Applemomma
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2006
- Messages
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Hope noone minds an index of sorts, for the sake of my family.....
Page 1
#1 "Pre-trip report"
#7 "Introducing ....US!"
#10 "A DISclaimer"
#11 "First Travel Day"
#13 "A Dude IN A Suit"
Page 2
#17 "I can see clearly now the rain is gone...."
#22 Arriving at Pop Century
Page 3
#31 "The Great Caffine Crisis of '07!"
#33 "Now Entering the Magic Kingdom!"
#39 "A Pirate, A Cruise and lessons learned...."
#42 "Towel Animals and Teacups"
Page 4
#45 "It's A Princess Pallooza!"
#50 "A DISer sighting and a few characters"
#58 "Our California Adventure"
Page 5
#61 "Soarin over California continued"
#66 "Other People's Parents...."
#70 "Hot dogs, Cheese and Parades of Lights!"
Page 6
#79 "Cows, Birds and Mice! Oh My!
Page 7
#91 "Mickey's House Tour"
A little bit of a Pre trip report…..
As of the date that we left for this Disney vacation, in September 2007, it had been twenty seven YEARS since I had last been to the World. My parents, sister and I had gone there in 1980, when it was only the Magic Kingdom, making the trek from Shelburne, Nova Scotia. The trip was memorable as it was the first and only huge trip our family ever took…..we normally did a car ride to Prince Edward Island or to the cottage…..I can pretty much safely say that it was the one and only time that our family was ever on a commercial airplane together where we weren’t on our way to a funeral.
Of course to my 11 year old mind’s eye (yes go back and count how many years ago the trip was and you’ve now successfully calculated my age) Walt Disney World was everything I would have expected it to be. For years I had been telling my kids about it and telling them stories of that trip, saying that someday I would take them there. So what from that trip could I possibly remember clearly? Well if you are willing to put up with it I’ll give you a brief run down of those memories. I don’t think I made all of them up…..
1)Plane ride from Halifax to Orlando was entertaining mostly because of the two fellows that generously helped themselves to those little bottles of liquor (remember those?). Apparently the singing they were doing was a cover up for their fear of flying because I remember them kissing the ground when we walked down that set of stairs from the plane onto the tarmac.
2)My mother screaming the Lord’s Prayer in my ears on Space Mountain (I still refused to ride it again when we went this trip……). She got us back though as we had to ride IASW twice for her.
3)Seeing Japanese Pearl Divers at SeaWorld and learning the trick to diving to the bottom of the pool…a tip that served me well in swimming lessons.(Yes I know it's not Disney but what can I say....)
4)Disappointed on the way into the Magic Kingdom that the radio was saying the park was filled to capacity and they were turning people around at the gates ….only when we got there the attendant told us that our two day pass meant they were expecting us!
So packed we had to park on the grass…..Goofy section….now every time we park on the grass somewhere we say we’re parking at Goofy On The Grass 
My oldest daughter is 10 and ever since she was old enough to talk I’ve told her stories of Disney World. It was the bedtime story of choice on camping trips or when we went away and the storybooks got left behind. Going to Disney was something I had always promised my girls we would do but I had no idea how to swing it on a minimal income.
So imagine my delight when hubby announces that the convention his company is sending him on is in Orlando!
Not only that but they were actually willing to figure out what it would cost to fly him from our local expensive (and if you’ve ever flown out of Canada you know HOW expensive) airport and give him that money as a travel “allowance” so we can get all four of us on the cheap.
And so the planning begins…..Now let me say here that I had no prior knowledge, warning or clue that I was an obsessive compulsive planner. And it started so small and innocently…a web search. And low and behold what should pop up but THE DIS!!! And BAM! I’m hooked! Looooooooong hours spent reading, bookmarking, copy and pasting.
But wait! The computer is in the kitchen! How can I feed my new obsession when I’m upstairs in that study room so affectionately known as the washroom (though as I learned every time I asked in the World where the washroom was it isn’t known there as that! bathroom, restroom, maybe even “loo” but not washroom)?
Well unfortunately (but don’t think I didn’t try) purchasing a laptop to balance on my knees was not to be so I had to fall back on paper. Planning books that is, not writing notes on TP….though it did occasionally get used as bookmarks. So the Unofficial Guide and Passporter took up residence in the Throne Room which also enabled hubby to do some researching too
And the Disney education began…
Page 1
#1 "Pre-trip report"
#7 "Introducing ....US!"
#10 "A DISclaimer"
#11 "First Travel Day"
#13 "A Dude IN A Suit"
Page 2
#17 "I can see clearly now the rain is gone...."
#22 Arriving at Pop Century
Page 3
#31 "The Great Caffine Crisis of '07!"
#33 "Now Entering the Magic Kingdom!"
#39 "A Pirate, A Cruise and lessons learned...."
#42 "Towel Animals and Teacups"
Page 4
#45 "It's A Princess Pallooza!"
#50 "A DISer sighting and a few characters"
#58 "Our California Adventure"
Page 5
#61 "Soarin over California continued"
#66 "Other People's Parents...."
#70 "Hot dogs, Cheese and Parades of Lights!"
Page 6
#79 "Cows, Birds and Mice! Oh My!
Page 7
#91 "Mickey's House Tour"
A little bit of a Pre trip report…..
As of the date that we left for this Disney vacation, in September 2007, it had been twenty seven YEARS since I had last been to the World. My parents, sister and I had gone there in 1980, when it was only the Magic Kingdom, making the trek from Shelburne, Nova Scotia. The trip was memorable as it was the first and only huge trip our family ever took…..we normally did a car ride to Prince Edward Island or to the cottage…..I can pretty much safely say that it was the one and only time that our family was ever on a commercial airplane together where we weren’t on our way to a funeral.
Of course to my 11 year old mind’s eye (yes go back and count how many years ago the trip was and you’ve now successfully calculated my age) Walt Disney World was everything I would have expected it to be. For years I had been telling my kids about it and telling them stories of that trip, saying that someday I would take them there. So what from that trip could I possibly remember clearly? Well if you are willing to put up with it I’ll give you a brief run down of those memories. I don’t think I made all of them up…..
1)Plane ride from Halifax to Orlando was entertaining mostly because of the two fellows that generously helped themselves to those little bottles of liquor (remember those?). Apparently the singing they were doing was a cover up for their fear of flying because I remember them kissing the ground when we walked down that set of stairs from the plane onto the tarmac.
2)My mother screaming the Lord’s Prayer in my ears on Space Mountain (I still refused to ride it again when we went this trip……). She got us back though as we had to ride IASW twice for her.
3)Seeing Japanese Pearl Divers at SeaWorld and learning the trick to diving to the bottom of the pool…a tip that served me well in swimming lessons.(Yes I know it's not Disney but what can I say....)
4)Disappointed on the way into the Magic Kingdom that the radio was saying the park was filled to capacity and they were turning people around at the gates ….only when we got there the attendant told us that our two day pass meant they were expecting us!
So packed we had to park on the grass…..Goofy section….now every time we park on the grass somewhere we say we’re parking at Goofy On The Grass My oldest daughter is 10 and ever since she was old enough to talk I’ve told her stories of Disney World. It was the bedtime story of choice on camping trips or when we went away and the storybooks got left behind. Going to Disney was something I had always promised my girls we would do but I had no idea how to swing it on a minimal income.
So imagine my delight when hubby announces that the convention his company is sending him on is in Orlando!
Not only that but they were actually willing to figure out what it would cost to fly him from our local expensive (and if you’ve ever flown out of Canada you know HOW expensive) airport and give him that money as a travel “allowance” so we can get all four of us on the cheap. And so the planning begins…..Now let me say here that I had no prior knowledge, warning or clue that I was an obsessive compulsive planner. And it started so small and innocently…a web search. And low and behold what should pop up but THE DIS!!! And BAM! I’m hooked! Looooooooong hours spent reading, bookmarking, copy and pasting.
But wait! The computer is in the kitchen! How can I feed my new obsession when I’m upstairs in that study room so affectionately known as the washroom (though as I learned every time I asked in the World where the washroom was it isn’t known there as that! bathroom, restroom, maybe even “loo” but not washroom)?
Well unfortunately (but don’t think I didn’t try) purchasing a laptop to balance on my knees was not to be so I had to fall back on paper. Planning books that is, not writing notes on TP….though it did occasionally get used as bookmarks. So the Unofficial Guide and Passporter took up residence in the Throne Room which also enabled hubby to do some researching too
And the Disney education began…
Wow! I feel as though I struck the lottery with you as my first poster! I love your trip reports....studied them in fact, before I left. 
I'm subbin'.
Honey how would you feel about driving only 10 hours? I have since come to the conclusion that our government is trying to hold us hostage in our own country by making the airport one of those places you can go only if you win the lottery
.which by contrast if you do win you get the money tax free so go figure. But we citizens have gotten smart
.we run for the border. 
.argue about directions
.look for 
What a way to get there though 
Even worse than our journey!!!!
