our not so star warsy weekend

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This is my first ever trip report, We were going for Star Wars Weekend. We left Indiana may 27th and left Disney june 3rd. Now that we have that covered, pretty much no one knows me or my Disney family so Here we are
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the happily wedded Laura and Kevin

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and the ones not mentioned before are carlin( or carli)-8 months kayleigh-8 lilly-6 bennett-9 and me matthew 14
later i will introduce you to the rest of the gang, but for now they are not here.




It was also Carlins(or Carly) first visit, lauras Birthday, and Kevin and Lauras 3rd anniversary that we were celebrating , We also did the give a day get a day with the lionel making blankets. If you are wondering about the shirts, my sister made most of them, you will be able to tell which ones she made and which she didnt, not because hers are bad but because most of them she painted. the outfits in the above picture she made, the skirts and all.
please post if you are reading and subscribing or else i wont continue.
 
So I saw that there were 66 views, but how many are really reading along. the only thing I ask is that you tell me once that you are reading, only once, then you dont have to post, that way I feel like this is worth it.
 
So I should probably tell you how it all went down before we left. About 5 days before we left ( 4 sleeps is what we call it) we had some surprises from kevins sister, Carrie and her husband Clint, they live down in Florida but we will get to that later. They sent a box of goodies for the trip and we opened that first:goodvibes. Everyone got a shirt and there were animal crackers and games and whole bunch of cool stuff:cool2:. Mickey sent us a box that surprised them that we were leaving 4 sleeps in advance. So we started packing since they now knew. Those days had to be the longest days of our lives, and the kids had to go to school. So the last day of school came and we picked them up and away we went. First to home, then Bennett in kokomo, Then we left for Disney.
 

Real quick i should probably ask, do you like the big pics that go off the screen or the smaller ones. I know that the big ones drive me nuts because I have to scroll back and forth to read the rest of the post. Input?
 
When everyone started to wake up, we were about 4 hours from Disney World. So me and Laura decided to look at Disney billboards. Once we finally got to Orlando, Kevin's wonderful GPS got messed up and again, we went the wrong way. We estimated that we would be at the resort by noon. Kevin stopped at a gas station and asked how to get there. They looked at him like he was crazy and showed him that it was probably about one mile down the road. So we went down that mile and saw this
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We were staying at ASMu and got there at about 2. Luckily Laura and Kevin decided not to get tickets for the day we arrived so we stayed at the resort and looked around, went swimming, all the stuff you do the day you get there.
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We stayed in building one so it was close to everything.The kids favorite part? the bongo staircase. I didnt understand but they are kids so why not?Thats all we did the first day was swim. I got one of the refillable mugs. It was way worth it since we were on the meal plan. I would fill it in the morning and have a coke or something, then we would go to the parks and all we had was water. Then we would come back and i would have another mug of coke or something, then go to bed. I will definitly be getting one next time we go (in 2 years).

Tomorrow, Hollywood studios and star wars weekend.
 
Great start:thumbsup2 Please keep writing. I am sure you will get more comments. I know I started my first report in May (after 7 trips) & I only have a handful of followers but Amy is one of them (we are from the same state).

I personally like the big pictures. Great pic of the Disney sign:thumbsup2. I love it when we see that sign.

How did you like ASmu?? Our first trip in 1999 we stayed at AS movies. We liked it. Now I love POFQ & have stayed there 3 times.

Keep up the TR!!
 
Hi Matt! I'm reading along! :goodvibes
sorry i forgot to :welcome: you. But there you are I just :welcome:ed you

Great start:thumbsup2 Please keep writing. I am sure you will get more comments. I know I started my first report in May (after 7 trips) & I only have a handful of followers but Amy is one of them (we are from the same state).

I personally like the big pictures. Great pic of the Disney sign:thumbsup2. I love it when we see that sign.

How did you like ASmu?? Our first trip in 1999 we stayed at AS movies. We liked it. Now I love POFQ & have stayed there 3 times.

Keep up the TR!!
:welcome:and :thanks: for joining. ASMu was great. We want to go to one of the more expensive resorts like PORS or something like that but we just dont have that much money. I dont have any complaints about the value (cant remember if ASMu was a value or something else) resorts, we usually go to the parks so we dont have many hours spent in the room. We stayed at ASMo before this one, i have only been to disney twice.
 
Cute kiddos! They look happy to be at Disney!!

Any size pictures you want to post are good with me! :thumbsup2
 
sorry i forgot to :welcome: you. But there you are I just :welcome:ed you


:welcome:and :thanks: for joining. ASMu was great. We want to go to one of the more expensive resorts like PORS or something like that but we just dont have that much money. I dont have any complaints about the value (cant remember if ASMu was a value or something else) resorts, we usually go to the parks so we dont have many hours spent in the room. We stayed at ASMo before this one, i have only been to disney twice.

We didn't have that much money when we went the first time either. We saved for many years before we went. And then we did not go again from 1999 until 2004. Seven years ago I was lucky to get a supervisor position where I work which allows us to go more often now.

The value resorts can be so much fun!! We also stayed at POP Century in 2006. We liked it there also but it gives me some bad memories as I came down with pnemonia while we were there:scared1: You are right-you are only in the room to shower & sleep so sometimes it does not seem worth the extra expense. My 2 sons (21 & 17) are now very spoiled by staying at POFQ. I must say DH & I have also been spoiled. Love the hot tub!!

Looking forward to your next update!!
 
I forgot to post about Chef Mickey's!!!:scared1::eek:. I know that everyone says that CM isn' all that great, but I find it pretty good, maybe it's because we were at the Contemporary.:confused3, but I never get any bad food.We went and had dinner
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Carlin waiting to leave.:laughing:
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We had to ride to MK so we could take the monorail, later we would ride the monorail all the way around to get back to MK.
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At the time(except for Mickey) Carlin wasn't so sure about the characters, seeing as though that was the first time she had ever seen them. But the next day she loved them.
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the kids loved the monorail, Carlin slept through the whole thing.
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That was on the way back to MK, from there we went back "home", shall we call it that.
I may post MGM(because everyone will forever call it that) later tonight, I don't know, maybe.
 
Carlin is a cutie!!

I love riding the monorail also:thumbsup2

We have been to Chef Mickey's a few times & I find the food so so. It is the interaction with the characters that makes it so fun.
 
Carlin is a cutie!!

I love riding the monorail also:thumbsup2

We have been to Chef Mickey's a few times & I find the food so so. It is the interaction with the characters that makes it so fun.

We lover her, she is hilarious with some of the stuff she does. I guess now that you mention it, i could make some of that stuff, if not most of it, at home.
 
Joining in for the fun. You have such a cute family and I am loving the outfits. Some of our dates overlapped your's.
 
Really enjoying your report so please keep it coming. And I agree with you - the big pix make me crazy with the scrolling!!!:headache:
 
Day 3 (or day 1 in the parks), Everyone woke up, I never checked the times that everyone got up sorry, got ready changed clothes, got some zone bars to eat or cereal, then we headed to the bus stop.
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this is what the backs of our shirts said
We used the EMH so we didnt get to see the opening 'ceremony' with the storm troopers.But we did get in before rope drop so thats good.
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the sun was in our eyes if you couldnt tell. First we went to meet some characters.
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We also met handy manny, minnie, piglet, and minnie. then we met this little guy.
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after meeting the characters we did star tours since it will be referbished by the time we come again. Me kayleigh, and lilly went to do TOT. They did fine untill the elevator came out of the shaft, Then they flipped out when the doors opened when you look outside and we dropped.They hated it.
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While we were looking for Kevin and Bennett, Kayleigh and Lilly went through basic training with the army men from toystory.We met up with Kevin and did toystory mania. That really tires your arm. After Beuty and the Beast, Laura and the kids went back 'home' While me and Kevin stayed back. We did tower of terror. Then I had made my first pin trade ever.. I had bought 40 pins on ebay to trade, and they are right, when you get started you dont want to stop. Then we did the backlot tour,Bennett went to get in line for the jedi training acadamy earlier. So everyone came back so Bennett could do that, thats where the not so star warsy comes in. It was a huge storm and we waited for at least an hour and then it didnt happen. but he did get a star wars action figure.Then we went to once apon a dream.After that we went to do the hoopla and once again, it was cancelled due to rain.So we went to the pin traders under the hat and then got some smoked turkey legs. They are the best. then we left.Every night, all the kids were in bed at least 1 hour after we got back..
up next, Magic Kingdom With Clint and Carrie.
 
hi and welcome to the dis! I have been lurking for a long time on here and i am finally posting instead of just reading lol . looks like a fun trip so far. i am from Indiana and we drive down and our last trip we had a GPS and i wont travel without one again it was great. It help out so much with lane guide around big cities like Atlanta. It did lead us wrong on the turnpike but it turned out alright we made it anyway. Good job on the trip report.
 
Joining in for the fun. You have such a cute family and I am loving the outfits. Some of our dates overlapped your's.
:welcome:Thanks, which dates over lapped, maybe you're in some of our pictures???
Really enjoying your report so please keep it coming. And I agree with you - the big pix make me crazy with the scrolling!!!:headache:
:welcome:Everyone else said they don't care, so I will downsize them.

hi and welcome to the dis! I have been lurking for a long time on here and i am finally posting instead of just reading lol . looks like a fun trip so far. i am from Indiana and we drive down and our last trip we had a GPS and i wont travel without one again it was great. It help out so much with lane guide around big cities like Atlanta. It did lead us wrong on the turnpike but it turned out alright we made it anyway. Good job on the trip report.

:welcome::rainbow:(the rainbow was for living in Indiana.)Where in IN? We used the GPS on Kevin's phone, and it was dying, we had to keep stopping at a gas station, we figured maybe that was the problem?
It was a great trip.:banana:
 
Day 4(day 2 in the parks) was MK. But today was a special day... We met up with Clint and Carrie
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This is Carrie and Caleb, one of their sons
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At the far right is Clint and their other son, Ethan.
This morning we got up and did our usual thing. When we got there we were looking for Clint and Carrie just to find out that they were in the tunnel. We watched the opening, I recorded it and knew that the party streamer stuff would come out but when it did I still jumped, you can see it in the video. When we found them, we did a few rides before our ADR at Christal Palace, then we went to eat
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Carlin liked her strawberries and whipped cream.
After that we went to do Buzz, I cant remember the name, but me and Kay spun around a lot, it was fun. After that we did PotC and Jungle cruise, carrie and the girls went on the flying carpets, it must have taken them an hour at least. By that time ,Clint and his gang were getting tired so they headed back to their resort, We all split up and I went to become a disney freak, I got my Mickey ears, balloon, and to trade more pins, I went to get my mom her present, twas a glass slipper with her name a birthstone in it. Later clint and his gang came back and we rode a lot more rides, It started getting dark and I wasnt feeling good, so I headed back to the room with Laura and the girls. We said goodbye to Clint and his gang ( we would see them the next week), and went to the room. Carrie recorded Wishes for me, I didnt get to see it:headache::mad::sad1:

Up next: EPCOT
 
Carlin sure looked like she enjoyed her strawberries & cream:cutie:

Sounds like you got a lot of riding in. Sorry to hear you were not feeling well:sick: Hopefully after resting you felt better!!
 












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