On to the trip report from January of 2006 (all you lucky readers who thought you were just getting a pre-trip, get a bonus old trip report! Lucky you!
So, on with the trip report from our "disney disaster" trip from Jan of 2006:
This trip consisted of 12 of us 6 adults (me, husband, mom, step-dad, sister and brother-in-law) and 6 kids (my three & my sister's three). As I said earlier, my brother, his wife, and their two little ones didnt make this trip.
We were sad they werent coming, but afterwards I think they were happy they missed this one!
The 2 weeks prior to the trip, my DBIL had a stomach thing; however, no one thought it was a virus because he had had it for 2 weeks and no one in his own house had gotten it. They all thought it was his own personal "GI demon" to deal with! They made the trip down from GA with no problems and met us at the villa (we flew down from VA and got in about an hour before them). The kids had a blast playing in their Disney house while my sister, mom, and I headed to the grocery store to stock up on all the necessities. We got back, made dinner, and got the kids in bed at a reasonable time since we had a date with Cinderella the next morning!
The next morning I woke up with so much excitement breakfast in the castle! I got up, got ready, woke my DH up, and started to get the kids stuff out. I went out to the kitchen for a cup of coffee and met my sister who informed me that my niece (5 at the time) had gotten sick last night and was still throwing up. OH NOOOOO~
So after much talking about it, we sadly decided to leave her at the house with her Daddy and the 10 of us would go to the MK for breakfast at CRT. I felt so bad for her. Being sick is the pits, and then for it to be at Disney, and on our 1st day, and on our day to eat in the castle! Geez! Could it get any worse?
Here we are walking up Main St towards the castle (almost sprinting, because we were running late for our ADR due to our unplanned discussion this morning). That would be me with the giant tan backpack and yes, if you cant tell from the clothes, it was chilly that morning. Brrrr!
It truly was a beautiful day look at that sky! Too bad we really couldnt appreciate it too much as we were running late and worried about the sick one at home!
We got to the castle, checked in, told them we were 2 short (not a problem, by the way) and headed into the lobby for a pic with Cinderella. The Disney pic came out better than ours and we did buy it, but for some reason, I cant find it I guess that was money worth spent!
I swear I will do better this time with my organization (thanks to DIS and TGM!)
My daughters did not want to be in the pic with my son and 2 nieces, so this is what we got:
My son looks a little deranged and the pic is blurry hence the reason we bought the much better Disney version kicking myself for not knowing where it is now! Believe me, it was better!
Then my girls decided they would take a picture if they were being held. Um, Ok. Off we go, Grandmommy, Mommy, and the girls neither one of which are looking at the camera or at Cindy! WTH? Oh well, maybe this trip we will see Cindy and get a better pic. Dreams to Dream!
Off to eat!
We enjoyed our breakfast, but since this really was our 1st character meal in a loooonnnng time, we forgot about having things out and handy at ALL times. Consequently, It went kind of like this:
Wheres your autograph book?
Wheres the camera?
Here comes Sleeping Beauty!
Ok, eat a few bites.
Ok get your book!
Wheres the camera?
Here comes Belle!
We enjoyed it but felt a weeeee bit rushed. In hindsight, maybe they WERE rushing us, since we WERE late! Oh well.
First up... the Fairy Godmother!
Then Sleeping Beauty and Ms. White:
And Belle... she was definitely the most interactive with our bunch.
I love how in this one it looks like my DD is copping a feel with Belle! And in the next one, Belle was asking my son if he was more of a Prince or of a Beast? He didnt answer, really, and I think she said something like, Oh, definitely Beast and all the kids cracked up. It doesn't take much to get them going at this age!
We left and headed out to the lobby, with a few of us stopping at the ye Olde teeny tiny bathrooms in the castle and on the way out, we got a few pics of the Knight:
(I think the clock was going off or something, hence the covering of the ears!)
After breakfast, my sister decided to go to the kennel to walk their dog (if you keep your animals in the kennel you have to go at least twice a day to walk them). Um, okay, kind of a pain, but oh well, they didnt want to leave the dog at home.
So off she went!
While she was gone she decided she would call the house and see how DN was. The rest of us went through Fantasyland, which was already pretty crowded by then! This was pre-DIS boards and pre-TGM, pretty much pre-everything! The most planning I had done was to get the reservation in the castle and Dive Quest at Epcot for the guys and I felt pretty darn proud of myself.
We rode Dumbo, Snow White, and the Carousel, and since the lines for PP and Pooh were so long (and we were coming back on our last day,
we passed up anything with too long of a wait big mistake that I will explain later.
(Sidenote about Snow White - My son (age 4) and niece (age 7) rode this together and came off saying it was "terrifying" and then immediately wanted to ride it again! Real terrifying, huh?)
We went on to Toontown and rode Barnstormer and walked through Mickey and Minnies houses before walking back to the castle to meet my sister.
Me at Minnie's!
Outside the toontown tents! I'm honestly not sure what we were doing - I don't think we were tired enough for a rest, but why, oh why would we be wasting time? Soooo not a clue!
I will continue in a moment, too many pics for this segment.
Sara
She stayed asleep most of the day poor thing but thankfully, never got sick again.
And yes, thoses are some bald spots, if you are wondering. It was downright pitiful and she wouldn't wear hats or anything! 
That would be great on a T-shirt! 
with her. 
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I did stay home on Tuesday since my MIL (who watches the kids at our house) had her own Dr's Appt that day. 
