Where's the Lime???? Sept. 2006

[Glendamax]

GlendaMax- I hope you didnt get the GOMBOO from me! I still have voice issues and a cough. And a cold medicine hangover....

Well, I THINK I'm getting better because I dont feel any worse. I have been drinking "Airborne", but I hate running back and forth to the bathroom!

Hang in there Ladies!

 

[MissMichelle]

Doing the Trippie Hop I am bouncing around to all these wonderful September Trip Reports and I am getting more and more anxious that I am just 5 days away from the Pixie Dust, the Magic, The LGMHPC's!!!!!

Keep it coming Glad Leo enjoyed Soarin, it was our favorite ride last trip and I think will stay that way for a long time.

DANG it, 5pm ??? I can't wait till 5 for a ROOM on my first day!!! I have swimming to do and dinner @ Le Cellier, surely I need to be refreshed after geting to the airport @ 4am.

 

[luciloo]

CAN'T WAIT TO READ MORE, BUT IT WILL HAVE TO WAIT NOW TILL I GET BACK. I FLY OUT ON 21ST SEPT. WOO HOO

 

[arizonacolbys]

Great trip report!! Leo is a cutie!! Sounds like you're having a great long weekend together so far - can't wait to hear the rest....only 4 days to go for me!!

 

[mikayla73]

Doing the Trippie Hop

I like that and I do that very frequently .... does it use more energy than running amuck and wrecking havoc

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

V- Lovin' your trip report! You're a brave mama to hit the World with a toddler. I went with 2 kidlets (4&2) and needed 5 adults!! Kudos to you! Leo is absolutely adorable!

 

[PrincessV]

I thought their check in/room guarantee time was 3:00 pm? Our flight lands at 11:30 and I figure with ME and lunch, we can probably kill until 2:00. However, if we had to wait until 5:00 for a room, one of the CM's gets to babysit my two year old while she has a "Can't you people see I'm tired and just let me sleep" meltdown. Hmmm....maybe that's a way to get a room!

DANG it, 5pm ??? I can't wait till 5 for a ROOM on my first day!!! I have swimming to do and dinner @ Le Cellier, surely I need to be refreshed after geting to the airport @ 4am.

Ah, there’s a catch: the official check-in time if 3pm, but they don’t guarantee a room until 5pm. Which really sucks when you’re only staying one night or traveling with exhausted kiddos!

UtahMama and Glendamax – catch this (well, no you definitely do NOT want to catch it): DS returned to a classroom contaminated with Fifth Disease! It’s basically just a mild cold followed by a weird rash in kids, but it’s pretty awful and flu-like in adults. Guess who’s got it now? Yours truly, thank you very much.

CAN'T WAIT TO READ MORE, BUT IT WILL HAVE TO WAIT NOW TILL I GET BACK. I FLY OUT ON 21ST SEPT. WOO HOO

Have a fantabulous trip! A cold front is dropping in on us right now, so hopefully you’ll have a break from the heat

Great trip report!! Leo is a cutie!! Sounds like you're having a great long weekend together so far - can't wait to hear the rest....only 4 days to go for me!!

Thanks so much! Have a great trip – hope to see a TR all about it!

V- Lovin' your trip report! You're a brave mama to hit the World with a toddler. I went with 2 kidlets (4&2) and needed 5 adults!! Kudos to you! Leo is absolutely adorable!

Thank you! I think he’s pretty cute myself, but I’m awfully biased! Going solo with him definitely has some challenges, but honestly, I think our trips with my mother in tow are far more stressful! We go with her in Dec., so that should be an interesting TR…

 

[scrap4u]

Love the report so far PrincessV. We were there the same time you were. I'm sorry we didn't see you. I had LGMHs to give out too!

So sorry you're sick. Funny that GMax and UMama are too. Seems we always come home with a cold from the world. I told DH it's because we wear ourselves out so much while we're there. Even though we take afternoon naps everyday!

I'm fighting a sore throat and DH is pretty sure he has a cold now. We just got back Saturday night. Oh well. It is worth the cold to have a terrific week at Disney!

 

[PrincessV]

We find the room, I insert the key, Leo steps ahead of me into the room and exclaims, “Wow – THIS is a NICE room!” You’d think we’d stayed at the Bates Motel last night from his reaction. Which makes me seriously question where his Dad’s been taking him on their weekends together…
The Disney Reservation Gods may have been slow, but they set us up nicely: room 5164, first floor of the South Wing, a mere 3 doors in from the doors to the parking lot… directly in front of which, earlier in the day, I scored a parking space! If I didn’t have to traverse that nasty, ouchy FL grass, I could just bring our luggage in through our sliding doors. Yes, technically, it was a parking lot view, but the Disney horticulturalists thoughtfully planted some shrubbery (does anyone else immediately flash to Monty Python and the Holy Grail every time they see that word?) between the patio and parking lot, so our view was immediately drawn to the right, where the Tower stood in all it’s majesty.
We looked around and I took some photos to prove I’d actually made it to that holy of holies, the Contemporary Resort.

I’ve dreamed of staying at this place since my first visit with my Dad in 1977. (I think we stayed at a Hojo’s that trip.) Over the years, many mighty forces have worked against my attempts to secure a CR room: no Annual Pass (AP) discount; no rooms available at AP discount; rooms and AP discount available, but AP expired and no money to renew… you get the picture. So this was a BIG deal. Did it measure up? Honestly, not so much. Don’t get me wrong, it was nice, and I do like the new decorating scheme. But I expect a Deluxe resort to at least be on par with a big city Marriott. And if I had paid full price, I’d have expected something much closer to a Four Seasons. I’ve never stayed at a Marriott or Four Seasons room in which the duvets had chocolate smears all over them (or was it chocolate? Eeeewww… ), someone had drawn all over the loveseat with a pen, and it had clearly not been vacuumed. Not impressed. If we were staying more than one night, I definitely would have placed a call to housekeeping, but for one night it wasn’t worth the bother.
Leo, however LOVED the room. So much so, that when I started thinking out loud and said “Where should we head to tonight?” he responded “I stay in the room.”
Me: “You want to stay in the room all night?”
Leo: “Yes.”
Me: “You don’t want to do some rides before bed?”
Leo: “No, I stay here in the room.”
Me: “What about dinner?”
Leo: “We eat here, IN THE ROOM!”
I’m hot, tired and loooove room service – I’ve got the In Room Dining menu out before Leo knows what’s happening. Leo gets showered while we wait and dinner arrives shortly thereafter. Here’s another thing I don’t love about the CR – no table with chairs. There is a desk, but only one chair. You can’t see the TV from the loveseat, so that’s no good for Leo. But housekeeping had left an extra sheet laying on one of the beds – I unfold it on the floor, and voila! Leo has a picnic!

And he gets a special treat (which will haunt me and every person within 10 yards of from here on out) from his very special friend Stitch:

Dinner is eaten, movies watched and Leo falls asleep easily. Me, I’m not quite ready for sleep. But I did think to bring the DVD player in from the car. Oh boy! Some uninterrupted time to watch Dallas reruns on DVD!!! This place really is magical

Coming up tomorrow: the day all my Lime green dreams will come true?

 

[Glendamax]

OK - could your son be any CUTER?!!!! My GOD his EYES!!!

I'm glad yoy finally got to stay in the CR! My dream is to stay at the Wilderness! I LOVE the scenery there!

Looking forward to more!

 

[UtahMama]

Ok, sorry to go ON and ON about Leo...but my goodness he's beautiful boy!
Just like his Mama!

I hope you see more DIS peeps than I did! There's only 100 Disneyworld civilians I accosted who had no clue what my explanation of the DISboard amounted to. I hope I didnt frighten them!That's what they get for wearing OUR color...on our turf (Gangster me again!)

Ok, your room looks very nice! I like counter space in the bathroom vanity area. POR has zero.

Love your writing! Keep up the good work!

 

[Glendamax]

Hey 'Mama!!!! LOVE your pic in your siggy!!!!

 

[UtahMama]

Were you talking to "ME", Glendamax?

Love the quote in your siggy! What if it "works"?!? Could I be in your wedding?


SORRY! Hyjacking over!!!!

 

[Glendamax]

Love the quote in your siggy! What if it "works"?!? Could I be in your wedding?

Yes, you will be in the wedding, so get ready to order some dyable shoes! And Princess V, we will have glow bracelets and necklaces at the reception, so get ready to make a BIG order!

 

[PrincessV]

You guys crack me up! No worries Gmax, I have approximately 800 lime green glowy bracelets sitting in my office, ready and awaiting your nuptials! Will the bridesmaids by any chance be wearing lime?!

Thanks for the props to my boy! I loooove photographing him because he's so expressive, but he's going through a thing right now of not wanting his picture taken, so most all shots are candid. Most frustrating.

By all means, hijack away - this trip's already more than halfway done and I'm not ready to let go yet!

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Ok, it's been more than 24 hours....
More TR, please...
Don't make me break out the popcorn!

 

[PrincessV]

Love the report so far PrincessV. We were there the same time you were. I'm sorry we didn't see you. I had LGMHs to give out too!

So sorry you're sick. Funny that GMax and UMama are too. Seems we always come home with a cold from the world. I told DH it's because we wear ourselves out so much while we're there. Even though we take afternoon naps everyday!

I'm fighting a sore throat and DH is pretty sure he has a cold now. We just got back Saturday night. Oh well. It is worth the cold to have a terrific week at Disney!

The crazy thing is, I've never gotten sick form a trip to WDW until now. Really, I used to joke to my ex that Dis must have electro-light-beams that constantly sanitized the air, cuz I never got sick, even knowing how many germy-critters were on every rail I touched. But, ever since I had my DS4, I get sick. A LOT. They're cute, but germ magnets, those little ones are. Ande THEY get over stuff in days, whereas I take WEEKS to get over the same thing.
But I think it's beginning to lift... I may even have it in me to write another installment.....

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Oh man, you're sick??? Well, I feel sheepish. DD came down with a bug yesterday, too.
Hope you're feeling better... maybe well enough to write?

Take care!!!

 

[PrincessV]

Page 6? Seriously, I have a Page 6? From a weekend trip, I could never have imagined, so thank you, thank you, thank you!

We left off falling asleep in the CR. And here’s the funny part: on any normal night, Leo pays a late night – say 2-4am – visit to my bed and climbs in ‘cause I’m too tired to escort him back to his room. THIS night, he insisted that he wanted his own bed (mmm hmm, queen sized), and we spent the WHOLE night in separate beds. I awoke at 6:30am like I’d slept for days! Took my shower, got dressed, retrieved breakfast cereal and bars from the car (missed those the night before), and woke up Leo at 7am. He wasn’t thrilled, but got himself up, fed, pottied and dressed in time to get out the door by 8am.

Now, I’d read my UG, Passporter and many DIS reviews of the CR and knew that the monorail would only slow us down heading to the MK. So I set off toward the walkway to the MK. Only, I thought it was past the North Wing, and headed that direction with Leo in the stroller. We walked past the lobby, past the North Wing, and past the Racquet Club until…. the path ENDED. WT??? Lucky for me, a couple folks were playing tennis (seriously, who gets up at 7am to play tennis in Disney????). I waited until their match came to a pause and yelled, “Do you know where to find the walkway to the Magic Kingdom?” For the record, we’ve been outdoors 20 minutes, and I’m saturated in sweat. The tennis people - thank goodness – know where they are, and tell me I need to find the guard house and follow that across the street. Over the sizzling blacktop we go and finally, FINALLY, make it to the Official Magic Kingdom Walkway.

I’m wearing my Line green T, Leo’s wearing his Lime Green T, and Lime green MH’s are attached to my Baggallini and stroller. How could we not spot another DISer today?!

 

[Al and Kate's Mom]

Glad you're feeling better - loving your trippie!