What if people were only as cool as their shoes? Dec09 TR. last hours at Disney pg19

[laura74]

So the Coral Reef soup Nazis say, "No spoon for you!"

 

[Jasperann]

I just wanted to say thanks for the bad review of Coral Reef... lol It got me thinking, because I was iffy on that one to begin with. I looked into the different choices in the WS and I found the Germany one. My mom's mom was from Germany, so she grew up with the food. I know she loves that type of thing too. So I went and booked dinner there. Then I talked to her about it and she was so happy with my choice. She didn't really like the choices for Coral Reef, but didn't want to tell me... I'm pretty excited for that meal now.

I'm off to check out your PTR now.

 

[NancyLuvsMickey]

Does everybody see that I started my pre trip report? It's in my siggie. you want to read it.

Hopefully Jedi mind tricks work here.

I'm following ~ thanks for the heads up!!!

 

[praisehisname]

Great updates! I love that your mom played along at 50's! I cried a little when you were talking about your mom's restless night. The love you have for your mom is so evident. I love the idea of giving your mom a present on your birthday; I'm going to copy that this year on my birthday! Love, love, love the bracelet you got with your gift card! When you bought candy in Japan, did you buy any bags of the little "crawfish" looking dried up things? That stinks that your dinner at Coral Reef was so awful.

Looking forward to more!

 

[disneyaddicted]

So the Coral Reef soup Nazis say, "No spoon for you!"

That's exactly what it was like, he got mad when I asked for a spoon for the second time.

I just wanted to say thanks for the bad review of Coral Reef... lol It got me thinking, because I was iffy on that one to begin with. I looked into the different choices in the WS and I found the Germany one. My mom's mom was from Germany, so she grew up with the food. I know she loves that type of thing too. So I went and booked dinner there. Then I talked to her about it and she was so happy with my choice. She didn't really like the choices for Coral Reef, but didn't want to tell me... I'm pretty excited for that meal now.

I'm off to check out your PTR now.

I really didn't want to give CR a bad review, I just had to tell the truth, they let me down this time. I'm glad that you and your mom have an ADR that you are both happy with. I have never eaten at the Biergarten, not at WS anyway, grew up in Germany so I have been to plenty of beerfests with the great food, you'll have to let me kno wwhat you thought of the Biergarten.

I'm following ~ thanks for the heads up!!!

Cool!

Great updates! I love that your mom played along at 50's! I cried a little when you were talking about your mom's restless night. The love you have for your mom is so evident. I love the idea of giving your mom a present on your birthday; I'm going to copy that this year on my birthday! Love, love, love the bracelet you got with your gift card! When you bought candy in Japan, did you buy any bags of the little "crawfish" looking dried up things? That stinks that your dinner at Coral Reef was so awful.

Looking forward to more!

Sometimes I think mom lives her life like she knows she's on camera, she can be such a ham.
I do love my mom alot and I hate to see her upset, her nightmares really bothered me, nobody should have nightmares in Disney.

The Candy in japan looked like it could have been their version of starbursts only better, I didn't see a bag of dried up looking crawfish, is that a candy?, it doesn't sound too appealing.

 

[disneyaddicted]

So it's time to head back to the resort, but not until I see illuminations. I don't know where I had heard this, but I was informed that I could watch illuminations from outside the park, so my grand idea was to exit the park, find a nice bench to relax on and watch the show, once it was over I would mosey my way to the bus stop...AHEAD OF THR CROWD.

On our slow walk to the exit I stopped for some pictures of Mom and the huge golf ball. I was trying to do the pose where it looks like she is holding it up, it took quite a few tries until I settled for this one.

then this lady comes running up and says "now my turn" and she posed, so I snapped the picture and told her that now she was going to be in my trip report, she asked me if I was a diser I said of course. she then told me she was a moderator on the boards and gave me her card, I have since lost the card, I have searched for that card, it was supposed to go in my scrapbook, but maybe somebody will recognize her picture and can tell me who she is again. I feel so bad for not remembering especially considering I was so excited to have met a moderator, in my world that is like meeting a celebrity.

We eventually all leave, we do find a great bench and only have to wait 45 minutes. so I took more pictures of the ball.

I didn't think it was centered, so I moved it over an inch.

Mom thought it looked fine where it was before, so she moved it back.
We took all kinds of pictures like this, and I plan to have more fun with pictures like this when I go back in sept.

After a bit Janis said she wasn't feeling well and wanted to go back to the room. Mom didn't want her to go back alone, she didn't think it was safe. WE all assured Mom that Janis would be fine, Janis didn't want Mom to miss out on my birthday fireworks show so Mom gave in and let Janis go alone back to the resort.

After another 10 minutes Marzi and I started looking for a close place to have a cig, we found a spot about 20 feet from the bench, it had an ash tray so we assumed it was ok to smoke there, Mom didn't want to be left alone. I pointed out the umteen security and policemen standing around, really Mom your safe, I wanted her to stay at the bench and watch our stuff, but Mom had to come with us.

While Marzi and I were having our break Mom said that had she known that our trip was going to be centered around me and Marzi's smoke breaks she never would have come, she felt like alot of time was wasted.
This upset me, I didn't say anything to her but I was thinking, how and when was time wasted. Both Mom and Janis had requested that we stop and rest throughout the day, so that's what they did every time Marzi and I would stop for a break, either that or Mom and Janis would go into a shop and we would meet them in there. We had managed to do just about everything we had planned to do, where was the wasted time?

I looked at Marzi and she just shrugged her shoulders.

So we went back over to the bench and waited some more, finally illuminations started, we could see the sky turn Orange, and hear the loud cracks and booms, but we didn't see any explosions. Mom said she was going to be pissed if she waited all that time and didn't get to see anything, I got mad and yelled at her. "You would be pissed anyway, you're always pissed." I regretted it the minute I said it, it wasn't true, Mom wasn't always pissed, I thought she had been a true trooper, I felt so bad, especially when she apologized to me and gave me a hug, I should have been the one apologizing to her and hugging her.
She told me that she didn't care about dinner, she was going to chalk it up to a new experience, she was never mad. I already knew that.

WE started walking to the buses, by the time we got to the buses it was all forgotten. We were second in line and a bus came within 10 minutes.

We went in to shop around the pop shop, Mom an dI both bought the Mickey head cookie cutter, she bought hers to use as a stencil when quilting, I bought mine to actually use to make rice crispy treats, I haven't made any yet, but I will, right now it's sitting out in my kitchen on a shelf, it's my hidden mickey.
I also bought a new address book, my other one was 18 years old, I love my knew address book now. I also bought a few more pens. Mom also got some pens for gifts for her friends back home. I looked at mugs and frames but decided that I was probably already pushing my weight limit for my suitcase so I shouldn't buy anything heavy, but man, I really wanted a couple mugs and a few frames I saw.

We then headed back to the room and got ready for bed. the next day was going to be our last full day at Disney. I wanted to get to bed early.

Janis was in her jammies and in bed working on a puzzle, I jumped in the shower, when I came out Mom was in bed and Marzi jumped in the shower.
Janis told me to not feel bad about the dinner at Coral Reef, she enjoyed the experience and tried food that she wouldn't normally try. It made me feel better to hear everyone say that it wasn't too horrible.

Marzi came out of the shower and we turned out the lights, Mom had the T.V. on and was flipping through the channels when she came across the Celtic Woman, she loves them so that is what we watched, Mom knew all their names and how long they have been doing this, she was even making comments, "So-n-so changed her hair, I really like it." "That's so-n-so, she doesn't sing, she just plays violin, she very seldom wears shoes."
I was amazed at Mom's knowledge of these woman, I knew she was a fan, but I didn't know she was an uber fan.

I fell asleep with the T.V. on, and later was awaken by my screaming phone. I jumped out of bed and tried to grab it before it woke the whole resort. It was Kent, so I put on my slippers, grabbed my refillable mug and went down to the Pop shop, it was 10 minutes to closing, they were wiping everything down but I had just enough time to get a soda and then I went out by the pool.
We talked till almost 2am. so much for a good nights rest, I told Kent I had to go to sleep because I had an early wakeup call. He stayed on the phone with me as I walked back to the room, we got disconnected once I was on the elevator, so I had to call him back, it just didn't feel right to end the conversation like that.
It was almost 2:30am when I crawled back into bed, our alram was set for 7:00am

I will leave off here for now, you'll just have to wait and see if I am able to wake up with alarm.

 

[All7OfUs]

It will be interesting to see if anyone knew who the mod is! How fun to run into someone like that!

Bummer you waited but couldn't see anything- and that's a really big bummer there was a tiff at the same time. Late nights, long schedules, unfulfilled expectations are a recipe for disaster. Glad it was forgotten so soon!

If it were me, I don't think I could get up the next AM. That's way too few hours of sleep for me. But it's amazing what Disney adrenaline can do!

 

[disneyaddicted]

It will be interesting to see if anyone knew who the mod is! How fun to run into someone like that!

Bummer you waited but couldn't see anything- and that's a really big bummer there was a tiff at the same time. Late nights, long schedules, unfulfilled expectations are a recipe for disaster. Glad it was forgotten so soon!

If it were me, I don't think I could get up the next AM. That's way too few hours of sleep for me. But it's amazing what Disney adrenaline can do!

I'm hoping somebody knows her, I can't believe I lost the card she gave me, I know it had the word jelly in it, and I also can't remember which area of the boards she's a mod on. But anyway she was a really nice lady, fully of energy and you could tell she was happy to be at Disney.

I would say all in all, Epcot was a good day, yes our dinner was nasty and yes we didn't get to see the fireworks, and yes there was a small tiff, but it really rates small in my book compared to how great everything else was.

 

[disneyaddicted]

December 10th, I am a day older and a day wiser now. The alarm goes off and I tell Marzi to turn it off and lets sleep a bit more, so that's what she did.

It was almost 10:00am before I finally woke up. Mom and Janis were awake already and discussing breakfast.

Marzi was already in the shower. Today was the day we were all going to wear our matching Santa Mickey T-shirts that I had painted for us. I was hoping to get a really nice picture of all four of us infront of the tree at Magic Kingdom.

Janis then told me that she wasn't feeling too well and she was just going to stay at the resort and rest. I won't lie I was a bit bummed, but I understood.

We had the cake and our desserts let over from the night before, so I had a small sliver of the cake, it's just like eating a donut I say, cake for breakfast is good, but our Chocolate wave from the night before was super good, it was no longer warm and when I sunk my fork into it, the chocolate didn't ooze out, it was more like a fudge now, but still super good, I ate almost all of it, then I jumped into the shower.

While I was doing my hair Marzi opened the front door and we saw the weather, it was raining hard and the wind was blowing, that's when Mom decided that she couldn't do another day in the cold. So it would just be Marzi and I that day.
We also had our envelope hanging on the door, "Oh that has got to be the saddest thing ever." I handed it to Mom and let her look everything over, it had all our checkout information and flight information on it, CARP! Mom and Janis's flight had been moved up by 3 hours, everybody but me had departing flights for around 3pm, they would all have to be on the ME bus by noon. I was hoping that I could leave when they did, my ME bus time wasn't until 3pm.


So anyway Marzi and I were heading out to MK, I told my mom to call me if she changed her mind and wanted to meet us for our 5:00pm ADR at LTT.

Since it was raining I couldn't wear my wooly crocs or any socks with my plain crocs, it was going to be a cold feet day. I did pack a pair of socks in my bag just incase the rain let up.

Marzi and I said our goodbyes and headed down to the pop shop so she could buy a rain poncho and then we headed to the already waiting bus for Magic Kingdom, we jumped on and headed to the castle. It was about noon thirty when we got there.
we went through bag check and finger scan and then went into one of the shops so my feet could warm up, we hung out in there trying to come up with a plan for the day. Marzi said right off the bat we have got to go to HM and find that dang flammet duck, so that's what we did.

There wasn't any kind of line for HM and even when we were in the stretching room there were maybe 10 people. It was nice to not be pushed and shoved while people fought to be first in line for a doom buggy, I always tend to hang back and wait for the crowd to die down, but today it was easy breasey.

Once in our buggy we got our game faces on, there was no joking around, we wanted that duck, as we went through each room we would look over every piece of furntiure our eyes would squint in hopes of a better view of things, I swear I had this HM memorizes but we still couldn't find the duck, so once the ride was over we got right back on it to look again, no duck and I still couldn't find the hidden Mickey by the grim reaper because I couldn't find the grim reaper. so once the ride was over we got right back on it again, and still no duck no grim reaper.

It was almost two oclock now and We were getting hungry, we had talked about eating at Caseys corner again but on the way over there we decided that a Taco Salad sounded scrumptious so we then started making our way to Pecos Bill.

Pecos was almost empty when we got there but as we waited in line a huge group came in behind us, I started feeeling a little panicky, we got our food and quickly found a table in the corner, we took turns watching eachothers bags while the other went up to the fixins bar, I loaded up my taco salad and got some mild peppers on the side, just to eat for a snack, I love me some mild peppers. While I was up there a CM was getting reamed by a manager for her poor attitude, he was telling her that she was a reflection of this restaraunt and Disney world, if she walked around scowling like a sourpuss it would put a damper on the moods of all the guests.
I thought maybe he could have done that in private somewhere not right there at the fixins bar for all to hear, that put a damper on things. She really did look miserable though.

I ate most of my taco salad, I kind of left the tortilla bowl, I needed room for my carrot cake. It was good carrot cake but the frosting was thicker then the cake itself so it was a bit rich for me.

Once we finished our meal we decided to head back to HM to look for the duck again, our whole lunch was spent talking about this dang duck and where it could be, we also figured that the grim reaper has to be in the cemetary, where else could he be, but we felt like we had scoured that cemetary.

Anyway on the way to HM, I heard a commotion going on to my left, music starts to play and all these people come pouring out a buidling, I stopped to watch and yay to my amazement came........

This was my first time seeing Princess Tiana, I was so exicted, this was huge for me, her and everyone else danced and sang their way to the river boat, Marzi and I went down onthe dock and watched as the riverboat passed us by with the party going on, it was awesome, he hung out and looked at the water, talked some and then the celebrate parade came through, so we watched it, we had good spots too, it was short and sweet, just enough parade to make you happy but not too much that you get bored.

So once our fun watching was satisfied we made our way to HM, again hardly any line at all, we get on the ride and get all serious again, no duck, C'mon, there's gotta be a dcuk, the book said so. as we were going through the cemetary we started looking for the grim reaper, I remembered reading that he was close to the opera singer, we didn't see him either, then just as our buggy was leaving the area I looked to my left and there he was, and the hidden mickey too, I scream, "There it is, there it is" Marzi looked over and let out a yell of excitement.

Once off the ride we were high fiving and congratulating eahother, it renewed our hope for the duck, but we decided that before going back on the ride we would go find a hidden mickey book and read up on the duck one last time.
So we went into the closest store and foudn the book, we turn to the haunte mansion page and read, we then felt like dummies, color us stupid, the book didn't say there were donald ducks on a chair, but look for the duck on the chair, we then realized we had seen the duck on the chair our very first ride through on our very first day. the design on the chair looks like a ducks beak and eyes. We kind of laughed at ourselves, declared ourselves bored with HM and decided to head over to toon town.

On the way we picked up a bag of roasted almonds, mmmmmm, soo good.
We went into Minnies house, it was cute, she hasn't changed anything since the last time I was there,
Marzi tested out the couch.

She said it was a little hard and too plastic for her taste but a nap on it woul still be doable.

then we went into her craft room and that's when I missed my Mom alot, I had forgotten that I had planned to get pictures of mom with Minnies quilt, I was so bummed.

After Minnies we went into the store that looks like a big circus tent, all the lines for the meet ne greets were super long except for the princesses, but we saw them at Akershus, so there was no need to get in that line, I had wanted to meet Tinker bell but that was over a 2 hour wait, so we just shopped around a while, I decided that I wanted to make a charm bracelet, Mom had made one and I loved hers, so Marzi and I stood around for half an hour making that thing, then after all the charms I liked were on it, I added up in my head what it was going to cost, over $50 I had the money but couldn't see spending it on yet another piece of jewelry, so I put it back and we left the store empty handed.

We went to Tomorrowland, it was starting to rain really hard by then, we said if Buzz light year was a 15 minute wait or less then we would go on it. It was a 30 minute wait, so we skipped it and just found shelter from the rain for a while. It was almost 4pm and our ADRs were for 5, I wasn't hungry at all, we had eaten lunch too late in the day, I called Mom to se if she was coming for dinner and she said no, her and Janis had just grabbed something from the food court, so Marzi and I decided to cancel our ressie, we just couldn't see going and wasting any food.

It was still raining pretty hard, we had had enough of this so we thought let's just go back to the resort and chill.
We stopped at the emprium on the way out, I had wanted to get a T-shirt, I looked all over and couldn't find one that said 2009, they had plenty at the beginning of the week, I had waited too long and now all they had was 2010, so I didn't get a T-shirt. I did buy glow cubes though, I love them, I have used them a few times since I've been home and plan to get more when I go back.

After my purchases from the emporium, we went across the road to the bakery, I got a candy apple for Mom and one for me. We love Candy apples. I was able to use snack credits on them too.

The bus ride back to the resort was uneventful, no lines, no crabby people, just us and a happy driver.

We called Mom once we were back to see if she or Janis needed anyting before we came up, they so no they were fine, so Marzi and I just went straight to the room.

Mom was repacking her suitcase getting ready for tomorrows departure. We talked about what we did at MK, I gave mom her apple and then I sat on the bed and devoured mine. Once my apple was gone I set out to start packing my stuff. it took us all over an hour to get our stuff packed and organized, I left out my jammies and tomorrows outfit plus my toiletries, I figured I could just stuff that stuff in my carry on the next morning.

Around 7ish we all started getting hungry so we headed down to the food court, Janis stayed in the room though. It had stopped raining and the clouds had left, you could see the sky and a few stars, there was a slightly warm breeze blowing, I loved it, it felt nice, I actually felt really relaxed. I wasn't even sad that it was our last night there. WE had down time to just hang out and do whatever. Mom and I talked about going to downtown Disney and decided her and I would do a future trip to disney and go do all the things we missed.

I really don't remember what any of us got for dinner, I know Marzi and I ate ours outside where it was less crowded. Mom took hers and Janis's up to the room.
We fisnished eating and got refills of hot cocoa and then just sat and people watched, eventually we headed back to the room. I called Kent and gave him flight info again, he kept saying he was so excited to see me, he couldn't wait, he missed me so much, I could never leave him for that long ever again, etc...etc...
After that we all just talked and joked around it was a fun night.

You can tell from this picture just how tired I was, I think late nights and all that walking on a bad leg was finally catching up to me. We were going to go to bed but I just couldn't see going to sleep so early on our last night, so Marzi and I grabbed our jackets and mugs and went back to the food court for more hot chocolate. While walking around the food court looking to see if they had any goodies we had to have we found that they carried Java Monster and you could use a snack credit on it, I wish I had known this early on in my trip, Java Monsters are the bomb diggity, so we each picked one up for the next morning, we also got a few rice crispy treats to take home to the kids.

We sat by the pool and reminisced, it's funny how she remembers things from our childhood that I don't and vice versa but once we start telling the story it all kicks in. marzi reminded me of the time were in 6th grade and my Dad had dropped us a the mall, we had found these things at a toy stoy that were supposed to make filling up water ballons really easy, so we each got one and a bag of water ballons, we went into the bathroom and filled up a few, we were going to drop them off the second floor but we both chickened out at the last minute and just threw the ballons in the trash, instead we just filled up the water baloon loader and would squirt it and then hide it real quick, but the worst part was we went into dilliards and squirted the mannequins and made it look like they had peed there pants. I had completely forgotten about that until she reminded me, oh my gosh, we were brats.

We went back to the room after spending hours by the pool, Mom and Janis were in bed but not sleeping, we mad plans to se the alarm for 9 am, that sounded so good to me. And then it was lights out for our last sleep in Disney.

 

[disneyaddicted]

apparently I don't know my left from my right, every time in this last installment when I said I looked to my left, it was really my right, just wanted to clear that up.

 

[Millie12591]

Awwww, last day in the "World," with your best friend. So sad. Hopefully you built an even stronger bond while you were there with one another and you'll be able to get together some time soon.

 

[laura74]

The last day is always so sad. You must have been happy to see your husband though. It's so sweet how the two of you talk on the phone for hours after being married for years.

 

[disneyaddicted]

Awwww, last day in the "World," with your best friend. So sad. Hopefully you built an even stronger bond while you were there with one another and you'll be able to get together some time soon.

We made plans to get together this Easter but I don't think it's going to happen, we are both so busy with life and work, but we still have a strong connection so I know we can always just pick right up again.

The last day is always so sad. You must have been happy to see your husband though. It's so sweet how the two of you talk on the phone for hours after being married for years.

the last day is always super sad, but I was reay to see Kent. Kent and I are still in our honeymoon stage, I remember my sister in law telling me it will only last a few months and then Kent and I would be a bickering mess, but Kent and I are still going strong and she is divorced now. Kent and I try to always keep that young and in love feeling going. We still right eachother love notes and leave them in eachothers pockets or cars, and we call eachother when we are on break at work. I love him so much.

 

[disneyaddicted]

we all are wide awake before our alarm even goes off. the room gets busslin pretty quick with showers and last minute packing, we were all ready to go at 9:30 am but we stayed in the room and hung out relaxing and talking until almost 10:30am.
Mom and I discussed the quilt she was going to make me, I asked her if her idea had changed since she had seen Disney first hand and she said it had a little bit. I asked her if she could put hidden Mickeys in the quilt for me, she said she would try.

We finally decided to head down to get our luggage and what not checked in.
the line to do that was astronomical, I don't know why I was chosen, but a CM came up to me in the middle of the line and asked to see my papers, I showed her, she took my bag my debit card and I.D. She then came back and told me that my luggage was 3 pounds over weight and I needed to do some repacking, she said once I was ready she would take my bag but aside from that I was all checked in, so I took a few things out of my bag that I didn't have to have, some I was able to put in my carryon, other stuff I was going to toss, she took everything that I had taken out of my bag and weighed it and then told me that I was good to go and gave me my boarding pass. So then I had nothing to do but wait for Mom Marzi and Janis, they waited 20 minutes and then was all checked in.

We had some time to kill before the bus so we went to the food court and got some morning grindage to munch on. Marzi and I also had our monster Javas, mmmm so good. We both shared some kind of danish too. Mom and Janis got muffins and hot chocolate. Once we were all done Mom and Janis said they didn't want their refillable mugs, so I happily volunteered to take them off their hands, more crap for the carry on but I didn't care.

We went back to the bus stop and found seats on the bench. I hate that feeling, especially when a bus comes and drops guests off for the start of their vacation, it pains my heart, it was just a week ago I was stepping off the bus for the start of my vacation and feeling bad for the weary souls heading home. Now here we sit, the weary souls, it's not fair.

I took a picture of Mom and Janis

Poor kids, all dressed for the Michigan weather, at least they got to have a few days of warm weather.

/SIZE]
And my dear Marzipan, I had lent her my hoodie so she wouldn't freeze on the plane, she was supposed to mail it to me once she got home, I'm still waiting for it.

The wait was taking forever, it's not like I wanted to end the trip but I was eager to find out if I could ride the bus with them or have to wait for my designated time. I'd rather wait around the airport for a few extra hours as along as it meant I could have a few minutes more with my mom and Marzi.

The bus pulled up and people started loading their stuff on. I asked the driver if there would be room for me and he said they were over booked as it was and 3 people designated for this bus were going to have to wait for the next one. So it was a no, I hugged everybody and swore I wouldn't cry, I got misty eyed, but no tears fell, I was going to be strong.
Mom, Janis and Marzi climbed aboard, the tears almost started to fall but I got wrapped up in the argument that those 3 left over people were having with the bus driver, he assured them another bus was right behind and they wouldn't miss their flight, but in the end they decided to get a taxi, but there was still no room on the bus for me, The bus driver then said that if parents were willing to hold a child on their lap he would have room for me, but I didn't want to ask anybody to do that, so I just sat back down on the bench while he finished loading luggage into the bus.
I felt the tears coming and I knew there was no stopping them so I decided to leave and not watch the bus pull away.
I was in the lobby when my cell rang, it was Mom, I almost didn't want to answer it, I was crying so hard I didn't want to upset Mom, but I needed to hear her voice one more time.

Ty: Hello?

Mom: I love you so much honey, thank you for planning this trip, I had such a good time.

Ty: blee blooo blah (I was crying so hard I couldn't talk)

Mom: Ah honey, please don't cry, I love you.

Ty: I bla blu bloooo (still crying)

Mom: I plad a bate blime (Mom's crying now)

Wow, God bless the person trying to break that code.

Ty: I just wish I could have been on the bus with you all, I feel so lonely.

Mom: I know I wanted you on it too, I almost asked a lady to hold her son on her lap but was afraid to.

Ty: Me too, It's ok though, I will see you in the summer and we can scrapbook the trip and relive the memories again.

Mom: That sound so nice, I love you honey.

Ty: I love you too Momma.

I hung up the phone and went into the bathroom to assess the damage my crying had done, not too bad, just a little touch up with the bare minerals and I was good to go.
So what do I do for the next 3 hours?
Shop!
and that's what I did, I bought 3 more pair of earings, another pen, another bracelet and a charm. I also picked up a star magazine for the flight, nothing like useless knowledge about the stars to keep my mind from completely rotting.
I got a hot chocolate and went by the pool to call my sister Bo. I started bawling again when I told her about not being able to take the same bus as Mom. Bo is great at making me forget that I'm sad, she had me laughing in no time.
We discussed everything, her halloween party that she has wanted me to go to for years but never have been able to. We even discussed a sisters trip. We discuss sisters trip all the time, it's a pipe dream. but still fun to make plans.
Before long it was time for my scheduled pickup. I went to the bathroom one last time to refix the make up again and rinse out my mug so I could pack it, then I went to the bus stop and found a seat on the bench.
Bo said she wished she could have come on this trip, she felt like she was kind of on it because of how much we talked and texted eachother, but without any pictures of her being here she just didn't feel like it was a whole trip for her, so I gave her the next best thing, I took a picture of me talking to her on my cell.

We stayed on the phone together until the bus got to the airport, I was down to 2 bars and would have loved to stay on the phone but I need to be able to get ahold of Kent too, so we said our goodbyes and made promises to call eachother the next day.

It was nice not having to check my bag, I already had my boarding pass so I headed right to the security gates.
The lines were uber long and moving super duper slow, at one point a lady came up to the guy infront of me and said that their flight had been delayed until 11:00pm and so she was going to go find a bar and would catch up with him later. It was a little after 4pm, I felt bad for them having such a long wait. And then I hoped the lady wouldn't get too schnockered that they wouldn't let her fly. I do that, I worry about random stuff for strangers, I will cry over their spilled milk if need be.

I finally get through security, it's almost 5 now, I am starting to get a little panicky, I don't know how far away my gate is, but I still stopped to buy an orange juice, I always travel with orange juice, even when they try and push water on me, I say No thank you, I want orange juice.
I make it to the fake monorail, and wait, one shows up in minutes, just as the doors open 3 young men came running up behind me and knocked me down while getting on the monorail, I fell over my suitcase carryon and wasn't able to catch myself, I came down hard on my knee. They looked at me and then quickly sat down on the ledge in the car, they rushed and nearly broke my leg so they could sit down, really?!
A security man saw it happen and came running over, yelling in his walking to shut it down, and calling for back up, I had no idea all the commotion was about me, I just thought coincidance, until he dropped to his knees next to me.

Miss, are you ok, can you move, are you ok?

then 2 other security people showed up, security man #1 pointed to the guys that knocked me down and said "Obtaine them."
So when security dudes 2and 3 went over and told them to stand up they started arguing, I think they were arguing, they had broken English, they kept saying, "No, not us."

One of the guys tried to run and he was stopped immediately and then all 3 were put in handcuffs, (I did think this was abit much but I also understand that the security men felt they needed to do this)

A wheelchair was brought for me and I kept telling them I was fine, then a medic showed up and wanted to take a look at my leg, well we all know what my leg looked like right guys? But when they saw it they started flipping out, Security man #1 insisted it was broken, the medic wanted to call for an ambulance, I'm freaking out thinking I am going to miss my plane and I was crying trying to explain that it was an old injury aggravated by a wonderful stay at Disney. Not to mention a huge crowd of gawkers had gathered around. I had to sign a waiver refusing medical help, I also had to fill out a statement. The security guy wanted me to press assault charges, I just wanted to go home, I didn't think there was any malice behind the guys plowing me over, I think they were just rude and immature. But the security guy said they had been drinking and would be detained for a while until they got things sorted out but I was free to go, they wanted me to take a wheel chair, but I told them I did disney all week without a wheel chair, I can walk to my gate without one too.

The one security guy stayed with me until my gate, carrying my carryons for me, His name was Reggie, and his mom did a wonderful job raising him, he was so sweet and so concerned for my well being.

It was almost 5:30 when I got to my gate, I sat down and waited for them to start boarding, after 10 minutes of them not calling any zones I went up to ask if they had already boarded, they asked me my flight number, I told them and pointed to the flight number posted above their heads.

"Aww Baby, your flight has been delayed until 11pm."

, NNOOOoooooo! Really? I mean really?

"Yes baby, you need to go to gate, blah blah, you're flight will be leaving from there now, and go to customer service too, they will give you a meal voucher."

So I go down to the other gate and I call Kent.

"Hi honey, I'm on my way to the airport, are you on the plane?"

"No, my flight has been delayed until 11pm."

"Are you serious, that means you won't get here until almost 1am."

"I know, I'm sorry, I'll call you when we are boarding so you know when to leave, I can't really talk my phone is dying."

"Ok, I love you."

SO by now it's 6 pm, I was supposed to be in the air now. I pulled out my magazine and my orange juice. I couldn't really concentrate on my magazine so I people watched for a while, there was a couple watching an episode of Seinfeld on their laptop, that's when I saw they had plug in for phones and such, so I dug out my charger and plugged in my phone.
I spent some time going throught the pictures on my camera, but it made me sad, I tried to sleep, I did doze for about 30 minutes.
I struck up a conversation with a teenage girl and her younger sister. Sweet girls from Balitmore, they had come down to visit their grandmother.

I was getting hungry then and the teen girl told me to go get a meal voucher, she said it was effortless, yes she used the word effortless, so I decided to do just that.
I went to customer service, they gave me a ten dollar meal voucher, a 20 dollar travel voucher and a free roundtrip ticket to anywhere in the continental U.S.

With meal voucher in hand I set out to find food, I came across Burger King, I got a whopper, fries and coke, when they saw I was using a meal voucher they told me to supersize my order and also get a muffin and a bottled water, so I did, it still only came to 8.50 I got my food and sat down.

there is nothing more depressing then eating alone, especially at a restaurant. Usually when the kids were gone to their Dads for the summer and Kent was away, I would wait and eat my dinner when a good T.V. show was on, it helped me feel less lonely. I bit into my sanwhich and then lost it, I started bawling like a baby, it's hard to eat when you're crying, ever try it? Your nose gets all plugged up and you can't breath, you try and eat without accidentaly inhaling your food and choking, it's not easy I am telling you.

I decided to call Kent, my phone was a little more charged so I could talk freely, but I broke down again, telling him about the guys who knocked me down, I wasn't going to tell him that until I saw him because I knew it would make him worry, but I couldn't help it. I felt so sad, so tired and so alone. How could a wonderful week be ending like this?

I finish what I can of my food, pack up my blueberry muffin and bottled water and then head back to my gate.
My knee is throbbing and my ankle and leg is so swollen it burns, I can't even bend it so I sit with my leg stretched out.
I watched the news for a bit. watched the cleaning crew a bit. Finally it is time to board.
It's a full flight, so there would be no propping up the leg, but I am so thankful just to be heading home. I pop a hydrocodone and a sudafed, once the flight is in the air I am asleep and I don't wake up unil we touch down.

Kent said he would be waiting out front so he wouldn't have to pay for parking. So once I was able to I hurried off the plane and started making my way down to baggage claim, once I passed through the security checkpoint, the point of no return, I was surprised to see Kent waiting for me, I ran to him and just hugged him so tight, I was so happy that he decided to come in after all, he said he knew I needed him there, and I did.

We get my suitcase and head home. I was so tired I felt sick but yet I had so much catching up to do, even though we talked for hours every night while I was gone there was still catching up to do.

I got home at close to 3am, fell into bed and slept till noon.


And that my friends was my Disney trip, I hope you enjoyed it.

I used my free ticket to go see my brother, his wife and their girls. I got to see my sister too, our visits overlapped so we had a day together.

This is me Bo, and my niece Jazzlynn, how do you like my darker hair?

Me and my Jazzy girl,

Me and Addalynn, we bonded over midnight feedings.

Lola and Jazz, I had put Lolas hair up in rollers, there were a few left over so I did Jazz's hair too.

My brother Matt and Jazzlynn.
He is such a good Daddy, he would also take on some midnight feedings so Lola could get a good nights sleep. I told him he was a good Daddy and he said, "what's the use of being a Dad if you're not going to be a good one?"

But anyway, coming back from that trip my luggage got lost, then they delivered the wrong luggage to me, so I got another free ticket, I am going to use it to go to Bo's halloween party this October, cool how things work out huh?

Everybody, thank you for reading my TR, I really enjoyed sharing it with you all and talking back and forth, I hope you will all follow me over to my pretrip report for my upcoming trip with Kent.

 

[Millie12591]

Ty! What a great TR! I'm so sad it's over and you even made me cry again.
For some reason I cry when others are upset, you talking about you being so lonely and eating by yourself made me so sad for you.
I knew it would be over quickly, but I can't stand to hear about someone upset and not get that way myself.

Wow! About the guys knocking you over, and wow about the security reacting the way they did. Don't get me wrong, I think they needed to make sure you were more than OK, and I also think they needed to put the guys through the wringer for knocking you over in a drunken state, but handcuffs do seem to be a bit much. Good to know that there are some who think it's worth it to go overboard until they know for sure what's happened, I for one will feel more safe in the MCO airport.
I'm curious, how long once you were home did it take for you to get your leg to down in swelling and it stay that way? Did you ever find out from the doctor why it kept swelling like it did?

Again great TR, and I'm anxious to keep up with your planning for your next trip with Kent.

 

[disneyaddicted]

Ty! What a great TR! I'm so sad it's over and you even made me cry again.
For some reason I cry when others are upset, you talking about you being so lonely and eating by yourself made me so sad for you.
I knew it would be over quickly, but I can't stand to hear about someone upset and not get that way myself.

Wow! About the guys knocking you over, and wow about the security reacting the way they did. Don't get me wrong, I think they needed to make sure you were more than OK, and I also think they needed to put the guys through the wringer for knocking you over in a drunken state, but handcuffs do seem to be a bit much. Good to know that there are some who think it's worth it to go overboard until they know for sure what's happened, I for one will feel more safe in the MCO airport.
I'm curious, how long once you were home did it take for you to get your leg to down in swelling and it stay that way? Did you ever find out from the doctor why it kept swelling like it did?

Again great TR, and I'm anxious to keep up with your planning for your next trip with Kent.

Ya know I cried too again when I thought about how lonely I was feeling. I was really missing Kent too, my heart was set on seeing him at 8:00pm, we had plans to go out for a late dinner and there was I was eating alone.

MCO security is on top of their game, The handcuffs I think was too much, I should have mentioned that they did remove the handcuffs after a while, I think they did it because the one guy tried to run?

My leg still swells, the Dr says it's normal for it to swell like that for up to a year or more, he said something about blood vessels and what not having been destroyed and until they reroute themselves there is a traffic jam so to speak causing a back up of fluids. I love that he uses lamen terms for me.
I have to wear a compression stocking when I am going to be on my leg for more then a few hours or when I fly. It doesn't swell as much as it used to so it is getting better. but I wish he had given me the compression stocking before my trip.

 

[All7OfUs]

I agree with Camille! The security guards did act appropriately, and were doing their job well!! Kudos!

I"m curous too about how long it took your leg after this to get back to normal. I wonder if it truly will ever be completely better again. Old injuries sometimes are a problem once in a while.

Sounds like you had a bad case of PDD!! Glad you could call someone to help you feel better!! And BONUS!! 2 free tickets! Who could ask for more??!!!

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

Great TR! I'm sad to see it ending, but am happy we won't have to wait long for another one! So many mixed emotions those last couple of days at Disney. Those guys at the airport were nasty. I am glad that security took swift action with them.
Also loved all the pics of your brother's family. What beautiful little nieces you have.

 

[NancyLuvsMickey]

Ty ~

Awesome trip report!!! Thanks for sharing it with us!!!

I like the dark hair, but I really love the mickey pants you're wearing!!! I think I need a pair of them!!!

And don't worry, I'll be stalking your next TR and might even post a reply once in a while...

Nancy...

 

[DONTMINDME]

So sad it has to end but am already enjoying the pre-trippie with Dan. I hated how your trip ended but am happy about the 2 free airline tickets now you get to do the halloween party at your sisters and your brothers kids are absolutely adorable.