Technical Difficulties?? Naaah.. We'll sprinkle them with Pixie Dust! A September Trip updated 1/11

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Hi! I'm Fastpassminus! In case you didn't read my Pre Trip Report http://www.disboards.com/threads/cr...re-trip-reports-7-21-final-countdown.3404839/

A short introduction.

This is ME

Amy a LOVER all things WDW related, a Mom to an awesome 3 year old boy and a wife to an awesome 40 year old H!

That is my best " selfie face" very serious ( with Zebra stripe Mickey Ears LOLOLOLOOL)

Favorite Ride? The Three Caballeros. Favorite Park MK. Favorite Disney Movie Tangled & Wreck it Ralph and Nightmare Before Xmas and too many to name!

H- He is an IT Consultant. He loooveesss Epcot,He was there the year it opened and is a self described Epcot DORK. He loves eating at AYCTE, Coffee, ICED COFFEE and riding rollercoasters.

These two?? The stars of the trip, My Mom AKA NON NON. She is 71 YEARS YOUNG and amazing. She runs laps around me daily.

DS well he is 3 going on 40 and runs laps around all of us all day errydayy, Pre trip he was big into Jake and seeing the monorail and Dumbo and pool time.We will find out what his post trip loves are as we go on.

We stayed for 5 nights 1 night at AKL 1 bedroom SV Kidani and 4 nights at BLT Standard View 2 bedroom. We were on DDP and DID NOT get memory maker this trip.

So sit back relax and leave the writing to me. As the title suggests there were TONS of technical difficulties and a bucket load of pixie dust. We laughed and cried and laughed some more. It was hot and wet and a little chilly too.

 

[bpadair32]

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Okay- It was a SUPER fun weekend here. Fall has started officially and we made pumpkin chili, watched Labrynth ( DS' first time and he LOVED it) went apple picking & made apple crisp! YUM!

So we left for our trip on 9/13. I spent ALL DAY on 9/12 packing and repacking and REPACKING the bags to make sure everything fit. We also made a last minute pit stop at the Disney Outlet for a few new things. I got my zebra striped Mickey Ears and a new pair of flip flops and a stuffed Perry for 20.00!! WOAH!

The morning of 9/13 we were up and at em bright and early. We had to leave the house by 7:30 am to make our 9:30am flight out of Manchester NH. We SOMEHOW managed to get out of the house at 7:15am and stopped at Dunkin Donuts on the way. I was nervous about making it on time, and we parked in parking lot "C8" ( C for Charlie and his favorite number is 8 ) and waited for the shuttle. The shuttle showed up just a minute later and we boarded and took up ALL THE LUGGAGE ROOM with our one million bags but it was okay as the only other passenger was a business flyer with just one carry on.

We finally made it into the airport and it turned out my boarding passes that I had PRE PRINTED were too big ( huh?) and needed to be printed again. I was SWEATING it when they weighed my BIG bag but luckily it came in right under 50lbs at 48lbs. Thank GOD!! We stopped to grab a picture of DS with the " MHT Moose" [GALLERY=]

Just to compare this was him with the MHT moose on his first trip.

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I CANNOT even believe how BIG he has gotten. He was 13 months old in that picture!!

Anyways the security line was LIKE LONG. LONGER than I have EVER seen a security line in the morning at MHT. It's like 8:15 now and I am SWEATING it. LUCKILY we make it through fine ( except for my Mom who got patted down and scanned) and make our way to the gate. I ALWAYS stop at the airport to get a Real Simple Magazine and an Oprah. NO MATTER WHAT. If I don't get them I get anxious about flying. Seriously. So I run over to Hudson News and * insert spooky music here* this is where it all went wrong. THERE WAS NO REAL SIMPLE. I had to make due with JUST OPRAH!!

NOT OKAY PEOPLE. Anyways DS and I preboard due to his peanut allergy so I don't have a lot of time to dwell as it's almost time. DS and I get all boarded and I save the seat next to me for DH or My Mom and figure the other one can sit across the aisle. SIDE NOTE. I checked into the flight at EXACTLY 24 hours before. EXACTLY... and I ended up with B23 and B30 or something like that. WHO IS GETTING IN THE As? WHO? LOL!

So finally Mom and H make there way onto the plane. H sits next to me and My Mom sits 2 rows behind. WE ARE READY FOR TAKEOFF!!!

Everyone looks excited about flying right? WELL NOT MOM. But I tried to have H switch with her but she didn't want to.

ANYWAYS. DS is so so so so excited to take off and can't wait to fly and then " Ladies and gentlemen this is your pilot we seem to have run into some technical difficulties"

Turns out the thing that controls the air flow to the LEFT ENGINE was STUCK OPEN. And since it wouldn't close the LEFT ENGINE didn't work. Now I don't know about you, but I think that the left engine working is pretty critical to like flying??

So yeah so we waited on the plane for an hour. DS is all " MOM WE ARE FLYING RIGHT?? RIGHT MOM??" The woman behind me is crying and I am like " LALALALA THEEERRESSS A GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TOMORROOOOWWW SHINNG AT THE END OF EVERYDAY"

after about an hour the guy pulls up to take all the luggage off the plane. Turns out the plane needs a part. That part is in BALTIMORE with the people who need to put that part in. They are flying in on a connecting flight from Dallas and won't be here until after 12:30. Here's 100.00 THANKS!

So we waited and waited and WAITED. DS was an ANGEL during the wait. Mostly due to his AMPLE time spent on the kindle and the MANY MANY chargering stations in MHT. We got lunch and DS and DH played a new app they discovered called " Monument Valley" it's a really fun and beautiful puzzle game.

The only issue is he hit a MAJOR PTing regression the week before and for some reason would NOT pee in the airport pottys. Yup. I had that kid. Luckily while I was watching the repairmen fix the plane and totally getting a text from AKL that our room was ready ( LOLOLOLOL) and calling disney to frantically reschedule our 5pm dinner ( we ended up switching Saana to Boma at 8pm which means that this is the SECOND TRIP IN A ROW that Saana has just not been in the cards for me)H introduced DS to the amazing invention the URINAL. And just like that PROBLEM SOLVED

ANYWAYS at around 2pm the plane is FINALLY fixed and we are able to board. Again DS and I board early even though NOONE was on the plane ( but whatever< I don't even care at this point) then My Mom and H. By the time we are ready to fly we all looked like this

But even though we looked like that we were WAY TO EXCITED TO SLEEP. YUP! So instead of napping we just asked repetitive ( and to be fair adorable) questions the whole way. Anyways it was a good flight after all. When we landed I was like

We quickly made our way to ME while I was on the phone with DINING again trying to push back our dining reservation as it was now almost 6pm and we weren't on ME yet. The girl on the other end was really nice and able to move it to 8:30pm. So we get in line for ME and I am so hapopy! We are here! We are on our way to BOMA and eating ( We are all starving BTW) and it's finally vacation.

We line up for ME and let the selfies begin

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We are the 4th stop. We have to stop at Art of Animation, Pop, Jambo and then finally Kidani for us.

This was my Mom's first time seeing the Values POP and AOA. As we pulled up she LOVED AoA and thought it was BEAUTIFUL. THEN we pulled up to POP. Well after AOA she was like Meh? on POP. Wonder if that will influence her to move for the first night of our next trip in January??

Anyways we pulled up to JAMBO and soon it was our turn to get to KIDANI!! We didn't even stop for any pictures but we RAN up to our room. ALMOST LITERALLY

And it was PERFECT. I had asked for an upper floor room close to the elevator and BOOM we got the perfect room.

HEADED UP!

I am going to wrap this part up right here. Coming up next, 12 hours at Kidani, BOMA, Epcot RD and dining dramaz.

 

[alohamom]

Cant wait to read more! You are hilarious and I think from here on in if I ever have an anxiety about anything in life I am going to hum this in my head LOL!

So yeah so we waited on the plane for an hour. DS is all " MOM WE ARE FLYING RIGHT?? RIGHT MOM??" The woman behind me is crying and I am like " LALALALA THEEERRESSS A GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TOMORROOOOWWW SHINNG AT THE END OF EVERYDAY"

 

[Fastpassminus]

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Thanks for joining! It was interesting... and fun.... and sometimes interesting..... LOL!

 

[Fastpassminus]

Cant wait to read more! You are hilarious and I think from here on in if I ever have an anxiety about anything in life I am going to hum this in my head LOL!

Aww thanks. It's my little life tip. It helps in those " not so Disney moments"

Also

 

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Soooo I was missing for a few minutes.. So sorry, life, work, family and holidays all got in the way!! But I am back and ALMOST back to Disney AGAIN and I want to update where we left off at last trip!!

SO we had JUST arrived at Kidani after a 6 hour plane delay. It was almost 8pm and our plans were totally thrown off for the day. Luckily BOMA had been able to seat us at 8:30pm. So we raced up to our room.

I looooovveee Kidani. It is so PERFECT. It's relaxing like OKW but with an exciting exotic flare.

Anyways we were so happy to just be there

We ran to the elevator ..... I mean look at the theming of that elevator. Gorgeous right?

The artifacts and art objects I RACED by and saw on the way to the elevator.... Ooooohhh coool a THING,..... I want to see that

Top FLOOR BABY!!

Up at our room We all LOVED it and were so excited to be staying here ( for like 12 hours siiiiiiggggghhhh)

The View....

Details...

Details....

Details LOVE THAT DISNEY THEMING!!

And ya know what else.... DS loved....

hiding in the closet and scaring the pants off of us.

We headed back down through this GORGEOUS lobby

And waited for the van to Jambo house

This is where DS got a little scared. The van to Jambo house is like regular 16 passanger van. DS isn't used to just getting in strangers cars without a car seat. Also it was dark in the van and H was sitting up front with the driver ( because he has LONG legs) so DS started saying that he was afraid and he was mad that the " bad men" made us get in the dark van and he was going to yell at them. Once we explained it was just a bus that would take us to dinner he calmed down and we made it over to Jambo with no issues. It's crazy the stuff that you forget you need to explain to kids.

So we get over to Jambo. That lobby is WOW something else. SO impressive. We make our way down to BOMA. They are playing drums out front and DS is in LOVE with the waterfall. So we get up to the desk... And NO RESERVATION... No No NO NOooooooo

So this is legit me

in front of Boma. Luckily the girls working were like " Oh we will squeeze you in" after hearing my tale of woah and not 3 seconds later, the buzzer goes off. CRISIS AVERTED. We settle in and I order this to calm my nerves

Yummy Yummy white Sangria in my tummy.

We all hit the buffet. H said the pork was amazing. I went back twice for different soups and my Mom kept filling up her plate with hummus and bread. Boma is great. Fun, lively and exciting with lots of new flavors. DS had pasta and brocolli and fruit and then came dessert.

He had NO problem eating up those mini cupcakes.

Now it's past 9pm, DS usually sleeps from 7-6:30 at home, but we were all too excited to sleep, so H took DS back to the room to change into his swimsuit and my Mom and I ran over to The Mara to pick up some snacks for the morning and back to Kidani to pick up our stroller and water.

#1 it's really hard to find The Mara
#2 We were tired
#3 We were walking around in circles.... Laughing..

But we found it and loaded up on breakfast snacks and headed up to the room. By the time we got there DH and DS were already gone. My Mom decieded to call it a night and got her bed and DS' bed ready and I put on my swimsuit to head over and see them.

The Kidani pool was AMAZING. DS loved the water slide and it was so warm and well lit and just freakin' amazing after the long day. We all stayed down there until about 10:45pm and then got tired and headed back up. DS was exhausted so we gave him a quick bath and all headed to bed. I think I finally got in bed around 11:45 pm. That was a LONG freakin' day. But we made it.

1:30am.... sounds from the other room.... I go and take a look and DS is sleeping on the pullout chair sitting up yelling ( in his sleep)" YAY I AM SLEEPING IN THE LIVING ROOM AT DISNEY " and back to bed

I will continue in next post tomorrow.... Then off for my Jan. trip.. It's me, DM, DS and we are staying at AKL Standard view studio and Poly Standard View Studio!!

 

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6am rolls around fast at Disney... but at 5:45am I JUMPED out of bed PUMPED to start the day. I got dressed super quietly and snuck out to the living room where this guy was PSYCHED to be sleeping......

Those twin pullout beds are a good size.


I had to go down to the lobby. My HDDR tickets weren't showing up and I wanted to pick them up in advance. Luckily they DID show up and we were all set to check out. It was CREEPY quiet in the lobby that early the stores were closed and just a few CMs. As I walked back up to the room and had some of my last minutes of awe at how GORGEOUS AKL is. Seriously this was too short a time to appreciate it.

On may way back up to the room ran into this guy. He scared the crap out of me at first TBH, but then we became buddies and did some selfies together.

excuse the lack of makeup.

At 7am I was back up to the room and everyone was up and ready to go. My Mom got DS dressed. DH was dressed and ready to go and the bags were getting all packed up. Bu 7:15am bell services had arrived and tagged our bags to meet us over at BLT.

Goodbye room 7911! We loved you for the short time we were with you....

goodbye beautiful Savannah

HELLO BUS STOP!!

Someone is excited and someone needs his coffee

H was cranky because AKL didn't have skim milk for his coffee..... Seriously... Look at that pout in the background.

As you can see the stroller was too small for DS I got the City Mini and should have gone with the GT. DS didn't mind though he was excited to be going to EPCOT!!!

I mean LOOK at this cutie patooty!

Bus Stop Selfies

me and my Momma!!

LOVE this new feature. And the bus pulled right up at 7:45 am. By 8:10am we were through the baggage line.

H finally found his coffee and DS got THIS

that donut was as big as his HEAD. He ate the all the frosting off and threw the rest away. KIDS!!!

We stood here for about 20 minutes.

This was the line in front of us

And this was the line behind us by 8:30am

DS got bored in line so we went over to where it was quiet and ran around a few times ( and also threw out the garbage from the donut and coffee ) and took a few quick pictures.

Soon enough we were let through and lined up for the official RD for Soarin'. I STRONGLY DISLIKE FP plus at Epcot. The tier system there makes it such a STRESSFUL morning when the POINT of FP plus was to eliminate some of that!!

Anyways by 9:10am we were ready to fly over California. DH was in a better mood now that the coffee hit his system and we were all psyched. DS was SO PROUD to be going on a BIG KID ride and strutted in there FULL OF CONFIDENCE.

So we get up in the air and DS is like " MOMMMMMY IS THIS REAL?? ARE WE REALLY FLYING?? DID WE LEAVE THE BUILDING??" I played along for a few minutes until he said " I am too scared Mommy" and his little lip started to quiver. That's when I showed him that you can see the edge of the screen and it's just a movie and we are still inside in our seats. Once DS realized it was just pretend he LOVED it. He had so much FUN!! The whole way out he told EVERYONE how the ride is pretend, and REALLY REALLY fun to pretend you are FLYING.

Next up was Nemo. DS started to get scared because the line was dark so I carried him through. He laughed at the Starfish and ya know what? WE FOUND NEMO.

We looked around the tanks for awhile and headed over to Imagination Pavillion. DS walked into the line and said NOPE and walked right back out. He remembered FIGMENT turning into a STINKY SKUNK from last time and was NOT going in there. So now we had some time to kill before our Test Track FP and lunch. Soooooo

Waterfall play time!!

Getting ready to splash Non.

Grumpy turned into HAPPY!

By now DS was insisting he ride the big ball. Only problem is that by now it was after 10am and the big ball had a BIG WAIT. DS was game so we waited....

H looking thrilled about the wait....

DS waiting....

We made it almost all the way to the front of the line and DS is like " Changed my mind and we are like OH HELL NO" so we all got on.

DS LOOOOVEEESS this ride, I love this ride, DM loves this ride. DH loves this ride. It's a CLASS-IC to quote Stacey.

HAD to take this picture of my future....

DS in the future.

Next up was Test Track... Even with our FP plus we waited a good while

I always feel like we are HERE in this spot FOREVER.

Waiting..... selfie.....

DH and I made this car.

DS and Non made this car....

The ride was great. For everyone besides Non. OMG poor Non, I thought it would be fun for her, but NOPE she was turning green at the gills. She really thought she was going to puke. Won't make her do that one again.

We had to HIGH TAIL it over to Via Napoli. We were already 10 minutes late for our reservation...

We got there and had a few minute wait but we were seated in about 10 minutes.

It was HOT now in the afternoon and we could not wait to be in airconditioning. The water in the lobby was a welcome refreshment. OMG

We were seated on the far side of the restaurant AWAY from the ovens. The restaurant is nice looking but not too themed.

Love these fun chandeliers.

I ordered the Aqua Fresca. OMG YUMMY! This was the best thing I ever drank.

We all split a salad and a pizza.

Non was feeling better and enjoying her pizza.

TBH this was actually my LEAST favorite meal on the trip. I mean MAYBE it's because we weren't on the DDP for this meal so we ordered " cheap" or maybe I am just from the land of yummy pizza or something, but it was standard pizza and it was a little soggy around the triangle area away from the crust. The salad and the aquafresca were amazing, but I really won' t be beating down the door of this place again any time soon.

On the way out of Epcot I made a stop into the Werther's store in Germany for some caramel treats including a pecan cluster, and blondie and some popcorn. DS loved the caramel popcorn and munched it all the way back to FW.

On the way out DS wanted to play in the splash pad.

I really love nothing more than taking pictures of him in splash pads. I will be saving these for his wedding slide show

Room had been ready for a little while so we hopped on the monorail

And headed to our new " Home" for the next 4 nights

Coming up The bestest room ever in the history of best rooms ever.