We're Back! We're Married! We're Shattered!

[LorraineH]

Hi Everyone!!

Flew back into Gatwick at half 9 this morning, kids were crying, didnt want to come home!

Had a fantastic time, the wedding was beautiful, and we're all absolutely gutted that its now all over. We loved all the parks, but felt we just about skimmed Epcot and AK.

Thank you for everyone that helped with our first trip, we're already thinking of Trip No 2, but we cant afford it for another 2 or 3 years! Still, thats another 3 years of planning to look forward to.

A couple of points to make - we stayed on I Drive as non drivers - simple for Univerval, Wet 'n' Wild & Seaworld. Very hard to get to WDW. We had 3 early PS's for breakfast and caught taxis on these days (about $35 inc tip). One afternoon we went to Typhoon Lagoon - we left our hotel at 1pm and didnt get to TL until about quarter to 4. That was a nightmare.

We did our one night in ASM after MNSSHP. Loved It. So have decided that next time we will do a week on I-Drive covering those parks and a week in WDW dedicated to Disney.

Ive read a couple of posts re Pirates Dinner Adventure - we had "free" tickets for this, through First For Attractions - but we still ended up somehow having to pay $80!! The food was poor and we didnt really have a clue what was going on in the show, but the atmosphere was good, and the kids did enjoy it.

Why or why did I not listen to those of you saying "skip the Virgin Welcome Meeting"?????!!! I dragged the family along on our first morning, even though we had pre-booked EVERYTHING! We had to look at brochures, watch videos, the place was packed and we had to wait 2 hours to get our free Hard Rock Cafe tickets. NOT WORTH IT.

Definite highs were all the parks and I would do a trip report giving detailed info on what we did (or didnt) do, but Id hate to bore you all rotten!!

So thanks again everyone, I'll need to change my User Name to LorraineD now that I have a DH!!! We do have a CD rom of the wedding pics, but I havent a clue how to upload them to show you all!!!

Any questions - post away!!!!! I can give advice to first timers now!!!!!!



Lorraine

 

[wils]

Congrats Mrs 'D' (and Mr 'D' too!)

I'd love to hear about your trip & wedding if you have time to post a report - I love reading about people's experiences as it makes me feel almost as if I am there!

Jo

Thanks for Warning re Welcome Meeting!

 

[annette_tr9]

I'd love to hear about your wedding too!! Congratulations

 

[paulh]

Lorraine glad you had a nice trip try looking into dvc 150 points uk cost about £7,000 but if you are hooked on disney it soon pays off
Paulh

 

[KayleeUK]

Congratulations

Pictures please Here is a link to Photopost, located at www.wdwinfo.com/photopost this allows you to upload your pictures and link them to your posts on the board.

 

[mandymouse]

Mr & Mrs D

Glad you had such a good time, welcome home

mandymouse

 

[slinky101]

congratulations Lorraine and new Hubby, glad you had such a great time.

 

[Miffy2003]

Many many congratulations to you and hubby Lorraine!

I would love to hear all about it (when you are less tired!)

Welcome home

 

[Mrs Dazzle]

So pleased to hear it all went well . . . with the exception of the dreaded Virgin meeting. But, if you hadn't have gone, you probably would have spent all your holiday wondering what you had missed I said we wouldn't do it, but did - never again

What is Mr D's name??

I feel like your kids - crying when we fly back home

 

[kazzie]

Fantastic news
I would love to hear much more detail

I remember when I went to the welcome meeting to get the Hard Rock tickets and had a big argument with them as they said I had to stay for the whole shebang and I said it didn't say anywhere in the offer you have to stay for the presentation,they wern't happy bunnies.I guess they get their commsion from the people buying tickets there.

 

[Hilary]

Woo hoo!

Congratulations and welcome back

 

[Beth__WDW23/6/02]

Congratulations & Welcome Back As Mr & Mrs! Bless.

Sorry to hear the kids didnt want to come back if I recall I'm the same LOL!!
Love to see the piccies.

Beth

 

[LorraineH]

Hi everyone!

I am having real problems uploading some of our wedding pics to the photo page! But I will keep trying so you can all see them!

Feeling better now, we had our wedding reception here last night, which was lovely cos we all got to dress up again!!

Desperately trying to see if we can go back in 2006 instead of 07. Missing it all!!!

DH (Ive got one now!!!!!!!) is called Mathew, which is ironic, seeing as when we arrived we had to put up with the tail end of the Tropical Storm called Mathew!! Our first day was at Seaworld and it rained all day.

Anyway, I'll make sure I do proper a proper trip report for you all, bear in mind though that it will probably be LONG!!!

And I'll persist with getting some photos on!!



LorraineD

 

[Miffy2003]

I like long reports Lorraine