happy either when children are screaming for mommy and daddy to hurry up at either 6:30am or 1:30 am! That's not cool!
So we were moved to room 3593 at the very end of the hall! The CM I spoke to at the front desk wasn't very pleasant, and said to me that if I cahnge your room don't complain when you don't get the same view of the animals. In fact we had a better view. the animals were closer and there every morning and night! We saw water buffalo, giraffe, zebra and those othertwo things I decribed before hand. Rom was the same size but had more dressers due to the fact that it wasn't a connecting room!
Magic Kingdom...... we arrived at the monorail @ 8:55am and got on in five minutes. Security was fast and we had to meet the photographer from Gifts of a Lifetime @ 9:30 under the train. he was early and after we fed Ryleigh a danish, off we went. He took 4 rolls of flim and followed us around for 2 hours. He was a very pleasant gentleman and took a lot of shots unnoticed as well as some posed ones. I haven't taken them into to be processed yet but I'll post some when we do!
We rode Dumbo, Winnie the Pooh, The Tea Cups, the Carousel, the Train twice, The Jungle Queen.... Then we had lunch at Tony's and watched the Share a Dream Parade, which Ryleigh got to participate in twice!!! Since we were having dinner at GF's 1900 Park Fare that night, we decided to go back to the hotel for a nap and freshen up.
We left for the Grand Floridian at 6:10 for a 6:50 seating of Cinderella's Royal Feast. When we arrived, we discovered that parking was closed due to the fact that Governer and President Bush would be at the GF Convention Centre the following day. They were doing valet parking for free but were very short handed and slow! We didn't get to the podeim until 7:05 and still had to wait 10 minutes for seating! Wishes had started so we tried to catch some of that! The GF guests have a great view of this display!!!! It's a very pretty resort and we loved the band that plays in the lobby!
We had Michael as our waiter who was very good at keeping the large costumed mice away from the table. Cinderella and the prince came by for a visit, brought Ryleigh a "Happy Birthday" Crown and cupcake and sang to her She was beaming!
We liked the buffet at GF. Lots of variety and it was very hot so you still ate warm food when you sat down
After dinner, Ryleigh went back to Simba's Cubhouse for child care and we got to venture off to the Adventurer's Club again for some one on one time! Got picked on for being Canadaina and not putting my hand up when asked if there were any forgeiners in the house? Are we really forgeiners? We are connected by bridges? We can drive down there? And Alaska is up with us here too!!!
All in all a great day!!!
Part 5- Day 2 in Magic Kingdom!!!!
