Disney Trip Report

Background:

We went to Disney last year, and had a wonderful time. However, on the last night we were there we all had food poisoning. To call the experience horrible is probably an understatement. Matt and Kayla would casually refer to our trip, and then finish with "and we puked". When we started planning for this trip we had one rule-- NO puking!


Let the trip report start...

Cast Members.

Me: Nicole-- acting in the part of mom, and organizer, and travel agent

Peter: dad-- acting as the calm in the storm, baby wrangler, and hero when things are scary


The kiddo's-- all at disney, need I say more?
Matt- newly 5
Kayla- newly 5
Julie (maybe referred to as peanut, somethings never change)-- A very 2-year-old


Capi -- My dad-- the kids call him Capi, and I'm pretty sure I understand how the name evolved, but that story's too long for our intro... just know outside the family, people would refer to him as Grandpa :) There Friday night through Sunday night

Grandma Sue- My mom-- came Sunday late - Saturday

Aunt Jillian-- My favorite sister ;)-- came w/ Grandma Sue

Extra: 'Aunt' Janet-- my best friend, who happened to be on a business trip to Universal 2 of the days we were there, so she'll make a quick appearance to give some sanity to me. The kids don't even know she was there-- which is a little sad, but it's better that they weren't disappointed by not seeing her.




Day One : February 13th, Travel Day... Oh yeah, and we're rule breakers in this family...

We left for the airport at about 3:30PM on Friday, February 13th. We were pretty well packed (I'm a bit obsessive and had been packing for over 2 weeks... yeah, I know...), and ready to go. The kids were super excited to take another airplane ride, and we were really looking forward to arriving in enough time to get a good nights sleep and set up for a week of fun.

The plane ride was not all it was cut out to be. First, it was delayed almost an hour. Julie cried/whined quite a bit because her ears hurt-- Matt and Peter seemed alright, I had been on antibiotics less than 24 hours for a very severe sinus infection that the pressure was killing, and Kayla was fussing on and off about her ears (to which I kept answering drink your water). Oh yeah, and I made more than 6 trips to the bathroom with the kids... ever try to fit 3 people into an airplane bathroom stall... it's interesting, to say the least.

We were all happy to have the flight behind us (and I was not looking forward to the one at the end of our trip)... so we made another pit stop and headed to the magic express to ride our bus to Disney's Coronado Springs. We get to the front of the line-- Kayla plops down onto the ground and gives me just enough warning that she's going to puke that I 'mom reacted' and tried to catch it. Needless to say, I should have just taken 3 giant steps back and cleaned up after. Both covered in puke, the nice magic express people were not overly anxious to put us on a bus. After waiting nearly another hour to prove she wasn't going to be sick again, they finally put us on a bus (one without the fun movie, bummer-- right, Matt?).

We arrived at Coronado approximately 5 minutes before my dad (whose flight was about 2 hours after ours). He was all refreshed from his upgraded first class trip, and we were feeling pretty run down-- but we were all excited to be at Disney! We all bunked together the first night, as his original plans changed and he got there on Friday instead of Saturday when his reservation was. Worried about the possibility of another pukey vacation we headed to bed with prayers for a better tomorrow.