Tiggerific04's DFTW Trip Report 8/10-8/25

[Tiggerific04]

Hey everyone! I'm still organizing pics and everything, but I thought I could get started on my TR anyway. I've been dying to write one since before I got married and I just can't wait any more!

Here's a little background info:

DH and I met freshman year of high school and got to be good friends in our junior year. I had liked him for a while but he had a girlfriend... they finally broke up at the end of junior year and we got to be really close over the summer and that fall. I finally asked him to the prom in January of our senior year and a couple days later he told me he liked me, and we've been together ever since! We celebrated our 8 year anniversary this past January.

We got engaged last year in the MK. It wasn't a surprise, but all of our friends and family think it was -- I actually helped pick out my own ring and everything! I didn't know how exactly he would do it, but I knew it was going to be in the MK and I knew it was going to be the first night of our vacation. He ended up giving me several surprise gifts that night to trick me, and I finally got my ring in front of the castle as we were leaving the park.

I'm not a very girly-girl at all so I never had a "dream" wedding or anything planned. I hadn't really thought about it much at all so I didn't have anything in mind when we started planning. We were originally going to do an at-home church wedding and reception and then honeymoon in Disney, but we decided against that because: (1)I hate being the center of attention and didn't want a big wedding, (2)DH has a HUGE family and I have almost no one, (3)it's super expensive to have a wedding in NJ.

So, we threw around the idea of a Disney wedding but we didn't know if anyone would be able to come. We decided it would be immediate family and the bridal party only, so we talked to them and they were all ok with it so I contacted DFTW and the rest is history!

We had an Intimate Wedding with 11 guests (plus us) and then went to afternoon tea at the Gardenview Lounge, and then we had dinner at Chef Mickey's.

We used the following vendors (I'll review them all in more detail in my actual TR):

My hair/makeup: Ana from Beaute Speciale (awesome!)
MOH and moms' hair/makeup: Lisa Pena (ok)
Photography: Randy Chapman (haven't seen the pics yet, but he was GREAT to work with!)
Officiant: Pastor Sigfried Jaeger (so sweet!)
Tuxedos: Carolyn Allen's (Sue was amazing to work with and very helpful)
Coordinator: Tanis Armstrong (I love her!)
Floral: Rosie Carabbia (amazing!)
Transportation for MOH: Mears (they were on time and great)

Cast of Characters (I didn't include too much info about DH's side because I'm not sure what he's comfortable with me sharing):

Me: 25 -- I've always wanted to go to Disney but didn't until I graduated from college (DH and I went there as a gift to ourselves)... I fell in love with the place and we've been back every year since. I am an obsessive planner and keep color-coded itineraries of what we are going to be doing everyday. Outside of Disney, I was a website coordinator but I quit that job the day before we left for FL because I hated it. I'm currently looking for something new and different. I'm a vegetarian but I will occasionally eat white meat (you'll see a lot of that during this trip).

DH: 26 -- He went to Disney a couple times with his family when he was younger, but it wasn't nearly as much fun as when he's gone with me, haha. He is not a planner at all and leaves everything up to me. He wishes I would follow through on my promises to leave one day free to just hang out at the resort, but I get so caught up in the Disney magic that I can't stand to sit around a hotel room wasting valuable park time! He is a science and computer teacher but is currently looking to get into his own classroom and get his license.

MOH: 27 -- She and I have been BFF for 19 years. We grew up together and went to college together and she is like a sister to me. She had a really bad diving accident in 2005 that left her paralyzed from the shoulders down, so we weren't even sure if she was going to be able to make it down to the wedding. Tanis went above and beyond helping me get everything organized to make it happen and everything went smoothly for her. She used to be an art teacher and is now an independent artist that paints with her mouth. She's putting on a show next summer which is quite an accomplishment since the doctors weren't even sure she was going to survive!

DBIL #1: DH's older brother, 27, best man

DBIL #2: DH's oldest brother, 30-something, best man
DSIL: DBIL #2's wife, 30-something

Flower Girl: DH's niece/goddaughter, 2 (oldest brother's daughter)
Ring Bearer: DH's nephew, 8 (oldest brother's son)

DM: My mom, 50-something (thinks she's a lot older) -- She is not a Disney fan at all and has never been to the World. She thought it was going to be all-Mickey, all-the-time despite what I tried to tell her. She was pleasantly surprised and is planning a return trip with my dad in 2008.

DD: My dad, 50-something -- He was super excited about a Disney wedding and vacation and was really looking forward to all the food and parks. He is thrilled my mom had a good time and wants to go back.

DMIL: DH's mom, 50-something
DFIL: DH's dad, 50-something

MOH's Date: 27 -- They went to high school together and he has been an awesome friend to her. We told her that she could bring whoever she wanted so that she would have someone on the plane with her, and someone in the room at night in case she needed something. He is amazingly sweet and a great guy.

More to come...

[Tiggerific04]

Day One: NJ to SC

The plan was to leave NJ at 6am in order to beat the Washington, DC traffic and arrive in SC around 4pm. We drive because DH doesn't like planes, and we stop in Florence, SC for the night instead of going straight through -- we did that the first year and it was a HUGE mistake. We were dead tired by the time we got to FL and wasted our whole first afternoon and night sleeping!

Anyway, we were up until 3am the night before packing and trying to print out our stupid programs. We had originally bought this pretty pink cardstock and were going to make 6x6 inch square programs, but the store didn't have enough paper and we couldn't find more anywhere, so we bought this sparkly white cardstock instead and figured we would just do 8x11 standard paper size to save time cutting and whatnot.

I got everything set up on the computer and attempted a test -- the paper is too thick for the printer!! It printed fine until the end and then smeared the ink all across the paper. I figured we would get up early, go to my parents' house and try their printer since it might be better.

So, we woke up, finished packing, and started loading my car. I drive a Corolla and it is TINY. We had 2 weeks' worth of clothes and vacation stuff, plus my dress, crinoline, boxes of wedding stuff, and gifts for everyone. Oh, and did I mention it was raining? It was absolutely POURING buckets of rain and it was starting to flood outside! We grabbed a poncho and used it to cover the top part of my garment bag so that my dress wouldn't get wet, but we got SOAKED running back and forth to the car!

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We finally headed over to my parents'. Nope, their printer doesn't work either! It's now well after 9am and we realize we're going to have to go to Kinko's to get them printed there. So we drive out there, try it and it works! Except I had printed test copies on regular printer paper (back to back) and it was bleeding through when we used the Kinko's copier. So now we have to go allll the way back to my house, reprint everything on its own sheet of paper, go back to Kinko's and print it all out. Ugh, we were finally officially on the road at 10:55am: 4 hours and 55 minutes behind schedule.

We got onto the Turnpike and everything went smoothly... we stopped at the last service area in NJ for a quick potty and snack break: the Burger King here is better than anywhere else in our opinions so we always stop here. I had chicken fries and regular fries, and DH wanted a regular chicken sandwich but they had run out of the rolls... the woman offered him a round roll instead, but that didn't make any sense for a long sandwich so he had something else I can't remember instead.

Everything went fine until we got to VA -- we ALWAYS hit traffic in VA no matter what and this year was no exception. We were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for about an hour or so and then the rest was smooth sailing. Until we got to NC. It was dark by that time and DH was sleeping while I was driving. I noticed that there was some lightning in the sky, and then more and more until it was nonstop... it looked like a camera flash constantly going off! DH woke up and we switched (at South of the Border, gotta love that place!) so that I could rest a little. The lightning continued until we got to the hotel in SC at 12:45am. It reminded me of the movie Sweet Home Alabama, except it's WAY scarier in person when it's just the two of you in your little car on the highway at night!

We checked in, called our families to assure them we were ok, and then passed out for the night.

Next up: Day Two (and lots more pictures, I promise!)

[Tiggerific04]

Day Two: SC to FL

So, we woke up the next morning at 8:00am and while DF was getting ready, I remembered to take some pics of the room. It looked exactly the same as it always does (we stay at the same place every year), but I like to take pics anyway.

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Check out my dress wearing the bright orange poncho

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I checked out while DF went to check the car and make sure the oil and everything was ok. I met him outside in the parking lot and he informed me that we had ZERO motor oil in the car and we didn't think to bring any extra! Great. No biggie, there's a gas station right down the street and we needed to stop for gas anyway so we'll just pick some up there. Nice plan, but this station didn't sell any car-related products (although they did have snacks and just about everything else you could think of). We drove down the street and found a Wal-Mart so we figured that would work and luckily they carried exactly what we needed. DF went back out to the car to check some other stuff while I paid and then he filled up the car with the oil.

We were starving, so we figured we'd stop at BK to grab something for the road (we never usually eat fast food, but we like to treat ourselves on vacation!), so I ordered while DF went to the bathroom to wash all the car grime off his hands. I got the french toast sticks (yum!) and DF got the sausage biscuit. We both had hash browns and OJ, although I don't think either of us finished the hash browns because they were waaaay to greasy.

Ok, so we're finally on our way at 9:12am and DF drives while I take a nap. There are these bridges in SC that I absolutely HATE because they are so close to the water and have almost no support on the sides of them. I was too busy having a panic attack to take a picture, but I managed to find this online:

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BG info: I have this recurring dream where I'm driving a car over a bridge very similar to this one. Sometimes the bridge will have sides, and sometimes it won't. Sometimes it will appear to actually float on the surface on the water. Anyway, I usually don't have control of the car and I always freak out that I'm going to drive off the side into the water. I have a huge fear of plummeting off of a bridge and drowning.

Needless to say, this part of the drive is nervewracking for me. It's even worse on the way home because you're going down the hill on the bridge that way and it looks like you might fly right off into the water.

Back to the story... we made a couple stops for gas and the bathroom but the ride down was mostly uneventful. We made it in pretty good time and went right to Pop to sign in.

Excited to see our exit on I-4:

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Woohoo, Pop!!

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We had a wonderful CM check us in, although I can't remember her name. She was super excited we were getting married and gave us the Just Married pins right away. I also checked with her about how to handle our second reservation: my travel agent booked us with two reservations, one 10-day, and one 3-day. I didn't want to have to check out and move to a different room for the last few days, so she assured me I could call down on the 18th and tell them we wanted to stay in the same room. Yay!

We headed back to the car and drove around to the 50s parking lot: we were in building 2, room 2365. I had requested building 3 because we loved it last year, but this was good too. We were facing the bowling pin pool and had a view of the lake to our right. If we walked around the corner we could see Spaceship Earth and Illuminations.

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We hauled everything up to our room and I took some pictures:

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DF took a shower while I called my parents to tell them we arrived safely, and then I turned on the tv to listen to Stacey while I unpacked. I get sick of her by like the second day, but I love to watch her countdown when we first get there because it means we're really in Disney!!

When DF was done, I took a shower and then we headed down to the food court since we were both starving. We hadn't eaten anything since 9am!

As soon as I saw the refillable mugs, I had to have one. They are so cute this year! Plus, since we would be there for two weeks it seemed a worthwhile investment. I got the chicken alfredo and carrot cake, while DF had his fave: meatball sub and a brownie (he talks about these things all year and it's one of the reasons we keep staying at Pop!).

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After that we grabbed a mango margarita from the pool bar and debated taking the bus to Downtown Disney to pick up some stuff for our welcome bags (still hadn't finished those...). We voted against this and ended up going to the liquor store instead because the margarita cost us $10 and we figured it was more cost-efficient to buy our own stuff for the room. We ended up buying way too much, but it's vacation, right? We also stopped by Winn Dixie for some cold medicine since I always get sick in FL, and then we stopped at Walgreens for some other last minute stuff.

(I forgot to mention, and maybe it's TMI, but I totally got my "monthly visitor" the night before we left. I knew it was going to happen that way because I have it for every major event in my life, but it still sucked that I was going to have it for my wedding.)

After that we were exhausted and went to bed because we had an early morning at Crystal Palace and the Magic Kingdom!

[Tiggerific04]

Day Three: MK!

Our wake up call came, we got up and dressed and made it to the bus in time to get to the MK for our 8:05am ADR at Crystal Palace -- our fave breakfast!

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(Note that I wore sneakers today because I thought my Crocs would be "ugly" with socks [I can't wear them barefoot]... my feet were KILLING me by the end of the day and I had two GINORMOUS blisters on my toes. After seeing other people wearing socks with their Crocs, I don't think I wore anything else for the rest of the trip!)

It was excellent as usual, but I didn't eat much because I was so stressed about everything that still had to get done: the marriage license, welcome bags, no one had arrived yet, things were up in the air about how DF's brother was getting there, nothing seemed finalized.

After breakfast we went down to the Emporium to buy our bride and groom ears. I was a little hesitant about wearing them at first because they seemed sooo big and attention-seeking, but I ended up getting used to them.

We put them on and headed over to the Photopass photographer by Casey's and took a couple shots in front of the castle:

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Now it was time for some rides! It's tradition that we ride Pirates first so that's where we went.

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It was awesome as usual, although we had some annoying people in our boat who were apparently too cool for Disney and kept making stupid comments during the whole ride. GRR. They were college-age kids which annoys me even more because they probably came there out of their own choosing, so why the negativity? Just enjoy it!

Anyway, then we headed over to Splash and I told DF to hold my bag and try to get a shot of me coming down the drop because he NEVER rides Splash. He looked at me and was like, "I'm going too." Umm, ok! There was only a 10-minute wait which was awesome, and while we were waiting, there was another couple wearing the ears waving at us from across the line! I was excited but I'm also SUPER shy and kinda half-waved back because I felt weird. They probably thought we were horribly rude and unfriendly, but we were still getting used to this whole thing!

We get to the end of the line and the CM wants to put us in the front row! I wasn't sure how DF (or I!) felt about this, but he seemed ok so we went for it. It was awesome!! I took a pic of our photo but of course it didn't come out that well... DF is screaming his heart out and I've got my eyes clamped shut and I'm clenching my teeth while I hold on for dear life! We should have bought the photo, but I can never justify the cost.

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[Tiggerific04]

Day Three Continued

We made our way over to Fantasyland and rode one of my faves: Small World. I know a lot of people don't like this one, but I think it's adorable and I actually, gasp!, like the song :thumbsup2

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Then we did Philharmagic (awesome as always) and decided to check out the new Monsters, Inc. attraction. I was so paranoid that we would get picked on because of the ears so I took them off and hid them, lol. The show was really cute, we liked it a lot.

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We decided to do some shopping and picked up things for their welcome bags: wine glasses (we actually got these at Pop), a basketball for DF's nephew (RB), an Ariel purse for DF's niece (FG), candy, cotton candy, first visit and b-day buttons, a spray fan (Target), tissues (Target), and a first aid kit (Target).

By this point it was noon and we were getting hot, tired, and cranky, so we decided it would be best to head back to the room and take a nap. When we were walking up the stairs, we heard this really loud and really weird noise. I looked over and there were these huge birds walking around screaming!

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We slept for a couple hours and woke up refreshed and ready to go back! We got changed, put on our ears, and we were on our way back to the MK. As soon as we got there we stopped for some more Photopass pics and were excited that we got some direction about cute poses rather than just the usual ones.

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There were lines for everything, so we grabbed a FP for Buzz and walked over to Toontown to see how long the wait was for the princesses: 45 minutes. No thanks! We walked through Minnie and Mickey's houses and then went back to Tomorrowland to use our FP. I suck at Buzz so I only got 6900 (which is actually pretty good for me) and DF got 13,000.

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We walked all the way around to Liberty Square and through the Christmas store and then sat down for a little bit to rest our feet. DF talked to his brother and SIL and they had just arrived at MCO so we were feeling a bit better knowing someone was here.

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We were hungry and had some time to kill before our ADR, so we grabbed a pineapple float in Adventureland.

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We relaxed and then headed over to Liberty Tree Tavern.

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When we checked in the CM was so excited we were getting married and asked if we wanted the "celebration." Again, being super shy, I panicked and said no because I had no idea what she was talking about and didn't want to be made the center of attention. We ended up waiting quite a bit, but another bride and groom came in and we actually smiled and said hi to them! lol

We were finally seated and then we had to wait quite a bit again for our server to come over. Once he did, he was very nice. DF ordered an iced tea thinking it was going to be Nestea, and it wasn't so we switched drinks and I think the server got upset, which I thought was odd.

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Day Three -- Part Three

Anyway, the food was good, but I don't know that I'd go back again. The characters were cute, especially Chip and Pluto. Chip came over and grabbed my hand to see my ring and pretended to faint. Then he showed our server and pointed from DF to me and made a confused gesture. Our server goes, "Yeah, she said yes, can you believe it?" and Chip shook his head NO! haha

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After dinner, we went to stake out a place to watch Wishes in front of the castle so that we could record it. It was fantastic as usual. We walked around a little and DF's SIL called to tell us they were at their hotel finally. We had wanted to drop off their welcome bag today, but we told her we weren't going to be leaving MK until at least 11:30pm so we would just drop it off in the morning before they left for AK.

We also wanted to tape SpectroMagic and it was showing twice that night, so after the fireworks we grabbed a seat on the curb on Main Street and watched the parade. We were exhausted after that and headed back to Pop for a good night's sleep because we had to get up at 6am the next morning!

(As an aside, you can see the monstrous zit on my chin that had developed by this point. I was really upset about it because I knew it would never be gone for the wedding pics. I told Anna [Beaute Speciale] about it and she said not to worry... keeping my fingers crossed that Randy was able to make it "disappear" for our photos.)

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Great start! Love all the pics, looking forward to more!

[Tiggerific04]

Day Four: Marriage License and Epcot

In all of my panic about the programs before we left, I had completely forgotten to print out directions to the courthouse so that we could get our marriage license. We were originally going to do it through the mail, and we had started the process, but with moving and everything else it got too close to the day we were leaving and I didn't want to risk it.

After I showered on Saturday (when we first arrived) I pulled out the phone book and looked up the Osceola County Courthouse and tried to figure out how to get there. I called my dad and had him Google it as well, so I finally got directions and we seemed good to go. I figured we would just borrow the phone book and bring it with us in case we needed the map as a reference.

So, we woke up at 6:00am on Monday so that we could get ready and then drive over to DF's brother's hotel (Vacation Village at Parkway). We didn't have directions here either, but I found the number in the handy-dandy phone book and they had an automated phone system with directions from I4.

We tried following those, but we were already too far west on I4 so we got off at the next exit and tried to get to 192. Luckily it wasn't too hard and we made it to their hotel right as they were getting on the shuttle to AK. I ran across the parking lot and showed them the bag and made them take the buttons and the spray fan for the park and we said we would meet up tomorrow to give them the rest of the stuff.

After that we headed to the courthouse, which was kind of on the way so it worked out nicely. We were looking for North Bermuda Avenue according to both the phone book map and Google maps. Driving, driving, driving, and no Bermuda Ave of any kind. I remember we have the phone book so I pull it out and realize we have gone a couple blocks too far. We make probably the most illegal turn in history and head back the way we came. Still no Bermuda Ave, but there is a John Young Parkway where the phone book says Bermuda should be. We decide to turn there and it turns out we were right. We find the courthouse, circle the parking lot a couple times, and then finally get a spot and head inside.

We got through security fairly quickly, grabbed an elevator and walked into the marriage/passports office -- no line! Score! We walked right up with our already-completed form (thanks Maggie for the tip and link!) and we were done in less than 20 minutes. The couple that came in after us was getting married at Disney as well. I poked DF and told him to say something to them, but neither of us knew what to say without looking like stalkers, lol.

Marriage license in hand, we got back in the car and headed back to Pop. We did fine until we got to Disney property. We've never really gotten lost there before because the signs are pretty good, but we could not for the life of us find Pop! We ended up at the MK!!

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From there it was easy to find our way home. DF dropped me off in the front and I grabbed a chocolate croissant and chocolate chip muffin and then met him in the room.

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We relaxed for a bit and then headed out to Downtown Disney so that we could buy some welcome bags gifts. We made a quick stop at Ghiradelli for a snack since we've never been and the pics on the food porn thread always look sooo good. I got the very berry sundae and DF got the brownie sundae.

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They look yummy, but as DF said, "Ghiradelli sucks!!" He was not pleased with his ice cream at all and whenever something was bad the rest of the trip, we would look at each other and say, "Ghiradelli sucks!!" Silly little inside joke I guess ;) Anyway, he said that there was not enough brownie and it wasn't warm and the whole thing was just bad. Mine was ok, but nothing spectacular.

We wandered around and ended up buying a Donald pin for my mom and a Pirates pin for MOH because she loves Orlando Bloom :love: I also found a cute keychain for my dad so we got that too. I bought myself the "Happily Ever After" shirt because I've been craving it ever since I saw it on the DIS. It was $30 and DF rolled his eyes at me, but it was totally worth it because I love it!

We walked over to the West Side to look in the music store, but I was starting to feel really yucky so DF walked all the way back to get the car and then he came to pick me up. We went back to the room so I could rest and then MOH called.

(We also noticed that we had a towel animal! It's a dog.)
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As I mentioned, she is paralyzed and needs a nurse and aide for assistance with bathing and personal hygiene stuff. We had looked into several agencies down in FL and ended up going with one that my mom found and made arrangements with.

MOH called and said that someone had called her and was asking about what she was going to need since she was going to be arriving shortly and they hadn't received any confirmation yet. What?? This didn't sound right so I told her I would talk to my mom and call her back. Turns out it was an agency that we talked to a lonnnng time ago and ended up not liking because they were kind of flaky and unreliable. My mom assured me everything was set with the other agency and she had all the documents with her in case.

My parents had arrived by then and were using Happy Limo to get from the airport to the Doubletree in Downtown Disney. They were raving about it on the phone and it occured to me that we had not arranged for any kind of transportation for DF's family on the 15th!! At this point, his parents were still flying down and his brother was undecided, so I called Happy Limo and made the reservation.

We drove to the Doubletree to give my parents their welcome bag (they loved it) and find out how their flight went. My mom doesn't fly, but my dad said there was no way he was driving when he had all kinds of airline miles accumulated from work -- I think they were able to fly first class almost for free!

We left them so that we could go back to Pop and grab the bus to Epcot because we had an ADR at Nine Dragons that night. We got to Epcot and stopped for the obligatory Photopass pics before heading to Mousegears to look for more gifts.

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We bought some candy in Mousegears for DF's mom and then decided that his brother would get candy from some of the countries. While I paid and chatted with the cashier (she congratulated me on getting married and the guy behind me in line asked her how she knew... she looked at him like he was crazy and pointed at my ears and said "Bridal ears?"... he goes "Oh, that's what those are?"), DF talked to his brother on the phone. It was determined that he would definitely be driving and his parents were going to drive down with him as well.

We then ran to our fave place: Club Cool! I loooooove the VegitaBeta from Japan and DF loves the one from Israel (sort of like Sprite I think). I was so disappointed to find out there was no VegitaBeta in the whole place! But there was a new one from Mexico that was super yummy, so that almost made up for it.

We decided to try out the new El Rio del Tiempo in Mexico and I have to say I did not like it at all. I'm glad they updated the film, but I really felt like adding Donald cheapened the whole thing and took away from the fact that it's supposed to be about Mexico.

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On our way out we stopped to get a mango margarita from the little stand. The CM (Gerta) was soooo excited we were getting married and said congratulations as soon as we walked up. We said thank you and ordered and then when DF handed her his rewards card to pay, all she said was "Congratulations!" and crossed her arms. It took us a minute to understand that she was giving it to us for free!! How awesome is that?! Our first wedding-related freebie!

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DF didn't care for it, so I ended up drinking the whole thing myself as we worked our way around the world. We tried to stop and catch some of the Chinese acrobats, but it was too crowded so we went to Italy and bought candy for DF's brother instead. I was starting to really feel the margarita but I had to keep my composure because my dad called wanting to know what the plan was for tomorrow morning (we were going to MGM with my parents). I think I kept my cool and told him we would meet them at their hotel at 8:30am and then drive over.

We decided we still had some time before dinner so we went to Japan and bought some Pocky for DF's brother and some green tea for MOH's guest. We literally ran back to China to make it to our ADR on time and by this time I think I was totally gone (it doesn't take much, lol).

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The pics are kind of dark, but you can sort of see the interior of the restaurant. It was really pretty, even though we were practically sitting on top of the people next to us.

DF had an iced tea and I had an iced green tea.

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I had the shrimp appetizer and DF had the dumplings. Both were realllly good and we were feeling optimistic about the meal.

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DF ordered General Tso's chicken and a side of fried rice, while I ordered the shrimp fried rice.

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They first brought him the sesame chicken by mistake but they quickly brought him out the correct dish and apologized profusely. I tasted his chicken and it was sooooo good! My rice was ok, but it wasn't the kind of fried rice that I like. It tasted more like Korean-style fried rice to me, but it was ok and I ate a lot of it because I was hungry.

The people next to us ordered chocolate cake for dessert and we thought it looked tasty so when it came time for us to order we asked our server what they had. She told us either ginger or red bean ice cream. DF asked about the cake and she said they didn't serve any cake. Umm, what? When our neighbors were offered dessert, their server listed the ice cream and the cake. I didn't feel like questioning or arguing so we skipped dessert and left. We decided at the end of the meal that we definitely wouldn't go back here, or if we did, we would go for lunch and split something.

We left as Illuminations was going on, so we ran to the exit trying to beat the crowd. We weren't fast enough and we got caught in the masses anyway and then I started to feel really sick like I was going to throw up. I suppose alcohol, heat, chinese food, and running aren't such a good combo.

Pastor Jaeger called as we leaving and he told me that he had tried emailing me his homily for the ceremony but he got an auto-reply saying I was no longer with my company. I had already told him before I left not to use my work email anymore since my last day was the day before we left, but whatever. He really wanted me to read it before the wedding, but I told him I had absolutely no access to email and trusted him that it would be fine. He was really sweet and told me how excited he was to meet us and perform our wedding. Aww!

The bus ride back to Pop was HORRIBLE. I was still nauseous and we had to stand on the bus, and the bus driver thought he was driving for Nascar. When we finally got back to the room I just took a shower and collapsed on the bed!

Up next: MGM with my parents, first tux fitting, LOTS of rain, and am I getting a cold?!

[Tiggerific04]

Day Five: MGM and LOTS of rain

We woke up this morning and drove to the Doubletree in Downtown Disney to meet my parents so that they could follow us to MGM. I had never been on RNRC, and my dad had recently gone on the Hulk at Universal, so he had been talking for months about how we should try RNRC together.

This was my first time being in a park with anyone other than DF and it was kind of weird at first because I'm usually in my commando-tour guide mode, but I had to go much slower and be more relaxed with my parents. It was a little frustrating, but I tried not to let it bother me.

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As we were walking to the entrance, we were chatting about DF's brother and parents and how they were now driving. My dad reminded me about booking the car for them last night. Duh! I've been so scatterbrained with all of the wedding stuff and trying to keep everything straight that I completely forgot I had booked the car! I called Happy Limo (again) and had them cancel it.

As soon as we got in the park we stopped for some photos:

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We split up so that my dad and I could go get FP for RNRC while my mom and DF were going to find somewhere to sit I think. I have never seen such a long FP line! It must have taken us 20 minutes just to get the stinking FP because every person in front of us was getting like 10 of them! Anyway, FP in hand, we headed out to find DM and DF. Big shocker: they were in the smoking area right outside of RNRC (my mom smokes nonstop and I absolutely hate it). We stood around debating TOT, but my dad said he didn't think he was up for it so I still haven't done it. I don't want to go on by myself, but DF doesn't do thrill rides so this was my one chance. Oh well!

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We were hot and had some time to kill, so we decided to do the Magic of Disney Animation since we get to sit down in air conditioning. As we were on line waiting for the doors to open, this woman behind us taps me on the shoulder and gestures that she would like a picture with me and DF. She points at our bride/groom ears and smiles and then points to her husband (?) with the camera. Umm, ok? I didn't know what to say so I just said ok and we smiled and she said thank you. I didn't realize we were picture-worthy! After that interesting experience we were let into the attraction and we all liked it. DF and I wanted to do the drawing class afterward (it's our fave thing at MGM) but my parents weren't interested, so we started walking back to RNRC since it was almost time for our FP.

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I was kinda nervous about RNRC because of the fast take-off. I wasn't entirely sure of what to expect and once I saw the cars in front of us FLY away, my heart started beating really, really fast. It was our turn to board so I just held my breath and hopped in. My dad turned to me and said, "Should we really be doing this?" and then we pulled ahead to the part right before you take off. Too late now! As soon as we started moving I closed my eyes and screamed my head off... my dad was laughing the entire time! In our picture, I've got my head down and my mouth wide open and he's just sitting there smiling like he's out for a Sunday drive! It was hilarious. We both ended up really liking the ride and wanted to go again, but we had other things to do.

We started heading back to where we left DF and my mom and we saw the characters come out to pose for pics around the big hat. My mom is a HUGE Donald fan, so when we saw Donald and Daisy I told my dad to get in line and I would go get everyone else. I put my mom in line and then DF told me that while he and DM were waiting for us to get off the ride, someone stopped and congratulated them on their marriage!! DF had been wearing his groom ears and DM had bought the princess ears so I guess it looked like they were together! DF corrected the person and told them DM was actually almost his mother in law, lol. That is precisely the reason why I took my bride ears off when it was just me and my dad -- no need for embarassing mistakes!

DF took this pic of "Thumper" while they were waiting:

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It was getting really hot and DF and I had a lot to do, so we split up with my parents and headed to the Star Tours gift shop to get something for MOH's guest. He's a huge Star Wars fan, so we ended up getting him a cute Yoda mug to go with his green tea from the other night.

We grabbed a bus to the Contemporary and walked to MK to pick up these picture frames we saw the other day when we were there (we wanted to give them as gifts to our parents -- they were glass and had a bride/groom Minnie & Mickey engraved on them and we got our names and wedding date engraved as well). As we were going through bag check, the security guard asked us if we had just gotten married and we told him that we would be on Thursday. He asked if we were coming back on Thursday and I told him we'd be back at MK on Friday. He said to make sure to look for him or ask for Kevin when we come back. Ok!

We were intrigued but we had things to do so we didn't really think too much about what our new BFF Kevin had in store for us. We got to the picture frame store, picked out what we wanted and the CM told us to come back around 1:30pm and they would be done. We tried to find a ride or something to do, but everything had HUGE lines so we grabbed a Dole Whip and sat down for a little while. This big group of people by Aloha Isle congratulated us and after we told them we were getting married on Thursday, one of the guys told DF, "It's not too late!" His mother slapped him in the head, lol.

We were bored and hot so we went to Hall of Presidents to sit down and cool off, and then we realized we should go to Exposition Hall to watch old cartoons instead. Once we got there I started to feel really, really tired and really sick like I was getting a cold. My nose was runny, my throat hurt, and I had chills. Great.

It was about time to check on the frames so we went back there and found out that one of them had to be redone twice because the frames were chipped on the edges so it was going to be a little while longer. We went next door and decided to have a "little" snack:

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OMG, this thing was gigantic!! And delicious, yum!

We realized that it didn't make sense for us to just wait around so we were going to go to MGM to pick up the car and then come back to MK later. We walked back to the CR and after I had a quick potty break inside, I decided to send DF on his own to get the car, I would get the frames, and we would meet back at Pop. I took the monorail not knowing that it didn't go from the CR straight to MK. Instead I went allll the way around, which ended up being good because it took up time and by the time I got back to the store the frames were ready to go.

I hopped on the bus to Pop, fell asleep on it, and then dragged myself back to the room. I downed some Tylenol, fell asleep, and waited for DF to get back with his brother and nephew for their tux fitting at 5pm.

I couldn't sleep, so I started putting the welcome bags together when it hit me: I never made plans to get my nails done for the wedding! I pulled out my trusty phone book and tried to find somewhere, but I don't know the area well so it was useless. I called the front desk but they were reluctant to recommend anywhere off-property so I was stuck until I remembered that it was a weekday and I could call Tanis' (my wedding coordinator) assistant for advice. She was able to tell me where she goes, and right as I hung up the phone with her, Sue arrived with the tuxedos. She and her niece came in and they also gave me a couple recommendations for nails as we waited for the guys to get back.

My dad called and said he was in front of the lobby so I directed him to our building/room and then DF got back with the guys. They tried their stuff on and then my dad went in. Luckily everything was mostly ok: DF needed a shirt with longer sleeves, and his brother needed a jacket with shorter sleeves and a shirt with a bigger neck.

I was concerned about the tux fitting the next day because we didn't know what time DF's father and other brother would be getting in. The fitting was scheduled for 5pm, but I was worried about what would happen if something didn't fit. Sue said that she could do minor alterations or depending on the time, she might be able to get a replacement from the warehouse. She tried to tell me it would be fine, but it didn't sound very reassuring. I refused to panic or stress about it since there wasn't much I could do anyway.

It was at this point that everything started to feel real: there were now tuxedos in the room for the wedding, we had met Sue already, things were coming together. Everyone else would be arriving tomorrow, the rehearsal dinner was tomorrow night, it was so weird! All this stuff that I had been planning for months was happening and it was all working out ok so far.

My dad left and DF and I drove his bro and nephew back to their hotel. We hung out for a little bit talking to SIL and giving everyone their presents, and then we had to leave to get to MGM for our ADR at Mama Melrose. It was POURING rain outside when we left, I mean like buckets of water falling from the sky. We headed to MGM and it seemed to clear up until we actually parked the car and then the sky pretty much OPENED up and there was a downpour. We debated skipping dinner and just eating at Pop instead, but we decided it was our wedding/honeymoon trip and we were going to eat everywhere we planned no matter what! We grabbed the umbrellas in my car, I wrapped the Bagallini around me and clutched it to my chest and we ran. The parking lot was flooded and we seemed to be the only people foolish enough to be running towards the park instead of away from it.

We were drenched and I was starting to panic about the camera, cell phones, etc in the bag but there wasn't really anything we could do at that point so we just kept going. They had part of the park blocked off for construction, so we had to go back the way we came and alllll the way around, but we finally got there. We took turns trying to dry off in the bathroom but it was useless. There were actually puddles of water in my Crocs.

We enjoyed dinner, but I was freezing and really feeling sick. Running around in the rain and then sitting in the AC was probably not such a good idea after all. But it was worth it all for the dessert...

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Vegetarian minestrone soup (my app)

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Calamari (DF's app)

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Four cheese flatbread (my entree - yuck)

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Chicken parm (DF's entree - not enough spaghetti)

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Chocolate gelato (DF's dessert)

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Warm chocoate truffle cake (my dessert - aka The Best Dessert EVER or The Only Reason I Booked Another ADR at Mama Melrose)

By the time we finished dinner the rain had stopped, so we were able to calmly walk back to the car. We got back to Pop and I filled up our mug with hot water at the food court so that I could make myself some Theraflu and go to bed. I passed out before I even finished it and I think DF watched a movie or something before falling asleep.

Next: Day Before the Wedding!

[Maddiesmum03]

Congratulations!!!!
enjoying your report so far and cant wait to see more. I love all your food photos, I think this is going to be a super long report!!!!

oh and those bridges would scare me too.....

[Pomlover2586]

I'm loving your TR!!!! Patiently waiting for more! popcorn::

[Tiggerific04]

Congratulations!!!!
enjoying your report so far and cant wait to see more. I love all your food photos, I think this is going to be a super long report!!!!

oh and those bridges would scare me too.....

Haha, yeah, it's probably going to be long but that could be good, right? ;)

[Tiggerific04]

Great start! Love all the pics, looking forward to more!

I'm loving your TR!!!! Patiently waiting for more! popcorn::

Thanks girls! There should be more up tonight because I'm working on the next one now :goodvibes

[audisight]

Your TR rocks! The pictures are fantastic. You and your new DH look so cute together. I can't wait to read more :surfweb:

[PRINCESSAJ]

I'm loving your Trip Report!! :yay:

I think all your pictures are great!! :cheer2:

I'm exactly the same with my itineraries - I like things to be done properly and get disapointed if it doesn't go to plan!! :surfweb:

[Lizby]

Subscribing...your TR is great and I am looking forward to the rest! :yay: I am in suspense waiting for the wedding day pics :cutie:

[Missy H]

Cant wait to read more! Keep it coming :)

[Maddiesmum03]

Haha, yeah, it's probably going to be long but that could be good, right? ;)

the longer the better:goodvibes
this is a settle down with a nice cup of coffee kinda report;)

[Blueeyes101817]

LOVING this report so far--im waiting not so patiently for the next installment!

[KQAN]

I am so excited you started a trip report! I loved reading your PJ. I am from NJ too - northern NJ, Morris County. Where are you from?

Also, I love the VegiBeta (sp?) (japanese soda in club cool), too, and I was also so disappointed when I went to Epcot a few weeks ago and I saw it was gone!

BTW, those huge birds you saw are sandhill cranes, in case you were wondering. I've been living in Orlando for about a year and I've gotten acquainted with some crazy new wildlife we definitely don't see in Jersey!

Anyway, love your TR and can't wait to read the rest! :)

[Belle1981]

Great TR! Congrats and welcome back! I can't wait to read more its fantastic!!!!!

[Tiggerific04]

Your TR rocks! The pictures are fantastic. You and your new DH look so cute together. I can't wait to read more :surfweb:

Thanks! Glad you like the pics!

I'm loving your Trip Report!! :yay:

I think all your pictures are great!! :cheer2:

I'm exactly the same with my itineraries - I like things to be done properly and get disapointed if it doesn't go to plan!! :surfweb:

Haha, glad I'm not the only one with crazy itineraries!

Subscribing...your TR is great and I am looking forward to the rest! :yay: I am in suspense waiting for the wedding day pics :cutie:

I just finished up the "day before the wedding" post and will add it soon. I have a TON of wedding day pics and haven't even gotten the ones from Randy yet!

Cant wait to read more! Keep it coming :)

Yay, will do!

the longer the better:goodvibes
this is a settle down with a nice cup of coffee kinda report;)

I was worried it was too long and detailed, but I'm writing it for me as well -- so I don't forget anything!

LOVING this report so far--im waiting not so patiently for the next installment!

Glad you're enjoying it!

I am so excited you started a trip report! I loved reading your PJ. I am from NJ too - northern NJ, Morris County. Where are you from?

Also, I love the VegiBeta (sp?) (japanese soda in club cool), too, and I was also so disappointed when I went to Epcot a few weeks ago and I saw it was gone!

BTW, those huge birds you saw are sandhill cranes, in case you were wondering. I've been living in Orlando for about a year and I've gotten acquainted with some crazy new wildlife we definitely don't see in Jersey!

Anyway, love your TR and can't wait to read the rest! :)

I'm from Union County. Thanks for the info about the "huge birds" lol. I'm used to pigeons and seagulls, so I was a little taken aback when I saw those guys!!

Great TR! Congrats and welcome back! I can't wait to read more its fantastic!!!!!

Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[Tiggerific04]

Day Six: Day Before the Wedding!

So it's the day before my wedding and I should be excited, right? Well, I'm not because when I woke up I was completely, totally sick. Runny/stuffy nose, sore throat, coughing, feverish, headache, aches all over, YUCK! I also had sprouted some more pimples on my chin, and when I got up to go look in the mirror I discovered that I had managed to get some random sunburn on my shoulders/chest area DESPITE all the sunscreen I had been spraying on myself. Great. My wedding dress was strapless and there was no way the redness was going to disappear in one day. In a way it was good I was sick because I couldn't focus on anything else -- otherwise I know I would have flipped out about the zits and burn.

I immediately took some Tylenol Cold and then decided against going anywhere to get my nails done -- I really didn't think I could handle it, that's how bad I felt at that point. I decided instead that we would go to Publix near DF's brother's hotel so that I could pick up some nail polish remover, files, and some clear polish.

It was mid-morning by this point (I don't remember what time exactly) so I got a waffle and DF got chicken alfredo. Something new about the DDP I wasn't aware of is that a juice is included with the entree, so I actually was able to get TWO juices. I got OJ thinking that the vitamin C might help knock my cold out (wishful thinking, I know).

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As soon as we got in my car I got a call from Tanis telling me that she was back from vacation and just checking to make sure I was doing ok. Then she told me some GREAT news: She was actually going to be there tomorrow for my wedding!! I was sooo thrilled because I know most Intimate brides get stuck with someone else the day of the wedding, and I was really hoping that wouldn't happen. I really wanted to meet Tanis in person so that I could thank her for all her help with everything, especially with MOH.

After I hung up with her, we practiced driving to DF's brother's hotel because the plan was that he would pick up his bro, SIL, and the kids that night and drive them to Ohana for dinner. That way we would have that car (plus my parent's rental car that they were driving over in) to get everyone home afterwards. We got there much easier this time and then attempted to find the Publix that we swore we saw the other day when we got the marriage license. We ended up driving forever and finally found one on the corner of 535 -- perfect! We could just take that back to DD and get to Pop that way.

After we left Publix we realized that we didn't have a thank you gift for Tanis! I don't know how I forgot so many things even though I thought I was sooo prepared for this trip. I guess everything was just so overwhelming that it didn't matter how many lists and reminders I made!

We were already almost back at DD, so we decided we'd stop at Winn Dixie since they should sell some kind of gift cards. Score! They had the Amex ones which worked out perfectly since we had no idea what she likes or where she shops.

We got back to the room and I sat down to start doing my nails when I realize that I forgot to buy the nail polish remover! I could have screamed. I set DF to work wrapping the parents' and bridal party gifts while I went to Gooding's (more expensive, but slightly closer) to get some. While I was there I picked up some cough drops as well because my throat was getting worse.

I finally got back to the room and got my nails all done and then started writing out the thank you cards that went in the remaining welcome bags. Just as I was finishing up we got a call from DF's other brother saying that he and DF's parents had arrived! DF helped them find their way to Pop and then we grabbed their bags and ran down to the lobby to meet them. It was such a relief to have them there because that meant we were only waiting for MOH and her guest now and they should be here shortly.

We helped them all check in, and after a bit of a miscommunication with DF's brother's room (They thought he still had to pay his whole balance, but I know I paid the whole thing in full! Turns out sometimes things like that don't download to the resort's computer system until the person actually checks in.), we headed off to show them to their rooms. DF's parents were in the 80's and his bro was in the 60's. We drove over to the 80's parking lot and helped his parents with their bags and then I had to go because it was 3:30pm already and Sue was coming to steam my dress at 4pm.

I ran back to the room to take a quick shower and while I was washing my hair, MOH called to tell me they had just landed! I got out of the shower and a couple minutes later Sue showed up with her steaming equipment and the tux corrections from yesterday. While she was steaming I called DF to tell him that his dad and bro needed to try on their tuxes asap so that Sue could get replacements if needed. They wanted to eat first, which I understood, so they went to the food court and then came to pick up the tuxes. They went back to DF's bro's room (he got a king bed with a fridge! with a view of the Hippy Dippy pool!) to try them on and everything was ok except that his pants were too big. Sue said to hold on to them and she would bring new ones in the morning, around 11am. This made me extremely nervous because the wedding was at noon! She said that if worse came to worst she would drop them off with me and I could bring them to him at the WP and he would have to change there. She assured me it would be fine.

There was nowhere else in the room to put my dress, so it had to go in the bathroom, which meant no one could really use the bathroom:

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MOH called and said that she and her guest had already checked in and just needed to know where to go. I sent DF down to get them since Sue was still finishing up some stuff and I obviously couldn't go. I looked out the window and saw them headed towards our building -- turns out they were right next door!! Before I got my Disney vacation planner certification, I had used a TA for my reservation and MOH's, so the TA must have mentioned that we were together.

It was so good to see her! She said the plane had gone smoothly -- it was her first time travelling since her accident so it was a huge deal and we weren't really sure how it would work out. She said to me that depending on how the rest of the trip went, she would like to come back for an actual vacation and go to the parks and everything! It was so amazing to hear her so positive because I know it was incredibly difficult for her to come back to a place she had been before, but now everything was different, and she is soooo self-conscious since the accident about how she looks and the wheelchair and everything. Plus the emotions of the wedding and everything... it was just overwhelming for her. I had actually told her that if it was too much for her to do, that I would understand if she didn't come, but she said she would regret it more if she missed it. Sorry for the tangent!

We hung out in her room for a bit and then DF left to go pick up his family. MOH wanted to wash her hair, so I attempted to do that for her and ended up splling a bucket of water alll over the floor! Oops. Then I helped her get changed and we left to go to my room so that her friend could nap a little bit -- he was exhausted. MOH and I looked at some pics and just talked about everything and then my dad called to ask what was going on tomorrow because he and my mom didn't really know. This about made me freak out. I have been going over things with them for the past 6 months, so there is no reason why they shouldn't know what is going on. I tell him we'll discuss it later, hang up, and quickly write out a schedule for them.

I needed to start getting ready, so I brought MOH back next door and then went back to my room where I discovered that the dress I planned to wear didn't fit! It was too big!

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You can't really tell from the front, but the back was pretty obvious...

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Ugh. Now what? I didn't have any safety pins or anything, so I ended up just wearing a tank top and skirt that I worn a million other times. I only have one bra that will work under this tank, and it doesn't really fit right but I was stuck. I was pretty upset about it but there wasn't really anything I could do. DF gets back with his family and it's about time that I need to leave with MOH and her guest because we are taking the bus to MK and then the monorail to avoid any car transfers for MOH.

SIL and DF's nephew decide to come with us so we all head out and we make it to the Poly just in time. My parents were there already and DF and his family showed up about a second later. He went to check us in while we took some pics.

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Me and MOH. You can totally see my bra in this pic. Grr.

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DF and his oldest brother

We were seated within a couple minutes and we had the weirdest table arrangement. Instead of a long rectangular table like I was imagining, we had two square tables and a round table on the end.

Continued...

[Tiggerific04]

Day Six: Part Two

We hadn't really planned any seating arrangements for this dinner because we thought everyone could handle it and seat themselves, lol. Well, not quite. Everyone just kind of stood around waiting for us to tell them what to do, so I went ahead and quickly decided that I should sit next to MOH so that her guest didn't have to help her eat the entire time -- that way we could split it up and everyone would be able to eat calmly. I also knew MOH wouldn't really want anyone else feeding her. So my parents sat down at the round table and I positioned myself and MOH there, but then DF pointed out that maybe he and I should be in the middle. He really wanted our parents to sit together so that they could talk, but it didn't look like that was going to happen because his family had filled in all the seats at the other end of the tables. DF and I moved to the middle and I rearranged MOH until we were all good.

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My parents

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MOH and her guest

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SIL and our ring bearer

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DF's parents and our flower girl

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DF and his brothers

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DF and his SIL

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Everybody ended up having a great time and the food was sooooo good. I really thought I took pics of everything, but I guess I was preoccupied because I only got these two:

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I was nervous about the food for me since it's focused on meat, but the sides were delicious! I filled up on shrimp and those yummy, yummy potatoes :banana: I was also super nervous about being picked on by the woman who makes people dance (I have no idea what to call her), but she wasn't there that night as far as I could tell so I was relieved! I know, I'm such a party pooper.

I ended up spilling some of the peanut dipping sauce on my skirt, but luckily I had one of those Shout wipes in my Baggalini that took it right out. We bought those on a whim as something to put in the welcome bags and we had an extra so I kept it with us. Turns out they work really well!

I had originally booked this dinner at 7:35pm because I was using a TA and she told me that was the only time available for large groups. I didn't think anything of it, but I was disappointed because I really wanted to be able to watch Wishes during dinner. I thought it would be a nice magical surprise for everyone. Once I got certified I took my vacation planning into my own hands and discovered that my TA was wrong -- we got a 9:10pm seating with no problem. Welll... no fireworks that night! haha Oh well.

After dinner I went with MOH and her guest via monorail back to MK and then we got the bus to Pop while everyone else drove back. When we got back to our rooms I helped MOH into bed. I had hired a nurse/aide for the other mornings/nights, but I didn't know what time we would be back this night so I figured we could just do it ourselves (we've both done it before many times, don't worry!). It was a little more difficult without all her usual equipment and with the foam padding I bought for her bed, but we managed just fine and I went back to my room when we were done. By that time it was 1:00am and DF and I had to get up at 3:00am so that he could shower and get dressed before Ana from Beaute Speciale got there to do my hair and makeup at 4:00am! We were exhausted and fell asleep right away...

Up next: Wedding Day!!

[yearbook50]

Sounds like you had a great trip!

[ITmickey]

Subscribing! Is a great TR, thanks for sharing and for all the nice pics!:yay:

[BaBeeCee14]

Subscribing also! I'm so happy you decided to start your TR. I remember when you first got back, you stopped in to say hi. Ever since then, I was checking to see if you started one yet. Thanks so much for sharing! I can't wait to hear about your wedding day!

[shasess]

Wonderful TR!!! I can't wait for more!!!

[Tiggerific04]

Thanks everyone! I'm working on the wedding day recap, but there was so much that happened and so many pics, I'm probably going to have to break it up into a few installments.

I'm so amazed that so many people are enjoying it so far... I thought that I was pretty boring and no one would want to be bothered reading! :rotfl:

[caryndisneydiva]

i LOVE your dress...i think that's the same one that i'm going to get...what designer is it? it's so cool! i'm from nj as well, though i'm living in tx now...love your trip report, can't wait to read more!

[Tiggerific04]

i LOVE your dress...i think that's the same one that i'm going to get...what designer is it? it's so cool! i'm from nj as well, though i'm living in tx now...love your trip report, can't wait to read more!

Thanks! My dress is by Alfred Angelo. Where in NJ are you from? I'm in Union County.

[caryndisneydiva]

Thanks! My dress is by Alfred Angelo. Where in NJ are you from? I'm in Union County.

i knew it was from alfred angleo! i love it! i might copy you!!!

i'm from a little town near princeton called dayton! it's in south brunswick township in middlesex county. the majority of my family still lives there, but i moved to tx about 4 years ago!

[Tiggerific04]

I've literally been checking Randy's site everyday for the past week and he finally emailed me today that my pics are up!

http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/thumbpage.aspx?e=3113150

Let me know what you think!

Also, I don't think I posted the link to my MK/Epcot pics:

http://www.collages.net/disneyweddings
Username: Bradshaw / Salcedo Wedding
Password: 1971

[hmgolden]

I haven't had a chance to look at your pro photos yet, but I wanted to tell you I love your TR, especially all the food pictures! I can't wait to read about your wedding day.

[Missy H]

Your photos are wonderful!

Can I be cheeky and ask what package you had from Randy? We have a date held with him for July and I can't make up my mind what package to go for!

[Maddiesmum03]

Your photos are wonderful, you are a beautiful bride and your MOH is an amazing person. I cant wait to read your next instalment.
I love your Epcot photos too, it looks as if you went EVERYWHERE!!! ( I was under the impression they limited you to only a couple of places to take the photos, but these are great )

[shasess]

Your pictures are AMAZING!!!! You guys look so happy together! Just beautiful!

[IloveChip]

Your photos are fantastic!! They did a great job and you look great in your dress!! Congratulations again! And your TR is wonderful!! I am already subscribed to it! Thanks for Sharing!

[OhioGrumpyGirl]

Your pics are incredible!!!! You guys are such a cute couple and you looked absolutely stunning in your dress!!

[Tiggerific04]

Your photos are wonderful!

Can I be cheeky and ask what package you had from Randy? We have a date held with him for July and I can't make up my mind what package to go for!

Ask whatever you want! We got the standard intimate package from Randy -- the one that is $575. I wasn't expecting Photoshopped or B&W pics at all since we didn't choose the package that included them.

Your photos are wonderful, you are a beautiful bride and your MOH is an amazing person. I cant wait to read your next instalment.
I love your Epcot photos too, it looks as if you went EVERYWHERE!!! ( I was under the impression they limited you to only a couple of places to take the photos, but these are great )

Thanks! I'll explain more in my TR, but we took photos in just about every country. I think this is something new they're doing because I know someone else who recently had an Epcot honeymoon shoot and they had the same experience.

[caryndisneydiva]

wow, i can't beleive that randy took all those pics for that low cost...now i'm rethinking my package, i was going to get the second package, the one that costs 1700...did he shoot any part of your reception?

[yearbook50]

I love all your pictures!! You look beautiful :D

[KQAN]

Wow, your pictures are great! You look beautiful :) And I love the Epcot ones - I really like the dress you wore for Epcot!

You must be really pleased...can't wait to read the rest!

[AInWonderland]

Your pictures are georgous. What a beautiful bride you were.

[Tiggerific04]

wow, i can't beleive that randy took all those pics for that low cost...now i'm rethinking my package, i was going to get the second package, the one that costs 1700...did he shoot any part of your reception?

Well, it says 785 photos on his site but a lot of them were uploaded twice so that doesn't seem to be an accurate number. I need to go through them more carefully, but it looks like there are actually around 350 unique photos, plus the Photoshopped and B&W ones. Not bad since he says you will get around 150 photos with that package.

We didn't have a reception because we had an Intimate/Escape wedding, but he did take pics at the cake/champagne reception and it looks like there are a couple from the Gardenview Lounge where we had tea after the wedding.

[jessica52877]

I am loving this report! You two are so cute! Going to look at pictures! and so far all the food looks delicious! I must be hungry.

[audisight]

Your pictures are fantastic!!! I can't wait to read the rest of your TR.

[Tiggerific04]

Day Seven: The Wedding Day!

Before I went to sleep the night before, I set out some stuff I was going to need today: my jewelry, tiara, bra, shoes, BEO, and floral budget (just in case!)

The alarm went off at 3:00am, but we kind of layed there for a while and pulled ourselves out of bed around 3:20am. We had to move my dress so that DF could take a shower, so we carried it over to the door and hung it on the door hinge (?).

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(I don't know why I brought HP with me, I knew there was no way I was going to have time to finish reading it!)

DF hopped in the shower while I set out to straighten up the room and make myself presentable before Ana got there. DF was out and dressed in record time and then we had to move my dress back into the bathroom so that Ana could get into the room! He just put his tux pants and an undershirt on so that he wouldn't have to change in front of Ana, lol.

I was getting anxious so I kept looking out the window -- it was so weird to be awake so early. Ana showed up promptly at 4:00am with her two big suitcases of supplies. She was so nice, but she was also professional and got to right to work unloading everything she was going to need.

I had pictures of hairstyles on my computer, but I wasn't really sold on them so I didn't bring anything to show her. I told her that I'd like it half up, half down (as long as she didn't think it would frizz) with curls and side-swept bangs to cover my abnormally huge forehead. She said no problem and set to work. It was mostly quiet because DH and I were still so tired, but Ana chatted and got us talking. She was really sweet. She finished my hair and showed it to me to make sure it was ok -- if not, she said she was willing to redo it! I thought it was cute so she started on my makeup. I don't wear much makeup at all so I told her I wanted to look natural, but "done" since it was my wedding after all. My eyes are really sensitive so she had some difficulty with me doing my eye makeup, but we finally got through it just in time. It was about 5:15am when she finished and DF and I had to meet the photographer downstairs at 5:30am. Ana was still there, but there was no time to waste so I stripped and hopped into my dress! Normally I'm very self-conscious but I didn't have much of a choice. DF had trouble getting my dress done in the back, so Ana helped him and then he was on his own to lace it up while I tried to put my necklace on.

Overall, I am sooo happy I went with Beaute Speciale. Ana did just what I asked for with very little direction and no visuals. She was friendly and efficient and my hair ended up holding all day -- mostly. I have this one stray hair in my bangs that refuses to cooperate with me and go to the right. It always tries to go to the left. She used a TON of hairspray and the hair ended up staying put until after the ceremony when we were outside in the wind. I was so worried about my huge zits, but she told me not to worry and covered them up as best she could. They really only started to show badly at dinner, but by then I had had the makeup on for around 12 hours and had been galavanting out in the hot sun taking tons of pictures and sweating like a pig. She left me the rest of her bottle of hairspray, 4-5 lipstick samples, and two sponges with foundation and coverup for touchups. I only ended up touching up my lipstick and hair, I completely forgot about the foundation extras.

He did a great job and we made it downstairs just in time. Sorry I don't have any pics of us getting ready -- there wasn't really anyone to take pics. DF was busy getting dressed and doing his hair and I couldn't exactly take self-portraits while Ana was working, lol. MOH was extremely disappointed later when I told her this because she thinks it's necessary for every wedding album!

We met our photographer, "Big Mike", and I faced my first challenge of the day: how do I get myself into that van in this huge dress?!? I just sort of hopped and Mike and DF piled my crinoline and train on my lap, lol. DF climbed in and we were on our way!

DF and I are both very quiet, so Mike did most of the talking. It was sooo awesome getting to go into the MK "behind the scenes"!

To be continued... DH needs the computer!

[Tiggerific04]

Sorry for the interruption! DH is a teacher and needed to do some lesson plans for tomorrow.

Back to the story!

Wedding Day Continued

I forgot to mention that we had a nurse and aide coming at 6:00am for MOH to help her get dressed and ready, so we needed somewhere for MOHG (maid of honor's guest) to go while they were there. I left him my room key the night before and told him he could sleep in our extra bed until we got back from the MK shoot. Lisa Pena was coming at 7:30am to do our moms' hair/makeup and then she was going to do MOH's hair/makeup at 10:00am when she was all ready.

I left two notes taped to our room door. The first was for MOHG, reminding him to please let in Lisa and our moms. The second was for my mom, reminding her to pay Lisa, lol.

I had originally booked Beaute Speciale for everybody, but they wanted to get started on our moms at 6:30am and then they couldn't really hang around and wait until 10:00am to do MOH. I ended up cancelling with them for everybody but me and I booked a separate appointment with Lisa Pena. I was upfront with her about it and told her that I had already booked someone else for my hair and makeup, but that we needed someone who was flexible and willing to do our moms and then wait until MOH was ready. Lisa said this was fine and we booked her, despite my fears after reading Maggimus' TR. Otherwise, Lisa seemed to come highly recommended and she was the only one available.

Sorry, but I needed to add that background info in or else stuff later won't make sense :cutiepie:

SO! DF and I were on our way to the MK. We had passed the CR and were heading in the cast member entrance... soooo cool! We passed all the daytime parade floats and a bunch of buildings. Mike pointed at one and goes, "Pirates of the Caribbean." So weird that it's just a regular looking building from the back! We also got to see the back of Jungle Cruise which is just a bunch of trees, lol.

We pulled onto Main Street and there were soooo many cast members working already. I've read about this in other trip reports, but it's so odd to see it in person for yourself. And they were all bright and cheery and waved! At 5:30 in the morning! While they were cleaning and hosing down the street! Sorry, I was in awe.

We pulled up to the hub and a lady from Disney floral was waiting with my bouquet and DF's bout (I can never spell the whole thing, lol). I fell in love with my bouquet instantly. It was perfect!

Mike got right to work because we had to be out of there by 6:30am because there was an early opening that day. He did some shots of just me in front of the castle, then me and DF, then we headed up the ramp and did some shots in the archway, then the carousel, then CRT, then the little balcony on the castle (so cool to go up there!), then the ramp on the way back to the van, and then some shots of just DF. Whew!

Getting on the carousel was tricky... they both had to help me up and then I was holding on for dear life because I felt myself slipping. My gigantic dress didn't exactly fit in the tiny little "seat" area of the horse, lol. Mike stopped and said to me, "Erin, loosen the grip a little bit and try to look HAPPY!" haha, I was so nervous up there.

I know a lot of people debate whether the MK shoot is worth it, but to me it was worth every single overpriced penny. It was a once in a lifetime experience and I am so glad we did it because I will never forget being the park all "alone" (except for the hundreds of CM running around!) before opening. It was a great and unique experience. I would do it again in a second.

Here are some of my favorite shots:
(I know I already posted a link to them all, but I feel bad for the lack of pics in these updates!)

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We hopped back in the van and Mike started chatting about who we were using for our wedding photography. I cringed a little because of the stories of Disney photographers who have been negative about using outside photography, but I told him Randy Chapman and he goes, "That hack? Just kidding, Randy's a good friend of mine. I like his work." Hmm. Well, I don't know if I believe that, but he dropped the conversation so I was relieved.

He dropped us off outside our building, wished us well, and we headed back to the room.

MOHG was passed out, so we tried to be as quiet as possible since I knew he was exhausted. There was nowhere else to change, and he had the covers pulled over his head, so DF helped me out of my dress right there, lol. I hung it back up and then he got out of his tux and we tried to lie down for a little while.

I couldn't possibly sleep, so I just got up since it was almost time for Lisa to be there anyway. My parents got to the room a little early so my mom came in and my dad went to read by the pool while he waited for her. DF had gone to get his mom and they showed up around that time, so now there was no way MOHG was going to get any sleep.

It was about 7:45am and Lisa wasn't there yet, so I stepped out on the balcony to call her. Just as I got her voicemail, I saw her and her assistant walking towards me. They got to work right away -- Lisa on DF's mom, and the assistant on my mom. They were nice enough, but very... overbearing? Loud? I can't put my finger on it, but Lisa rubbed me the wrong way. DF and I just kind of sat and watched, and Lisa made a comment to me that my hair and makeup was already done. Um, yes, we discussed this. She asked me who did it and I was kind of uncomfortable but I told her anyway. She didn't say anything except to ask me if I did the MK shoot. Yes, again, we already discussed this. Then she says, "You know, I do those too. You could have had me do it." and she just stood there looking at me, I guess waiting for some kind of response.

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Luckily there was a knock on the door -- it was the nurse from next door telling me that MOH was all ready to go. Wow, that was fast! So I ran next door and helped MOH pin her dress so that "the girls" didn't make a surprise appearance during the ceremony, and then we brushed teeth and whatnot. DF came over and we sent him and MOHG down to the food court to get us something to eat. I went back next door really quick just in time to see my mom leave. Her hair looked cute -- it was exactly like the picture she brought. I asked Lisa if they could go next door to do MOH's hair rather than have her come into my crowded room. She said that was fine and sent her assistant over.

MOH kind of told her what she wanted -- curls and kind of up -- but she mostly left it up to the asst to do something nice.

I went back next door to eat my fruit cup and DF's mom was leaving then. She looked great. DF walked her back to her room to get dressed so I was left alone with Lisa. I wanted to sink into the floor. She chatted with me -- all about how great she is and how much DFTW loves her and all the weddings that she does allll the time and how much experience she has and blah blah blah. OMG. It was so awkward. Finally MOHG comes over to get me so that I can see MOH's hair. It did not look good. All her hair was kind of pinned back from her face and it just looked funny. We explained to Lisa that she wanted it a little looser, so they fixed it and it turned out really cute.

We went back to my room so that Lisa could do her makeup, and that came out really nice as well.

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Lisa left, I took MOH back to her room to hang out, and I went back to my room to do I don't know what. LOL I actually really had to go to the bathroom, so I attempted to without ruining my dress, and just as I was finishing up, DF and his brother showed up. Good thing I was done because the bathroom door didn't close!

For months before the wedding, I was paranoid that either DF or his brother would be late and our wedding would be cancelled. I emphasized over and over how important it was to be on time. DF and his brother are ALWAYS late for EVERYTHING. I had faith in DF and told him that he had to make SURE his brother was ready on time.

DF followed through and had his brother dressed in our room by 10am -- an hour ahead of schedule! I was still really anxious and excited about everything so my stomach started rebelling (I have IBS and it gets really really bad whenever I have a big event) so I ran next door and used MOH's bathroom.

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I went back to my room and it occurs to me to check our BEO and double-check what time the guys are getting picked up. I thought it was 11:00am but it turns out it's actually 10:45am! Aaah! Good thing I checked because I needed to start getting ready before DF left. I hopped into my dress (sort of literally, lol) and he quickly laced me up again and ran to meet his family at the limo.

Notice that we have not seen or heard from Sue with DF's brother's new pants yet.

The plan for getting to the WP was this:

DF, his parents, the kids, his oldest brother and SIL would go in the limo. His other brother would follow in his car so that we would have a car later on after dinner to get everyone home.

The ceremony was at noon, reception at 1:00pm, and tea at the Gardenview Lounge was at 2:00pm. Dinner at Chef Mickey's was at 5:10pm.

After tea, DF, his brother, and my dad were supposed to drive back to Pop to pick up my car and my dad's car -- this would give us two cars plus an SUV to drive everyone back. MOH had a van coming to pick up her and MOHG after dinner.

Coming up: Does DBIL get his pants? Does my stomach cooperate for the rest of the day? And how does our transportation plan work out?

[Tiggerific04]

i knew it was from alfred angleo! i love it! i might copy you!!!

i'm from a little town near princeton called dayton! it's in south brunswick township in middlesex county. the majority of my family still lives there, but i moved to tx about 4 years ago!

I've heard of Dayton! How do you like TX? DH and I are looking to move somewhere out of Jersey -- somewhere less expensive, warmer, friendlier, etc.

I haven't had a chance to look at your pro photos yet, but I wanted to tell you I love your TR, especially all the food pictures! I can't wait to read about your wedding day.

Thanks! I always feel silly taking pics of the food, but I love going back to look at everything we ate!

Your pictures are AMAZING!!!! You guys look so happy together! Just beautiful!

Your photos are fantastic!! They did a great job and you look great in your dress!! Congratulations again! And your TR is wonderful!! I am already subscribed to it! Thanks for Sharing!

Your pics are incredible!!!! You guys are such a cute couple and you looked absolutely stunning in your dress!!

I love all your pictures!! You look beautiful :D

Wow, your pictures are great! You look beautiful :) And I love the Epcot ones - I really like the dress you wore for Epcot!

You must be really pleased...can't wait to read the rest!

Your pictures are georgous. What a beautiful bride you were.

I am loving this report! You two are so cute! Going to look at pictures! and so far all the food looks delicious! I must be hungry.

Your pictures are fantastic!!! I can't wait to read the rest of your TR.

Thanks everybody for the compliments and comments! :grouphug:

[Pomlover2586]

OMG! OMG! OMG!! First off I am LOVING your TR! I love your photos! But I'm soooo excited to hear from a Bride who has IBS! I too suffer from this and my stomach acts up when I get nervous. I've been worried that mine won't cooperate on our big day and i'll have to try using the restroom in my big poofy dress :lmao: I can only imagine that catastrophe! I hope all went well and again you looked wonderful!

[Dream426]

I am really enjoying reading your post. I can't wait to read more.

[Tiggerific04]

OMG! OMG! OMG!! First off I am LOVING your TR! I love your photos! But I'm soooo excited to hear from a Bride who has IBS! I too suffer from this and my stomach acts up when I get nervous. I've been worried that mine won't cooperate on our big day and i'll have to try using the restroom in my big poofy dress :lmao: I can only imagine that catastrophe! I hope all went well and again you looked wonderful!

HAHA, this was one of my biggest fears! I knew I could handle having people help me use the bathroom if I had to pee, but anything more than that and I would have DIED! I had tons of Immodium on hand and I took a Xanax in the morning before the MK pics, and again before I left to get into the limo. That's one reason all I ate before the ceremony was fruit. I really didn't want to eat anything to be safe, but I was starving and I was afraid of fainting during the ceremony!!

I am really enjoying reading your post. I can't wait to read more.

Yay! I'm so glad you like it!

[Tiggerific04]

Wedding Day Continued!

So when we last left off, DF had just finished lacing up my dress. I had him spray my hair one last time and sent him off to meet the limo and his family with all of our bags of stuff: basket with programs and bubbles, champagne flutes, cake knife and server, envelope with all of the money for our vendors, Tanis' card, tripod for the video camera, video camera and charger.

I had asked MOHG if he would mind videotaping the ceremony and reception for us since he's good with gadgets and stuff like that. The plan was that the guys would help him set up the tripod and all he would have to do is press record and move the tripod a couple times to catch the ceremony. He agreed.

After DF left, I gathered myself and my huge dress (and my camera and makeup samples) and went next door to wait with MOH and MOHG. I called my parents and told them to meet me there. We watched CNN while we waited for the limo, LOL.

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A hidden Mickey! I was so surprised!

We were getting anxious so my dad and MOHG went to see if the limo and van were there yet -- they were! We all went downstairs and the limo driver was sooo nice! I think his name was Mike. The accessible-van driver from Mears was also very nice and got MOH situated in no time.

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We hopped in the limo and we were on our way!

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My dad was sooo hot in his tux.

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Bridal self-portrait!

The limo ride seemed so short. I was a little disappointed because it was so nice in there! As soon as we pulled up to the WP, I saw Randy standing there with his camera. MOH and MOHG had already gotten there as well. The limo driver told my parents to get out so that Randy could get shots of me getting out of the car... it seemed like forever that I was sitting there by myself waiting until they would let me out. Finally Randy came over and opened the door and said, "Hi Erin, I'm Randy" SNAP! He just started taking pics like crazy! It was awesome.

They finally let me get out and I definitely wasn't graceful, but you'd never know it from the photos. We stood around for a minute and then Randy had us all walk towards the pavilion.

I was so nervous about how the photos would work -- I am so self-conscious and hate having my picture taken. I just kind of ignored Randy and he would occasionally call my name and I would look over, smile, and he would take a picture. Otherwise I just pretended like he wasn't there and it seemed to work out ok.

We got to the WP and Tanis was there! Yay Tanis! She brought us into the Rose Room and the first thing we did was... take pictures!

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And then I had to pee. Hmm. I'm a very private person but I knew I couldn't do it by myself, so I had to ask my mom to help me. It actually went very smoothly and was a lot easier than I expected!

MOH made me pretend to touch up my hair and makeup in the mirror so that I would have some "getting ready" pics, haha!

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Then Pastor Sig came in and introduced himself -- he is sooooo sweet! I am beyond thrilled that I chose him to marry us because he was amazing and wonderful and a joy to have there. He did everything exactly word for word how we wanted and it was perfect. He had to leave, so he went back and Tanis! came in. Sorry, I just can't emphasize how great she is.

She was confused because she had picked up one of the Spanish programs, so she came in and was just like, "... are there... English programs?" haha, yes!

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She left and we all kind of hung out and then she came back and said something about the guys walking up the aisle. Yay! Wait a minute... if the ceremony is starting and MOHG is here... who is videotaping the ceremony? Tanis had no idea about this plan (I should have told her), so she literally grabbed poor MOHG and yelled "Come on!" and they ran to find the camera and get him in there.

Tanis came back and told us we could move across to the WP because it was almost time for MOH and DF's brother to go. I briefly saw MOHG before he was shoved inside the doors, and he looked a bit frazzled but he was a good sport and did a great job with the tape.

I got pushed into the Groom's room at this point and our RB was in there. We had decided to let him carry the actual rings on the pillow because we trusted him and we knew he would feel really awesome being allowed to do that. He showed them to me and was soooo proud that he had such an important job. Too cute.

He left and I saw MOH and DF's brother go inside, and then RB and FG went. FG is only 2.5 and although everyone tried to quickly teach her how to throw the petals, she didn't seem to really get it. I wasn't expecting any flowers in the aisle :cutiepie:

My dad came in the room and he was so nervous. I couldn't figure it out -- I was perfectly calm and just wanted to get in there. I felt like I was missing everything. Tanis and her assistant set us up in front of the doors and it was then that she noticed the ribbons tying my bouquet were completely messed up. She did her best to fix them, but there wasn't much that could be done without retying the whole thing. She asked me if I was nervous and I said no, not at all. Then it seemed like a second later she opened the door and we started walking.

The WP is so much more beautiful in person. Pictures really do not do it justice. I was also originally concerned that it would look stupid with so few people in such a big space, but it doesn't seem as big in person either.

The first thing I saw when the doors opened? SIL taking pictures, haha. Then I saw Pastor Sig and then DF and then all I could do was smile. It was so surreal to see him standing up there waiting for me. I knew my dad was nervous so I whispered to him that there was a pile of flower petals at the end of the aisle -- turns out FG didn't drop any on her way up the aisle, so DF's dad tried to show her how to do it. Then her brother, RB, came over and showed her and she just dumped the whole basket in one place!

Before I knew it, we were at the end of the aisle and Pastor Sig asked who was giving me away and my dad said that he was. I took DF's hand and we stood there and the ceremony began. I tried my hardest to pay attention to what was being said, but I couldn't help but notice the altar arrangement and how perfect it was! I ordered the "Ring of Elegance" from Rosie and we brought our own little votive candles and small votive vases. I was so happy with the results. And then I saw the castle and completely tuned out what the Pastor was saying! I couldn't help it!

All of our readings went well. My mom was supposed to read but she was sick and didn't want to, so my dad read instead. I forgot to tell the Pastor this, so he said, "And now a reading from the bride's mother" and my dad got up and walked to the podium. Pastor Sig kind of looked at me confused and then said, "Well, obviously that is not the bride's mother. A reading from the bride's father then!" Everybody laughed and it definitely broke the tension.

He gave a lovely homily and then we did our vows. I'm definitely glad I went with the "I do" version instead of us having to say a lot because I would have cried for sure. Then I handed off my flowers to MOH and DF and I exchanged rings. We hadn't practiced our kiss at all, but I think it was ok -- we're not into PDA at all so it was a little weird kissing in front of all of our family, but it turned out fine. Then he announced us and I grabbed my flowers and we walked out husband and wife!

Tanis met us at the doors and ushered us into the Rose Room wher we hugged and showed off our rings to each other. We're such dorks :laughing:

She came back and told us how the bubbles were going to work -- walk through everybody, smile, and keep going all the way back to the altar for pictures. So that's what we did, and then Randy started setting us up for the formal pics. We took a few by the window and then Pastor Sig tried to leave. I think he forgot we still needed to pay him! So Randy told DH to go do that and he would take pics of just me. He's so sweet, he told DH, "Go, go, I could shoot Erin all day." (Maggimus, seriously, you were sooo right about him! He's awesome!)

DH's brother signed as a witness and then Pastor Sig said goodbye and left. We took a bunch of combinations of pics, and SIL and MOHG would stand either next to or behind Randy for all of them. MOHG kept getting in the way and I think Randy was a little annoyed... he made a couple comments and MOH told him to be mad at her because MOHG was only doing it because she couldn't.

We took pics with everybody and when it was time for us and MOHG, Randy kept telling him, "A little to your right... a little more... nope, you're still in the picture." haha! Poor guy.

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Continued...

[Tiggerific04]

Wedding Day Continued... Again

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Me showing off my ring while other people took pics

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Poor FG, she didn't want to take any more pics and ran to the back of the WP and hid under the pews! We finally coaxed her out and got this shot. She normally loves posing for the camera, but I guess it was too much for her.

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After we were done with all the formals, Tanis started ushering everybody out to the limo. I didn't book any transportation for MOH and MOHG because it was $145 per ride and DH and I decided we would just walk over with them. Tanis looked at us like we were absolutely INSANE, but Randy's face lit up with excitement. He told us that there are some places along the path that he has always wanted to use but no bride ever wants to walk! He thought it was the best thing ever.

We ran outside and did a couple shots at picture point and then started heading for the GF. We stopped on the bridge and then Randy had us walk up this hill and pose on the grass. Tanis and some other assistant drove by in their golf carts at that moment and they were talking to someone on the radio I think... they said (kind of annoyed), "Yeah, they're on the grass... yes, the grass." Maybe we weren't supposed to be there? Oops! Those pics are some of my faves, too!

We finally made it to the GF and we ended up beating everybody there. We hung out with Randy and then everybody got there. Tanis told them to go right out to the terrace, so what did they do? They walked over to us to chat, LOL. We told them to go outside and they finally did.

Tanis came over and told us that we were running late (it was 1:25 and the reception was supposed to end at 1:30) so the violinist wouldn't be able to stay but she could let us have the terrace until 1:45. I thought that was generous, but DH told me later that it wasn't US who were running late, it was the wedding before ours. Apparently, when he and his family got to the WP, there was still a wedding going on, so they all had to wait in Franck's instead of the Groom's Room!

In any case, she explained how to walk in and where to stand and how to cut the cake. She asked if anyone was giving a toast and we said we didn't know, so she went out to ask the best men and maid of honor. The guys didn't want to, but apparently MOH had planned on it. Then she went out and introduced us and we walked out and yay! It was so exciting!

We all got champagne and Tanis brought MOH over by us for her toast.

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She almost started crying and she said how she didn't prepare anything, but she did want to say a little bit. She said how amazing we were and how supportive we've been throughout her whole accident and rehabilitation and how she considers me a sister and that she couldn't have wished for a better brother in law. There was more, and it was much nicer when she said it, but I had to literally choke back the tears. I gave her a big kiss when she was done and Randy missed it, so he made me recreate it.

Then it was time to cut the cake!

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Like most of you, I had agonized over the cake for months. We decided that DH would pick the bottom flavors and I would pick the top. He chose chocolate/chocolate and I chose yellow/raspberry. We started to cut just like Tanis told us and then SNAP! The cake knife broke. Poor Mickey was beheaded :scared: We did the best we could and then it was time to feed each other and taste the cake I had been looking forward to for forever. And it was... ok. I didn't really care for it. I thought the cake itself was too dry, and the "mousse" was really heavy and more like pudding. I did like the buttercream, though.

Everyone got cake and we sat down and mingled a bit, but it was sooooo hot out there! They need an indoor location for the intimate receptions.

I realized that it was time for Randy to go, but we hadn't gotten any beach pictures yet! I went over to talk to him and he said that there were more shots he wanted to take and not to worry about it. He asked if we could go to the beach and I said yes but asked him if I could sit inside for a bit to cool off and he said it was no problem.

Tanis came over to give us our "surprise" gift. I knew about it from reading other TR, but I didn't tell DH so that he would be surprised. We LOVED the gift and everyone there thought it was such a nice touch. We use the gift everyday :P We gave her the card from us and we thanked her and she gave me a big hug and said that she's going to miss all my emails. Yeah, right!!

She asked if we were going to stay and hang out, but I told her it was too hot so everybody started heading back in.

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Me and my new SIL -- look how shiny I am!!

FG was there, so I crouched down to talk to her and I told her how pretty her dress is. Her response? "I eat it!" and she popped the flower on the front of her dress in her mouth!

It was almost 2pm, so we sent everyone down to the Gardenview Lounge while we went outside with Randy. He wanted to take pics on the GF staircase, but there was another bride there and Tanis said we couldn't. Randy was not happy. That bride ended up coming right upstairs to where we were and walked right by us. We both smiled and said hi, and Tanis looked like she was going to have heart attack or like the world might implode if two Disney brides see each other.

Randy took a ton of pics on the beach -- it was awkward to walk on the sand in my dress. And it was so sunny and hot! Randy came over to me at one point and wiped off my face because he said I was just waaaay too shiny. I could hardly open my eyes anymore so he thought it was best if we stop and go back inside. He was actually going to just leave from there and I had to remind him that we owed him money! What is it with people not wanting us to pay them?!?

Well, we get to the Gardenview and there is ANOTHER bride taking pics right in front of the entrance. We can't get in, but Randy wants to walk right in front of her, lol. I told him I didn't think we were supposed to do that, so he opened up the back entrance and we snuck in that way instead! He took a couple pics in there while he was waiting and then we said our goodbyes and he was gone.

Coming up: Afternoon Tea, lots of waiting around, Chef Mickey's, and the end of the night

[yearbook50]

You look beautiful!


Your report made me glad I'm not going to use Lisa.


Can't wait for more.

[caryndisneydiva]

your tr is great! to answer your question about tx...i do like it a lot, i've been here almost 4 years, but it took a full 2years for me to get used to tx! it's so different from the north, but all in all, much better. it gets really hot here in the summer, but i think it gets just as hot in nj, just not for long, in nj you have breaks from the heat and humidity, it's constant here. the lifestyle that you can have here is amazing!

can't wait to read more of your tr!!!!

[jillg850]

I love your TR! You look beautiful! I can completely relate to the bathroom issues...I'm getting nervous just thinking about it for my upcoming wedding. Glad to hear you liked Ana -- I'm using her, too.
Thank you for sharing all of the details! Love it! Keep it coming!

Jill
:)

[dizneyfreak]

Wow! I'm loving your trip report! I absolutely love all the pics and details! I'm excited about Ana being so good because she is doing my hair, my mother's hair and all of my BM's hair too. I do have one question for you though. Could you please tell me the info. that Maggie gave you about getting the paperwork filled out for the marriage license before you go? That would be a big help to DF and I. Thank you! I can't wait to read more!

Anna Marie:bride:

[AInWonderland]

I love your trip report. Don't think of it as being shiny you look like you are glowing:flower3:

[hmgolden]

You looked beautiful on your wedding day. I love your flowers!

Randy got some great shots. And you MK photos are wonderful.

I'm sorry Lisa was so over bearing. Its a shame she had to make an issue of your hair and make up on your wedding day.

[JackieSparrow]

Erin,

You look absolutely incredible in your wedding pics!!! I love the color of the pink in your bouquet. I think you made a good decision in the dress you went with - you can tell you're so happy in it and really comfortable wearing it. You and DH look so happy together, it's wonderful :goodvibes

Congrats!

[Lisacope]

Your TR is one of the best I have ever read! I am really enjoying reading it!

[jasonandlisa]

Great TR so far! Sounds like Pastor Jaeger is a real sweetheart. It's wonderful that he did your ceremony exactly how you wanted it :)

All your pictures look wonderful!! There are so many good ones, it's going to be hard to choose which ones you want to put in albums! Your Epcot pictures are really cool. I just showed them to DH, who was very impressed. We were supposed to get some pics like that (since our wedding was in Epcot) but had to skip them because our WP screwed up the transportation and messed up our schedule. :(

Can't wait to read more...

[Tiggerific04]

You look beautiful!


Your report made me glad I'm not going to use Lisa.


Can't wait for more.

Thank you! Yeah, I'm really glad I didn't use Lisa for myself but it sucks that I had to use her at all (no one else was available). At least everyone was happy with how their hair and/or makeup came out.

your tr is great! to answer your question about tx...i do like it a lot, i've been here almost 4 years, but it took a full 2years for me to get used to tx! it's so different from the north, but all in all, much better. it gets really hot here in the summer, but i think it gets just as hot in nj, just not for long, in nj you have breaks from the heat and humidity, it's constant here. the lifestyle that you can have here is amazing!

can't wait to read more of your tr!!!!

Thanks! And thanks for the info about TX, I'm looking for a change but I think DH wants something sort of similar to NJ.

I love your TR! You look beautiful! I can completely relate to the bathroom issues...I'm getting nervous just thinking about it for my upcoming wedding. Glad to hear you liked Ana -- I'm using her, too.
Thank you for sharing all of the details! Love it! Keep it coming!

Jill
:)

Thanks Jill! I was so, so nervous about the bathroom issue but it turned out to not be nearly as bad as I ws expecting. I definitely needed help, but it was a lot easier than what I thought it would be. You'll do fine! And you'll love Ana -- I thought she was great! Just the right amount of conversation but still very professional.

Wow! I'm loving your trip report! I absolutely love all the pics and details! I'm excited about Ana being so good because she is doing my hair, my mother's hair and all of my BM's hair too. I do have one question for you though. Could you please tell me the info. that Maggie gave you about getting the paperwork filled out for the marriage license before you go? That would be a big help to DF and I. Thank you! I can't wait to read more!

Anna Marie:bride:

Thank you Anna Marie! Ana was fabulous, both her work and her personality.

We were originally going to do the marriage license through the mail, but then we decided to do it in person. You can print out the application from the Osceola Courthouse website: http://www.osceolaclerk.com/. The application is here: http://www.osceolaclerk.com/Marriage%20Application%20Form/Marriage%20License%20Form.pdf. We filled it all out and it made the process when we got to the courthouse that much faster. We just walked right up to the window, handed the woman our form and licenses, and we were out of there in 20 minutes!

I love your trip report. Don't think of it as being shiny you look like you are glowing:flower3:

Haha! I like the way you think!

You looked beautiful on your wedding day. I love your flowers!

Randy got some great shots. And you MK photos are wonderful.

I'm sorry Lisa was so over bearing. Its a shame she had to make an issue of your hair and make up on your wedding day.

Thank you! It's a shame about Lisa, but there's nothing I can do about it now, right?

Erin,

You look absolutely incredible in your wedding pics!!! I love the color of the pink in your bouquet. I think you made a good decision in the dress you went with - you can tell you're so happy in it and really comfortable wearing it. You and DH look so happy together, it's wonderful :goodvibes

Congrats!

Thank you! I loved my dress and I definitely think it was the best choice. I would have been so uncomfortable in that big poofy dress.

Your TR is one of the best I have ever read! I am really enjoying reading it!

Aww, thank you!!!

Great TR so far! Sounds like Pastor Jaeger is a real sweetheart. It's wonderful that he did your ceremony exactly how you wanted it :)

All your pictures look wonderful!! There are so many good ones, it's going to be hard to choose which ones you want to put in albums! Your Epcot pictures are really cool. I just showed them to DH, who was very impressed. We were supposed to get some pics like that (since our wedding was in Epcot) but had to skip them because our WP screwed up the transportation and messed up our schedule. :(

Can't wait to read more...

Thanks! Pastor Jaeger was great -- I'm definitely glad I went with him and not Rev. Tim. Sorry to hear about your Epcot pics -- that stinks!

[jasonandlisa]

Thanks! Pastor Jaeger was great -- I'm definitely glad I went with him and not Rev. Tim. Sorry to hear about your Epcot pics -- that stinks!

Yeah, you were definitely smart to switch from Rev. Tim. That was a source of stress for us. I never knew for sure whether we had a marriage license until I showed up for our wedding, and the whole ceremony was a complete surprise. It all pretty much went fine but was still nerve-wracking...

I haven't seen many brides mention Pastor Jaeger on here. Hopefully, you'll help future brides out with your positive review!! I love the detail in your TR. And all the pics!! Lots of fun popcorn::

[dizneyfreak]

Thank you so much for the information about the courthouse. It will make our trip there that much easier. I'm still waiting for more on your trip thoughtpopcorn:: You got me hooked!

Anna Marie:bride:

[Summer-Caitlin]

I have finally got around to reading your entire TR so far. Erin, you looked beautiful and I love your MK pics. Your dress was just you, you must be so glad you bought this one.
Wasn't Randy just the greatest? I, like you just pretended he wasn't there for most of the time, I found I got better pictures for it, more natural and I think you got that too. I'm so glad Tanis was there for your wedding, she really was fantastic. You sound like you had a wonderful wedding day, I'm so jealous you got pics in the limo, my mom took some but they never came out, they are all blurred:confused3
You also seem to have received pixie dust, I'm so happy to hear when couples get this, I know Disney is magical alone, but that little bit extra is nice.
I am so looking forward to reading about Chef Mickeys on your wedding night, you should have some wonderful pics from that.
Congrats once again to you both, you both looked so happy in the pics:cloud9:

[Tiggerific04]

Yeah, you were definitely smart to switch from Rev. Tim. That was a source of stress for us. I never knew for sure whether we had a marriage license until I showed up for our wedding, and the whole ceremony was a complete surprise. It all pretty much went fine but was still nerve-wracking...

I haven't seen many brides mention Pastor Jaeger on here. Hopefully, you'll help future brides out with your positive review!! I love the detail in your TR. And all the pics!! Lots of fun popcorn::

I would recommend Pastor Sig to anyone who is looking for a religious ceremony, specifically a Catholic one. We used the book Rev. Tim sent us to write our ceremony, but Pastor Sig did a fantastic job. My mother is super religious and even she was very impressed with him -- she's still going on about how great the ceremony was even now! And she was NOT happy when she found out we weren't getting married in the Church!

Thank you so much for the information about the courthouse. It will make our trip there that much easier. I'm still waiting for more on your trip thoughtpopcorn:: You got me hooked!

Anna Marie:bride:

No problem! Even though there wasn't a line in the courthouse, having the form filled out did save us some time and energy that day.

I have finally got around to reading your entire TR so far. Erin, you looked beautiful and I love your MK pics. Your dress was just you, you must be so glad you bought this one.
Wasn't Randy just the greatest? I, like you just pretended he wasn't there for most of the time, I found I got better pictures for it, more natural and I think you got that too. I'm so glad Tanis was there for your wedding, she really was fantastic. You sound like you had a wonderful wedding day, I'm so jealous you got pics in the limo, my mom took some but they never came out, they are all blurred:confused3
You also seem to have received pixie dust, I'm so happy to hear when couples get this, I know Disney is magical alone, but that little bit extra is nice.
I am so looking forward to reading about Chef Mickeys on your wedding night, you should have some wonderful pics from that.
Congrats once again to you both, you both looked so happy in the pics:cloud9:

Hey Summer! I was actually a little disappointed in my Randy pics at first because I was comparing them to yours -- yours came out soooo good! We didn't really receive any "official" pixie dust -- no magical moments certificates or anything like that -- but we got so many "congratulations!" from cast members and other guests and it was just fantastic! It was so hard to leave and go home to real life where you can't wear bridal Mickey ears and get special treatment :rotfl: I can't wait to read more about your trip!!

[Tiggerific04]

Wedding Day Continued -- Tea

One more thing about Randy before I forget: I'm sure he does this with everyone, but I thought it was so cute and nice that he really used the words "husband" and "wife" a lot. Like, he would keep telling DH, "Ok, now take your wife's hand and stand like this." Stuff like that. I thought it was a nice touch :bg:

Anyway.

Ok, so! We arrived at the tea just as everyone else was seating themselves -- it went much smoother here than at Ohana. Our parents and MOH and MOHG sat at one table, while me, DH, his brothers, SIL, and the kids sat at the other. I felt kind of bad that MOH wasn't sitting with us, but I was also relieved that DH's mom had someone else to talk to since MOH knows enough Spanish to get her by in a conversation. It ended up working out just fine.

The Gardenview Lounge is adorable. I loved the whole atmosphere of it and even SIL said that she was going to go home and rub it in everyone's faces that she went to a REAL tea party, haha.

No one really knew what to order, so the server brought over the box with all of the tea in it so that we could smell them all. We had so much fun passing them all around! It's kind of like in Club Cool at Epcot, where you try to convince each other that the bad ones are really good, you know? We finally all decided what we wanted in terms of tea -- I had the Nobo Whole Fruit; DH, his oldest brother, SIL, and nephew had the Mad Hatter; and DH's other brother had the Jasmine White.

Our server suggested to one of us that we get the Buckingham Palace, which comes with tea sandwiches, scones, jam tarts, and pastries or strawberries and cream. Someone said ok and then we all decided to go for it, so we all had that and the kids had the Mrs. Potts Tea with ham/cheese sandwiches only.

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My tea

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SIL's tea

We voted, and the sandwiches were gross. There was a cucumber one, a shrimp one (this one was ok), a chicken one, a pear one, and something else I can't remember. None of us liked them, but DH's brother finished all of his anyway, lol. There was an onion tart on the plate as well that the server claimed was "to die for" but none of us really enjoyed it. We spent most of the meal laughing and making faces, so at least we had a good time.

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After the sandwiches was the scones and jam tarts course. These were actually really good, but I didn't finish them because I was getting full and I was trying to save room for dinner and dessert.

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Next was the pastry or strawberries course. DH had two chocolate eclairs, and the kids each had an eclair and I think a swan pastry... the rest of us had the strawberries. They were very fresh and very good and the cream was excellent.

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I'm not sure what the other table had, except that my dad had a trifle and my mom had the tea sandwiches. They both thought everything was very good, so it's just a matter of taste and what you're used to. DH's mom didn't like any of it.

FG kept telling me to take a picture of her and her brother, but everytime I did she would make these weird faces:

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RB is eating a gummy worm, although I'm not sure where he got it LOL

Here's a better one of FG:
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We were all stuffed and it was about time for us to get going. We paid and then started to gather ourselves out in front of the restaurant. The plan was for DH, his brother, and my dad to drive back to Pop and pick up the other two cars. They would then all drive to the Contemporary and meet us at Chef Mickey's at 5pm for dinner. It was about 3:30pm at this point.

What actually happened is that I was dying in my dress and needed desperately to take off my crinoline and bra because I was having trouble breathing. My mom and I went to the bathroom where I peed again (much easier this time) and then I ripped off my undergarments, lol. Luckily we had an extra bag with us, so I shoved them in there and asked my mom to just leave it in her car for now. I felt sooo much better, although now my dress was significantly loose up top!

We went back to meet the group and DH and his brother had already left to go get the car. They were supposed to pick up my parents in front of the GF. I sat with MOH, MOHG, and SIL and we all talked and hung out. About 20 minutes later, my dad calls DH's cell phone (which I have for some reason) and says that he and my mom are still waiting out front. I tell him that we'll try calling DH's brother to find out what's going on. We can't get in touch with anyone, and we have no idea where they are, but my dad calls back a few minutes later and says that they're there now.

The rest of us decided we should start heading over to the CR so I ask our server from the Gardenview how to get to the monorail and she points us in the right direction. TONS of people in the lobby stopped to tell me congratulations and compliment my dress and everything. It was an amazing feeling!

We made it to the monorail and I'm sure we were quite a sight! All of us all dressed up amidst a bunch of people in shorts and tank tops! We got on the monorail, and one of the women in our car kept looking at me waiting for me to make eye contact with her. I finally did and she congratulated me and kind of looked around at the guys trying to figure out who the groom was and why he wasn't sitting with me! I explained to her that he was chauffering other guests to dinner.

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So we get to the CR and we're waiting for the CM to come over with the ramp for the monorail so Christina can get off. No one was coming, so BIL and I get off to find someone. Nope, nobody in sight. BIL walks away and ends up coming back with the ramp! Of course NOW a CM comes running over apologizing and I think kind of upset because I'm guessing we're not allowed to handle the ramp ourselves!

We went downstairs and found some benches near the restauarant and we all sat down and talked for awhile. A nice CM came over and gave FG some beads for being a beautiful "princess" and then DH's parents took her into the gift shop to look around because she seemed to be getting bored.

DH showed up with his brother and RB and told us what had happened.

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He and his brother FORGOT to go back to the GF to pick up my parents! They were almost at Pop by the time they remembered and had to hightail it back to the GF and come up with some excuse about the parking lot being "confusing" and that's why it took so long! As far as I know my parents totally bought their story.

Coming up: Chef Mickey's!

[caryndisneydiva]

the picture of you on the monorail in all of your bridal gloriousness is FABULOUS!!! i can just imagine some confused tourist staring at you!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! i'm so happy for you!!!

[Missy H]

Great Trip Report. Can't wait to hear about Chef Mickey's!
I would love to travel on the monorail in my dress. You look like you had so much fun. You pictures are great!

[shasess]

I love the picture of you on the Monorail too. It's soooo pretty!!!!:love:

[oneyodafan]

Fabulous!! You are so beautiful and I love the photos!

[purplegirl247]

Like Summer, I'm jealous you got pics in the limo! I know MIL took some, but for some reason I never got a copy. Ah, well.

All your pics turned out great, btw! Oh, and I think all brides go through the disappointment that their Randy pics (or pics in general, I mean) aren't as good as they envision. I pitched a *fit* because I didn't like my photos at first, but I think I built it up so much that *nothing* was going to be as good. lol!

Can't wait for the next installment!

[Chantelle]

You're so cute! Your wedding looks absolutely beautiful and I am glad to see I am not the only bride who rode the monorail in my dress! Like you, I quite enjoy the attention you get strolling around in your wedding dress.

[caryndisneydiva]

i told df the monorail story and he thought it was so funny!!! we're going to do taht too, just for the fun of it! i can't wait!!!

[Tiggerific04]

the picture of you on the monorail in all of your bridal gloriousness is FABULOUS!!! i can just imagine some confused tourist staring at you!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! i'm so happy for you!!!

We got quite a few stares, but I didn't care! It was awesome, you should definitely do it!!

Great Trip Report. Can't wait to hear about Chef Mickey's!
I would love to travel on the monorail in my dress. You look like you had so much fun. You pictures are great!

Thanks! We had a ton of fun :banana:

I love the picture of you on the Monorail too. It's soooo pretty!!!!:love:

Thank you!

Fabulous!! You are so beautiful and I love the photos!

Aww, thanks!!

Like Summer, I'm jealous you got pics in the limo! I know MIL took some, but for some reason I never got a copy. Ah, well.

All your pics turned out great, btw! Oh, and I think all brides go through the disappointment that their Randy pics (or pics in general, I mean) aren't as good as they envision. I pitched a *fit* because I didn't like my photos at first, but I think I built it up so much that *nothing* was going to be as good. lol!

Can't wait for the next installment!

I agree. I spent almost a year on here looking at everyone's photos and then I saw mine and I was like, "Really? That's it?" But then I looked through them again without comparing them to anyone else's and I really do like them now.

You're so cute! Your wedding looks absolutely beautiful and I am glad to see I am not the only bride who rode the monorail in my dress! Like you, I quite enjoy the attention you get strolling around in your wedding dress.

Thanks! I'm incredibly shy and didn't think I would like the attention at all, but I ate it up that day! Everyone was so over-the-top nice and strangers would just stop and compliment me -- it was surreal.

[Tiggerific04]

Wedding Day Continued -- Chef Mickey's

Once DH, BIL and his nephew arrived back it was time to walk over to Chef Mickey's to check in for dinner. My parents weren't there yet, but we couldn't wait for them.

I walked up to the podium in all my bridal glory and the CM behind the desk did a double-take and says, "Let me guess, did you get married today?" ALL the cast members there said congratulations and they immediately pushed us into line to get a group picture while we waited for our table. The photographer was just blown away that she got to photograph a wedding party and she was having so much fun positioning everyone just so. I was sort of sad that my parents weren't there for the photo, but it was their own choice to be late so I couldn't worry about it too much.

After the group photo, the photographer insisted on just me and DH even though our pager had already gone off. She told us not to worry, it's not like they could not seat a bride and groom! So we had our picture taken and then rushed over to where everyone else was being seated.

Rather than give us a long table, they sat us against the "booth" area, so on one side of the tables is a booth-style seat and a regular chair on the other side. The tables were all separated, so we asked if we could put them together and they said it was no problem. We also got the "It's My Special Day" placemats from the server -- I was so excited!

Once seated, the server came over to take our drink orders and explain the buffet and characters to us. Now, FG's favorite character is Ariel, but she's also partial to Mickey Mouse, whom she affectionately refers to as "Kimmy Mouf" because she can't pronounce the letters properly :rotfl: DH and I had gotten into a heated discussion with her prior to the trip trying to get her to say it correctly, but she would just get angry, cross her arms, and say, "Yes! KIMMY MOUF." as if WE were the dumb ones. haha

I was still kind of full from tea, but I wanted to try a bunch of stuff, so we all headed up the buffet, with instructions from MOH to take note of what they had and report back to her so she would know what to send us up for for her! She told us to get a variety of things so she could see them all and make an informed decision, lol.

I was impressed with this buffet and DH and I have since decided to go back for dinner on our next trip so that we can calmly (and with an appetite) try everything.

I started out with some salad, macaroni and cheese, and pizza. A lovely combination!

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I didn't take pictures of anyone else's food, sorry!

The first character to come over was Pluto. Mostly everyone was still up at the buffet, but he spotted FG (who did genuinely seem interested) and went into full-on character mode and BOUNDED across the restuarant (like a dog) to see her. Well. This did not go over well and FG's eyes popped right out of her head as she started screaming and looking for somewhere to hide (behind FIL worked just fine for her). Poor Pluto felt horrible I think, so he came over to our end of the table and gave TONS of slobbery kisses to MOH instead.

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My parents finally arrived and I explained to them how it worked and then they set off to find food.

Mickey was next to stop by and FG wasn't having any of that either.

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Mickey saw me and did the "come here" motion with his finger so I climbed over my mom and walked around to take a picture with him.

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Did I mention the top of my dress was realllly loose now? I was so paranoid it would fall down!

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Then Mickey called DH over:

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We couldn't figure out what he was trying to tell us:
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So he finally just grabbed our hands and set it up for us, haha:
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After Mickey was Donald, who proposed to me even though I had just gotten married:
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I love this picture:
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Poor unsuspecting MOHG (who is not a fan of the characters) thought we were taking a nice photo of him. You can see Donald creeping up behind him ready to grab him and you can see the look on MOH's face, knowing he is not going to appreciate the gesture. :unsure:

I really wanted to try the parmesan mashed potatoes since everyone raves about them, and the Mickey ravioli looked cute so I headed back to the buffet with my dad. I also tried some kind of potato bake thing, but I'm not sure what it was or what was in it.

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The mashed potatoes were ok, but they tasted just like the ones I make at home, and the ravioli was ok but I was getting pretty full and couldn't finish it. The other potato thing was good, but I couldn't fit any more food inside.

Goofy came over to our table next:

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SIL had no idea what was going on, lol

After Goofy left, our server stopped by to let us know that the next song they were playing (where you wave your napkins around) was to celebrate us. I about died because I had no idea what to expect.

The music started and our server brought us over pretty cupcakes!

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All of the characters made another round, but we were exhausted so we pretty much just waved, lol.

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It was only 6:30pm by this time and everyone was basically done eating. BIL had gone up to get a plate of desserts for whoever wanted them, but I was stuffed. It was disappointing because aside from the characters, one of the reasons I booked CM is because the desserts looked really good.

We had an hour to kill before the van came for MOH and MOHG, so I told my parents to leave and go back to their hotel so that DH and I could stop by later to pick up my dad's tux. They left, we paid the bill, and everyone started heading out. The four of us went downstairs to wait outside for the van, and DH's family took their time and eventually went their own way back to the car.

We just sat on the benches outside and talked about the day, and tons of people passed by and said congratulations. When we were still inside, on our way out, a woman stopped me to tell me that I looked "stunning" -- I almost cried. The compliments people were giving me were just way too much: stunning, beautiful, breathtaking. OMG. A lot of little girls would stop and stare and their parents would have to grab them to keep them moving, explaining that we just got married. It was sooo cute. And other people wonder why we all decided to get married at Disney?!

The van finally showed up, so we made sure MOH was ok and we told them we'd meet them back at the room to help with getting ready for bed stuff. There was an aide coming at 10pm to get her officially ready for bed, but I knew she wasn't going to want to be stuck in her chair until then.

DH and I made our way over to the parking lot and found our car after getting lots of whistles and yells from the people waiting for the bus :bride:

I piled myself into the backseat and DH drove to DTD to pick up my dad's tux. We passed a couple Disney buses on the way and whenever we were stopped next to one, everyone would point and smile at us.

We picked up the tux and our cake and then headed back to Pop. As soon as we got to the room, DH took his tux off and I started undoing my dress. I couldn't wait to get it off! I was surprised -- I really thought I'd be one of those brides that didn't want to take it off because you never get to wear it again, but it was so hot and heavy and all I wanted were my sweats!!

I left my dress in a pile on the floor while I put some sweatpants and a tank top on and peed without the assistance of another person. I ran next door and helped MOHG get MOH into bed, said goodnight to them, and went back to my room to take my hair out and take a shower. Once we were both clean, DH and I grabbed our mug, the tuxes, and started our journey of collecting the rest of the tuxes.

We went to DH's parents' room first. We drove over there, picked up the tux, got back to the car and realized that his dad forgot to give us his shoes. DH went all the way back to the the room, got the shoes, and came back. Then we parked in the check in parking lot, grabbed the tuxes and went inside to find out where we should leave them. The front desk CM directed us to luggage services, and we met a very non-Disney-like CM there who took the tuxes rather reluctantly. We told him we had some more that we had to go get and would be back in 10 minutes.

We walked to BIL's room and got his, other BIL's, and RB's. We brought those back to luggage services and then I went to the food court to get hot water, while DH drove back to our parking lot and went to the room.

I walked back to the room, mixed myself up some Theraflu (I was feeling horrible at this point -- I think it hit me all at once) and I was asleep before I could even finish it! What a romantic wedding night, right?!

Coming up: Our Disneymoon! 8 more days of fun and pixie dust!

[purplegirl247]

Pssst! You should update your siggy with a fabulous wedding pic! If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em!

[Tiggerific04]

Pssst! You should update your siggy with a fabulous wedding pic! If you've got 'em, flaunt 'em!

Haha! I've had a hard time picking which one to use... I wanted to use a MK one but since I swiped 'em from the Disney website, they're not that clear. I'll def update it tonight when I post the next installment :thumbsup2

[jasonandlisa]

Chef Mickey's looks like so much fun! It's cool that you got pics with so many different characters. That would have cost a small fortune at a custom reception ;) It sounds like your wedding day was perfectly wonderful. I'm so happy for you! :)

[caryndisneydiva]

chef mickeys sounds so great! i think the mickey ravioli is adorable!!! i hope you recovered soon! can't wait to read about the disneymoon!

[Tiggerific04]

Day 8

I hadn't really planned anything for the day after the wedding because I knew we were going to be exhausted. The only definite was Le Cellier that night for dinner.

We slept in and were woken up around 9:30am by MOH and MOHG who were headed back to the airport. We said our goodbyes, thank yous and exchanged lots of hugs and then sent them on their way. And we went back to bed, lol.

When we finally pried ourselves out from under the covers, DH went to take a shower and then we drove to Franck's to pick up some stuff from the wedding.

I had never been in Franck's before so I was excited to see all the different stuff they had on display. There were a couple people in there having what looked like planning sessions -- so exciting!!

We hopped back in the car, drove back to Pop, dropped the stuff off in the room and I took a couple pictures to show you guys:

Our poor, dismantled cake:

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Our altar arrangement, minus the candle:

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My badly wrapped bouquet:

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My rings!

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We went down to the food court to get something to eat. I had the turkey ciabatta sandwich (sooooo gooood!) and fruit cup, and DH had a meatball sub and a brownie.

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We headed over to MK since we had promised our new BFF Kevin that we would be there for whatever special surprise he had in store for us. We got to the gates and didn't see him, so we went into the park to Guest Relations like he had told us to do and asked for him there. The CM had no idea what we were talking about so we thanked him and left. We walked back out to the turnstiles and the CM there said he wasn't working until 3:30pm.

I had some difficulty getting back into the park because I had used my ticket only a few minutes ago, but the CM there was able to get me in. We headed over to POTC but the line was over 40 minutes and we've gotten spoiled about waiting in line, so we went shopping instead.

DH had wanted the classic Mickey shirt so we bought that for him and chatted with the cashier for a little while about our wedding. It was amazing to me how many people were genuinely interested in us and our wedding -- they actually wanted to hear details!

As we were checking out, I got a call from Orbitz telling me that MOH flight was delayed an hour. Funny, because I got a text message from her hours ago telling me the same thing. More on this later...

It was about 3:30 by this point and we were eager to get to Epcot to meet up my parents to watch the British Invasion. DH and I LOVE them and have been raving about them to my parents for forever. We are all HUGE Beatles fans :cool1:

We found Kevin and he congratulated us and then said to wait around a few minutes. Ok... once there was a crowd of people at the bag check lines, he YELLED at the top of his lungs that he had a very important announcement and that he needed everyone's attention. I must have turned 27 shades of red. He announced that we had just gotten married and made us kiss in front of everyone! I was a good sport and did it, and everyone was cheering and clapping for us. It was really cute. Not worth waiting around all day for, but cute nonetheless.

We got on a bus to the Boardwalk and figured we would just walk to Epcot from there. We were driving through the TTC parking lot when all of a sudden the bus driver (a very old man) yells, "Come on, a-holes!!" (except he used the full word)! :scared1: OMG. DH and I just looked at each other and cracked up laughing! Most of the bus was empty and we were the only ones sitting towards the front, but still! Everytime we had a bad driver after that we would whisper that phrase to each other.

We got to the Boardwalk and walked over to Epcot where we were greeted by a sweet CM at the turnstiles who was just in awe that we had only been married a day. She wished us well and we headed to Future World to check out the new Nemo ride. I had talked to my parents earlier who said that it was really cute.

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We both liked it, especially the turtle part and the end.

Since Turtle Talk with Crush was right there and we had never done it before, we walked in there just as a new show was starting. It was sooo good! Crush picked on this one little girl in the front row, who seemed to be from the UK. She asked Crush, "Are we talking to a turtle puppet?" and Crush's face was priceless. Everyone died laughing and then she went on to tell him that she has a question but proceeded to tell him something really random. She went on for quite awhile and Crush listened and then said something quick at the end, and the little girl tells him, "You're a bit cheeky, aren't you?" and Crush said that he guesses he is. It was adorable.

After that we walked around the Land pavilion and decided to do Living with the Land since we never had before. It was way better than I was expecting and DH really liked it. When it was over and our boat was pulling in, the CM made our whole boat and the people on line clap for us!

We started walking over to the UK pavilion and stopped to take some pictures inside:

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We met my faves!

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Eeyore wanted to stand next to me, but Tigger wouldn't let him, so he sulked in the corner until the Photopass photographer could coax him back to the picture! Then when we were done, he grabbed my hand and tried to walk out with me :cutie:

Outside, there wasn't really anyone around so we sat on a bench right in front and waited for my parents and the show to start. We looked over and my parents had been sitting on the curb waiting for us. My dad came over and took this picture, which I hate, but he thinks the more close up the picture is the better it is:

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DH and my dad chatted while I went to talk to my mom and then the guys came out so I went back to my seat.

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The show was really good, and they actually talked and interacted with the audience this year which was different from other times we've seen them.

Continued...

[Tiggerific04]

We were starving and it was almost time for our ADR at Le Cellier so we walked over to Canada and looked around a little.

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I was sooo excited about this dinner even though I tried not to be because I didn't want to have my expectations set too high. I know everyone raves about it and I didn't want to be disappointed. All I told DH is that it is a very popular restaurant and it's supposed to be very good, but that we were going to see for ourselves.

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We were about 15 minutes early, so we had to wait a little bit but then someone came to seat us. We got a nice corner seat, so although the people on our left were pretty close, at least we had privacy on 3 other sides.

Our server, Sean, was incredibly social, friendly, and prompt. DH wanted raspberry iced tea and Sean said he would make him some using regular iced tea and raspberry syrup. DH was skeptical, but agreed and it was delicious! We both had the cheddar cheese soup as an appetizer and DH ordered the filet mignon and I had the spiced black bean cake.

While we were waiting, Sean brought us our bread:

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We split all of them and we agreed that the pretzel bread was definitely the best, then the multigrain, then the sourdough.

Our soup came not long after and OMG it was to die for.

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I was already getting full, but I managed to eat a decent amount of my entree:

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It looks really gross in the picture, but I can assure that it tasted very good! It was red peppers stuffed with black beans, corn and something else, and then the noodles in the middle were mixed in some kind of peanut sauce. It was an insane amount of food -- easily enough for 2 people to share.

DH never ever orders meat in restaurants and he practically licked his plate clean here:

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For dessert, he wanted the chocolate "moose" but felt silly ordering it, so I did and he ordered the chocolate whiskey cake. I also asked for a glass of the highly-rated ice wine. Yay for not getting carded! I'm not much of a wine drinker but everyone says this stuff is great so I had to see for myself.

Sean brought out the wine and showed me the bottle and the whole thing as if I had any idea what I was doing, lol. DH almost fell out of his chair when he saw the size of the glass and realized how much we were paying for it... until he tasted it. Soooo sooo yummy. I could drink that stuff all day.

As if this meal can't get any better, our desserts arrive... all 3 of them? YAY for free dessert!!

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The one in the middle was the free one -- some kind of chocolate mousse inside a hard chocolate shell. We shared all three of them and DH liked that one the best, while I thought the "moose" was the best.

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See the tiny glass compared to my soda glass?

We didn't even come close to finishing all of this and I felt bad that so much food was wasted, but I couldn't fit anything else in! We paid our bill and raved about how much Le Cellier ROCKS all the way to the bus stop. Luckily, we didn't have to wait at all and walked right on. Our driver made jokes the whole way back to Pop and he took the shortest route so we were home in no time at all.

When we got to the room I realized that I hadn't heard from MOH yet, so I tried text messaging her and then left her and MOHG voicemails. He texted me at 10:30pm to tell me that they had JUST gotten to Newark airport!! It's supposed to be a 2.5 hour flight and their plane left at 11am!

I called my dad because I was worried that their transportation would have left by then, but he told me that they were supposed to be checking the flights all day and it shouldn't be a problem. We hung up and he called me back a couple minutes later to tell me he talked to Able (the accessible van company) and they were sending someone. I text message MOH to let her know. MOHG calls me and MOH is pissed because apparently she has been in touch with Able all day and they told her that the driver had to go, so she called her roommate and he was already on the way to pick them up. I told them to just go with her roommate and I would have my dad call Able again and cancel. I finally got a call from MOHG at 1:00am to tell me that they had all gotten home ok.

Next: I get even more sick, my mom's temper tantrum, and the Pirate and Princess Party!!

[caryndisneydiva]

i've never eaten in canada and that is my fathers favorite disney attraction...where did you get your shirt??? i love the happily ever after design!!!

[Tiggerific04]

i've never eaten in canada and that is my fathers favorite disney attraction...where did you get your shirt??? i love the happily ever after design!!!

I had seen the shirt in someone else's TR on here and I went in search of it as soon as we got to Disney. I ended up finding it in the World of Disney store in DTD for about $30. DH wasn't pleased with the price since it was just a t-shirt, but I had my heart set on wearing it the day after we got married and it was the only thing I bought for myself the whole trip :cutie:

[BaBeeCee14]

Erin,
Your TR is great!! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Can't wait to hear more!

[Maddiesmum03]

another vote for le cellier's pretzel bread!!

Erin, I am so enjoying this TR, please keep it comming.....

[dizneyfreak]

I'm so excited for you and all the "pixie dust" you've been receiving. This report is getting me all excited for my own DFTW in a few weeks! I'm tring not to get my hopes up though, because I so don't want to be totally disappointed. Keep your fingers crossed for me and keep the report coming popcorn::

Anna Marie:bride:

[Tiggerific04]

I'm so excited for you and all the "pixie dust" you've been receiving. This report is getting me all excited for my own DFTW in a few weeks! I'm tring not to get my hopes up though, because I so don't want to be totally disappointed. Keep your fingers crossed for me and keep the report coming popcorn::

Anna Marie:bride:

I didn't get my hopes up either because I didn't want to be disappointed if nothing happened for us. Honestly, we didn't anywhere near what other brides have reported, but we did get tons of "congratulations" and special attention from cast members and other guests. I'll admit that I did get a little down that we didn't get any of those certificates, or phone calls from Mickey, or fastpasses, but I snapped out of it quickly when I realized how great people were just taking time out of their days to wish us well and ask about our wedding. You're going to have a fabulous time no matter what, so enjoy every second of it :hug:

[Tiggerific04]

Day Nine -- Part One: MGM

We got our wake-up call at 7:00am and rolled right over and went back to sleep. We were awakened at 9:30am to the sound of mousekeeping banging on our door and trying to get in. Oops, I forgot to put out the "do not disturb" sign! I pulled on something semi-appropriate and ran to the door before she could come in. She was nice and said she would come back later, but she was laughing to herself, probably about my hair. It was all over the place!

While DH was in the shower, I called down to the front desk to arrange to stay in the same room when our reservation changed on the 21st. The CM made a note of it and said it wouldn't be a problem.

Once we were all showered and ready to go, I headed towards the food court to get breakfast and DH met me in front with the car. I had a cheese danish and I think DH had a chocolate chip muffin, but I don't have a picture of it.

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We got to MGM and took all the obligatory photos:

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Hardy-har, it looks like I'm wearing the hat. DH thinks he's slick :P

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We immediately went to the Magic of Disney Animation to see if we could get into the next drawing class.

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I swear all those people weren't there a second ago!

We went in the back way through the shop so that we could bypass the Mushu movie part. We noticed some original artwork and sketches from various movies so we stopped to look at all of that on our way. It was interesting to see the different ideas the artists had for characters like Tinkerbell, Stitch, and the Beast. While DH was browsing, I decided to call my dad and see if they would mind moving our dinner at Raglan Road to 5pm instead of 6pm so that we wouldn't miss too much of the Pirate Party that night. He said it was no problem and to keep him posted.

I called dining and was on hold for what seemed like forever, only to find out that RR was completely booked. I called my dad back and told him to just meet us there at 5:30pm and we would try to get seated a little earlier.

We went inside to the animation area and had some time to kill before the next class. Well, look who else was just standing around with nothing to do!

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It seemed like as soon as we went over there, everyone else saw him and ran over, too!

Once we got into the drawing class, our instructor took a vote for who were going to draw: Pooh or Minnie. It was almost tied but Minnie won by a couple votes and the girl next to DH was so excited that she screamed and turned to him to get a high five! Woo! The guy next to me grumbled and signed the entire time :confused3

After that, we didn't know what else to do since we don't really care for anything at MGM. We figured it was silly to come to a park for only one attraction, so we walked over to see if we could make the next Beauty and the Beast show. That was a huge waste of time because the next show wasn't for an hour and we didn't feel like waiting. Instead we had some pictures taken.

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The Photopass guy told us to act scared, but I felt like an idiot so I just laughed. DH actually got into it:

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We were bored so we went back to draw more. The next class was full and we didn't want to use the lapboards (we're spoiled and prissy, lol) so we played around with some of the games they have while we waited.

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We played around with the acting and singing games, too, but we couldn't get them to work because we were too embarassed to talk loud enough for the microphone to pick up our voices.

We found this cute game that determines which Disney character you are most like. Here are my results:

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Yeah, right!

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While we were waiting, I started to feel... funny. Like I had to pee, urgently. And it was painful. Anyone who's ever had a UTI should know exactly the feeling I mean. I could have cried. I had a really serious UTI only about a month or so previously and it looked like it was coming back. Visions of urgent care centers or emergency rooms dashed through my mind, along with huge bills since I had quit my job and didn't have any more insurance (or so I thought... turns out I was covered until the end of August). I whispered my predicament to DH and he felt sooo bad. We decided to do the drawing and then head back to Pop.

We ended up drawing Donald, which was cool because we had never done him before. We started heading towards the exit and I seriously thought I wasn't going to make it to the bathroom. Here is me about to break into a run for the potty:

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We boarded the tram and were back at our car shortly. I love the tram!

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We got back to Pop and I didn't know what to do because I felt like I had a full-blown UTI but I didn't want to waste vacation/honeymoon/Disney time at a doctor. We put our heads together and somehow decided that alcohol might help clean out my system. I think this was really just an excuse to drink in the middle of the day, but whatever works! :rotfl: DH figured at the very least, it might take my mind off of the pain. I wasn't going to mess around so I went right for the strong stuff: Jack Daniels. I diluted it with a LOT of water and rested on the bed while we watched tv. I actually started to feel a bit better after about an hour, so we started getting ready for dinner. We stopped for some Coke in the food court and then caught the bus to Downtown Disney.

Our driver went a way I had never been before and we got to see a bunch of new (for us) stuff: Saratoga Springs, Treehouse Villas, etc. It was awesome!

Coming up: Raglan Road, and the Pirate and Princess Party!!

[jasonandlisa]

Wow! Diluted with water or not. Jack Daniels in the middle of the day took me by surprise. You had this sweet, wholesome thing going on and then you throw that in :rotfl:

[Tiggerific04]

Wow! Diluted with water or not. Jack Daniels in the middle of the day took me by surprise. You had this sweet, wholesome thing going on and then you throw that in :rotfl:

Haha! :lmao:

I swear I really am sweet and wholesome! We bought the JD mostly for DH, it's too strong for me most of the time and I've never, ever had it straight like that. I was desperate! :cutie:

[KQAN]

We put our heads together and somehow decided that alcohol might help clean out my system. I think this was really just an excuse to drink in the middle of the day, but whatever works! :rotfl: DH figured at the very least, it might take my mind off of the pain. I wasn't going to mess around so I went right for the strong stuff: Jack Daniels.

Haha! This made me laugh out loud! What a great idea - you're so funny! What's a vacation if you can't drink in the middle of the day? :drinking1

[caryndisneydiva]

it was happy hour somewhere in the world...

[Tiggerific04]

Glad you guys enjoyed me getting wasted in the middle of the afternoon! I really think it worked, though, because I felt better :thumbsup2

Day Nine -- Part Two: Raglan Road

Alrighty, so we got dropped off at Pleasure Island and quickly found the restuarant. Literally two seconds later my parents walked up to meet us. Perfect, it was only 5:30pm but I was hoping that they would seat us soon. For some reason, I had been thinking all along that the Pirate & Princess Party started at 8pm but it really started at 7pm and I didn't want to get there too late.

I checked us in at the podium and all of the cast members wished us a big congratulations. The main CM asked us to step aside and we would be seated shortly. I went to tell my parents, who were looking through the menu.

I knew DH was nervous about eating here because there wasn't much on the menu that he would like. He had told me not to worry about it and he would find something. We were shortly after.

We were on the dining plan and my parents were not, so they split the shrimp appetizer, which they both said was very good:

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DH had the drunken chicken:

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He said it was ok, but it was just chicken.

I had wanted the Colpuccino soup, but there was bacon in it and the server said that it couldn't be removed. I had the Granny's Soup instead and it was delicious!

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We were brought some brown bread and oil for dipping, but none of us liked it. The brown bread we make at home is much sweeter and not quite as dry.

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I was the only one to brave trying the oil, and it was ok but I wouldn't eat it again.

For entrees, I had the fish and chips:

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There was nothing wrong with it per se, but there was nothing great about it either. I actually think the fish and chips in the UK pavilion counter service is better. This was kind of flavorless, even with a lot of lemon.

My dad had his sheperd's pie and he said it was fantastic:

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My mom had the bangers and mash.

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DH wasn't sure what to order. He debated between the Posh Pan Chicken and some kind of chicken sausage (banger). He ultimately chose the sausage which turned out to be a HUGE mistake.

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You can't really see it in the picture, but it is the pink thing poking out on the left. He took one bite and looked like he might throw it right back up on the table. He ate the potatoes and left the rest. It actually ruined sausage for him for a few days :o It just wasn't what he was expecting at all. He finished off some of my fish and chips and figured we could get him something to eat at MK later if he was still hungry. I felt soooo bad, but he was a great sport and told me not to worry about it. The point was to try new restaurants and that's exactly what we were doing.

After we finished our meals, we were brought dessert menus. I told DH that he had to order the Dunbrody's Kiss since he is a huge chocolate fan. My dad had this as well. My mom had the bread pudding and I had the ice cream with strawberries in a champagne sauce. It took FOREVER for our desserts to come.

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I tasted this and it was very good, but a little too chocolate-y for me. DH finished it all. My dad thought it was great.

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My mom said the bread pudding was very good, but she didn't eat more than a couple bites because she was full.

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Mine was ok. I can't remember what kind of ice cream it was, but I know it was supposed to be something fancy and it tasted like vanilla. The strawberries were good, and the sauce didn't taste anything like champagne.

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We were finally brought the check, which was divided very weird -- our portion came out to around $70 and my parents' was over $100. We tried to figure it out, but we couldn't and my dad didn't feel like asking the server to explain it. He said he had planned on spending that much anyway so it didn't matter -- if it were me, I would have said something, but I'm cheap like that :cutiepie:

We said our goodbyes and we ran for the bus stop while my parents did some shopping in the gift shop. We figured we would catch a bus to the Contemporary and then walk to MK from there.

DH got a text message from his brother while we were waiting asking what we were doing. He wrote him back and asked why and his brother said because his cousin had come up from Miami to hang out with the family at the pool. Unfortunately we couldn't join them because we had already paid for the party tickets :(

A bus for the CR finally came, but the driver said it was stopping at Typhoon Lagoon first. This was the meanest driver we had ever had (including the one who cursed) -- he just kept yelling at people to move back. He didn't even pretend to be nice about it. He told us that he wasn't going anywhere until we all moved back because there was still space between us and he neede it filled. We were standing shoulder to shoulder so I'm not sure what he wanted. He eventually closed the doors and we were on our way.

We were wearing our pins and I was carrying our ears for the party. A mom and her two little girls were sitting on the seats right below us and I heard one of the girls, probably 6 or 7 years old, ask her mom what our pins were for. The mom explained that we had just gotten married and I smiled at the little girl. She was in awe and told her sister to sit on mom's lap so that I could sit down! How sweet is that!?

I'm normally not very good with children, but these girls were sooo cute. The one next to me just kept talking to me about all her favorite rides and asked me what I had been on. We chatted for the whole ride to TL and then to the CR. She told me all about the Polynesian and how they had watched Wishes from the beach, and she described Test Track in intimate detail when she found out I had never been on it before. I was sad to leave them, they made the ride so enjoyable.

We jumped off the bus and hurried over to the MK for the party. I was so excited when I originally found out it would be happening during our trip, so I had immediately bought tickets for it. DH wasn't sure what the big deal was -- hello?! A special parade? Special fireworks? Duh! Our mug was still full our special drink, so I hurried up and drank most of it so we could put the mug away in our bag.

Next: Pirates! Princesses! Captain Jack Sparrow waves to me!

[dizneyfreak]

Your trip sounds so fun! I am soooooooooo ready to go already!!!! I'm almost there and you and Summer are making me that much more excited!!! I CAN'T CONTAIN MYSELF ANYMORE!!! I so want to leave now. I have Disney fever...you know the kind:yay: Keep it coming....you and Summer are my saving grace until I get to leave :goodvibes

Anna Marie:bride:

[Tiggerific04]

Day Nine -- Part Three: Pirate and Princess Party!

DH is at Back to School night meeting all his students' parents so I got to sneak on the computer and post my next installment...

We had gone to MVMCP a couple years ago and we loved it, so as soon as I saw that the PPP was going to be happening while we were there this time I knew we had to go. I considered keeping it a surprise for DH but I couldn't do it.

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We arrived at the MK at around 8:30pm I think and we pretty much ran for the turnstiles. Once we were allowed in, we quickly debated stopping for some pictures in front of the train station, but ultimately decided to just hurry up and get inside! We got our bracelets (no line!) and then got our treasure bags and maps as we walked under the train station. They had red carpets out with lots of little trees decorated with sprakly lights -- I'm not sure why I didn't take a picture, but it was so pretty.

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Main Street was empty, so we kind of just ran around for a little while not sure what to do with ourselves. They had this awesome pirate music playing, and there were lights set up on top of the buildings to project pirate ships and tiaras and things on the faces of the buildings. People were dressed up -- there was one girl in what could have easily been a wedding gown... it was a big poofy white dress. I was surprised they let her in like that.

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I wanted to make sure we got to watch the parade and the fireworks since those were the main reasons we came. We decided to just hang out on Main Street until the parade started, so we made a quick potty break (GRR) and then staked out a place right under the train station. I have never, ever seen the park so empty! We were the only ones standing there for quite awhile and then a couple other people showed up and stood nearby.

DH took pictures while I videotaped. As soon as I get the videos put on DVD, I'll upload them so you can all watch them if you want. I apologize for the blurry pictures... we had not yet discovered the "night portrait" setting on our camera, so all of these came out pretty bad.

The parade started and I got so excited! We got so many waves and congratulations, it was overwhelming. The Fairy Godmother herself congratulated us! The first half the parade is all princesses and then there is a big pirate float. The detail was outstanding. At the top of the pirate float is Captain Jack Sparrow. He was waving to everyone, and then as he was passing us he noticed our ears. He kind of motioned from DH to me with a questioning look on his face and kind of shrugged -- hilarious! I kind of have it on video, but it was so much better in person. And Tinkerbell was there! It was pretty cool to see an actual Tinkerbell character, you know?

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To be continued...

[Tiggerific04]

Continued...

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After the parade, we strolled up Main Street and got some Photopass pics taken.

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Then we headed over to Adventureland to look for some treasure while we waited for the fireworks. We found a treasure spot, but it was just beads -_- We wanted candy! We headed for Pirates and caught the show outside. The guy playing Jack was really good, but we got bored kinda quickly. It's really aimed more towards kids. We walked back to the hub and grabbed a spot for the fireworks since we only have a few more minutes to wait. They were AWESOME!! I didn't realize they would be all around -- 360 degrees! No pictures, but video coming soon!

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DH really wanted to go hunt for treasure, so that's what we did. We made our way through Liberty Square, Fantasyland (quick stop for Snow White's Scary Adventures -- we got our own car and screamed the whole way through, we're dorks), and ToonTown, and then we went in to Tomorrowland. DH and I got briefly separated and he was kind of standing around looking for me near where this pirate-sword-show-thing was going on. The guy running it saw DH and then pointed at me and asked if I who he was looking for. DH said I was and said thanks... the guy told him, "I thought so. You look like you go together." and motioned to his head as a reference to our ears. It was sarcastic and funny the way he said it, but I'm realizing that it doesn't translate well into a story here :blink:

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Waiting on line for treasure!

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I know this is REALLY dark, but it's the only picture of the Pirate Mickey topiary we got. It was always too crowded in the daytime.

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Ditto for Minnie

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DH was satisfied with his candy, so we decided to go on Buzz. On our way, a REALLY happy CM came bouncing over to us and asked us how we were and what we were up to. I felt bad because he was VERY friendly (maybe too much? lol) and DH and I are just not. Not that we're mean or rude, but we're both pretty shy around people we don't know. The poor guy was trying to be nice and I don't think he got the reaction he was hoping for.

I actually did really well on Buzz this time. I usually get like 275 points, but I think I got around 10,000! Dh beat me (and rubbed it) of course.

I wanted to do Splash because I love going on it at night and seeing the CR and the castle and everything. DH agreed to go with me! We walked right on and the CM put us in our very own boat right in the front (again!!). DH was a little nervous this time, but we screamed like little girls and had a great time.

Next we went to POTC and again we walked right on and got our own boat. One of the CM loading the boat saw our ears and said "Sorry" to DH!! The other CM there hit him and then the guy said he was just kidding and he wished us the best. That reminds me, we ran into several people who would ask us if we just got married (duh) and when we said yes, they would say "Good luck" -- not congratulations, good luck. What is that about?!?!

Anyway. The stage show was going to be starting shortly and we were getting tired, so we decided to wait for that and see if it was different from the daytime show. Nope, it's the same! We figured we would leave and beat the crowd back to the bus so that we wouldn't have to wait too long. It worked -- we walked right on our bus and were back at Pop in no time. We grabbed some Sprite in the food court and I made myself a Sprite-PeachSchnapps when we got back to the room. DH watched some tv and I fell asleep.

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Coming up: DH's family leaves, AK, and The Great Mini-Golf Mistake of 2007

[audisight]

I'm still loving your TR! All the pictures of the making me wish I was at WDW right now. It must have been great to spend that much time there. I can't wait to read more.

[AuroraBorealis]

Congratulations, MRS!

I am really enjoying your TR! You made an absolutely beautiful bride! You have great detail and your pictures are fantastic. It must have been so fun to be there for so long!

Great TR-- keep it coming!

[AInWonderland]

Loving your trip report. I check every night when I get home from work at 1 am to see if you have updated.

[dizneyfreak]

Keep it coming girl! I only have 2 days before we leave for the best place in the world! I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot of catching up to do when I get home in 3 weeks!:cool1:

Anna Marie:bride:

[Tiggerific04]

I'm still loving your TR! All the pictures of the making me wish I was at WDW right now. It must have been great to spend that much time there. I can't wait to read more.

It was great to be there for such a long time! We're planning a trip back for our anniversary next year, and 7 days just seems too short now!

Congratulations, MRS!

I am really enjoying your TR! You made an absolutely beautiful bride! You have great detail and your pictures are fantastic. It must have been so fun to be there for so long!

Great TR-- keep it coming!

Thank you for the compliment! I'm glad you're enjoying the TR :goodvibes

Loving your trip report. I check every night when I get home from work at 1 am to see if you have updated.

Aww, thank you!!

Keep it coming girl! I only have 2 days before we leave for the best place in the world! I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot of catching up to do when I get home in 3 weeks!:cool1:

Anna Marie:bride:

I'm trying but there's still a lot more! Hope you have a GREAT time!! :hug:

[Tiggerific04]

Day Eleven: Goodbyes, AK, and Mini-Golf!

Our alarm went off at 6:00am this morning, but we went back to sleep because DH's family was supposed to stop by soon to say goodbye. We figured we would just wake up when they knocked on the door. Well, I woke up again and it was 7:45am! We had an 8:00am ADR at Boma and there was no way we were going to make it now. I was kind of bummed about it, but DH pointed out that now we had 1 extra ADR and we could try to eat somewhere else. We decided on Crystal Palace because I hadn't really fully enjoyed myself when we went the first day -- I was too anxious about the wedding preparations. I made it for our last full day, 9:30am on 8/23.

We took showers and then noticed had a bunch of missed calls from DH's mom. I called his brother back and he said they were still in the parking lot so I told him to come up so we could say goodbye. DH was still in the shower, but his family waited for him and then we all hugged and sent them on their way. They were going to attempt to drive straight through to NJ without stopping.

We finished getting ready and then got in the car and headed for AK. We stopped to take a quick picture and then hurried on our way to the safari.

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We never really stop and look around the Oasis because I've never noticed anything worth seeing. There was a pretty big group standing around and I looked up and saw this guy:

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On our way, we ran into Flik!

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We got to the safari and the standby line was 30 minutes, but we figured we would just wait and it probably wouldn't take that long anyway. It ended up going pretty quickly and we were at the front of the line in no time. The CM ushered us to the second row and put the honeymoon couple behind us in that row as well. They were so excited to see two honeymoon couples back-to-back :bg:

Our truck pulled up and there were two CM sitting in the very first row behind the driver, so we got to sit behind them. I figured the driver was new and was being trained, but then I happened to glance at the papers the two CM were holding, and it looked like he was actually being evaluated -- and he didn't get very good marks for his driving :scared1:

We pulled away and the driver started talking... except his microphone wasn't working. There was no audio at all so the two CM in front would occasionally point out an animal and yell out its name to everyone. I actually enjoyed the ride like this because we got to just enjoy the ride and look at the animals -- the little spiel is cute, but I can do without it. They told us that we could all ride again without waiting, but DH and I chose not to.

We saw a lot of animals up close and got some pretty decent pictures.

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Poor hippo!

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The zebra crossed the road right in front of us!

We were starving but the Pangani trail is right there, so we figured we would walk through that and then go to Pizzafari.

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I love these guys!

We kind of rushed through the trail and then practically ran for food. I know everyone seems to prefer Tusker House, but we adore Pizzafari. We snapped some pics on our way there:

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We got there and thankfully there were only a couple people on line. DH had the chicken sandwich, I had the cheese pizza, and we both had the frozen strawberry-lemonade for dessert. We grabbed a table and enjoyed our food.

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Mmm, pizza. It was sooooo hot that day!

I took a couple bites of my lemonade, but I was too full to eat anymore. DH enjoyed his thoroughly:

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After lunch I wanted to ride Expedition Everest. Last year, I did the single rider line and didn't have to wait at all, so I planned on doing that again while DH waited for me.

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The standby line was 40 minutes. This is important to note. I told DH to meet me in the gift shop and handed him all my stuff to hold. I walked on line and there were about 10 people in front of me. Not too bad. Well. The CM at the front was only letting on one single rider per every 30-40 standby people. Guess how long it took me to get on? Go ahead. Did you guess 40 minutes? I should have just waited in the standby line for that, at least I would have been in the shade!

Oh well, the ride was just as awesome as I remembered it and totally worth it!

When I was done, we grabbed FP for Kali and then headed to Camp Minnie-Mickey to meet some characters. We stopped by ITTBAB on our way because there was no wait.

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I like this show, but I always scream at the spider part and DH laughs at me. It really creeps me out! I also don't sit back in my seat so I don't get "stung" and I stand up as soon as the show is over so that I don't feel the "bugs" under my seat. I know, why do I bother?!

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Out of the four lines, Donald's and Minnie's were the shortest so we did those two.

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Donald tried to walk away with me and he got yelled at by his handler :cutiepie:

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We enjoyed the misting fans while waiting on line and wondered why they don't have them all over all the parks -- they're great!!

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We got on line for the Lion King show next and stood under the misting fan for almost the entire time. The show was great as usual. We were in the giraffe section :) Oh, that reminds me! DH and I exchanged wedding presents the day after the wedding and he ended up getting me tickets to the Lion King on Broadway!! We're going in November and I can't wait!!

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After the show it was time for our Kali FP so we wandered over there, eager to cool off.

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We were on line, and these people from the standby line tried to cut in front of the people behind us (who had no concept of personal space or disciplining their children, btw :angry: ). The little girl tried to walk in front of us and explained to us that they had FP and were in the wrong line. DH told her that he was sorry to hear that but that they were still cutting in front of a lot of people who had been waiting. The little girl didn't care and they just jumped in line behind us anyway.

I ended up getting SOAKED on the ride -- I went right through all the water! Like everyone else, I just wish this ride was longer.

We were tired and very wet, so we headed for the exit but figured we would try to make the new Nemo attraction on our way. We got there too late and there weren't any seats left, so we just went on our way back to the parking lot. We decided we would go swimming when we got back to Pop.

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We got to Pop and immediately changed into our swimsuits and headed for the bowling pin pool. I like the hippy dippy pool better because it's bigger and it has those water sprayers, but it just gets too crowded and we were much closer to the bowling one.

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We must have spent about an hour in the pool, swimming around, racing, and competing to see who could do the best forward and backward flip (I won). It was waaay too sunny out and my eyes are just so sensitive that I could hardly keep them open. I spent a lot of time relaxing in the shade under the lifeguard's chair, and then I started to get hungry so we decided to call it a day and go take showers so that we could grab something to eat. We did take pics at the pool, but I will spare your eyes of my ghostly whiteness and our jiggly tummies :P

Instead, enjoy some pics of the resort I took on our way back to the room:

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After we both showered and got dressed, we went down to the food court to get some dinner. I had the turkey ciabatta again and DH had the chicken alfredo again. He had another brownie and I was adventurous and tried a cupcake!

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It was huge, so I cut it in half and barely finished that. It was delicious though -- very moist and fresh even though it had probably been sitting there for quite a while (it was the only one left). The icing was great, but there was just so much of it and I was full from eating the entire turkey sandwich.

We had decided to actually use the mini-golf voucher this trip since we never do and we thought it would be something fun and different. Since my TA booked us with two reservations, we had two vouchers and I was hoping we could use them together and both play for free. We (I) decided on Fantasia Gardens because (1)The theming seemed fun, and (2)I knew where it was.

We hopped in the car and drove over. We got there about 8:00pm, and we walked up to the counter where I asked about using the vouchers. The guy said it was no problem, took them, and asked us which course we wanted to play. Hmm... we had two choices:

1) A traditional mini-golf course
2) A more challenging course.

I knew DH wanted the challenging one even though he said, "Whatever you want." We're kind of competitive when it comes to stuff like this so I thought the harder one would be fun. I chose that one and we were told it would be about 25 minutes and that someone would call us when it was our turn.

There is a small arcade right next to the check-in counter, so we went in there and DH played a couple games while I watched. I was starting to not feel too great -- I think I mentioned earlier that I have IBS. Most people with IBS can figure out what their "trigger" foods are and avoid those, but with me it can be just about anything that sets me off. What made it worse is that I was nervous about what would happen if I got an attack while we were in the middle of playing. I found the bathroom and tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge even though the sign said "vacant." I waited a little while and then tried again, with better luck.

I felt much better after that and we only waited a couple more minutes before we were called. We picked out our clubs and balls: DH got blue and I got pink.

We had to wait for the couple in front of us, so we entertained ourselves with a quick game of "golf club swords" and other nonsense that we're entirely too old for:

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Look at the Mickey!

We were going to attempt to play correctly and keep score and everything, but that went down the tubes real fast. This was much harder than we had anticipated. By about hole 3, we were just hitting the ball however we could manage and had put away the scorecard and pencil. The couple in front of us had given up as well.

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Pretty soon we started hearing music in the distance and then we saw fireworks: Fantasmic! And then we caught some of Illuminations as well. So awesome! That cheered us up a bit and helped us continue on. We were sort of miserable by the halfway point, and that was just emphasized when we caught a glimpse of the other course: it was sooooo cute!! It was themed to Fantasia and had music and cute little decorations and EVERYTHING. DH and I turned to each other and we both said, "We SO should have done that one!!" and then proceeded to pout for the rest of the game.

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The Swan/Dolphin are in the distance, but I don't know if you can see them very well.

We got to hole 16 and I swung with almost full-force because it was a difficult shot. My ball went into the bushes so I went to find it while DH started. Well, on the other side of the bushes is a steep cliff and then a little river. I poked around but my ball was nowhere to be found. DH was going to scale the cliff to find it, but it seriously wasn't worth it. I was actually kind of relieved! We played with just his ball for the next two holes.

We got to hole 18 and DH went first. He shot his ball straight into the bushes there! GRR. We both looked for it for a little while, but the people behind us were getting impatient, so we had to leave. We spent TWO HOURS on a course we hated and we didn't even get to finish it!! Remember how "Ghiradelli sucks"? Well mini-golf sucks more!! We were so frustrated and tired and felt like we wasted so much time that could have been better spent doing something else, but oh well. It did help a little that it was free :cutiepie:

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We drove back to Pop, complaining the whole way, and then went to the room and collapsed. We watched some of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and I fell asleep.

Up next: Epcot honeymoon shoot, Summer's Wedding!!, and the best place in Epcot to take a nap.

[disneydreamgirl05]

I stayed at Pop last summer with my DF and it was great!!! I loved all the food and especially the alfredo. We must have ate that everyday! You also stayed in the same building we were in! Your pictures are all beautiful and I absolutely love your dress!! :goodvibes

[Tiggerific04]

I stayed at Pop last summer with my DF and it was great!!! I loved all the food and especially the alfredo. We must have ate that everyday! You also stayed in the same building we were in! Your pictures are all beautiful and I absolutely love your dress!! :goodvibes

Isn't the food court fabulous?! DH and I agreed that unless there is some kind of dining promotion next year, we're just going to pay OOP and eat at POP! :lmao:

[Tiggerific04]

Day Twelve: Epcot Photoshoot, Summer's Wedding, and Sleepytime in Future World

We got our wakeup call at 7:30am this morning but we didn't get out of bed until 8:20am. We were supposed to meet our photographer at International Gateway at 10:00am, and I was getting nervous because we both still had to take showers and get ourselves ready.

I got dressed in record time and did my hair and makeup as best I could. I am not a girly-girl at all -- my hair usually gets pulled back into a ponytail or clip and the most makeup I wear is powder and maybe lip gloss if I'm feeling adventurous. My hair was a huge frizzball, but luckily I still had the can of hairspray that Ana had left for me, so I used that to try and control it a bit.

I finished up and was waiting for DH to do his hair when my mom called and left a message saying that she's starting to get worried because she's called and left messages and hasn't heard anything back from us. UGH.

I called her back and told her that we're fine, but we're on our honeymoon and on vacation and we really don't need hourly updates on the cat or whatever else she has been calling to tell us about. I told her that we were shutting our phones off because we wanted to enjoy our time together away from the "real world" and she apologized and said she wouldn't call again unless it was an emergency.

DH's hair was not cooperating at all, so it took forever for him to finish. We didn't even leave the room until 10:00am. We sped over to the Boardwalk, told the guard we were there to "look around" and parked. We ran to the lobby and we passed a white limo on our way. It briefly crossed my mind that Summer's wedding was happening right about now and I wondered if that was her limo.

As we were speed-walking down the boardwalk, I noticed we were getting closed to Sea Breeze Point. I wasn't sure if we'd be able to see anything, and I wasn't even entirely sure what time her wedding was, but we got closer and my thought process went like this:

Ok, I see Randy. I know she hired him. I see a videographer. Must be Stan. That looks like Rev. Miller. Bride with dark hair. That doesn't look like her dress. But that looks like Steven and there is only one guest. Must be her mom. Duh, she got a new dress. It has to be her. OMG it's Summer! And she's in the middle of getting married! And she looks great! I should take a picture. DH will kill me if we stop to pull out the camera now since we're already 15 minutes late and we probably missed our shoot. Well if the photographer left then maybe we can come back and say hi! Would that make me look like a stalker? I don't want to crash her wedding. I'll just tell her I saw her when we get home.

I slowed down and got really excited and pointed and told DH, "That's Summer!!" and he says, "Who?"

"DUH! The girl from Scotland from Disboards!!"

And we had to keep going because we were so late already, but I wish I would have been able to snap a picture or something.

We get to the turnstiles and I see a Disney photographer hanging out by the fence so I go introduce myself and apologize profusely for being so late. His name was Joe and he was soo nice and understanding. He told us not to worry about it at all and it was no big deal. He asked us what we had in mind for pictures and I was kind of taken aback because I thought that was up to him? I told him that we had chosen France and China, so we headed across the bridge to France.

I was sort of disappointed in this photoshoot because there was no direction at all from him about where we should stand or what we should do with ourselves. I thought it would have been like the MK shoot where they tell you EXACTLY what to do. I felt really uncomfortable and awkward most of the time.

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We took some shots in front of the fountain and back by the bakery, and then in front of the gardens over on the side. We started to leave and Joe asked if we'd mind stopping in Morocco because he thought we could get some really great shots there. Sure! He did set up a couple of these poses so I was feeling a bit better.

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We left Morocco and Joe thought there were "great shots" in Japan as well, so we stopped there and took some pics on the bridge. I really, really like these but it annoys me that DH's shirt is messed up and Joe didn't say anything. I'm sure he must have noticed, right? Oh well.

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We skipped America but we stopped in Italy and got a couple shots.

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He asked if we wanted anything in Germany, and although it's not my favorite pavilion, if he was asking I wasn't going to say no! I was really confused as it seemed like we were going to take pics in almost every country, but I didn't say anything and ruin our good fortune.

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Next was China, which is the other country we had picked. Joe didn't seem to keen on this pavilion for photos, but we got a couple good ones. I wanted some in the back with the architecture in the background, and then he suggested over in front of the ponds. Two of my favorite pictures are actually from here:

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We skipped Norway and Mexico as Joe didn't feel they had much to offer in terms of scenery. I was a little disappointed, but we had already received more than we expected so I wasn't complaining. We did stop in front of Showcase Plaza and we waited to see if a monorail would pass by. I was getting super hot and sweaty at this point and just wanted to get going so I told him we could take the picture without the monorail. I also felt kind of silly because World Showcase was open at this point, and people were looking at us funny walking around all dressed up with our own photographer!

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We stopped in both Canada and the UK for our final poses. Again we had no direction and didn't know what to do, and I hate that DH's hand is on my tummy. I think it makes it seem like I'm pregnant or something! When we got to the UK, Joe's idea was for the lamp post shot -- I hate it, lol. I know, I'm such a complainer!

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We got back to France and said goodbye. Overall, he was great and very nice but I would have preferred him to take charge a little more since he is the photographer after all. DH thinks I was being too hard on him and he is probably used to dealing with Bridezilla-type women who know exactly what they want :lol:

We were tired and sweaty and I wanted to get changed, so we wandered slowly back to the car. I looked around for Summer, but she seemed to be long gone, although we did see Randy again packing up his stuff while we were leaving, so I guess we didn't miss her by much.

We went back to Pop and got changed and then pretty much immediately headed back to Epcot. We took the bus this time because I planned on trying out those slushies in France and I wanted a drink with dinner. You know, for medicinal purposes :cutiepie:

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[AuroraBorealis]

I think you got some fantastic honeymoon shots! The last one, with the lamp post, is too cute!

[jasonandlisa]

How fun that you got pics in so many countries!

[hmgolden]

You got some really cute shots during the honeymoon shoot. I love the dress you wore too :)

[Tiggerific04]

Day Twelve: Part Two

We got to Epcot and the first thing we did was head to Soarin so that I could get a FP. The return time wasn't until 6:00pm, and it was only about 2:00pm, so we had time to kill. Our ADR at Coral Reef was at 7:30pm, and we were starving since we hadn't had anything to eat all day, so we started walking towards Tangierine Cafe in Morocco. We ate here last year and I LOVED it so I really wanted to go back. DH likes it, but it isn't his favorite or anything.

We got there and I ordered while DH saved us the only available table in the back of the restaurant. My one complaint about this place is that it's not air conditioned, but I guess it would take away from the atmosphere if it was. I ordered the vegetarian platter for me and the meatball platter for DH, and we both got the included dessert -- I think it's baklava.

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My food was very good, but I'll admit that it wasn't as great as I had remembered it. I ate it all nonetheless, so it couldn't have been that bad! The dessert alone made this meal worth it... soooo yummy! Even DH likes it and he's usually very picky about pastries.

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We walked around a little bit and took some photos. I love to take pictures here -- the lighting and everything makes it all so beautiful.

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We left Morocco and decided we would head towards Mexico to catch the Mariachi show. This is one of our favorite things to see in Epcot and we had missed them the other day, so we were determined to see them today.

We arrived in Norway and wanted to ride Maelstrom, but the line was out the door and halfway to the main walkway of WS :eek: The standby time said it was a 10 minute wait, but there was no way that was accurate. We kind of stood there for a minute trying to decide what to do, when a CM came up to us and congratulated us and told us we could go ahead and use the FP line! We said thank you and when we got to the next CM we pointed and explained that we were told we could go through. We received a huge smile, another congratulations and were at the front of the line in no time. The two CM up there gave us even MORE congrats and asked if we wanted our own boat. We were hesitant because the line was sooo long and I knew people would be upset if they saw a boat pull away with only two people in it, but the CM was convincing and we accepted. I did feel odd with everyone giving us the evil eye, but it was also really cool to be in the front row of our very own boat! The ride was good as usual and we were congratulated over the microphone by the CM at the end as well. Yay for Norway!! :woohoo:

We made a quick detour through the air conditioned shop:

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And then we arrived in Mexico:

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This is one of my favorite pavilions (I think I say that about all of them!). I love that it is inside, but made to look like it's outside and I love the vibrant colors and the fountain and everything! We had some time before the show started, so we had a seat on the edge of the fountain and I fiddled around with the camera. Well! Look that that! There's a "night portrait" setting. I wonder if that will allow us to take better pictures in low light?

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HA! It does!

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That would have been nice to know the other day at the P&P Party!

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Self-portrait

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Trying on the hats makes DH nervous about lice and diseases, but I am fearless!

We started to walk up towards where we thought we remembered the Mariachi playing, because we wanted to be in the front. While we waited, we saw this lovely display:

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Mmmm, margaritas...

The Mariachi came out soon after that and we were right up front just like we wanted. I always want to take a picture of them playing, but I'm afraid of blinding them with the flash. Although, several people did walk right in front and pose for pictures as they were performing. They didn't seem to mind, but I thought it was kind of rude. The show was great as usual and we regretted not videotaping it for DH's mom. She would have really loved to see it.

We were starting to get really tired, but we still had a few hours before dinner and it didn't seem to make any sense to leave and come back. We walked into Future World and were trying to find something to do with ourselves, but everything had really long lines. I thought maybe we could do Ellen's Energy Adventure since I knew we'd be able to sit down in the A/C and relax for about 40 minutes. Luckily there was only a 10 minute wait posted, so we ran over and walked in during the middle of the show. We didn't have to wait very long before boarding the cars, and there weren't that many people in there so we had a whole row to ourselves. The ride started, and I felt my eyes closing, but I fought it and tried to keep them open. I noticed the grandma in front of me nod off, and I looked next to me to see DH fast asleep! The people behind us were napping as well, so I figured I would join the crowd! I rested my head on my arms and fell asleep! We all seemed to wake up at the same time, right as the lights were coming on. We all looked around at each other and then got up and walked back out into the sunlight.

I was feeling a lot better, but we were still kind of bored. How is that possible?!! We attempted to go meet some of the characters, figuring it was almost time for that area to close and people would probably all be in WS by now. Nope! The line was insane! We had about 45 minutes before my FP, but we headed into the Land anyway.

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There wasn't a wait for Living with the Land, so we decided we would do that again and at least we'd get to sit down. We liked it a lot (again) -- I especially like the part where they show you how they are growing plants in the air without soil. So cool!

It still wasn't time, and there was nothing else to do in the Land, so we went back on the Nemo ride.

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[Tiggerific04]

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It was cute (again). We wandered through the aquariums afterwards and took pictures of all of our aquatic friends:

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Look at all the Nemos!!

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We walked outside and sat on the bench right outside so that I could check my voicemail. Guess who? That's right: my mother. She said that I didn't have to call her back and that she didn't want to disturb me but there was a keychain she wanted and could I pick it up for her before we come home? GRR.

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See the little boy on the left? I don't understand why people think it's ok to trample all over the grass and shrubbery when it's perfectly easy and fine to just stand or sit on the ledge and take a picture there. :ohno:

I went and used my FP for Soarin and loved it as much as always! I keep trying to talk DH into trying it, but he hates heights and doesn't like things that move along with a video screen. I really think he'd like it, but I'm also afraid that he would get on it and hate it!

After that we figured we would go grab those slushies in France before dinner.

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I knew there were two flavors: orange and lemon. We got up to the stand and we couldn't decide which to order so I made an executive decision: we would have both! The CM totally didn't believe that I was old enough even though I'm 26. She stared at my ID for the longest time before letting me have the drinks. I know I look young, but geez.

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The orange one was grand marnier, and the lemon one was grey goose vodka

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DH tried the orange and I tried the lemon and then we switched. The lemon one is better, hands down. Neither one of us wanted to give it up! We shared both of them and finished them waaay too quickly because it took us longer than anticipated to walk to France! I'm not sure why we didn't just drink them as we walked, but apparently that was too difficult for us.

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[Tiggerific04]

Continued... again

We high-tailed it back over to Coral Reef just in time for our ADR.

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We checked in and were asked to take a seat, so DH waited and I made a quick trip to the little girls' room. When I came out, he was standing with a CM and we were escorted to our table... right next to the tank!! And there was a GINORMOUS sea turtle waiting there for us! Well, maybe he wasn't waiting, but you get the idea. I wanted to get a picture, but the CM was standing there trying to tell us about the fish and fish chart and the aquarium and blahblahblah. I'm sure it was all very interesting but there was a SEA TURTLE waiting to be photographed, buddy! By the time the CM was done with his spiel, our friend had swam away and I was left with no photo of him :(

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I soon forgot all about this horrible injustice when I opened my menu and saw that we got the special honeymoon menus!

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See that empty space in the aquarium? That's where the turtle was.

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Our server came and we ordered our drinks and appetizers. Iced tea for DH, diet coke for me, a glowtini for me, the "land and sea" appetizer for him, and the lobster bisque for me. I had wanted a glowtini ever since I saw a picture on the Dis. I didn't care what it tasted like -- it was blue and glowed and that was good enough for me.

We were brought our drinks and our bread:

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The bread and butter was very good, but nothing special.

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DH liked his appetizer a lot.

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I had never had lobster bisque before, so I don't have a comparison, but I thought it was VERY good. It was thick and creamy and had lots of chunks of lobster and shrimp. Yumm!

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Mmm, glowtini. It actually didn't taste that great -- there was a flavor that was somehow off, but I was happy with it anyway because IT GLOWED. Yay!

Our entrees arrived soon after that, as did our dining companions. The tables here are VERYVERY CLOSE together. The people next to us might as well have been eating at our table. There were perhaps inches between our table and theirs.

I had the shrimp pasta:

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It was very good. I liked the sauce a lot and the sundried tomatoes were delicious.

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DH had the chicken and rice and thought it was very good also. His only complaint was that there was not enough rice for the amount of chicken. He likes it to be proportionate so that he has chicken and rice in every bite.

For dessert I ordered the chocolate wave since it receives such rave reviews, and DH had Bailey's and Jack Daniels mousse.

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The chocolate wave? Eh. It was cold and dry and the chocolate inside was nothing to write home about. The one at Mama Melrose is much better IMO. DH didn't like it either and he is a HUGE chocolate cake fan.

The mousse, however, was very good! Nice and creamy and the layers all had a distinct flavor.

We both agreed that we were glad we tried Coral Reef, and the atmosphere was nice, but we wouldn't go back.

We gathered up our stuff and headed out. We weren't able to catch Illuminations, so we just took some pics on our way back to the bus.

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Apparently the bus ride back was uneventful as I don't have any notes about it!

We got back to the resort and took some more pics on the way to our room:

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We had a message from the front desk about how we were "checking out" tomorrow morning, so I called them right away and told them how we had requested to stay in the same room as our reservation was continuing. She said that was no problem and asked what time I would like our new keys delivered. I told her 7:30am because we had an 8:00am ADR at Ohana. She said that would be fine and I hung up. We took showers and then drifted off to sleep.

Coming up: Where are our keys?? We're losing HOW MANY dining credits??

[AInWonderland]

Great Trip Report. Now there are 3 drinks I want to try : The mango margarita, the lemon slush and the blue glowtini. You make them all sound great.

[Tiggerific04]

Great Trip Report. Now there are 3 drinks I want to try : The mango margarita, the lemon slush and the blue glowtini. You make them all sound great.

The mango margarita is way better at Pop than at the stand in Mexico, IMO. I prefer the regular margarita there. You can't go wrong with the lemon slush, though -- sooooo yummy! :banana:

[MistressOfAllEvil]

I just found your TR this morning. I've spend most of this morning and early afternoon reading and catching up! It's been amazing reading about your experience and your pictures are beautiful. Keep up the great TR. Can't wait to hear more!

[Bostonbride6292008]

I love your TR! All of your little thoughts are the same things I would be thinking too! You looked great!

[Tiggerific04]

I just found your TR this morning. I've spend most of this morning and early afternoon reading and catching up! It's been amazing reading about your experience and your pictures are beautiful. Keep up the great TR. Can't wait to hear more!

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

I love your TR! All of your little thoughts are the same things I would be thinking too! You looked great!

Aww, thanks!!

[Tiggerific04]

Day Thirteen: Ohana, AK, Epcot, and Alfredo's

I had this all typed up this afternoon and then the computer froze and I lost it all. :ohno:

So, our alarm went off at 7:00am this morning but we stayed in bed until 7:45am. I figured we would be woken up by someone dropping off our new room keys, but that obviously didn't happen. I checked the door and we had received our express checkout packet, so I got dressed as fast as I could and called down to the front desk at 7:50am. I explained that I had requested our keys at 7:30am because we had to leave at 8am to make it to our ADR at Ohana. The CM told me not to worry, someone was on their way right now.

Almost exactly 5 minutes later there was a knock at the door and it was a CM with our keys! He had taken his Segway, how awesome!

It was right now that it occured to me that maybe I should find out what happens with the dining credits left on our old room keys. Can we still use them? I had to call the front desk THREE times to get someone who knew what they were talking about, and I was informed that anything left on the old cards would expire at midnight tonight. But we have 6 TS, 8 CS, and a bunch of snacks left!! There's no way we can use that all up in one day! And that means we're short a TS now for all of the ADRs I planned. This would have been nice to know in advance from my TA who INSISTED on booking two reservations. Another reason why I got my own certification and will be booking everything else myself from now on.

I was so bummed about choosing which meal to drop, but I ultimately decided on Wolfgang Puck. We were supposed to have lunch there on our very last day before making the drive home, but we had never done this before so it wasn't a big deal. It's actually better for us to just grab breakfast, do some last minute shopping and start the drive.

Depressed and annoyed, we made our way over to the Polynesian and ran up to Ohana. The line stretched almost allll the way around the upstairs level, but we had no choice but to get on line and hope that they would hold our seating for us. After about 5 minutes of waiting, a CM came over and announced that only one person per party is allowed to wait in line and everyone else must go have a seat in order to keep the line moving. That worked out much better and I was at the podium in no time. They had run out of pagers so the CM was attempting to enter my description into the computer and she could not for the life of her figure out what color my shirt was. I told her pink and she didn't seem to believe me! She was very old.

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We declined the photo opportunity and just hung around and waited. In our rush out the door this morning, we had forgotten our pins and now I was totally depressed about that as well. I thought I would probably have enough time to run downstairs and ask at the front desk to see if they had any. DH thought I was nuts, but it was our honeymoon and it was important! Luckily they did have some and gladly handed them over to me so that crisis was averted.

We were seated shortly after and given leis and congrats (see? The pins are important!!). The hostess pointed out the chef making all of the Mickey waffles on the way to our table. Once we were seated, our server appeared and took our drink orders and brought our bread (pineapple and cinnamon raisin). The bread was ok but definitely not my favorite.

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We had the "Lilo's Juice" which is suspiciously similar to the frunch at Boma. Hmm...

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We were brought a fresh fruit bowl and then the platter with all of the main food: scrambled eggs, potatoes, sausages, bacon, and biscuits. No waffles. Hmph. I was nervous about this meal because of the lack of veggie-friendly options, but it ended up being totally fine and I stuffed myself full of fruit, potatoes, and biscuits.

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We got to meet all of the characters and they even did a little parade that was cute. There was a family a couple tables down from us with two young boys. Lilo headed their way and they screamed and hid under the table using their chairs as a barricade. The parents were so embarassed and I think Lilo was a little hurt.

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Someone finally came around with a basket of waffles and offered us some. We each got ONE stinkin' waffle. I couldn't figure out why they were being so stingy with them, but I guess they can't keep up with the demand? Oh well, it was yummy either way.

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We were stuffed and decided to get going so that we could cram in everything else we wanted to do today. We stopped and took some pictures on our way back to the parking lot. The Poly is sooo beautiful! I would love to stay here someday.

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We got to the parking lot and we could NOT find the car. We walked up and down row after row and nothing. We split up (accidentally) and I ended up at the car, but I had lost DH. Making sure to keep the car in sight, I started walking away to look for him but had no luck. I was ready to give up when I saw his head a few rows over and started waving frantically to get his attention.

We drove back to Pop and DH wanted to take a shower, so I took a nap while he did that. We ended up watching tv for a little while and then I was antsy to get to the parks.

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[Tiggerific04]

Day Thirteen -- Continued

After showers and naps, DH and I decided to get some lunch at the food court since we had to use up our credits anyway. We weren't overly hungry since we had a big breakfast, and we had dinner at Alfredo's that evening, but I didn't want our CS to go to waste!

He had a meatball sub and a *gasp* SUGAR COOKIE! No brownie, you ask? No! Unfortunately there weren't any left so he had to make do with a cookie instead. It was huge and very tasty.

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I had pizza! I can't remember what I had for dessert, but I didn't take a picture of it so it must be something I had already. I'm going to guess it was a cheese danish.

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We got the car and drove over to AK so that we could see the new Nemo attraction. We got there just in time and only had to wait a few minutes before being let into the theatre. The line was a little intimidating as it stretched all the way into Dinoland, but the theatre is HUGE and holds a ton of people.

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The show was really good, we both liked it a lot. Our biggest complaint is that the performers "act" out their parts. I know that doesn't make a lot of sense, but they carry around these props of the character they are playing, but they also act and do the facial expressions, so we found ourselves watching them instead of the prop characters. Does that make sense? I thought it would be like The Little Mermaid show where you don't really see the performers, but this show puts them right out there.

There wasn't really anything else in AK we wanted to do, so we started making our way to the exit. The parade was either about to start or had just ended because all the ropes were up, so we had to maneuver our way through the shops.

We stopped to get some Photopass pics and some of our own:

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Continued... off to Epcot!

[Tiggerific04]

Day Thirteen -- Epcot

We left AK and drove straight over to Epcot. It was early, our ADR at Alfredo's wasn't until 8:00pm, but there was other stuff we wanted to do before that.

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We got to the park and the first place we went was Club Cool. I cannot emphasize how much we LOVE this place. We had a bet going on the way over about the name of the drink from Japan. DH said it was VegiBeta and I said it was VegitaBeta.

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Me, gloating that I was right. Ha!

We filled up on our favorites and grabbed a cup to go. Everytime we go in there we always comment that one day someone is going to try and fill up a water bottle. We laugh because it seems like such an outrageous idea. As I turned around to leave, I caught a glimpse of a teenager with her water bottle under the dispenser, trying to fill it up! I poked DH and pointed and we just shook our heads and laughed. I couldn't believe it, but I guess people must try it all the time. FYI, it didn't seem to be working because there wasn't enough space for the bottle.

Drinks in hand, we left and made our way back to WS.

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We stopped for some Photopass pics. We had a great photographer who had us do all different poses:

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It was really bright that day!

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We just kind of wandered and took lots of pictures. We were on our second memory card and were trying to see if we could fill two (almost, but not quite!).

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We debated stopping in Mexico but decided against it because we wanted to see some of the other performances and I really wanted to get to Norway to try out the bakery before it got too late and I ruined my appetite completely.

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We walked inside and the cast members there were all so nice and pleasant. They were shocked that we had gotten married at Disney and asked us a bunch of questions that I was more than happy to answer. It was great being able to tell so many about the wedding! I knew exactly what I wanted: a cloudberry horn. I had seen pictures of these online and knew that it was something I would enjoy. I know most people go for the school bread, but I don't like custard, and the other popular items just didn't do it for me.

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I used a snack credit for my horn and we got a table outside. The Norwegian musicians (I can't remember their name...) were playing, so we had some entertainment while we rested.

The horn was sooo good! The pastry was nice and flaky and sugary, but not too sweet, and the cream inside was light and slightly fruity. The only part I didn't like, and it was no big deal, was that there were chunks of fruit in the cream. Other than that, it was great and I will definitely be getting another one when we go back!

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When I was finished eating, we walked over to China and caught the acrobats. They were great as usual, and it was nice to see some new elements in their performance this time. DH pointed out that the oldest female performer looked very unhappy, and she really did when she was sitting on the bench. As soon as she got up at the end of the show, she was all smiles!

Continued...

[Tiggerific04]

Continued...

We didn't know what to do with ourselves, so we just walked around and enjoyed the atmosphere and took pictures.

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We thought we would go try to see the next British Invasion show, but when we got to the UK we noticed it was very empty. We pulled out our times guide and realized that they were not playing that day. We tried to see what else we could catch and thought that Matsuriza would be cool, so we went back to Japan.

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Quick stop in France:

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We got to Japan and wandered through the stores there. Have you guys ever stopped to look at some of the merchandise? Specifically the massage section? There is one in there, I guess it's a hand massager because the diagram is of an open palm. The massage tool itself... let's just say it resembles a certain part of the male anatomy. That combined with the hand diagram... well, it's good for a laugh every time! We took a picture of it a couple years ago, but it's on my other hard drive. I'll see if I can find it.

We came out and Matsuriza had already started playing, so we watched them. DH really likes their performance.

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We started heading back to Italy after that because I wanted to get a Bellini before dinner. I had read about these online, too, and tried one last year and fell in love. Once again, the girl didn't believe how old I was, but I was getting used to that. The drink was good, but it was the remnants from one bottle that was almost done, so it was kind of like the last glass from an orange juice container. She added some from a new bottle which helped a little.

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It was just about time for dinner, so we walked back to Alfredo's and there was a huge line. We ate here last year, so I thought I remembered that we checked-in inside. I left DH on line outside while I went to ask inside. I was right, and the CM filled out an index card with our names, dining plan info, and he grabbed a big red crayon and wrote in all caps, "HONEYMOON" and circled it. He told me I could have a seat and someone would call us when a table was ready.

I brought DH inside and we each took turns using the restroom while the other waited. We only had to wait about 10 minutes or so before we were called. We were seated and it took pretty much forever for our server to come take our drink orders. I had a diet coke and I'm pretty sure he had iced tea. We also ordered appetizers, I had the lobster bisque and DH had the calamari.

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We were brought the rolls and oil, but I wanted butter because I saw the people next to us had some. We didn't see our waiter again until our entrees were brought out, so I never did get it.

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Everything so far was very good. I liked this soup better than the one at Coral Reef -- this one was less fishy-tasting.

For dinner, I had the fettucine and DH had the lasagna (they call it something else on the menu, but I forget what exactly). He had this last year and it was his favorite. It was all he could talk about before the trip -- he was so excited to come back here for it.

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He took a bite and made a face. He said it wasn't the same, that it was gross. He said that last time, it was more "mixed up" and just kind of a mishmash of all the ingredients. I knew what he meant and just by looking at it I could tell it was different. I told him to ask the waiter if that was the correct meal and if they had changed the preparation of it.

The waiter was highly offended and laughed a little and insisted that it was correct. You tell me:

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Maybe it's just us, but they look different and he said they tasted differently also. He said it tasted much more Americanized and wondered if they had given him a child's lasanga meal instead. In any case, he didn't enjoy his meal at all :( Mine was very good, however.

For dessert, we both ordered the chocolate mouse, and that was excellent. I couldn't finish mine, but DH helped :cutie:

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I have to admit, I was a little disappointed at the lack of pixie dust at this meal. I wasn't expecting anything really, but when I saw the host make a huge notation for the server that we were on our honeymoon, well, a "congratulations" would have been nice.

The plan was to watch Illuminations after dinner and videotape it. We couldn't find any good spots to stand, so we gave up and just watched it from Canada. I tried videotaping, but the people in front of us didn't know how to stand still, so they kept walking in front of the camera and I gave up.

We left right after the show was over and we beat a lot of people back to the bus since we were so close to the exit already. We hopped on our bus, got back to Pop and went straight to sleep!

Coming Up: Segway Tour! Do I go through with it or chicken out?

[Wazzo]

We got to Japan and wandered through the stores there. Have you guys ever stopped to look at some of the merchandise? Specifically the massage section? There is one in there, I guess it's a hand massager because the diagram is of an open palm. The massage tool itself... let's just say it resembles a certain part of the male anatomy. That combined with the hand diagram... well, it's good for a laugh every time! We took a picture of it a couple years ago, but it's on my other hard drive. I'll see if I can find it.



You must mean this!! ;)

(Check out the post on this page... at the end, #613)

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1582420&page=41


OH, and I'm loving your TR BTW!!! :)

[Tiggerific04]

You must mean this!! ;)

(Check out the post on this page... at the end, #613)

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1582420&page=41


OH, and I'm loving your TR BTW!!! :)

OMG, yes, that's it!!! We crack up every time we see it!

[BaBeeCee14]

I love your trip report:thumbsup2 Can't wait to hear more!!

[caryndisneydiva]

i LOVE how you take pics of all your food!!! i love eating, and with the wedding weight loss diet in full swing, i'm not eating as much as i normally would, so on my poly-moon i'm going to go CRAZY!!!

as far as alfredos goes, i've never had good service there and i've been there close to 20 times...i heard it was closing, is this true? the last time we were there we just kept taking shots of limoncello, i think the waiter got mad, but oh well...the fettucine was mushy and terribly dissapointing...

[Tiggerific04]

i LOVE how you take pics of all your food!!! i love eating, and with the wedding weight loss diet in full swing, i'm not eating as much as i normally would, so on my poly-moon i'm going to go CRAZY!!!

as far as alfredos goes, i've never had good service there and i've been there close to 20 times...i heard it was closing, is this true? the last time we were there we just kept taking shots of limoncello, i think the waiter got mad, but oh well...the fettucine was mushy and terribly dissapointing...

Yup, it closed at the end of August and now there is a new Italian restaurant there called Tutto Italia. Here's the new menu: http://www.allearsnet.com/menu/menu_itd.htm

[padisneyfour]

I have really enjoyed reading them. we are planning an escape vr for our 20th anniversary with family so planning on using alot of the same venues(wp/ct and chef mickey) I was there for breakfast along time ago but never dinner did every one enjoy themselves? A few of the guests will have never been to disney before and I want to try and show them some fun things. hope to do either a fireworks cruise or dp party too. best wishes

[FSUDisneyGirl]

I have really been enjoying your report! I love all the pictures and all of the details! thanks for sharing! :goodvibes

and p.s. i hope you do the segway tour!!! :thumbsup2

[caryndisneydiva]

thanks for the menu info...i wonder why alfredo's closed...

[oneyodafan]

Just getting caught up on your TR. Lovin' it! Sorry to hear your TA wasn't all that with the DDP and ressies.

Love all the photos!

[piglet50]

i've spent most of the afternoon reading your t.r. it is great! i love the pictures and your descriptions are very good. the pics of the food make me want to try some of these foods. your wedding was beautiful and you made a beautiful bride. thanks for sharing.

[KQAN]

You're not finished, are you? Will there be another update...?

[Tiggerific04]

You're not finished, are you? Will there be another update...?

I'm working on it! My time has been taken up by job hunting and resume-writing. Hopefully this weekend I'll have some time!

[KQAN]

No rush! Just wanted to make sure :) Good luck with the job hunt!

[tlhbdm]

Good luck with the job hunt! I know how that is.

[Tiggerific04]

Day Fourteen -- Segway Tour!

(FYI, sorry for the lack of pictures, but we weren't allowed to take any until we stopped in Italy)

I had seen pictures and read about the Segway Tour for quite awhile, and I had debated booking it because I knew DH would probably really enjoy it. I was hesitant because I am the least coordinated person I know. I can't even ride a bike. No, really. Everyone tried to teach me, and I would fall and hurt myself every single time until I just gave up completely and they came to grips with the fact that I couldn't do it. I'm not even very good at walking without bumping into things or hurting myself in some way.

I figured it was a once in a lifetime kind of thing and when better to try it than on our honeymoon? I went ahead and booked it towards the end of our trip (just in case I did injure myself... or others) at 9:30am.

I was getting more and more nervous as the day approached, but everyone assured me that it was virtually impossible to fall off. DH was psyched about it, so I knew I had to at least TRY and see what happens.

We actually got up when the alarm went off at 7:00am because I didn't want to risk being late and missing it. We took showers, got dressed, and cleaned up the room a little bit so it would be easier for us to pack tomorrow night. We walked down to the car and were on our way to Epcot.

The park wasn't open yet, and I knew we were supposed to go to Guest Relations, so that's what we did. The CM there told me that we actually had to go to GR inside the park, behind Spaceship Earth, so we waited on line and then went straight there when we were allowed in. They had the whole left side blocked off for the crane, so we had to walk around, but we eventually got to where we needed to be. We walked in and were greeted by a CM named Charlie who had us sign liability waivers and handed us our nametags. It was only 9:00am, so he told us to hang out and come back around 9:20, and that he was going to be our guide.

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We went outside and sat on the ledge there for a little while. There was a "Undiscovered Future World" tour group that came out so we got to overhear some interesting facts about Spaceship Earth -- something about the height requirements of structures in FL... if they are over 200 feet high, they need to have a light on top for the airplanes. So they built SSE at, like, 199 feet to get around it. I don't remember the details, even though I told myself at the time to pay attention so I could report back here!

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We had a lot of time to kill, so we went to check out Project Tomorrow inside SSE. They had a bunch of virtual reality games. I tried out a racing one and DH tried some kind of surgery one, lol. My tummy was starting to act up because I was getting really nervous about this whole Segway thing, so I ran across to Fountainview Cafe to the bathroom. I got back just in time for us to go back to GR.

We walked in and two others from our group were already in there, a father/son team. Our other instructor, Jason, was there as well demonstrating some things on the Segway. Once everyone else showed up, Jason led us over to Innoventions to Segway Central. He showed us two new Segway models and told us that there is going to be a new tour at Fort Wilderness using the "off-road" Segway. DH was immediately intrigued. We also saw the new 4-wheel Segway that looked kind of cool. Jason told us it has a ability to do a constant wheelie, but I didn't understand why you would do that -- wouldn't you just get a regular one then? Either way, there's only two of them in existence right now and WDW has one! How cool!

We were let inside and we watched a safety video inside that dome-thing at Segway Central. Jason went over how to get on and off the Segway and what would happen if we tried to go too fast. It has a built-in speed monitor thing that will stop you by pushing the handlebars back into your stomach.

We were then told to go ahead and pick out a helmet and then come outside and choose a Segway. My stomach was doing flips, but I was good and went over to find a helmet. I have an abnormally small head and the smallest helmet they had was a medium -- it kept sliding off the whole day and I constantly had to readjust it. DH had some trouble finding one that would fit him, but he finally did find one and we couldn't get the strap to snap together. Everyone else was outside already, so I told him to just come on and one of the instructors would have to help him.

I wanted to get Segways that were next to each other so in case I started to panic, I could just whisper to him and not cause a huge scene. Well of course that didn't happen. I was all the way on the left in the last row, and he was all the way on the right in the row ahead of me. The only good thing is that there was no one in front of me -- I had the whole area in front of me open. What they do is set up 4 rows of segways -- the first three rows had 3 across, and the last row (mine) was 4 across. We were each in our own "lane" separated by little orange cones.

We were told again how to turn on the Segway and then how to get on. Jason and Charlie went one-by-one and helped each of us get on. I was shaking and serisouly considering backing out, but I didn't have a chance because Charlie was standing in front of me before I knew it and he told me to relax and don't think about it -- just look straight ahead, put one foot on and then the other. I did and I was fine! The guy next to me had wobbled all over the place, and I had been so afraid that would happen to me, but my Segway hardly moved!

They're really sensitive and will move just from your heartbeat, so you have to constantly compensate for that and move a little forward, a little back. You move forward by shifting your weight to your toes, and you move back by shifting your weight to your heels.

Next we practiced getting off, which was really easy, and then we got right back on. We did that a few more times until everybody was comfortable, and then they had us get on and stay on. We practiced turning in place, although I had somehow moved up in my lane, lol. I got myself back safely, and we continued our turning practice.

Now the scary part: moving forward. I was still shaking and actually having trouble standing up because I was so freaking out. I was trying to hide it, but I guess I didn't do such a good job because the instructors kept telling me to calm down and relax! Ha! I was able to go all the way up my lane, turn around, and go back. Woo!

When everyone had mastered that, they split us up into two groups. There were 10 people total: one group of 6, us, and the father/son pair. The four of us went to practice going up and down hills, and the other 6 went to practice weaving in and out of cones. I was actually glad we did the hill first because it was the hardest, so I figured if I could do that then I'd be fine.

I went reallllllly, reallllllly slow, but I did it and managed to stay in one piece. We also practiced stopping short on a hill because they said that people outside will probably just walk right in front of us and we need to be careful. That part was kind of scary because you have to pull back and shift all your weight to the back, and it feels a little like you might fall backwards.

When we were all ok with that part, we switched. We had to weave in, out, and around cones, and then we practiced just following each other around the cones in a straight line. We had to be really careful not to hit anything because apparently if the Segway comes in contact with something (like a wall or another Segway) it will try to CLIMB it. Great, something else for me to worry about.

We practiced crouching down in case there were low branches, and we practiced getting off the Segway to carry it over an obstacle. We were all congratulated, given bottles of water, and specific instructions to stay in a single file line outside. We were going to go out, and make a quick potty break before we headed into WS.

DH was in front of me, and the father/team was behind me. It felt soooo weird riding through Innoventions with everyone looking and pointing, but once we got outside I started to feel more comfortable. It was a lot easier outside for some reason. We rode over to the bathroom, took a quick break, and then got back on and continued on our way. I really wanted to be last (with an instructor behind me) because I wanted to go slower. I went slow anyway, even though there were other people behind me, lol. I wasn't going to risk it!

We headed over to Mexico, and there is a slight hill there. One of the girls towards the front apparently didn't break on the way down, because all I heard was a scream and "Whoa, whoa whoa!!!" and saw her FLYING down the hill. She was ok, but it was scary!

We went through Norway and Charlie stopped to tell us a little about the pavilion, and then we went into China, all the way around the back and down the teeny tiny walkway around the ponds. Jason stood in the corner and acted as a buffer in case any of us hit the wall! Then we moved on to Germany and on the way, the people behind me cut in front because I was going too slow for them. Haha. Oh well, that's what I wanted. I wasn't going to speed up and go too fast for me just for them. I was already going close to 5mph, and we were told that was as fast as we should be going. The father also insisted on not staying in line, and would ride over to the side of everyone. He got yelled at a couple times.

Germany was scary. We went around the fountain and through the restaurant back there, but everything is cobblestone, so the Segway would wobble all over. OMG. Then we had to go through the little narrow area where the train is. I thought I was going to die, lol.

I was actually really enjoying myself, it was such an awesome experience and I'm glad I didn't back out. They had told us in the beginning that if at any point we decided it wasn't for us, we could stop and they would try to find something else for us to do instead. We were also told that if there was anything on the tour that we didn't feel comfortable doing, we could sit it out and wait somewhere else.

Next was Italy, where we weaved in and out of the columns and went up the hill at the back by Alfredo's. Our instructors put cones out and told us that we had free roam of the entire Italy pavilion for a little while, and that they were happy to take pics for us over by the water! Yay! DH and I met up and discussed how totally awesome this tour was and then we rode around together a little bit. It was much less stressful just being able to ride wherever I wanted at my own pace. I practiced with the cones, and then just wandered around and stretched my legs a bit. Your feet and legs start to really hurt after awhile because you're putting so much pressure on them. They say that the more you ride, the better this gets because you're not so tense.

We went over and asked Charlie if he would take a picture of us and he was happy to. He saw our pins, so we talked about the wedding and our honeymoon and it was so cool!

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After Italy, we went into the American pavilion and there was more fun cobblestone. We went through that little garden in the back -- that was interesting as well! Lots of turns and the pathway was made out of bricks. I was the last one and the whole group had to wait for me to finish, lol.

We would stop in each pavilion and listen to facts about either the pavilion itself or the country it represents. I wish I could remember what we learned, but I was so focused on not falling over that I wasn't really paying attention!

Next was Japan. We went up the hill and over the little bridge and then they mentioned that we would have to go back DOWN the big hill and to be really really careful since it was so steep. Everyone else just went all speedily and carefree, but I took my time and braked the whole way down! We got to go through Morocco next -- we went all the way around the back and then through the shops and the other areas across from the shops (with the fountains inside?).

Then we headed into France and we had to use our crouching maneuvers to get under the trees -- very cool! We went around the fountains and then over to the side through the gardens area, and then over the bridge towards the UK. We stopped on the bridge for a little bit to hear about the Eiffel Tower at Epcot as well.

All this time, we were passing cast members who would stop and wave and say hi to the "Segway Parade" -- it was so cute because they must see this all the time, but they all seemed genuinely excited to see us. I love Disney!!

We got to the UK and we went through the gardens and into the square, and then up the street and out towards Canada. Obviously there wasn't really anywhere we could go in Canada, and now WS was opening up, so there were lots of people around. We went back towards Innoventions and got lots of cheers and claps from people passing by. Also lots of "oohs" and "ahhs" and "Cool! I want to do that!"

We were passing in front of the Land and this one lady with a stroller refused to wait for us all to go by and she tried to walk right in front of me. The instructor behind me had to rush forward and ask her to stop and be patient and just wait. I was the last person anyway, she could easily wait another 10 seconds for me to cross. Thank goodness he stopped her, otherwise I would have had to really stop short to avoid hitting her or her stroller!

We got back to Segway Central and Charlie and Jason told us what a great job we did while they handed out cool Segway pins! They look just like the little Segway graphic on our nametags. We thanked them, handed back our helmets, and were on our way. We also found out that this was Charlie's first tour on his own, so we all clapped for him and told him he did a great job!

We were on cloud 9 when we left and just talked about the tour the whole way back to the car (and back to Pop... and for the rest of the trip... and even now!). DH LOVED it and wants to do the one at Fort Wilderness next time. He also told me that when we were inside practicing at the very beginning, he started to move backwards and couldn't stop! He had to put his hand out to avoid hitting the wall (and possibly climbing it!) but no one noticed.

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So, moral of the story: Segway Tour is AWESOME!! I highly recommend it. It's pricey, but it was soooo worth it.

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So we left Epcot and drove back to Pop so that we could eat and nap -- we were exhausted! We parked in front and stopped in at the food court. I had a yummy pizza and cheese danish and DH had the chicken alfredo and a brownie.

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When we finished we went back to the car and drove around to our building. We passed out as soon as we got in the room. I set the alarm for 3pm, but we actually didn't end up waking up until 4:45pm! We got changed and then headed back to Epcot because we had an ADR at Le Chefs de France for dinner that night.

Guess where we went when we got there? Did you say Club Cool? Why, yes, you are correct!

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We then went straight to the UK to catch the next British Invasion show. While we waited I decided to give the little hedge maze a try and take some pictures, because Lord knows, we don't have enough of those.

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We were highly disappointed because they told all the same jokes as the other day! The songs were different, so at least that was good. We have never stayed to take a picture with them after the show, but I've always really wanted to. We figured we would do it this time, so we got in line. We were second. After the first person finished, I started to walk up and then all these people came out of nowhere and cut me off. Ok, fine. I waited. I tried again, got cut off. This happened 3 more times and I was getting really annoyed. This one woman behind me told me I needed to be more aggressive and I said that other people needed to be more polite. I was all flustered so I told DH I just wanted to go and forget about it.

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We headed over to France because I noticed that they have a Photopass photographer there now and I wanted pics of the two of us.

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DH wanted to watch Matsuriza again, so we went over to Japan and I decided to get a Kaki Gori that everyone raves about.

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I got the rainbow and it was soooo good!

DH pointed out that Miyuki was due to come out after the drummers, so after the show we wandered over to her booth. No one else was there except for one teenage girl. Miyuki came over a couple minutes later and she immediate said that the other girl could go first because she had been there earlier and then we were second! I was shocked -- I thought she only made candy for children, but I guess since there really wasn't anyone else around, we lucked out!!

We decided we wanted a green dragon so that's what we asked for.

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When she was done, we left to make room for other people. Tons of people stopped and asked us about it for the rest of the night and they were all amazed. I guess a lot of people don't know about her?

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I wanted to walk through Morocco so we went over there and looked through all the shops.

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We decided we should go hang out in France while we waited for our ADR time, so we started walking that way and stopped to take a picture of SSE:

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A CM who had passed us earlier and congratulated us asked us to stop and told us he would take our picture:

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He said that he was able to block out the crane, but I definitely see it so I'm not sure what he meant!

Then as we were taking pics in France, someone stopped us and told us they would take our picture if we took theirs. No problem!

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We were hungry and DH wasn't thrilled with the dessert offerings at Le Chefs, so we paid a visit to the bakery and decided to get something yummy now just in case we didn't like dinner. We decided on the chocolate mousse (we split one):

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We sat at one of the little tables in the shop in the back and ate and talked about the Segway tour some more, lol. The mousse was soooo, soooo yummy. This nice CM came over, congratulated us, and offered to throw out our garbage for us. I thought it was strange and felt bad so I said we could do it, but she insisted so I let her and we thanked her.

Coming up: Le Chefs, my mini-meltdown, and then our very last day :(

[piglet50]

your tr is great. i love all of the pictures. your segway tour sounds like a fun thing to do. i would be like you, though, nervous. i am not coordinated.
thanks for sharing your wonderful time.

[AInWonderland]

The segway tour sounds great. Your my kind of couple getting dessert first in case you don't like the meal. I like your thinking. :thumbsup2

[Tiggerific04]

your tr is great. i love all of the pictures. your segway tour sounds like a fun thing to do. i would be like you, though, nervous. i am not coordinated.
thanks for sharing your wonderful time.

Trust me, if I could do it, anyone can! It was a ton of fun and I am so glad I went through with it :goodvibes

The segway tour sounds great. Your my kind of couple getting dessert first in case you don't like the meal. I like your thinking. :thumbsup2

Haha, yeah we like to be prepared :cutie:

[caryndisneydiva]

i've never eaten in canada and that is my fathers favorite disney attraction...where did you get your shirt??? i love the happily ever after design!!!

i got the shirt at our engagement party! my sister saw that i wanted it in your tr and bought it for me!!! yaaaayy!

here's a pic!!!
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[Tiggerific04]

i got the shirt at our engagement party! my sister saw that i wanted it in your tr and bought it for me!!! yaaaayy!

here's a pic!!!
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Oh, wow!! How awesome is that?!

[caryndisneydiva]

I KNOW!!! i'm so excited!!!

[kmab00]

:rotfl: Hi Erin, I see you!! :)

[Tiggerific04]

:rotfl: Hi Erin, I see you!! :)

You found me! :scared:

hahaha :rotfl:

[kmab00]

You found me! :scared:

hahaha :rotfl:


:rotfl2: :rotfl2: Don't be scared..... :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

[ITmickey]

Hello,

Just wondering if there will be a next update? AS far as I understood there still may be a couple? Hope everything is ok :goodvibes

[Pezalicious]

I was going to bump this and plead for an update, too! :goodvibes

I LOVED your trip report! Everything seemed so perfect, I can't wait to read the rest.

[Tiggerific04]

Sorry, guys!! Here is the next one:

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After finishing our pre-dinner dessert, we walked around the corner to Le Chefs de France to check in. We were both nervous about this meal: DH is not an adventurous eater, and I don't eat meat, so it was going to be interesting. I had seen a picture of this yummy-looking macaroni and cheese dish on the DIS that I had my heart set on. DH figured he would probably get the same if there wasn't anything that appealed to him.

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I gave the hostess our name and she immediately congratulated us and asked us to have a seat. The host came out, saw our pins, and had everyone waiting clap for us and then he escorted us right inside and to our table.

We waited a little while and then our server came over to introduce herself and take our drink orders. She was ok, but she wasn't "Disney-friendly" like most other CMs are. She brought us our drinks and bread and then took our orders.

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DH had the calamari and the macaroni, and I had the lobster bisque and the macaroni. She made a face and walked away to put in our order. Almost as soon as she did, DH saw the table next to us receive their food and he regretted not ordering the chicken as he thought it looked wonderful.

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We were brought our appetizers and they were both good. If I remember correctly, this was the best lobster bisque I had had so far. It wasn't as fishy as Coral Reef's, and it just had a better flavor than Alfredo's. I was fairly impressed at this point and was pleased with myself for choosing this ADR after all.

Well. Then our entrees came out and they looked good. They tasted horrible. They were dry, did not have enough cheese, and the pasta had no flavor whatsoever. DH took one bite and made a face. We could barely get through the dish and both of us ended up leaving most of it on the plates.

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It was almost time for Illuminations to start and I was unsure if we would be able to see much with the glare on the windows and the trees outside, but it turned out we had a fantastic view!! The fireworks just lit up the whole sky and seemed to cover all the windows. It was breathtaking! The couple next to us must have assumed we had never been before, because the woman leaned over and said to me, like she was talking to a kindergartener, "This is called Illuminations." No, really?

Our server cleared our plates and brought us a dessert menu. We both decided on the ice cream puffs with chocolate sauce. I was now nervous about these as well because they too had looked good in pictures and I wasn't sure they would live up to my expectations. It turned out that I liked them just fine, but DH wasn't thrilled with the consistency of the whole thing. I think the pastry part of the puff threw him off ;)

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We paid our bill and I made a quick stop in the restroom before we headed out. Illuminations was still going on so we thought we might be able to beat the crowd but we weren't fast enough. We slowed down since this was our last night in Epcot and took some pictures on our way out.

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Farewell, sparkly sidewalk

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I got really emotional as we were leaving and almost started crying, but I controlled myself. DH felt it too, which I think made it worse because usually it's just me and I think I'm just being overly dramatic. The fact that he was sad too made me think that there was actually something to be sad about! We talked as were leaving about how great this trip had been and how we would never have another one like it. We'll never have all the honeymoon pixie dust, and who knows when we'll be able to make it back (the plan is next August, but it's up in the air depending on jobs and money and other silly adult stuff).

To fend off the depression, I decided that we would go swimming when we got back to Pop. I love swimming at night because there isn't any sun to blind or burn me, and we can just enjoy splashing around. We got to the room, quickly got changed, and ran down to the Hippy Dippy pool. It wasn't overly crowded, and they had a bunch of inflatable toys in there, so we played volleyball for awhile, much to the annoyance of those nearby (I'm not very good and tend to send the ball flying just about anywhere but the proper direction).

I was getting tired, so we figured we'd go back to the room and relax. I grabbed a mango margarita on the way and then took a shower and fell asleep.

Up next: Opening at MK -- do we finally make it?! -- and the rest of our last day :(

[BaBeeCee14]

Yay Erin! I'm so happy that you updated. I'm sad to hear that its almost over :sad1: I'm so scared about how depressed I'm going to feel about coming home from my Disneymoon. I usually come home pretty sad on a regular trip from WDW. Anyway, how have and your DH been? Can't wait to hear about the rest of your trip :goodvibes

[ITmickey]

Thank you very much for the update , I'm sorry your dinner wasn't what you expected; hope your last day was magical enough to compensate for that :goodvibes

[mla1977]

Thanks for the update! I believe that AGPrincess said that her mac n cheese wasn't that good there either. it looks really good though!

[Tiggerific04]

Yay Erin! I'm so happy that you updated. I'm sad to hear that its almost over :sad1: I'm so scared about how depressed I'm going to feel about coming home from my Disneymoon. I usually come home pretty sad on a regular trip from WDW. Anyway, how have and your DH been? Can't wait to hear about the rest of your trip :goodvibes

I was SO depressed when I got home. It took a little while for me to snap out of it, and DH was concerned about me! I get sad after normal trips, too, so this was like 100 times worse! I'm doing better now, planning my next trip :cutie:

Thank you very much for the update , I'm sorry your dinner wasn't what you expected; hope your last day was magical enough to compensate for that :goodvibes

We weren't too bummed about dinner. It was at the end of the trip and we knew it was a risk going in. We figured we didn't have much to lose!

Thanks for the update! I believe that AGPrincess said that her mac n cheese wasn't that good there either. it looks really good though!

Yeah, since I've been back I've read a couple other negative reviews of it as well. I think I was expecting a creamier more traditional version of it, and it was just completely the opposite!

[PoohsHubby]

Congratulation!!!

I've just spent over an hour reading your report and looking at those wonderful pictures. Thank you for taking the time in sharing this beautiful moment in your life with all of us on Dis!

You were absolutely beautiful and you're husband was handsome! Please do tell your MOH that she was radiating in her dress. May your new life with your husband be as magical as your wedding was!

[hope1826]

YAY!! Your TR pics are great! I can't wait to see more!

Congratulations!

[Tiggerific04]

Congratulation!!!

I've just spent over an hour reading your report and looking at those wonderful pictures. Thank you for taking the time in sharing this beautiful moment in your life with all of us on Dis!

You were absolutely beautiful and you're husband was handsome! Please do tell your MOH that she was radiating in her dress. May your new life with your husband be as magical as your wedding was!

Thank you so much for such kind words! I'm glad you've been enjoying it.

YAY!! Your TR pics are great! I can't wait to see more!

Congratulations!

Thank you! I actually have a little time and will post the next installment now...

[Tiggerific04]

Our Last Full Day

The plan today was to wake up early and head to the MK to see the opening. I've never seen it and I really, really wanted to. Our alarm went off at 6am, my phone alarm went off at 6:15am, and we finally woke up at 7am. We got dressed in record time and high-tailed it down to the bus stop, but we ended up getting to the MK at 8:05am!!! Oh well, there's always next time, right?

We spent some time taking pics on Main Street and around the castle, and then went back to Fantasy Land for Philharmagic and IASW before our ADR at Crystal Palace.

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A lovely CM was nice enough to offer to take this pic for us

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We left IASW and walked over past the HM and I noticed this cart outside that I'm sure is there all the time and I've just never seen it. I just thought it was really cool how detailed Disney is with their theming:

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We checked in at CP and were seated pretty quickly. We both ordered apple juice and our server explained how the buffet worked.

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I was very excited to be here

Since there weren't any characters nearby, we figured it was safe to go get some food. I had a Tigger waffle, a biscuit, some potatoes, puffed french toast, and a muffin. Edwin had a waffle, eggs, sausage, bacon, puffed french toast, and a biscuit. Yummmy!

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Just as we sat down, Pooh made his way over and posed for some pics:

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Next was Tigger and all he did was wave as he walked right by us and stopped at the next table!! Hey! Just because we don't have kids doesn't mean we don't want pictures, too :mad: We even had the camera out and DH was turning it on as Tigger walzted right by.

We headed back up to the buffet and grumbled about Tigger's rudeness the entire time, because we're childish like that. This time I had puffed french toast, banana bread, potatoes, a croissant, and some of the breakfast lasagna I have heard so much about. Yuck! I took one bite and that was enough for me.

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I don't have a picture of DH's second plate, but I'm 99% sure he had toast with eggs and bacon because that's what he always gets on the second trip up.

Piglet headed over and was nice enough to take pictures with us (unlike a certain tiger...):

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We had finished eating and were waiting on Eeyore, who seemed to take FOREVER to get to our table. We were giddy and feeling silly so we took some pictures to pass the time:

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Before we knew it, Eeyore was there:

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Our server told us not to go anywhere because the parade was coming up and she wanted to make sure we got to participate. While we waited for her, DH requested this picture:

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Our server came back and gave us flags, yay! We had wanted them last time we were here but I think our server thought we were kidding. As you can see, we were completely serious about wanting them.

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After the song, we paid and decided to make our way over to Toontown to get some pics with the princesses.

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[BaBeeCee14]

Yay Erin! You're back!! How have you been? We don't see you much on here anymore :sad1: I'm so happy you're updating! More please! :flower3:

[Tiggerific04]

Yay Erin! You're back!! How have you been? We don't see you much on here anymore :sad1: I'm so happy you're updating! More please! :flower3:

I'll try! I got a new job that doesn't allow any time for me to sneak on during the day, and by the time I get home I am just too tired to catch up and post! I do come on and read sometimes, but not nearly as much as I'd like to. I'll work on the next one this weekend (hopefully) ;)