Getting Excited!!! Leaving For WDW on Thursday

50surgeries2012

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Nov 24, 2012
This is it! My guy Dan Haugen, our support worker, and I will be flying out Thursday to WDW! We are super excited! Both Dan, who has mild cerebral palsy, and I got the OK from our jobs to go. We are staying at a timeshare at the Marriott Grande Vista. It's in an accessible room I found out. So there will be plenty of room for my support worker to park her power chair, and for me to park the power chair I am renting.

My dream of celebrating my birthday at WDW is going to come true. I'm excited. I love Disney World. People there don't stare at me because of my face being different, or my hands. The cast members I've come across in past trips have all been very sweet to me. On our last trip in 2014 with my mom, support worker, and two family friends in January 2014. Dan, and I ran across a cast member who was from Oregon also. In a town south of where we live. It was pretty awesome. Dan was wearing his OSU Beavers jacket, and the cast member had stopped us when he said, "Go Beavers! I'm from Oregon too."
 
Wow how exiting! Happy birthday I hope you have the best time. Sounds like a wonderful trip.
 


So glad that it's finally time to go - you've been planning this trip for a while now! Have fun & have a Happy Birthday!
 
Yep. It took months, and months of planning. From getting the timeshare to finally getting the Access Lynx rides set up. I'm in the midst right now of washing clothes, and packing, for Dan, and I.
 
Hope you have a great time and a wonderful birthday.

Thanks Sue. Starting the packing now, and feeling excited. Trying to figure out how to pack food from home, so that we won't have to go to the grocery store too often as we'll be relying on Access Lynx to get around. We'll still have to go for the perishables. But, Dan, and I were told that we could bring whatever non-perishable food we wanted to bring. We're staying at the Marriott Grande Vista resort.
 
I know there is some company that will delver food to people in the Orlando area not sure if they will do this to a time share or not. and I forget the name of the company. This might save you time and having to go to the grocery store
 
I read on this resort's website and on TripAdvisor that the resort has a limited selection of food stuff in its gift shop. Also the resort is supposed to be very close to a grocery store. Maybe close enough to cruise on over in your chair?
 
I read on this resort's website and on TripAdvisor that the resort has a limited selection of food stuff in its gift shop. Also the resort is supposed to be very close to a grocery store. Maybe close enough to cruise on over in your chair?

I saw the video on the resort, and its layout. I'm packing another suitcase with food from home, and the food that needs to be refrigerated. We'll get it there. We're flying Southwest Airlines, so I'm so glad we won't get charged for how many bags we'll have per the three of us.
 

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