MalkaR
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2011
Welcome to my trip report! We just got back today and I should get everything down while I still remember the details!
Here's the cast of characters starting from the left: Me, Aaron, Alex, Benny and DH
We started our day bright and early, getting up at 4am for our 7:20am flight. Above you see us waiting patiently.
The boys were fascinated watching the workers and trucks and airplanes. Benny said he didn't see how it was possible for the little tug truck to push a big heavy plane out of the gate.
It was finally time to board and the boys were very excited to take out their tablets and coloring books and yummy snacks. Each of them had their own stuff in their backpacks so I didn't have to hand anything out and they could do whatever they wanted. We lifted off and we were on our way. The flight was about 2 and a half hours. I think that as I get older (I'm 36), I'm getting more prone to motion sickness and I was feeling pretty green by the end of that flight. I find that even being a passenger instead of the driver on a long car ride makes me nauseous. I told DH that we'd have to find some Dramamine for the flight home.
They thought that it was pretty cool that it was daylight outside when we landed.
After we landed, we made our way to the "fake-orail".
We trooped all the way through the airport (boy is that airport big and spread out!) all the way to the Magical Express, where the boys each got to scan their magic bands and we got right onto a bus that was about to leave. Perfect timing! While were on the bus, I got a call from the Instacart-Publix shopper asking me to approve changes he had made. He said that since we didn't have out room yet, he'd leave the order with bell services, even specifying that we had 5 bags, 2 of them refrigerated. We enjoyed the little program on the TVs and the driver got everyone excited to see the Disney World sign and even got everyone on the bus to cheer as we drove under it.
Then we finally got to our resort, Caribbean Beach Resort! There was a lot of construction around but we didn't care. Seeing the big cranes and trucks was a positive for my boys. Our room wasn't ready, but the CM was able to tell us that it was a 2nd floor room in building 46. I thought that was great because I requested 2nd floor in building 45! We took the internal shuttle to Old Port Royale, where we changed into our bathing suits and enjoyed the beautiful pool, slides and hot tub.
Monday was forecast to be the warmest day of the week so I wanted to make sure we took advantage of the weather. We were starting to get hungry so it was time for lunch! We keep kosher so we couldn't eat at the food tent, but I had brought kosher shelf-stable microwavable meals with us. We bought mugs and went into the food tent to microwave our meals. Most sodas, seltzers, juices in those soft drink dispensers are kosher so I thought that letting the kids have fun with that would be entertaining for them, and it was! Then we took our food out to the tables by the Banana Cabana Bar, at the little beach area.
Then DH took the boys and they played some of the games they had set up in that area. I relaxed and enjoyed the warm weather. Then it was time to check out Caribbean Cay. I'll continue there in the next post.
Here's the cast of characters starting from the left: Me, Aaron, Alex, Benny and DH
We started our day bright and early, getting up at 4am for our 7:20am flight. Above you see us waiting patiently.
The boys were fascinated watching the workers and trucks and airplanes. Benny said he didn't see how it was possible for the little tug truck to push a big heavy plane out of the gate.
It was finally time to board and the boys were very excited to take out their tablets and coloring books and yummy snacks. Each of them had their own stuff in their backpacks so I didn't have to hand anything out and they could do whatever they wanted. We lifted off and we were on our way. The flight was about 2 and a half hours. I think that as I get older (I'm 36), I'm getting more prone to motion sickness and I was feeling pretty green by the end of that flight. I find that even being a passenger instead of the driver on a long car ride makes me nauseous. I told DH that we'd have to find some Dramamine for the flight home.
They thought that it was pretty cool that it was daylight outside when we landed.
After we landed, we made our way to the "fake-orail".
We trooped all the way through the airport (boy is that airport big and spread out!) all the way to the Magical Express, where the boys each got to scan their magic bands and we got right onto a bus that was about to leave. Perfect timing! While were on the bus, I got a call from the Instacart-Publix shopper asking me to approve changes he had made. He said that since we didn't have out room yet, he'd leave the order with bell services, even specifying that we had 5 bags, 2 of them refrigerated. We enjoyed the little program on the TVs and the driver got everyone excited to see the Disney World sign and even got everyone on the bus to cheer as we drove under it.
Then we finally got to our resort, Caribbean Beach Resort! There was a lot of construction around but we didn't care. Seeing the big cranes and trucks was a positive for my boys. Our room wasn't ready, but the CM was able to tell us that it was a 2nd floor room in building 46. I thought that was great because I requested 2nd floor in building 45! We took the internal shuttle to Old Port Royale, where we changed into our bathing suits and enjoyed the beautiful pool, slides and hot tub.
Monday was forecast to be the warmest day of the week so I wanted to make sure we took advantage of the weather. We were starting to get hungry so it was time for lunch! We keep kosher so we couldn't eat at the food tent, but I had brought kosher shelf-stable microwavable meals with us. We bought mugs and went into the food tent to microwave our meals. Most sodas, seltzers, juices in those soft drink dispensers are kosher so I thought that letting the kids have fun with that would be entertaining for them, and it was! Then we took our food out to the tables by the Banana Cabana Bar, at the little beach area.
Then DH took the boys and they played some of the games they had set up in that area. I relaxed and enjoyed the warm weather. Then it was time to check out Caribbean Cay. I'll continue there in the next post.