YAY another post!!!!!!!!!
And a cheek-biter it was!!! Wow, what a roller coaster of a day you guys had! Glad to see that it all worked out in the end (all but the camera anyway, we'll have to wait and see what came of that) and you finally made it "home". Can't wait for the next installment!
It was crazy, but of course that chaos instantly melts away as soon as you realize you are "home!" Oh, stay tuned for the camera drama--it rivals some of the best soaps out there!
Bless your heart! I feel so relieved you finally got there!
I'm looking forward to pictures of Old Key West! It's on my list!
OKW really is a pretty resort--very relaxing to come home to each day! We had a beautiful view and prime location----but you will have to wait for the next installment to find out all about that!!! I will give you my review of the place soon! STAY TUNED!!!
The Morrow Curse! That it is!
We had to be neck and neck the whole way down -- we got on the highway from the Morrow Fiasco around 8:15. However, with Tom's driving, you were probably way ahead of us most of the way!
Don't you love Western Way?
So glad that you FINALLY made it to Old Key West!
Hope the camera situation improves for you! That would have been so frustrating!
So what WERE you doing in Morrow at 8:15??? We probably were next to one another a LOT!!! I SO love Western Way--but I hope that the secret doesn't get out too much, or else it won't be such a great find!!!!!!! OH THE DRAMA OF THE CAMERA DEBAUCLE!!! OH ME OH MY!!!
Your post just reaffirmed that I am so so so happy I bought my new camera before the trip... or I am sure I would not have captured a lot of our great moments!
Glad you arrived! Can't wait for the fun to begin!
Let me put it this way, whenever that little voice in the back of your head starts telling you that something might be wrong--especially when it pertains to a WDW trip---LISTEN!!!
The drama just keeps going and going!!!!! Stay tuned for lots more fun and PICS!!! (Hmmm?!!?!?!?)
What a whirlwind of a day! I am SO glad you finally made it there! Didn't all your travelling mishaps just go out the window after you made it "home" ?
Can't wait to hear more! I love your writing style!
It was a crazy day, but like you said, it all just melted away as soon as we heard the "Welcome Home!" Oh, that is the best feeling!
More is coming soon! Thanks for the compliment on my writing style--many times people have told me that I had a talent for writing, but I guess I have never had the confidence enough to actually believe them!! I would SO love to write a children's book that would actually be published. I have spent years journaling and jotting down ideas, but never take the time to actually devote to finishing them out. I wish writing them felt as easy and as comfortable as writing these reports!!!!!! I would have thousands written by now if they were!
Sorry to hear of the troubles in Morrow.. I think you still made better time then we did and Morrow is about 45 min from us... I am guessing your Camera situation improved
Can't wait to read more..
Is anyone else doing this now... Like this time last week we were all watching Wishes
All week I have been , this time last week we were doing this or that etc... soooo sad..... since I have no idea when we will be back.
I started doing that even before we left--these trips go by WAY too quickly, which is so unfair considering the amount of time we spent planning them! My sister said the truest thing about our trip before we left--she said it all went by so quickly and in such a blur that it felt like we didn't actually live it--it was like walking through a dream or something. How can we figure out how to bottle it up one morsel at a time so it lasts longer? We didn't get as much down time as I would have liked this time, so it has caused me to once again go for a longer time next time--is there ever a long enough Disney trip?
Yay...I'm finally caught up now. Wow, you guys had one heck of a time on the drive down and
about the camera. I would have totally freaked out. I'm so glad that you guys made it "home" finally. And, geez, you are so good with those cliff hangers.
Cant wait foe the next installment!!
Thank you so much for the kind reply. I do get sooo excited when I find someone else going through the same amazing adventure we go through on a daily basis. Not many people understand, sadly not even family, why DS2 is "freaking" out because there is still one tiny spot of yogurt left on his shirt that needs to be cleaned, or why his bookbag needs to be completely centered in the back seat before we pull out and go.
BTW....Congrats on the weight loss. I loss 40 lbs last year and remember how "on top of the world" i felt. It is such an accomplishment.
Too funny on how your sister can just sleep in the car. Unfortunately I could never do that. If I'm not driving I always have to have an eye out...just incase.
Megan is too cute and looked so excited on her way to Disney. OMG...what an angel in her Minnie dress.
Melissa--first of all, you made me laugh and cry all at the same time when you were talking about a.) the fact that friends and family really just don't understand what our little ones are going through and b.) when you shared the examples of the yogurt spot and the backpack on the back seat. There are a thousand and one things that happen throughout the day with Miss Megan along those lines that always need to be taken care of and addressed. She can't stand tags in clothing or feeling anything uncomfortable or scratchy on her clothes; all her toys have to put away in the right place, and if they aren't she can't function until everything is put right again; she has a routine and pattern for everything she does in her life--brushing her teeth, bedtime rituals, eating at the table--and if any of those routines get thrown out of whack, she crumbles and can't pull it back together again until things are the way she wants and is used to them. There are so many things like that that I could share with you--and I completely agree that the only ones who ever really understand are people like us that have to juggle these problems for our children on a daily basis. I feel like I spend the majority of my day, preventing things from getting out of line for her, or fixing and correcting them when they do. Many of my friends think I should just let her melt down and get over it, but they don't get that she physically CAN'T just get over it---these things become painful distractions, and in Megan's case, she physically can't begin to try to process anything else or new until we fix the current problem--it's like being a broken record stuck on the same scratch. If it is something affecting her sense of touch, it is literally painful like daggers to her until the problem is resolved--thank God for tagless clothing! I think it is even harder for people to understand because she appears completely "normal" from the outside--they just don't know what she feels like on the inside!!! Sending hugs to you and your angel---
Stay tuned for more TR fun!! Jen P.S. Congrats to you on your weight loss also!!! Maybe you can be another cheerleader for me to lose more!!! I want to keep going until I reach my goal--whatever that is!!! (I haven't figured out how much to lose yet!)
Okay, I just realized that I sound like a MAJOR road rager, and I just need to interject that I am usually a very stable, calm, and patient person. I was just very amped up on Friday and Saturday with EXTREME excitement about getting to WDW!! I humbly ask for all apologies for my little rants!! 
I am sure the people could hear me screaming for at least 100 miles!!! Not only did I miss "the shot," I knew that this meant VERY bad things for the future!!!!!! OH, I was SO right too!!! You will have to stay tuned to see how the camera saga continues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
) I forgot to tell you that we were hoping to catch up to them and pass them--they were only a little more than two hours ahead of us at the beginning of the day, and we left almost an hour before them, but with all our delays and whatnot, we were unable to surprise them at the resort. OH WELL!! So we finished the car wash, and then looped around and went through Arby's for lunch, and then back on the road again!!! FINALLY!!! Our next stop would be Disney----RIGHT?!?!?!??!
Don't leave us hanging!!! 
That's right---a little bit of Happy Dancing!!! 
But I was excited to find out that their rooms were both in building 14--one of the building locations I had requested because it is so close to the HH and bus stop!! So again I was 
Not at Disney, but at his Mom's DUMB bank! We did all that shuffling of funds around, and were NOT even able to use it!!! We went ahead and just paid it with our emergency credit card that we NEVER use, and will just pay it off with the money from the STUPID account when the bill comes! Needless to say, all our accounts at that bank are about to be closed for good---regardless of the fact his mom works there! 
