COMPLETED! Kylor & Jalen's SURPRISE Disneyland vacation About This Page:

[loobyoxlip]

[ QUOTE ]
I think it's hilarious that they think you guys just hopped a plane to spend the night in Kansas City (and had to have a layover first). Is something you guys do normally?

Can't wait to hear about the big reveal!!

[/ QUOTE ]

Well at first they did wonder if we were going to meet some Passporters I didn't think Jalen would catch on, but I thought for sure Kylor would...but he didn't. But, no, it's not something we would normally do

[Colexis Mom]

Wow Tina, that was a close call with almost missing the flight Glad they opened the door for you

Can't wait for the big REVEAL! More please

[MegglesMom]

Phew! Glad they opened the doors for you!!

[RobinKay6573]

Sounds great so far...I can't wait to read the rest...more please

[chezp]

I am loving it so far - but why did you have to stop where you did? Talk about keeping us in suspense!

More please Tina - and soon!

[CRCrazy]

Tina - what are you feeding those boys - Kylor looks at least 13!!!! My goodness, is he tall or what!! Can't wait to see you guys in June! I love the picture of them with Stitch - they are just the handsomest guys! They're photogenic - just like their mom!

Can't wait to read some more - start typing.

[Tink and co.]

Tina,
Is your signature pic from the Lilo and Stich character meal? My kids are dying for that one when we go in November. Did you like it? Was it breakfast only?

[loobyoxlip]

Tuesday April 26th

I woke up about 15 minutes before the alarm went off and hopped in the shower. I had forgotten I had asked when we checked in for a wake up call, too, so when the phone rang the boys woke up immediately. We got ready pretty quickly and were down in the lobby by 7:15. We were apparantly the only people going to the airport that early, so we had the shuttle to ourselves. The driver asked me where we were going... "Um, home to Michigan" Now I am starting to feel bad for fibbing to other people

We get to the airport. The line is short and we get to the ticket counter pretty quickly. The agent said 'Of course it made you all selectees' Um, it's required to de-select me b/c I'm an airline employee and the kids because they're under 12. But I didn't argue with her. So my bag went through the additional screening and we headed off to find some breakfast. Midwest Airlines is WAY on the end of the airport so we walked quite far before finally running into a Cinnabon. I got one with nuts, one without and a caramel iced coffee. We took our to-go bag and sauntered back to the security area. Of course here we have to go through the full screening, also, which the boys thought was pretty 'cool' (getting wanded and patted down )

We went to grab some seats as we had about 45 minutes now until the flight boards. Or so I thought. They kept making announcements about the flight to San Antonio being delayed over an hour. Finally at about 8:30 they decide to take our plane that's sitting on the ramp waiting to go to Orange County and take it to San Antonio The plane that was supposed to be going to San Antonio is still in Milwaukee with a mechanical. It turns out there were 3 people on the flight in Milwaukee that needed to go to Orange County and would miss the connection in Kansas City if they didn't do this. Being an airline employee it made sense to me, but other passengers were pretty p.o.'ed. The boys were being so good, Jalen playing with his Power Rangers he got as a gift from my friend Rachael in Milwaukee and Kylor playing with Jalen's GameBoy. I finally decided after they announced the delay that I should tell them exactly what's going on. So I tell them to get together, I just want to take a picture of them. So they do:


Then, with the camera still in front of my face, I say 'Do you know where we're really going?' Kylor says 'huh?' so I repeated myself. Jalen is so confused...Kylor asks 'Boston?' So I tell them 'Nope, we're going to Disneyland' Blank faces. I repeat 'We're going to Disneyland' Kylor finally gets it:

And a few seconds later, so does Jalen:


Jalen gave me a huge huge bear hug and I was crying it was so cute and they were so excited. Then Jalen wanted to take a picture of me:


Kylor of course is all worried about school and how he didn't tell his teacher he was going to be gone, etc. I reassured him everything was taken care of, and that seemed to appease him. They went back to playing and a little later they make an announcement that our gate to Orange County is changing. So I was glad at this point that I had told them already, b/c they would have been wondering why we were following the Orange County group instead of going on the Milwaukee flight.

The plane finally lands at 9:50 and they start boarding pretty quickly after that. I think we left MCI at about 10:30 their time. It's a 3 hour flight to Orange County. The boys were good, as usual, on the plane. They love flying. Jalen played with his Power Rangers almost the entire flights ( Rachael!) and Kylor finished 2 books. We landed in Orange County at 11:30 their time and taxiied to the ramp. Where we sat. Since we are late, of course our gate is taken and won't be open for another....1/2 hour!! Ugh. People in the plane were so annoyed (as was I) but I can't complain. So we waited and right at noon we started moving and got into the gate. We were in row 1 so we deplaned right away and made our way to baggage claim. Where we waited, and waited, and waited. Finally got our bag at 12:40 and I called the Green Van shuttle. He told us to go right outside the baggage claim and our van would be there shortly. And it was. Less than 10 minutes.

We loaded up and sat in the van when the driver says we have to wait 10 minutes b/c it's a 'shared' van and they have to see if they can get anyone else to go with us. Which makes sense - 10 min. seems fair. They ended up finding another woman and we are off. The ride from the airport to our hotel took about 10 minutes. We pulled up to the Jolly Roger and hopped out into the sunny 70 degree weather

Coming up: A walk to California Adventure

[loobyoxlip]

[ QUOTE ]
Tina,
Is your signature pic from the Lilo and Stich character meal? My kids are dying for that one when we go in November. Did you like it? Was it breakfast only?

[/ QUOTE ]

Yep, that was the Lilo & Stitch breakfast. As far as I know, it's only breakfast. We liked it a lot, pretty expensive (over $50 for me and the 2 kids) but pretty good food.

[snoozy]

How exciting for you all, please give us some more.

[GATechGal]

What great pictures. They looked so surprised. Some day I'm going to do that to my kids.

[dcothern]

Waiting for more!

[Tara O'Hara]

TIna, I am just catching up with your wonderful report!! How exciting!! Can't wait to read more!!

[katspjs]

Tina, you have the handsomest boys! Your phone is going to be ringing off the hook in a few years!

I the surprise pictures of the boys and the one they took of you. So cute!

More please!!!

[Tink and co.]

Thanks for the breakfast update, I think I'll surprise the kids with it in November! I love the look on your boys' faces. What a special trip! They'll never forget it!