Chicken boy went on the thrill rides and begged to go again!!! **Updated 1/14!!)

[Corrine 1973]

:welcome: Everyone to our TR.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writting it!

So let me just come out and say it. As much as I enjoyed coming home last night and sleeping in my bed again I would have given it up for just a couple of more days at Disney. It felt as if we were on the go constantly during our trip and it would have been nice to sleep in a day and head down to Epcot one more time. My DS told me that same thing yesterday on the bus back to Pop yesterday. He told me that he wished we could go back to Epcot to do Soarin' and Test Track again. This coming from the kid who didn't want to go on any thrill rides on our trip, but more of this further in this TR.:cheer2::cheer2::cheer2:

I must apologize that this is just a short beginning of our TR. I will return tomarrow to introduce you all to the cast of characters and tell you all about how this trip came into being.

Until than, let me leave you with this.

As some of you may know my flight was scheduled for departure at 8pm so I was hoping to get on a standby flight for earlier that day. Did we make it on that stand by flight?:confused3 I guess you will just have to tune in later to find out.:lmao::lmao:


[SIZE="3"]Table of Contents:

Introductions (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41370806&postcount=9)
Arriving Home away from home (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41389038&postcount=25)
Pool time and Dinner ADR (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41420006&postcount=35)
Great America mini TR (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41486108&postcount=48)
Great America #2 (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41486158&postcount=49)
Finally get to MK!!!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41488857&postcount=50)
More MK and Magic, Memories, and You show!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41489432&postcount=51)
Wishes: Pictures O' Plenty. (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41510532&postcount=62)
MSEP!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41528116&postcount=72)
More pics of MSEP!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41528139&postcount=73)
Our Day at MK comes to an end. (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41553475&postcount=83)
Celebrating Memorial Day at Epcot!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41576141&postcount=87)
Soarin' into Epcot (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41598495&postcount=99)
Epcot Cont. Where do we eat lunch? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41643813&postcount=106)
Epcot Cont. An Afternoon at the World. (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41723482&postcount=121)
More time in Epcot (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=41928762&postcount=139)
Come on. Call my name, I'm hungry!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42011936&postcount=148)
Illuminations! The perfect way to end our day at Epcot (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42153638&postcount=156']

[lovethattink]

Joining in!!

[Lidian]

I'm here!

[PixieMama]

I'm here!

[Kari-B]

Joining in. Can't wait to hear more!

[macraven]

#5 on the list......

[sahm2two]

I'm here! Can't wait to hear all about it! popcorn::

[Corrine 1973]

Joining in!!

I'm here!

I'm here!

Joining in. Can't wait to hear more!

#5 on the list......

I'm here! Can't wait to hear all about it! popcorn::

Thanks everyone for joining me here for our TR. It is nice to see so many good friends that I have made along the way on our PTR, and hopefully we will attract some new friends along the way.:thumbsup2

I took over 600 pics during our trip and video of the JTA and FNtM so I hope you enjoy them. Though in the excitement of everything going on I regret to inform that I didn't take pictures of some of the things I meant to. I unfortunatly didn't take many pictures of the resort and only a few of our food. I have tried to rectify this a little by barrowing some other pics from the web so you can get an idea. I will let you know when these turn up.

I am sorry that it has taken so long to update this TR. I have spent most of the morning downloading all the pics and than making the side ways ones vertical. Who knew that it would take so long.:confused3

So now that we got that out of the way lets get this party started.
party:party:party:

[Corrine 1973]

So now lets begin our TR by introducing ourselves.

First of all there is me. My name is Corrine, I am 37 years old and mom to 4 great kids (at least some of the time. To bad it isn't at the same time.:lmao:) I am a huge Disney lover and took our planning to the highest degree only to throw most of it out of the window when we got to the parks. Thats right, besides going to the parks on certain days and our ADR's we basically winged it and had a blast. My favorite park remains to be MK but with Epcot close behind. I love all of the characters but Mickey has a special place in my heart as well as Tinker Bell who is tatooed on to my right ankle.:goodvibes
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Next is my eldest DS, Liam. This trip was to celebrate his 9th birthday which was the Wednesday before our trip. He is definatly a typical 9 year old boy and loves video games, sports, and Disney (as long as it isn't princess's. His favorite characters are Phineas and Ferb and his favorite parks are DHS and Epcot. The great thing about this trip is that before we arrived Liam done right refused to go on many of the thrill rides. He was convinced to at least try most of them during our trip and ended up leaving them and wanting to do them again.:thumbsup2
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So I wanted to start by sharing with you a couple of pictures preDisney, but don't worry they definatly tie in. I just didn't have any time to add them to my PTR before we left.:lmao:

First of all here is my mother's Day present from the kids. Do they know me, or do they know me.:rotfl2:
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And look who decided to visit Northern Illinois.
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So the week before our trip I spent alot of time on line trying to tie up some loss ends. I was constantly checking the weather but go fustrated when it kept changing so I gave up and decided to deal with what ever mother nature dedided to deal us. At least we would be at Disney right.:thumbsup2 The night before our trip I checked AirTran and was very happy to see that there was still seats available on both stand by flights. That means we would be leaving the next morning at 7:30 am. I did as much packing as I could and tried to sleep.:cloud9:

We woke up about 6 am on May 29th excited to start our day knowing that we would be sleeping at Disney that night. Liam got dressed and did his breathing treatments for the morning while I got ready and finishe packing for our trip. Excitedly we all ready and on the road 5 min before we needed to be.:woohoo: Only have to turn around a few miles down the road to get the white Mickey baseball cap that I forgot. :confused: Oh well, at least we were still on time. Liam relized that he forgot his stuffed dog with the Jedi outfit half way there. Well, maybe next time.:confused3

We got to the airport an hour and a half before our flight. I went to the counter to check in only to find out that I went to the wrong counter.:headache: (I can read a sign, really I can.) I headed to the right counter to explain to him my problem and found out the only seats together were on the emergency exit row and Liam was to young to sit there. He garunteed we would have seats and sent us to the gate to figure it out.:woohoo: So we would definatly be on the 10:30 flight and didn't have to pay any extra.

Look who we saw on the way to the gate. Chicago's very own blues brothers.
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So while I was trying to figure out the seating issue at the gate Liam was making a new friend who had a DS. So at least they kept each other busy while waiting for the flight to load up.
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The best they could do is a seat in front of the other but hoped to fix it on the plan. As it turned out someone was in my seat when we boared. They had the seat next to Liam so we were set. I don't think any of them paid attention to where they were supposed to sit because the girl next to me was supposed to sit in that row to, but the three of them were there. Oh well, it all worked out and we were on our way to Walt Disney World.:goodvibes

[lovethattink]

That's great he met a friend, and that the seating worked out! Was his new friend heading to WDW too?

[PixieMama]

Glad you were able to make the earlier flight! :thumbsup2

[TinksThree]

Hey I am here!! I can't wait to read up on your trip. We just got home so I will catch up tomorrow!! :goodvibes

[Corrine 1973]

That's great he met a friend, and that the seating worked out! Was his new friend heading to WDW too?

It actually turned out to be a starting trend during our trip. Every time we were in a line long enough he made a friend. And yes his new friend was going to WDW too, but sadly we didn't see him. But it was kind of busy so it was hard to pick anyone out.:thumbsup2

Glad you were able to make the earlier flight! :thumbsup2

Thanks PixieMama, we were definatly glad we got on the flight. There was so much we wanted to do that day.:goodvibes

Hey I am here!! I can't wait to read up on your trip. We just got home so I will catch up tomorrow!! :goodvibes

Welcome home and to our TR TinksThree. I hope you all had a good trip and can't wait to read all about it.:woohoo:

[gray2402]

Yeah! I am here :) So glad you got an earlier flight! Can't wait to read along!!!

[Singledad]

exhausted but here. will have to start my TR really really soon. also, you are welcome to use some of my photos once i get them uploaded. esp the one of the two in line at jungle cruise! :thumbsup2

[Lidian]

What a great start Corrine! I see the pixie dust hit you early! I just hope it kept hitting you all week long! :goodvibes

P.S. I expect to see every one of those 600 pics you took! :p

[MARsMama]

I'm here, anxious to hear more about your trip!!
Glad you got on the earlier flight and that you got seats together:thumbsup2

[silverhaze269]

Glad to hear you got home safe and sound. It was nice to have met you and Liam! :goodvibes I guess I'm a little slow to get my TR started, but I need to get all the photos sorted out first...at least that's what I'm telling myself :laughing:

I'm liking your TR so far :thumbsup2

[lbuzz52]

Joining in! You are completely right about the pictures. They take FOREVER!
I'm glad to hear Liam is becoming a daredevil!

[sahm2two]

I'm here :goodvibes looking forward to hearing all about your trip!!!popcorn::

[Corrine 1973]

Yeah! I am here :) So glad you got an earlier flight! Can't wait to read along!!!

I am glad you can join us. Your trip is just around the corner.:cheer2:

exhausted but here. will have to start my TR really really soon. also, you are welcome to use some of my photos once i get them uploaded. esp the one of the two in line at jungle cruise! :thumbsup2

I am glad you are here Singledad. I can't wait to see your pics, I have a couple of good ones from that day as well.:thumbsup2

What a great start Corrine! I see the pixie dust hit you early! I just hope it kept hitting you all week long! :goodvibes

P.S. I expect to see every one of those 600 pics you took! :p

Thanks Lidian. We definatly got lucky with that flight and they were so nice when they helped us. And yes there is more pixie dust in the week to come but you will just have to tune in to hear about it.:lmao:

And don't worry I will include lots of pictures.

I'm here, anxious to hear more about your trip!!
Glad you got on the earlier flight and that you got seats together:thumbsup2

I will do the next installment in just a little bit. You must forgive me for going a little slow. The longer it takes to finish this the more I can keep it fresh in my mind.

Glad to hear you got home safe and sound. It was nice to have met you and Liam! :goodvibes I guess I'm a little slow to get my TR started, but I need to get all the photos sorted out first...at least that's what I'm telling myself :laughing:

I'm liking your TR so far :thumbsup2

It was good meeting you as well. I have a funny story about our trip just after we left you, but it will have to wait until I get to that point.:lmao:

Joining in! You are completely right about the pictures. They take FOREVER!
I'm glad to hear Liam is becoming a daredevil!

He still didn't care for a few of them and still refused to do ToT and RnRC but at least he tried the others.

I'm here :goodvibes looking forward to hearing all about your trip!!!popcorn::

Glad to see you here sahm2two, I will get started again in just a minute. I hope you guys had a good trip. Can't wait to start reading your TR.:hippie:

[tyandskyesmom]

Was that Midway you flew our of or did you go through Ohare? The Blues Brothers looks familiar and we are about 5 minutes from Midway...so just wondering if they have them at both airports...

Sounds like fund so far...i'll be reading along waiting out my 67 more days!!!

[Corrine 1973]

Was that Midway you flew our of or did you go through Ohare? The Blues Brothers looks familiar and we are about 5 minutes from Midway...so just wondering if they have them at both airports...

Sounds like fund so far...i'll be reading along waiting out my 67 more days!!!

Thanks for joining us tyandskyesmom. You have a very perceptive eye, we did fly out of Midway on Airtran Airlines. :woohoo: for 67 more days!!!

[Becc1]

I'm here Corrine, great start to your report!

[Corrine 1973]

So where did we leave off?

Oh that's right. We were about to get on the airline and head to the most magical place on earth. (They do say that memory is the first thing to go right?:lmao:)

I forgot to mention in the last update how thick the fog was when we woke up and that a thunderstorm front was moving in. I was a bit afraid that the flight would be delayed and continued to send up little prayers that our flight would be on time. (And I wasn't even sure I was on it yet.:confused3)

Luckily our flight was unaffected by the weather and we took off on time and had a pretty uneventful flight. Here is a picture that Liam took from his seat in the plane. As you can see we are toward the back of the plane, you can see the wing.
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2 1/2 hours later we were landing in Orlando Florida. It was 90 degrees outside and intermintant rain showers through out the day. (Funny cause we didn't see any rain all day:rotfl2:0
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We found the tram to the main airport with little problem, but finding the DME was a diffrent story. I got a little turned around but after looking at the map 3 or 4 times we were finally able to find it and got in line to wait for our bus. There were a couple of families in front of us, but we were really close to the front of the line. Once again Liam found a friend in line and they started talking about there trips. A CM came over to us and gave each of the kids a sticker. Liam chose a pirate Mickey that he put on his suitcase. Our bus arrived about 15 minutes later.
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Here is a great pic of one of the buses, unfortunatly it wasn't ours. We ended up on a Mears bus. Really hoped for a ME for our first stay on property but . . .oh well.:confused3

We were very excited during our trip to the resort. We chated with the people around us. It turned out that there were two families that had little girls who were going to WDW for the first time. So of course when I saw this I was quick to point it out the the girls and there parents.
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There was only 2 stops on our bus so we waited as patiently as we could as it stopped at CBR and let out the families there. It looked very beautiful and I hope to be able to stay there someday. Than we were on our way to our home away from home. Pop Century.

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We checked in (the wait seemed to be the same for both lines) and seemed to wait forever for them to find the box I sent to Pop with our snacks. Luckily there was a hola hoop contest going on and Liam was enjoying that. We finally got our package and we were headed to our room. We were room 4117 just to the right of the main pool on the first floor. It was nice not having to worry about an elevator the whole trip.

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This Giant Green YoYo was just down the hall from our room.:thumbsup2

Up next: Some pool time and where will we eat our dinner?

[sahm2two]

great update! :) perfect amount of pictures... lots! :goodvibes


also, I just noticed, your title says this is a PTR... you might wanna fix that ;)

[PixieMama]

Huh, I didn't know there were different buses for ME. I'm using that for the 1st time in September...

[MARsMama]

Loving your PTR!!:thumbsup2
I didn't know about there being different buses for ME either!
Awesome photo of the Disney sign, it gives me goosebumps just thinking of driving under it!! :laughing:
Can't wait to hear more:)

[Kari-B]

Nice update! Can't wait for more...

[TinksThree]

I am finally getting my feet ont he ground and catching up on everything! Looks like you got a great start! Hooray for the 10:30am flight!!

Our trip passed in a blur! It was over way too quick!! And I envy your ground floor room!! My DH says check-in people look at me and say..."3rd floor looks good for her"!! :rotfl:

I can't wait to hear more. Oh, and I am getting close to starting my TR so keep an eye out!! :goodvibes

[lbuzz52]

that is one of the best sign pictures i've seen. great job!
when we rode ME we dropped off Pop first and then moved on to CBR> i wonder if they drop off the smaller party first or something?

[Corrine 1973]

I'm here Corrine, great start to your report!

Glad to see you here Becc1. I almost missed you because you must have posted when I was writing the last update. I was making lunch when I did it and one of the kids erased half of it so I had to start almost from scratch. :headache:

great update! :) perfect amount of pictures... lots! :goodvibes


also, I just noticed, your title says this is a PTR... you might wanna fix that ;)

I love pictures. As they say a picture says a thosand words right. I know they definatly bring the memories back.

Thanks for bring my attention to my mistake, I went ahead and fixed it. Must have been hoping that the trip was still coming up and not in the past.:lmao:

Huh, I didn't know there were different buses for ME. I'm using that for the 1st time in September...

I didn't know about it either untill I read about it in another TR. I was really hoping for an ME because it was our first trip on site but oh well. The bus just doesn't have mickey on the side and I guess it doesn't play the same video.:confused3

Loving your PTR!!:thumbsup2
I didn't know about there being different buses for ME either!
Awesome photo of the Disney sign, it gives me goosebumps just thinking of driving under it!! :laughing:
Can't wait to hear more:)

I just love the Disney sign, it makes me feel as if I am truely at Walt Disney World. :woohoo: We had the pleasure to see it 4 times during our wish trip. I wish there was an equally impressive goodby on the other side.

Nice update! Can't wait for more...

Welcome Kari-B. I hope to do another update tomarrow. I am thinking that every other day should spread it out nicely.:rotfl2:

I am finally getting my feet ont he ground and catching up on everything! Looks like you got a great start! Hooray for the 10:30am flight!!

Our trip passed in a blur! It was over way too quick!! And I envy your ground floor room!! My DH says check-in people look at me and say..."3rd floor looks good for her"!! :rotfl:

I can't wait to hear more. Oh, and I am getting close to starting my TR so keep an eye out!! :goodvibes

I agree it was definatly over way to fast. It seems we took so long to plan and in a blink of the eye it was over. I definatly loved the first floor room, definatly will be requesting it in the future. And besides some flushing from other toilets we heard very little noise from rooms around or above us.

I will defintly be keeping an eye out for your TR.:goodvibes
that is one of the best sign pictures i've seen. great job!
when we rode ME we dropped off Pop first and then moved on to CBR> i wonder if they drop off the smaller party first or something?

Hmmm, I wonder. It did seem as most of the people were heading to Pop so maybe you are right. I do remember the bus driver (who was very nice and funny) asking for hands on who was going where.

Just a little side note. I took the kids to Six Flags Great America today to get our season passes. We didn't do the water park (which is our fav part because we were only going for a little bit) but I must admite that I was a bit disappointed. Maybe it was because I was just at WDW, but everything seemed to need a paint job. Plus they got rid of a kid area just to add a go cart ride that you have to pay extra for.:headache:

[zianha]

I'm joining in! I have to go back and get caught up now! :cool1:

[Corrine 1973]

I'm joining in! I have to go back and get caught up now! :cool1:

Glad to see you here zianha, not get started on your TR!!!:lmao:

[Corrine 1973]

So the plan was to head to the pool after we were done checking in at the resort and since our room was right by the flower pool we decided to head there. Though I noticed that we didn't have our fridge yet and called to fix it while Liam was getting changed into his suit. I had decided not to swim at this time because I didn't want to do my hair again.:goodvibes

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Sorry there is no pics of Liam playing in the pool. I had left the camera back in the room and was feeling to lazy to walk by and grab it. I was actually texting ziahna at this time trying to figure out if we could meet. Unfortunatly it didn't work out for today.

Funny story is that when Liam got out of the pool to ask me something I noticed that he was still wearing his underwear. Silly boy.:upsidedow

Here is another Pop picture, can never have enough pictures right?:love:
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After swimming for about an hour I told Liam it was time to head back to the room to get ready to go Dinner. Things were running pretty smoothly. Liam was getting dressed (with some dry underwear:thumbsup2) while I packed the small backpack for the parks. Packed up and ready we headed out. We were about half way to the main building when I relized that I had left the room key and my phone in the room.:scared1::scared1:

Very upset with myself for being so careless, we headed to the service desk and had a new card issued. Good thing I had my ID on me.:) After waiting about 10 minutes I had my new card in hand and was heading back to the room to get my phone.

I quickly grabbed the phone and headed out again, feeling that we were going to be late for our reservation. Heading out of the resort I looked for taxi's but didn't see any. I didn't look to hard because of the time and I was unsure if the took cards so I didn't want to find a taxi just to find out they didn't except my payment.:confused3

The bus to Animal Kingdom was there, so we quickly got on and hoped that it would be a short ride. The ride seemed to take forever, but maybe it was just because I was in a hurry. We got off the bus and headed to the bus to go to Animal Kingdom Lodge. So where were our Dinner ADR's?
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I had heard alot about Boma and was glad that our earlier flight had let us keep our ADR. When we got to AKL I became completly lost. About 5 minutes later I finally found Boma and went to the counter to check in. I was a little worried at this time because our ADR was for 4:55 and it was now closer to 5:20. I was sure that they were going to tell me I was out of luck and I would be heading to MK to have a QS there.

Here is where we were sprinkled with some more Pixie Dust. They told me the wait was 45 min- an hour, but since we had reservations we had priorty. I decided to try to wait because we were so hungry and I really wanted to try Boma. They gave us a buzzer and we sat down. Liam wanted to see the buzzer so I handed it to him and as soon as it touched his hand it went off. That's right, we didn't even have to wait 5 min. for our table to be ready.:yay::yay:

We were so hungry that I didn't even think about taking pictures, but I did find some that I barrowed to give you all the idea. :thumbsup2

Liam had some fruit, chicken, cous cous, and spegetti with meatballs. He commented that the fruit was delisious and must be fresh. He also loved the meatballs very much.

I started my meal with a nice bowl of Carrot Ginger soup.
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I didn't know what to expect at first, but it was so good that I will definatly have to get it again.
I also had the chicken, a spinch dish, cous cous, mashed patatoes, and something else I can't remeber. Here is an idea of our plate.
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After we had our fill of the buffer we headed over to check out dessert. Our course we both tried the Zebra Cakes and both loved them. We also sampled many other things and they were all great. YUMMMM!!!!!
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As were eating Liam made friends with a family that arrived while we were eating with a little girl. They lived in florida and were regulars at Boma, there little girl loved the Mac and Cheese there. Liam chatted with the Mom when the dad got some food. He was quick to recommend the fruit and the meatballs.:lmao: Our waitress gave Liam a cupcake for his birthday and he was so full that he only ate half. As we left, Liam gave the rest of the cupcake to the family to give to the little girl.:hug:

We left Boma very full and glad to be able to eat even though our reservation time had past. We than headed back to the busses and was on our way to the Magic Kingdom.
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[PixieMama]

Glad to hear you enjoyed Boma... it's one of my favorites!

[Singledad]

Funny story is that when Liam got out of the pool to ask me something I noticed that he was still wearing his underwear. Silly boy.:upsidedow

.... Heading out of the resort I looked for taxi's but didn't see any. I didn't look to hard because of the time and I was unsure if the took cards so I didn't want to find a taxi just to find out they didn't except my payment.:confused3


first off, LOL. I had a good 10 min convo with DD about why she couldn't wear her underwear with her swim suit! :lmao: She was still asking WHY when we got to the pool!

Secondly, head out the main entrance and tell bell/luggage services you would like a taxi. They will yell and wave to the parked taxi's and one will come over right away. I had cash to give the two taxi's I used, but I noticed both had something that looked to me like a CC swiper thinggy. :confused3 May not have been, but I think you would have been fine. Either way, you made it and ate well!

[lovethattink]

My ds always swims with his underware on. He says it keeps the mesh from rubbing his skin. So I have to pack so much underware!

Great pics of Pop!

That's great that they sat you right away!! The food looks great! We have eaten at The Mara, but never Boma. Some day we hope to.

[Corrine 1973]

Glad to hear you enjoyed Boma... it's one of my favorites!

LOOOOOVED BOMA!!!!!!!! It is definatly on the top of my list of places to eat at WDW. Even Liam loved it.

first off, LOL. I had a good 10 min convo with DD about why she couldn't wear her underwear with her swim suit! :lmao: She was still asking WHY when we got to the pool!

Secondly, head out the main entrance and tell bell/luggage services you would like a taxi. They will yell and wave to the parked taxi's and one will come over right away. I had cash to give the two taxi's I used, but I noticed both had something that looked to me like a CC swiper thinggy. :confused3 May not have been, but I think you would have been fine. Either way, you made it and ate well!

He never swims in his underwear and swim trunks, he was just so excited that he forgot to take them off.:confused3:lmao:

Thanks for the info, good to know for next time.:thumbsup2

My ds always swims with his underware on. He says it keeps the mesh from rubbing his skin. So I have to pack so much underware!

Great pics of Pop!

That's great that they sat you right away!! The food looks great! We have eaten at The Mara, but never Boma. Some day we hope to.

I was worried about the underwear situation but I packed some extra so we were fine, He truely just forgot to take it off because when I pointed it out he wanted to take them off right away.

I definatly recomend Boma. The food was so good. I will definatly be going back. I told my friend about it (the one that Mia and I are going with in 2013) and she asked if we would be going there. DEFINATLY!!!!



Has anyone else got a pin for free dinning for Aug-Sept? All I need to do now is win the Lotto so I can affrod to go again.:rotfl2:

[TinksThree]

I loved Boma!! I need to find my way back there! Last year we were late for every single ADR and never had issues getting into the restaurant but never was our wait only 5 minutes! What great pixie dust!!!

I think it is great how Liam makes friends so easily! My DD always has and at times it really adds to the experiences!

I always have a fear of leaving my key in the room! Or losing it somewhere! I think I check it constantly to be sure it is where it belongs!

[MARsMama]

We had b'fast at Boma on our last trip, and loved it so we're heading there again this coming trip :) That's great that everything worked out even with being late, and that you didn't have a long wait:thumbsup2
Can't wait to hear more, loving your PTR!

[Kari-B]

Food looks yummy!

[Corrine 1973]

I loved Boma!! I need to find my way back there! Last year we were late for every single ADR and never had issues getting into the restaurant but never was our wait only 5 minutes! What great pixie dust!!!

I think it is great how Liam makes friends so easily! My DD always has and at times it really adds to the experiences!

I always have a fear of leaving my key in the room! Or losing it somewhere! I think I check it constantly to be sure it is where it belongs!

I agree about Boma, we will definatly need to find our way back to Boma.:woohoo: The funny thing is we were early/on time for all our other ADR's and ended up waiting longer than we did for Boma. Someone must have known we were really hungry.:rotfl2:

I definatly have some great memories from our trip from the friends Liam made during our trip. And trust me there were alot. I even had to explain that not everyone wanted to talk to him when some people ignored him.:confused3

That wasn't the only time we had KTTW problems (you'll find out about the other soon) but WDW is really good about getting you another one, it just takes time our of your day.:thumbsup2

We had b'fast at Boma on our last trip, and loved it so we're heading there again this coming trip :) That's great that everything worked out even with being late, and that you didn't have a long wait:thumbsup2
Can't wait to hear more, loving your PTR!

Boma for breakfast. . have to put that one on my list. I am glad you like the TR, I should be adding and update tomarrow. Been kind of busy at home.:)

Food looks yummy!

The food was definatly as good as it looks. Super yummy!!! I found a recipe for the soup on line and think I might have to try it.:rolleyes1


So sorry that I haven't updated in a couple of days, things have been super busy. It was Aidan's birthday (my 3rd child) on Sunday and we had a lot of fun taking him to Great America the day before and after his birthday. I hope to include a small TR of our trip on Sat. tomarrow as well.

I unfortunatly got a bad sun burn yesterday (forgot sunblock:headache:) and am hurting today. (Yes I learned my leason Singledad). And today I spent the day at the hospital with my dad who had a minor procedure to help him with his dialosis. We didn't get out of there until almost 5pm.

[mtgirl29]

I just got home on Sunday 6/12 and was finally able to get the laundry caught up.....whhoohooo! :woohoo: Now I, hopefully, will be settling in and getting my DIS fix. So glad you already started on your TR. Cannot wait to read more.popcorn::

[lbuzz52]

We had the same issue with transportation on arrival day. Glad they could get you in quickly!
Can't wait to hear what you did that night at MK!

[Singledad]

The funny thing is we were early/on time for all our other ADR's and ended up waiting longer than we did for Boma. ....


I unfortunatly got a bad sun burn yesterday (forgot sunblock:headache:) and am hurting today. (Yes I learned my leason Singledad). And today I spent the day at the hospital with my dad who had a minor procedure to help him with his dialosis. We didn't get out of there until almost 5pm.

Well, we were early or just on time for all our ADR's and we never had much of a wait. I was pretty happy about it! In fact, I kicked myself later for seeing if we could get into Sci-fi an hour early, because I was thinking maybe 5:30 rather than 6pm... we didn't even sit down before they called us! :rolleyes1 This would not have been a problem if DD wasn't still soaking wet. :headache: Bad dad, bad! More on that in my TR when I finally update it.


:lmao: and yes, I am glad you put that in there... you know I am a nag! :thumbsup2

Hope the procedure went well! of course, a large part of me wants to ask for more details.. what was it, a fistula, peritoneal catheter... permacath? what? But that is just my nosy side. Please feel free to ignore it.

[Corrine 1973]

We had the same issue with transportation on arrival day. Glad they could get you in quickly!
Can't wait to hear what you did that night at MK!

Luckily everything workded out great, and if it didn't. . . Well we were at Disney. I am going to post a short TR of our GA adventure and than post about MK. Hope you enjoy.

Well, we were early or just on time for all our ADR's and we never had much of a wait. I was pretty happy about it! In fact, I kicked myself later for seeing if we could get into Sci-fi an hour early, because I was thinking maybe 5:30 rather than 6pm... we didn't even sit down before they called us! :rolleyes1 This would not have been a problem if DD wasn't still soaking wet. :headache: Bad dad, bad! More on that in my TR when I finally update it.


:lmao: and yes, I am glad you put that in there... you know I am a nag! :thumbsup2

Hope the procedure went well! of course, a large part of me wants to ask for more details.. what was it, a fistula, peritoneal catheter... permacath? what? But that is just my nosy side. Please feel free to ignore it.

We never had to wait long for our ADR's either. I think the longest we waited was 15 min, and I looked at my watch it was actually the time our ADR was for so no complaints. It is just that we were 30 min late for are Boma ADR and we got in in less than 5 min.:confused3

No big deal. He had a fistula in his left arm. He says he now has some sexy scars to show off the girls.:lmao:

[Corrine 1973]

So as I mentioned yesterday, we went to Six Flags Great America on Sat for Aidan's birthday and I wanted to share some pics here of the great time we had.:thumbsup2

The day didn't start off to well, for Mia in such a rush to grab a park map (I really don't need one because I worked there for 5 years) she tripped over the front wheel stroller and skined both of her knees. So our first stop was first aid so we could get here knees cleaned up and bandaged.:sick:

After that was done we headed to Guest Services to get Aidan a Button for his birthday. Yes they have a button for birthdays, but it just says I'm Celebrating at Six Flags with a picture of Bugs Bunny on it.:confused3 Since Liam's birthday button was still on the stroller he decided to put it on (funny he never wanted to wear it a Disney) and got several birthday wishes. (The Disney Magic continues.:lmao:)

We started walking around and saw our first character. At first nobody wanted to go see him, but I finally convinced Aidan to get a picture and than Liam wanted one. I still had no luck with Mia.
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Next we headed to Wiggles World. . .or at least it used to be called Wiggles World, but I guess they lost the Copyright privlages and it is now called Kidopolis. It is the same thing with a new paint job, new names on the rides, and all Wiggles stuff removed.
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[Corrine 1973]

There is also a new show there called Kidz Connection. We were one of the first people there but he was the last kid chosen for the show. It is kind of a quiz show for kids, but some of the questions seem a little hard. I didn't even know some of them. Such as what is a baby swan called?:confused3
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We finally decided to leave and go to the ball room at the Bugs Bunny National Park, only to find out that it no longer existed. It was replaced by go carts that you have to pay an extra to ride.:mad: I tried to see if the kids wanted to do the Little Dipper rollercoaster, but no one was intrested. So we kept waking and found one of Aidan's favorite characters. . .or at least a statue of him.:lmao:
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They also found some great hats they wanted to try.:thumbsup2
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This last pic Mia wanted me to take, and as you can see I caught Aidan being naughty in the back round.:lmao:
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[Corrine 1973]

So I am finally back to catch up all up on what happened on Day 1.

As you saw from from an earlier post we had decided to go to MK.
There were many reasons we decided to go to MK first.

1) It is the home to my favorite ride, THe Haunted Mansion. I am only 29 minutes away from a theme park that has many thrill rides (though you can't surpass the way that Disney combines stories with the rides. Even if you can't always see them.:goodvibes), but I just love the rides that Disney has termed the Dark Rides. HM is definatly my favorite.:thumbsup2

2) Today Mk had EMH so we figured we could get some rides in while the crowds were low. We knew we wouldn't be able to stay until the end 2 am, but figured we could make it until midnight (11 pm our time). Unfortunatly this thought got a little messed up when the hours changed from an 11pm closing to a midnight closing with EMH going to 3 am.:confused3

3) As most of you would probably agree with, where is the perfect place to start your Walt Disney World Vacation? Magic Kingdom!!!:cool1:

So with a full belly and a smile on our lips we headed to our bus to MK. We waited a little over 5 min before our bus arrived and we were headed to the most magical place at Walt Disney World. Or at least in my opinion.:thumbsup2

By the time we had rode underneath the arch anouncing that we were entering Magic Kingdom Park we were nearly jumping out of our skin with excitement. :jumping1: Even though we had been at WDW for a couple of hours already, it felt as if our vacation was truely starting.

We got off the bus and headed to the check bag area with no problems. It wasn't until I approached the gate to get in that I relized that I had made a mistake. Being new to KTTW cards it didn't accure to me until that moment that Liam needed his card to get in the park, I was just thinking it was a room key. Luckily the CM directed us to Guest Services so that we didn't have to go all the way back to Pop.:woohoo:

While we were at Guest services I went ahead and asked for a GAC for Liam. I was suprise that they only asked for his name and our party size. No question at all for what we needed it for. I love the fact that Disney is so trusting in this, I just hope that people are not taking advantage of this trust.

Within minutes we were going through the front gate and heading under the tunnels. Of course I got a lump in my throat and a little teary eyes when I saw this beautiful sight in the distance.

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We decided to go on the train first, it seemed like a nice way to ease into the excitement. Plus we had missed out on riding it the last time (it had already closed) and we didn't want to miss out. Plus it is one of our favs at GA. Nice and relaxing. I was nice to see some of the posters up for the Fantasy Land expansion.
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While we were on the train they announced that there was two showing of MSEP that night, I immidiatly decided to go to the second one hoping that it would be less crowded. After getting off the train we stopped back at GR to get a stamp on the GAC for using the stroller as a wheelchair. For those who did not read my PTR, Liam has Cystic Fibrosis that affects his lungs, degestive system, as well as other things. While he doesn't need a wheelchair in normal life, so much walking could tier him out enough to weaken his immume system and land him in the hospital with a lung infection. Our rule for this trip was not to end it with a hospital stay.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

After our trip around the park on the Train, we decided to head to Futureland and hit a few rides first. Before we headed off from the hub I took this picture.
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As we headed over the bridge to Future land I aske a CM just to make sure that there was in fact two showing of MSEP that night. I would have hated to miss the parade because of wrong information. He assured me there was two that night and we headed off toward Future World.

The first thing that we decided to do was Monsters Inc. Laung Floor. It was something we both missed last time and definatly on our list for thing to do this time.
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We both agreed that the show was great. We loved how they continued to pick on the same guy who was just a riot. And though they did not come to us during the show, they did go to a family who was sitting right behind us with a little girl dressed as a princess and a little boy dressed as a pirate. They were to cute.

Next we headed toward the Buzz Lightyear ride. Liam really enjoyed this ride the last time we were there, but I didn't get to ride so I was looking foward to it this time. I showed the CM the GAC card and they directed me toward the FP lane. During our 5 minute wait Liam made friends with a couple of kids infront of us. He even ended up trading a pin with him. This would be his second trade on the trip. He also traded with an older man on the bus while we were headed to MK.
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I had Little trouble trying to figure out how to adjust the car and aim at the same time. My score wasn't great, but I think I did pretty good for my first time. I think I was rank #3 (what ever that was) and I did do a little better than Liam. Though it wasn't a compitition.:rolleyes1

After we were done with Buzz we saw Carousel of Progress and figured we had time so we could try it out. I admited that this was never on my list of things to do. It seemed to me that it was little outdated and something that Liam wouldn't want to do. Boy was I wrong. He even asked to go back again when we went back, though we didn't have time.
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After our lovely ride on the carousel we decided to head to the hub to try to get good seats for Wishes. As we started crossing the bridge from Future Land to the hub we noticed that the MSEP was still going through and the hub was packed full of people. I decided to stake out a place on the bridge next to the castle feeling that would probably be the best we could do. Plus there would be nobody infront of us.

I took this picture of the Castle while we waited.
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A couple of minutes later they announced the Magic, Memories, and you show. I had completly forgot about this show. I have to tell you how amazing this show was. The lights on the castle was just amazing, and all the pictures and videos they showed just brought me to tears. I unfortunatly didn't take any pictures but did find this one one line and want to give you all a hint of how beautivul it was.
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Next up is pictures from Wishes, but I took a lot of pictures so you will have to wait to see them in my next update. I am just so bad aren't I?:lmao::lmao:

[Flowers4]

Subscribing :surfweb:

We are taking our very first trip (DS7 and DS9) in August and decided to check out some trip reports with kids the same age to maybe pick up some tips.

So far...I know not to keave the KTTW key in the room which is something that I would have totally done considering I would have thought that they are just hotel keys and my kids weren't responsible enough to carry a room key around WDW...:lmao:

Looking foward to more...:goodvibes

[Singledad]

No big deal. He had a fistula in his left arm. He says he now has some sexy scars to show off the girls.:lmao:

My sis wanted a fistula, but she had horrible veins and it didn't work. Ended up with a permacath.

I am sorry to hear wiggles world is no longer wiggles world, and what is worse is that the ball house is not there anymore! :sad2: Almost makes me think, why should I go back? But I know I want to, plus DD loves Wizzer.

Glad you managed to get his ticket/card taken care of and not end up back at pop. I guess I should have warned you about that on. :guilty: Sorry!

[Corrine 1973]

Subscribing :surfweb:

We are taking our very first trip (DS7 and DS9) in August and decided to check out some trip reports with kids the same age to maybe pick up some tips.

So far...I know not to keave the KTTW key in the room which is something that I would have totally done considering I would have thought that they are just hotel keys and my kids weren't responsible enough to carry a room key around WDW...:lmao:

Looking foward to more...:goodvibes

Glad to have you here, Flowers4. I admite I love the attention and love to hear that people are enjoying my TR at least a little bit. I'm glad that you got a little bit of information to help you for your trip, hope I am able to help you further with our TR.:goodvibes. I hope you guys have a great first trip in August. Make sure to get your 1st visit button for everyone to get a little extra pixie dust.:thumbsup2

I ended up keeping the KTTW cards in a clear pouch attached to the lanyard I had got at Give Kids The World (where wish kids stay) along with my Photopass and GAC. I don't think the pouch is readily found, but they did sell little pouches to go with the lanyards that could hold the cards. I found it easier than digging into my pocket or into our backpack.:thumbsup2

My sis wanted a fistula, but she had horrible veins and it didn't work. Ended up with a permacath.

I am sorry to hear wiggles world is no longer wiggles world, and what is worse is that the ball house is not there anymore! :sad2: Almost makes me think, why should I go back? But I know I want to, plus DD loves Wizzer.

Glad you managed to get his ticket/card taken care of and not end up back at pop. I guess I should have warned you about that on. :guilty: Sorry!

He currently has a port in his shoulder, but I guess it is really bugging him so they are trying something else. Unfortunatly it looks like he is going to end up having to have a transplant sooner than we expected. :confused3

I felt realy wierd to be there with it now being Wiggles World. It looks so bland there now, it would have been better if they had put some bugs bunny stuff in there, especially since the bugs bunny themed area was gone. My kids were so disappointed about the ball room, the could spend hours in there if I let them.:confused3 There are still good aspects about GA, but if it get much worse I think I will have to stop getting passes.

Yea you should have warned me about that!!!:headache::lmao: Funny thing is I figured it out before I even got to the gate. I stepped up to the CM and said, "I'm going to need my sons card to get him into the park aren't I?" He was really nice about it when I explained we just got to florida and I left in the room with out thinking. I don't think I am the first or last person who has done that. God thing is I made no other KTTW mistakes during the rest of our trip.:thumbsup2

[lbuzz52]

Your day at great America looks fun. That picture catching trouble in the background is too funny!

I stink at buzz! But them again, I didn't even realize you could control the car until the end:rotfl:

that's a really cool picture of the magic show!

[Corrine 1973]

Your day at great America looks fun. That picture catching trouble in the background is too funny!

I stink at buzz! But them again, I didn't even realize you could control the car until the end:rotfl:

that's a really cool picture of the magic show!

We did have a lot of fun at Great America. We have season passes so you might find quite a few mini TR's of days there. Hope it doesn't get to boring. I love taking pics of the kids. I might be a little bias, but I think that they are just the cutest kids in the world. Even when they are being naughty.:rotfl:

Liam was controling the car at first but kept moving it everytime I seem to find a good target. Oh well, just another excuse to go back right?

I would love to take credit of the picture of MM&Y, but alas I got it from the web. I was entranced in how beautiful it was that I never even though of bringing out the camera.:thumbsup2

[MARsMama]

Sounds like you had a great first day:cool1: Can't wait to hear more:)

[mtgirl29]

As always, I am loving your report.
So much wonderful info.! I know I should know this by now but what is a GAC? I get alittle confused with all the abbrevations.
Loved the Six Flags pics...is that what Great America is? Do you have a Six Flags up by you all? I know there is the one here in Missouri and one in Georgia. Maybe I am mistaken. Anyway, GREAT pics. The kids are adorable.
So glad you made it on your flight and 10 am is the perfect time. I hate to hear that you forgot your KTTW. I was always so paranoid I had lost mine because mine had the charging option on it as well. :scared1: Also enjoying all you pics.
I just started on my TR. Check it out if you get a minute (link in my siggie) You never know, you just might be in some of the pics. I will definitely be looking over yours to see if I see myself. :lmao: So sad that we wasn't able to meet up. I did spot you at Star Tours w/Liam in his stroller running up the fastpass line. I rushed over, but you were already gone. Uggggh! A Girl's Trip will definitely have to happen sometime in the future. We would all have sooo much fun.
Also wanted to comment on your MK post. I agree MK is definitely the best place to start the trip. Your castle pics were amazing!!!! I (not ms. techie) was having issues with turning off the flash on our camera, so didn't get many good night shots.
Cannot wait to read more!!!!!:cloud9:

[Singledad]

I'm not Corrine, but I can answer some of your questions so I hope Corrine doesn't mind that I do... :confused3

I know I should know this by now but what is a GAC? I get alittle confused with all the abbrevations.


GAC is Guest Assistance Card. It is a card that lets cast members (CM's) know about invisible disabilities, and how to make sure you get equal access despite these disabilities.


Loved the Six Flags pics...is that what Great America is? Do you have a Six Flags up by you all?


Yes, it is Six Flags Great America. Six Flags parks are at least 14 different parks in multiple states. (I also used to work at Great America.)


I was always so paranoid I had lost mine because mine had the charging option on it as well. :scared1:

I also was scared about that, esp. since it says right on your card 'valid for charging' :headache: but I kept mine in my wallet just like a credit card so I didn't have to worry as much about that card as I did all the photopass cards! I think I ended up with 5 or six of those cards! :scared1:


So sad that we wasn't able to meet up. I did spot you at Star Tours w/Liam in his stroller running up the fastpass line. I rushed over, but you were already gone. Uggggh!

so close you two!!

[Corrine 1973]

Sounds like you had a great first day:cool1: Can't wait to hear more:)

Hey MARsMama, glad to see you made it over here. We had a great first day and it isn't even over yet. I do know how to milk a story don't I? I will be posting my Wishes photos in just a couple of minutes.:thumbsup2

As always, I am loving your report.
So much wonderful info.! I know I should know this by now but what is a GAC? I get alittle confused with all the abbrevations.

As Singledad say the GAC stands for Guest Assistant Card. It is a special card that alerts CM of a person that needs special assistance. Such if you are unable to wait in the heat there is a stamp for alternate places to wait out of the sun. There are several diffrent stamps that help CM's direct you to where to go for your special needs. We used a special stamp to use the stroller as a wheelchair and it helped Liam to not get overly tierd waiting in the lines. We still had to wait but he got to stay in his stroller in the line.:thumbsup2

Loved the Six Flags pics...is that what Great America is? Do you have a Six Flags up by you all? I know there is the one here in Missouri and one in Georgia. Maybe I am mistaken. Anyway, GREAT pics. The kids are adorable.

Yes it is Six Flags Great America and it is located in Gurnee, Illinois just about 20 min North East of me. I have passed the one in missouri during a family reunion in 2009 but were unable to stop at the time.:goodvibes

So glad you made it on your flight and 10 am is the perfect time. I hate to hear that you forgot your KTTW. I was always so paranoid I had lost mine because mine had the charging option on it as well. :scared1: Also enjoying all you pics.

Luckily we didn't loss them but just left them in the room. I think that they just deactivate the original when they issue the new on because when I tried to use the old on once to get back in the room after getting ice it didn't work. Luckily Liam was in the room and let me in. I had a clear plastic card around my kneck given to me in 2009 from Give Kids the World for the GAC and it was a great place to keep the GAC, KTTW cards, and Photopass card (2).

I just started on my TR. Check it out if you get a minute (link in my siggie) You never know, you just might be in some of the pics. I will definitely be looking over yours to see if I see myself. :lmao:

I will check it out as soon as I am done updating my TR. I can't wait.:thumbsup2

So sad that we wasn't able to meet up. I did spot you at Star Tours w/Liam in his stroller running up the fastpass line. I rushed over, but you were already gone. Uggggh!

Yea I was looking foward to meeting you guys, but I didn't want to dwell on my disappointment because we were at Disney. We were that close huh. That is just crazy.!!!:rotfl2:

A Girl's Trip will definitely have to happen sometime in the future. We would all have sooo much fun.

I am so there. You, me, and Lidian would take over the world. Though I don't think we are getting her on to ToT.

Also wanted to comment on your MK post. I agree MK is definitely the best place to start the trip. Your castle pics were amazing!!!! I (not ms. techie) was having issues with turning off the flash on our camera, so didn't get many good night shots.
Cannot wait to read more!!!!!:cloud9:

We did not start our Wish Trip at MK so I was super glad that I was able to this time. I don't think I can not start at MK ever again. Even if it is just for a few hours.:goodvibes I am sorry that you had trouble with your camera. Feel free to steal the castle pics if you want. We were there at the same time after all.:rotfl2:

I'm not Corrine, but I can answer some of your questions so I hope Corrine doesn't mind that I do... :confused3


Not as if you waited for me answer!:lmao::lmao::lmao: J/K. You know I have no problem.:hug:

[Lidian]

popcorn::

:lmao::lmao: :rotfl2::rotfl2:

[Corrine 1973]

So lets do a little refreshing and remind all my readers where we were when we left off.:thumbsup2

We were on the bridge between Futureland and the Hub waiting for Wishes to start when we got the unexpected surprise of seeing MM&Y (definatly recomend it.)

As we were waiting we got to talking a little to a family with two young kids waiting next to us. It was there first time to Disney so I let them know that Tinkerbell starts out the show. Now this is our first time to see wishes and I know about Tinkerbell from the Dis and YouTube so I gave them bad information. I told them Tink goes to the castle and not from it. :headache: SORRY!!!!

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That's Tink, really it is. Didn't get a great pic because I was looking the wrong way.:mad: Oh well maybe next time.

I tool a lot of shots of the fireworks but unfortunatly some didn't come out because by the time the shot was taking the firework display was gone. I tried on firework setting, but the castle lit up was messing with the setting and who wants to see a blury castle.

Well anyway. Here is Wishes!!!
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There were a few more pics of the show, but who want to see a picture of the last flicker of light before a firework dies out. Not pretty at all. Hope you enjoyed the picture show of Wishes. It was a great show. The combination of music, lights, and fireworks was truely amazing. Liam also enjoyed it a was very happy we saw it.

After Wishes we waited a few minutes for the crowd to die down a bit and made our way to the the Curb to stake out a place for MSEP. We were sitting right by a horse pole when Liam noticed that someone had forgot a Mickey hat sitting on top. It was definatly for a little girl and it was personalized with her name. I was just telling Liam we should flag down the next CM that came by when a frantic man ran up and started thanking us for finding his daughters hat. I was just glad that we were able to help out.:goodvibes

As we waited for the parade to start, there was another showing for MM&M. Once again it was quite beautiful and yes it had me getting teary eye again.:sad1:

Next: Main Street Electrical Parade.

[Corrine 1973]

popcorn::

:lmao::lmao: :rotfl2::rotfl2:

Yea, Lidian is still here.:yay::woohoo::yay::woohoo:

I hope you brought enough of that popcorn for everyone to share???:lmao::lmao::rotfl2::rotfl2:

[Lidian]

Yea, Lidian is still here.:yay::woohoo::yay::woohoo:

I hope you brought enough of that popcorn for everyone to share???:lmao::lmao::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Well .... no, I didn't. :guilty:

But I guess I could make some more.

popcorn::popcorn:: popcorn::popcorn:: popcorn::popcorn::

[Corrine 1973]

Well .... no, I didn't. :guilty:

But I guess I could make some more.

popcorn::popcorn:: popcorn::popcorn:: popcorn::popcorn::

Woo Hoo

Popcorn for everyone. Thanks Lidianpopcorn::.

[lbuzz52]

We did have a lot of fun at Great America. We have season passes so you might find quite a few mini TR's of days there. Hope it doesn't get to boring. I love taking pics of the kids. I might be a little bias, but I think that they are just the cutest kids in the world. Even when they are being naughty.:rotfl:


pictures don't get boring to me! bring em on!


There were a few more pics of the show, but who want to see a picture of the last flicker of light before a firework dies out. .

I got a million of those pictures too:rotfl:
The ones you did catch are really nice though!

great job being helpful with the hat!

i gave my family misinformation on our first trip too. i told them the parade started on the wrong end and we ended up sitting and waiting for forever!!! Even us DISwomen can only be right 99% of the time:thumbsup2

[lbuzz52]

Well .... no, I didn't. :guilty:

But I guess I could make some more.

popcorn::popcorn:: popcorn::popcorn:: popcorn::popcorn::

thanks!
i was getting a little hungry:lmao:

[Moira222]

Love your title! subbing now to read later :goodvibes

[Kari-B]

Great fireworks pics!

[MARsMama]

Great photos of Wishes:thumbsup2 We didn't know anything about Tinkerbell when we went in '09 and she didn't even fly the first night we seen it (a bit too windy) so we were surprised to see her when we stayed and watched it a second time. My kids just loved it!

[Corrine 1973]

pictures don't get boring to me! bring em on!



I got a million of those pictures too:rotfl:
The ones you did catch are really nice though!

great job being helpful with the hat!

i gave my family misinformation on our first trip too. i told them the parade started on the wrong end and we ended up sitting and waiting for forever!!! Even us DISwomen can only be right 99% of the time:thumbsup2

Yea, and if it wasn't for me she wouldn't have known about tink until it happened, right? Oh well. Hopefully she got a good show of Tink.:confused3

Oh no, hopefully your family wasn't to mad that they had to wait. I think being right 99% of the time is great. I just try to be so helpfull with all the infor I have learned to help people out. I guess I just need to learn when to be quite.:lmao:

Love your title! subbing now to read later :goodvibes

Welcome to the TR Moira222. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I love writing it. I gave my son the nickname chicken boy because he doesn't want to try anthing to fast or with two big of a fall to it. We went on hardly any thrill rides during his wish trip. He went on splash mountain but refused to go on it again. He at least tried this time, and you will see the outcome.:thumbsup2

Great fireworks pics! Thanks Kari.:thumbsup2

Great photos of Wishes:thumbsup2 We didn't know anything about Tinkerbell when we went in '09 and she didn't even fly the first night we seen it (a bit too windy) so we were surprised to see her when we stayed and watched it a second time. My kids just loved it!

Thanks MARsMama. What a great surprise to see tinkerbell when you were not expecting her.:thumbsup2 It is definatly a cool to see tink flying from the castle.

[Corrine 1973]

So this next update is pictures of the Main Street Electric Parade.

As stated previously, we had snagged seats right on the street right after Wishes so we had good seats. Liam was sitting in his stroller, and I was on the curb. There was a family waiting next to us how asked how the crowds were leaving the park after the parade. I told them that alot of people do chose to leave at this time, but with EMH that it might not be as bad today. They elected to leave anyway and tool off 5 min before the parade started.:confused3 The parade was incredible, the only problem I had was a little girl who kept stepping infront of my son. Her family got there about 10 minutes before the show and thought they had the right to push in front of my son.:mad::mad: I finally had to tell the girl to step back so Liam could see. Her parents gave me glares but honestly I didn't care. She was standing up and could see fine over my sons stroller.

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Too many pictures for one post.
More to be continued.

[Corrine 1973]

Here are more pics fron MSEP!!!

Enjoy!

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Next: EMH at MK! How late will we stay up?

[SueM in MN]

As always, I am loving your report.
So much wonderful info.! I know I should know this by now but what is a GAC? I get alittle confused with all the abbreviations.
As other posters mentioned, GAC stands for Guest Assistance Card.
Follow the link in my signature to the disABILITIES FAQs thread.
Post #6 of that thread can answer any questions about GACs that you have.

[mtgirl29]

Thanks Sue for all the wonderful info. about GAC. It is so great that so many people are so helpful of this sight! :thumbsup2

Corrine, You definitely have the night time picture taking down pat. LOVED you pics!!!! :lovestruc

[MARsMama]

More great photos, thanks for sharing:thumbsup2
It doesn't look like there's much difference between MWEP and Spectromagic. We've seen Spectromagic, but have yet to see MSEP.

[Lidian]

Love your MSEP pictures! They came out amazing! What's your secret?

Sorry that you had issues with another family trying to block your view. I don't know why people think its okay to arrive late and think they can still get "best seats" by jumping in front of others. :sad2:

[Corrine 1973]

Corrine, You definitely have the night time picture taking down pat. LOVED you pics!!!! :lovestruc

Thanks mtgirl. I had a lot of trouble with Tinks float because she is so dark compared to the float and I couldn't get a good one where I see here face. I am still not happy with it.:confused3 And the one with Peter Pan and Hook. . .they just wouldn't stay still for me to take there pictures.:headache::lmao:

More great photos, thanks for sharing:thumbsup2
It doesn't look like there's much difference between MWEP and Spectromagic. We've seen Spectromagic, but have yet to see MSEP.

Thanks for the nice comments MARsMama. There is alot about the parades that are the same, but than they are also very diffrent. Especially the music. I can't decide which I like more, they are both so great.:thumbsup2

Love your MSEP pictures! They came out amazing! What's your secret?

Sorry that you had issues with another family trying to block your view. I don't know why people think its okay to arrive late and think they can still get "best seats" by jumping in front of others. :sad2:

:lmao::lmao: I really don't have much of a secret. I love my Nikon and it takes great pics. The only secret I might have it that I press the button down halfway and let the camera focus on the image and than press it all the way. It also seems to take the picture quicker when you do this. Ever take an action pic and by the time your camera captures it you lost it.:mad:

I have no problem speaking my mind when things like this happens. I am usually a pretty laid back person, but just don't cross me.:lmao::lmao: And is it just me, but does it seem as if the people who try to cut infront of you either don't speak english, or play like they don't.:confused3

[zianha]

Love your pics of MSEP!! I feel so out of the loop! I've only been able to sneak on the DIS a little bit since we got back from our trip! I still haven't even started my TR! I wish I had been able to coordinate meeting up with you at the parks a couple times! It was great meeting you and Liam for the short time that we could!! :cool1:

[PixieMama]

I've been away from the DISboards for a week... whew! I've got some catching up to do! :surfweb:

[Moira222]

Just saying hello _ I subbed last week but didn't have time to read. I just read all of your posts. What a great start!

I love all of your MSEP photos - we did not have good seats at all for this and had I known there was a second parade later, we would have waited for that one. oh well....your photos helped a lot!!

what is it with people thinking its okay to shove in front of you at a parade?

[Corrine 1973]

Love your pics of MSEP!! I feel so out of the loop! I've only been able to sneak on the DIS a little bit since we got back from our trip! I still haven't even started my TR! I wish I had been able to coordinate meeting up with you at the parks a couple times! It was great meeting you and Liam for the short time that we could!! :cool1:

I probably spend more time here than I should.:lmao::lmao: I can't wait to read your TR when you start it.:thumbsup2 It would have been great meeting up with you at the parks as well. Oh well, can't cry over spilled milk, right? It was great meeting you for at least a little while at least.:thumbsup2

I've been away from the DISboards for a week... whew! I've got some catching up to do! :surfweb:

Glad to see you back PixieMama. I know what you mean about catching up, I still am trying to catch up with threads that I didn't read when I was gone at Disney. It's hard to catch up when you have been gone for so long.:upsidedow

Just saying hello _ I subbed last week but didn't have time to read. I just read all of your posts. What a great start!

I love all of your MSEP photos - we did not have good seats at all for this and had I known there was a second parade later, we would have waited for that one. oh well....your photos helped a lot!!

what is it with people thinking its okay to shove in front of you at a parade?

Thanks Moira222, glad you are enjoying it. I am glad that the photos helped you relive the parade that you didn't have good seats for. I was lucky to learn that there were two showing of the parade that night because of the recording on the train. I guess I should read the show schedule that I grab when I enter the park.:lmao:

I think people tend to get rude when they want to have there vacation be perfect. When things don't work out the way they want them to they start getting nasty. But than they should know not to show up 10 minutes before a show and expect great seats. As it was I was very considerate to the people behind me because I remained sitting through out the show even thought my legs were growing numb.:confused3

[Corrine 1973]

So where did we leave off. . .oh yes we had just say the wonderful MSEP.

So I decided to try to play things smart. Instead of trying to fight with the crowds that were now trying to exit the park, Liam and I stayed put and waited for the waves of people dwindle into a calm pool. Or at least calm enough to move through with out being joustled into every direction.

Now we sat almost right infront of the castle, so by the time the parade had passed us by it was about 11:30. Even though we are both tiered and want to to back to the room for sleep, we decide to try to get in a few rides in Fantasyland to shorten our list for Wednesday.:thumbsup2 So we head through the castle on our way to FL.

I start listing rides in fantasyland and ask what Liam wanted to do. He foundly remembers The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh so we decide to head for it. I aimlessly wander FL for a couple of minutes and do not see it, so I finally ask a CM where it is. Funny thing is just after I ask another family asks the same thing. I laugh as I explain that I just asked that myself and becon them to follow us. With the CM's directions we find it with no problem.

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We were directed to the fast pass lane. We were able to see the cool stuff in the standby line, but were not able to participate. Liam really wanted to touch the honey wall, but were happy to get on the ride with in about 5 min. As usually the ride was great and we both enjoyed it.

Afterwards we decided to do one more ride and deciced to do Peter Pan's Flight.

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We were again sent to the FP/Wheel chair entrance and got on pretty fast. We had just boarded and entered the main ride area when it stopped completly. Liam was a little nervous, but assured him that is was only because a person in a wheel chair needed the ride to stop so they could get in. Not everyone can step into a moving ride. Good thing, because this wasn't the only time a ride stoped. A few minutes later the ride was going again and we were flying over london. Once again we loved this ride and was glad to go on it.:thumbsup2

After Peter we were both very tiered and decided it was time to head home.:cloud9: On our way out we saw this and couldn't resist a pic.:lmao:

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With pictures being taken we headed out. I got a little turned around so we went over the bridge by CP instead of through the castle. :confused3 As we left we noticed that the line for Mickey Mouse was 00. So who could resist that? Well obviously a lot of people because there was no line.:lmao: I asked Liam if he wanted to see Mickey, and a smile appeared on his face as he shook his head in agreement. The CM asked to see our KTTW card, it was already after park closing and into EMH, we showed them and were on our way.

There was only one family in front of us so we only waited a couple of minutes. When we got in we were happy to see Minnie was there as well (OK I was, Liam could have cared less.) Mickey wished Liam a happy birthday and seem very excited when we told him that he shared his birthday with Goofy.

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And a funny story. As we were heading there Liam told a CM who was walking the other way that he was going to see Mickey. The CM told Liam to say hi to Mickey because they were pals. Mickey was very happy to hear that Paul (the CM) had said hi and that they were in fact very good friends. Liam thought it was cool that I seem to know what Mickey was saying without him actually talking.:lmao:

The bus showed up pretty quickly after we got there and looked as if we would get on, but there were three EVC trying to get on and it was taking for ever for them to figure out how to get them all on. Now I have no problem waiting for handicapped people having a son with special needs, but at this point I was real tierd and just wanting to get back to POP.

A couple of minutes later another bus showed up (they were still trying to get the EVC's on the first bus) and the CM started directing people to go on that bus. Happily we were able to sit and rest our feet for the ride back. The CM directing was very funny and was telling us that the buses would slow to about 5 miles an hour when they were 12 miles off of Disney Property. I guess to prevent bus stealing.:confused3

About 15 min or so later we were back at pop. We walked back to our room ( I was surprise people were still swimming), I had Liam get ready for bed as I found a pop machine to get something to drink. I than went back to the room, took a quick shower (I felt so sticky), put on my eeyore jammies and tried to sleep.

Note that the first couple of nights Liam refused to sleep by himself so we both were in one bed. I ended up using 3 of the 4 pillows with one under my head, one between my legs, and one under my arm as I slept on my side. Being so tierd we were both soon out with the alarm set for early the next day. It was just after 1 am.:cloud9:

Next: Day 2 Epcot. Is Rope drop truely worth it for us?

[Singledad]

Liam thought it was cool that I seem to know what Mickey was saying without him actually talking.:lmao:

So I wasn't the only interpreter in the parks that week? :lmao:

[PixieMama]

Wow, a zero wait time listed to see Mickey! Unheard of! And how lucky for you guys :goodvibes

[Corrine 1973]

So I wasn't the only interpreter in the parks that week? :lmao:

Yep, I can speak the unspoken language of the characters as well. :lmao::lmao: Perhaps it was my short time bieng a character handler for Daffy Duck or even shorter time (one parade) of playing Porky Pig.:rotfl:

Wow, a zero wait time listed to see Mickey! Unheard of! And how lucky for you guys :goodvibes

I know right. I couldn't believe it. I think that people were either leaving or trying to get on the rides for EMH. I couldn't believe it when I saw it and was very glad Liam wanted to do it (he had no wish to see any charcters up to this point). The princesses were only 5 min but Liam had no wish to see them. If I would have thought about it I could have seen them for me and Liam could have just waited in line with me. :confused3 I will see them with my DD soon enough.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

Before I started todays update I wanted to backtrack a little because I forgot to mention something about day one. When we got back from MK there was a message on the phone. I started listening to it and noticed that it was for Liam so I handed the phone over to him. I watched him smile and laugh while he listened on the phone, it warmed my heart just watching him. After a couple of minutes he handed the phone back and I asked who it was. He told me it was Mickey Mouse wishing him a Happy Birthday.:love:


So originally I had planned on getting up at 6 am so that we could get to Epcot by Rope Drop. Going to bed the night before I decided that there was no way we were going to be able to wake up at 6 in the morning. So I set our alarm for 6:30 am.:rotfl2: I think it was closer to 7 when we finally rolled out of bed.:lmao:

So I got Liam set up to start his treatment while I got dressed and ready for our day. Than as Liam got dressed, I ran to everything Pop (once again very glad we were so close) and bought our mugs. Unfortunatly we had not had a chance before now. I wasn't even thinking about it when we first got there. With all the problems with our KTTW card we had no time before going to Boma. And by the time we got back to Pop the night before Everything Pop was already closed. We had two choices at that time. Blue and Pink. (Black appeared the next day and yellow never made an appearance.:confused3) It was a pretty easy decision, Pink for Liam and Blue for me. . .Wait!! Hold that and reverse it.:lmao::lmao:

Bringing our new mugs filled with drink back to the room, we ate a breakfast of Pop Tarts and fruitbars and were on our way to catch the bus to Epcot.:thumbsup2 Somehow I left my daily planner back in the room when I packed our park bag. This will be an issue later on during the day. I guess you will just have to stay tuned to find out what happens.:rolleyes1

The bus was already at the stop when we got there. I quickly folded up the stroller and boarded. One more family got on after us and we were off. Though the bus was far from being full, most of the seats were taken with people on there way to Epcot. This was one of the only times during our trip that Liam didn't make a new friend on the bus trip.:goodvibes

We got to Epcot just past 8 am, went through the bag check with little problems and was soon waiting by the gate for the park to open. Though we were not the first ones there, there were only a coulple of families in front of us. Liam decided to take this time to take a picture of me. I know you already saw this pic for intros, but it doesn't hurt to see it where it comes during our TR.

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I took this picture in response to his.:thumbsup2

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He also took this one of the "giant golf ball". Ah, my son the buding photographer.

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About 10 minutes before 9 am they had us countdown from 10 and opened up the gate. Now let me explain that I had heard it was best to try to get to one of the lines for TT or Soarin' first (or at least get a FP), but while everyone was running in a frantic sprint to the rope drop area Liam and I took our time and asked a Photopass person to take our pics. We still haven't got our CD yet, but Liam did hand him his camera so he could take a couple pictures.

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He turned the camera the other way and took another pic, when he handed the camera back to Liam he explained that he had taken one with the Tron monorail in the background.:thumbsup2

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As we headed on our way toward the Land Pavillion (going to try to get on Soarin'), I became a little worried about the hords of people who were making there way in the same direction. Unfortunatly some people were not kind, some were pushy and rude and if one more person thought it was alright to cut off the stroller and than slow down I was going to :scared1::scared1:.

By the time we got to the rope drop area we were now about 20 or more feet away from the actually rope. I was now wondering if it was worth getting there so early.:confused3

[mtgirl29]

So cool that you and Liam got the pics with Mickey and Minnie and no line to boot!!!! :woohoo:
We were in the crowd of people trying to leave MK. It was crazy. I wish we could of have stayed for the EMH, but I wasn't feeling too hot and we were all extremely tired. We did a portion of our driving to the park that morning and were tired!!! MK was our first day, so I am going to go into more detail on my next installment on my TR.
Cannot wait to read more about your adventures! popcorn::

[mtgirl29]

You posted your next installment while I was commenting on your MK one. I was surprised to see some new pics when I posted it. :lmao:
Great start to our Epcot day! You wild woman, sleeping for an extra 30 minutes!!! :rotfl2:
I totally know what you mean about the rudeness of people at the parks. I do not remember that so much in the past and it seemed like a lot of them didn't speak English. (not to be rude) I am just making an observation.
Cannot wait to read what lies ahead for you two in Epcot!!! :cloud9:

[Corrine 1973]

So cool that you and Liam got the pics with Mickey and Minnie and no line to boot!!!! :woohoo:
We were in the crowd of people trying to leave MK. It was crazy. I wish we could of have stayed for the EMH, but I wasn't feeling too hot and we were all extremely tired. We did a portion of our driving to the park that morning and were tired!!! MK was our first day, so I am going to go into more detail on my next installment on my TR.
Cannot wait to read more about your adventures! popcorn::

It was definatly a magical moment when we saw Mickey with no wait. Some magicaly Pixie Dust to an already magical day.

That crowd leaving the park was crazy. I am glad we decided to wait for at least a little while just to avoid that crowd. We were very tierd also having just arrived in Florida. It is amazing how much travel can exhaust you. Can't wait to read your TR update!!!

You don't have to wait long to read an update here. I must have been finishing my update when you wrote your post. (Funny how that happens sometime) Hope you enjoy it.


To anyone who read this post before I fixed it. . .Sorry I had to deal with a family dispute and my son had stepped on the keyboards, erased what I had written, wrote nonesense, and posted it. LOL!!!

[Singledad]

To anyone who read this post before I fixed it. . .Sorry I had to deal with a family dispute and my son had stepped on the keyboards, erased what I had written, wrote nonesense, and posted it. LOL!!!

Hay, that isn't fair! you should have kept a sample of the 'nonsense' for us to 'read'! :laughing: :lmao:

[Corrine 1973]

Hay, that isn't fair! you should have kept a sample of the 'nonsense' for us to 'read'! :laughing: :lmao:

:lmao::lmao: here is an idea of what it said.

lzkuhjods v7i66b.

See nothing that made any sense.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

You posted your next installment while I was commenting on your MK one. I was surprised to see some new pics when I posted it. :lmao:
Great start to our Epcot day! You wild woman, sleeping for an extra 30 minutes!!! :rotfl2:
I totally know what you mean about the rudeness of people at the parks. I do not remember that so much in the past and it seemed like a lot of them didn't speak English. (not to be rude) I am just making an observation.
Cannot wait to read what lies ahead for you two in Epcot!!! :cloud9:

And than you wrote this comment while I was commenting on your last comment.:lmao::lmao: Funny how that sometimes happens. I have sometimes found comments days late when I am reviewing my thread that I missed because they were commenting at the same time I was composing my post.:rotfl2::rotfl2: That is why I only post an update every other day. . .that and I want to drag out this TR for as loooonnnngggg as I can.:rotfl::rotfl:

[lbuzz52]

What a perfect ending to your MK day!

I hope that being a little behind didn't make your wait too long atthe rope/soarin.

I have to ask, because you have (some) experience- how do you stay cool in that costume?

[Corrine 1973]

What a perfect ending to your MK day!

I hope that being a little behind didn't make your wait too long atthe rope/soarin.

I have to ask, because you have (some) experience- how do you stay cool in that costume?

It was definatly a perfect ending to our day. Got to love that Disney Magic.

I guess you will just have to read the next instalment to find that out. (giving my imitation of my most evil laugh right now) BWAHAA!!!

I do have very little experiance in that department. All I can tell you is that you don't. At least when I was in Porky I didn't. Upon returning after the parade was over we all sat in airconditioned rooms, with fans on us, drinking down large glasses of water to replenish what we sweated out.

I have a little more experiance keeping cool in a hot costume playing a courtier in full Ren garb following a horse on foot holding a goblet for a 15 minute parade. It was than followed by a 20 minute show on a stage that had no shade. That was brutal. To explain, I acted in a local Ren faire in Wisconsin for 9 years. For most of those years I played Elizabeth , Lady Stuart, Countess of Lennox. One of my jobs (not the whole time) was to carry the goblet for Queen Elizabeth in the parade where she rode a horse. And to finally answer the question that I got a thosand times. . .I am wearing a hoopskirt, chamise, three skirts, a corset, and a bodice with sleaves, most of this is made of bracaid, in the middle of summer. . .Of course I am hot in this!!!!:lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

Goodness, that was good to get off my chest!!!:laughing:

And to stay cool. . .you learn where to apply ice to cool the body down, to stay hydrated in hot weather and I always had a V8 before the parade to replenish the salt in my body that I was about to sweat out.

[Kari-B]

Love the parade pics! :lovestruc Liam's yellow shirt at MK is really cute. Can't wait to hear the rest of your Epcot day...

[Corrine 1973]

Love the parade pics! :lovestruc Liam's yellow shirt at MK is really cute. Can't wait to hear the rest of your Epcot day...

Thanks Kari, I got the design off of the DISigner thread and they add his name on for me. I loved being able to do my own shirts for out trip. I will be updating our Epcot day real soon.:thumbsup2

[mtgirl29]

It was definatly a perfect ending to our day. Got to love that Disney Magic.

I guess you will just have to read the next instalment to find that out. (giving my imitation of my most evil laugh right now) BWAHAA!!!

I do have very little experiance in that department. All I can tell you is that you don't. At least when I was in Porky I didn't. Upon returning after the parade was over we all sat in airconditioned rooms, with fans on us, drinking down large glasses of water to replenish what we sweated out.

I have a little more experiance keeping cool in a hot costume playing a courtier in full Ren garb following a horse on foot holding a goblet for a 15 minute parade. It was than followed by a 20 minute show on a stage that had no shade. That was brutal. To explain, I acted in a local Ren faire in Wisconsin for 9 years. For most of those years I played Elizabeth , Lady Stuart, Countess of Lennox. One of my jobs (not the whole time) was to carry the goblet for Queen Elizabeth in the parade where she rode a horse. And to finally answer the question that I got a thosand times. . .I am wearing a hoopskirt, chamise, three skirts, a corset, and a bodice with sleaves, most of this is made of bracaid, in the middle of summer. . .Of course I am hot in this!!!!:lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

Goodness, that was good to get off my chest!!!:laughing:

And to stay cool. . .you learn where to apply ice to cool the body down, to stay hydrated in hot weather and I always had a V8 before the parade to replenish the salt in my body that I was about to sweat out.

That is so cool that you got to get behind the scenes!

I thought I had seen on a Walt Disney World - behind the scenes type show, that they used cold packs or something in the costumes. Maybe I have lost my mind, too! :laughing: I think it would be miserable having to walk around in those heavy costumes in the Florida heat and humidity. It sounds like you did your share of suffering, too. The show MUST go one heat or not....right?

[Corrine 1973]

So we were about 20 feet away from rope drop, we could see the characters come out but not hear them so at that point I didn't even bother with the rope drop show.

I told Liam that we were about to get going and to keep his hands and legs inside the stoller at all times.:lmao:

Within a couple of minutes we were on our way and headin slowly to the Land Pavillion to go on Soarin'. Unfortunalty the rudeness of people were not getting any better. While the CM's were walking the rope, some people were getting real pushy about getting in front and unfortunatly people pushing strollers seemed to be there main target.:headache:

When we got into the Pavillion there was an older CM there directing all the people to take the stairs to the right side of the building. He pulled us to the side and started talking to us. First he pointed out where the elevator was, he than than showed us where the movie was and Sunshine Season's if we were hungry. He suggested that we get FP's for Soarin' and than go on the boat ride. I thanked him for the information and headed toward the elevator and toward one of my favorite rides.

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When we got off the elevator we saw lines for the ride and lines for the FP and were completly confussed to where to go. I asked the nearest CM where we should go and he directed me to the FP lane for the ride.

They had miss counted how many people were in the boarding area so we had to wait for the next flight and got to see Patrick's preboarding recording twice. No problem, because soon we were entering the theatre. We were in the first row in the last two seats to the right of the threater. Great that we didn't have any feet dangling infront of us.


This is one of the rides that Liam was not sure if he wanted to go on. He down right refused to go on it in 2009 but was willing to try it this time for me. The beginning part that rises you up wasn't his favorite part, but he loved the actually ride. He really liked how you could smell the pine and orange trees. He also loved how the golf ball seemed to fly out as us and the fireworks over DL.

After Soarin' I noticed that it was about 9:30 and we didn't have alot of time to go on a ride in another pavillion if we wanted to meet some DISers at 10:15, so I asked Liam if he wanted to try the boat ride that the CM was talking about. He agreed and soon we were in the short line to ride. . .

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I wasn't sure if Liam was going to like this ride, but he really seemed to like that he was learning something on it. He also seemed intrested in the fact that the food that they grew there would be used in the food they served at Epcot. Knowing that we were eating later at Coral Reef, we was asking me if some of the diffrent plants were there.:thumbsup2

Here are a couple of pics, sorry if they are out of order.

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We both enjoyed the ride and thought it was very intresting how they were able to grow the food and raise fish in desert like conditions.

Reliezing that it was close to 10 am and it was time to head to Spaceship Earth and meet up with some Disfriends. Or at least that was the plan.

Liam wanted to go on the ride right away, but I told him we were waiting for friends. I than got a text that one on off my DISmeets was not going to happen because they had had bus problems and would not be able to make it.:guilty:

I tried to text mtgirl29 with no response. (She called later but I didn't hear my phone.:confused3) I waited till 10:30 and figured that it wasn't going to happen this time so we decided to go ahead and go on the ride. We were directed to the wheelchair entrance. We waited inside for about 10 minutes inside before they brought us to the loading area. This is one of those rides that you got to do at least once even though it is the same thing every time.

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As the night before with Peter Pan, our ride came to a stop right at this point.

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Liam got a little nervous that the ride broke down. I explained that it was the same as Peter Pan and they were probably loading someone in a wheel chair on that couldn't get on a moving ride. He seemed fine with this and we were soon moving again.

We enjoyed the games inside for about a half of an hour and than dicided to head to The Seas with Nemo and friends.

[Corrine 1973]

That is so cool that you got to get behind the scenes!

I thought I had seen on a Walt Disney World - behind the scenes type show, that they used cold packs or something in the costumes. Maybe I have lost my mind, too! :laughing: I think it would be miserable having to walk around in those heavy costumes in the Florida heat and humidity. It sounds like you did your share of suffering, too. The show MUST go one heat or not....right?

We did it again. :lmao::lmao:

I only played Porky once for a parade and that was 15 or more years ago so I am sure that they have ice paks or something now. Unfortunatly they didn't at that time. All I know is I don't complain when the characters take a break because I know that the person inside needs to cool off.:thumbsup2

I definatly know how it feels to be in couch fabric in 90 degree weather.:lmao::lmao: I am going to have to try to find a picture of me in my ren faire costume and show you what I looked like.:thumbsup2

[PixieMama]

Soarin' is one of my favorite rides in all the World... really hoping we can talk Mom into going on it for her first time. She's not a fan of heights and won't do thrill rides, but maybe we can convince her to do this one!

[lbuzz52]

That is so cool that you got to get behind the scenes!

I thought I had seen on a Walt Disney World - behind the scenes type show, that they used cold packs or something in the costumes. Maybe I have lost my mind, too! :laughing: I think it would be miserable having to walk around in those heavy costumes in the Florida heat and humidity. It sounds like you did your share of suffering, too. The show MUST go one heat or not....right?

if you ever come across that again I'd love to know what it is called. Sounds interesting!

We did it again. :lmao::lmao:

I only played Porky once for a parade and that was 15 or more years ago so I am sure that they have ice paks or something now. Unfortunatly they didn't at that time. All I know is I don't complain when the characters take a break because I know that the person inside needs to cool off.:

well thank you to anyone who is or was a character. I'm not sure I could even handle it indoors.


Sorry your dismeet didn't work out. I'm glad Liam enjoyed himslf on soarin. It's such a great ride!

[Corrine 1973]

Soarin' is one of my favorite rides in all the World... really hoping we can talk Mom into going on it for her first time. She's not a fan of heights and won't do thrill rides, but maybe we can convince her to do this one!

Soarin' is definatly one of my favorite rides so I was super glad that Liam liked it. There is a ride at Epcot that he liked better, but I guess you will have to keep reading to see what it is.:thumbsup2

Good luck getting your Mom on Soarin' I am not sure if I could get my mom on. :lmao:


well thank you to anyone who is or was a character. I'm not sure I could even handle it indoors.


Sorry your dismeet didn't work out. I'm glad Liam enjoyed himslf on soarin. It's such a great ride!

I am definatly respect those who put on those costumes. You are hot, have to deal with some dificult people, and still have to be happy.

I am definatly glad that Liam liked Soarin'. It was also a good sign that he was silling to try some more rides this time.

[zianha]

I love your pictures from Living with The Land! I really like that ride but I didn't take ANY pictures while we rode it this year! D'oh!!!! :confused3

[Corrine 1973]

I love your pictures from Living with The Land! I really like that ride but I didn't take ANY pictures while we rode it this year! D'oh!!!! :confused3

:lmao::lmao:I probably wouldn't have taken any pictures it Liam wasn't pointing and saying, "Oh mom take a picture of that. Hey mom take a picture of that." :rotfl::rotfl:

[Corrine 1973]

So after we played in the ball for a while, we decided to head to the Seas with Nemo and friends.

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There were hordes of people shoving there kids up to the statues of the Fish so we decided we would get it later and headed to the ride. We went on the Nemo with very little wait. It was a cute ride, though I do think that Liam has grown out of this one. Though he was attentive during the ride, he didn't seem quite as excited as in others.:confused3

We than decided to head over to Turtle Talk with Crush.

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We really enjoyed this show last time, though Liam had special interaction with Crush. Once again the show was very good though Liam didn't have any special interaction this time. The only problem I had was they had us park the stroller in a very odd place and when we left I had to go under a roped section to get to it.:confused3

While we were trying to get to the stroller, I started to talk to Liam about the possibility of going on Test Track. This is one of those rides that Liam refused to go on last time but I thought that just maybe I could get him to go on this time. He agreed that he would try it, so we decided to explore the pavillion later and head off the Test Track. Unfortunatly we never got back. Now I know why people take two days to do Epcot. Lesson learned.

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We were directed to the FP lane where we were put in the front of the Car with a boy about Liam's age from the single rider line. Liam became fast friends with him and soon became very happy for our luck. Liam forgot his fear for the ride and just enjoyed talking to his new friend. Soon we were enjoying test track and Liam LOOOOVVVVEEEEDDDD IT!!!! He amidiatly wanted to go again though we were both hungry and decided to head to WS for lunch. Here is a pic of Liam in the car display area after.

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So with our bellies calling to be filled we headed off over the bridge toward WS. First we stopped at the Kim Possible area and got our passes to pick up our Kimunicators. This was definatly something Liam was looking foward to.

On our way over the bridge we were glad to see they hadn't gotten ride of all the topiaries from the garden festival .

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We weren't able to pick up our Kimunicators in Norway until 1pm so we decided to head to Mexico to satisfy our hunger craving. First of all I stopped to take this picture.

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I saw this picture on another thread and really wanted to take one of my own while I was here. You can see the beautiful sight of Morrocco across the lake and blending in perfectly in the background is Tower of Terror. Got to love that Disney Magic.:thumbsup2

Knowing where I wanted to eat we headed to Mexico for La Cantina de San Angel

We waited in line for about 5 min in which I had to explain to Liam that he could only order from the Kids menu because he really wanted to order the nachos. It would be nice if they would offer kids portions of the dishes they serve for adults. They already have the food, how hard is it to put less of it on a plate and call it a kids portion.:confused3

We order our food and started to look around for a seat. All of the seats outside were jammed full, fortunatly from my knowledge from the Dis forum I knew there were indoor seating and headed inside. There were a lot of seats inside and we got a great table right from our window.

Here is the view.

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Here is a picture of our lunches.

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Liam got chicken tenders with chips and grapes. I got the Tacos de Carne.

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I ordered Churros con Cajeta for dessert and since there was 4 of them I split them with Liam and we put the grapes in our bag to enjoy later.

The food was definatly very tasty. Especially the churros in which Liam and I both loved. The carmel sauce was devine. We did get a cup of cheese with the meal and I never did find out if it came with mine or Liam's meal. It didn't matter, because Liam decided it made an excellent dipping sauce for his chicken. There was very little left of it when we got to our chips.

[PixieMama]

Yay, glad to hear he loved TT! It's one of our favorites in all of WDW. My DDs both agree it's best to ride at night!

I had no idea there was indoor seating available for La Cantina! We had lunch there last year and sat outside. Our table was mostly in the sun and it was HOT. Where do you go for the indoor tables?

[mrssmith06]

Hi, I'm late joining in and trying to catch up! :)
How bad were the crowds in Epcot on memorial day? We may be doing the same thing next year!

[MARsMama]

After a busy stretch of time in real life, I am finally getting back to the boards and playing catch up!

Love reading your TR. I also had no idea there was indoor seating there, we ended up in the very busy outside roaming for a table when we went in 2009.

Can't wait to hear more, and hopefully I won't be MIA for so long!! :laughing:

[Lidian]

So glad to hear Liam made another friend and forgot about his TT worries. :goodvibes

Your food looks delicious! Looking forward to hearing if you guys got back on TT later and how KP went. KP was something we wanted to do, but ran out of time. :sad2:

[Moira222]

As we left we noticed that the line for Mickey Mouse was 00. So who could resist that?

Wahoo for a good plan to resist exit crowds ( I learned this technique from fellow DISers and totally enjoyed our exits from all parks in a non crazy way!)

and :banana::banana: for 00 wait for Mickey. I love being able to "translate" from the characters!:laughing:

So we were about 20 feet away from rope drop, we could see the characters come out but not hear them so at that point I didn't even bother with the rope drop show.
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We both enjoyed the ride and thought it was very intresting how they were able to grow the food and raise fish in desert like conditions.
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Is there an actual rope drop SHOW? We never made rope drop anywhere, though our ferry pulled in to MK as they were finishing that show, so I know it exists:rotfl::rotfl:

We completely missed the whole LAND pavilion witt Soarin' :mad: It just didn't happen - I think that we strayed too far from my plans. oh well, that means there are still "never dones" for next time. We've done Soarin, but never The Land

what a great epcot morning...and its only lunch!:yay:

[Corrine 1973]

Yay, glad to hear he loved TT! It's one of our favorites in all of WDW. My DDs both agree it's best to ride at night!

I had no idea there was indoor seating available for La Cantina! We had lunch there last year and sat outside. Our table was mostly in the sun and it was HOT. Where do you go for the indoor tables?

TT definatly went to the top of the list of rides at WDW for both of us. I love the part right before the speed test. You know what I mean if ypu've been before but I don't want to ruin the suprise for anyone not yet on it.

If you go past the cashier area and keep following the building toward the lake you will see a set of doors on the left. That will bring you to the inside seating area. I think it isn't well known because while everyseat outside was crowded there were plenty of seats inside the relaxing air conditioned building.

Hi, I'm late joining in and trying to catch up! :)
How bad were the crowds in Epcot on memorial day? We may be doing the same thing next year!

Glad to have you here mrssmith06. I am always happy to see people injoying my TR. Memorial day was pretty crowded though I hear that MK was a mad house. I think that Epcot works better when it's busy because it is so large so that there is more room to spread it out. It was also nice because they did something special at the show in America that I will tell you all about soon.

After a busy stretch of time in real life, I am finally getting back to the boards and playing catch up!

Love reading your TR. I also had no idea there was indoor seating there, we ended up in the very busy outside roaming for a table when we went in 2009.

Can't wait to hear more, and hopefully I won't be MIA for so long!! :laughing:

Thanks MARsMamma, I am glad you like the TR. While the TR is for me and Liam it nice to know other people are enjoying it as well. I listed where the entrance to the inside is earlier in this post so hopefully you can enjoy the inside area.

I know what you mean when you said MIA, but I first thought why were you writing about my DD Mia.LOL.[[

So glad to hear Liam made another friend and forgot about his TT worries. :goodvibes

Your food looks delicious! Looking forward to hearing if you guys got back on TT later and how KP went. KP was something we wanted to do, but ran out of time. :sad2:

Liam was making friends left and right, and times like this it definatly was to our advantage. I guess you will have to keep reading to find out and yes I will tell you about KP.

Wahoo for a good plan to resist exit crowds ( I learned this technique from fellow DISers and totally enjoyed our exits from all parks in a non crazy way!)

and :banana::banana: for 00 wait for Mickey. I love being able to "translate" from the characters!:laughing:

Is there an actual rope drop SHOW? We never made rope drop anywhere, though our ferry pulled in to MK as they were finishing that show, so I know it exists:rotfl::rotfl:

We completely missed the whole LAND pavilion witt Soarin' :mad: It just didn't happen - I think that we strayed too far from my plans. oh well, that means there are still "never dones" for next time. We've done Soarin, but never The Land

what a great epcot morning...and its only lunch!:yay:

It was definatly a plus to not have to fight through that crowd, and seeing Mickie & Minnie with no wait was definatly a bonus. Definitly something I will have to try when I go with Mia.

I don't know if there was an actual show because we couldn't hear a thing and saw very little. All I know was there were characters out and they were doing something. That was the closest we got to any ropedrop show.

We still have a huge list of never dones and glad that future trips to the World will have a little bit of mystery to them.

Thanks, hope you enjoy our day after lunch as well, we sure did.

[PixieMama]

If you go past the cashier area and keep following the building toward the lake you will see a set of doors on the left. That will bring you to the inside seating area. I think it isn't well known because while every seat outside was crowded there were plenty of seats inside the relaxing air conditioned building.

THANK YOU for the info! I will keep this in mind, in case we decide to have a QS in Mexico.

[Corrine 1973]

THANK YOU for the info! I will keep this in mind, in case we decide to have a QS in Mexico.

That's what DisFriends are for.:thumbsup2

[Singledad]

*pokes his head in* I am still alive, just swamped with real life.... glad to hear liam was interested on the living with the land boat ride. Skye loved it too, I spent the whole time telling her the names of things.

[zianha]

Glad you made RD and also glad that Liam decided to ride TT! I was SUPPOSED to be at RD that same morning but I made the mistake of waiting on my sister's family instead of going ahead without them! Oh well!

I didn't know there was inside seating at the Mexico QS either! Of course I haven't even tried eating there in years but now I know if I try in the future! When I saw the picture of your food, I thought that was their attempt at chicken nachos and I was :confused3 ! Then I read that it was chicken tenders and I had to laugh at my self!

[MARsMama]

We just might head to Mexico for a bite to eat now that we know there's indoor seating:thumbsup2

[Kari-B]

Epcot looks fun so far!

[lbuzz52]

Oh, I'm so glad Liam is enjoying the rides!
The meals in Mexico look very tasty!

[Corrine 1973]

*pokes his head in* I am still alive, just swamped with real life.... glad to hear liam was interested on the living with the land boat ride. Skye loved it too, I spent the whole time telling her the names of things.

Glad to see you still around Singledad, I was getting a little worried about you. I recently asked Liam what his favorite ride were at WDW and he listed Living with the Land amoung his top 10. Who would have known.:confused3

Glad you made RD and also glad that Liam decided to ride TT! I was SUPPOSED to be at RD that same morning but I made the mistake of waiting on my sister's family instead of going ahead without them! Oh well!

I didn't know there was inside seating at the Mexico QS either! Of course I haven't even tried eating there in years but now I know if I try in the future! When I saw the picture of your food, I thought that was their attempt at chicken nachos and I was :confused3 ! Then I read that it was chicken tenders and I had to laugh at my self!

I know what you mean. I planned to make it to a few rope drops during our Wish trip. Of course it is easier to get you and your kids (which is not always easy) up when you want, but you include another family (or my case my brother) things fly up into the air.:lmao:

I am glad I was able to help people with the knowledge of indoor seating. The food was very good, but than I enjoy mexican food. Yum. Funny how you thought the chicken was a taco. I do think it strange that they don't offer more options for kids that could be mexican. Really would it be that hard.

We just might head to Mexico for a bite to eat now that we know there's indoor seating:thumbsup2

I definatly recommend it. The food was definatly good and sitting inside in the heat was very nice. At first I was worried that I wouldn't be full because I am not one to really munch on tortilla chips, but the three tacos were very filling.

Epcot looks fun so far!

It was and we definatly had a blast.

Oh, I'm so glad Liam is enjoying the rides!
The meals in Mexico look very tasty!

I was very happy that Liam was trying new rides and enjoying them. The trend did not remain, but at least he was trying them, it was more than I could hope for. The meal at the Cantina was definatly very tasty.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

So we had already had a fun filled day at Epcot and it was only lunch, so what were we do do next?

Well it was almost time to pick up our Kimmunicators at Norway, but since we didn't want to back track we decided to go on the boat ride in mexico.

Now having gone on this ride last time I was quite happy to not go on it again, but Liam wanted to go on it so it went from "if there was time" to "must" do ride. Once again it was a very cute and I couldn't help but click this picture.:thumbsup2

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So after we were done on the ride we decided to head to Norway to get the Kimunicator. The CM asked us a few questions and set us up for the first mission in. . .MEXICO. So much for not wanting to backtrack. Oh well. The CM was very sweet and noticed the sticker on the stroller allowing it to be used as a wheelchair. She pulled out a map and started showing us the wheelchair seating sections for Illuminations and suggested going to Canada because it had good viewing and didn't fill up as quickly as other areas.

So with Kimmunicator in hand we head back to Mexico to start our mission. Let me just say I think the KP is great for school age kids to really get into WS. They follow the clues and are able to activate special things in the inviorment around them and solve the crimes. Each mission takes about 20 minutes and gives you a great oppurtunity to explore the diffrent pavillions.

Here are a couple of pics of Mexico
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So with our mission in Mexico complete, we start a new mission and go to head off to Norway for our next. We than notice that Donald had come out and had no line. I asked Liam if he wanted to see him, and he definatly wanted to see him. (Maybe having to back track to Mexico wasn't so bad after all.)

Here are the Photopass pics.
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We thanked Donald and were back on our way to Norway. I tried to get Liam to go on the boat ride here, but Liam had no intrest.

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With our Mission in Norway Complete, we headed to China to start our Mission there. Here are some pics I took in China.

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So know our Mission is done in China and we head to Germany to start our mission there. I must admite that I am less than a happy camper at this time. I haven't followed my own advice and hadn't had anything to drink since we left the Cantina. At this point I am hot and my head is throbbing. I admite that I was getting a little short tempered with Liam who was asking me to help hime with some of the big words and clues from KP. I decided for both of our sanity to finish the mission in Germany and than stop KP and explore in a more leisurly pace. I think Liam was a little dissappointed but he understood why and didn't complain. What a good boy I have.:thumbsup2

Here are some pics from Germany.

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We than passed through Italy. There was a show going on but it was already pretty crowded so we decided to not stay.

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We than made our way to America. I would love to show you a lovely picture of the fontain in front of the main building but unfortunatly it was walled off.

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We were both hot and hungry so we decided to stop and get a snack. Liam got an soft serve ice cream in a cup and I got a frozen lemonade. Both were very good and just what we needed.

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As I was finishing my lemonade, we went up to find out when the next show was going to start. The CM was very nice and started talking to us. She noticed Liam's birthday button and asked if Mickey had called him, he told her that he had gotten a call from mickey last night. She proceded to take him to an area inside the building where Goofy talked to him. I took the time to pour the rest of my lemonade into my resort mug so we could go in.

Liam talked non-stop about goofy on the elevator to the second floor of the building. He was very excited. We only got to see the last song of the singers, but they were really good. We than made our way to the show and sat to enjoy the show.

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At the beginning of the show a CM asked all the service men/women to stand up and we applauded them (I thought that that was very sweet. It was memorial day after all.)

The show was nice, it was definatly nice to sit in the air conditioning. Unfortunatly our little sleep was catching up with us. I was having trouble keep my eyes open, and Liam actually feel asleep. Later he told me it was boring, but I think he was more overly tierd and would have enjoyed it more if he wasn't so tierd.

[Kari-B]

Love the pic of the Donald pinata! :rotfl:

[Singledad]

you make me wish I had had more time in Epcot. outside of a little time in mexico we skipped all the WS. There is so much we missed in Epcot. I will have to plan more time next time.

[lbuzz52]

Wow, you guys got quite a few KP missions done. That's so sweet of the CM to add another birthday surprise! Seems that the crowds were not too bad for a holiday

[Corrine 1973]

Love the pic of the Donald pinata! :rotfl:

I just couldn't resist that pic.

you make me wish I had had more time in Epcot. outside of a little time in mexico we skipped all the WS. There is so much we missed in Epcot. I will have to plan more time next time.

We only were there a couple of hours there last time so I was very glad that we were able to spend some time here this time.

Wow, you guys got quite a few KP missions done. That's so sweet of the CM to add another birthday surprise! Seems that the crowds were not too bad for a holiday

Yea, we got in 4 missions (I felt bad that we didn't do more) but with my head hurting as bad as it was I just didn't have the patients for any more. It was crowded, but Epcot is so large that there are plenty of places to go. But than I could only compare it to crowds from September in which were very low.

[Corrine 1973]

So as you could see from the earlier post that I recieved my photopass CD. The plan is to includ the pictures as they come during our trip, but since we already missed a day and a half I decided to post them here and catch you all up.

First of all lets start with MK.

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Here is us with our favorite couple. Mickey and Minnie.

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Than we move to Epcot the next day.

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Thats it for now, will show more when the time comes further in the TR.:thumbsup2

[Lidian]

Corrine, I love, LOVE, LOOOOVE your PP pictures!!! :love: Can't wait to see more!!!

[Kari-B]

Photo pass pics look great. Can't wait to see the rest! :)

[mtgirl29]

Dear Corrine, so sorry I have been MIA. I am finally caught up with your TR. I am absolutely :lovestruc loving it. :cloud9: I really wish we could have met up in Epcot. You and Liam were probably on Spaceship Earth when we were wandering around looking for you and calling....LOL! So close!
Jay had a nice CM in Epcot, too, that had him talk to Goofy on the phone and wish him a Happy Birthday! He was so excited!
It sounds like the KP adventures were fun. We didn't get to do them this year. Hubs was too busy touring the WS. Sometimes DH is a big kid...:rotfl2:
I am also glad to hear that Liam loved TT. :thumbsup2
Cannot wait to read more! popcorn::

[MARsMama]

Sounds like your Epcot day was quite a full one. The KP missions sound like a wonderful way to check out WS with the kids, it's definitely on our must do list:thumbsup2
Love the photos, especially the one of Liam with Donald :)

[Corrine 1973]

Corrine, I love, LOVE, LOOOOVE your PP pictures!!! :love: Can't wait to see more!!!

Thanks Lidian. I Think they are pretty good to.:lmao::thumbsup2

Photo pass pics look great. Can't wait to see the rest! :)

Thanks Kari-B.

Dear Corrine, so sorry I have been MIA. I am finally caught up with your TR. I am absolutely :lovestruc loving it. :cloud9: I really wish we could have met up in Epcot. You and Liam were probably on Spaceship Earth when we were wandering around looking for you and calling....LOL! So close!
Jay had a nice CM in Epcot, too, that had him talk to Goofy on the phone and wish him a Happy Birthday! He was so excited!
It sounds like the KP adventures were fun. We didn't get to do them this year. Hubs was too busy touring the WS. Sometimes DH is a big kid...:rotfl2:
I am also glad to hear that Liam loved TT. :thumbsup2
Cannot wait to read more! popcorn::

No Prob mtgirl, we all have life to get back to if we want to admite it or not.:lmao: It's funny that we were so close and yet so far away.

Sounds like your Epcot day was quite a full one. The KP missions sound like a wonderful way to check out WS with the kids, it's definitely on our must do list:thumbsup2
Love the photos, especially the one of Liam with Donald :)

We definatly had a full day at Epcot, and it isn't even done yet.:lmao: The picture of Liam and Donald is one of my favorites as well.:love:


To all of you loyal readers out there I'm very sorry that I have been missing from the boards as of late. It was Mia's birthday on thursday, so that was an event. I took the kids to Great America on Sat to the water park and we had a blast. Took the boys to the Bristol Ren Faire on Sunday and had a lot of fun and saw a lot of good friends. The Queen asked me a question before her feast and sent me and the boys apples, carrots, and pickles from her table. It is good to know the Queen (I've known her since 1996).

Than on monday a quick and terrible storm blew through the lands and we lost all power. Luckily we got it back last night because some will not until friday. We ended up spending the night in Salem Wisconsin mainly because Liam needs his breating treatments twice a day for his health. Than to make matters worse, Aidan pushed Liam causing him to hit his head on a glass coffee table. Don't worry the coffee table is fine.:lmao::lmao: Liam needed 5 stiches but is otherwise unhurt.:lmao:

Last, and probably least. The computer keyboard is broke so I am currently typing on a spounge bob keyboard.:scared1:

[Corrine 1973]

So new news here. Still a lot of people out of power around here but luckily our power is still on. Took Liam to doctor today to check his stitches. He is fine, but on the way home I got a call that Aidan had fallen from his chair and hit his head. So long story short he cut his head open above his left eyebrow and need 7 stitches.:scared1:

So since bad things happen in threes, I think I am going to wrap the kids in bubble wrap.:lmao::lmao:

[PixieMama]

Oh, no! Fingers crossed no more kids need stitches any time soon!

[Singledad]

So since bad things happen in threes, I think I am going to wrap the kids in bubble wrap.:lmao::lmao:

Well between the storms/power and two kids with stitches, I hope you're 'safe' now.

Glad you got your power back, my one friend was told they wouldn't get it back on until 3pm on Saturday! thankfully comED was wrong and they got it back late yesterday. I can't even imagine how many other families with medical needs that had to figure out what to do with a power outage that long.

[lovethattink]

I'm sorry to be reading about 2 kids with stitches. I hope electricity has been restored and the kids are on the mend!

Your photo pass pics are great!

I'm glad you had more time this trip to enjoy Epcot. There is just so much to see and do there.

4 KPs, now that's involving!

[mtgirl29]

WOW! Corrine, you have your hands full!!! Sorry that you have two kiddos that needed stitches....:eek: Glad you power is back on.

[MARsMama]

Glad to hear that your power is back on. Hopefully no more kids will need stitches:goodvibes It's time you had some 'good luck' I believe!

[Corrine 1973]

Oh, no! Fingers crossed no more kids need stitches any time soon!

Thanks PixieMama, I am definatly hoping that there is no more stitches any time soon. Two kids in three days is quite enough for me.

Well between the storms/power and two kids with stitches, I hope you're 'safe' now.

Glad you got your power back, my one friend was told they wouldn't get it back on until 3pm on Saturday! thankfully comED was wrong and they got it back late yesterday. I can't even imagine how many other families with medical needs that had to figure out what to do with a power outage that long.

All power has been turned on and everything thing seems to be back to normal.
They actualy told us that power would not be back on until Friday so we were very lucky that we had power back on tuesday night. Some friends didn't get theres back until saturday.:scared1:

I'm sorry to be reading about 2 kids with stitches. I hope electricity has been restored and the kids are on the mend!

Your photo pass pics are great!

I'm glad you had more time this trip to enjoy Epcot. There is just so much to see and do there.

4 KPs, now that's involving!

things seem to be back to normal. We had a great time at Epcot, alot of fun. I actually felt a little guily that we didn't do more KP's. Liam was fine with it but I had a feeling that he wanted to do more.

WOW! Corrine, you have your hands full!!! Sorry that you have two kiddos that needed stitches....:eek: Glad you power is back on.

Thanks mtgirl. It was funny when the doctor and nurses was explaining things to me for Aidan that I would laugh and remind them that I had gone through all of this two days before.:lmao: Not to mention that this is the third time that Aidan has needed stitches. It seems like a yearly thing for him. I guess he is just one of those kids.:confused3

Glad to hear that your power is back on. Hopefully no more kids will need stitches:goodvibes It's time you had some 'good luck' I believe!

Thanks for the :goodvibes. No Major problems this week so it must have worked. But than again with it being so hot outside who wants to go outside to do anything. It was over 110 heat index yesterday. Might go to the waterpark at Six Flags if it isn't so hot out today.

[Corrine 1973]

So lets see, it's been a while so lets see where we left off. We had just saw the show at the american pavillion, cooled off in the air conditioning, and at least 1/2 of the party had gotten in a little nap.

So we were off again through WS at Epcot. Next stop, Japan. As we got there we caught the drum show. It just amazes me how these people could so active in such heat. I applaud them all.

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Than we were on our way inside to pick some pearls.

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Now I have been really looking foward to getting to the Japan pavillion to try the pick a pearl. I paid for three pearls, they handed me a number, and I waited in a rather large line to choose my pearls.

As we were waiting Liam found his first purchase of the trip. I think it was called a bay blade, it a sort of electronic top that makes noises. It is amazing to me that we travel all the way to Disney World to buy a toy that he could buy at Toys-R-Us.:confused3

So there I was waiting for my turn when I noticed a woman who's turn it was get 7 pearls. Besides the fact that getting 7 pearls was absolutly crazy, I knew this person. I did the Ren Faire with her for many years but hadn't seen her in about 5 years. She gave me a hug and directed me over to where her husband was. It was great to reconect with them and killed time waiting for my turn.

Unfortunatly I didn't take any pictures of us picking our pearl, but it was alot of fun. The ceremony was very cute and I will definatly be doing it again. Unfortunatly I didn't pick any twins, but we did end up with some very nice pearls. Two pink ones (7mm & 7 1/4mm) and a gold one (7 1/4mm)

We than continued our trip around the world. Next stop, Moracco.

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Than we headed to France. Oh la la.

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Than we were on our way to England. I must say that I am a little partial to England having done the Ren Faire. Some day I hope to get to the real England.:thumbsup2

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We saw that Pooh was out, so I asked Liam if he wanted to get in line. He decided not to since we were going to see them on Wednesday at Crystal Palace.

Traveling on we were now in Canada and caught a preformance of Off Kilter. They were really good.

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We had a 6:05 reservation at Coral Reef, so we headed off toward the Seas Pavillion.

[mtgirl29]

Isn't that just like a kid wanting something on their special vacation what they could get down the street from their home at the local Toys R Us?....:rotfl2:
How are you all handling the heat wave in the midwest? It is miserable here. Praying for rain.

[PixieMama]

WS fun!

I'd like to do the pick-a-pearl on my trip, but I think I should wait for the next family trip when my DDs would be with me. We did that at Sea World a few years ago and the girls loved getting their pearls.

[zianha]

As we were waiting Liam found his first purchase of the trip. I think it was called a bay blade, it a sort of electronic top that makes noises. It is amazing to me that we travel all the way to Disney World to buy a toy that he could buy at Toys-R-Us.:confused3

My boys like BeyBlades too! Our last 2 trips they bought Bakugan and Webkinz at the parks that we could have gotten (cheaper) from our local stores! This year they wised up and didn't do that even though they gift stores in Japan have alot of the toys they like. :sad2:

[lovethattink]

My oldest son use to collect beyblades. They can really do some damage to floors and moulding, and bath tubs! Did you buy him a bey blade stadium once you got home?

Great pics. Did the phone ring while he was in the booth at UK? How did you make out with the pearls? Did you get a cage for them or have them set?

[Singledad]

I know with my kid it is more of a... i know i can buy what i want here, without being told no, or wait.... cause it is vacation and my own spending money!


i just always told her that if she spent that much now, she would only hav e this much left for later... which worked very well.

[lbuzz52]

love the phone booth pics!

Did you pick any settings for your pearls?

cant wait to hear about Coral Reef!

[Corrine 1973]

Isn't that just like a kid wanting something on their special vacation what they could get down the street from their home at the local Toys R Us?....:rotfl2:
How are you all handling the heat wave in the midwest? It is miserable here. Praying for rain.

I know what you mean. I tried to explain that he could buy these at Toys R Us or Walmart, but it didn't change his mind. He really wanted it. It turned out to be a life saver at resturaunts while we were waiting. I thought it would bug other people, but Liam is good about getting the other kids to play to so I think alot of parents were happy to have something to keep them occupied.:lmao:

It's been horribly hot here this last week. It was so hot on wednesday that you could have fried an egg on the sidewalk. Really. Than on Thursday I took the kids to Six Flags for the water park and even though I applied sunscreen I still got a little burned. And I was laughing at the people who were caking on white blobs of sunscreen on their families. Guess they got the last laugh.:rotfl:

WS fun!

I'd like to do the pick-a-pearl on my trip, but I think I should wait for the next family trip when my DDs would be with me. We did that at Sea World a few years ago and the girls loved getting their pearls.

I definatly loved picking a pearl. My friend who got 7 of them says she gets some everytime that she comes to Epcot (they are DVC owners) and has a jar full of them at home. Hmmm, I wonder how much money that jar is worth???:rotfl2: I definatly recommend doing it with your DD's. It's a lot of fun and you have a great item to remember your trip.:thumbsup2

My boys like BeyBlades too! Our last 2 trips they bought Bakugan and Webkinz at the parks that we could have gotten (cheaper) from our local stores! This year they wised up and didn't do that even though they gift stores in Japan have alot of the toys they like. :sad2:

I guess boys will be boys right.:lmao: Countless times Liam wanted to buy things and I had to remind him that he only had so much on his card and once it was gone I wasn't going to be giving him any more money. I really wanted him to save some money for friday when we went to Star Wars weekend. I can see how Japan could attract them with all the toys they had.:hippie:

My oldest son use to collect beyblades. They can really do some damage to floors and moulding, and bath tubs! Did you buy him a bey blade stadium once you got home?

Great pics. Did the phone ring while he was in the booth at UK? How did you make out with the pearls? Did you get a cage for them or have them set?

I didn't even know about the stadium, I might have to check it out for christmas. He hasn't really been playing with it since we got home so I haven't really worried about it. I'm sure the stadium with renew his intrest.:lmao:

The phone didn't ring when we were taking the picture, that would have been cool though. I could just imagine Liam's face.:goodvibes We got a 7mm pink, a 7 1/4 mm pink, and a 7 1/4 mm gold. I have not bought a setting for them yet. I am thinking about getting me and Mia matching settings but haven't had time yet. I gave the 7 1/4 mm to my mom for her gift and she is talking about getting it set into a grandmother ring since Aidan's birth stone in pearl.

I know with my kid it is more of a... i know i can buy what i want here, without being told no, or wait.... cause it is vacation and my own spending money!


i just always told her that if she spent that much now, she would only hav e this much left for later... which worked very well.

I told the same thing to Liam and he really wanted it so I let him get it. It was his money after all. He did have a $100 gift card at the beginning of the trip so he still had lots of money to spend.:thumbsup2 We actually had some left when we got to the airport and bought one last thing at the Disney store there.

love the phone booth pics!

Did you pick any settings for your pearls?

cant wait to hear about Coral Reef!

We have not got any settings for the pearls yet. I gave my mom one and the other two are for me and Mia. I want to do a matching setting for ours but haven't had time to research them yet. I have seen the ones on ebay and have thought about it, but being only a couple of bucks they are not real silver so I am hoping to find something with real silver.:confused3

[MARsMama]

I am looking forward to doing the Pick-a-Pearl with my dd for her birthday gift.
Love your photos of WS, can't wait to go there, I feel like I missed so much on our last trip.

[Corrine 1973]

So the last time you left us we were in Canada and heading back to the Sea's Pavillion to have dinner at Coral Reef.

Now out of all the reservations I have made for this trip, Coral Reef was one that I was looking foward to the most. I ended up putting a Celebration on almost every reservation because we were celebrating Liam's 9th birthday, but this was the only one that I placed as celebrating my birthday even though it wasn't until August. We all need to get into the celebrating, right?

So it was about 5:45 and our reservation was for 6:05 so we were walking quite fast toward the resturaunt. I saw the Water play area as we walked there and I was a little sad that we didn't have time to stop there. It would have been nice to cool off in some water, it was so very HOOTTT!!! But than again it wouldn't be a good idea to get wet and than have to go to an air conditioned resteraunt.:lmao:

We made good time and were at Coral Reef by 6 pm.

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They took my name and we went to the waiting area to wait for our names to be called. And waited. . .and waited. . .and waited. Finally at about 6:25 they called our name and we were walking into the sitting area. Now before every one starts saying that waiting 20 min past reservation time is horrible, when I got back to the room I checked my book with all my plans and the reservation was actually for 6:20. Guess who didn't leave the book in the room again.:confused3

Luckily Liam had his Beyblade to keep him busy. He made a friend with a little girl and they played together for a little bit until her family was called. They were sitting a couple of tables away and waved to us as we sat down.

We had a great table. Right infront of the tank there were two double tables right next to each other. An older couple were sitting right next to the tank and we were sitting right next to them.

I got the Pan-seared Seasonal Catch - with wild mushroom and bay scallop risotto with celery, root Nage finished with parsley-truffle oil. It was so good and I relished every bite. I don't remember what the seasonal catch was, but it was excellent and I ate every bite of it.

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Liam got the Lobster soup for an appitizer, and than got the Mai Mai, broccolli, and mashed potatoes for his entree. He loved the food and like me ate every bite. I just asked him to describe the food and he said "Fishy". Ah, out of the mouths of babes. . .:lmao:

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As we waited for our meals, we snacked on some bread. It was warm and so good. I only ment to have one so I wouldn't fill up before dinner and ended up having two.:goodvibes

For dessert Liam had the make your own sunday in which he enjoyed playing with before he ate it. Dessert and a craft all in one, who would have thought. I couldn't resist the choclate wave and must admite that it was all that it was hyped up to be. Soooo good!!!

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When the waitress brought out the dessert there was candle in Liam's dessert. She had asked about our celebration and I ended up admiting that it had just been Liam's birthday and mine was not until August. She also gave Liam a half dozen plastic dolphins. So very sweet of her.

About an hour after we arrived, we left the Coral Reef feeling stuffed and satisfied. Remembering that we didn't get any pictures with Nemo and friends earlier we headed over there for some pics.

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So crossing this off that off our list of things to do, I notice we still had some time before Illuminations. So I asked Liam what he wanted to do giving him the options of Soarin' or Test Track. Guess what he choose? TEST TRACK!!! That is where we get the name of this TR. Especially since when we got off he begged to go on again.:rotfl2: So we had a total of 3 rides on TT (two than and one from earlier) before we headed back to Canada to stake out our places for Illuminations.

[mtgirl29]

YAY! For Liam to conquer his fears. So very proud of the lil' guy!!!
Corral Reef's catch of the day looked delish and I especially like the looks of that chocolate heaven dessert!
Great update! Cannot wait to read more!popcorn::

[PixieMama]

Mmmmmm, your dessert looks so yummy! In fact, your entire dinner sounds like it was a good one!

[Moira222]

Here are the Photopass pics.
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I love these photos!!:goodvibes

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So know our Mission is done in China and we head to Germany to start our mission there. I must admite that I am less than a happy camper at this time. I haven't followed my own advice and hadn't had anything to drink since we left the Cantina. At this point I am hot and my head is throbbing. I admite that I was getting a little short tempered with Liam who was asking me to help hime with some of the big words and clues from KP. I decided for both of our sanity to finish the mission in Germany and than stop KP and explore in a more leisurly pace. I think Liam was a little dissappointed but he understood why and didn't complain. What a good boy I have.:thumbsup2

You DO have a good boy! I think the KimPossible Missions look like so much fun. We got a ticket for a time but never returned for our actuall mission :confused3 maybe next time. i hope they still have this feature!

.....

As I was finishing my lemonade, we went up to find out when the next show was going to start. The CM was very nice and started talking to us. She noticed Liam's birthday button and asked if Mickey had called him, he told her that he had gotten a call from mickey last night. She proceded to take him to an area inside the building where Goofy talked to him. I took the time to pour the rest of my lemonade into my resort mug so we could go in.

Wait a minute....Goofy talked to him? as a character? wow I never heard of that!

Liam talked non-stop about goofy on the elevator to the second floor of the building. He was very excited. We only got to see the last song of the singers, but they were really good. We than made our way to the show and sat to enjoy the show.

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At the beginning of the show a CM asked all the service men/women to stand up and we applauded them (I thought that that was very sweet. It was memorial day after all.) What show is this? I have never seen it before.


sorry i am so far behind - but working on catching up!

Your Epcot day sounds just wonderful - you got to do so much in a day! and how cool to have picked pink and gold pearls. What did you do with them? Small world to run in to a RenFaire pal in WDW!

Your pictures are funny in front of the Nemo ride...i never remember to get that creative.

Thanks for sharing....hopefully I won't get so far behind!

[Victoriasmom98]

Oh Corrine, it took me a while but here I am and I've just finished your TR so far. I love all your pics and Liam looks like he's having such a wonderful time!!! :goodvibes

[Kari-B]

Sorry to hear about the boy's stitches. :guilty: Looks like a great day at Epcot!

[lbuzz52]

oh, the wave... yum... i could go for one right now.

Liam looks like he is having so much fun!

[Corrine 1973]

YAY! For Liam to conquer his fears. So very proud of the lil' guy!!!
Corral Reef's catch of the day looked delish and I especially like the looks of that chocolate heaven dessert!
Great update! Cannot wait to read more!popcorn::

I was definatly proud of my little man conquering his fears. The small rollercoaster at Six Flags that Liam refused to go on last year is now one of his favorites.:yay: Corral Reef was very good and I would recommend it highly.

Mmmmmm, your dessert looks so yummy! In fact, your entire dinner sounds like it was a good one!

The dessert was soooooo good. The combination of choclate and raspberry is such a great combo. I give it 2 thumbs up. (I would give it more, but I only have 2.:lmao:)

sorry i am so far behind - but working on catching up!

Your Epcot day sounds just wonderful - you got to do so much in a day! and how cool to have picked pink and gold pearls. What did you do with them? Small world to run in to a RenFaire pal in WDW!

Your pictures are funny in front of the Nemo ride...i never remember to get that creative.

Thanks for sharing....hopefully I won't get so far behind!



I still haven't done anything with the pearls, but I was talking to a jewelry designer yesterday and she has some real good ideas.

It was great to see my friends at Epcot, I just learned that there was another ren faire friend also at the world but he was at HS that day.

The creativitly of the pictures are all Liam. I asked him to stand by the main characters for pics and there was someone at them so he started posing with other fish and telling me to take his pictures. I never would have thought about it either.

Oh Corrine, it took me a while but here I am and I've just finished your TR so far. I love all your pics and Liam looks like he's having such a wonderful time!!! :goodvibes

Here is the answer to the questions that didn't show up here. The show was at the American pavillion. It was the the American Experiance. A CM brought Liam to a phone inside the big white building were the show was located (by the singers) to have him talk to goofy. I read in another TR that they talkied to goofy to.

Thanks Victoriasmom98, I am glad you are enjoying the TR. Your Trip is getting so close. I bet you are getting excited.:goodvibes

Sorry to hear about the boy's stitches. :guilty: Looks like a great day at Epcot!

Thanks Kari-B. Everybody is doing good, there stiches are out, and hopefully will remain stitch free for a long, long time. We had an excellent time at epcot besides the heat and the headache.:thumbsup2

oh, the wave... yum... i could go for one right now.

Liam looks like he is having so much fun!

Oh no, now you got be thinking of that yummy desert and drooling. Time to find some food.:lmao:

Liam had a great time. When we were on the bus heading back from DHS on the last day he told me he wished we were staying another day so we could go back to Epcot.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

So finally we have come to the end of our day at Epcot and our second day at WDW. (It's about time right!!:lmao:)

After we road TT for the third time we relized that it was time to head back to Canada and stack out our place for Illuminations. We got there a little later than I anticipated but we still got some good seats behind a couple by the fence in the wheelchair section. Liam was able to see very good from his stroller, so I was happy. Liam tried to make friends with the couple but they were ignoring him for the most part so he occupied his time with his Bey Blade.

The show was amazing and I am so glad we were able to see it. Here are some pics.

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With the fireworks complete we headed back to the front of the park with the waves of people and headed toward the bus home. We had to wait about 10 minutes for the bus to arrive and I knew that we were not going to fit on the first bus, but luckily a second bus arrived right after the first one showed up so we didn't have to wait to long. Liam ammused himself by playing with a little boy in line. They were using the fans that they had colored at the Kidcott areas as swords. They were both in pieces with in minutes and needed to be taking away. Haha, I guess boys will be boys.:confused3

We filled our cups at Pop when we got back and was surprised when someone called my name. It was Zinia who we had tried to meet up at the pool the day before. We had been on the same bus. She texted me but I didn't get it until later. They followed us to our room and I gave them the bag of goodies that I brought for them, talked for a bit, and than said goodbye since it was getting late. I had Liam take a quick shower and took my own while Liam did his treatment. We were in bed and atempting to sleep by 11:30 and dreaming of how much fun we had at Epcot.

The next day we would be heading to Disney Hollywood Studio's.

[Kari-B]

Great pics! Looks so awesome!

[MARsMama]

Sounds like your Epcot day ended on a great note:thumbsup2
Can't wait to hear about your HS day:)

[lbuzz52]

Looks like you had a pretty nice spot for illuminations! Glad you finally were able to have your meet!

[Moira222]

Love your Epcot photos! How funny that you had a short term DIS stalker LOL nice that she found you and you could meet and catch up. Doncha love it when a day has a great ending?

[kdzbear]

Corrine, I have finally found the trip report! I kept waiting for my email to tell me that there was an update on the pre-trip report. I am glad you sent me a message on FB! I am so happy that you tried Boma and liked it! It is one of our favorite restaurants. It is also notorious for being backed up and behind.

The 00 wait for Mickey is amazing! I am sure that Liam loved it.

I love your Kim Possible missions in Epcot. Liam looks like he had lots of fun trying new rides!

I will now stay up-to-date when you post new updates! I love all of the photos! :wizard:

[Corrine 1973]

Sorry I have been MIA for a while. Don't loose faith my friends, I promise to start day three soon. Love you all.:love::cloud9:

[Singledad]

no worries, i too have gone a bit MIA....

[Corrine 1973]

Once again I am sorry for being MIA for such a long time. It's been kind of hard to keep up with my TR knowing that I will not be able to go back probably to 2013. Unless I can win the lotto, than I a will be going back at Christmas no matter how busy it gets. LOL.

Well anyway, enough of the small talk, back to our report. You last time you left us we had left Epcot after a wonderful day. Next is day 3 in which we head to Disney's Hollywood Studio's. Now this was not the optimal day to go to DHS according to the crowd levels, but we decided to brave it because we had never seen Fantasmic and really wanted to see it.

After us getting to the park before rope drop really didn't work out for us the day before, we decided to sleep in a little and get there around opening. While Liam did his breathing treatments, I got ready. I really didn't feel like Pop tarts for breakfast today so I asked Liam if he wanted to eat breakfast at the All's Pop. He definatly agreed.

He got waffles and bacon, and I had pancakes with sausage. It was nothing to spectacular so I didn't take any pictures. I do remember that it was very crowded and we were lucky to be able to get seats inside. It was just to hot outside and I didn't want to have to eat outside.

After a nice breakfast, we refilled our mugs (had to get our money's worth) and headed to the bus. There was already a bit of a line, but with in a couple of minutes the bus showed up and we were on our way.

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[lovethattink]

Once again I am sorry for being MIA for such a long time. It's been kind of hard to keep up with my TR knowing that I will not be able to go back probably to 2013. Unless I can win the lotto, than I a will be going back at Christmas no matter how busy it gets. LOL.

Well anyway, enough of the small talk, back to our report. You last time you left us we had left Epcot after a wonderful day. Next is day 3 in which we head to Disney's Hollywood Studio's. Now this was not the optimal day to go to DHS according to the crowd levels, but we decided to brave it because we had never seen Fantasmic and really wanted to see it.

After us getting to the park before rope drop really didn't work out for us the day before, we decided to sleep in a little and get there around opening. While Liam did his breathing treatments, I got ready. I really didn't feel like Pop tarts for breakfast today so I asked Liam if he wanted to eat breakfast at the All's Pop. He definatly agreed.

He got waffles and bacon, and I had pancakes with sausage. It was nothing to spectacular so I didn't take any pictures. I do remember that it was very crowded and we were lucky to be able to get seats inside. It was just to hot outside and I didn't want to have to eat outside.

After a nice breakfast, we refilled our mugs (had to get our money's worth) and headed to the bus. There was already a bit of a line, but with in a couple of minutes the bus showed up and we were on our way.

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No need to apologize for being MIA. I'm so glad you are continuing on with the TR!! Take your time. There's no hurry. I understand the Disney withdrawal between trips. When we lived in PA we did 2 trips a year to get discounts with our AP, then we'd take a hiatus from Disney for 2 years. Those were some of the longest 2 year stretches!! Christmas 2013 will be a beautiful time to go!

Love your photopass pics! Can't wait 'til my photopass cd comes in the mail!

[MARsMama]

I've been MIA myself as life has been so busy, and now our trip is getting so close.
Great start to your HS day!:thumbsup2 Can't wait to hear more!

[Corrine 1973]

So I find it intresting that when I was planning my trip to WDW that I was on here several times a day, and know that I am writting my TR I go days or more at a time with out coming back. I will finish this TR, I promise. :thumbsup2:rotfl2:

So we had just arrivied for our day at DHS. It turns out that our decision to get there right after rope drop was a good one for us. We were able to sleep in a little bit and not have to deal with the huge crowds rushing to the first ride. We got there just after 9 am and it was perfect for us.

Our first stop was the JTA. I had heard that the slots filled up quickly and Liam really wanted to participate in this event. We only waited about 15 minutes to sign for the 2:15 show (or at least close to that time). We meet a lovely family from England while we were waiting and Liam made one more friend, James. I remember I was able to foward on some of my knowledge I have learned to them, and I suggested one of the adults stay with the kids who wanted to do JTA while the other adult took the tickets to TSM to get some fast passes.:thumbsup2

With our reservation for JTA in hand we headed off the the ride that both Liam and I were looking foward to. Star Tour 2!!!!

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Due to Liam's condition, we were able to go through the wheelchair entrance and about 5 minutes later we were handed our 3D glasses and waiting for our first ride on Star Tours. We were in the front row all the way to the right side though I found that the 3D effects were still very good. :3dglasses

*SPOILER**DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED AT RIDE**

We were greeted by Darth Vader as we started leaving the station who was looking for a Rebel Spy (someone in the ride but never us:sad2:) We than took off and found ourselves in a Pod Race at Tatooine. We win but almost crash, so we jump to light speed and are in the middle of a battle at the Death Star. After some fancy flying we were back where we started and safe. Both of us loved the ride and wanted to go back.

Being close to the area, we decided to go to Muppets 3D next.

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We had seen this show the last time we had gone to WDW, but found that we still enjoyed the show very much. I actually found that I enjoyed it a little more than last time since I didn't loose my camera during the show. I took a couple of pictures later of the decorations outside the show but figured here was a good place to put them.

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Well that is it for today. Thanks for sticking with me, and I will try to update again sooner.:goodvibes

[brookelizabeth]

Well, I am just getting here - so take your time! :laughing: Better late than never, right?!?! :goodvibes

[Corrine 1973]

Well, I am just getting here - so take your time! :laughing: Better late than never, right?!?! :goodvibes

Thanks for joining. I like you pholosophy. I never finished our MaW TR but I will finish this one. (Repeat this 10 times.:lmao:)

[Corrine 1973]

So here we are back at Walt Disney World (wish I was really there), enjoying are day at Hollywood Studio's.

After we had seen the Muppet show we decided to head to one of Liam's favorites. Toy Story Mania.

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The line was huge, well over and hour long. I am glad that we got the GAC card for Liam because there was no way he would have been able to do that line. We went through the wheelchair entrance and waited about 10 minutes for special car to pull in the loading zone. The ride was great as always (as if I have been on it more than once up to this point.:rotfl2:) I got the higher score, but not by to much and nothing compared to what other people were getting.

So than I looked at my smiling son and asked him what he wanted to do next. His smile broadened even larger as he said, "Star Tours!" Well of course Star Tours, should I have thought anything diffrent. So off we were back to ST. I tried to take a pick in the Que but we were so far up it didn't come out the way I wanted. But anyway, here it is.

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This time we were again greeted by Darth Vader, went to Hoth, and finished the ride at Corsacant.

After this I asked Liam if we could do the Great Movie Ride. We didn't do it last time we were there and it was one of the rides I really wanted to do. He didn't want to do it at first, but agreed when I told him how much I wanted to do it.

On the way we came across the new street show. I forgot the name. I thought it was OK, but Liam really enjoyed it. Here are some pics.

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Than we were off to the The Great Movie Ride.

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I didn't take any pics during the ride, unfortunatly. But it was so much fun. We sat right next to the driver which was really nice. I noticed that she was from Illinois, I tried to talk to her about it but she was really busy. Also got some great enteractions from the female gangster as she adressed Liam and I personally because we were sitting right next to her.

Next we went to The Indiana Jones Stunt show. This was the second time we seen it and we both still loved it. Didn't take alot of pictures because I was to busy watching the show. But here is one for you.

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Next it was time for lunch, but we will do that in the next installment.

[MARsMama]

Sounds like your HS morning went well.
I've been back for nearly a week now and have yet to even start a TR! There just doesn't seem to be as much time to visit the DIS boards when you're not planning a trip ;) lol

[Corrine 1973]

Sounds like your HS morning went well.
I've been back for nearly a week now and have yet to even start a TR! There just doesn't seem to be as much time to visit the DIS boards when you're not planning a trip ;) lol

I know what you mean. Real life takes over and since it doesn't revolve around your unpcoming trip to Dis you get over here less and less. I am trying to get better though, and I will finish this TR. No matter how long it takes.:rotfl2:

Can't wait to read your TR.

[Corrine 1973]

So we had just seen the Indiana Jones show and were heading off to our reservations at Mama Melrose for lunch at 2:10.

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We got there about 2, so we had to wait a little bit. Liam had brough his Bey Blade with him and found this another great time to play with it. Of course he attracted the attention of another little girl and they played quietly until her table was called. A couple of minutes later we were called and making our way to the dinning room.

When our server came over to us he informed us that there was a special going on that day. Those adults on the Dinning Plan were able to get a starter for with there meal for no additional cost. Bonus!!!! So I ordered the clams for a starter, the steak for my meal, and cheese cake for dessert. Sorry for the lack of pictures. Forgot to get my food porn on. The steak was a little bit fatty, but everything was good and I would definatly go back there again.

Liam ordered some soup, spegetti with meat sauce, and make your own sundae for dessert. He did have some of my clams and said he loved everything he ate.

While we were eating, the family we met while waiting in line for JTA showed up and we said hi. We were getting close to the time we had to leave to do the JTA so I was worried that they would not make it because they had just sat down. Unfortunatly they didn't make it.:confused3

So with our bellies more than full, we headed off to JTA.

I video tapped the show (and will share it as soon as I find out how to do that) so I only have the PP pics to show you. Enjoy.

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He was the first one who faught with Darth Vader so he thought he was very special. He couldn't stop talking about the "battle" and since we were right there we couldn't resist the pull to see ST another time. So quick as a flash we headed to the line. Darth Vader greeted us once again as our trip started, we were again in the pod race at Tantooine, but we ended the trip at Naboo which was our favorite ending. Great 3D effect at the end. That is all I will say if you have not seen it. For those who have seen it, you know what I am talking about.

Our day is quicly coming to an end but still not over. I promise to soon return to finish our exciting adventures at Hollywood Studios.

[Lidian]

Come back! I want to know what happens next! popcorn::

[Corrine 1973]

Come back! I want to know what happens next! popcorn::

Will be back soon I promise. Hehe.

[Lidian]

Will be back soon I promise. Hehe.

I'll be here waiting! :goodvibes

[mtgirl29]

Great trip reporting, Corrine!!!
I totally relate that life gets in the way when you are not planning your upcoming trip to WDW and it is very hard to write about trip that has already come and gone. It is kind of depressing. At least Lidian has another trip to look forward to. We will not be going back until 2013 :sad1:. I keep promising myself and everyone else I will complete this TR. I started it, I will finish it....now I need to tell myself this over and over! :lmao:

So cool that Liam got to fight Darth Vader!!!! The pictures are precious. What great memories.

I look very closely at your pictures to see if I am in any of the background shots! :rotfl2:

Cannot wait for you to get your computer back so you can continue your TR!!!

[Corrine 1973]

O.k. So I figured out how to get around of the problems I have been having on Photobucket. It's going to take me longer to post everything, but hey it worth it for my fine readers. I know I have lost most of you along the way with my extended absents, but thank you for all of you who have stuck around and welcome to any who might find themselves pulled here.

So where were we? Ahhh yes, Liam had just faught Darth Vader and won. And than we took another trip on the ST. For those who are counting that will bring our ST rides to the number 3.

So next we decided to take a ride on the back lot tour. Alright I admite it. I decided that I wanted to go on the BLT and Liam went on with me because he loves his Mama.:love:Ahh, what a sweet boy I have.

The first thing we saw was the shed from the Hannah Montana Movie. Liam couldn't care less about this, but I snapped a picture for his sister at home who likes her.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011202.jpg

Next we came upon the bone cage from Pirates of the Caribean. A very cool prop.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011203.jpg

Than we came upon the small water tower. I have seen it in pictures and was happy to finally be able to see it in person.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011204.jpg

Next we saw Herbie the Love Bug. Funny, didn't I see him before we left Illinois? He must be fast to make it all the way to florida in a couple of days. :rotfl2:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011205.jpg

Than we saw our favorite pal Mickey Mouse.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011207.jpg

Both Liam and I thought that this plan was very cool.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011208.jpg

Tried to get a good picture of the water tower, but this was about the best I could do. The sun wasn't in a good spot.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011210.jpg

Here is a picture of Liam enjoying the ride.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011211.jpg

Here is a couple of pictures of the montain scene. We were directed to sit in certain seats because Liam wanted to get wet. Well, he got a little misting and that was all.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011215.jpg

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011216.jpg

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Than I took a picture of this, just because. :rotfl2:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011218.jpg

I had to take a picture of this. It's the ship from the Flight of the Navigator. Love that movie.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011220.jpg

Of course I had to take a picture of this for Liam. It's from Return of the Jedi.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011221.jpg

A couple more pictures from inside the building after the ride was over.

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http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011228.jpg

Well that will be it for today since I just overwelmed you with pictures. Will be back soon to complete the day. Will we go on ST again? Where we eat for dinner? What unusual thing will happen during Fantasmic? I guess you will just have to keep reading to find out.

[Lidian]

Great trip reporting, Corrine!!!
I totally relate that life gets in the way when you are not planning your upcoming trip to WDW and it is very hard to write about trip that has already come and gone. It is kind of depressing. At least Lidian has another trip to look forward to. We will not be going back until 2013 :sad1:. I keep promising myself and everyone else I will complete this TR. I started it, I will finish it....now I need to tell myself this over and over! :lmao:

So cool that Liam got to fight Darth Vader!!!! The pictures are precious. What great memories.

I look very closely at your pictures to see if I am in any of the background shots! :rotfl2:

Cannot wait for you to get your computer back so you can continue your TR!!!

2013: That's still a trip to look forward to! Even if it's not booked and you don't have exact dates!

It would be awesome if we all went at the same time in 2013. :woohoo:

I agree that it was awesome that Liam got to fight DV! I'm a bit jealous. ;)

(I've also searched for myself in background pics of others who were there at the same time.)

[Lidian]

O.k. So I figured out how to get around of the problems I have been having on Photobucket. It's going to take me longer to post everything, but hey it worth it for my fine readers. I know I have lost most of you along the way with my extended absents, but thank you for all of you who have stuck around and welcome to any who might find themselves pulled here.

So where were we? Ahhh yes, Liam had just faught Darth Vader and won. And than we took another trip on the ST. For those who are counting that will bring our ST rides to the number 3.

I'm jealous. We got two rides. And they were 99% identical! (The "agent" was different, obviously.)

So next we decided to take a ride on the back lot tour. Alright I admite it. I decided that I wanted to go on the BLT and Liam went on with me because he loves his Mama.:love:Ahh, what a sweet boy I have.

The first thing we saw was the shed from the Hannah Montana Movie. Liam couldn't care less about this, but I snapped a picture for his sister at home who likes her.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011202.jpg

DD saw this and got excited ... but she's starting to realize that HM is not a good role model and has moved beyond that. She didn't even ask for me to take a picture. But she was excited to see something she recognized. (It took me a minute to place it, but after she described it a bit, I remembered watching the movie with her.)

I also LOVE BLT. It's a must do for us! How awesome of Liam to let you enjoy the ride!

Next we came upon the bone cage from Pirates of the Caribean. A very cool prop.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011203.jpg

Than we came upon the small water tower. I have seen it in pictures and was happy to finally be able to see it in person.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011204.jpg

Next we saw Herbie the Love Bug. Funny, didn't I see him before we left Illinois? He must be fast to make it all the way to florida in a couple of days. :rotfl2:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011205.jpg

Than we saw our favorite pal Mickey Mouse.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011207.jpg

Both Liam and I thought that this plan was very cool.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011208.jpg

Tried to get a good picture of the water tower, but this was about the best I could do. The sun wasn't in a good spot.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011210.jpg

I think it's impossible to get a good pic of the water tower. I tried and tried over the past three visits and no luck. NONE. Yours is much better than my best attempts. :rolleyes:

Here is a picture of Liam enjoying the ride.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011211.jpg

Here is a couple of pictures of the montain scene. We were directed to sit in certain seats because Liam wanted to get wet. Well, he got a little misting and that was all.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011215.jpg

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011216.jpg

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011217.jpg

Than I took a picture of this, just because. :rotfl2:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011218.jpg

I had to take a picture of this. It's the ship from the Flight of the Navigator. Love that movie.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011220.jpg

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR!!!!!! This is a must-pic for me every trip! They keep moving it around though! Looks like it was moved between my May visit and your June one ... I almost missed it in May, but searched for it and saw it hidden over in some weeds. :headache: It was my favorite movie as a child!

Of course I had to take a picture of this for Liam. It's from Return of the Jedi.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/th_WaltDisneyWorld2011221.jpg

A couple more pictures from inside the building after the ride was over.

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Well that will be it for today since I just overwelmed you with pictures. Will be back soon to complete the day. Will we go on ST again? Where we eat for dinner? What unusual thing will happen during Fantasmic? I guess you will just have to keep reading to find out.[/SIZE]

I have a feeling you rode ST ... lessee ... three more times. Six sounds like a nice rounded number. lol Totally loving your pics! Can't wait to hear more about your day!!!! (Especially about something unsual happening during F!)

[Corrine 1973]

Great trip reporting, Corrine!!!
I totally relate that life gets in the way when you are not planning your upcoming trip to WDW and it is very hard to write about trip that has already come and gone. It is kind of depressing. At least Lidian has another trip to look forward to. We will not be going back until 2013 :sad1:. I keep promising myself and everyone else I will complete this TR. I started it, I will finish it....now I need to tell myself this over and over! :lmao:

So cool that Liam got to fight Darth Vader!!!! The pictures are precious. What great memories.

I look very closely at your pictures to see if I am in any of the background shots! :rotfl2:

Cannot wait for you to get your computer back so you can continue your TR!!!

Funny because I was looking for me and Liam in the back ground of your shots as well. No luck as of yet. :lmao: I know what you mean. It seems a little sad to be here when I am not planning a trip right now. Though I am going to start planning for my 2013 trip when I am done here. A year isn't to much time to start planning, right?:lmao:

Was able to figure out how to do the picture.:woohoo::woohoo:

2013: That's still a trip to look forward to! Even if it's not booked and you don't have exact dates!

It would be awesome if we all went at the same time in 2013. :woohoo:

I agree that it was awesome that Liam got to fight DV! I'm a bit jealous. ;)

(I've also searched for myself in background pics of others who were there at the same time.)

That would be cool if we could if we all went in 2013 at the same time. We will have to keep on that.

I wish I could have faught DV too, but alas I am to old. This was probably Liam's last year to do it as well. I will always have the pics and the video.

[lovethattink]

Looks like I missed your October updates. They are great. Love the Jedi training pics. He is really enjoying himself!! Why would this be his last year doing jedi training? Will he be 13?

[Lidian]

Funny because I was looking for me and Liam in the back ground of your shots as well. No luck as of yet. :lmao: I know what you mean. It seems a little sad to be here when I am not planning a trip right now. Though I am going to start planning for my 2013 trip when I am done here. A year isn't to much time to start planning, right?:lmao:

Was able to figure out how to do the picture.:woohoo::woohoo:

That would be cool if we could if we all went in 2013 at the same time. We will have to keep on that.

I wish I could have faught DV too, but alas I am to old. This was probably Liam's last year to do it as well. I will always have the pics and the video.

Well, for the record, it will probably be August 2013 (or later) when I go. :goodvibes One of the girls said she can't take her vacation until August.

And I'm already planning that trip ... well, a bit anyway. Can't do too much without knowing what days/week.

Is there an age limit for JTA? I was going to attempt to sign the kids up for it in March, but DD will be 10. :confused3

[Corrine 1973]

Looks like I missed your October updates. They are great. Love the Jedi training pics. He is really enjoying himself!! Why would this be his last year doing jedi training? Will he be 13?

No, he will be 10 this next May, but since I decided to take all the kids one at a time I will be unable to take him again until after he turns 13. That is unless some one wants to give me a couple of grand, I win the lottery, or I get an inheritance from a rich family member I didn't know about.

Glad to see you be tink. Have you started your TR yet. I am a little behind the times here. Didn'e even know Lidian was on her way back until a couple of days agao. :rotfl2::lmao::rotfl:

Well, for the record, it will probably be August 2013 (or later) when I go. :goodvibes One of the girls said she can't take her vacation until August.

And I'm already planning that trip ... well, a bit anyway. Can't do too much without knowing what days/week.

Is there an age limit for JTA? I was going to attempt to sign the kids up for it in March, but DD will be 10. :confused3

Well I was kind of planning for end of May again, but who knows, maybe you can change my mind. I am kind of starting to plan things in my head as well such as things we have to do, where to stay, how long to stay and such as that. But things don't really seem to be real until you book that trip, right?

As for JTA, I believe you can be older than 12. Your DD should be fine, just make sure to sign up as soon as possible. Get in line with the kids to sign up while your DH runs and grabs some FP's for TSM or other ride you want to go on.

[Lidian]

No, he will be 10 this next May, but since I decided to take all the kids one at a time I will be unable to take him again until after he turns 13. That is unless some one wants to give me a couple of grand, I win the lottery, or I get an inheritance from a rich family member I didn't know about.

Glad to see you be tink. Have you started your TR yet. I am a little behind the times here. Didn'e even know Lidian was on her way back until a couple of days agao. :rotfl2::lmao::rotfl:

Well I was kind of planning for end of May again, but who knows, maybe you can change my mind. I am kind of starting to plan things in my head as well such as things we have to do, where to stay, how long to stay and such as that. But things don't really seem to be real until you book that trip, right?

As for JTA, I believe you can be older than 12. Your DD should be fine, just make sure to sign up as soon as possible. Get in line with the kids to sign up while your DH runs and grabs some FP's for TSM or other ride you want to go on.

Sounds like a good plan to me! (Yours and the suggestion you gave me for JTA.) :thumbsup2

[lovethattink]

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No, he will be 10 this next May, but since I decided to take all the kids one at a time I will be unable to take him again until after he turns 13. That is unless some one wants to give me a couple of grand, I win the lottery, or I get an inheritance from a rich family member I didn't know about.

Glad to see you be tink. Have you started your TR yet. I am a little behind the times here. Didn'e even know Lidian was on her way back until a couple of days agao. :rotfl2::lmao::rotfl:





The TR from the October trip is done. Click the pink TR in my siggie and that will take you to the table of contents. I need to update the table of contents but the first few updates are linked there. It's a continuous TR that started March 2011.

[mtgirl29]

Corrine!!! So glad you remembered how to use Photobucket!!! :rotfl2:
Loving all your pics! I, especially, love the one of Liam. He is such a cutie!
It looks like you both had a great experience on the Back Lot Tour. I am with Lidian. I think you guys rode ST a bunch more times. I even saw you guys running up the line at one point. :lmao: So I know you guys LOVED it! Cannot wait to read more!!!!!!

[Corrine 1973]

The TR from the October trip is done. Click the pink TR in my siggie and that will take you to the table of contents. I need to update the table of contents but the first few updates are linked there. It's a continuous TR that started March 2011.

Your October TR is already done? And my May TR is not even half way done? :scared1:Goodness,I need to get my butt moving. I admite I was dragging my feet at first, but now 6 months later I just need to get it done. :rotfl2:

Corrine!!! So glad you remembered how to use Photobucket!!! :rotfl2:
Loving all your pics! I, especially, love the one of Liam. He is such a cutie!
It looks like you both had a great experience on the Back Lot Tour. I am with Lidian. I think you guys rode ST a bunch more times. I even saw you guys running up the line at one point. :lmao: So I know you guys LOVED it! Cannot wait to read more!!!!!!

:rotfl2:You are too funny TK. I remember how to use Photobucket, it hasn't been that long. I just couldn't copy and paste anything on this barrowed computer. There lots of child locks on this computer and don't have a password to bypass them. Hopefully my computer will be fixed this weekend. I did find out how to work around it though. Yea me!!!!!

We had a blast on BLT pointing out all the diffrent props. Very glad that we did it. And I guess you will just have to wait to see how many more times we rode ST. :lmao: I'm so wicked!!!

[Corrine 1973]

So as previously stated it is time to get this TR back into gear. I will try to do daily updates until I am complete and than I can start planning by trip with my DD in 2013. Maybe that will help me get out of the Disney Dulldrums.

So we had just left the Back Lot Tour, took a lot of pictures and had a lot of fun. So what did we do next, . . . no not ST :rotfl2: I actually think this is when we saw Light, Motors, Action! show. I am not really sure though since it's been six months, I forgot to write it down in my book, and I didn't take any pictures of it. Here is one I stole from Photobucket.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/100_2119.jpg

The show was a lot of fun and Liam really enjoyed the action of it all. Now that I am thinking of it I think we saw it before BLT because we saw some of the backstage stuff during the ride and remembered it from the show. Oh well, can't always remember everything.

So what was next. . . Not we did not go back to ST, we did go on other rides at DHS than ST people.:lmao::rotfl: We actually decided to go back to TSM. But on the way we took a couple of pictures.

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Than we took a couple of pics while we were waiting in the line at TSM.

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Once again we had a great time on the ride. I would like to say we blew the compition out of the water, but the truth is that while we both did well, we still need some practice to get even close to some of those scores.:rotfl2:

Where did we go this time, yea your right this time, we headed back to ST which has become Liam's favorite ride. For those who are keeping track we are now going to go on ride # 4.:woohoo:

But on the way a couple more pics. Can never have enough pics right?

My son the Star Wars Toy.:lmao:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011237.jpg

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg126/Corrine1973/WaltDisneyWorld2011238.jpg

So we go on ST one last time for today. Yea this will be it for ST today.:guilty:

We were once again greeted by Darth Vader, raced our pod racer in Tantooine, and ended our journey in Naboo which became our favorite ending.

So now it was time to have some dinner. We didn't have a ADR for dinner so we decided to head of to Pizza Planet for some pizza.

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We both order Cheese pizza with salad. Liam got a cookie for dessert, I saw a picture of a very yummy Darth Vader cupcake and asked if I could get it as the dessert for my qs credit. The answer was YES!!!! It was so good, but we were so full that even with Liam's help we couldn't finish it.

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Next we were off to see Fantasmic! Luckily I had the Ticket from the Fantasmic Dinning Package because it was already jammed packed. We still had about 30 min until the show, so I pulled out the glow stick braclets and had Liam give them to some of the kids around us. Because of this he made a few friends and they kept each other occupied until the show started.

The Show was fantastic. While the seats were not bad, I must admite that it would have been better in the middle. Especially when the boats came out with all the characters. I tried to take some pictures but they didn't come out very well.

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While many people started leaving before the show was over, we stayed till the very end and was very happy with the show. Amazing.

Unfortunatly a bright spot was not to end our day.
Since Liam was able to use the stroller as a wheelchair we were able to bring it into the theatre, but we didn't want to sit in wheelchair area so we left it with some CM's and sat closer to the front.
We went back to ask a CM where it was they had no clue and dircted me to the stroller parking area. So there we are making the trek to find the stroller. We wearched two stroller parking area and were starting to freak out that someone stole are stroller. Walking back to the theatre we finally find it sitting by a garbage can.

I did go to guest service and told them what happened. I let them know how much fun we had during the rest of the day, but this one little thing kind of brought it to a sour note. They appologized and promised that they would fix the problem.

Well with our day over, we headed back to our room, Liam did his treatment for the night and we went to sleep excited about our next day at the Magic Kingdom.:banana::banana::banana:

[Corrine 1973]

So after completing day 3 of our WDW trip I realized that I missed a few pictures in the mix. So I am going to add them here.

Oh that's right. We did go to the Hunny I shrunk the Kids Playground some time today. Goodness the things you forgot.

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Liam wanted a picture with Walt himself.

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Ahh, a Mickey Bar for a Snack Credit. Can't get much better than that.

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Of course we had to take some pictures of Liam on the Speeder.

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[Lidian]

He doesn't look like he's enjoying that Mickey bar at all. :lmao:

Love the pics! Adorable!!! :cloud9:

ACK! Apparently when I clicked the page, it didn't take me to the first update. But I noticed it.

How was Pizza Planet? I was considering lunch there in March ... but haven't heard the greatest reviews.
I was close on the ST guess! lol
Totally loved the pics!
Sorry to hear about the missing stroller. That really stinks. You'd think that since it was considered a "wheelchair", they'd keep better track of where they would place it.

[Corrine 1973]

He doesn't look like he's enjoying that Mickey bar at all. :lmao:

No I don't think he enjoyed the Mickey Bar at all. :lmao:
I just asked him and his eyes got real large and he said "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy!"


Love the pics! Adorable!!! :cloud9:

Thank you. I guess I will keep him.:rotfl2:

ACK! Apparently when I clicked the page, it didn't take me to the first update. But I noticed it.

I never trust that button so I alway back track to make sure I see everything. It is very common that the last post on a page gets missed.


How was Pizza Planet? I was considering lunch there in March ... but haven't heard the greatest reviews.

I am not going to tell you that Pizza Planet was great, but it about the same as Pizza hut or Dominos IMHO. We both enjoyed it enough to eat most of are food until we were stuffed, but though Liam does not vere far from basic food, neither of us could be considered food snobs and will eat about anything edible. :rotfl2::rotfl2

I was close on the ST guess! lol

Hey you might be closer to that guess than you think because we are going back to DHS on Friday for SWW.:banana::banana::banana:


Totally loved the pics!
Sorry to hear about the missing stroller. That really stinks. You'd think that since it was considered a "wheelchair", they'd keep better track of where they would place it.


Yea that pretty much sucked about the stroller, but I was so much happier when we found it. And it's not the only time I lost the stroller on this trip either. :scared1: I actually think the CM's were to busy talking to each other than to worry about a kid with special needs stroller.:confused3 Oh, well, refused to let it get me down.

[Lidian]

Yea that pretty much sucked about the stroller, but I was so much happier when we found it. And it's not the only time I lost the stroller on this trip either. :scared1: I actually think the CM's were to busy talking to each other than to worry about a kid with special needs stroller.:confused3 Oh, well, refused to let it get me down.

Well if you venture back to DHS, then my count must be waay off. Can I change it to a 57? :lmao::rotfl2:

I really like Backlot Express's food ... but we've eaten there two years in a row. I'd kind of like something different ... but I don't want to decide now, because what if we don't feel like pizza or "whatever". So I'd like to keep my options open, but know what could potentially be good and what we might want to consider avoiding.

We aren't food snobs either. We'll eat about anything. DS is my picky eater, and he can usually be pleased. DH does good at convincing him to try new things.

Perhaps in the future, you can get the names of careless CMs so they can get a reminder about such an important issue. Honestly, I think if it were me, I'd insist the CMs find the stroller since it was a "wheelchair". We had to rent a wheelchair in 2009, but we never had issues with it being misplaced. Sometimes it was much further away than we needed it to be ... but DH would go get it and bring it to us.

I am sorry that you did have stroller/wheelchair issues. :hug: I'm glad you didn't let it slow you down or ruin your fun,though!! :goodvibes

[Corrine 1973]

Well if you venture back to DHS, then my count must be waay off. Can I change it to a 57? :lmao::rotfl2:

I really like Backlot Express's food ... but we've eaten there two years in a row. I'd kind of like something different ... but I don't want to decide now, because what if we don't feel like pizza or "whatever". So I'd like to keep my options open, but know what could potentially be good and what we might want to consider avoiding.

We aren't food snobs either. We'll eat about anything. DS is my picky eater, and he can usually be pleased. DH does good at convincing him to try new things.

Perhaps in the future, you can get the names of careless CMs so they can get a reminder about such an important issue. Honestly, I think if it were me, I'd insist the CMs find the stroller since it was a "wheelchair". We had to rent a wheelchair in 2009, but we never had issues with it being misplaced. Sometimes it was much further away than we needed it to be ... but DH would go get it and bring it to us.

I am sorry that you did have stroller/wheelchair issues. :hug: I'm glad you didn't let it slow you down or ruin your fun,though!! :goodvibes

57?!?!?!?!?! Really what did you think we did all day, just ride ST all day. You would get pretty sick of ST by than. Well Liam might not, but I sure would.:lmao:

It's good to have options when you go to eat that meal that doesn't get an ADR. Unfortunatly there doesn't seem to be to much selection at DHS in the food departmant. I mainly chose Pizza Planet because I knew Liam would injoy the arcade/games area. Just to warn you though, it was very crowded and was getting a little testy because it was taking so long. Not to mention that people don't know what they are doing with QS credits. More people should be like us and do there reserch. :banana::banana:

The problem was the CM's at the end of the show were diffrent from the ones I saw before. And the new ones were pretty sure that it would be in stroller parking. I wish I had gotten their names, though Guest services promised to look into the problem.

I do think some people have a hard time looking at the stroller and thinking of it as a "Wheelchair" It did have the sticker, but it wasn't alway easy to spot because I didn't want anyone to try to steal it. I also had a women ask me why my son got special treatment at ST when she saw up going up the wheelchair ramp. She thought it was because of his birthday (Liam was wearing his birthday button) and thought her Daughter should be able to "cut" the line as well. I had to explain the circumstances to her as tactfully as I could. Especially with Liam right there, he can be a little imbarresed when I start talking about his Medical Condition.Goodness, I wrote a lot. I better stop before it becomes the Corrine and Lidian show.

Hope to start MK tomarrow.

[lovethattink]

That's a shame about the stroller. But I'm so glad you got to try the Darth Vader cup cake! If I could eat chocolate, that would be one cupcake that I'd want to try! Great pics and updates!

Take your time. There's no hurry, no race.

It's hard for some people to understand hidden disabilities.

[Corrine 1973]

That's a shame about the stroller. But I'm so glad you got to try the Darth Vader cup cake! If I could eat chocolate, that would be one cupcake that I'd want to try! Great pics and updates!

Take your time. There's no hurry, no race.

It's hard for some people to understand hidden disabilities.

Not being able to find the stroller was probably one of the lowest parts of the trip. I was freaking out. Thinking that someone might have stollen it and now I was out a Maclauren stroller (which are not cheap) and would have to figure out how to fit a rented stroller into the budget since Liam can't do that much walking for another 3 days.

That cupcake was soooo good. Peanut butter choclate, what a great combo. I am sorry you are unable to ear choclate, I'll happily eat you portion.:rotfl:

Yea having a hidden disabbility is tough for him. Sometimes people think he is getting special treatment when he is just getting the little extra help he needs to get through.

[Corrine 1973]

So on day one we arrived at WDW and spent the eveining at MK.
On day two he hoped to avoid the crowds of Memorial Day and headed to Epcot.
One day three we enjoyed our day riding ST's at DHS.
So where are we going to go on day four?
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Yea I know the suspense is killing you.
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Alright it isn't much a suprise since I already told you where we are going.
Back to
Magic Kingdom.
:banana::yay::woohoo:

So we got up about 7:30 in the morning and basically did the same thing we did every morning. Liam did his treatment while I got some drinks, took a shower, and got ready for the day. We at are pop tarts and fruit bars in the room as we watched the Disney Channel on TV.

By about 8:30 we were basically ready and heading out the door. Now we had chosen this day to go to MK because crowd levels were below a 5, but when we went out side to get the bus the crowd was huge. So mom decided to be a little adventurous. We took the nearly empty bus to Epcot, took the monorail from Epcot to the MK ticket center, and than took the boat to MK. Alright, I know in the long run it probably took us longer to do it this way than wait for a second MK bus to show up, but could I have gotten these pictures if I did.

Had to get a picture of the Grand Floridian. Maybe I will be able to stay there one day after I win the lottery.

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Loving the picture of Cindy's Castle in the distance.

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And I couldn't resist taking a pic of Space Mountain, such a iconic thing at MK.
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So we make our way through the front gate and toward the castle making a beeline toward Fantasy Land. Though on the way we encountered the trolley show.

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I really enjoyed the show. I especially loved The Trolley Song (Clang, Clang, went the Trolley) and since I happen to know this song I was singing along. Luckily I have a decent voice because they might have told me to shut up.:lmao:

After the show was over we continued our walk toward the castle and on the way to FL. I couldn't help take a picture of one of the pictures on the walls.

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[Corrine 1973]

Sorry i had to split the post up because it had to many images. What can I say I love a TR loaded with pictures.

So what would be our first ride of day. . . Well Dumbo of course.:thumbsup2

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I could help but take a picture of the castle while we were flying on dumbo.

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I tried to get a good picture of the Beasts Caslte, but this was about as good as I could get.

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Next we headed to Mickey's Philharmagic.

We both love this show. What a great use of 3D magic. We both left with smiles on our faces.

So what was next on the agenda. . .It's a small world of course. It's not a trip to WDW with out going to IASW at least once, right?:rotfl2:

Here is Liam waiting to get on the ride.
(I just realized that this was waiting for Philharmagic. Oops)
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So will this be it for FL, Nope. Next we are on the way to the mad Tea Party. So as we made our way there I told Liam that he had to find a new friend to go on with or go by himself because if I got on that ride it would not end well. :sick: Luckily while we were waiting in line he meet a boy and his dad and asked if he could go on with them. They had no problem with that. :yay:

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I took this picture when I was waiting for him to get off the ride.

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So having gone on all the ride in FL we said a fond goodbye and were on our way. Wait a minute, you say. What about Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan. Well if you remember we had already done those on Sunday night.

So what would be the next thing we did? I guess you will have to just wait and see.:thumbsup2

[Lidian]

57?!?!?!?!?! Really what did you think we did all day, just ride ST all day. You would get pretty sick of ST by than. Well Liam might not, but I sure would.:lmao:

It's good to have options when you go to eat that meal that doesn't get an ADR. Unfortunatly there doesn't seem to be to much selection at DHS in the food departmant. I mainly chose Pizza Planet because I knew Liam would injoy the arcade/games area. Just to warn you though, it was very crowded and was getting a little testy because it was taking so long. Not to mention that people don't know what they are doing with QS credits. More people should be like us and do there reserch. :banana::banana:

Yes. I think that's what you did all day. :lmao::rotfl2::lmao::rotfl2:

I loved it ... and I'd totally ride it over and over if I could! :cloud9:

And yes, totally good to have options. Especially since most CS places have very little variety.

I think most people get the DDP without knowing anything about it. The agent they talk to says they can save up to 20% and they go "Dur dur okay!" Most people can and do save a nice amount of money, but they have to know HOW. :thumbsup2

And yes, it's kind of vague on how to use it at a CS establishment and most people have no clue. But I don't fault them ... but I wish they'd step aside sometimes. :lmao::rotfl2:

We usually eat lunch real early. I prefer lunch right at around 11am, and it's usually not too bad. We are creatures of habit ... :rotfl:

Totally loving the pictures! Can't wait to see what's next! popcorn::

[Corrine 1973]

Great news, we were able to get a new power supply for the computer and it is now working fine. Was a little worried that the mother board would be fried and I would not be able to access my pics and the 30 pages of a book that I started writing. Now I need to get a storage device to download them into as a back up in case it happens again. It's great to be able to be on my computer and not be asked about a pass word every 5 seconds. I also missed my FB games soooo much.

So anyway, back to the TR. We had just left FL and were heading around the hub when we ran across my favorite ride of all time. The Haunted Mansion.

Last we went to WDW during Liam's Wish trip we went through the exit of HM with alot of problems and misunderstandings. Since the line was short, we wanted to enjoy the special que to this ride, and we didn't want to deal with the problems we did last time we decided to park the stroller and go through the line.

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There were some people in line who were unaware of Madame Leora's eyes opening so Liam and I told them. We were all excieted to see it.

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Can you tell that we loved the Que/ There was more than one time that we let people go infront of us since we were enjoying the Que so much.

The ride was amazing as usual. I just loved the new hitch hicking ghost effect.

When we got to HM it had started drizzling and when we stepped out of the ride it was obvious that it had started raining and was drizzling again. So quickly we headed off the next ride, Pirates of the Caribean.

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PotC was fun as always. Really enjoyed the Black Beard addition. Changed it up a little.

When we left it was really comming down and it was only about 11 o'clock so we still had about an hour until our Dis meet at Cosmic Rays for lunch. So what would be a great place to try and wait out the rain. Why the Hall of Presidents of course.

Now this was another one of these rides that I thought Liam might be board with and had no intention of going to. It was very intresting and nice to be able to sit down for awhile and not be wet.

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After the show it was still raining but not to hard, so we put on are Poncho's that we brought from home and headed to Cosmic Ray's for lunch.

We will talk more about this later.:love:

[Corrine 1973]

So Lets try to finish this day up. I appologize once again for my absents, I can only find one solution for the dilema. . .Start a new PTR. So if there is anybody out there still reading feel free to join the new party. It is bound to be a long one since my next trip isn't planned for about 527 days.:)

So we were heading to Cosmic Rays for Lunch. We had made plans to meet another Diser and her fiancee there and they texted me while we were headed that way. A couple of minutes later we were there and trying to find a seat in the hugely crowded resteraunt.

Liam got a cheese burger which he liked, and I got a Chicken sandwich which I thought was a little dry. But than it was so crowded that I didn't see the fixing bar until we left. One problem I did have was that the CM tried to give me a medium drink when I ordered a large. She did fix it without a problem.

We enjoyed our meal and our Dismeet and soon it was time to leave.

This is when we had our next problem with the stroller. I didn't bring it inside because it was so crowded, but when I went to get it it was gone. I started looking franticly for it and was not finding it. I finally stopped a CM and explained what happened, he asked if I had looked at both Wheelchair entrances ( I left it at a wheelchair entrance) and sure enough it was at the other one.:headache:

After we had eaten, we decided it was time to head over to Splash Mountain.
It was a lot of fun as normal. Sorry no Pics.

We than headed over to BTMR. Now this is the little boy who did not want to go on rollercoasters and he was willing to try it. We had a blast and he wanted to go on again. . .so we did. At this time though it was raining so hard that we got more wet riding BTMR than SM.:lmao:

So after getting our thrills on we decided to head over to Aloha Isle and have a nice treat of Dole Whip. We found an nce sheltered area, sat on the floor, and hoped the rain would stop soon.

As we were eating guess who I got a text from. . . Singledad. He was there and on his way to meet us.

Sorry there are no pics for this post. I promise some for the next one.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

So we had just met up with Singledad and we were on our way to enjoying some MK time with our new friends/ family.

The rain was slowing down, but it was still drizzling a bit when we came arcoss Jungle Cruise. It wasn't currintly running but the CM said it should be up soon so we decided to wait.

The kids injoyed themselves getting to know each other a little better. (FYI- these next few pictures were taken by Singledad. So thank you.)

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We did wait to long and soon we were on the ride. It's a little bit cheesy, but we still love it.:thumbsup2

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After such a great time on JC we decided to go to the Aladdin Carpet Ride.
Here is a picture of Singledad and his DD enjoying the ride.

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Than here is a picture of the camel. Watch out . . . they spit.:lmao:

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Than singledad wanted to go on POTC, and who am I to say no. So back on POTC we go. I tried to take some pics during the ride, but with no flash they came out horrible. Here is a picture of a fontain during the que.

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Than Singledad's DD really wanted to go on SM so we happily said yes and got in line.

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We were going to see if we could go on again, but something was wrong and the ride was shutting down for a bit, so instead we went on BTMR again. For those of you keeping track this will be Liam and my 3 trip on this roller coster. Pretty good for a guy who didn't want to ride any roller coasters.

We than got in line to ride the tain back to the front of the park. Singledad's GAC was soaking wet from SM and he needed to get a new one. While we were waiting for the train a nice family gave us 4 fast passes for BTMR. We thanked her nicly and I put them in my bag. :thumbsup2

[Singledad]

and I have to say sorry again... DD and I kinda took over their day! :sad1::sad2: I was just soo happy at how well MAGICAL Liam was working for DD! I will never forget my stupidity about/during the one ride... (Corrine should know what I mean, and I don't want to spoil ahead of time.)

Here is a picture of the back of her head...

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[lovethattink]

Great MK updates! That is so awesome that you were able to meet up with each other. The kids looked like they were having a blast. The little girl beside them looks like she wanted to join the fun too.

[Lidian]

Sorry the stroller went MIA again ... but glad you found it!!!!!

Also glad to hear you guys were having a great day, despite the rain! :goodvibes

Waiting patiently for more! popcorn::

[Singledad]

Sorry the stroller went MIA again ... but glad you found it!!!!!

Also glad to hear you guys were having a great day, despite the rain! :goodvibes

Waiting patiently for more! popcorn::

I was there... and I am ALSO waiting not so patiently for more! :rotfl:

[Lidian]

I was there... and I am ALSO waiting not so patiently for more! :rotfl:

:lmao::lmao: :rotfl2::rotfl2:

Corrine better hurry up then. :p

[Corrine 1973]

:lmao::lmao: :rotfl2::rotfl2:

Corrine better hurry up then. :p

:rotfl: I will be getting an up date to you hopefully tomarrow. Been busy trying to wrap up Christmas shopping and entertaining Liam's Dad who came into town from Main. :thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

Ok I am sorry I took so long, but I lost my notebook that had all my notes in it and it's amazing what you forget when you don't have your notes. :rotfl2:

So lets see, we just took the train to the front of the park for Guest Relations. We had decided to go to Buzz Lightyear next, but the Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It! Parade started right infront of us and we couldn't resist our front row places.

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So as soon as the parade made it's way past us we hight tailed it Buzz Lightyear.

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Had a great time as usual. The kids rode together and had a blast. I rode with singledad, and well. . .he kicked my butt. I let him control the car and evertime I aimed at something the car started moving. :headache: (Not blaming you Singledad. Had a great time.:thumbsup2)

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So after this Singledad convinced Liam to try Space Montain. Unfortunatly there was a bit of a miscommunication at Space montain and Liam sat in the front, with Singledad's DD behind him, and Singledad behind her. I was in the front seat of the next car. Singledad has since appologized so there is no hard feelings.

I, unfortunatly, did not enjoy this ride. Things might have been diffrent if we were sitting together, but who knows. I liked the light effect at the beginning, but that was about it. The first time we went down a hill it wrenched my back so hard that it actually cracked. :headache: Everytime we went down a hill my back would be wrenched again. My back wasn't to happy by the end of the ride. At the time Liam said he didn't like it either, but has since said he wouldn't mind going down it again. I don't think I will be going on this one again.

After Space Montain Singledad and I went our seperate ways because we both had ADR's to make. We waited only about 5 minutes before our names were called. As we waited we started talking to another family and ended up giving them some of the FP for BTMRR. I hoped they enjoyed it.:thumbsup2

We both enjoyed Crystal Palace. We were both stuffed with all the food we ate and Liam was given a birthday card signed by all of the charactes and our server before we left. We also had some great interactions with the characters. They didn't stay long at our table but didn't seem rushed either. Liam is more of Hi, lets get a picture, bye sort of kid when it comes to characters.

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After eating we headed back to BMTRR for one more ride. Liam really loved that ride and it was a nice effect to go on it when the sun was going down.

Since we already saw the parade and fireworks show, we decided to head back to Pop for some time at the arcade and pool.

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One last picture of the castle before leaving MK.:thumbsup2

Next day, DAK.

[Lidian]

The MiSiCi street party is DD's favorite "parade"! She moves it, shakes it, and celebrates it with the performers! I just love watching HER! :cloud9:

We were just talking about the BLSRS today. I asked DS if he'd ride with me in March ... why? Because DD won't let me spin the car. :lmao: It turns out, DS likes to spin the car and DH made him cry in May (because DH wouldn't let him touch the control). So now DS and I will fight over the control to spin the car and DD and DH can have a no-spinning car. :rotfl2::lmao:

But your story reminded me of DD and myself. She'd aim and I'd move the car and she'd frog me. I was going for whiplash ... I thought if I got whiplash, DH would feel sorry for me and give me a few extra days at WDW. :rotfl:

Space Mtn is pretty rough ... that I'll agree with. However, I love it anyway and look forward to riding it several times in March! DD loves it, but she's young and can handle the turbulence. :sad2:

Glad you enjoyed CP! I'm starting to look forward to my CP ADR. :goodvibes

Glad you had a good day overall at MK! :love:

[DMGeurts]

...................................... <------- That's D~, showing up late (really late)

But I read everything...

Loved the pics of the Cantina food... Num... Oh well, we have 2 days planned at Epcot - we'll just have to have Mexican on that second day... :thumbsup2

I love that Liam was so brave through out the whole trip... He has gone on tons of coasters - there's nothing better than a Disney coaster though. :banana:

Boma looked awesome - I am looking forward to eating there... I was thinking I would have to use some of our snack credits for Zebra Domes, I am very happy to find out that they are at Boma with our meal. :banana:

I think most people get the DDP without knowing anything about it. The agent they talk to says they can save up to 20% and they go "Dur dur okay!" Most people can and do save a nice amount of money, but they have to know HOW. :thumbsup2

And yes, it's kind of vague on how to use it at a CS establishment and most people have no clue. But I don't fault them ... but I wish they'd step aside sometimes. :lmao::rotfl2:


Can you please enlighten me... What am I missing? This isn't our first WDW trip - but it's our first DDP trip... Can you give me some CS advice??? :lovestruc

Corrine, I can't believe you are doing a TR and a PTR all at one time! :worship:

D~

[Lidian]

Can you please enlighten me... What am I missing? This isn't our first WDW trip - but it's our first DDP trip... Can you give me some CS advice??? :lovestruc

I'm sure you aren't missing anything! However, in our past trips, people stand there, unsure of what's included for the CS, or even how to pay for it. I'm not being mean (maybe I am, but I don't mean it) ... but sometimes I wish people would be courteous and step aside if they're going to fumble around and stare at the menu at the ordering kiosk. (That's just in general, and not always in regards to DDP.) They have signs everywhere that says what is included in the DDP, some people just don't know how to read them, so they get to the kiosk and have the CM explain it to them -- which takes time. My precious WDW time! I could have already ordered and be waiting for food!

But I know you and you've done your research! You know what's included with your DDP for TS and CS meals alike! And hopefully you're the type that stands back and looks at the menu before jumping in line (or can pick quickly from standing in line), so you're not standing at the ordering kiosk still debating on what you want, and asking 124387643641 million questions about what's included with the DDP. :p

Yes, I'm horrible I know. I've already been told where I'm going. :lmao:

I do recommend that you have your KTTW card ready when you get in line, all your options picked out before you reach the ordering kiosk (the CM taking orders at the cash register), and tell them before ordering you're on the DDP. Then order away, hand over your card, get your food and pig out! :cloud9:

Some desserts (not on the menu, but on display) are available for your credits. Some are not. For instance ... the DV cupcake was eligible for the DDP. We were ordering, I went last, and I asked. She said yes, so DH had to change his dessert. None of us thought it would be -- but it was! I know if it comes with a souveniour container, it is NOT included. But if you're unsure of a display item, just ask! (But have a backup plan in case it's not covered.)

And some people ... bless their souls ... ask at every establishment what is included. It doesn't change. Full buffet + beverage. Beverage, entree, and dessert. Every place. :thumbsup2 But you know all this already, because you do your research!! :love:

OH, I just wrote a whole novel on one of my pet peeves. :lmao:

[Corrine 1973]

...................................... <------- That's D~, showing up late (really late)

But I read everything...

Loved the pics of the Cantina food... Num... Oh well, we have 2 days planned at Epcot - we'll just have to have Mexican on that second day... :thumbsup2

I love that Liam was so brave through out the whole trip... He has gone on tons of coasters - there's nothing better than a Disney coaster though. :banana:

Boma looked awesome - I am looking forward to eating there... I was thinking I would have to use some of our snack credits for Zebra Domes, I am very happy to find out that they are at Boma with our meal. :banana:



Can you please enlighten me... What am I missing? This isn't our first WDW trip - but it's our first DDP trip... Can you give me some CS advice??? :lovestruc

Corrine, I can't believe you are doing a TR and a PTR all at one time! :worship:

D~

I am glad you made it over here for my TR. For awhile I thought I was wrighting for myself, so I am glad that I have another reader. I am determined to finish this TR. Only two days to go.:thumbsup2

I'm sure you aren't missing anything! However, in our past trips, people stand there, unsure of what's included for the CS, or even how to pay for it. I'm not being mean (maybe I am, but I don't mean it) ... but sometimes I wish people would be courteous and step aside if they're going to fumble around and stare at the menu at the ordering kiosk. (That's just in general, and not always in regards to DDP.) They have signs everywhere that says what is included in the DDP, some people just don't know how to read them, so they get to the kiosk and have the CM explain it to them -- which takes time. My precious WDW time! I could have already ordered and be waiting for food!

But I know you and you've done your research! You know what's included with your DDP for TS and CS meals alike! And hopefully you're the type that stands back and looks at the menu before jumping in line (or can pick quickly from standing in line), so you're not standing at the ordering kiosk still debating on what you want, and asking 124387643641 million questions about what's included with the DDP. :p

Yes, I'm horrible I know. I've already been told where I'm going. :lmao:

I do recommend that you have your KTTW card ready when you get in line, all your options picked out before you reach the ordering kiosk (the CM taking orders at the cash register), and tell them before ordering you're on the DDP. Then order away, hand over your card, get your food and pig out! :cloud9:

Some desserts (not on the menu, but on display) are available for your credits. Some are not. For instance ... the DV cupcake was eligible for the DDP. We were ordering, I went last, and I asked. She said yes, so DH had to change his dessert. None of us thought it would be -- but it was! I know if it comes with a souveniour container, it is NOT included. But if you're unsure of a display item, just ask! (But have a backup plan in case it's not covered.)

And some people ... bless their souls ... ask at every establishment what is included. It doesn't change. Full buffet + beverage. Beverage, entree, and dessert. Every place. :thumbsup2 But you know all this already, because you do your research!! :love:

OH, I just wrote a whole novel on one of my pet peeves. :lmao:

I agree with everything that Lidian said. People see that they can save up to 20% and don't do anymore research. The DDP isn't that hard as long as you know what you are doing. Plus knowing what you want before you get to the CM taking your order frees up everyones time. I don't know how many times I heard someone in line asking what came with her CS credit. The CM might have been polite as they explained it, but I wanted to scream. I alway knew what I wanted and my order went quickly and painlessly. The DV cupcake was the only time that I asked a question.

I also do my reserch on what we are going to order at each resteraunt to make sure that the DDP is in fact saving us money. If you order the cheapest meals in the park everytime the DDP will not be saving you any money. It will actually cost more than if you paid OOP.

I hope Lidian and I were able to put your fears at rest. With as much research as you have done I wouldn't worry about you, but be prepared to roll a few eyes as someone in front of you ask those DDP questions.:goodvibes

[DMGeurts]

Thanks girls :)

Now for the most annoying question ever... What in the world is a DV cupcake???? It's probably plainly obvious, but I thought I'd ask anyways...

D~ <---- See, I don't know everything... ;)

[Corrine 1973]

Thanks girls :)

Now for the most annoying question ever... What in the world is a DV cupcake???? It's probably plainly obvious, but I thought I'd ask anyways...

D~ <---- See, I don't know everything... ;)

It was a Darth Vader cupcake that was available at certain resteraunts at DHS during Star Wars Weekends (was also available the whole week, not just the weekends.) It was a choclate/Peanut butter cupcake with a edible Darth Vader head on a small disc on top. There is a picture in Lidian's May TR.:thumbsup2

[DMGeurts]

It was a Darth Vader cupcake that was available at certain resteraunts at DHS during Star Wars Weekends (was also available the whole week, not just the weekends.) It was a choclate/Peanut butter cupcake with a edible Darth Vader head on a small disc on top. There is a picture in Lidian's May TR.:thumbsup2

Mmmmm.... That does sound delicious... I wonder if Disney will ship a cupcake? :confused3 I am not sure I could justify another trip just to eat a cupcake, I am not even sure I could explain that to DH. :rotfl2:

D~ <--- Hasn't even read Liddy's May TR... I should probably do that, before I actually meet her. :wizard:

[Lidian]

Thanks girls :)

Now for the most annoying question ever... What in the world is a DV cupcake???? It's probably plainly obvious, but I thought I'd ask anyways...

D~ <---- See, I don't know everything... ;)

It was a Darth Vader cupcake that was available at certain resteraunts at DHS during Star Wars Weekends (was also available the whole week, not just the weekends.) It was a choclate/Peanut butter cupcake with a edible Darth Vader head on a small disc on top. There is a picture in Lidian's May TR.:thumbsup2

Mmmmm.... That does sound delicious... I wonder if Disney will ship a cupcake? :confused3 I am not sure I could justify another trip just to eat a cupcake, I am not even sure I could explain that to DH. :rotfl2:

D~ <--- Hasn't even read Liddy's May TR... I should probably do that, before I actually meet her. :wizard:

THIS is the DV cupcake! :cloud9:

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And it is as delicious as it looks! :goodvibes

And I wouldn't bother reading the TR ... it's bland and boring. :rotfl2:

[DMGeurts]

Thanks for the cupcake... I was actually telling DH over dinner (leftovers) that I wished I was eating a Darth Vader cupcake... He totally didn't get it.

Oh - and your TR... Thanks a lot - I am actually about half way through... Reading "Does the Crankypants ruin the day?" currently.... And I am actually enjoying reading it.

I do have a question for you Liddy, though... I think it would be super fun for the girls and I to do the Pirate Leage... Do you have any more info about it? Do you need to make ADRs? And can girls be pirates too - or do they have to be mermaids... Because we would all totally want to be pirates. LOL

D~

[Lidian]

Thanks for the cupcake... I was actually telling DH over dinner (leftovers) that I wished I was eating a Darth Vader cupcake... He totally didn't get it.

Oh - and your TR... Thanks a lot - I am actually about half way through... Reading "Does the Crankypants ruin the day?" currently.... And I am actually enjoying reading it.

I do have a question for you Liddy, though... I think it would be super fun for the girls and I to do the Pirate Leage... Do you have any more info about it? Do you need to make ADRs? And can girls be pirates too - or do they have to be mermaids... Because we would all totally want to be pirates. LOL

D~

You definitely need an ADR for TPL. There's an official thread for it somewhere (I posted a review on it -- can scrounge it up if you need it). The Mermaid package was a Limited Time offer, so it is no longer available.

The cost is around $30, ADRs are a must (they can sometimes fit in a walk-in, but not often), it's for ages 3-38917492648, so adults are more than welcome to do it! They have several face paint options you can choose from. Girls can pick any of the looks, but they do have a female pirate look as well (called Emporess, IIRC). On the official thread and the WDW website for TPL, it lists what is included in the package. As you can see, the kids got a ton of loot! The Emporess is slightly different package from the Pirate faces, but for the most part, it's just the look that varies (the Emporess package comes with a bottle of nail polish instead of something -- and a couple of other minor details).

IF you book it, I highly recommend taking a good eye makeup remover. DH was able to wash DS's face in the MK restroom after dinner, but it was a pain. And not real easy around the eyes.

I totally recommend it! The cast is in character and it was a TON of fun! I'd love to do it myself, but don't want to budget the time for it. :lmao:

And just think ... you'll get to meet Crankypants in the flesh soon! :goodvibes

[Corrine 1973]

Thanks for the cupcake... I was actually telling DH over dinner (leftovers) that I wished I was eating a Darth Vader cupcake... He totally didn't get it.

Oh - and your TR... Thanks a lot - I am actually about half way through... Reading "Does the Crankypants ruin the day?" currently.... And I am actually enjoying reading it.

I do have a question for you Liddy, though... I think it would be super fun for the girls and I to do the Pirate Leage... Do you have any more info about it? Do you need to make ADRs? And can girls be pirates too - or do they have to be mermaids... Because we would all totally want to be pirates. LOL

D~

So I am not Liddy but I will happily answer your question, or at least as much as I know.

To make sure you get the time that you want it is probably best that you get a reservation. You might still be able to get in if you don't but you might have to wait a long time.

Yes girls can be made to be pirates (and so can parents) the mermaid thing was only available for a limited time (because of the new PotC movie) and I beleive it is no longer available. Talking about pirates I just found the cutest mouse ears at the Disney outlet story for $3. It is black ears with a pink head wrap that say Pirate Princess. I will try to take a picture tomarrow and put in my PTR.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

So lets move away from that PTR I've been writing and finish this TR.:thumbsup2

The next morning we had a Ressie with Singledad at Chef Mickey's.

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As you can tell we had a great time.

The food was alright, though I really did enjoy the cheese blitzes. Yum!!!
I thought the character interaction was great, though as I said before Liam is more of a give me a hug and take a picture kind of kid. He was happy to meet them, give them a squeeze, and than go back to eating.

After breakfast was done Singledad and I went on our seperate ways. I think he went to MK while we headed off to DAK!

[lovethattink]

Mmmmm.... That does sound delicious... I wonder if Disney will ship a cupcake? :confused3 I am not sure I could justify another trip just to eat a cupcake, I am not even sure I could explain that to DH. :rotfl2:

D~ <--- Hasn't even read Liddy's May TR... I should probably do that, before I actually meet her. :wizard:

If you aren't at Disney during SWW, don't dispair! Those cupcakes can be found without the Darth Vader decor though, at Starring Rolls at DHS!

So lets move away from that PTR I've been writing and finish this TR.:thumbsup2

The next morning we had a Ressie with Singledad at Chef Mickey's.


As you can tell we had a great time.

The food was alright, though I really did enjoy the cheese blitzes. Yum!!!
I thought the character interaction was great, though as I said before Liam is more of a give me a hug and take a picture kind of kid. He was happy to meet them, give them a squeeze, and than go back to eating.

After breakfast was done Singledad and I went on our seperate ways. I think he went to MK while we headed off to DAK!

Great pics from Chef Mickey! What is a cheese blitz? Either I got behind in your TR or my memory fails me. You have another PTR in the mix?

[Corrine 1973]

If you aren't at Disney during SWW, don't dispair! Those cupcakes can be found without the Darth Vader decor though, at Starring Rolls at DHS!

Good to know!!!

Great pics from Chef Mickey! What is a cheese blitz? Either I got behind in your TR or my memory fails me. You have another PTR in the mix?

They were a crepe with a sweet cream cheese filling. Sooo good!

Yea I started a PTR about a month ago though I think this is the first time I mentioned it in my TR. The trip isn't until May of 2013 but I found I was never on here so I figured if I started a PTR I might be more inclined to come here and finish this TR.:thumbsup2

You can find a link in my siggy. It's the one saying I need some Disney Magic Now!! Hope to see you there.

[Lidian]

Was Liam sticking his tongue out in the Mickey photos? He doesn't look too happy with Minnie ... :lmao:

Totally love the pictures! I didn't recall there being ketchup and mustard on Goofy's apron. I wonder if that's new (since our 2009 visit). :confused3 Maybe I'm just not that observant. Who knows. :rotfl2:

Oh, and seeing Singledad's DD reminded me ... I volunteered at the kids' school Friday in the Kindergarten Smart Gym. There was a little girl there who resembled his DD. A-dor-a-ble! :goodvibes

[Corrine 1973]

Was Liam sticking his tongue out in the Mickey photos? He doesn't look too happy with Minnie ... :lmao:

Totally love the pictures! I didn't recall there being ketchup and mustard on Goofy's apron. I wonder if that's new (since our 2009 visit). :confused3 Maybe I'm just not that observant. Who knows. :rotfl2:

Oh, and seeing Singledad's DD reminded me ... I volunteered at the kids' school Friday in the Kindergarten Smart Gym. There was a little girl there who resembled his DD. A-dor-a-ble! :goodvibes

Yea that was Liam being cute.:upsidedow He wasn't to happy about getting his picture taken with Minnie Mouse. He made a face like he was vomiting when we went in 2009.:lmao:

[Corrine 1973]

So after leaving Cheff Mickey's Liam and I took a bus from the Contemparary to Disney's Animal Kingdom.

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We were making good time and arrived just after 9am and made a bee line down to Expedition Everest. Now this took a lot of persuasion on my part because Liam was really unsure of it. I remided him that he loved other things that he didn't want to try and absolutly loved them. I only asked for him to at least try it and if he didn't like it then I would never make go on it again.:thumbsup2

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Unfortunatly he didn't like it. The part where you go backwards in the dark scared him.:scared1:

We than decided to head over to one of my favorite ride the Safari. But than found a spot where they were coloring masks so he decided to stop and get his coloring on.

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With his mask done, we were off for our two week safari.

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After the Safari ride we decided to look around the Pagani Trail. It was a nice area to leisurly walk around.

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Can you see the apes in the last two pics, they were playing hide and seek.:lmao:

After getting our fill of animals for awhile we decided to head over to Camp Minnie and Mickey.

[Lidian]

Sorry that Liam didn't like EE. I love it! :love:

I see you made it safely back from your two week excursion. ;)

Love the update! We had lots of apes that just wanted to show us their backsides. :rolleyes: Waing for more! popcorn::

[Corrine 1973]

Sorry again that I haven't been here in awhile. I have been planning a trip to WDW. That's right, I am going a lot sooner than I expected. I am going in March.:woohoo:

So Back to our TR.:goodvibes

We were on our way to Camp Minnie and Mickey. But on our way, guess who we ran into.

Turk
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And Kind Louise
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So on our way again, but we happen to find someone else along the way.
Lilo and Stitch.
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So after seeing these to we were back on our way to Camp Minnie and Mickey.

I couldn't help but snap a picture of this.
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Than we finally found our way to over to CM&M
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[Lidian]

Totally love the character photos! You saw a ton at AK!!!! WOW!! :love: We've never done the M&M greeting trails. Maybe in March. :confused3

[Corrine 1973]

So since we were already in the area, we decided to watch the FotLK. This will always be my favorite ride at WDW. It was even better since Liam was chosen to be the voice of the Lion Side.

Funny thing was when he was introduced to the crowd, the preformer told everyone that he was only 4 years old.:confused3

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So when I was reviewing my pictures at home I notices alot of orbs in my pictures at FotLK. So either there was a lot of dust floating around (understandable with the powder they used for the acrobatics) or the theatre is haunted.:lmao:

Next we went over to Flame Tree BBQ. Sorry I didn't take any pics. I had the ribs and Liam had the drum stick meal. The food was very good, but next time I think I will get the pulled pork.

Next we went to the Finding Nemo show. Sorry no pictures again, I took a video but I am having trouble trying to figure out how to do videos.:confused3

We than headed over to the Boneyard so I could relax while Liam played around with some other kids.

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We than headed to Kali River Rapids and got soaked, but it was so hot outside that we didn't care.

We than decided to head out and back to Pop. On the way out Liam fountain and got soaked.:confused3 I wish I took a picture of that.

Next up, we change at Pop and head down to DTD.:thumbsup2

[lovethattink]

Great pictures of the characters and the show!

4 years old??! Lol. I hope Liam wasn't insulted.

[Lidian]

Is Liam getting younger? :lmao:

Love the pictures, Corrine! FTBBQ is my favorite eatery at AK, so I'm sad we'll be missing it next month! The pulled pork is YUM, and I don't even like BBQ!

[Corrine 1973]

So it's getting harder and harder to get back here and finish this TR, so I am vow to get it done before my trip that starts a week from today.:banana::banana:

First let me start with a couple of pics that I missed from DAK. This was from the end of one of the trails. A CM was talking about the tigers and took out this cast of a foot print.

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So we headed back to our room, Liam did a quick cloths change and we were off to DTD. We had dinner reservations for T-Rex. Since we were cutting it close to the reservations we headed straight there vowing to catch a few things latter.

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Liam got the dino shaped nugget and really enjoyed them, I got the mushroom ravioli in lobster sauce and thought it was very good. At one point they brought me a ice cream desert with a cookie because I was still wearing my birthday buttom from earlier. I didn't have the heart to tell them that it wan't my birthday for over 2 months.

After dinner we headed to the Lego store. Liam loved it there and had a lot of fun playing with all the Lego stuff. He really wanted to buy something here but I told him he should save his money because he could buy the same lego at home and we did have room in our luggage for it.

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At this point my camera batter died again so I was unable to take any more pictures. At this point we headed toward the Disney Store and started looking around. It was so crowded that at one point Liam wanted to show me something and I turned around and he was gone.:scared1: I tried not to freak out and searched for him. After what seemed like an eternity (it was probably only 5 min) I anxiously asked the nearest CM I could find to. It was just about this time that they found him and we were reunited.:hug: I was so happy to have him safe and sound that I let him buy a PotC sword, spy glass, and a piece of candy.

It was getting late so we headed back to the busses but stopped at the pin store first and I bought the baby princess set for myself. I also bought Liam a Star Wars Pin.

We than went to the bus stop, waited for Singledad to show up (he forgot Liam's gift earlier at breakfast) and than was on our way back home. It had been a long day and we wanted to get up early the next day for Star Wars Weekend.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

So I guess the best way to get this TR done is to keep plugging along. So here is Our last day.

So we woke that last day a little sad about it being our last day but still very excited to be going to Star Wars Weekend. Liam starts his treatment ans I pack everything up to check out. We than have a quick breakfast of poptarts and head to store our bags while we are gone. I make sure I grab the goodie bag for the family we are meeting who are going on a Wish trip.

We get there just after eight but find that the park is already open and look who has come out to greet us.

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As soon as we got inside I realized that I made a mistake, the FP machines for autographs was outside the turnstyles. So I asked a CM what to do and he directed me to the right area. We really wanted to get one from Ray Parks (Darth Maul) but all the FP's were gone so we got one for James Arnold Taylor instead (the voice for Obie Wan Kenobie)

Going back into the bark I ask what he wants to do, and yes you guessed right he wanted to do ST again.

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After our ride I finally gave into Liam and let him buy a make your own lightsaber. He chose the double one. We ended up having to tape the ends because they would come out and almost hit people.

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After the ride we decide to head over and sign in for the Padawan Jedi Mind Challange but on the way I couldn't help but get a pic of Ray Parks.

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We are unable to get a guaranteed spot for the challange, but we are the 3rd standby slot for the first challange and we are off.

We try to ride TSM again, but for some reason it is closed. So we head over to Jabba's hut to see what special things they have. The line is huge and I decide not to waste the day waiting to look in a store.

So what do we do next? We head to Tower of Terror. Liam waits in line with me but choses to wait at the exit with a CM instead of going on it. I Loooovvvveeed it. I wanted to do it again but could justify leaving Liam alone again. Plus it was almost time for our FP to get our autograph.

While we waited in line to get our autograph we meet a very nice man who was telling us about the diffrent things at the park that day. It turns out he had been there almost every single day. Soon it was are turn to meet James Armold Taylor.

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He was such a nice man and since he does many voices in cartoons he kept changing his voice into the diffrent characters.

After our Autograph the man that we waited in line with showed us were to go to see the Behind the force show.

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Look who we see, Mr James Arnold Taylor who introduces the host of the show. Liam is in the front so he sees him right away and says hi to him and calls him by name. Liam feels so special.

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They ended up pulling this kid on stage who was absolutly hilarious.

After the show we are off again to our favorite ride ST. We grab lunch at Pizza Planet and head off to catch the parade.:thumbsup2

[Corrine 1973]

So we go to find a place to sit for the parade and everything is full. So we find a spot by AIE and ask a CM if we see the parade hear and they say yes. So we sit down and eat our lunch.

While we are waiting we meet a couple of nice Jedi.

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Liam plays with his sword a little

We than settle down because we see some people from the parade. Look its the 501

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It was than that we realized we were only getting part of the parade. We did not see any specail characters or any stars. So we try to run to the stage to catch some of them getting off the stage.

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So after the parade we head over to see if we can me in the challange. It looks like he would not be able to do it, but than they tell all the kids waiting to line up so we are in.

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They were asked diffrent Star Wars questions and had to raise a hand to say if it was true or false. Liam got pretty close to the end but didn't no win. All the kids did get a Star Wars toy for participating. When Liam opened his toy he was a little upset that it was a girl. I tried to find a girl who wanted to trade but no one wanted to. Se we headed back to wear we signed up and asked if we could change. We were told they would do what they could and disappeared right away. A little while later he returned and said he found one (Liam requested Anakin) but told him to not open it right away. Of course as soon as we walked away Liam was opening it and inside was not only an Anakin Skywalker toy but also a Darth Maul Toy.:love:

[Corrine 1973]

With toys in hand we headed to get in line for the Stars of the Saga show. At this point I had been trying to get a hold of the family I was supposed to meet all day. I was unable to get a hold of them and we were leaving soon so I gave some of the goodies in the bag to a boy that was playing with Liam in line.

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I don't know his real name, but the older gentleman played Bobbo Fett and of course the other man is Ray Parks who played Darth Maul.

After the show it's just about time to leave, but one more ride before we go. What would that ride be? Why Star Tours of course. and if you are counting that brings are total to 7 ride on ST and a diffrent combination each ride.:thumbsup2

It is now time to leave but before we do snap a couple of pics.

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Love you Chewie!!!

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This is the voice of Anakin Skywalker in the cartoon.

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And of course the actor who played Bobbo Fett.

[Corrine 1973]

So sadly we head back to Pop and say goodbye to DHS. Liam makes a comment that he wishes we could stay for one more day so he could back to Epcot. He wants to ride TT and Soarin' again.:hug: "Me too, Liam. Me too."

So we use up the rest of our snack credits at Pop (liam got a cupcake and I got the tie dyed cheese cake), I buy a disney tote bad, and than we head off to wait for the ME back to MCO.:sad1:

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Liam finds something to occupy his time while waiting for the bus.

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Doesn't this look just say it all.

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Goodbye Pop, hope to see you again real soon.

So we get to MCO, do a little last minute shopping at the Disney Store, check out the Universal store, and have a nice dinner at Chick-Fil-A.

Soon we were back on our way home to Chicago. We were sad it was all over but filled with memories of our wonderful trip.:cloud9:

[Corrine 1973]

Last but not least lets cap off this trip with some PP's.

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[Lidian]

Totally loved your updates and pictures! :love: So glad that Liam got some pixie dust with the SW toy! I would love to see SWW ... but I doubt that will ever happen ... even with my geeky SW-loving DH. :sad2:

I'm glad you guys had a great time! :love: