bratmaster
06-18-2007, 10:15 PM
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me (bratmaster)
dh
dd age 11
dd age 7
ds age 4
Oops, i forgot to mention in my last post about that great off-site hotle we stayed at - $89 per night it cost us. We stayed 11 nights and it only totalled, with tax, about $1,100. Having stayed at Pop before, we got a lot more for our money there and the best part was when we came home at night we only had to walk to the elevator. At pop i swear we had to walk a mile to get back to our room. It was always exhausting to get back there. Also, having a kitchen was nice because we had a freezer and we froxe our water bottles every day so they stayed nice and cool. I am just mentioning this because having stayed both on and off property now, i can really compare the experinces. But simply put, once you get past 4 people disney does not accomodate families. (at least not cheaply!)
Anyhow, Day one we started our day nice and early at MK. The first thing i noticed was the lovebugs. They were just EVERYWEHERE. it was awful. i did not think i could take it for 10 days with those things flying all over. But for some reason which i cannot explain, this was the only day i ever saw them. I never saw another the whole trip. It baffled me. As i had mentioned before, my girls had lost their minds and were just totally complaining and crabbing over something the whole time. Here is the biggest thing to ever tick me off. We got a guest assistance card for my DS4, who has hyperlexia, a form of autism. For our entire trip we practically walked onto everything. i think we weaited no more than 5 minutes at the longest ever. And my girls had the nerve, after walking past an 85 minute wait line, to fight over where they got to sit on the ride. I have never wanted to beat my kids so deeply before, but that just did me in. The ungrateful little brats. Actually everything they fought/complained/cried over was always something trivial. Another biggie was somebody always refusing to be in a picture, or somebody having a fit becuase they could not stand where they wanted to in the picture. If they did not get their way they were just bratty. And DD11 just liked to push buttons and make DD& cry constantly. Anyways, by late afternoon my DS4 just suddenly got miserably crabby. I think he was still adjusting to the time change; his normal bedtime is 7:30pm. Not sure if it was lucky or not that he adjusted, because he never got crabby at night again like that, but we had the double edged sword of trying to get him to relax at 11pm from here on out! Needless to say, he adjusted quickly from his early bedtime. So that first day we had to leave by 5pm. He just couldn't handle it, and we were having no fun with him crying and being overtired the whole time. Besides, i was pretty sick of the girls attitudes by now.
me (bratmaster)
dh
dd age 11
dd age 7
ds age 4
Oops, i forgot to mention in my last post about that great off-site hotle we stayed at - $89 per night it cost us. We stayed 11 nights and it only totalled, with tax, about $1,100. Having stayed at Pop before, we got a lot more for our money there and the best part was when we came home at night we only had to walk to the elevator. At pop i swear we had to walk a mile to get back to our room. It was always exhausting to get back there. Also, having a kitchen was nice because we had a freezer and we froxe our water bottles every day so they stayed nice and cool. I am just mentioning this because having stayed both on and off property now, i can really compare the experinces. But simply put, once you get past 4 people disney does not accomodate families. (at least not cheaply!)
Anyhow, Day one we started our day nice and early at MK. The first thing i noticed was the lovebugs. They were just EVERYWEHERE. it was awful. i did not think i could take it for 10 days with those things flying all over. But for some reason which i cannot explain, this was the only day i ever saw them. I never saw another the whole trip. It baffled me. As i had mentioned before, my girls had lost their minds and were just totally complaining and crabbing over something the whole time. Here is the biggest thing to ever tick me off. We got a guest assistance card for my DS4, who has hyperlexia, a form of autism. For our entire trip we practically walked onto everything. i think we weaited no more than 5 minutes at the longest ever. And my girls had the nerve, after walking past an 85 minute wait line, to fight over where they got to sit on the ride. I have never wanted to beat my kids so deeply before, but that just did me in. The ungrateful little brats. Actually everything they fought/complained/cried over was always something trivial. Another biggie was somebody always refusing to be in a picture, or somebody having a fit becuase they could not stand where they wanted to in the picture. If they did not get their way they were just bratty. And DD11 just liked to push buttons and make DD& cry constantly. Anyways, by late afternoon my DS4 just suddenly got miserably crabby. I think he was still adjusting to the time change; his normal bedtime is 7:30pm. Not sure if it was lucky or not that he adjusted, because he never got crabby at night again like that, but we had the double edged sword of trying to get him to relax at 11pm from here on out! Needless to say, he adjusted quickly from his early bedtime. So that first day we had to leave by 5pm. He just couldn't handle it, and we were having no fun with him crying and being overtired the whole time. Besides, i was pretty sick of the girls attitudes by now.