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01-22-2013, 05:26 PM
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Mouseketeer
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"Excuse me, your child can NOT go on stage with Mickey":Jan 2013 TR! NEW 5/19 x 2!!
Hey everyone! So I've read a million TRs on here and decided I really want to try to do one of my own!
So here's our story! WHO: Me: Courtney- I'm 22 (will be 23 next month!  ). I graduated from college in May 2012 with a BSN in nursing and unfortunately am waiting for the hiring freeze of new grad nurses in NYC to end! In the meantime, I work at a dog groomer nearby. I'm obsessed with all things Disney and am a stuffed animal collector! My favorite Disney character is Ariel and it has been since I was 2! DSCN2707 by RN Courtney, on Flickr Here's a picture of me (on the right!). DBF Chris: He's 23. We have been together for 4.5 years now. He is in school studying business. He enjoys bodybuilding and works as a diet consultant. He hopes to become certified as a personal trainer and is in the process of deciding his long term career path! He loves Disney also, although is not quite as obsessive as I am. He doesn't particularly have a favorite Disney character but is fond of Lion King, Aladdin and Nightmare before Christmas.  DSCN2035 by RN Courtney, on Flickr This is a picture of the two of us at my college graduation!
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 Excuse me, your child can NOT go on stage with Mickey: a January 2013 TR! Jan 2013: 8 days at Pop Century Jan 2012: 7 days offsite July 2000: 7 days at GKTW (my older sister's wish trip   )Last edited by lvcourtneyy; 05-19-2013 at 01:21 PM. Reason: edited because apparently I don't know how to post pictures! |
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01-22-2013, 06:09 PM
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Mouseketeer
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Ok, I posted that first to make sure I was doing this right before I continued too far!
Anyway,back to the who. It was originally planned as a trip just for the two of us but his sister heard our plans and she wanted to come too! So she, her husband and their 2 year old came as well.  DSC06341 by RN Courtney, on Flickr Here's a picture of all of us at Presley's first birthday party. All the way to the left is Rick and all the way to the right is Jen. Clearly the baby is Presley. Jen is a stay at home mom. They live in Pittsburgh and have a zoo in their house: 2 dogs, 3 birds, some fish, some frogs and a tarantula! Rick works as a tattoo artist. WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and WHY: An 8 day trip to Walt Disney World from January 3-10. We stayed at Pop Century! Chris and I went to Disney last January from the 3-9th but stayed offsite. Both of us had been once before as kids. My family went with Make a Wish so we stayed at Give Kids the World Village and his stayed at Shades of Green. So it was my first time onsite and I don't know if Shades of Green counts as onsite! Jen had been twice before, as a kid with Chris obviously and once on her honeymoon for her first marriage but I have no clue where she stayed. This was Rick and Presley's first visit! Anyway, after our first trip together last January, we really wanted to go back again! We thought our first trip would be our last for a really long time as we were both in school but when we ran the numbers we realized we could afford to go again!   Photo0156FourBySix by RN Courtney, on Flickr This is us on our first trip last January!
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01-22-2013, 06:21 PM
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Mouseketeer
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You're doing a wonderful job! Thank you for sharing your trip! I look forward to reading more, and I hope you're having a great day! Jennifer
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01-22-2013, 06:26 PM
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Earning My Ears
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Keep us updated, as your dates are similar to when we plan to go next year so I'm intersted how you found crowd levels and the rides.
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01-22-2013, 06:27 PM
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carry on
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01-22-2013, 07:44 PM
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03-17-2013, 09:02 AM
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If you think being a firefighter is tough, try being a firefighter's wife
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LOVE the updates!!! We were there around the same time as you. Jan. 5-13. We stayed at AOA because now we have 3 kids over 3. We loved it but also love POP. It was a magical trip and I cried when it was over. How about the awesome weather that week!! I couldn't believe how hot it was. My brother and his family went the first week in March and froze!!! I'm starting nursing school in September so CONGRATS on the job!!!!!
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01-22-2013, 10:01 PM
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Arrival Day: 1/3/13
Our flight was scheduled for 6:45 AM! I'm not a morning person at all but when it comes to Disney I am! I love the idea of having a full day on arrival day and at this time, our flight was $90!
My alarm went off at 3:30 AM but I was awake before it! In fact, I barely slept cause I was too excited!  My dad volunteered ( ok maybe he WAS volunteered) to drive us to the airport and my little sister (who was in the first picture I posted of myself) was home on break from college and doesn't go to sleep until 5 am came along for the ride. I brushed my hair and teeth, packed my last minute items, ate some cheerios and a banana, loaded my luggage into the car and stopped to pick up DBf (who only lives 30 seconds away) and we were on the road by 3:50  IMG_20130102_145825 by RN Courtney, on Flickr There's my luggage all ready to go! We got to the airport by 4:20, which if anyone is familiar with NYC, we had to go from Staten Island to JFK in Queens so it was a minor miracle to get there that fast! Although at that time, we only saw a handful of other cars on the road! We flew Jetblue which is the only air carrier I want to fly anymore (free first checked bag, free TV, unlimited snacks and drinks and it's always pretty cheap from here!). I had checked in the day before and printed our boarding passes so we just had to go to the luggage counter. There were maybe 5 groups in front of us when we got there but a guy came around to make sure everyone in the line had a boarding pass already and no one else in the line did and had to switch to the other line! So we were next and done in about 5 minutes!We made it through security in about 20 minutes with no trouble (except the guy made a smart comment about my giants sweatshirt  )! anddd it still wasn't even 5 AM!  So we looked around the newsstand which was just opening for any good magazines, made a stop at the bathrooms and stopped at Au Bon Pain so I could get a Coke and a chocolate croissant. Then we went to our gate to wait!  20130103_050735 by RN Courtney, on Flickr This is the screen the greeted us at the gate! Rain and 68 was fine with us since it was about 30 degrees here! 20130103_053233 by RN Courtney, on Flickr Here we are waiting! I took it with my phone so it isn't the best picture! They started boarding at 6:15 and we were so excited that the wait didn't even bother us! Before we knew it, we were on the plane!  20130103_094555 by RN Courtney, on Flickr I was really excited I was able to get a Coke so early on the plane. I have a bit of an addiction. The flight went without incident, except that a bunch of the TV channels weren't working which kinda sucked but whatever. We mostly slept and I listened to some music on my ipod and we were there in no time!  DSCN0039 by RN Courtney, on Flickr A picture from the plane! My ears hurt terribly when we land every time, no matter what I do but other than that it was uneventful. We took the fake monorail over to the ME area and were lead to the line and didn't wait 2 minutes before we were led to a bus! We boarded the bus and were on our way! It was around 10:15 by this point. DSCN0040 by RN Courtney, on Flickr We were amused by the ME video,as we hadn't seen it last time cause we stayed off-site. I know the bus stopped at one other resort, I wanna say it was CBR. But soon enough we saw  DSCN0041 by RN Courtney, on Flickr Sorry the screen on the window interfered with the picture but it's the thought that counts! It was 10:56 when we pulled into Pop! I had done online check-in and we ran into Classic Hall and were the first ones on line! In no time I had our packet and our room keys and our room was already ready!!! I had requested 50s lakeview and close to Chris' sister. We were in 50s building 2. Side note: Jen, Rick and Presley were coming in today as well but they flew separately since they were coming from Pittsburgh and their flight didn't get in until 5:30 PM  I asked the guy if he could tell me if our rooms were close to each other and even had her confirmation information but he said he wasn't allowed. As it turns out they were in building 3 but it wasn't a big deal.We walked to our room and were instantly in love with the resort! We got to our room and thought it was perfect for our needs!  DSCN0042 by RN Courtney, on Flickr I guess he was tired because we pulled into Pop at 11. It was probably 11:15-11:20 when we got to our room and my iPhoto says this picture was taking at 11:37 So I called my mom to tell her we were safe and took some pictures!  DSCN0043 by RN Courtney, on Flickr cont in next post! I hit my picture limit!
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01-22-2013, 10:31 PM
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Mouseketeer
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 DSCN0044 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0048 by RN Courtney, on Flickr The view from our room! I let him rest for a bit and at 12 we headed out to the main building. I was hungry and we had shipped water and Coke ahead of time and I wanted to find out how to get it. On the way, I of course took some pictures!  DSCN0049 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0050 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0052 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0054 by RN Courtney, on Flickr Our room was in the building to the left of the jukebox.  DSCN0055 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0058 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0060 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0061 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0064 by RN Courtney, on Flickr  DSCN0069 by RN Courtney, on Flickr We got to Classic Hall and went to the concierge desk and asked about the water and Coke. It took the lady like 15 minutes to find it and she carried them out to the desk. This was our first non-helpful CM at Pop! She brought them to us and said "Ok anything else?" We politely asked if there was a cart we could use to bring them to our room as they were heavy and it was a bit of a walk! She looked annoyed and called someone from luggage services and told us to wait. 20 minutes later someone came. The man who came was very nice and helpful but I told him we just wanted to borrow a cart and could do it ourselves but he insisted. So we walked back to the room with him and dropped the cases off and found out our bags had already been delivered from the ME! We now walked BACK to Classic Hall and went  DSCN0071 by RN Courtney, on Flickr to get some food. I got some chili cheese fries and Dbf ate some protein bars. Because of his bodybuilding, he had been dieting for 16 weeks already and was not going off the diet until later that night so he'd been having a rough day of protein bars  Afterwards, we went back to our hotel to relax for a bit and unpack.  DSCN0074 by RN Courtney, on Flickr All my stuff unpacked around the sink! Around 2:30 we headed to the buses  DSCN0077 by RN Courtney, on Flickr to go to DTD! This is where I'm gonna leave off for now! Next time we'll continue with our DTD experience! Thanks anyone who's reading!
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01-30-2013, 10:50 PM
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Does it make all the boy mooses go BWAH!? 
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01-31-2013, 01:33 PM
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Really enjoying your TR. POP looks amazing!!! I can't wait to go to DTD, you make it sound so fun.
If you need a job, head on down to GA. We have a nursing shortage here. Can't wait to read more!
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01-31-2013, 01:50 PM
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DTD is definitely fun! Dangerous for the wallet but fun I highly recommend Cirque if you can fit it in your trip/budget (it can be pricey)!It's so frustrating that just about everywhere else has a huge nursing shortage! We're just starting to try to work out the logistics of relocating!
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01-31-2013, 02:59 PM
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Your photos are gorgeous! I love the ones of Presley and the characters. There's just something about the joy on a kids face when they see them. The chip and Dale ones are too much!
Yay for meeting a good Belle! She's consistently been one of the best we've met. Snacking around WS is one of the things I've always wanted to do. Sounds like a great day despite the rain! |
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02-01-2013, 01:08 AM
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The Chip and Dale ones are definitely a riot! We didn't let the rain put a damper on our fun! It did make it a little chilly though. 
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