Trip Report from 5/27 - 6/3

[nikkipowell1]

So I am going to try and write a trip report and post some pics I took, which I have no clue how to post pics, but I will try.

To familiarize you with my fam, its me, Nikki, DH Steve, DS Conor (5), and DD Kristen (3)

Wednesday, May 27

Our plane was set to take off from Detroit at 7:40am. We are about an hour from the airport, so to give us plenty of time to park the car, get the bags out, ect,ect, I wanted to leave the house at 4:30am so I set my alarm clock for 3:45 am. That didn't work out that well. I got up at 4:15am. Can't blame myself since I didn't go to bed until 1am. I know I shouldnt have, but I couldnt take it anymore. So, as I was packing up the last few items, dh was in the shower and I finished getting dressed. Got the kids up and dressed and gave them some milk, put them in the car and we were leaving only 15 minutes behind schedule, so as I was locking up the deadbolt to the door, my friggin key got stuck in it and it was not budging, ok, so now we are really running behind. Finally after digging the tools out, we got on the road to the airport about 5am. No traffic, made the plane on time, kids didn't sleep, I didn't sleep, but DH slept, go figure. Landed in Orlando about 10am.

We did use the Magical Express service, but we got our own luggage because of a previous incident we had a few years back were we didn't recieve 1 of the bags for a day. But anyway, bus ride was great, we were all excited and Kristen even fell asleep for about 10 minutes. To tell the truth, I kinda felt kinda rich heading into the moderate line for magical express while the value resort line was wrapped around and we were the 1st ones in line for the Fort. Kenny called me while we were on the bus confirming our time for a 1pm pick up.

Got to the fort around 11:30 -12pm. I saw the sign and was gonna take a pic but the camera was down in the gally of the bus, so no pics of the sign. Got to the check in area and saw the beautiful garden they have in front. There was a hummingbird right in front of us, and believe it or not, I have never seen one before. I knew at that point this was the place for me!!!

So we checked in, I didn't use express, and I had no wait at all. I originally requested the 2200 or 2300 loop but there were no cabins available yet cuz it was around noon, but she said we could go to the 2700 loop and we could have a cabin now, so I said alrighty, I'm game, so the van took us to lucky #2735.

The week or so before is when all the rain hit Florida, so I wasn't sure if all this water around the cabin was normal or not.

And it looked like our cabin was falling apart just a little. I guess they didn't put enough staples in the lattice to hold it up.

So after I unpacked, got the kids settled (not). Way to much energy for being up at 4:30 in the am. I hung up my green ears on the outside of our cabin.

So now it was time to figure out how to get to the overflow lot to meet Kenny. I swear I am so happy that I got a cart. All I had to do was walk to the bus stop, wait about ten minutes and hop out at the outpost, but that seemed like forever!!! So I got to Kenny, what a wonderful man, got the cart, he had me drive it and showed me how to charge it, blah, blah, blah, and away I go!!!!! Back to the cabin to put my green ears on the cart, oh yeah, then it started raining. We did looping anyways, thanks to the rain gear on the cart, and went to scope out the fort.

More to come. Good nite.

 

[nikkipowell1]

So I'll finish the day (wednesday) since I can't sleep. So after we were looping in the rain, it was time to go back to the cabin and get ready for dinner at Chef Mickey. The kids thought it was a blast to take the boat over to the contemporary.
By then it had finished raining. It rained for about an hour or so.

That was basically it for the first day since we were all up since 4:30am. We went looping afterwords for a while and saw 4 deer, a bunch of rabbits and squirrells.

Thursday, May 28

Today, we had my sister in law and brother in law come out and hang with us at the fort since they were at disney the same time we were, they live about 45 min west of us in Michigan.

They have 2 sons 7 and 2 and I knew we could get all 8 of us into the cart but DH was sceptical, but it did happen in the end, and we all did fit.

The splash zone and pool were awesome. The splash zone had cooler water than the pool, so we hung out there most of the time. My ds went down the slide once, and really didn't like it but my dd loved it and kept going, and going and going. This day the pool wasn't packed at all, but had a fair amount of people.

Thats ds on the left.

and of course dh on the right with a beer in his hand as usual.

At the bottom of the slide, topside, its like sandpaper. We all had a few rug burns to show from that.

And yes, I did go play in the 'zone'. but no pics to prove it.

So we spent the day there then went back to the cabin and got ready for Mickeys backyard bbq. Oh yeah, it rained that day again for about another hour or so. the kids were entertained by the lifeguards under the pavilion. I just wanted to sneak away and leave them with em, they were really good with the kids.

Now I really have to go to bed. the report about the bbq is cool cuz it was all you could drink beer and wine, and I love my wine.

 

[Skyw]

Good report so far!!! That water looked like a mosquito pit....was it?

skyw

 

[lklasing]

Great start! Can't wait for more. (We love the cabins, so I especially love cabin trip reports!)

 

[Minnie&Mickey]

I'm loving the report and pictures! Keep it coming.

By the way, where is that big metal Mickey head that your kids are sitting on in that one picture? I'm guessing by the beach, but is it at the Fort? I can't believe I never noticed it before.

 

[nikkipowell1]

Good report so far!!! That water looked like a mosquito pit....was it?

skyw

Come nighttime, it sure was a mosquito pit and then some. I had something big bite me at nite and it wasn't a mosquito. I used to live in FL for 6 years and I don't ever remember the bugs being so bad at nitetime. But by the end of the trip, most of the water dried up because we didn't have anymore rain.

 

[nikkipowell1]

I'm loving the report and pictures! Keep it coming.

By the way, where is that big metal Mickey head that your kids are sitting on in that one picture? I'm guessing by the beach, but is it at the Fort? I can't believe I never noticed it before.

The metal mickey was at the contemporary. It was on the pathway to the marina.

 

[Minnie&Mickey]

The metal mickey was at the contemporary. It was on the pathway to the marina.

Oh, that explains it. I'll have to look for it the next time we go to the Contemporary!

 

[nikkipowell1]

Thursday, May 28.

So we went to the bbq. I wanted to get there early to get a good seat but I forgot you had to pick up the tickets before you go to the pavillion. The line for that was outrageous. But as determined as I am, we got to sit at a table up front, right of the stage. Big mistake. Way to loud that close for the kids and even me and dh. We got settled, went and got food, then drinks. I won't spend to much time about this, but I really hated the food. It really wasn't that good. Ribs were fatty, chicken was dry, corn was soggy. So I had some salad and decided to devote the rest of my time drinking. I tried to drink my $49.00 worth, it was close, but I don't think I made it. DD loved dancing and DS just sat there like a bump on a log because he hates dancing, so does DH.

dd is in purple.

She loves to dance.

And here is a not so happy camper.

and here is me boozing it up for the night.

So we left, I was pretty wasted, ok, very and went back to the cabin to see my in law family waiting there for us. To tell you the truth, I don't think we did anything else after that cuz I don't even remeber the cart trip back to the cabin. All I know is that never drink the night before you have EMH at a park.

 

[nikkipowell1]

AM EMH at Hollywood Studios. First thing I want to mention was when I made my ADR, the disney site had the hours posted for the park. When we got there, they were different. Opened till 9pm, not 7pm like originally stated. So when you plan, check the hours closer to your trip.

EMH from 8am-9am. Got there about 7:30am with a pounding headache from the festivities the nite before. So what I heard was to go straight to toy story, get fast pass, ride the ride, then ride later with fast pass. The line just to get the fast pass was longer than just to ride it, so we waited about 1/2 hour and got on. It was cool, but I didn't want to fast pass it and ride again.

I won't spend alot of time on this, cuz you probably all know about hollywood. We did have a great dinner at sci fi cafe. I would go there again. food was awesome.

finally, my prince charming.

so as we were waiting for our table at sci fi, dd passed right out asleep in the corner.

didnt want to wake up to eat.

shes up

me being silly

oh yeah, it was a little bit busy because it was Star wars weekends, which we knew and also, some american idol winner was there as well. I don't watch the show, so i don't know who he was.

 

[nikkipowell1]

posts later........

 

[SCCamper]

Those are some really great pictures. Keep them coming.

 

[kc5grw]

Wow. The week we were there in June 2007 it rained a whole lot but the Fort never looked that much like a swamp.

Have a fun trip

 

[OK GRUMPY]

Great Report! I'm so enjoying it!

 

[nikkipowell1]

So on Saturday, we just hung out at the fort. My FIL came down from Eustis, about 50 minutes north and hung out with us. Not much to talk about here, so i'll post pictures.

Pics around the cabin

see my green ears sign right above the cart on the wall?

Here we go looping, not sure of each location of the pics, cuz they got jumbled around. I'll try to put them in order as best as I can.

I think these guys were spraying for bugs.

What a way to camp. Love the satelite dish

Again, I don't think all that water that was there was normal, or was it?

Thought this little guy was soooo cute eating his cheez its.

Next I have some pics of the pool.

 

[nikkipowell1]

This was like our second day at the pool. There wasn't an empty chair to be found. When we went back on Monday, only like 20 people were there, go figure. The quick service at the snack bar was ok food. I liked the pulled pork minus coleslaw, a little greasy, but good. I also had the turkey ciabatti sandwhich toasted and that was really good. I didn't get any pics of food, but you get good portions.

pool pics

We have all seen pics of the slide, but have you seen pics of UNDER the slide?

The green fence was still up with sandbags all around the perimeter. I tried to do some spy work, but there wasn't anything exciting going on.

Some misc splash zone pics. Sorry if there are dupicates.

Just a reminder, watch out for that sand top

Later to come: On the way to the Magic Kingdom, something in the water we saw that DID NOT belong there.

Hope your enjoying so far...............

Nikki

 

[petestulipbug]

Great trip report!! Wish the fort would start drying out!

 

[nikkipowell1]

So off to the magic kingdom we go. I had the hours from 9a-9p with evening emh from 9-12am. The hours when we got there were 9am-10p with evening emh from 10p-1am. So again check before you go.

It was great taking the boat over the kids really loved it.

So as we are on the boat, on our way, we notice something in the water that shouldn't of been. How the heck are they gonna get that out?

So we had a good time at the magic kingdom. We had breakfast at Cinderellas Royal table and had dinner at the crystal palace.

waiting for pics to download....more later.

 

[Skyw]

Oh My...I put $10 on an underage driver put that in the drink!!!! Or maybe they had too much to drink!!! I wonder how much that cost the renters of that golf cart?

 

[DISNEYatw]

OMG!!!!!! I bet that cost the renter some bucks!!! Could you imagine ( I can't even type this for laughing so hard). Are you sure you didn't do this the night of the brbbq? LOL!!!!