monorailsilver
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- Jun 20, 2002
This is my first ever trip report and my last for a while since we are on the 5 year Disney plan...so sad...so very sad! But my oldest is graduating next year and wants to go to DL for that so we shall see.
Anyways, it has been 5 long, very long and tortuous years that we have not seen the mouse. OK maybe 4 as we took the autotrain to my sisters in 2014 and stopped for lunch in the then DtD but it had to be quick, so lunch, do a 360 view with my head and we were out with in an hour.
So the trip (I am sure it will be BORING to read):
Myself-46, mother of 3, RN, first Disney Trip was 1975, stayed at Poly. That is me with my cousin in the picture when you could swim in the water. BTW, I am the one with the Dorothy Hamill hair cut. We went many times growing up and stayed off site once in the 80s. Most trips have been to the Poly the last week of July/first week of August when Sikorsky shut down (I live in CT and family members worked there so that is when we went). So like you all, I love Disney but just can fathom the price to go more often. I am not a huge thrill ride person anymore but can deal with some tamer ones.
DH-50, has worked at the same company since he was 16, hates Disney but goes because it makes me happy "Why can't you be this happy at home"...OK I did snap a few times at him this trip because he went the wrong way or I was tired or my feet hurt or whatever but in general I was happy and had no neck/back stress the entire trip. DH does love certain things and certain foods, etc...still hates Disney. We did get engaged there in 1999 on a hammock on the Poly Beach (that hammock is no longer there).
DD17-she is 17, lets just say attitude still is present and would sleep all day if I let her but she knows better at Disney then to sleep when she could avoid lines early am. She will be a senior this year. She tore her ACL the end of March playing soccer, we went to FL (Ft. Myers) in April and while she was walking on the beach, she slipped and heard a pop so we weren't sure if she tore more. But surgery was 3 days after we got back from FL and the doctor saw no more tears in there. She wants to be a Physical Therapist but her MD and the PA told her that she will cap out on salary but the first 2 yrs of schooling are the same. This is her 5th trip. She still loved to sleep mid day this trip, longer if I let her but I only let her take short naps.
DS14-He goes with the flow, he and the above dd are now the thrill riders of the family, I am good with that. He will be a sophomore this year (he will be 15 in September). He would like to be a pilot. This is his 4th trip. He loved playing volleyball this trip.
DD12-She is entering middle school/7th grade. She is the most dramatic, aka cries and pouts. Makes life enjoyable to say the least. She wants to be a vet that does not take care of snakes. This is her 3rd trip. She loved using her magic band. Seriously, she would go get the popcorn refill just to use the MB!
All in all our kids are good kids when we are in public. DH and I have always been told that. We were even lucky in Disney when they were younger as they didn't cry. DH and I kept looking and commenting to each other on the crying kids in the evening hours in strollers. It was hot and they were probably there all day so the kids were miserable-we always did and still do a mid day break to recoup.
RESORT: 5 nights at the BC followed by 5 nights at the Poly, standard rooms booked thru the super secret TA.
Next day 1 (I will probably finish most of this today as it is raining and I am avoiding the grocery store but I need to go with in the hour...).
Anyways, it has been 5 long, very long and tortuous years that we have not seen the mouse. OK maybe 4 as we took the autotrain to my sisters in 2014 and stopped for lunch in the then DtD but it had to be quick, so lunch, do a 360 view with my head and we were out with in an hour.
So the trip (I am sure it will be BORING to read):
Myself-46, mother of 3, RN, first Disney Trip was 1975, stayed at Poly. That is me with my cousin in the picture when you could swim in the water. BTW, I am the one with the Dorothy Hamill hair cut. We went many times growing up and stayed off site once in the 80s. Most trips have been to the Poly the last week of July/first week of August when Sikorsky shut down (I live in CT and family members worked there so that is when we went). So like you all, I love Disney but just can fathom the price to go more often. I am not a huge thrill ride person anymore but can deal with some tamer ones.
DH-50, has worked at the same company since he was 16, hates Disney but goes because it makes me happy "Why can't you be this happy at home"...OK I did snap a few times at him this trip because he went the wrong way or I was tired or my feet hurt or whatever but in general I was happy and had no neck/back stress the entire trip. DH does love certain things and certain foods, etc...still hates Disney. We did get engaged there in 1999 on a hammock on the Poly Beach (that hammock is no longer there).
DD17-she is 17, lets just say attitude still is present and would sleep all day if I let her but she knows better at Disney then to sleep when she could avoid lines early am. She will be a senior this year. She tore her ACL the end of March playing soccer, we went to FL (Ft. Myers) in April and while she was walking on the beach, she slipped and heard a pop so we weren't sure if she tore more. But surgery was 3 days after we got back from FL and the doctor saw no more tears in there. She wants to be a Physical Therapist but her MD and the PA told her that she will cap out on salary but the first 2 yrs of schooling are the same. This is her 5th trip. She still loved to sleep mid day this trip, longer if I let her but I only let her take short naps.
DS14-He goes with the flow, he and the above dd are now the thrill riders of the family, I am good with that. He will be a sophomore this year (he will be 15 in September). He would like to be a pilot. This is his 4th trip. He loved playing volleyball this trip.
DD12-She is entering middle school/7th grade. She is the most dramatic, aka cries and pouts. Makes life enjoyable to say the least. She wants to be a vet that does not take care of snakes. This is her 3rd trip. She loved using her magic band. Seriously, she would go get the popcorn refill just to use the MB!
All in all our kids are good kids when we are in public. DH and I have always been told that. We were even lucky in Disney when they were younger as they didn't cry. DH and I kept looking and commenting to each other on the crying kids in the evening hours in strollers. It was hot and they were probably there all day so the kids were miserable-we always did and still do a mid day break to recoup.
RESORT: 5 nights at the BC followed by 5 nights at the Poly, standard rooms booked thru the super secret TA.
Next day 1 (I will probably finish most of this today as it is raining and I am avoiding the grocery store but I need to go with in the hour...).
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