CatNipRules
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2008
Okay, I've been wanting to do this trip report for the longest time. I've been putting it off due to the fact that my camera had a major fail during the trip. 1 day into the trip. This was just the latest in a series of awful things that happened before the trip and right up until the first day.
When: September 10th thru the 25th
Who: First there is me
Disney lover extraordinaire. Planner of all things Disney related. Almost obsessive in my plans. Therefore, I drive my son nuts. He gets that you have to plan. Does it mean that he likes it? Not really. LOL!! This will all come out in the trip report.
Next up: Is my son Chris
This is him with Goofy. It was his dad's favorite character. Always a bitter sweet picture to look at. He loves Disney just as much as I do. He is definitely not a planner. If he had his way he would wing his way through all of our Disney trips.
Then there is his friend Jordan.
Yeah. So this is the look that Jordan had on his face during 75% of the trip. My son asked to bring him along and I said yes. Lets just say that he was starting to annoy me before the trip even began.
Where: It was a split stay. We did 3ish days at Universal and 10 days at Disney. We stayed at Hard Rock for the Universal portion of the trip and then we drove to Disney and stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge. We also had the deluxe dining plan. Lordy, it was a lot of food....
Why: Family trip.
Okay, so the Universal part will be a little spotty. I don't have many pictures because my phones battery died 1 day into the trip. It was just another bit of drama to add to the drama that was our 2017 trip. Because we didn't arrive at Universal until around noon on September 11th. Why? Because of Hurricane Irma.
We were originally going to drive down on September 9th and check into the hotel on the 10th. Well, Irma put a little kink in the plans.I wasn't ready to cancel, so I just put it back a day.
Sooooo...We packed up the car early on the 10th. Then we filled up 2 5 gallon gas cans.We left around 9 pm. It rained the entire way down. Which I'm good with driving in the rain. Since I wasn't sure how the gas situation would be, I stopped every time the tank got to about half full. that way, if needed when we got to Florida I could use the gas cans.
So we got to the hotel around noon on September 11th. Was I exhausted? Yes. Did I want to go to sleep? Yes.
So, what did we do?
We got our express passes and our tickets and took our luggage up to our room. Despite the bed calling my name, we headed over to Universal Studios.
Again, there won't be much to the Universal trip report since my phone decided to quit on me. We did have a meetup with some other Dis members, but most of this will be Disney report.
Up Next: Toothsome Meet up
When: September 10th thru the 25th
Who: First there is me
Disney lover extraordinaire. Planner of all things Disney related. Almost obsessive in my plans. Therefore, I drive my son nuts. He gets that you have to plan. Does it mean that he likes it? Not really. LOL!! This will all come out in the trip report.
Next up: Is my son Chris
This is him with Goofy. It was his dad's favorite character. Always a bitter sweet picture to look at. He loves Disney just as much as I do. He is definitely not a planner. If he had his way he would wing his way through all of our Disney trips.
Then there is his friend Jordan.
Yeah. So this is the look that Jordan had on his face during 75% of the trip. My son asked to bring him along and I said yes. Lets just say that he was starting to annoy me before the trip even began.
Where: It was a split stay. We did 3ish days at Universal and 10 days at Disney. We stayed at Hard Rock for the Universal portion of the trip and then we drove to Disney and stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge. We also had the deluxe dining plan. Lordy, it was a lot of food....
Why: Family trip.
Okay, so the Universal part will be a little spotty. I don't have many pictures because my phones battery died 1 day into the trip. It was just another bit of drama to add to the drama that was our 2017 trip. Because we didn't arrive at Universal until around noon on September 11th. Why? Because of Hurricane Irma.
We were originally going to drive down on September 9th and check into the hotel on the 10th. Well, Irma put a little kink in the plans.I wasn't ready to cancel, so I just put it back a day.
Sooooo...We packed up the car early on the 10th. Then we filled up 2 5 gallon gas cans.We left around 9 pm. It rained the entire way down. Which I'm good with driving in the rain. Since I wasn't sure how the gas situation would be, I stopped every time the tank got to about half full. that way, if needed when we got to Florida I could use the gas cans.
So we got to the hotel around noon on September 11th. Was I exhausted? Yes. Did I want to go to sleep? Yes.
So, what did we do?
We got our express passes and our tickets and took our luggage up to our room. Despite the bed calling my name, we headed over to Universal Studios.
Again, there won't be much to the Universal trip report since my phone decided to quit on me. We did have a meetup with some other Dis members, but most of this will be Disney report.
Up Next: Toothsome Meet up