TheDisneyBunch
Mom to 3, photographer and Disney CRAZY!!
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This shall be a pictorial report of sorts... I am feeling a little too lazy to type up the long in depth trip report as I did last year but I did want to share some pics and some random info about the trip so I shall just keep this short and to the point...
Sound good?
Great!!
So, the cast...
Myself-Amanda- MOM... lover of sweets (just check the food report for proof), photographer (at least I have been trying to be..hehe), pin trading nut (with all the cm's) and just all around Disney freak! I love it all!!
DH-Chris-DAD.. Haunted Mansion lover (he rode this so many times on this trip it was crazy) and lover of a good steak!
DS(5)-Ethan.. Lover of Disney transportation of all things. He is crazy over it!! Buses, monorails and sometimes the boats.. My mini pin trader! 
My little one was left behind again this year with his grandparents. He loved that! He is NOT a fan of the heat, long car rides or being stuck in a stroller so this was not the time for him to go.. NEXT YEAR though!!
So.. we left on Friday (sept 12th) around 1:30pm when dh got home from school. We were so excited. I was so sad about leaving my little man behind but he was so happy to be going with his memommy that I was feeling a little better...
The drive down...well..it did not start off so great.. I thought something was telling us not to go for a while there. We started having car trouble almost right away. It is not going into gear just right and it keeps stalling and idling really low. I just knew it was going to leave us stranded some place. I then realize I left ALL my jewelry at home including my watch which just left me feeling naked..lol My mom and dad were calling my cell phone b/c Chirs' mom was not at home and she was supposed to get ds from my mom whiel she worked. She was running late, my dad was in a meeting and nobody was there to get my little man... So..all this is going on at one time and my once happy mood was turning south fast!!
As we are driving along I see a rainbow..just beautiful!! I joked to Chris that it was a sign of things looking up. Sure enough my dad calls and says he was able to get home to sit with Landon so my mom could go to work and we finally get ahold of g-ma and she just lost track of the time and was at the grocery store. All is well there.. The car finally started driving better after a couple of hours as well. I am still upset over the jewelry thing but I did find a pair of earings in the car so I had something..right??
Great, we are on the road..things are looking up..we are laughing and talking and playing the Nightmare Before Christmas on the ipod. All is good.
We make good timing and arrive in around 10:30pm. I had booked a hotel off site for that night through my cc. Well..it looked nice in the pics and was even a Disney Good Neighbor hotel.. We pull in and see a nice part of the hotel and then a crummy Inn connected to it. I joked to dh as I got out to check us in that they would try to stick us out there.. and sure enough THEY DID! I tell them that is not what I booked for but they say it is. They tell me I can pay more to stay in the tower if I like.. UMM..NO! So after much debate and over an hour later we get a refund and leave.. We refused to pay to stay in the rinky dink Inn..lol So, we head on over to Riverside and pray they can get us into a room by the early morning.
We arrive to smiling Disney faces around 12:30am. We are told they have a room ready for us but we can't check in til after 6am. We decide to just relaz in the lobby for a while and maybe walk around the resort some even though we were insanely tired from the drive down and being up all day/night. As we get up to stroll around a little a manager comes up to us and offers us a room to sleep in.. we can't check in yet but we can sleep and just check in when we wake up! OH THANK YOU!!! We are so happy and quickly take him up on the offer. 30 minutes later we are in the room and asleep!
No pics today since it was just the drive down but plenty for tomorrow....
Sound good?
Great!!
So, the cast...
Myself-Amanda- MOM... lover of sweets (just check the food report for proof), photographer (at least I have been trying to be..hehe), pin trading nut (with all the cm's) and just all around Disney freak! I love it all!!
DH-Chris-DAD.. Haunted Mansion lover (he rode this so many times on this trip it was crazy) and lover of a good steak!
DS(5)-Ethan.. Lover of Disney transportation of all things. He is crazy over it!! Buses, monorails and sometimes the boats..
My mini pin trader! My little one was left behind again this year with his grandparents. He loved that! He is NOT a fan of the heat, long car rides or being stuck in a stroller so this was not the time for him to go.. NEXT YEAR though!!
So.. we left on Friday (sept 12th) around 1:30pm when dh got home from school. We were so excited. I was so sad about leaving my little man behind but he was so happy to be going with his memommy that I was feeling a little better...
The drive down...well..it did not start off so great.. I thought something was telling us not to go for a while there. We started having car trouble almost right away. It is not going into gear just right and it keeps stalling and idling really low. I just knew it was going to leave us stranded some place. I then realize I left ALL my jewelry at home including my watch which just left me feeling naked..lol My mom and dad were calling my cell phone b/c Chirs' mom was not at home and she was supposed to get ds from my mom whiel she worked. She was running late, my dad was in a meeting and nobody was there to get my little man... So..all this is going on at one time and my once happy mood was turning south fast!!
As we are driving along I see a rainbow..just beautiful!! I joked to Chris that it was a sign of things looking up. Sure enough my dad calls and says he was able to get home to sit with Landon so my mom could go to work and we finally get ahold of g-ma and she just lost track of the time and was at the grocery store. All is well there.. The car finally started driving better after a couple of hours as well. I am still upset over the jewelry thing but I did find a pair of earings in the car so I had something..right??
Great, we are on the road..things are looking up..we are laughing and talking and playing the Nightmare Before Christmas on the ipod. All is good.
We make good timing and arrive in around 10:30pm. I had booked a hotel off site for that night through my cc. Well..it looked nice in the pics and was even a Disney Good Neighbor hotel.. We pull in and see a nice part of the hotel and then a crummy Inn connected to it. I joked to dh as I got out to check us in that they would try to stick us out there.. and sure enough THEY DID! I tell them that is not what I booked for but they say it is. They tell me I can pay more to stay in the tower if I like.. UMM..NO! So after much debate and over an hour later we get a refund and leave.. We refused to pay to stay in the rinky dink Inn..lol So, we head on over to Riverside and pray they can get us into a room by the early morning.
We arrive to smiling Disney faces around 12:30am. We are told they have a room ready for us but we can't check in til after 6am. We decide to just relaz in the lobby for a while and maybe walk around the resort some even though we were insanely tired from the drive down and being up all day/night. As we get up to stroll around a little a manager comes up to us and offers us a room to sleep in.. we can't check in yet but we can sleep and just check in when we wake up! OH THANK YOU!!! We are so happy and quickly take him up on the offer. 30 minutes later we are in the room and asleep!
No pics today since it was just the drive down but plenty for tomorrow....
