Quick Trip Report - MNSSHP & My Birthday!

[December@Disney]

Hey Everyone - let me just start out by saying that I'm new to posting on the boards, but as for reading and following, I've been here for awhile

Anyway, last year was our, my two sisters and I, first trip to DisneyWorld in 11 years! The deal was when I got a real job we would take a girls only trip, and that's exactly what we did. (And we're going back again this year!).

But back to the current trip - Let's start with the cast of characters:
Me - Newly 24 year old, Disney fanatic - let's face it, all the trips are my idea
DSis - 20 years old, best friend, newest, most enthusiastic disney fan (she was the one i was worried about not enjoying last year's trip and as soon as we got home she wanted to go back)
DSis2 - 17 years old, senior in high school, couldn't make the quick October trip, but we were still thinking of her

Now for the logistics of it all...
About a month and a half ago we were talking about what we were going to do for my bday (and DSis too - her's is about 2 weeks earlier) and the free day started to sound good. First let me say, we are from NY, so its still a trip and NOT free to go haha -but we sucked it up and booked the trip anyway (Funny enough we went for MNSSHP and didn't even take advantage of the free day promo).

So we booked a flight out of NY at 9:00 am, a room at POP (which was GREAT!), took a dip in the pool in the afternoon (who would have thought that it would be 95 degrees in Florida!) and then headed over to the Magic Kingdom!

What's next...catching a couple of rides, meeting some great characters, trick or treating, face painting and finding an friend from home! Stay tuned...

 

[December@Disney]

Let me say one thing - Disney on your birthday is seriously so great - All the cast members take the opportunity to tell you happy birthday and its just a lot of fun.

So after we landed at the airport and made our way to the magical express counter, this is where we experienced our first issue. I dont know if its because we booked so late, or because we booked just a room only, but we never received our bus vouchers. Not a problem except that we now had to wait on line with a million other people to get a print out. (Ok the million might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but there were a lot of people. The good news on this - a lot of them were families that were all together). Anyway we got our vouchers and got on the bus and a quick 30 minutes later we were at POP Century.

We check in at POP around 1:30 and our room isn't ready yet, but it's no problem, but we are STARVING! I have my bday pin and my sister has her 'I'm celebrating my bday' button and we're off to the food court. After 2 lunches of chicken nuggets and $25 I get a text message that the room is ready! We're in the 70's building on the first floor - the room is good (it's only for sleeping anyway) and I grab a quick nap - I had a busy weekend before leaving and need to catch up on some zzz's. Anyway now is when my DSis goest to the pool.

The nap doesn't take to long - I mean who can sleep when they get to DIsney, so I decide to take a walk around, snap some pics and meet my sister in the pool. After a quick swim we decide its time to get ready to get to the Magic Kingdom by 4 (thanks to the disboards for that info!). BTW, we are ghostbusters for the party .

At 3:30 we get to the bus stop and there aren't many people there yet. What's funnier is that we're the only ones in costume. But soon enough we are on the way!