I’ve never been in the 15 years we’ve lived in central Florida, so for my birthday, my mom flew in my sister and husband and we made it happen
House is almost ready to list so we can move to MN, so this is the last break for a bit…
Anyway, Hollywood Studios today, main park tomorrow and Epcot day after them home
Anyway, I’m so thankful the entire fam stepped up as my birthday isn’t typically a big deal
My wife has a vacation curse that seems to follow us everywhere we go. We’ve a ton of stories of things going wrong. We are known for it here in town. Some are worse than others but, the Disney trip was the absolute worst of all.
My in-laws lived in Orlando and had season passes every year. They mostly went for the food and atmosphere. They loved Disney. My father-in-law got a job there because he liked it so much.
They moved back home to PA and then one day talked us into taking the kids down. I didn’t want to. It was too expensive, but I lost the argument and we went. We drove all the way to D.C. to get a plane. I have no idea why they picked an airport five hours away. My infant daughter got very sick at the hotel in D.C. She was shitting and puking unbelievable amounts everywhere. She destroyed the bed in the middle of the night. We got through the plane ride and while waiting to board the Disney bus, she had diarrhea all over herself and her stroller. What a mess.
So we get to our room in the French quarter. It’s November and we had plans to go to the gulf for a day. We brought shorts and T-Shirts. That week the temps dropped into the low sixties!
Then on the first day we headed to the magic Kingdom and my son pukes all over the sidewalk, it got on people’s shoes. It was instantaneous and uncontrollable. So, I took him back to the room. Two hours later the rest of them return because my step-son got sick waiting in line for one of the rides. The next morning my wife was sick. Then my father-in-law got it worse than all of them. I spent two days in the room taking care of the kids and my wife. We were doing laundry non stop for a few days. The kids got better, so I was able to take them back to the park. But it was very cold for shorts and tees, so we spent a bunch of money on sweat pants and sweat shirts with the Disney and Mickey Mouse logos on them, at the shops. We looked like 100% Disney goobers. We did get three days to use our passes. My kids barely remember any of it now.
What a waste of $5000.00. Even if we were all well and it was warm outside, it still was overpriced imo. The best part of the entire trip was the great food and when we went to Universal studios, away from Disney. My kids loved it there. We could have flown down and spent a day or two there, maybe a day at Disney then flown home for so much less.
