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prettyprincessbelle

11-01-2008, 10:06 PM

Hey everyone. :goodvibes Welcome to my never-ending TR. Never-ending meaning instead of having a new thread for each trip I will continuously keep adding to this one and since we go semi-often, this TR will never end! *evil laugh* :stir:

Don't be afraid to come say hi! I love talking to everyone on here. :yay: :hug:

Let's meet everyone!

The Cast of Characters:

For those of you who don't know my name is Courtney and I am 22 years old. I was born and raised in Southern California (Oxnard). I am a full time receptionist at a worker's comp agency. My favorite Disney character is Princess Belle. I love the Enchanted Tiki Room, mint juleps, apple pie caramel apples, Storm Troopers (:lovestruc) and the aliens from Toy Story.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0571.jpg

I also want to introduce my DBF, Jesus (hey-sus). He's 23 years old. He's a Disney fanatic and his favorite character is Stitch. He loves Space and Screamin' and really really loves DCA. He loves the Spicy Corn Dogs from Corn Dog Castle. He gets bored with my Jonas Brother, HSM, and princess obsession but puts up with it (more on that later). We've been dating since we were 16 and we are very happy Disneyland geeks. :lovestruc

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0925.jpg

And here's another character. My (our?) dog Belle. She's 3 years old and a furry princess.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/DSC02134.jpg

So, if you want to skip all the chitter chatter, here's the links. Clicky clicky!!!

Trip Report:

Jonas Brothers Concert
Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29052696&postcount=82)
Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29061945&postcount=89)
Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29062370&postcount=91)
Part Four (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29092228&postcount=100)
Part Five (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29108237&postcount=108)
Part Six (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29108604&postcount=110)
Part Seven (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29108983&postcount=113)
Part Eight (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29109267&postcount=114)
Part Nine (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29109392&postcount=116)

Disneyland Trip - December 1st - 4th, 2008
Day One - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29150057&postcount=130)
Day One - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29151404&postcount=133)
Day One - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29151419&postcount=134)
Day One - Part Four (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29160287&postcount=146)
Day Two - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29260797&postcount=159)
Day Two - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29261418&postcount=161)
Day Two - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29261891&postcount=162)
Day Three - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29451667&postcount=177)
Day Three - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29452392&postcount=178)
Day Three - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29452699&postcount=179)
Day Four - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29730373&postcount=186)
Day Four - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=29730913&postcount=188)

Disneyland Trip - April 10th - 11th, 2009
Day One - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31308676&postcount=311)
Day One - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31308936&postcount=313)
Day One - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31342756&postcount=318)
Day One - Part Four (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31343454&postcount=320)
Day Two - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31395804&postcount=329)
Day Two - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31396439&postcount=331)
Day Two - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31396445&postcount=332)

Disneyland Trip - April 28th - May 1st, 2009
Day One - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31630329&postcount=410)
Day One - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31635380&postcount=413)
Day One - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31635614&postcount=414)
Day Two - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31723037&postcount=435)
Day Two - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31744654&postcount=443)
Day Two - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31826877&postcount=455)
Day Two - Part Four (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31829891&postcount=456)
Day Three - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31967190&postcount=465)
Day Three - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31968265&postcount=466)
Day Three - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=32088631&postcount=477)
Day Four - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=32409492&postcount=492)
Day Four - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=32409505&postcount=493)

Disneyland Trip - December 2nd - December 5th, 2009
Day One - Part One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=34628288&postcount=618)
Day One - Part Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=34629109&postcount=621)
Day One - Part Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=34629436&postcount=623)
Day Two - Part One (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=34654012&postcount=631)
Day Two - Part Two (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=34728165&postcount=640)
Day Two - Part Three (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35095204&postcount=654)
Day Two - Part Four (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35095365&postcount=656)
Day Three - Part One (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35290715&postcount=665)
Day Three - Part Two (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35291103&postcount=668)
Day Three - Part Three (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35291613&postcount=673)
Day Three - Part Four (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35291621&postcount=674)
Day Three - Part Five (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35478906&postcount=694)
Day Three - Part Six (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35478926&postcount=695)
Day Four - Part One (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35479736&postcount=698)
Day Four - Part Two (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=35479743&postcount=699)

Random Pictures
One (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28485431&postcount=2)
Two (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28487328&postcount=4)
Three (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=28496427&postcount=7)
Four (http://disboards.com/showpost.php?p=31524374&postcount=370)

prettyprincessbelle

11-01-2008, 10:20 PM

I edited my first 2 posts in my TR and now I have an empty post! Oh no!

Should I post more pictures? I guess so! :thumbsup2

Character mobile.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA050015.jpg

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA050016.jpg

Splashy splashy.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA050023.jpg

I miss POD. :(

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA060054.jpg

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA060057.jpg

Hi!

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA060059.jpg

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA060062.jpg

:rotfl:

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA060097.jpg

I was pretending to be Ariel. :confused3

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA060100.jpg

C is for COURTNEY!

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA060117.jpg

I don't know what we are doing.. We have since improved our on ride picture taking. ;)

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/PA070124.jpg

prettyprincessbelle

11-01-2008, 10:40 PM

So Thursday at work my Dad emailed me that the Jonas Brothers were coming to the Hollywood Palladium in LA. OMG, WHAT?! :banana: After much talk with my parents they decided that they would buy my ticket. But of course NOBODY wanted to go with me, not my Mom, not Jesus, not my Dad, NO ONE! Jesus' exact words were "I can deal with HSM, I even like it, but going to a Jonas Brother's concert is just pushing it!!". :headache:

http://www.aolcdn.com/music-photos/jonas_brothers_300_07.jpg

My parents have been wanting to see the play Wicked for awhile and it's playing the exact same night down the street at the Pantages theater, so they bought tickets for themselves for that and are going to drop me off at the JB concert and then go see Wicked. Good plan, huh? :thumbsup2

Okay, I know, I know. I'm 21 and a Jonas Brother's fan. But you know what, OH WELL! I am not ashamed to say I like the Jonas Brothers who are younger than me. :yay: I'm totally excited to go even if I am going by myself. :upsidedow

So after the play and concert we're coming back home that night since my parents have to go to work on Monday. And then that Monday I'm leaving for Disneyland!! WOOOHOO!! The Jonas Brothers and Disneyland in the same week, this is like happiness overload for me!! :cloud9:

So since this trip is Jesus' birthday trip I have a couple surprises for him. I want to do the Holiday Tour on Tuesday the 2nd. So I'm going to call and reserve it either tomorrow or the next day. I'm really excited for that. I hope he enjoys it. I'm not even going to give him a tiny hint because he'll either figure it out or keep asking until I give in. And that is not happening!!

I'm trying to figure out where to make PS's. We have eaten ourselves through that park about 10 times. We always do Lilo and Stitch breakfast for his birthday, but we did it last trip and even though we both love it, we don't feel like doing it again.... I'm thinking Yamabuki, but I'm more of a sushi lover than he his. He said make the PS's anyways, so we'll see...

So I called today to make our Hojo reservations. I got the entertainment rate for 2 out of our 3 nights, which is awesome. On the night that we couldn't get the entertainment rate I used our AP rate. We booked the premium queen room with a Disney view. I'm very happy about that. We don't need 2 queens, but I didn't want a highway view and that's all they had with the 1 king bed. Plus with get a micro and the pillow top beds. I'm really excited! :woohoo:

prettyprincessbelle

11-02-2008, 01:40 AM

So I'm going to post some pictures from our October trip to keep everyone occupied until I come up with some other interesting things to write about....

Here we goooo..... popcorn::

Candy Corn Acres
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0593.jpg

Me and Hopper
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0594.jpg

Goob was really scary. Creepy.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0614-1.jpg

June could be my sister.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0629.jpg

;)
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0680.jpg

Mickey & Minnie
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0681.jpg

Okay, that's enough for now... :wizard:

10stime

11-02-2008, 01:46 AM

Don't be embarassed, I am 28, enjoy the Jonas Brothers and would totally go to their concert! I am lucky and have a 9 year old niece that I can use for the excuse the cd is playing in my car ;)

prettyprincessbelle

11-02-2008, 03:40 PM

Don't be embarassed, I am 28, enjoy the Jonas Brothers and would totally go to their concert! I am lucky and have a 9 year old niece that I can use for the excuse the cd is playing in my car ;)

I know! Jesus' niece is 6 and she loves them too!! I'm going to get her something cool from the concert for Christmas! ;)

prettyprincessbelle

11-02-2008, 04:23 PM

Okay, here's some more pictures from last month.

Pumpkin heads
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0768.jpg

Jack & Sally
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0774.jpg

I think this is on Pirate's Liar. Or waiting for the raft. But I look like I have a lazy eye. :3dglasses
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0777.jpg

Castle.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0953.jpg

Partners.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0952.jpg

I love when they have this up for Halloween.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0754.jpg

From the Monorail station.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0762.jpg

Marrrkk Twaaiiinnn.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0779.jpg

Jesus & Pluto at Lilo and Stitch Breakfast.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0915.jpg

Me & Lilo.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0922.jpg

Jesus & Lilo.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0923.jpg

I was making fun of Stitch's big ears.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0927.jpg

Tower of Terror.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0932.jpg

RIP Sunwheel!
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/CIMG0937.jpg

kmab00

11-02-2008, 08:19 PM

Just so you know, I'm holding you to finishing this Trip Report!!! :rotfl2:

You went back in October?! How awesome!!! Great pictures! :)

travelmel

11-03-2008, 03:41 AM

Great PTR!

I also love Apple Pie Caramel Apples! :love:

Thanks for sharing your DL history.

prettyprincessbelle

11-03-2008, 01:16 PM

Yay people are reading! :thumbsup2

Just so you know, I'm holding you to finishing this Trip Report!!! :rotfl2:

You went back in October?! How awesome!!! Great pictures! :)

I know!! I swear I'll finish! If I don't then... I owe you a churro! I'll mail you one!! :rotfl:

Great PTR!

I also love Apple Pie Caramel Apples! :love:

Thanks for sharing your DL history.

Thank you! :goodvibes

You know what? I'm getting braces on my bottom teeth maybe this week :eek: :eek: and I've been told I can't eat caramel apples! WHAT!?!?! NOOOOO! :headache:

prettyprincessbelle

11-03-2008, 01:29 PM

Okay, so I'm home from work today. Woopie. I'm tired of sleeping and there's nothing good on TV. Plus it looks like it's going to rain... I kind of hope it does...

So I'm debating if I should book the Holiday Time Tour. With our AP discount I think it comes out to $47 each. It looks really nice but I've heard different reviews of it. I guess it depends on what tour guide you get. Anyone do this last year?

I think I might just bite it and book it. It will be a nice surprise for Jesus.

What to do? What to do?

Here's the description of the tour on disneyland.com:

The "Holiday Time at Disneyland" Tour takes you on an unforgettable holiday celebration! Discover the holiday history of Disneyland® Park and learn about holiday traditions of cultures around the world. Get a closer look of spectacularly redecorated sites and attractions on a sprawling tour taking you from a very merry Main Street, U.S.A. to the front seats of the enchanting "A Christmas Fantasy" Parade!

Tour highlights:

* Priority boarding onto two holiday-themed attractions
* A collectable tour tag ornament
* A sweet treat and beverage
* A collectible trading pin (exclusive to Tour Guests)
* Audio enhanced tour
* VIP Seating for "A Christmas Fantasy" parade

Tours may be booked up to 30 days in advance by calling (714) 781-4400† or by visiting City Hall, Tour Gardens or the Guest Relations Lobby.

travelmel

11-03-2008, 06:33 PM

Yay people are reading! :thumbsup2

I know!! I swear I'll finish! If I don't then... I owe you a churro! I'll mail you one!! :rotfl:

Thank you! :goodvibes

You know what? I'm getting braces on my bottom teeth maybe this week :eek: :eek: and I've been told I can't eat caramel apples! WHAT!?!?! NOOOOO! :headache:

I would also strongly urge you to get yourself a waterpik and spray those brackets daily! You can really do alot of damange to your teeth while they are in braces... take good care of them and you will be SO happy you did!

travelmel <----- dental hygienist :teeth:

wendylady36

11-04-2008, 01:51 PM

So I'm debating if I should book the Holiday Time Tour. With our AP discount I think it comes out to $47 each. It looks really nice but I've heard different reviews of it. I guess it depends on what tour guide you get. Anyone do this last year?

You and Jesus make me s-i-c-k. :rotfl: You two are utterly adorable and I rue you for it...why no, I'm not jealous. Why do you ask? :rotfl2:

How exciting that You get your JB fix and Disneyland fix in the same week!!! :woohoo:

I did the Holiday Tour last year, and it was fine. I wish our guide would have been more experienced though, it was like our group was the first group she'd ever given the tour to. :confused3

Can't wait to hear more about your trip!!! popcorn::

prettyprincessbelle

11-04-2008, 07:33 PM

I would also strongly urge you to get yourself a waterpik and spray those brackets daily! You can really do alot of damange to your teeth while they are in braces... take good care of them and you will be SO happy you did!

travelmel <----- dental hygienist :teeth:

Thank you dental hygienist travelmel! I really appreciate it! I really want to take care of them when I get them. I'm going to my consultation on Thursday and I might be getting them that day! I'll let you know how it goes! :goodvibes

You and Jesus make me s-i-c-k. :rotfl: You two are utterly adorable and I rue you for it...why no, I'm not jealous. Why do you ask? :rotfl2:

How exciting that You get your JB fix and Disneyland fix in the same week!!! :woohoo:

I did the Holiday Tour last year, and it was fine. I wish our guide would have been more experienced though, it was like our group was the first group she'd ever given the tour to. :confused3

Can't wait to hear more about your trip!!! popcorn::

Hi Wendy! Woo! I'm glad you joined on!!

:rotfl: You crack me up! My Mom says the same thing. "You kids me make me sick, don't you get sick of Disneyland and being in love?!" Uhhh.. "Mom do you and Dad get tired of being in love?" "No, but we would get sick of Disneyland!" :rotfl: :rotfl: Whatever!

I'm still thinking of taking the tour! I want it to be a surprise for Jesus, but it's hard making the decision on my own! I'm a very indecisive person!! :confused3

prettyprincessbelle

11-04-2008, 07:47 PM

So today was a much more productive day than yesterday. In terms of planning the trip? No. But I actually went outside today, the first time since Friday and I voted and got frozen yogurt! :thumbsup2

My Jonas Brothers tickets came yesterday via FedEx. I could have cried! Jesus and my Dad just rolled their eyes. :rolleyes:

Me being very excited with my JB ticket. See my Jonas Brothers poster in the background!?? :)
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/get-attachmentaspx.jpg

And the beautiful ticket itself.
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/tix.jpg

:cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:

mommaU4

11-05-2008, 07:18 PM

wendylady36

11-06-2008, 11:55 AM

I still wish you were coming with the group in March though. :(

AGREED!!!!!

"Burnin' Up" started playing on my iPod last night on my way home from work and I thought of you! Yay for getting your ticket! :yay:

prettyprincessbelle

11-06-2008, 10:04 PM

Hi Courtney! I love the pics of you and Jesus. How cute are you guys??? ;)

I'm glad you are getting to go to the JB concert. That's cool. I can't wait to hear all about it and all about your DL trip! :yay:

I still wish you were coming with the group in March though. :( If I buy you a Jonas Brothers tee will you come? :rotfl:

Oh, and for what it's worth, I think you should just book the tour. If you don't, you'll always wonder if you should have and what you missed out on. This way, you'll have a surprise planned for him and you'll be able to say you've done that tour. OK, problem solved. LOL!

Thank you, Bethy poo! :goodvibes

DUDE. I know! I wish I could go too! I'm going to try! Maybe I'll take up on that Jonas Brother shirt bribe! ;)

AGREED!!!!!

"Burnin' Up" started playing on my iPod last night on my way home from work and I thought of you! Yay for getting your ticket! :yay:

Yay! Jonas Brothers! :yay:

At least I'm not the only over 15 year old that has them on my ipod!

:thumbsup2

They're coming to Disneyland? Can you believe that?! Too bad I have TO WORK! Story of my LIFE!

wazowskiLOVER:)

11-07-2008, 12:07 AM

prettyprincessbelle

11-08-2008, 08:38 PM

You are the funniest person ever !!!!

I can't believe how excited you are about going to see the Jonas Brothers ! Its too funny :)

I read through all this and its so cute. Again I'm going to say this, toooo bad we can't be going on vacation at the same time.

I love the pics by the way !!!

Yay! I'm funny! ;) :rotfl: :hippie:

I am the Queen of Teeny Boppers. I am not going to lie. I was Nsync's biggest BIGGEST fan when they were popular and I guess I'm weird and I never outgrew my teeny bopperness. :confused3 I like Hannah Montana, HSM and all that stuff! :laughing:

:banana:

Woohoo for your trip in January! I'm sad we can't be there at the same time again too! Sometimes I'm just "ugh! I wish I lived closer to DLR!!".

wendylady36

11-08-2008, 09:03 PM

I like Hannah Montana

Thank goodness I'm not the only one! I love Hannah Montana! Of course I use my 5 year old niece as an excuse for all the songs on my iPod. :rolleyes1

prettyprincessbelle

11-08-2008, 10:58 PM

Thank goodness I'm not the only one! I love Hannah Montana! Of course I use my 5 year old niece as an excuse for all the songs on my iPod. :rolleyes1

Yay! Hannah Montana! :thumbsup2

I should buy you the wig! I saw it at Big Lots the other day! I was tempted! :rotfl:

prettyprincessbelle

11-09-2008, 04:08 PM

So I went to the orthodontist on Thursday and I need to get braces on the top AND bottom!! The week before Christmas! :eek:

So this trip is also now going to be "Courtney's Trip to DLR Where She Can Eat Everything Possible Before She Gets Braces". :thumbsup2

So I need to eat everything I :lovestruc at DLR that I won't be able to eat/drink when I get my braces.

So now on my list I have:

Apple Pie Caramel Apple(s) (or any kind of caramel apple)
Tigger Tails
Popcorn
Cherry Coke (seriously, the Cherry Coke is SO amazing, much better than the can stuff)

And that's all I can think of.... Help me out!

arliepooh68

11-09-2008, 09:18 PM

R you the one I ran into at Disneyland with my daughter??? she would be so envious if she knew where you were going!!! Have fun!

ok, my son just got his braces off a few weeks ago, he was BAD about brushing and water pic(ing?) his teeth, he is 10, starting to rebel at this age. . . every appt he went to toward the end he would get the lecture about how he was going to end up with stains on his teeth. . . welll, his teeth look BEAUTIFUL, no stains!!!! when he first got the braces on, he would ask for extra water when we ate so he could swish the food off the braces. . . so remember that lil trick, ask for extra water!

travelmel

11-09-2008, 11:41 PM

prettyprincessbelle

11-10-2008, 08:26 PM

wendylady36

11-10-2008, 09:18 PM

Yay! Hannah Montana! :thumbsup2

I should buy you the wig! I saw it at Big Lots the other day! I was tempted! :rotfl:

Every time I see that wig, I totally want it! One day it will be mine!!! :rotfl:

prettyprincessbelle

11-10-2008, 09:26 PM

So I think I started this PTR too early because I'm running out of things to talk about.

I decided that I want to hang out in the GCH lobby while we're there. Possibly get a drink and just take in the pretty Holiday things they have going on there.

I also want to go look around the DLH grounds. I always see pretty pictures of all the cool stuff they have around there that I've never seen.

I want to ride the new Monorails again. The new Monorails are so dreamy. :lovestruc

And I want to see Playhouse Disney Live!

And spend time in Toon Town. Every time we do it's always super busy and it's hard to enjoy yourself in a busy Toon Town.

travelmel

11-11-2008, 01:11 AM

avalon451

11-11-2008, 12:05 PM

Love your trip report so far, Courtney! You guys are such an adorable couple! Can't wait to hear how it goes.:goodvibes

mommaU4

11-11-2008, 01:25 PM

Cherry Coke (seriously, the Cherry Coke is SO amazing, much better than the can stuff)

We had a Cherry Coke from that corner shop on Main Street last time we were there. It was good! They add a splash of cherry to it and it is so much better then the can stuff. I was glad we tried it.

arliepooh68

11-11-2008, 10:39 PM

DD and I rode the tail of the new monorail. . . red i believe and you know what??? the inside was already falling apart. . . i sure hope they got a good warranty for it :rotfl2:

prettyprincessbelle

11-13-2008, 12:32 PM

How bout trying to ride the Lily Belle? THat was pretty cool. :)

YES! Omg, what an idea! Because you and your luckyduck family got to ride it! If there was a jealous emoticon I would use it right now.

Love your trip report so far, Courtney! You guys are such an adorable couple! Can't wait to hear how it goes.:goodvibes

Thank you, Gail! :hug:

We had a Cherry Coke from that corner shop on Main Street last time we were there. It was good! They add a splash of cherry to it and it is so much better then the can stuff. I was glad we tried it.

I know it soooo good! And it makes the soda pinkish!! Oooooo!!! ;)

DD and I rode the tail of the new monorail. . . red i believe and you know what??? the inside was already falling apart. . . i sure hope they got a good warranty for it :rotfl2:

We rode the red one too! And there's no AC! What the heezy! :eek:

prettyprincessbelle

11-15-2008, 03:56 PM

The weather is terrible over here right now. It's so windy and hot and dry! Ugh, I hate it. Bad for allergies! :sad2:

Plus there are so many fires in Southern California. The closest one to me being in Montecito. So sad for everyone who has lost their homes over there. :sad1:

So there have been some change of plans for the Sunday night the Jonas Brother's concert is. Originally my parents were going to go see Wicked at the Pantages Theatre at 6:30. The bought their tickets the same day they bought my concert ticket. Well last week they got a phone call from Pantages saying that they made a mistake and that there is no 6:30 show and that they will be refunding their money and that they apologize. Bummer.

So now my parents and Jesus are going to go see Bolt in 3D and the El Capitan and hang out in Hollywood while I'm at the concert. I want to go to the Disney Soda Fountain, so my parents said we can eat there before they drop me off at the concert. :yay:

I'm trying to decide what we groceries we should have delivered. I'm thinking the individual cereal boxes, some milk, and snacks. We'll have a micro and a fridge in our room. Any ideas?

Oh so we're not going to do the Holiday Tour. Jesus wants to go to the LA Auto show next weekend. So we're going to take his brothers and do that instead. We went 2 years ago and had a great time. That boy loves cars. :car:

mommaU4

11-15-2008, 04:11 PM

We rode the red one too! And there's no AC! What the heezy! :eek:

We didn't get to ride it because the day we went it was too hot and they weren't running them. I think that is the dumbest thing ever. Why would they not include AC in a brand new monorail??? :rolleyes:

I'm sorry about your parents show! That a shame!! I hope they enjoy the movie though. And are you guys going to order the Mickey Masterpiece at the Soda Fountain?? It's good!!! Just think: 8 scoops of ice cream; 3 toppings: hot fudge, caramel and marshmallow; an entire can of whipped cream; and a sprinkling of nuts on top. :thumbsup2

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prettyprincessbelle

11-15-2008, 09:25 PM

We didn't get to ride it because the day we went it was too hot and they weren't running them. I think that is the dumbest thing ever. Why would they not include AC in a brand new monorail??? :rolleyes:

I'm sorry about your parents show! That a shame!! I hope they enjoy the movie though. And are you guys going to order the Mickey Masterpiece at the Soda Fountain?? It's good!!! Just think: 8 scoops of ice cream; 3 toppings: hot fudge, caramel and marshmallow; an entire can of whipped cream; and a sprinkling of nuts on top. :thumbsup2

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I know! I think it's dumb too.. DUMMIES!

Isn't that weird about, Wicked? My parents were like, okkkaayyy? :confused:

I told my Mom and Dad we HAVE to order it!!! I even showed them the pic of it from your TR!!!!! There will be 4 of us, so 2 scoops of ice cream a piece, easy peezy!!!! :rotfl:

travelmel

11-15-2008, 11:17 PM

mommaU4

11-15-2008, 11:57 PM

I told my Mom and Dad we HAVE to order it!!! I even showed them the pic of it from your TR!!!!! There will be 4 of us, so 2 scoops of ice cream a piece, easy peezy!!!! :rotfl:

LOL That's what we thought, and there were six of us! Somehow we still couldn't finish it. :rotfl: But it's still worth ordering. They made a big deal when they brought it out and it was fun to take pics with it.

prettyprincessbelle

11-16-2008, 05:08 PM

I like your parents! :thumbsup2

Me too!! :rotfl: Sometimes!!!! ;)

LOL That's what we thought, and there were six of us! Somehow we still couldn't finish it. :rotfl: But it's still worth ordering. They made a big deal when they brought it out and it was fun to take pics with it.

Woo! I want to get it! My parents and Jesus think I'm crazy! Oh well! Even if we don't finish it, it will be fun!!

prettyprincessbelle

11-21-2008, 03:31 PM

Okay so we leave in 10 days!!! YAYAYAY! I need a break from work! My last break was not that long ago (when I started this TR), but I was off work for surgery, and that wasn’t fun. Disneyland is 10000xs more fun than that.

Checking the forecast, it’s going to rain while we’re there! I’ve never been to DLR while it’s rained and I’m a little excited! We already said we are going to buy ponchos there. I might buy a mini umbrella. I saw them at Target yesterday, but they have a super cute Wall-E one on Disneyshopping.com for the same price. I think I’ll get that and some $3 tshirts they have on sale. I need to buy some more winter-y clothes too. I told Jesus his birthday present is new clothes, so hopefully we can do that (we need to do it before we leave, doh) next week.

Tomorrow we’re going to the LA Auto show with Jesus’ brother and cousin. I’ll post some pictures when we come back.

mommaU4

11-21-2008, 03:36 PM

Have fun at the auto show!! :car:

Yakety76

11-21-2008, 09:57 PM

Love the picture of you two in the monkey cages. Too Cute!!

Sounds like you will be prepared for the rain if it does come. We had rain one day on our trip in February and the park was empty. It was kind of fun to feel like the only people in Disney.

You must be an adventurous girl to go to a concert by yourself. Have a great time! :yay:

wdw_girl_18

11-25-2008, 11:20 PM

aww have fun! I can't wait to hear about your trip :yay:

travelmel

11-25-2008, 11:34 PM

Maybe the rain will drive the crowds away... you know those locals melt in weather. LOL

prettyprincessbelle

11-25-2008, 11:46 PM

Have fun at the auto show!! :car:

Thank you, Beth! :goodvibes We had a blast!

Love the picture of you two in the monkey cages. Too Cute!!

Sounds like you will be prepared for the rain if it does come. We had rain one day on our trip in February and the park was empty. It was kind of fun to feel like the only people in Disney.

You must be an adventurous girl to go to a concert by yourself. Have a great time! :yay:

Thanks! I love the Monkey Cage pic! Us and another family were the only ones on the ride and the CM asked me (me! Not him! :rotfl: ) where I wanted to sit. I said "The PINK monkey cage!!!" I :lovestruc pink.

Everyone keeps saying that! Nobody wanted to go with me! "Psh, Jonas Brothers, no I don't want to go. Ew." It was either don't go or go alone. Go alone! Solo mission for me.

aww have fun! I can't wait to hear about your trip :yay:

Thank you!! :goodvibes I'm SO excited! I taped a picture of the Jonas Brothers on the fridge at home. My Dad was like :confused3 :confused: "I don't get it?" :lmao:

Maybe the rain will drive the crowds away...
you know those locals melt in weather. LOL

I know! It's pouring outside right now. The forecast keeps changing. Accuweather says no rain while we're there, while weather.com says showers Wednesday and Thursday!? :confused3 Either way, I'm packing for rain! :thumbsup2 :umbrella:

prettyprincessbelle

11-26-2008, 12:06 AM

So tomorrow is my last day of work for 8 days! 8 whole days! HOLY MOLY! I have Thursday and Friday off, plus Saturday and Sunday, and then Monday - Thursday. Go back to work Friday. Ah I need a break. My last break off work was for my surgery, and that was a lame break. A break for Disneyland is much better. :cloud9:

I went to Target today and bought food to take. I got individual things of cereal (Frosted Flakes for Jesus and Lucky Charms for me), individual cups of oatmeal, frozen breakfast sandwich things, Oreos, Pringles, honey roasted peanuts for Jesus, fruit leather for me, and I think that's it. Jesus is bringing the water and whatever else he has in his fridge to drink. We'll probably buy milk for the cereal at the Hojo super store.

I'm getting so excited!

So we're leaving Monday morning and the park opens at 9 that morning. We'll hopefully, fingers crossed, leave Oxnard at 7. We should make it there before rope drop IF we leave at that time. We never left on a Monday morning, so it's hard to say how traffic will be.

So the weather forecast is boggling my mind. Accuweather.com says no rain at all the 1st through the 4th, while weather.com says rain the 3rd and 4th. I don't usually like weather.com, but last time it was correct about the rain. Meh, who knows. :confused3

Oh yes! I wanted to add that I finished Twilight last night and started New Moon today. I am slave to these dang books. And I'm currently depressed because Edward is gone right now in New Moon and it makes me so sad. :sad2: *sigh*

Sleepless Knight

11-26-2008, 12:55 AM

I know how you feel about the getting excited for Disneyland part. It just dawned on me that a week from tonight, I'll be putting the finishing touches on my packing.

travelmel

11-26-2008, 01:25 AM

Could you leave any ealier than 7am? I'm scared that you'll catch some heavy traffic. However, in our area the school are out on Monday which could work in your favor if it's the same down there? :confused3

Woo hoo for almost time for DL!!! :banana: You and Sleepless Knight are so lucky!

mommaU4

11-26-2008, 05:06 PM

Not much longer!!! Just a few days. :cool1:

wazowskiLOVER:)

11-26-2008, 10:52 PM

So now my parents and Jesus are going to go see Bolt in 3D and the El Capitan and hang out in Hollywood while I'm at the concert. I want to go to the Disney Soda Fountain, so my parents said we can eat there before they drop me off at the concert. :yay:

Aww, poor Courtney! I wish you didn't have to go alone. If I lived near you, I'd TOTALLY go with you :)

Have fun though ! I'm sure this trip will be a blast and I can't wait to see pictures and hear about it when you get back.

WOOOOO !!!

stich626

11-27-2008, 10:18 AM

Subbing!

prettyprincessbelle

11-28-2008, 07:18 PM

I know how you feel about the getting excited for Disneyland part. It just dawned on me that a week from tonight, I'll be putting the finishing touches on my packing.

I know, I haven't packed yet. I'm going laundry right now and my empty suitcase is sitting in my room. I don't even know what to pack!

Could you leave any ealier than 7am? I'm scared that you'll catch some heavy traffic. However, in our area the school are out on Monday which could work in your favor if it's the same down there? :confused3

Woo hoo for almost time for DL!!! :banana: You and Sleepless Knight are so lucky!

Jesus and I were talking about traffic and we're thinking of just leaving here at 9. There shouldn't be much traffic so we should get there in a little over an hour. We don't need to be there at rope drop. I think that might be a better plan, you think?

Not much longer!!! Just a few days. :cool1:

Yay!!! 2 more days!! :yay:

Aww, poor Courtney! I wish you didn't have to go alone. If I lived near you, I'd TOTALLY go with you :)

Have fun though ! I'm sure this trip will be a blast and I can't wait to see pictures and hear about it when you get back.

WOOOOO !!!

Awwww, thanks Jazzy! That means a lot! I know you're not a big fan of the Jonas Brothers!!!! :hug:

Subbing!

Woohoo!!! :thumbsup2

prettyprincessbelle

11-28-2008, 07:21 PM

You guys will NOT believe what I just saw on the news right now. People are lining up for the Jonas Brothers concert TODAY! The concert isn't until Sunday night!!!! All the tickets were general admission, but I cannot believe people are there right now!!! Today I was just having the conversation with my Mom that I need to get there before the doors open or I'm going to be all the way in the back. And sure enough, I'm going to be in the back. Even if I get there at noon it will be too late!!! :scared: :headache:

Ugh.

So I'm packing and I don't even know where to start. The forecast changed again and now it's supposed to be high 70's. That's hot. :sad2:

mommaU4

11-28-2008, 10:29 PM

OMG, Courtney that sucks! I cannot believe that people are lining up ALREADY for a Sunday night concert!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
I hope somehow you are still able to get a decent seat. :wizard:

wazowskiLOVER:)

11-28-2008, 10:44 PM

Oh geez, today already ?!?!? Thats just ridiculous. Well hopefully you'll still be able to get into a good area so you can see 'em well enough. Its so hard to predict what the weather will be like these days. I say pack for both and hopefully you'll have a good range of clothes so that you'll be able to wear all the stuff you brought. I hope you have a blast, I'm so excited for you :)

prettyprincessbelle

11-29-2008, 12:17 AM

I know, it's CRAZY!!! I mean insane. I should have known, if people lined up at 7pm the night before to see them for 5 minutes, people would be waiting days to see a concert. Crazy crazy! :eek: :eek:

Thank you, both! :hug:

I'm getting SO excited!!!!!!

travelmel

11-29-2008, 01:00 AM

Man! It's getting ridiculous! The night before.. that's old school.. but days?

prettyprincessbelle

11-29-2008, 10:49 PM

Man! It's getting ridiculous! The night before.. that's old school.. but days?

Seriously!! I could not believe it. Crazy crazy people!

prettyprincessbelle

11-30-2008, 02:46 PM

\Yay! Tonight's the concert!!! We're leaving at 1:00 and I'm totally rushing to get ready, but I wanted to come on here and update!! :thumbsup2

Jesus isn't coming with us tonight after all, I wanted him to spend tonight with his family before I steal him for the week! :) I haven't gone out with just my parents in awhile, so this will be nice.

First we're going to the Disney Soda Fountain for lunch and ice cream and then my parents are dropping me off at the concert. :yay: I'm praying I don't get mobbed my crazy girls tonight. :guilty:

Okay! So I'll update with pictures when I get home!!! :banana:

travelmel

11-30-2008, 02:53 PM

stich626

11-30-2008, 04:46 PM

Have fun! I cannot believe that people have been lined up already.

mommaU4

11-30-2008, 08:34 PM

Yay! Tonight's the concert!!! We're leaving at 1:00 and I'm totally rushing to get ready, but I wanted to come on here and update!! :thumbsup2

Jesus isn't coming with us tonight after all, I wanted him to spend tonight with his family before I steal him for the week! :) I haven't gone out with just my parents in awhile, so this will be nice.

First we're going to the Disney Soda Fountain for lunch and ice cream and then my parents are dropping me off at the concert. :yay: I'm praying I don't get mobbed my crazy girls tonight. :guilty:

Okay! So I'll update with pictures when I get home!!! :banana:
Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you enjoy your time with your parents. I hope your lunch is good at the Soda Fountain, and most of all I hope you don't get mobbed! :wizard:

wazowskiLOVER:)

11-30-2008, 09:52 PM

I'm sooo stoked for you Courtney !!

Have LOADS of fun and take a million pictures :)

Yakety76

11-30-2008, 10:35 PM

Hope you are having a wonderful time at the concert. Cannot wait to hear all about it.

wendylady36

11-30-2008, 11:07 PM

I hope you had a great time at the concert! :goodvibes

prettyprincessbelle

12-01-2008, 01:19 AM

Have so much fun! I have't been to a concert in a LONG time but last time I went I danced the WHOLE TIME and I barely even noticed the people I was with! I think you're going to have a great time. Plus the bonus of spending time with mom and dad at Disney.... What a great day!

Be safe :goodvibes

Thank you!!! I had a BLAST and I danced by myself! :cool1: It was WONDERFUL!! :cloud9:

Have fun! I cannot believe that people have been lined up already.

Thank you!! :goodvibes Isn't that insane?! The line was CRAZY!! The security guard said people were there since Wednesday!! :eek:

Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you enjoy your time with your parents. I hope your lunch is good at the Soda Fountain, and most of all I hope you don't get mobbed! :wizard:

Thank you, Beth!!!! :thumbsup2 Lunch was fantastic and I'm still alive! WOOHOO!!!

I'm sooo stoked for you Courtney !!

Have LOADS of fun and take a million pictures :)

Thank you Jazzy! I took a TON of pics! I'll post them Thursday!! :hug:

Hope you are having a wonderful time at the concert. Cannot wait to hear all about it.

Thank you!! I had an amazing time! :wizard:

I hope you had a great time at the concert! :goodvibes

Thank you, Wendy! I did!!! :dance3:

prettyprincessbelle

12-01-2008, 01:20 AM

I'M HOME!! PHEW! What a concert! It was AMAZING!!!! I have never sweated so much ever (ew)! My ears are still ringing! WOW. What an experience. Seriously. It was great. :thumbsup2 I'm still excited from it!

I am SO tired. I'm just going to post when I get home on Thursday because I need to go to SLEEP! It's already going to be 11. My legs are killing me.

We're leaving tomorrow at 9AM SHARP! I have to make a quick trip to Wal-Mart in the morning, so I'm going to get up around 6ish.

Yay! Here's a quick Jo Bro picture until I get back!!!

I'm pretty sure Jesus will be bringing his laptop, so maybe I'll update while I'm there..

:hippie:

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travelmel

12-01-2008, 01:43 AM

I'm glad you made it home safe and had a great time! it's so hard to get relaxed when you're that amped up (ears ringing!)!

Peace, out! :rotfl:

mommaU4

12-01-2008, 12:44 PM

YAY!!!! I'm so glad to hear you had such a great time!!!!!!!!! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

wendylady36

12-01-2008, 06:12 PM

From that one picture, the concert looked like is was a lot of fun! I read this on PerezHilton today and it made me laugh:

Spotted: Joe Jonas's girlfriend, Camilla Belle, denying autograph and picture requests at the Jonas Brothers concert at Hollywood Palladium on Sunday.

What a little man diva!

I hope you're having TONs of fun at the big "D"
Take loads and loads and loads of pictures for me!

Sherry E

12-03-2008, 09:58 PM

Courtney, I'm glad you had a great time at the concert - I knew you would! Concerts always kind of sweep people away in the moment and its fun to get caught up in the excitement! I admire you for going to see the show alone! I have done a lot of things by myself - not DLR yet, but I will do that soon - but I never went to a concert by myself! The thought never occurred to me! Anyway, good for you for being an independent young lady!

Anyway, I know your DLR trip ends tomorrow (Thursday) so I can't wait to see pictures and hear about everything you guys did, and if it lived up to all of our anticipation for the holidays at DLR! (Especially mine!) Also, there is lots of availability at the DLR hotels this month, according to the AP calendar. And the character meals have lots of PS's available. So I am wondering if the parks seem less crowded this year. I tend to think that people are in the parks, but staying off-site this year to save money. What do you think? Is it less crowded than previous holiday seasons? Is it even less crowded than October, which was pretty packed?

I hope you and Jesus are having a wonderful time!!:goodvibes

kesharn81

12-04-2008, 11:52 AM

your experience seems interesting...
nice work...

thanks for sharing....
:dance3: :cheer2:

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-05-2008, 12:37 AM

Courtney !!!

How great that you had so much fun :)

I can't wait until you post about your trip and your experience at Hojo's. I just booked my hotel today so WOOO !!

prettyprincessbelle

12-05-2008, 11:58 AM

Hey everybody!! We're home safe and sound and had a WONDERFUL time!

Tonight is Jesus' birthday, so I'll start my TR tomorrow!!!

:)

mommaU4

12-05-2008, 01:07 PM

Welcome back Courtney!! I'm glad to hear you had a wonderful time!! Can't wait to hear all about it. popcorn::

And I hope Jesus has a very happy birthday!!

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wendylady36

12-05-2008, 01:21 PM

Yay, welcome home! :woohoo: I can't wait to hear about your trip! :goodvibes Tell Jesus a crazy lady from the internet says Happy Birthday!

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-05-2008, 03:24 PM

Hey everybody!! We're home safe and sound and had a WONDERFUL time!

Tonight is Jesus' birthday, so I'll start my TR tomorrow!!!

:)

Happy Birthday Jesus !!:goodvibes

I hope you guys have a blast today, and I'm glad you guys had a wonderful time. I wouldn't expect anything less !!

Sherry E

12-05-2008, 03:41 PM

Courtney - it hasn't been the same without you on here the last few days! We have to have all our 'regulars' to make a complete puzzle!

I can't WAIT to hear all about the DLR trip and see pictures, but you have to celebrate your sweetie's b-day - that is important! Happy birthday, Jesus!

By the way, I FINALLY added a whole mess o' pictures of all kinds (PhotoPass, cell phone pictures, digital, 35 mm, you name it!) to my TR, in the first several sections and also at the very end of the thread! And I am not done yet! So come back and check it out when you are done telling us about your exciting, magical holiday DLR trip!!!:goodvibes

prettyprincessbelle

12-05-2008, 07:31 PM

I'm glad you made it home safe and had a great time! it's so hard to get relaxed when you're that amped up (ears ringing!)!

Peace, out! :rotfl:

Thank you!! :goodvibes

YAY!!!! I'm so glad to hear you had such a great time!!!!!!!!! :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Omg, it was great! I want to go back AGAIN! (Story of my LIFE!!!) :banana: :banana:

From that one picture, the concert looked like is was a lot of fun! I read this on PerezHilton today and it made me laugh:

What a little man diva!

I hope you're having TONs of fun at the big "D"
Take loads and loads and loads of pictures for me!

:rotfl: :rotfl: Geez! What a DIVA! I didn't see her, I wasn't really looking either. She was probably backstage somewhere. She's a pretty girl, I'm happy she's older than him too! But MAN! At least be nice and give an autograph to your man's fans! Give me a break! :laughing:

Courtney, I'm glad you had a great time at the concert - I knew you would! Concerts always kind of sweep people away in the moment and its fun to get caught up in the excitement! I admire you for going to see the show alone! I have done a lot of things by myself - not DLR yet, but I will do that soon - but I never went to a concert by myself! The thought never occurred to me! Anyway, good for you for being an independent young lady!

Anyway, I know your DLR trip ends tomorrow (Thursday) so I can't wait to see pictures and hear about everything you guys did, and if it lived up to all of our anticipation for the holidays at DLR! (Especially mine!) Also, there is lots of availability at the DLR hotels this month, according to the AP calendar. And the character meals have lots of PS's available. So I am wondering if the parks seem less crowded this year. I tend to think that people are in the parks, but staying off-site this year to save money. What do you think? Is it less crowded than previous holiday seasons? Is it even less crowded than October, which was pretty packed?

I hope you and Jesus are having a wonderful time!!:goodvibes

Hi Sherry!!! Thank you!! I think I probably walked by where you live! We were walking up and down Sunset Blvd like no other that night!!! :thumbsup2

Thank you!! I'm trying to be Miss Independent! :yay: I had a blast! I think being alone honestly made it so much more fun! It was great!! :cloud9:

It was a little crowded, for it being during the week. But it was so much LESS crowded than what we're used to on the weekends. A lot of rides were walk ons. It did get noticeably more crowded during the evening, I'm sure once the locals got off work/school. The longest wait at night we saw was Wednesday night for Indy and it was for 55 minutes. But during the day it was only 10 minutes!!
your experience seems interesting...
nice work...

thanks for sharing....
:dance3: :cheer2:

It was very interesting! And fun! Thank you for reading!! ;)

prettyprincessbelle

12-05-2008, 07:33 PM

Courtney !!!

How great that you had so much fun :)

I can't wait until you post about your trip and your experience at Hojo's. I just booked my hotel today so WOOO !!

Hi Jasmine! We :lovestruc Hojos! You guys will too! It's very retro (in a cool way, not a lame way) and Jesus said we have to stay here every time now!!

Welcome back Courtney!! I'm glad to hear you had a wonderful time!! Can't wait to hear all about it. popcorn::

And I hope Jesus has a very happy birthday!!

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Thank you, Beth!!!

Jesus said thank you!!!! :yay: (I told him, I swear, because he was all "how'd they know today's my birthday!?!!!) :rolleyes1

Yay, welcome home! :woohoo: I can't wait to hear about your trip! :goodvibes Tell Jesus a crazy lady from the internet says Happy Birthday!

Thank you, Wendy!!! Jesus says thank you too, crazy lady!!!!!! :thumbsup2

Happy Birthday Jesus !!:goodvibes

I hope you guys have a blast today, and I'm glad you guys had a wonderful time. I wouldn't expect anything less !!

Yay!!! We did have a blast!!!

Jesus says thank you, Jasmine!!! :)

Courtney - it hasn't been the same without you on here the last few days! We have to have all our 'regulars' to make a complete puzzle!

I can't WAIT to hear all about the DLR trip and see pictures, but you have to celebrate your sweetie's b-day - that is important! Happy birthday, Jesus!

By the way, I FINALLY added a whole mess o' pictures of all kinds (PhotoPass, cell phone pictures, digital, 35 mm, you name it!) to my TR, in the first several sections and also at the very end of the thread! And I am not done yet! So come back and check it out when you are done telling us about your exciting, magical holiday DLR trip!!!:goodvibes

Awww, thank you Sherry!!! I'm glad to be home and back on the Dis!! :goodvibes

Jesus says thank you for the Happy Birthday wishes!!!!

:wizard:

prettyprincessbelle

12-05-2008, 07:38 PM

Hi guys! Okay let's get this TR started!

Are you all ready?

Do you have your popcorn?

popcorn::

Comfy seat?

:surfweb:

Diet Coke?

:drinking1

Okay, let's GOOO!!! :cheer2:

prettyprincessbelle

12-05-2008, 07:49 PM

Sunday, November 30 - Jonas Brother's Concert at the Hollywood Palladium

So this was the day of the concert and BOY was I excited!!! It was just going to be my parents and I (I'm an only child, fyi). Jesus stayed home, which was okie dokie by me. We left our house around 1pm after my Dad got out of work. We ended up in LA around 2:30 (my Dad drives like a :snail: ).

First we drove by the Palladium where the concert was taking place so we knew where it was, none of us had been there before. I snapped this out the window.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010403.jpg

Now, I mentioned earlier that I saw on the news that people were waiting in line since Friday. Well, I was wrong, the security guard told me Wednesday. WEDNESDAY! This was the line of people to get in the concert at around 2:40ish.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010404.jpg

It was a general admissions concert, so everyone paid the same price ticket and seating was first come first serve. So if you were last, you sat in the back, well, more on that later.

Despite seeing the long line, this was me in the back seat :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

After that we flipped a U turn and headed to the El Capitan. A lot of the roads were blocked off because Sunday was also the day of the very famous Hollywood Santa Parade. So Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd were very crowded and busy with tons of people and street performers.

I forgot what street this was, but this is one road blocked off with a red carpet.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010406.jpg

We parked at the Hollywood and Highland center and walked out the shopping center to see this

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010407.jpg

And this

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010408.jpg

Okay, I'm off to make cupcakes! So I'll finish up if I get a chance tonight! If not it's tomorrow!

mommaU4

12-05-2008, 08:50 PM

Diet Coke?

:drinking1

Okay, let's GOOO!!! :cheer2:

You mean Diet Pepsi. :thumbsup2

Great start!! :banana: Wow, those people are nuts waiting so far ahead of time.
Can't wait to hear more! Don't forget to save me a cupcake.....;)

travelmel

12-05-2008, 08:51 PM

By the way, I FINALLY added a whole mess o' pictures of all kinds (PhotoPass, cell phone pictures, digital, 35 mm, you name it!) to my TR, in the first several sections and also at the very end of the thread! And I am not done yet! So come back and check it out when you are done telling us about your exciting, magical holiday DLR trip!!!:goodvibes

Sherry... I need a link, please :flower3:

Sherry E

12-05-2008, 09:21 PM

Sherry... I need a link, please :flower3:

I know you eventually found me, Travelmel, but didn't the link in my signature work? If not, then I have to tinker with it and see what's wrong!

Anyway, Courtney - I don't have a Coke open, but I am sitting here with my bottled water, anxiously awaiting the DLR trip rundown! I can't imagine how wonderful it must have been! You must tell those of us whose holiday trips are yet to come if there is anything special we should be looking for!

wendylady36

12-05-2008, 09:22 PM

How exciting! One of these days I will make it to the soda fountain and the El Capitan.

I love your pictures and I can't wait to read more! I'm in the backseat with you :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

You mean Diet Pepsi. :thumbsup2

Great start!! :banana: Wow, those people are nuts waiting so far ahead of time.
Can't wait to hear more! Don't forget to save me a cupcake.....;)

Actually, she meant wine. :thumbsup2 :rotfl2:

I wanna cupcake too!!!!! I hope you made enough to share with the class. :upsidedow

Sherry E

12-05-2008, 09:26 PM

How exciting! One of these days I will make it to the soda fountain and the El Capitan.

Would you believe I live 5 minutes from Hollywood - and have ALWAYS lived in the same area - and have not been to the Disney soda fountain or inside the El Capitan?!!!:scared1: Shameful, I know. I just haven't made it over there too often, or if I have, it has been with people who didn't want to go in! I think someone should ban me from DISboards! Quick! Take away my lifetime Mouse Mafia membership!

prettyprincessbelle

12-06-2008, 03:19 PM

You mean Diet Pepsi. :thumbsup2

Great start!! :banana: Wow, those people are nuts waiting so far ahead of time.

Can't wait to hear more! Don't forget to save me a cupcake.....;)

Diet Pepsi it is!!! :thumbsup2

I know you eventually found me, Travelmel, but didn't the link in my signature work? If not, then I have to tinker with it and see what's wrong!

Anyway, Courtney - I don't have a Coke open, but I am sitting here with my bottled water, anxiously awaiting the DLR trip rundown! I can't imagine how wonderful it must have been! You must tell those of us whose holiday trips are yet to come if there is anything special we should be looking for!

Woohoo!!! I've got a ton of Holiday goodness coming up! :goodvibes

How exciting! One of these days I will make it to the soda fountain and the El Capitan.

I love your pictures and I can't wait to read more! I'm in the backseat with you :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

Actually, she meant wine. :thumbsup2 :rotfl2:

I wanna cupcake too!!!!! I hope you made enough to share with the class. :upsidedow

My parents said the El Capitan was beautiful inside.

Yay! We're crazy backseat hyper kids!! :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

:rotfl2: :rotfl2: We ALL know she meant wine!! :eek: :thumbsup2

Would you believe I live 5 minutes from Hollywood - and have ALWAYS lived in the same area - and have not been to the Disney soda fountain or inside the El Capitan?!!!:scared1: Shameful, I know. I just haven't made it over there too often, or if I have, it has been with people who didn't want to go in! I think someone should ban me from DISboards! Quick! Take away my lifetime Mouse Mafia membership!

Aw, Sherry you should go! Go GO!!! :cheer2: :cheer2:

Okay, here's everyone's cupcakes!!!

http://i.ivillage.com/stuffwelove/Oct2007/F/cupcake_stand4_325.jpg

Let's continue this thing!

prettyprincessbelle

12-06-2008, 03:58 PM

Okay, so where were we? :confused3

OH YEAH!

While we were walking across Hollywood Blvd there was so much going on, it was nuts.

These giants kept walking around.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010409.jpg

First my parents and I went to the will call booth outside the theater so they could pick up their VIP (very important parents! ;)) tickets. While I was waiting for them I saw this awesome poster for an upcoming movie in 3D.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010410.jpg

You know who's going to be there dancing and singing in the movie with 3D glasses on right? :3dglasses :dance3: ME!!

We made our way 5 steps down the street and into the Soda Fountain. It was a little busy inside but we were seated right away.

It's so cute in there, I loved it so much, it's very Disney (duh). We were seated right away, but my Mom and I ditched my Dad and went to go look at all the merch they had. They had a super cute Bolt shirt I should have bought. They also had a lot of Christmas stuff that they also sell at Disneyland. A lot of the stuff was very cute, but I have seen it at the parks one time or another.

After we looked around, my Mom and I sat down and my Mom snapped this. Behind my head you can see they had it all decorated for Christmas.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010411.jpg

These are what the cover of the menus look like. I think they're so cute with Minnie and Mickey all in love. :lovestruc

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010412.jpg

Our waitress came and we ordered our drinks and lunch. And we all order the same thing, smart people we are!

We all order chili in a bread bowl.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010413.jpg

It came with sour cream, onions, and cheddar cheese on the side.

It was very very good and really filling, I could barely eat the bread bowl. The bread wasn't as good as the bread at DLR, but it was still yummy. :upsidedow

I wanted to order ice cream, but I was too full. So were my parents. That just means next time we have to go back and get ice cream! :yay:

So after we ate we decided it was time to go wait in line at the JB concert.

But first I took a picture of the most important star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Disneyland!

Ay! Stop stepping on it!

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010414.jpg

Thank you! ;)

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010415.jpg

Next: Our almost mile walk to the Hollywood Palladium and the Jonas Brothers!!!

Sherry E

12-06-2008, 04:14 PM

Oooh, the Paladium IS quite a little jaunt from the Disney Store! I hope you wore comfortable shoes!

Does anyone here remember INXS (I mean the old version of the band, with the singer who is now dead, not the new version)? I think they were who I saw the last time I was in the Paladium! Yikes!!!!! I may as well be 108 years old!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!

prettyprincessbelle

12-06-2008, 04:40 PM

...CONT...

I also spotted the star of my favorite Mickey Mouse Club Member.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010416.jpg

My Mom was suprised I even knew who she was. Doh. :headache:

Right to the side of the Disney Soda Fountain was this totally awesome Bolt bus.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010417.jpg

To the left of the bus you can see they had those huge plastic hamster ball things. I would love to get in one of those and go down a hill or something. LOL. Fun! :thumbsup2

We kept walking and on one of the side streets they had the floats up for the Santa Parade. This one was right in the front and it says Radio Disney on it. I know Demi Lovato (Camp Rock) was in the parade, maybe she was on this float?

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010418.jpg

We kept seeing these banners all over LA. I took a picture of it because it has to do with Roy and Edna Disney. I googled it and I think they're honorary naming that part of the theater after them.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010420.jpg

We get to Sunset Blvd where the Palladium and what do I see? Twilight billboard! I had a take a picture of it for all us Twilight geeks. :lovestruc :laughing: :thumbsup2

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010423.jpg

Now by this time I was complaining. "How much longer?" "My legs are going to fall off" "I'm going to be all sweaty for the Jonas Brothers, eewww" I'm sure my parents were annoyed. :scared:

We walked and walked... And walked some more... And finally! We made it! YES!!! It was really only about a 15 minute walk, but I wasn't feeling it!

So we get to the front of the Palladium and my Mom asks the security guard, "where do we get in line for the concert?". He looks at us, points and says "You have to walk around the building. The line is very long". Ugh. So we walk to the right side of the building (where I had the picture of the line of people from earlier) and keep walking. The line goes past the building, past and around the parking lot behind the building. Around the corner down that street and stops. Yes! We get in line right at the corner. Woohoo! And now what? We wait. It was around 3:45 when we got in line. The line behind us got long really fast.

I don't remember what time I took this, probably 4:30ish. This was the line behind me.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010427.jpg

By the time they let us in the concert that line went all the way down the street and around the corner to the left where the entrance of the Palladium was.

I also took this waiting in line

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010429.jpg

Okay so it was almost 5:00pm when the doors opened to the concert. My Mom, Dad and I were just standing there talking and my Mom was chewing gum. There was a family behind us, a young girl, she had to have been around 12, her Mom and Dad. The Dad wasn't waiting in line the whole time like her and the Mom were, but when we did he did get in line he had his earphones on because he was listening to an ipod. So my Mom and I are talking, and this guy leans in to us, doesn't say excuse me and whispers "I have sensitive ears and you chewing your gum is bothering me". My Mom and I look and each other. WHAT? :eek: :confused3 She wasn't popping her gum. Just chewing. And the guy tells her that. He had his earphones on the entire time because even him and his wife weren't talking because he was listening to music. So my Mom and I just laugh even though my Mom was pretty peeved. She kept saying "I can't believe that man! I wasn't hurting him! I'm just chewing my gum! What? I can't chew gum!!!" :sad2:

So after that drama, it's finally 5:00pm and we slowly start moving. Yay!! :woohoo:

After about 30 minutes (seriously) we get to the front of the Palladium.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010435.jpg

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010436.jpg

Up next: Pushing and shoving! Will Courtney be close enough to see the Jonas Brothers? Does Courtney's Mom finally tell that gum chewing hating guy something!??

:cool2:

Sherry E

12-06-2008, 05:26 PM

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-06-2008, 06:26 PM

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to say that guy was an A hole. How rude is that ? There's NO way your mom's chewing would bother him especially since his ears were blocked with music. EWWWW.

I'm loving the TR btw ! Can't wait to hear more!

mommaU4

12-06-2008, 11:28 PM

I wanted to order ice cream, but I was too full.

That's why when we went, we skipped the lunch and went straight for the ice cream! :thumbsup2 :rotfl:

I can't believe that guy! WTH??? So dumb. Some people just complain for the sake of complaining.

travelmel

12-07-2008, 03:05 AM

...We get to Sunset Blvd where the Palladium and what do I see? Twilight billboard! I had a take a picture of it for all us Twilight geeks. :lovestruc :laughing: :thumbsup2

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010423.jpg

:love:

Hee hee...

Wow, I think it's funny that people with "sensitive ears" are about to go to a ROCK CONCERT! :furious:

Irritating!

Those were great pics in front of the Palladeum (SP?). Good job with the marquee!

Sounds like a fun day so far! I know you liked the concert... looking forward to hearing about it. Are you stoked to see that 3-D movie or what?? :3dglasses

kmab00

12-07-2008, 02:15 PM

YAY for Twilight!!!! That's awesome!! :)

Love your pictures! I didn't actually get to go inside the Soda Fountain shop although I wanted to so bad! Maybe next time!!

That's crazy about the line on Wednesday!!!!!! Wow.....

Great update! Can't wait to hear more!

wendylady36

12-07-2008, 09:12 PM

Twilight billboard! :banana: I wish there was one of those around here.

The Disney Soda Fountain looked like it was a lot of fun. Yay for them having holiday decorations. That chili bowl sure does look big.

Oh man, that line for Jonas Brothers is something else! I still don't understand how people are able to stand in line for DAYS. That guy behind you in line was weird, why didn't he just turn up his music or something.

I'm loving all your pictures! I haven't been to Hollywood in about two years, but it's nice to know it still looks the same. :thumbsup2

I'm ready and waiting for more! :hyper:

Krissy Marissy

12-07-2008, 10:08 PM

but guess what? No matter how loud that person was with their throat clearing, the stupid neighbor STILL can't ask them to stop when they are clearing their throat in their own home. Maybe the person is ill or something! And they are paying rent too, just like the complaining neighbor is!

We had just moved into our current apartment. And my poor baby girl, only 6 months old at the time, was cutting her first tooth. And it was almost 11 and she was fussy and I had given her everything I could but she just wasnt willing to be calmed...my neighbor downstairs pounded the ceiling and then came up to knock on my door. At first I apologized but then I ripped him a new one about how he has music playing until midnight (So loud it vibrates my pictures in the hallway) and had noisy parties and friends over until 2 AM! I was pissed. If he ever comes and knocks on my door again I will lose it. I understand babies are annoying but you know what...I hate to hear her cry more than anyone does! Also...if you are quiet yourself and come complain then okay...I feel badly, but seeing as he is super duper loud himself how DARE he come yell at me. It was not cool at all!

Sorry to get OT but I am glad that you had a great time! We havent made it to the fountain yet but we hope to some day. That line was craziness! I am shocked that people wait so long over a concert...wow. :confused3 Can't wait for the rest of your TR :) :goodvibes

prettyprincessbelle

12-08-2008, 04:08 PM

I can't believe that guy and his gum-chewing sensitivity!:confused3 What was up with that? First of all, unless your mom was smacking right into his ear or popping bubbles right into his ears and it was somehow intruding upon his personal space, then he should have kept quiet. I mean, I doubt your mom was being loud with the gum at all, and some people - like that guy - are just weird. But, let's say, for argument's sake, your mom WAS loud with chewing and the guy was standing a good distance away and could hear her. He may be annoyed by it, but he had NO right to ask her to stop. She can chew her gum just as he can listen to his iPod. People get too carried away with what they think they have a right to expect from other people. People do get on each other's nerves, but you can't just ask someone to stop something harmless like gum chewing that they have a right to do just because you don't like it! If we could all just ask people to stop doing things that we personally don't like, then we would have perfect lives, wouldn't we? It doesn't work that way!

One time a neighbor in my building knocked on my front door. I think I had just gotten out of the shower so was not dressed. I didn't open the door. I only listened to her stupid voice. She proceeded to say that I was supposedly 'clearing my throat' and that she was a student at night and slept during the day and my throat clearing was keeping her awake! Huh???:confused3 First of all, I had no clue what she was talking about. I worked during the day at that time. I wasn't 'clearing my throat,' nor would I have been loud enough to keep a tenant in another apartment awake! I mean, that would have to be some pretty loud throat clearing, don't you think? BUT, let's just say I HAD been the phantom throat clearer. This wench thought she had a right to come and ask me to STOP doing it because it was bothering her! I kind of chuckled at her through my front door and said, "Ummm....I have no clue what you are talking about, but are you kidding me?" She proceeded to go on and say I was very loud with the throat noises. You know, you can ask someone to turn down their TV or stereo or whatever if it is playing past 10:00 p.m. and making noise, or having loud parties at all hours of the day and night. But you can't ask someone to stop clearing their throat! I wish I had been dressed so I could open the door and look at this stupid woman. To this day, I am not sure which neighbor of mine it was!

By the way, I eventually heard the phantom throat clearer myself! I have no clue who it is/was, but on several occasions I heard the very loud throat clearing that must have been disturbing this stupid neighbor in the middle of the day. It was very loud, and I can see how it would be annoying - but guess what? No matter how loud that person was with their throat clearing, the stupid neighbor STILL can't ask them to stop when they are clearing their throat in their own home. Maybe the person is ill or something! And they are paying rent too, just like the complaining neighbor is!

I couldn’t believe it either! Even my Mom was like “I can’t believe people sometimes!”

That is crazy about your neighbor! I mean you always have think what if that person was ill like you said? Besides it’s their home! They can clear their throat all they want! Geez lady, get a clue! People amaze me sometimes.

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to say that guy was an A hole. How rude is that ? There's NO way your mom's chewing would bother him especially since his ears were blocked with music. EWWWW.

I'm loving the TR btw ! Can't wait to hear more!

Hi Jasmine! Your trip is coming up! I know, it was crazy! I’m still shocked that man had the nerve to say anything!!

That's why when we went, we skipped the lunch and went straight for the ice cream! :thumbsup2 :rotfl:

I can't believe that guy! WTH??? So dumb. Some people just complain for the sake of complaining.

:rotfl: That’s what we’re going to do next time! Ice cream for lunch!!!!

:love:

Hee hee...

Wow, I think it's funny that people with "sensitive ears" are about to go to a ROCK CONCERT! :furious:

Irritating!

Those were great pics in front of the Palladeum (SP?). Good job with the marquee!

Sounds like a fun day so far! I know you liked the concert... looking forward to hearing about it. Are you stoked to see that 3-D movie or what?? :3dglasses

Lol, I LOVE your siggy! That is TOO funny!!

Thank you! I was trying to get all artistic with my photos! Haha!

I’m super excited for the Jonas Brothers in 3D! OMG!

YAY for Twilight!!!! That's awesome!! :)

Love your pictures! I didn't actually get to go inside the Soda Fountain shop although I wanted to so bad! Maybe next time!!

That's crazy about the line on Wednesday!!!!!! Wow.....

Great update! Can't wait to hear more!

Hi Karen!!! :) Woo for Twilight!

You would have liked the Soda Fountain! It is too cute inside and very Disney! Another excuse for another Disneyland trip for you and your hubby!

Twilight billboard! :banana: I wish there was one of those around here.

The Disney Soda Fountain looked like it was a lot of fun. Yay for them having holiday decorations. That chili bowl sure does look big.

Oh man, that line for Jonas Brothers is something else! I still don't understand how people are able to stand in line for DAYS. That guy behind you in line was weird, why didn't he just turn up his music or something.

I'm loving all your pictures! I haven't been to Hollywood in about two years, but it's nice to know it still looks the same. :thumbsup2

I'm ready and waiting for more! :hyper:

Twilight! Yayayayay! My Dad was like “What are you taking a picture of?” lol.

We had just moved into our current apartment. And my poor baby girl, only 6 months old at the time, was cutting her first tooth. And it was almost 11 and she was fussy and I had given her everything I could but she just wasnt willing to be calmed...my neighbor downstairs pounded the ceiling and then came up to knock on my door. At first I apologized but then I ripped him a new one about how he has music playing until midnight (So loud it vibrates my pictures in the hallway) and had noisy parties and friends over until 2 AM! I was pissed. If he ever comes and knocks on my door again I will lose it. I understand babies are annoying but you know what...I hate to hear her cry more than anyone does! Also...if you are quiet yourself and come complain then okay...I feel badly, but seeing as he is super duper loud himself how DARE he come yell at me. It was not cool at all!

Sorry to get OT but I am glad that you had a great time! We havent made it to the fountain yet but we hope to some day. That line was craziness! I am shocked that people wait so long over a concert...wow. :confused3 Can't wait for the rest of your TR :) :goodvibes

The nerve! It’s a baby! Geesh! I would have let him have it too if he came back! Your poor baby girl! She’s a baby! Baby’s can’t help it!

Glad you could join my TR!! :)

prettyprincessbelle

12-08-2008, 08:01 PM

Okay! So let's continue!

After waiting 32097235 hours (and not 5 days!!) I was at the front of the line! I kissed and hugged my parents bye and told them thank you for waiting with me and before they walked away my Mom leans into to the mean guy behind us and says "You know what? You were really RUDE!!" Booyah! Owned! :lmao: :rotfl: And the funny thing was he went into the concert! WHAT?! I thought you had sensitive ears, buddy?!!? :confused3

Anyways, after that drama I got my ticket scanned and booked it inside. I walked (speed ran?) down the hall, turned left and holy moly! Look at all the people!!!! :eek:

So, it's a little hard to explain how they had it set up. You walked in and straight ahead was the stage. Up and to the left and right was the balcony. But before you get to the stage there was like this barricade thing set up where you had to have a special wristband to get on the floor. If not, you had to stay on this barricade thingy. Which was allllllll the way in the back of the area. WAY too far in the back for me. I wasn't having that. So my goal? Get a wrist band. There were Palladium workers handing out wrist bands to people who were in the front of this huge mob where the barricades were. I wiggled my way to the front but there was SO much pushing and shoving. I was trying so hard to not squish this poor, cute little 8 year old girl. Everybody behind me (see the awesome thing about being by myself? I got to push my way alll the way to the front! :)) was just pushing and yelling. It was insane and I wasthisclose to having an anxiety attack. I took a deep breath, held my wrist out and smiled at the guy who was handing out the wristbands. He said "See! I'm handing out wristbands to people who ARE NOT freaking out and acting crazy" and he puts a bright pink wristband on my wrist. OMG. THANK YOU THANK I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! :lovestruc :worship: :wizard: I thank the guy profusely and excuse my way through the crazy crowd to get down on the floor.

SCORE!!

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010437.jpg

A little blurry, but here's my golden ticket for the night.

So I catch my breath and make my way into the other huge mob that was on the floor. I was a lot smaller than the crazy mess up there though. As soon as I found a PERFECT spot smack dab in the middle of the floor the lights dim. OMG! :scared1: :woohoo: :yay:

This was my view from where I was standing. The zoom on this poopy camera does not give where I was justice. I was so much closer than the camera makes it seem.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010438.jpg

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010441.jpg

This was behind me to my left

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010442.jpg

And behind me to my right

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010444.jpg

And behind me where I would have been standing if I didn't have my trusty bright pink wristband

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010443.jpg

So music starts playing and everyone starts screaming. I didn't get too excited because I knew it was the opening band, NOT the Jonas Brothers.

Their name was Honor Society and they were pretty good. A little rockish. Similar sound to the Jonas Brothers. But they were older (20s?).

The guy with the bow tie is the lead singer and the guy on the right is the guitar player

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010448.jpg

The guy on the left was the bassist and he had funny hair. :3dglasses

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010450.jpg

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn259/disneylandprincess/P1010455.jpg

They sang 4 songs. The first song was really good. And the last one. But by the 3rd song everything was getting a little bored. :faint:

They said their goodbyes and the stage went dark.

OMG JONAS BROTHERS!

:yay:

I'm really stretching this thing out longer than I planned. I have to go though. You guys are so patient. :hug:

kaoden39

12-08-2008, 08:26 PM

My 14 year old daughter will be visiting your thread she "LOOOOOOOVES" Kevin.

mommaU4

12-08-2008, 09:05 PM

Whoo hooooo!! Yay for the pretty pink wrist band. :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

wendylady36

12-09-2008, 01:21 AM

Yay :banana: pink = awesome!!!!!!

Can't wait to hear about the Jo Bros! :hyper:

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-09-2008, 01:28 AM

Congrats on getting the wristband :)

AWESOME ! I'm glad you got to be in a closer area to the Jo Bros :)

Can't wait to hear more!

OH and good for your mom for telling that dude off! What a jerk!

prettyprincessbelle

12-09-2008, 08:46 PM

My 14 year old daughter will be visiting your thread she "LOOOOOOOVES" Kevin.

I like Kevin too! He's my favorite! :lovestruc My Mom said he got the ugly genes. Whatever. :confused3 :sad2: :rolleyes:

Whoo hooooo!! Yay for the pretty pink wrist band. :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Yay! I could have CRIED! :cool1: :banana: :yay: :dance3: :cheer2:

Yay :banana: pink = awesome!!!!!!

Can't wait to hear about the Jo Bros! :hyper:

Woo for pink! :woohoo: :cloud9:

Congrats on getting the wristband :)

AWESOME ! I'm glad you got to be in a closer area to the Jo Bros :)

Can't wait to hear more!

OH and good for your mom for telling that dude off! What a jerk!

Thanks, dude!!! :thumbsup2

kaoden39

12-09-2008, 08:48 PM

Kody thinks Kevin is HOT! She has like 54 posters and pictures of Kevin in her room.

kmab00

12-09-2008, 08:51 PM

Yay for getting a wrist band!!! That's awesome!

Gosh that room looks really tiny! They squeezed a ton of people in there!

That was so nice of your parents to wait with you in line!! :) I want to high five your mom for telling that guy something. Please...sensitive ears? How can you handle a CONCERT then? Wow....

Can't wait to hear about the concert!

prettyprincessbelle

12-09-2008, 09:08 PM

Hi guys!! :goodvibes I'm watching my parents play golf on our new Wii. :rotfl: :rotfl: They're funny.

So after the stage went dark. Some set people came on and started switching out some things on stage. The label thing on the drums and some other stuff. Then the JB band came out. Drum player, guitarist, bassist, violin players (who knew!?) and then....

OMG!!

JONAS BROTHERS!!!!

I swear. There was so MUCH screaming! It was insane! You thought the entire crowd had died. Just AHHHHHHH! :scared1: It was kind of entertaining. :rotfl2:

Anyways! I'm just going to post all the pictures. I took so many. Not all of them came out so I'm posting all the good ones.

I'm also sorry for the pooey quality on these. My Mom's camera is a piece of doo.

SO!

Are you ready....??

GO!

:yay:

Kevin!! :lovestruc

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Joe and Nick in the background

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*swoon*

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Can you tell I like Kevin? :rotfl:

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Kevin's guitar kept making some crazy glare off the lights.

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For all you Nick fans

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He played on his piano and sang while the other brothers went and changed or something

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And then they all came back!

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...CONT...

kaoden39

12-09-2008, 09:17 PM

Kody says that the pictures of Kevin are hot. And he is soooooooo cute!

prettyprincessbelle

12-09-2008, 09:35 PM

...CONT...

So then the Jo Bros brought back out the opening band, Honor Society and they all sang a song together....

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I think Joe is as tall as me (5'9") so this guy must be short.

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And then they went away and it was just the Jo Bros again :lovestruc And Joe took his dress shirt off. Woop!

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And then Nick started playing the drums. That boy does everything.

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My Mom likes Joe the best :laughing:

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Sing Kevin SING!!!!

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YEAH!!!!

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...CONT...

kaoden39

12-09-2008, 09:39 PM

Kody says Gasp! And that his guitar is HOT!

travelmel

12-09-2008, 09:43 PM

Wow, it looks like you had a pretty good view! nice job :thumbsup2

I was at Costco yesterday and I saw a book about the Jonas Brothers concer tour. I immediately thought of you! Have you seen it?

prettyprincessbelle

12-09-2008, 10:04 PM

...CONT...

And then Joe brought this little girl on stage. She was adorable and was so cool. She didn't even freak out. I would have gone insane and cried and gone in my pants all the same time. ;)

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She sang all the words to "Year 3000" and the Jo Bros were shocked she knew all the words. Duh.

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Now I'm noticing I didn't take very many pictures of Nick. Woopsie. He was on my left side and it was easier for me to turn a little right to look at Kevin. I did try, but there were more people in my way I guess? :confused3 Sorry Nick fans! :headache:

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AH Nick! There you are!! :yay:

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This is my mad dope photography skills... Sike. Complete accident.

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...CONT...

prettyprincessbelle

12-09-2008, 10:31 PM

...CONT...

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This is their bodyguard that sings in "Burnin' Up" with them. And boy is he HUGE! I mean HUGE. I knew he was big (he's a bodyguard, right?) but I was shocked how big this man was. Wowie.

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...CONT...

mommaU4

12-09-2008, 10:36 PM

Wow Courtney, you got some awesome pics! :thumbsup2

prettyprincessbelle

12-09-2008, 10:43 PM

...CONT...

Holy moly. I took a heck of a lot of pictures. This is probably my last post with Jo Bro pics though. I'm almost donskies! :sad2:

Only 4 more pics left! Booooo! :(

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Bye Jonas Brothers! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hug: :guilty: :guilty:

So the concert ended. It was exactly 8pm. I was sad, sweaty and had to go to the bathroom!! Jesus called me right when it ended (good timing?) and I talked with him while I was in search for a bathroom. Which by the way, the Palladium didn't have any public restrooms. What the heezy!?!!? :confused3

So I hung up with Jesus to call my parents, they told me the movie was almost finished and they would walk back to meet me, but I said I would just walk to them. Sunset Blvd was still blocked off and there were so many people and police out I was pretty safe. I walked down the street and went into Borders to get something to drink. I looked around for a bit and I was freezing from being all wet with sweat and the cold air! Man! It was terrible. I left Borders, called Jesus back and I started walking down Sunset. I met my parents half way and the whole way home I could NOT stop talking about how AWESOME the Jonas Brothers were!!

We ended up getting home around 9:15. I was off to bed! I had Disneyland in the morning!!!! :cloud9: :banana: :banana:

Overall the concert was amazing and I'm SO SO SO glad I went. It was a blast and a totally unforgettable experience. I have a new love for the Jonas Brothers now. :lovestruc

I hope you guys enjoyed all the pictures!!!

:dance3:

Next up: DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!!!!

prettyprincessbelle

12-09-2008, 10:56 PM

Kody thinks Kevin is HOT! She has like 54 posters and pictures of Kevin in her room.

Tell Kody she is awesome!!!!! :thumbsup2

Yay for getting a wrist band!!! That's awesome!

Gosh that room looks really tiny! They squeezed a ton of people in there!

That was so nice of your parents to wait with you in line!! :) I want to high five your mom for telling that guy something. Please...sensitive ears? How can you handle a CONCERT then? Wow....

Can't wait to hear about the concert!

Hi Karen!!! It was tiny! 4,000 people and the people on the floor - we were smushed!! I'll tell my Mom you wanna high five her!! Woo, go Mom!!

Kody says that the pictures of Kevin are hot. And he is soooooooo cute!

:rotfl: :rotfl: I agree!!!

Kody says Gasp! And that his guitar is HOT!

His guitar kept reflecting off the light! I was like geez Kev! Turn it off!!!

It was funny because Joe was talking about how Kevin made People magazine's top 100 sexiest men or something like that. And he picked up a sign a girl had that said "Thank Heaven for Kevin!!"

Wow, it looks like you had a pretty good view! nice job :thumbsup2

I was at Costco yesterday and I saw a book about the Jonas Brothers concer tour. I immediately thought of you! Have you seen it?

I saw it!!! They were at Disneyland the Tuesday before Thanksgiving signing that same book!! I told my parents to tell Santa (cough) I want it for Christmas!! Santa! Are you listening!?!!?! :rolleyes1

Wow Courtney, you got some awesome pics! :thumbsup2

Thank you Beth! I wish I had a better camera! The girls next to me had a killer zoom on theirs! They literally had the boys sweat in their pictures! I was jealous!!!

kmab00

12-09-2008, 11:13 PM

You got some really good pictures!! :) Looks like you had a blast! Can't wait for Disneyland!!

kaoden39

12-09-2008, 11:25 PM

Kody says to tell you that she has more like 60 pictures now. I am giving her a new Kevin poster we found in KayB toys. He looks "sexy!" Her words. He should be on the People list, much more so than Joe.

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-10-2008, 12:48 AM

Good god Courtney !!! Haha :laughing:

I love how you've got shots of a MILLION cameras & phones ! Hilarious :)

SO exciting though!! I'm happy you had a kick butt time!

travelmel

12-10-2008, 12:50 AM

What the heezy??!!

:lmao:

You have to take your mad dope skills over to the Picture of the Day forum! it's Disney-related! ::yes::

wendylady36

12-10-2008, 04:59 PM

Looks like you had a great time at the concert. :goodvibes I'm also a picture taking fanatic when I see one of my favorite bands!

I almost gave you a lecture for walking down Sunset on your own so late, but then you said there was still lots of people out, so I feel a little better about that.

I can't wait to read about your Disneyland trip!

Also, I think I'm going to draw a map of the monkeys location in HMH and pass them out next year! :rotfl:

mommaU4

12-11-2008, 11:54 AM

Is it time for Disneyland yet? Is it? Huh? Huh? Is it? :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

Sherry E

12-11-2008, 12:04 PM

Is it time for Disneyland yet? Is it? Huh? Huh? Is it? :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

I was wondering the same thing!! I am eager to hear the DLR part of the report before my trip starts so I know if there are any special things I need to look out for, eat or avoid!!! Any special PhotoPass locations that are new for Christmas (other than the by the big tree and at the Santa locations)?

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-11-2008, 02:59 PM

I was wondering the same thing!! I am eager to hear the DLR part of the report before my trip starts so I know if there are any special things I need to look out for, eat or avoid!!! Any special PhotoPass locations that are new for Christmas (other than the by the big tree and at the Santa locations)?

I agree !!! Come on Courtney :)

prettyprincessbelle

12-11-2008, 04:30 PM

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-11-2008, 04:35 PM

I know! I'm an official TR lagger!!! *shame*

I'm at work right now and today's my Dad's birthday. So I hopefully start tonight after everyone goes home or maybe before everyone comes over?

I promise promise!

Aww its your dad's birthday ? Now, I feel like a meanie ! Hope he has a wonderful one ! Have fun :goodvibes

prettyprincessbelle

12-12-2008, 10:59 AM

Aww its your dad's birthday ? Now, I feel like a meanie ! Hope he has a wonderful one ! Have fun :goodvibes

You're not a meanie!! :thumbsup2

I'm going to try to update tonight if not, tomorrow morning. I hate being stuck at work all day. Even though I can Dis, my pictures are on my laptop at home. :headache:

prettyprincessbelle

12-12-2008, 08:13 PM

You got some really good pictures!! :) Looks like you had a blast! Can't wait for Disneyland!!

Thanks!!! Disneyland's a coming!!

Kody says to tell you that she has more like 60 pictures now. I am giving her a new Kevin poster we found in KayB toys. He looks "sexy!" Her words. He should be on the People list, much more so than Joe.

Tell Kody she is AWESOME! :thumbsup2

Good god Courtney !!! Haha :laughing:

I love how you've got shots of a MILLION cameras & phones ! Hilarious :)

SO exciting though!! I'm happy you had a kick butt time!

:rotfl: There were SO many cameras in front of me. It was hard to just put the camera down and enjoy the show. I did that too and I still came out with 3509735 pictures!

What the heezy??!!

:lmao:

You have to take your mad dope skills over to the Picture of the Day forum! it's Disney-related! ::yes::

What the heezy!!!! :rotfl:

You're mad dope, foo! :hippie:

Looks like you had a great time at the concert. :goodvibes I'm also a picture taking fanatic when I see one of my favorite bands!

I almost gave you a lecture for walking down Sunset on your own so late, but then you said there was still lots of people out, so I feel a little better about that.

I can't wait to read about your Disneyland trip!

Also, I think I'm going to draw a map of the monkeys location in HMH and pass them out next year! :rotfl:

Hi Weeendy! Thank you for looking out for me! But yeah I was safe on Sunset. Usually I'm a big chicken being out in a scary LA road at night time (not that I ever have done that before, haha).

prettyprincessbelle

12-12-2008, 09:07 PM

Monday, December 1st - DLR Day 1

Yay! I'm going to start my Disneyland portion of my TR now! Yippie!!!

So after a very wonderful sleep after the JB concert I woke up around 6:00ish. Our first plan was to leave very early (7ish) to beat traffic. But we just decided to leave late. I'm much happier when I get all my sleep anyways, so I didn't complain. After I was ready to go I had to go to Wal Mart real quick and then I picked up McDonalds breakfast for Jesus and I. We always pick it up on the way, but Jesus always has a hard time eating and driving, so I was smart and I bought it before so he could eat it before we hit the road. We left his house about 10:15. Now a little ritual is we always fill his tires with air right before we go. Who knows why. His car is his other girlfriend and he takes very good care of her so he has to make sure her (yeah, it's a her) tires are filled. So we go get gas at Chevron. After gas we go to the air pump. Our of air. Great. So we drive across the parking lot to Mobil. Out of air. WHAT? :eek: We drive across the street to Shell. Out of air. You have GOT TO BE KIDDING! :headache: Now we needed the air. Usually we don't. But his tire on the driver side in the front was much lower. He has one of those fancy air pressure gauge things and it told him (they don't talk, but you get it) that the air was way lower on that one tire. Anyways. We drive down the street and go to 7-11. OUT OF AIR. Holy cow. So we sit and put our thinking caps on. What do we do? We can't drive 80 miles with a low tire! Jesus thinks and thinks. "I'm going to take it to the Ford dealership". Uhhh. Okay? :confused3 He has a 2005 Ford Mustang, fyi. So we go to Ford which is down the street and around the corner from 7-11 and he goes in and says "we're leaving for the LA area we need air and nobody has any." Well, not that exactly, but it was close. He said please too. The guy looks at us, "yeah! Sure! Keys? Is it the red Mustang?" He takes the keys, leaves, comes back and says "There you go! You're at 32 on all 4 tires" (whatever that means). Thank you Mr. Ford Man!! Jesus was smart on his part for thinking that. I would have never thought to go there for air. :idea:

So we get in the Miss Ford and we're off!! :car:

Now here's the killer super lucky amazing part that I still cannot wrap my mind around. We live in Ventura County. Smack dab in the middle of Ventura County. It normally takes us 1 hour and 30 minutes to get to DLR with little traffic. With heavy traffic it takes us 2. Now, we got on the freeway exactly at 11am. What time did we get off the freeway at DLR? 12PM!! WHAT!? A whole hour?!! OMG. Amazing. Now, I have to admit. Sometimes my boyfriend thinks he's a NASCAR driver. :drive: He's not unsafe or reckless. He just has this thing in his head he's a race car driver. He wasn't driving super fast that day. Seriously. Tail wind? I have no idea. But we got there in an hour and hit 0 traffic. We did not slow down once. Getting home was a totally different story and we'll get to that later.

SO after super fast speed racer got us to Disneyland we parked in Mickey and Friends. We parked in Goofy and I called it before we even reached the booth. Yes, I'm that good ;) There was no wait for the tram. Before we got on though we did stop at the restrooms that are right there.

I really like these banners they have at the loading area.

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I like these pretty snowflakes too, especially at night.

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So we go through the turnstiles and we always ALWAYS enter under the right side of the bridge. No idea why. But we do.

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I totally blocked traffic taking that picture up there, lol.

Big huge ginormous Christmas tree.

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I really love the garland they string across Main Street.

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We pretty much walked around aimlessly and made our way to NOS. The line for Pirates was nonexistant so we hopped on. Usually we only do this ride once a trip. Maybe twice depending on how long the line is and our moods. I can't do this ride twice in one day. I love it. But it's too long to sit through it twice.

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Now some of my pictures got deleted. On our last night the camera got full so we had to delete some. Most of my lame attempt of on ride pictures got deleted.

After Pirates we walked onto HMH. I really like HMH. Not as much as regular HM, but I like it. I am a big NBC fan though.

After HMH we walked along the ROA, out through Adventureland and back to Main Street and through the castle.

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As we go through the castle, I look to my left. OMG. The castle walk through is open!! Yayayay! It was supposed to be closing Monday to add the imagineering finished touches, but it didn't actually close until Thursday. Weird, but whatever I was happy I got to see it.

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The effects on pretty much all of the little windows was really neat. I kept staring at it thinking how they did that. I really really enjoyed it. Yes, I'm a geek.

After that we walked through Fantasyland around the Matterhorn and to Tomorrowland.

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...CONT...

wendylady36

12-12-2008, 09:32 PM

:yay: Yay, pretty pictures! How odd about no air at all those places. Lucky you for having a smart boyfriend, I would never in a million years think to go to the dealership! Then again, the only thing I know about cars is how to drive them, and even then it's a little sketchy. :rotfl:

I can't wait to see the castle walk-through in person. I'm SO excited!

Looking forward to reading and seeing more of your trip!

mommaU4

12-12-2008, 10:57 PM

Oh wow! I love it!!! The pictures of the castle are so pretty. I so wish I was there right now!! And how cool you were able to do the walk through. :wizard:

prettyprincessbelle

12-12-2008, 11:25 PM

...CONT...

Ugh. Those pictures are huge. Blech. I apologize. After this update I'll fix the pictures so they're not so monstrous.

So I started typing, my computer went phooey and I accidentally unswitched the wireless switch and it took me 20 minutes to figure out what happened. Oops. :headache: Anyways, back to the trip.

We got FPs for Space. The line was 15 minutes, but we didn't feel like riding or waiting so we just got our FP and left. On our way out we saw these guys in front of the Star Trader.

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They were very funny and VERY entertaining. I love stuff like this about Disneyland. (You'll see in this TR I have a thing for Disneyland "bands" this trip.) After they were finished with their show, they said they had to get "back to work". They're janitors! And they really started cleaning and sweeping when they were done. Too funny.

We were leaving Tomorrowland and this space ranger walked passed us. I don't know where he was going, but he was on a mission. I just noticed Buzz has big teeth. Hm.

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We decided we were hungry, but not hungry enough for lunch. So we decided on 2 jalapeno cheese pretzels and super special Coke Corner Coke. Score! The line was short and we talked to the CM for awhile. He was very nice and asked if we were having a good time. Of course! Always always. He also told me I used the last bit of his Cherry syrup. Oops. :rolleyes1 So we ordered 2 jalapeno cheese pretzels and 2 Cokes. One with cherry syrup for me and vanilla for Jesus. Jesus is NOT a soda drinker. At all. If he does drink soda, it's "light" sodas like Sprite. But he love loves Disneyland Vanilla Coke. It still surprises me that he drinks the whole thing too. We went outside and sat closer to the Plaza Pavilion area. It's such a cute area/building. I hope they do something cool with it. Here are our pretzels and Cokes in the Christmas cups.

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We spent a good amount of time just people watching and eating. There are backstage doors right near there and it was interesting seeing characters and CMs come out of there. First we saw Chip and Dale. They were messing with some family sitting across from us. Then they walked across Main Street and ended by the Red corn dog Wagon and the photo center. Then Alice and Mad Hatter came out. These are by far my favorite characters that can be found at Disneyland. They are always super funny no matter what CM is playing them that day. If you ever get a chance to watch them play musical chairs at the Coke Corner, do it. You will be in stitches. Seriously. They came out to get ready to play, we should have stayed to watch (we've seen it before though) but we didn't. We also saw the Dream Team come out. They weren't wearing their white vests, but they had HUGE duffel bags filled with Dream Ears. We could tell they were Dream Ears by the shape through the bag. Those 2 bags were stuffed. We would have followed them, but we have Dream Ears from October, so we wanted to let another family get them. If it was Dream FPs, that would have been a different story. :laughing: :yay: Here's us being cheesey.

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After we finished our pretzels and Cokes we made our way through all the stores. And I found this cute little girl. I should have bought her but she was $10! I was shocked, but she had metal in her so her arms could move. I ended up getting a cooler stuffed souvey, but you'll see later.

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We made our way out the Emporium and I had to take a picture of the giant tree again.

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We ran into these guys playing in front of the Fire House. They were really good and I was having a grand time clapping along!

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To the left of the band was Goofy in his holiday gear. I was laughing because his shirt was coming up showing his fuzzy tummy. :rotfl:

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We went to the hotel. It was already getting near 3pm and it was getting cooler (already?). We decided we were just going to check in, change and go back.

...CONT...

prettyprincessbelle

12-12-2008, 11:27 PM

...CONT...

We stayed at the Hojo this time and we both loved it. We got the entertainment rate for all 3 nights which was amazing. I was very very pleased with that hotel. We are probably going to make it our "normal" hotel from now on.

We had room 1517. We were in building 1, on the 5th floor. We were the second to last room before the stairs.

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The room was a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be. And our view was amazing. I was really pleased. I wasn't expecting that good of a view since I heard a lot of views are blocked by trees.

This is looking from the door.

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The micro and fridge.

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This was our view.

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This was the view of the room looking from the window to the door.

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This was the little sitting area with 2 chairs and a table.

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The balcony.

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The bathroom. Well, the potty.

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The shower.

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The extra sink. Which I really really loved having.

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wendylady36

12-13-2008, 12:04 AM

You're making me want to go to Disneyland to see all the holiday stuff! Stop it! :upsidedow

Looks like your first day has been really exciting so far! Oddly enough, I'm now craving a Coke. ;)

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-13-2008, 12:52 AM

You're so fun Courtney :)

I KNOW you had an amazing time; I can tell from the pictures. Oh and Eric is the same way about cars. Both of his cars were mustangs. The first one was an '87 5.0 GT and his last one was a 2001 (?) GT. He's a mustang fanatic. He also works on cars so when we drive, he always makes sure our cars in PERFECT condition. HAHA !

I'm surprised that you don't like HMH being a NBC fan! Thats crazy. Oh and I loooove those janitors. We saw them on our October trip and they are soo fantastic! Oh and the walkthrough !? ! How cool is that! I soo wanna see that :)

I can't wait to hear more!

travelmel

12-13-2008, 02:04 AM

I'm not surprised you couldn't find any air. With all that smog it must cost a FORTUNE to filter it down there. ;)

just kidding, don't yell at me, I'm a native! LOL Ex-patriot?? I dunno but I was born there.

Here's the bad thing. I decided I can't look at the Xmas decorations. I'm going to try and read your TR from my email so I can keep up with it but I don't wanna see the xmas decor because we are going next year for xmas and I want it to be fresh. Weird?

I'll still keep reading though!

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-13-2008, 10:56 AM

Here's the bad thing. I decided I can't look at the Xmas decorations. I'm going to try and read your TR from my email so I can keep up with it but I don't wanna see the xmas decor because we are going next year for xmas and I want it to be fresh. Weird?

I agree !! I was having a hard time looking because we're going to be there in a couple of weeks and it was kind of revealing things that I would see when I get there. :laughing: I'm probably going to end up looking at everything anyway!

Sherry E

12-13-2008, 11:03 AM

And I am the exact opposite - my trip is in 6 days and I want to see it all! I want to see all the pictures of everything so I make sure not to overlook something cool (which often happens when we go to DLR)! So, uh, Courtney, if you could just do a separate TR for ME, so I could see all the pictures, and then the other TR for the ones who don't want the surprises ruined, then that would be great!!!:lmao: :lmao: It's not like that would take too much time or anything... I am just kidding, OF COURSE!:lmao:

Oh, and I love all the Castle and garland pictures so far! Great!

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-13-2008, 11:23 AM

And I am the exact opposite - my trip is in 6 days and I want to see it all! I want to see all the pictures of everything so I make sure not to overlook something cool (which often happens when we go to DLR)! So, uh, Courtney, if you could just do a separate TR for ME, so I could see all the pictures, and then the other TR for the ones who don't want the surprises ruined, then that would be great!!!:lmao: :lmao: It's not that would take too much time or anything... I am just kidding, OF COURSE!:lmao:

Oh, and I love all the Castle and garland pictures so far! Great!

You're so funny Sherry !!

I agree with you about the garland and castle; absolutely beautiful :)

Sherry E

12-13-2008, 01:24 PM

You're so funny Sherry !!

I agree with you about the garland and castle; absolutely beautiful :)

Yes, those are lovely images in those pictures. It's especially nice because of the contrast between the blue sky and the Christmas decorations. Normally we think of holiday decor and snow or at least gray skies, but out here in California it's a different story! And yet those images are still Christmasy, even though it looks like it's summer!

Sort of OT for a second - have you guys seen any of these Travel Channel specials on the Most Christmasy Places in America, or Extreme Christmas decorations, etc.? First of all, those will definitely put anyone who is not quite in the Christmas mood on the right track (I also recommmend the great movie, "Love Actually," which is an excellent and funny, Christmasy romantic comedy-drama). Secondly, why is it that I have never heard of this town in Washington state (Leavenworth, I think it's called) that does up its whole town in a Bavarian Christmas village type motif for the holidays? Everyone in the town comes to the village and it is absolutely beautiful - it almost makes me want to move to Washington - just for that Leavenworth Christmas! It looks like something out of a Thomas Kinkade snowy painting, except with a Bavarian twist! People come form other states and far away places to be in Leavenworth to see all the cool Christmasy stuff, and I had never heard of it before I watched the Travel Channel shows!

kmab00

12-13-2008, 01:49 PM

The view from your room really is amazing! Wow!

Looks like you guys had a great first day! I think it's neat you saw all of those characters...and the Dream Team! Wow! I probably would have stalked them but I understand why you didn't! :rotfl2:

Can't wait to hear more!

Sherry E

12-13-2008, 03:36 PM

Oooooh - Courtney, you have a picture with Christmas Mickey and Minnie in your signature! Where did you find them in DLR? I must find them too!:santa: And I am dying to know what your cool souvenir is that you got! Did you finally find a stuffed Little Green Man alien dude somewhere?

Sherry E

12-13-2008, 08:08 PM

Did I read correctly (over on the controversial HoJo thread) that you and Jesus are *thinking* about going to DLR next Saturday (Dec. 20th) and staying until Sunday? Well, if so, you MUST look for me, because you know I will be there that weekend too (as will Nancy, TiggerNZ, Cheshire Girl and several others)! In fact, I will probably be by myself on Sunday afternoon. I am vague on what everyone else looks like and may not recognize them right away, but I think I would spot you and Jesus right away if we happened to be in the same place at the same time!!

prettyprincessbelle

12-13-2008, 08:26 PM

Oh wow! I love it!!! The pictures of the castle are so pretty. I so wish I was there right now!! And how cool you were able to do the walk through. :wizard:

Hiya Beth! I was so happy the walk through was open! I wish you guys were there right now too!! :wizard:!

You're making me want to go to Disneyland to see all the holiday stuff! Stop it! :upsidedow

Looks like your first day has been really exciting so far! Oddly enough, I'm now craving a Coke. ;)

You know you wanna go! Go go! And get a Coke! :goodvibes

You're so fun Courtney :)

I KNOW you had an amazing time; I can tell from the pictures. Oh and Eric is the same way about cars. Both of his cars were mustangs. The first one was an '87 5.0 GT and his last one was a 2001 (?) GT. He's a mustang fanatic. He also works on cars so when we drive, he always makes sure our cars in PERFECT condition. HAHA !

I'm surprised that you don't like HMH being a NBC fan! Thats crazy. Oh and I loooove those janitors. We saw them on our October trip and they are soo fantastic! Oh and the walkthrough !? ! How cool is that! I soo wanna see that :)

I can't wait to hear more!

You're fun, Jasmine!! :rotfl: That's funny about the boys and cars. At least isn't the only one about Mustangs. I thought something was wrong with him! You should see when Jesus washes his, it takes him like 2 days. So weird. :confused3

I like HMH, we went on it like 5 times this trip, but I do like the original better. I'm weird. ;)

I'm not surprised you couldn't find any air. With all that smog it must cost a FORTUNE to filter it down there. ;)

just kidding, don't yell at me, I'm a native! LOL Ex-patriot?? I dunno but I was born there.

Here's the bad thing. I decided I can't look at the Xmas decorations. I'm going to try and read your TR from my email so I can keep up with it but I don't wanna see the xmas decor because we are going next year for xmas and I want it to be fresh. Weird?

I'll still keep reading though!

Lol, cover your eyes!!! :cool2:

I agree !! I was having a hard time looking because we're going to be there in a couple of weeks and it was kind of revealing things that I would see when I get there. :laughing: I'm probably going to end up looking at everything anyway!

See I was the same way as Sherry! I wanted to see everything!!!!

And I am the exact opposite - my trip is in 6 days and I want to see it all! I want to see all the pictures of everything so I make sure not to overlook something cool (which often happens when we go to DLR)! So, uh, Courtney, if you could just do a separate TR for ME, so I could see all the pictures, and then the other TR for the ones who don't want the surprises ruined, then that would be great!!!:lmao: :lmao: It's not like that would take too much time or anything... I am just kidding, OF COURSE!:lmao:

Oh, and I love all the Castle and garland pictures so far! Great!

Yep! I totally understand and I was the same way!! I should make a Sherry only TR for you!!! :thumbsup2

The view from your room really is amazing! Wow!

Looks like you guys had a great first day! I think it's neat you saw all of those characters...and the Dream Team! Wow! I probably would have stalked them but I understand why you didn't! :rotfl2:

Can't wait to hear more!

I know, I was so surprised about our view. Every morning I woke up and looked out the window "Good Morning Matterhorn!!!" :rotfl: :cloud9:

Oooooh - Courtney, you have a picture with Christmas Mickey and Minnie in your signature! Where did you find them in DLR? I must find them too!:santa: And I am dying to know what your cool souvenir is that you got! Did you finally find a stuffed Little Green Man alien dude somewhere?

We saw Mickey and Minnie right in the front, in front of the Mickey flower head. They were both standing there without a CM handler. It was really weird and the line was really short!!! Oh and you'll see in my next post, Sherry!!! I was totally thinking of you about the Alien!!!!!

Did I read correctly (over on the controversial HoJo thread) that you and Jesus are *thinking* about going to DLR next Saturday (Dec. 20th) and staying until Sunday? Well, if so, you MUST look for me, because you know I will be there that weekend too (as will Nancy, TiggerNZ, Cheshire Girl and several others)! In fact, I will probably be by myself on Sunday afternoon. I am vague on what everyone else looks like and may not recognize them right away, but I think I would spot you and Jesus right away if we happened to be in the same place at the same time!!

I know, the drama Hojo thread! :eek: Yes! We're *thinking*. We want to take Jesus' brothers and it's up to them. I have a feeling we won't and I don't want to get my hopes up. But it's up to the boys if they want to see the Christmas decorations. I'm going over tonight, so we'll see what they say. I'll totally let you know so I can find you!!! :hug:

prettyprincessbelle

12-13-2008, 08:32 PM

So looking at my times on my pictures we stayed at the hotel for about 3 hours. We got at the Hojo right at 3 and walked back to DL at around 6. The walk to and from the Hojo was seriously a breeze. We were in building 1, so I don't know how much farther it is when you stay in other buildings, but it was really easy. I took us probably 6 or 7 minutes.

I think these are so pretty. :lovestruc

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They had all the Candlelight Processional stuff up already. They kept adding more every night. I had pictures of it, but they got deleted when the memory card got full. :headache:

We ended up in NOS because we were hungry. Jesus felt like a Monte Cristo and I couldn't argue. I asked the CM how long it would take to seat us, she said 5 to 20 minutes. Uh, okay. We put our name in and were seated in about 10 minutes. We just wandered in the stores until they called our name.

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For appetizer we ordered the Pommes Frites and we scarfed those down. We were tempted to ask for more dipping sauce, but I had to control myself or I wouldn't finish my dinner.

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We ordered the Monte Cristo and asked to split it. They brought it to us on one plate but with 2 sauces. We didn't mind sharing anyways, so it was no big deal.

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I ordered a Mint Julep! Yum. Jesus got a boring iced tea. Booorrrrriiinng. :rotfl:

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So normally table service places charge you $4 for a split plate charge. Well I guess because literally the CM didn't give us 2 plates I guess that's not "splitting" the meal, he didn't charge us $4. He obviously knew we were splitting because he gave us 2 sauces. We thought this was super nice and he got a nice tip from us. I bet he didn't charge us because we didn't complain that he didn't give us 2 plates. We both finished the entire plate, and I was suprised by my part that I ate all of it! The Monte Cristo is so filling and rich.

After dinner just wondered around. We had our Space FPs and for some reason we didn't use them. I think we forgot. Actually we didn't ride one "big" ride this whole trip, except for Screamin' at DCA. We ended up in Tomorrowland and just looked in all the stores. In the Buzz store we found this little guy.

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Now, Sherry knows I like the little green aliens from Toy Story and she likes them too. And since forever I've been on the hunt for just a plain alien stuffed toy. And we can not find them. Well I found this guy hiding underneath really cute stuffed Buzz and Woodys who look like babies (I should have taken a picture of them, they're really cute). This little alien, when you pressed him he shakes and talks. I liked him, but I wanted something soft that didn't talk or shake!! But I had no luck and now I'm thinking I should have gotten him.

See, aren't these guys cute??

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We wanted to watch the fireworks in front of IASWH, so we walked over there. We got a spot right on the platform thingy that's there. Seriously, watching them from over here is such a different experience than from watching them in front of the castle. They project really cute things on the IASWH facade. Well, it was so dang foggy that night. You couldn't see anything. We were waiting for them to cancel but they didn't. It was still really nice though.

Here's us waiting for the fireworks.

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Here's picture of the fireworks.

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On some of them you couldn't see anything, just the sky turned colors like this. Doesn't it look creepy?

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...CONT...

prettyprincessbelle

12-13-2008, 08:42 PM

...CONT...

And then, OMG, it started to snow. And seriously, this was a snow BLIZZARD! We experienced the snow last year on Main Street and no way did it snow this much over there. I don't know if they added more snow since last year or what, but it was crazy!

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This is me being happy and Jesus being happy and looking at the snow. Seriously, my eyes were watering. It was too much for me seeing so many people playing and dancing in the snow. Even if it was just bubbles. And the music? Oh man, I lost it.

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See! Look at all the bubbles in our hair! It was madness.

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After the fireworks, the park was closing so we just walked really slow to go back to the hotel. We wandered through Fantasyland and I think we looked through all the shops again before we went out.

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Look at all the people! :scared: Don't you have work tomorrow!!!??

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We're home!!

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Then we went to bed!! It was a semi-productive 1st day. The next day is where the trip got interesting. Somebody got sick and it wasn't Jesus. :sad2: :sick:

Sherry E

12-13-2008, 09:05 PM

travelmel

12-13-2008, 09:17 PM

Couldn't keep my eyes off of those pomme frites!

Yummmmm E!

Nice bubble-blizzard!

mommaU4

12-13-2008, 10:04 PM

Mmmmm, food porn and Christmas. I'm lovin it! :love:

wendylady36

12-13-2008, 10:16 PM

Pretty pictures! Yummy food porn!

Being sick at Disneyland is no fun.

I read your update while drinking a Coke! :thumbsup2

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-13-2008, 10:47 PM

You guys are so funny ! "Food porn" sounds so bad haha.

Poor Courtney ! That sucks that you got sick. I love the snow pictures; I totally tear up too when I watch the holiday fireworks :) You know, I could never get used to that mint julep. It just doesn't sit well with me. I always feel like I'm drinking mouth wash. I'm glad you like it though !!!

Yakety76

12-14-2008, 08:14 AM

You and Jesus look so happy!
Thanks for sharing all the pictures. The decorations and lights are gorgeous.

Sleepless Knight

12-16-2008, 03:50 PM

I've been battling a cold for the past week, and I was just grateful that I caught it after going to Disneyland. I don't even want to think about not feeling well at Disneyland.

kaoden39

12-16-2008, 03:56 PM

Having been sick at Disneyland you have my deep sympathy. It can ruin a trip. :sad2:

kmab00

12-18-2008, 04:33 PM

Wow that really IS a lot of snow!!! My goodness!! Looks like a lot of fun, though! :) I hope you didn't get too sick!

mommaU4

12-20-2008, 10:19 PM

Got your card today Courtney. Thanks! :santa:

prettyprincessbelle

12-21-2008, 02:53 PM

First of all, uh-oh....sounds like you got sick! Hopefully that didn't ruin everything for you, but we will find out in the next chapter!

Secondly, you're right - from those snow pictures, it does look like a lot more than what they dumped on Main Street last year. I LOVE that! I think they should dump those bubbles all over the park, in every land! The snowier, the better, in my opinion!

Next, I love the picture of the Teacups - those lanterns look so beautiful when they are lit up at night. And you're right - the picture of the red sky does look creepy and doomsday-ish!

Finally, the Little Green Alien Man that you found must be what I recalled seeing! It was driving me nuts because I thought I had quickly passed through some shop at some point last year and seen a stuffed Alien out of the corner of my eye (and didn't stop to look at it), but it must have been the one that moves and talks. I hope if you change your mind and decide to get him in the future that there are still some left. Seeing that he was hiding underneath baby Buzz and baby Woody (one has giant teeth, the other one has an enormous head!), this must mean the alien men are becoming extinct! I love all the Disney characters as babies. I love the Disney Cuties series because they look like Disney characters as if they were drawn by Hello Kitty/Sanrio! They have big, giant heads! I almost got some pins I found in World of Disney with baby Pooh and his giant head, and the baby Mickey and his giant head, but I restrained myself!

I'm totally going to get the Little Green Alien next time. There was a couple in that bin. Hopefully you found one this weekend! And the baby Buzz and Woody were sooooo cute!!! They used to sell this purse that had all the Disney Cuties on it and I'm kicking myself because I didn't buy it and they don't have them in the parks anymore. GRR!! :headache:

Couldn't keep my eyes off of those pomme frites!

Yummmmm E!

Nice bubble-blizzard!

OH! They were sooo good! It was the first time we had them and I was in heeeeaaven!! :cloud9:

Mmmmm, food porn and Christmas. I'm lovin it! :love:

Food porn + Christmas = Happy Beth! YAY! :banana:

Pretty pictures! Yummy food porn!

Being sick at Disneyland is no fun.

I read your update while drinking a Coke! :thumbsup2

You go Coke girl! :thumbsup2

You guys are so funny ! "Food porn" sounds so bad haha.

Poor Courtney ! That sucks that you got sick. I love the snow pictures; I totally tear up too when I watch the holiday fireworks :) You know, I could never get used to that mint julep. It just doesn't sit well with me. I always feel like I'm drinking mouth wash. I'm glad you like it though !!!

Food porn sounds dirty! lol I tear up too when I watched the fireworks. Tear. :guilty:

You and Jesus look so happy!
Thanks for sharing all the pictures. The decorations and lights are gorgeous.

Aww, thank you!! :goodvibes

I've been battling a cold for the past week, and I was just grateful that I caught it after going to Disneyland. I don't even want to think about not feeling well at Disneyland.

I hope you're feeling better! :flower3: :hug: I'm glad I wasn't sick the whole trip. For the time I wasn't feeling well already made my head hurt from not being able to go the parks.

Having been sick at Disneyland you have my deep sympathy. It can ruin a trip. :sad2:

It can! I'm so thankful this sickness didn't, although it did mess up one night, but I'm very happy it wasn't the whole trip. I can totally see how it can.. :sad2:

Wow that really IS a lot of snow!!! My goodness!! Looks like a lot of fun, though! :) I hope you didn't get too sick!

Hi Karen! It was a ton of snow! It was like taking a bubble bath! :laughing:

Got your card today Courtney. Thanks! :santa:

Good! I'm glad you got it, Beth!! :hippie:

prettyprincessbelle

12-21-2008, 03:04 PM

Tuesday, December 2nd - DLR Day 2

Hi guys!! Don't think I forgot about you all! I love you guys! :hug: I've been so dang busy with work and Christmas shopping and wrapping and being lazy! But I'm BACK! And I'm going to continue this TR!!! Today I'm just cleaning and doing laundry, so in between that I will be posting here. So let's go..!

Even though we got back to the hotel early the night before, we still went to bed kind of late, around 11pm. Meaning we were tired in the morning and we woke up late. I don't remember the exact time, but it was the afternoon ish.

So here's where I get sick! Well the first time. I woke up before Jesus because I take longer to get ready than he does. I take a shower while he's still asleep. I get out of the shower and I just feel horrible. I've felt like this before 2 other times I can think of. The last time I did was not that long ago (early November) after I had my surgery. Anyways, I just felt like a big piece of poop and I couldn't do anything. :sick: So I get dressed real quick (even though that was a challenge) and just lay down while Jesus gets in the shower. I wasn't so much sleepy, just wasn't feeling well, so I was just laying there. Then I was thinking about the last time I felt like this I drank some orange juice and felt somewhat better, but we didn't have anything fruity or sugary and the closest thing we had to fruit was a fruit roll up thing. So I take a little piece of that. ICK. Bad idea. I run to the bathroom and just throw up. Jesus was already out of the shower, I think he was shaving? And he was like "...Uhh, what happened?" I threw up a couple times and honestly I felt better, lol. :sick: So after that drama Jesus says we can stay home and I insist I feel better. I brush my teeth and get ready. And I thought *THOUGHT* that was the end of that, but apparently not. You'll see later.

So we drove to the parks this time. I don't remember why, but we did. And our first stop?! City Hall for a birthday button!! If I didn't mention earlier we were celebrating Jesus' 22nd birthday!!! His birthday is really December 5th (same as Walt Disney's and Jesus' Mom's!) but we were celebrating a week early. So for some reason Jesus wanted Chuy (short for Jesus) on his birthday button. I don't know why. I don't call him Chuy, his extended family does, but whatever, he's the birthday boy.

Yay Happy Birthday! I like it when the CMs draw little Mickey heads on them.

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So I don't remember what our "plan" was. Not so much that we had one this trip because we didn't. But according to my pictures we ended up in Tomorrowland and rode Buzz. It was walk on.

Buzz, where's your face?

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And at first I was getting SO excited because through out the whole game (ride?) I was beating Jesus!!! He is a very competitive boy and never let's me win. So for me to be beating him was like a miracle. But alas, come to the end of the ride I lost by a lot. Our little car thing stopped a couple times so we were just shooting away and I think this is my best score!

This is Jesus the champion's score.

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And this is mine the loser's score.

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And our picture. I don't know, but it looks like I'm ducking from Zurg?

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Then we went to Fantasyland and walked on the Matterhorn. Well about a 5 minute wait. We rode the Tommorowland side. And we always ride the Tomorrowland side and never the Fantasyland side and I have no idea why. We sat in the front of the bobsled and I think the very front as the most room. Usually we sit together and my knees always hit the sides, but this time that we sat in the very front, my legs had more room and my knees didn't bang. It was a really fun ride.

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And then we went on IASWH! Yay! I totally love IASW! And I missed it and I could have cried with happiness that we went on it. I took a lot of pictures, so here we go.

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I like how the facade extends all the way to the bushes.

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Buffalo?

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New flume!

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We're happy!!

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Inside the ride.

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I love this hippo guy!!

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Feliz Navidad!!!!!

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...CONT...

wendylady36

12-21-2008, 03:13 PM

Yay, an update! :banana:

I'm sorry you weren't feeling well. Yay you for being a trooper and going to the parks even though you weren't feeling well.

You do look like you are ducking from something in your BLAB photo! :rotfl:

I always ride the Tomorrowland side of the Matterhorn too. I don't go on it very often though, because I have a bad back and that's the only ride that makes me want to cry from pain, but I still LOVE it!!!!

Your IASWH pictures are so pretty, I love them! It makes me want to hop in the car and drive the 7 hours just to go on it! :rotfl2:

:hyper: popcorn::

prettyprincessbelle

12-21-2008, 03:44 PM

Sunny sun.

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The "new" rainforest.

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Yes, please. That would be nice.

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I love giraffes!

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So after our cruise around the world we went through the castle.

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And we found this little lady sitting there talking to some kids. I love how bright her robe is.

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We then just parked it on a bench and people watched. I love doing this. No so much the people watching part, but just sitting and taking in everything. No matter how many times I go, I could never get tired of
enjoying the atmosphere. We sat there for about 20 minutes and decided we were hungry and we would go to DCA to go get some food. Before we park hopped we took pictures.

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Me trying to be Donald.

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And Minnie with her princess pose.

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I didn't know how to pose like Pluto. On my knees? So I just petted him. :)

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Dumbo! I look really Asian here.

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Partners.

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Big mammajamma tree.

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On our way out we stopped at the stores on the left side of Main Street. I fell in love with this picture. It's Belle on her horse getting away from the castleand the wolves *Sigh* I want it. Where will I put it? I don't know.
But I want it.

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Me trying to be Myspace-ish in this really cool NBC mirror.

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Then we went into the Main Street Cinema (is that what it's called?). I like going in there because they change the movies every so often and it's usually quiet and there's no one in there.

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We saw the big cheese in his Christmas gear.

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And the big duck!

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The Train Station.

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Tink with her crazy eyes.

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Up next, DCA!!!

...CONT...

prettyprincessbelle

12-21-2008, 04:16 PM

The pretty much only Christmas decoration at DCA.

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No Santa's Beach Blast this year. :(

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So we decided we wanted Pacific Warf Cafe for lunch. But a ton of other people were thinking the same thing. We were hungry and didn't feel like walking anywhere else. We probably waited 10 minutes in line. I ordered the chicken salad and Jesus ordered the clam chowder. I also got a hot chocolate because I was getting cold. We got a table by what's left of the water on the other side of the pier that they didn't drain left. There was an older couple sitting at the table next to us and the man looked just like Santa. He had a real white beard and white hair and was wearing a santa hat. He also had on a red jacket. People on the other side of the water were waving and yelling "Santa!" to him. It was really cute. A family was walking by their table and they said hi to Santa and the Dad said to his kids "See, even Santa needs to come to Disneyland!". It was really cute. His wife didn't look much like Mrs. Clause though.

Anyways, here's some more food porn (naughty!). My chicken salad. It was really really REALLY good.

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Jesus' clam chowder.

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After lunch Jesus decided he wanted dessert. By this time the sun was starting to go down and I was just freeeezing. I was so cold. So we said Jesus would get some ice cream at Catch a Flave, we would ride Screamin' and then go back to the hotel to change into warmer clothes for tonight. We went to Catch a Flave and Jesus got orange swirl. It's super yummy. I love the cotton candy flavor best though, but I was so cold I couldn't finish an ice cream by myself. We stood near the big bilboards next to Catch a Flave and watched the people on Screamin' take off. Here's Jesus' ice cream.

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The very dried out and empty Paradise Pier.

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A Screamin' car about to take off.

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The lights on Ariel's came on.

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So Jesus finished his ice cream, I was still freezing and we waited about 20 minutes for Screamin'. I was even colder afetr the ride. Brrrr!

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We always take funny pictures. And we both look Asian here and I look anorexic because I sucked my face in. Oh yeah, that's us in the front if you couldn't tell. ;)

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So after we got off and laughed at our funny picture I was almost in tears because I was so cold. We got to the parking structure, found the car and drove 5 minutes back to the Hojo with the heater on. I could not stop shaking. We got back to the room and I was literally crying because I could not get warm. I got into bed (without changing into pjs) and and as soon as I got comfy my face just turned so hot and red while the rest of my body was cold. Uhoh. Fever. So, I always carry medicine in my purse, Advil, Tylenol, Pepto, Claratin, Benadryl. I took some Tylenol but Jesus was thinking I was getting the flu. He said I should take some Day Quil, well, darling, I don't have any! He suggested him going downstairs to the Hojo super store and getting some. Wonderful. But it's going to cost you $10! He goes anyways and comes back with $9.95 DayQuil. Told ya so. I thank him and take it. Now at this time it's early. Probably 5:00pm. He said not to worry and we won't be going back to the parks. I felt horrible thinking I was ruining his birthday trip by being sick and blah blah. He tells me not to worry and we still have 1 day and a half left here. Aww.. :) So not that much later I fall asleep. I woke up again around 7:35 and I could feel my fever breaking. I felt a lot better. Woohoo! I get up, take my contacts off, change into my pjs and brush my teeth. Jesus is just watching tv. I get back into bed and right when I start to fall asleep I hear. Boom. Boom. Huh? Fireworks! Jesus wakes me up and tells me to look out the window. We had a perfect view. I didn't want to go on the balcony because I didn't want to get cold again so Jesus set up the 2 chairs right in front of the window and I got a blanket and we sat and watched the fireworks. I wanted to sing along to add a soundtrack to our musicless fireworks, but I only know the works to RDCT so I wasn't any help. So after that I go back to bed and I think Jesus fell asleep not that long after me. He set the alarm for early early so we could be at the park at opening.

julezdisney

12-21-2008, 04:43 PM

Hello Courtney! How are ya, honey?!

I'm reading your TR and enjoying it! Finish this one though, this time! :laughing:

kaoden39

12-21-2008, 05:52 PM

Oh you poor thing. I feel so sorry for you and Jesus of course. :hug: BUt at least you got to watch the fire works.

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-21-2008, 10:18 PM

Your pics with Donald, Minnie and Pluto are adorable. You really are so cute :) !!

Jesus is so sweet to take care of you so well :hug: What a loveable guy ! That chicken salad looks so good and the orange swirl (my mom says so too!). OH and I LOOOVE that belle picture. How amazing is that ?

I can't wait to hear more Courtney ! .. and I'm so glad that you started feeling better !

mommaU4

12-22-2008, 12:51 AM

Oh man, that's too bad you got sick. I'm sorry! Jesus sounds a lot like Ruben the way he took care of you. That's so sweet. :goodvibes It's nice to have such a good guy isn't it? He sounds like a keeper. ;)

Love the characters in their holiday clothing. Very festive. And I love all the shots from the Small World Holiday. I miss it!

wendylady36

12-22-2008, 12:19 PM

So many pretty pictures. :goodvibes I'm happy that the two of you were able to enjoy the parks a little. Jesus is a great guy to take care of you like that.

travelmel

12-22-2008, 01:55 PM

Ohhhh SICK! Doggone it! That stinks! :guilty:

I hope you get better soon in this TR. :upsidedow

I just wanted to say that the chicken salad looks amazing!

Also, I thought the pic of Donald in his xmas gear was cute because it looks like he's looking passed everybody else and just waving at you. :cloud9:

Great update!

Sherry E

12-23-2008, 01:52 PM

kmab00

12-23-2008, 06:29 PM

Sorry you got so sick at DL!!! That's no fun but I'm glad you started feeling better! :)

I love all of the Christmas decorations! IASW was closed when we were there so I never got to ride it! Bummer. Why is Paradise Pier empty with no water in it? It looks really funny that way!

prettyprincessbelle

12-29-2008, 10:12 PM

Hey everybody! I hope you all had a great Christmas!!

An update is coming soon, I promise! I've been so busy and this week is no different! I promise promise pinky promise I'll update soon!! :)

wendylady36

12-30-2008, 01:33 PM

Is it "soon" yet? :hyper:

wazowskiLOVER:)

12-30-2008, 02:10 PM

I totally understand you being busy during the holidays !!

I mean you're Filipino and Jesus is Mexican. I know exactly what you're going through ! :laughing:

I'm patiently waiting thoughpopcorn:: :surfweb:

fairykin

12-30-2008, 04:59 PM

More More!!!We want more pics.:cheer2:
This is a great trip report.:thumbsup2

prettyprincessbelle

01-03-2009, 06:52 PM

Hello Courtney! How are ya, honey?!

I'm reading your TR and enjoying it! Finish this one though, this time! :laughing:

Hey you!! I haven't seen you on the DLR side in a long time!! How did your WDW trip go? I never go on that side of the board, I need to go over there and read your TR!!! :goodvibes

Oh you poor thing. I feel so sorry for you and Jesus of course. :hug: BUt at least you got to watch the fire works.

Thank you! :hug: It was okay though, it would have been worse! :wizard:

Your pics with Donald, Minnie and Pluto are adorable. You really are so cute :) !!

Jesus is so sweet to take care of you so well :hug: What a loveable guy ! That chicken salad looks so good and the orange swirl (my mom says so too!). OH and I LOOOVE that belle picture. How amazing is that ?

I can't wait to hear more Courtney ! .. and I'm so glad that you started feeling better !

Hi Jasmine! I know you're at DLR right now! I hope you're having a wonderful time!!

Thank you! :hug:

I know, isn't he sweet!? The chicken salad was SO good!! You have to try it! Same with the ice cream! I always get either the bubble gum flavor or the cotton candy flavor and those are way better than stinky orange! :yay:

Oh man, that's too bad you got sick. I'm sorry! Jesus sounds a lot like Ruben the way he took care of you. That's so sweet. :goodvibes It's nice to have such a good guy isn't it? He sounds like a keeper. ;)

Love the characters in their holiday clothing. Very festive. And I love all the shots from the Small World Holiday. I miss it!

Hi Beth!!!!

Aw, Ruben must be a nice hubby!!!! Jesus is a wonderful guy!! After almost 6 years I've figured he is a keeper!! :thumbsup2

So many pretty pictures. :goodvibes I'm happy that the two of you were able to enjoy the parks a little. Jesus is a great guy to take care of you like that.

Thanks Wendy! He's awesome! Good thing he took care of me, or I would have been grumpy!! :rotfl:

Ohhhh SICK! Doggone it! That stinks! :guilty:

I hope you get better soon in this TR. :upsidedow

I just wanted to say that the chicken salad looks amazing!

Also, I thought the pic of Donald in his xmas gear was cute because it looks like he's looking passed everybody else and just waving at you. :cloud9:

Great update!

Stinky being sick!

Oh my the chicken salad was so so good! :cloud9:

I know, it looks like Donald is waving!! lol. Woo!

prettyprincessbelle

01-03-2009, 06:53 PM

Being sick at DLR must be the worst! Especially when you only have a few good days in the park and have spent good money to be there and stay at HoJo's, you don't want to use up the time up being sick! I have never been sick myself there (knock on wood) in the traditional sense (I have had bad problems with pain in my back and legs, though), but my friend Shawn always seems to get sick in some way when she is there. I am surprised you even had an appetite for that big chicken salad, but it is probably good you got something healthy in your stomach. (DLR definitely does not skimp on their salads in any of their restaurants. Have you noticed? I don't know if you have ever eaten at Wine Country Trattoria, but my friend Jackie ordered a pizzetta salad from there the other night, and it was ENORMOUS! It was a tower o' salad! I couldn't believe that they would serve a salad that big to one person! She was hungry but she couldn't even eat a quarter of it, it was so huge! I mean, she barely made a dent in it. I wish I had snapped a picture!)

Anyway, I am glad to hear that Jesus takes care of you and makes sure you get your rest when you are sick, and then makes sure you still get to see the fireworks! He knows how much you love DLR, so he probably knows how bad you feel dealing with being sick while you are there and during his birthday trip, no less! He definitely does sound like a keeper! And to echo what everyone else has said, you guys are SO cute together. (And I STILL think you should go into modeling, Courtney - just in case you haven't already considered doing that!!:goodvibes You have great features!)

Hi Sherry!!!!! :goodvibes

Yeah the salad was huge! I didn't even eat the bread part because I got full with the salad part. It was so yummy too!

I know, Jesus was really sweet on taking care of me that day. He's a wonderful guy. :lovestruc

Aw thank you, Sherry, you're so sweet! I always wanted to get into modeling, but I ended up competing in pageants, but it really wasn't the same! :hug:

Sorry you got so sick at DL!!! That's no fun but I'm glad you started feeling better! :)

I love all of the Christmas decorations! IASW was closed when we were there so I never got to ride it! Bummer. Why is Paradise Pier empty with no water in it? It looks really funny that way!

Aren't the Christmas decorations wonderful? I love them! :cloud9:

Paradise Pier is empty because they're going to be adding a water type show, so they had to drain it to add all the stuff at the bottom of the lake. Doesn't it look funny? They should have put walls around!!

Is it "soon" yet? :hyper:

YES! It's officially SOON! WOO!!!! :hyper: :banana:

I totally understand you being busy during the holidays !!

I mean you're Filipino and Jesus is Mexican. I know exactly what you're going through ! :laughing:

I'm patiently waiting thoughpopcorn:: :surfweb:

I'm so glad you understand, Jasmine!!! :wizard: :rotfl: :yay:

More More!!!We want more pics.:cheer2:
This is a great trip report.:thumbsup2

Woo! Thank you so much!!!!:goodvibes

prettyprincessbelle

01-03-2009, 06:56 PM

Wednesday, December 3rd - DLR Day 3

Wow, it's been awhile since an update, huh? I'm sorry for taking forever and 6 days to do this TR! Thank you for hanging in there with me! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years! Now on to the TR!

This was our thrid day at DLR and we woke up this morning bright and early. I was feeling wonderful and not a bit sick at all. From how I felt, it felt like my fever was gone. I took one Tylenol just in case though.

We wanted to get to the gates at rope drop (9:00AM) but of course that didn't happen. We weren't too late. We got there at 9:15. We hit Fantasyland first and got a heck of a lot done here. We hit Snow White and Pinnochio. We were going to do Peter Pan first (always first) but 15 minutes does make a huge difference. The line was already long for that, so we just skipped it. This is the day that EmmersistheMommy won the Dream Suite at PP around 9:30am, so if we would have gotten in line we would have been near her winning!! Not until we got onto Dumbo I started taking pictures.

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I've never paid attention to this before.

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I took a picture of our feather.

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Next we went to the Mad Tea Party.

I really like Monstro!

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Birthday Button Boy on the tea cups. That's a fake smile. :laughing:

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See what happens when he spins the cup too fast! Puke! :sick:

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That was the first time ever in my life that I actually got a little sick on that ride. Probably from being sick the day before, but I was no feeling too hot after that ride. Bleh. Next we went on the carousel. I wanted to ride Jingles, but a little girl got there first. So we rode a couple horses in front.

Weirdo!!

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This is me scared on the carousel. I DO NOT like horses at all. They're gross. Gross with big huge teeth. EW..!!!

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Jingles! Oh man, I love Julie Andrews.

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Then we got hungry so went to Riverbelle Terrace to grab some breakfast. We waited in line foreverrrr. There was only one side open, but the CM at the cash register was so so so slow. The CMs who were serving the food were even getting a little peeved. It was so frustrating because we were starving. Well, I ordered the Mark Twain and Jesus ordered the Steamboat. I really loved my potatoes and Jesus liked his pancakes. We left pretty happy full campers (besides having to wait so long).

Mark Twain.

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Steamboat.

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After that we walked past the Golden Horseshoe and saw the Laughing Stock Co. performing, so we stopped and watch. They're really, really funny.

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They were arguing over which lady was their Mom, the young lady in the greenish shirt or the older lady in skirt, lol.

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Then we saw everyone who was in line to go see the Billys was being allowed inside, so we hopped in the back of line and found a seat near the front. We've never watched Billy Hill and the Hillbillies before and we loved it. It was so funny and we plan on watching them every trip now!

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After that we made a potty stop and headed over to Big Thunder Ranch.

Shadows!!

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prettyprincessbelle

01-03-2009, 07:40 PM

BTMRR was down for refurb the week we were there. It was covered in tarps.

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We made it to Big Thunder Ranch! Well, uh, Santa's Reindeer Roundup!

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Look! Real reindeer. Who knew!?

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Santa wrote this nice note so we don't feed or touch his reindeer.

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Rudolph!?!

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Mrs. Clause!!

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Pluto with antlers.

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After that we walked over to Fantasyland to get on the train. But we really wanted popcorn so we stopped and got some of that too!!

Little Harold making some popcorn.

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Seriously, DLR popcorn is the best in the world.

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Mickey water tower over by the Toon Town train station.

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Us on the train!

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Matterhorn from inside the train.

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Giraffe!!

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Now the train was acting really weird. After we boared, we were on the train just stuck for about 15 minutes. The train would start, then stop and jerk and then we were stuck. It did this twice. After 15 minutes, the conductor told us something was wrong with the train and that they didn't know how long it would take to fix it so if we wanted to get off we could. Well, we were happy eating our popcorn and just sitting there so we stayed. Right after more than half the people left, the conductor said nevermind, we fixed it!! So off we went!

The only good picture that came out inside the dioramas!

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So we rode the train to Main Street station and hopped over to DCA. We then went to go see the Muppets!

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I really like this!

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I like this random little piggy spaceship too!

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Then we walked out and saw that the Delta Daddy-Os were singing in front of the animation building. They were singing oldies music, so of course we had to stop and watch and clap along. After about 5 minutes they saw Jesus' birthday button and called the birthday boy out so they could sing happy birthday to him. He loved it!!! He talked about it for days afterwards, totally made his year!!! It was wonderful! These guys are really really outstanding if you ever get a chance to see them.

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prettyprincessbelle

01-03-2009, 07:59 PM

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So after this is where my pictures get a little screwy. We had to delete some because the memory card was getting full, so at this time I am now confused. But from what I remember after that we left DCA and went back to the hotel. We changed and got ready for the evening and came back.

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We then had our picture taken in front of the wintery castle!

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Then we got 2 hot chocolates and 2 churros and found a spot near IASW to watch the parade.

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We didn't get any pictures of the parade because this is when our camera ran out of space. For some reason that night there were no fireworks. It wasn't due to wind or anything, I think it was on the times guide already. After the parade we walked around in NOS and I bought the BEST stuffed animal ever. Scary Teddy! I saw a little girl with him the day before and I knew I wanted it. I took this picture of him in the hotel.

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After that we left the park and went to DTD to eat. If you didn't notice we didn't really eat much this day. I still wasn't feeling too well and Jesus was being a stubborn sweety and didn't want to eat if I didn't want to. So since we was the birthday boy he got to pick where to eat for dinner. He chose Naples. We ate there last year for his birthday and he loved it. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of our meal, but I will tell you what we ate! I ordered a strawberry Italian Soda to drink. Jesus ordered some sparkling wine. It was good I had some! Then to eat I ordered the Prosciutto e Melone. It was Proscuitto and fresh melon with burrata and lavender scented honey. I also ordered a cup of minestrone soup. Both were super yummy! Jesus ordered the Tagliatelle Dell'Aragosta which was tagliatelle pasta with lobster and roasted garlic in a rich lobster cream sauce. He ate the whole thing. Then we ordered a pizza to share. The pizza we got was the Salciccie which was italian sasuage, fresh mozzarella, roasted yellow and red peppers, onions and tomato sauce. Oh yeah, I copied all that from the menu online. Don't want to fool you that I'm all shnazzy in Italian! ;)

After our wonderful dinner we headed back to the hotel. I wasn't feeling to well and we were tired!!!

Sherry E

01-03-2009, 09:34 PM

travelmel

01-04-2009, 01:46 AM

Look! Real reindeer. Who knew!?

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Melanie (Disnygrl36), these reindeer have a thing about photographing their backsides, don't they??? :lmao:

P.S. that is an inside joke as she has pics of their patoot's in her TR, too :scared:

travelmel

01-04-2009, 01:53 AM

We then had our picture taken in front of the wintery castle!

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Then we got 2 hot chocolates and 2 churros and found a spot near IASW to watch the parade.

Oh yeah, I copied all that from the menu online. Don't want to fool you that I'm all shnazzy in Italian! ;)

YOU GUYS ARE SO CUTE! Shnazzy in Italian.... :rotfl:

kaoden39

01-05-2009, 06:54 PM

Okay question for the day. My daughter the crazy Kevin Jonas fan wants to know if you ever noticed the hidden Mickey's in the Jonas Brothers logo?:goodvibes

bumbershoot

01-08-2009, 12:02 AM

Just read the DLR portion of your report! Silly and brainless me didn't know you had gone, I thought you were just going to the Jonas Bros concert (and if you told me you were going then I'm even scarier with the brainfree part). :headache:

I did not know that Chuy was short for Jesus. How did I not know this?

Sorry you got so sick!

LOL at those "myspace" type pictures of yours...you actually look like Robert's Korean relatives with your hand gestures...

prettyprincessbelle

01-09-2009, 02:44 PM

Yay! More TR! It has been so long! You know, the first thing I noticed about the blonde lady in the green shirt/sweater with the Laughing Stock Co. is that she looks very much like Jenny McCarthy, with the way Jenny wears her hair these days and everything. For a second I thought it was, but Jenny has a son so unless she was toting around someone else's daughter (it appears to be a little girl next to her), then I guess it is not Jenny!

What kind of camera do you use, Courtney? The nighttime pictures do seem to come out pretty well. Is it a point and shoot, or what kind is it?

I noticed those Teacups were much faster two weeks ago - even with mild spinning - than they were the last time I had been on them in 2000. I used to be able to take some spinning but they have sped them up to the point where even a little is a lot!

I love the Scary Teddy! I also have JUST begun to notice the popcorn carts and the various critters and characters spinning the popcorn inside. See, that goes to show - no one person ever notices everything when they go to DLR. We all see new things (to us) every time, even if these things have been there for 50 years, and just 2 weeks ago was when I started to look inside the popcorn carts and saw the Oogie Boogie spinning and thought to look inside other ones! Mariezp got a picture of Santa spinning the popcorn for her TR. I didn't take any pictures of them, but NOW I know better for the next holiday trip!!!

As you know, I like Naples too - even though I ordered the same pizza on both visits and it was different each time!:rotfl: I find their food to be very flavorful and tasty - certainly the portion sizes are great - and the service has always been good for us. I have been surprised when I have read about other folks who have been there and hated Naples! Not even just mildy disliked it but HATED it! Isn't it amazing how different people can be in the same location and have a totally different experience and view it in such different ways?

Hola Sherry!!!!!

The camera we use is Jesus' brother's. It's a Casio? It's a point and shoot! I really like it because it takes good night pictures. I usually take my Mom's Canon P&S and I hate it because the night shots come out horrible. That's the camera I took to the JB concert and you can tell the quality is different.

Yeah! We enjoy Naples a lot! It seems like a lot of the DTD restaurants people either love them or hate them. :confused3

Melanie (Disnygrl36), these reindeer have a thing about photographing their backsides, don't they??? :lmao:

P.S. that is an inside joke as she has pics of their patoot's in her TR, too :scared:

:lmao: I noticed that on Melanie's too!!!! They like showing off their boooties!!!! :banana: :rotfl:

YOU GUYS ARE SO CUTE! Shnazzy in Italian.... :rotfl:

OMG. Thank you! :wizard: :hug: Everyone is always cute in front of the castle!!! :lmao: :thumbsup2

:laughing: I had to copy and paste the menu because it's boring without picture!!!! I didn't want to fool you guys that I'm fluent in Italian!!!! lol. I WISH!

Okay question for the day. My daughter the crazy Kevin Jonas fan wants to know if you ever noticed the hidden Mickey's in the Jonas Brothers logo?:goodvibes

Omg. Seriously? I have their CDs in my car, I'll check when I drive home! I never noticed that!!! :goodvibes

Just read the DLR portion of your report! Silly and brainless me didn't know you had gone, I thought you were just going to the Jonas Bros concert (and if you told me you were going then I'm even scarier with the brainfree part). :headache:

I did not know that Chuy was short for Jesus. How did I not know this?

Sorry you got so sick!

LOL at those "myspace" type pictures of yours...you actually look like Robert's Korean relatives with your hand gestures...

Hi Molly!!!!

Yah! Chuy! Jesus' family on his Dad side calls him Chuyito (little Chuy) since his Dad is Jesus too. I just call him Jesus, lol. When we were coming through the turnstiles the CM scanning our APs said Happy Birthday to Jesus. Looked at his AP, looked at his Button and said "Uh, I thought your name is Jesus?" Jesus said "It is, but Chuy is short for Jesus" and then CM just looked at him all confused. :rotfl: It was kind of funny!!

:rotfl: Peace signs are so Asian. Jesus has smaller, slanted eyes and when we both do peace signs and squint our eyes we look like total Asian tourists...

People think I'm Korean sometimes.... :hippie:

prettyprincessbelle

01-17-2009, 02:22 PM

Omg. An update! Hi everyone! :wave2: :goodvibes So today will be the day I FINALLY finish this TR! And you want to know why? 1) We already have another trip in February and 2) I royally am horrible at TRs and keeping them up. So this needs to be finished so I can start the PTR for my next trip!!!! :cheer2: ::yes:: (Uhh.. What happened to all the smileys? ---> They're all mixed up now! :confused3)

Okay... Ready.. Here we goooooo.....

Thursday, December 4 - DLR Day 4

So today's plan was to eat lunch, do a little shopping and go to DCA and get some corndogs to take home. This is usually our plan on our last day before we head home, but the same thing always happens every single dang time. We get sidetracked and end up leaving when the sun is setting. That is a no no! Hello? Someone (me!!!) needs to go to work the next day! So we were on a mission to leave the park before 2. Did we do it?

So we got up early and packed our things. This was checking out of the Hojo day. And while I was getting ready, making sure we didn't forget everything and running around like a mad woman, what do you think Jesus is doing?

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If anyone said watching football. You get 2 points. :thumbsup2 :rotfl2:

Oh and I made these for the Housekeeping to leave their tip in. Cute, huh?

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One last shot of the Matterhorn out our wonderful view.

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So I call the front desk to check us out, Jesus takes everything down stairs and packs it in his car and we just drive to the parking structure.

We got to DL first to grab some lunch and just check everything out. I wanted to take a trip to Fantasyland first so we made our way to the castle. But we were sidetracked (ha!) by this wonderful band.

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So after they were finished performing we made our way through Fantasyland and out the back towards Big Thunder Mountain. We then passed this very big headed cowboy. Jessie is there too, but you can't see her face.

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We passed the Mark Twain.

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Passed the Golden Horse Shoe.

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Pass the Rivers of America (anyone guess where we're going yet?).

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And we also passed (but I didn't take pictures of) Pirates, HMH and Splash and made it to our final destination....! Hungry Bear!

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Yes, we're hungry.

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...CONT...

kmab00

01-17-2009, 02:37 PM

prettyprincessbelle

01-17-2009, 02:54 PM

So we ordered our food and tried to find a seat upstairs, but they had that section towards the back (and of course where we always sit) roped off, so we went downstairs to sit down there. While we were trying to get settled these guys were making a
ruckus.

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I never knew Br'er Bear was a bad guy until like 2 weeks ago. I thought him and Br'er Rabbit were BFFs. :lmao: Duh. I guess I don't pay attention during the ride huh? :confused3

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I have no idea what the fox is doing right here.

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Okay! On with the food porn. Jesus ordered the bacon cheeseburger with fries and I got a regular cheeseburger with apple slices. We also ordered onion rings and funnel cake to share. I don't have pictures of our burgers, but here's our funnel cake and onion rings.

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After our meal we said goodbye to Disneyland. :sad1: :sad1: :sad1: And made our way to DCA. On our way out we saw the Goof.

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I like this weather for DLR the best. Overcast and cold. Snuggly! :goodvibes

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First we had to make a stop for me.

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We then walked to the castle in DCA... Duhh. Corn Dog Castle!

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The poor Sun Wheel.

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So I really REALLY wanted a pickle before we left. While Jesus was in line buying 12 corndogs, I walked alllll the way over on the other side by Bug's Land to go get myself a pickle. On the way I took a picture of TOT. I was briskly walking and trying to take a good picture, hence a little blurry.

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AT LAST! A pickle! Okay, we can go now!

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So we left.. :sad1: :sad1: Us on the tram back to the parking structure. I was really crying inside...

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I'm not sure what time it was when we got on the freeway. But there was loads of traffic. And it took us forever to get home (not an hour!).

Here's Scary Teddy waiting for us to leave the parking structure.

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And this is the last picture. A picture of LA while we were stuck in traffic.

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I hope everyone enjoyed my TR!!! :sad: :flower3: :grouphug:

Sherry E

01-17-2009, 03:41 PM

I was just about to say NOooooooooooooo!!! It can't end yet! But then I remembered you are going to DLR in February so there will be another TR soon!:cool1: I had just replied to your post over in my TR, but then decided to stalk you over into this thread too!!

I also noticed the smilies are all reorganized and nothing is in the place it was before.

I agree with you - I love that cold and gloomy weather because it is fun to bundle up at DLR! I just love DLR during that whole December period of time. There is nothing like it!

I chuckled at the picture of Woody and his giant head!! And Buzz lightyear had a small head and giant shoulders!

I have never eaten at Hungry Bear - or if I have, I don't remember it because it was so long ago. I have heard mixed reviews on the food, but what you said you guys ordered sound so good right about now. A burger, some onion rings and funnel cake! Yum!

Oh, and by the way, I think that the little envelopes you made for Housekeeping are adorable! I am sure they really appreciate when someone takes the time to make something a little special for them and personalize it. That is a really sweet and thoughtful thing to do! It's more personal than just leaving a five dollar bill on the table by itself!

Anyway, hurry up with this February trip so we can get a new installment of the TR with new pictures!!

prettyprincessbelle

01-17-2009, 04:33 PM

Yay you've returned!! :) I didn't get a chance to eat at the Hungry Bear! Maybe next time!!

I love how he's watching football...sounds like Jason! :rotfl:

Can't wait to hear the rest!

:cheer2: YAY for another trip in February!!

:goodvibes Hi Karen!!

You have to eat at the Hungry Bear! We really enjoy, but I've heard a lot of people don't really care for it... :confused3

:cheer2: :cheer2: For February!!!

I was just about to say NOooooooooooooo!!! It can't end yet! But then I remembered you are going to DLR in February so there will be another TR soon!:cool1: I had just replied to your post over in my TR, but then decided to stalk you over into this thread too!!

I also noticed the smilies are all reorganized and nothing is in the place it was before.

I agree with you - I love that cold and gloomy weather because it is fun to bundle up at DLR! I just love DLR during that whole December period of time. There is nothing like it!

I chuckled at the picture of Woody and his giant head!! And Buzz lightyear had a small head and giant shoulders!

I have never eaten at Hungry Bear - or if I have, I don't remember it because it was so long ago. I have heard mixed reviews on the food, but what you said you guys ordered sound so good right about now. A burger, some onion rings and funnel cake! Yum!

Oh, and by the way, I think that the little envelopes you made for Housekeeping are adorable! I am sure they really appreciate when someone takes the time to make something a little special for them and personalize it. That is a really sweet and thoughtful thing to do! It's more personal than just leaving a five dollar bill on the table by itself!

Anyway, hurry up with this February trip so we can get a new installment of the TR with new pictures!!

Hi-ya Sherry! I know, I'm sad this TR is over. I think that's why I was lagging. :sad:

I'm excited for February!! I need to call the Hojo and make reservations this weekend. So like today!! :hyper:

I really like the Hungry Bear! So does Jesus. I'm a little weird when it comes to food though. I like everything and anything. I hardly get sick to my stomach, even when everyone else is because of food. So I pretty much like everything and am happy with anything. But Hungry Bear is goood! They just have burgers. But I have heard mixed reviews here about that place. You should go try it!!

I made those envelopes a long time ago and for some reason we never used them. I'm glad because I know I would be so happy if I got one of those!

Sherry! When's your next trip!!!

julezdisney

01-17-2009, 04:54 PM

:flower3: Great trip report, honey! Loved it- thanks for finishing this one! :upsidedow

Yay for next month! I'm so jealous! ::yes::

prettyprincessbelle

01-17-2009, 09:28 PM

:flower3: Great trip report, honey! Loved it- thanks for finishing this one! :upsidedow

Yay for next month! I'm so jealous! ::yes::

Hi Julia! I should get an award for finishing this!!! :cheer2: :cheer2:

Sherry E

01-17-2009, 09:51 PM

:goodvibes Sherry! When's your next trip!!!

I don't know yet. I have nothing in the works at the moment. But I figure as long as I have the AP, I will have to make a solo trip or two to DLR for the day at some point (that is, if I don't hop into the Ladies Only trip at the last minute). I'll try to go on my birthday, but not sure if I will be able to if I am working. And then, possibly another Halloweentime weekend trip - I have to see what DLR does with the HMH this year, or IF they do the overlay, since the HM 40th anniversary is this year and they may skip it. If they don't do the overlay, I may skip DLR for Halloweentime this year and just aim for a Holiday trip. I will have to play it by ear and see how things go with $$$. But I think I would like to try the Hungry Bear restaurant at some point!! That and Whitewater Snacks.

It would be cool if DLR really decked itself out for ALL the fun holidays, like if they had fun Valentine's and Easter decorations everywhere, and a bunch of green stuff for St. Patrick's Day, etc. But those holidays are not important enough, I guess.

kmab00

01-17-2009, 10:53 PM

Hi Julia! I should get an award for finishing this!!! :cheer2: :cheer2:

:rotfl2: I was so just thinking the same thing!!

Congratulations on finishing your trip report!!!!!!! :cool1:

wazowskiLOVER:)

01-17-2009, 11:01 PM

Yay!! You finished the TR!

I'm sooo jealous that you got the scary teddy! I SOOO want one. Not the small one you have though, I want the bigger one. I never seem to find them selling it at DLR :confused3

Oh well! I love your pic of goofy with the little boy. TOo cute! Oh, and I'm so jealous you got to see the California with the candy cane stripes on 'em! When we went, it wasn't up! BLeh. OH WELL!

Sherry E

01-18-2009, 09:49 AM

Oh did those striped letters come down before January 4th? I assumed they stayed up until the rest of the decorations came down. I was glad I got some shots with them too, because I had ignored them in 12/07 and they will be gone soon enough!

Anyway, Courtney, did you realize that this TR thread has had more than 20,500 views??? Way to go, girl! :thumbsup2 That makes it one of the most active (and I guess, popular) Trip Reports currently in circulation! You have surpassed a whole bunch of people....and to think, you kept us all waiting so long for the conclusion!! Meanwhile, you had all these people (many of them lurking, I suppose) waiting eagerly for you to come back!! Your February trip will likely bring in a whole new crop of readers!!

This is a totally dumb question, but maybe someone can answer since I couldn't figure it out on the boards. I am sure it must be really easy and I am missing something. If I want to insert a link to my TR in my signature (and I already have the standard one) with a different name or title - like yours, Courtney - how do I do that? I only know to copy and paste the existing link, but how do I actually make a link that's called what I want it to be called, like even if just to call it "Trip Report"? I found instructions somewhere on DIS, but they didn't seem to make sense. Again, it must be really easy, but I have never had to do that before for any reason so am not sure of the steps!!:goodvibes

prettyprincessbelle

01-18-2009, 08:11 PM

I don't know yet. I have nothing in the works at the moment. But I figure as long as I have the AP, I will have to make a solo trip or two to DLR for the day at some point (that is, if I don't hop into the Ladies Only trip at the last minute). I'll try to go on my birthday, but not sure if I will be able to if I am working. And then, possibly another Halloweentime weekend trip - I have to see what DLR does with the HMH this year, or IF they do the overlay, since the HM 40th anniversary is this year and they may skip it. If they don't do the overlay, I may skip DLR for Halloweentime this year and just aim for a Holiday trip. I will have to play it by ear and see how things go with $$$. But I think I would like to try the Hungry Bear restaurant at some point!! That and Whitewater Snacks.

It would be cool if DLR really decked itself out for ALL the fun holidays, like if they had fun Valentine's and Easter decorations everywhere, and a bunch of green stuff for St. Patrick's Day, etc. But those holidays are not important enough, I guess.

We changed our next trip from February to May. So I totally know what you mean about the job issue depending if you take a trip. We were originally planning to go in February and May for my birthday, but Jesus AND me are in the process of finding new jobs. I have to take a test for one I applied for in 2 weeks and Jesus has a meeting thing for one next week. We both thought IF we get the jobs February wouldn't be the best time to ask for time off. So May it is! My birthday is on the 1st. So we're planning April 30th through the 3rd most likely. Plus that gives me money to save and to catch up on stuff.

I totally think you should take a solo trip! I think it would be so much fun for you, Sherry!!

Oh yeah, I really want to eat at White Water Snacks too!!!

:rotfl2: I was so just thinking the same thing!!

Congratulations on finishing your trip report!!!!!!! :cool1:

I know! Wooohoooo!!!!!! ::yes:: :cheer2:

Yay!! You finished the TR!

I'm sooo jealous that you got the scary teddy! I SOOO want one. Not the small one you have though, I want the bigger one. I never seem to find them selling it at DLR :confused3

Oh well! I love your pic of goofy with the little boy. TOo cute! Oh, and I'm so jealous you got to see the California with the candy cane stripes on 'em! When we went, it wasn't up! BLeh. OH WELL!

I didn't even see the big Scary Teddy! Or I would have gotten that one!!!!

Jasmine! Are you guys going back for your birthday? Or the end of May? I remember hearing (seeing?) you say (type?) you were going Memorial Day weekend? We changed our days to May and it's just toooo far away!!!

Oh did those striped letters come down before January 4th? I assumed they stayed up until the rest of the decorations came down. I was glad I got some shots with them too, because I had ignored them in 12/07 and they will be gone soon enough!

Anyway, Courtney, did you realize that this TR thread has had more than 20,500 views??? Way to go, girl! :thumbsup2 That makes it one of the most active (and I guess, popular) Trip Reports currently in circulation! You have surpassed a whole bunch of people....and to think, you kept us all waiting so long for the conclusion!! Meanwhile, you had all these people (many of them lurking, I suppose) waiting eagerly for you to come back!! Your February trip will likely bring in a whole new crop of readers!!

This is a totally dumb question, but maybe someone can answer since I couldn't figure it out on the boards. I am sure it must be really easy and I am missing something. If I want to insert a link to my TR in my signature (and I already have the standard one) with a different name or title - like yours, Courtney - how do I do that? I only know to copy and paste the existing link, but how do I actually make a link that's called what I want it to be called, like even if just to call it "Trip Report"? I found instructions somewhere on DIS, but they didn't seem to make sense. Again, it must be really easy, but I have never had to do that before for any reason so am not sure of the steps!!:goodvibes

I know!! I have so many page views!!!! Thank you everyone!! :grouphug: :flower3: :upsidedow

I bet that my title says JONAS BROTHERS CONCERT has A LOT to do with it though!! :joker:

Okay! So let me see if I can explain it. Go to your User CP and to the part where you edit your siggie. And say you want to name your siggie "Sherry's totally awesome TR" (or whatever). Type whatever you want to name it and highlight it. Then you click up there the little globe with the link. Copy and paste the link of your TR into the little box. Viola! It should have the name of your link along with the link it self. Does that make sense?

mommaU4

01-18-2009, 09:11 PM

Sherry E

01-18-2009, 10:03 PM

Okay! So let me see if I can explain it. Go to your User CP and to the part where you edit your siggie. And say you want to name your siggie "Sherry's totally awesome TR" (or whatever). Type whatever you want to name it and highlight it. Then you click up there the little globe with the link. Copy and paste the link of your TR into the little box. Viola! It should have the name of your link along with the link it self. Does that make sense?

You explained it perfectly! I tested it out and it worked! Of course, then I wasn't sure what I wanted to call the TR, so I left it as it originally was for the moment until I decide, but at least I know HOW to change the title now!!! I knew it had to be something simple, but the instructions I found somewhere were too complicated!! Thank you, Courtney!!:goodvibes :grouphug:

prettyprincessbelle

01-18-2009, 10:38 PM

Great TR Courtney! I've really enjoyed reading along and seeing all your pics. I can't wait to be back at Disney. And I bet you can't either. Glad to hear you've already got another trip in the works. :thumbsup2

Hi Beth!!!! How are you? Are you totally excited for the Girls Only Trip!? I'm excited to follow along with your TR!! :cool1:

You explained it perfectly! I tested it out and it worked! Of course, then I wasn't sure what I wanted to call the TR, so I left it as it originally was for the moment until I decide, but at least I know HOW to change the title now!!! I knew it had to be something simple, but the instructions I found somewhere were too complicated!! Thank you, Courtney!!:goodvibes :grouphug:

Yay! I'm glad you got it Sherry! You're very very welcome!! pixiedust:

mommaU4

01-19-2009, 12:31 AM

Hi Beth!!!! How are you? Are you totally excited for the Girls Only Trip!? I'm excited to follow along with your TR!! :cool1:

Yep! I'm very excited! I wish you were coming though. (pouts) One of these times you've got to make it!!!

wazowskiLOVER:)

01-19-2009, 11:45 AM

I didn't even see the big Scary Teddy! Or I would have gotten that one!!!!

Jasmine! Are you guys going back for your birthday? Or the end of May? I remember hearing (seeing?) you say (type?) you were going Memorial Day weekend? We changed our days to May and it's just toooo far away!!!

I've seen them sell the scary teddy online, and I think I'm gonna have to get that one. Shame though because I TOTALLY wanted to get one from DL!

My family that I brought on our October trip (from my mom's side, a.k.a. not the filipinos) want to go around Memorial Day, so its gonna be around then. Although, I kind of feel like going for my birthday as well (its on the 16th). I was thinking about driving and just staying there over night and then going home the next day because I do want to take advantage of the fun card. Who knows though!

That sucks that you're gonna have to push back your trip, but its totally understandable. I don't know how I will manage to have money PERIOD, but I'm still going to try my hardest!

Disney owl

01-19-2009, 04:47 PM

great report thanks for sharing

prettyprincessbelle

01-19-2009, 08:13 PM

Yep! I'm very excited! I wish you were coming though. (pouts) One of these times you've got to make it!!!

I know!! *pouts with Beth* :sad1:

I've seen them sell the scary teddy online, and I think I'm gonna have to get that one. Shame though because I TOTALLY wanted to get one from DL!

My family that I brought on our October trip (from my mom's side, a.k.a. not the filipinos) want to go around Memorial Day, so its gonna be around then. Although, I kind of feel like going for my birthday as well (its on the 16th). I was thinking about driving and just staying there over night and then going home the next day because I do want to take advantage of the fun card. Who knows though!

That sucks that you're gonna have to push back your trip, but its totally understandable. I don't know how I will manage to have money PERIOD, but I'm still going to try my hardest!

Get one! Mine's cute! He sits on my night stand!! ;)

You should go for your birthday!! That's a FREE $69! Do you know what you can buy at Disneyland for $69!? Hell-o? A lot!!! :cheer2: My AP expires on your birthday! :upsidedow

I know. I'm sad we have to push back our trip. I'm trying to BEG my Mom for her and I to go in March. But we'll see knowing how that lady is. :confused3

great report thanks for sharing

Thank you for reading and commenting!! :flower3:

prettyprincessbelle

01-31-2009, 02:58 PM

Hi everyone!! :upsidedow

So I mentioned earlier we were going to go in February, well now we're just going in May! For only the BEST day ever! My 22nd birthday! (Friday, May 1st!!) Woohoo!!! :cheer2: :cheer2:

My birthday is on a Friday and so we're planning on going Thursday through Sunday. I really want my parents to meet us there on Saturday. Hopefully even Friday night. So we'll see what happens with that!

I feel like I'm dying because it's seriously been awhile since we've been to DLR! I need to go ASAP. :sad1:

I already know we'll be staying at the Hojo, having Minnie and Friend's Breakfast at the Plaza Inn on the day of my birthday and I want to do Woody's BBQ whatever. I want my BBQ!! :cheer2:

Everyone come say hi! I have a ton of views and I want people to come say to me!! :wave2:

kaoden39

01-31-2009, 08:09 PM

prettyprincessbelle

02-01-2009, 02:57 PM

Hi:wave2:

Hiiii Michele!!!!!!!! How ya doing?! I love your siggie!! Too cute! :upsidedow

merrrydeath

02-01-2009, 05:11 PM

prettyprincessbelle

02-01-2009, 06:25 PM

Ahem... I have read all your trip reports and enjoyed them a lot. It's nice to see someone else around my age appreciate Disneyland. I feel like in the late teens/early twenties people get a little "too cool" for Disney.

Hi! Welcome!!! :wave2: :cheer2:

There's a couple of us on the Dis that are in our late teens/early twenties. Check out Jasmine's (WazowskiLover) TR too. :upsidedow

A lot of my friends/co-workers that are my age are like "What the heck? Disneyland? I don't get it..." :confused3 Oh well! Too bad for you!! :rolleyes:

daisy_77

02-01-2009, 06:48 PM

I don't think I posted yet...but I loved your TR and I am really excited for you getting to go on your b-day!:cool1:

kaoden39

02-01-2009, 08:48 PM

Hiiii Michele!!!!!!!! How ya doing?! I love your siggie!! Too cute! :upsidedow

Thank you! I am excited to read another one of your trip reports.

merrrydeath

02-02-2009, 11:12 PM

Hi! Welcome!!! :wave2: :cheer2:

There's a couple of us on the Dis that are in our late teens/early twenties. Check out Jasmine's (WazowskiLover) TR too. :upsidedow

A lot of my friends/co-workers that are my age are like "What the heck? Disneyland? I don't get it..." :confused3 Oh well! Too bad for you!! :rolleyes:

I've already checked hers out. I'm a stealthy lurker!

I know, my coworkers think I am NUTS to want to go to Disneyland for my 21st instead of have them take me around to the bars. Pfftt, not a tough choice for me.

prettyprincessbelle

02-05-2009, 12:06 AM

Thank you! I am excited to read another one of your trip reports.

Oh no thank YOU! You are just too sweet! :goodvibes :upsidedow

I've already checked hers out. I'm a stealthy lurker!

I know, my coworkers think I am NUTS to want to go to Disneyland for my 21st instead of have them take me around to the bars. Pfftt, not a tough choice for me.

Jasmine is an awesome girl!!! Jasssyyy! We're talking about you over here!! :snooty:

I know. Last year, everyone was like "wth? You're not going to Vegas?" HECK NO PEOPLE! Disneyland FOR ME!!! :cheer2: princess:

wazowskiLOVER:)

02-05-2009, 12:52 AM

Oh no thank YOU! You are just too sweet! :goodvibes :upsidedow

Jasmine is an awesome girl!!! Jasssyyy! We're talking about you over here!! :snooty:

I know. Last year, everyone was like "wth? You're not going to Vegas?" HECK NO PEOPLE! Disneyland FOR ME!!! :cheer2: princess:

WHOA WHOA WHOA !!!

Where have I been ???

Thanks ladies :) I know exactly what you mean about going to DLR instead of somewhere more party-like. Not a big thing for me, so no thank you ! I was also talking to my dad at the kitchen table last night during dinner about DLR and he said "if you keep researching and finding out all you can about DL, you're going to get tired of it!"

NO WAY. Thats impossible!!!

OHHH BTW, I've OFFICIALLY decided that I'm doing Woody's Roundup Cookout for my birthday lunch :) WOOOO!!! Yay for BBQ :)

merrrydeath

02-05-2009, 03:12 PM

Thanks ladies :) I know exactly what you mean about going to DLR instead of somewhere more party-like. Not a big thing for me, so no thank you ! I was also talking to my dad at the kitchen table last night during dinner about DLR and he said "if you keep researching and finding out all you can about DL, you're going to get tired of it!"

NO WAY. Thats impossible!!!

If anything, researching makes me more excited to go each time because I learn about new stuff that I want to try.

travelmel

02-07-2009, 12:09 AM

I never knew Br'er Bear was a bad guy until like 2 weeks ago. I thought him and Br'er Rabbit were BFFs. :lmao: Duh. I guess I don't pay attention during the ride huh? :confused3

I hope everyone enjoyed my TR!!! :sad: :flower3: :grouphug: [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

OMG THAT IS SO FUNNY!!!! You are too cute.... BFF's!!!!!! :lmao:

:rotfl:

LOL

I loved your fried food porn.... breakfast of champions (onion rings, funnel cakes, and a pickle for dessert) LOL I love it!

Sherry E

02-09-2009, 01:34 PM

Courtney, I thought of you last night when I was watching the Grammy Awards and the Jonas Brothers came on to perform with Stevie Wonder. Anyway, I have been wrapped up in scanning, uploading and posting TONS of old DLR pictures over on my TR thread for the last few days, and now I finally have a bit of a break in that activity so I can get caught up on your TR and others that I subscribed to. Your trip for May is still on, right?

Oh, and by the way - while lots of my friends were cavorting in more party-like places for their birthdays or New Year's over the years, I still wanted to be at Disneyland. Even now, at 41 years old, I know Mardi Gras is taking place in New Orleans this month, women my age (cougars!) will be down in Palm Springs or Florida for Spring Break, scamming on younger men, and Las Vegas (which I love) is just five hours away from here, and I STILL would rather be at DLR (or Catalina, which is relatively laid back and low key and not too wild and party-like)!!! I think DLR lovers just either 'get' it about Disneyland from an early age and it sticks for their whole life, or they just kind of go through a Disney phase, and then outgrow it later on in years in favor of more party-like places. Most of my friends are more Disney-phase people rather than real, hardcore Disneyland lovers for life!!

What are you and Jesus doing for Valentine's Day? Are you guys big on Valentine's Day or do you not care? He seems like he treats you well, so I would guess he will do something for you!!

prettyprincessbelle

02-10-2009, 12:00 PM

WHOA WHOA WHOA !!!

Where have I been ???

Thanks ladies :) I know exactly what you mean about going to DLR instead of somewhere more party-like. Not a big thing for me, so no thank you ! I was also talking to my dad at the kitchen table last night during dinner about DLR and he said "if you keep researching and finding out all you can about DL, you're going to get tired of it!"

NO WAY. Thats impossible!!!

OHHH BTW, I've OFFICIALLY decided that I'm doing Woody's Roundup Cookout for my birthday lunch :) WOOOO!!! Yay for BBQ :)

I’m not a big fan of party-ing hard either. I must be boring. Jesus is the same way too. We’re a boring old married couple who like to watch movies at home in our PJs and go to Disneyland! WOO!!!!!!!!

My Mom says the same thing! I’m like no way, lady!!!!!!!!!

Yay!!! I’m going to Woody’s Roundup Cookout for my birthday too!!! I told Jesus we HAVE to!!! Maybe that Saturday *if* my parents meet us there! Woohoo for Woody!! And BBQ!!!!!!

If anything, researching makes me more excited to go each time because I learn about new stuff that I want to try.

Seriously! It really really does! Researching that new BBQ is making me sooo exciting! And hungry!!!

OMG THAT IS SO FUNNY!!!! You are too cute.... BFF's!!!!!! :lmao:

:rotfl:

LOL

I loved your fried food porn.... breakfast of champions (onion rings, funnel cakes, and a pickle for dessert) LOL I love it!

:lmao: !!!!! I seriously thought they were friends and they didn’t like Br’er Fox!!! I was listening to a Disneyland podcast and the CM was talking about Splash and the storyline and saying that Br’er Rabbit is running from BOTH Br’er Fox and Bear. I was like WHAT?!!?! My whole LIFE has been a LIE NOW!!!!!!! AHHH!! :rotfl:

I know! Isn’t that the BEST breakfast!!! LOL..

Courtney, I thought of you last night when I was watching the Grammy Awards and the Jonas Brothers came on to perform with Stevie Wonder. Anyway, I have been wrapped up in scanning, uploading and posting TONS of old DLR pictures over on my TR thread for the last few days, and now I finally have a bit of a break in that activity so I can get caught up on your TR and others that I subscribed to. Your trip for May is still on, right?

Oh, and by the way - while lots of my friends were cavorting in more party-like places for their birthdays or New Year's over the years, I still wanted to be at Disneyland. Even now, at 41 years old, I know Mardi Gras is taking place in New Orleans this month, women my age (cougars!) will be down in Palm Springs or Florida for Spring Break, scamming on younger men, and Las Vegas (which I love) is just five hours away from here, and I STILL would rather be at DLR (or Catalina, which is relatively laid back and low key and not too wild and party-like)!!! I think DLR lovers just either 'get' it about Disneyland from an early age and it sticks for their whole life, or they just kind of go through a Disney phase, and then outgrow it later on in years in favor of more party-like places. Most of my friends are more Disney-phase people rather than real, hardcore Disneyland lovers for life!!

What are you and Jesus doing for Valentine's Day? Are you guys big on Valentine's Day or do you not care? He seems like he treats you well, so I would guess he will do something for you!!

Yay Jonas Brothers!!!!!!!! I’ve been trying to convince SOMEONE to go with me to see the 3-D movie concert! BUT NOOOOO! No one wants to go with me! Not my Mom, Dad or Jesus! WHAT THE HEEZY!!!!!

Yes May trip is still on!! The Hojo doesn’t have that weekend for the Entertainment rate. I’m kind of bummed. But hopefully it comes up.

I think we “get” it too. It’s unexplainable!

I love Valentine’s Day! We’re going to go to Applebees for dinner. Romantic, huh? They’re closing ALL the Applebees in our county, so Jesus wants to eat some chicken stuff he always gets there before they take them away. We’re also going to go see Coraline in 3-D! I’m excited because the movie looks so cute! And good!! He treats me very good! I don’t know what surprises he has in store though! I don’t even know what I’m getting him!! Doh!

kaoden39

02-10-2009, 12:04 PM

I pre-bought tickets to go to see the movie with my daughter Kody. She is so excited. Kevin huge and in 3D. She is in hog heaven.:banana:

prettyprincessbelle

02-15-2009, 02:57 PM

I pre-bought tickets to go to see the movie with my daughter Kody. She is so excited. Kevin huge and in 3D. She is in hog heaven.:banana:

OMG! Lucky!!! Tell to her have a blast!! And give Kevin a 3-D hug from me too!!!!! :lovestruc

The movie may be another solo mission for me! This time in 3-D! Woohoo!! :banana:

kaoden39

02-15-2009, 03:12 PM

OMG! Lucky!!! Tell to her have a blast!! And give Kevin a 3-D hug from me too!!!!! :lovestruc

The movie may be another solo mission for me! This time in 3-D! Woohoo!! :banana:

Kody is so excited. And she has this other band she likes, I don't know if you have heard of Family Force Five but they are a Christian Rap group. She got their message phone number from their myspace and called them. Twice, the first time to say she loved them and their accents and the second time to say that she was going to their concert in San Francisco because here cousin is taking her. Well they called her back. They left a message for her. I thought she was gonna cry. She video taped the message and put it on youtube. Ah yes another obsession.

Sherry E

02-15-2009, 03:25 PM

Courtney, how was Valentine's Day for you and Jesus? Did you stick to the Applebees and Coraline schedule, or did he switch it up and surprise you with something else?

wazowskiLOVER:)

02-15-2009, 10:44 PM

I’m not a big fan of party-ing hard either. I must be boring. Jesus is the same way too. We’re a boring old married couple who like to watch movies at home in our PJs and go to Disneyland! WOO!!!!!!!!

My Mom says the same thing! I’m like no way, lady!!!!!!!!!

Yay!!! I’m going to Woody’s Roundup Cookout for my birthday too!!! I told Jesus we HAVE to!!! Maybe that Saturday *if* my parents meet us there! Woohoo for Woody!! And BBQ!!!!!!

I know! Recently I went to a couple of house parties from my co-worker's friends and I got totally plastered. That was last month and I haven't had a drink since! It was fun, but nothing I'd like to get used to. Woody's Roundup Cookout sounds fantastic :) We'll both have fun!

wazowskiLOVER:)

02-15-2009, 10:46 PM

OOO :)

Coraline! I watched that last week with my cousins Rj & Jesse (the brothers). I enjoyed it. I don't want to give anything away. It was a bit slow, but I would love to go watch it again. In fact, I might do that ;)

prettyprincessbelle

02-16-2009, 01:18 AM

Kody is so excited. And she has this other band she likes, I don't know if you have heard of Family Force Five but they are a Christian Rap group. She got their message phone number from their myspace and called them. Twice, the first time to say she loved them and their accents and the second time to say that she was going to their concert in San Francisco because here cousin is taking her. Well they called her back. They left a message for her. I thought she was gonna cry. She video taped the message and put it on youtube. Ah yes another obsession.

Omg! How awesome for her!! I would cry if one of my favorite bands called me!! That is like ultimate fangirl HEAVEN! Woo! You go, Kody!! :banana: :thumbsup2

Courtney, how was Valentine's Day for you and Jesus? Did you stick to the Applebees and Coraline schedule, or did he switch it up and surprise you with something else?

We ended up changing plans! So the Applebees in our town closed in January!! :laughing: We thought they were still open. So then we decided to go to Mimi's Cafe here in town. Well, then Jesus' parents invited us with them to go eat at this super awesome Mexican place a couple cities over. So we tagged along and had a wonderful time! We didn't go see Coraline because we got home from dinner too late. But we're going to next weekend probably! I really want to see it!!

Jesus made me chocolate covered strawberries and he bought me super cute pair of shoes! Yay!!!

I know! Recently I went to a couple of house parties from my co-worker's friends and I got totally plastered. That was last month and I haven't had a drink since! It was fun, but nothing I'd like to get used to. Woody's Roundup Cookout sounds fantastic :) We'll both have fun!

Omg. Speaking of getting plastered. On Saturday night we went with Jesus' parents. I had 2 margaritas. I was getting a little buzzed, but I was okay. As soon as we stood up to go home. Oh no. I was tossed. So I was fine in the car ride home. I was trying not to talk because I'm sure I sounded like a lame. Well where we went to eat was about 25 minutes from home. I got totally car sick. We went in Jesus' parent's truck and I usually do get car sick in that truck because the ride is so bumpy. OH BOY. As soon as we got home. I was walking to to the front door, "Jesus I don't feel good.". He's like "Are you going to throw up?". "YES". So he tells me to go to the grass and I totally yacked up my dinner. :sick: NOOOO... But dinner was SOOO good!! :sad2: I was totally embarrassed. Jesus' parents were laughing at me. His brothers were standing at the front door laughing. :lmao: :rolleyes1 :sad1: Never again.

OOO :)

Coraline! I watched that last week with my cousins Rj & Jesse (the brothers). I enjoyed it. I don't want to give anything away. It was a bit slow, but I would love to go watch it again. In fact, I might do that ;)

YES! I want to go see it so bad! It looks good! We have free movie ticket voucher things, so hopefully we can go next weekend!

Sherry E

02-16-2009, 11:27 AM

prettyprincessbelle

02-17-2009, 05:12 PM

Any man who will go and buy you cute pairs of shoes is definitely a keeper! But we already knew he was.;) :goodvibes

Watch out for those maragaritas, Courtney! They sneak up on you! Also, the fruity, frothy, sweet things like daiquiris and pina coladas (and some of those drinks with names that I can't say on this board;) ) are dangerous too, because they almost taste like they have no alcohol, but you sure do feel the effects after a couple of them!

I know!! Isn't he great! :hug: :cloud9: :yay:

Omg. And I love fruity foo-foo drinks. For that reason because you can't taste anything!! :sick:

Sherry, how's the weather in LA? Cloudy and rainy like it is here? It's clearing up a bit though!

Sherry E

02-17-2009, 05:25 PM

I know!! Isn't he great! :hug: :cloud9: :yay:

Omg. And I love fruity foo-foo drinks. For that reason because you can't taste anything!! :sick:

Sherry, how's the weather in LA? Cloudy and rainy like it is here? It's clearing up a bit though!

It was pouring early this morning and off and on yesterday, but now it has pretty much stopped raining and is just cloudy off and on. I have been staring at the sky periodically for the last couple of days ever since I saw that meteor on the news. I don't know if I keep expecting to see one flying through the air or what. Did you see that? It was in Texas over the weekend, and someone was filming something else on the street, and all of a sudden this fireball goes flying across the sky. It was a meteor, and no one saw it coming. It just appeared out of nowhere. At first nobody knew what it was and they thought it might be satellite debris, but it turned out to be a meteor. Scary! So now I keep looking out the window like I expect to see one!!

Make sure to watch (or record) the Barbara Walters post-Oscar special this coming Sunday. One of the 4 interviews for the show she is doing is with the Jonas Brothers! It is tough to record her show, though, because the Oscars never run according to schedule so her special airs later that what the guide says and you may not catch the whole thing.

If I am going to drink at all, I like fruity foo-foo drinks too - and I hate the taste of alcohol in everything, so the fruitier and foo-fooier, the better!!:thumbsup2

prettyprincessbelle

02-21-2009, 01:41 PM

Oh! I heard about the flying fire ball!! Nothing cool like that happens over here! We need a spaceship or something to fly across our sky!!

Yeah! I'm going to try DVR anything Jonas Brothers! I'll keep an eye out! Thank you for telling me! My Mom made me YouTube when they were on the Ellen show playing blindfolded musical chairs. Omg! It was hilarious :happytv:

Oh! So Jesus and I are convincing my parents to go to DLR for the weekend of April 11th and 12th. I'm really excited because I think they're going to say yes!! :banana: :banana:

pmama

02-21-2009, 10:56 PM

Enjoying your TR. Love your writing style.:thumbsup2 Looking forward to reading more.

prettyprincessbelle

02-22-2009, 03:17 PM

Enjoying your TR. Love your writing style.:thumbsup2 Looking forward to reading more.

Thank you so much!!! :goodvibes

Welcome!!! :)

kaoden39

02-27-2009, 09:22 PM

I just came home from the Jonas Brothers movie! Joe and Kevin without shirts.....:3dglasses

prettyprincessbelle

03-01-2009, 06:37 PM

I just came home from the Jonas Brothers movie! Joe and Kevin without shirts.....:3dglasses

Omg!! How was it?? Did Kody have a blast?!?! :goodvibes :yay:

I was begging BEGGING my parents to take me to the midnight showing at the El Capitan in LA and guess who was there? The Jonas Brother's themselves?! MAN!! I should have went alone!!!!! :headache: :headache:

prettyprincessbelle

03-01-2009, 06:42 PM

Okay everybody! My birthday trip is a for sure GO!!!!!

I booked the hotel. 3 nights at the Desert Inn and Suites. We never stayed there before, but it looks decent enough. It's a huge plus it's right across the street.

Now we're officially 58 (yeah? 58?) days away!!!!!!!! :yay: :dance3: :cheer2:

I can already make our PS's. But I'll wait a little bit. We know for sure we want to eat breakfast at the Plaza Inn. Jesus is telling me we'll eat at PCH Grill with Lilo and Stitch, but 2 character meals in 1 week is stretching it budget wise, but we'll see. I really want to do the BBQ at Big Thunder Ranch.

Yay! :cloud9:

kaoden39

03-01-2009, 06:44 PM

Omg!! How was it?? Did Kody have a blast?!?! :goodvibes :yay:

I was begging BEGGING my parents to take me to the midnight showing at the El Capitan in LA and guess who was there? The Jonas Brother's themselves?! MAN!! I should have went alone!!!!! :headache: :headache:

Kody would have loved, loved, loved to be at the same theater as Kevin. Of course Kevin might not have liked it too much. It was good for what it was. Kody on the other hand says it was excellent. Only that she thinks that Kevin shoul have been in it more!:rotfl:

DizNee Luver

03-01-2009, 06:56 PM

Okay everybody! My birthday trip is a for sure GO!!!!!

I booked the hotel. 3 nights at the Desert Inn and Suites. We never stayed there before, but it looks decent enough. It's a huge plus it's right across the street.

:cloud9:

Glad to see you went ahead & booked. We really didn't mind the Desert Inn, just the one problem with the water, but roomy & comfy for everyone. You'll definately like the location!! Doesn't get much easier than being at the crosswalk! :woohoo:

I hope those 58 days go quicker than my last 6 will....lol :rotfl2:

prettyprincessbelle

03-01-2009, 07:02 PM

Kody would have loved, loved, loved to be at the same theater as Kevin. Of course Kevin might not have liked it too much. It was good for what it was. Kody on the other hand says it was excellent. Only that she thinks that Kevin shoul have been in it more!:rotfl:

Oh! I don't think I told you! When I was waiting in line with my parents for the concert, there was a group of about 4 or 5 little girls in front of us. They were probably 8 or 9. Well they were all there with this one girl's Dad. And he was talking to them and he said "Omg, Kevin is sooo dreamy!". Joking around. Well all the girl's went. "Omg, NOOO!" And the guy's daughter was like "Dad, Kevin is the LEAST dreamy out of all of them!!!" And the Dad laughed and said sorry. My Mom said out loud, "Courtney! Don't you like Kevin?" I looked at the little girls they were all looking at me (including the Dad) and I was like "Yes!! Kevin is the dreamiest!!!" :lovestruc The Dad told me "Thank you!!" And my parents laughed while the little girls looked at me like I was nuts. Oh well! I like Kevin!!! :cool1:

kaoden39

03-01-2009, 07:12 PM

Oh! I don't think I told you! When I was waiting in line with my parents for the concert, there was a group of about 4 or 5 little girls in front of us. They were probably 8 or 9. Well they were all there with this one girl's Dad. And he was talking to them and he said "Omg, Kevin is sooo dreamy!". Joking around. Well all the girl's went. "Omg, NOOO!" And the guy's daughter was like "Dad, Kevin is the LEAST dreamy out of all of them!!!" And the Dad laughed and said sorry. My Mom said out loud, "Courtney! Don't you like Kevin?" I looked at the little girls they were all looking at me (including the Dad) and I was like "Yes!! Kevin is the dreamiest!!!" :lovestruc The Dad told me "Thank you!!" And my parents laughed while the little girls looked at me like I was nuts. Oh well! I like Kevin!!! :cool1:

Oh our house is shrine to Kevin. My husband screams "Kevin" all the time. It just ticjkles her pink. Kevin seems to have a good sense of humor, actually they seems to all be like normal brothers they tease each other and do the looks of death to each other. My only complaint from the movie is the 3D of the audience and their glow sticks and waving their arms made sea sick.:sick:

prettyprincessbelle

03-01-2009, 08:51 PM

Oh our house is shrine to Kevin. My husband screams "Kevin" all the time. It just ticjkles her pink. Kevin seems to have a good sense of humor, actually they seems to all be like normal brothers they tease each other and do the looks of death to each other. My only complaint from the movie is the 3D of the audience and their glow sticks and waving their arms made sea sick.:sick:

Yay for Kevin!! :thumbsup2

I bet!!! I'm excited to go see it! I'm begging my Mom to go. She said she'd bring a sign that said "Joe I love your flat ironed hair!" :rotfl:

prettyprincessbelle

03-01-2009, 08:52 PM

Glad to see you went ahead & booked. We really didn't mind the Desert Inn, just the one problem with the water, but roomy & comfy for everyone. You'll definately like the location!! Doesn't get much easier than being at the crosswalk! :woohoo:

I hope those 58 days go quicker than my last 6 will....lol :rotfl2:

I missed your post! Ach!

Yeah we booked! I haven't received a confirmation email, so if I don't get one I'm going to call cause I want one!

I'm soo excited!

kaoden39

03-01-2009, 08:54 PM

Yay for Kevin!! :thumbsup2

I bet!!! I'm excited to go see it! I'm begging my Mom to go. She said she'd bring a sign that said "Joe I love your flat ironed hair!" :rotfl:

I was so surprised you actually get to see Joe's hair somewhat curly in the movie. I figured that he wouldn't allow it.

prettyprincessbelle

03-01-2009, 09:13 PM

I was so surprised you actually get to see Joe's hair somewhat curly in the movie. I figured that he wouldn't allow it.

I've been seeing him on TV like that lately. He's getting jealous the other 2 have curly hair and now he wants curly hair! :lmao:

I bumped your PTR with a pic of Kevin for Kody!! ;)

kaoden39

03-01-2009, 09:17 PM

I've been seeing him on TV like that lately. He's getting jealous the other 2 have curly hair and now he wants curly hair! :lmao:

I bumped your PTR with a pic of Kevin for Kody!! ;)

Well, maybe he realized that girls like to run their fingers through curly hair.:rotfl:

I know Kody was looking over my shoulder and was thrilled. She is going to comment when she comes online.:goodvibes

prettyprincessbelle

03-02-2009, 12:05 AM

Well, maybe he realized that girls like to run their fingers through curly hair.:rotfl:

I know Kody was looking over my shoulder and was thrilled. She is going to comment when she comes online.:goodvibes

Probably!!! :rotfl:

Woo!

prettyprincessbelle

03-05-2009, 10:50 AM

Sherry E

03-06-2009, 12:23 PM

So! Hi everyone!!!!

I wanted to add that we changed our hotel to the hotel Menage. Jesus found this hotel for so much cheaper, so we changed it the other day. I'm excited because it looks really nice!

I also wanted to add that April 10th and 11th Jesus and I will be going to the parks with his family (Mom, Dad, brother #1 [17 years old] and brother #2 [15 years old]). We're both very excited! His family hasn't been to DLR in so so long!! It's going to be really nice to experience the park with people who don't go often.

Yay! April is right around the corner!!! Woo hoo! Are Jesus' parents fun? Do you think you all will split up into two groups (like you and Jesus and the two brothers in one group and the parents in another group, kind of going off on their own), or do you think everyone will pretty much be on the same page in terms of where to go, what to ride, what to see, where to eat, etc.? Or if Jesus' parents are not up for doing some things you guys want to do, will you just kind of modify the plans and skip some things you would normally do on that trip? I wondered because I think it was Jasmine who was saying at one point that it can sometimes be kind of limiting when you go with parents or other people who aren't on the same page, and it can slow things down. But some parents and families can be way more fun than expected!

Where in the heck is the Menage hotel? Is that nearby to DLR, or can you only get there by car?

prettyprincessbelle

03-07-2009, 06:00 PM

Yay! April is right around the corner!!! Woo hoo! Are Jesus' parents fun? Do you think you all will split up into two groups (like you and Jesus and the two brothers in one group and the parents in another group, kind of going off on their own), or do you think everyone will pretty much be on the same page in terms of where to go, what to ride, what to see, where to eat, etc.? Or if Jesus' parents are not up for doing some things you guys want to do, will you just kind of modify the plans and skip some things you would normally do on that trip? I wondered because I think it was Jasmine who was saying at one point that it can sometimes be kind of limiting when you go with parents or other people who aren't on the same page, and it can slow things down. But some parents and families can be way more fun than expected!

Where in the heck is the Menage hotel? Is that nearby to DLR, or can you only get there by car?

I'm so excited to go with them too!! The last time they have gone as a family was when Jesus was around 8 or 9. They have the picture hanging in the hallway. It was taken with Mickey in his barn. Jesus' youngest brother was around 2 when that was taken, so it must have been around 1996. They want to take the picture again, just an updated one!

His parents are very cool and I get a long with them very well. Jesus and I are going to be pretty go-with-the-flow and do whatever his family wants since we'll be back again in 2 weeks. So it's pretty much everything is up to them. I'm sure Jesus and I and his brothers will all go together for awhile, while his parents stay at the hotel or rest. Nobody in his family have been to DCA at all, so it will be exciting to take them to see everything (even though it's all construction-mania over there right now).

All of us will be staying at the Clarion. It's a bit of a walk, so I'm sure we'll drive to the parking structure. We got a suite, but who knows how we're going to handle 6 people to 1 bathroom! :scared:

Oh! So the Hotel Menage is right on the corner of Ball Road and Harbor Blvd. If you're at the Hojo facing DLR, it's on the right side over the bridge and across the street. Does that make sense? It's much closer to the parking structure than it is to the Main Gate, but we're going to see if it's too far too walk. We will have to walk over that bridge thing.

Sherry! When are you planning on going to the parks again?

Sherry E

03-09-2009, 11:52 AM

I'm so excited to go with them too!! The last time they have gone as a family was when Jesus was around 8 or 9. They have the picture hanging in the hallway. It was taken with Mickey in his barn. Jesus' youngest brother was around 2 when that was taken, so it must have been around 1996. They want to take the picture again, just an updated one!

His parents are very cool and I get a long with them very well. Jesus and I are going to be pretty go-with-the-flow and do whatever his family wants since we'll be back again in 2 weeks. So it's pretty much everything is up to them. I'm sure Jesus and I and his brothers will all go together for awhile, while his parents stay at the hotel or rest. Nobody in his family have been to DCA at all, so it will be exciting to take them to see everything (even though it's all construction-mania over there right now).

All of us will be staying at the Clarion. It's a bit of a walk, so I'm sure we'll drive to the parking structure. We got a suite, but who knows how we're going to handle 6 people to 1 bathroom! :scared:

Oh! So the Hotel Menage is right on the corner of Ball Road and Harbor Blvd. If you're at the Hojo facing DLR, it's on the right side over the bridge and across the street. Does that make sense? It's much closer to the parking structure than it is to the Main Gate, but we're going to see if it's too far too walk. We will have to walk over that bridge thing.

Sherry! When are you planning on going to the parks again?

It's funny - I think I had initially asked on this thread where the Menage was before I knew or before you answered, and then over on my TR thread I was responding again about Goofy's and realized where the Menage was and commented - so I was basically having one conversation about the Menage on two different threads!!! That's easy to follow along with, isn't it?:lmao::lmao:

Anyway, to answer your question about when I am going to DLR again, I am still on the fence about it. See, when I get into full DLR mode where I am itching to go back, then while I am planning I tend to not focus as much on the other non-Disney things I need to take care of in life and they fall on the back burner until the trip has passed. And when I get totally involved in other things I need to do (not all of them are fun), then DLR kind of falls to the back burner. I am in that middle gray area now, where I am not putting all my mental energy into one thing or the other and am trying to strike a nice balance. If I start thinking too much about my next DLR trip, then I won't be focusing on other stuff I need to do. So I would LIKE, ideally, to be able to go to DLR around the holidays. I am not sure yet about Halloweentime. I will make up my mind about Halloweentime probably in late August, and then decide if it will be a day trip or a weekend trip. But in December, I would like to be able to go for a few days/nights and do the usual Christmastime DLR thing. My birthday is in July, and I have to decide if I am going to go to DLR and get my gift card. It is so hot then and I hate being at DLR in the heat; plus, my birthday is on a weekday, which is inconvenient. So that will be a last minute decision, probably.