Trip Report A Surprise Trip That Took Place Three Months Ago...

Hey Everyone!
We've already been home from our trip for over two months, but I've FINALLY downloaded all of my photos onto my laptop and am ready to relive my trip now that I'm going through Disney withdraw. The only thing keeping me sane is that I just found out that we'll be going back in December 2017 (and possibly for a long weekend trip in May - but that's just a very small possibility!).

The cast of our trip consists of me, my boyfriend, our 5 year old daughter, and a very last minute addition of our two year old niece.
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We started our journey on Friday, September 23rd.
My daughter had been sick off and on the whole week so we were really nervous, we had a 17+ hour drive ahead of us and finally on Thursday her doctor confirmed that she had strep and every other symptom she had was from it, so we started her on antibiotics immediately and luckily she was much better by Friday morning. She did get to stay home with daddy for the day on Friday since she didn't start her antibiotics until the afternoon on Thursday and couldn't go to school, so we got a bit earlier of a start then I thought we would.

We left around 3pm and we live just about an hour outside of Philadelphia. Our goal was to get to Fayetteville, NC which is where we would be staying for the night. We stopped once in Maryland right outside of Baltimore to have a potty break and grab some dinner and hit some traffic around D.C. (which we knew would happen), but aside from that we only had to stop twice more, once for a bathroom break and another so boyfriend and I could switch and I would drive for the end of the trip (he'd already driven over 7 hours before I forced him to let me take a turn). We finally got to Fayetteville around midnight and the Courtyard we stayed in was wonderful, found our room quickly and the girls were passed out as soon as their heads hit their pillows.

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This is from our stop outside of Baltimore, Maryland. My daughter is really such a good big cousin and it's obvious that they both just adore each other.

Both of the girls were up around 8:30am and ready to start the day. So boyfriend and I both took showers, got them ready, and let them run around outside the hotel while we cleaned up the car a bit and repacked the bags we'd needed to take out for our stop.
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In their matching Finding Dory shirts. :inlove:

We were on the road around 10am and our hope was to get to Disney around 6pm, hoping that it'd still be light outside when we got there.

Nope. We ended up getting suckered into stopping at South of the Border (boyfriend saw the sombrero and thought it was hysterical and somewhere his parents would love and wanted to take pictures), so we stopped for lunch and ended up wandering around a bit.
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After that we were back on the road. As you can see, my niece's Finding Dory shirt didn't last very long. SOMEONE (boyfriend) decided it was a good idea to give her a chocolate fudge brownie. :banghead:
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We then drove for another 8 million years until we finally reached Florida! When we got close to Orlando, our niece finally started to have a meltdown (I was honestly surprised she lasted as long as she did) so we stopped at Walmart to grab some snacks and last minute stuff. By the time we got back into the car and were getting onto Disney property it was after 9pm. :facepalm:
We ended up telling the girls in the car cause my daughter saw the Disney sign so we couldn't hold it in anymore. Our initial plan was to stop at the Walmart that's really close to Disney and let them pick out something Disney that they can wear for the next day, but we ended up having to stop at a different Walmart in Orlando and they had very little Disney products.

We finally arrived!!!
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Helping mommy check us into our home for the week - Disney's All Star Sports!

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Then we unloaded the car and headed to bed. We had a BIG day ahead of us on Sunday, our full day at the Magic Kingdom!

I'll continue with our adventures tomorrow. :)
 

kimberlymautz

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Sorry everyone! Photobucket decided it's going to crash so I can't get my photos up just yet, I haven't forgotten!
 

kimberlymautz

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Now that it's been almost 4 months since my trip, I'm going to try to some it up as much as possible to finish this since I've been having issues with Photobucket.

Sunday we headed for Magic Kingdom, but not without posing with a friend we met along the way...
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After our quick stop to hang out with Donald, we headed to the buses to head to our first park, none other than the Magic Kingdom!
Either me or my boyfriend were picked for EVERY SINGLE random check.
It was really annoying however I understand why they do it. "/
Finally we were able to get this beautiful view.
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And then we couldn't start our trip off without an obnoxious photoshoot in front of the castle....

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We hadn't eaten breakfast with all of the excitement, so we decided to stop for some waffles!
(Which I'm not normally a huge fan of, but these were delicious!)

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We even made a friend!
(No birds were fed, no worries! Haha)

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And then we were off to our first fast pass - Peter Pan's Flight!

As I'm sure you can tell by the background - it was actually pretty crowded. Yes, it was a Sunday, but it was also a MNSSHP night so I didn't think it'd be too bad. I was wrong. For the entire week. :arghh:

Quick pit stop because the girls were OBSESSED with these rocking chairs.

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After Peter Pan we stopped at It's a Small World and Prince Charming's Carousel while we were waiting for our fast pass for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
And of course I can't find any of those photos (I'm using my dad's laptop so I can't access my photos - only what I uploaded to PhotoBucket.... I promise next trip I'll be more organized.):facepalm:

Then we head to Winnie the Pooh, and what do I see? The ride is closed. :cry:
I was advised that the fast pass would be available all day though, so we figured next time we were walking by we would see if it was open. So instead, we headed to meet some princesses while waiting for our 7 Dwarfs fast pass to begin.

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Aurora was a little strange... She wasn't really talking to the girls and they were very shy (1st character!) so there wasn't much of an interaction to watch...

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Cinderella was great though. She was asking the girls if they'd seen the prince and that if they did to remind him they had dinner plans that he can't miss. My daughter got a kick out of that and told her about how daddy is late for everything. :hilarious:

And then it was time for our 7 Dwarf's fast pass. By the time we got to the line, my niece fell asleep so boyfriend stayed with her so I could take our daughter on the ride, he's such a trooper sometimes.

*pretend mine train photo is here*
(Also isn't on my PhotoBucket)

Because our niece was asleep and our daughter was starting to get cranky in the hot sun we decided to head back to the room for a bit.
But first...

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The girls ended up just lounging around watching a movie while my boyfriend and I took a nap, oops. But then we were heading back to the MK for a couple of hours before closing.

Road some tea cups...

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And then the best thing happened... I checked my Disney app and not only did we have an all day window for Winnie the Pooh (which was now open so we got to go on!), but they gave us another fast pass to use on whatever we wanted...
So needless to say, daddy wanted to take Ally on 7 Dwarfs...

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Believe it or not, she LOVED it.

We stopped at a couple more rides before heading out for the evening. Tomorrow - Animal Kingdom!​
 

kimberlymautz

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Animal Kingdom Day!
Here are a bunch of photos since I stink at remembering what exactly we did each day at this point.

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I will say that Pocahontas was FANTASTIC. Both of the girls LOVED her, she was super sweet and because there wasn't anyone behind us she and Meeko played with them for probably 15-20 minutes. It was adorable.
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More notes on Animal Kingdom:
1) Allyson HATED Everest. Still now tells everyone about how much she hated it.
2) I didn't realize how much we missed there until I got home and actually thought about it - next trip we'll be spending more time here.
3) The Lion King Show is fantastic no matter how many times I see it.

Tomorrow we visit Epcot!​
 

kimberlymautz

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Epcot day!

Allyson ended up sick this day (which stinks as it's my favorite park!) so we unfortunately didn't spend much time here. We visited with Daisy and Baymax, stopped to visit Nemo and went on a ride through the "ginormous golf ball" and then headed back for an afternoon at the hotel.

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After our rest at the room, Allyson was feeling better so we headed back for our Fast Pass for Frozen (which without it had a 180 MINUTE WAIT!)

Then we stopped to visit the stars of the ride themselves:
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We then stopped to visit Japan where Allyson grabbed a few Pokemon toys. We missed all of the food & wine spots though. Next trip!

And that was the end of our Epcot day!​
 

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