appleorchard
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Hi!(waves madly with left hand-- I'm left handed, like many intelligent but odd people)
My name is Appleorchard (no, not really) and this is my second trip report. Here's a link to my first one. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3070783&highlight=there+s+no+crying+at+guest+relations
My DH and I are DVC members and we go to Disney a lot. I was just there with my DD M and DGD J(are you still with me?) in March and here I am again, in May, with DH, son and DIL M and K and grandchildren M and E, ages 11 and 8.
We stayed at Kidani Village.
Right here.
Not because I have any sort of deep seated interest in animals, or in animals at all, outside of my now departed dogs. But E does. E loves animals, all animals, all the time. So we stayed there for her.
It was a good decision, most of the time.
DH and I were taking the kids for a few days of alone time before M and K arrived. When we first started planning, we were taking them alone for the whole trip. Because son M said he was burned out on Disney and didn't want to go back like, forever. Remember this-- it's important later.
But K wanted to go. Badly. So they compromised. They would join us for the last two -- no, three-- no four days of our trip. Things kept changing. I kept revising reservations.
This will be important later too.
We transferred more points to our account. Twice. Fortunately we have two Use Years and can do things like that.
Finally we had dates and even airline reservations. We would arrive on Sunday around dinner time with the kids and M and K would join us on Tuesday.
Yeah, not much time alone. Then they'd leave Saturday and we would collapse over the Boardwalk for one night alone, to recover.
For those of you who read my last trip report, this will be completely different. Traveling with M, Km M and E is very different than traveling with my free-wheeling DD, also named M. (Her DH is also named M. In fact, in real life, he has the exact same name as my son and grandson M. It gets confusing sometimes.)
M's daughter, J is an only child of an extremely over the top mother. Yes, she's spoiled-- but it doesn't seem to affect her any. M and E, on the other hand, live in a much tighter ship. They don't call the shots at their house and they go with the flow. They're easy to travel with. At least until their parents show up.
M is a little nervous about the "big" rides -- like Space Mountain.
E loves them. LOVES them.
It was tricky figuring out how to give M time to adjust without holding E back. But he did great. Much better than our first trip with them, 6 years ago. Where he lost it-- and never got it back-- on the Wedway People Mover.
So that's the basics. We're flying down with the kids. We have to wait for their parents -- Mr. and Mrs. Major Procrastination -- to tell us when they're bringing them to us. Oh, and the dog. They're leaving their dog at our house with another of our sons'.
Typically, they call Friday night to talk about what we're doing Saturday.
Good thing I fly by the seat of my pants.
Tomorrow, we'll hopefully get off the ground.
I'm still debating about pictures, since there are more faces to block out this time. Plus, and this is the real crux, I'm out of photobucket space, so I'll have to delete some things first.
Wish me luck!
Oh, the title? It refers to an event that comes up on the day M and K arrive. No one gets hurt, I promise.
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My name is Appleorchard (no, not really) and this is my second trip report. Here's a link to my first one. http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=3070783&highlight=there+s+no+crying+at+guest+relations
My DH and I are DVC members and we go to Disney a lot. I was just there with my DD M and DGD J(are you still with me?) in March and here I am again, in May, with DH, son and DIL M and K and grandchildren M and E, ages 11 and 8.
We stayed at Kidani Village.
Right here.
Not because I have any sort of deep seated interest in animals, or in animals at all, outside of my now departed dogs. But E does. E loves animals, all animals, all the time. So we stayed there for her.
It was a good decision, most of the time.
DH and I were taking the kids for a few days of alone time before M and K arrived. When we first started planning, we were taking them alone for the whole trip. Because son M said he was burned out on Disney and didn't want to go back like, forever. Remember this-- it's important later.
But K wanted to go. Badly. So they compromised. They would join us for the last two -- no, three-- no four days of our trip. Things kept changing. I kept revising reservations.
This will be important later too.
We transferred more points to our account. Twice. Fortunately we have two Use Years and can do things like that.
Finally we had dates and even airline reservations. We would arrive on Sunday around dinner time with the kids and M and K would join us on Tuesday.
Yeah, not much time alone. Then they'd leave Saturday and we would collapse over the Boardwalk for one night alone, to recover.
For those of you who read my last trip report, this will be completely different. Traveling with M, Km M and E is very different than traveling with my free-wheeling DD, also named M. (Her DH is also named M. In fact, in real life, he has the exact same name as my son and grandson M. It gets confusing sometimes.)
M's daughter, J is an only child of an extremely over the top mother. Yes, she's spoiled-- but it doesn't seem to affect her any. M and E, on the other hand, live in a much tighter ship. They don't call the shots at their house and they go with the flow. They're easy to travel with. At least until their parents show up.
M is a little nervous about the "big" rides -- like Space Mountain.
E loves them. LOVES them.
It was tricky figuring out how to give M time to adjust without holding E back. But he did great. Much better than our first trip with them, 6 years ago. Where he lost it-- and never got it back-- on the Wedway People Mover.
So that's the basics. We're flying down with the kids. We have to wait for their parents -- Mr. and Mrs. Major Procrastination -- to tell us when they're bringing them to us. Oh, and the dog. They're leaving their dog at our house with another of our sons'.
Typically, they call Friday night to talk about what we're doing Saturday.
Good thing I fly by the seat of my pants.
Tomorrow, we'll hopefully get off the ground.
I'm still debating about pictures, since there are more faces to block out this time. Plus, and this is the real crux, I'm out of photobucket space, so I'll have to delete some things first.
Wish me luck!
Oh, the title? It refers to an event that comes up on the day M and K arrive. No one gets hurt, I promise.
Next Chapter
I'd go nuts with so much fiddling with a TS reservation!
We will be flying out of Philly to Orlando for the first time! Previously, we have done Newark and our local airport in Harrisburg. Fingers crossed.
