Korissa's ~MAGICAL-AMAZING~ 10 day MAW/GKTW Adventure!! Discovery Cove day started

[tinytreasures]

What a wonderful video it explains what it is but more importantly it gives faces to it.

Your day looked like a lot of fun.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

I love Seaworld your pics are fab!

That video Kyra made is excellent! Hope she gets top marks for it

Thank you Emma( I am saying your name right.....right...lol)

OK, I'll have to wait on the Busch Garden pictures! I guess I got what day was next but loved all your pictures at Sea World! You seemed to do everything you planned on. You had a tired bunch on the drive back to GKTW though! Hopefully you all will be able to get to bed earlier that night after the Christmas party!

Thank you Gail. I'm hoping to start Busch Garden day today.

looks like a great day at Sea World and a very tired crew at the end of the day!

never been to SeaWorld in FL, but we loved it when we took Megan in 03 in San Diego!

Thank you Lisa The kids love the Sea World in Florida better because it has 2 roller coasters.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

What a wonderful video it explains what it is but more importantly it gives faces to it.

Your day looked like a lot of fun.

Thank you Kathleen

 

[Mom2mitokids]

We finally made it back at GKTW at about 6pm. This is our first day picture of this sign..

We went back to the Villa to get cleaned up and this was right by our door.

We all get freshed up and head on out to the van...yes we drove to the Gingerbread house. I couldn't think of walking anymore. We decided to go see Santa first since nobody was really there yet. There was one couple ahead of us and who would that be... Kade's family(mitoDadMO). I saw Annettes bag and knew who made that...lol. I didn't say anything at that time as they were getting off the stage and then it was our turn, but we do meet later.

Us meeting Santa

After seeing Santa we were instructed to follow the path to pick out a toy.

We then head to the Gingerbread house to have our first and only dinner there. Picture while walking over to the Gingerbread house.

The yummy Ice Cream Palace

Inside the Gingerbread house we meet with Mrs Claus

We get our food and Kylee started to complain of stomach pains...Ugh. She really didn't look good. I was just hoping she can enjoy our time at GKTW. Ms. Mary came by and made sure everyone was eating carrots. BTW...Today was St. Patty's Day and yes..we all had some kind of green on.

This is the time I again saw Kade's family sitting eating dinner so I went over there and introduced myself. We talked for a few...mostly about Mito. Again...no pictures. I wanted to get back because Kylee wasn't feeling good and knew she needed me.

Kylee laying on my lap while we eat.

After dinner we saw the carousal. Kylee has been asking to ride this since getting there. She told me she wanted to go on it and said she didn't care if her tummy hurt.

After 2 spins..Kylee started to perk back up again. I think she didn't want this night to hold her back. We next get on the carriage for a ride around the village.

Posting these in next post...I'm at my limit.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

We were on the carriage waiting to go around the village and the parade started. I took some pictures but they really didn't come out so not posting them.
Finally started our ride

Next we go in the Castle of Miracles. The first thing I had to do was find Kylee's star...which wasn't hard to find. We went right too it. Talk about tears falling. I just had to stand there and stare at it. I really didn't think we would ever see it again. I just thought how much worse off she is now then when we went on her trip. Just a hard time.

Pole is pointing to her star

Then I had to watch my other daughter make a star

Next up was doing something fun. mommy couldn't handle the sad stuff any longer. Time to make some pillows

Yep...Kylee is still holding her tummy

The kids thought the floor was cool that it was made with all buttons

The pillow tree maker..I'm sure he has a name

Time to play a little

Kylee with Mr. Snowman

We were here on St. Patty's Day

Of course the night wouldn't be the same without some ice cream

Korissas

Kyras

mine

We decided to call it night and hopefully get in bed early...which we did...if you call 11pm early...lol

Next up...Busch Gardens Day!!!

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Oh...I forgot in the beginning of story..when we were waiting to boarding our airplane in the tunnel thing at LAX we meant a gentle man. He saw our shirts and asked where we were going. We told him and he said he too was going to Florida for a business meeting. He worked for Holiday Inn. Guess who we saw at GKTW... The gentle man we meant at the airport. We talked a bit again. Their company is a huge sponsor for GKTW and they came to help out on Christmas night. I just thought that was cool. I wished we took a picture with him.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Pictures that was taken at Sea World while we were feeding the Dolphins. Just ecuse the crazy lady with the camera

 

[petals]

Thank you Emma( I am saying your name right.....right...lol)

Yup you are saying it right!

Glad Kylee made it through the night despite tummy pains. Poor Kiddie.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Yup you are saying it right!

Glad Kylee made it through the night despite tummy pains. Poor Kiddie.

I thought so from FB, then I got to thinking maybe I got the wrong person... Lol. Your TR doesn't give name.. At least I didn't see any.

 

[p00h4me]

Great pictures of the Christmas party at GKTW! Sorry that Kylee's tummy was starting to hurt but she was a trooper to ride the carousel and enjoy some of the activites there. Love seeing Kylee's star on the ceiling too!

Nice pictures from Sea world with the dolphins!

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Today was our Busch Gardens day finally. We have all been wanting to come here since our last visit to Florida, but GKTW didn't offer tickets back then. We told the House of Hearts at GKTW on Monday we wanted to go and all they did was fax over our request to Busch Gardens. What we were scared of was..we were told not to expect any special front of line passes, but they(Busch Gardens employees) could be nice and say we can, so unknown was hard. My kids can't stand in the heat for very long and it was a very hot day. I can say... we got the special treatment there too. It's just like Sea World where you go in the Quick Queue line.

On too the story. We get up at 7am, so we can be out the door by 8am...which we did. We first made a stop at the Gingerbread house for a Quick breakfast. We all get done by 8:30 and we were finally off to Tampa. The drive was like 90min(we had a couple of pit stops). This was our first sign we saw...

Parking was a nut. All the handicap parking was taken as it was already almost 11am. We finally found a spot in the priority parking, but I wouldn't say it was a priority parking...lol. Next stop was Guest relations to pick up our passes. This was a 30min wait. We finally get in, but had to go to the other guest relations to get Kylee's SN stroller as a wheelchair pass. That was another huge wait. I think we finally started walking at 12pm.

Our first ride was the Gwazi Roller coaster. Kylee and I sat this one out as we sat out a lot of rides here.

Couple of picture I took after walking to the next stop.

We headed to Walkabout Way to see some Kangaroos

First we saw some birds

Not sure what kind of bird these were, but they sure were colorful

On too the Kangaroos.

This is what I wanted too do...lol

Next we saw some Flamingos

Butterfly flower topiaries

Next stop was the Sesame Street Safari of Fun area. We rode Air Grover coaster. This was the only ride we rode on in this kiddie area.

By this time it was after 1:30 and we were all hungry so we decided to eat lunch at Zambie Smoke House. I highly recommend this place. It was yummy. After lunch the kids went on SheiKra roller Coaster.

If you want to get soaked just stand next to the ride.

After this ride it was the Stanley Fall Flume log ride. I really wanted to go on, but Kylee wouldn't have anything to do with it, so I sat this one too. Scott was going to stay with her, but I told him to just go.

Scott, Ashlee, and Kyra coming down

Steven and Korissa coming down

More coming up...

 

[that's nice]

Hey Kris! I'm all caught up!!!

Your SW days looks like it was a lot of fun!!! I can't believe the girls passed out on the way TO SW!

I guess Manta was a big hit with the kids!!

Loved all your Christmas pics at GKTW! So sorry Kylee wasn't feeling all too well. It looks like all you guys were living it up!

 

[mommy2mrb]

wow you were busy with your updates!
love your Christmas photos, how cool you got to meet Kade and his family...oh and Taylor's and her family (forgot to mention that earlier) and to see the man you met at the airport, how nice!

seeing Kylee's star must of been hard for you...it brought tears to my eyes and seeing Korissa doing her's too

boy the dolphins really loved you guys!

so happy you got to Busch Gardens, it is very fun isn't it? boy it must of been hot that day if the kangaroos were laying down in the shade!
Jim took me back in 1994 when we were living in West Palm Beach! but we did some more grown up stuff there...did the Bud tour! Jim was since he was a Bud Boy!!! hope to get back there on our next trip!

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Hey Kris! I'm all caught up!!!

Your SW days looks like it was a lot of fun!!! I can't believe the girls passed out on the way TO SW!

I guess Manta was a big hit with the kids!!

Loved all your Christmas pics at GKTW! So sorry Kylee wasn't feeling all too well. It looks like all you guys were living it up!

Thank you Tim. They were exhausted. I forgot the part that Ashlees cell phone fell out of her pocket on Manta. Just went back and edited it in.

wow you were busy with your updates!
love your Christmas photos, how cool you got to meet Kade and his family...oh and Taylor's and her family (forgot to mention that earlier) and to see the man you met at the airport, how nice!

seeing Kylee's star must of been hard for you...it brought tears to my eyes and seeing Korissa doing her's too

boy the dolphins really loved you guys!

so happy you got to Busch Gardens, it is very fun isn't it? boy it must of been hot that day if the kangaroos were laying down in the shade!
Jim took me back in 1994 when we were living in West Palm Beach! but we did some more grown up stuff there...did the Bud tour! Jim was since he was a Bud Boy!!! hope to get back there on our next trip!

I have been busy with my TR and I haven't been able to get to everyone TR now I promise I will read and comment when I get home later today. This week has me going.

I can't tell you how emotional I was. I was just so thankful that we got to see her star again.

I'm trying to hurry up on my TR and I know Gail has been looking forward to our BG day. It was really hot that day. I think it was 86 or 87. We use to have a Busch Gardens here in So Cal when I was little and it was at the Bud factory, but they took it down. I think you and Megan would love Busch Gardens.

 

[p00h4me]

Went back to read about Ashlee's phone. Glad she was able to get it back but sorry to hear it died when you got back home. Hopefully it's insured!

You started on your Busch Garden day! You don't have to rush into this day on my account. I just had mixed up what day you were doing next.My bad!

That was nice of them to give you some pixie dust so you could get through the line faster! Hope everyone enjoyed the rides they were looking forward to at BG! The older I get the less appealing those fast rides are to me any more!

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the day but don't rush on my account!

 

[miprender]

WOW what a wonderful day at Seaworld.

Can't wait to read more about Busch Gardens. This is the 1st trip report where someone went there and can't wait to see more pics.

 

[tinytreasures]

Bummer about the phone but I have to say your posts are getting me more and more excited about our trip. I can't wait to go back to sea world.


On another note your link was very informative. I think I am going to call and ask for the test.

 

[jessica52877]

I need to catch up with your TR! I only scrolled through and it looks like you have so many beautiful pictures of your family and wrote a wonderful report! I'll be back to read it all!

 

[Mom2mitokids]

Went back to read about Ashlee's phone. Glad she was able to get it back but sorry to hear it died when you got back home. Hopefully it's insured!

You started on your Busch Garden day! You don't have to rush into this day on my account. I just had mixed up what day you were doing next.My bad!

That was nice of them to give you some pixie dust so you could get through the line faster! Hope everyone enjoyed the rides they were looking forward to at BG! The older I get the less appealing those fast rides are to me any more!

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the day but don't rush on my account!

I'm not rushing this day because you. I want you to know how this day went because we were there because of you. I'm excited to share this with you. I really want to do my Discovery Cove day, but that's the last day. I just don't want to end my TR, because that's it... no more trip . I hope this all makes since...long day. Tomorrow Kylee has her post OP appt and gets to redo her blood test that Quest missed up on.

 

[Mom2mitokids]

WOW what a wonderful day at Seaworld.

Can't wait to read more about Busch Gardens. This is the 1st trip report where someone went there and can't wait to see more pics.

Thank you Michelle I'm hoping to finish the day tomorrow after Kylees doctors appt.

Bummer about the phone but I have to say your posts are getting me more and more excited about our trip. I can't wait to go back to sea world.


On another note your link was very informative. I think I am going to call and ask for the test.

Thank you Kathleen. Please do and ask his doctor. It was great chatting with you on FB.

I need to catch up with your TR! I only scrolled through and it looks like you have so many beautiful pictures of your family and wrote a wonderful report! I'll be back to read it all!

Thank you. Please do come back and read