Julie Ortega - October 2005

Cast of Characters: Me: Julie (32) Maritza (23 Dear Cousin) Jasmine (4 My Dear Goddaughter, Maritza's daughter) and Stephanie (6 My Dear Niece)
Day 1 - Saturday September 17th

Arrived at Houston airport 2 hours prior our flight. While we waited the girls started playing with the autograph books I made for them (coloring the white and color sections). I forgot to mention that Jasmine was with fever the night before and she didn't get better during our stay at WDW. Arrived at MCO at 2:00 p.m. and we didn't see any signs that lead us to the Disney transportation. After going down to the rental level and asking there, we were directed to the Disney booth. We were quickly loaded into our bus and we were watching the video so I didn't really pay much attention and got off at the first stop. Big mistake! That was All Star Sports and I didn't realize we got off until I was checking in. So I was so embarrassed when the cast member was explaining me that there are 3 All Star hotels and we were supposed to be at Movies… oops, well we took one of the busses and then got off at Movies… Wow that was a big line for checking in! Took us like an 45 minutes ! (Jasmine got sleep while waiting with her mom). We were given a room at a different section than the one we wanted (can't remember which one sorry) but I asked the CM if she could check for Toy Story availability and we got lucky and she found us a space there! We were in the buling where Woody is! The girls were trilled by going into Andy's room.

As soon as we left our stuff at the room we went to the bus stop and directed to MGM.

As soon as we got off the bus Jasmine started crying asking her mom to carry her (this was going to be a pattern during our stay). So it helped us deciding to rent a double stroller… it took like 10 minutes to get the stroller and as soon as we got out, the music for the parade started so we ran to get the last available spot so the girls could watch it. While watching the parade, I got ourselves 2 bottles of water and 2 diet cokes with the snack services from the Meal Plan. Did I mention it was really hot?

Then we went to The Little Mermaid and their were closing the doors so the CM told us to ran so we can make it and so we did! The girls loved it but Maritza enjoyed it even more! She was singing and laughing like a little kid! (This was first time for the 3 of them). Then we headed to the Beauty and the Beast. Before entering we got 2 souvenir containers with popcorn and 4 bottles of water. Again, they loved the show!

We were then headed to Fantasmic but Jasmine saw TOT and she begged her mom to ride it! She barely made it for the height restriction and Stephanie and I waited for them. My cousin told me she was really quite the whole ride but as soon as it ended she told her mom she wasn't scared at all but she wouldn't ride it again! LOL.

Well we made it to Fantasmic an hour before it started and got great seats right in the middle. Jasmine felt at sleep again (she was taking medicine for her fever) and Maritza gave us glowing sticks she bought months ago.

We woke up Jasmine when the show started and we all enjoyed it. Went to the bus stop and we got seats for the 4 of us, the girls seating together and in another one my cousin and me. Lots of people were standing up and we saw a couple with a little girl and I asked Stephanie if she wanted to share their seat with her and both of the girls said no problem! So this little girl sat with them and they were all chatting all the way down to our hotel. They were staying there too.

We stopped at the food court and grab some food with the Dinning Plan. We finally went to sleep at around 11 p.m.

Tomorrow: MK

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