TR: May 18-22 **Updated 5/28** COMPLETE About This Page:

[bradk]

i don't have time to draft a formal report, so here's highlights from my day in photos. make up your own storyline or maybe i'll get to it eventually

[Colexis Mom]

Nice pictures Brad!

[disneydani]

Thanks, Brad...love the pic of Goofy. Whenever I do the Animation Academy, I walk out with some form of 'abstract act'!

danielle

[carters_mom]

Thanks for the post. I love looking at your pictures. Your images from the Pirate and Princess Party are amazing!

[Jillybean]

Cool! Where are the characters from "Meet the Robinsons"? We just went to see that last weekend and I know that Mary Devall would love to see them!

Jill

[angiek1024]

Great pictures!!!!

[DrDolphin]

Great pics.

[Karla]

Wonderful pictures! OOOH, I can't wait to go, just 6 more days !

[tammyd_rn]

Great Pics

[bradk]

thanks.. although i've decided i'm going to give a full on trip report so i stopped posting photos. i'll work on it when i get home later this week.

the MTR characters are in the animation building at MGM

[jhoshowski]

Great pictures - can't wait for the report!!

[ilovedisney0_0]

Looks like you had a fabulous time...will be waiting to read your TR!

[KrisLuvsDisney]

Great pics...can't wait for the report once you get home!

[DyanKJ130]

Great photos, Brad! Can't wait to hear the story behind them!

[bradk]

The cast of characters:

Me - 'nuff said
Lonnie - at one time was my boss at my previous job and has really become more family to me than anything else. she recently finished chemotherapy and saw this trip as a way to celebrate. Her birthday is in August so I planned on celebrating her birthday a bit early on

this trip as well so I could live vicariously through her.
Lily - Age 6 - Lonnie's daughter (and fellow scorpio) whom I've known since she was 6 months old. Too smart for her own good and has the broadest sense of humor of anyone I know and consequently believes she's the funniest person you'll ever meet. this is her 3rd visit. last time was with a large group of us during christmas week. before that, she spent a weekend there with her mom.
Jasmine - Age 11 - Lonnie's neice. Second? time at WDW. Last time was part of a large group of us during christmas week.

So long story short, Jasmine was going to go when we first started planning this trip. The date was changed 3 times for various reasons which was super heck getting some ADRs and the AP rate at POP for 2 rooms). Then she wasn't. I kept all reservations for her until about 2 days out just in case. Then I canceled the flight and CRT ADR since they cost me money I didn't want to lose. Then on the same day we're set to leave, Jasmine's going. The flight had gone up by $300 by that time. But needless to say, she was super happy.

Our flight was scheduled to leave from LGA at 9 pm and arrive in MCO around 11:20. Normally I leave out of JFK so LGA was a bit of a letdown - it's just way smaller. We board the plane on time, but are left waiting on the tarmac for quite some time. We ended up arriving at MCO around 12 am.

We claimed our bags and headed to DME (which of course meant going to L2 on A, then back up to L3, then over to Side B and then down to L1). Everything went pretty smooth there. We did have a bit of a wait on the bus though.

We got to POP and I'm guessing we were checked in by around 1 am. We had connecting rooms in the 50s (preferred) on the 2nd floor. I was hoping for 70s to be closer to the bus but nothing was available at the time and all in all, it wasn't really that bad. We got the birthday button for Lonnie. The only problem was that the printer that printed resort IDs wasn't working, so we were told we're being given temporary cards and we need to return in the morning to get our real ones. So we headed to our rooms and crashed.