Chellymouse
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2007
This is trip 2 of 3 of our "2013 visit all of the festivals at WDW year" DH had his Surprise SWW trip back in May (which also allowed us to attend to final week of F&G festival at Epcot) and now (nickname courtesy of my DSIL) the Pit is back to take on F&W and this time, our friends are joining us! It was a little short for an Oct trip, but never fear....a 10 day trip is near!
A quick history.....our friends took their DD when she was 4 (8 years ago in the Hades that is WDW in Aug) and vowed to never go again. Then their DS came along (he will be 5 this week) and well.....as long as we didn't go in August! The plan was to go over fall break, however, long after the trip was planned and booked, our friends found fall break was moved. So....she missed 4 days of school instead of 1...oh well! It's not like Disney isn't educational right? I should mention our friends live next door to us!
Allow me to introduce our cast of characters!
Me-I'm Chellymouse and would live at Golden Oak or SSR if I were independently wealthy...unfortunately, I'm not!
DH-aka "the Squatch" aka "Donald Duck" he loves the duck...he says he "tolerates the mouse"
Our friends:
Rich-aka "Grumpy" who is his fave Disney character
Charity-aka "Doc" someone has to be the voice of reason on this trip
Caleigh-aka "Merida" if Merida had blonde hair...these girls could be twins and finally....
Chase-aka "Monster" If it were possible to cross Stitch and the Chipmunks...that would be this little guy! We all call him monster....even had it put on his stroller, which some folks thought was funny and other folks were giving us funny looks!
Now that you're up to date...its' time to Commence the Shenanigans!
It's Wed Oct 9th and DH and I had an 8am flight and our friends had a 5:30pm flight (with an unfortunate pit stop in Atlanta) so DMIL spent the night and very kindly got up at 5:30 to take us to the airport and make sure I had some Starbucks....our smaller regional airport has lousy coffee and no SB Don't get it!
DH and I checked in, went through security, where the TSA agents actually had a sense of humor, boarded our plane and for us, landed in Orlando about 25 minutes early....which was great until we had to wait nearly 15 minutes to get off the plane because the person responsible for moving the jetway was nowhere to be found. We finally got off the plane, made our way to ME and were happily along on our way pretty quickly. We landed at 10am and pulled in to SSR at 11:10am. No complaints here! We had done online check in so I stopped to pick up our packet and confirm we were indeed in Congress Park (we were) and found our villa was ready. I sent DH to Bell Services to pick up our groceries and I stayed behind and found the slowest CM on earth to put our friends tickets on their cards. (I'm so looking forward to Magic Bands next month! we just received our instructions for them) Finally, I went out to meet DH and found our favorite bellman Mark had us today!! Mark so kindly drove us (via golf cart) to 2216 Congress Park and helped bring all of our stuff in! We said "see ya later" to Mark, put groceries away, grabbed the park bag and supplies and were out the door. Just as we walked up to the CP bus stop, the MK bus pulled in and soon we were on our way! Got to MK and had to make a pit stop at Guest Services to get our PAP (thanks for the sale last year DVC) renewed, pick up our MNSSHP tickets and renew our TIW pass. Finally, we in the park, only to stop now to pick our FP+ lanyard. We stopped in the some of the shops because Main St was packed for some reason and I had to make a purchase. Yes, I bought a non-food item first! I could not pass up the Malificent ears! The Pit was way past needing a feeding so we stopped at Casey's (nuggets for me, dogs for DH) then we had to stop for a picture!
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Had a Dole Whip then off to POTC! After POTC, we had some popcorn (ok the Pit had popcorn) then grabbed at FP for BTMRR and gee, guess what...found that Splash Mtn was again....broken! I really think someone needs to get Brer Fox and Brer Bear under control! We then headed over to see the 999 happy haunts then back to BTMRR. DH and I agreed that we would not be spending all day at MK as we had planned to graze the F&W festival and the park was busy so we decided to head out and over to Epcot!
up next....the Pit vs F&W round 1! and our friends (finally) arrive!
A quick history.....our friends took their DD when she was 4 (8 years ago in the Hades that is WDW in Aug) and vowed to never go again. Then their DS came along (he will be 5 this week) and well.....as long as we didn't go in August! The plan was to go over fall break, however, long after the trip was planned and booked, our friends found fall break was moved. So....she missed 4 days of school instead of 1...oh well! It's not like Disney isn't educational right? I should mention our friends live next door to us!
Allow me to introduce our cast of characters!
Me-I'm Chellymouse and would live at Golden Oak or SSR if I were independently wealthy...unfortunately, I'm not!
DH-aka "the Squatch" aka "Donald Duck" he loves the duck...he says he "tolerates the mouse"
Our friends:
Rich-aka "Grumpy" who is his fave Disney character
Charity-aka "Doc" someone has to be the voice of reason on this trip
Caleigh-aka "Merida" if Merida had blonde hair...these girls could be twins and finally....
Chase-aka "Monster" If it were possible to cross Stitch and the Chipmunks...that would be this little guy! We all call him monster....even had it put on his stroller, which some folks thought was funny and other folks were giving us funny looks!
Now that you're up to date...its' time to Commence the Shenanigans!
It's Wed Oct 9th and DH and I had an 8am flight and our friends had a 5:30pm flight (with an unfortunate pit stop in Atlanta) so DMIL spent the night and very kindly got up at 5:30 to take us to the airport and make sure I had some Starbucks....our smaller regional airport has lousy coffee and no SB Don't get it!
DH and I checked in, went through security, where the TSA agents actually had a sense of humor, boarded our plane and for us, landed in Orlando about 25 minutes early....which was great until we had to wait nearly 15 minutes to get off the plane because the person responsible for moving the jetway was nowhere to be found. We finally got off the plane, made our way to ME and were happily along on our way pretty quickly. We landed at 10am and pulled in to SSR at 11:10am. No complaints here! We had done online check in so I stopped to pick up our packet and confirm we were indeed in Congress Park (we were) and found our villa was ready. I sent DH to Bell Services to pick up our groceries and I stayed behind and found the slowest CM on earth to put our friends tickets on their cards. (I'm so looking forward to Magic Bands next month! we just received our instructions for them) Finally, I went out to meet DH and found our favorite bellman Mark had us today!! Mark so kindly drove us (via golf cart) to 2216 Congress Park and helped bring all of our stuff in! We said "see ya later" to Mark, put groceries away, grabbed the park bag and supplies and were out the door. Just as we walked up to the CP bus stop, the MK bus pulled in and soon we were on our way! Got to MK and had to make a pit stop at Guest Services to get our PAP (thanks for the sale last year DVC) renewed, pick up our MNSSHP tickets and renew our TIW pass. Finally, we in the park, only to stop now to pick our FP+ lanyard. We stopped in the some of the shops because Main St was packed for some reason and I had to make a purchase. Yes, I bought a non-food item first! I could not pass up the Malificent ears! The Pit was way past needing a feeding so we stopped at Casey's (nuggets for me, dogs for DH) then we had to stop for a picture!
Had a Dole Whip then off to POTC! After POTC, we had some popcorn (ok the Pit had popcorn) then grabbed at FP for BTMRR and gee, guess what...found that Splash Mtn was again....broken! I really think someone needs to get Brer Fox and Brer Bear under control! We then headed over to see the 999 happy haunts then back to BTMRR. DH and I agreed that we would not be spending all day at MK as we had planned to graze the F&W festival and the park was busy so we decided to head out and over to Epcot!
up next....the Pit vs F&W round 1! and our friends (finally) arrive!