My First TR- there WILL be pictures! Updated Jan 29, 2008! FINALLY!

[DisneyFreak06]

I’ve decided that since I can’t take a trip to WDW anytime soon, I’d write my first trip report, even though my last trip was almost 7 months ago! ;) )

This is a trip that almost didn’t happen, so be prepared for some long explanations, but I will definitely be posting pictures!

Characters: Me (Tina) 31, teacher, wonderful aunt ;)
DN (Nephew) 12, good kid who deserved a trip

Why, do you ask, would someone who has 13 nieces and nephews take only ONE with her to WDW? Because that’s the only one who’s mother said I could! LOL :lmao: And of course, I really couldn’t afford to take anyone else! I offered to take another nephew, but he said no, and his mom would never have let him go with me anyway. We’re planning a big family trip in the summer of 2009 or 2010. He’ll go then, he wasn’t ready to leave his family on such a big trip.[/FONT]

Since I said this was the trip that almost wasn’t, I’d better explain that. My sister and my nephew’s dad were never married, and the father lives in Alberta. DN needed a passport, and a letter from his father saying I could take him on this trip. My sister had an incredibly busy Fall, seeing as how she got married in November! :bride:

She was late getting the passport stuff ready, and needed to send it out west, and then the father wasn’t the fastest at getting it back to us either. Needless to say, the week before we were planning to leave, the passport wasn’t back! :eek: So we called Passport Canada and they hadn’t even opened DN’s passport yet. They called my sister back on the Sunday before (we were flying out of Halifax on Saturday) and said that they would see what they could do. We didn’t have the letter from DN’s father yet either.:scared1: I had typed up a form letter and left the blanks for his information (and I even typed in his address, to make it easier for him) and sent him Express Post the letter, and included the Express Post envelope for him to mail it back. I included a little note saying how sad it would be if DN couldn’t go just because we didn’t have a “permission slip” from his dad. (We hadn’t even left yet, and I was paying for his passport and letters! This was really going to cost a fortune.) Tuesday the passport arrived at my sister’s house! Then on Wednesday the letter from DN’s father arrived! :banana:

Then we start paying attention to the weather, and it’s announcing snow/freezing rain for the Friday evening/Saturday morning. Uh oh, we have a 3-3 ½ hour drive to Halifax and our flight is scheduled to leave on Saturday afternoon. I call DN on Thursday and tell him that I hope he’s all packed because we’d be leaving as soon as school was out on Friday. I was teaching in Summerside (50 minutes from Charlottetown) and was planning to meet him at my house and we’d go right away and get a hotel in Halifax, just in case. I didn’t want to miss our flight because we got bad weather in PEI and they didn’t in Halifax, and with the drive over…

So we head out, listening to Disney music in the car. DN :guilty: starts to cry a little and says “I want to cry now, because I know I’m going to Disney World and I don’t want to cry there. I want to get it all out now!” Good plan! So that works, and we drive to an airport hotel and they tell us they are all booked. Darn it, why didn’t I call first! :sad2: (I don’t travel all that often) :rotfl: But they do give us a number for another airport hotel and we call them up and get their LAST ROOM!!! It was a lovely hotel and my nephew loved swimming in the pool.

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[DisneyFreak06]

We woke up Saturday morning and are jumping for joy because we’re leaving for WDW this afternoon! But then we go to get something to eat and start hearing about all the flights being cancelled! Not good. We check the screens and our flight is not listed yet, :confused3 but EVERYTHING had been cancelled all morning. I guess it had been freezing rain and the planes and runways were not ready. Eventually our flight shows up as cancelled too. :scared: :sad2: :mad: :scared1:

At this point the hotel is crowded with people who had rooms but no longer do, and are hanging out in the lobby trying to figure out what they should be doing. We call Air Canada and they put us on the first flight out the next morning. :woohoo: At least we won't miss TOO much.

I then checked with the hotel, and they don’t have any rooms left. :eek:

I tell DN that it will be an adventure and we’ll just sleep at the airport. Our flight was scheduled to leave at around 6 or 6:30 am, so we’d have to be there quite early anyways.

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Well, we didn’t really sleep much, but we really got to know the Halifax Airport!

Here's DN getting comfortable.

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Trying/Pretending to sleep.
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Here I am... We should have been getting up at Pop Century for our first day in the parks!

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[Lifelong_Dreamer]

What a great aunt you are taking your nephew to Disney World!

That passport/letter of permission situation must have been very stressful! Thank goodness everything arrived in time.

DN :guilty: starts to cry a little and says “I want to cry now, because I know I’m going to Disney World and I don’t want to cry there. I want to get it all out now!”


That is so cute!

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

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Aren't you cute in your Mickey ears!

Yuck! Being stuck in the Halifax airport, that is no fun at all!

[DisneyFreak06]

So, after bumping into a bunch of teachers and students that I know and friends of DN’s, (It was our March Break, and yes, we do have an airport in PEI, it’s just usually way cheaper to fly out of Halifax, even with the toll from the Confederation Bridge, the toll roads, and the gas!) we were checked in and ready to go.

DN in the secure area, doesn't he look excited?
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Here is DN on the plane! Halifax-Montreal
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I promised DN that if I posted a TR, I would post some of the pictures of me that he took with my little digital. Here I am, with my tongue out! Yes, I am just a big kid at heart!

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We arrive in Montreal and wait and wait for our luggage so we can go through Customs. Some woman comes through and asks if anyone else is travelling to Orlando that doesn't have luggage. She herds us all out and says we'll have to fill in lost luggage forms in Orlando! :sick: Lost luggage already. DN wondered if this was what the whole trip was going to be like.

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We arrived in Orlando, luggageless, but safe. We check in at DME and they tell us not to bother with the lost luggage forms, they will get the luggage to us. That's fine with us, the faster we can check in, the better!

I forgot to mention that once I found out our flight had been cancelled, I called Disney and they noted it on my file. They never did charge me for that night. :love: Only Disney is so sweet!

Here is one of the first vews that DN had of Orlando.

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Up next: Break-down at Pop Century!!!

[DisneyFreak06]

Aren't you cute in your Mickey ears!

Yuck! Being stuck in the Halifax airport, that is no fun at all!

Thanks! I really don't look my age, especially with Mickey ears in the Halifax Airport!

It wasn't too bad in the airport, we watched flights leave/arrive from the viewing room upstairs, we found a quieter area when we wanted to close our eyes and we wandered around, quite a bit. Being excited for our trip, and not having a bed made it really hard to sleep though! :laughing:

[MedCruise07]

Subscribing! I have been stuck in an airport overnight and i have to say that I did not handle it nearly as well as you did . . .

[disneynephew]

DN in the secure area, doesn't he look excited?
Thats me!!!:cool1: :cool2:

[DisneyFreak06]

Subscribing! I have been stuck in an airport overnight and i have to say that I did not handle it nearly as well as you did . . .

It was definitely hard, but we tried to make the best of it. I had Mickey playing cards, and we had Disney word searches and other puzzles too. I thought we'd be needing things to do on the planes and in layovers, not before we left! But I did come to the conclusion that I'll do my best to pay the extra and fly out of Charlottetown from now on. It is usually a lot more expensive, but at least if our flight gets cancelled, we can go home and sleep in our own beds!

[DisneyFreak06]

Thats me!!!:cool1: :cool2:

Hi DN! Are you coming over tomorrow night so we can work on the next installment? I need to figure out which pictures to post!

[snowwhite325]

Hi DN! Are you coming over tomorrow night so we can work on the next installment? I need to figure out which pictures to post!

Can't wait for the next installment :banana:

[spicemom]

:cheer2: Sounds like you might be your nephew's favorite aunt! Looking forward to reading more and seeing more pics!

[disneynephew]

:maleficen :simba: :donald: :ccat: :dumbo: :sulley: :tigger: :figment: :goofy: :hmghost: :mickeyjum :stitch:

[disneynephew]

Here's DN getting comfortable.
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[disneynephew]

DN (Nephew) 12, good kid who deserved a trip



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[disneynephew]

Me (Tina) 31, teacher, wonderful aunt
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[DisneyFreak06]

Can't wait for the next installment :banana:

Thanks for joining us! We'll try to hurry up and get the next one ready as soon as we can.

[DisneyFreak06]

:cheer2: Sounds like you might be your nephew's favorite aunt! Looking forward to reading more and seeing more pics!

Actually, DN says I'm his favorite "Disney Freak" aunt. He's too nice to say that he really has a favorite. (Seeing as he's got 6 aunts on this side of the family, not to mention his father and step-father's sides.) But I do think he's enjoying the whole TR idea and posting things! :rotfl:

Thanks for joining us, and we'll definitely be posting some more pictures.

[DisneyFreak06]

We are the first hotel to get off the bus!

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We were in the preferred section, top floor. Right near the stairs, it was really close to the pool and to the main building, but it was quite quiet. Here is DN on the way to our room.

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It was cold in Canada when we left, so yes, he looks over-dressed for WDW. Thank goodness we packed summer clothing in our carry-on luggage. We were very pleased with our room, we went up the yo-yo stairs to the top floor, went around the corner and there we were. Not the corner room, but I think the next one. It was perfect for us.

Some Pop Century Pictures

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We were in the Play-Doh building.

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We got something to eat and then we headed for the bus to EPCOT. DN was really excited; he’d never been to WDW before.

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Now this is where you start to realize that our trip was 7 months ago. I can’t remember exactly in which order we did everything. Oh well, we’ll do our best!

Here’s DN with the Finding Nemo characters.

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I believe that DN wanted to ride Test Track, Mission Space and Soarin’ especially, so we headed to the line with the shortest wait, which was Test Track.

We then rode Test Track and Mission Space before doing some shopping. I had forgotten to put my watch on Friday morning before school and it got left behind! I can’t stand not having a watch or at least some way to tell time, so I had to buy something. I wandered around looking at watches and debating between getting something quite fancy and nice, or even a little girlie one. I ended up getting a keychain Mickey Head watch. I love it. But I lost DN! He kept looking at things and the store was huge with all kinds of nooks and crannies.

I guess this didn’t help him find me very easily!

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Arr! I’ve got a Pirate nephew!

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At this point DN started to get cranky and told me he couldn’t take the park anymore! :scared1: I couldn’t believe it! We’d only ridden two rides!!! :sad2: He really was cranky though, so we decided to head back to Pop. We went to our room and he called his mother. I believe this was the time I left him to get us something to eat and drink while he talked on the phone. I had stood outside the door to make sure he locked all the locks! When I came back, DN was just a sobbing like crazy! :sad1: He was so upset. He told his mom something to the effect of “I know I’m at Disney World, and it’s awesome but I wish you were here too!” It was so sad. When we got home, his mother told us that when she got off the phone, she was crying too! If she’d had the money, she would have jumped on a plane then and there.

He was so tired though, he really hadn’t had much sleep though, remember? He spent the night before in an airport!

:idea: In order to settle him a little bit, I told him that I had two surprises in store for him. I told him that one was only little and I wasn’t sure which day it would be on, and the other was really big and that was going to be Tuesday during our Magic Kingdom Day.

You see, DN has always loved looking at Disney stuff with me, watching the planning videos and everything, so he was pretty in on the planning the whole way. I had decided that he deserved a big surprise that he didn’t know anything at all about, so I planned something special. I’m just not going to tell any of you that yet! ;) :lmao:

Once he took his mind off his mother, he fell asleep almost right away!

Day 4: Cranky at AK and MGM… hmm… I’m starting to see a pattern!

[MedCruise07]

I'll be at Disney with a 12 year old this December. I have post-it notes to myself to schedule break times and be aware of when people are getting cranky . . .

[tinawv]

Your DN is so cute or should I say handsome ;). Can't wait to see how Day 4 went. :)

[DisneyFreak06]

I'll be at Disney with a 12 year old this December. I have post-it notes to myself to schedule break times and be aware of when people are getting cranky . . .

Good idea! :idea: I learned quickly what his trigger was. Lack of sleep was the first one! I'll share some more as the TR goes on. Thanks for joining us! Maybe some things that I learned from my DN will help you with your trip.

[DisneyFreak06]

Your DN is so cute or should I say handsome ;). Can't wait to see how Day 4 went. :)

:rotfl2: I still say cute too, but he doesn't appreciate that! He likes handsome, so I'm sure he'll appreciate your comment!

[DisneyFreak06]

We got up early and had breakfast. DN loved that we could have the mugs. He had seen me use my mug from last year, and was excited to get his own. They were out of the Year of Magical Dreams mugs, so we had to get the regular (bigger looking) Pop mugs. That was fine with us though.

The first thing we did was the safari. Here are some of our pictures:

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Proof the animals are real:

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I'm sorry, I'm stopping early, I will finish the AK section now. My little 2 yo nephew just came in to my room and asked "Tina, do you want to go at the park with me?" And I couldn't say no! I'll be back soon to finish my AK section!

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

I think it is really sweet that DN missed his mom.:love:

I can't wait to find out what surprises you have planned.popcorn::

[DisneyFreak06]

I think it is really sweet that DN missed his mom.:love:

I can't wait to find out what surprises you have planned.popcorn::

DN has always been very considerate of other's feelings. He kept asking his mother before he left if she'd be okay and if what she was going to do while he was gone.

I personally think the surprised worked really well, he was very surprised! He liked them both, even though one of them really didn't have anything to do with me! :rotfl: :rotfl:

[DisneyFreak06]

Sorry about that... I just have a soft spot for my nephews and nieces I guess. The little 2yo isn't feeling all that well either and he's been cranky. When I walked in after church this morning he yelled "I hate Tina" so I had to take a good mood when I could! ;) He was just going down for a nap at that point too though.

Now... back to the TR...

We then went straight to Expedition Everest, which we rode a few times throughout the day.

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We rode some other rides, and did the walks. I believe we were on the Pangani Forest Exploration Trail or the Maharaji Jungle Trek when I noticed DN was starting to get cranky. He said he was hungry, so we stopped at Pizzafari for some pizza. I just love a good cheese pizza, so this was perfect for me! I wish I had taken pictures of the restaurant. I love the look of it. DN was in a much better mood after eating.

We got to see the Lion King.

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A Bug’s Life

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My favorite was Dinosaur. It was so funny, DN had ridden Mission Space and loved it, Expedition Everest and loved it. But he was TERRIFIED :scared1: :scared: on Dinosaur. He hid his face in my arms most of the ride. It was hilarious! And at the time they took the picture, I jumped and ducked too, and so the picture really looks like the two of us were petrified. :eek: I, of course, HAD to buy the picture! Sorry, I don’t have a scanner to put it on here.

We also rode Primevil Whirl. We walked around quite a bit and took some fun pictures.

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I have to cut this in half... they said I had too many pictures... sorry.

[DisneyFreak06]

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We didn’t get to Kali River Rapids, or the new Nemo Show though. :confused3 I guess that will be our next trip. We bought ice cream at some point too, which I think was before lunch, and that was why I was so surprised DN was so hungry!

I better stop here and do MGM in my next post.

[tinawv]

It looks like DN is getting less homesick. ;) Was that a 4-wheeler in one of your pictures from your safari ride? I don't think I have ever seen anyone actually out of the grounds during any of our safari rides.

[DisneyFreak06]

It looks like DN is getting less homesick. ;) Was that a 4-wheeler in one of your pictures from your safari ride? I don't think I have ever seen anyone actually out of the grounds during any of our safari rides.

Once DN got some sleep, he was much better! :banana: He is the kind of person that really needs to sleep. And sleep he did. Every night, as soon as his head hit his pillow he was asleep. It was great, because that was my worry, he has a hard time sleeping over at people's houses and tends to call someone to pick him up and take him home. :hug: But he was just so busy all the time and it was go-go-go.

Yes, that was a four wheeler. We had seen someone standing with some animals too, I tried to take her picture, but it turned out all blurry. :sad2:

[carri5317]

Keep it comming!

[junebug88]

I so want to hear more about this trip!!

[DisneyFreak06]

:guilty: I'm so sorry there has been such a delay. Things have been really busy (with a side trip to Toronto in the meantime). I'm hoping to get another section in here soon!

Please forgive me! :guilty:

[DisneyFreak06]

Sorry again for the delay, I hope there are still some readers out there! LOL

First off I need to apologize because I know I can't remember which day some of this happened as we went to MGM a few times. (I do need to keep a better journal!)

So here is my DN with Mr. Dinsey... well, his bust at least!

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and me

DN watches the Andy Griffith Show with his mom, so he wanted me to take his picture with Andy Griffith too.

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ROZ!

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DN really loved Muppet Vision 3D. He talks about how much he wants to see it again. Here's Fozzie Bear!

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LMA

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DN and one of the drivers.

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We bought some ice cream and wanted to sit in the shade on a stone bench, but there was this guy eating popcorn and he wouldn't share the bench with us.

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I don't know what this character's name is or anything, but we watched him for a few minutes and thought he was really funny!

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In the line up waiting for Indiana Jones, DN started to get cranky again. Here is is refusing to talk to me or even look at me!

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At that point I realized what was making him cranky! He gets incredibly cranky when he is hungry! I guess the ice cream didn't fill him enough! So after seeing this

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and taking some pictures of Indiana Jones Jr. (Who's mood had improved!)

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We went to eat at Backlot Express.

I think that's all the pictures I am allowed in one post, so I'll stop here, but it shouldn't be long until I finish at least this one day! Thanks for sticking in with us.

Up next: Late night at MGM.

[DisneyFreak06]

We walked around the Streets of America.

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And wandered through the Honey I Shrunk the Audience play area. I thought it was really cool to look at, but I don't know how parents can deal with it. I thought I'd never find my DN, and he's 12!!! I can't imagine what happens to parents of young children, it's hard to keep an eye on kids in there!

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I so wanted to slide too...

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We rode more rides too. Each time we rode a new "thrill ride", it became DN's new fave. Now that he's home, and he's been on all the thrills at Disney, his favorite is RnR. He loves it!

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We then bought some buckets of popcorn and watched Fantasmic! and that's my favorite night show. I saw it my first night at WDW ever, and there is just something about the music that makes me cry. I have the song from Fantasmic as my ringer on my cell! Unfortunately none of my pictures turned out. I can't wait to go try to get better pictures since I've got two new cameras since March!

We rode some Tower of Terror another time and then DN decided he wanted to go back to the room-probably for another swim! LOL

Up next: Tuesday, and the Big Surprise!

[DisneyFreak06]

Keep it comming!

It's finally coming! Sorry it's so slow.:guilty:

And to junebug88 I hope you're still reading... ;)

[DisneyFreak06]

Sorry again about the delay, I guess most of the rest of this TR will be pictures, hopefully so I can finish this quickly for anyone who's still reading!

Since my DN had known everything about the trip in advance, and helped plan it, I wanted to surprise him with at least one thing he didn't know about. It was really hard to keep from him as I had to plan it so far in advance! (And he's really curious, he tends to ask a ton of questions and keeps asking until he gets an answer.... Just ask his Mom about the time he heard me talking about the macaroni and cheese I bought for her bachelorette party! :rotfl: ) Thankfully he didn't find out anything about it except for what I told him during our first night at Pop, when he was REALLY upset and I told him that there were surprises to come.

We had a quick breakfast at Pop, I had brought the mini boxes of cereal from home in my carry on and we bought milk and bananas in the food court. Then the plan for the day was MK for opening and then to see the Contemporary (because of the monorail going through it ;) and then the GF. I'd always wanted to see it since I saw it on Full House as a kid! I thought for a long time that that was the only hotel at WDW! (I'm so glad it's not, or I still would never have made it!) Then we were planning to go back to M

DN stopped for a few autographs and pictures:

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We met Alice and the Mad Hatter along the way, and Alice said she loved DN's Stitch hat, but she could never wear it because it clashes with her makeup!

We hadn't realized that characters sometimes walk with us on the street, I almost didn't notice them!

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This CM said that something was eating DN's hair, and that he knew how that felt! He then took off his hat to show us how his 'eaten' hair looked!

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My DN really loves Stitch, as you can see from his hat AND the shirt I bought for him at MGM the night before. (I think! I'm really confused now, I will definitely do better at notes the next time I go!)

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We rode Space Mountain, BTMRR, POC and HM (I think, I'm really bad!) while I kept watching my little Mickey head key chain watch that I bought at Epcot the first night. I couldn't stand not having a watch. I was really nervous that I'd miss my surprise...

So we continued with our plan to go to the Contemporary. We got out to wander around and DN said, "Great, it's really cool, want to go check out the GF now? I know how much you want to see it!"

I told him that I wanted to find him a pressed penny, as he was collecting some. Then I realized where the line for Chef Mickey's was, and joined it. This was DN's reaction:

"Tina? What are we doing here?" in a whisper. "Tina, is this the surprise?" in a littler whisper. And then he practically yelled "IS THIS THE SURPRISE????" He was incredibly excited at this realization. We barely waited three minutes before the pager went off.

Here are some Chef Mickey's shots.

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DN really loved when Pluto put the autograph book on his snout to sign it!

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I took some pictures of the not so hidden Mickey themes in there, like the condiment holders, and the chairs, as well as some more of the restaurant, but they are not in Photobucket, sorry. We thought the food was good and the characters were hilarious. Donald kept wiggling his behind, and every time DN or I would mention it, he'd do it more. It was so worth hiding it from him for the surprise. He still says it was his favorite part of the trip!

[DisneyFreak06]

Oh wait, I found them! I was resizing all my pictures I had just posted, realizing that they were too big, when I came across these.

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[DisneyFreak06]

Once we finished our meal, we decided not to go to the GF, and I've STILL never managed to get there! One day I will though. It was starting to rain, so I got out my poncho, we decided to take the monorail from the Contemporary over to Epcot, just for fun, as the ride to the Contemporary from Epcot is not very long! It was pouring rain at this point, so we took the bus back to Pop Century.

I don't think we did much at this point, just went back to the room to leave our pictures we bought at CM. We decided we would go to Disney Quest since it was raining. We thought it might be good to be inside.

We got off the bus at Downtown Disney at the wrong end. I don't know if they drop off at two areas or not, but we got off WAY at the other side.

So we tried to do the picture of Tweedle Dee and Tweddle Dum, but DN was annoyed with me because I didn't do it well. I believe a Cast Member came up and offered to take our picture together, which was really nice.

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We took a lovely look in the World of Disney Store, boy do I wish one of those was closer to PEI!

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And then we walked through the Lego Store, because DN and his mother love Lego. It was a good thing, because we'd had to run from the WoD store to there because it had started to downpour again! It was crazy!

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At this point we decided to try to find our way to Disney Quest. Only we kept going the wrong way and getting lost! :lmao: It was quite funny because I didn't think that anyone could get lost at DTD! I don't know if we were just looking at the map the wrong way or what, but it took us forever to get in the right direction! And then there was construction blocking part of the way and we had to walk a different way, along with another family that was walking in that direction too.

We played around at DQ, which was not quite what we expected, DN was a little dissapointed. Some of it we liked, but we found the layout quite confusing. We did have fun though, I guess we just thought we'd have more.

DN left his Stitch hat at the PoC ride, and we had to go back to get it, and then he left it at another ride. The CM that gave it back to us at PoC was now working at this ride and she laughed and said that if she saw the hat again, she'd hold on to it and save it for him. Then he left it at ANOTHER ride and she was switched to that ride (I was starting to wonder if she was following us!) so when she saw us coming she said, "Wait, I know just what you are looking for!" and gave us his hat! We still laugh about that.

Once DN got cranky, I decided it was food time! It was late enough when we left and it was the longest wait ever when we waited for the bus. It was the only wait that seemed long to us.

I believe when we got back to our room, our luggage was FINALLY there! Only a few days before we were to leave!

If anyone is still reading, thank you!

[DisneyFreak06]

Yoohooo!!! DisneyNephew!!!! Are you not even reading your own TR???

:confused:

[OhMari]

Giving you a friendly bump to come and finish.

[tinkerbell87512]

How could I miss your TR!?! How sweet of you to bring your DN. He is so cute by the way. oh and I love the pic of you two at DTD with tweedle de and dum. :goodvibes

The pics of your DN at chef Mickeys are great. He looks so happy, what a great suprise!

Looking forward to more of your TR!

[DisneyFreak06]

Giving you a friendly bump to come and finish.

Sorry... waiting for DN, so he can do up the final installment. Hopefully he'll come over tonight to help.

[DisneyFreak06]

How could I miss your TR!?! How sweet of you to bring your DN. He is so cute by the way. oh and I love the pic of you two at DTD with tweedle de and dum. :goodvibes

The pics of your DN at chef Mickeys are great. He looks so happy, what a great suprise!

Looking forward to more of your TR!

Welcome to my TR! It's weird for you to be reading mine, I'm so used to reading yours. :confused3

Don't get me wrong, I took my nephew for purely selfish reasons, I wanted to go back to the World! :woohoo: I figured no one would really understand if I went alone again, I just wanted to go back. I really did think he deserved it though, he is a wonderful kid, and I can't imagine having to move out of my home, and into another home with basically strangers (his step-dad and step-grandmother) and then your mom has another baby! It would be so hard, and it is, even though he tries to be really good about it.

I love the Chef Mickey's pics too, they are some of my favorite pictures of him. He really did have fun there. It was a good thing I made sure he didn't have a huge breakfast that morning!

Tweele Dee and Tweedle Dum: My nephew is kind of annoyed at me because I didn't do it right! He was trying to tell me to be like the one on the left and he was going to do the one on the right. Oh well, I guess that is on the list of things to do if we ever get to go back together!

[tinkerbell87512]

Welcome to my TR! It's weird for you to be reading mine, I'm so used to reading yours. :confused3

Don't get me wrong, I took my nephew for purely selfish reasons, I wanted to go back to the World! :woohoo: I figured no one would really understand if I went alone again, I just wanted to go back. I really did think he deserved it though, he is a wonderful kid, and I can't imagine having to move out of my home, and into another home with basically strangers (his step-dad and step-grandmother) and then your mom has another baby! It would be so hard, and it is, even though he tries to be really good about it.

I love the Chef Mickey's pics too, they are some of my favorite pictures of him. He really did have fun there. It was a good thing I made sure he didn't have a huge breakfast that morning!

Tweele Dee and Tweedle Dum: My nephew is kind of annoyed at me because I didn't do it right! He was trying to tell me to be like the one on the left and he was going to do the one on the right. Oh well, I guess that is on the list of things to do if we ever get to go back together!

Hahaha I missed the world and did the same thing. Remember my trip last July to visit B and K? Lol notice we went to the MK. haha yea I was missing the world AND my BFF.

Your DN totally deserved that trip. I'm so glad he was able to go with you. He really looks so happy!! :wizard: