kaysmommie
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to my trip report! This will be my first trippie. We are staying at our favorite resort again this year courtesy of the really good code from October 3-11th, 8 glorious nights at the Poly. My kids want to sell our house and live there, hence the name of my report. We had a wonderful stay there last year and soon as I got home I was crunching numbers to see when we would be able to go back. Here is the worst part, we are driving
. It takes 10 hours from Knoxville. Which is were we live now even though we are from the Jersey Shore. Which we always flew when we lived there since it's so far. Also my trip will be overlapping with my brother and his family. Let's just say they don't believe in touring plans. We will only spend a little bit of time together since we are staying at different resorts and my brother can be a complete butthead sometimes. Our favorite resort!!
This is us from last year.
Now meet the characters...
I'm Nichole
, and I love taking my kids to Disney and spend way tooo much on the DIS. I'm a SAHM of 2 that is never home since all I do is run kids everywhere. I love all kinds of travel but right now I'm hooked on Disney. I love all the planning and my own family makes fun of me but their so happy when they get to do all the best things at Disney and don't wait in lines. My first trip was when I was 6 and those are some funny pics let me tell ya. My favorite character is Tink. Hoping to try the Disney cruise next year if it's in the budget. This will be my 6th trip to Disney.
Tom
, My husband for over 8 years likes Disney but mostly tolerates it for us. He never went as a child and his first trip was in 2002 with DD and I. He would rather relax more instead of getting up so early and running to Dumbo or Soarin
He says Disney is too much work. He lets me do all the planning because he is really not interested. Great, more fun for me. The Disney character he is much like is Grumpy. But he is and awesome dad!
Here is Tom and I..at Poly last Fall.
DD
Kaylee, is 7 yrs. old and in second grade. She loves Disney just like mom. She has the best heart ever but she can be a spoiled too. Kaylee loves American girl dolls. She is a dancer and has taken Ballet, Tap and Jazz since she was 2.5. Her favorite characters are the Princesses, Tink & Minnie. But she is much more into Hannah Montana and HSM now. I'm so sad she is growing up. This will be Kaylee's 4th trip to Disney.
DS
Thomas, is 3 yrs. old and loves Disney the most!! He is easygoing but he can get very grouchy and stubborn when he is tired. He loves Cars, Einsteins & Mickey of course. His favorite rides are Dumbo
, Peter Pan and the Teacups . He thinks Alice is his girlfriend since she kissed him last year,
. This will be Thomas 2nd trip to Disney.
Let's just say we had a little bit of a rough year and were really looking forward to this trip. Nothing major just some health scares for me (hypothyroid) and other things. I planned it for over 8 months and even joined TGM. Made my ADR's right at 180 days too. Our Anniversary happened to fall right before the trip too, so I planned a small surprise for DH. Everyday I read DIS and TGM and many of your trip reports to get ready for our trip. Anyway our trip was awesome and I'm really missing Disney right now. So what better way to deal with Disney depression then to share our trip... I will have a ton of pics and just ordered the photopass CD too.
to my trip report! This will be my first trippie. We are staying at our favorite resort again this year courtesy of the really good code from October 3-11th, 8 glorious nights at the Poly. My kids want to sell our house and live there, hence the name of my report. We had a wonderful stay there last year and soon as I got home I was crunching numbers to see when we would be able to go back. Here is the worst part, we are driving
. It takes 10 hours from Knoxville. Which is were we live now even though we are from the Jersey Shore. Which we always flew when we lived there since it's so far. Also my trip will be overlapping with my brother and his family. Let's just say they don't believe in touring plans. We will only spend a little bit of time together since we are staying at different resorts and my brother can be a complete butthead sometimes. Our favorite resort!!
This is us from last year.
Now meet the characters...
I'm Nichole
, and I love taking my kids to Disney and spend way tooo much on the DIS. I'm a SAHM of 2 that is never home since all I do is run kids everywhere. I love all kinds of travel but right now I'm hooked on Disney. I love all the planning and my own family makes fun of me but their so happy when they get to do all the best things at Disney and don't wait in lines. My first trip was when I was 6 and those are some funny pics let me tell ya. My favorite character is Tink. Hoping to try the Disney cruise next year if it's in the budget. This will be my 6th trip to Disney.Tom
, My husband for over 8 years likes Disney but mostly tolerates it for us. He never went as a child and his first trip was in 2002 with DD and I. He would rather relax more instead of getting up so early and running to Dumbo or Soarin
He says Disney is too much work. He lets me do all the planning because he is really not interested. Great, more fun for me. The Disney character he is much like is Grumpy. But he is and awesome dad!Here is Tom and I..at Poly last Fall.
DD
Kaylee, is 7 yrs. old and in second grade. She loves Disney just like mom. She has the best heart ever but she can be a spoiled too. Kaylee loves American girl dolls. She is a dancer and has taken Ballet, Tap and Jazz since she was 2.5. Her favorite characters are the Princesses, Tink & Minnie. But she is much more into Hannah Montana and HSM now. I'm so sad she is growing up. This will be Kaylee's 4th trip to Disney.
DS
Thomas, is 3 yrs. old and loves Disney the most!! He is easygoing but he can get very grouchy and stubborn when he is tired. He loves Cars, Einsteins & Mickey of course. His favorite rides are Dumbo
, Peter Pan and the Teacups . He thinks Alice is his girlfriend since she kissed him last year,
. This will be Thomas 2nd trip to Disney.
Let's just say we had a little bit of a rough year and were really looking forward to this trip. Nothing major just some health scares for me (hypothyroid) and other things. I planned it for over 8 months and even joined TGM. Made my ADR's right at 180 days too. Our Anniversary happened to fall right before the trip too, so I planned a small surprise for DH. Everyday I read DIS and TGM and many of your trip reports to get ready for our trip. Anyway our trip was awesome and I'm really missing Disney right now. So what better way to deal with Disney depression then to share our trip... I will have a ton of pics and just ordered the photopass CD too.



,this is my Husbands doing as I'm not a big sports fan. The neighbors think were nuts.
. But Tom had to go to work until late afternoon and Kaylee had
school. She would be missing 3 days as it is and then the following week she has fall break, so not missing much school. Anyway I had to finish packing and drop our 2 dogs (Shih Tzu's) off at Grandma's for the week. Also had to check the
DIS. After that I went to get Kaylee from school and we loaded the minivan
(yes I drive one of those) so that when Tom gets home we are outta here.
to be going to the Poly in the morning. We ate breakfast at the hotel and of course service was slow
and I wished I just gave the kids poptarts to eat in the car since we were only just over 3 hours away. Finally we hit the road and 3 hours later just before lunch we arrived!
crowded?