Arizona Rita
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2007
How I survived a 20 day, 8 country trip with 2 teenagers a husband and 10 bags in various sizes!
Dear Moderators
This may not be the right place to post this but I have made requests to hear about my trip and so I am asking that this be allowed to be posted here and then you all can move it if you want once Im done....
Pretty Please? Thanks in advance!
The Players:
Chris, DH, payer of all bills and puts up with me! (once quoted as saying "The parks are for you and the kids but the cruises are for me!)
Rita, ME!, the Disney Freak, cries at the sound of a ships horn!
Eric, DS, 16, can hold his own about Disney against/with me, Ive taught him well
Lauren, DD, 13, more like her Dad but has learned most through osmosis!
The Countries:
England, London and Dover
Norway, Oslo
Denmark, Copenhagen
Germany, Berlin
Russia, St. Petersburg
Finland, Helsinki
Sweden, Stockholm
France, Paris
With 4 sea days, which were greatly needed!
I will try to throw some photos in here also, at least one per place, if not more.
The more question anyone asks about this the better off I am because Im terrible at journaling in scrapbooks let alone typing a TR, but I love answering questions about the trip.
DAY 1
We left without any problems eccept when we got to the airport after dropping the van off DH couldnt remember if he locked it so got back on the shuttle and went back to make sure it was locked. Not leaving the van in that area for 3 weeks without it being locked. Good thing is DH likes to be at the airport early for peace of mind so we had plenty of time to do this.
No problems, no hassles, flights were good, next thing you know its
DAY 2
and we are in Jolly Old England!
A lot of people have some big city that they are fond of, Chicago, NY, San Fran, mine is London. I just love it. It even has its own shade of gray to me and I love the rain, and the vibe and I can never spend enough time there.
We stayed at a very nice hotel called the County Hall Park Plaza, which actually seemed more like a convention hotel and was directly across the street from the sisiter hotel Disney was using but for almost half the cost.
We got 2 rooms and the girls bunked together and the boys together.
They were well appointed rooms with good sized bathrooms which almost killed me on the 5th day but we'll get to that later!
We got settled and then set out to find supplies, soda!, and the desk directly us to this little store which we were in almost twice a day.
I have a friend whose DH is in the military and she came to the room with her 2 younger kids , one who L uded to take care of and the baby who was born there.
I love my friends and I knew it was going to be the only time to see her and she lives about 2 hours away but I dont sleep on the planes and I was tired so I did everything I could think of to stay awake and although I miss her I didnt argue with her when she said they should get going.
And we had to be ready by 745 the next morning to be picked up for our full day tour of London!~
Tomorrow, TOL, St Pauls and pidgeons!
Dear Moderators
This may not be the right place to post this but I have made requests to hear about my trip and so I am asking that this be allowed to be posted here and then you all can move it if you want once Im done....
Pretty Please? Thanks in advance!
The Players:
Chris, DH, payer of all bills and puts up with me! (once quoted as saying "The parks are for you and the kids but the cruises are for me!)
Rita, ME!, the Disney Freak, cries at the sound of a ships horn!
Eric, DS, 16, can hold his own about Disney against/with me, Ive taught him well
Lauren, DD, 13, more like her Dad but has learned most through osmosis!
The Countries:
England, London and Dover
Norway, Oslo
Denmark, Copenhagen
Germany, Berlin
Russia, St. Petersburg
Finland, Helsinki
Sweden, Stockholm
France, Paris
With 4 sea days, which were greatly needed!
I will try to throw some photos in here also, at least one per place, if not more.
The more question anyone asks about this the better off I am because Im terrible at journaling in scrapbooks let alone typing a TR, but I love answering questions about the trip.
DAY 1
We left without any problems eccept when we got to the airport after dropping the van off DH couldnt remember if he locked it so got back on the shuttle and went back to make sure it was locked. Not leaving the van in that area for 3 weeks without it being locked. Good thing is DH likes to be at the airport early for peace of mind so we had plenty of time to do this.
No problems, no hassles, flights were good, next thing you know its
DAY 2
and we are in Jolly Old England!
A lot of people have some big city that they are fond of, Chicago, NY, San Fran, mine is London. I just love it. It even has its own shade of gray to me and I love the rain, and the vibe and I can never spend enough time there.
We stayed at a very nice hotel called the County Hall Park Plaza, which actually seemed more like a convention hotel and was directly across the street from the sisiter hotel Disney was using but for almost half the cost.
We got 2 rooms and the girls bunked together and the boys together.
They were well appointed rooms with good sized bathrooms which almost killed me on the 5th day but we'll get to that later!
We got settled and then set out to find supplies, soda!, and the desk directly us to this little store which we were in almost twice a day.
I have a friend whose DH is in the military and she came to the room with her 2 younger kids , one who L uded to take care of and the baby who was born there.
I love my friends and I knew it was going to be the only time to see her and she lives about 2 hours away but I dont sleep on the planes and I was tired so I did everything I could think of to stay awake and although I miss her I didnt argue with her when she said they should get going.
And we had to be ready by 745 the next morning to be picked up for our full day tour of London!~
Tomorrow, TOL, St Pauls and pidgeons!
We need to know, was the van locked?
