What a great trip!
We arrived October 19th and left on the 24th. It was another stay at a Value, which I keep saying is my last time at a Value but with these yearly trips instead of every other year that's what is in the budget. This was a last minute (well 65 days is last minute for Disney) mother and other daughter trip (in case you read my mother daughter report from last year) , so we raided the coin jars, searched the couch cushions, stole money out of my husbands wallet and made it happen. We hit each park for one day each and had an evening at Disney Springs. I didn't take notes and I only have my photos as a guide for this report so we better get on with the details before I forget everything.
Trip takers for this one: Me & E. Sorry but the all pictures of us look just like this.
Saturday, October 19th:
E drove to my house the night before since we had a morning flight. We got up around 4:45 am and was on the road by 5:20. The ride to the airport is a tad bit over two hours so we made a pit stop. I've added this since we crazy Disney people seem to like bathroom, light fixtures and food pictures.
Everything went smooth at the airport, as proof here is the obligatory airport photo. She has no idea how many photos are in her future.
When we arrived at ME it was the most crowded I've had to deal with. I guess I've been lucky in the past. We waited awhile but then had our own bus to the resort. Which is good because sharing a bus sucks 85% of the time.
E commented several times that our driver was in the video but I missed it every time due to gawking out the windows. I didn't have cash on me to tip the driver. I always feel like a schmuck when I don't tip the bus driver from MDE. Why? I don't know. I don't tip the maid. I digress
We arrived at POP and I hadn't received a room ready text so off we go to the front desk and wait our turn. The oddest CM I've ever dealt with helped us. He was young and in my opinion trying to impress/badly flirt with E. I previously requested a room in building 6 facing the water, I wanted close to the skyliner, we got building 3. It was the next building over and wasn't bad. E was celebrating college graduation and on her celebrating pin he wrote Navigator since he said she was in charge of the room map. Both confused and ready to run we headed to our room.
We put both beds down and there was still plenty of room for both of us to walk around.
With stomachs rumbling we headed for the bus stop to Disney Springs
Here's the - I just arrived at Disney face -
And the - try not to look like an idiot and just be cool face -
We arrived October 19th and left on the 24th. It was another stay at a Value, which I keep saying is my last time at a Value but with these yearly trips instead of every other year that's what is in the budget. This was a last minute (well 65 days is last minute for Disney) mother and other daughter trip (in case you read my mother daughter report from last year) , so we raided the coin jars, searched the couch cushions, stole money out of my husbands wallet and made it happen. We hit each park for one day each and had an evening at Disney Springs. I didn't take notes and I only have my photos as a guide for this report so we better get on with the details before I forget everything.
Trip takers for this one: Me & E. Sorry but the all pictures of us look just like this.
Saturday, October 19th:
E drove to my house the night before since we had a morning flight. We got up around 4:45 am and was on the road by 5:20. The ride to the airport is a tad bit over two hours so we made a pit stop. I've added this since we crazy Disney people seem to like bathroom, light fixtures and food pictures.
Everything went smooth at the airport, as proof here is the obligatory airport photo. She has no idea how many photos are in her future.
When we arrived at ME it was the most crowded I've had to deal with. I guess I've been lucky in the past. We waited awhile but then had our own bus to the resort. Which is good because sharing a bus sucks 85% of the time.
E commented several times that our driver was in the video but I missed it every time due to gawking out the windows. I didn't have cash on me to tip the driver. I always feel like a schmuck when I don't tip the bus driver from MDE. Why? I don't know. I don't tip the maid. I digress
We arrived at POP and I hadn't received a room ready text so off we go to the front desk and wait our turn. The oddest CM I've ever dealt with helped us. He was young and in my opinion trying to impress/badly flirt with E. I previously requested a room in building 6 facing the water, I wanted close to the skyliner, we got building 3. It was the next building over and wasn't bad. E was celebrating college graduation and on her celebrating pin he wrote Navigator since he said she was in charge of the room map. Both confused and ready to run we headed to our room.
We put both beds down and there was still plenty of room for both of us to walk around.
With stomachs rumbling we headed for the bus stop to Disney Springs
Here's the - I just arrived at Disney face -
And the - try not to look like an idiot and just be cool face -
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Again still no lines. We even walked through the room with the Aerosmith show.
she said, "it's through that way but to be careful". I let her know we would go in the opposite direction.
( it was slim pickens on FP's). I usually get dizzy and have to close my eyes half way through but this time I was good. I talked E into Frozen sing along. She really was hesitant but ended up enjoying it. As were walking there from Star Tours the non EMH crowds are racing to Star Wars Land, literally speed walking one couple running. It's comical to watch. I hope I don't look like that when I get there late. When we reach Frozen we find out Ben isn't there. The lady villager was great the man was ok. I wish she would have seen Ben instead but she doesn't know the difference and still liked it. This mom in front of us let her daughter stand on the chair the whole time. She was small but not that small that she wouldn't have been able to see if she was sitting. I was so tempted to tap the mom on the shoulder and say something but I didn't. I mean I couldn't, the little girl had an Elsa dress on. Apparently this was the highlight of her HS day.
Thank you for reading.
With all that said the water was perfect, not overly crowded with kids and I did enjoy my time there.