Bluegrrl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 13, 2013
Hi! This is a live third party trip report (Like it says!) about my DS4 and my mom on their first solo trip to the world! It's a quick one weekend, but I will be adding details as I get them, and is sure to be filled with some funny moments.
Some brief details about the people and reasons for trip:
Reason:
My mom inherited a house here in Punta Gorda that she has been trying to sell. She live in Chicago, and since she is coming down here anyway, she decided to swing by and take boy to Disney for a night. They both have APs, so it's not like they are wasting tickets for two days or anything. Just a little swing-by visit. It's also a test to see whether boy can handle being away from mom and dad deal too.
Hotel: Shades of Green. It's our favorite place!
People:
Mom (aka Gaga, and Mom for connivence sake here):
She has a PH.D in nursing/midwifery, a former Captain in the military, has been to Uzbekistan to open a midwife clinic, Honduras as a Doctors without boarders style healthcare mission, Rwanda to help set up women's healthcare centers and still has managed to loose my boy at Epcot once. Amazing woman, but I was a little worried.
Boy:
My son, 4yrs old. Incredibly friendly, and intelligent and very funny boy (or so I say!) Natural redhead, with cute blue eyes, and little toddler girls are all over him at his daycare! He has a really odd sense of humor, our favorite joke of his:
How do you stop a fan with a banana? You put a banana in it! Yup, that's our boy!
And now the real mom (me!) and dad:
I love Disney, but my DH is not crazy about it, coming from FL and all. I'm more nervous about leaving boy, but my DH is OK, and feels like everything will be cool. I guess that's it, because you won't be hearing much about us anyway. After all, this is 3rd party trip report!
Finally, I'm sure how everyone does this fancy posting stuff, but I'm going to try and get this up quickly, and will be adding details as they go along. I'm going to break the posts up, so no one will get caught in a block of text. Sound OK? OK. Here we go….
So….
Pre-trip:
We (Me and DH) had been talking about sending boy to be with Mom this summer. Since he's starting school soon, with thought it might be good and selfishly, I thought it might be nice to have a week to ourselves for once! Ah, think of it, we could go the movies, sleep in, go to eat at fancy places…the dream! And when I was little, I would stay for a month with my grandparents, so this was normal. Well, since my mom was working, we couldn't figure out a good time.
She called one night and told us she was coming to FL from Chicago to finalize the Punta Gorda house sale, and since she was heading down, would we like to go to Disney for a stay over. DH and I were OK about not going. She then asked if she could take boy. Why not? So prep started.
She was going to arrive on the 16th of July (yesterday) late at night. Then take off on the 17th (today!) very early in the morning to make rope drop at MGM, with the hope of getting there in time to sign up for Jedi training, then do Frozen sing-a-long, Star tours, and finally Star Wars fireworks party.
We HAD to have him packed up on that Saturday, since the trip was so short, and they needed to be there right away. Thankfully, we live in Altamonte, and getting to Disney is really quick. But a 4yr old is a bit of a rockstar to pack for, and we are in the tough stages of potty training, which means tons of under ware and tons of pants to pack + pull-ups for night. We have been lazy about potty training, I admit. But mom is a hard-core person when it comes to that. I am secretly hoping he comes back potty trained!
I packed boy up with all his luggage (not too much), hauled the stroller out and cleaned it up nice (boy asked to use it, and it really is the last year of it), and got it all ready. Now for some grandma!
Some brief details about the people and reasons for trip:
Reason:
My mom inherited a house here in Punta Gorda that she has been trying to sell. She live in Chicago, and since she is coming down here anyway, she decided to swing by and take boy to Disney for a night. They both have APs, so it's not like they are wasting tickets for two days or anything. Just a little swing-by visit. It's also a test to see whether boy can handle being away from mom and dad deal too.
Hotel: Shades of Green. It's our favorite place!
People:
Mom (aka Gaga, and Mom for connivence sake here):
She has a PH.D in nursing/midwifery, a former Captain in the military, has been to Uzbekistan to open a midwife clinic, Honduras as a Doctors without boarders style healthcare mission, Rwanda to help set up women's healthcare centers and still has managed to loose my boy at Epcot once. Amazing woman, but I was a little worried.
Boy:
My son, 4yrs old. Incredibly friendly, and intelligent and very funny boy (or so I say!) Natural redhead, with cute blue eyes, and little toddler girls are all over him at his daycare! He has a really odd sense of humor, our favorite joke of his:
How do you stop a fan with a banana? You put a banana in it! Yup, that's our boy!
And now the real mom (me!) and dad:
I love Disney, but my DH is not crazy about it, coming from FL and all. I'm more nervous about leaving boy, but my DH is OK, and feels like everything will be cool. I guess that's it, because you won't be hearing much about us anyway. After all, this is 3rd party trip report!
Finally, I'm sure how everyone does this fancy posting stuff, but I'm going to try and get this up quickly, and will be adding details as they go along. I'm going to break the posts up, so no one will get caught in a block of text. Sound OK? OK. Here we go….
So….
Pre-trip:
We (Me and DH) had been talking about sending boy to be with Mom this summer. Since he's starting school soon, with thought it might be good and selfishly, I thought it might be nice to have a week to ourselves for once! Ah, think of it, we could go the movies, sleep in, go to eat at fancy places…the dream! And when I was little, I would stay for a month with my grandparents, so this was normal. Well, since my mom was working, we couldn't figure out a good time.
She called one night and told us she was coming to FL from Chicago to finalize the Punta Gorda house sale, and since she was heading down, would we like to go to Disney for a stay over. DH and I were OK about not going. She then asked if she could take boy. Why not? So prep started.
She was going to arrive on the 16th of July (yesterday) late at night. Then take off on the 17th (today!) very early in the morning to make rope drop at MGM, with the hope of getting there in time to sign up for Jedi training, then do Frozen sing-a-long, Star tours, and finally Star Wars fireworks party.
We HAD to have him packed up on that Saturday, since the trip was so short, and they needed to be there right away. Thankfully, we live in Altamonte, and getting to Disney is really quick. But a 4yr old is a bit of a rockstar to pack for, and we are in the tough stages of potty training, which means tons of under ware and tons of pants to pack + pull-ups for night. We have been lazy about potty training, I admit. But mom is a hard-core person when it comes to that. I am secretly hoping he comes back potty trained!
I packed boy up with all his luggage (not too much), hauled the stroller out and cleaned it up nice (boy asked to use it, and it really is the last year of it), and got it all ready. Now for some grandma!