Toni & Bobby's Shabby Chic wedding PJ & TR (SBP/Attic/UK) 2/2/09 *COMPLETE*

[Lynn5700]

Toni!!!! Welcome back girl!!!!!! I'm so looking forward to this TR!!!

 

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

YEAH! You're back. I can't wait to read this!

 

[Angela0917]

Yay! Welcome back!!

 

[disneygal922]

YAY!!! you started your TR already! Girl, you are on top of your game! Thanks so much for posting your vendor reviews! I'm glad you had such a wonderful experience with all your vendors! Can't wait to hear more about your special trip and the BIG day!

 

[Flurbee]

Toni,


Yay!! Welcome back!! Hope you had a wonderful, relaxing honeymoon. Can't wait to hear all about your special day...

 

[DISNEY*lover]

Welcome back. I can't wait to hear the all about your trip!

 

[pink_tink8i8]

Welcome back. Can't wait for your TR!

 

[MegKate]

Welcome home!! I can't wait to read the TR!!

 

[DISNEYMAGIC2005]

Welcome back! Hope you had such a great time! I can't wait to read all of the details!

 

[irisbud]

Welcome back! Can't wait to read your TR! Congratulations again!

 

[figmentfan814]

It was so great meeting you and Bobby at Disney Quest; I love having the chance to connect with other Disney Brides. Looking forward to seeing more of your trip report.

 

[DisneyBrideToni]

It was so great meeting you and Bobby at Disney Quest; I love having the chance to connect with other Disney Brides. Looking forward to seeing more of your trip report.

It was a blast!!!!! I just wish the dinner could have went forward. I am uploading pictures to photobucket as we speak so I will be starting on Day 1 hopefully tonight. I have 37 pics and its taking forever to load.

 

[Lynn5700]

HAHA love the new siggy!! Welcome Home I have been dying to tell you that lol!

WOO HOO can't wait for the TR!!! I'm glad you got to meet up with Vanessa!

 

[kermit0223]

Welcome Back!! Can't wait to read all about it!

 

[DisneyBrideToni]

Day 1, January 31st, 2009 (PART 1)

Oh that dreaded Airplane!!!​

Well day 1 was a very interesting day. It was the day we left. As you all know, I have a horrible fear of flying. Well the night before I threw a huge anxiety fit. I was having panic attacks left and right. I did not think I was going to make it. I told Bobby that I just couldn't fly down and that we would just get married here in New Jersey. Poor Bobby had to deal with all of my anxiety, crying, complaining. It was bad. So around midnight on the 30th Bobby went to his house and I tried to stay awake but ended up falling asleep with my laptop on my lap and me sitting up in bed. I woke up at around 3am and thought to myself oh no Bobby is going to be picking me up soon I really don't want to do this. The thing with me is that if I don't feel like I have an out or another option it makes me even more nervous. Well Bobby came and told me that he told his mom (who we were flying out with) that if I couldn't get on the plane we would just drive down. Well hearing that made me feel better.

It took a ton of pressure off of me so we headed to the Atlantic City Airport. not to mention the 2 xanax pills I had taken! I actually like this airport because its small and at 5am it is not crowded. So we went through the check in line. I checked one of my suitcases and it was 50 pounds. They told me that if I didn't lose some stuff in it when I returned they would charge me $50.00. Whatever. Stupid airline. So we went through security and everything was good. As soon as we got up to the gate the were calling for boarding which was nice because I hate to wait around. Well I went to grab my boarding pass and it was missing!! I started freaking out. I was like omg I came to this stupid airport to fly on a stupid plane and now I can't even get on!!! So we went to the woman boarding the plane and she told me to go in the back of the line and then they would process me last. While waiting in line, a security guard went up to the boarding woman and then I heard my name called. He found my boarding pass! I apparently left it in the security check line. So we boarded the plane in what is Spirit Airlines equivolent of first class (just big seats) and off we went.

I grabbed onto Bobby's arm as we took off squeezing the life out of him and stayed that way until we were told we could turn on electric devices. So I laid my head on his lap and watched Mama Mia on my Ipod. Actually I didn't really watch it. It was more listening while attempting to sleep. Didn't happen. I kept my eyes closed and when I felt turbulence I just thought to myself "Just pretend its a bumpy road and you are in a car". That actually worked out pretty good. I knew how long the movie was that I was listening to and I could hear that it was getting toward the end so I kept thinking ok that means we should be in Florida soon since it only takes about 2 hours to get there from Jersey. Well before the movie was even over they announced we would be landing. I sat up and started looking out the window and finally felt calm enough to take a few pics. In my picture you can really see how stressed out and funky I looked.

So we finally landed and to my surprise, Bobby hates landing. He wouldn't talk to me until the plane hit the ground. Weird. Why woudl you be afraid of landing? Thats my favorite part! I was very proud of myself for doing it. I am now happy to report that I am over my fear. I still don't like it but lets just say there won't be any panic attacks before a flight.

So we get to the airport in Orlando and go to pick up our luggage which went smoothly. Then we went to find the darn Alamo rental car location. It took us a while but we finally found it. We were directed to the mid-size cars that we paid for and I picked this one.

So Bobby started packing it up with my 50 pound luggage, his mom's luggage, his luggage and my nephew's luggage. Oh yeah my nephen flew down with us also. I forgot about him!

This was only a bit of our luggage so obviously this wasn't working. We thought my nephew could hold his bag in the back seat with him but....well....as you can see that didn't work out.

So behind us we saw a line of SUV's and his mom offered to pay the difference and so we rented this Nissan Rogue. I actually loved this car! I am thinking of getting one myself.

So Bobby was programming the Garmin GPS device and I didn't have an address for the All Star Movies (where we were dropping his mom off at). So we started typing in Walt Disney World and the Polynesian came up so I said here Bobby just put that in and then I will know where to go from there so we did. It said it would take us 10 minutes to get there which I thought was strange since I knew Disney was further than 10 minutes from the airport. Well we followed the directions and as I looked around I knew it wasn't right. We get to our "destination" and it was a dead end with an office building at the end of the street. Obviously this wasn't it. I told Bobby to find something else and we found Lake Buena Vista Boulevard so I said yeah go there! We ended up on I-4 and followed the signs. Finally we saw the best signs ever!!!

WE WERE THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Up next.....PART 2. Whats so GRAND about the Grand Floridian???

 

[Angela0917]

Yay! I'm glad you made the flight!! I can't wait to read more!

 

[Flurbee]

Toni,


Yay!! An update!! How exciting!! I am sorry you had such a hard time with flying. I guess I am lucky, as I have never had that problem before...Glad to know you are over the fear, though. Yay for the SUV upgrade...that was nice of your DMIL to pay for that. Definitely did not look like you were going to fit in the other car.... A similar thing happened when we were at Disney with our TomTom, it took us to some dead end place....weird....Anyhoo, can't wait for more....

 

[figmentfan814]

Toni, I'm so sorry that you had such a rough time the night before the flight. I'm sure all the wedding stuff probably just added to your stress. At least, you made it there without any problems.

I have to say I love the shot of your nephew in the car holding the suitcase, too funny

Looking forward to reading more!

 

[MegKate]

I'm glad you were able to get down there with no bridezilla incidents! At the airline counter with the 50 lb limit I would have had my first issue.

Love the picture of the nephew.

BTW - Nissans rule!!

More please!! This is good stuff!

 

[tiggerrifficheidi]

Toni-I'm sorry you had such a rough time on the flight, but I'm so proud of you for gutting through it and coming out the other side!