We left Saturday early morning. Around 2am.
Foggy and we saw deer grazing on the side of the roads so it made it a bit scary at times. Nothing like the threat of a deer running out in front of you to keep you awake lol.
I can't remember exactly what time we got to the Disney resort we were staying in. It was the Disney All Stars Movie resort. The outside was nice enough. Had giant decorations. Our section had the army men from Toy story on the building and in the middle of them giant Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
That was pretty cool.
We got to the resort early though. Before everyone else even though they had all left earlier than us. And our room wasn't going to be done until 3pm at least AND other than Zoe's ticket... the rest of our tickets were bought by SiL (for her military discount) so we had to wait for her to get in to any of the parks... so yeah.. we were stuck in the lobby waiting on everyone.
SiL eventually shows up at around 10 or so..... aaaaand we're stuck waiting again.
We wasted half the day just sitting around the frickin hotel lobby b/c apparently FiL and MiL can't follow directions to save their lives and ended up getting lost.
It was SO GD frustrating b/c DH and I had wanted to get to the parks early to ride all of the busy rides... but nope.
We ended up buying Zoe and Oren some hats in the store while we waited.
We had to once again stand in line for some reason b/c of the tickets. That was another hour of wasted time.
When we FINALLY got in to the park.... we took the kids to ride on the carousel and walked around. I think we had fast passes for something else, but I can't remember what. Maybe some toy story ride? We had wasted so much of the day on bullshit that we were all just defeated and wanted to go back to the hotel.
Oh and if you want to go to Disney.. make sure to add name tags ALL over your stroller. Twice... TWICE our stroller was almost stolen.
One was from a woman that said that it looked just like her stroller. DH caught her plopping her drink cups right in to it and trying to walk off.
The next time.. we were coming off of some ride (can't remember which one) and once again... caught some guy pulling our stroller along with another one. When DH went and grabbed it out of his hands, the guy made a BIG show about how it looked just like his stroller (oh look.. the same excuse!).... nevermind that our kids sippy cups were in the cup holders and there was no other stroller in that area that looked like ours. But the guy made a BIG show to everyone around the area about how he thought it was his stroller and oh Ha ha... bullshit.
SO yeah..... put your name on EVERYTHING if you have to have a stroller in the park. You have to park your stroller in designated areas if you want to go on rides with your kids.
Also, if you have kids that are too small to ride, you can get a fast pass for the adult that has to wait their turn. That way when the other parent or whoever finishes their ride, the other adult can just use the fast pass to get on quicker and I think most of those are good for 3 people too.
Anyway... we left Magic Kingdom too early that first day b/c we were beat. Hotel room was finally done and... boy was it small. We got one with 2 beds and it was supposed to have a pack n play for Ezra, but that was forgotten.
The AC sucked too and only went to 68 and barely cooled the room when it got hot out. Also.. the rooms desperately needed updating. No outlets in convenient places to plug up chargers. The least they could've done was put in a newer alarm clock that has plugins on it or something.
B/c of that, we had to pull the nightstand out a little to plug up my charger... which either got stolen by the cleaner or was thrown away on purpose. The front desk tried to claim that it was probably an accident, but I had my charger plugged up in that spot for multiple days and it wasn't touched, but on the last day we were there... it was suddenly accidentally thrown away? Uh huh.. bullshit. Also whoever cleaned our room did a shitty job that day too b/c there were still crumbs (kids had chicken strips and got the breading on the floor) all over the damn floor.
Oh and also... since we were staying at a Disney resort.. we got to use their buses to go to the parks. THat was nice. Saved us from needing to drive the entire time we were there.
And yeah.. we went to Hollywood studios the next day. Not as busy, but also, not as much to do there. SiL (the younger one) was being a complete bitch. For some reason, she and her stupid husband didn't realize they had to get their tickets from whoever had them. They didn't realize this until they were on the bus to the park. SiL starts bitching out her husband on a bus full of other people. I didn't hear all of it, but heard this gem "I don't like you... no.. I HATE you right now." Yeah.. that bitch said that shit to her husband on a bus full of people b/c she's a giant fucking drama queen.
Then when we got off the bus, she bitches him out some more and stomps off.
We then hear a screech and oh yep... that was SiL and her dumbass.
DH and I weren't having any of it and left all that shit and took our kids in to the park b/c ya know what...fuck her and their dumbasses. Trip wasn't about them and we weren't going to wait around for them to get their shit together.
Oh no no... we road the toy story thing at this park. It was the ride everyone was going for.
Much better day other than the stupid SiL drama.
And blahblah... we did all the parks and had a good time for the most part. It was HOT though. Too hot and Ezra had quite a few SCREAMING fits b/c he was hot and tired and ugh, those sucked.
One thing though. A lot of the rides were too damn short. You stand in line for over an hour sometimes and the ride is like literally not even 2min long. There was some little rollar coaster that I rode with Zoe and it was seriously like only a minute long. And the dumbo/magic carpet/spaceships are all SUPER short too. Just not worth the wait other than to say you've gone on them.
Also, a lot of the rides I thought were too dim. Haunted Mansion, erm... some other ones I can't remember. Really really dim. You couldn't even make out what the hell you were supposed to be looking at most of the time.
And in Magic Kingdom... don't waste your time waiting in line for that test track ride. The one with the little go karts basically. If you have a 7+ yo... they might think it's worth it, but if you have to end up steering... it's just driving... that's it. There's nothing special about it and it's just not worth waiting to ride IMO.
Anyway... here are some more photos while I think of other shit to say...
the wait time for everything interesting was ridiculous. The prices were even worse. We knew things were going to be expensive... but holy shit. See the Minnie Mouse ears Zoe is wearing? $25. Frickin $25!!!
And I really wish Zoe had gotten to meet Darth Vader. They had a little show with him and Kylo and there were kids participating. We didn't learn that you had to sign the kids up at the front of the park until later. Wish we had known that sooner.
Yadda yadda.... We would like to eventually go back.... YEARS down the road when all of the kids are big enough to ride everything and when they open up that luxury Star Wars hotel experience thing.
Oh but good thing if you want to try to save some money... you can bring your own drinks and food in to the parks. We brought in water and the kids sippy cups and bags of chips and whatnot for snacks. All of that usually got eaten up by noon though so we'd still end up having to buy drinks and food lol.
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