Blue Skies
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 28, 2000
Friday Dec 8th, Saturday Dec 9th, Sunday Dec 10th, Monday Dec 11th
We were up by 6:00 today. We headed to Beach's and Cream for breakfast. We will miss the Beach Club.
Today is a Holy Day for Catholics, so after we get checked out we head over to Mary, Queen of the Universe Shrine. Mass is at 9:00 and we arrive a little early. We hit the gift shop and pick a few things up. When DH and I were at Disney in 95 we came to mass here. It is very pretty and is run solely through donations. I recommend a visit!
After mass we head out on the Florida turnpike to Delray Beach. It is about a 3 hour drive.
We arrive safely at teh Marriot Delray. This was a VERY nice hotel! My Mom and Dad had stayed here when it used to be a Holiday Inn. A few years ago they added on and remodeled. It was fancier than the Beach Club! A big plus with this hotel is that it is right across AIA from the beach. It took less than 5 minutes to walk from our room to the beach! Some of my Mom's friends joined us for dinner at the hotel. We all went to bed early.
Sat 12/9
My Mom spent the day with old friends, and Robin, Alex and I enjoyed the day together.
One of Robin's goals this trip was to get some citrus fruit. My Mom's friend suggested Blood's Hammock Groves right in Delray. Robin ordered some friut to be shipped to our home back in Minnesota. We were able to see how the fuit gets processed which was quite interesting!
Since we used to live in Boca, I wanted to drive by my old high school. I also had Robin drive us past my old house. It was weird because the current owner was in the front yard. It still felt like "our" house.
We next hit Town Center Mall. This is a great mall with good selection (Tiffiny's, Cartier, Cache, etc..), But many of the offerings were above our budget.
Plus we have mall of america back home! 
We headed back to the hotel and decided to spend some time on the beach. We then spent some time in the pool. Alex had a blast! The weather had been so cold in Orlando, we never did swim in stormalong bay. It was in the 80's in Delray.
We decided to order room service. While we were eating we could hear loud reggae (sp?) music. There was a convention at the hotel and they were having some sort of cocktail hour before their dinner. They were all by the pool and the band was playing. We had a first floor pool side room, so Alex and I went out on our little patio and danced. After a while we all three curled up on some deck chasie lounges and listened to the music. Alex enjoyed his pooh light up spining toy my Mom bought him. This was a magical day for us.
Sunday 12/10
We went to church, had breakfast, then my Mom and me hit the mall again! We did some serious power shopping!
We headed back to the hotel by way of AIA which is parallel to the beach. Along the stretch from Boca to Delray there are about 30+ mansions. I saw in the paper one for sale for over 12 million! My Mom's friend said that many of the people who own them use them just a few weeks or months a year! For that money you could live in a disney hotel every night!
We made it home and finished the packing. We watched the weather channel and started to worry that we would have trouble making it home during the anticipated snow storm!
Monday 12/11
We were scheduled to leave West Palm at 9:40 am. We were up early and on our way. There was a large truck accident on I-95 that morning. Luckily it was in the south bound lane. The tracffic on that side was completely stopped for miles. Our side had the gawker slow down.
We arrived to the airport and learned Northwest only has 2 fights out of that airport a day! We made our way to the gate. They were unsure if we would take off since we were headed for Detroit. We finally left 30 minutes behind schedule. Our layover in Detroit is only an hour so I am hoping we can make up the time in the air!
We arrive in Detroit 15 minutes behind schedule. Luckily the gate we need is only 100 feet away from the gate we arrived into.
We boarded our connecting flight and waited, and waited. After about 30 minuted we taxi out to be de-iced. There are 11 planes ahead of us. We wait, and wait. Now it's just 5 planes ahead of us. We wait, and wait. Yeah it's our turn to be de-iced. They de-ice and de-ice, and de-ice some more. An HOUR latter they give up. We have now been on the tarmak 2 hours! It ends up that Detriot is experinceing freezing rain. We wait another 2 hours before we finally get to take off! We were supposed to arrive in Mpls at 2:30 pm, and we get there about 6:45!
The good news was that Alex was a trooper! We were on planes a total of 8 hours! People on the plane were telling Robin and me what great parents we are. We were like no. It was just a miracle. Alex can't even sit through church let alone 8 hours in a small seat on a plane!!
Needless to say we were very thankful to be home safely!
I am already planing our next Disney trip. However, I don't think we will be going back until Dec of 2002.
But at least I have some GREAT memories and the DIS to get me through the wait!
If you stuck it through all 7 parts of my trip report, THANK YOU! I enjoyed sharing my memories with you. I know when we were planning this trip, the trip reports were the most valuable information for me. It helped to to gage how long everything would take and the reports gave me new ideas for things to try.
I hope I didn't forget anything as I wrote these. I had big plans of keeping notes during the trip. I even bought a special notepad to do just that. Well, I ended up too tired at the end of each day. So all of these reports are from memory. I also appologize for my lack of spelling skills. I have been writing these non-stop this afternoon with out a break and my eyes are strating to cross!
My husband has been asking for 2 hours, are you done YET?!?
If you have any questions, I will try to answer them!
Thanks for reading!
Melissa
We were up by 6:00 today. We headed to Beach's and Cream for breakfast. We will miss the Beach Club.
Today is a Holy Day for Catholics, so after we get checked out we head over to Mary, Queen of the Universe Shrine. Mass is at 9:00 and we arrive a little early. We hit the gift shop and pick a few things up. When DH and I were at Disney in 95 we came to mass here. It is very pretty and is run solely through donations. I recommend a visit!
After mass we head out on the Florida turnpike to Delray Beach. It is about a 3 hour drive.
We arrive safely at teh Marriot Delray. This was a VERY nice hotel! My Mom and Dad had stayed here when it used to be a Holiday Inn. A few years ago they added on and remodeled. It was fancier than the Beach Club! A big plus with this hotel is that it is right across AIA from the beach. It took less than 5 minutes to walk from our room to the beach!
Some of my Mom's friends joined us for dinner at the hotel. We all went to bed early.Sat 12/9
My Mom spent the day with old friends, and Robin, Alex and I enjoyed the day together.
One of Robin's goals this trip was to get some citrus fruit. My Mom's friend suggested Blood's Hammock Groves right in Delray. Robin ordered some friut to be shipped to our home back in Minnesota. We were able to see how the fuit gets processed which was quite interesting!
Since we used to live in Boca, I wanted to drive by my old high school. I also had Robin drive us past my old house. It was weird because the current owner was in the front yard. It still felt like "our" house.
We next hit Town Center Mall. This is a great mall with good selection (Tiffiny's, Cartier, Cache, etc..), But many of the offerings were above our budget.
Plus we have mall of america back home! We headed back to the hotel and decided to spend some time on the beach. We then spent some time in the pool. Alex had a blast! The weather had been so cold in Orlando, we never did swim in stormalong bay. It was in the 80's in Delray.
We decided to order room service. While we were eating we could hear loud reggae (sp?) music. There was a convention at the hotel and they were having some sort of cocktail hour before their dinner. They were all by the pool and the band was playing. We had a first floor pool side room, so Alex and I went out on our little patio and danced. After a while we all three curled up on some deck chasie lounges and listened to the music. Alex enjoyed his pooh light up spining toy my Mom bought him. This was a magical day for us.
Sunday 12/10
We went to church, had breakfast, then my Mom and me hit the mall again! We did some serious power shopping!
We headed back to the hotel by way of AIA which is parallel to the beach. Along the stretch from Boca to Delray there are about 30+ mansions. I saw in the paper one for sale for over 12 million! My Mom's friend said that many of the people who own them use them just a few weeks or months a year! For that money you could live in a disney hotel every night!
We made it home and finished the packing. We watched the weather channel and started to worry that we would have trouble making it home during the anticipated snow storm!
Monday 12/11
We were scheduled to leave West Palm at 9:40 am. We were up early and on our way. There was a large truck accident on I-95 that morning. Luckily it was in the south bound lane. The tracffic on that side was completely stopped for miles. Our side had the gawker slow down.
We arrived to the airport and learned Northwest only has 2 fights out of that airport a day!
We made our way to the gate. They were unsure if we would take off since we were headed for Detroit. We finally left 30 minutes behind schedule. Our layover in Detroit is only an hour so I am hoping we can make up the time in the air! We arrive in Detroit 15 minutes behind schedule. Luckily the gate we need is only 100 feet away from the gate we arrived into.
We boarded our connecting flight and waited, and waited. After about 30 minuted we taxi out to be de-iced. There are 11 planes ahead of us. We wait, and wait. Now it's just 5 planes ahead of us. We wait, and wait. Yeah it's our turn to be de-iced. They de-ice and de-ice, and de-ice some more. An HOUR latter they give up. We have now been on the tarmak 2 hours!
It ends up that Detriot is experinceing freezing rain. We wait another 2 hours before we finally get to take off! We were supposed to arrive in Mpls at 2:30 pm, and we get there about 6:45! The good news was that Alex was a trooper! We were on planes a total of 8 hours! People on the plane were telling Robin and me what great parents we are. We were like no. It was just a miracle. Alex can't even sit through church let alone 8 hours in a small seat on a plane!!
Needless to say we were very thankful to be home safely!
I am already planing our next Disney trip. However, I don't think we will be going back until Dec of 2002.
But at least I have some GREAT memories and the DIS to get me through the wait!
If you stuck it through all 7 parts of my trip report, THANK YOU!
I enjoyed sharing my memories with you. I know when we were planning this trip, the trip reports were the most valuable information for me. It helped to to gage how long everything would take and the reports gave me new ideas for things to try.I hope I didn't forget anything as I wrote these. I had big plans of keeping notes during the trip. I even bought a special notepad to do just that. Well, I ended up too tired at the end of each day. So all of these reports are from memory. I also appologize for my lack of spelling skills. I have been writing these non-stop this afternoon with out a break and my eyes are strating to cross!
My husband has been asking for 2 hours, are you done YET?!?
If you have any questions, I will try to answer them!
Thanks for reading!
Melissa
I did have computer issues yesterday which might have affected the postings.
