When YOu Wish Upon a Star... Hey That's ME!!!!..updated with pictures

[sherreis]

Welcome home! Looking forward to hearing all the answers to those questions. Meanwhile, have fun unpacking - I still haven't unpacked and we got home last Tuesday night.

 

[smarsha4455]

Welcome back. I have been catching up on you pretirp and looking forward to your trip report! I hope you all had a wonderful time!

 

[addictedtothemouse]

WELCOME HOME
Can't wait to read all about your trip. I hope it was as relaxing as you needed it to be.

 

[starann]

I swear, I will start a TR...soon. It seems as if one day is just as busy as the other and my house is a mess. Of course today I have to go to NY for a suprise 60th B-day party, then a 1yo b-day party tomorrow!!! UGH. All I want to do is relax like I was on vacation. Oh well!

 

[starann]

It’s been a few weeks since our trip, so I guess I better get crackin with my trip report. To tell you the truth, my heart just hasn’t been in it. I’ve had the “I’ve just get back from Disney and it will be a long time till I go back blues.” Add that in with the fact that the trip wasn’t all I had anticipated it to be, I’m in a funk. I have been trying to convince dh of going back for my b-day in March (since they have the new deal out) and he has so far stood to his firm ‘no.’ In fact he said it will be at least 5 years till we go back, which had me in tears. I am over it now, knowing Disney will be there for many years to come and we need a new roof!




On to my trip report

Friday morning I took Chey to school, then I took the boys to daycare, and I hightailed it to my hair appt…after all a gals gotta look good for the plethora of pictures! I finished up just before noon and headed home. The inlaws were due to come around noon and my mom was on her way with her stuff (she was house/critter sitting). Once I got home I was running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off (just like I knew would happen!). The inlaws arrived and FIL, DH and I went to pick up the rental van. Got that no problem, then headed to drop my car off at the shop to get inspected and work done while we were gone. We got home and it was a mad dash to pack!!!!

My husband started to wonder if it would have been easier to put wheels on our house! We got it all packed up, bags stuffed under the seats, blankets on our laps, every nook and cranny filled! Chey got home from school, did her bathroom stuff and we were off…opps, not yet, we had to get the boys from daycare! I went in and woke up Shane with “Who wants to go see Mickey?” His eyes opened wide and said “me!” Then it was downstairs to get Cody…he was already awake. Out to the car and in car seat and now we were off at 3pm! Well until we got to the turnpike…Hubby wanted to top off the tank and I realized that I hadn’t eaten all day. Thankfully we stopped at Wawa and I was able to get little sandwich. NOW we were off.

I was the 1st to drive since I can’t see at night. My FIL is a retired truck driver and knew a ‘great way’ to get us around DC rush hour traffic…a little road called 301. If anyone ever suggests you take this road, politely thank them and go on I-95, no matter the time of day. 301 was nothing but traffic lights every 300 yards which are all conspired to turn red as anyone approaches them!!!!!! Not nice for a gals knees either! Hubby snored in the back, and FIL dozed next to me until about 6pm when I got tired (as did my knees) and asked FIL to take over.

I hopped in the back seat and started to supervise the boys. We had a portable DVD player with us so I put a movie on for the boys, however they started fighting over who got to hold the player and kept pulling out the power cord….so much for the movie! It was around this time I started to wonder (out loud) when we were going to stop and eat at Cracker Barrel….I LOVE ME SOME CB! Hubby plugged it into the GPS and told me 10pm! WHAT!?!?!?! They close around then, right? We were about an hour and a half away from CB. I knew we should have stopped at the last one, but NOOOOOOOOOO, the guys wanted to keep driving.

Up next.....do we make it to Cracker Barrel for Dinner, Breakfast?
What time to we actually get to Disney?

 

[addictedtothemouse]

Yay! You're back. I was starting to worry. Great start to the TR.

 

[sherreis]

Glad to see you started your TR. Post-Disney depression is definitely no fun and I hope your DH changes his mind before 5 yrs is up. Sounds like you were off to a rocky start.

 

[mickeysmyboy]

Your off to a great start Star!! I hate those after disney blues! I hope your DH changes his mind!! The new deal saved me a boat load of money on our January trip! Can't wait to hear more!! I hope you got some Cracker Barrel!!

 

[starann]

Jumping back a few weeks before our trip. I spent a weekend ironing out our plans (that’s the only kind of ironing I do). This was (and I say WAS) my plan for our trip.......................

18th Arrive before lunch, check in if we could, go to MK for the 3pm parade then take the boat over to WL for our ADR at 7:10 at WCC Go back to the room and CRASH

19th Wake up late and head over to DHS, get FP for TSM and do a few rides before lunch at HWV Chara at 12:15 and see the parade at 3

20th EMH at AK head over to MK for 4:30 dinner at LTT, see wishes and Spectromagic

21th Epcot for an AMH and Italy for dinner at 4:30

22 Seaworld

23rd Chef Mickey at 7:30 then over to MK, then maybe the pool or DTD

24th AK then over to Epcot for 5:30 dinner at Germany and Illuminations at 9 TRY to see the parade at 4 at AK

25th Ohana at 8:15 then over to DHS for 3:50 Fantasmic dinner package at HWV

26th Load up the car, check out and go to a park we all wanted to go back to then leave around 5pm

I left some flexability that AK and MK would be switched on the 23 and 24 if need be.......


I posted this so you all could see what I had in mind for our trip.......

 

[starann]

I nodded off for a bit and awoke when the van started slowing down and then came to a stop. YAY Cracker Barrel…………………………………………….WHAT!!!! This is NOT CB?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!? No, I was told, we would not make it to CB so we stopped at the Country Skillet, a truck stop that my FIL insisted was decent. Now, maybe 15 years ago when he still drove truck it was, but this places was a DUMP. And now we had to not only eat here, but use the facilities and change the kids into PJs. EWWWW. We ate 1st. I ordered the buffet as did FIL, DH ordered b’fast, Chey a burger, the boys chicken tenders and a hamburger and I don’t remember what MIL ate. I go up to the buffet to get some of the food, at least that is what I think it was. Things were pretty empty, with hard, crunchy leftovers being the only things I could find. I asked the waitress if they would be putting more out and she assured me they would. A few minutes later she comes over to say that it’s almost 10 and they were not going to be putting anything else out, in fact I better get what I want cause they would be taking everything down. This would have NEVER happened at CB!!!!! UGH!

We finish our meal and head over to use the potty. It was not the cleanest bathroom I have ever seen, so we emptied out bladders and got outta there. The kids would sleep in their clothes, there was no way I would change them in there.

So on the road again, DH and FIL continued to take turns since it was dark out and everyone else nestled down for some sleep. Of course us adults got little sleep since there was little room. We stopped a few times for gas and my FIL had my MIL move to the back so I could get some ‘real’ sleep across the seat since the sun would be up soon and I would be driving. I was hoping we’d stop for b’fast, but DH said we had poptarts, to eat those!

I start driving and continue to as we entered Orlando. I thought DH had plugged the resort address into the GPS so I followed the directions as they came out to me. We passed SeaWorld, and all the other Disney signs, everyone (well, me and the kids and dh) getting excited!!!! I pull off the highway as the BITB (witch in the box as we call it) instructs me to…..this is when DH informs me NOT to follow BITB cause he didn’t program in our resort address, just a general Disney address. UGH!!!! After getting on and off the highway again, we start seeing the proper signs and pull into ASMo at 11am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


YAY We're here!!!!

Up Next: Do things go according to plans?
Did everyone LOVE WCC?

 

[rosiep]

You're a far better woman than I! No Cracker Barrel and you had to eat PopTarts cold???? Ick!

 

[sherreis]

PopTarts for breakfast in the car... I would've put my foot down at this point that everyone needed to get out and stretch legs for awhile. Sorry to hear you didn't get much sleep. Makes for an awful start to a vacation- looking forward to hearing how your first Disney day goes.

 

[mickeysmyboy]

Star, I must agree with the others! You deserve an award or something!!! No Cracker Barrel, a icky truck stop and cold pop tarts!! Sound like your drive down was not too much fun!! I hope the rest of the trip was better!

 

[addictedtothemouse]

Sounds like the kind of trips my DH try to pull off when we first get together. Until I said NO MORE! I will have hot meals even if it's just fast food and I won't drive more than 15 hours without stopping at a hotel. (That was after we drove straight through from OK to PA, a 24 hour drive.) Now I have total control of all trips.
You're a saint for putting up with them.