The final full day, whatever will we do?? Disneyguy Update 8/30/07

[DisneyGuy758]

Pouring rain. Thunder, lightning, wind. It's swell. The flight was horrid as well. Delayed an hour in Burlington, VT and on the tarmac in Orlando due to the lightining.

Here's hoping that tomorrow will bring that Disney magic!


Andre
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[Checkers]

Thanks for checking in. Glad you arrived safely and hope that the remainder of your vacation is great!:) Looking forward to updates as I am seriously having WDW withdrawal (our next trip is end of Oct.).

[annie1995]

Awww, I hope it clears up quick!!!! It looks better for tomorrow!!! Keeping my fingers crossed for you guys!!!! KUP with updates!!!! Pictures too if you can:)

[Schucraig]

Have a great time when you get there!:thumbsup2

[DisneyGuy758]

So we woke up today, nice and early at 7am. Got dressed, went and had some breakfast, and headed out for our first full day! We decided on MGM, as it opened at 9am. We got there at about ten of nine, and stood with everyone else and watched the nice show they put on. Then the rope dropped. I told DW to watch the crowd, they all headed up Sunset Blvd, where as we headed in the complete opposite direction. Me and DS7 hit Star Tours, and DW and DS1 went to find the Honey I Shrunk the Kids play ground. DS7 loved Star Tours, and we got a little something in the gift shop after. Met up with DW, she said the play area wasn't open yet. We stopped and took some nice pictures on the speeder bike outside Star Tours with both boys.

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From there we headed back to the play area and wandered arond there for a bit. Why can't the put in that cushiony ground in EVERY park??

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We saw tons of these little guys everywhere, even at our hotel.
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After, we headed for Muppet Vision, everyone loved it, even DS1. He's been really good on everything so far. Stopped and got a few more trinkets, then headed to the SCi-Fi for our 11:30 lunch. Food was ok, service was great, it's too dang dark in there though. Maybe some throw back flashlights?

We started to wander some more, and ran right into Stitch and a few others for a photo op!

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We were gonna leave and come back to the room to rest up, but DS1 had already fallen asleep, so we hitched a boat to Epcot. Nice ride, relaxing and refreshing. Once we got to Epcot, DS1 woke up, and we wandered through England back to Future world. DW was thirsty, and I thought of the perfect place, the Cool Station! We got in and I quickly got her and DS7 a nice tall cup of.....BEVERLY!! It's not as bad as everyone says it is...it's mostly the ending. The drink from Mexico was pretty good, and DW did not like the Ginger Ale they had there. We then headed to Imagination. No wait at all. Got right on with everyone and had a blast! I didn't take may pictures here so not much to show.

This is where we decided to come back to the room and rest. We did for an hour or so and then wanted to go to Magic Kingdom for some Spectro Magic! We got in the park, were walking under the train station...and....

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The sky opened up. Oddly enough, this is what the sky looked like...
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They are taken within a minute of each other, the rain one coming first.

We stood there for maybe half an hour, and I braved it to grab some ponchos. Got back, got them on all of us and we ventured out. We just wanted some dinner...is that too much to ask? Well, enough was enough, we were soaked, DS1 was VERY upset, and we hopped a bus back to our hotel. Which is All Star Movies I should add. We grabbed a quick bite here, and then we called it a night.

That's in for now...more tomorrow!


Thanks for reading!


Andre
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[annie1995]

Sounds like you had a pretty good first day!!!! Love the pictures!!! You have to give me any advice and hints you have about going with a 1 year old. I have never taken any trip like this when my other boys were little. My DS turned 1 in July, so he'll be 14 months when we go in a few weeks!!!!! Can't wait for more updates and pictures!!!!

[DisneyGuy758]

Annie, the only big things I can reccomend are a favorite blanket, stuffed animal and at least three outfits for the course of the day. Kellen went through 3 outfits yesterday alone, but he also had diarhea(sp?) so that didn't really help the fact much. I'd say bring a blanket along in the parks too for when you park your stroller, you can put it over the seat as they get quite hot just sitting there. Other than those, I'll have to get back to you and see what else happens this week.


Andre
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[annie1995]

Cool thanks for the tips so far, throw any more to me that you find along the way!!! BTW, are those baby sized croc's your cutie has on???

[twitch]

Thanks for the live updates... we'll be there one week from tonight! :cool1:

Time for the most popular question...

How are the crowds? :3dglasses

[DisneyGuy758]

Cool thanks for the tips so far, throw any more to me that you find along the way!!! BTW, are those baby sized croc's your cutie has on???

Yes, yes they are. At least they are 'croc-esque'. DW got them at Payless...but they were recalled as the rivits pop off. We don't let Kellen chew on his shoes, so we kept them.:rolleyes1


:wave: Twitch!

The crowds aren't too bad right now. But it is HOT! The weather, on the other hand, isn't so hot. tstorms for almost everyday we're here.

Thanks for reading!!! More later tomorrow!!


Andre
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[MinnieTink]

Thanks for posting! I should be sound asleep, getting my rest for an early flight tomorrow morning, but I am TOO EXCITED!!!!! And your pictures are so great! You all look great in your Incredibles shirts. Glad to see your little guy is hanging in there.... We shall see how my little guy does tomorrow!;)

[patman2011]

great report, i hope the weather will hold out enough for you to enjoy yourselves. your pics are great, i really like the little ones on the speeder. cant wait to read more./

[DisneyGuy758]

So we woke up this morning to hear my DS1 gagging and choking. I rushed outta bed and grabbed him, and made my way to the bathroom, when, blech! Just a little vomit. Nothing too major. We laid him down in bed with us, and he rested some more. Then BAM, more vomit. Quite a bit more now. I rushed him into the bathroom again, and got him a bath tub going. :sick: Got him cleaned up, gave him some meds, and we headed down to get some breakfast. Kellen didn't eat much, but I wouldn't wanna eat much either. Now, we started free dining today(us and everyone else out there) and in doing so, we had to split our stay. I had an idea that I passed by my wife and she told me to do what I thought was right. Soooooo I went to the main desk and checked out, then check back in. I asked the nice CM if it would be at all possible to transfer to a family suite at Music. After a ten minute phone call....it was done. Meanwhile, my wife had taken our two boys to MK. I got a text message from her around 9am, 'our cards don't work.' Crap. Now, when I split our stay, I had to buy a one day park pass to get the package. By sheer luck she was able to use those passes to get in while I figured out the problem. I got it all figured out with the help of another fantastic CM. I hopped a bus and made my way to MK. I found my wife and we started our day.

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We made our way to Tomorrow Land and I grabbed FPs for Buzz. We wandered to Mickeys Toon Town, and Thomas and I got on the Barnstormer, and Kellen and Rebecca wandered to Minnie's house.

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Thomas LOVED the Barnstormer. I liked it as well, a nice intense ride for the young'ns. We got in line for Mickey at the Judges Tent...and then Kellen decided to evacuate his bowels. We had to get out of line and find a bathroom.

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We went through Fantasy Land and hit Pooh's Adventure. Cute ride, the boys loved it. We went back to use our FPs on Buzz, and right before we got there, Kellen fell asleep. I scooped him up, and we got in line. Now before you all start yelling about how we should hae let him sleep, we did. He didn't even flinch through the whole thing. I scored 69,600 with a sleeping baby in my arm. Not too bad, huh? :thumbsup2

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We had ADRs for the Coral Reef at 1:30. The direct monorail to Epcot was closed, so we had to take the senic route. Comtemporary, to the TTC then on to Epcot. Not a bad ride. Kellen slept through the entire ride, and woke up just before Epcot. We got to Epcot and made our way through Mexico, Norway and hit China where my wife wanted to look for kids chopsticks. :confused3 Kellen then again felt the need to fill his pants...and a return trip to Norway was booked.

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I got Kell cleaned up, and met up with my wife and we made our way to the Living Seas. We got in to the wonderful AC restaurant. Got a decent table and had a great server. We had a great meal, though I didn't get my glass of Alsace Pinot Gris I ordered with my tilapia.

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I called the hotel and got our room number. We came back to the room, made our way here, and promtly fell in love with these family suites. I'm never staying anywhere less than one of these EVER again. I came in to the master room fell on the bed and didn't wake up until around 5pm. Then the rains came. We wanted to go to DTD, but that idea went bust. I went to the cafeteria and got some eats for the family. Our luggage finally showed up, and now we're ready to pass out for another wonderful day to come.

Thanks for reading everyone, there should be yet another update tomorrow night. With more pictures again!


Andre
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[Eeyore's My Favorite]

Thanks for the trip report - it's so much fun to hear how everyone else is enjoying WDW, while being on the countdown for ours!!

Hopefully the weather will turn out to be a bit better for the rest of your stay. While it's been raining at the mouse house we haven't had drop here!! You can shove it our way to the coast if you please...............:lmao:

Enjoy the rest of your stay!!

[annie1995]

Noooooo, your little guy can't be sick I hope he is feeling better today, and no one else gets sick. Poor lil man. He is such a cutie sitting in that sink!!! Can't wait to see more pics!!!

[shellbelle]

I just love live reports! :love:

I'm glad to hear you like the suite at All Star Music. I'd love to hear more about it. How do the fold out beds really feel?

Hope the rain stays away and your little one feels better!:wizard:

[DisneyGuy758]

First things first here...

ShellBelle:
I don't know how comfy the fold outs are, as only my DS7 is sleeping on it. He can fall asleep on a rock ledge though, so it's still kinda up in the air. I'll check them out tomorrow.


No 5:30am wake up call this morning. We rolled outta be around 7:30. Got some eats and decided to make the trek to....Animal Kingdom! Bus took forever to get to the hotel, and we were sweating our who-ha's off by the time it did. Mind you, it's still just after 8am! Once we got to the park, before the turnstiles, we were met this nice gentleman...

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Anybody? Anybody?

Yes, that's Wes Palm. We met Push at Tomorrowland the day before, so I was looking around for Wes' 'handler', and he was way off, being kinda obvious actually. Push's was in the crowd with everyone. Our first expedition(no pun intended....yeah right:rotfl2: ) was so I could snag a FP to Everest. No one else really wanted to go on it. I wonder why?

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We headed over to Dino-Land, and hit up Tricera-Top spin. The whole family went on it, and they all loved it! After that, Kellen and mommy headed to the bone yard while Tom and I hit up Primeval Whirl. He enjoyed it a lot.=, and kept asking question about everything in line....my answers were usually I don't know, or it's top secret Disney stuff. We got on the ride, and for as cool of a concept as it was, I didnt' like it all that much. Up and down is one thing, but add spinning to it...no good. I'll take RNR any day over this.(More on that later.) We met up with mommy and Kellen and went to Camp Minnie-Mickey for some meet and greets. We got everyone's autograph and had pictures taken with all of them on our Photopass. The only one we had taken with our digital camera was with Donald, as his PP guy was having 'problems.'

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I love that picture. Kellen loves the characters. I mean LOVES them. Not scared a bit. He even chewed on Goofy's whiskers. Yes, you heard right, chewed. We headed back towards Asia and I parted way with the family to make my trek to Everest. They stopped at Pizzafari and had lunch, excitement was my lunch today folks. The ride itself was great. Not too long, not too short. But for all the hype of the yeti....he barely was in it at all. Just a little cameo at the end. It woulda been cooler had he actually been chasing us around the mountain, and was at every turn we came to. But that's what you get when I don't design a ride at Disney I guess. :rotfl:

We headed out of the park and landed at Downtown Disney. Did some shopping, got two 'Tato heads and on My Little Pony. Snagged a coupla new shirts, and then headed back to the room to freshen up for our 5:30 ADR at the 50's Prime Time Cafe. We had a great server, Jeff. Our 'babysitter'. I love it when they really get into it. He did, and seemed to love it. There was this one guy there, skinny fella, dorky glasses and slicked 50s hair. He had a voice on him that would raise the dead. LOUD LOUD LOUD! We laughed each time he called a family to be seated.

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After dinner, which was VERY good, we wandered some. Tom and I hit Star Tours again. And they we just mosied around. We were looking to go on the back lot tou when this solitary cast member, with a little black bag, started a conversation. Asked where we were fomr and all that. Told him we were heading to the tour and she said we should be able to catch the last one. I didn't wanna stare at his bag...but it was a Year of a Million Dreams bag....you know what that means!! But nothing. Even when we came back his way, and he told us he was sorry that he told us the wrong info. Nothing. Oh well...I was excited for a few minutes. I guess that counts. :thumbsup2

We were going to check out Fantasmic but halfway up the hill they announced that it was standing room only at that point. We turned round and headed out. I tried to talk Tom into going on the Tower of Terror with me. No go.

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I went on and got dropped almost 6 times! Is this a new thing?? I loved it!! Then we were gonna hit the bus when I asked Tom if he wanted to go on another rollercoaster. He said sure. We headed to RNR. I told him that this one is in the dark, you go upside down and is inside. He was still game. I wanted him to know that he didn't have to go on it. But he wanted to. I had my arm around him in line and his little heart was going a mile a minute. We got into the cars and I pulled down his safety bar and he disappeared. I told him it was gonna go fast and be loud, he was ready. We took off and I yelled to him that we were about to go upside down. I was expecting a :scared1: face on him, but got more of a :confused3 . Nothing seemed to bother him. He loved it completely. I might try him on Space Mountain later this week.

From there we hopped the bus back to our wonderful family suite, I just got done some laundry, the boys are out cold and it's waaaaaaaaay past my Disney bedtime. Another day is in the bag. More to come tomorrow folks!

Same disboard time, same disboard channel!!


Thanks

Andre
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[annie1995]

Yay!!!! he's feeling better!!!! Sounds like you all had a very productive and fun day!!!! I love the pics, you have such a cute family!!!! Can't wait to see the next update!!! Have a great day today!!!

[eliza61]

Wow great trip report Andre. It sounds like you guys park hop, how has the transportation between parks been? Are you going back to resort in between.

[DisneyGuy758]

Yay!!!! he's feeling better!!!! Sounds like you all had a very productive and fun day!!!!

Yes, he's feeling much better, though he's not eating very much. He's drinking plenty of water, but mostly eating grapes and cookies and crackers. Nothing here appeals to him.

Wow great trip report Andre. It sounds like you guys park hop, how has the transportation between parks been? Are you going back to resort in between.

Yes, we have park hopper tickets. It's the only way to go! The transportation is good, there are a number of ways you can get to where you want to. We've done all of them so far too, it's great. We try to go back to the resort for a bit, but yesterday(day3) we went for the long haul. Didn't seem to bother anyone too much, and everyone slept like babies that night...once again, no pun intended.


Thanks for reading!!!


Andre
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[Micky's biggest fan!]

I am soo enjoying your trip....hopefully not half as much as you are!:lmao: Your children are just adorable, and like everyone else following your day by day plays, I am glad the little man is feeling better!:)
How many days are you there for??? It sounds as if you are hitting all the parks and rides without much waiting!! Anticipating today's events!!!! Thanks again!!

23 days till CBR , your trip totally has me psched!!!!

Melissa

[DisneyGuy758]

I am soo enjoying your trip....hopefully not half as much as you are!:lmao: Your children are just adorable, and like everyone else following your day by day plays, I am glad the little man is feeling better!:)
How many days are you there for??? It sounds as if you are hitting all the parks and rides without much waiting!! Anticipating today's events!!!! Thanks again!!

23 days till CBR , your trip totally has me psched!!!!

Melissa

Thank you very much Melissa. Our kids are great, even with the oldest being a little on the ADHD side. We got here last Friday, and it pretty much was a wasted day. It rained, and by rain I mean thunder and lightning and torrential downpours, for the entire evening. The longest line we had to wait in was for Primeval Whirl...and that was only around 15 minutes. We just got back from a morning at the Magic Kingdom. THere were rides there we hadn't hit the first time through. Pirates, Splash Mt, Monsters Inc, and yes, Tom and I did Stitch. I miss Alien Encounter:sad1: . Little to no wait for any of them. I have a few minutes, as both boys and the wife are trying for a nap, so I'll get the morning report outta the way now.

Our first stop at Magic Kingdom was the barber shop. Kellen got his first hair cut. He was born with a very long tail of hair and we very much liked it. I got him on the chair, and told the lady, Penny, what we wanted. Just a trim on the tail and a trim all around. Nothing too major. And faster than I could say no....the tail was gone:scared: . My wife said, 'she cut it off?!' I kinda gave her a uh....yeah face. That depressed her. I tried to tell her that it would grow back, but I don't think she believed me. We got Kell free ears and a certificate. I wasn't that bad of a hair cut...he's just tail-less now. So we went through the castle next, it had been shut off earlier in our trip, so we were happy to be able to go all the way through. Made out way into Frontierland and grabbed a child swap pass for Splash Mt. Rebecca and Tom got on, and Kell and I waited. Kell found himself a girlfriend while we waited.

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I met up with them in the gift shop, and was informed that Tom didn't wanna go on again. He said it was scary. This is the same kid who went on RNR the night before. :confused3 Kids these days. So off I went, all by myself. I got a boat all to my lonesome and promptly got soaked when one boat came down the plunge and it's splash hit me. The rest of the ride was ok and the plunge wasn't too wettening(yes, I like to make up words.). We wandered some more and found these two scally waggers waiting for us.

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Kellen loves the characters. Not scared a bit. After that we walked on to Pirates. Yeah, you heard me. Walked on to. I like the changes they've made in it, adding Jack and co. Ties it in with the movies well. We wanted lunch after and the Pirate and Parrot was closed, so we headed to omorrowland. But not before we hit the Jungle Cruise, we had THE best skipper ever. :sail: He loves with job very much....maybe a bit too much.:laughing: Rebecca wanted to go through the Swiss Family Tree house, so we did that, me lugging a 25+lb baby up and down the stairs there. Ugh. Then we again started to make our way to Tomrrowland for some eats...but got stopped by these guys.

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Look at Kellens face...how happy is he? So finally we made our way to Cosmic Rays Startlight Cafe. And after losing a finger or two to the prices, we had lunch. I shouldn't complain really, just under thirty bucks for three cheeseburgers(one with bacon), two large cokes, a chocolate milk and a white milk. A full meal for the 4 of us at Applebees or TGI Fridays would be probably ten bucks more than that. So we refuled, and Kellen evacutated his excess materials(Tomorrowland talk for, he took a poop.). It was daddies turn to change him up so I did and we moved on. We hit the Laugh Floor of Monsters Inc, and although funny....it could've been longer. Kellen fell asleep shortly before that and slept through the entire thing. Tom and I hit Stitch, and once again, although it's nice to see the parks intergrating some of the newer characters...I miss Alien Encounter, badly. It was one of my favorite attractions here. But I digress. We starte back up Main St and I talked mommy into Ice Cream. Sloppiest, ice cream, ever. Good yes, just waaaaay too hot to be eating outside. I'm still sticky. They started their Family Day parade, thingy. There were some great characters, and one I wasn't sure I'd see on this trip.

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Yes, that's Daisy Duck. From what I hear she's kinda rare, so we got a lot of pictures of her. After the parade, we hit the bus and now here I am. The boys are sleeping, so is the wife. I need to hit the front desk for some monetary issues and who knows after that!? We'll find out tonight!


Thanks for taking the time to read!!



Andre
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[Disney's Fab 4]

Disney Guy.... I am loving your trip report!!!! I'm glad your peanut is feeling better..... I love your pix too.....:goodvibes

[annie1995]

Oohhhh, a mid day update!!!! I love those!!!! Great pics, glad he's feeling better. I can't wait for more later!!!

[Micky's biggest fan!]

I cannot believe how well Kellen just goes and goes. I hope my two year old has that much stamina. He is so stinkin cute with the characters!!:donald: Keep the pics coming, but more importantly have a magical time!!:thumbsup2

Melissa

[DisneyGuy758]

Ok, sorry about the non-update yeaterday...but you know, Disney World and all. There wasn't much to update about anyways really. The boys rested, mom too, we went to the cafeteria and got some dinner and then we headed to DTD. We hadn't gone to the West Side yet, so that was out main goal. We pushed through the throngs of people who seemed to only want to stand in our way. We have a GIGANTIC three wheeled stroller...are you gonna stare at it, or move out of its way? I really wanted to go to Raglan Road, being Irish and all. So we got to the gift shop, and I was quite underwhelmed. Nothing really struck my fancy. We got a coupla postcards, and some really neat Irish Legends and Irish Tales books and moved on. I'll read Kellen the Legend of Fionn Mac Cumhail for a bedtime story later. We had to go into the Harley store, Tom is a motorcycle fan, thanks to his Poppa. Then I wanted to look for a book at Virgin, but didn't find it. So we heaeded back home.

Wasting time at the gift shop
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Day Five, getting closer to the edge.

We woke at our normal 7:30am and evryone got dressed and cleaned up. Kellen thought he could find a way to stay down here for good.

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We got some breakfast(mmmmmm....cinnamon bun french toast), and then hit the bus to Epcot. Our first hit was for FPs for Test Track for Tom and I. Got those then hit the Land for the boat ride. Even though it's not fast and/or thrilling everyone loved this ride. Even Tom. The whole idea behind it is great.

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After the boat ride, I grabbed more FPs for

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(minus the guy who walked right into my shot, thanks buddy.)

We headed back to Test Track and got our place in line there. Tom was anxious to know all about the ride. I told him it went really fast. That was pretty much all he wanted to hear. I got our picture on Photopass and we headed out. Not before Kellen found something he liked though.

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We had a noon ADR at Rose and Crown and made our way there. We got a nice seat and and a great Waitress(Karen) and used our DDR to the max. I got the Potato and Leek Soup and the Shepards Pie, Rebecca got the soup too and the Tea Time Chicken. She said the chicken was fantastic, I didn't try. Oddly enough, Tom didn't like the soup at all, but Kellen ate it up. Almost half of moms bowl.:thumbsup2 Everything else was good, but Karen seemed to disappear near the end, and our Soarin' FP time was coming ever closer. As soon as we got out of the R&C Tom and I bolted back to Future World and made it with 4 minutes to spare. We got in line and finally took our seats. This was my first time on Soarin' so I guess I could sum it up with, hoooolllleeeee cr@p. This was unlike any Disney ride I've EVER been on, and I've been on a lot of them. It's like they took one of the 360 movies and put it on it's side and flew you through it. It was so realistic, and kinda scary. A couple times I found myself grabbing for the handhold. Now only if I could've gotten a picutre of Toms face...pure joy. He LOVED it. He wanted to go on it again right then. Maybe we can fit it in tomrrow. By then it was time to head back to our room so we could get ready for mom and dads night out.

Rebecca and I got changed and our babysitter from Kids Night out showed up right on time. When she came in, I thought who's gonna babysit her? She was around 20 years old. A very nice girl, Vanessa. We felt comfortable and headed out. It took about five minutes to get used to the idea that it was just the two of us right then. We hopped a bus to the MK and then hitched a monorail to the Contemporary, checked in on the second floor and got into the elevator for the California Grill. We were one of the first reservations of the night and I requested a window seat, which we got.:goodvibes

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I got the California Roll sushi and Rebecca got the Lobster salad. Mine was ok, but I'm not a big fan of Sushi, so I probably won't try it again anywhere. Rebecca's was fantastic. I have pics of the appitizers, but won't bore(read: tease) you with such things. I had the Red Snapper and Rebecca the Oak fired steak. Both were spectacular, and our deserts were on the same level. Plum tart for Rebecca and the chocolate cake and coffee(ice cream) for me. We shared a nice glass of Tokaij wine, like nectar of the gods that stuff is. When we were done we hit MK solo. Our first stop was to get FPs for BTMRR. We got those and were about to jump into stand by for Splash Mt when some very nice man offered us his FPs for Splash that were good right then. I think his daughter ewas too short to go on. We thanked him and jumped in line. In no time at all we were floating through the briar patch, and down came a boat.....SPLASH!! We were drenched...and hadn't even gone down the drop yet. We went through the rest of the ride, loving every minute and then down the drop, and barely got a drop on us. We snagged our picture and a coupla new shirts and headed next door to Big Thunder. We got on board and correct me if I'm wrong, but it seemed to be longer than I remembered. I loved it. Rebecca, not so much. Kinda made her sick to her stomach. We headed to the exit, but not before I grabbed one last photo for the night.

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Don't mind the people at the bottom, I've never seen them before in my life:rolleyes1 :rolleyes1 .

We got our bus back to the resort, and I paid the babysitter(85$). We got a quick report on what they did for the night, and she was off. It's a great service, I'd do it again. But that's the good news folks. I talked to my mother tonight, and in 2009 we're making a return trip, with Gamra(as the boys call her) in tow. Built in babysitter!!!!:yay:

So, that's it for now. I'm dead tired, and we wanna make the most of tomorrow, our last full day. So I'm off to bed folks!


Thanks again for reading!!!


Andre
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[DisneyGuy758]

Let me preface this with the note that there are no, again, no pictures in todays update. I will be updating with a TON of pictures at a later date. We need to be up early tomorrow to hit the Magical Express in the morning.


Howdy folks. This is it, the last hurrah. The whole enchilada. The big bang. The....well, you get the point. We had planned on hitting three, yes, three parks today but that got cut short by one park. We got up around 6:30am, the boys gobbled down some pop tarts, Mom and I grabbed something quick from the cafeteria and we hopped the bus to Epcot. Our first stop on the theme park express was the Character Spot in Epcot. We got tons of great Photopass shots with all the characters. We then steamed over to Imagination, as Kellen loves Figment. We were the only people on the ride, and had a blast! I even saw the hidded mickey on the desk in the sight section. Wait, go back ten minutes. I sent the family to Imagination while I grabbed FPs to Soarin'. After Imagination, Tom and I took a ride on Soarin' again. He loves that ride. We had the last row this time, I much prefer the front, as you don't see the rest of the people dangling beside you. From there we headed to the gate, and the monorail. We had to switch at the TTC, and were then on our way to Magic Kingdom. One of our first plans there was to go on Peter Pans flight, but the line was already at a 40 minute wait. We jumped across to Small World. One word, ugh. Rebecca wanted to go on it, but was willing to give it up for Peter Pan. But we fell back on it after all. So we went through that torch....um, ride and felt the urge to eat something. Odd as it was only noon. Freshly refuled, we wandered over to Mickey's PhilharMagic. Remember, those doors open 'AutoMagically!' It was a nice movie, but I prefer Muppet Vision any day. We hit a few shops and then took the train all the way around the park, to the entrance to leave so the boys could both have a nap. They did that, and Rebecca went to DTD to look for sweatshirts. She called and thought we should just go an meet back at MK, as we had a 5pm ADR at the Crystal Palace. We met up, and were promptly rang for our seat. We had a nice seat near the front, and didn't have to wait too long for the characters to come by, except for Tigger...he seemed to like the other side better. The food was ok. You'd think they'd have semi-'normal' foor at such a family themed place, but Thai Curried Mussels? Come on now. We ate, and ate, and ate, took picture after picture and got all the autographs we could handle and decided to head out. We got a few last Photopass shots in, and made our way down Main St to hit the Emporium. Got some last minute goodies, and when we walked out, at 7:30, noticed the people lining the streets for the 9pm parade. Guess what we did. Planted our rears. Kellen planted a bit too hard and needed a diaper change, so I took a little walk. Slowly the time ticked by. Then finally, it was time. I've never seen a Spectromagic parade, I'm kinda upset that this was my first, and last for a while. The parade was fantastic, and we made our way through the hordes of people going the other way for Wishes. We, on the other hand, needed to come back here to pack. So, after putting the boys down(you're short, your belly button sticks out way too far and you're a terrible burden on your poor mother. That's how we usually put them down. :rotfl2: ) we started packing. We got about a third way there, and realized that we didn't have enough room. So, I made and executive decision, and went and bought a new suitcase in the gift shop. I'm sorry to say that one of the boys will now have to go to Community College as the new bag cost about three semesters of tuition for a Ivy league school. But, we got packed and we're ready to hear those alarms at 6:30am tomorrow morning.....or not.

Well thanks everyone for reading along. I'm glad I kept you somewhat entertained along the way. Like I said above, there will be an update with TONS of photos. Maybe even some Photopass ones in the future.


Thanks again!


Andre
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[DisneyGuy758]

Double post. Nothing to see here people, move along.

[Disney's Fab 4]

:thumbsup2 terrific... Still loving all the stories!!!! 1 question... Overall, what did you think of the crowd situation???????? very curious...popcorn::
By the way... Really love the photo of the castle from over head looks like you took it from an airplane..... beautiful picutre!

[annie1995]

Awwww, its over already???!!! I can't wait for the final update with more pictures after you get home. I'm glad you all had a great time!!!! BTW, my DS is totally looking forward to eating those Thai curry mussels at CP. I'll bet he could probably eat his weight in those :rotfl: . Thats all I have heard him talk about eating LOL!!! Anyhoo, safe trip home, and update when you can!!!:goodvibes

[annie1995]

:lmao:Hey, you never finished your TR. Is it too late now?