Our First Ever Trip Report, 2011 (note to self; need to work on that title) About This Page:

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I have never written a trip report so please bear with me as I’m sure this will be a learning experience for all of us.
A little back story: We live in South Carolina. We home school our children and so are fortunate to be able to vacation in the off season. This year we went from Sept. 11th thru Sept. 24th and stayed in the ASMusic resort using a free dining pin. This pleased my DH . Having grown up outside of Detroit he has had his fill of crowds. He also loves to save money and to eat. I grew up in Orlando, and lived there most of my life. My DF and his company helped build the Magic Kingdom so you can say my love for WDW is deep grained.
Here’s the cast of characters:
Mark my DH, “Only along for the ride”
　
　
　
Me, Julie, “A true and faithful Disney Nut”
　
　
　
　
Middle DS Brett, “Reluctant Disney traveler”
　
　
　

and youngest DS Nathan, “Lover of all things Disney”
　
　

　
I have included a picture of my oldest DS Taylor and his lovely girlfriend, Krista. This is the only picture of them you will see. Taylor is in his 2nd year of collage and so couldn’t take the time off to come with us this trip. This is the first vacation that we have taken with out him and he was sadly, sadly missed by his momma.
　


So here goes:
Sun., 9-11-2011
Nathan and I won the coin toss so we packed the car the night before and left home at 3:30AM. It is 515 miles and around a 9 hour trip. The first 3 hours mark drove, while the boys slept and I worried . You see; we were traveling on two lane rural roads with a full moon and I swear we saw no less then 40 deer standing on the sides of the road . It was a pure miracle (thank you Lord) that none of them ran out in front of us. We stopped for coffee and snacks in the little town of Appling, Georgia and I starting driving so mark could rest some. It wasn’t long before we were on the Interstate and making good time to Florida. We stopped for lunch and to stretch our legs and switch drivers at a McDonalds and then drove on.
We arrived on Disney property around 1:30ish and let me tell you I just can’t describe the feeling I get when I drive under that arch.

We had originally planned to drive half way and stay the night somewhere off the interstate and drive the rest of the way the next day. But at the last minute Mark suggested that we drive straight through and stay one extra night. Not being one to argue I called and was able to get a room only ressie for a single room for our first night. I did on-line check in before we left this time and I will do it again. There was a very long line for the regular check in and only two people in front of us in the on-line line. As we were checking in I asked if it would be possible to upgrade us to the family suite we were staying in the rest of the time (so we wouldn’t have to move) but they said that it was still occupied and wouldn’t be ready until the next day. So we got room 2420 of the Jazz building, 1st floor, facing the back. It was a nice room in a very quite section. I don’t know why sleeping in a car all day makes the boys tired but it does so we all took a nap. Later we ordered a pizza for dinner and had a relaxing evening by the pool. Very nice .
Up next, will our room move take time away from our first day at the parks?