Well I s'pose I should update....
First, we need the players:
Me - Mommie
Jared - My son 7
Julia - My daughter 5
Lucas - My daughters service doggie
*him* or *he* - my soon-to-be-ex-husband (who happened to spend part of the trip in another womans bed)
Peggy - My aunt
Andrea & Chase - My aunts daughter and son in law, celebrating 1 yr married (they had a day of the dead themed wedding, wait you will get pics and understand more)
Scott - My aunts son
MaryJo - My aunts friend and the one usually off at a smoking area
Monday we went to Epcot! Of course *he* wasn't there. Plenty of peeps, right? Shouldn't be an issue without *him*....
We began the morning stopping off at Spaceship Earth. I hadn't been in since the revamp. It was cute. We then headed to Akershus - Princess Storybook Breakfast. We have had character meals, but never princesses. We have tried to hold off and make it special and OH HOW IT WAS! Julia LOVED it! Of course Jasmine was the first princess around and Jasmine is the current princess of choice! I do have to say tho that embarassing Chase was the highlight of my meal. I suggested he get a picture with Jasmine and so I took it. Everyone asked to see it and I passed the camera. I happened to get the camera back and he asked to see it so I zoomed in and perfectly there in the picture was Jasmine's chest and his face. It was princess! I thoroughly enjoyed that moment. So some princesses:
Hmm I apparently need to get pictures from my aunts memory card. I don't have any breakfast pics! I will try and get them tmw.
After Breakfast Andrea and Chase went off in one direction and the rest of us went another way. We wandered through china. We listened to the music and watched the movie. As we left the movie MJ headed straight for the smoking section, Peggy followed her, Scott wandered off (he does this alot) and I was standing talking to my kiddies and looking at the lake. Well a CM approaches us. He says someone has requested us inside, huh? I know where everyone is, what is he talking about? He says "I am so sorry to bother you, but please come with me" We head in and there is the dream team! Whoot! I was wanting something big.... huge.... a night in the Castle while *he* was gone, would have been spectacular! We didn't get that, but we did get dream ears! Hey, free is good. So, off we go with our ears after thanking everyone. I ended up passing mine to a random little girl later, but the kids loved them.
We decided to head back across the lake and see about some rides. We all head straight to Three Caballeros. Very cute, I had never ridden it. Ok, I thought it was lame, but the kids liked it:
*No, it wasn't her Birthday. However, they gave her the card at breakfast anyway because all the princesses signed it and thats the only card they could find to sign for her. Everyone asked allllll day if it was her Birthday she would say "No, but the princesses wanted me to have this card anyway", hehe
My aunt offers to stay with Julia and Lucas and let Scott, Jared and me slip off to ride Test Track! Great! I have never ridden test track because I usually stick with Julia. So they get some water and hit a bench and off we go. We go in the single rider line _10 mins vs. 90 mins_. We get up to the ride and it ends up being grandparents and kids so they ask me and jared to ride together, Scott is 2 cars in front of us. We make it to where you see the White SUV crashed and the ride stops. Oh yes, rain, downpour and we can't finish the ride because we go outside. Hmm.... Grandpa gets on his cell, mine rings, we sit and chat and laugh and act stupid to keep the kids happy. Then after a short Florida downpour off we go on with the ride! As we get off we find my completely drenched cousin! Oh yes, he was the car in the downpour, hehehe. Immediately my mind goes to Julias chair. Surely my aunt took her inside? I mean it is a 36K power wheelchair, please get her out of the rain....
We wander back to where we left Peggy, MJ, Julia and Lucas. MJ is wet, I mean who can put out a smoke to get out of the rain, right? My aunt, Julia and Lucas are dry, yes she went inside, shew! So the sky is questionable and we opt to head over to do Honey I shrunk the Audience. Andrea and Chase have never been to Disney and Peggy wanted to do this with them. So I head slowly on and as MJ wanders one way, Peggy goes to grab her. Well, we all know the skies are not dependable when they are looking semi-creep in FL. So we kept slowly chugging along thinking they would catchup - I just want to get there to get Julia to a place I can get out of the rain quickly instead of in the middle of the open area. We get there, get our pass with everyone included and go on in to wait.... Scott is there, Andrea & Chase are there.... Peggy and MJ, nowhere to be found. Apparently when Peggy grabbed MG they got lost. So when they do FINALLY arrive (2 downpours later, and we were out of it) Peggy is semi-miffed. So she ends up smarting off something about spending $1000 to come and us leaving her....
As I am sure you all can guess my nerves are not great at this point. I mean my husband is off with *her* and doing god knows what, I have paid all the points for everyone to have free rooms for the entire week.... I mean comeon, how much did _I_PAY_ So I was calm and then when she got nasty, I was nasty in return. I let it be clearly known I was not freakin happy with that bs. I can have a bit of a temper.... so I was miffed. After the show we headed over towards The Land. We get there and the elevator is 20 wheelchairs long. They all wanna do this and that. I tell them to do whatever they want, we will catch up later, maybe. The kids and I potty, head downstairs and have lunch/dinner.
Now remember its me, very very active Jared, Julia in her power chair and Lucas. Wheee... We eat at Sunshine Seasons at the Land. I really don't recommend it. We had asian. It was ok, nothing great. I would really prefer to go get something yummie in Morocca, but remember, random downpours, power chair. Seasons worked. We then ride Living with the Land (my kids LOVE this and I have to admit as a country girl I like it also). Very neat and one day I plan to do the Behind the Seeds tour, but not today....
After we finish our ride we head back out. When we reach the doors I realize, yep, its pouring. So there is a nice bench and we sit. Lucas curls under the bench and Jared finds some friends and a mime. He plays and pretends to mime. I txt Plain-ole-head and learn its the last cell (yaay) and we should be clear soon. The kids continue playing and mom rests, still pretty miffed, no idea where the rest of the family went, but fairly overwhelmed and just content for the moment.
Once the rain clears we head down to the Seas. We ride nemo 3X non-stop (yaay for no lines). We turtle talk and the most amazing thing happened.... Now as you all know Julia is very outspoken and so sweet and kind. One thing you may not know is that she doesn't relate well with other kids. She is afraid of being trampled, rightly so, and has always been leerie. She does have older friends, her current "boyfriend" is 14 and he absolutely *adores her*. But a crowd of kids, not so much. So, back to the amazing thing. Julia says "Mommie, I want to sit in the floor with the kids! I want to talk to Crush!" I was speechless! So, here she is with the kids *big tears*....
After talking with Crush we headed up to the aquariums. We saw the sea turtles, the dolphins. Julia fussed at a teenager for knocking on a tank she told him it would hurt the fish (smart girl). By this time I have settled into having both kids, the chair and the dog.... and I realize something. I can do it! Ya know what else? I ENJOY it! We had a blast it was very relaxing! So after we spend at least an hour, we stop and Julia insists on her picture in the Shark:
As we wander out, the sky has cleared and I get a msg that my family has left the park (nice...). I ask the kids what they want to do.... Well, they want to ride Spaceship Earth again, ok! So off we go. On the way? Well the fountain is having its little show with the music so we stop and enjoy that. We then finally get to SSE. We ride 3 more times. Jared is DETERMINED to get his picture and they just let us stay on (his darker face is hard for them to pickup so finally the man tells him to get on his knees to get a clear pic. When we get off (finally) we make post cards and email them to Nannie, Poppie and Papa. As we leave there, Fireworks! We watch them from afar, hit the potty and head back to the resort.
My family comes around one at a time throughout the evening to apologize. I was over it by then because I really did enjoy my time with the kids and I *CAN* carry Julia onto a ride even with Lucas along and Jared jumping around. It was very enjoyable and relaxing to do what they wanted and just take our time.....
So I will come back tmw with our Tuesday - Magic Kingdom! Oh and I will try and get pics from my aunt....
Of course Beth had to open the box to assure Julia her fruit was really in the box.
(Hey, don't look at me! I don't have any connections at DTD!) Beth practically begged her to get the "Princess hair" but Julia said NO and insisted on the "Rainbow hair" Poor Beth is now saddled with a mini Cyndi Lauper! 
I am sorry for what you are going through. I too have just ended a relationship because of infidelity and lies... It seems horrible at first, but once you are out it is truly a relief... I have not been as happy and relaxed as I am now in years. Your kids will be fine, because your are fine... that's what my daughters counselor told me... turns out to be true. Good luck. Make sure you take care of yourself.
