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Sorry for some not so easy moments, maybe the travel day just was hard on your MIL. Dinner looked delicious, makes me want to go back now as it has been a while since we ate there.
Sorry for some not so easy moments, maybe the travel day just was hard on your MIL. Dinner looked delicious, makes me want to go back now as it has been a while since we ate there.
The foreshadowing has me worried.
That's what I thought as well, maybe she doesn't travel well but what happened next broke my heart.
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Oh wow! Not an easy dinner. But the food looks delicious!
Yes, the food was yummy!
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Once we were out of the restaurant, we walked over to Haunted Mansion. The line was only 20 minutes so we hopped in and got on the ride in less than 10 minutes.
Next we made our way to It’s a Small World which had a 0 minute wait. We walked right on.
We wandered around for a little while and finally made our way into Fantasyland. I noted the wait time for Mine Train at 70 minutes…we kept walking and came upon The Little Mermaid ride. The wait time was posted at 10 minutes but we walked right now. During our ride, the ride stopped a total of 3 times, which was quite annoying. While the ride was broken down, DMiL was complaining about how unsafe it was and that she was tempted to just get out of the seat and walk out. We told her to stay calm and the ride would start back up soon.
Finally we were off the ride by 8:32 pm and headed for a quick ride on Dumbo.
After Dumbo, we noticed that across from the ride there was a trick or treat trail, so we got in line and got our candy.
After we got our candy, we started to walk towards Tomorrowland and it happened….My mother in law was busy looking in her candy bag and didn’t notice the flight of stairs in front of her. My DH and DS kept telling her to watch out but in a panic she decided to jump and missed the last 3 steps…SHE BROKE HER FOOT. She was screaming and crying and 3 or 4 cast members ran over to assist us. I sent my DSis and DS off to ride rides while we waited there. While the cast members were helping us, DMiL kept saying that she didn’t even want to come on the trip and she wouldn’t have hurt herself if she had just stayed home. She basically made me feel as if I kidnapped her to go to Disney World. I was saddened, upset, angry, hurt, worried…every emotion possible ran over me while I watched her sit there with my husband holding her up. EMS got there quickly and took her and my DH to Celebration Hospital.
Once they were transported to the ER, I just stood there and cried. I probably cried for a good 5 minutes before my DSis and DS came back. DSis took me to a wall to sit and while we sat, a cast member named Eric walked over and got all of our information (where we were staying, our names, our trip dates) and then gave us 2 fast passes to use the next day.
He asked us if we were going to remain in the park for the evening and I told him yes (DH had already told me to stay at the park with DS and DSis and enjoy the party while he took her to the ER)…there wasn’t much that we could do anyway so we decided to stay. We asked us if there was anything that we absolutely wanted to do and my DS pipes up with “MINE TRAIN!”. So Eric walked us down the exit ramp of the Mine Train and put us in the first 2 seats. As upset as I was about everything that happened on our first day, I started to calm down and have fun with my sister and son. Then he walked us over to Space Mountain and we did the same thing. After our rides, we said goodbye to Eric and we went our separate ways.
Mine Train:
Space Mountain:
We watched a few minutes of the fireworks and then hopped on Buzz Lightyear which had a 10 minute wait.
Buzz:
During this time, DH is texting me and telling me that DMiL has a fractured foot and he’s not sure what’s going to happen now. Please remember that we have been at Disney a total of 6 hours when this happened.
It was approaching 10:00 pm so we found a nice location to watch the parade. After the parade we hopped on PoTC. At PoTC, we walked through a few shops and then made our way to the bus stop by 11:23 pm. We were back in our resort at 11:56 pm and I quickly headed to the front desk to find out where the hospital was. The CM gave me directions and I headed to the room until I heard from DH. At 12:30pm DH texted and said he was ready and DSis and I got the car and drove to Celebration Hospital. We picked them up and finally got back to the resort at 1:00 am.
Once back at the resort, DH headed to the front desk to ask about a wheelchair and we were provided one for the week (free of charge) because everyone knew what had happened. The CMs from Magic Kingdom informed our resort of everything, everyone was so nice and accommodating. We even found out that they arranged for us to receive MNSSHP tickets for Thursday (10/23) because we had such a bad start to our first MNSSHP on 10/19.
DMiL and DSis are both smokers, so they were at the smoking spot and I met them down there while DH was talking to the front desk. DMiL said that she wanted to stay for the rest of the trip, so we said ok and since we got the wheelchair, we hoped that everything would be alright.
We finally got in bed at 2:30 am and I quickly feel asleep.
I was a terribly long day and just when you think it couldn’t get any worse….Monday 10/20 happened….
Oh man. What a first day you had!
So sorry that your MIL was not in the Disney spirit prior to the fall. Glad Disney helped you guys the best way they could with everything.
Oh man. What a first day you had!
So sorry that your MIL was not in the Disney spirit prior to the fall. Glad Disney helped you guys the best way they could with everything.
Yea, it was a long, tiring, emotional day.
I had hoped that DMiL would have been more open and optimistic about the trip, but that wasn't the case. I was very grateful that Disney helped in any way that they could.
I'm surprised you haven't sent her on a flight back home...it would seem like it would be well worth the $ to send her home early then have her spoil anymore of your trip then she already had. I'm SO incredibly sorry this happened so soon into your trip. I want to read more but at the same time it upsets me that she ruined the fun.
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Oh my goodness - what a horrible time you're having of it so far. I love though how Disney came through with their customer service for you - how great that they did absolutely everything they could to make things right for you.
I really do not like the sound of the next instalment though....
Tell me about it. I tried so hard to maintain a calm and optimistic demeanor but sometimes there is only so much you can take before you break down
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I'm surprised you haven't sent her on a flight back home...it would seem like it would be well worth the $ to send her home early then have her spoil anymore of your trip then she already had. I'm SO incredibly sorry this happened so soon into your trip. I want to read more but at the same time it upsets me that she ruined the fun.
Trust me, I thought about it. My sister told me to just relax and hope that the next day would be better. Keep reading...it gets worse and then better.
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Jamie! Just checking in to read along... I am sorry day 1 had so many issue with DMIL. Hopefully it gets better from here on out
Hi! Welcome aboard. Stick around for more updates.
Oh my goodness - what a horrible time you're having of it so far. I love though how Disney came through with their customer service for you - how great that they did absolutely everything they could to make things right for you.
I really do not like the sound of the next instalment though....
Yes, I was grateful for everything that the cast members were doing to help us. They were very understanding and accommodating. We made sure to say thank you a million times.
Yes, the next update will be a doozy but it gets better after that Stick around!
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