Love Bugs, Little ones, and one heck of an Upgrade

Just got back from the world celebrating our anniversary and our youngests' first trip. It was wonderful! We planned this trip since last December, and it was up and down all the way, but we pulled it off. There's me, 40 year old chef, beautiful wife Joanna, oldest (13) Lexi, (10) Nicki, (9) Sal, and princess (6) Taylor. Our anniversary was Sept. 13, and when I got home from work, dinner was made, Mickey table cloth and plates set, and then this!
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I have wanted one for years, now I have one. Up at 7am next day, wednesday, to the airport, right through security, and off to the wrong gate. It took me an hour to realize this, duh! Two hours later, and we are in Orlando.
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mickey2008.1

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The dorky side of my oldest.
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And the not so dorky side
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Time for desert. The famous Ohana bread pudding with banana's foster sauce!!
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mickey2008.1

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So now it's about 8:30, and we know wishes is supposed to be at 9:30, as we were told by many cm's. It's time to leave and beat the crowds at MK back to our resort at CBR, but wishes started at 9:00:brick: Get the Monorail back to MK and beat the crowds, unlikely, but lets give it a try.
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OOOPPPS! some quick pics of sushi on the way out.
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Hurry up, get some pics, it's time to go!!!
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mickey2008.1

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As we are trying to get to MK, we start to hear the fireworks, a half hour before we thought they were to start. Lets beat the crowds, come on monorail. At this point we know that we have only fifteen minutes until chaos ensues!
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And chaos came at us full force. It's the second to last bus stop right next to POP, and the stop before CBR is walled, leaving a heard of people trying to figure out where to go. finally find our line, and POP busses out number CBR 4 to 1! Really! We waited over an hour and a half to get a bus. That's a really long time, even for MK at closing on a not so crowded. We didnt get back until 11pm. A quick pic of contemporary, a beer or two, and time for bed.
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Time for bed and a big day at DHS.
 

mickey2008.1

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It's my favorite desert! Blackthidot has strawberry shortcake, which is coming up, nothing beats Ohanas bananas foster!
 

mickey2008.1

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Let's move on to day 2.Some pics of CBR, and the beginning of the upgrade day. Beautiful Beach Club, Cape May Cafe, and DHS. Cape is my favorite breakfast place. Great characters, not so cramped, great food, and just overall more relaxed. Bring on the buffet! I'm hungry! And so are the kids and wife. As tradition has it, bring on the mimosa and screw driver!
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Pick Four Numbers!:ROFLOL:
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An hour and a half?! Yikes!! That's like the wait time for Soarin' on a normal day!!

Love the pics from 'Ohana.. Can't wait to finally try it out next month!! :)
 

mickey2008.1

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Ohana's really is a good place for dinner. Such variety and so yummy. Now let's gt back to Cape May breakfast, absolutely my favorite character dining place.
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The sausage is really good!!!
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Time to meet the characters!
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mickey2008.1

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This the point where we split up. My youngest is just a half inch too short for RNR, and my wife hates ToT, so I take the girls on ToT, and she takes Sal on RNR. Taylor is so excited, this is her first time on ToT, so she is a little scared, but extremely excited. The wait was only ten minutes, so here we go!
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She absolutely loved it! we met back up with the other two, only to find out my wife got ran over by a scooter! Her foot was the size of a football, and cut up. Of course it was a foreigner who could not speak english and basicly played it off. I was ed off and wanted to confront the person, but she thought it would be pointless and would just ruin the day, because I probably would have hit him and get kicked out of the park. So we calm down, head over to RNR, and I sit out with Taylor, while the rest go on RNR, because they all love it, as I do, but it was her turn to ride something. And me, I just like to hang out and take pictures.
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As we get done with RNR, we come across street performers, take a seat, and watch a great performance comedy skit.
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mickey2008.1

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Off to Star tours.
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Hope he does'nt ______ on us:lol:
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This park seemed really empty, wait time for this was 5 minutes, as was just about everything all day. So it was hard to get good pictures inside as we were moving quite fast.
 

mickey2008.1

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Bald and beautiful Jedi Knight!!
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Time to depart at gate D.
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What a great attraction! It's completely awesome. Unfortunately we would ride this once this trip as it made my oldest a little nauseous.
 

mickey2008.1

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MId afternoon, hot, time for some rest at Muppet 3D, some pics around DHS, and back to our resort for swim time, as we would have another day of DHS on monday. This is the beginning of the huge upgrade!!!! Bring on the bugs!!!!
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I love these two guys for some strange reason
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Rock Stars!!
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And the embarassing dad with a relapse to 1989!!!
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mickey2008.1

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Who's smoking what? Looks a little suspicious to me, either its really really small cigarettes, or some funny medicinal stuff:shrug:
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one last ToT of the day with the girls. My Tays favorite ride!
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Time to head back home at CBR, do some swimming and relax for the rest of the day. It's probably about 5 pm by now. And then head to DTD for Cs dinner somewhere, but this is where it all goes awry.
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Happy mom!
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What appears to be a beautiful resort. And then this.......
 

mickey2008.1

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Love bug fest!!! But not in my room! I get bugs in WDW, only on the outside!!!!
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They were everywhere, lamps, fan, curtains, beds, bath tub, and all because of this, no door seal. Poor maintenance strikes again.
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mickey2008.1

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Well, with this problem of bugs in both rooms, nobody is very happy at this point, so lets get the kids ready for the pool, crack a beer, and call the front desk. Upon answering our call and telling them of the situation, they said they would transfer us to different rooms if available. No rooms available. This is now an hour long process, not happy. If my two rooms were like this, why would other ones be better. This is where the wife takes over, you know how women can get mean, right?:goodnevil So now we are waiting for a call back, kids are swimmming, and I snap a few shots.
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That aint no mouse!!! freeky little thing. Funny tho!
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I guess thats it for the pics. Too much time trying to resolve our situation. Finally a call back, and "what can we do to make you happy? Would Pirate rooms be ok or would you rather change to a deluxe resort?" Are you kidding me, of course we want a deluxe resort. Poly or Wilderness came to mind first, as we have stayed at Poly and loved it, but really liked Wilderness and have not stayed there. "ok, we will check these out for you and call you back." ok, wait a half hour, no rooms available. "how about two room villa at SSR?" I said no way because of all the hate from this site:D " we will check all other deluxe resorts for you'" OK, wait another half hour, and remind you, my wife is doing the talking, not me, I'm just helping point. "I'm sorry to inform you that all resorts are, so we will have to give you two rooms at Grand Floridian" Heck yea! send us there, even if it's a snob resort. An hour later, packed up, transfered, and checked in, our view of this place began to change. No pictures to share as it was put away and I was not happy from the time lost. We were greated by great cast members. Our bell hop took us to our room on a golf cart, and spent a half hour with us explaining the room and the resort. A real plaesant person. This just made everything right and restart our trip. I have to say, Disney really stepped up to the plate. Two rooms facing the lagoon, which I will show later. But now its time for some grub, and the pool.
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Lobster mac n cheese. Really good!!!!
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