We climbed into our limo and my entire family sat towards the front, all squashed up together, with skin-to-skin contact because they were afraid that I was about to blow a cork. They didn't dare come near me. Once the car started rolling, I knew I would get even. I would tell the Dis. Ha! Mess with me, will ya?? Treat one DISer badly and they will only tell over 55,000 of their closest friends. How do you like me now?
With my plan firmly in place, I really started to feel better. I told the crew to start breathing again, and we finally arrived at POR. The driver barely had stopped when I jumped out because my baby boy, the child who has made me so proud, with his sweet little cheeks, smiling ear-to-ear was just standing there, in his clean white shirt with his military hair cut and all these new muscles, holding a Mickey Mouse doll....
Excuse me **sniff, snort**
The girls were so happy to see him, especially Em (6). She has a really hard time understanding where DS went. To her, he was a super hero. She climbs all over him and tries to beat him up. He lets her pretend that she has him in a "sleeper-hold" and makes him "tap-out" before she lets go. They are so great together. The Mickey doll was for her.
We were so excited to be together again, all of 6 us. When you have a "blended" family and they are growing up, it becomes more and more difficult to get together.
The bell hop guy was really great, and zoomed us to our room on that little buggy thing pretty quickly. Em(6) thought this was a ride.
My brother and his crew were already there and unpacked. They arrived a couple hours before us and got lucky that POR gave them their room so early!
When we pulled up, they thought we would need time to unpack and get organized. Why did they think that? Commando Nikki (17) had the door to the room opened, luggage thrown in there and was headed for the bus stop before we even got of the little buggy thing.
Okay, I'm exaggerating a little bit.
We really did open the door & throw the luggage in, BUT we looked inside for a second. We were ready to head to the Magic Kingdom. I passed out lanyards, pins, autograph books, pressed penny books and Epcot passports to everyone that I had bought from Gifts of a Lifetime before hand. I was glad I had done that, it really thrilled the heck out of the kids.
The whole bunch of us headed off for the MK without pigtails and scruffy.
I think there was an issue with them, I don't know, we couldn't wait. I hadn't been there for 4 years and I forgot about the bag checks going in. It wasn't there last time. It only took a few minutes to go through, no big deal. Then I go through the turnstiles and stand and wait for the rest of my crew to come through and hand me their resort ID cards.
Brother looks at DH and makes a weird face. Must be a guy language I don't understand because all DH said was "She won't let me carry my driver’s license either." Brother nodded and rolled his eyes.
Well, come on, my DH has a wife, because he needs one, okay? I let him have his license back to save face with my brother and guess where it was the day we went to the Richard Petty Driving Experience? On the nightstand, in our room. He's lucky he was only doing the ride along.
We hit the POC (Pirates of the Carribean), HM (Haunted Mansion), IASW (It’s a Small World) when everyone started claiming starvation. Beetlebum(14) was looking a little pale and Em (6) was chewing the Mickey mouse doll. We decided to eat at the Liberty Tavern. Really good food. Hey, guess what? There are characters in there. Em(6) could barely handle it, she never has been to these types of meals. Minnie Mouse came over and you would have thought Brittany Spears had just sat down with us. I thought the child was going to faint. She went speechless. She was our little Disney princess for a few minutes,
Then it happened...
We were eating, chatting and really enjoying ourselves when Em(6) squealed "Chuck & Dave! Chuck & Dave!" The entire table of 9 people went silent. We even sat motionless for a second or two.
Brother looks at me and says "Who is Chuck & Dave, and where are they going to sit?"
Commando Nikki throws her napkin over her face and says, "Please tell me she didn't just call Chip & Dale, Chuck & Dave!"
Beetlebum asked "Do we have to leave Disney World now?"
Poor Em(6) didn't live that down for the rest of the trip.
As the park started closing, I stopped to take some photos of the castle turning colors. I was doing this for a few minutes and when I turned around.....
All four kids were standing in front of it, in a group hug. It was a beautiful day and I was very blessed.