Mickey'sGirl
09-17-2009, 11:15 PM
CAST: Me (Jennifer), DH (Brian aka CanadianWDWFan), DS11 (Harry) and DS5 (Euan)WDW holiday Saturday August 22 to Saturday September 5, 2009 (Pop, Boardwalk, Old Key West)
.... So, I decided to take the Friday off of work so that we could get an early start, and get well on our way to Disney. We left home around 7am (to stay ahead of the Toronto traffic), crossed the border at Buffalo without incident (we even declared our case of Canadian beer!) and got all the way down to Columbia, SC by about 8:30. Brian took the boys for a swim in the indoor pool – They sure deserved it after being such troopers! – and I ordered the pizza and waited for it in the room. The boys and the pizza all arrived at about the same time, we ate then turned in. We wanted to be back on the road by about 7, as we had 7ish hours to go to get to WDW, and an early afternoon arrival would be bodacious.
We were up fed and on the road by 7, and arrived at Downtown Disney at about 2. We wanted to hit the LEGO store, and pick up our Annual Passes, and Hallowe’en Party tickets from Guest Services, so that we would be ready to go to the parks. After dropping a cool $200 at the LEGO store (the boys had been saving up snow shovelling money and my pocket change since December), and painlessly retrieving our tickets, we were back in our car and on our way to check in at POP. We had done the advance check in, so it was really just a matter of picking up our room keys and parking pass. It was an entirely painless experience. We had friends checking in later that day, and we attempted to leave them a message, but we could not as their room had not yet been assigned. Whatever. So, we decided to go for a swim.
The Hippy Dippy Pool was very popular, and very warm, but we had loads of fun. Then we went back to the room to clean up and change and get some dinner from the food court. We tend to pool our edibles when we are doing fast food, and this was no different. We had shrimp noodles, pizza, cheesesteak and fries, and we all left satisfied. After dinner, I took Euan to the playground, and Brian and Harry wandered about adding points to the GPS, and taking pictures around the resort. We found out that our friends had arrived and checked in, but were very late due to airline issues, and were going to book over to Epcot to attempt to make their dinner reservation at Nine Dragons. We made plans to hook up in the morning, before we checked out and transferred over to the Boardwalk for the next part of our holiday.
.... So, I decided to take the Friday off of work so that we could get an early start, and get well on our way to Disney. We left home around 7am (to stay ahead of the Toronto traffic), crossed the border at Buffalo without incident (we even declared our case of Canadian beer!) and got all the way down to Columbia, SC by about 8:30. Brian took the boys for a swim in the indoor pool – They sure deserved it after being such troopers! – and I ordered the pizza and waited for it in the room. The boys and the pizza all arrived at about the same time, we ate then turned in. We wanted to be back on the road by about 7, as we had 7ish hours to go to get to WDW, and an early afternoon arrival would be bodacious.
We were up fed and on the road by 7, and arrived at Downtown Disney at about 2. We wanted to hit the LEGO store, and pick up our Annual Passes, and Hallowe’en Party tickets from Guest Services, so that we would be ready to go to the parks. After dropping a cool $200 at the LEGO store (the boys had been saving up snow shovelling money and my pocket change since December), and painlessly retrieving our tickets, we were back in our car and on our way to check in at POP. We had done the advance check in, so it was really just a matter of picking up our room keys and parking pass. It was an entirely painless experience. We had friends checking in later that day, and we attempted to leave them a message, but we could not as their room had not yet been assigned. Whatever. So, we decided to go for a swim.
The Hippy Dippy Pool was very popular, and very warm, but we had loads of fun. Then we went back to the room to clean up and change and get some dinner from the food court. We tend to pool our edibles when we are doing fast food, and this was no different. We had shrimp noodles, pizza, cheesesteak and fries, and we all left satisfied. After dinner, I took Euan to the playground, and Brian and Harry wandered about adding points to the GPS, and taking pictures around the resort. We found out that our friends had arrived and checked in, but were very late due to airline issues, and were going to book over to Epcot to attempt to make their dinner reservation at Nine Dragons. We made plans to hook up in the morning, before we checked out and transferred over to the Boardwalk for the next part of our holiday.