Mommy...Why does Crush talk like you? Final thoughts and summary 10/15

[camelotcats]

We're back. I slept until noon and feel reasonably caught up. I have piles of laundry to do, and a house to clean. Looks like it's a great time to start the Trip Report!!

OK. This post will be where the hot links (Once I figure out how to do them properly), and other stuff will be. Everything else will begin in the next post.

PTR:

Know where my FAVORITE place in the world is Mommy?

TR Links:

A little Background: post 2
Chapter 1: The Great wake up, and is Our Driver Trying to Kill us?? This page, post 7
Chapter 2: Mommy needs a Time out and the Horrible Mommy Moment of 2008
Chapter 3: POOL Time and Everyone gets a nap....or do they?
Chapter 4: An Auspicious start to our Dining Experiences...
A quick Detour.....NYC DISMeet with bad pics and no description
Chapter 5: Day 2 - Sleep talking and the CARGOES OF HOLDING +1
Chapter 6: The Philly Guy and a Yellow Power Ranger
Chapter 7: Babysitter? Babysitter!?! We don’t need no STEENKIN’ Babysitter!!
Chapter 8: Mine...Mine....Mine....Mine...
Chapter 9: A Meal with a Reputation.....
Chapter 10: Another Shining Example of Parenting Gone Bad.....
Intermission 1: HHBG loses his Job
Chapter 11: Yummy food and the worst afternoon EVER.
Chapter 12: the great Wake-up and “Didn’t we eat this last year??”
Chapter 13: Who designed this park anyway??
Chapter 14: The Rest of a Long Day in the Animal Kingdom......
Chapter 15: HHBG makes his wife VERY HAPPY
Chapter 16: The WORST cab driver ever, a ride to the castle and HAIR OF STEEL.
Chapter 17: SURPRISE!!
Chapter 18: Piles of Seafood, and we forget the camera AGAIN.
Chapter 19: Why Adults ride Dumbo....
Chapter 20: Another guest goes off on a lifeguard so Mommy doesn’t have to.
Chapter 21: HHBG has the same taste in art as a restaurant.
Chapter 22: Splitting up to hit the highlights.....
Chapter 23: The long awaited lunch and more park hopping.....
Chapter 24: Dinner with a mammal, or YES, you can be underdressed at WDW
Chapter 25: Homeward Bound
Final thoughts and summary

 

[camelotcats]

Just a quick reminder of who you are going to be dealing with....

ME:

Not much more to say about me that wasn't already said in the PTR (I recommend reading at least the first few pages). Oh....I say "dude" and "sweet" WAY too much.

My DH, The Hunka Hunka Burning Geek (HHBG):

Again, good description on the PTR....he was back on World of Warcrach within 5 minutes of our walking in the front door. I forced him to get an account here, so he may pop in from time to time with thoughts, but usually he considers this "MY" board.


Spencer, 5:

He was pretty good this trip. He's easily distracted, though.


Brianna, 4:

Became the tantrum queen. She never got enough sleep all trip....

Oh, and remember this picture??

Here's this year's version!

Look how much she grew.

Ok, we'll bust into the TR soon. HHBG just ticked me off, and I need to go calm down.

 

[Tanya90210]

Score!! I'm first one here.... Love the pics !!! Esp you DH in his pirate hat... Sorry to hear HHBG ticked you off... I hate when DH's do that... mine loves to do that

 

[Hedy]

Wow-what a difference a year makes! B has the most expressive face.

 

[Tanya90210]

Almost forgot... Woot Woot to above picture!!!

 

[DisDancerina]

All I have to say on my behalf is that B is very... Colorful. With her expressions.

Also, I like that picture of you, it looks cool! Can't wait to hear what happened during your trip!

 

[camelotcats]

Chapter 1: The great Wake up, and is our driver trying to kill us??

So, our great Disney trip starts with the great wake up. HHBG had gone to bed around 1 am. I decided to join him, though I barely slept. I was too afraid of sleeping through the alarm.

Finally, at 3:30, his phone went off, and he and I took our showers. I went in to check on B, and SHE WASN’T THERE!! Where was she!? I figured she had probably snuck into her brother’s room, since we had so many fights with them the night before to go to bed.

Well, I looked and she wasn’t on the floor, or on his giant dog....where was she??

Suddenly my brain said this to me: “Wait a minute....Spencer has four legs.....is he a mutant?”

Nope. She’s asleep in the bed with him

We got all of the bags and stuff down to the curb and waited for the car driver to call us that he was here. The call came at 3:50, so we each grabbed a sleeping kid and went out to the car.

We all loaded into the back seat and were off! Disney HERE WE COME!!

Uh....does the driver realise that’s a concrete divider he’s headed straight towards??

GAH!! Is he trying to wake us up by swerving at the nick of time??

Now he’s taking up 2 lanes of traffic.....

Maybe we should suggest that he turn on some hard rock music???

Finally, after many scares, we get to the airport....and are the FIRST ONES on line at the ticketing counter! Score!! We get our seat assignments, and go through security.

Wait a minute....our boarding passes say row 1, seats a, c, f, and d.....uh.....dude, are we in BUSINESS CLASS??? I guess the travel agent upgraded us without us knowing about it (Though we probably PAID for it)

We board the planes, and YEP. Business class. SWEET. But we are in the first row, so everything has to go above our heads....now I am one of those people who prefers that their stuff be under the seat in front of them, and easily accessible. Not this trip. Both from White Plains to Atlanta and Atlanta to Orlando, everything has to be over our heads. Ok, I can deal, especially considering the Milano cookies I got instead of pretzels...

We watched the sun come up out the window as we took off from White plains, and we were off.

Our flights and connections were uneventful, and soon we were touching down in Orlando....

We walked ourselves to the ME line, and got in the HUGE line. We waited an HOUR and fifteen minutes between checking in at ME and waiting to get onto the bus. FINALLY, we were off.

we took a Mears bus for some reason so no movie. the kids played with their POS cameras (which soon got chucked out), and we were off to the WILDERNESS LODGE!!

Coming soon: Mommy needs a time-out....or three.

 

[camelotcats]

Score!! I'm first one here.... Love the pics !!! Esp you DH in his pirate hat... Sorry to hear HHBG ticked you off... I hate when DH's do that... mine loves to do that

Welcome!! Yeah, I am not too happy with him right now. There will also be a theme with him on our trip....

Wow-what a difference a year makes! B has the most expressive face.

Thanks! I couldn't believe the difference in height!

Almost forgot... Woot Woot to above picture!!!

yes, I agree.

All I have to say on my behalf is that B is very... Colorful. With her expressions.

Also, I like that picture of you, it looks cool! Can't wait to hear what happened during your trip!

Yeah, she's kind of crazy. Here eyes were bugging her that day, too. Sunblock in them...

 

[brookelizabeth]

Glad B was tall enough on the rides - and her dress looks fantastic!

Great pictures of everyone, looking forward to hearing all about it.

 

[Charleston Princess]

Yeay! I found the start of your TR!

 

[camelotcats]

Also, the red dress Brianna is wearing was made for me by a friend...she surprised me with a package that arrived the day before we left...the pink Ariel dress from the TR that didn't fit right got left home.

 

[camelotcats]

Glad B was tall enough on the rides - and her dress looks fantastic!

Great pictures of everyone, looking forward to hearing all about it.

Thanks!! A friend of mine made the dress. She does really great work.

Yeay! I found the start of your TR!

Woo hoo!

 

[DisDancerina]

Also, the red dress Brianna is wearing was made for me by a friend...she surprised me with a package that arrived the day before we left...the pink Ariel dress from the TR that didn't fit right got left home.

Aww, it was my favorite, too!

 

[HHBG]

It makes me very sad you get upset at HHBG.

When momma's not happy, ain't nobody happy.... as I am constantly reminded. Doh! That's probably done it again, Ack - some days are like that. ahhhh maybe I can go run some errands or something.

 

[jcc0621]

Uh....does the driver realise that’s a concrete divider he’s headed straight towards??

Wait a minute....our boarding passes say row 1, seats a, c, f, and d.....uh.....dude, are we in BUSINESS CLASS??? I guess the travel agent upgraded us without us knowing about it (Though we probably PAID for it)

now I am one of those people who prefers that their stuff be under the seat in front of them, and easily accessible.

I am like this too Angela, especailly with little one's..so much easier to grab games or whatever.

Our flights and connections were uneventful, and soon we were touching down in Orlando....

We walked ourselves to the ME line, and got in the HUGE line. We waited an HOUR and fifteen minutes between checking in at ME and waiting to get onto the bus. FINALLY, we were off.[/!UOTE]

OMG What time did you land?

Coming soon: Mommy needs a time-out....or three.

It makes me very sad you get upset at HHBG.

When momma's not happy, ain't nobody happy.... as I am constantly reminded. Doh! That's probably done it again, Ack - some days are like that. ahhhh maybe I can go run some errands or something.

ANd the problem with this is

 

[disneyhockeymad]

Just sat and read your PTR... so long, but so worth it!!!
Loving your TR already! Can't wait to read more!!

 

[KatGarcia]

subbing..BBL to read!

 

[eeyore3847]

Glad you started your trip report, I can not wait for all the pics!!!!

lori

 

[camelotcats]

Aww, it was my favorite, too!

it was just too short. I am fixing it for summer wear...

It makes me very sad you get upset at HHBG.

When momma's not happy, ain't nobody happy.... as I am constantly reminded. Doh! That's probably done it again, Ack - some days are like that. ahhhh maybe I can go run some errands or something.

Maybe you can get off of WoW and spend some time with your wife...just sayin'.....

I am like this too Angela, especailly with little one's..so much easier to grab games or whatever.



OMG What time did you land?



ANd the problem with this is

Our flight landed at about 10:45am. The parks were more crowded than expected all week.

HHBg sits with kids on the plane...then I take over once we land while he gets the bags.

The driver was practically falling asleep the whole drive....probems with drivers became a trend for us this trip.....

 

[camelotcats]

Just sat and read your PTR... so long, but so worth it!!!
Loving your TR already! Can't wait to read more!!

I can't believe you read the whole thing! Most of the important stuff was in the beginning. I'm glad you felt it was worth it, though.

WELCOME!

subbing..BBL to read!

Hi!!

Glad you started your trip report, I can not wait for all the pics!!!!

lori

Thanks!! A few items you may recognize will show up.