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our annivrsary trip (with my parents on the pull out bed)
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so just got back and need to start my trip report, b een trying to sort out all the photos so i can make it interesting and will start to upload them in the next posts.
so to set the scene me and my DH went to WDW for our Honeymoon last year it was Dh's first trip and he was converted. we had bought our first thing as a married couple by the end of our vacation, out first 160 points in the vacation club. this was our first trip home and our 1st anniversary celebration to AKL hovever my parents being huge Disney fans themselves since our first family trip in 1995, somehow mannaged to talk themselves onto our pull out bed in our 1 bed appartment.
so the vacationers were:
Me (Gemma) 27 self confessed Disney nut and serial planner, (to the extent that the other students on my teacher training course were making fun of me as if anyone went to the toilet during class they would all turn to me and say' a toilet break is not in the plan for another 30 mins, thats it you will just have to miss the parade!!!)
DH (Dave) 37 a new disney nut but likes to build up as the weeks go on
DD (Craig) 50 (just, but still dosent like it) likes to power round and is likely to be in a park from opening time to closing time all day every day.
DM (Sue) 55 the one rushing ahead of my DD shouting as 2 people got ahead of them in the que.
so you see a mixed bunch all with different ideas of what to do, and leaving me to do all the planning. We were on the Delux dining plan so be prepaired for lots of food reports, and resturant reviews as we had some exelent food. and some great adventures.
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wont bore you with all the boring stuff about the flight. it was good, on time and smooth (i dont like flying but i like holidays so i have to), when we got to the airport we were luck and were one of the first few off. this was great as (i dont know how many have been through immigration at the end of a busy international flight, but we have been there for nearrly 2 hours before now!!) so were off the plane and going to find our car within 35 minuites which was great.
we wemt off to find our driver as we had booked a towncar so we could get the 30 min grocery stop, what we had managed to keep from my DM was that we had booked the limo as she had never been in one. the very nice thing was that when we saw the driver who was there to meet us it was the same driver who had met us last year for our honeymoon. he remembered us, that it was our honeymoon last year and even the hotel that we stayed in. this just made the drive more special and when my mum saw the limo she was so excited.
i was looking forward to the lobby in AKL as i had read so many reports of how stunning the entrance was, and i have to say that i wasnt dissapointed. when we arrived and walked in it realy does take your breath away. it is one of the nicest lobbies i have ever seen and feels very homely yet exotic all at thhe same time. the only thing which i was dissapointed in was as it was our first trip 'home', i really wanted them to say 'welcome home' but for whatever reason the cm who checked us in didnt. however any dissapointment that i had from this was totally gone when we walked into our room which was stunning and so big. i was a bit worried if my DM and DD were going to be ok on the pull out bed (as i am so used to going on holiday with them and me having the pull out) but when we saw the room and the pull out were were all so happy. of course having a savannah view room we all rushed out on to the balcony to see what animals we cold see and were amazed when a family of 5 giraffs walked around outside our window.
(i would attach the photo but cant seem to get it to work)
we settled in to the room and went for a light tea in the Mara quickservice which was surprisingly good (i will talk about this later) then settled in for an early night, so we could be up and about early the next day.
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