Stitchahula
06-19-2011, 09:03 PM
First off let me say that MAW and GKTW are incredible. We had a few bumps with MAW, getting wrong info, small things but I put it off to it being inexperienced people making the mistakes and giving bad info.
So the big day finally arrives and my DH takes off on a mysterious errand, he had to go pick up my sister Kat because the boys don't know she's coming with us. So she comes to the house and tells the boys that she's going to take pictures of them getting into the limo. Her luggage is outside in the truck of hubbys car. The limo driver shows up and we get the car seats in so the boys are all settled into this really really long black limo feel oh so cool. We sneak my sisters luggage in with ours without the boys knowing any better. My sister "asks" the limo driver if she can just ride to the airport with us. Of course he says, and he'll give her a ride back after (we let him in on the secret). So we are driving to the airport and the boys are waving to people on the way like they are movie stars, they were so cute. We get to the airport and unload ALL of our bags, and check in. We had no idea we could do the preboarding with MAW because this is one of the areas where they dropped the ball. The guy checking us in at the gate told us and was pretty surprised that MAW wasn't there to walk us through everything. He had never seen that happen before, oh well we made it on the plane anyways. My sister is still with us, she told the kids she was just going to sneak onto the plane and take pictures. The innocents that they are have no idea she needed a ticket to get through security. So we are all seated and getting ready for take off without the boys saying anything. Finally half way through the flight my youngest age 3 says you coming with us to Disney auntie kat? yes they do catch on quick. We land and it dawns on my oldest that hey Kat is still with us. So we finally let them in on the joke that we had this all planned out. Oldest son wasn't happy we kept it a secret but was happy his auntie was with us. We had to call to get ahold of our greeter from GKTW because we had made it in such good time, we were actually about 20 minutes early. This young man shows up and was so helpful, his name is Aaron and helped us with our bags and get our rental van.
So we are all settled into the rental and are on our way to GKTW. Wow was it hot! We pull up to GKTW and are let through the gate to see the cutest little village. We pull up and park so we can go check in. They have a stuffed Mickey and a Shamu for the kids. William decides he wants Shamu so he trades with his brother. They give us our key cards and we follow them to our villa. We pull up to the cutest little purple and blue villa that is to be our home for the next week. They take our picture in front of the sign with our last name on it and we head in. The fridge has all sorts of goodies in it and there are more goodies on the table. We go to the Gingerbread house (the restaurant) to eat dinner since we didn't arrive until after 5. We have it planned out that my DH, Sister and kids will play mini golf and go to the store to pick up supplies while I go to the meeting to get all the info we need plus the park tickets. They give us a 3 day park hopper for WDW, 2 day park hopper for Universal, and a 1 day for Sea World, plus parking for all 3 parks, plus WDW gives us a free photo pass!
I get done and head back to the Villa and my sister and I and the kids head to DTD for a couple of hours before our week starts. DH decided to take the opportunity to sit and relax while he can because he knows there won't be a whole lot of that happening in the week to come.
The first day at the parks! We start it off in a run literally. They had arranged to have Disney sign DS up for Jedi training so we had to hurry to the HS to get him there for that. WE hurried through breakfast and found our way to the park. I took william and we were dropped off as close to the entrance as we could and then we ran to Star Tours. Poor kid should''ve clued him in onto how the week was going to go. He was so excited he got to fight Darth Vader! I think he might have been a little bit nervous though too. He followed the jedi Masters instructions and helped to defeat the evil lord vader. Then we got to go on Star Tours ride, thank god for the GAC. I can honestly say that next time we get to Disney I will be getting him another one. It saved him a lot of standing around in lines. Since it was Thursday and the real Star Wars Weekend start the next day we decided to go to one of the other parks and hang out and leave HS to a day when the big festivities are going on. We head back out of the park and head over to Epcot. To be continued...:thumbsup:
So the big day finally arrives and my DH takes off on a mysterious errand, he had to go pick up my sister Kat because the boys don't know she's coming with us. So she comes to the house and tells the boys that she's going to take pictures of them getting into the limo. Her luggage is outside in the truck of hubbys car. The limo driver shows up and we get the car seats in so the boys are all settled into this really really long black limo feel oh so cool. We sneak my sisters luggage in with ours without the boys knowing any better. My sister "asks" the limo driver if she can just ride to the airport with us. Of course he says, and he'll give her a ride back after (we let him in on the secret). So we are driving to the airport and the boys are waving to people on the way like they are movie stars, they were so cute. We get to the airport and unload ALL of our bags, and check in. We had no idea we could do the preboarding with MAW because this is one of the areas where they dropped the ball. The guy checking us in at the gate told us and was pretty surprised that MAW wasn't there to walk us through everything. He had never seen that happen before, oh well we made it on the plane anyways. My sister is still with us, she told the kids she was just going to sneak onto the plane and take pictures. The innocents that they are have no idea she needed a ticket to get through security. So we are all seated and getting ready for take off without the boys saying anything. Finally half way through the flight my youngest age 3 says you coming with us to Disney auntie kat? yes they do catch on quick. We land and it dawns on my oldest that hey Kat is still with us. So we finally let them in on the joke that we had this all planned out. Oldest son wasn't happy we kept it a secret but was happy his auntie was with us. We had to call to get ahold of our greeter from GKTW because we had made it in such good time, we were actually about 20 minutes early. This young man shows up and was so helpful, his name is Aaron and helped us with our bags and get our rental van.
So we are all settled into the rental and are on our way to GKTW. Wow was it hot! We pull up to GKTW and are let through the gate to see the cutest little village. We pull up and park so we can go check in. They have a stuffed Mickey and a Shamu for the kids. William decides he wants Shamu so he trades with his brother. They give us our key cards and we follow them to our villa. We pull up to the cutest little purple and blue villa that is to be our home for the next week. They take our picture in front of the sign with our last name on it and we head in. The fridge has all sorts of goodies in it and there are more goodies on the table. We go to the Gingerbread house (the restaurant) to eat dinner since we didn't arrive until after 5. We have it planned out that my DH, Sister and kids will play mini golf and go to the store to pick up supplies while I go to the meeting to get all the info we need plus the park tickets. They give us a 3 day park hopper for WDW, 2 day park hopper for Universal, and a 1 day for Sea World, plus parking for all 3 parks, plus WDW gives us a free photo pass!
I get done and head back to the Villa and my sister and I and the kids head to DTD for a couple of hours before our week starts. DH decided to take the opportunity to sit and relax while he can because he knows there won't be a whole lot of that happening in the week to come.
The first day at the parks! We start it off in a run literally. They had arranged to have Disney sign DS up for Jedi training so we had to hurry to the HS to get him there for that. WE hurried through breakfast and found our way to the park. I took william and we were dropped off as close to the entrance as we could and then we ran to Star Tours. Poor kid should''ve clued him in onto how the week was going to go. He was so excited he got to fight Darth Vader! I think he might have been a little bit nervous though too. He followed the jedi Masters instructions and helped to defeat the evil lord vader. Then we got to go on Star Tours ride, thank god for the GAC. I can honestly say that next time we get to Disney I will be getting him another one. It saved him a lot of standing around in lines. Since it was Thursday and the real Star Wars Weekend start the next day we decided to go to one of the other parks and hang out and leave HS to a day when the big festivities are going on. We head back out of the park and head over to Epcot. To be continued...:thumbsup: