Catvondita
A Quirky Strange Girl in a Disney World
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- Mar 18, 2015
So I am too lazy to type up a full trip report but I thought I'd share a very bare bones report. I'm also too lazy to upload a lot of pictures but you can see them all on my Instagram including pics from my previous trip last year @Catvondita
To give a little background for myself and the people I travel with I'll start with saying my name is Cat and I am 25 year old New Yorker (Brooklyn born and raised). I like wearing black, love skulls and crosses My musical taste is a jumble. I can listen to Metallica one minute, then some 2000's alternative, switch over to Celine Dion, go to Korean Indie music, belt out some Disney Movie tunes and rock out to some one hit wonders and 90's grunge/pop/rock. I've been described as pretty eclectic. I work as an Office Manager full time at a real estate company and have an amazing boyfriend who I've been with for about 5 years.
I've always loved Disney World and all things Disney. I have been fortunate enough to have gone multiple times in the past.
My boyfriend is Josh also 25. He's heading to Pharmacy School to live out his dream. He always knew about Disney and watched the movies as a kid but was never really eager to go to Disney World-until he met me. Last year when I told him I wanted to go he worried about the money and the fact that it's "mainly for kids". We ended up going and he loved it! The whole time he was wowed by everything he saw. Even after this recent trip he's the one asking when can we go back!
I also went with my brother and my mother. My brother is a 31 year old who works for Forbes. I don't get to see him often because he is always traveling for his job but we always try to grab some food and drinks when we can. My mother is 50+ and one of the hardest working people I know.
Onto the trip! So this trip was from June 19-June 21. My mom wanted to stay at a non Disney Hotel so we compromised and stayed at a non Disney Resort for part of the trip and then Josh and I moved to a Disney Hotel after. My mom only stayed four days and my brother only stayed two. We started the trip at the Hilton Bonnet Creek and then when my mom checked out we moved to the Art of Animation.
DAY 1-Arrival
The day of our flight me and Josh both went to work and left early. I met him and his house since he lives closer to the airport than I do. His mom made us food (yuay for Korean food!) and we called a cab. We got to LaGuardia Airport with about a little more than an hour to kill. I'm a terrible flier so I had myself an expensive whiskey drink while I waited for our flight. We played with the tablets they provide for a while and I made several trips to the bathroom because I have my mothers bladder.
Our flight was a little bit delayed so landed later than we thought and sat on the runway for at least a half hour but it wasn't so bad. I paid for crappy wifi only to find out you really aren't able to use Netflix. (I brought my ipad with me for the sole purpose of watching Orange is the New Black since season 3 premiered that day). Bummer.
The upside of having the wifi was I could talk on Facebook messenger and found out my brother was also really delayed and was at MCO still. We had about 45 minutes left until we landed so he just waited for us. We finally landed and ran to the point where everyone knows their Disney Vacation truly begins- at the shuttle or as many call it-"the fake monorail".
We met up with my brother after I lovingly gazed upon the art work at the Disney Store and headed to get a Mears ride to our hotel. It ended up taking us much longer than I thought. We dropped off everyone else and must have stopped at 5 different hotels and we were last. We were all super hungry but found out all the restaurants in our hotel closed already. We met up with my mom who had landed early that afternoon and they walked me and Josh to our room. We thought we would all order room service together but they didn't like anything on the menu so they went to their rooms and called it a night. Josh and I stayed up, ordered food and I got myself a glass of mine and watched Orange is the New Black before we fell asleep. I stayed up a little after Josh so I could watch another episode. I'm a Netflix binger what can I say
The next day we would go to Magic Kingdom
To give a little background for myself and the people I travel with I'll start with saying my name is Cat and I am 25 year old New Yorker (Brooklyn born and raised). I like wearing black, love skulls and crosses My musical taste is a jumble. I can listen to Metallica one minute, then some 2000's alternative, switch over to Celine Dion, go to Korean Indie music, belt out some Disney Movie tunes and rock out to some one hit wonders and 90's grunge/pop/rock. I've been described as pretty eclectic. I work as an Office Manager full time at a real estate company and have an amazing boyfriend who I've been with for about 5 years.
I've always loved Disney World and all things Disney. I have been fortunate enough to have gone multiple times in the past.
My boyfriend is Josh also 25. He's heading to Pharmacy School to live out his dream. He always knew about Disney and watched the movies as a kid but was never really eager to go to Disney World-until he met me. Last year when I told him I wanted to go he worried about the money and the fact that it's "mainly for kids". We ended up going and he loved it! The whole time he was wowed by everything he saw. Even after this recent trip he's the one asking when can we go back!
I also went with my brother and my mother. My brother is a 31 year old who works for Forbes. I don't get to see him often because he is always traveling for his job but we always try to grab some food and drinks when we can. My mother is 50+ and one of the hardest working people I know.
Onto the trip! So this trip was from June 19-June 21. My mom wanted to stay at a non Disney Hotel so we compromised and stayed at a non Disney Resort for part of the trip and then Josh and I moved to a Disney Hotel after. My mom only stayed four days and my brother only stayed two. We started the trip at the Hilton Bonnet Creek and then when my mom checked out we moved to the Art of Animation.
DAY 1-Arrival
The day of our flight me and Josh both went to work and left early. I met him and his house since he lives closer to the airport than I do. His mom made us food (yuay for Korean food!) and we called a cab. We got to LaGuardia Airport with about a little more than an hour to kill. I'm a terrible flier so I had myself an expensive whiskey drink while I waited for our flight. We played with the tablets they provide for a while and I made several trips to the bathroom because I have my mothers bladder.
Our flight was a little bit delayed so landed later than we thought and sat on the runway for at least a half hour but it wasn't so bad. I paid for crappy wifi only to find out you really aren't able to use Netflix. (I brought my ipad with me for the sole purpose of watching Orange is the New Black since season 3 premiered that day). Bummer.
The upside of having the wifi was I could talk on Facebook messenger and found out my brother was also really delayed and was at MCO still. We had about 45 minutes left until we landed so he just waited for us. We finally landed and ran to the point where everyone knows their Disney Vacation truly begins- at the shuttle or as many call it-"the fake monorail".
We met up with my brother after I lovingly gazed upon the art work at the Disney Store and headed to get a Mears ride to our hotel. It ended up taking us much longer than I thought. We dropped off everyone else and must have stopped at 5 different hotels and we were last. We were all super hungry but found out all the restaurants in our hotel closed already. We met up with my mom who had landed early that afternoon and they walked me and Josh to our room. We thought we would all order room service together but they didn't like anything on the menu so they went to their rooms and called it a night. Josh and I stayed up, ordered food and I got myself a glass of mine and watched Orange is the New Black before we fell asleep. I stayed up a little after Josh so I could watch another episode. I'm a Netflix binger what can I say
The next day we would go to Magic Kingdom
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