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Somebody turns 50 Celebration! The TR! 5/23-6/9/15 - UPDATED 1/13
Finally starting this TR!
When: 5/23/15-6/9/15 Where: Walt Disney World Resort: POP Century and Floridays Resort Orlando Why: Celebrating our 50th birthdays Who: Me (Kim): Technically not that big 50 just yet since my birthday is in July. But I am 29 anyway so it really does not matter. I have been going to Disney since I was a kid growing up in south Florida. I am the planner in the family. I take care of it all. DH(Mike): He has already turned the big 50 in January. He has not been to Disney as much as I have since he grew up in Missouri but still a fanatic like me. DS:(Jonathon): He turned 12 in April. So hard to believe. We have been bringing him to WDW since he was 2. Totally loves it!
Let's get this started.
May 23
We left home around 5:45am for our drive from just northeast of Atlanta to Orlando. Our drive was pretty uneventful and the traffic was decent.
We saw some people with these really cool Mickey shirts at a rest area.
We searched all over for these during our trip, even saw others wearing them in the parks, but no such luck.
We arrived at POP around 2:30pm and our room was ready and they had texted us our room number for us to go straight to the room. That did not work out so well. We Got to our room and our MBs would not work. So we went to the front desk and they did what ever they had to do and said that the bands should work now. We went back to the room and they did work. We were able to access both rooms and all was well. Mike went to go and see if he could get a cart to help unload the car and while he was gone a CM came by to check to make sure that we were able to get into the room. That was nice. I forgot to mention we had asked for the 80s section but ended up with the 70s instead. It was okay, just further to get stuff from the car. Mike came back and no luck with a luggage cart. So he had to unload a little at a time. That took quite a while. I unpacked as he brought everything in. Jonathon was happy watching Mickey cartoons.
Once the car was finally unloaded and everything settled. We headed over to AK to upgrade our tickets to an AP and to get the TIW card and get Jonathon's DAS set for this trip. That took a bit as the CM was having trouble with his pad for the DAS but that finally got done and then we had to wait to get our APs. But it was not too long a wait. Since we were there we headed into the park for a little bit since we had some time to kill before our dinner ADR. We checked out some of the shops and stopped for some photopass shots.
After the photopass shots we headed out of the park and drove over to POR for our dinner reservation at Boatwrights. We got over there and I was waiting to check in when low and behold Sharon says hello. I was startled as she was supposed to meet us after dinner. But it was great to finally meet her.
She was very sweet and told us about her exploits with the 24 hour day and that she was off to get some sleep as she had not had much. It was really wonderful to meet her and she is just the sweetest! We said our good byes and I checked us in for ADR. That is after I was cut off by some man who apparently does not think he should wait in line.
We were seated very shortly afterwards and talked to the Chef about Jonathon's meal and then settled in for dinner.
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I have been going to Disney since I was a kid growing up in south Florida. I am the planner in the family. I take care of it all. 
in April. So hard to believe. We have been bringing him to WDW since he was 2. Totally loves it! 
That was nice. I forgot to mention we had asked for the 80s section but ended up with the 70s instead. It was okay, just further to get stuff from the car. Mike came back and no luck with a luggage cart. So he had to unload a little at a time. That took quite a while. I unpacked as he brought everything in. Jonathon was happy watching Mickey cartoons. 
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