11/18 Update FOOD! DISUnplugged PODCAST CRUISE and a rainy week at WDW

[A.Mickey]

:wave2:
So let me try this again.... I would love to talk disney FOOD with anyone, whether you have some suggestions or I can help you!

Overview:

May 8th 2009- May 21st 2009

Our longest Disney Vacation yet!

Day 1, May 8th:
Chapter #1: Arriving at the Dolphin
Chapter #2: The Fountain Restaurant and Exploring the Boardwalk
Chapter #3: The Outlets
Chapter #4: Narcoossee's
Day 2, May 9th:
Chapter #5: Arriving in Celebration, FL
Chapter #6: Celebration Town Tavern
Chapter #7: Gator Hunting
Chapter #8: The Wave
Chapter #9: Poly Meet and Jellyrolls
Day 3, May 10th:
Chapter #10: Arriving in Port
Chapter #11: Beach Blanket and Exploring the Ship
Chapter #12: Welcome Aboard Reception and The Golden Mickeys
Chapter #13: Animator's Palate and the 1st night
Day 4, May 11th:
Chapter #14: Disney Institute and Palo Brunch
Chapter #15: Brush with "Celebrities" and Martini Tasting
Chapter #16: Ask Tracy Session and Wine Tasting
Chapter #17: Toy Story The Musical and Parrot Cay
Chapter #18: Wonderquest and the 2nd night
Cruise Intermission:
Designer
Day 5, May 12th:
Chapter #19: Serenity Bay and Cookie's BBQ
Chapter #20: Podcastaway Party and Disney's Earth
Chapter #21: Pirates and Krazy Karaoke
Day 6, May 13th:
Chapter #22: Live Podcast Taping and Lee Cockerell
Chapter #23: Dreams and Tritons
Chapter #24: Podcast Farewell Party
Intermission between Sea and Land:
Our jam packed fun filled extended weekend part 1
Our jam packed fun filled extended weekend part 2
Our jam packed fun filled extended weekend part 3
Day 7, May 14th:
Chapter #25: Will we see Aaron, or go to Le Celliar?
Chapter #26: Pop Food Court/Here comes the Rain!
Day 8, May 15th:
Chapter #27: Epcot and Teppan Edo
Jaime AKA Tiggerbell goes to Indy for a DISmeet!
Chapter A: Jaime's trip to Indy: The Drive Down
Chapter B: Jaime's trip to Indy: Arriving in Indy and D&B
Chapter C: Jaime's trip to Indy: Day 2 Bub's Burger and the Indy DISmeet!
Chapter D: Jaime's trip to Indy: 2nd Half of the DISmeet
Chapter E: Jaime's trip to Indy: Saturday night and Sunday Morning!
Chapter #28: Epcot and Flower and Garden
Chapter #29: DATW 1st Half
Chapter #30: DATW 2nd Half
Chapter #31: DATW The Night that Changed me Forever!
Day 9, May 16th:
Chapter #32: DHS w/Aaron & Nana
Chapter #34: Poly Beach and Chef Mickey's
Day 10, May 17th:
Chapter #35: MK w/Aaron & Nana, Pinocchio Village Haus
Chapter #36: Our last afternoon with Aaron in the MK.

[A.Mickey]

May 8th & 9th Staying at the Dolphin. Great rate through Dreams Unlimited..No park tickets...What will we do? :confused3

May 10th-14th..Aboard the Wonder with the Podcast Team :grouphug:

May 14th-19th We will be back at Pop. Staying here with the 5 day $500 GC offer (stayed here in Septmber of 08 for Free Dining)

May 20th & 21st Staying at the Boardwalk. Renting DVC pts. @ $10pp (1st time staying at a DVC Resort)

[A.Mickey]

Me...Shanan 29 at time of Trip. Piglet lover...Pin Trader. DH lets just call him Jason turning 34 on our Trip.
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This trip will be partly adult and partly with our ds...will explain later.
Other part of our trip....we have the loving Nana and our ds Aaron Mickey who will be just over 2 years old on the trip.
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[A.Mickey]

Jason and I were married in Sept of 06 before we ever discovered the disboards. We were going to take a cross country roadtrip for our honeymoon, but for some reason we decided against it...maybe it was the rising gas prices, I don't really remember. We ended up going to Univeral Studios and Islands of Adventure for a week for our honeymoon. Well after the 1st two days at Universal we were pretty bored and ended up going to DTD. Jason had never been to Disney World (well he did go when he was 1 but really didn't remember anything) but he had grown up going to Disneyland. I on the other hand, have great memories of my grandparents taking me when I was small in their motorhome and staying at FW. I went back to the World with my parents and sisters twice when I was in Jr. High. At DTD we pondered the thought of getting an AP since it probably made the most economical sense...if we went back 2 more times within the year. We decided to purchase an AP. 900 dollars later and we were on our way to Hollywood Studios.

On this trip we knew NOTHING about all the great dining Disney has to offer, or all the great discounts you can get with an AP on hotel rooms and the like. Ok so fastforward 1 week after our honeymoon and I find out I am 3 months pregnant!! I feel a little bad because I went on Dueling Dragons I few more times than I should have if I was pregnant!! Well we feel a little bad about getting an AP, but that doesnt stop us plan for our next trip for Jan of 07. We try to time it so we beat the holiday crowds and we still get to see some of the magic that is Disney. We plan this trip knowing that I will not be able to ride some of the rides so we plan it all around FOOD and this wonderful thing called ADR's! Hmmmm....trying to remember where we ate is kinda difficult...I know the first ADR we ever had was at Boma. :scratchin Oh that's right we ate at California Grill one of the nights and our waitress was also 5 months pregnant. Whispering Canyon Cafe, 50's Prime Time, San Angel Inn... I know there is more I am forgetting......

Ok then we had our sweet son Aaron in April, and we planned for our last trip using our AP for Sept of 07. We left Aaron home with the grandparents. This was our 1 year anniversary and Aaron was only 5 months old at the time of our trip. We dined at Victoria and Albert's on our 1 year wedding anniversary and it was AWESOME!! Worth every penny!! We also ate at Le Celliar, Liberty Tree Tavern, Garden Grille, and I am sure once again I am forgetting something but I can't recall at the moment.

Then in January of 08 Jason purchased a Zune and we discovered the wonderful world of disney podcasts. Soon I was hooked on the DisUnplugged they made me crack UP! When they said that they were having a 1st ever disunplugged podcast cruise I knew that I had to go! Jason and I on May 8th 2004 met, then on May 8th 2005 Jason suprised me by taking me on the Spirit of Chicago which is a ship that cruises the harbor at Chicago while you eat dinner and watch a show. The podcast cruise is 5 years almost to the day that we met so I felt that it is too good to be true! Maybe after 10 years of being together disney will be sailing in the Alaskan waters and then all my dreams can come true!!!

Then we went again to the World thanks to Free dining with Aaron and Nana in Sept of 08. We went back to Boma, and Le Celliar, and tried Beaches N Cream, Coral Reef, Ohana for Dinner, Chef Mickey's, Fort Wilderness Buffet(not sure if that is the name), :scratchin again I know I am forgetting some.....well anyway we have been trying to go to every disney restaurant that is in the parks or at the resorts, I think we are getting close to have tried them all...except the Italian restaurants...Jason is allergic to Olive Oil.

[A.Mickey]

Ok....so like I said previously we got hooked to the DisUnplugged Podcast and just knew that this would be the perfect time to take our 1st cruise! So we started looking for airfare for May 10th early in the morning. Coming from Chicago the earliest we could find was around 10:30 am. This didn't seem early enough for us, because we want to be at the port by 11am. We want to get the most time at the ship as humanly possible! Then we thought about arriving on Saturday May 9th and stay at the airport that night, then take the transfer to the port in the morning. Hmmmm.....wow....almost 300 dollars for one night. No thanks! So we look into the pricing that Dreams got for the Swan Dolphin Pre Cruise stay and its roughly 100 a night!

I say to Jason, Why don't we just come down on the day we met? Jason says Yeah sounds good! Although at first I think he said You are funny!
So we were just planning on going on the cruise and coming right back to IL. The grandparents were just going to watch Aaron, because when we went to a Dismeet in the Summer of 08 we met and talked to AskTracy about bringing a small child on the cruise and she told us that until they are pottytrained it is really not worth it to bring them on the cruise, I think she said something about paying extra for the Flounders club or something...I really don't remember the details other than...if they are not potty trained just leave them at home.

Nana had so much fun on the last trip that she would rather not stay at home. She decided she is going to bring Aaron down to Disney World on May 12th and is staying til May 18th at Pop with the Buy 4 get 3 free promo.

So around this time Jason got a pincode email for the 5 night stay with park tickets for around 1000 and get a 500 Gift Card. We equated this to basically free dining. This will also be over Jason's 34th birthday on May 15th also giving us the 75 GC for souviners...or in my case pins!! We decide to stay at Pop after our cruise for 5 days and this takes us to the 19th.

Nana and Aaron are leaving on the 18th and I didn't want to come back the very next day. I just feel that when they leave then you know that your vacation is almost over so we just decided to extend it by two days and stay at the Boardwalk by renting DVC pts. We have never stayed at such a nice place before... in fact we 1st stayed on property at Pop at our very last trip in Sept of 08. We keep thinking of purchasing DVC...will this take us over the edge to becoming fullfledged DVC owners?!?! :confused3

[A.Mickey]

We have yet to try any of these restaurants:
The Fountain
Grand Floridian Tea Room
Narcosse's
Citricos
The Wave
Chefs De France
Blue Zoo
Hollywood Brown Derby
Jiko
Yak & Yeti
The Plaza Restaurant
Teppan Edo
Cape May Cafe
Sassogula Food Court at Port Orleans??

And a few repeats:
Colombia Harbour House for Disney Chicken Nuggets for Jason!
Gotta go get a No Way Jose Sundae at Beaches N Cream


And Jason's Favorite
DISNEY CHICKEN NUGGETS!!!

Everytime I ask him what he wants for dinner he 9 times out of 10 says Disney chicken nuggets. Too bad Disney isn't in our backyard!

[A.Mickey]

Ok...so after listening to the email show this week on the DISUnplugged I think I have decided against YAK and Yeti and now will try Tusker House instead. Thanks Pete!

[A.Mickey]

The start of our 2 week vacation!

May 8th is Jason and I's 5th anniversary, not marriage, but the day we met. We were married on Sept. 29 2006. This day will be special, Jason will be surprising me....and I will be surprising Jason.

So we are flying down and arriving at MCO at 10:10 am and renting a car from Dollar.

We will be heading over to the Dolphin and eating lunch at The Fountain. We have yet to eat here and we have heard that it is comparable to Beaches N Cream....our last trip we ate at Beaches N Cream and LOVED IT! So we are really excited to give The Fountain a try!

In the afternoon, we will check into the resort and get situated and then head out and explore the resort and head over to the Boardwalk to look at some of the new items that are for sale and perhaps search for hidden mickeys and pin trade!

Then we will come back to the room get ready for our 8:20 pm ADR for Narcosse's. We have not ate here either but have heard good things about it from Kevin on the podcast. Hopefully Wishes will be at 9:00pm or 10:00pm tonight so we can see it from Narcosse's. Or maybe we will go to the shoreline after we eat and watch Wishes from there. We will have to see. We will then be coming back to the Dolphin to rest up for Day Two!

[HeatherBelle614]

I'm new over here, too!

Can't wait to see how your planning progresses; we're going to be trying some of the same restaurants you have!

[A.Mickey]

Hi Heather!

:wave2:
Thanks for stopping by!
When are you visiting the World? I will be checking out your PTR to see what you are doing. It is fun to plan isn't it?:cool1:

[A.Mickey]

Well, I just got off the phone to make my ADR for today, after a nearly 30 minute wait! At least you get to listen to Disney music while you wait, not that elevator stuff :D!

Here is our plan for today.
Wake up and drive to the Disney outlets by 10am.
Head over to the Belz Factory Outlet Character Premiere Mall #1 Store #47
Then Character Warehouse Mall #2 Store #109-110 this is also in the Belz Fatory Outlet, I would also like to find the Crocs outlet when we are here.

Then drive over to the Orlando Premium Outlets
And go to Disney Character Premiere Suite #1252

By this time we will be hungry and we will be eating at the Celebration Town Tavern based off of the many postive reviews of this eatery by the DIS team. After lunch will explore Celebration.:drive:

We will come back to the resort and maybe enjoy the pool, or go play some mini-golf.....our afternoon is pretty open.

Then at 7:00pm we will head over to The Wave for our 7:30pm ADR which I made today. We have never ate here, but have heard good things about this as well.

After our ADR we will take the resort monorail over to the Poly Beach for the DIS meet before the cruise, to meet with our fellow cruisers and enjoy Dole Whips while watching Wishes.

We will then be going as a group over to Jellyrolls. I have yet to go here but have wanted to for a while, just never found time in our vacation to do it. :hourglass

What's in store for Day 3....Well our cruise will depart for one......stay tuned!

[A.Mickey]

This morning we will be waking up and heading over to Cape May Cafe for our 8:00 am Breakfast with some cruisers before the cruise. Jason and I are not much of Breakfast eaters so we defintley haven't tried this restaurant before. If my memory is serving me right, I belive the last time I had a TS for Breakfast was when Aladdin/Jasmine/Genie/Jafar were the characters that you could meet for breakfast at Ohana?

We will then check out of the Dolphin and head over to the Port and on our way stop and get some liquor. Not sure what we will be buying yet?

We will get some photopass pictures taken and check in and hopefully be on the ship by 1:00 pm and head right over to Pluto's Dog House for Disney CHICKEN NUGGETS! As Jason would say! Attend the party as the ship launches at 5pm. I am not sure about the Dinner rotation, but I believe the first night we will be attending an Hor'dorves party in the Walt Disney/Roy Disney Suites hosted by the DISUnplugged team.

[aaronmckie]

How exciting, can't wait until Friday so the rest of our ADR's for the trip are set :woohoo:
Well, except for the 20th-21st, of course.

[A.Mickey]

So since I will be meeting the Celebraties on the cruise AKA The Pod Squad....I decided to listen to all of the podcasts that I have missed. I started listening to them about a year ago. I highly recommend listening to them if you don't they are GREAT and sooo FUNNY! So far I am up to November of 2006, only have 14 more months of podcasts to listen to in 85 days! Can I do it?

[A.Mickey]

Got all my ADR's this morning, and I got everything I want! :cool1:
Will have to start posting all the rest of our days plans a little later, now that everything is set. Starting to get really excited now!

[A.Mickey]

So.... Universal Studios/IoA has something about a free 2 day ticket.......?

We already have a 7 day ticket from watching the Super Bowl....if we qualify for the 2 day ticket we may have to add this to at least a little bit of our plans for Saturday May 9th. Keep you posted and let you know if we get the ticket.

[A.Mickey]

I am thinking to add Park hoppers once we get to Pop Century after our Podcast cruise.

Ok sooo the cruise will be over....I am not quite sure what we will be doing on the cruise, because I didn't want to plan too much, as we have never been on a cruise before and I am not sure what the podcast crew will be doing, sooooo..we will just be exploring and learning everything on the Wonder as we go....I can tell you that on Castaway we plan on renting the Bike/Snorkels/Innertubes....is this a good idea??

Thursday May 14th
Slowly work ourselves....or shall I say roll ourselves off the boat.
After 4 days of eating everything we have ever wanted!

We will be taking DCL transport over to Pop century, and we will check-in.

Today we get to see our son Aaron!! :banana: :banana: :banana:

I know we will miss him like crazy after being away from him for 6 days! :scared1:

Aaron is coming down with Nana (Jason's mom) on May 12th. This will be their third day at Disney. I am not sure what park they will be in. But we plan on suprising Aaron sometime during the afternoon/evening. (another reason why we might get park hoppers in case he will not be at Epcot.)

Epcot is the park of choice for today as we finally got a DINNER reservation at Le Celliar!!!!:cloud9: We have tried so many times in the past to get a DINNER reservation here and they were always booked so we had to resort to lunch. It didn't disappoint, but we are so looking forward to dinner here.....we have an 8:20 pm ADR. We booked this ressie for 3 people, so in case we make any friends on the cruise that want to join us for dinner we most likely will be sitting at a 4 top and could accomadate. :rolleyes1

In the week before making our ADR's I figured on booking the dining plan for the 5 days we are at Pop. I like this idea, because then I won't be looking at the menu worried about the price of the food, and knowing how our 500 dollar disney gift card is just dwindling. :guilty:
This way we can use our gc for tips and just go crazy! This will be a trip of a lifetime! We won't be doing this again until Aaron is 20. Mind as well make the most of it :dance3:

[DWFan4Life]

I just finished reading your report and it's great. :thumbsup2 Looking forward in hearing more from you after your trip.

Have a nice day. :)

[A.Mickey]

I just finished reading your report and it's great. :thumbsup2 Looking forward in hearing more from you after your trip.

Have a nice day. :)

Thanks for stopping by! :yay: I can't wait to come back and post pictures GALORE! :cheer2: :cheer2: I still have to post what our plans are for the May 15th-May 21st!

Oh and on a side note...I am up to Feb. 20th 2007 show of the DISUnplugged. I started listening in Jan. of 08 so I have about 10 more months of shows to listen to before May 8th....it is looking like I will get it done! :scared1:

[3guysandagal]

Hi Shanan!

Thought I'd drop by and say hi! :wave2: :wave:

since we are there from May 6-21, AND going on the cruise we might see you around. :lmao:

[A.Mickey]

Hi Shanan!

Thought I'd drop by and say hi! :wave2: :wave:

since we are there from May 6-21, AND going on the cruise we might see you around. :lmao:

COOL!!!! I would LOVE to see your plans!! It would be quite amusing if some of our ADR's are overlapping..you do, do ADR's don't you;)

Of course I am guessing you are staying DVC..which one?
See you around!! :dance3: :dance3:

[maiziezoe]

Hi! :wave2:

I'm enjoying your PTR!

We have some things in common:

I love food and talking about food!

We both live in Illinois

I met my first husband on May 8th... you and Jason met on May 8th.

My daughter Piper just turned two and your little Aaron is almost 2.

I was at Disney in September of '07.

:)

[A.Mickey]

Hi! :wave2:

I'm enjoying your PTR!

We have some things in common:

I love food and talking about food!

We both live in Illinois

I met my first husband on May 8th... you and Jason met on May 8th.

My daughter Piper just turned two and your little Aaron is almost 2.

I was at Disney in September of '07.

:)



Oh...oh another reader.... Hi Ann! :cutie:

That is too cool, lots of stuff in common!! Here is some more.....

We also were both at the DVC meet in December!

And I designed that logo in your avatar!

And we will both be on the podcast cruise in May! :banana: :banana:

When are you arriving in Orlando?

[A.Mickey]

I don't think I have mentioned this before, but Jason and I are not big Breakfast people....so we usually just grab something small in the room like a nutrigrain bar and then head to the parks to eat the real food!

Today we will be going back to Epcot, why?....because it's flower and garden time...and it is also Jason's favorite park and....tonight is DATW (Drink Around the World) with fellow podcasters.

We will probably do whatever we didn't do the first day in Epcot.....
and repeat some...(Soarin', Turtle Talk, Nemo Ride, Spaceship Earth)

I still have yet to see the new show in Canada, and I have never watched the films in China and France. I have a mission to finally see the candy lady too in Japan! And I definitely have to see Lonnie at AA Pavilion he is the best CM! And of course watch AA.

One of our Epcot days we are also going to be trying the Kim Possible mission. Sounds like a lot of fun! I love watching Amazing Race....so I will see if I can handle it on a much smaller scale. Ha ha..well maybe not. :confused3

We will be eating at 12:00 pm at Teppen Edo. We have yet to eat here....we almost ate here when it was the old place can't remember the name...but they were remodeling it, so we got VIP seating for Illuminations. Lots of people say it is very good so I am looking forward to trying this.....PLUS I have never had Hibachi style food before, like Beinihana.


At 5:30 we will be meeting up with podcasters for the drink around the world event! :woohoo: The last time they did this I guess it took them 5 hours :confused: :scared1: So that will be the end of Day 2 at Disney World......:sick:

[exwdwcm]

Hi Shanan and jason- enjoying the pre trip report and can't wait to meet you guys. I'll be leaving my 15 month old at home too- i know how hard it will be missing him, but at the same time, nice to have a break! :goodvibes

i am a first time cruiser too- so i plan to take it easy at CC like you guys- just intertube and some snorkeling.

[maiziezoe]

Oh...oh another reader.... Hi Ann! :cutie:

That is too cool, lots of stuff in common!! Here is some more.....

We also were both at the DVC meet in December!

And I designed that logo in your avatar!

And we will both be on the podcast cruise in May! :banana: :banana:

When are you arriving in Orlando?

The Doorway to Dreams thing was fun! it would be great if we could get another one planned within the next 10 weeks.

I wish I could leave my little one behind... I mean... well... that didn't sound nice. I wish I had someone to leave her with. I have no one. :( (my hubby and I have not had a meal alone in over 4 years). She is almost potty trained so that it a bonus.

I am not sure what day we are arriving in Orlando. Probably not until after the cruise. My moms entire family lives in Melbourne, which is 20 minutes-ish from Cocoa Beach... I have to visit with family before the cruise. We will be in Orlando after the cruise for a few days. Not sure how many yet because my hubby is starting a new job and I don't know how much time he will get off. Oy! So much more planning to do!! :)

Is it exciting to see your logo all over the place?? :woohoo:

[A.Mickey]

I'll be leaving my 15 month old at home too- i know how hard it will be missing him, but at the same time, nice to have a break! When Aaron was just 6 months old we left him with his grandparents for 5 days to go to WDW...the grandparents love it, and it is nice to be a "couple":goodvibes i am a first time cruiser too- so i plan to take it easy at CC like you guys- just intertube and some snorkeling.I really think this is a good idea! I really like my 1st time doing anything just really exploring and figuring things out as you go! We are going to do the bike/innertube/snorkeling ! Maybe we will see you in the water :banana: :banana:

The Doorway to Dreams thing was fun! it would be great if we could get another one planned within the next 10 weeks.
Yes! We love going to the DTD meets! Where do you live in IL?
I wish I could leave my little one behind... I mean... well... that didn't sound nice. I wish I had someone to leave her with. I have no one. :( (my hubby and I have not had a meal alone in over 4 years). She is almost potty trained so that it a bonus. WOW! I could not imagaine never having a break!! That must be hard..sometimes.

I am not sure what day we are arriving in Orlando. Probably not until after the cruise. My moms entire family lives in Melbourne, which is 20 minutes-ish from Cocoa Beach... I have to visit with family before the cruise. We will be in Orlando after the cruise for a few days. Not sure how many yet because my hubby is starting a new job and I don't know how much time he will get off. Oy! So much more planning to do!! :)
So then you will be arriving day of the cruise? I hope you can be there for a few days after the cruise! Tell your hubby good luck with the new job....good to see he was able to find one during these tough times!! Congrats!
Is it exciting to see your logo all over the place?? :woohoo:At first, it was VERY exciting to see my logo all over the place....now not so much...I have become jaded. It was pretty funny though...when we were in Disney in Sept 08 for Free Dining (gonna have to do a TR about this one...better late than never, I wanted to but got discouraged but now I think I will do it!) anyway we were on the bus over to Epcot and I was wearing one of my designs on a shirt and a young woman asked me where did I buy my shirt and I had to tell her that I didn't, and I made it and she was just :confused: I wish I could have explained more to her, but at that time she didn't seem interested.

[aaronmckie]

At first, it was VERY exciting to see my logo all over the place....now not so much...I have become jaded.

My wife: hardened by her artwork being mass produced :rotfl:
I think it's an awesome compliment, and love seeing it in a lot of places :thumbsup2

[A.Mickey]

Today is Hollywood Studios w/ Aaron (our son) and Nana (Jason's Mom)

The hours are 8 am (EMH)- 7pm

Must Do's since Aaron will be with us:
TSMM
Playhouse Disney (we took Aaron to this when he was 18 months, but it was before he really watched all the shows. Now every morning he watches Playhouse Disney...so I think he will really LOVE this show)
Meet the characters from Pixar's Cars
Honey I Shrunk the Audience play area (we played here last time and Aaron enjoyed it)

We have an 11:30 am reservation for Sci-Fi Drive In. We ate here on our last trip with Aaron and really enjoyed it, unfortunately it was on Nana's last day on our last trip so she didn't get to go.....we are going back there for her to try it, and Jason really had a good time with Aaron here.

Maybe we will see the Lights Motor Action (have yet to see this)
and Block Party Bash (saw this last time wasn't impressed)
Don't know if there will be a cool Wall-E character interaction yet...there really wasn't last time...there was a cool place for a meet and greet with Wall-E but I never did see him :confused3

Then this evening we have an ADR at 6:20 pm for Chef Mickey's. We really enjoyed the characters the last time, although Aaron was pretty frightened by Minnie Mouse :scared1:
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..and the food was pretty decent...and the song :rolleyes1 "Come on a party, Celebrate Mickey Mouse!" I just hope we don't have to sit close to the Contempo Cafe...and everyone will be staring at us....well maybe they put up a wall by now! I hope! :laughing:

Not sure what we will be doing after dinner...up in the air....can't plan every hour! :laughing:

[A.Mickey]

Today we will be going to Magic Kingdom with Aaron and Nana! What will we be doing here? AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!! I am a little saddened that TTA will be down as we got some really cute pictures of Aaron on the TTA in September and would have liked to get more to compare how much he has grown. We will be getting his picture next to Pooh's house.

We will be eating lunch at the Colombia Harbor house so Jason can get his Disney Chicken Nuggets!!

We will take the boat over to Fort Wilderness around 5pm so we will be there for our dinner reservations at Trails End Buffet. We ate here on our last trip and LOVED IT!!! It is soooo good and such a good value!

After dinner we will go to Chip and Dales Sing-a-long like we did last time! It was a good time and hope Nana likes it!

[A.Mickey]

Jason and I will be going to Animal Kingdom today....but Aaron and Nana leave :sad1: Hope they had fun and we will see them again in 3 days.

So must dos:

Finding Nemo Musical, WE LOVE IT!!
Pocahontas and her forest friends!! I LOVE IT! Oh wait...its gone! :sad1::sad1: At least I have it on HD video, with a really good Pocahontas!!
Expedition Everest of course!
NOT the river rapids ride, don't want our feet to be cut off, I just listened to that podcast recently :scared1:
I wanna try to go to Rafikis Planet Watch this time, because we didnt get to go on our last trip in September.
And maybe finally see Devine!! I have yet to ever see her, and maybe Flights of Wonder, the last time we tried to see this show, it started raining halfway through and never did see the whole thing.

We will be eating an 11:00 lunch at Tusker House this is a new restaurant for us, we were going to do Yak and Yeti but after Pete giving it a really bad review we decided against it!

Oh yeah I think I forgot to mention that we decided on purchasing the dining plan, so that way we can use our 500 gift card for drinking around the world and drinks and tips. So we will have the dining plan May 14th-May 19th basically for both of us we will have 10 TS and 10 CS and 10 Snacks.

We will be eating at Boma tonight for dinner, I think this has to be Jasons all time favorite restaurant. I think every time we have gone to Disney since we started enjoying the restaurants we have had to eat here every time. We were going to go to Jiko, since Aaron won't be with us, and we probably won't take him into Jiko til he is around 8 at the earliest? But we decided against Jiko, since we don't want to have to take the bus from AK back to Pop to change out of park clothes and then go to Jiko. We just wanted to be dressed up for Jiko!!

Oooohhhh tomorrow we get to spend the night in our first DVC stay...we are renting points the next 2 nights! Stay tuned

[aaronmckie]

You know you want to add Islands of Adventure to Day 2.... so do it already ::yes:: :hyper:

popcorn::

[A.Mickey]

I know...I know...we will just have to SEE what happens! :eek:

[A.Mickey]

We recently purchased Ridemaxx and have been messing around with the days we are going to email the best touring plans and then we will have them on our Ipod touch when we are in the park. It is a pretty cool tool, I highly recommend checking it out!

[DVCsince02]

Shanan, I can't believe you haven't posted the logo you made for 300 of your closest computernutjob friends.

:)

[aaronmckie]

Shanan, I can't believe you haven't posted the logo you made for 300 of your closest computernutjob friends.

:)

Oh, there's a reason for that, Jen ::yes:: :)

[A.Mickey]

Money is a wee bit tight so we decided against Islands of Adventure for day 2, and decided to do the outlets and head out to a forest perserve, or do they get called swamp perserves in FL? :rotfl: I will make sure to stay out of the Damn lakes though! :cutie:

[tiggerbell]

So are we getting a report about your trip?

Especially some of the great people you cruised and got tipsy at a certain martini tasting with??? :rolleyes1

[A.Mickey]

Ha ha ha ha!! I figured no one would care about this....but since you asked ;), I think I may have to see if I can actually do this! I think it might be fun, and try to follow in my friends footsteps! Sorry I never actually look at this anymore, but Jason informed me that you posted on it!

[tiggerbell]

Ha ha ha ha!! I figured no one would care about this....but since you asked ;), I think I may have to see if I can actually do this! I think it might be fun, and try to follow in my friends footsteps! Sorry I never actually look at this anymore, but Jason informed me that you posted on it!


:scared1: Meg, is that you??? :happytv:

I am constantly telling her someone posted on her trip report! :lmao:

She's still writing the Dcember trip. :sad2:

[A.Mickey]

Our pretrip plans:
May 8th 2009
The start of our 2 week vacation!

May 8th is Jason and I's 5th anniversary, not marriage, but the day we met. We were married on Sept. 29 2006. This day will be special, Jason will be surprising me....and I will be surprising Jason.

So we are flying down and arriving at MCO at 10:10 am and renting a car from Dollar.

We will be heading over to the Dolphin and eating lunch at The Fountain. We have yet to eat here and we have heard that it is comparable to Beaches N Cream....our last trip we ate at Beaches N Cream and LOVED IT! So we are really excited to give The Fountain a try!

In the afternoon, we will check into the resort and get situated and then head out and explore the resort and head over to the Boardwalk to look at some of the new items that are for sale and perhaps search for hidden mickeys and pin trade!

Then we will come back to the room get ready for our 8:20 pm ADR for Narcosse's. We have not ate here either but have heard good things about it from Kevin on the podcast. Hopefully Wishes will be at 9:00pm or 10:00pm tonight so we can see it from Narcosse's. Or maybe we will go to the shoreline after we eat and watch Wishes from there. We will have to see. We will then be coming back to the Dolphin to rest up for Day Two!


What it actually looked like:

We ended up arriving closer to 11:45 because our flight left an hour later, and there were heavy storms so we flew over Detroit and headed down the Atlantic coast. Our flight went by really fast though. Since it was our anniversary Jason gave me a card and a cute little Nemo cross-stitch to keep me busy on the plane :). That was fun....I worked on it throughout the trip, some in the hotel rooms at night, some on Castaway Cay and I finished it just before touching down in Chicago!

When our plane pulled up to the terminal a two little love bugs came up to our window to greet us....but I just missed them :(.
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Upon arriving we headed over to the Crocs store inside MCO and didn't find any Disney Crocs :(. I really wanted to get new woman colored Disney crocs, because the only Disney crocs that I had were dark blue with the lime green strap. Oh well...the hunt continues.

We were able to walk out and pick our midsized car from National. We changed to National so we could drop off the car when we were done with it, at the Dolphin resort. We picked a Saturn Aura. We really enjoyed this little car, we have to keep this in mind when we are in the hunt for a car. A picture of our rental car:
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We drove up showed them the papers and we were off! We arrived at the Dolphin and wow we were confused:scared1:. We never really have stayed at this fancy of a place before. When the bellhops asked if I needed help with my luggage, I was like NO STAY AWAY! So weird. Well we checked in and the receptionist asked if we would like to be higher up or lower. Um....higher please!!!:yay::yay::yay: Our room was already ready, even though check in wasn't til 3 or 4!!!!!

So Jason tells me bring the bags up to the room and I will go park the car.

I took the central elevators up and found our room on the 16th floor :woohoo:. I wasn't sure what side of the building I was on, but I was thinking we would have a tree view, and maybe be able to see AK in the distance. But when I went over to the window I saw World Showcase to the left
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and HS to the right:
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And our view looking across, they really need to clean our their fountains:
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I was sooo excited I immediately had to call Jason to tell him about our view!

Will we eat lunch at the Fountain? :confused:

[OhMari]

Great start,
and wow you had a great view.
See the tall buildings way off in the horizon?
I stayed in one of those in April.
It was my first time staying off site. LOL.

Looking forward to hearing about the POD Cast Cruise. You are one of the first TR's I found, that is reporting.

[A.Mickey]

So by this time we were pretty hungry, I think it was close to 2 pm.
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We headed down to The Fountain, we heard many wonderful things about this restaurant and even heard them being compared/better than Beaches N' Cream :confused3. We had Beaches N' Cream on our last trip in Sept '08 and thought their burgers were extremely good so of course we had to try The Fountain's

We walked down to The Fountain and found a seat and ordered a burger, well two burgers. In the meantime I saw Jaime (tiggerbell) walk down the escalator (I recognized her from her TR and also from meeting her (sort of) in person at a DIS meet in Chicago) I was too chicken to say anything, I wanted to scream Jaime, but I will now!

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All I have to say is YUM!!!:thumbsup2 I don't know if it is necessarily better than Beaches N Cream, (or worse) but if you like Beaches N Cream's burgers definitely try The Fountains!

Now we were off to explore the resort....and our first encounter of Peekaboos?!? Oh my! I walked by and heard the birds chirping what is this place? I didn't want to know:scared:....so we walked on.....and out to the pool area, I was sooo shy at this point I was hoping that no one would recognize me! :rolleyes1 So we zoomed past the pool bar, and headed over to the white sandy beaches! On the way we saw these giant checkers, how cool? Anyone wanna play?
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We ended up walking all the way through that side of the resort and through the Swan and headed over to the Boardwalk to pin trade a little and look for hidden mickey's.
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Our view of the Dolphin from the Beach Club.
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We wanted to have a No Way Jose sundae from Beaches N Cream, but it was really busy and we were pretty full from The Fountain, so we just walked through the Beach Club and Yacht Club, we headed back to the Dolphin. By now it was around 3 and we had some time to kill before we had to get ready for dinner, so we walked the back way through to the Dolphin parking lot, Do not do this! You will see what is behind the curtain. LOL! Jason was smart and stayed on the path, I on the other hand thought I found a shortcut, but all I really saw were some loading docks :(. :headache:


We headed out to do some shopping at the outlets! I am still on my mission to find my Disney Crocs, and I heard from Kevin that there is a CROCS OUTLET!!:banana::banana:
Will I find a pair?!? :confused:

[A.Mickey]

Great start,
and wow you had a great view.
See the tall buildings way off in the horizon?
I stayed in one of those in April.
It was my first time staying off site. LOL.

Looking forward to hearing about the POD Cast Cruise. You are one of the first TR's I found, that is reporting.

Hi! :flower3:
Which tall building? That is cool!! was it a fun hotel to be in off site?
Thanks for being the first one to post on my TR! :woohoo:
Jaime (tiggerbell will also be posting a TR) she is a seasoned vet compared to me :goodvibes

[A.Mickey]

So we head out and drive to Disney's Character Warehouse at the Prime Outlets. Of course we take I drive up! We have to get our fill of tacky gift shops! :lmao:

When we find the store I cannot believe how big it is! I was in this store for a very long time! I loved the fact that most of the CM's wear lanyards for pin trading here! And the merchandise is all yesterdays Disney stuff! Jason got a really nice button down shirt with a Mickey silhoutte embrodiered on the pocket for $15. I also picked up some plastic Mickey plates for 1.95 a piece, and a Disney note pad. I was happy with this store, I will have to come back!

We were really hot so we headed over to Starbucks to grab some tea! :banana:

Then we were off to Orlando Premium Outlets....and on our way we saw Herbie! :hug: (see him between the two cars?)
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I don't know why, but seeing him made me really happy!
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Turning into the Outlets we spot these on top of the lights?!? :confused:
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I guess they are for cops to know when the light is red from every direction to deter red light runners. Sounds like there would be an easier solution to the problem.

We get to the outlets and head straight to the Crocs outlet I am so excited I can't contain myself!! Finally going to get my hand on a pair of Disney Crocs! :yay: I see the rack with the Disney Crocs! :dance3: They look like my color! Pink and Purple ones! :woohoo: Looking through the sizes I don't find my size :eek:. It is ok though, I know there has to be my size somewhere, so I keep looking and.....nothing :sad1:. Ok, don't panic there has to be some regular Crocs in my size. :rolleyes1 I searched and searched and searched and searched some more, Jason was getting really tired of waiting for me. So I gave up :laundy:. Let me just say...if you have extremely large fit, you will get whatever you want at this Croc outlet. If you have normal sized fit, Good Luck! Don't get me wrong I could have bought the more expensive Crocs for $30 there, but I knew at the Crocs website they were selling the Disney Crocs for 17 dollars so I was just going to wait until I got home to buy them.

After that disappointment (looks like I will be wearing my navy blue with the lime green strap Disney Crocs the whole trip) we head over to check out Disney's Character Premeire. I really didn't like this store as much as the Disney's Character Warehouse. The Premeire felt smaller and not really organized well. I liked all the castmembers wearing the lanyards though! Time for more pin trading! We left and headed back to the Dolphin to get ready for our 8:20 pm reservation at Narcoossee's for our anniversary dinner! :woohoo:

[A.Mickey]

Getting ready for our dinner! We realize that Jason doesn't have any dress shoes! :lmao: He forgot to pack them! Guess I know what we will be doing tomorrow! Can't go to formal night on the cruise in Crocs! But he will go to Narcoossee's in them! :rotfl2: (see below) Jason is also wearing the shirt we just bought at the outlet!
All ready!
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After looking back I wish I took more pictures or asked more people to take our picture. We don't have many pictures of us together.

Ok....here we go! I grab the paper sack that my present is in (I was too lazy to ever wrap it) and head out the door! I am really anxious to give Jason his present, and I really want it to be the perfect time to give it to him.

We arrive at Grand Floridian and there are lots of kidlets running around in the lobby....don't want to give it to him here, plus we are running a little late for our ADR, we like to arrive 15 minutes early. And we only have a few minutes to spare. We get to Narcoossees and check in. Now where can I give Jason his present, I really want to give it to him before we eat dinner because I don't want to carry a paper sack to the table! :rotfl:
I see the wrap around porch has benches on it! :woohoo: We walk a ways out around the building and sit down a bench over looking the lagoon and MK, we can see the castle. Here is a perfect spot, perfect time and some jazz music is coming out of the speakers. (found a picture kind of our view from wdw.info not my picture) I didn't take enough.
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Just when I hand over the paper sack a family decides to stand right next to us! :headache: Jason gets a little anxious and I want him to open the sack before dinner! Woo hoo! The family leaves in the nick of time and Jason opens the present! I got him an awesome book kind of like a scrapbook that I did at Shutterfly. I put every picture of us together ever taken in chronological order with a Disney love quote on every page that fit the pictures. It turned out really cool and Jason even welled up! I think he cried but he denies it! Just when he was done looking at the book our buzzer goes off! :banana: Bring on the food!

Our drinks! I got a Mojitocoossee...and Jason got some foo foo drink?!?
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Appetizers Narcoossee's Seafood Bisque - A hearty soup of Maine rock crab and a sourdough crostini and Jason got some asparagus wrapped with some Prosciutto. The soup wasn't very hearty, it was more like Seafood broth, the spiciness of it was really red pepperish. I liked the spiciness, it could have just used more meat! Jason's asparagus was really good!
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Right when our dinner was served Wishes started! I started crying at the dinner table!
My dinner...Crab-crusted Yellowtail Snapper - Served with Meyer lemon-butter sauce, crushed Fingerling potatoes, and haricot vert. I really enjoyed my entree. I loved the flavors of lemon and crab together!
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Jason's dinner...Grilled Filet Mignon - Served with potato gratin, broccolini, and choron sauce. hmmm....it looks like green beans to me.
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Dessert...Almond-crusted Cheesecake - Inspired by the Year of a Million Dreams and served with Lambert cherry sauce. All I have to say is WOW I LOVE Lambert cherry sauce!! :love: Where do I get more!?!?
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Total bill was $150 with tip, not bad! I thought the food was excellent! I will definitley be going back! Our happy selves after a ummy meal!
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After our wonderful dinner we strolled over to the GF beach. There was a hammock unoccupied so we hopped in.
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We relaxed under the moonlight, tonight was a full moon!
Jason's lovely dress shoes ;)

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What will day 2 bring?popcorn::

[A.Mickey]

Ok so I just figured out how to make the pictures smaller without causing me a lot of grief.

Our one and only day to sleep in....so what do we do:rolleyes1........WE SLEEP.

Since we already went to the outlets on day 1 we don't have to do these today....it leaves alot of the day open for who knows what!!

Here is what we had planned
May 9th 2009
Well, I just got off the phone to make my ADR for today, after a nearly 30 minute wait! At least you get to listen to Disney music while you wait, not that elevator stuff :D!

Here is our plan for today.
Wake up and drive to the Disney outlets by 10am.
Head over to the Belz Factory Outlet Character Premiere Mall #1 Store #47
Then Character Warehouse Mall #2 Store #109-110 this is also in the Belz Fatory Outlet, I would also like to find the Crocs outlet when we are here.

Then drive over to the Orlando Premium Outlets
And go to Disney Character Premiere Suite #1252

By this time we will be hungry and we will be eating at the Celebration Town Tavern based off of the many postive reviews of this eatery by the DIS team. After lunch will explore Celebration.

We will come back to the resort and maybe enjoy the pool, or go play some mini-golf.....our afternoon is pretty open.

Then at 7:00pm we will head over to The Wave for our 7:30pm ADR which I made today. We have never ate here, but have heard good things about this as well.

After our ADR we will take the resort monorail over to the Poly Beach for the DIS meet before the cruise, to meet with our fellow cruisers and enjoy Dole Whips while watching Wishes.

We will then be going as a group over to Jellyrolls. I have yet to go here but have wanted to for a while, just never found time in our vacation to do it.

What it actually looked like:

We wake up and shower and get ready to head over to Celebration. It is around 10:30 when we head out the door.


On our way we see these cool power lines...
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Does anyone actually drive on this road to Celebration?!?! It was like a ghost town when we were on it....very strange.

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We find a place to park the car.....and head to the Town Tavern
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There is hardly anyone in the restaurant....it is just 11:00 am. We are asked if we would like to sit inside or outside, we choose inside as the humidity is already starting.
Our view from our booth.
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[A.Mickey]

We get the menu and I see this....I am sure fellow cruisers will appreciate this list....
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We look over the menu and a lot of the items are seafood related, I was tempted to get the lobster, since I never had lobster before...but I ended up getting the broiled Boston Schrod.....:confused3...they told me it was a mild white fish. I really like fishy fish too...so I really wasn't concerned. Until it came to the table steaming and smelling like ammonia! :scared1:

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Oh and I got a salad before hand....with their house dressing (some type of mango dressing) but it tasted kind of like 1000 island to me. :sad2:

Jason got the Meatloaf stacker.

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All I have to say is my fish was barely edible! I ate as much as I could, and I am usually a member of the clean plate club, but I definitley could not even attempt to finish my fish. It tasted so much like ammonia that it was making my nostrils hurt from the inside! :rotfl2: Thank goodness that Jason is not a member of the club so I could eat some of that delectable meatloaf stacker. So Jason picked the good dish this time......that is what I get for trying to eat healthy! :lmao:

For dessert we order the Boston Cream Pie....since this is a authentic New England tavern.

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All I have to say is it tasted like a doughnut and not a good doughnut either.

I think I would go back to the Town Tavern on a future trip the atmosphere was nice, but I definitley would not get the Boston Schrod again! I should have known better with a name like Schrod....it sounds like something that you wipe off the bottom of your shoe.
I would not get the Boston Cream Pie again, either.

Hmmmm.....so I did a little research...no wonder it tasted so bad, it is the fish that nobody wants!

Scrod
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Scrode (or schrod) is a bycatch. It is a staple in many coastal New England and Atlantic Canada seafood and fish markets.

A dubious folk etymology holds that the term comes from the acronym "Small Cod Remaining On Dock", but it more likely comes from the obsolete Dutch schrood, piece cut off,[1][2] or from scrawed, from Cornish dialect.[3]

Others[who?] argue the term comes from either a sign on a wharf in Boston or a restaurant that advertised this kind of generic whitefish as "Special Catch Recorded (sometimes 'Right') On Day."[citation needed]

Others[who?] still say that the term was coined by Guy Perry, the maître d' for many years at the Parker House Hotel in Boston, to describe the hotel restaurant's "fresh catch" even before the chef returned from the fish market.[citation needed]

[A.Mickey]

I constantly am trying to make this easier for people to read, so hopefully one day I will succeed and get a few :surfweb:'s.

After our yucky lunch we headed out to sit by the lake. We have an open afternoon until our 7:30 pm ADR at The Wave.

There sure were a lot of fowl.
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These ducks were really close....
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Jason and I found this sign quite amusing! Now I was determined to see an alligator in the damn lake! We start walking around the lake!
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Ok we are off! Hmmm....nothing here but some more ducks.....keep walking....
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ooohh something moved!
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Just two turtles.
Some fishes.....where there are fishes there must be gators!
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Loon??
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Bird of Paradise. oh wait that isn't an animal.
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Where are the gators!!
Squirrel! (hope your dog didn't just bolt for the nearest window, my Up reference)
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Nifty sign, but this won't help me find the gator!
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WHAT IS THIS!!! Do you see that thing swimming in the middle of the lake?:scared1: Could it be?!?!
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Let's zoom in!
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WOO HOO! I found a gator!! :yay::yay: Proof that we must heed Pete's advice! He is a wise man!

Some pretty pictures from the town of Celebration before I go....

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And some of us....
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and.....remember......
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Look what I learned by Tiggerbell
CLICK TO CONTINUE

[maroo]

I'm here! I'm here!

I enjoyed playing UNO on FB with you tonight! :)

So far I am all the way up to where you guys went out to eat at Narcossee's! (spelling?)

How romantic! Nice meal! Good company! And finished out in the hammock in the moonlight! I bet you guys were on cloud nine.


I will come back and read/post some more. But I must go to bed. I am turning into a pumpkin! :laughing:

[schoen]

here as well! Liking it so far!

[A.Mickey]

I'm here! I'm here!

I enjoyed playing UNO on FB with you tonight! :)

So far I am all the way up to where you guys went out to eat at Narcossee's! (spelling?)

How romantic! Nice meal! Good company! And finished out in the hammock in the moonlight! I bet you guys were on cloud nine.


I will come back and read/post some more. But I must go to bed. I am turning into a pumpkin! :laughing:
Hi Mary! I also enjoyed playing Uno with you on FB! Hopefully we can do it again this Friday! :woohoo: Thanks for stopping by!
here as well! Liking it so far!

Hello there, glad you are enjoying my trip report! Where in Michigan? I am a Michigander too ;).

[A.Mickey]

After Celebration, we decide to head over the Target on Irlo Branson to pick up Jason some dress shoes for the cruise (remember he had to wear his Mickey Crocs the other night). I just don't think Mickey Crocs will be okay for Palo brunch, or formal night. We see a Marshalls across the way and think they may have some Crocs there for me. We stop and I find some, but I don't want thong sandals endorsing Florida college schools, so I pass. We head next door to the craft store, so I can find a cross stitch that I could work on in case I get done with my Nemo cross stitch before our vacation is over. I find a cute mouse and cheese one that I could do for my mother's birthday. We then head over to Downtown Disney and I do some major pin trading! We then head back to our room at the Dolphin and get ready for our ADR and the poly meet! I am really nervous to go to the meet!!

Bay Lake Towers walk way to Contemporary
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Bay Lake Tower
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We head over to the podium around 7:20 pm and there is quite a long line to check in. I am worried, that we may be late for the DIS meet at the Poly beach. Oh well, we will see them on the cruise if we miss the meet. We are waiting for our 7:40 pm ADR for a long while. I think we finally got seated at 8:05:scared1: the meet starts at 8:30 tentatively...I think. Oh well, I am kinda bummed....but we will see what happens.

Had to take a picture of the butter, it was the same butter that was served to us at Narcoossee's the night before, with the Hawaiian sea salt on it. Also, a picture of the biodegradable straw and wrapper. This restaurant is very environmentally friendly.
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Our drinks!
Jason got the....Agave Nectar Margarita - Partida blanco tequila, organic agave nectar and freshly squeezed lime juice. - $10.25

And I got the organic beer Flight. $7.25

Blonde Ale - A light-bodied blonde ale with subtle malt sweetness and a crisp, dry finish

Pale Ale - An amber gold pale ale that blends caramel malt flavor and zesty citrus-toned Cascade hops

Blackwater Dry Porter - Medium-bodied, full-flavored with savory chocolate and roasted coffee notes deliver this dry porter's creamy unique flavor

I loved the Blackwater Dry Porter it went very well with dessert! Who would have thought beer with dessert would be good?!?!

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I got an app of the soup....it was the seasonal soup....I believe it was some type of butternut squash with small brie cheese sandwiches for $7.99
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Jason got the Cinnamon-rubbed Grilled Pork Tenderloin - with fingerling potatoes and apple cider sauce - $21.99
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I got the Grilled Marinated Flank Steak - Made with seasonal vegetables, Chimichurri, and guacamole. - $20.99
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Jason got the Crispy and Crunchy (the top 3) - Vanilla-braised Pineapple spears, Almond-pineapple-raisin "Baklava", or Zucchini-carrot cake with vanilla panna cotta. - $7.99
I got the Creamy Indulgence (the bottom 3) - Cheesecake with raspberry coulis, Coconut panna cotta with passion fruit drizzle, or Chocolate-passion fruit mousse with pecan-olive brittle. - $7.99
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I would give The Wave a 4/5. The food was superb! The wait was a tad too long for me! And the restaurant is very open and noisy! Almost feels like you are eating in a cafeteria. I found that the tables were also a little too close. I would definitely go back!

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[A.Mickey]

We head over on the monorail to the Poly and walk towards the beach. It is pretty dark and hard to see anyone. I believe it is already around 9:30 pm and Wishes starts at 10:00 pm. Jen (DVCsince02) says Hi to me and tells me to go over to Tracy (winotracy) to get a lanyard, with your name tag. I find her and Tracy tells me that I look different. I had got my haircut since I met her in June 2008! This lady has a memory of an elephant! Mindy (ursulasshadow) saw Jason and I and said "aaronmckie and A. Mickey" and then we posed for a picture with her. I was starstruck...I didn't even think she knew who we were! :rotfl:

By this time I am feeling more at ease. Jason and I decide to head up to the bar to get a drink. Jason gets a lapu lapu and I get some kind of light beer. :confused3
We head back down and this is when I see Ann (maziezoe) on the beach. I recognize her because I see Piper and Logan (her kids) playing in the sand! I give her a big hug:hug:. We had been talking previously through emails on FB about the trip. Then Todd (jeanigor) came over and hugged Jason and I we had previously met at the DTD meet in December of 08. Jaime (tiggerbell) was close behind and said she would hug me but she is rather sticky at the moment. :rolleyes1. We talked to other DISers but at the time I didn't know who they were yet. Then we talked to Rob (guynwdm) right before Wishes started. We watched Wishes and then the crowd pretty much dispersed.

Jason and I headed back to the monorail and ran into Karen (klamchowder) and Robert (her husband) we told them that we would give them a ride back to the Dolphin and then we got talking to the meet that was suppose to happen at Jellyrolls after the Poly meet. I asked her if she knew if anyone was going and she said she didn't but would still like to go! I said the same so we drove over to the Dolphin and walked to Jellyrolls! We ate lots of popcorn and had a good time listening to all different sorts of music. At one time they were even playing tv theme songs one of which was the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This was a lot of fun! I highly suggest going!
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Karen and Robert left around 1 am and we were close behind we had to get up in the morning for breakfast at Cape May Cafe.

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[A.Mickey]

The day is finally here! My 1st time going on a cruise, and the Podcast Cruise! I am also a little sad that I had to leave our son at home and it is Mother's Day.

We wake up around 8 and there is much to do, we were signed up to go to the Cape May Cafe breakfast but we have to return our rental car and finish packing up our luggage and make it out to the Mears Buses by 9am? or was is 10:00am? Well, whenever it was...we head down to the Enterprise counter and find out that to drop off our rental all we have to do is give the keys to the valet! Is that the easiest thing ever....so we head out for breakfast. We head over to McDonald's and then stop across the street to fill up our rental with gas and purchase some slushies so we can use the large cups on the cruise. Tracy suggested to bring a larger container so the pop will make it back to your room....the cups that DCL provide are very small. I tried to purchase a scratch off ticket because I was feeling like I might get lucky, but the clerk asked to see my ID. Ok....forget it!

We drop off the keys to the valet and head over to where everyone is lining up for the buses!! We see Jaime again and we meet Robin (robind) on the boards. I am sure I saw other people too, there were alot of us! But at this time I was very shy and kind of scared to be cruising with this people that I don't even know for the next 4 days! Robin was telling us about her luggage and her fish extender presents and we were all admiring the way the driver must be great at playing Tetris trying to get all our luggage underneath the bus! Jason and I had to of course bring our old 80's hard shelled suitcase so the driver was having a tough time with our bag! We waited until our last piece of luggage was under the bus and came on board. We sat down in the 1st empty seat we came to, and then we felt a tap on our shoulders....who should it be but Jaime! She tells us that she has some seats in the back of the bus that she was saving for us! :hug: We got to meet Dave (mouseskywalker) and his family, and Ann (maziezoe) and her family were sitting behind Dave and Robin and Jaime were sitting across from us. And we are off to the Port!!! We had great conversations on the way and before we knew it!

Woo hoo! We see water!!
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There she be!
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There they be! (Robin snapping away, and Jaime in Awe!)
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Okay one more, because it is just a thing of beauty!
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We head off the bus and we thought we would have to take our luggage somewhere, but little did we know that these guys would just take our luggage directly off the bottom of the bus and on to these little weird things as long as we had our tags already on our bags.
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Security was a piece of cake! On our way to the security I saw Pete and Walter and Teresa and her family going through security! Is it weird that they feel like celebreties to me??
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(Wow! I was looking at this pic more closely, and I see a lot of DISers in it! Yvette, Jaime, Shelly, Judy, Kim, Dave and his family! Pretty cool! I also see a DISer with a green purse in front of Yvette, not sure who she is though?)

After we get our boarding pass and are all checked in, of course I have to call my Mother, it is Mother's Day too remember ;).
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They had a cool model of the ship and I tried to take a pic so I could photoshop all the pics together but it didn't work out that great.
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(FYI the purple square is where our room was...we booked a category 12 inside stateroom...we didn't care about our room, we just wanted to be on the ship!)

I wasn't really mingling with anyone at this point....we were just waiting for our boarding number to be called and then they take your picture before you board. This was kinda neat, because they first day many of us wore the GKTW shirts so we could spot each other and later in Shutters since everyone got a picture taken before boarding the boat it was really cool and easy to pick out all the DISers. then we walked onto the ship!!
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[A.Mickey]

We are on the ship! We are on the ship!

We follow the stream of people that are heading for lunch. Your room isn't ready until around 1:30 and what do we do til then? WE EAT!
Parrot Cay is full so we have to go up to Beach Blanket Buffet. The food is not very appealing....I start feeling worried for what is ahead for the rest of the cruise as far as the food goes! It was sooo bad....I didn't even take a picture of it! :rotfl: Basically, it was a step down from Old Country Buffet.
We sat with Robin for our lunch. Then we parted ways and went to explore the ship.

Proof that Jason is on the ship!
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The Mickey Pool before it turned yellow!
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The Goofy Pool
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The Adult Pool.....hey I spot Robert :banana:
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Aloft the teen club! I wanna check this place out sooo bad! I think it is pretty cool that their club is in a smokestack. Guess I will have to wait until Aaron is a teen!
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Look who we run into!
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Out on the WW of Sports Deck....or whatever it is called no one is there, so we decide to play a mean game of Ping Pong.
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I have to get my "I am King of the World" picture
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By this time our room is ready so we go down and lookover our Navigator for the day....at 2:30 there is a ship tour, so we meet in the elevator lobby for the tour!
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(wow this ship is BIG! I am really glad we went on the tour, it helped us get our bearings)

I see a pretty cool carpet where all the adult clubs are located, since Jason and I both grew up off of Route 66, we take our pictures next to the locations we grew up:

Jason next to Lake Havasu City, AZ
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Me on a cornfield somewhere between Joliet, IL, and Kankakee, IL
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Now it is time for the muster drill!
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(we got lucky and our meeting station was in the Walt Disney Theater)

We attend the sailaway party, and turn around to see that we are pulling away from port?!?! I didn't even feel the ship move, and look how far away from land we are already?!?
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[tiggerbell]

Yeah, you're on the ship - I'm so jealous!!!!! :mad:




Oh, wait, I was there - I'm going through security!!! :lmao:

[DisneyMissy318]

I'm "onboard" - well in spirit - and for your trippie!

Thanks for the link Tiggerbelle!

I think after reading these trip report we will be booking a cruise in the not too distant future! I'm so jealous!

Keep up the great work and great pictures!

[maroo]

I am all caught up now!!

Awesome update! I love the larger print - definitely easier to read!! :)

How much fun it looks like you guys were having!

First...The town of Celebration does seem like a desolate place. But we were there in the middle of the night going to the hospital - but I remember some of those intersections. Even in the night. :thumbsup2

Your pictures are great! I love the muster drill pic! I can't wait to read more!!!!

[heaven2dc]

Loving your report! The Swan/Dolphin hotels are so pretty and the views are awesome:love: I would love to stay someday but can't convince the rest of family to stay anywhere other BWV. Maybe my next trip I'll arrive a couple of days early and stay there.

How exciting to join other Diser's on a cruise! I've been following along with Jamie's report and it's cool to see your perspective. You are doing a great job :thumbsup2 Am anxious to read how you liked your inside cabin (I think Jamie gave a tip that if you keep the tv tuned to the channel showing live pics from the ship that at least you don't feel all disoriented in knowing what time it was. I had the same experience on my 2001 Princess cruise being in an inside cabin but it was great too for napping!)

You and Jason are an adorable couple and your son is so cute! Love your new haircut :)

[guynwdm]

Woo Hoo Shanan. Great Pics. I ate at Narcooses after the cruise and time it out so we watched Wishes from the balcony before dessert. What a great place and I don't eat seafood. :thumbsup2:

[Becx N Gav]

Thought I should say Hi :wave2: Great report so far :woohoo:

I agree the Fountain is as good as Beaches and Cream popcorn:: I sure could eat one right now!

We also enjoyed the Wave, we did dinner and a breakfast and for the breakfast we got a massive booth table for just the 2 of us :rotfl:

Oh how I wish we were back on board :goodvibes Looking forward to the next installment :thumbsup2

[aspen37]

Hi Shanan! :wave2: Jaime put a link to your report in her report. Thanks Jaime! I'm giving you a computer hug. :hug: I can't wait to read your report.

[A.Mickey]

Yeah, you're on the ship - I'm so jealous!!!!! :mad:




Oh, wait, I was there - I'm going through security!!! :lmao:
Thanks for the plug! I now have readers!!


I think after reading these trip report we will be booking a cruise in the not too distant future! I'm so jealous!

Keep up the great work and great pictures!

Yes! You will definitely be booking a cruise! It is such a good value!!!



Awesome update! I love the larger print - definitely easier to read!! :)


First...The town of Celebration does seem like a desolate place. But we were there in the middle of the night going to the hospital - but I remember some of those intersections. Even in the night. :thumbsup2

Your pictures are great! I love the muster drill pic! I can't wait to read more!!!!
I am glad the print is easier to read! I am working on making this better! I am glad I am improving! This is my 2nd attempt at writing a trip report and I am learning from the master!(Jaime).
The town of Celebration is a really cool quaint little town during the day! Reminded me of the town from The Truman Show/The Stepford Wives

Ha ha! I am glad you are liking the pictures! Jason sometimes gives me a hard time when I want him to take a silly pic of me, glad someone is getting enjoyment out of them, other than my son! :lmao:
Loving your report! The Swan/Dolphin hotels are so pretty and the views are awesome:love: I would love to stay someday but can't convince the rest of family to stay anywhere other BWV. Maybe my next trip I'll arrive a couple of days early and stay there.

How exciting to join other Diser's on a cruise! I've been following along with Jamie's report and it's cool to see your perspective. You are doing a great job :thumbsup2 Am anxious to read how you liked your inside cabin (I think Jamie gave a tip that if you keep the tv tuned to the channel showing live pics from the ship that at least you don't feel all disoriented in knowing what time it was. I had the same experience on my 2001 Princess cruise being in an inside cabin but it was great too for napping!)

You and Jason are an adorable couple and your son is so cute! Love your new haircut :)
While the view at the Dolphin is wonderful! The room at BWV is oh soo much nicer! When we were at the Dolphin, it just didn't feel like Disney?!? Something was off.....maybe it was Peekaboo! That place is just creepy!!!

Joining other DISers was very exciting! The funny thing is, Jason was the one that really wanted to go on the cruise, and I think I ended up having more fun on it then him!! Awww I am glad you think we are a cute couple! I think my son is pretty cute myself :). Ok....so I should keep it short :).
Woo Hoo Shanan. Great Pics. I ate at Narcooses after the cruise and time it out so we watched Wishes from the balcony before dessert. What a great place and I don't eat seafood. :thumbsup2:
Hi Rob! Isn't Narcooses one of the best places to watch Wishes fireworks?!? I loved it! So if you don't eat seafood what did you eat? Curious minds want to know!!
Thought I should say Hi :wave2: Great report so far :woohoo:

I agree the Fountain is as good as Beaches and Cream popcorn:: I sure could eat one right now!

We also enjoyed the Wave, we did dinner and a breakfast and for the breakfast we got a massive booth table for just the 2 of us :rotfl:

Oh how I wish we were back on board :goodvibes Looking forward to the next installment :thumbsup2
Hi Becky! Oh yes the Fountain is fantastic, I wish I could eat at both places on the same day to do a direct comparison! I didn't know The Wave did breakfast, what do they serve? I wish I was back on board too! Wasn't that trip the best!!
Hi Shanan! :wave2: Jaime put a link to your report in her report. Thanks Jaime! I'm giving you a computer hug. :hug: I can't wait to read your report.
Hi Anne! I am sooo glad Jaime put a link to me in her TR, that is what friends are for :). Your computer hugs aren't as good as your real hugs! (Note: If you ever get to meet aspen37 you must get a hug from her, she gives the best hug I think I have ever had!)

Ok, Now I must tell you all, that I write my TR as I am sitting in front of the computer looking at my old pictures....so I don't have anything written for my next chapter yet! I am going to try to stay right behind Jaime, or as close as I possibly can! I want her to spill it first, and then I will follow! I am soooo happy that you are all here for the ride!! :grouphug:

[A.Mickey]

Woo Hoo! My 600th Post!!
Ok....I just found my navigator and we were at the Adventures Away party! "Earn your status as V.I.P. sailors as your Cruise Director Christiaan, your Disney Pals, and the Cruise Staff officially begin your 'Adventures Away'"

Now it is 5:00 and we head down to Wavebands (one of the clubs, well really the only club) for the Welcome Aboard reception hosted by the DIS team! At this point I am pretty nervous! I walk in and I immediately spot Julie and Ferris!! Oh my gosh how cute are they! Ferris is just sleeping in his stroller and I chat with Julie for a little bit. But I am telling you, I am starstruck!! Ok the party is about to begin!
I think Jaime again waves us over and we sit with her and Andrea, Vinny, Tonya, Robin, and Rob. I chat with Rob about how cool his fish extender is! He is in the room next to ours, and before the cruise I saw his awesome fish extender on the fish extender forum for the podcast cruise! I think he should post a picture. It turns out he just gave his friend some Tigger clipart, his friend is very talented!
The podcast crew just tell us how excited they are to have us on board, and let us know about some of the activities they have planned and introduce us to everyone on stage. They introduced the dreams agents that were on board too. (Dagny, Mary Jo, Martha, and of course Tracy, and a few others) The team thanks Tracy for all her hard work and gave her a very cool Mickey statue! Shelly (shellyminnie) gave Tracy her wine of the month club gift...and now it was time to get our behind to the show!
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(bad pic-like Jaime said we were in the back of the room)

At this point I could feel the boat rocking....ut oh! I also kept looking out the windows and thinking wow! We are on a boat in the middle of water? It just never felt like we were the whole cruise. Jaime, Robin and I chat with a castmember from England who tells us that the boat is rocking because it is going pretty fast right now, since it is trying to get through the Florida straits(I guess it is a pretty good current). He said once we get through the straits it will be all clear. Ok I hope so!!!

6:15 pm The show tonight is The Golden Mickeys "Celebrate the musical heritage of Walt Disney in this toe-tapping tribute to the Disney Studio's Classic Films- with sensational stage performances of some of the most beloved Disney songs"
Ok can someone please answer when was Tarzan a classic Disney Film?
I think that was just a poor excuse for a chiseled man to swing from a rope in nothing but a loincloth. Was Hunchback of Notre Dame also featured?!? But, overall pretty cute show, don't want to give too much away! I loved the seven dwarves part! Ok now it is time to get dressed in decent clothes for our dinner tonight at Animator's Palate (ut oh we will be out of our white shirts, how will anyone know who is a DISer?!?!?)!
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[A.Mickey]

We head back to our room to get ready for dinner.

A little bit about our room, it isn't as small as I thought it would be. We booked a category 12 inside cabin. Here is exactly what our room looked like down to the pictures on the wall. Jaime's tour of the stateroom I guess the only difference is the size of the bathroom. We also are participating in the Fish Extender gift swap thingy....here is the Fish Extender that 3 generations participated in making (me, my mom and my grandma) Also, the middle pocket is a design I helped create with Jen! I like doing designs for Disney freaks in my spare time as well!
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(this picture was taken a few days into our cruise hence all the cool gifts on our door)
It was really neat coming back to the room and seeing all the new treasures that were waiting!

Off to dinner....but 1st we stop to watch the sunset! We run into Dave and family, he had 1st seating. He said the food was very good, ok this gives me hope.

Jason and the special yellow lifeboat ;).
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Not the best picture of me (it was windy), but the sunset sure is cool!
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At this time I see a couple sitting in lounge chairs and I think to myself I wonder if they are DISers? It turns out they are Lori and Rick (theBeadPirate) I find this out because they are our tablemates at a 4 top for the next few nights!! How weird!?!?

A kind crew member sees us taking pictures of each other and asks if he could take a picture of the two of us. SURE! (we hate asking others to take our picture, that is why there are a lot of pics where just one of us is in the frame)
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I thought this is a cool one trying to look down the length of the ship. But I don't recommend it, I had to lean out pretty far, and it was scary! I thought I was going to drop our camera in the water!! :eek:
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Drats stupid clouds! I want to see the sun dip into the water!
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Yes! It decided to peek out at the last second!
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All gone! Now time for dinner!
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As we are outside of Animator's Palate waiting to be seated we run into Tom and Ann and their children! I don't really remember what we talked about! I was still soooo shy! We sit down and meet Rick and Lori! Yay! I actually know who these guys are! I mean well I recognize them from the boards! Some DISers came on this trip that strictly only listen to the podcast. This night we are also sitting very close to George (georgemoe) and his wife Deb (leftinnorway). At this point of the cruise I am still in my shell, and very, very, very, very shy! I wish now that I would have talked to them. There are many people I felt this way! It was hard to try to meet 300 people, but that 1st night I really wasn't trying at all. :(. I can't even imagine what trying to meet 500 will be like!!!

We meet our servers Hans and Oscar! Hans was the best!!!!

I am really not a huge drinker, I am more of a social drinker. Jason ordered a drink with dinner and I was shocked that it was only 5.50! When we go out to eat and order a cocktail it is usually around 8 or 9. They also had a drink of the day for 3.95. I was very impressed with the prices for alcoholic beverages aboard the ship.

Jason ordered a True Colors Captain Morgan, Crème de Banana, and Orange Juice, topped with Strawberry Puree

Time for our Appetizers (the 4 of us all order)

Wild Mushrooms Risotto and Porcini Wafer served with parmiggiano reggiano and black truffle oil
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(oh my gosh this was sooooooo good!!)

Next up are Soup & Salads (Jason doesn't order one! And I let him have it! You must order it so I can get a picture of it, he orders one the rest of the cruise, good husband :))

Smoked Salmon and Trout with Goat Cheese Salad on baby greens, with toasted almonds and a cranberry balsamic vinegar dressing
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3364.jpg
(this was ok.....the Trout was good)

Main Course

Mine: Lemon-Thyme Marinated Chicken Breast on top of Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Root Vegetables and Grain Mustard Jus.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3366.jpg
(this must have been just ok...because I don't even remember it really)

Jason's: Animator’s Grilled Veal Chop with Roasted Red Bliss Potatoes with Sweet Onions and a Morel Mushroom Sauce
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3365.jpg

Dessert our 1st brush with the Sweet Temptations, Lori's cake was oozing out water. It was the funniest thing ever! Ok, so we can say one thing...the desserts are not fresh!
Animator's Sweet Temptations A Trio of Strawberry Sable, Cranberry and Orange Cheesecake, and Double-Fudge Chocolate Cake
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3367.jpg
(okay...while they looked pretty...they were not good)

We head back to our stateroom to use the facilities! Isn't that weird to say? This being our 1st cruise and all......would you really go from Animal Kingdom to Pop if you had to use the restroom? LOL! One of the many perks of being on a cruise!

Our bed is turned down with chocolates and we have this on our bed.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3368.jpg
(oh see those buttons to the left, they will be important later)

Looking at the navigator earlier in the day, I want to go see the game show Match Your Mate. Our stateroom is on floor number 2 and the adult clubs are on floor number 3, right above us! We have to go up one flight of stairs to get to Wavebands! So, here we are in Wavebands and we are playing a game called Ice Breakers basically asking questions like "what is the most popular sport?" and whatever answer has the most answers those teams get a point. I think the winning teams got these hats that said Winner on them.

10:30 pm time for Match Your Mate
This is basically the Newlywed show, but with a new couple, a married couple and a couple that has been together for a very long time! The couple that was together for a very long time happened to be DISers! Sue and Fred couple on the far right! Don't know their screennames, but their daughter is Wallis (Addicted to Dopey)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3369.jpg

We then went to the Cadillac Lounge for a little bit, because there was a full moon on Saturday night, and today is Sunday so the moon is still pretty bright, and it looks so pretty hitting the water! I think this was my bad attempt of trying to catch the essence of the moon!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3370.jpg
(yep this is from a porthole window in the Cadillac Lounge)

I think after this we walked around to explore the ship for a bit, I believe Tonya and Yvette waved us into Wavebands to dance, we were there for like 20 seconds dancing with them and walked out...I feel bad, but we were tired and wanted to rest, plus I was shy at this point in the cruise!! Sorry ladies!!

On our way back to the room, I tell Jason to pose like Walt!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3372.jpg

We had a dilemma when we got back to the room......we do not like breakfast and we are not morning people. So, do we order room service now (it is around 1:30 am) and then wake up at the last possible second to take a shower and dress for the Disney Institute presentation at 8:00 am, or do we just go to bed and wake up early and eat breakfast.

Ok, so we decide to order room service...I order the Chicken wrap and the fruit plate, and Jason orders the Hot Dog and Fries and of course we have to get Mickey Bars! I was hungry so, you get our empty dishes and empty Mickey Bars......is this as bad as Bob's empty Dole Whip Containers?
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3373.jpg
(oh well, Jason has a Mickey Bar in the picture, but it has a bite taken out of it! :P.)

Nighty Night! It is now 2:00 am, and the presentation starts at 8:00 am.
At least our room is pitch dark, we didn't leave a single light on...in fact Jason put a towel under the door so not a spec of light will enter our room! Wow! I think this was the darkest place I have ever been! I had my eyes completely open but I could not see a single thing. That was pretty neat!!! Another perk of an inside cabin.






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[Dodie]

:wave2:

Just wanted to say that, thanks to Jaime's link, I'm following along now too Shanan! GREAT JOB! Very cool reliving it all.

[aspen37]

I'm loving your TR Shanan!




Turning into the Outlets we spot these on top of the lights?!? :confused:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3223-1.jpg
I guess they are for cops to know when the light is red from every direction to deter red light runners. Sounds like there would be an easier solution to the problem.




Todd and I were going to Wal-Mart and saw the blue light on the signal and were wondering what was up with them. I like your conclusion. :thumbsup2




Let's zoom in!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3275.jpg
WOO HOO! I found a gator!! :yay::yay: Proof that we must heed Pete's advice! He is a wise man!

Congrats on finding a gator. :thumbsup2 I was looking everywhere and never did see one.

We head over on the monorail to the Poly and walk towards the beach. It is pretty dark and hard to see anyone. I believe it is already around 9:30 pm and Wishes starts at 10:00 pm. Jen (DVCsince02) says Hi to me and tells me to go over to Tracy (winotracy) to get a lanyard, with your name tag. I find her and Tracy tells me that I look different. I had got my haircut since I met her in June 2008! This lady has a memory of an elephant! Mindy (ursulasshadow) saw Jason and I and said "aaronmckie and A. Mickey" and then we posed for a picture with her. I was starstruck...I didn't even think she knew who we were! :rotfl:

By this time I am feeling more at ease. Jason and I decide to head up to the bar to get a drink. Jason gets a lapu lapu and I get some kind of light beer. :confused3
We head back down and this is when I see Ann (maziezoe) on the beach. I recognize her because I see Piper and Logan (her kids) playing in the sand! I give her a big hug:hug:. We had been talking previously through emails on FB about the trip. Then Todd (jeanigor) came over and hugged Jason and I we had previously met at the DTD meet in December of 08. Jaime (tiggerbell) was close behind and said she would hug me but she is rather sticky at the moment. :rolleyes1. We talked to other DISers but at the time I didn't know who they were yet. Then we talked to Rob (guynwdm) right before Wishes started. We watched Wishes and then the crowd pretty much dispersed.

Jason and I headed back to the monorail and ran into Karen (klamchowder) and Robert (her husband) we told them that we would give them a ride back to the Dolphin and then we got talking to the meet that was suppose to happen at Jellyrolls after the Poly meet. I asked her if she knew if anyone was going and she said she didn't but would still like to go! I said the same so we drove over to the Dolphin and walked to Jellyrolls! We ate lots of popcorn and had a good time listening to all different sorts of music. At one time they were even playing tv theme songs one of which was the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. This was a lot of fun! I highly suggest going!
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http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3304.jpg

Karen and Robert left around 1 am and we were close behind we had to get up in the morning for breakfast at Cape May Cafe.

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I don't know how Kim and I missed you and Jason on the beach. We were standing next to Ann and her family. :confused3 :confused3




[COLOR="Purple"][SIZE="4"]We are on the ship! We are on the ship!




I see a pretty cool carpet where all the adult clubs are located, since Jason and I both grew up off of Route 66, we take our pictures next to the locations we grew up:

Jason next to Lake Havasu City, AZ
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3335.jpg

Me on a cornfield somewhere between Joliet, IL, and Kankakee, IL
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3339.jpg




Jason and I were neighbors, lived in Bullhead City, AZ. I saw Bullhead City on the map too.:thumbsup2


[COLOR="Purple"][SIZE="4"]Woo Hoo! My 600th Post!!


Congrats on your 600th post! :banana: :banana: :banana:

[aspen37]

[COLOR="Purple"][SIZE="4"]Hi Anne! I am sooo glad Jaime put a link to me in her TR, that is what friends are for :). Your computer hugs aren't as good as your real hugs! (Note: If you ever get to meet aspen37 you must get a hug from her, she gives the best hug I think I have ever had!)



Shanan, are you suggesting that I hug myself? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Were you sleepy when you read my post? :rotfl2:

[A.Mickey]

Shanan, are you suggesting that I hug myself? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Were you sleepy when you read my post? :rotfl2:

Oh wow! Sorry, yes maybe just a little! And still am, Anna! I think I may have been telling other people that if they meet you that they should really get a hug from you because you are the BEST!!

:hug:

[A.Mickey]

:wave2:

Just wanted to say that, thanks to Jaime's link, I'm following along now too Shanan! GREAT JOB! Very cool reliving it all.

I'm loving your TR Shanan!


Thanks guys!! I am glad you are liking my TR! This is my very 1st one...so I am happy that I am doing a good job! :goodvibes





I don't know how Kim and I missed you and Jason on the beach. We were standing next to Ann and her family. :confused3 :confused3

At this time of the trip, I was very very very introverted! I only said Hi to the people, that either came up to me, or that I recognized from talking to them previously! I am just glad we got to hang out at DATW, and it still was very hard to meet all!





Jason and I were neighbors, lived in Bullhead City, AZ. I saw Bullhead City on the map too.:thumbsup2



WOW! That is awesome! I will have to pass this along to Jason!! :banana::banana::banana:

[brookelizabeth]

Hi Shanan! I wasn't on PCC 1.0, but DH, DS and I will be on 2.0! I don't post much on the Podcast boards (I really need to start to get to know some people...But post a lot on the TR boards). DH and I listen to the Podcast in our car while traveling back and forth for work-it sure makes going to work more bearable! ;)

I followed the plug for your report on Jaime's, and I'm enjoying yours! I can understand being a bit shy at first - I'm normally NOT shy AT ALL, but sometimes I get a bit intimidated/overwhelmed and I could see myself being shy at first...so this is a good report to keep in mind of "DON'T BE SHY" :goodvibes

Your DS is adorable!!

[DVCsince02]

Is it wrong to feel famous for being mentioned in your TR? ;)

[Tonya2426]

I think after this we walked around to explore the ship for a bit, I believe Tonya and Yvette waved us into Wavebands to dance, we were there for like 20 seconds dancing with them and walked out...I feel bad, but we were tired and wanted to rest, plus I was shy at this point in the cruise!! Sorry ladies!!



I'll let it slide this time but on 2.0 I expect to see you wearing your boogie shoes. :dance3:

[A.Mickey]

Hi Shanan! I wasn't on PCC 1.0, but DH, DS and I will be on 2.0! I don't post much on the Podcast boards (I really need to start to get to know some people...But post a lot on the TR boards). DH and I listen to the Podcast in our car while traveling back and forth for work-it sure makes going to work more bearable! ;)

I followed the plug for your report on Jaime's, and I'm enjoying yours! I can understand being a bit shy at first - I'm normally NOT shy AT ALL, but sometimes I get a bit intimidated/overwhelmed and I could see myself being shy at first...so this is a good report to keep in mind of "DON'T BE SHY" :goodvibes

Your DS is adorable!!
Hi Brook! Your son is extremely cute! I loved reading your mini-trip report of going to the Dells, I didn't finish all of it yet. Trying to keep away from the little red car, and him getting a date in the red car was hilarious! Where are you from? I am glad you are enjoying my report! Yes, we should not be shy! I posted in another thread, that we people that are Disney nuts and listen to the podcast, really have a lot in common. We obviously share the same taste in humor and LOVE Disney so we already have lots in common, so there is no reason to be shy! Cannot wait to meet you on PCC 2.0!! :yay::yay:
Is it wrong to feel famous for being mentioned in your TR? ;)
Is it wrong for me to feel famous that you are reading my TR? :rotfl: I was just so happy to meet you on the Beach, you really made me feel at ease!! Thanks!! :yay: I am just flabbergasted that anyone is reading my report! I really just wanted to do this for myself, to remember the great time we had. I am sooo happy that everyone is coming out of the woodwork and actually enjoying my TR!! :woohoo:
I'll let it slide this time but on 2.0 I expect to see you wearing your boogie shoes. :dance3:
Ut oh! I better start taking lessons! I use to when I was young, sometimes I feel that I have two left feet!!

Like I said before I am writing this report as I go along....this weekend was extremely busy for me. We hung out with Ann (maziezoe) and her family yesterday and went to a Coldplay concert last night, and then spent all of today again with Ann and her family. Hopefully I will be adding another chapter either tomorrow night or by the latest on Tuesday night! :thumbsup2

[MaleDisneyBeliever]

Im here!!! Sorry Im late! :cool1:

[DVCsince02]

Is it wrong for me to feel famous that you are reading my TR? :rotfl: I was just so happy to meet you on the Beach, you really made me feel at ease!! Thanks!! :yay: I am just flabbergasted that anyone is reading my report! I really just wanted to do this for myself, to remember the great time we had. I am sooo happy that everyone is coming out of the woodwork and actually enjoying my TR!! :woohoo:

You are sweet so say so. That night at the Poly was insane. We had just come from Narcoosees so I was feeling over dressed (or under dressed do the the cut of the top of my dress). Plus, I was trying to say hello to so many people while handing out the glow necklaces that Dodie and I bought. It was fun. :laughing:

[A.Mickey]

Im here!!! Sorry Im late! :cool1:
Glad you are here! You aren't late! I am only at the end of day 3! There are still 11 more days of fun!:woohoo:

You are sweet so say so. That night at the Poly was insane. We had just come from Narcoosees so I was feeling over dressed (or under dressed do the the cut of the top of my dress). Plus, I was trying to say hello to so many people while handing out the glow necklaces that Dodie and I bought. It was fun. :laughing:
You looked great that night!! princess:

[A.Mickey]

7:45 AM
We wake up, shower and get ready for the Disney Institute presentation at 8:30. On the way there we pass by Fred and Sue the winners of last nights game show Match Your Mate and I tell them how funny I thought they were. They won a spa package for two for the Razul? I guess, you take mud and rub it all over each other? Doesn't sound very romantic to me, sounds kinda scratchy! One of the questions from last nights game was "What would your wife say is the 1st thing you touch in the morning?" And Fred said "The cat!" and Tissa said "Is that what you call it?" :laughing:

8:30 AM
So here we are in the theater ready for the presentation. Kevin and John talk a little bit and then introduce this guy...
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3464.jpg
(this picture was taken two days from the presentation, no pictures were allowed during the actually presentation)

Was his name Corey or was his name Mark?!? I don't remember! Oh well, I think he responds to either. Oh yeah, that's right his name was Mark and it was to common because at Disney they go on a 1st name basis and he had to be identifiable, so for the job they decided to call him Corey.

Mark/Corey gave us a presentation about the history of Disney. For our group much of the presentation were things we had already heard before. Some of the pictures were new to me though. The presentation lasted for a little over an hour.

Now it was time for Palo Brunch!

Some snapshots on the way to Palo.
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(I was trying to get the smoke coming out of the smokestack but I just missed it!)

Imagination Movers on the big screen!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3375.jpg
(had to get these for Aaron)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3376.jpg
(can't forget about Scott and his wobble goggles)

Here is where we are thinking about going after dinner tonight.
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(Atlantis Casino)

10:00 AM
Here we are in Palo, thanks the DIS team, this was a free Brunch that they set up for us! We are sitting with Jaime, Robin, Ann and her husband Tom our sever is Judy (AKA Juicy J). I am still pretty quiet at this point, but I believe Jaime is trying to get me to come out of my shell.

I never did take a picture of my appetizer plate....shame on me!
At this point Jaime got Jason to try Ahi Tuna on a little silver spoon! This kinda made me mad! :mad: As he never tries anything for me!! But this came back to bite me in the :eek: later! (Just wait til the last night at Tritons)

I ordered the Chicken :P.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3379.jpg
(this basically tasted like a pretty bad chicken parmigiana, I wasn't impressed)

Jason ordered the Fruit Pizza:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3380.jpg

I also ordered the mushroom soup.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3381.jpg
(Now this was good!)

Time for dessert!! Click this link for Jaime's pretty Dessert pictures
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3382.jpg
(OK! This is something that Palo did exceptionally well! The sweet temptation desserts from last night don't even compare to the desserts served in Palo!)

Around this time Tiara Todd was passing around his autograph book to get all of our signatures, and the FOJ's (Friends of Jaime)was born :). Well at least to me it was! And I was also inducted into Todd's Royal Subjects! YAY!

We all went our separate ways until 2 pm....The Martini Tasting.





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[brookelizabeth]

Hi Brook! Your son is extremely cute! I loved reading your mini-trip report of going to the Dells, I didn't finish all of it yet. Trying to keep away from the little red car, and him getting a date in the red car was hilarious! Where are you from? I am glad you are enjoying my report! Yes, we should not be shy! I posted in another thread, that we people that are Disney nuts and listen to the podcast, really have a lot in common. We obviously share the same taste in humor and LOVE Disney so we already have lots in common, so there is no reason to be shy! Cannot wait to meet you on PCC 2.0!! :yay::yay:

Thank you! :goodvibes I'm still not done with the Dells - it's a slow work in progress as part of the PTR. :laughing: Henry just loved that red car, and he loves his lady friend too! The Mom of the crew there actually watches Henry while I'm at work, and everyday we drive up to their house and Henry shouts the little girl's name. :lovestruc :cutie:

I am originally from a suburb of Chicago (Bolingbrook), but have lived in Minnesota pretty much since 4th grade, with a 1.5 year stint in NYC. Right now, we are in Central Minnesota.

I can't wait to meet you either!! The more I read about the cruise, the more excited I am! I will try to hang around on the Podcast boards some too and attempt to get to know ya'll a bit better!

Oh, and about your update - LOVE the Imagination Movers on the big screen! LOL "Imagination Movers, ya gotta think about it...."

[kath1210]

Hi! I am an immigrant from Jamie's trip report. Loving yours too! :goodvibes

In fact, you have both influenced me to sign up for Podcast 2.0!! It looks like such a blast!

Can't wait to meet you in December 2010!

[A.Mickey]

So, we have a few hours to kill before the Martini Tasting. I believe now the time is 12:00pm, so we decide to hand out some of our fish extender gifts.

I show Jason the secret deck! I found out! We look out and decide that we will not get off the boat at Nassau day.

Here is what we saw of Nassau from the secret deck:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/Nassu-1.jpg
(I am really happy that we stayed on the ship)

We got one floor of the ship done with our fish extender gifts and decide that we should go get some food before the Martini and Wine Tasting we have this afternoon!:eek:

We head up to Deck 9 and Jason goes and gets some Disney Chicken Nuggets while I go get some drinks from the fountain machine. While I am walking to the machine, Corey (webmastercorey) from the podcast, sees me and waves me over. He knows I am a DISer because we all wear our lanyards around the ship so we can recognize each other. Oh my word!! I don't even know what to say, but Corey is so nice! He asks me where I am from and he could tell I am from Chicago! He said he could hear my accent?!?! :eek: I didn't even know I had one? I talk about Michigan, since at the time, Julie said on a recent show, "What is there to do in Michigan anyway?" I tell her that I posted on the thread a ton of stuff to do in Michigan! I tell them, that they should really try to go to Mackinaw Island because they have really good salt water taffy and fudge. This got Julie and Corey's mom talking about candy! Julie and Corey are so friendly and down to the earth!!

Ok...so I head over to Goofy's Galley. This quick service is very healthy and yummy!! I got a chicken wrap thing, and I picked up some fruit, so we will have something to eat for breakfast or the middle of the night if we are hungry (we never did eat the fruit, but at least it made for some entertainment at the martini tasting).....this is how Jason ended up with fruit in his pants! I head back to Jason and he asks me what the heck took you sooo long! I told him I just had a brush with some celebrities, and I proceed to tell him about my conversation with Corey and Julie!

It is close to 2pm so we head down to Diversions for some Martini Tasting. Jason and I stand at the door for a lil while and the accent lady who will be doing the Martini Tasting just gives me a sultry smile. We decide to go in....

We end up sitting at a booth and shortly Jaime comes over to join us and then Robin comes in a little later.

Here are the beautiful things laid out in front of each of us.....oh and did I mention....we have an extra place setting! :eek:
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(Dodie's picture)

Alright, so with every good Martini Tasting we start with the strongest first! The dirty martini, the host talks about the origin of the martini and our table is talking amongst ourselves and we are pretty much tuning her out the rest of the time. Jason is allergic to olives so I get his martini and Jaime doesn't like it so I drink hers, I think I got to drink Robins too! The water boy comes around to fill up our waters and he tells us to drink the extra place setting! Jaime hand me that other Dirty Martini over there! What can I say....I don't like to let things go to waste!

We drink the 2nd one....hmmm was this the cosmo or the apple martini, I really don't remember. I remember thinking that the apple martini tasted pretty much like apple pucker and Jaime didn't really like it, so I asked if I could have the apple martini on the extra place setting.

The cosmo was a cosmo I had one before.....and am not really a fan.

The pineapple martini was just ok, I don't really like pineapples...but honestly, by this time did it really matter that I don't like pineapples?

The chocolate martini was just ok...at this time the pretty lady was asking us to come up and make martini's.
She asks has anyone had a pomegranate martini before? And of course I shout out! I HAVE!!!

So she asks me "Would you like to come make one?".....now my sober self would have been very shy and would have told someone else to do it, but at this point I wasn't really sober anymore, so of course sure I will make one. I think the lady could tell that I wasn't sober anymore, and she wanted to get me drunker! I swear she made me pour the vodka into the shaker for what seemed to me to be about 5 minutes straight! I had never made a martini before, so she was coaxing me though everything, I felt like such a novice following Tracy and her Whippletini!! Geesh!

See how pathetic I look, I don't even know how to hold the shaker!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/P5110477.jpg

Well, at least I got a HUGE, STRONG martini out of the deal!

Before & After:
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.....And we have a wine tasting to go to next....well, Jason is just sitting at the wine tasting and being my babysitter, I am actually drinking the wine, will I survive?!?!



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[dizneeat]

I guess I have to come out of lurkdome sometime, so why not now! :lmao:

Actually I came right over to read your trip report once Jamie posted the link and I am LOVING every single line of it!!!! Thank you so much for letting all of us relive your adventures.
We will go on our very first Disney cruise in just 4 weeks, so reading all there is to do and see is a HUGE help!
Can't wait for the next installment!

Greetings from Austria! :flower3:
Karin

[maiziezoe]

Soooooo many things to say.... :)

Cruise Director Christiaan... how cute was he?

Mushroom Risotto... YUM!

Desserts at Palo... I will say it again... I would marry that little chocolate thing and divorce it just to marry it again. Sooooo good.

Sheesh... the kids decided to talk to me and I forgot what else I was going to say.


Like I said before I am writing this report as I go along....this weekend was extremely busy for me. We hung out with Ann (maziezoe) and her family yesterday and went to a Coldplay concert last night, and then spent all of today again with Ann and her family. Hopefully I will be adding another chapter either tomorrow night or by the latest on Tuesday night! :thumbsup2

We had such a good time with you this weekend!! Always an adventure! Only 12 more days and we can have another adventure! :)

[aaronmckie]

I love the before and after pics, especially your fun meter button :thumbsup2
Between yours and Jaime's TRs, the martini tasting was really well covered :goodvibes
I like how both of you overlooked my wife and Todd becoming a little too friendly... but I overlooked that too :laughing:

[heaven2dc]

Those martinis look so yummy!! And loved the before/after pics of you and Jason. I am basically shy when not sober but very talkative and ready to jump up and raise my hand to volunteer for just about anything when I've had a couple of drinks.

[A.Mickey]

Thank you! :goodvibes I'm still not done with the Dells - it's a slow work in progress as part of the PTR. :laughing: Henry just loved that red car, and he loves his lady friend too! The Mom of the crew there actually watches Henry while I'm at work, and everyday we drive up to their house and Henry shouts the little girl's name.

I am originally from a suburb of Chicago (Bolingbrook), but have lived in Minnesota pretty much since 4th grade, with a 1.5 year stint in NYC. Right now, we are in Central Minnesota

I can't wait to meet you either!! The more I read about the cruise, the more excited I am! I will try to hang around on the Podcast boards some too and attempt to get to know ya'll a bit better!

Oh, and about your update - LOVE the Imagination Movers on the big screen! LOL "Imagination Movers, ya gotta think about it...."

Awww...your son has his 1st crush?!? I will have to go back and read some more of your Wisconsin Dells TR!!

Drats too bad you don't still live in the Chicagoland area! I live in Arlington Heights, I don't know if you remember where that is in relation to Bolingbrook, but it is not too far at all!

Oh yes! The cruise is going to be fun, fun fun! Less than 500 days!! :goodvibes

We :love: the Imagination Movers, hopefully we will go see them on their next tour! :woohoo:

Hi! I am an immigrant from Jamie's trip report. Loving yours too! :goodvibes

In fact, you have both influenced me to sign up for Podcast 2.0!! It looks like such a blast!

Can't wait to meet you in December 2010!

WOW!! :scared1: That is sooo awesome that Jaime and I have influenced you to go on Podcast 2.0! :hug: I can't wait to meet you either:yay:

I guess I have to come out of lurkdome sometime, so why not now! :lmao:

Actually I came right over to read your trip report once Jamie posted the link and I am LOVING every single line of it!!!! Thank you so much for letting all of us relive your adventures.
We will go on our very first Disney cruise in just 4 weeks, so reading all there is to do and see is a HUGE help!
Can't wait for the next installment!

Greetings from Austria! :flower3:
Karin
I am sooo happy that Jaime posted the link to my TR! I got so many readers thanks to that! Oh I love that you all are reliving my adventures it is fun for me to relive them too!!

Have a fantastic time on your cruise! How long of a cruise are you taking?

I can't believe I have a reader from Austria! it's a small world after all! :dance3:

Soooooo many things to say.... :)

Cruise Director Christiaan... how cute was he?

Mushroom Risotto... YUM!

Desserts at Palo... I will say it again... I would marry that little chocolate thing and divorce it just to marry it again. Sooooo good.

Sheesh... the kids decided to talk to me and I forgot what else I was going to say.



We had such a good time with you this weekend!! Always an adventure! Only 12 more days and we can have another adventure! :)

We had a fantastic time with you this weekend too! Thanks so much for letting us borrow your dry shirts! Aaron had lots of fun too! He keeps saying Logan, lets go! It is nice that we like each other and our kids like each other too! :yay::yay::yay:

And for those of you who don't know.....this is Ann...and Ann and Jaime live pretty close to me, but I had to go on the podcast cruise to actually have a long conversation with either of them!

I love the before and after pics, especially your fun meter button :thumbsup2
Between yours and Jaime's TRs, the martini tasting was really well covered :goodvibes
I like how both of you overlooked my wife and Todd becoming a little too friendly... but I overlooked that too :laughing:

Who is your wife? :rotfl::lmao:

Ok, just in case someone doesn't know aaronmckie is my husband Jason! :hug:

Those martinis look so yummy!! And loved the before/after pics of you and Jason. I am basically shy when not sober but very talkative and ready to jump up and raise my hand to volunteer for just about anything when I've had a couple of drinks.

Yes the martinis were very yummy!! I am the same way when drinking....just wait I do something very :headache: during the wine tasting....

[A.Mickey]

So...yes my husband reminds me that Todd and I were a little too friendly after the martini tasting....I do not recall this!

We head out to an area by the shops for an impromptu "Ask Tracy" session. On our way Jaime and I stop to take a picture of us standing on our hometowns back home! Too funny that we had to come all the way to the Podcast cruise to actually get a real friendship created!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2323232327Ffp43354nu3235588WSNRCG32.jpg
(BTW I am borrowing some of Jaime's pictures, I hope she doesn't mind! I think she was my picture taker for half of this cruise!)

So we are at the "Ask Tracy" session and all I remember from this was.....

1. Tracy asking us what we would like to see differently on PCC 2.0. Then I remember at one point she disappaeraed and it turned into a "Bill Tells All" session

2. Tracy telling us about the 2 for 1 drink specials at the bar (on the way to the Heads Up Bar) on Castaway Cay and that we are getting a free drink coupon at the Heads Up Bar. (Of course my ears were perked up for this one)

3. Walt's disapproving look...I am sorry Grandpa :(.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2323232327Ffp4336nu3235588WSNRCG323.jpg
(I don't know why but when I see Walt I think of my Grandpa that died when I was 5...I don't know if I think they look alike...or if I just have the two in the same file in my brain, since my Grandpa took me to Disney World when I was 2)

4. Wanting to meet Candy (experiment627) and her husband (L.E.Ott).....but being way too embarrassed to have this be our 1st meeting, remember how many martini's I had just drank?!?!

So, now is time for us to leave the session and head to the wine tasting, but wait! I still have a little martini in my glass, someone tells me to finish it! But I know when enough is enough! I still have wine tasting to get through!!
Todd helps me finish it!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2323232327Ffp4336nu3235588WSNRCG-1.jpg
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2323232327Ffp43363nu3235588WSNRCG32.jpg
( I don't know if that is a look of "wow that drink is strong", or a look of "come on why can't you finish it!")

Wine Tasting

4:00 pm (I think it was 4)
Jason and I head back to Diversions and we grab the booth that we got out of a little bit ago. Soon others come and grab the booth with us.....a nice older couple from St. Louis, gosh I wish I remembered their names, she was super nice and fun! She put up with me...but I was trying to be as good as I possibly could be. Judy and Kim (chiurugeon) were also at our booth. It was fun pretending to be all sophisticated at the wine tasting and swirling the glass and looking for sediments, while I was beyond tipsy. A lot of the older crowd came to the wine tasting and they really were trying to learn something, but the booth with Kevin (yes that Kevin) was sitting behind me and they were kind of loud, so some of the crowd kept shhhhing them....I was happy to know that I kept my quiet and I did very well. Jason was proud of me! We also got a really cool pin, that said Wine Tasting from stem to stern for taking part in this tasting.

When the tasting was convening Kevin had some prizes to give away, so he went up to the front of the room, which was right next to our booth, and had a trivia contest. I don't really remember any of the questions that were asked (I am sorry, but by this point I had alot to drink). I do remember him asking when is John's birthday and I said April, then March, then Febuary, and I said 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th.....I think it is one of those days....well anyway, I don't know if Kevin felt sorry for me or what, but he let me win the prize for knowing John the Genius' birthday. I got some DCL magnets and dry erase board.

Then Kevin asks if anyone has a good question for the audiance and I eagerly SHOUT OUT! "When's my birthday!?!?" :confused: DOH! I knew right after I said it, that this was beyond dumb! Kevin just gave me a disapproving look, and after that moment, I never did have the courage to introduce myself formally to Kevin. :rolleyes:




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[A.Mickey]

5:00 pm
We head back to our room, and I can barely stand! I decide to lay down and I fall asleep for about a hour nap. I wake up, and I am still pretty woozy.

6:15 pm
Tonight is Toy Story The Musical....I don't really remember much of this musical, other than the song The Claw, The Claw! I was sleeping on and off through out it, but it seemed really cute. By the end of the musical I felt much better, we head downstairs and get ready for formal night!

Tonight is Parrot Cay- Island Dinner (I really thought this dinner was going to be bad, as a lot of DISers booked Palo this night) Lori and Rick booked Palo tonight and we had the table to ourselves! Before dinner Jason (menshacorp) comes and introduces himself to us! That was really cool!

Bring on the food!

Jason's look of....why do you have to keep taking pictures? (because I am doing a TR when we get back silly)
Jason orders the Melon Mojito Bacardi Rum, Midori, Lime Juice, Sugar Syrup, Mint Leaves and Soda Water, again $5.50!
and for the appetizer:
Jamaican-Marinated Chicken Tenderloins in a sizzling spicy Jerk sauce with a Chunky Blue Cheese Dressing
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3392.jpg

I order the Baked Crab Martinique Jumbo Lump Crab baked in a creamy Cheese Sauce served with colorful Tortilla and Plantain Chips
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3393.jpg
(you cannot go wrong when you see Crab and creamy cheese sauce in the same line!...this was good!!)

Time for our soup/salad:

Jason orders the: Cold Cream of Mango and Papaya flavored with Passion Fruit
I order: Cream of Green Asparagus with Crabmeat and Asparagus
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3394.jpg
(can you tell which one is which? Yeah! More crab for me!)

Our entrees: (since our tablemates are not here tonight, I am not embarrased and I order two entrees!)

Jason's: Mixed Grill Grilled Sirloin Steak, Lamb Chop, Bacon-wrapped Sausage, and Jumbo Shrimp on Mashed Potatoes, Asparagus, and Grilled Tomato with a Cabernet-Mushroom Sauce
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3397.jpg
(this was good, well the parts I tried! He let me try some...and of course I got the Shrimp)

I order: Island-Spiced Grilled Rib-Eye of Beef Topped with handmade spiced Butter, Corn on the Cob and Double-baked Potato
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3396.jpg
(eek! Not very good! The corn on the cob is way over done, the baked potato tasted like a metal tray, and the Rib Eye was pretty fatty...good thing I ordered two entrees!)

My second entree: Pan-Seared Grouper with Baby Shrimp in Lemon Butter served with a Saffron-Herb Basmati Rice and Snow Peas
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3395.jpg
(the rice was a little dry, but much better then the other entree!!)

Dessert:

Jason isn't feeling very good...so he skips on dessert.

I order Chocolate S’More Vanilla Cake Crackling Marshmallow Crust on Vanilla Cake filled with Chocolate, served with Dulce De Leche Sauce
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3398.jpg
(this was pretty good....better than our sweet temptations from last night!)

Oh and here is a picture of us at formal night.....(a good friend of mine, Jaime, taught all of us to take redneck photos of the monitor ;). So instead of paying 20 dollars for this picture I snapped it from the screen! :eek:)

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/Copyof100_3466.jpg

It is kinda late and don't want to miss Wonderquest.....when we were at Wavebands the night before Tissa compared Wonderquest to an adult scavenger hunt...and I LOVE SCAVENGER HUNTS! We don't go back to our room to change out of our formal clothes, we just run down to Wavebands!!

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[DVCsince02]

Wine Tasting

4:00 pm (I think it was 4)
Jason and I head back to Diversions and we grab the booth that we got out of a little bit ago. Soon others come and grab the booth with us.....a nice older couple from St. Louis, gosh I wish I remembered their names, she was super nice and fun! She put up with me...but I was trying to be as good as I possibly could be. Judy and Kim (chiurugeon) were also at our booth. It was fun pretending to be all sophisticated at the wine tasting and swirling the glass and looking for sediments, while I was beyond tipsy. A lot of the older crowd came to the wine tasting and they really were trying to learn something, but the booth with Kevin (yes that Kevin) was sitting behind me and they were kind of loud, so some of the crowd kept shhhhing them....I was happy to know that I kept my quiet and I did very well. Jason was proud of me! We also got a really cool pin, that said Wine Tasting from stem to stern for taking part in this tasting.



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:blush: It was Kevin's fault. We were very quiet until he showed up. :blush:

[aaronmckie]

It was fun when Kevin joined your table, I really didn't care much about the educational part of the presentation anyways. I don't think it was that loud, but some are more sensitive than others.
I was proud that Shanan wasn't the giggly drunk during the presentation that I thought she'd be :woohoo:




Durn it, I forgot to quote Jen (DVCSince02) when replying... that's what I get for rarely posting anymore :headache:

[brookelizabeth]

I laughed out loud when I read about you shouting out "WHEN IS MY BIRTHDAY?" :rotfl: Oh that is so funny! I would have busted up laughing in person if I had been there and probably gotten the disapproving look as well. ;)

[jeanigor]

Todd helps me finish it!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2323232327Ffp4336nu3235588WSNRCG-1.jpg
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2323232327Ffp43363nu3235588WSNRCG32.jpg
( I don't know if that is a look of "wow that drink is strong", or a look of "come on why can't you finish it!")

It was the latter.;)

Wine Tasting

4:00 pm (I think it was 4)

Well at least I wasn't the only one to have about the same recollections....I sat with Jeff and Val (OKWLover & OKWLover2) and Kim (TickledTink33) and some other folks....but my memory is hazy as well. This was less fun than the martini tasting in my opinion. And all of the speakers seemed to be whispering. I did find out that I am not a big fan of wine though. I felt rather embarrassed after talking with Kevin after the tasting. At least looking back at the pictures, I feel embarrassed.

[winotracy]

It was the latter.;)



Well at least I wasn't the only one to have about the same recollections....I sat with Jeff and Val (OKWLover & OKWLover2) and Kim (TickledTink33) and some other folks....but my memory is hazy as well. This was less fun than the martini tasting in my opinion. And all of the speakers seemed to be whispering. I did find out that I am not a big fan of wine though. I felt rather embarrassed after talking with Kevin after the tasting. At least looking back at the pictures, I feel embarrassed.

I think it would have been better if they would have done the wine tasting first. There was more to learn with that and once you all were drunk :rolleyes1 no one wanted to learn. On my notes for next time.

[A.Mickey]

:blush: It was Kevin's fault. We were very quiet until he showed up. :blush:
::yes:: Yep, that's right! :rotfl:

It was fun when Kevin joined your table, I really didn't care much about the educational part of the presentation anyways. I don't think it was that loud, but some are more sensitive than others.
I was proud that Shanan wasn't the giggly drunk during the presentation that I thought she'd be :woohoo:




Durn it, I forgot to quote Jen (DVCSince02) when replying... that's what I get for rarely posting anymore :headache:

You really do need to post more!! Durn World of Warcraft! :rotfl2:

I laughed out loud when I read about you shouting out "WHEN IS MY BIRTHDAY?" :rotfl: Oh that is so funny! I would have busted up laughing in person if I had been there and probably gotten the disapproving look as well. ;)
:banana:I am glad that someone got amusement out of it!! :lmao:

It was the latter.;)



Well at least I wasn't the only one to have about the same recollections....I sat with Jeff and Val (OKWLover & OKWLover2) and Kim (TickledTink33) and some other folks....but my memory is hazy as well. This was less fun than the martini tasting in my opinion. And all of the speakers seemed to be whispering. I did find out that I am not a big fan of wine though. I felt rather embarrassed after talking with Kevin after the tasting. At least looking back at the pictures, I feel embarrassed.

I knew I had to pace myself with the drinking, I did not want to miss anything on the cruise! I am glad you didn't let the liquor go to waste though! :hug: There was more than one speaker? :rotfl2: Where was I? :confused3 Ooooo where are the pictures of you after the wine tasting talking to Kevin?!?!

I think it would have been better if they would have done the wine tasting first. There was more to learn with that and once you all were drunk :rolleyes1 no one wanted to learn. On my notes for next time.

Oh yes! That would be wonderful if they could do the wine tasting first! I even tried to take notes during the wine tasting....but I wasn't able to comprehend what I wrote! :lmao:

On another note, I hope Bill's surgery goes wonderful! I have been thinking about you!:hug::flower3:

[A.Mickey]

My good friend Jaime lost her mother today.....:angel:

[A.Mickey]

Spolier Alert! If you don't want to know what goes on with this game....go to the next chapter!

What time is it?!? Time to play Wonderquest. We are split into teams, and each team has to have at least one guy and one girl. Our team number is 8 and consists of Val (OKWLOVER2), Robin, Jaime, Jason, Myself, and Todd's roommate Chris.

At first the scavenger hunt is pretty tame......

Tissa says....show me a credit card...and you have to run up with the item and the team number. Show me some money.....show me 4 left shoes, we all whipped off our shoes and threw them at Jason! Show me a woman wearing men shoes, I run up with Jason's shoes on. Show me a man wearing women shoes, Jason runs up in my high heels! (That was fun!) Show me two men hand in hand skipping across the floor. Jason grabs Chris's hand and they are off! LOL!!!

Tissa asked for a sock with a hole in it, Jason says "I have a sock on with a hole in it!" But remembering back I swear that he didn't have a hole, and he had his sock in his mouth and he was tearing a hole in his sock with his teeth? Was this my imagination? I sure hope so!!

The very next item she wanted to see were ice cubes in the mouth, so Jason reaches across the table without asking and grabs ice out of Jaime's drink using the hand he just took his sock off with! Jaime turns to me and says is that the hand he just took his sock off with? I say Yes! And Jaime says oh well, the Alcohol will kill any bacteria and takes a drink!

Sometimes we didn't have an item that was called and Yvette was kind enough to share with us!

But before too long the items get a little risque!

Tissa asked for two belts, and Jason and Chris jump up and whip their belts off in 0.5 seconds! It was like a scene from a club after dark and we are on a Disney ship people! This is when I knew where the game was headed!:eek:

Show me...a man wearing women lipstick...and Jaime whips out her lipstick and I can't remember if Jason applied it himself....(which would be hilarious) or if Jaime put it on him (which would have still been hilarious)...maybe I just put it on him, but I really don't remember.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/P5110006.jpg

Show me a woman wearing a man's shirt...so Jason had a button down on and it was hard getting the buttons off, at one point he actually ripped his shirt off! At least the rip is at the bottom so it is tucked into his pants! ;)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/P5110004.jpg

Show me a man wearing a woman's bra! I thought for a half second..then I jumped up and started trying to shimmy my bra off my body.....this was a hard task to do....I got it around my hips and then....
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/P5110007.jpg
(Jason came in for the kill!)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/P5110008.jpg
Too funny! I really didn't know that Jason and I are so competitive!

I blame us sitting too far away for not winning!


Soon the cowboy hats came out and it was time to country line dance....
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3399.jpg

Contrary to popular belief... Jason and I left because we don't care for country music....not for another reason!

When we got back to the room we are greeted by this
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3401.jpg

I decide to finish handing out our fish extender gifts...Jason promises me that if I do the fish extender gifts by myself while he relaxes, I will get a foot rub when I get back to the room! When I find Todd's door I was a little sad that he wasn't at Wonderquest, so I write..."Shanan was here, where were you!?!" It took me an hour and a half to finish handing out the gifts! I wonder how long it will take on PCC 2.0?!?!

Before bed I find the cards to order room service breakfast that you just hang on your door. We order for the next morning. And we set the alarm for 8 am! We want to be the first ones off the ship, tomorrow is Castaway Cay day!!!

Night Night..it is now close to 1 am
NOT YOUR AVERAGE CLICK

[tiggerbell]

I love how people remember things differently - or remember things other people don't. I forgot about the 2 men skipping. Yes, Jason already had the hole in his sock. My lipstick was like a lip gloss and I swabbed his face with it. And I forgot he ripped his shirt!

[A.Mickey]

I love how people remember things differently - or remember things other people don't. I forgot about the 2 men skipping. Yes, Jason already had the hole in his sock. My lipstick was like a lip gloss and I swabbed his face with it. And I forgot he ripped his shirt!
Hi Jaime! I hope that chapter brought a smile to your face! That sure was a GREAT night! It is funny what other people remember :confused:.....

I am here for you if you need anything at all! ((HUGS))

[brookelizabeth]

You had me ROLLING with this update!! :lmao:

I can just picture the frenzy of everyone getting into the game and doing whatever it takes, including eating socks, and undressing! :eek: :rotfl:

Did everyone applaud Jason for actually wearing the bra??!!!

[A.Mickey]

Intermission......
Ok....so besides my hobbies of writing TR and cross stitching, I also like to work with photoshop and make neat designs for the creative design forum! I have been slacking lately with that...because I am really enjoying writing this TR, sorry Lori! I promise that this week I will get to your other two requests!

I helped Jen with this:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Podcast%20Cruise/changestodisign.jpg

And this was one of our fish extender gifts that I personalized for each person on the cruise, they didn't print out as great as I wanted them to:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Podcast%20Cruise/distakenovercopy.jpg

I made this magnet for our door:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Podcast%20Cruise/dis.jpg

....So today I made some shirts for us to wear (this is why I wanted to tell you all about the design aspect) (I like to make shirts for our trips to Disney World it started with our trip in September of 08 (one day when I am bored, I may get around to writing that TR) Jason is just wearing his DISUnplugged shirt from a question he asked that got answered on the show, but I just photoshopped this pic to have our names on the chairs:
Before:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Podcast%20Cruise/Disney213.jpg
After:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Podcast%20Cruise/Disney213copy.jpg

...and from here on out...if I have a design on my shirt I will post the design I am wearing ;)....just in case it isn't too clear in the pictures ;) (see I am wearing this design in the pic in my signature).

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[A.Mickey]

We eat our breakfast rather quickly and head out to see Disney's private island, Castaway Cay!

There it is!!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3403.jpg
(my hair is still wet from the shower)

They start letting people off the ship at 8:30 AM and we are one of the first ones of the boat!

Look where Jason is...can you read the sign?!?
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3407.jpg

Pretty cool picture of the Wonder and small excursion boats in front of it....
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3404.jpg
(the boat is pretty large!)

The Flying Dutchman?!? (Sorry I have yet to see any PIC movie :flower3:)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3406.jpg

Look how far we walked...
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3408.jpg

So we didn't get on the 1st tram, but the 2nd tram that takes you to serenity bay...is pretty much a must do. The only scenery on the 2nd tram walk are some plant life on either side of the road. So we hop on the 2nd tram...and in a few minutes we arrive at Serenity Bay!

Hang on...I gotta go put my toes in the water!!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3410.jpg

We walk down the full length of the beach so we can get the very last lounge chairs, hopefully we will have this area to ourselves. (not that we don't like who we are sailing with...we just wanted a little couple time)

Ok...I think we found our spot!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3411.jpg
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3412.jpg

We put our stuff down and decide to go rent some floats. We trudge back down the beach and decide on renting one float and one tube for a total of 12.00. We were going to do the whole package of the bike, the tubes, and the snorkel equip, but I am glad we decided against it we wouldn't have had enough time. At this point I think we ran into Tracy and she asks Jason "Did you get all the lipstick off?" We also ran into Michelle (exwdwcm) and she also made a comment about wonderquest...and later Jason (menshacorp) does too! (HOW MANY PEOPLE, EXACTLY, WERE AT WONDERQUEST?!? :confused::sad2:)

Then we trudged back down the beach with our floats and lounge out in the water.....oh wait Jason has to get sunscreen on first.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3415.jpg
(ummm..you are suppose to rub it in...doesn't this picture look fake...like he is standing in front of a blue screen?)

Here I am on the float.....
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3416.jpg

See the white bouy out there we swam all the way out to it! It was very hard to swim back to shore, I don't know if there were currents or it is just a heck of a ways out there!

We saw a lot of sea life for not renting snorkel equipment....we saw some sand dollars, fish, sea urchins and a crab walking sideways with his pincers up. When we were a ways out in the water we saw something dark in the water, at first I thought it was a log or something, but as we kept trying to get closer to it....it kept moving away from us! :scared1:

We lounged a bit in the sun and I worked on my Nemo cross stitch just so I can look at it and remember Castaway Cay!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3417.jpg

By this time it is close to 1 pm and we haven't eaten lunch yet! The Podcastaway Party is at 3 pm so we start trudging out floats back to the rental stand. The first person we pass asks us if we are done with our floats....um yeah! So they take our floats and tell us they will return them for us...they get free floats and we don't have to lug them back, sounds good to me!

On our way back to the tram we run across, Jaime, Robin, Todd, Chris, Rob, Lori, and Rick. I hope I am not missing anyone! I remember chatting with them for a little while and then Rob mentions something about Free Pins! My ears PERK up! Rob is wearing a red DVC hat and he tells me that if you go over to that guy over there and he sees you wearing this hat, he will give you two free pins. I ask if I can wear his hat and he happily obliges and I get two free pins for trading!! Thanks Rob! :hug:

This same day Aaron (our son) and Nana (Jason's Mom) are arriving at Walt Disney World! We have not had contact with them since May 10th and it is now the 12th! Ok, it has only been two days but it feels like an eternity! When we get to Cookie's BBQ I turn on my cell phone for a minute and receive the text from Nana. Their plane landed safely and Aaron cuddled and slept the whole way! Oh I feel so much better!!

Cookie's BBQ was very good, I don't know why I didn't take a picture, probably because Jason was against my picture taking, next time I go somewhere I promise to get more than enough!!! It was basically cookout food, they had soft serve ice cream machines too!

I thought the flowers were pretty...this was taken from right where we were eating.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3418.jpg

Now it is time to go to the Podcastaway Party!

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[A.Mickey]

You had me ROLLING with this update!! :lmao:

I can just picture the frenzy of everyone getting into the game and doing whatever it takes, including eating socks, and undressing! :eek: :rotfl:

Did everyone applaud Jason for actually wearing the bra??!!!

It would have been very cool to be a non-player seeing all the different teams going crazy! We were really focused on our team, I really didn't even know that other DISer's were playing the game, besides Yvette. And as for Jason wearing the bra.. I think that everyone was laughing too hard to applaud Jason for actually wearing the bra! :rotfl2:

[dizneeat]

:woohoo: Thank you SO much for your updates!! :woohoo:

We are doing the same 4 day cruise on the Wonder, so this is all even more fun to read! ....... and we are travelling with another group of "Disneymaniacs" as well!

By the way, I LOVE your shirt design and hope you don't mind if we "borrow" ;) the original design - not for T-shirts though!

Can't wait for the next chapter! - it is so much fun to read both, your's and Jamie's trip reports back to back!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! :worship:

[heaven2dc]

Oh My Gosh - I could not stop laughing reading about you two! Look who's not shy now!! :woohoo: (well I'm guessing it was the drinks but you guys are alot of fun :banana:)

Love the pics of Castaway Cay - how great that you guys got some private beach time. The water is SO beautiful and blue :lovestruc

[aaronmckie]

It was funny how many comments I got about WonderQuest on Castaway Cay (pronounced key), I thought I was only entertaining our own table :eek:

While I love love love the people we were traveling with, having a day just with my wife relaxing for a good part of the day was absolutely amazing :) Ask Shanan, it was very hard to get me out of the water to get something to eat, and we didn't eat anything all day up until that point!

[A.Mickey]

:woohoo: Thank you SO much for your updates!! :woohoo:

We are doing the same 4 day cruise on the Wonder, so this is all even more fun to read! ....... and we are travelling with another group of "Disneymaniacs" as well!

By the way, I LOVE your shirt design and hope you don't mind if we "borrow" ;) the original design - not for T-shirts though!

Can't wait for the next chapter! - it is so much fun to read both, your's and Jamie's trip reports back to back!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! :worship:

No problem! Anyone can use my designs, or pictures I post, no problem!! Have a blast on your cruise, when are you going?!?!

Oh My Gosh - I could not stop laughing reading about you two! Look who's not shy now!! :woohoo: (well I'm guessing it was the drinks but you guys are alot of fun :banana:)

Love the pics of Castaway Cay - how great that you guys got some private beach time. The water is SO beautiful and blue :lovestruc

Actually, I was completely sober by the time we started playing Wonderquest...it had been almost 7 hours by the time I had my last drink!:eek: Can you believe it?? I guess, I really am just super competitive!:rolleyes:

Yes Castaway Cay is AMAZING!! That right there is worth going on a Disney Cruise!

It was funny how many comments I got about WonderQuest on Castaway Cay (pronounced key), I thought I was only entertaining our own table :eek:

While I love love love the people we were traveling with, having a day just with my wife relaxing for a good part of the day was absolutely amazing :) Ask Shanan, it was very hard to get me out of the water to get something to eat, and we didn't eat anything all day up until that point!

We did eat a little for breakfast remember? It was delivered to our room.....I think you may have gotten toast, but ya we really didn't eat much up to that point!

[A.Mickey]

On our way to the Podcastaway party who should we run into again but Dave Parfait and his family! I think this must have been the 4th or 5th time we randomly ran into him. They had done the Stingray excursion and were telling us about it. Maggie (Dave's daughter) asks me again where I got my fun meter pin and I tell her it was a fish extender gift, but you can have mine! You should have seen her face light up! It was soo awesome!

Further down we run into Susan (merriepoppins) and she introduces herself to Jason and I and she makes a comment about Wonderquest, something about a good view. :eek:

Upon arriving at the party John and Kevin are greeting guests and handing out drink coupons. Jason and I immediately go up to the bar and get a Conch Cooler. Pete is standing close to the bar! Oh my goodness! I don't even remember if I said Hi to him or what, I think I was starstruck! I did chat with Julie again while waiting to be served. The bar was ridiculously busy! Then it was time to go find Jaime!

We find her and chat for a while.....Todd is running around getting his picture taken with everyone at the party.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/headsupbar.jpg

John was making the rounds and he stops at our group to chat. Basically he says he is so happy with the turn out and how wonderful/nice and diverse all the people are that are on the PCC! Jaime heads back to her room, and Jason and I run into btrim...(not sure of their actual name) and family. We strike up a conversation with someone related to btrim because he has a Chicago Bears shirt on. We talk football.

We head back to the ship, I think it is close to 4? I head into the gift shops, because I saw Nicole's (maddie01) shirt at the Podcastaway party and I thought it was really cool! It was lime green! I spot it in the gift shop and it is only 11.00! There is also the same shirt in DIS orange! So Jason gets that shirt, and it is duty free! So we purchase two Castaway Cay shirts for 22.00! :eek:

On our way back to the ship, I actually stop and tap some random person on the shoulder and ask if they would take our picture! :eek: ( I never do this!)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3419.jpg

Now I have to stop and take some pictures for clip art....when I was looking for pictures of the Disney ships I never could find a good picture to make clip art from...
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3421.jpg
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3420.jpg

Woo hoo! I finally got the smoke coming out of the stack! (I think this is my favorite picture from our entire cruise!)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3422.jpg

I didn't know that there are faces on the Flying Dutchmen!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3424.jpg
(pretty creepy!)

While waiting in line to get back on the ship, we run into Ann and her family again! Her kids are soo freaking cute...they make me miss Aaron immensely! Captain Hook is walking around and he comes up to me and points to the fairy pin on my lanyard and kind of hits it and shakes his head. Then he tries to take my loot! He almost took off with our new shirts!

Back on the ship we took showers and took a nap woke up and we get ready for dinner it is pirate night.

I found this picture and made a shirt for Jason, I thought it might start a few conversations, but no one ever noticed it.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2007-01-31-murloc-pirate.jpg
(this is a murloc [Jason's favorite character] from World of Warcraft)

I made this design for myself for pirate night:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/NEVERLAND.jpg
(I am a huge Piglet fan)

But first there is a showing of Disney's Earth at 5:45 in the Walt Disney Theater. We head up to the Theater and sit back and relax and watch the movie. When it was over, I have to say I was rather disappointed in this movie. I thought it felt like just an extended version of a Discovery channel/Animal Planet show. The story could have been a lot better!

Up next Pirates IN the Caribbean party!


CLICK TO CONTINUE

[Tonya2426]

But first there is a showing of Disney's Earth at 5:45 in the Walt Disney Theater. We head up to the Theater and sit back and relax and watch the movie. When it was over, I have to say I was rather disappointed in this movie. I thought it felt like just an extended version of a Discovery channel/Animal Planet show. The story could have been a lot better!

At least you stayed awake, I kept falling asleep during Earth. :rolleyes1:rotfl2: It was interesting but not as good as I had hoped it would be.

[A.Mickey]

7:15 PM
Ok...so before we get to the food we go and play Double Up Pirate Bingo! I wanted to play Bingo sometime on the ship, and since we have a little free time before dinner we jump on that idea!
It was a lot of fun, the castmembers were all dressed up as pirates and they were also talking like pirates! Between each card they would do a random pull of a name from the group of people playing and Jason ended up winning a Disney DVD of Sing-A-Long Songs.

We never did get Bingo and after we were done, I realized that we forgot to watch the sunset! What was I thinking!! I wasn't....the night before I wasn't either, I was still trying to function after all the tastings! That means we only have one more night on the ship to see the sunset! I best see it tomorrow!

8:00 PM
We are back at Parrot Cay tonight for the Pirates IN the Caribbean menu. I thought this is the perfect setting for the Pirate party. I really couldn't imagine having the pirate party in any other restaurant, it would just be weird! But Animator's Palate, and Triton's are also serving the Pirate food to the other rotations.

Rick and Lori had on the full Pirate garb! I wish I would have taken their picture! They looked great!

We were handed the menu, as if it is a treasure map....all rolled up with a piece of string.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/pirate1.jpg

Appetizers:
Jason orders:
The Buccaneer’s Sun-Ripened Pineapple fresh island Pineapple with a Coconut-crusted Banana and Orange Glaze
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3427.jpg

I order:
Black Beard’s Jumbo Crab Cakes with a Golden Raisin Carrot and Coconut Slaw served with a spicy Calypso Dressing
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3426.jpg
(I really enjoyed this)

Soup & Salads:
Jason orders:
Chilled-to-the-Bone Honeydew Melon and Watermelon Soup
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3428.jpg

I order:
Caribbean-Style Conch Chowder with Sherry, Sweet Peppers, Onions, Tomatoes, Thyme and garnished with diced Potatoes and crispy Bacon bits
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3429.jpg
(this was my first time having Conch and I really liked it!!)

Main course:
Jason orders:
Jack Sparrow’s Musked Smoked Pork Ribs Rubbed Spare Ribs with Guava Barbecue Sauce served with Red Onion Red Bliss Mashed Potatoes and Plantain Chip
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3430.jpg

I order:
The Dutchmen’s Roasted Dijon-Crusted Sirloin of Beef Thick cut of Beef with roasted Sweet Potatoes and a Black Spot Tomato with a deep Red Wine Glaze
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3431.jpg
(this wasn't that great...next time on the cruise I am going to stay away from the red meats)

Time for Dessert:
We all get:
Pirates of the Caribbean’s Sweet Temptations A trio of Shiver-me-Timbers White Chocolate Cheesecake, Rum Barbossa, Walk the Triple Layered Chocolate Gangplank Cake (sounds wonderful, right?!?!)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3432.jpg
(looks decent, right? It was the most disgusting dessert ever! The only thing I ate was the lil rice krispy between the chocolate cake and the rum barbossa!...hopefully we won't be tempted by the Sweet Temptations again!)
Before leaving, Rick and Lori (TheBeadPirate) gave us some beads!

9:45 PM
Dinner is over and it is time for the Pirates IN the Caribbean Party, "All you Buccaneers! Join Goofy and his pirate friends as you shake your bones all night long. There be surprises; just don't invite Captain Hook (weather permitting)"

So we head up to Deck 10 and watch the party. It was cute, but I am not a huge pirate fan or anything.
Here we are at the party!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3434.jpg
(I got the cool DIS green bandana at the target when we were getting Jason his dress shoes)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3436.jpg
(I think I already am a pirate, either that or a ghost!!)

Before long look who decides to drop in!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3438.jpg
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3440.jpg

Then the fireworks!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3442.jpg
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3448.jpg
(that was pretty neat, seeing the fireworks being shot off of the boat!!)

We never did get to the dessert bar that was set up somewhere for the Pirate party, hopefully it was better than the sweet temptations!!

11:00 pm
Time for some Krazy Karaoke at Wavebands!
By this night, I think every DISer had heard that Wavebands is the place to be! We had one whole side of Wavebands jam packed full of DISers! Kevin, Julie and Corey were even there!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/karoke.jpg

I really wanted to sing Baby Got Back by Sir-Mix-A-Lot....but I didn't have anything to drink tonight, and by the time I got up the courage...a not so great wedding group completely wrecked the song!

Kevin, Yvette, Mindy and.....?? went up and sang Mamma Mia. That was too funny! A DISer, not sure who...sang A Whole New World, and another song. Aaron (ADP) sang Shout he was awesome!! Chris (Todd's roommate sang) Mack the Knife he was really great too! I am sure some others probably went up to sing, but those are the ones I remember....and of course our group.....

I wanted to sing Love Shack by the B-52's I mentioned it to Todd, and he said come up and join our group, we are singing it! Ok....I sit nervously waiting...then its our turn (I know there is a video of this somewhere, but I have yet to see it....)
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/karaoke.jpg
from left to right....Chris (crazydisneyman), Todd, Kim (kimstarr), Don (SFbaydon), myself, and Tommy?? Was I the only one singing..oh wait it looks like Tommy?? was too! LOL! Gosh I was really nervous, but I was trying to get involved as much as I possibly could.

Later on in the night a random couple went to sing a duet..I think it was Endless Love? They were really bad so we were all laughing at them, and then they knew we were all laughing at them. So they came over to our side of the room and just started singing right to us. On the way over to our side of the room the husband was standing on the mic cord and the wife turns around and screams into the mic "Get off the CORD!!" It was soo funny!

Later Todd actually danced with the wife from the duet team! It was rather amusing! I think we converted her to becoming a DISer!

2:00 AM
We came back to our room and were greeted by:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3449.jpg

We order room service again since we have to wake up at 8:30 for the live podcast taping! Yum....more Mickey Bars for delivery!!

Before our room service came....I walked up to the 24 hour beverage station and saw how bright the moon was, the wind was really whipping this night too! I came back to the room to tell Jason that we should try to dance tonight.
(See before the cruise, I had a thought of us slow dancing in a quiet corner of the ship to some songs on our IPod Touch)
So...after we were done eating our room service we went out to Deck 5 to slow dance in the moonlight. It was very romantic! I think it was around 3:30 by then!
See windy I tell ya!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3459.jpg

Good night!

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[heaven2dc]

That was too funny about the Endless Love couple :lmao:

I would love to meet you and Todd on a Podcast cruise or Dismeet sometime! I'm hopefully going to join everyone on the Dec 2010 cruise but scrimping for the downpayment right now :rotfl: (after I get that paid, then I have a whole year to save!)

[tiggerbell]

That was too funny about the Endless Love couple :lmao:

I would love to meet you and Todd on a Podcast cruise or Dismeet sometime! I'm hopefully going to join everyone on the Dec 2010 cruise but scrimping for the downpayment right now :rotfl: (after I get that paid, then I have a whole year to save!)


So should Jason and I be worried???

[brookelizabeth]

Aw! Dancing under the moonlight! Very sweet.

The karoke sounds like a BLAST! I don't know if I would ever have the guts to do it - my dog used to literally howl at me when I would sing. I'm THAT bad. :scared1: :laughing:

The pictures at Castaway Cay look AMAZING. So beautiful. I can't wait!

And note taken between your and Jaime's reports, no Sweet Temptations.

[jeanigor]

The mystery singer that was with Kevin, Yvette and Mindy was yours truly. And I SOOOO sang during Love Shack. It was just at the other microphone.:goodvibes

[heaven2dc]

So should Jason and I be worried???

omg - I meant her and Jason! I'm such a ditz - I was reading something about Todd and it stuck in my brain :eek:

[jeanigor]

omg - I meant her and Jason! I'm such a ditz - I was reading something about Todd and it stuck in my brain :eek:

It happens. I'm Famous.:goodvibes:goodvibes:lmao::lmao:

[MomlvsGoofy]

I found this picture and made a shirt for Jason, I thought it might start a few conversations, but no one ever noticed it.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/2007-01-31-murloc-pirate.jpg
(this is a murloc [Jason's favorite character] from World of Warcraft)

I made this design for myself for pirate night:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/NEVERLAND.jpg
(I am a huge Piglet fan)


Nice, I noticed it was a murloc from WOW! Very cool. My DGS loved it when I showed him. We play WOW too. Loving your TR and your pics are so nice of CC. :thumbsup2

[A.Mickey]

At least you stayed awake, I kept falling asleep during Earth. :rolleyes1:rotfl2: It was interesting but not as good as I had hoped it would be.
It must have been the nap that we had just woke up from, that helped me stay awake! I think I saw you dozing, you were sitting in the last row of the section right in front of us!

That was too funny about the Endless Love couple :lmao:

I would love to meet you and Todd on a Podcast cruise or Dismeet sometime! I'm hopefully going to join everyone on the Dec 2010 cruise but scrimping for the downpayment right now :rotfl: (after I get that paid, then I have a whole year to save!)I would love to meet you too! I love meeting new DISers! I am sure Todd would be happy to meet you too!
Yeah, I am trying to scrimp and save myself! My Dad told me....I have to get out of credit card debt before I go on another vacation! :eek: I know this is what I want too, but it is hard passing up DAP! So this means I am working really hard so I can be on that boat with 600+ DISers!! As a matter of fact tomorrow I am working to get in some overtime!

So should Jason and I be worried???
:rotfl2: Well, according to Jason you should be! :eek: I get a little too friendly with Todd when I have the bubbly!
Aw! Dancing under the moonlight! Very sweet.

The karoke sounds like a BLAST! I don't know if I would ever have the guts to do it - my dog used to literally howl at me when I would sing. I'm THAT bad. :scared1: :laughing:

The pictures at Castaway Cay look AMAZING. So beautiful. I can't wait!

And note taken between your and Jaime's reports, no Sweet Temptations.Yes...as tempting as they are do not give in! ;)
You are going to love Castaway Cay! I hope one day when the DIS charters the ship we can just park the boat there and stay all 4 days! :rolleyes:
It was fun! You don't have to sing, just watch all the other crazies! The wedding party that sang Baby Got Back was a hoot in itself!

The mystery singer that was with Kevin, Yvette and Mindy was yours truly. And I SOOOO sang during Love Shack. It was just at the other microphone.:goodvibes
Oh my! I don't know how I could have missed this?!?! I think it may have something to do with Yvette jumping on Kevin's back...that was very distracting!!!
omg - I meant her and Jason! I'm such a ditz - I was reading something about Todd and it stuck in my brain :eek:
Todd being stuck in your brain is a good thing! No worries!


Nice, I noticed it was a murloc from WOW! Very cool. My DGS loved it when I showed him. We play WOW too. Loving your TR and your pics are so nice of CC. :thumbsup2

Hi! I found that picture somewhere on the internet! I was thrilled when I saw it! A Murloc dressed as a pirate! :eek: Perfect!! I am just happy that people are reading, and not getting bored! YAY!

[A.Mickey]

^^^ See Above^^

Someone sure likes these ---> !!!

[Tonya2426]

It must have been the nap that we had just woke up from, that helped me stay awake! I think I saw you dozing, you were sitting in the last row of the section right in front of us!


:blush::blush::blush::blush::rolleyes1

[aaronmckie]

Later Todd actually danced with the wife from the duet team! It was rather amusing! I think we converted her to becoming a DISer!



I think that was one of the funniest moments of the night. She and Todd danced well, errr, umm, uhhh.... provocatively :eek:
One of the many many priceless moments of the cruise ;)

[jeanigor]

I think that was one of the funniest moments of the night. She and Todd danced well, errr, umm, uhhh.... provocatively :eek:
One of the many many priceless moments of the cruise ;)

Is this the woman whom I have a picture of her hand on my belt buckle???:confused3

[A.Mickey]

Is this the woman whom I have a picture of her hand on my belt buckle???:confused3

Um....perhaps...I never did see a pic....care to share?;)

[A.Mickey]

Today was an amazing day! And a bit of a sad day too....today is our last full day on the ship. This day I did not take very many pictures...so I will share one of Aaron and Nana.....remember they are at Walt Disney World and it is their 2nd day!
My favorite picture of the two of them:
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/Image13.jpg
(and no..she doesn't carry that bag over her shoulder all day...she hangs it on the back of the stroller.)

We wake up at 8:30 and I dress in DIS Purple (my shirt) and DIS lime green (my shorts)...no I wasn't trying to be the Joker...I still need to get DIS orange Crocs and my ensemble would have been complete (oh yeah that is right, upon looking at my pic with Lee, I noticed that I pinned on my shirt the DIS Pin of the logo...which is orange!) We head down to the movie theater where the live podcast will start recording at 9 am!

On our way over got to take a picture of our Sea Day
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3460.jpg

Jason and I find seats next to Jaime! The podcast begins and it was so surreal to see the podcast team all talking and cracking jokes. I just can't even describe it! Before we knew it the live taping was over!! What it is already 11 AM! :eek: Gosh, time flies when you are listening/watching the Podcast!


We take a short break and Lee Cockerell the writer of Creating Magic, and former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort. (now I have to say something here...when I was listening to the podcast and they said they had some speaker talking...I wasn't impressed but I still was going to come to everything and hear everything) But Lee Cockerell is an AMAZING man! He literally had me in tears! His talk just showed me how under appreciated I was at my current job and how much we need to be kind to one another because you never know what is going on in someone elses personal life. I just was in awe of how much this man just made common sense logic to me, but the human race doesn't seem to practice this much. People get so wrapped up in themselves that they forget to give others praise and encouragement! Gosh I was just overwhelmed with emotions! At some point I believe before Lee's talk people went up to ask Lee questions...and he even took notes!! :eek:

Ok...so I was so impressed with Lee that when I was walking up the stairs to get in line for Lee's autograph I saw John and I had to go thank him for setting this up for us! But of course...I wasn't thinking clearly and I said, "Kevin, I just want to thank you for having this for us! It was truly an awe inspiring morning..." John says, "I am John but thanks!"
DOH!!

I felt so ridiculous that I just mistook John for Kevin I don't even know how I did it! Soon John was behind me and I told him "You and Kevin are so incognito that I got you guys confused! Sorry about that!!" John told me not to worry about it, but I still felt really bad! John then said that we will be moving the book signing to another location because we had to vacate the theater and go take our group picture it is now 1 pm. But that after the picture he will be in a room downstairs signing books.

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/LargeGroupPhoto.jpg
(can you believe that as of right now, there will be double the amount of people for PCC 2.0!!!!)

Jason and I head down and John is standing in the doorway talking to other DISers about Project X!! Come on spill the beans already!!
We talk to Marla Hellwig a Dreams agent that booked our next leg of the trip coming up! Then it is time to meet Lee!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/P5130154.jpg

He signs our book, poses for a pic and has spread out on the table some really cool Disney Pins of encouragement and just ones that I have never seen before. I pick out a pin and we head out to find something to eat! It is now 2 pm and we are STARVING!!!

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[A.Mickey]

We head up to Deck 9 so Jason can get his Disney Chicken Nuggets and I head over to Goofy's Galley again! I love this place! We sit and just relax and watch the sea pass...we cannot believe this is our last day! We didn't even get to talk and meet as many people as we wanted to.

We then head down to the shops and explore that part of the ship since we haven't yet! We walk through Shutters and find all the DISers that we know, wow we had alot on the ship with us! :eek: We stop and watch the Art Auction from up above. That was pretty entertaining.

A picture of our lovely section of the ship....
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It is now 4pm and since we won't have much time to pack up our stuff between dinner at the podcast farewell party and the bags have to be out in the hallway before 11 we decide to pack up our stuff now. We get everything packed up and get into our evening wear and head up to see the final show.... Dreams an enchanted classic....
" For every kid, and every kid-at-heart, this Classic Disney tale lets you discover the power of dreams as imagination escapes into a world of enchantment and adventure. With a little Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust, a young girl's wish becomes a dream come true in this spectacular fantasy. Join Peter Pan, Tinker Bell and all your favorite Disney characters on a quest to make Dreams Come True.
Jaime brings the tissues...and I am sooo glad she did! We were both crying by the end of this show! Disney and Dreams and Wishes will get me to cry every time! (Ok..one more little back story here.....When Jason and I went on our honeymoon and went to the MK this was the first time we saw Wishes firework show. I was watching them and thinking about how we have a great future ahead of us and one day we will have children and it will be fantastic to bring them back to WDW! Little did I know that Aaron was already inside my tummy...because at the time I was already 3 months pregnant! I wasn't suppose to be able to have children without some medical help..but I wanted a child bad enough that he was my Wish) So this is why I get very choked up and emotionally!

Between the show and Dinner Jason rebooks for 2.0 while I talk to Jeff and Val! I love Jeff and Val they are so incredibly nice and super cute!!
But I have to go get a picture before the sunsets! I promised that I would not miss the last sunset!
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(oh well...not a very good one...clouds were in the way)

Now it is time for dinner at Tritons!

Appetizers:
Jason Orders:
Duck Confit Salted and Slow-cooked Duck, Dried Prunes, Candied Walnuts, Chicory, and Mized Leaves with Apple-Walnut Dressing
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I order:
“Prince Eric’s” Escargots Gratines
Herb-marinated Snails with Finely Chopped Mushrooms, topped with Garlic Butter
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(YUM! YUM! YUM!!)

Ok...remember at Palo Brunch when Jaime got Jason to try Ahi Tuna on the silver spoon? And I told him he needs to try stuff for me more often! Well....here is where it bites me in the :eek:. So the escargots are delish and I tell Jason to try one. He does and agrees that they are good!

Soups and Salads:
Jason orders:
Avocado-Citrus Salad with Iceberg and Radicchio Leaves with an Orange Vinaigrette
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I order:
Tomato and Basil Soup rich blend of tomato, fresh basil and cream
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(it's tomato soup...what more is there to say.)

Our entrees come...and Jason turns to me and says....I am not feeling well...I have to leave!! So he gets up and leaves and never comes back!

Jason ordered:
Slowly Braised Lamb Shank with a Creamy Polenta and Portobello Mushroom in a Red Wine Sauce
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(this was not touched since Jason was gone...and Hans asked if we would like it to be sent up to your room.....I said sure. He also said that we were celebrating Jason's birthday tonight with the personal cake...would you like that sent up to your room as well...I said sure. But neither the lamb shank or the cake ever did appear in our room! Oh well...that's what I get for making Jason try the escargot....He thinks he has a shellfish allergy, I think the escargot may have had some olive oil in them....or that duck confit that he had didn't look all that good either. Who knows what made him sick!?!?)

I order:
“Triton’s” Seared Sea Bass with a Mushroom and Herb Risotto, Sweet Onion Marmalade, and garnished with a Potato Crisp
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(oh my gosh this was good! My mother had told me before going on the trip that if Sea Bass is ever an option to go with it! I am sure glad I did! The sweet onion marmalade was Awesome!!)

And a dinner would not be complete with out the Sweet Temptations, I really couldn't believe that Rick was getting the Sweet Tempatations again!! I had to order one too, those sweet things sure know how to tempt ya!
But I was sooo distracted by Jason not being present that I forgot to take a picture!

Triton’s Sweet Temptations A Trio of Crème Brulee, Chocolate Mousse, and Praline Petite Cheux

(this Sweet Temptation wasn't half bad...I remember liking the Mousse and the Creme Brulee.)

I go back to the room to check on Jason and I see this
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[tiggerbell]

Little did I know that Aaron was already inside my tummy...because at the time I was already 3 months pregnant! I wasn't suppose to be able to have children without some medical help..but I wanted a child bad enough that he was my Wish) So this is why I get very choked up and emotionally!

I think you told me this that night, but I still got choked up reading it just now! :hug:

But I have to go get a picture before the sunsets! I promised that I would not miss the last sunset!

There were sunsets?!?!?!?!?! Good Lord, I really need to take another cruise and GO OUTSIDE!!!!!




I go back to the room to check on Jason and I see this
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As in "Sick as a dog?" :lmao: (Sorry, Jason)

[aaronmckie]

I'm sure it was the shellfish... although the sea getting rougher didn't help matters much. If it was olive oil my eyes would get puffy or throat would swell; neither happened (and no Jaime, I wont try some to show you what happens).

I just wanted to tell everyone how awesome Hans was, he was great and fun, and I really hope he's there for 2.0 (doubtful, however).

It figures I miss out on creme brulee, I didn't even know I did until reading your TR :rolleyes: I hate that I missed the last dinner with Rick and Lori, I felt really embarrassed running out of there like that.


And yes, Todd, that was the one you were dirty dancing with ;)

[OKW Lover]

I can't believe that between this trip report and Jamie's that there wasn't a single mention of that guy in the gift shop pushing his scent. Or his pants. :rolleyes1

[Tonya2426]

I can't believe that between this trip report and Jamie's that there wasn't a single mention of that guy in the gift shop pushing his scent. Or his pants. :rolleyes1


I think you mean the tightest pants I have ever seen!!!! His pants made the Jonas Bros. pants seem like MC Hammer pants. :rotfl2:

[tiggerbell]

I can't believe that between this trip report and Jamie's that there wasn't a single mention of that guy in the gift shop pushing his scent. Or his pants. :rolleyes1


You know, Jeff, I did mention he was ON the ship, but I never followed up with when I talked to him - or Kevin's Rainbow coment... I will add Geir to my Final Thoughts & Foprgotten Stories section!

[aaronmckie]

I can't believe that between this trip report and Jamie's that there wasn't a single mention of that guy in the gift shop pushing his scent. Or his pants. :rolleyes1

I never saw him :( I wish I did, I'd love to have the mental image of what the Crew was joking about.
Kinda weird too, I walked through that store twice, I saw the 'station' but not Mr. Tight Pants; he must've been on break.
On that note, I was a little disappointed that we didn't find anything that we wanted to buy on the ship itself (we did find a couple shirts on Castaway Cay), maybe on 2.0 we'll find some specialty souvenirs.

[tiggerbell]

On that note, I was a little disappointed that we didn't find anything that we wanted to buy on the ship itself (we did find a couple shirts on Castaway Cay), maybe on 2.0 we'll find some specialty souvenirs.

Me either - I didn't even buy a PIN!

[jeanigor]

I never saw him :( I wish I did, I'd love to have the mental image of what the Crew was joking about.
Kinda weird too, I walked through that store twice, I saw the 'station' but not Mr. Tight Pants; he must've been on break.
On that note, I was a little disappointed that we didn't find anything that we wanted to buy on the ship itself (we did find a couple shirts on Castaway Cay), maybe on 2.0 we'll find some specialty souvenirs.

I bought a glass square thing that has the logo on it. But I was kinda disappointed in the on board merchandise, too.

[georgemoe]

Awesome report Shanan. Love it! :thumbsup2


I never saw him :( I wish I did, I'd love to have the mental image of what the Crew was joking about.
Kinda weird too, I walked through that store twice, I saw the 'station' but not Mr. Tight Pants; he must've been on break.
On that note, I was a little disappointed that we didn't find anything that we wanted to buy on the ship itself (we did find a couple shirts on Castaway Cay), maybe on 2.0 we'll find some specialty souvenirs.

I didn't see him either but I certainly smelled him Jason. Good lord that stuff made me gag! I couldn't go near that store.

I was pretty displeased with the variety of items as well. I didn't like any of the adult shirt styles on the ship and the one shirt on CC I really liked was out of my size. On PCC 2.0 I'm shopping on CC before anything else. I'll probably alos check out the two ship stores day 1 as well.

[A.Mickey]

[SIZE=3]As in "Sick as a dog?" :lmao: (Sorry, Jason)LOL! Good one Jaime! :thumbsup2



I just wanted to tell everyone how awesome Hans was, he was great and fun, and I really hope he's there for 2.0 (doubtful, however).

It figures I miss out on creme brulee, I didn't even know I did until reading your TR :rolleyes: I hate that I missed the last dinner with Rick and Lori, I felt really embarrassed running out of there like that. Awwww...I am sorry that you missed out on Creme Brulee!! Hans was great!

I can't believe that between this trip report and Jamie's that there wasn't a single mention of that guy in the gift shop pushing his scent. Or his pants. :rolleyes1
Well, I didn't mention him.....because I never saw him! I don't know if this is a good or bad thing! :idea:
I think you mean the tightest pants I have ever seen!!!! His pants made the Jonas Bros. pants seem like MC Hammer pants. :rotfl2:
WOW! Those are some TIGHT pants! :eek:
Me either - I didn't even buy a PIN!
Awww....I didn't even know they had PINs to buy! Or trade with for that matter. I know at night you could trade pins in a line with the crew, but that was kind of weird! On the last night Karen showed me a set of 3 pins she bought they were in the shape of the boat! They are super cool! And on top of it she tells me that they were only 5 dollars! :scared1: Of course the shops were all closed by then. :guilty:
Awesome report Shanan. Love it! :thumbsup2




I didn't see him either but I certainly smelled him Jason. Good lord that stuff made me gag! I couldn't go near that store.

I was pretty displeased with the variety of items as well. I didn't like any of the adult shirt styles on the ship and the one shirt on CC I really liked was out of my size. On PCC 2.0 I'm shopping on CC before anything else. I'll probably alos check out the two ship stores day 1 as well.Thanks! I am glad you are liking it!!
Yeah, the merchandise was all...umm...junk/expensive. The merchandise on CC seemed so much nicer/cheaper!:banana:

I bought a glass square thing that has the logo on it. But I was kinda disappointed in the on board merchandise, too.
Can't wait to see you on Saturday!! :woohoo:

[Becx N Gav]

Hey Shanan I've caught up again - this report is excellent, we missed so much! I think we're gonna do the late seating for dinner next time and hoepfully be on a large table with other Disers.

I loved your martini tasting - sounds like so much more fun than the wine - yawn! I was under the opinion that martinis were all gin based - DOH - so I hope we get to that next time, I will totally be there :cool1:

And Castaway Cay - we totally missed the adult beach :scared1: we had our Palo brunch that morning and only just got there in time for the party. We had a fab time though and it was amazing how many of us there were :eek:

Are you carrying on with the WDW part? DATW was a good evening :lovestruc

[A.Mickey]

Hey Shanan I've caught up again - this report is excellent, we missed so much! I think we're gonna do the late seating for dinner next time and hoepfully be on a large table with other Disers.

I loved your martini tasting - sounds like so much more fun than the wine - yawn! I was under the opinion that martinis were all gin based - DOH - so I hope we get to that next time, I will totally be there :cool1:

And Castaway Cay - we totally missed the adult beach :scared1: we had our Palo brunch that morning and only just got there in time for the party. We had a fab time though and it was amazing how many of us there were :eek:

Are you carrying on with the WDW part? DATW was a good evening :lovestruc
Hi Becky!! YAY! I am glad you are all caught up and liking it! We weren't really at a large table at dinner, we just sat with Rick and Lori. It was nice having a smaller table....since I really didn't know any one yet! But next time it would be great if all of us were at a really long table! YAY! Let the rowdiness begin!
We definitely didn't get enough time on CC period! It was nuts to see all of us at the party...and can you just imagine what 600+ will look like?!?:scared1:


Yep I will be continuing this TR out in full! I am still trying to stretch it as much as possible too, considering I won't be going again until PCC 2.0...but at least I can live vicariously through all of you! :banana:

[natale1980]

:wave2: Just saying Hi! Wanted to let you know that just because I'm not posting doesn't mean I'm not reading. :flower3:
I'm excited to find out about your Disney World Days now that I saw that cute picture of you and your son today at Doorway to Dreams.

-nat

[chiefdragon]

It has been wonderful to read your trip report. I can not wait to read more.

[brookelizabeth]

I'm sorry to hear Jason got sick! :headache: I hope he was able to recover quickly...and where did you find him??? Hmmmm...:scratchchin:

The story of you wanting a baby brought tears to my eyes...and little did you know you were pregnant! That little one is truly a miracle, isn't he? :goodvibes: The pic of him and his Grammy is adorable!

Love the sea pic too...so so pretty!

[aaronmckie]

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Sorry it's been a while since the last update, my dad has been in town the last five days and we've been running around doing EVERYTHING!
Your regularly scheduled program should resume shortly (probably tonight!).

[tiggerbell]

Sorry it's been a while since the last update, my dad has been in town the last five days and we've been running around doing EVERYTHING!
Your regularly scheduled program should resume shortly (probably tonight!).

Yes, you looked SWAMPED!

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[A.Mickey]

Gosh it has been a while....where were we....oh yes! I was entering the room to find Jason as sick as a dog...where was he...he was ummm...praying to the porcelain god. I inform Jason about the special cake and his entree being sent up to the room later. He feels really bad about getting sick, but heck it is my fault....I shouldn't have been trying to out do Jaime.

I beg for him to try to come to the party! I mean this is the last time we are seeing alot of these great people. I definitely want to go! So he gets up the strength to come with me to the party.

We get to the party by the goofy pool and get our free drink tickets. I talk to Michelle while in line for our drinks. We talk about seeing our sons again! I am really eager to see Aaron, it has been a week! We left him on Thursday and it is now Wednesday night!

Jason turns to me and tells me that he isn't feeling good and he has to go back to the room....(now old Shanan would have went back to the room with him, but new Shanan decides to stay out at the party and hang out with her new friends!) I talk to Kim (kimstarr) who I sang karaoke with it turns out she is from New Jersey and soon Pete is by us Robin is there too. We all start talking about New Jersey and later we talk about Lee Cockerell. I tell Pete how I couldn't believe he was taking notes! Pete informs me that he was taking notes during the taping too and the pre-meeting. Pete also informs us that he will be on PCC 2.0! It was crazy to talk to Pete like that!!

I see Ann and the fam and I go up and chat with them. Ann was holding Piper (her two year old daughter) and I ask her if I can hold her? Of course she says. YAY! I miss Aaron immensely it was soo nice to hold a 2 year old! Mackenzie (her 12 year old daughter) asks if she can get a smoothie, well I had an extra drink ticket in my pocket so I hand it to her oops should have asked Ann first! I wasn't thinking!! But Mackie used my drink ticket for her smoothie :). Lisa (calypsoagoago) was leaving and she handed me a drink ticket.

I see John talking in a group with Jaime so I go to the group. John asks us what we thought of the crusie? I say, This has been the BEST time of my life!!! I just can't thank you guys enough for the awesome experience you have given us! Can I give you a hug? Then the unexpected happen John says YES! And I give John Magi a hug?!?! :eek:

A little bit later I found Karen (Klamchowder) and we talked about Disney's Earth and she told me about a very cool polar bear refuge. She showed me a very neat pin set that she got of the ship. There were 3 pins like a puzzle of the ship all for 6 dollars! Unfortunately, everything was now closed as it was close to midnight. I would have loved to get the whole set...(a few days later at Disney I did find the front of the ship that has capt. Mickey and says Welcome Aboard!) John (3guysandagal) was talking to us about Canada and his babysitter and the Redgreen show. The ship was really rocking now....the waves were crashing way up and out of the Goofy Pool. It was after midnight and our lil group and Jaime's lil group were the only two groups left at the party....so we decided it was time to head in.

I want my CAKE!!

I go down to see Jason and he is asleep on the lil couch. I startled him and he asks me what time is it...I say close to 1. Where is the cake?

Huh...what? They never came to deliver the cake or his entree....I was a wee bit disappointed...but if this is the only bad thing that happened on our cruise I consider us very very lucky!

We get to see Aaron tomorrow!!!

Goodnight.....our last night in our pitch black cabin :(
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[A.Mickey]

:wave2: Just saying Hi! Wanted to let you know that just because I'm not posting doesn't mean I'm not reading. :flower3:
I'm excited to find out about your Disney World Days now that I saw that cute picture of you and your son today at Doorway to Dreams.

-nat
Too funny that you were reading mine and I was reading yours! Are you planning on coming on PCC 2.0? Do you listen to the podcast? I wish I could have talked to you more at the meet, but Jaime wouldn't let me (JK)! I hope to see you at the next one!!

It has been wonderful to read your trip report. I can not wait to read more.
I am glad you are enjoying it!!
I'm sorry to hear Jason got sick! :headache: I hope he was able to recover quickly...and where did you find him??? Hmmmm...:scratchchin:

The story of you wanting a baby brought tears to my eyes...and little did you know you were pregnant! That little one is truly a miracle, isn't he? :goodvibes: The pic of him and his Grammy is adorable!

Love the sea pic too...so so pretty!Ummm...he was better by the morning, so I would say that is pretty quick! Not as rough as some of your ordeals!! And now you know where I found him!
He really is a miracle and his name is pretty funny too. Jason and I were joking around a few years before I was pregnant about what we would want to name our child and Jasons favorite basketball player was Aaron Mckie. I told him if we have a son without any help at all....we will name him Aaron Mckie...and then I said....wait...Mckie sounds like Mickey! So Aaron Mickey was born!!

Woo hoo! How many days til your vaca!!!!!!!!!!

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Sorry it's been a while since the last update, my dad has been in town the last five days and we've been running around doing EVERYTHING!
Your regularly scheduled program should resume shortly (probably tonight!).
Don't lie to my viewers like that! Geesh!
Yes, you looked SWAMPED!

We really were! I am going to do a mini TR in the next chapter of our extended weekend!

[A.Mickey]

Ok....so here is the reason why I have been away....Jason's father and stepmom were in town last Thursday night until Tuesday morning. We had not seen them in over 2 years!!

Jason took Thursday night through Tuesday night off of work!
This means lots of time with Jason! Since we usually only see each other for about 15 minutes each weekday morning and on the weekends. Hence lots of free time at night to write TR and work on my designs...and of course Facebook :).

On Thursday night we went to eat at Home Run Inn for the Pizza! Jason's Dad (lets just call him Grandpa Joe) loves to eat here. Grandpa Joe grew up in Chicago so every time he is in town we must eat at Home Run Inn. It has become a tradition.

Friday we wake up and head out to the Wisconsin State Fair. (I took Friday and Monday off of work)

Upon arriving I spot this booth, look Deep Fried and On a stick are in Disney writing! This has to be good!!
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Deep Fried Smores!! We have an obsession with trying things that are deep fried. So far my favorite thing is a deep fried Reeses PB Cup! We never did get to try a deep fried smore, on the way in it was too early...

But it is never too early for a Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff!
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Aaron Loved it!!

Who wants to play Farmville?!?
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Three little....ur um....BIG PIGS!
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Stop for the cut out animals! Aaron loves these.
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We got some Rootbeer Milk, Banana Milk, and Cherry Vanilla Milk! Total= 75 (wow I can't find the cents symbol!)
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We rested with our milk....
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(Hey look! Jason and I are wearing matching shirts! It never fails!)

On to the midway!!
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(I soooo wanted to go in one of these tents but Jason wouldn't let me! Some tents were 1.00 and some were only 50 cents....he wanted to keep it to my imagination.)

The Death Trap
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(Jason and I rode this back in 2006....do not attempt to ride this ride...you have been warned!)

Jason stops for Dinner?!?!?!
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(Don't you remember what happened when you try exotic things?!)

I wish my friends were here!!
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We head out of the Fair around 4pm and head to Culver's back near home for dinner. Grandpa Joe and Grandma Peggy have never ate here before. They really enjoyed it!

Saturday we head downtown by Metra to show Grandpa Joe and Grandma Peggy the sites. Grandma Peggy has never actually been downtown before. Nana (Jason's mother) is taking care of Aaron for the day and night.

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We head over to the water tower place for lunch at our favorite spot, foodlife! Oh but wait...chocolate is wafting through the air...
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(that is one heavy chocolate bar!)

We tour the American Girl doll store, makes me glad that I have a boy.

Time for lunch.....Eek...no food porn! What a Bad DISer am I?!?

We walk down Michigan Ave to show them Millennium Park
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Cloudgate....aka the Bean
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Gotta get our pic in the Bean.
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We decide to go dip our feet in the water..
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Reason #1 why I NEED A STEEEEEK!
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A Fun day in the city!
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We part ways....Jason and I have a musical to see at 2pm.
It is Spring Awakening....I just have to say that it is my all time favorite musical that I have ever seen. I have seen quite a few! I am getting tickets tomorrow for when they are in Milwaukee for my mom and my sister to come with :).

The show gets out and it is 4:30 we decide to take an express train back....but the 1st stop it makes is 2 miles past our stop. We knew this, but we figured we would take a cab or walk back! When we get off the train we decide to walk back. It is now 5:45 and we have an ADR at P.F. Chang's for 7!:eek:

[A.Mickey]

We make it back to our car 8 minutes before the train we were going to take pulls into the station!! Yes! We shaved some time off. I have to pick up some pictures for the D2D meet before we meet Todd, Jaime and Robin at P.F. Chang's!

6:45 we make it to Woodfield and see Famous and Celebrity!!
We sit down and Robin comes in shortly! Love the hair!

Lettuce Wraps
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Dynamite Shrimp!
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Soups
uh...Jaime has got me covered!

Poor Todd, Jason and I ordered both of his dishes! He quickly has to look over the menu!
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We did this like family style...so we all get a little of everyone's...
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unless you are Jaime....she stayed away from the bad stuff......until the cake showed up!

Fun desserts in glasses! We love desserts in glasses, I am having Palo flashbacks :).
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I think Robin is too :)
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I have to pause here.....Can you believe that Robin flew out from Virginia just for the weekend!! And Todd drove from Detroit!! ::HUGS::

You know we love you guys, we gotta get Robin next time!!
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Sunday
Jason and his family are going to Portillo's and the Children's museum....I love their expressions in this pic.
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(ah hem)

While I go to the DIS meet at D2D!
I beat Todd and Jaime!!
I chat with Lori (Briarrosie)? and Jen (Jen3003) and daughter.

Soon I hear someone screaming and running with his arms in the air! It is Todd! He runs to give me a gigantic HUG!! I <3 U!
We are standing chatting, and Natale1980 shows up with her sister? sisinlaw? I go and talk to her! I have been watching her vlogs! She is a celebrity too :). Turns out she has been reading my TR! Wow! Small world :).
Jaime covered this very well....and I didn't have my camera with me, since Jason had it at the Children's museum.

I did Pin trade with a castmember and got a Mo pin from Wall-E! Later on I was chatting with Linda (Quirty30) and her kids. Her son kept saying how he wishes he could pin trade. So I told him he could trade with me. I had a steamboat willie pin and he was very happy and took that one. He gave me a character spot pin. So it all works out!

I got to see some fun pictures of Todd through the years!!

And now we bring to you a little flashback....I don't know whose pictures these are....but I have been going to the D2D meets every time now. Looking at these they seem sooo old. Even though it was only May of 2008 I believe? I know that day was the day we booked PCC 1.0. The day we first met anyone from the DIS, and also the day we met AskTracy! Enjoy!
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Look who I am standing next to!!! And who woulda thunk it that I would pin that shirt just a year later ;). Btw...I thought that was your DATW shirt
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Calling the Podcast!
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Gosh it is sooo weird to look back at these pics! So much of my life has changed since the PCC! I am soo thankful for all the great friendships I have made, and continue to make through the DIS!!

[A.Mickey]

Monday we head out to Brookfield Zoo.

Remember when I said that Aaron likes these...
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I think I found someone that likes them more!
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Too Cute!
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I Love PIGS!
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The piglets were pretty disappointing though, they were pretty big already!
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A great weekend had by all!

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And now back to your regularly scheduled program.....

[kafitty]

hi Shanan! i followed you here from Jaime's report, and just wanted to say "hi" and i'm really enjoying your view of things! It's so awesome that you got to come out of your shell on PCC 1.0...i want to go SOOOO bad on 2.0 but i don't know if it's going to happen.

i'm not gonna go through and comment on everything, but i have to say, i was laughing pretty hard at the whole schrod debacle at the Celebration Town Tavern. i'm a New Englander, and i HATE white fish in general, but i will forever associate baked schrod with old folks, because of waiting tables around here for so many years. :rotfl: We always used to be like, "What the heck is 'schrod'?" cause it usually is just cod... i never knew it was an acronym for something, so thanks for your research on that!!

i'll be back to read more!

[DVCsince02]

I don't know which is funnier, Jason with the "gun" or your b00b in the dolphin head? LOL!

[aaronmckie]

I don't know which is funnier, Jason with the "gun" or your b00b in the dolphin head? LOL!

I didn't even know there was anything weird about that pic until my brother commented on it :p Completely unintentional... I think Shanan's was, too, but she's not as innocent as I am ;)

[natale1980]

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:lmao: I like the lower dolphin better lol! JK - what a great picture! You must be a very fun mommy!

And I'm NO celebrity! I haven't been 'discovered' in a non Dis-meet. I'll let you know if it happens. :)

-nat

[A.Mickey]

hi Shanan! i followed you here from Jaime's report, and just wanted to say "hi" and i'm really enjoying your view of things! It's so awesome that you got to come out of your shell on PCC 1.0...i want to go SOOOO bad on 2.0 but i don't know if it's going to happen.

i'm not gonna go through and comment on everything, but i have to say, i was laughing pretty hard at the whole schrod debacle at the Celebration Town Tavern. i'm a New Englander, and i HATE white fish in general, but i will forever associate baked schrod with old folks, because of waiting tables around here for so many years. :rotfl: We always used to be like, "What the heck is 'schrod'?" cause it usually is just cod... i never knew it was an acronym for something, so thanks for your research on that!!

i'll be back to read more!

Hi!! Thanks for stopping by! I hope you will be able to join us on 2.0! It is going to be all fun times 2 :). Yeah that fish was the most awful thing I have ever ate!

I don't know which is funnier, Jason with the "gun" or your b00b in the dolphin head? LOL!
LOL! Yeah and they were both unintentionally too! I would have to go with the "gun"!

I didn't even know there was anything weird about that pic until my brother commented on it :p Completely unintentional... I think Shanan's was, too, but she's not as innocent as I am ;)
That is what you think!
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:lmao: I like the lower dolphin better lol! JK - what a great picture! You must be a very fun mommy!

And I'm NO celebrity! I haven't been 'discovered' in a non Dis-meet. I'll let you know if it happens. :)

-nat
I would like to think I am a fun mom, at least when Aaron is paying attention to me! It must be the age! He is usually in his own little world.

I haven't been 'discovered' at a non Dis-meet yet either....don't worry I think you will be soon enough;)!

[A.Mickey]

Our Pre-Trip Plans:
Thursday May 14th
Slowly work ourselves....or shall I say roll ourselves off the boat.
After 4 days of eating everything we have ever wanted!

We will be taking DCL transport over to Pop century, and we will check-in.

Today we get to see our son Aaron!!

I know we will miss him like crazy after being away from him for 6 days!

Aaron is coming down with Nana (Jason's mom) on May 12th. This will be their third day at Disney. I am not sure what park they will be in. But we plan on surprising Aaron sometime during the afternoon/evening. (another reason why we might get park hoppers in case he will not be at Epcot.)

Epcot is the park of choice for today as we finally got a DINNER reservation at Le Celliar!!!! We have tried so many times in the past to get a DINNER reservation here and they were always booked so we had to resort to lunch. It didn't disappoint, but we are so looking forward to dinner here.....we have an 8:20 pm ADR. We booked this ressie for 3 people, so in case we make any friends on the cruise that want to join us for dinner we most likely will be sitting at a 4 top and could accommodate.

We wake up at 7am and zoom out of our cabin! We want to go see our son Aaron!

Tracy told us that we can start lining up at 7:30am and as soon as the 1st bus is full it will go to WDW! So we get out to the bus area and who do we see....just Tracy and Bill! We are the first ones out to the buses! We really want to see Aaron!!

Karen snaps this pic of Jason and I waiting for the buses:
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The bus ride back flew by! We sat in the back of the bus with Ann and her family! It was fun chatting up a storm with them!! Before we knew it we were back at the Dolphin! We took a cab ride over to Pop and were checked in by 10:30 AM.

Aaron and Nana are already in the Magic Kingdom:
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In our room we are deciding what to do? We really don't want to spend 100 dollars to get a park hopper and we really want to see Aaron! So we could go see Aaron at MK and buy 100 dollar park hopper add on so we can make it for diner at Le Celliar. Or we could go to Epcot and see Aaron later by the pool. Or we could go to Magic Kingdom and see Aaron right away and not eat at Le Celliar and save the 100 for DATW! (Drinking around the world)

We decide on option number 3! We are surprising Aaron in the Magic Kingdom!!

We hop on a bus to the MK and we are off!

We had to stop for some Photopass pics first. Jason was giving Nana and I a hard time before the trip about getting as many Photopass pictures as possible, so I made us stop!
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Jason calls Nana and they are having a Dole Whip! What a perfect spot to surprise Aaron!!! We head right over there! I spot Aaron in the stroller! Oh my goodness! I forgot how BIG he is!! I run up to him and at first he doesn't realize who we are. I am just bawling! I missed him soooo much! A week is too long to be apart from your child :).
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We head right over to it's a small world. I really like this ride and I knew how much Aaron enjoyed it on our last trip!
Waiting in the cue:
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While on the ride Aaron got scared by the pink elephant and also by the masks in the Polynesian room. It could be the combination of the drums and the masks. By the end of the ride though, he was back singing away. When we were walking off the ride Aaron said, "Bye Bye" and waved to the ride, but as we were walking away he said, "Again, Again!"

...So what does any good parent do.....
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When we get off this time he actually started to cry a little!
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See the tear?
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Here is a video....
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and we are back on the ride:
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Now it is time for lunch at Colombia Harbor House! Jason finally gets his fix of Disney Chicken Nuggets! I guess the chicken they had on the cruise line isn't the same as Disney Chicken. He said it wasn't up to par. I don't know I am not the Disney Chicken connoisseur!
We added the DDP so we get our entree, large drink, and dessert. This is alot of food! Sorry, no pictures...I will be better next time :).

We head upstairs to our spot.
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And Aaron chows down!
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At the time Aaron has an obsession with throwing things in the garbage can. (Once, I couldn't find my cell phone and I found it in the trash!) After our meal Aaron is going back and forth to the table and trash throwing our garbage away and having the best time doing it!

We head downstairs
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(Aaron was just starting to get the hang of stairs)

and out to the restrooms
Aaron rests his head on the rock and says Cold!
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We head over to Buzz. Aaron hadn't rode this ride yet, and he really liked it back in Sept of 08. This time not so much! The Buzz in the cue scares him and as we get closer to Buzz he is holding on to me like a monkey:
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and the whole ride he was covering his face.

Next we head right over to the Carousel of Progress. Aaron is scared until about halfway through the show and then he relaxes and by the end he is clapping to the music! I think he remembered the show from September. He really enjoyed this one in September too!

We then head up to Main Street and a cast member is blowing bubbles outside Tony's. Aaron was having a blast popping them.
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I think she got alot of enjoyment out of watching him and she gave him a long strip of stickers!
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We head out to the bus stop so we can give Aaron his afternoon nap. On the way to Pop Aaron was pointing out all the exit signs. When we got back to Pop Aaron had to take a break on the silver bench and poke his fingers through the holes. (I guess this is what he has been doing every time he got off the bus)
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[natale1980]

sometimes I cry when I get off it's a small world too! But for different reasons. :laughing: I've too found myself going on that ride with my kids over and over again!!

-nat

[heaven2dc]

Loved the video of Aaron - what a cutie! You have been having the best vacation ever - what a way to end your trip at WDW seeing your little one after being gone a week.

[brookelizabeth]

That pic of you and Aaron made me start to cry!!!! :hug: I would have been bawling as well, missing your baby so so much!!!

I love that you went on Small World so many times for Aaron, so cute! :lovestruc Him sticking his fingers in the holes of the benches is so something Henry would do too...aren't kids so funny? :goodvibes:

[A.Mickey]

sometimes I cry when I get off it's a small world too! But for different reasons. :laughing: I've too found myself going on that ride with my kids over and over again!!

-nat
Ha ha!! I think I get that song stuck in my head every day, still! Aaron demands that he watch the video at least once a day! But I don't mind too much, it was my all time fave ride when I was a kid and I drug my grandparents on it over and over and over again!! Like mother like son :).

Loved the video of Aaron - what a cutie! You have been having the best vacation ever - what a way to end your trip at WDW seeing your little one after being gone a week.
It sure is!! But I still have one whole week in Disney World!! ;)

That pic of you and Aaron made me start to cry!!!! :hug: I would have been bawling as well, missing your baby so so much!!!

I love that you went on Small World so many times for Aaron, so cute! :lovestruc Him sticking his fingers in the holes of the benches is so something Henry would do too...aren't kids so funny? :goodvibes:
Awww, sorry that I made you cry :). :hug: Just wait our count is only up to 3 total rides of it's a small world :). Hey, Henry on this trip will be just about the same exact age as Aaron was on our last trip. Aaron was just one month older ;). I can't wait to read your TR!

[A.Mickey]

Ok so we just got back to Pop and we head to our rooms, but I have missed Aaron so much that I go with Nana over to their room (Aaron is staying with Nana...I mean she did bring him and all). We had to pick up snacks, our order from Garden Grocer came.

Wow! Nana sure ordered some chips!! This means each one of us has to eat two bags of chips per day. I don't think this will be possible!
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I played with Aaron while he was getting ready to take a nap we were watching Stacey and he was acting crazy! He was yelling at the ToT part when they all scream and during the American Idol part Aaron turns to me and says, "Popcorn!" (You can see how we get ready for American Idol.)

Aaron unwinding for his nap....
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Aaron wakes up about an hour later and we head down to the Pop Century food court for dinner....(yes, we gave up Le Celliar dinner reservation for time with Aaron in the Pop food court)

Jason had a meatball sandwich that he didn't care for and I had Chili Cheese Fries. (I got these same fries in Sept of 08 and back then they were a snack credit, not any longer.) So I had his meatball sandwich too.
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Aaron has an obsession with feeding people. Open up like this....
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Relaxing... We didn't let him stay with his foot on the table, I just must have snapped this picture at the right time...
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Back on the bus to the MK...
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And the rain, rain, rain came down down down...it begins...
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We headed to ride Pooh we had a fastpass from earlier, Aaron was terrified of this ride! I have no idea why?? It is strange how he loved this ride in September and now just a little over a half a year later be terrified! Children are funny!

After the ride we head over to Pooh's playful spot...we have the place to ourselves! I like to get pictures of Aaron here as he is growing up.
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Tunnel, Tunnel...
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Hmmm...what to do now...we really don't want to scare Aaron anymore, he was scared of Buzz (which he loved in Sept) and scared of Pooh (which he loved in Sept). What does he love still? You guessed it!

So we head over to id a doo dah! I need to find my video of Aaron singing it's a small world.
I love this picture!
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We ride id a doo dah 3 more times, yes in a row!
I still have a hidden mickey to find in there! Does anyone know where the hidden mickey is in the South Pacific room?

The sun is starting to set...
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The Dole Whip machine was broken earlier, so we head over to Aloha Isle for a refreshing treat, or shall I say...they head over to Aloha Isle for a refreshing treat. I don't like Pineapple floats! Can I still be a DISer? :eek:
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Aaron even likes them! (Funny story: Aaron's 1st trip Sept 08, we let Aaron try a Pineapple Float fully expecting to make the funny sourish face, but instead he smacked his lips together and said ahhh! That was his first time he had ever done that after taking a drink of anything...I really think I am going to have to write a TR of that trip after this one!)
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Gotta stop to get our picture taken in our family spot!
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Wishes isn't until 10 and we are all wet and tired. (we were the 1st ones of the boat waiting for the buses, remember?) It is now 9 pm and we decide to not stay so we can get back to Pop before the huddled masses! We have a busy day tomorrow, it is Epcot, DATW and Jason's 34th Bday!

Back at Pop I give Aaron a bath, brush his teeth and read him a few bedtime stories. Man did that feel good! I do this for him every night and not doing it for the past week I really missed it.

Jason and I head to the Pop food court to get Jason some.....do I even have to say? DISNEY CHICKEN NUGGETS! LOL! Since he really didn't eat much of his meatball sandwich earlier, and being a great husband that he is he let his dessert be a Mickey Bar and guess who got to eat it?

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[aaronmckie]

Jason and I head to the Pop food court to get Jason some.....do I even have to say? DISNEY CHICKEN NUGGETS! LOL!



I don't know why it is, but I really, REALLY like them! I don't really eat chicken nuggets outside WDW, too. The ones on the cruise were good, but not the same you can get on property.
It's kind of odd, I can crave Victoria and Albert's or the nuggets, talk about a swing in appetites :rolleyes:

[A.Mickey]

Our Pre-Trip Plans:
We will probably do whatever we didn't do the first day in Epcot.....
and repeat some...(Soarin', Turtle Talk, Nemo Ride, Spaceship Earth)

I still have yet to see the new show in Canada, and I have never watched the films in China and France. I have a mission to finally see the candy lady too in Japan! And I definitely have to see Lonnie at AA Pavilion he is the best CM! And of course watch AA.

One of our Epcot days we are also going to be trying the Kim Possible mission. Sounds like a lot of fun! I love watching Amazing Race....so I will see if I can handle it on a much smaller scale. Ha ha..well maybe not.

We will be eating at 12:00 pm at Teppen Edo. We have yet to eat here....we almost ate here when it was the old place can't remember the name...but they were remodeling it, so we got VIP seating for Illuminations. Lots of people say it is very good so I am looking forward to trying this.....PLUS I have never had Hibachi style food before, like Beinihana.


At 5:30 we will be meeting up with podcasters for the drink around the world event! The last time they did this I guess it took them 5 hours So that will be the end of Day 2 at Disney World......
Today our park is Epcot and it is Jason's 34th birthday!

We get to the park it's around 9:20 and head right for Soarin' to get a fast pass. Then we head over to ride Nemo. Gotta get my picture taken with Pearl!
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Here is my pic with her back on our honeymoon in 2006
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We wanted to get the fast passes for Soarin' so we would be sure to have some. Now we head back up to the front of the park so Jason can get his Birthday fun card! We grab his fun card and Aaron and Nana aren't at the park yet so we get in line for Spaceship Earth.
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Nana and Aaron are finally in the park so we head over to the Land Pavilion to meet them. Nana and I use the fast passes and ride Soarin' while Dada takes Aaron over to ride Nemo.

We all meet up to ride living with the land. Can you beleive there is a 20 minute wait for this! I never saw it this crowded! Aaron in the cue...
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Aaron really enjoyed this ride and was pointing out all the corn and the tomatoes.

We split up Aaron and Nana go to eat at Sunshine Seasons and Jason and I have an ADR for Teppan Edo.

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We were the 1st seating.
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We used 2 table service credits on this meal...and I paid for the Sushi out of pocket with our $500 gift card.

I order the Sushi Sampler - Tuna, Yellowtail, and Shrimp with 2 pieces of California Roll. - $8.00
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(not a fan of the raw fish pieces...I did eat it all though. I did really enjoy the green stuff...and the california rolls ;)

Hidden Mickey
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Nemo even made an appearance (one of the shrimp)
It was a really great show the chef put on!

Volcano!
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Our noodles and vegetables....with my cheating chopsticks
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I ordered:Asakusa - Sirloin steak and large shrimp with seasonal vegetables, Udon noodles, and steamed rice. - $29.00
Jason ordered: Nihonbashi - Sirloin steak and chicken breast with seasonal vegetables, Udon noodles, and steamed rice. - $28.00

Sorry no pictures of these....I forgot to take pictures and we were too busy eating!

Now it was dessert time and Jason gets to be embarrassed! He is finally wearing his Birthday button. Green Tea Pudding - Green tea pudding. - $5.50
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YUM! This cake is awesome!!
Chocolate Ginger Cake - Chocolate ginger cake. - $5.50
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I am sooo glad that I waited to eat at a Habachi style restaurant until Disney! I haven't yet ate at a Habachi style around here. But when I do, I am sure it won't be able to stack up against Disney :). This was a fantastic time! We will definitely be going back again and again!

Jason's birthday hat is really cool! They drew Mickey Mouse on the back kinda Japanese style and they wrote Happy Birthday Jason on the side in Japanese!
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CLICK TO CONTINUE

[natale1980]

That's awesome! I want one of those hats for Dexter! He would love it!!!
Tepen Edo is a 'MUST DO' on every Disney Vacation! :thumbsup2 Glad you had fun!

-nat

[heaven2dc]

I'm so glad you got to experience Teppan Edo - my fav restaurant! I just love the DDP when you order a $30 dinner off the menu and don't have to bat an eye at the price :yay:

Loved the birthday boy's hat :thumbsup2

[A.Mickey]

Ok...so I decided to post this here. Until I get back from Indy to continue with my TR. Jason and I currently in Indy and as some of you are probably aware Jaime is in WDW (can't wait for her next TR to begin)! I am sure she is having a grand time, but she is also having a grand time with mu-ah!

Flattie Jaime's adventures in Indy
I get up and say to myself...I am going to Indy!! I cannot wait to see all of my old friends and meet new ones!!
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Jason and Shanan are still puttsin around their apartment packing things up. I decide to go drink my coffee.
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I get dressed
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Ok, so they finally have their bags packed! Ooohh I like the choice of bags
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Aaron isn't here so I will sit in his seat for the ride.
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Shanan decided that she wants to take us to her old stomping ground. So we drive down to Kankakee...I guess this is close to where the Chicago Bears have their summer camp. So we do a mall tour, come on everybody let's go to the mall.
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Wow! This mall must have really been hurt by the recession...anybody wanna check out a book at the mall?
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We stop for gas and are back on the road...now we are taking back roads to get from Kankakee to I-65
What do we see on the way there.....
lots and lots of
CORN!
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Shanan and I goofing off...
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Jason was so excited taking the previous pictures of me that he somehow lost the Ipod touch! This has all of our directions for the next two days! So we actually had to pull over and stop. Luckily Jason found it and it was all the way underneath the seat.

I got amusement out of that one!
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Now we are on I-65 and we see a HUGE wind farm! I don't know if you can see them off in the distance, but that was pretty neat!
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We stop in West Lafayette because Shanan was on the website Roadfood.com and found an interesting little place to go to.
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I have to say this was a pretty awesome find!
http://www.triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com/index.html

This rootbeer was delish! There is a whole history behind it here:http://www.triplexxxfamilyrestaurant.com/rootbeer.html
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It uses only 100 percent unfrozen sirloin, ground on site and grilled with real cheese.
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YUM!

This waitress was very fond of me. She asked me alot of questions and was wondering why I was 2-D. I had to let her know that while I am here in 2-D my friends (in 3-D) are at the World in 2-D. She thought that was really nifty and wanted to take a pic with me!
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Jason decided that he wanted to go check out Perdue's campus.
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Oh look! Round table discussion?
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Tippecanoe Battlefield is near here so we decide to pay it a visit.
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Shanan doesn't really care for this land (she felt it was sad that the Native Americans lost the midwest land here) Maybe we should take some more time to explore it next time. It was close to 4 by now and the D&B meet is at 7:30, we still have an hour more to drive!

We did want to stop in to see Prophetstown but it was six dollars are car and like I said it was getting late.
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So we hopped back on the road on our way to Indy!

[A.Mickey]

So we make it to Indy a little before 5 and the hotel we booked was a Raddison but it must have been bought out because when we showed up it is a Four Points by Sheraton.
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The room is really nice and spacious, it reminds us alot of the room at the Dolphin. Free internet and free bottles of water!

Gotta slip into my evening attire
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Ohhh...we are ready to go to another mall before the D&B meet!
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No one told me there would be a photo-op with Mickey here!
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Hmmmm.....
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I think they might herd cattle into this mall? I never saw doors this BIG before!
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We had some more time to spare before the meet so we decide what better place to burn off some time then!
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Jason made me wait in the car...I think Shanan was having to much fun taking pictures of me in the Disney Store.

7:15 time to meet some DISers for D&B
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We were greeted by Aaron, Kim and Anna! And soon Shanan got her hug from Brandie! The rest of the gang congregated from the bar on over and hugs were received and given. Then we waited as our tables were getting set up! We had a private room!! At first they had the 6 tables set up all separated, but then they decided to move 3 of them (since that was all that was needed for our group) into an L shape. This worked out very well! Although, it is pretty hard to converse with 13 people at the same time!

Yum a ummy peachy drink.
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Chicken dish.....forgot the name...too busy talking! Tonya ordered it, it sounded good so I followed!
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Jason ordered the Teriyaki Steak
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Now it was time to play some games!
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We had to leave pretty quick, Jason had been up for 45 of the last 48 hours.

Can't wait for tomorrow!

Goodnight!
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[natale1980]

you are hilarious!!! :lmao:

[A.Mickey]

you are hilarious!!! :lmao:

Hi Natalie! Glad you are enjoying it! I had alot of fun making flattie Jaime and also taking her picture :).

[A.Mickey]

Saturday we woke up and lounged around facebooking and reading the DIS.
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Shanan and Jason's version of the steeeeeeek!
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Shanan looked for another burger joint for lunch. She musta been in a burger mood while she was planning this trip. This time she used Urbanspoon.com and the number 2 rated Indy restaurant is Bub's Burgers & Ice Cream. So we head over to downtown Carmel.
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We arrived at 11:10 AM the place opens at 11:00 AM and by 11:30 AM the place had a wait!!
See all the people waiting behind me?
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Hmmm....what size burger shall we order?
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Well, since Shanan is sharing with me let's order the 11 oz.:scared1:

Jason and I relaxing and waiting for our food on the outside patio.
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Yum a chocolate milkshake...this was Shanan's 2nd favorite shake she has ever had. Number 1 being Schoop's.
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YUM!
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This burger is HUGE!
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Shanan and I couldn't even finish the whole thing!
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Another fabulous find! Now we were on our way to the DISmeet! On the way there we stopped at a Meijer to pick up a cheese tray and some crackers.

We get there a little before 1pm and immediatley see...
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(that stinker tricked us!)

I head over to check out the silent auction items and look around at the various things to do.

Ooooo...I want this
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and this (Bob's homemade keychains)
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Kids Korner
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We go up to the front table and fill out name tags and get our tickets for the raffle drawing that will be held at the top of every hour.
We also get our scavenger hunt sheets...and start walking around the room and meeting fellow DIS enthusiasts!

After we filled out our scavenger hunt sheet we turned it in for another raffle. We also bought some tickets for the 50/50 raffle. We like raffles!!

Ok, first things first, gotta get a Dole Whip!
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Hanging out with some of the gang...
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The 1st drawing at 2:00 pm.
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Jason started in on Brandie's cupcakes...it wasn't until the 5th one he discovered that there were other flavors.
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Kids playing hot potato.
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Shanan and I were wanting some more food...
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[A.Mickey]

Shanan brought her pins and pin traded a bit and talked to some other DISers about pins.

Now it was time for some kid activities! How to draw a character.
Like Disney's Art of Animation class...so Tonya, Shanan and I decide to attend.
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She was a very good teacher!
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Shanan and I played Bingo next. That was fun! We liked the Bingo cards.
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Shanan's number was drawn for a lovely Dunkin Donuts gift basket that was put together by Aaron's mother. It was lovely and I even came home with a prize.
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What number cupcake is this!?!?
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Shanan wants to try the fondant and get to the center where the Rice Krispies are :).
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It is close to 5pm and there is a mad dash for the snipes to come in and steal the items away from the high bidders!
We won the Bob key-chains, a Club 33 key-chain, and Disney's Christmas Carol plush dolls. Since there were 3 key-chains and Tracey, Tonya and Shanan wanted them we split them up.
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Tonya won the restaurant review with Kevin and John and Tracey won the signed shirt!

Gotta have our Dole Whips for Bawb!
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The end of a great meet! It just was over too fast. Thanks for all the work Aaron, Kim and Anna!! We can't wait for next year!:goodvibes

[A.Mickey]

So it is only 6pm and we have the place cleaned up. None of us go to bed at 7pm...so a few of us that don't have any plans for the evening head over to where else....Houlihan's

Wow, those tiles are going to hurt later.
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These are some BIG drinks!
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Shanan and Jaime Martini tasting part 2!
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We all order appetizers or something small...
Jason goes with the Asian Chicken Noodle Bowl
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Shanan orders the lettuce wraps
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We have a good time chatting away then we walk down to some of the shops to burn off some of our meal and alcohol.

We stop into a doggie shop. Are these thongs for your dog?
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Next we head into Borders Tonya and Brandie want to check out the Twilight section. Someone has a crush on Edward:love:
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Borders is closing and we still don't want to leave each other so we decide to hang out in the hotel lobby and have a DATL/Twilight tutorial/Legally Blonde sing-a-long.
Before:
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After:
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(anyone want to go swimming)

Tracy and Bill joined us for a little bit and we had a fun time talking and exchanging :hug:'s. Shanan, Jason and Tracey learned alot about the Cullen's. We left to go home at 2 am. We had to rest up for the last meet we have a brunch scheduled for 10:30 am at Stone Creek.

We made it! Shanan wasn't feeling to well though.
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These pictures are Tracey's

Our group for Brunch.
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Food
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Our group from DATL
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Now it's time to say goodbye to all our company....
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See you real soon! But not soon enough!
We had a great weekend!! Hanging with DISers is the best! :thumbsup2

Jaime wanted some ice cream and a shake on the way home.
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Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it!:wizard:

[A.Mickey]

Now back to our regularly scheduled TR already in progress...

[aaronmckie]

Wow, you left a LOT out from the DATL event... it's probably for the best ;)

[winotracy]

Wow, you left a LOT out from the DATL event... it's probably for the best ;)

All I remember is "you need a hug", "I love you....I said, I love you!" "do you like me" and "I feel sorry for you".

[A.Mickey]

All I remember is "you need a hug", "I love you....I said, I love you!" "do you like me" and "I feel sorry for you".

That about sums it up! I hope you are having a fun time in Miami!

[A.Mickey]

That's awesome! I want one of those hats for Dexter! He would love it!!!
Tepen Edo is a 'MUST DO' on every Disney Vacation! :thumbsup2 Glad you had fun!

-nat
The hat was surely a hit! Yes I think we will be going to Teppan Edo every trip now as well!!

I'm so glad you got to experience Teppan Edo - my fav restaurant! I just love the DDP when you order a $30 dinner off the menu and don't have to bat an eye at the price :yay:

Loved the birthday boy's hat :thumbsup2
I agree you can't beat the DDP for Teppan Edo!! Why didn't I know you sooner!?!? I would have tried it sooner :).

[A.Mickey]

Alright, so where we were?? Oh yes...we just had lunch at Teppan Edo! YUM!! And now it is time to enjoy some of the flower and garden festival as we head back to meet up with Aaron and Nana in the Mexico Pavilion.

What a lovely view of Spaceship Earth
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Funny story about the Tricky Trolls of Norway: One of the first times we went to WDW as I couple I believe it may have been our second time when I was 5 months pregnant with Aaron and I couldn't ride on many of the rides I was doing a tour of performances. Well, the sign in front of Norway said the Tricky Trolls of Norway and then underneath said the times. I really wanted to see the Tricky Trolls of Norway perform so we sat there for a while until Jason realized that they were talking about the ride Malestrom and the times were for the Norway band. DOH! The Tricky Trolls got me! They sure are tricky!
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YAY! We finally meet up with Aaron and Nana and we ride the Gran Fiesta tour.
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Someone is tired of me taking pictures! Get use to it! This is nothing yet! Now I must report about my Trips from now on :).
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I pin trade for a bit in the Mexico Pavilion while they go on the ride two more times! Aaron liked this one too!
Aaron is now getting pretty tired, he hasn't taken a nap yet. We head over to the Odyssey for a little break.

Oh wow this is pretty!
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Break time!
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Ooooh a pretty bird opening his wings!
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We decide to check out the butterfly house.
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I wasn't too impressed with this exhibit, it was rather small. I have been to a better one at the Frederick Meijer Garden's in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Next stop the Fairy playground! Ooooo! Aaron isn't impressed yet!
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I loved all the little furniture and fairy houses....oh and they have their own method for transportation.
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Where is Eeyore? I see some thistles!!
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Aaron loves slides!
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By now Aaron is really pooped out! So we ride Spaceship Earth with Aaron and Nana, and I get to sit with Aaron! He really enjoyed this ride too!
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Nana takes Aaron back to Pop for a nap and Jason and I head over to Ellen's Energy Adventure for Momma's Nap!

I snap a picture of this, because Aaron loved playing with the silver screws and saying "Button, button"
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Alrighty, nap time!

The ride is over and we head out to the Wonders of Life Pavilion to see all the cool things there are to learn about gardens.....ok maybe not...or maybe not yet.....I am not really old enough...nor do I have the land yet to care about a garden....but maybe one day.

Who knew that there are so many different kinds of soils you can use for planting?!?
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I wonder how much she is getting paid to talk about bird feeders?
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Disclaimer: I maybe editing this post later. I wrote all of this from pure memory and Jason may have some things to add. My notes ended as of yesterday! Eeek!

[A.Mickey]

Ohhh....upon walking out of the Wonders of Life I see a good picture opportunity....
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Why did they shut down the Wonders of Life? Why do they take all good things away from us in Epcot......well almost all the good things....at least we still have the slushies! Oh, we are getting to that soon! It is almost DATW time!

Another perrrty picture.
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We decide to head through both Innoventions (wow is that a hard word to spell...I kept wanting to spell interventions!)

I wanna see alot of shows that I missed last time....the Hurricane one had a big group of people going in so I passed on this one now. Ohhh the velcro show is starting soon! So I decide to see that...Jason doesn't want to see the show! (Now I don't blame him!) The highlight of the show:
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(for some reason these babies falling off this conveyor belt was the funniest thing to me?!?)

Hey look its a Pig!
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And it is almost 5 o'clock.....we head over to the Canada Pavalion and decide to see the show O'Canada they updated it since the last time we saw it.

When we get out of the show we head over to a group of DISer's by the beer cart! Let the madness commence!
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[Tonya2426]

When we get out of the show we head over to a group of DISer's by the beer cart! Let the madness commence!

Thank goodness you don't have any notes for this part of the trip. :rotfl2::rolleyes1

[A.Mickey]

Thank goodness you don't have any notes for this part of the trip. :rotfl2::rolleyes1


Hi Tonya!!!!!! I miss ya!

Yeah, I am going to have to rely on my memory!! :eek:

[Tonya2426]

Hi Tonya!!!!!! I miss ya!

Yeah, I am going to have to rely on my memory!! :eek:

I miss you too!!! It is hard to believe it has been almost a week since we saw each other last. I need to get busy on my trip report. :eek:

[brookelizabeth]

I'm all caught up again! 7 times so far on IASW? :laughing: I'm curious to find what the final count will be....

I LOVE your Jaime flattie. She has clothing options!!! Looks like it was a great meet. :goodvibes

Epcot all decked out for the F&G festival is so beautiful-you got some great pictures!

[aaronmckie]

Funny story about the Tricky Trolls of Norway: One of the first times we went to WDW as I couple I believe it may have been our second time when I was 5 months pregnant with Aaron and I couldn't ride on many of the rides I was doing a tour of performances. Well, the sign in front of Norway said the Tricky Trolls of Norway and then underneath said the times. I really wanted to see the Tricky Trolls of Norway perform so we sat there for a while until Jason realized that they were talking about the ride Malestrom and the times were for the Norway band. DOH! The Tricky Trolls got me! They sure are tricky!



This is one of my favorite inside jokes between Shanan and me.

She was looking forward to the Tricky Trolls so much that when we were watching the Chinese acrobats (very talented, btw) she kept checking the time to make sure she wouldn't miss it. We ended up missing the last fifteen minutes of the show so we could get over to Norway so we could get good "seats". So we go ahead and get there ten minutes before it starts and of course no-one is around waiting for anything, so we weren't really sure where we should be waiting for the big event. We end up just hovering around the entrance to Norway, so we can oversee the entire pavilion.
It ended up being five minutes past the scheduled time when we started to question the existence of any tricky troll activity in the area (now mind you, I'm going off her plans, I never checked the schedule myself) so I check the schedule. "Uh hun, the tricky trolls you are looking for are in Maelstrom, they're just describing the ride here." and as soon as I said that a couple of musicians came out to perform. Now I'm sure they were great (if subdued, they were a mellow music act) but I don't think Shanan has ever been more bummed out and disappointed in her life. Ok, that's a slight exaggeration but she was looking forward to the trolls all day and I don't think we went on Maelstrom on that visit purely out of spite.

One of the reasons I love Shanan so much is her ability to find fun and excitement over the smaller things in life (even when they don't really exist); makes it a blast to be around her.

[mboekhoff]

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[A.Mickey]

I miss you too!!! It is hard to believe it has been almost a week since we saw each other last. I need to get busy on my trip report. :eek:

I really wish we lived closer!!!!!

I'm all caught up again! 7 times so far on IASW? :laughing: I'm curious to find what the final count will be....

I LOVE your Jaime flattie. She has clothing options!!! Looks like it was a great meet. :goodvibes

Epcot all decked out for the F&G festival is so beautiful-you got some great pictures!
Hi Brook! Welcome back!! The Indy meet was very fun :). Thanks for liking my pics that means alot coming from you!

This is one of my favorite inside jokes between Shanan and me.

She was looking forward to the Tricky Trolls so much that when we were watching the Chinese acrobats (very talented, btw) she kept checking the time to make sure she wouldn't miss it. We ended up missing the last fifteen minutes of the show so we could get over to Norway so we could get good "seats". So we go ahead and get there ten minutes before it starts and of course no-one is around waiting for anything, so we weren't really sure where we should be waiting for the big event. We end up just hovering around the entrance to Norway, so we can oversee the entire pavilion.
It ended up being five minutes past the scheduled time when we started to question the existence of any tricky troll activity in the area (now mind you, I'm going off her plans, I never checked the schedule myself) so I check the schedule. "Uh hun, the tricky trolls you are looking for are in Maelstrom, they're just describing the ride here." and as soon as I said that a couple of musicians came out to perform. Now I'm sure they were great (if subdued, they were a mellow music act) but I don't think Shanan has ever been more bummed out and disappointed in her life. Ok, that's a slight exaggeration but she was looking forward to the trolls all day and I don't think we went on Maelstrom on that visit purely out of spite.

One of the reasons I love Shanan so much is her ability to find fun and excitement over the smaller things in life (even when they don't really exist); makes it a blast to be around her.
Awwww...you really think I am a blast to be around...even when I have you waiting for trolls that don't dance and sing?
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Welcome!

[A.Mickey]

So, we were waiting for the movie to start in Canada and Jason turns to me and says, “Do you really want to go to DATW tonight?” I say, “Yes!” I really want to go to say goodbye to all the marvelous people that I met on the cruise and this will be my last chance to hang out with them one more time and say goodbye to them. Jason was just not wanting to be very social that night but it turned out to be one of the best nights of his life….and mine.

We head out of the O’Canada circle vision show and we see the group of DISers forming for DATW! But where are Jaime and Todd? Oh well…we have the light saber all is not lost! I get in line and order a Labatt Blue and I mingle the best I know how (my go to gal and go to guy aren’t here yet). Sharon (sharonseattle) and her husband and Jason and I chat about Disneyland and pin trading.

The light saber is moving and we are heading into England. A lot of people order Fish and Chips and I am still working on my Labatt. That is ok I think we will be here for a while. Jason and I chat with some other DISers. I think this is about the time we started chatting with Becky and Gavin (becxandgav). We get lost in conversation….and before I know it the light saber is moving on and I haven’t even ordered my next drink yet! I quickly order a Bass the original pale ale and catch up with the group.

There is a long line for…..SLUSHIES! Like we should be surprised! Oh good, this will give me a chance to finish my Bass.
Not quite.
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While I was in line for the Orange slushie Todd (but has yet to show up in my pictures) and Jaime show up! Yay!
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(Jaime how did you get that beverage in your water bottle past the guards?)

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Jason talking to Rick and Lori, Emiel, and hey is that Tonya oh master of the light saber :).
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Next stop, Morocco for a photo op!
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Oh wait for some reason we are by-passing this country...but I see Todd walking by with a pretty drink....I ask him where did you get that? And he says by the dessert counter in the back of the Tangerine Cafe. Woo! I said I am drinking around the world....and drinking around the world does mean that you must get a drink in Morocco. What a better thing to get in the Tangerine Cafe then a Tangerine Daiquiri? YUM! Two girls are behind me in line...I know they are DISers (I met them both briefly on the cruise) and Jason says we should wait for them. We do and it turns out they are Kim (Tickledtink33) and Anna (Aspen37) we will be spending some time with them later on in the night. I am starting to feel a little :upsidedow.

We have some catching up to do we have to find the group! They weren't too far ahead....now it is time for some Sake. I really don't know what to expect with Sake. Don's (dpuck1998) wife Tamara lets me in on the taste and expectations of Sake. She tells me that she has had it before with her clients. We have a quick conversation on the way to the back of the store. I opt for the sparkling sake. Much to my surprise this sparkling sake is very sweet and it actually tastes cold? I don't know if they chill the sparkling sake, but I was expecting it to be very warm. That is all I ever heard about sake is that it is very warm. I really liked the sake I tried!

Next up American Adventure Pavilion and a potty break! I run into Tracy on the way to the bathroom...and I think she is an extremely happy individual or something else is going on? I am feeling it too.
I get in line for a Sam Adams and a pretzel! I need some food in my stomach...we haven't ate anything since Teppan Edo!
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Ut oh!
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(5 second rule! I need every bit of this pretzel in my stomach, so I pick it up and eat it!)

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Italy is up next! YUM! I found out that I LOVE Limencello! Although, I may have loved it because by this point I was starting to feel quite good...and my shot of Limoncello I really couldn't taste any alcohol.

Jason is the designated drink holder...while I finish my Sam Adams.
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In Germany it is all a little hazy....I think I ordered a Reisling (yummy ice wine), but I do remember the pretty German Barmaids!
Maybe it is my lack of pictures in this country that is making me forget!

Next up China
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and the award for the best drink of the night.....yes they even beat the Slushies in France!!
The Mango Gingerita

Todd ordered the salt lick....and I tell Jaime to try some of mine she loves it! And orders one so we pose with our drinks ;).
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Now....it is time for Illuminations Reflections of Earth.....I never really understood this show....and tonight standing amongst friends....I finally got it!
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[Tonya2426]

Jason talking to Rick and Lori, Emiel, and hey is that Tonya oh master of the light saber :).
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That's Miss Master of the Lightsaber to you!!! ;):rolleyes1

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[tiggerbell]

While I was in line for the Orange slushie Todd (but has yet to show up in my pictures) and Jaime show up! Yay!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/helmet599.jpg
(Jaime how did you get that beverage in your water bottle past the guards?)






Todd, Kim, Anna, and I actually caught up to the group in the UK (still can't believe we were late for DATW!)

And the beverage in my bottle - which I admit looks like beer, is actually Crystal Lite iced tea. Boring, but true.

[aaronmckie]

So, we were waiting for the movie to start in Canada and Jason turns to me and says, “Do you really want to go to DATW tonight?” I say, “Yes!” I really want to go to say goodbye to all the marvelous people that I met on the cruise and this will be my last chance to hang out with them one more time and say goodbye to them. Jason was just not wanting to be very social that night but it turned out to be one of the best nights of his life….and mine.

You're never going to let me forget that, are you? Yeah, I was feeling a little less social that night, but obviously that went away very quickly. I'll always be in your debt for making me come to my senses.


As I told Shanan: this night was the third best of my life, with the first two being the birth of our son and our first date (Shanan and me, obviously). No lie; it was that special to me.

I'll be adding a bit more to this part of the TR, as I have a lot of memories Shanan might not have (as you'll find out why a bit later...)

[A.Mickey]

That's Miss Master of the Lightsaber to you!!! ;):rolleyes1


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Yes, Mam! :worship:
Todd, Kim, Anna, and I actually caught up to the group in the UK (still can't believe we were late for DATW!)

And the beverage in my bottle - which I admit looks like beer, is actually Crystal Lite iced tea. Boring, but true.
Oh yeah! This picture makes more sense now we were somewhere in the UK!
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I was trying to figure out where you took it, I should have just looked at the background....I hope you don't mind that I am stealing your pictures!

You're never going to let me forget that, are you? Yeah, I was feeling a little less social that night, but obviously that went away very quickly. I'll always be in your debt for making me come to my senses.


As I told Shanan: this night was the third best of my life, with the first two being the birth of our son and our first date (Shanan and me, obviously). No lie; it was that special to me.

I'll be adding a bit more to this part of the TR, as I have a lot of memories Shanan might not have (as you'll find out why a bit later...)

Of course, and if there is ever a time in the future when you don't feel like doing something...remember I know what is good for you! :wizard:
I will be looking forward to what you add...and what I forget! :laughing:

[A.Mickey]

I added some to the chapter above this one :).......

Now we are in the infamous Norway. This is where people get lost and left behind.

Todd has to use the facilities...and for some reason asks Jaime to hold his Tiara?
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I think it has magical powers...
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Up until this point we were all moving around as a large group I really don't know what happened...but someone said that they wanted to ride Maelstrom....now remember my story about Maelstrom and the Tricky Trolls? I have to ride this!! I get sooo excited, that I get to see the Tricky Trolls!!!!

In line I am overcome with emotion and I take out my Bambi Friendship Pin and pin it to Jaime's shirt. Todd comes behind and pins a Kermit pin on her!
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This was the longest wait I ever had for Maelstrom...but the shortest wait ever because of the company I had! Picture of us in the long line!
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Coming out of the ride we get our picture taken with a Tricky Troll....I don't know what happened to most of our group?!? Maybe they didn't want to be in a picture with a Tricky Troll?
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Gotta get my drink for Norway, yum a Viking Coffee and some School bread...I didn't care for the bread....but the coffee! Delish!
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We move on to Mexico....and I am thinking we will see the light saber but alas they are gone :(. I never did get a chance to say goodbye. Well, at least I still have these 7 to hang out with! Let us ride another ride....oh wait....let's pause for the Mexican...er a Tiara Dance.
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Our favorite picture from the night. Everyone is so happy....but no one can remember why we were so happy! Maybe, it had to do with us being in Disney and finding friends that had those same Disney bones in their body.
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Us...on The Gran Fiesta Tour
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We still have to get drinks for our last country! And what else to get but the Fiesta Margarita!!
I just realized that Todd and I were the only ones to get a drink in every country and actually make it drinking around the world! This is a reason to celebrate!
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A picture from Aaron and Nana's night!
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[aaronmckie]

You didn't show the pic of Rob with the pretzel bigger than his head! I miss that school bread a lot, but I doubt it would taste as good outside the World.



Ok, I'm going to back-track a bit:

I think we were approaching Morocco when I got a call from my brother Jordan, just to wish me a happy birthday. I back away from the group a bit so I could hear him better and have a bit more privacy.
I only had a couple drinks (I didn't have that many at all for DATW, something I need to rectify next time) but I guess he could tell I had been drinking, and I told him what we were doing. He knew we were at WDW with a group, but didn't understand it was nothing like a tour group. He said he was happy that I was having a good time and am more out-going now than I use to be.
The call was short but after I hung up I just stood there for a while watching Shanan talk and have fun with some of our "new" friends (I put new in quotes because we already knew them all pretty much, just never met in person). Jordan was right, I never had any real desire to have friends; I had my two brothers and that's all I really needed. When we all got older and went our separate ways I never really connected with anyone else.
Then I met Shanan.
Then I found the DIS.
Now don't get me wrong, I've had acquaintances and people to do stuff with, but I wouldn't have called any of them "friends" as I never really let them in and show the real me. This whole trip I had no problems on opening up and just being myself, which was so unlike me up until this point.
I know it sounds really corny, but the vast majority of DISers are people I can connect with, and not really because they share the same love of Disney. They share a very similar mentality to mine, and it's hard to explain. I'm guessing if you are reading this TR you have some idea of what I'm talking about.
Just to complete my "Jason... this is your life" moment my mom comes by pushing our son Aaron in the stroller. We just wave (Shanan doesn't see them go by), as she's having fun being Nana, and right now Shanan and I are having fun being with our friends.
I went back to the group and mingled for a bit before we headed further around world showcase, where the night became even more surreal... but more about that later (or sooner, as Shanan has already gotten to some of what I'm talking about).

Ok, I really didn't mean for that to be this long, sorry I bored everyone!

[tiggerbell]

You didn't show the pic of Rob with the pretzel bigger than his head! I miss that school bread a lot, but I doubt it would taste as good outside the World.



Ok, I'm going to back-track a bit:

I think we were approaching Morocco when I got a call from my brother Jordan, just to wish me a happy birthday. I back away from the group a bit so I could hear him better and have a bit more privacy.
I only had a couple drinks (I didn't have that many at all for DATW, something I need to rectify next time) but I guess he could tell I had been drinking, and I told him what we were doing. He knew we were at WDW with a group, but didn't understand it was nothing like a tour group. He said he was happy that I was having a good time and am more out-going now than I use to be.
The call was short but after I hung up I just stood there for a while watching Shanan talk and have fun with some of our "new" friends (I put new in quotes because we already knew them all pretty much, just never met in person). Jordan was right, I never had any real desire to have friends, I had my two brothers and that's all I really needed. When we all got older and went our separate ways I never really connected with anyone else.
Then I met Shanan.
Then I found the DIS.
Now don't get me wrong, I've had acquaintances and people to do stuff with, but I wouldn't have called any of them "friends" as I never really let them in and show the "real" me. this whole trip I had no problems on opening up and just being myself, which was up until now so unlike me.
I know it sounds really corny, but the vast majority of DISers are people I can connect with, and not really because they share the same love of Disney. They share a very similar mentality to mine, and it's hard to explain. I'm guessing if you are reading this TR you have some idea of what I'm talking about.
Just to complete my "Jason... this is your life" moment my mom comes by push our son Aaron in the stroller. We just wave (Shanan doesn't see them go by), as she's having fun being Nana, and right now Shanan and I are having fun being with our friends.
I went back to the group and mingled for a bit before we headed further around world showcase, where the night became even more surreal... but more about that later (or sooner, as Shanan has already gotten to some of what I'm talking about).

Ok, I really didn't mean for that to be this long, sorry I bored everyone!

Not boring at all, Jason - I love hearing about that night from other people's perspectives - I know what I was feeling, but I love that you hung back and watched Shanan with her friends - just taking it in... very cool night, all around! :hug:

[jeanigor]

That's Miss Master of the Lightsaber to you!!! ;):rolleyes1

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w98/Tonya2426/Misc/94de699a52fd9c510f0b1011f78ff4c738a.jpg

I thought it was Mistress of the Lightsaber.....

[heaven2dc]

What a hilarious time you all have had together! and Jason - I can totally relate to you as I am pretty shy when it comes to group settings and making friends (my only friend for the past couple years who I took to WDW in Feb 2008 has not been speaking with me for over a year now and it took alot on her part to get me to put myself out there to accept having a friend. My whole world is my 5 kids and grandson but after reading what a great time you all have on your trips with fellow Disers, you have convinced me it's time to break out of my shell and try to meet up with Disers on future trips. So thank you and Shanan for giving me the courage! :hug:)

Shanan - Love Jamie's steek (is that what you all called it?) - what a great way to get pics of a group without having to hold the camera with your hand! Is that something she invented or can you actually purchase it?

[brookelizabeth]

One of the reasons I love Shanan so much is her ability to find fun and excitement over the smaller things in life (even when they don't really exist); makes it a blast to be around her.


Awwwwww! That is so sweet! :lovestruc

And thank you for sharing your "this is your life" moment. I totally understand...I am so glad you found some real friends that you can be completely yourself with-and they love you for it!!! :thumbsup2




Shanan - Loving the updates - I can't believe you ate the pretzel off the ground! :rotfl:

[A.Mickey]

You didn't show the pic of Rob with the pretzel bigger than his head! I miss that school bread a lot, but I doubt it would taste as good outside the World.



Ok, I'm going to back-track a bit:

I think we were approaching Morocco when I got a call from my brother Jordan, just to wish me a happy birthday. I back away from the group a bit so I could hear him better and have a bit more privacy.
I only had a couple drinks (I didn't have that many at all for DATW, something I need to rectify next time) but I guess he could tell I had been drinking, and I told him what we were doing. He knew we were at WDW with a group, but didn't understand it was nothing like a tour group. He said he was happy that I was having a good time and am more out-going now than I use to be.
The call was short but after I hung up I just stood there for a while watching Shanan talk and have fun with some of our "new" friends (I put new in quotes because we already knew them all pretty much, just never met in person). Jordan was right, I never had any real desire to have friends; I had my two brothers and that's all I really needed. When we all got older and went our separate ways I never really connected with anyone else.
Then I met Shanan.
Then I found the DIS.
Now don't get me wrong, I've had acquaintances and people to do stuff with, but I wouldn't have called any of them "friends" as I never really let them in and show the real me. This whole trip I had no problems on opening up and just being myself, which was so unlike me up until this point.
I know it sounds really corny, but the vast majority of DISers are people I can connect with, and not really because they share the same love of Disney. They share a very similar mentality to mine, and it's hard to explain. I'm guessing if you are reading this TR you have some idea of what I'm talking about.
Just to complete my "Jason... this is your life" moment my mom comes by pushing our son Aaron in the stroller. We just wave (Shanan doesn't see them go by), as she's having fun being Nana, and right now Shanan and I are having fun being with our friends.
I went back to the group and mingled for a bit before we headed further around world showcase, where the night became even more surreal... but more about that later (or sooner, as Shanan has already gotten to some of what I'm talking about).

Ok, I really didn't mean for that to be this long, sorry I bored everyone!

You didn't bore anyone! That is some fun stuff! I remember being quite embarrassed when you told me Aaron walked by! I don't want him to see me like that!

Not boring at all, Jason - I love hearing about that night from other people's perspectives - I know what I was feeling, but I love that you hung back and watched Shanan with her friends - just taking it in... very cool night, all around! :hug:
:thumbsup2

I thought it was Mistress of the Lightsaber.....
Am I still your Mistress?
What a hilarious time you all have had together! and Jason - I can totally relate to you as I am pretty shy when it comes to group settings and making friends (my only friend for the past couple years who I took to WDW in Feb 2008 has not been speaking with me for over a year now and it took alot on her part to get me to put myself out there to accept having a friend. My whole world is my 5 kids and grandson but after reading what a great time you all have on your trips with fellow Disers, you have convinced me it's time to break out of my shell and try to meet up with Disers on future trips. So thank you and Shanan for giving me the courage! :hug:)

Shanan - Love Jamie's steek (is that what you all called it?) - what a great way to get pics of a group without having to hold the camera with your hand! Is that something she invented or can you actually purchase it?

That is awesome that I have given you the courage! And if we ever cross paths you better believe that I am going to give you a huge :hug: You can purchase the steeek! It is called an X-Shot! A lot of people on PCC 1.0 have bought one since Jaime made it famous!

Awwwwww! That is so sweet! :lovestruc

And thank you for sharing your "this is your life" moment. I totally understand...I am so glad you found some real friends that you can be completely yourself with-and they love you for it!!! :thumbsup2




Shanan - Loving the updates - I can't believe you ate the pretzel off the ground! :rotfl:
I am glad he found some friends too! Yeah I am crazy like that! It won't kill me...it will just make me stronger! Love the new pictures in your signature!

I apologize! This has been a crazy busy week for me! My sister had two volleyball games this week (tonight and Tuesday night) and I started taking Aaron to Story Tots (storytime at the library on Wednesday nights for 2-3 year olds). And I am sure some of you are aware we became DVC owners on Saturday! I hope to get a chapter or two up tomorrow! Thanks for sticking around! We still have 6 days of this vacation left to go! :scared1:

[A.Mickey]

I don't know how or why it came up...I think maybe because Todd had never rode Soarin' before. But there is still time I believe it is somewhere around 11pm and Epcot has the EMH hours so it will be open til midnight tonight. Jason and I had 3 Soarin Fast Passes in our pocket so we gave one to Rob and some of others had Soarin fast passes too. Great minds think alike! We all head over to the Land!

Why Jason let me be in charge of taking pictures, I do not know!
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We are almost to the land pavilion and I have no idea why or how or what is going on and then I realize! Todd is proposing to Jaime! :scared1:
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Inside The Land I take a picture of the happy couple! And I get to be maid of honor! :hug:
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A reenactment of December 2008 when Todd was a flattie. Did Rob have Todd's flattie last year? I am guessing so!
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The group getting ready to board!
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Hey Chris is here?!? I don't even know when we met up with him...but this was the other crazy guy in our group from the Wonderquest game on the ship!
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Anna and I!
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Jason wants to compete with the Tiara so he breaks out his hat from lunch.
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Sorry that these next pics are so blurry.....hmm I wonder why....
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Jason doing a reanactment of the pic of me kissing Jaime with the Tiara on! I swear it has some magical powers!
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Ummmmm......
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We asked for front row! Meaning no feet dangling in the picture! I never rode front row before I was beyond excited! You know what else is so cool about these people? They know where all the Hidden Mickey's are! Sitting in the front row, breathing in the pine, citrus, sea, discovering new Hidden Mickeys and being with 7 friends you didn't even know you had until this very moment! :grouphug: We don't want to leave!

We all ride on Spaceship Earth
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and part ways....Jaime is going home tomorrow. Todd, Anna, Kim and Rob? Are going to be at HS at rope drop tomorrow morning, Jason, Aaron, Nana and I plan on doing HS tomorrow too! So we will see them there.

We all exchange hugs! Anna gives a FANTASTIC hug! I want another one soon!

We part from them and Jaime is left with Jason and I as we head towards our bus. I really don't remember much here other than feeling completely changed and realizing that I have found some great friends! I remember telling Jaime that I love her and giving her some more hugs! If it wasn't for Jaime that 1st day on Fun on a Bus to port and saving a seat for Jason and I and talking to us like we have known each other for years...and sitting again with us all the times we were together...I don't know if I would have been able to relax and have fun and meet so many great people...and JUST PLAIN BE MYSELF! I owe it all to you Jaime! Thanks so much for helping me realize that I don't have to feel insecure and to just be myself, PEOPLE WILL LIKE ME! :hug:


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[A.Mickey]

Pre-Trip Plans:
Today is Hollywood Studios w/ Aaron (our son) and Nana (Jason's Mom)

The hours are 8 am (EMH)- 7pm

Must Do's since Aaron will be with us:
TSMM
Playhouse Disney (we took Aaron to this when he was 18 months, but it was before he really watched all the shows. Now every morning he watches Playhouse Disney...so I think he will really LOVE this show)
Meet the characters from Pixar's Cars
Honey I Shrunk the Audience play area (we played here last time and Aaron enjoyed it)

We have an 11:30 am reservation for Sci-Fi Drive In. We ate here on our last trip with Aaron and really enjoyed it, unfortunately it was on Nana's last day on our last trip so she didn't get to go.....we are going back there for her to try it, and Jason really had a good time with Aaron here.

Maybe we will see the Lights Motor Action (have yet to see this)
and Block Party Bash (saw this last time wasn't impressed)
Don't know if there will be a cool Wall-E character interaction yet...there really wasn't last time...there was a cool place for a meet and greet with Wall-E but I never did see him

Then this evening we have an ADR at 6:20 pm for Chef Mickey's. We really enjoyed the characters the last time, although Aaron was pretty frightened by Minnie Mouse

I know I really haven't done this yet, as much as I would have liked to....but I actually came up with the design on Aaron's shirt today! I was inspired by a Irish themed shirt that said That's It I am going to Nana's with shamrocks on it.
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Well, as you can imagine Jason I were late for rope drop at DHS, just by a little bit. We didn't end up seeing anyone from last night early on in the day...that might change later.
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We head over to TSMM to get our first round of fast passes! Guess who is over at the fast pass machines also getting her fast pass? It is Nana! Yay! She made it to the park pretty early today! The Stand-by line for TSMM is pretty long so we debate on what to do. None of the shows really don't start until later so we decide to head over and do The Great Movie Ride, since the last time we were here the ride vehicles actually stopped in the temple room and we had to get out of the ride vehicles and walk through the ride to exit. One of these days I need to get all my videos on to YouTube as I was taping the entire ride when that happened, so I continued to tape it as we were walking through the sets backwards...kinda interesting.

Ok so anyway! I was worried about the Alien scene...but luckily right when we got into that section we distracted Aaron with the holy grail....AKA the iPod Touch. Aaron seemed to really enjoy the whole shoot out scene...I was also a little worried with that one. I don't know if he really understood what was going on.

It was close to 9:30 so we head over to Playhouse Disney Live! and catch the 9:30 show! Aaron LOVED this!! He loved the bubbles and the leaves and all of his favorite characters, and of course the music! (that reminds me in less than a month we are taking Aaron to his 1st concert, The Imagination Movers!)

Aaron intently watching...(he looks so weird with a binkie)
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Liking the streamers!
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The Stage!
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The show is over and it is time to use our TSMM fast passes! This ride never gets old! (we just bought this game for the Wii and it sure brings us back...we just need to get misters and air compressors) On the way out we grab more fastpasses!
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It is getting close to our 11:20 ADR at Sci-Fi, but I think we can squeeze one more thing in so we catch Muppetvision!! Aaron really enjoys this movie, he even laughed at some of the movie! I am sure glad he does, because Mama and Dada really enjoy this movie too!

Time for lunch!
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Bad DISer no food porn.....what was I thinking! Well, I probably was thinking (it is just a hamburger and a shake!):eek:

After lunch we head over to catch the new show The American Idol Experience. I am really interested into seeing how this show is and Aaron is a big fan of American Idol, so this should be fun! Throughout the day we were seeing people by Sci-Fi being interviewed in front of the American Idol back drop.

We make it into the 1:00 show. We get seats right up front! I turn to my right and who do I see? Emiel, Yvette, Tonya and Shelly! Hi Guys!! I really didn't get to talk to any of them on the cruise that much...we said Hi and Bye and we went on our separate ways.

The American Idol show is great! Aaron sang ALOT! Oh oh oh wo wo! I am surprised he didn't turn to me and ask for popcorn (we always have a bag of popcorn when we watch at home). Aaron was just enthralled with all the lights and the big screens and the music! It was awesome to watch him watch the show.....I really thought that Jason would not care for it at all (he doesn't like the real American Idol)....but I was shocked to find out after the show, that he would like to catch a finale show before we leave WDW! :eek:

We rode TSMM again and headed over to the Honey I shrunk the kids play area. We also walked around the back lot.
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Jason and I were going to ride Tower of Terror while Aaron played at the play area, but we decided against it and came back. It was a good thing we did because Aaron was hot and kinda cranky, Dada and Nana were too.

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So Nana and Dada took a bus over to the Poly to enjoy the beach and get a Dole Whip while I take Aaron to the Animation Academy! Yeah, I know what you are thinking! You are going to take a just over two year old into the quiet drawing class and expect him to be quiet?

Surprisingly he was AWESOME! Well, not really surprisingly....because he is a really good kid. He looked up at me a few times all happy and having fun and just to say Momma! And I had to tell him to shhhh....but he didn't understand, that I just wanted him to talk quieter. Poor little kid.
We learned how to draw Tinkerbell. Or, I shall say Aaron learned how to draw Tinkerbell. Aaron held the pencil for the whole class, I just guided his hand when the teacher told us to draw the certain lines. It turned out pretty neat I think!
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Time to go meet Nana and Dada at the Poly Beach....oh wait....a Photopass Photographer! We have really been not using our PP card as much as we should have this trip! It was raining off and on at this point, the torrential rain is about to start!
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Ta-Daa!
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Hard to make a 2 year old point on command....otherwise, they are always pointing!
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[brookelizabeth]

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This is quite possibly the sweetest thing I have ever seen. I have tears in my eyes! What a WONDERFUL memory! I love the idea too of taking him in there and holding his hand to help him draw....love it. :love:

[Tonya2426]

We make it into the 1:00 show. We get seats right up front! I turn to my right and who do I see? Emiel, Yvette, Tonya and Shelly! Hi Guys!! I really didn't get to talk to any of them on the cruise that much...we said Hi and Bye and we went on our separate ways.



I made the trip report again!!! I swas urprised to turn to my left and see you!!! :cool1:

It was a fun show which surprised me a little bit. I was expecting it to be really lame. We were sitting up really close and could see the wigs on the judges so next time I want to sit a little further back. :lmao:

[natale1980]

I don't know how I missed your last post....

waiting for more...
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-nat

[A.Mickey]

This is quite possibly the sweetest thing I have ever seen. I have tears in my eyes! What a WONDERFUL memory! I love the idea too of taking him in there and holding his hand to help him draw....love it. :love:

Awww! Thanks Brook! I really was scared about taking him in.....I really thought he would disrupt the class! So glad I did it though, he really didn't make much of a peep, and a great free souvenir!

I made the trip report again!!! I swas urprised to turn to my left and see you!!! :cool1:

It was a fun show which surprised me a little bit. I was expecting it to be really lame. We were sitting up really close and could see the wigs on the judges so next time I want to sit a little further back. :lmao:

I wish, you could make my TR everyday! How are you!?! How is your dad feeling?
Wow, I didn't even notice the wigs, but yeah, the show was a lot of fun!

I don't know how I missed your last post....

waiting for more...
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-nat
Hey Natalie! Sorry, I tend to try to post one chapter a week, but last week I know I didn't get around to it! Maybe there will be a twofer this week. It is hard to keep up with FB, my Designs, work full time (where I do not have access to the boards or FB) and taking care of Aaron! I am having a small surgery (gum graft) on Thursday so maybe I can get some extra time to put some more up Thursday night!

[A.Mickey]

Aaron and I head out to the buses. We are waiting in the Poly line and Aaron is getting a bit antsy. It is hot in the sun and the TTC bus is pulling up! So we hop over to that line and go to the TTC. I am not sure exactly where this bus will drop us off at the TTC but at least we will be on an air conditioned bus!

Aaron really hams it up for a "grandma" sitting across from us. We chat and soon we are at the TTC! I call Jason to find out where they are and they are sitting back by the beach overlooking Seven Seas Lagoon. It was a short walk over to the Poly! Glad I took the first bus!

We walk through the great ceremonial house and I see that one of the activities in the lobby is just getting over so I ask a cm if I could get a lay.

We meet Dada and Nana at the beach! Aaron was deathly afraid of sand the summer he was one, now we can't get him out of it! He immediately runs to the beach.
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And I strike up a conversation with someone that is leaving on the Wonder tomorrow! I don't even know how the conversation started, or who started it. All I remember was she was talking to me forever, while Aaron played at my feet with the sand! She of course was a newbie for cruising and asked me a million and one questions, halfway through, I was really wishing Jason would come over and SAVE ME! But he didn't! I guess, I looked like I was having too much fun talking to her and Dada and Nana were enjoying watching Aaron play in the sand. When she finally was done talking to me I took some pictures of Aaron!
(I can't wait until the day I no longer have a point and shoot camera!)

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We really love these next two pics: (see the castle?)
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Time to take the Monorail over to the Contemporary for our 6:20 ADR at Chef Mickey's!
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We head in and check in a wee bit early. There was a bit of a wait. I believe we got seated close to 7.
(I think there is something about Aaron that makes me forget to take food porn pictures :)...or maybe I don't take pictures of food that I have already taken a picture of? This is our 2nd time eating at Chef Mickey's.)

Pluto is the 1st one to our table:
Aaron is scared!
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Goofy is next:
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Goofy decides to imitate Aaron:
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(I love this picture and how Aaron's eyes just pop out from between his arms!)

Donald Duck:
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He musta heard it through the grapevine:
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(I think Donald does a much better impression of Aaron)

Ut Oh! It is the Dreaded Minnie Mouse!!!! When we first took Aaron here he cried (Check earlier in my PTR to see the picture)
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Nana is a good buffer, she is still blocking Minnie from me right?
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Finally time for the BIG CHEESE!
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(WOW! Aaron is not Shy!)

Mickey motioned about liking Aaron's shirt! And Aaron was enamored!
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(He couldn't take his eyes off of Mickey!)


Jason and I were going to go to MK and add Park hopping to our tickets tonight...but we felt that the 100 dollars xtra was not worth it. It started raining a little and we just really wanted to spend time with Aaron we missed him like crazy!
So we all head back to Pop!
Waiting in line for the bus, these ducks aren't afraid!
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Someone was pooped! I don't think he had a nap today!
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He was drooling!
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What are these things...I mean I think they are for luggage, but por que?
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We got surprises when we got back to our rooms!
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[heaven2dc]

Aaron is so adorable on the beach! The pics of him with the castle in the background are definitely postcard material :love:

I think it was so great that you met Jamie on this trip - I've never been blessed with the opportunity (yet) but she truly is a sweetheart and it was very special of her to take you and Jason under her wings, so to speak, to make you feel comfortable on the cruise. She definitely is a celebrity! But now you and Jason are celebrities in your own right so I would love to meet you too sometime in the future - I'm sure you would make me feel comfortable (as I'm pretty shy and tend to stay in the back when there's a crowd.)

[natale1980]

Hey Natalie! Sorry, I tend to try to post one chapter a week, but last week I know I didn't get around to it! Maybe there will be a twofer this week. It is hard to keep up with FB, my Designs, work full time (where I do not have access to the boards or FB) and taking care of Aaron! I am having a small surgery (gum graft) on Thursday so maybe I can get some extra time to put some more up Thursday night![/QUOTE]

Uggg! Sounds like your life is crazier then mine!!! Good luck with surgery... sounds like fun! :flower3:

-nat

[brookelizabeth]

I loooove those sleeping pictures. His cheeks all squishy on Daddy's shoulder, and the legs curled up so the butt sticks out - and the drooling down his back!!! So adorable! :lovestruc Even the drool, because it's a sweet little baby's and funny!!!

The beach pictures are great too! Glad to see Aaron was lovin' Mickey! He seems pretty curious about Donald there too. :goodvibes

[A.Mickey]

Aaron is so adorable on the beach! The pics of him with the castle in the background are definitely postcard material :love:

I think it was so great that you met Jamie on this trip - I've never been blessed with the opportunity (yet) but she truly is a sweetheart and it was very special of her to take you and Jason under her wings, so to speak, to make you feel comfortable on the cruise. She definitely is a celebrity! But now you and Jason are celebrities in your own right so I would love to meet you too sometime in the future - I'm sure you would make me feel comfortable (as I'm pretty shy and tend to stay in the back when there's a crowd.)

Awww! Thanks! I really like Aaron's beach pictures too! The sad thing is...this pictures were taken with a good ole point and shoot 4.0 MP camera! I can't imagine what they would look like when I get that camera of my dreams!

It is funny, cause Jaime and I actually met before...we both live very close to Chicago and we met at a DIS meet at the Doorway to Dreams store at the Woodfield Mall back in May of 2008! A whole year before we actually met! Yes, she definitely welcomed us right in! It was great!!! She said she knew we were cool because at the Meet in May of 2008 we were wearing shirts from Epcot's 25th Anniversary! Wow! Jason and I are celebrities:eek:! I kinda like it! I think Brandie called us or at least me a Rock Star, I kinda liked it :).

Ooohh! I would love to meet you too! And I would definitely make you very comfortable! I am pretty shy at first, but I still always give hugs! And I would bring you out to the front for that HUG! Everybody needs a hug, right Tonya?!?


Uggg! Sounds like your life is crazier then mine!!! Good luck with surgery... sounds like fun! :flower3:
-nat

It is pretty crazy..oh and we are going to Arizona on Friday for Jason's brothers wedding, but I doubt crazier than yours! My mouth is healing quite well! I am sorry you didn't get that job, but glad you got the job at the Disney Store YAY!!


I loooove those sleeping pictures. His cheeks all squishy on Daddy's shoulder, and the legs curled up so the butt sticks out - and the drooling down his back!!! So adorable! :lovestruc Even the drool, because it's a sweet little baby's and funny!!!

The beach pictures are great too! Glad to see Aaron was lovin' Mickey! He seems pretty curious about Donald there too. :goodvibes

Hi Brook! Yes, I love the sleeping pictures too! I couldn't stop taking pictures of him all tuckered out! I am glad he was loving Mickey too, as he is named after the mouse! Aaron Mickey :). Wow! I didn't even notice that about Donald Duck! I went back and looked at the pictures and you were right!

We went to Aaron's 1st concert yesterday and saw the Imagination Movers! It was such a great show! Aaron had a ball and as soon as it was over he looked up at me and said, "Fun Fun!" Then he turned to the stage and waved and said, "Bye, Movers!"

[A.Mickey]

Pre-Trip Plans: Today we will be going to Magic Kingdom with Aaron and Nana! What will we be doing here? AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!! I am a little saddened that TTA will be down as we got some really cute pictures of Aaron on the TTA in September and would have liked to get more to compare how much he has grown. We will be getting his picture next to Pooh's house.

We will be eating lunch at the Colombia Harbor house so Jason can get his Disney Chicken Nuggets!!

We will take the boat over to Fort Wilderness around 5pm so we will be there for our dinner reservations at Trails End Buffet. We ate here on our last trip and LOVED IT!!! It is soooo good and such a good value!

After dinner we will go to Chip and Dales Sing-a-long like we did last time! It was a good time and hope Nana likes it!

Jason and I wake up and head over to the MK! We get there right as the train is pulling away and the gates are open for the beginning of the day!
Wow! We look tired! (And this is the only Photopass picture we took today! We really didn't utilize Photopass as much as we should have this trip)
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We like to head to the back of the park. Since, many head to Fantasyland and since Aaron and Nana aren't with us yet, we head to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad to maybe get a Fastpass. But of course there is literally no wait, so we get on the coaster and when the ride is done, there is still hardly anyone waiting to board, so they ask us if we just want to stay on and go again, of course! I think we may have went around for a 3rd time, but I don't remember now. We hop off of Big Thunder and head over to Splash to get a Fastpass for later, but the Fastpass return time is 10:00 AM, and it is 9:20 or so by now. So we decide to just ride it now! We never get that wet anyway.
Next we head over to the Haunted Mansion since Nana and Aaron haven't called us yet. On the way over to the HM we see Donald dressed as Davy Crockett. I tell Jason to get his picture taken with him! He declines. He later tells me that he can pose so that I can just photoshop Donald Duck into the pictures! Oh yeah, that sounds like fun! We run with it!
Here is our 1st pose on the way to HM
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http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/donaldandjason2.jpg

Then before we ride Haunted Mansion.
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Nana calls us as we are about to board our Doombuggy and they meet us by where else? it's a small world! We board a boat for our adventure with the dolls of the world! Once....twice....three times! Ok running total is now up to 10! We head over and ride Pooh! On our way we snap this pic!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3700.jpg
(I don't know why more people take the picture from this side of the sword...it makes for such a pretty picture. I mean the carousel is pretty too, but um....how can you compete with the castle :).

And it is time for some lunch! Well, we already ate at CHH on Thursday so we opt for Pinocchio's Village Haus. I can't remember if I like the pizza or not, but I think this would be a fun place to Aaron to eat considering how much he likes it's a small world! We are waiting outside of the restaurant a little before 11am and a castmember informs us that they aren't ready yet. We finally realize it is open and the castmember standing outside the door and who is still standing at the door never informed us! Luckily, there was still a booth next to the window over looking it's a small world!
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(wow, Jason looks extremely tired! Don't you always have to take a vacation from your vacation!)
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I ACTUALLY REMEMBERED TO TAKE A FOOD PIC! I really do think it has to do with the fact that I already have pictures of the other food that I forgot to take pictures of...not a matter or forgetting just a matter of duplicating, if that makes any sense. Who really needs two pictures of chicken strips? Oh yeah! That's right, maybe you do need two pictures of chicken strips! One picture would be of actual chicken strips, and the next picture would be of chicken nuggets! LOL!
Without further ado the food porn!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3701.jpg
(Are those Disney Chicken Nuggets I spy in the top right corner, but of course!)

Aaron and I actually really LOVED the pizza, and we are from Chicago!! GASP!! I can't wait to have some more! Does this make me crazy?

Donald wants some yogurt!
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[Tonya2426]

Ooohh! I would love to meet you too! And I would definitely make you very comfortable! I am pretty shy at first, but I still always give hugs! And I would bring you out to the front for that HUG! Everybody needs a hug, right Tonya?!?


Indeed!!! Just ask Tracy Whipple ;)

[brookelizabeth]

http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3697.jpg
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/donaldandjason2.jpg

Then before we ride Haunted Mansion.
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http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/JasonandDonaldcopy.jpg


:lmao: Great idea!!


Ok running total is now up to 10!


You are a saint!!!!


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My first thought when I saw this was, "Did they move the Sword in the Stone?" :rotfl: Then I realized, duhhhh....GOOD IDEA! It just never even occurred to me. It looks WAY cool, like he is the prince of the castle!



http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3706copy.jpg

This one might be my favorite! :lmao:

[A.Mickey]

Indeed!!! Just ask Tracy Whipple ;)

Hi Tonya!

:lmao: Great idea!!

LOL! And it all came from the fact that Jason didn't want to get his picture taken with frontier Donald! :lmao:

You are a saint!!!!

I kinda like iasw too! My Grandma and Grandpa had to put up with me going on it 20 times in a row when I was two too! :rotfl:

My first thought when I saw this was, "Did they move the Sword in the Stone?" :rotfl: Then I realized, duhhhh....GOOD IDEA! It just never even occurred to me. It looks WAY cool, like he is the prince of the castle!

I know I love it from this side!!


This one might be my favorite! :lmao:

Just wait, there are more to come!popcorn::

[A.Mickey]

So, of course we stopped at iasw for three more times through! Dada and Nana stopped off to ride Haunted Mansion while Aaron and I moseyed on into Frontierland. We were heading to Tom Sawyer's Island!

Jason and I think Aaron will love the island as Aaron really is into playing fort/tent and being in caves. We take the raft over to the island and Aaron is kinda unsure of the raft. Once we get on the island we head right to a cave and when we were half way thru a realize that Aaron isn't really liking this a whole lot! Oh well we made it out, and then we go see the fort! He really enjoyed this area and had a blast running around! Unfortunately, both cameras were with Dada so I had to wait until Dada and Nana met us on the island. By the time they caught up with us we had been around the entire island and found our way to the top where the playground is or in Aaron's eyes Heaven :cloud9:! I am uploading a video to Youtube of this as we speak. Here it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CzMw_H2dV0

Pretty waterfall.
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3707.jpg

I like this picture!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3708.jpg

Still have yet to go on the Riverboat! I swear the next time I go, I am going on this!
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Aaron loved the barrel bridge he was squealing with delight, and he actually did fairly well on it keeping his balance!
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Walking down the steps.
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I really like this picture of the castle, if only I had a better camera so the castle wasn't so washed out!
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Riding the raft back to the mainland.
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We head over and ride Pirates of the Caribbean. Aaron actually seems to like this ride and is not afraid of it. At least that is what he portrays. I remember this ride from when I was small and I did not like it one bit. The whole skeleton steering the boat with the wind and the two ships battling made me rather frightened!

Time for a snack!
Dada and Nana of course get Dole Whip floats, but I have to get my Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich! I really hope that Nestle will still be giving us their cookies, even though the coffee contract is coming to a close :scared:

Dada didn't worn me a have chocolate on my chin! :sad2:
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Enjoying our tasty snack!
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It is pretty warm out and Aaron is pretty worn out so we decide to go see Country Bears! :dance3::yay::dance3: Now I know a lot of people don't care for this but I love old Disney! And who can't love this lil bear!
http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd326/AMickey21/Trip/100_3719.jpg
(she makes me smile every time!)

Aaron is pretty wiped out so we head to our favorite place in MK to nap, the Exposition Town hall.
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We sit and watch old cartoons for a while, but Aaron can't get comfy so I decide to lay on a park bench with him and soon enough he falls asleep, and so do Mama's legs!
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Once Aaron wakes up it is almost time to take the boat over for our ADR at Trails End Buffet! :woohoo: This is one of my favorite restaurants in all of WDW!
Gotta take one more pic before heading out of the park.
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