'OHANA means CHUNKY! An Aug 2017 Family TR THE END 4/26 - The Last Day and Trip Epilogue!

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'OHANA means CHUNKY!
A Chunkymonkey and Chubbyhubby Family Trip Report
August 11th-20th 2017

@ the Polynesian Village Resort

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All of us Breakfast at 'Ohana with Stitch and Friends

Hi everyone! We just got back from a week-long roller coaster of a trip to WDW where I acted as trip planner and tour guide for 15 members of my family and friends, including four kids under 10, a toddler, and an infant, some who have never been to WDW before! As you can see, the pressure was on me to make this a memorable trip, one where they would be willing to RETURN to WDW instead of RUN AWAY. Did I succeed? We shall see...

Of course everyone knows by now that Ohana is Hawaiian for Family. 'Ohana is also one of our favorite restaurants so I had to put it in the title of my TR, right? :) But in my world, Ohana just means Chunky! We are a group that loves food and loves to eat and we ate at so many great places on this trip, including: Ohana(x2), Tiffins, Yachtsman Steakhouse, Crystal Palace, Garden Grill, Cinderella's Royal Table, Be Our Guest, Akershus. There was lots of counter service and I even snuck in an Earl of Sandwich somewhere, haha.

Here's the cast of characters for this trip:

Myself, Su-Lynn (Chunkmonkey), and my DH, Steve (Chubbyhubby)
We both work in banks, myself in IT and Steve in Risk, we're both in our early 40s, and we both love Disney! Well, myself mostly but it's not like Steve ever says no to any of our trips!

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My favorite characters change but currently are: Minnie, Eeyore, Belle, Mulan, Stitch and Pluto
Steve's is: Gaston, hahaha.
My favorite rides are: Flight of Passage!, Peoplemover, Soarin' 7DMT, BTMRR, and Toy Story
Steve's are: All of the above aside from Peoplemover. He likes it but doesn't understand the fascination. Hmph.
My favorite table service: Ohana and Tiffins
Steve's is: The same as mine!
My favorite quick service: Columbia Harbor House
Steve's is: Be Our Guest, but only for a PPO breakfast.

My well-known character loving, sweater-wearing younger sister, Su-Queen, aka Chunkysis (from now she'll be known as CS in my trip report)

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She loves her characters and loves her pictures. She had an outfit for every day and sometimes changed for different character meals. She's dedicated, that one.
(And yes, she was hot wearing the sweater in 95 degree heat.)

Our other younger sisters, the twins and their families:

Chunkytwin1 (CT1) aka Ying, the older of the twin, her husband Kevin, and kids Caylee (who will turn 4 next month) and Bryan (who will be 2 in Oct).

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Caylee did not like characters at all, she was scared of them! She also doesn't really like pictures that much, so that's why she's sometimes missing from pictures. But towards the end of the trip she learned to tolerate them and not freak out. She did enjoy rides though and she LOVED shopping at Disney Springs and all the shops in the parks. Bryan was the most adorable little prince. He was the only boy in the group of kids and he really has simple needs:

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I agree, Bryan!

Chunkytwin2 (CT2) aka Ming, her husband Marc, and two girls Eva (pronounced AY-Vah who turned 5 on the trip), and Sienna (10 months).

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Eva was the birthday girl and she absolutely LOVED Disney. She was the one we all worried about initially because she was having some anxiety issues but it turns out it was for naught because she probably had the best time out of everyone! She loves princesses especially Cinderella and Elena of Avalor! Sienna was happy and content to be carried and coddled all the time or to spend the time sleeping in her stroller. She did enjoy all the food she got to try on the trip, including bits of Mickey Waffles. She was able to go on some rides like It's a Small World as well as Frozen Ever After which I think she really liked as she was awake the whole time, haha.

and finally:

My best friend, Kelly, her husband Honyee, and her two girls Sophie (9) and Mimi (6):

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I've know Kelly since college and she's been like a sister to me so her family are honorary chunkies! They have been to Disney previously but never with us. They weren't impressed with the food before but let's just say that after a week of eating with us, they kept saying "We never ate like this on our other trips!" Sophie and Mimi had an amazing time and they were real troopers, they were able to park hop, stay out late and ride all the rides. They are turning into me! Sophie didn't want to go home! Mimi's birthday is a week after Eva's so we also celebrated with her this week.

Whew, that's a lot of people!
We stayed at the Polynesian Village Resort for 8 nights, while Steve and I stayed an extra 9th night because, well, DISMeets! I had a few of them on this trip!

Everyone aside from me and Steve got packages which include 6-day park hoppers plus a water park day. Steve and I have our trusty Annual Passes as well as the Tables in Wonderland card which saved us about 20% on every meal which was huge as you can use it on up to 10 guests and includes savings on alcohol as well!

I hope you're on board for this crazy, crazy ride with my ohana!

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ALOHA!

 
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Following along! What an impressive amount of people to plan for. I think it would be hard to plan for my extended family, and we're all over 18 by now!
 


I'm in! sounds like a lot of work but also a lot of fun!

It was a lot of both things! Thanks for reading!

Yay another Chunky trip report!! I love reading about all about your 'Ohana adventures!

Thank you! It was a fun, crazy, exhausting week!

So excited to read this report..and am on cuteness overload with the kiddo pics! :-)

Thank you so much! They are very cute kids, thank goodness or else I'd leave them all behind and go off solo, haha. Trust me, I was tempted.
This sounds absolutely insane with so many people, but I'm quite curious on how it went. Joining in! :mickeyjum

It was insane. I am insane. It was worth it though. :)

Following along! What an impressive amount of people to plan for. I think it would be hard to plan for my extended family, and we're all over 18 by now!

Haha It was a bit crazy, but anything is possible, right? :) thanks for reading!

:yay: Glad to see you started the TR! Looking forward to reading all about it.

Thank you!! Great to see you here!

Looking forward to your updates! What an awesome family! (Lots of girlies in your family, I see.)

Thank you! Yes, we are are all girls, made for a fun time growing up. My DH has 2 brothers so he was raised very differently.

Following along! :wave2:

Yay!!
Ahhh! I'm so excited for your new TR!!! :yay:

Thank you!!!
 
Yay! I actually made it for the beginning of one of your trip reports! I just like them so much that I am coming out of my usual lurker status to say I'm following along!
 

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