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The Many Adventures of the Ayers’ Family - Oct 2014 TR
As you remember from my PTR, I had planned a trip that included myself, my husband, my son, my daughter, and my MIL. As you remember, my daughter’s misbehavior caused her to lose her trip, so my sister was invited to go with us. If you’d like to follow the PTR you can find it here: http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...amily-ptr.html
I am still waiting on my DSis to send me the photos that she has on her phone, but I will start us off with our first day.
Let’s get started on this TR!
October 19th, 2014 – Arrival Day – Part 1
We were up at 4:30 am and out of the door by 5:30 am. We packed and gassed up the car the evening before, so we just drove to I-26 and made our way to I-95. Around 8:00 am we stopped in Georgia for breakfast at Cracker Barrel.
I had 2 eggs and a biscuit with a sweet tea to drink.
DSis had pancakes, eggs, and bacon with coffee to drink.
DH had French toast and turkey sausage with a coca cola to drink.
DS had blueberry pancakes and bacon with a coca cola to drink.
DMil had eggs, bacon, grits, and toast with coffee to drink. Our total came to $65.85 with tip.
We got back on the road by 9:25am and it was a pretty uneventful trip until we hit St. Augustine, Florida. My mother in law was telling us that we needed to stop in St. Augustine so that she could tour the sights. My husband very politely told her no, that this was a Disney trip, not a stop and tour Florida trip. Of course she was not happy about that and started to tell us that because of us, she’d never be able to visit St. Augustine. We continued our drive and made it to Orlando at 1:30 pm. We made a quick stop at Target Superstore to pick up a few items and then made our way to our final destination. It’s always the best feeling in the world when you see this sign:
We finally arrived at Animal Kingdom Lodge – Kindani Village at 3:00 pm. We checked in and our room was not ready. Since it was so close to 4:00 pm, we just roamed around and looked at the resort. At 3:30 pm I got the text that our room was ready. We were assigned to Room 7513 for our 5 night, 6 day stay.
Once we got to our room, I unpacked our bags and we just relaxed until we headed out to our dinner reservations at Liberty Tree Tavern and MNSSHP.
All in all it was a decent start to our trip, but what's to come will truly shock you.
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Welcome aboard! I thought the room was quite lovely. It was spacious and had more than enough room for all of us. I was quite glad that we got the 2 bedroom.
The next couple of updates will surprise you...will surprise everyone.
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Yay, you've arrived!
Uh-oh! Not looking forward to your next update. I have an idea of what it'll be about.
Yay, nothing better than seeing that Disney World sign!
As you might recall from my PTR, I was posting a little bit while I was at DW, but everyone will be shocked to find out everything that happened.
Just coming on board. This sound pretty interesting. Sorry to hear about DD. My DD is 16 and know it can be rough at times. All in all I am pretty lucky though. Cannot wait to hear more!
Great start, but I am really worried about what's coming up...
Yea, it's not pretty! I'll have an update soon!
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Just coming on board. This sound pretty interesting. Sorry to hear about DD. My DD is 16 and know it can be rough at times. All in all I am pretty lucky though. Cannot wait to hear more!
More coming up soon!
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Originally Posted by lfredsbo
Glad you have started your TR - a bit nervous to hear all the details of the issues!
Trust me, I do wish I had better news from our first 24 hours on the trip.
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Originally Posted by jackid2
Can't wait to read about your adventure.
Coming up!
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Glad you've made it!
Yay! Me too
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Originally Posted by disneydreamer33
Glad the trip down was easy going!
The room looks amazing!
Before leaving the room, I switched my purse and changed my shoes.
Cute Purse – Just for our trip!
We walked out to our bus stop and made it to Magic Kingdom by 5:30pm. We went through bag check and we found the line for the MNSSHP entry.
We received our wristbands:
and quickly made our way through the crowds and arrived at LTT by 6:00 pm. We had a 6:25 pm reservation at Liberty Tree Tavern for dinner! YUM!
We checked in and while we sat and waited, I took some pictures.
Waiting Area:
Me and DSis:
Me and DSis's MBs:
Me and DH:
Our family was finally called for dinner and it’s the first time (out of many times this week) that we were called the (AYERRRRRRRS) family. We sounded like we were pirates and it made us laugh every time. It’s pronounced “AIRS” but people kept saying “AYYEEERRSSS”. It still makes me laugh. We were seated at a nice corner table. I loved the location of our spot but as soon as we were seated…it started.
DMiL had a fit that we were seated in the corner and claimed that they sat us there to keep us away from other diners. We had a table seated right next to us but she insisted that we were being shunned.
Drinks and food quickly came out and as soon as the selection of meats where brought out, she started to fuss that the roast beef was raw. It was lightly pink (which is how we like it) but she insisted that it was raw and started to make a scene that the food was raw. We told her if she didn't like the meat, she could just eat the other stuff and it would be fine. That calmed her down for the comment until the bill came out. She saw how much it cost and proceeded to make another scene that we had been overcharged. I was utterly mortified. I quickly paid the bill and left as quickly as I could. My sister was trying very hard to keep me calm and she did a really good job…for awhile.
Total with tip came to $200.00.
Pictures from Dinner:
Menu:
Cranberry Sauce!:
Photobucket is being difficult, so this is just a teaser for now…I will continue soon!
I know, I know. Photobucket won't save my edits to my photos so I'll have to fix them once I get home this afternoon. Don't worry, another update will come soon enough
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Originally Posted by shazza
Oh My. Dinner at LTT looked good, although I'm sure you could have done with less drama ...
Hope you get photobucket sorted soon, this is a cliffhanger.
Dinner was delicious and I tried to be tolerate and optimistic, but there is only so much complaining that I can take.
I know! Photobucket is being wacky today. I plan on having another update soon.
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