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Jay visits Mickey's House - Updated Day 2 5May2010
Travelers: ME - Cheeser (36 yo Female) DH -Dew (37 yo Male) DD - Shlee(17 yo Female) DS- Jay (4 yo Male)
Planned Dates Arrive Pop Century Resort April 2nd – Leave April 11, 2010 driving directly home 14 hours to Cincinnati, Ohio.
An 8 park day extravaganza to celebrate our Shlee graduating from High School a year early.
I guess you could say that our trip started out simple enough. I stayed home with Jay from work and school on April 1st. We spent the day running some errands and a few hours at the park with McDonalds to hopefully wear the 4 year old down so that he would be more amenable to a 14 hour car ride.
We picked DD – Shlee up from from school early at 1:00 and took her home and bathed Jay after he played in the sandbox at the park and she helped me to pack up the car.
DH – Dew arrived home from work about 3pm and we were in the car and ready to go by 3:30pm.
We kept good mileage stopping in Georgetown KY for McDonalds and a fillup. We then stopped in Knoxville T at a Flying J for gasoline and a Welcome Gas station in Georgia, than last stop for gas was a Penn Oil station in Jasper Florida. Normally we stop at the Florida Welcome Center and take a potty break…but I was determined to get to the resort and we pulled in to the Pop Century parking lot at 6:30am. Now I wasn’t holding out much hope that they would have a room ready for us at such an early arrival since check-in normally isn’t until 3:00pm…but we were fortunate and heading off to room 6205, supposedly a preferred, remodeled room. Now I have to say…this room we paid the Preferred rate for…didn’t seem that convenient to anything. We had quite a walk to either the Hippy Dippy Pool or the Computer Pool or the lobby. We did have rather a shortcut to the 90’s Parking lot…but we didn’t know that at first and took a long circuitous route while tugging luggage behind us. There were bunnies and ducks everywhere which fascinated the 4 year old and we had to constantly tell them to leave them alone…just look at them.
It was officially April 2nd and we had arrived at Walt Disney World. We had a room and we all took showers and changed into Disney clothes and were ready by 10am to hit Downtown Disney.
We went shopping at all the usual places, World of Disney, the Toy Shop, but didn't buy anything. We kept saying we might see something we want more later in the week.
I’d been trying to book ADRs for T-Rex for a few months and hadn’t been able to get anything so we thought we’d try walk up. We were in luck. Only about a 10 minute wait and we had lunch at 11:15am.
We then decided to give Jay a boat ride experience so we took a boat ride from DTD to Port Orleans. At Port Orleans we walked around and looked at stuff with Jay hollering he wanted to swim the whole time. We then walked to the resort entrance and caught a bus back to DTD. We then waited about 15 minutes for a bus back to Pop Century.
It was definitely nap time for me at that time…all night awake and driving we all needed a nap so we took a
Nap from 2 to 4
We then awoke, refreshed and decided on
Heading back to DTD
First Stop: Ghirardelli (See pic attached below)
Dew and Jay -Banana split
Cheeser- Strike it rich sundae with a bottled water
Shlee - Ghirardelli chocolate scoop in chocolate waffle cone
Jay had a brain freeze and spill ice cream in his lap moment so please see attached pic below with his cold reaction.
Then went back shopping at World of Disney.
Bought Jay a Cars hat and my friend Denise from work an Italian bracelet piece that says Walt Disney World and has Mickey on it.
Bus back to resort for Jay to swim since he’d been begging for hours since we’d been at Port Orleans. We decided it would be good for all of us to swim to try and relax a little after the long car ride.
It was about 9pm so we decided to grab a snack in the Everything Pop cafeteria.
Shlee- Asian chicken salad & Resort mug
Dew- Flatbread Reuben & resort Mug
Jay- Cookie, chips and apple juice
Cheeser - Choc croissant & Resort mug
Then back to the room for an early bedtime by 9:30, coming up tomorrow…Disney Hollywood studios, our first day of 8 days in the parks!!!
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Cheeser. Maleficent of the Vacation Villians!!!
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