This is what we saw when we woke up on the morning of September 27th and what a beautiful sight it was. Yes, I am a crafty girl as you can see I whipped out my bubble letter skills to make our Disney count-down sign. We were ready for a vacation!
We have not gone anywhere on vacation since we returned from Disney in Dec 05. Our life has been crazy since then! We started a remodeling project on our home in January, moved out of it in February so the heavy demolition could begin, rented a great house which SOLD 4 weeks after we moved in, moved to a dumpy rental house in a hurry in March
.and that is where my time on the Dis greatly increased. I found myself talking to a bunch of cool people all the time! It was a great way to ease the pain of not having my house & my neighbors. In June we sold our house that we renovated and moved out of our rental and in to a great house that we fell in love with and bought. Moving all your stuff 3 times in 5 months isnt a load of fun. Just so you know. After a long summer of unpacking and getting situated, vacation time was looking lovely!
Honestly, since school has started, I have missed my boys. I was excited to get to spend some time with them doing fun things! It seems we are pulled every which way after school gets out, and this was going to be good for us. Im also a committee & volunteer goober. I cant say no. Right now I am on the board of directors at our club and so therefore I serve on 3 committees, Im room mom for Little Frick, soccer mom for Big Frickles, Jr Service League Follies chairman (why did I say yes to that one), Bunko queen & I just took on a part time job at the gym where I work out. Who said being a stay at home mom was easy? Im slap booked up. I was ready, and I mean ready to get away.
Since Mr. Frick and Little Frick were joining us, that meant no flying. Mr. Frick would rather drive any day because flying isnt too magical for him. We live in North Georgia & we can get to the World in about 8 hours including stops. Riding in a car for 8 hours isnt too magical for me. I packed up our things in the car, ran errands, sent a good-bye nana-nana-boo-boo to my Dis friends I was leaving behind and a quick see ya real soon with a bunch of these
to my Dis friends I would be meeting, and then at 1:00 we were off to pick up the boys from school.
The drive was uneventful. Little Frick asked 47 million times if we were there yet and what was taking so long. Car rides arent too magical for him either. Mr. Frick taught us all how to eat a sunflower seed without using our hands to crack the shell to pass the time. I can split, eat, then spit mine like a pro baseball player now. I'm not real sure if I should be proud of that. We made a quick pit-stop at Wendys for dinner and crammed it in as we tore on down the road. We were on a mission. The Frickles Family had one stop to make before we headed over to our pal Mickeys. We had to go see Sponge Bob again. We love that little sponge. We love his little friend Patrick just as much. We were headed to my boys favorite place that they had been dying to go back to for ONE night
The Nickelodeon Suites Hotel.
That is right. Bob, Dora, Blue, Neutron, Timmy and all their friends were waiting on us. We had a pineapple door to knock on. We had a swimming pool with mucho slides to get into before it closed for the night! We had basketballs to shoot and putt-putt to play. We rolled on in to the Nick Suites at 9:00, checked in, dumped our luggage in the room, threw bathing suits on the boys and went to the pool for a little night time swimming action. Right as we got there, the lights around the pool went dim. Yep. No swimming. It was o.k. though. We had putt-putt to play! The weather was awesome, the lights eventually came back on, the boys got to swim for a little while, Momma here got her a personal pan pizza and a cup of coffee (yuck, what a combination, but hey I was on vacation so the crappy eating could begin) and everything was A.-O.K! We left the pool at 10:30 and retired for the night. The boys were super triple dooper excited about their bunk-beds and they drifted off to sleep with visions of Bikini Bottom (um, that is a Sponge Bob term) floating in their heads.
The next morning, the boys woke us up way too early. It was early-thirty if I remember correctly. I snapped some pictures of my overly excited children.
Anyone home? I find this picture to be absolutely hilarious!
He isn't excited at all....
Starting off our trip with some brotherly love. It's rare. So I snapped this picture real quick.
Here we are having breakfast in the food court where kids eat free! Across from us was the restaurant with the character breakfast. It would have cost a whopping $80 I do believe if we had eaten there. The food court b'fast was pretty darn good and the milk that we put in our cereal was the coldest milk ever. That right there made me mighty happy.
We visited the arcade after breakfast. This place was better than Chuck E. Cheeses according to my kiddies.
We all put on our swimsuits and went to the pool area. The guys were ready to play some basketball. I caught a quick nap.
We hit the waterslides next. I tell you what, my fanny was firmly woken up when I ventured in to this monster. There is water spraying everywhere and I do believe they iced it down beforehand. I did my good deed for my quest for "Mommy of the Year" and I went with Big Frickles down the slides. At the bottom of one slide, I was getting squirted in every direction with that amazingly cold water and I got an eye full of ice-water and almost lost a contact. I had to keep my eyes shut and trust my 7 year old to guide me out of there.
We went for a swim in the pool to warm up. (It is right beside the slides if you couldn't tell). As we were happily swimming along, Big Frickles said he was ready to leave and go to Disney. I was shocked, but super happy. We had a reservation at the Coral Reef at 3:00, so getting to Epcot a little early was going to be great. We showered, packed up the car, watched one quick slime-time show by the pool and headed out towards WDW. Everyone got super excited when we saw this through the bug guts on our windshield....
I think even Mr. Frick was doing a little happy dance.
Up next: Check in at Port Orleans Riverside & Coral Reef!
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The sacrifices we make for our kiddies..... 
Great read, girlie! LYMI!
)! I asked my CM if I could please be in a Mansion. He looked at whatever that is that he looks at and told me that there were no Mansions ready at the moment, but I could get into an AB room right now. Oh the stress. It would be great to unpack and get situated in the room before heading to Epcot for the rest of the day, but then again, LaLas words were ringing in my ears. My 7 yr old said he didnt really care, but would like to stay in a Mansion someday. Oh the stress. I said we would take AB. He started typing and then I said WAIT! Ive changed my mind. Well wait for a Mansion. I know the dude thought I was crazy. 
I got my keys & returned to the rest of the family. Mr. Frick looked at me with a big smile and said We walked around and this place is AWESOME!! 
