jacs1234
Dreaming of Disney
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It was an awesome trip with so many ups and downs, but still all worth it and I think soon we'll forget about the tough times and think more about the great times 
Are you ready to hear it all? lol
We were meant to leave on the Monday. We had things planned to the hour of what we'd do. Breakfasts and which day in which park. We always start our trip at Disneyland and we had planned that being on the non early entry day.Well as you know, the flight was delayed for 12 hours, and then cancelled entirely. They booked us in for the next day which would make us lose 1 and a half days off of our holiday as now they were making us go through Sydney instead of direct from Brisbane. We had a 5 hour stop over at Sydney. It was a long time although the airport there is awesome. Not one of our family slept for longer than two hours and to make it worse, they had seperated us on the plane from the kids. ARGH I sat next to a farting stranger but fortunately had Shyne with me. The three boys sat by together without a grown up and dh was sitting completely by himself. I was so upset. We need an adult to be with the boys so we can help them out. It was a VERY long trip and if felt like we had been travelling for days.
We did finally get there and it was a relief to see the happy smiling face of our driver meeting us at the airport. We booked into our hotel, Best Western Inn and suites. It wasn't ready at first but after a while they got us a room. The room was fine and suitable for us.
We went over to the parks but felt like Zombies and after a few hours I had to go back to the room with Shyne (7) so she could have a nap, she was not coping well. We went back in for a while and played but came back fairly early to sleep. I don't have all the small details as I'd written them on my phone and on the last day lost it, but that will come later.
The next day was much better and we played and had loads of fun even though our schedule had been stuffed up. The breakfast supplied by the hotel suited us just fine.
On day three after breakfast at the hotel we went to play at the parks and two of the kiddies started to feel sick. We did a discover the magic tour for the kids and it was loads of fun but one particular child was not feeling great so I was worrying about that. Dh took him home after and another child started to feel unwell so he went home too. We had to cancel blue bayou which is my fave.
They started vomiting and vomiting and missed the buckets everytime. I walked back into the hotel with hubby cleaning the bathroom floor of vomit. I sent him into the parks with one child as my oldest child had started to feel unwell. Hubby and Shyne had a great time but Jadon started vomitting, Corban decided to do one more vomit and leaned off the side of the bed and vomitted all over the floor. I cleaned that up and started feeling sick myself. ARGH such a horrible night and I slept on the foldout couch with an unwell child so that I wouldn't make hubby and shyne sick. We think it was from breakfast but fortunately for us we were all feeling a bit better although with tender tummies the next day.
This was the day we were moving to the Grand Californian. We caught a cab and when we arrived the greeted us and took our bags. We walked through that double sliding beautiful door and felt at ease and at home and as if our holiday was just beginning. They upgraded us to a premium view room and everything from then on was bliss. We were careful with how much we ate that day but still went ahead with our Minnies Breakfast. My mum and sister in law and nephew and niece arrived as well. We ate and ate and had a really great time. It was a hard slog dragging 10 people around the parks though. When we had days that we split up, 6 felt so easy. We bribed Shyne into going on California screaming as she'd been too scared to go on it but she wanted that cars blanket so much that she agreed. lol She LOVED it and it's now her favourite ride..
Little things surprised me like how much I enjoyed the little fantasy land plays, they were so funny. And that even with 15 days we didn't get everything done that we wanted to. We didn't relax enough at the hotel or enjoy our premium view enough. Only went swimming once and were busy busy busy the whole time.
We had arranged for an extra day at virgins expense because of how they stuffed us around, but this meant the flight home was with delta and also through Sydney. We got to the airport and they had us in completely seperate seats spread around the plane. Not one seat together. I fought and fought and finally got it changed to two two and two. The two older boys would be fine together but I hated that they'd be next to a stranger. This is where I left my phone on the counter when I was trying to get him to change it and also wrapping our cheap bags with packing tape because they were falling apart lol. Nightmare stuff. lol Once checked in I went to the counter at our gate and pleaded with the attendant to change it so we could sit 3 and 3. And he worked some kind of miracle and did it. Yay. I was just so happy.
So the beginning and end of our holiday were a write off but the middle made it so worth it. I will post photos when I download them
Are you ready to hear it all? lol
We were meant to leave on the Monday. We had things planned to the hour of what we'd do. Breakfasts and which day in which park. We always start our trip at Disneyland and we had planned that being on the non early entry day.Well as you know, the flight was delayed for 12 hours, and then cancelled entirely. They booked us in for the next day which would make us lose 1 and a half days off of our holiday as now they were making us go through Sydney instead of direct from Brisbane. We had a 5 hour stop over at Sydney. It was a long time although the airport there is awesome. Not one of our family slept for longer than two hours and to make it worse, they had seperated us on the plane from the kids. ARGH I sat next to a farting stranger but fortunately had Shyne with me. The three boys sat by together without a grown up and dh was sitting completely by himself. I was so upset. We need an adult to be with the boys so we can help them out. It was a VERY long trip and if felt like we had been travelling for days.
We did finally get there and it was a relief to see the happy smiling face of our driver meeting us at the airport. We booked into our hotel, Best Western Inn and suites. It wasn't ready at first but after a while they got us a room. The room was fine and suitable for us.
We went over to the parks but felt like Zombies and after a few hours I had to go back to the room with Shyne (7) so she could have a nap, she was not coping well. We went back in for a while and played but came back fairly early to sleep. I don't have all the small details as I'd written them on my phone and on the last day lost it, but that will come later.
The next day was much better and we played and had loads of fun even though our schedule had been stuffed up. The breakfast supplied by the hotel suited us just fine.
On day three after breakfast at the hotel we went to play at the parks and two of the kiddies started to feel sick. We did a discover the magic tour for the kids and it was loads of fun but one particular child was not feeling great so I was worrying about that. Dh took him home after and another child started to feel unwell so he went home too. We had to cancel blue bayou which is my fave.
They started vomiting and vomiting and missed the buckets everytime. I walked back into the hotel with hubby cleaning the bathroom floor of vomit. I sent him into the parks with one child as my oldest child had started to feel unwell. Hubby and Shyne had a great time but Jadon started vomitting, Corban decided to do one more vomit and leaned off the side of the bed and vomitted all over the floor. I cleaned that up and started feeling sick myself. ARGH such a horrible night and I slept on the foldout couch with an unwell child so that I wouldn't make hubby and shyne sick. We think it was from breakfast but fortunately for us we were all feeling a bit better although with tender tummies the next day. This was the day we were moving to the Grand Californian. We caught a cab and when we arrived the greeted us and took our bags. We walked through that double sliding beautiful door and felt at ease and at home and as if our holiday was just beginning. They upgraded us to a premium view room and everything from then on was bliss. We were careful with how much we ate that day but still went ahead with our Minnies Breakfast. My mum and sister in law and nephew and niece arrived as well. We ate and ate and had a really great time. It was a hard slog dragging 10 people around the parks though. When we had days that we split up, 6 felt so easy. We bribed Shyne into going on California screaming as she'd been too scared to go on it but she wanted that cars blanket so much that she agreed. lol She LOVED it and it's now her favourite ride..
Little things surprised me like how much I enjoyed the little fantasy land plays, they were so funny. And that even with 15 days we didn't get everything done that we wanted to. We didn't relax enough at the hotel or enjoy our premium view enough. Only went swimming once and were busy busy busy the whole time.
We had arranged for an extra day at virgins expense because of how they stuffed us around, but this meant the flight home was with delta and also through Sydney. We got to the airport and they had us in completely seperate seats spread around the plane. Not one seat together. I fought and fought and finally got it changed to two two and two. The two older boys would be fine together but I hated that they'd be next to a stranger. This is where I left my phone on the counter when I was trying to get him to change it and also wrapping our cheap bags with packing tape because they were falling apart lol. Nightmare stuff. lol Once checked in I went to the counter at our gate and pleaded with the attendant to change it so we could sit 3 and 3. And he worked some kind of miracle and did it. Yay. I was just so happy.
So the beginning and end of our holiday were a write off but the middle made it so worth it. I will post photos when I download them
If I was sitting next to a child (or pair/group of children) who were separated from their parent, I would find out where their parent was sitting and offer to swap. More for selfish reasons than anything else 
at the GC, and that most of the rest of your trip went well 
