Theed31u 10 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Last fall my wife and I decided to take a trip to Disney and because we had just bought our motor home and discovered this forum we thought the Fort would be a good idea! We shared our plans with our families and welcomed them to plan the trip with us and go as a group. The only taker was my Mom so she just hitched a ride with us. So our dates were set and we knew who was going (My wife and I, our four kids and my Mom). We made plans to drive April 1st and 2nd. April 3rd - 10th at the fort and drive home the 11th and 12th. We were going to be at the fort for 8 days and got 7 day park hoppers. On our off day (Thursday) we scheduled Chef Mickey for 7:30. I will be trying to put each day into a post but adding pictures seems to be giving me trouble so I will start tomorrow with the daily reports for each day! Northerngirl--Lori 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mouseketab.....Carol 1,261 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Can't wait to read more! For pictures, you need to host them somewhere such as Flickr, Imgr, Photobucket, etc., and then copy the "image link" into your post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cortezcapt (Derek) 156 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I'm in. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fladogfan aka Gretchen 259 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 2 hours ago, Cortezcapt (Derek) said: I'm in. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Me too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BigTom 76 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Looking forward to more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CCIntrigue...aka Gwen 547 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I'm in too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
momof3kids-Yvonne 594 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Count me in as well. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yjgirl32 1 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I'm in. So exciting. Have a magical trip!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
twiceblessed....nacole 433 Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Looking forward to hearing about your trip! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theed31u 10 Posted April 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 So the first day of driving we got a very late start, about 3 hours after what we were planning. We drove and got to Nashville then decided start looking for a place for the night. My wife got on the phone and started calling campgrounds and found that there was something going on in Nashville and everyone was full. She finally found a place at Cullman Campgrounds, it was nothing fancy we just parked on the grass and plugged in for the night. The next morning my wife said a tire looked low and when I checked it was very low. I had put an air compressor in the storage under the motor home and filled the tire and headed into town to get it fixed. We arrived in Cullman and found McGriff Tire. They had room I could back the back of the motor home into one of their bays and they got right to work getting the tire off. They could not find a leak spraying the tire so the put it in the water tank that allows them to find small leaks. They still found nothing wrong so being the outside tire on the back side they started adding the extender on that was on the valve stem and found out that it was a little metal extended piece that the previous owner put on that was leaking. Easy fix just some work to get it figured out. I took those off all the wheels and they replaced them with a new style that they said would not leak and put new caps on all of them. I went to pay and they said have a safe trip and would not take any money! This was the first of the magic that happened on our trip. After the late start getting the tire done we drove and made it to Wekiwa Springs State Park in Florida before checking into the Fort the next day. We arrived late at this park but what time we did spend there was nice. It was quite and the amenities were nice and clean. Here are the kids and my mom as we were on the road the first day. Ivy 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
momof3kids-Yvonne 594 Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Sorry about the tire. Glad you found it when you were stopped rather than something happening while you were driving. So when you said Cullman was that Cullman, AL? Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theed31u 10 Posted April 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Yep, Cullman, AL. We took the a little longer route through Alabama to avoid Atlanta and some of the mountains east of Nashville. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theed31u 10 Posted April 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 We arrived at the Fort! We faxed in a site request and they had us going to that site but when checking in they offered a site that was open at that time (about 9:00 AM) and we decided to take it as we could just pull in and be done with it. We got site 1721, I don't think that the kids realized that we had arrived and would be at Magic Kingdom in just a few minutes! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CCIntrigue...aka Gwen 547 Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Great start to your TR. Happy to hear your tire problem wasn't more serious. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fladogfan aka Gretchen 259 Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 What a nice thing to do for your family, finding and fixing the leak. And NO CHARGES! McGriff Tire in Cullman, AL. :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Momof6....aka Marty 769 Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 McGriff Tire has a FB page. You should be sure to write about their great service on their page. If I lived closer, I would definitely use them. Can't wait to read more! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AldeanFan 4 Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Great report so far and lucky about the tire. We're planning our first trip for this fall! Ivy 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
twiceblessed....nacole 433 Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 1 hour ago, Momof6....aka Marty said: McGriff Tire has a FB page. You should be sure to write about their great service on their page. If I lived closer, I would definitely use them. Agreed! Looks like a nice start to the holiday. Looking forward to hearing about more! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Northerngirl--Lori 5 Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 Great start! I'm glad the tire was an easy fix. Looking forward to reading more. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caveat lector 181 Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 Outstanding start and thanks for sharing the TR Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theed31u 10 Posted April 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 So because we were just planning and parking in the overflow and coming back later to get set up in the site we got a little later start in the parks and missed our first two fast passes. Our plan was to hit the Magic Kingdom and start heading from adventure land around clockwise around the lands. We got most of Adventure Land and Frontier Land except that splash mountain went down while we were in line. We went up to main street and checked in for Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom and watched the light parade and the fireworks. We decided to hit Fantasy Land and that paid off big time! We stayed in the park until about 1:30 AM and hit ton of stuff. We walked right into see the princesses and all the rides that were in the back of the park. The kids did well being up so late. It is nice having the boat going to the Magic Kingdom but with sleeping kids in a stroller unloading to get on the bus kind of sucks. But we figured out a good method for that later in the trip. One thing we did before we went on the trip was to get a new camera. A Nikon D5500. We got it a day or so before the trip so we were going to put it to the test with this trip. We ended up taking about 4400 pictures and were not disappointed. I have not set up a way to host the pictures yet so I will have to add more later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Travisma 1,317 Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 That's a lot of photos! Imgur is one of the photo hosting sites. They are free, and I think they have a paid option, and with that many photos you might need a paid site no mater who you choose. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
twiceblessed....nacole 433 Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 Wow...4400 pictures! I think that's some sort of a record!! And 1:30a... you. amaze. me. I'm tired, just reading that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fladogfan aka Gretchen 259 Posted April 18, 2016 Report Share Posted April 18, 2016 Waiting to read how late y'all slept that morning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Theed31u 10 Posted April 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Before I get to the next day, I'm going to see if I can get some pictures going. Should be a picture of the fireworks and one taken at 1:25 AM (according to the image info) as we were heading out of the park. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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