tlhbdm-TR-12/7/07 *Update* Day 3 [Archive] - The DIS Discussion Forums

tlhbdm

12-21-2007, 04:09 PM

Ok, I have all of my uploading done and so yup, I am finally starting. I have about 3.5 hours to work on this so hopefully I can get a lot done.

I am going to start with our rehearsal day.

December 6, 2007-

I stayed at my grandma's house the night before because I had to shave my legs and our roomate has banned me from using his shower and the master bathroom only has a little stand-up shower, so my grandma was nice enough to let me stay over. Anyway, so I woke up at about 7:30 because I had to be at school by 8:00 to go to class and then I had to take my final after class so I was done by about 10:30. *Insert note* I don't have many pictures until the time that rehearsal starts.

So after class I went over to my mom's house because we were getting our nails done at 12:00.

At 11:00 my mom asked me take her dog outside and I did when I got outside, I kind of started to panic because the snow storm had started all ready that they were predicting was going to start around 2:00 that afternoon. At about 11:45 we went to pick up my little sister from school(she is in 8th grade). We got to nail salon they started on my pedicure and my mom's pedicure
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They only have two chairs so my sister went last.) They pedicure felt sooooo...good and they made my toes look all pretty, I got a french pedicure. Then they started on my nails and I got a full set and had them do french. When I was sitting there waiting for them to finish with my mom, I called my aunt (MOH), my other aunt(GM's mom), my BM, and my other other aunt(RB and FG's mom), and my dad. All of them were running really behind because of the weather except my dad(who was in Des Moines). Our GM was south of Kansas City going 40-45 MPH, my MOH was going 30 behind a semi-truck, my FG and RB's mom was here thank god, and my BM was going about 50 and was about two hours away. Finally at about 4:00 I got two or three consecutive phone calls. My MOH was going to be here in about an hour, my BM was here(but stuck across town), and my GM was north of Kansas City still going out 45 MPH. So we get ready and go to the church. It took us 45 minutes to drive across town because of the snow and the snow plows obviously couldn't keep up with the falling snow.

My sister and I were the first ones to arrive(my mom had to go drop off the dog) then DF arrived. So the important people were there. Then my dad showed up and it was pretty awesome to see him. Eventually everyone else got there except 4 out of 5 groomsmen. 1 GM was stuck at home blocked into his driveway, 1 GM didn't want to drive in the snow, 1 GM wasn't coming until the next morning which we knew ahead of time, and the last GM was still on the road. Here are some pictures of the rehearsal

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007010-1.jpg
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The lady in the background is our psycho wedding coordinator

I think that is enough pictures from the rehearsal.

After the rehearsal we went to the dinner, it was a restaurant called Mama Lacona's. It is a little Italian Restaurant that DH and I love going to, except I couldn't taste anything this time.

DH welcoming everyone:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/IMG_1630.jpg

My grandma welcoming everyone:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/IMG_1633.jpg

DH and I together:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/IMG_1631.jpg

Our yummy cake:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/IMG_1638.jpg

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BM opening gifts:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007024-1.jpg
Jr. BM opening gifts:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007022-1.jpg

Then when dinner was all over we opened up a present from like 10 people who went in on it together cause it is a really nice and expensive knife set.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007027-1.jpg
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Next post in a minute...

tlhbdm

12-21-2007, 04:09 PM

When dinner was over, we went back to my mom's house to get my bag for the night and get my sister's bag for the night. Then my mom took my BM and I to college we met at and where we parked and grabbed her car. We then drove to Renaissance Savery where we we had our reception. Here are some pictures of the room. It was a two bedroom suite, that all the famous people stay in that come to Des Moines, so I felt pretty special.

This was the room number:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007031-1.jpg
The King bed room(that BM Channing and I stayed in):
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007032-1.jpg
This was our bathroom:
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This was our closet:
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Then you go down a hallway and go into the sitting room:
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In the sitting room was a dining room table:
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Off the sitting room was a kitchenette:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007040-1.jpg
Then there is a lighted mirror(SP?) the mirror in this room Frank Sinatra demanded to be in the room:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007041-1.jpg
Then there was the full-sized bed room:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Rehearsal/December2007042-1.jpg

Last but not least the bathroom in that room which I didn't take a picture of. This hotel room was bigger than DHs and my apartment. My mom, sister, Channing, and I stayed up until like midnight and Channing, my mom, and I all drank wine and it was just a lot of fun that night. Finally we went to bed and I acutally got a lot of sleep but woke up at like 5:00 and got on here and checked in one last time but then went back to bed for a few hours and finally woke up at 9:30.

Next up, MY WEDDING DAY!!!!!

tlhbdm

12-21-2007, 04:11 PM

I don't have any pictures of us getting ready or right before the wedding because A. the getting ready pics are on my mom's camera, and B. the only pics we have right before the ceremony are professional pics and I won't have those for another week and a half.

So this first part isn't going to have very many pictures yet, but when I get them I will add to it.

We woke up and went over to the hair salon at about 10:00. All of my BMs and Jr. BMs were meeting us there. By the morning the streets were all cleaned off from the snow from the night before. Everyone got there and my mom and brought muffins, almond cake, and memosas. I only had two memosas all day and then a glass of champagne at the reception. I was afraid I would drink too much because I couldn't taste anything yet because of my cold. My sister went first along with my mom. Then when my mom was done I went and my hair was even better than my bridal portraits. When my sister was done Channing went and here turned out really pretty, while myself and Channing got our hair done, my sister, MOH, and two Jr. BMs went to the mall and got there makeup done. Finally another hair dresser got done with her client and started on my BM Gina. When Channing and I were done getting our hair done my mom took us to get our makeup done and picked up the two Jr. BMs and took them to get there hair done. When I was getting my makeup done, my aunt(dad's sister) and my grandma came over and got there makeup done . After everyone was done with hair and makeup a few of us (Gina and DH's sister went home) went and walked around the mall for a while because we had about an hour to kill. Then I had a brilliant idea that we would go see Santa. We got a really cute picture of us all with Santa but it's on my mom's camera. Santa asked me what was going on for the day even though he knew because I had my veil on from getting my hair done and I said oh nothing just getting married, and he told me to be a good girl. Anyway so when were were done we got in the car and drove to my grandma's house and got my dress and everything to go with it, cause we were storing it at her house. Anyway, I walked into her house and my grandma started crying and I told her to stop or she would make me cry. So we got everything from her house and then I remember I needed to pick up a prescription at Walgreens and so we drove over there. We got to Walgreens and it took them 10 minutes to get to the window and so I was annoyed then they did it wrong and I just wasn't happy with them, but I tried to be nice because DH works for a different Walgreens and he hates pissy customers. So anyway by this time it was like 2:50 and DH called my mom to make sure he didn't need to get anything from our apartment and he said he was leaving and would be there at the same time as us and we told him to chill at the apartment for like 30 minutes. So we got to the church and the florist and the photographer showed up and started on there work. At this time our wedding coordinator had yelled at DH, two of my BMs and our photographer so I'm pretty pissed at her by now. I tried to let it slide though.

Then we all got ready, here is a pic of the BMs right before they got into there dresses.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Wedding/December2007046-1.jpg

One of the photographers came down with the girls and started doing the "getting ready" pictures and by this time my mom's dog was there and we got pictures with the dog. After I was all dressed at about 3:45 they put DH into position for us to do our private moment. My fil was there and I was kind of annoyed but whatever. Our photographer took about 45-an hour with pictures of just us. Then we went into the chapel and did a few more pics of DH and I. We then started on BMs pictures, I do have some of them from my mil's camera.
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Then they did DH and BM and then DH and GM and then me and GM:
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DH and his sister:
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Then we started on family pictures:
These are all DH family:
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Apparently none of me and my family got taken on my camera so when I get the professional pictures I will put them on here. After the pictures were over they took us back downstairs for about an hour before the ceremony. My aunt's boyfriend went and got McDonalds for all the kids and got me a drink because during pictures I almost passed out because I was so warm. After I drank my iced tea, our hairdresser from earlier showed up with a curling iron(I love her) and did touch-ups on my hair and any BM who needed touch-up. Then the pastor came down and said a prayer and then everyone lined up. I will let the pictures do the talking for a while.

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This picture is kind of funny because all of the GM are looking in different directions and I am walking down the aisle.
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After the processional we sang a couple of worship songs. Then after that the pastor did his message which was really good. Ok pictures again.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Wedding/IMG_1691.jpg
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The Kiss(believe it or not we have NEVER taken a picture of us kissing):
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Wedding/IMG_1705.jpg

Then we walked out to When You Wish Upon a Star by 'Nsync, it was so romantic. Then we went to the back of the church and bussled up my dress. Then DH and I ushered everyone out of the church. Then we got in the limo, I don't really have any good pics but the photographer does so I will post what I have.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Wedding/December2007056-1.jpg
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caryndisneydiva

12-21-2007, 04:21 PM

how lovely! you looked amazing! can't wait to see more pics AND honeymoon disney pics!!!

KatGarcia

12-23-2007, 01:06 AM

I love weddings and I love Disney and I love disney moons - so I'm in!!! Great start!

Goldeelox9

12-29-2007, 09:07 PM

I can not wait to read all about it! You looked breathtaking!!!

Bostonbride6292008

12-31-2007, 05:03 PM

You look amazing!

scottny

01-04-2008, 11:25 PM

just found this and I am in. :thumbsup2

kmab00

01-14-2008, 09:59 PM

When You Wish Upon A Star by NSYNC is my current cell phone ring tone!! :thumbsup2 I'm a dork. :rotfl:

Great pictures!! Looks like you had a beautiful wedding! Can't wait to hear more!! :)

hayanyujah847

01-27-2008, 09:27 AM

Just joining your TR now! You looked lovely on your wedding day and I love the subtle hints of Disney in your rehearsal & wedding. :) Can't wait to read more!

tlhbdm

01-27-2008, 05:44 PM

Pictures are online. The web address is:

www.designerimages.photoreflect.com

Under Tori and Brandon

tlhbdm

01-27-2008, 05:45 PM

I left off in the limo so I will start with the reception

After we got out of the limo we were greeted by our most awesome wedding coordinator ever. We stood in the lobby and got pictures and sipped some champagne. There are pictures are the professional website. Then finally after my mom got there we went upstairs. *Side story* my sister took my mom's keys to the reception with her in the limo and so my mom didn't have any car keys to get to the reception. So my mom was all worried that she wrecked my night, and I was like mom where do I have to be that was the ONLY thing that went wrong that day and it was kind of funy. When we were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Munyon we went straight to the cake table and my mom gave a toast again pictures on professional website. Then my moh gave her toast and we both cried, I love my aunt (moh) so much.

Then the best man (our roomate) gave his toast. Then we cut the yummy yummy beautiful cake. I didn't want to cut because it was so pretty.
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Then after we did the cake cutting and the toasts we did our first dance. It was to Can You Feel the Love Tonight. It was so romantic we both cried (psst..don't tell DH that I told you that)
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I just wanted to stay in DHs arms all night and not leave them but the reception had to go on. After we did the first dance we did the Father-daughter dance. We danceed to My Little Girl by Tim McGraw. I am so glad my dad came to the wedding cause it was really awesome dancing with him. I only have one picture but the photographer has more on the website.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Reception/273.jpg
Then they did the Mother-son dance except it ended only being the Step-mom-son dance because Brandon's mom apparently thought it would be appropriate to go to Perkins in between the ceremony and the reception because they thought there wouldn't be enough food, I am still pissed at her for doing it but whatever, so I will post the real mother-son dance and then the fake mother-son dance.
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continued...

tlhbdm

01-27-2008, 05:46 PM

So after all of the parent dances went on we had dancing for a while. While the dancing was going on Brandon and I went and mingled with all of our guests. At our reception we had chicken strips, meatballs, mashed potatoe bar, cheese platter, and fruit, there may have been one more hot appetizer. The whole night Brandon and I had mashed potatoes. The mashed potatoes got sooooo...many comments. They had two different kinds of mashed potatoes and then any topping you could think of and instead of putting them on a plate they had two types of drinking glasses you could put them in, one was a martini glass and the other was like a glass that a bloody mary would come in. After a while we did the bouquet toss and garter toss, which I don't have pictures of but they are on the professional website. The bouquet toss was funny because the girl who caught it was my old neighbor before we moved to AZ. Her dad gave me specific instructions for her NOT to catch it, and who caught it, she did so that was pretty funny. Then when we did the garter toss he accidently took off both my garters, oops oh well. There were only three guys who did the garter toss so that was kind of disappointing. Then we did some more dancing
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Then later after DH and I did some more mingling we did the dollar dance and made I think $37 which is pretty good because by that time everyone had pretty much left. I danced with the same little girl pretty much all the time but she kept paying so I kept dancing Oh yea I forgot to add by this time I was burning up, I had taken off my jacket gone up to my mom's room and taken my crinolin off, and put my hair up and I was still warm. I almost passed out before the ceremony while taking pictures I was so warm.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Reception/281.jpg
Then The Last Dollar by Tim McGraw came on so my aunt (moh) and I danced to it because her and I are pretty big Tim fans we have gone to their concert two years in a row, not together but we went together this last year and it was soooo...much fun.
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tlhbdm

01-27-2008, 05:47 PM

I am just going to post some random pictures from the night:
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Reception/310.jpg
This is our friend who drove from Kansas just to come to our wedding and his date. He is in the armed forces and has been oversees twice so it was a blessing he was there.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Reception/312.jpg
This is a pic of him and DH
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This is DHs dad, stepmom, and sister
The reception went on and DH left to go get our car because we didn't have a car there and we would have to get to my gma's hosue the next morning for our gift opening. So he left and did that and finally everyone left at about 12:00. Once DH got back we went up to my mom's room to get my stuff that I had left there from the night before. Then we went to our room and no joke all we did was went through our cards and opened the gift cards and monetary gifts we got so we could take them to the bank the next day, then we went to sleep because we were soooo...tired and just wanted to sleep. We were asleep within like 15 minutes. Here was our room for the night. We were supposed to get the whirlpool sleep but the hotel was oversold so they ended up giving us a regular king sized bed room and they gave us a complimentary night stay in the whirlpool suite whenever we want to use it. We are planning on having a romantic night on March 7 to celebrate our 3 month anniversary.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Reception/December2007060-1.jpg
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tlhbdm

01-27-2008, 05:48 PM

December 8, 2007

DH and I woke up for the first time as a married couple. We woke at about 7:00 so I could take a shower and so we would have time to go to the bank before the gift opening. After I took my shower I called up to my mom's room to find out when she was planning on leaving. She said she didn't know but she knew that all of our stuff would not fit in the two cars we had there because DH and I had our luggage for Disney World all ready in my car and my mom had to hall five girls plus my sister home so we called my aunt (moh) to ask her if she could come get a load of stuff in her Honda Pilot and she said sure so she made it down to the hotel and we packed her car full. Then eventually we were all ready to go and went and checked out and called valet to get our cars.

DH and I left the hotel and went to the bank. In the car I tried to take a picture of us and turned the camera on and guess what it broke. We only had it for like three months and the screen had gotten stepped on or something by my sister and so we were really pissed that we were going to have to buy a new camera before we left for Disney World. Anyway, we left the bank and went to my gma's hosue for the gift opening, it was actually at the clubhouse by her townhouse and it was really nice. Here are some pictures of the inside and the gifts we got. I am going to let the pictures tell the story.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p204/tlhbdm/Gift%20Opening/IMG_1759.jpg
Cake table decoration (this was our alter arrangment from the wedding)
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regular table decorations
Someone had gotten the kissing bells and by the end I was SOOOOO... annoyed with all of the bells ringing I don't know who bought them but grrr... sorry rant over
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our really cool clock my grandparents got us.
When we were done we went to Target to exchange the 5 crockpots we got and bought a new camera with that money and our Target gift cards. We got the same camera that we had before because we really liked it. Then we went to my gma's house and said goodbye to my mom and my aunts and cousins. When we were there my gma gave me my early x-mas present I knew I was getting. She gave me Nike Shox which were awesome in Disney World
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Here is my luggage ready to go:
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Then we were off to Kansas City so we could fly out early the next morning. We drove there in freezing the rain the whole way there and I have a nervous thing about riding in the car when the weather is bad. It shoudl have taken us 2.5 hours to get there and it took us 5 so by the end of the trip we were so tired. When we got to the hotel we checked in and went up to our room for the night. We were trying to decide what we wanted for dinner but we didn't want to drive because the roads were really icy. So then we tried to call someone to deliver but there really wasn't anything good around our hotel. So we decided to go down to restaurant at the hotel but the service was really bad that night because they were under staffed because of the weather. The chef was doing double duty and was being a waiter and cooking so we decided to go out to the front desk to ask them what is a good place to get food delivered. I was wearing my minnie bridal ears and they were like ohhh... you just got married and they asked us what kind of wine we wanted but I said that we had champagne from last night from the hotel. So then they are like ok we will give you free room service so we took them up on that offer. It took about an hour to get our food and it wasn't that good but it was free so can't really complain. When we were done with dinner we got into bed but didn't go to sleep if y'all know what I mean. We wanted to go to sleep early because we had an early flight the next morning.

tlhbdm

01-27-2008, 05:49 PM

December 9, 2007

We woke up at like 5:45 because we had to be downstairs at 6:00 to catch our flight. We went down to the lobby and found out the flight was cancelled! OMG, I started freaking out because it was only an hour before our flight was going to take off. So they rush us to the airport and we get to the Southwest ticket counter and they say we have two options OPTION a.) we can take a 9:30 flight to Dallas, then go to Houston, and then to Orlando getting there at 5:20 or OPTION b.) take a 10:00 flight from KC to Nashville and get to Orlando at 6:20. We ended up taking the first option because we would get there sooner even though we had more stops to make. We were supposed to leave KC at 7:05am and get to MCO at 10:20 so we were not happy because that was our first day pretty much wasted.

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Waiting in KC airport
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My wedding band
Finally our plane came and it was time to go to Dallas.
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DH sleeping
The flight to Dallas was uneventful and was only like an hour and half so it was short and sweet. When we got to Dallas we got to stay on the plane because the plane we were on was continuing on to Houston. We moved up a couple of rows and then finally the new passengers started loading and finally we were off to Houston. The flight to Houston was only like 30 minutes so it didn't even feel like we were in the air very long. When we landed in Houston we had to get off the plane this time. So we went and found something to eat because we were starving by this time. We eneded up getting Wendy's. The Houston airport is pretty nice but the people are not friendly, I don't want to offend anyone from Houston but I was NOT impressed with the people there. When we were sitting there we had someone who was supposed to be on the original flight with us and I got to talking to them and they offered to take our picture
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Eventually we got onto the plane after being 30 minutes late.

Since we were on Southwest we had a boarding letter and number and guess what we were like last. We got onto the plane and by then almost every seat was full and there were a lot of single people but they were like window and aisle. So easily someone could have moved to one of the single seats in the back so my new DH and I could sit together, but no. Everyone was being rude so we didn't even get to sit together on the longest flight of the day. So after the long flight being away from each other we landed at MCO. I sat almost in the back of the plane and DH was pretty much in the middle and he was so sweet and waited for me to get to where he was to get off. We rushed through the terminal and got on the tram thingy to go to Terminal B to catch Magical Express. We knew exactly where we were going because we had done this two times before. So I got in line and there was maybe two people in front of me so it went really fast. After I checked in they told us what line to go to. We went to the Contemporary line. We didn't even have to wait in line and got right on the bus. We sat there for about 15 minutes waiting for more passengers then finally we were off!

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DH and I on ME

Once we took off the driver told us we would be going to WL and then onto to Contemporary. Which was a nice surprise because I thought we would go WL, Poly, GF, then Contemporary. Soon the driver started the cute little movie, which btw, needs to be updated. Soon we were passing through the WDW main gate! Finally we were there. By this time it was 6:30 and we had dining reservations at 7:30 at Concourse Steakhouse. So I was hoping the stop at WL would be quick. Well it was, only two families got off! So now we were off the the Contemporary. When we pulled up we could see the dream lights on the castle! Wow! We got off the bus and rushed for the lobby so we wouldn't have to wait in line to check in. We walked right up. I asked if they had a King bed for us and they said that they didn't but I didn't really care because we still had our MK view room and it was two Queens. So they gave us our Just Married buttons and our packet of stuff and we were on our way upstairs. We were on the sixth floor. Our room number was 4228.
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We walked in the room and wow! It was so awesome. We opened the curtains and holy crap, beautiful it made me cry.
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Our Beds
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Futon and TV
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Flat panel TV
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Desk w/Computer w/free internet
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Closet with safe and ironing board
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Fridge
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Toilet
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Bathroom door

We put our buttons on and went downstairs to the fourth floor to check into dinnner. We were early so we decided to get our picture in front of the pinnochio (sp?) chocolate sculpture for Christmas time.
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up next...Dinner at Concourse Steakhouse.

tlhbdm

01-27-2008, 05:54 PM

I forgot to add, this is the doggie DH and I are getting. Her name is Maggie.

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Isn't she the cutest thing ever. She is going to be our baby until we have a baby in the next couple of years. Oh yea and also we are moving into a new WAY nicer apartment March 1!
I have some pics from the website but we will take pics on Monday when we go sign our lease agreement.
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Main Apartments
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Office/Guest bedroom
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Master Bedroom
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Family room/dining area
Also there are two bathrooms with a full sized washer/dryer. If you can't tell we are super excited about having our own washer/dryer because right now we either have to go to my mom's house which is across town or use the one in our building for 3.50 a load!

kmab00

01-28-2008, 12:35 AM

GREAT update!! I love your puppy dog! How ADORABLE!!! :lovestruc Can't wait to hear more about Disney World!

mla1977

01-28-2008, 12:04 PM

I'm loving your TR so far. Congrats on everything.

disneediva

01-28-2008, 07:00 PM

love your report

tlhbdm

01-28-2008, 07:06 PM

Ok so I left off right before we went to dinner.

We checked in and they said it would take about 15 minutes. So we went over and sat in the bar area right next to Chef Mickey's. After about 7 minutes they paged us. Our table was ready. Dinner was sooooooo...good. Sadly Concourse Steakhouse is closing in May :(. We were on the DDP so we got an appetizer, main course, and a dessert.

GRADE:
Food: A++++
Service: B
Restaurant overall: A- (Service was really not that good)

I believe we spent about $120 on this meal if it would've been OOP. For my appetizer I had the French Onion Soup, it was so so, not the best French Onion Soup I have ever had but I would eat it again.
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DH had the Honey Seasme Wings, they were sooooooo...good. DH loved them too. I would definitely eat them again.
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For our main course we both had the Grilled Beef Tenderloin. OMG! it was good. It was the best steak I have ever eaten. It fell apart in my mouth and the flavor was so good. I could eat that every night of the year it was so good. The side I got with it was gross but I ordered first and didn't know you could get mashed potatoes with it like DH got. The tenderloin was kind of small but again sooooooo...good.
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Mine
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DH got his with mashed potatoes
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DH and I at dinner.
For dessert I got the vanilla bean creme brulee. It was so rich that I couldn't eat all of it but it was tasty.
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DH for dessert had the triple chocolate cake. It also was very rich and we didn't finish that either. The cake was pretty moist.
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After dinner we went to MGM because it was EMH. By the time we got finished with dinner it was all ready 9:00 and the park closed at 11:00. We went out to the bus stop, the bus came pretty quickly, in fact we had good luck with transportation all week long. The bus ride went pretty quickly and we were at MGM by 9:30. We walked up and we got pictures by the tree outside the park. It was our first photopass experience of the week and it was a good experience.
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We walked into the park. Neither one of us had a bag that night. I just put the camera in my pocket, so we went passed security. We walked into the park and got our picture taken on the main street at MGM with the photopass people.
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apparently we only took one picture.
We tried to decide what we wanted to do first. We looked at the time board and decided to go do The Great Movie Ride. By the time we got to the ride it was 10:00 and the park closed at 11:00. So we got in line and waited for 20 minutes.
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When we got done with the ride we left the park because it would have been closing soon and we wanted to beat the rush. We got out to the bus stop and only waited about 10 minutes. We got on the bus and actually got a seat on the bus. We got back to the hotel and went straight to bed. Considering the day we had we were really tired and just wanted to get some sleep to spend our next day at EPCOT.

Up next....Day 2 at WDW (first full day) EPCOT and new restaurant in Japan.

Lizby

01-28-2008, 09:49 PM

Everything looks great so far! You looked beautiful on your wedding day and it sounds like your trip was great!

BTW, your puppy is ADORABLE!!! :lovestruc Is she a Jack Russell? I am so jealous!

kmab00

01-28-2008, 10:11 PM

tlhbdm

01-28-2008, 11:21 PM

Everything looks great so far! You looked beautiful on your wedding day and it sounds like your trip was great!

BTW, your puppy is ADORABLE!!! :lovestruc Is she a Jack Russell? I am so jealous!

She is is a shih-tzu and her name is Maggie

tlhbdm

01-28-2008, 11:22 PM

Oooh I can't wait to hear about Japan! We want to eat there but after BAD Mexico, we're kind of scared to try! :laughing:

Glad to hear that Concourse was good...I didn't know that it is closing in May! :( That's sad!!

Don't be scared it was soooooooo...good. If I wasn't on weight watchers I would make DH take me to a restaurant we have here in town that is exactly like it. I am trying to convince DH to go back before Concourse closes in May, but it's not working too well.

scottny

01-30-2008, 12:07 AM

great updates and pics.

tlhbdm

01-30-2008, 12:15 AM

I just got updated pics of Maggie and I thought you all would lke to see what she looks like.

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I love this pic

caryndisneydiva

01-30-2008, 12:15 AM

ooooh! i just looked at your gmr pics and got super jealous! i miss wdw already!

i ate in japan too and it was AMAZING.

scarlett873

02-05-2008, 10:33 AM

Mmmmm...Mama Lacona's...I haven't eaten there in YEARS!! I used to live in DSM when I was younger! We moved at the end of my sophomore year at Lincoln though (1989). I was always so sad that I didn't get to graduate from ALHS! That's where I met my DH...he was a DSM lifer - well, until adulthood anyway!

I've stayed at the Renaissance before! That's where we stayed the last time we were in DSM. :) I was scouring your pictures to see if I knew anyone...lol. Where'd you get married? It's driving me crazy that I can't recognize it! DH was a preacher's kid growing up and he couldn't place it either.

You guys look so cute together! Congrats on your wedding!!

tlhbdm

02-05-2008, 10:50 AM

scarlett873

02-05-2008, 11:36 AM

That explains why I didn't recognize anything then! :) It was killing me because I thought it looked familiar, but I wasn't sure...

Hillary12.8.07

02-05-2008, 08:17 PM

Great TR!!! All the wedding pictures are beautiful!! I could've sworn I'd already commented on here, but I guess not. Must've been myspace.

You looked beautiful, and I love all the Disney touches in your wedding. And your room at Contemporary was AWESOME. jealous there. And I think I've said it before but I can't believe we didn't run into each other that week, as much as we were in and out of the CR, I think we went over there every day on the boat to ride the monorail.

Can't wait to read more!

tlhbdm

02-20-2008, 03:13 PM

I left off with Day 2 of honeymoon. EPCOT-our favorite

We started off the day by going to the DVC open house. All the information was so good and if we didn't have my car payment we would totally be DVC members. I can't remember the guys name that we talked to but he was really nice and wasn't pushy at all. We started out by getting picked up at the Contemporary in a DVC van at 8:30. When we walked into the open house our first thought was that the building was so nice. This is the waterfall in the lobby, you can't see it that good but it was really cool:

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Then I took some random pictures and we had muffins and juice in the lobby while we waited for our tour guide. They had this room that was in a circle and had a mural of what each park is like:

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Then we went and looked at villas. The tour is at Saratoga Springs but they have rooms from the AKV. The rooms are so nice and it would be nice to stay in a place with a mini kitchen and a king sized bed. The Studio has a king sized bed with a kitchenette(sp?) The one bedroom has a full kitchen, a pullout couch, a king sized bed with a door in the bedroom, and the two bedroom is the studio put together with the one bedroom. If the villas weren't so expensive we would stay there on our vacations so I will just wait until we buy DVC. After the tour we went back to the open house place and the guy took us in his office and gave us more information than we really needed to know. He gave us time to talk it over, we all ready knew we weren't going to do it, we just wanted to get information. When he came back he gave us this really cool like coffee table book with all the information in it. We also got VIP fastpasses. A VIP fastpass is a thing where you put the card into the fastpass machine and it spits out a fastpass for right then.

Then we went to the ice cream parlor, where you can get free ice cream but DH and I really wanted to get to EPCOT so we passed on the ice cream. We got our picture taken before we left:
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When we got to EPCOT we got some photopass pictures taken:
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Then when we were walking past Spaceship Earth they were doing a soft opening and it was only open for 10 minutes! We were lucky we got to ride it. They added a new scene, the cars aren't as bumpy, added a new narrator, and put screens in the cars. Overall I think the update could've been better but it was ok.
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When were done with Spaceship Earth we headed over to Soarin'. We used our VIP fastpasses and got a fastpass for right then. We both love Soarin' I think we sat in the first row but I can't really remember. After we were done with Soarin' we headed over to my favorite ride. Test Track. We rode it because the line was short and we got a fastpass for later in the day. Like I said it is my favorite ride I love the adrenilin rush when you're going 65 mph around a 50 degree turn.
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After Test Track we headed for World Showcase. There was a photopass person on our way over there and we got a few pictures taken with them:
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Up next...New restaurant in Japan

Goldeelox9

02-21-2008, 01:33 PM

I loved the DVC tour. So nice! One day....

scottny

02-21-2008, 07:21 PM

great update and pics. I love the pic with the border and spaceship earth behind you.

looking forward to more.

KatGarcia

04-10-2008, 02:19 AM

Did you forget about this TR??!!??popcorn::

tlhbdm

04-10-2008, 02:50 PM

I'm still here just haven't had much time. I really am hoping this weekend.

KatGarcia

04-10-2008, 05:42 PM

YAY!!!!:banana:

tlhbdm

04-13-2008, 10:15 PM

Ok on with the show....Sorry it took me so long to get another update done.

I left off with us heading for lunch at Teppan Edo the new restaurant in Japan. All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!! It was so good. If it is on the 2008 Dining Plan we are for sure eating there when we go back in September(oh yea did I mention we are going for five days for free dining with my dad and his girlfriend). We didn't have ADRs and went up to the restaurant and they had immediate seating, it helps that there was only two of us.

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They started out by coming out and making everyone cheater chopsticks. Then they come out to take your drink and appetizer order. For my appetizer I had the assorted Tempura (Shrimp, chicken breast and seasonal vegetables with a Japanese dipping sauce) It was very good. I didn't eat the vegetables because I didn't know what kind of vegetables it was.
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DH got the shrimp cocktail. He liked it but he liked how it was presented more than he actually liked it.
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Then we ordered what they would bring out and cook in front of us on the big grill. We both ordered the Asakusa(Sirloin steak and large shrimp with seasonal vegetables, Udon noodles, and steamed rice). Then the chef came out and started cooking away. His American name was Ken. He was very good and can handle those utensils like no other. In the middle of him cooking he made a volcano out of onions(picture below). The food was so good. I would eat that again in a heatbeat. The steak was so tender and the shrimp was so flavorful.

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I am pretty sure for dessert we both got the soft serve ice cream. It was just ice cream so not really picture worthy.

Then we took some pictures of the building and the surroundings. Very beautiful grounds.
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Hallway leading to individual rooms that have four grills in it each.
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Kind of weird but the is the ceiling the bathroom
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Up next....Living with the land

Goldeelox9

04-14-2008, 01:15 PM

We have a place like this near our house and we love it! That is a must try for a future trip!

kmab00

04-14-2008, 03:31 PM

I'm glad you posted about your experience at the Japanese Restaurant! We can't wait to try it next trip!!!

tlhbdm

04-14-2008, 04:04 PM

Karen, I was at Disneyland when you were there just on Monday though. I totally forgot you were going to be there. Did you have a good time?

tlhbdm

04-15-2008, 08:59 PM

After we ate lunch at Teppan Edo we rode the Friendship boat across the lake again and went to "The Land"
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Continued...

tlhbdm

04-15-2008, 08:59 PM

We went to The Land to ride Soarin' we used those fastpasses that we received from Disney Vacation Club. We got our fastpasses and went right on. We absolutely love Soarin', I wish they would change the one in WDW to Soarin' over Florida, even though I know it came directly from Disneyland I still wish they would change it a little bit. I totally forgot that they had it in Disneyland(actually California Adventure) until I was there last week and I was like "oh yea the original Soarin' is here." I do have to say that my dad and his girlfriend really enjoyed it and they can't wait to go on it with DH and I when we back to WDW in September for free dining! After we got off Soarin' we went on Living with the Land, I will let the pictures do the talking.

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Up next...Test Track(my favorite ride)

tlhbdm

04-15-2008, 09:01 PM

Next we went to Test Track but not before stopping and taking a picture of the middle of Disney World.

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After stopping for a picture we went over to Test Track and again used our DVC fastpass thing. It was good for three instant fastpasses each so we had one left now? Where will we use it?

Anyway, Test Track is my FAVORITE ride in all of WDW. We usually try and make it the first ride we ride when we get to WDW but this trip that didn't happen. I love the part when you take the 50 degree turn going 65 mph (what a rush) I pretty much know the soundtrack to the whole ride, kind of annoys DH but oh well.

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To be continued...

tlhbdm

04-15-2008, 09:02 PM

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After we went on Test Track we went back over to World Showcase. We went straight for Maelstrom because when we were in WDW in May 2007 Maelstrom was closed for refurb and it is another favorite for me and DH had never been on it. Most people think it is kind of dorky but we like it.
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When we got to the point where you get in the boat they gave us our own boat because we were honeymoon. No no hanky panky went on because I kind of forgot what the ride was like and I wanted to see the ride. When we got off we skipped the movie and went and got our picture with the big troll in the store.

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After Maelstrom we apparently walked back to Mexico and probably went on Los Tres Amigos and got our picture in front of Mexico.

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Our goal was to get our picture taken in front of every country but I'm almost positive we skipped a couple of countries, oh well.

Up next...back to the hotel to hang out and watch fireworks.(Remember fireworks were at 6:00) while we were there

tlhbdm

04-15-2008, 09:03 PM

We hopped on the monorail and went back to the Contemporary. We wanted to watch the fireworks from our balacony and we had to be up early the next morning for breakfast. I will let the pictures do the talking.

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First of all when we got back to the hotel we were surprised by this little gift form Disney Honeymoon Registry. It was a chocolate box filled with chocolates with the Contemporary logo on it. We also got a magic moments certificate and an autograph picture from Belle and Beast. Ok now onto the fireworks

Also I have to add DH proposed to me during Wishes so it was very special to us that we got to watch it from our balacony.
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tlhbdm

04-15-2008, 09:04 PM

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After fireworks we watched the Electrical Water Pageant from our balacony too but the pics didn't turn out very well.
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tlhbdm

04-15-2008, 09:05 PM

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Then we went to bed because we had 8:30 breakfast reservations at Akershus...Did we make it on time?

29apr00

04-16-2008, 09:32 AM

The Japanese restaurant sounds great! We love Tepanaki cooking so that will definatly be on our list of to-do's for next time!

Love all the pictures!

Jennifer

kmab00

04-17-2008, 01:21 AM

Karen, I was at Disneyland when you were there just on Monday though. I totally forgot you were going to be there. Did you have a good time?

Thanks! Yes we had a BLAST! We didn't actually go into the parks on Monday, though! Just DTD! Did you guys have fun?

tlhbdm

04-17-2008, 10:24 AM

Thanks! Yes we had a BLAST! We didn't actually go into the parks on Monday, though! Just DTD! Did you guys have fun?

We had so much fun. I wish I could've been there more than one day but we got most of what we wanted to do done so that's a plus. I hope to go back again soon.

Keira1387

04-17-2008, 10:54 AM

I love the water parade!! Can't wait to hear more!!

tlhbdm

04-23-2008, 02:25 PM

I'm sorry there are so many pictures but that is how I remember things.

Day 3- December 11, 2007

We had breakfast reservations at Akershus in Epcot at 8:30. We figured if we left by 7:45 we would be ok. Well we got on the monorail at the Contemporary and got to TTC in about 5 minutes. Then we got on the monorail at Epcot and we had to wait for a few minutes so we really didn't think much about it. Finally we were off to Epcot, by this time it was closing in on 8:00 so we have 30 minutes to get to Akershus we can do it right. Wrong!!!!!!! We got to Epcot and waited for about 20-25 minutes just outside the monorail station

So finally at about 8:35 we pull up to the monorail station. There was another family in our car who had the same reservation time as us at the same place so we were both all ready late. DH and I got off the monorail and DH went ahead of me to the restaurant because we knew we would be about 15 minutes late. We got checked in and they said it wasn't a problem. After about 10 minutes they took us inside the restaurant where we took a picture with Belle:

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Belle chatted with us about our wedding and asked DH if he was my beast or my prince. Pretty sure he answered Prince.

Then we were sat at our table and our waitress came and gave us a choice of orange juice, apple juice, or water. Then they bring you out your hot breakfast items family style.

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Then you go and get your fruit at the "salad bar". All the food was excellent as usual. After a while all of the princesses came around to our table. There were two little asian girls who were sitting right behind us that offered to take our picture together if we took their picture together, I thought that was a pretty good deal:

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After breakfast we went over to Animal Kingdom. Before we left Epcot a picture:

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We went out to the bus depot and didn't have to wait too long for a bus, which surprised me because I didn't think buses ran that often between parks. Got to AK in about 10-15 minutes there was like 5 people on the bus so it was kind of relaxing. We got to AK and took some pictures before we even got into the park:

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We went into AK and stopped at the photopass person and took the obligatory pictures in front of The Tree of Life:

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Up next...Expedition Everest

29apr00

04-23-2008, 02:52 PM

:lmao: I think that is the same Jasmine from our trip in 12/2005!

tlhbdm

04-23-2008, 03:15 PM

:lmao: I think that is the same Jasmine from our trip in 12/2005!

That's funny. Do you have a pic?

lov2b@disney

04-23-2008, 03:23 PM

tlhbdm

04-23-2008, 03:32 PM

Looks like you had a great view from your room! :yay: Gotta love breakfast with the princesses! I drag my boys to all the princess character meals but we have never seen Mulan! i guess we keep going until we see them all.... DF wants to meet Pocahontas so another reason to keep up!

Enjoying your TR!

The only place we have ever seen Mulan is at Akershus. Have you been there? The first time we saw her was either March 2006 or May 2007 I don't remember.

lov2b@disney

04-23-2008, 03:56 PM

The only place we have ever seen Mulan is at Akershus. Have you been there? The first time we saw her was either March 2006 or May 2007 I don't remember.

We have only been for dinner- might have to try breakfast:thumbsup2

tlhbdm

04-23-2008, 03:59 PM

We have only been for dinner- might have to try breakfast:thumbsup2

Yes breakfast is a must there. We have done it three times and September will be our 4th time. The food is good and the character interaction is good and if you're on the dining plan it is only 1 table service where as Cinderella's Royal Table is 2 table services.

tlhbdm

04-28-2008, 04:00 PM

So after we stopped for all of the obligatory photos we walked our pretty little selves over to Expedition Everest. When we approached we saw they had a photopass person taking your pic in front of Expedition Everest so of course we stopped:

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So on we went to Expedition Everest. We got to ride it in March 2006(the trip we got engaged) but then we didn't ride it in May 2007 but we absolutely love this ride. It is so much fun. I'm not one for all of the thrill rides, in fact Rock 'n' Roller Coaster scares me to no other but I love EE. We used our little fastpass thingy again and got our last fastpass with is but it was worth it because stand-by was like 40 minutes. When we got done with EE DH wanted to get a shirt for one of his souvenirs so he did but I was not feeling good for some reason. I was feeling really dizzy and I needed to sit down so DH bought his shirt while I went outside to sit down for a while. After I got to feeling better we went over to the Safari because no matter how many times you ride this all the animals still look really cool. The standby line said 40 minutes(this was the longest we waited for a ride all week!) so we got in the line because this was the only thing we wanted to do in AK. So we waited in line and I took pictures as we went through. Our guide was ok but didn't really say anything extra than what they are supposed to say but we got some really cool pictures:

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tlhbdm

04-28-2008, 04:01 PM

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tlhbdm

04-28-2008, 04:01 PM

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tlhbdm

04-28-2008, 04:02 PM

After Kilimanjaro Safari we left AK. I'm really not a big animal person so we ride the two rides we want to ride and then go on. If we just come for a short trip we usually skip AK because it's a waste of time to go over there for two rides but when we go for longer we usually stay for longer. We left AK but not before we could take some more Photopass pics:
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Then we went back to the hotel because we had MVMCP this night and we planned on staying for the whole Christmas Party. So we went back to our room and took a nap. When we got to the hotel who was in the lobby?

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My pals Mickey and Minnie decked out in their Christmas gear!

I was so tired from the wedding, I was sick, plus we were in WDW so I needed a nap. We didn't use the pool at all because I am allergic to chlorine so I only swim if I have to or to get in a hot tub. We took some more pics of the view. I couldn't get over how beautiful the view was...
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Then about 4:00 or so we headed over to the Poly because we were wanting to get Counter Service because we hadn't eaten since breakfast so we went over to the Poly but we really didn't see anything that looked good. I was really in the mood for a burger. So we stopped for a pic in the Poly:
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We stopped for a pic at the Mickey garden but we were staring straight at the sun:
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We then went over to MK and headed straight to get our bracelets for MVMCP. We went over to Pecos Bills because we wanted something different from the usual burger or chicken strips. I got the taco salad but it wasn't very good, in fact it was disgusting. DH got the bacon cheese burger. He said it was good and we both got Chocolate Chip cookies for dessert and they gave us a free carrott cake for being on our honeymoon:
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Up next...MVMCP!!!!!