Crazy Eights take on the World: Spoiled Silly (Aug 2011 TR) Life Update: May 23!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

“To all that come to this happy place :welcome:”
Welcome one and all to my august 2011 trip report!!!!!

Thank you all for joining in. Pull up a chair and relax as I take you through some of the craziest//crabbiest//most sleep deprived//outrageous//funniest//magical moment that Disney World has ever produced.

I could not be any happier finally getting this AMAZING experience//storytelling underway. :yay:

I cannot wait to share with you all the magic, memories and surprises that my family shared in on our vacation. ((SO MANY SUPRISES!!!!!!))

Weather you are young or young at heart we have something here for everyone to enjoy!!! Funny face photos, hotel photos, attraction photos and TONS of (seeing as there were eight of us on the dinning plan and we managed to take photos of almost every meal) food photos as well.

This vacation was long anticipated and the trip report has been as well, I finally decided that life has calmed down enough to start it up and I can’t wait to relive all the memories!!!

For now I will leave you with this “trip movie trailer” that my sister made which complies some of the most memorable moments from our vacation…

Hope you enjoy…


Let The Memories Begin…

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::MickeyMo Table Of Contents: ::MinnieMo

Welcomes & Introductions (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42688922&postcount=8)

August 17, 2011
I'm Late!!! I'm Late!!! For a VERY Important Date!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42690836&postcount=10)
Welcome Home!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42725153&postcount=12)
Going to Pete's Safari, Going to Pete's Safari (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42818505&postcount=14)
Warning Meteor Shower In Range... Just Little Ones (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42884595&postcount=17)
Home Sweet Home. Grand Villa Tour (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42887241&postcount=18) (Continued) (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42887263&postcount=19)
Eat Till You Pop (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42964113&postcount=23)
Shop Till You Drop//The Obsession Begins (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43329230&postcount=24)
Eat till You Pop Part II (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43329458&postcount=25) (Cont.) (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43329596&postcount=26)

August 18, 2011
The Big Waves Were Scary!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43332579&postcount=29)
More Fun in the Sun (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43332600&postcount=30)
You Can Always Go... Downtown!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43348330&postcount=33)
Going to The Lodge (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43393569&postcount=41)

August 19, 2011
This is NOT our Morning (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43400370&postcount=44)
Kids Take on the World (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43480760&postcount=52)
Are You Two Brothers? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43487716&postcount=56)
That's One Taste That Can't Be Un-tasted (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43509369&postcount=57)
Welcome to America: We Have Guns & Fast Food (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43580281&postcount=59)
A Night of Firsts (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43595865&postcount=60)

August 20, 2011
The Race is On!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43631965&postcount=67)
Mania, Munchies and Much More!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43661643&postcount=70)
Hottest Day... Longest Line... EVER!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43720240&postcount=76)
Drive Away Your Worries and Cares at this Drive In Theatre (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43734899&postcount=80)
The Love Birds Double Date (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43762209&postcount=84)
A Nightmare Fantasmic!!! (in a good way) (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43788319&postcount=89)

August 21, 2011
Did You Bring The Room Key? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43858934&postcount=101)
Best Lunch EVER!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43872568&postcount=102)
Surprise!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43940710&postcount=105)
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls!!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43985580&postcount=110)

August 22, 2011
In the Circle (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43999083&postcount=111)
Run Away!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44006076&postcount=112)
Yak and or after the Yeti? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44022091&postcount=113)
Those Poor Kids (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44030122&postcount=114)
I Guess There Is Some Sleeping In Disney... (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44061952&postcount=115)
Trading Like Crazy!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44076381&postcount=116)
You Are Stuck In The Twilight Zone!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44099348&postcount=120)

August 23, 2011
Its All Pure Magic Wrapped Up in Pixie Dust (http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=44108417#post44108417)
Now It’s Time To Say Goodbye… (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44117568&postcount=122)
Open Up Your Heart and Let the Memories Begin (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44132930&postcount=123)
Well This Is A Lame Night!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44146319&postcount=126)

August 24, 2011
Last Day To Play!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44542462&postcount=129)
Not What We Expected But Still Good (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44891672&postcount=136)
And They Went Weah Weah Weaaaaah, All The Way Home (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44932581&postcount=141)

Real Life Updates:
Is This Real Life!?! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43682559&postcount=72)
Happy Birthday to Me!!!
(http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43838972&postcount=95)Part 2 (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43839239&postcount=96)
I'm Working for Disney World!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=43973451#post43973451)
Senior Year Wrap Up (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44903585&postcount=140)
Disney Crafts and Trip Information Update!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44971913&postcount=143)

Please feel free to comment and let me know you are reading a long!! It will give me a little more incentive to update more frequently :rotfl:

[kirrrby]

I'm on and Looking forward to more! P.S. your link to your video doesn't play! :goodvibes

[TripTime]

The video played for me. Looks like it was a fun trip. Can't wait to see more.

[kirrrby]

Totally saw it after i downloaded to Windows Media Player. Firefox doesn't like me apparently. Looks like ya'll had fun though!

[Winnie the Goof]

Any TR with its own movie trailer deserves a subscription.

[ChattaAlley]

Cute video. Jumping on board for another fabulous trip report.

[Eira]

:laughing: Awesome video. Sounds like it is going to be an awesome TR. Subscribed!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Hello Everyone!!!!!

I am so excited that so many people have showed an interest in our family vacation :goodvibes it makes me even more pumped to get this thing rollin’

I wanted to do a major first day update, But I am at school on my boyfriend’s computer and all of the photos are on mine so I figured I would give you all a little further introduction to “The Crazy Eights”



First off there is me!!!

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My name is Alicia and I will be your story teller extraordinaire. Let’s see where to start… I am 21 and like most of you I am in love with ALL things Disney, the smells are probably my number one thing I cannot get over the smell of the water air conditioning and the monorail, they should bottle that up and sell it!!! In addition I adore the feeling you get the moment you walk into any of the parks that tingly sensation from your head to your toes. Ugh just thinking about it makes me want to go back RIGHT NOW!!! I spend my spare time looking up Disney secrets and stalking people’s trip reports here on the dis (so if you have one let me know!!!) Moving on… I am currently a senior in college going to school for Theatre and I have a minor in Fine Arts (costuming, make up, and a little bit or art stuff). I hope to do the DCP next fall and work my way onto the Disney “work” scene from there.

Some of my Disney Favorites Include:
Favorite Character: Ariel/Minnie Mouse
Favorite Park: Hollywood Studios (to me it will always be MGM)
Favorite Ride: Tower of Terror
Favorite QS: Pecos Bills
Favorite Table service: San Angel Inn
Favorite Disney song: Ma Belle Evangeline//Part of Your World Reprise



Next up we have my boyfriend of three and a half years Andrew :love2:

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Hhe is 19 and attends the same college as I do, he is an accounting major and he has already been informed that we will be moving to Florida soon after he graduates. He is new to the Disney scene and this will be his third trip down (second with my family). He is slowly but surely getting bit by the Disney bug. I adored watching his face and every moment of the trip because he was just like a little kid, his eyes were light up and he was smiling and having a grand old time!! (which is something that he really needed seeing as his mother past away about a month before we left) . I love everything about him and the way he experiences everything in Disney for “the first time” it’s like having a child with you and seeing it in a different way.

His Disney Favorites include:
Favorite Character: Donald Duck
Favorite Park: Magic Kingdom
Favorite Ride: Big Thunder Mountain
Favorite QS down: Pecos Bills
Favorite Table service: Hoop Dee Doo
Favorite Disney song: I See the Light



Now I will jump back to the oldest Danielle she is 24 and so is her boyfriend Adam (this was his 3rd or 4th trip with us) :hug:

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They have been dating for roughly 6 and a half years I believe (don’t quote me on it). Now I am not sure about Adam’s progress on the Disney Lovin’ chart but let me tell you Danielle is pretty high up there much like me.
Their Favorites include:

Danielle
Favorite Character: Peter Pan
Favorite Park: Magic Kingdom
Favorite Ride: People Mover and Space Mountain
Favorite QS: Pecos Bill’s
Favorite Table service: Biergarten Germany
Favorite Disney song: When You Wish Upon a Star

Adam
and her boyfriend of 6 years Adam (24)
Favorite Character: Buzz
Favorite Park: EPCOT
Favorite Ride: People Mover
Favorite QS: ----------
Favorite Table service: Biergarten Germany
Favorite Disney song: You’ve Got a Friend in Me



The third oldest would be Sam. :earsgirl:

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She is 19 as well and is going to school for childhood education and up until recently she was planning on doing the DCP next fall but she is unable to due to her schedule for school. Anyways Sam is my right hand man, she was the one who helped me plan all the dinning reservations, the day by day and made all the fun crafts with me. Basically all we could talk about for the 2 months of summer vacation leading up to our trip was DISNEY!!!!!

Here are her favorites:
Favorite Character: Tiana
Favorite Park: Magic Kingdom
Favorite Ride: Splash Mountain
Favorite QS: Pinocchio Village Haus
Favorite Table service: Ohana
Favorite Disney song: Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow



To wrap up the kids we come to K.C. :earboy2:

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He is the youngest (but do not let that fool you, he is probably the tallest of us all). He is 15 and although he may not be as Disney crazy as the rest of us he sure knows how to have a good time!!

His favorite include:
Favorite Character: Buzz Lightyear
Favorite Park: EPCOT
Favorite Ride: Test Track
Favorite QS: Sunshine Seasons
Favorite Table service: Whispering Canyon’s
Favorite Disney song: You’ve Got a Friend in Me



AND LAST….

But CERTAINLY not least the two who started it all “Ma & Pa”

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They started out the family’s love for Disney wayyyyy back when they took their honeymoon there 26 years ago. Since then they have had their moments where they love Disney and they say “don’t you want to try someplace else?!” to which their lovely children simply reply “NO WAY!!!” (we are the kinds of kids who laugh at the people who claim to “love” Disney but then give up perfectly good Disney park time to go to universal… this is not acceptable in our book. We always say, “we are in Florida how are we not going to spend every waking second in a Disney park?!”

Ma
Favorite Character: Snow White
Favorite Park: Magic Kingdom
Favorite Ride: Test Track
Favorite QS: Sunshine Season
Favorite Table service: Hoop Dee Do
Favorite Disney song: Whistle While You Work

Pa
Favorite Character: Goofy
Favorite Park: Magic Kingdom
Favorite Ride: Tower Of Terror
Favorite QS: Sunshine Seasons
Favorite Table service: Hoop Dee Doo
Favorite Disney song: Tiki Room Song



So there you have it a basic introduction to “The Crazy Eights” we are one big Disney lovin’ clan that basically does everything together. As the trip report progresses through the photos and videos I’m sure you will get a little better feeling for who we are and what we love about “The Happiest Place on Earth”

Let me start off by saying that I was the obsessive compulsive planner of the trip, literally I had everything planned down to half an hour increments. Going into the trip I was all about park hoping and EMH when my mother looked at the plan the first time she asked “and when do we get to sleep?” . Did we stick to the plan and enjoy our trip or did we turn into walking zombies? :eek: You will have to stay tuned and find out!!!

Tune In Next Time!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42690836&postcount=10)

[xoSamma]

I want to go back to disney now!!!! :guilty:
I'm already planning my trip next year to visit if I can't do the college program. I still have hope that somehow I can go down!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

I’m Late!!! I’m Late!!! For VERY Important Date!!!

This is it, the BIG DAY!!!


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So day one as you can guess from the title starts out a little more stressful than I would have like.

But first a little back story about the night before. I attempted to go to sleep at a decent time, but lets face it we were leaving for Disney the next morning!!! How can anyone sleep at a time like that?!?

I attempted to coax myself into sleeping by thinking tomorrow you will get up at 3:45 (remember that one, 3:45) and you will be in Disney, you dinner reservations are not until 9:10 at night which means you won’t be back to the hotel room sleeping until around 11:00 at the earliest. Well that was no help it just made me more excited for the fun filled day ahead of me.

Ok back to the morning of…

My Disney diary reads…
* 3:45 Alarm goes off (Disney’s Tomorrowland Transit Authority)* Scratch that, make it say alarm should go off!!! In reality it is 4:05, late!!!! I accidentally set the alarm for 4:45. FAIL. Needless to say that was the quickest I have ever shot out of bed. I walked into the kitchen and everyone was awake and happy saying “finally you got up!” (yea, thanks for waking me guys!)

Disney Day one was already off to a late start, as if my morning wasn’t already rushed enough as it was! Luckily I showered and everything the night before all there was to do was put in my contacts, straighten my hair and brush my teeth.

Did I mention the reason I wanted to get up so early was because I KNEW everyone was going to be in the bathroom. Any ways Andy’s Dad got here to take us to the airport (8 of us were not going to fit in one car with all that luggage) and I was just finishing up. After some last minute scramble packing we left the house and 4:35.

After a grueling 10 minute car ride we were at the southwest check in waiting for Danielle and Adam to arrive. So close!

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As we anxiously awaited their arrival we got some photos with our luggage…

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FINALLY they arrived and we went through the almost nonexistent check in line and we made out way over to the VERY LONG security line. It was at this moment just as we were about to go through the line that I discovered Andy had forgotten to pack my contact case. For some reason this set me over the edge there goes my family through security (minus Andy and Ma they waited outside with me) as I go out to wait for my gramma to drop one off for me, even though we live about 5 minutes away and she was in the car and on her way before I even hung up the phone that was the LONGEST 5 minutes of my life. I seriously thought I was going to miss the flight.

After that fiasco it was time to go through the EVEN LONGER security line. And some lady line jumps us! Oh man that one kinda made me mad. The I realized that she was freaked out (must have been scared to fly or something) she was saying the craziest stuff to us the entire line. The line was so long I decided to count the number of Vera Bradley bags I saw in line I think the final count was 20 something.

Finally we made through and to our gate!! Used the restroom and attempted not to disturb Andy (he is really no good with flights AT ALL, he actually worked himself up the night before and woke up feeling sick) As we sat waiting to board our friend from security sat next to us and kept asking if the plane was going to California, poor thing she was like 2 hours early for her flight.

I looked out the window expecting to see the traditional purple and oranges plane that I had counted in the sky for the month leading up to our trip, only to find that we were on one of the special planes “Illinois”. It was kind of depressing and cool and the same time.

When we finally got on the plane we were chosen to be “Safety Family” as we were seated in the seats by the wings.

This is probably the last photo you will see of Andy smiling until we land.

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Basically we were briefed on what to do incase of an emergency by the flight attendant, and let me tell you that did not help Andy AT ALL!!! But the nice thing was there was SO MUCH leg room!!!

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Shortly after we were off, and right on time too!!! Luckily Andy was half asleep during take off.

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This flight had no turbulence like our last flight so we got more than water!! I mean look at those beautiful skies

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I turned on my Disney playlist and we took a few photos with my favorite fish

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before I knew it we were there!! Landed at 8:17 twenty minutes early. SCORE!!!

A few people took a quick potty break and I took a few pictures


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booked it to the magical express. First stop mini monorail


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past this pretty thing


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down the escalator


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getting closer…


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and closer


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I said something along the lines of “slow down I need to get a picture of the signs!!” this one in particular


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The guy checking people in at magical express said get a picture of me too! So I did.


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Luckily we were the first ones to the bus and you all know what that means… Front Row Seats!!! The only downside was that it was one of those imposter yellow busses and not a real Disney one. So I took a picture of the one next to ours because it was legit.


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proof that we were the first ones there


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We were seated at 8:40 and were on our way by 8:56. We watched the video and before we knew it we were passing under this…


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That’s all I can update for now since I should get some homework done. So I will leave you in anticipation much like we were at these very moments on our vacation. Hope the suspense will keep you coming back for more!

Tune In Next Time!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=42725153&postcount=12)

[Eira]

Ahh contact case! :scared1: Thank goodness for your Grandma!!! :worship: Poor Andy and the nervous lady. I can't even imagine what its like to have to fly and be so worried about it. Must feel awful. At least his destination was an awesome one! That must have helped! Love the pic of your Dad and flounder, it looks like he's actually floating there.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Welcome Home:
August 17, 2011


When I last left off we were passing through the gates of heaven and I could hear the beautiful choir of angels singing.


Oh wait that was me and my siblings squealing out of pure joy and excitement.


Our bus made one quick stop and Old Key West (this was our other option when we were planning our trip originally). Before I knew it we were passing through the beautiful gates of Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa. How classy.


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Since we were lucky enough to get front seats on the bus we all quickly piled out and we were briskly walking to the lobby to check in.


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On our way we past this beauty…


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Ma and Pa went to check in while us kids did some exploring!!!


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Sam ran straight for the cartoons


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And since it was a horse themed resort I had to take a few photos of some of the noble steed from Disney history.


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And then Andy found it!! The very first penny machine of the trip.


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I use to be way into pin trading but on our last trip we found a new hobby collecting these shinny beauties.


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so I cracked open these, our brand spankin’ new roll of shinny pennies that we got from the grocery store we worked at this summer.


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Then we decided to go see what was taking so long with the check in. Of course we all waited patiently and took some photos while ma was figuring things out


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Some hidden mickey décor


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AND THEN… IT HAPPENED…












Hold on, hold on!!! Stop the trip report. First I need to give you a little back story before I reveal the big surprise. Here we go. Ma and Danielle have always dreamed out staying at the tree house villas at this resort and when we originally booked the two bedroom villa it came with a room rate which didn’t apply to the tree houses so Ma had asked if there were any available that we could move into for the same price. Well the lady at the check in desk looked at her like she was crazy!!! Ma said well guys I tried, and then the cast member chime din with “Why would you want to change rooms when you have a grand villa? It’s one of the best rooms in the resort” to that we simply replied “WE HAVE A WHAT?!?” turns out they gave us a free upgrade to a grand villa (3 bedrooms instead of 2). How magical!!!!!!



I now return you to your regularly scheduled Trip Report:


As I was saying…



AND THEN… IT HAPPENED…


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Needless to say we were some very excited kids!!! And the cast members saw us so they decked us out with TONS of stickers and the boys even got pirate bandanas


We used the excitement to move us over to The Artist Palette to check out the merchandise and pull it together.


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While we were shopping in there Andy and I made our first purchase of the trip. We picked up a penny book so that we could have a place to store our collection


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By the end of the trip it ended up looking like this.


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We made 37 pennies in one trip. I wonder how much Disney makes off of those machines. I mean Andy and I stop at every machine we see. I even downloaded a special Pressed Penny app for my iphone before we left. I am a hard core penny presser!


While we were wrapping up and finalizing the plan I had Ma model her stickers and Pa model his pin lanyard.


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On our way out Danielle and Adam decided to sign up for an appointment to go to one of the DVC presentations. I flipped through the book of rooms and found a possible ground plan for our “Grand Villa”.


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Since our room wasn’t ready we decided to drop our stuff in storage and head out to the park after all it was only like 10:30 am and it was our first day!!!
We walked out to the bus stop and I snapped this shot


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Just look at what a perfect first day we had, the sun was shinning and boy do I mean shinning, it was beating down and I started to melt as soon as I stepped outside and it was only 10:30 am. I couldn’t wait for the rest of the day.
While we waited for the bus to get there I couldn’t resist a photo of the scenery I just couldn’t believe how beautiful it was and that we were finally there!!!!


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After all that counting down (I started at close to 200 days) we were finally in the happiest place on earth!! So how would we start our trip you ask? You will just have to stay tuned to find out!!!


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[kirrrby]

A grand villa? You guys got some true pixie dust!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Going to Pete's Safari, Going to Pete's Safari
August 17, 2011

Ok so I am very sorry about the lack of updates, but I have been super swamped with classes and auditions and rehearsals and homework and all that college student stuff. But I have decided to do an update today since I have the day off. So let’s see where did I leave off? Oh right we were about to hop on a bus to our first magical day in Disney!!!!!!!


After we waited close to if not more than 20 minutes in that hot Florida sun our chariot arrived!!!


Where were we headed might you ask?... OUR LEAST FAVORITE PARK!!!! YAY?!? Haha, we were headed to that wonderland of heat and little no know air conditioning known as Animal Kingdom! Now I personally don’t dislike this park as much as some of my other family members, but this was to be our only full day in Animal Kingdom.


We arrived right on time according to my planner, 11am exactly. And Before we knew it we were walking under this baby


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Our plan of action was to go get fastpasses for Expedition Everest because we thought those fast passes would already be for late in the after noon and we were scheduled to leave at 6.


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So we made our way to the back of the park and obtained theses guys


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Then we started another quest, and that quest was for food seeing how it was 11 am and none of us except Danielle and Adam had eaten breakfast. Before we left we had decided on Pizzafari since it is one of the few places with air conditioning and I love Disney pizza. This is the story behind the title, before we left Sam and I had talked non stop about going here and KC thought we were saying Pete's Safari. We still laugh about it to this day!!!


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We make the trek and arrived all ready to eat. Our dinner reservation for that night was not until 9:10pm so we decided that we would split a counter service now and then split again later in the day. Andy and I split a pepperoni pizza (I wanted veggie but decided to sacrifice for the man I love) ceaser salad with a sprite and chocolate mousse.


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From there we decided that we would head over to


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The time said 30 min, but by the time we ended up winding through that long line we were inside with our honorary bug glasses, which we illegally put on to take a few photos with.


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The saw was shorter than I remember it being but it was fun, Andy was depressed that he didn’t get stung in the back.


When we came out, it was a downpour and we couldn’t get out because everyone was putting on their ponchos. We decided to do the same and figure out where to go from there since Expedition Everest would probably be down because of the rain. So since Andy had wanted to do Kalihi river rapids so badly we figured, why not go since we will already be soaked from the rain, but they closed that down to because of the rain. A water ride closed for rain how funny!!!

So we decided to go see


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Turns out that the Park maps had the wrong times listed. We ducked in for the last performance of the. We were literally like the very last people let in. I had my heart set on sitting in a real seat for the show but we ended up on the very last row of the bleachers once again. We took off our ponchos and set them out to dry like everyone else.

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I adore that musical. I had been listening to the soundtrack on repeat before the trip and was so excited to see it. Danielle really liked it too, in all the times we have gone she has never seen it. For Sam and I it is a must see. When we left the rain had stopped and we decided to go snatch up some fast passes for Dinosaur while we were in the area


Then we dashed back to Expedition Everest to use our fast passes.


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We did so much running this day and that is why my family is not a fan of the park, you are always running from one side of the park to the other. But hey your in Disney and you never really notice until that night when your feet feel like they are going to fall off.


Anyways we had a few minutes before we could get in line to use our fast passes so we took photos before we embarked on our expedition


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We got in line for Everest, first real ride of the trip!! We were all very excited


This is me being excited for the firs real ride of the trip. AKA Alicia Likes to make really weird faces, there will be plenty more like this to come because I swear I can’t just smile and take a nice picture.


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We got told where to sit and Andy, Sam, Kc and I all go the very back car.


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I tried to keep my camera out for as long as I could before I felt like it was going to fly out of my hands


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Throw your hands up in the air if you are happy to be in Disney World!!!


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You know, just a nice relaxing Expedition, look at that view!!!!


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But then something went horribly wrong…







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The tracks were missing, oh no!!!!!!! whatever will we do?!?! As we flew backwards into the dark I remembered how much I love this ride and it was even better in the back, Andy swears that we went up side down and for a second I thought we do too! What a great first ride.


Sam and I took a photo with one of the souvenirs we have debated buying since our trip down in like 2002. He is so cute, but we were able to resist his cuteness once again, oh well maybe next time adorable yeti ball.


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After that we had just a few more things to check off of our Animal Kingdom list and then we were off to check out that magical pixie dust of a grand villa. Stay tuned for the next exciting installment of “The Crazy Eights”


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[mom of princess]

Loving your TR. Your family looks like they would be fun to vacation with :thumbsup2

Did you plan the giraffe print dress for your AK day? Cute... :)

Can't wait to read more.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Loving your TR. Your family looks like they would be fun to vacation with :thumbsup2

Did you plan the giraffe print dress for your AK day? Cute... :)

Can't wait to read more.


Thanks, we can certainly be a hoot especially when we really like each other or when we are running low on sleep/food and just get frustrated with one another :rotfl:

I got the dress in Animal Kingdom on our previous trip in. I left Disney in it last time so I thought it only made sense that I return wearing it. I love giraffes so I couldn't pass it up last time and it's great for that Florida heat :thumbsup2

thanks so much for reading along and I hope that you continue to enjoy!!! :goodvibes

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

So I have a “fall break” which means the night off from rehearsal and can you guess what that means?!? Time for an update!!!!! Maybe even more than one this weekend depending on how much homework I want to procrastinate doing :rotfl2:

Warning Meteor Shower In Range... Just Little Ones.
August 17, 2011


Ok So when I last left off we had just gotten off of Expedition Everest.

From there we headed to a ride that Andy was so sad that we didn’t go on on our last visit, so I promised him we would do at least once this trip. And that was

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He was very excited as you can see in this photo

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Unfortunately when we got there the line was 65 minutes long!!! But we figured it would be one of the last things we did in Animal Kingdom before we said goodbye to it until our next vacation (remember we are not fond of this place and half of us were not planning on coming back)

While we were in line we took a few shots. What a nice looking family!!!

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And what a nice looking snake?

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Did I mention it was like a million degrees waiting in line (#1 reason we don’t like animal kingdom) KC kept himself cool with the mister. Him and the guy in the background have similar faces (KC is the closest to me in the fact that he is always making face as well).

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Danielle and Adam looking happy to be in Disney

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In reality the line ended up taking about 30-40 minutes. Andy was a little disappointed he wanted to get soaked but we ended up placing the wait in the raft really poorly one side got completely soaked while Andy and I remained pretty much bone dry. Although the couple that got put with us really got a kick out of how soaked half of us got Andy was not impressed. I actually wish that I had gotten a photo of how we they were after, it was hilarious!!!

Anyways, we were almost done with Animal Kingdom. Just one thing left to do. SO we headed over to

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We were on a mission and the mission was to use these babies

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In all honesty this is probably one of my least favorite rides because I literally almost pee my pants every time!!!

We passed this guy, you know the one I was hoping that they might have taken out of the ride since my last visit.

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This is me knowing that they didn’t take that guy out and not being so excited (Alicia Face #3)

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So we rode and I screamed and actually kept my eyes open. Then we saw this.

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Theses are Sam’s legs that were basically painted brown because it had rained so much and the dye started coming out of the romper she wore that day. Haha!!!!


So we headed out of Animal Kingdom, we had expected to stay until 6 but I think we ended up leaving around 4 or 430 because we were so excited that we were going to go get a view of our grand villa!!!

We waved goodbye to Animal Kingdom until next time. Thanks for the memories!!!

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And we were on our way to our new home!!!

So while Ma went in to pick up the keys to the room and find out where exactly we were staying Sam and I took the time to find a hidden Mickey on the horse statue.

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Oddly enough I don’t think I ever took a photo of the entire statue.

Ma came out room keys in hand and we were off to the section we wanted to be in, Congress Park!!!!! We took the pretty long stroll and ended up at the pretty pink buildings!!

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We walked through the beautiful arch

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Up the stairs

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And down a really long hallway (we ended up taking the long way the first time)

After a little wandering we finally found room 1241 our home away from home for the next few days

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We waited anxiously to see what it looked like inside!!!!

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Ma got out the key and we were on our way in to the most amazing room I have ever seen in my life!!!!

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the magical door opened…

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But you will have to come back to the next post to see what it looked like ;)



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[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Ok so I am majorly putting off doing homework so I figured let’s post some pictures of the room!!! Here are the deals with these photos. They are all from different days and different cameras. I apologize in advance for the mess in some of them and the darkness in others.


Grand Villa Tour (First Floor):
August 17, 2011

When we last left off The Crazy Eights had gotten the room key and were about to step foot into a mansion, basically this room was a castle and we could not wait to claim our territory.

The doors opened and we walked in to a room bigger then (I kid you not) the house I rent when I am away at college.
As soon as we walked in we were greeted by our suitcases, straight off the magical express.


The living room was the first thing we saw


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the couch was a pull out bed which KC was originally going to sleep on but then he changed his mind and shared with Danielle and Adam


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off of the living room was the dinning room//kitchen

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off of the dinning room there was a small patio. Which at one point andy and I had hung out towels over and they blew off down onto the grass and we didn’t realize they were gone for like 3 days.

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I wish that we had had more time to enjoy the room itself now that I look back at the photos. We never even used the table or bar area in the kitchen.

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from the dinning room you headed into the kitchen

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view from kitchen to the dinning room.

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Off of the kitchen there was a (messy) bathroom.

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This is a picture taken from the living room view into the kitchen and the other arch is the dining room.

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Off of the living room was the master bathroom/bathroom which Ma and Pa shared.

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And this was their view

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The bathroom had a classy glass shower

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a pretty nice size sink.

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and a jacuzzi tub!

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And that completes the tour of the first floor. I have so many more picture of the room that the upstairs will have to be put in a separate post!!!


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[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Grand Villa Tour (Second Floor):

August 17, 2011

As we walked up the stairs we entered the “Kids” domain. Andy Sam and I were all in the first bedroom (chosen because of the beautiful view) and Danielle Adam and KC were in the other room.

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Top of the stairs!!! (I know what an important picture)

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View from the balcony of the stairs! (Another can’t miss photo)

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Upstairs. The room on the left was Danielle Adams and Kc’s

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The washing machine was at the top of the stairs hidden in a closet.

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Mine Andy and Sam’s room. As soon as you walked in you were in the “bathroom” the mirror and sink were in one room separate from the shower and stuff.

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And then there was the view from our room, which was to die for and totally worth having to walk to far to get to a pool (since the congress park one was closed for refurb.)

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And this was the third bedroom and bathroom (once again sorry for the unmade bed, these were taken on move out day ☹ )

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Their view

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[Eira]

Holy cow! That villa is amazing!!! I'm planning a family trip and was going to get a couple rooms, but now I think we need a villa!

[ostrom]

WOW, nice upgrade!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Holy cow! That villa is amazing!!! I'm planning a family trip and was going to get a couple rooms, but now I think we need a villa!

I know!!! It was beautiful. I would love to stay here again. but it was one of the most expensive rooms on property, so chances are unless we luck out and get another free upgrade we won't be seeing it again very soon ;) but it was nice to feel so special for the week :goodvibes

WOW, nice upgrade!

we got so lucky!!! the day we booked the room we were already fighting over who was going to have to sleep on the pull out couch :rotfl: luckily we had no problem with that once we got there :thumbsup2

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Yay for more procrastination of homework and Andy watching the football game so he can’t yell at me to get to work!!! It means another update before I run off to rehearsal for the night:

Eat Till You Pop:
August 17, 2011

When we last left off we had just stepped into the mansion known as our grand villa. But for real I’m pretty sure the entire week I never saw anyone in the Congress Park building that we were staying in. They must have known that we were going to be up early and coming back late all hyped up on Disney and it was better to give us our own section of the resort.

Anyways. Once we got all settled in we got changed and did a little enjoying of the room…

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Oh hi and welcome to our second story entrance!!!

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Come on in an check it out

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Here is our living room’

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Just makin’ some dinner in our kitchen

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And then we were ready to head out. But first we started a tradition. Door pictures!!! Which we took (anytime we remembered) before we left the room every time.

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At this point the kids were out the door and ready to go while the parents dilly dallied in the room so we went to go take photos of just how close we really were to Downtown Disney…

I give you exhibit A, look how happy they are to be in the place where dreams come true!!!! (this might be one of my favorite photos of the trip)

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Exhibit B: I actually use to be really scared of this when I was younger for some reason, but now he has kind of grown on me.

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This was the outside of our room. The second and third story (big bay window & patio on the right) was our castle. How pretty!!

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Ma and Pa FINALLY(!!!) came out and we were skipping off to Downtown Disney. Literally the path from SSR to DTD was directly outside our door and took a little more than 5 minutes (at a slow pace). Here we are again, just being happy (:

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Isn’t he just the cutest?!? Ugh, I love him. One of Andy’s favorite things to do in Disney is chase the little lizards and try to catch them. When he was younger he took a trip and the only thing he remembers were the little lizards, the first time I heard that story I was so sad that he didn’t remember any of the actual park. Anyways as you can tell he was happy to be back!

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Oh yea, and then there is me… Caution Alicia Face #4

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Pa was ready to get some pin trading done

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After a fairly quick walk we had reached our destination

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Funny story, when we arrived this was not how I recalled the outside of this place looking when I read about it on the disboards. It wasn’t until the fallowing night when we went to Disney Quest that I found out there were two of them. Silly me, I actually had my heart set on eating at the other one, but oh well.

Now back to the Trip report… If you recall we had arrived at Animal Kingdom at 11 am that morning and since our reservation’s for that night weren’t until 9pm we had each already split a counter service at Pizzafari (Pete’s Safari). So we decided to split our second counter service of the day at around 5:00 to hold us over.

We ordered and went to find a table and awaited our food, I thought that this restaurant was really cool because you order and then your food is brought to you.

So here are some happy Eights awaiting the arrival of second meal.

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And then Danielle basically fell asleep, too much excitement for one day I suppose

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The food came out and let me tell you there was SO MUCH of it!! This was our down fall of the day, was that we enjoyed to much food before we were fully worked into the eating schedule. It was just so good that we couldn’t let it go to waste.

Ma and Pa split:

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Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf - mashed potatoes, port wine sauce and crispy onion rings
Not going to lie I tried the onion crisps (I can never pass up an onion crisp) deliciousness.

Danielle and Adam // Sam and KC split:

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Pennette Chicken Alfredo - peas, bacon and parmesan
They loved it. All I really remember about it was how mouthwatering the smell alone was.

Andy and I split:

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Macaroni and Cheese
Basically that’s exactly what it was only a million times better!! I was expecting typical yellow but oh no the white sauce was delicious and creamy and scrumptious.

For Dessert Ma and Pa // Danielle and Adam

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Creme Brulee
Everyone sampled it except me because the idea of that dessert is just a turn off to me.

While the other four of us got a Fresh Baked Brownie, which is in the photo with the mac and cheese. Andy ended up carrying it around in his bag for like 3 day just incase we wanted a snack but we never ended up eating it, so sorry for the lack of report on the brownie, if it helps it was prepackaged and had chocolate chips in it! Haha.

This was the only meal that we all cashed out together so I was able to record the total, which ended up being: $90.96 (not including tip). All I can say is thank goodness for the dinning plan!!

Up next we decide that we can part with some of our money and replace it with some items that will not leave our side for the rest of the trip!



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[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness!!! I have been gone for far to long. I apologize, I had an update prepared for the day after Halloween but my photobucket wasn’t working and then we got into the three weekend run of Damn Yankees at my school. So before auditions and things start up for Spring semester I promise to get this thing back up and moving. Enough excuses, let’s continue…

Shop Till You Drop//The Obsession Begins:
August 17, 2011

So after we finished up with our delectable dinner at Wolfgang Puck we were off to get our shop on. Since it was our first night in Disney we had to get an idea of the new merchandise that we would eventually be exchanging our hard earned cash for. So we separated and we were off…

Sam and I knew exactly what our first purchases were going to be. So we headed out in search of the items we planned on buying for weeks before we even left.

My first stop was the pin trading place to buy a vinilimation. Now I have never been big on the vinilimation thing, for a while I was into pin trading but then I got sick of carrying that heavy thing on my neck. At first I kind of hated vinilimations because I thought they served no purpose. I came up with the idea to buy one vinilimation and trade it anytime I saw one of the trading boxes, no questions asked no matter how much I loved the one that I had.

I was so excited to get it and start my trading!!! I opened it before I even left the store. I got primeval whirl (the Disney murderer soon to be shut down for good ride).

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As you can see I was pretty flippin’ excited about my purchase. From there we had to book it to the memories store to get Sam her ears before we had to catch a bus to the contemporary.

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So in a quick dash, still admiring my new purchase we were off once again. While Sam got her ears embroidered Andy and I decided we wanted a pair as well on our previous trip we bought the Minnie mouse head band and sorcerer mickey headband.

That’s right, we are those people that will actually wear the mouse ears every day of the trip (with the exception of water parks) and won’t take them off unless we are sleeping we even wore them on the plane ride home.

Anyways… I digress.

So we were waiting in line to purchase//embroider our hats. Wouldn’t you know that we were in a rush so the machine was not working properly? In the mean time I decided to try on the hat of my least favorite bear of all time.

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We grabbed our hats and we were out the door faster than a speeding bullet. We had to make it to the bus stop to catch a bus to the contemporary for our late night dinner reservation. Once we got to the bus stop we took a deep sigh of relief and waited for the bus to come.

We decided to have a fashion show of our new ears.
And we waited and we waited and we waited. As you can see from the photos we slowly slipped from day

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to dusk

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to full on night

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we were not having very much luck with buses today.

Where is that bus?!?
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We waited quite a while for that darn bus. I want to say that it was a half an hour but I don’t really remember. I knew that the bus ride was going to take a while because the contemporary is so far away we started to get panicked, we were all a little cranky from being up since 4am and some words were said and I thought the eights were really going crazy and were about to start a throw down. Luckily the bus showed up, we piled on and we were on our (less then merrily) way, our very sleep way.

Yep, that’s right even though we vowed not to ever sleep there Danielle is again sleeping for the second time in two hours…

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This bus ride literally seemed to take forever. As passed between dream world and I counted down the minutes to our 9:10 reservation and gave up all hope of getting there on time. The bus slowly pulled up and we were off in yet another mad dash, which I was hoping would be the last one of the night.

We sprinted across this beautiful welcome

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As we did I spoke to my mother about how I needed to get a picture with the silver Mickey out in the back that I have a picture with from one of my first trips she said we should do it now because I would forget to later but I as so set on making it for the reservation time I said pass… sadly she was right, never got that picture… oh well all the more reason to take another trip!!

We passed by Andy’s favorite moat favorite part ever of Disney world

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We walked up a set of the most comfortable stairs I have ever climbed. And crossed under yet another beautiful arch.

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We actually made it with time to spare. So Andy, Myself, Sam and KC went to explore the gift shops and browsed for some pressed penny machines. On our adventure we got tons of compliments on our ears and someone even asked where specifically we got them because it was their child’s first trip and they wanted to get a pair embroidered. What a magical souvenir// memory, I still have the ones my parents bought me on our trip down during the 25th anniversary before they had elastic strings.

Anyways we soon realized that it was close to our reservation time so we scurried back to the waiting area and panicked called ma and pa because we thought they went in without us. They walked in shortly after us, we had our photo taken with statue Mickey and we were seated and ready for a great time.



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Eat till You Pop Part II:
August 17, 2011

So we entered under this beautiful glowing arch

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and had our picture snapped with statue Mickey.

The we were swept away into the music and food that would be an almost perfect ending to our night.

We were seated in the very front room against the wall, it was a very lively room and much better than the room Andy and I sat in on our last trip down

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Notice all the children and their parents. Then in walk “The Eights”, a big group of basically grown adults that probably had more fun than the children.

We were a very short walk away from the buffet line which was WONDERFUL!!!

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Shortly after our waitress was around we were up and filling our plates except the plates were not coming back as full as they should have been. If you remember we had made the choice to spilt 2 quick service meals that day one around 11:30 and the other around 5:30, not our best decision. We were STUFFED from Wolfgang Puck.

Anyways we came back with plates that had food on them, just not $40 per person worth of food, good thing we were on the dinning plan and we could make up for it later.

I can’t really tell you who’s plate is who’s for some of these but I can tell you that I LOVED the mashed potatoes!! I went up for like three helpings of them… soooooo gooood

I know this one was mine because I was all about the mickey raviolis. Aside from that I got some perfectly seasoned chicken, parmesean mashed poatoes, broccoli and cheese, and corn bread and green beans.

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this next one was my second plate. Mickey-roni and Cheese with some chicken nuggets and honey mustard. I will tell you even though I am 21, I am all about the kid’s buffet.

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I know for sure that this plate belongs to Andy because non of the food it touching. He can’t eat if it does. Let me inform you, not the most adventurous eater here. He got some chicken, DELICIOUS POTATOES, green beans, and some form of other meat that he actually only got because he thought the guy serving it was cool. Yea, that’s my boy, what a goof ball.

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This is one of Andy’s favorite restaurants so even if all he ate was things we eat on a daily basis at home he was really enjoying it!!!

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Warning sad foods approaching….

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those either belong to Danielle or Ma. What a disappointment to all buffet goers every where.

For the heck of it let’s throw in some dessert photos.

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So we sat and stuffed our faces for the third time in one day. Soon the characters starting making their rounds.

First was Minnie Mouse, and Oh Boy was she a little less than fun.

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After she walked away Sam and I looked at one another and just broke out into frightened laughter because Minnie had been really putting the pressure on our shoulders when we took the photos. So it became a running joke for the rest of the trip that Minnie trip to strangle us.

Which was the reason behind Alicia Face #5. I was demonstrating what must have been going on in Minnie’s head as we took the photo.

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We quickly moved on from that almost traumatizing experience because it was time for some napkin twirling!!!

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Eat Until You Pop Part II (Cont.)
August 17, 2011

So after Minnie Mouse came around next was the big cheese himself. Chef Mickey Mouse.

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Next to come around was Goofy and let me tell you there was the most adorable child at the table behind us, who the second that he saw Goofy screamed “PLEASE DON’T EAT ME!!!!” to which Goofy simply replied

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So stinking cute, because I can remember several vacation during which we had screaming terrified children. I love how it’s ok for children to see them on TV and adore them but the second they see them in person everything is different.

First thing we had to do was get a photo of Pa with Goofy, since he is his number one fan. Look at him simply glowing, happy to be in the world. And people wonder where I get my love of Disney from, yea it’s this guy, the one who almost refused to go on the first trip with my mother because he thought it was for children.

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Now for the rest of us everybody cram in!!!!

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Pluto was soon to follow, he is one of my favorites. All I want for Christmas is a Pluto Pillow Pet <3

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And last but certainly not least was Andy’s favorite Donald Duck!!!

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From there we paid the extremely outrageous tip of like $80 (which is why we only ate together on the first and last day), they really know how to stick it to large parties. Anyways… As we left I snapped this shot of Mickey and Minnie. True Love right there.

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While we waited for half the party to take a pit stop, I went to the gift shop in search of a vinilimation trading box so I could get the obsession really going. This being my first trade I was terrified of getting a bad one. Later on I learned not to worry because I would most likely be trading it anyways. I ended up with this guy

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We made our way up to the monorail. As I took that photo I walked into one of the monorail line railings, which made for a very crabby Alicia. But you’ve gotta give me a break it was close to 11 pm and I had been up since 4 am. Needless to say, the rest of the night was less than pleasant.

We sadly waved goodbye to Chef Mickey's and hopped on the monorail, then we had probably one of the biggest crabby moments of the entire trip.

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After getting on the monorail someone (I won’t name names) decided that it was a good idea to stay on until the transportation center and take a bus from there back to Saratoga Springs. I tried to tell them that we needed to get off at the Magic Kingdom now in order to beat the flood of people leaving the park after wishes but they wouldn’t listen.

So we got off at the transportation center and my mother asked security where the buses were. And he told them exactly what I tried to, the transportation center only shutters people to the parking lot and that the only place to catch a bus back was at Magic Kingdom. I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs I told you so!!! Did I mention I am basically a 5 year old? I pouted instead and under my breath mumbled how i loved disney more than anyone because I knew better than to go to the transportation center and then I got yelled at for doing so. I just wanted a bed at this point.

We got back onto the monorail, which had no one, but the Crabby Eights on it, got off at the Magic Kingdom and got in the long line for the bus back to Saratoga Springs. What an unpleasant evening to and almost perfect day in Disney.

Would day two have a happier ending? Where would we go? What did our vacation have in store next for us? You will just have to wait and see!!



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[Merida]

Subbing! I love counting Vera Bradley bags in the airport; they're so easy to spot and everyone has them.

I hate when no one believes me about something I know is right. It's probably my biggest pet peeve. Everything would go so much smoother if people just listened to me! :lmao:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Subbing!

I hate when no one believes me about something I know is right. It's probably my biggest pet peeve. Everything would go so much smoother if people just listened to me! :lmao:

thanks so much for joining in!!! :thumbsup2 i was afraid that since it has been so long since I last updated that people would lose interest. hope you enjoy :goodvibes

and tell me about it!!!! i think it happend on more then one occasion this vacation. i mean i basically study disney in my free time, just listen to me!!! :rotfl:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

The Big Waves Were Scary!!!
August 17, 2011

After the night that we had on day one, we decided that day two would be a relaxing day. Which meant that we would sleep in…. until 8 am…? At least we weren’t getting up at the crack of dawn.

So my alarm went off at 8am I got up and got ready and then slowly began to wake up everyone else. Except the parents, they were slow going this entire trip. They had just recently taken Sam and her best friend on a graduation trip where they learned that you can take your time and that there is no rush. RUING THE MAGIC MUCH?!? This trip I was all about moving all the time and never sleeping they were killing my plan and it was only day 2!!!

Anyways while we waited I decided to snap some photos.

Here is a slightly sleepy Andy ready to have a relaxing day with no rushing.

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Here is Sam, getting ready for the day. As you can see I was pretty hyper and wanted to get moving. MOVE FASTER THERE IS FUN TO BE HAD!!!!

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We are a family of face makers.

This was the best part of the room, walking up to such a wonderful view

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FINALLY!!! Everyone (minus Danielle and Adam who were still passed out and weren’t going with us because they had a DVC information presentation) was ready to head off for some fun in the sun. But first we had to get a door picture!

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We got to the bus stop at 9:10, we must have waited for at least a little while because we took some family photos.

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We got on the bus and this got us excited to get there.

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We arrived at Typhoon Lagoon at 9:45

As we made our way in to find some chairs I snapped a few water park shots.

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This is Sam reenacting my “sassy jasmine pose” that I did on a family trip when I was like 4

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The water was looking so blue and inviting we couldn’t wait to jump in

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We grabbed some chairs in a nice shady area and we were off!!

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First thing we did was crushin’ gusher because we knew that the lines would filll up really fast later on.

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Once that was out of the way we went to the wave pool that was pretty wave less so we went to the lazy river and took that over to the body slides. After doing one slide we went to check out the shark reef//snorkeling. We went in the big submarine and then headed in search of food

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Then we used a snack credit on nachos (sorry no real picture, we were starving)

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More Fun in the Sun
August 18, 2011


After Our snack we went back in the lazy river on a photo shoot!!

I took this waterproof bag that my mother bought for her money when they went whitewater rafting and just shoved my camera in there so we could get some photos of the day.

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Now this is the life...

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we got into a traffic jam, of course it happened at the part where the little kids get to spray you.

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Ma and pa enjoying a tropical drink and watching the waves come in

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We had another attempt at the wave pool, which was very crowded and once again had no real big waves. We decided it was about time to leave anyways, as I recall it was about 1:00 and we had to get back to the room and change.

On our way out we met up with Danielle and Adam for a quick second.

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Then we got a picture with alligator, it’s a tradition of ours.

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We made our way to the bus stop, it took a while for the bus to get there (once again). What a happy mama bear, I guess the bus took a little longer than she would have liked.

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Once it did we were off to get changed and get some dinner.

So happy the bus finally showed up!!

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Up next the is where this trip report should get interesting. We go out to dinner at two different places, I will make my best attempt to relive the dinner that I did not go to!!! Stay tuned



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[saintstickets]

We made 37 pennies in one trip. I wonder how much Disney makes off of those machines. I mean Andy and I stop at every machine we see. I even downloaded a special Pressed Penny app for my iphone before we left. I am a hard core penny presser!

Loving your TR. Please keep it coming. BTW, what is the Pressed Penny app? I searched for one and could not find it. I have just started my collection and would love to have an app telling me where all the machines are located.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Loving your TR. Please keep it coming. BTW, what is the Pressed Penny app? I searched for one and could not find it. I have just started my collection and would love to have an app telling me where all the machines are located.

Thanks so much!!! I'm glad you are enjoying it :goodvibes i love to hear that people are reading a long, it makes me feel so loved :rotfl: I am hoping to be able to update on a regular basis now that my main show for the semester is over.

The app I got was for the iphone and it's called WDW coin. It says that it can be found in the entertainment section of the apps store. hope that helps!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

You Can Always Go... Downtown!!!
August 18, 2011


Once we got back to the room we had to get ready quickly and get ready to head back out. We were going to be headed to Downtown Disney to do a little more shopping.

As the boys did some snacking Sam and I showered and got ready to head out.

Tonight was an out of park dinner so Sam, KC, Ma and Pa we headed over to Whispering Canyon. For Andy and I it was night of “not eating” because only had 7 table service meals and 8 days so we were off in search of something yummy and cheap.

But of course before we left… we HAD to take some door pictures. As you can tell from these, we spent the day in the pool and it was really sunny, look at that color haha

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I love Sam in this one

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We were off down the creepy and always abandoned hallway (seriously though
pretty sure that there was no one staying in this building, we never saw anyone!)

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We quickly made our way down the beautiful pathway. So happy to be in Disney.

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Andy LOVES the little lizards, he always tries to catch them. Then he saw that this one had no tale and backed off.

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5 minutes later we arrived here

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We were a little later than we anticipated so They went to catch a bus while Andy and I went to explore!!

We walked around trying to find someplace to eat. Our first idea was Rainforest Café, but we decided we have eaten at them all over (Tenessee, Boston, Niagara Falls, Florida) and basically they are all the same. So we went in the gift shop made a penny and then left. But first we got a photo of Andy and his favorite animal.

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We stopped in Goofy’s Candy company to look for our beloved Nemo/Dory cookies that we spent all of our snack credits on last trip. Sadly there we none to be found (on the entire trip, we were heart broken)

We went into Once Upon a Toy and looked around I believe we made a penny there.

Then we made our way down to Pollo what’s it called (the chicken place where McDonalds Use to be) and decided for some reason or another not to eat there.

Passed by some pretty cool lego work.

Hi, I’m not scared of you anymore!!!

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Looked at eating at T-Rex but decided that was probably to over priced for what we wanted

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Sorry T-Rex maybe next time… then we made our way back to the best decision we made on the entire trip!!!

I cannot even get over how happy I am that we made the decision that we did. For real. Ugh I want to eat it right now.

Incase you can’t tell by me simply drooling, we ended up at Earl of Sandwich.

A little back story about Andy and I, we are two (relatively) grown up people but we cannot talk to people who take our orders to save our lives and for some reason this line seemed really scary. Anyways. The way the line works is that you order your sandwich, go down the line and pick up your sides and then order drinks and pay. We were so confused it was hilarious. So we figure it out and get to the end of the line to pay and the guy asks “Does this complete your order?” and Andy just blurted out “No, I’m paying with cash” hahaha. I don’t know what he thought the guy said, but when Andy get nervous he hears things that were never said and has really funny was of responding. Like when we were in Pizzafari and he yelled at the old lady to tried to trade pins with him. Hahahaha…. Moving on.

Here is what we got.

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I got a veggie sub. Oh my goodness, I wish I could have one right now. It contained two of my favorite things feta cheese and roasted red peppers. And the bread, oh my gosh the bread toasted and warm… mmmmm I was in Heaven. I also had some potatoes salad, because I can never pass up potato salad. I am more a fan if mustard, this was dill, it was still pretty good.

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Andy got a Caribbean Jerk Chicken and he loved it, he was nervous at first because he is not the most adventurous eater but he devoured it.

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And then there was this beauty. I am a girl who love Jimmies (sprinkles)

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so, when I was younger I my ratio of ice cream to sprinkles was outrageous. So when I saw this I HAD TO HAVE IT. Let me tell you, it did not disappoint.

After we gobbled down our deliciousness we headed out to do some more schmoozing with the merchandise.

We went into the Art of Disney and I got some photos of things I could never in a million years afford but I liked to look at.

This was just to cute to pass up. It is my DREAM to have a Disney Fairytale Wedding!!!

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This one I liked because it reminded me of Andy and I (we sometimes have a little bit of a temper)

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From there it was time to move onto the other end of Downtown Disney. We were meeting up with Sam and KC at Disney quest.

On our way there we saw a living statue

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It was at this point that I began to wish that they had kept the Pleasure Island clubs open. We have old travel videos that show the nightlife of Disney and I wish I was old enough to enjoy them, like the Adventurer’s Club, I feel like I would have loved it!!! Anyways…

While we waited for Sam and Kc to show up I traded my Vinilimation and got a Grumpy

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When they showed up we went into Disney Quest. Which I was kind of disappointed in, the elevator usually shows a video and it didn’t. I was surprised how crowded it wasn’t in there. Usually we go and it takes forever to get things done, not the case this time.

So many of the things were closed down (like the entire top floor) and the internet cafe that they have upstairs and has always been pack. Was completely internet//peoples. We did cyber space mountain (always super fun) and then played some of the arcade games while we waited for the drawing class to start.

We got there like a half an hour early and we the very first people to sit down.

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We were pretty excited. We ended up drawing Donald.

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The guy who taught the class went so fast it made me nervous!!! It also didn’t help that it was so hard to erase on those machines, oh well we had fun.

Then we did Astro Blasters,

this is the car that Sam and KC were in.

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man that game is intense and scary. I’m pretty sure I screamed the whole time.

The Pirate ship shooting game (which is another one that always makes me so nervous and screamy) this one was probably my favorite and the Jungle Crusie Game (which our grandmother fell out of one time)

It was about 10 so we decided to head back to the room because we had an early morning. the next day.

Little did we know it was a monsoon out. Literally it was a wall of water as we ran for the bus stop near Planet Hollywood. We caught a bus and we were on our way home for the night.


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[Merida]

1) Um, who sleeps in at Disney?? My new not-so-secret strategy is to schedule REALLY EARLY breakfasts. My boyfriend knows I love breakfast and get super grumpy without it first thing in the morning so he's all for it. We'd never get up for rope drop without something planned.

2) Water parks look so fun! I wish I was a water person :(

3) I hate losing my favorite cookies. Or when I accidentally get almond or lemon flavored when I want vanilla. It's just not the same!! I want a nice sugar cookie with vanilla icing and sprinkles why is that hard.

4) There should always be more sprinkles than ice cream. ALWAYS.

5) That Grumpy is kind of creepy. Why isn't his face on the actual face? Why is it on the stomach/feet?

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

1) Um, who sleeps in at Disney?? My new not-so-secret strategy is to schedule REALLY EARLY breakfasts. My boyfriend knows I love breakfast and get super grumpy without it first thing in the morning so he's all for it. We'd never get up for rope drop without something planned.

2) Water parks look so fun! I wish I was a water person :(

3) I hate losing my favorite cookies. Or when I accidentally get almond or lemon flavored when I want vanilla. It's just not the same!! I want a nice sugar cookie with vanilla icing and sprinkles why is that hard.

4) There should always be more sprinkles than ice cream. ALWAYS.

5) That Grumpy is kind of creepy. Why isn't his face on the actual face? Why is it on the stomach/feet?

I don't know!! Sleeping is overrated. But i must admit, i did fall asleep on the bus once our twice but i swear that's only because they pump in sleeping gas through the air conditioning. i love the water parks, they are so relaxing unless they are crowded like they were this day!! SPRINKLES enough said :laughing: and the Grumpy was part of the big face collection or something. The one that i traded him for was one of my favorite ones of the trip but I am so happy with the one I ended up with at the end of the trip. I hope you keep reading until the end to see which one I am stuck with!!! And i also hope you are enjoying reading about our trip :goodvibes

[disneylovin24]

So, I just discovered your TR and Im loving it:goodvibes

I had to comment though because Im leaving in 2 days to stay at a Grand Villas at SSR! I love seeing your pictures of it! The pictures on allears makes it seem kinda blah, but your pictures make it seem so nice! I also got such a better idea of the layout with your pictures! So thank you so much for posting them!!!

Cant wait for more of the TR!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

So, I just discovered your TR and Im loving it:goodvibes

I had to comment though because Im leaving in 2 days to stay at a Grand Villas at SSR! I love seeing your pictures of it! The pictures on allears makes it seem kinda blah, but your pictures make it seem so nice! I also got such a better idea of the layout with your pictures! So thank you so much for posting them!!!

Cant wait for more of the TR!

2 days!!! How exciting :yay: I'm glad my photos helped you, if you have any questions feel free to ask but I am sure you will find it all out soon enough! I don't know if you are looking for a room in any specific area, but I would totally recomend Congress Park, although it is the last bus stop, it has an amazing view!! I hope that you enjoy your trip, if you do a report or anything let me know I would love to read about it! have fun and I hope you keep reading along :goodvibes

[disneylovin24]

2 days!!! How exciting :yay: I'm glad my photos helped you, if you have any questions feel free to ask but I am sure you will find it all out soon enough! I don't know if you are looking for a room in any specific area, but I would totally recomend Congress Park, although it is the last bus stop, it has an amazing view!! I hope that you enjoy your trip, if you do a report or anything let me know I would love to read about it! have fun and I hope you keep reading along :goodvibes

Already requested Congress Park:thumbsup2 We stayed there in 2009 and it was great! We have our own car so the bus stop is not a problem. It was so quick to get to the main area or to DTD! And, since we leave property to eat often enough, it was convinent for getting off property.

Im not a TR writer, just a reader. I tried one once but it didnt work out.

I will definetely keep reading along!:goodvibes

[sPaRkLeSpAz]

I LOVE your trip report! I will definitely be borrowing some of your ideas, if you don't mind! Especially the 'Days Until Disney Magic' board! That is such an awesome idea! And I liked how you kept trading in your Vinilimations! I might do that when I go in January!
Can't wait to hear more about your trip! :3

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

I LOVE your trip report! I will definitely be borrowing some of your ideas, if you don't mind! Especially the 'Days Until Disney Magic' board! That is such an awesome idea! And I liked how you kept trading in your Vinilimations! I might do that when I go in January!
Can't wait to hear more about your trip! :3

YAY!!!!!! Thank you so much, I love to hear that people are reading along and enjoying it. That board is still sitting in my living room because I don't have the heart to take is apart :lmao: I never thought I would get into vinilimations but they are so much fun. I would always get so nervous when I would trade but it was so much fun, I totally recommend it!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Going to the Lodge
August 18, 2011


So this is going to be a great part of the trip report, I hope you are all excited!! This is the part where I will start to retell parts of the trip I was not on.

For 6 of our 8 days we set up reservations at separate table service restaurants for many reasons. This is the first one that I will write about where I did not eat any of the food you will see!! So here goes, me trying to recall a night I didn’t have!!!

In my last post we left off with Disney Quest, we are going to take a step back in time…

This was the night of dinner at The Wilderness Lodge’s Whispering Canyon Café for Ma, Pa, Sam and Kc. (Andy, Danielle, Adam and Myself did not like it that much when we went last time so we opted out).

From the pictures it looks like they checked in and then went to explore a little.

Here is Pa, he is a Native American so my guess is that’s why he got the totem pole picture. (we have a totem pole in our from yard, I wish it was full of Disney characters like this one!!)

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Next they wandered into a store where KC tried on a hat then he decided to Pose with this shirt?

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Look that the lobby of this place!!

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I would love to stay here in the winter, I feel like there are so many nooks and cranny’s, I would love to curl up with some hot chocolate in front of a fire place and just relax. Of course as I type that I realize I’m from NY and picturing a cold snowy day perfect for hot coco, when in reality it’s Florida so I’d be so warm for me I would be out in shorts haha. Anyways….

The lovebirds took a stroll over the bridge, just like in the musical The Music Man.

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Then they took a stroll outside to take in some strategically placed streams and nature. Oh, look at that!!

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I love that the water from inside the hotel runs into the pool

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This is a nice shot of Sam on a bridge with the warm Florida sun cascading in around her..

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Then their tour was abruptly ended when thy were called back inside to chow down.

This part of the night I remember Sam telling me about. They had a 4 person table that that exactly 3 Indian seats and 1 cowboy. They made pa sit in the cowboy seat. That’s my family’s humor.

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Pa showing off his chair

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Sam feeling accomplished.

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Now for some food!!

To start Sam and KC got some blue Milkshakes.

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Sam said it tasted like “blue goo” which is a type of ice cream a place near us sells for those of you who don’t know what that means. She loved it!! And highly recommends it, as you can see…

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Pa got the Skillet, before they left he said he wasn’t going to get that again, but surprise surprise, he did anyways.

First comes some delicious salad (I remember that from last time, pretty god stuff)

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Then the Skillet itself with it’s meat and BBQ sauciness

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The other 3 got the steak. Sam loved it on our last trip, talked about it literally every time we have steak at home. Not sure how she felt about it this time, but we will say she loved it once again!

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They we all stuffed so they got apple pie to go

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Then came some fun!! Kiddy horse racing!!!

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Oh look at the light fixture!!

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And then the pictures end with a dead beetle, which I won’t show you.

And that in a nutshell was their night at Whispering Canyon Café. I hope you enjoyed


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[heaven2dc]

What a fantastical fun report! Love your writing style and your pics :thumbsup2

I wasn't sure if I'd like to stay at SSR since I usually rent points and stay at BWV but the Grand Villa is awesome! You all are having so much fun as a big group - would love for my whole family to join in on a trip soon (me, 5 kids and their gf/bf's and 2 grandkids). Can't wait to read about Day 3!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

What a fantastical fun report! Love your writing style and your pics :thumbsup2

I wasn't sure if I'd like to stay at SSR since I usually rent points and stay at BWV but the Grand Villa is awesome! You all are having so much fun as a big group - would love for my whole family to join in on a trip soon (me, 5 kids and their gf/bf's and 2 grandkids). Can't wait to read about Day 3!

Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you joined in and are having fun reading about my crazy family!!! I thought I wasn't going to like SSR either, but I ended up LOVING it :lovestruc so peaceful and beautiful, if only we could stay in the Grand Villa again. That was a once in a lifetime experience and it was so amazing!!!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

This is NOT our Morning…
August 19, 2011

So I last left off with our trip back in time, but before that backtrack we left off with us in a down pour getting back to the hotel room and passing out before an early morning.

So, as quick as you can say “Disney Day 3!!!” it went from time to sleep to time to wake up!!! 6:45 comes so early…. We all got up and scrambled to get ready. Today was going to be a day where all "The Eights" went out together for Extra Magic Hours at EPCOT. But of course that is a lot easier said than done, especially with us. Sam, K.C., Andy and I were ready and out the door so fast we forgot to take door pictures.

Pop tarts in hand we headed out to the bus stop while the other half of us were straggling along slow as molasses!!! Ugh do they not understand?!? We are in Disney there is NO time for that!!!

Finally we made it to the bus stop at 7:15, not bad that gives us 45 minutes to make it there for Rope Drop. Plenty of time right?!?!

Except not. Not at all. The bus didn’t show up until almost 7:45. Were they trying to make me crabby or something?!? Jeesh. So we took some bus stop photos.

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FINALLY!!! At exactly 8:15 the bus music switched from the relaxing sounds of SSR to the most lively and Magical Music of EPCOT (seriously this park has the best music, I am listening to it right now and I am transported and crying). We were welcomed to the Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow. I literally jumped off the bus and dashed for the baggage check. And the it happened. Danielle told us she left her Key to the Kingdom Card back at the room….

Hold on a second, we come here for EMH and you are going to tell me you forgot the one thing that is going to get you into the park?!? Ugh so she and pa Handed off their bags and headed over to the ticket counter to see if they could wrangle her up another one. Luckily they did!!! And we met up with them after Andy, Sam and I got compliments from the security guys on our ears.

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So as we counted down to get into the park I uploaded a photo of the “golf ball” to facebook from my iphone just to rub in everyone face that I was in the happiest place on earth, they do it to me so it’s only fair!

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We all got in different lines in hopes of making it in fast. But some of the group chose a line with a gazillion strollers and got held up. So we stopped for a photo

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All I remember about this morning is I was in SUCH A RUSH. I almost took off without the whole group and got yelled at. Once we all made it through the turnstile we were off with the mad dash of people to you guessed it….

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Sorry for the blurriness of that photo, but as I said before I was not stopping for anything this morning. I have never seen such a mad dash for fastpasses.

Once we got the little slip of paper that would allow us to pass by all those poor unfortunate souls waiting in that 2 hour line later in the day we were off to Nemo because it was close and was a logical choice.

But then we were greeted by a cast member who said that Nemo wouldn’t be open until the park actually opened at 9am. Of course!!! Just our luck. So we Stopped for a quick family photo

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And once again we were off. This time to

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not clear enough? How about this?

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There was literally zero line for this, finally something was going our way!!! Look how excited we were!!

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So we were off, on another time traveling educational adventure.

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We sat back and enjoyed the air conditioning, (because even though it was only 8:30 is was HOTTTT. This was the hottest day of our trip). So as I sat back and tried to relax, honestly I am terrified of this ride, the people inside of it scare me (with the exception of the redhead in the ticket booth and the little girl with pig tales sitting in front of the TV) I am terrified of this ride. But it was ok because the day was turning around for us, we were actually on a ride and things were going great

That is until we got on it and it stopped twice for a good 5 minutes and the pictures didn’t even work!! Luckily when we got stuck we were in that light tunnel after you go through the garage where the first personal computer was made. The lights in there make it feel like you are moving so at first I was like this tunnel is a lot longer than I remember but then they kindly told us that our time travel had been interrupted. Then we got stuck in the going backwards part with the cool lights (I know what a description haha). I just was thankful we weren’t by any creepy people.

This is Andy and I in the future. I apparently think it’s a good idea to be blonde (so not the case).

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What a let down. Oh well no time for sadness in Disney only time for rushing. So off we went to Mission Space. Which Andy can’t ride (he has never actually tried) because he feels like he will get sick and won’t feel well the rest of the day. Better safe than sorry I guess.

They decided to go on the orange side (I’m not even sure what that means anymore, that’s how long it has been since I went on it) Sam kindly modeled that for us

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Meanwhile… I decided to do some trading of my vinilimation!!! The guy who worked in the Mission Space giftshop was the cutest little old man, usually you are only suppose to pick 1 number and no matter what it is you either take the one that was in that spot or you keep your own. He let me pick 3!! So I did. I ended up with a red guy a tron one and this guy…

I couldn’t pass him up for a few reasons 1. Norway is one of my all time FAVORITE Disney rides (which is sad because I heard they are redoing the entire pavilion and the ride will be either changed or removed) 2. It broke my heart to think that he was probably put in that box because some kid thought that he was creepy or scary. So he was going to be mine, for the time being.

We had a lot of fun with him and I gave him a lot of loving.

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In that photo for some reason I feel like I resemble a Country Bear. Anyways…

The rest of the gang got off of the ride. I made a little home for my new friend in my purse

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And we were off once again!!! This time to

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Which was experiencing technical difficulty. Man did we pick the wrong time to come to EPCOT. SO we decided to wait 15 minutes until our window opened up for new fastpasses. As we waited one of the guys thought we were waiting around for the ride to open back up and told us we might as well just leave because they didn’t know if it was even going to open back up that day.

We grabbed our fastpass and left, that guy was way to crabby for us. As we went back up the hill to make our way back to Soarin’ we tried telling people that it was close and not to bother going all the way down there but no one listened to us…

We backtracked and before we knew it we were in line to use our magical jump the line pass.

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We handed over those puppies and thought we were all set to go

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But wouldn’t you know, they were having jus a little bit of trouble with the ride. So we waited a little longer than expected and then!!!! No purprise there, I mean the title of this is “This is NOT Our Morning”

We got to ride in the second row… yay for feet obstructing our view!!! Haha. We got off this and figured that Nemo would be up and running by now so that’s where we headed.

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I love the queue for this ride. I think it is themed perfectly. Usually there is no line whatsoever so we just breeze through it I do not remember the room with the boat on the ceiling at all. But we all know how this day went and their was quite the line so I got to take it all in.

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So we got off the ride and the parent’s decided to head off on their own. I really have no idea where they went but it is what it is.

Sam found this super cute little Nemo and then we were off.

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Kids having free roam. Whatever would we do next?


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[Disneyfreak508]

I needed a new trip report to read... so YAY I am excited to start yours! I think it's so funny that we were there at the same time! And also the fact that you guys didn't sleep... because we didn't either!! :rotfl: I love how much you love Disney... you sound just like me! :goodvibes

Chapter 1:

Dang you got ready fast! I give you props! Even when I am going to Disney it's SO hard for me to wake up in the morning. I am just not a morning person by any means! :rotfl:

Hahaha a Vera Bradley bag count!! Brilliant. I love those bags they are too cute!

Aww poor andy! I used to feel that way whenever I flew! When I was 8 and 13 I had TERRIBLE turbulence experiences :scared1: I was seriously terrified of planes for years. But the past year or two I have been much braver! I am proud of myself!

YAY FOR THE DISNEY PLAYLIST! I have to have almost a thousand Disney songs by now :laughing: (not exaggerating)

MAGICAL EXPRESS!!!! Ahhh my favorite part!

bahaha I LOVE when cast members pose for pictures!

DISNEYDISNEYDISNEY!!!

Chapter 2:

I love Saratoga Springs! It's so beautiful! You really can't go wrong with any Disney resort haha

Aww I used to collect those pressed pennies ALL the time! I need to take up that hobby again. It's so fun! And there's an app for it!? LOL I should probably get that!

OH MY GOD A GRAND VILLA!?!?! That is SO incredibly exciting!!! AHHH! Congratulations!

Chapter 3:

PIZZAFARI :love: That's my favorite!! And Disney Pizza?! AHH so good.

I always get terrible seats for Nemo too! I really should get there earlier but I just don't have time to sit around when there are things to get done! :lmao:

I like your giraffe print dress, by the way! I always buy animal print clothing and say "I can wear this to animal kingdom!!" But really. It happens every time. :p

Chapter 5:

HOLY COW. OH MY GOD. I never saw inside of a Grand Villa before and WOWWW it's like a HOUSE in there!!!! :eek:

Chapter 6:

There are TWO FLOORS!?!?! Can I just live in Disney? That would be great. You have everything you need!!

Wow. That is AMAZING!!! I'm so incredibly impressed right now!!

Ahh I want to finish but I am hungry! I will be back later! :goodvibes Great trip report so far I love it! :goodvibes

[Eira]

Wow! I some how missed an entire page of updates! I don't know how that happened. Your trip seems so awesome so far though!
Except I can't believe the bad luck at epcot. I hope your afternoon made up for it!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Wow! I some how missed an entire page of updates! I don't know how that happened. Your trip seems so awesome so far though!
Except I can't believe the bad luck at epcot. I hope your afternoon made up for it!

You probably only missed because there was a day that I was REALLY into updating and did like 2 everyday. Thanks for reading along though and I am glad to hear that you are enjoying it so far!!!

[Disneyfreak508]

Time to continue!

I love your "I <3 My Boyfriend" shirt! That is SO precious!

Ahh I spot Andy's monorail shirt!! I have the same one!

I can't believe how close you were to DTD! Wow, I would have ended up going to WPE every morning for breakfast if I stayed there! :rotfl:

I loveee that place, though. The mac and cheese looks so good! I have yet to try it, but it's on my list for next time!

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I haven't gotten into the whole Vinylmation thing yet. I still don't know how I feel about it. :laughing: I am interested to see how you liked it on your trip.

Oh wow, that wait for the bus sounded AWFUL! I absolutely hate when that happens!!

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YAYY CHEF MICKEY'S! I have never gone there for dinner! I am going there for breakfast on my Christmas trip, but it's going to be right before we leave.. so I am going to be sad! Oh well.

That food looks really good! I don't know why people complain! I really want to try that Mickey Ravioli.. and if you say the mashed potatoes are good I MUST try them! I'm a huge mashed potatoes fan.

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A PLUTO PILLOW PET!?! That is seriously going on my Christmas list right now hahaha. Pluto is one of my top favorites! :goodvibes

$80 FOR TIP!?! Holy cow that's absolutely insane!! Plus it's a buffet! I hate how they do that. :headache:

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I miss Typhoon Lagoon!! I haven't been there in forever!! I also miss summer. I want it to be sunny and warm so I can just go swimming!!

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Yum EoS! I haven't been there in a while either! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much! It makes me want to go back even more! Ugh there's just never enough time to squeeze everything into my Disney trips :rotfl: I will get there eventually!

I WANT A DISNEY FAIRYTALE WEDDING TOO! I am warning my parents now. ;) Now I just gotta find the right guy hahaha. :lmao:

I haven't done DisneyQuest in a while either! Those Donald Duck drawings are really good!!

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Every time I see pictures of WL I want to stay there even more!! It's just SO beautiful!

AHH THE MUSIC MAN! I was just in that this past march! :goodvibes "There were bells on the hill but I never heard them ringing, No, I never heard them at all, till there was you." :lovestruc Such a cute show.

Mmm Whispering Canyon! I'm going there on my next trip! I really want the skillet! It's been too long!

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Dang the bus luck on this trip just sound terrible :( Wahh that stinks! I always get so crabby when the busses take forever so I know exactly how you feel!

Epcot DOES have the best music and I was just listening to it thinking that same thing! Ahh I wish I was able to experience Epcot back when they had the old figment/horizons/food rocks/wonders of life. It just seems like a great time in Epcot history.

OH NO that could have been disastrous! Thank GOD she was able to get a new one!

The Norway Pavilion is being redone!? I haven't heard that yet! Ahh they better not get rid of the Maelstrom I love that thing!

So you said you were obsessed with Disney smells, and since you read my trip reports you probably remember that I am too. :laughing: But is it just me or does the line going to the Nemo ride smell really good?!? I LOVE it :rotfl:

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Aww yay I'm all caught up! I LOVE your trip report! I can't wait for the next update! :wizard:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

yay I'm all caught up! I LOVE your trip report! I can't wait for the next update! :wizard:

Awwww thank you. Yay!!! I am so glad you liked it. If my trip report can be half as entertaining as yours I will be happy!! lol I hope you enjoy the rest :goodvibes

[Merida]

Oh no! Being part of a big group is fun at times, but not when racing for fastpasses! Boo.

I love Maelstrom so much! It's so much fun and cheesy and awesomeness all in one package. They can't get rid of it - unless they put in something video-screen-less and almost exactly the same as the old one. Just update the movie! No one will care about that!

The Nemo building is so adorable. I love the outside and the queue and everything. It seems like such a fun place to conceptualize and decorate. Also - clam mobiles. Soarin' just seems so... 80s? Neon? Way less cute than the Seas pavilion.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Oh no! Being part of a big group is fun at times, but not when racing for fastpasses! Boo.

I love Maelstrom so much! It's so much fun and cheesy and awesomeness all in one package. They can't get rid of it - unless they put in something video-screen-less and almost exactly the same as the old one. Just update the movie! No one will care about that!

The Nemo building is so adorable. I love the outside and the queue and everything. It seems like such a fun place to conceptualize and decorate. Also - clam mobiles. Soarin' just seems so... 80s? Neon? Way less cute than the Seas pavilion.

Maelstrom is honestly like my second favorite ride haha. I was terrified of it as a child but I have to ride it at least once every trip!!

Soarin's got nothing on the Seas pavilion theming!!! :rotfl:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

So I am back!!! After a long lull due to Audition Week and Finals. BUT soon enough I will be on winter break and I will be updating MUCH more. So here is another update that you will hopefully enjoy and tied you over for now :goodvibes

Kids Taking on the World
August 19, 2011

Last I left off we kids were about to take on EPCOT without the adults, so as we left the bliss of air conditioning and ventured out into the baking Florida sun we quickly developed a plan!!

It didn’t take us long to decide what we were going to do next all we needed was a little imagination and we were off to visit Sam’s favorite purple dragon the “oh so cuddly” (really creeps me out) FIGMENT!!!

Of course we stopped for a photo opp.

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As we went inside there were the cutest little kids behind us playing with princess figurines. Then one of the girls refused to share and started crying when her mom took them away because she wouldn’t give one to her sibling and then her little brother kept wandering off and running around us in line.

I took some photos to try to stay away from it. Oh look it’s my favorite guy from monty python and the holy grail, he’s funny, unlike this awkward situation I am in.

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Hall of Fame right here, this is where it is at.

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So after we sang along to that catchy little tune… With F-I-G-M-E-N-T you can see things differently…

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We decided to venture into another gift shop!! Of course not by our choosing, we were simply got off the ride and found ourselves right in the middle of it. Let’s have a look around shall we?


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We were quickly interrupted by the excitement of Adam jumping in on my vinilimation game!!! He bought a cutie because they were the cheapest and he was only going to be trading it so he didn’t care what he started out with (whish I would have thought about that)

We quickly went outside to that he could open it up… look at the excitement!!

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What a cutie…?

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seeing how we are from Buffalo this was perfect for him I guess haha

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Then we lost two more of our party. Danielle and Adam had to go catch up with Ma and Pa to make it to their lunch reservation. We said goodbye to them and continued on our way.

Since we were in the area we figured we would check out Captain EO and luckily for us the show was just about to start!!

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Of course we got some photos of the classy glasses. :3dglasses:3dglasses Clearly I don’t have the correct face shape to make these glasses look attractive.

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The show was interesting. I can barely remember seeing it when I was like 4. I remember being terrified of the evil lady. I loved the fact that the floor moved and there were lights that were in the audience. I thought it was awesome to see an old Disney favorite, plus I was never really a fan of Hunny I Shrunk the Audience.

As we deposited out glasses in the receptacle we decided that it was time for lunch!! We were trying to space lunch and dinner farther apart so we weren’t full.

So we made out way back to…

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for some delicious food at Sunshine Seasons. Mmmmmmmm don’t we all just dream about Disney food all the time? I know I do, last night I actually had a dream about going to Pizzafari <3

Ok so here is what we devoured for lunch today!!!

KC and I had the turkey sandwich and some potato salad. Extra mayo because it was HUGE and just a little dry. But yum yum yum, the bread and as I said before I am all about potato salad.

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So many dessrt choices here and I love that!!! KC got the smores brownie

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Look hidden Mickey on Andy’s tray…

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Andy got (as always) the half a rotisserie chicken, rice which he didn’t eat and beans which he didn’t eat. Then he got some Strawberry short cake and the to right corner is my DELICOUS chocolate cake, so airy and fluffy with moose mmmmmm.

Sam got the delicious looking Cesar Salad with chicken, which I debate getting every time and never do, maybe next time. And her dessert was Strawberry Short cake, which she liked but expected more from.

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Now for some food action shots!!! Andy and his Shortcake

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Mmmmm KC’s smore brownie

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First bite yummmmm

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So after we were full we went in search of some fore fun. We made our way through the magical EPCOT music to Innoventions to see what fun we could discover there, we ended up getting in line for

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There were letting in a group as we walked up and the people in front of us were the last ones let in. So we decided to play with the little kiosks and learn about fire safety. Then this terror child was dropped off by his parents and decided to literally burst through us to get to the game we were playing. Here is his rude little interrupting hand…

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When we finally got to play we were put onto two separate teams. Andy and I vs. Sma and KC. We were giving flashlights and told that we had to go through the house and find all the different fire hazards and when we found them we both had to shine out flashlights on it at the same time. We had to work quickly because they slowly went from being fine, to smoking to smoldering to being on fire.

This was really actually very fun and terrifying at the same time. If you haven’t done it I would suggest giving it a try, it’s a nice air conditioning break on a hot day.

After the game it was almost time to meet up with the others. But first Andy and I wanted to head back to the Mexico Pavilion to make rings so that’s where we decided to head off to next.


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[Disneyfreak508]

Yay an update! :yay:

I dream about Disney food ALL THE TIME! :cloud9: Ahh I just love it so much!

You guys definitely got two of the best desserts from Sunshine Seasons - the Strawberry Shortcake and Chocolate Mousse Cake. SO GOOD! :love:

I haven't really explored Innoventions before... so i should definitely try to do that sometime soon!

And oooh rings?! I can't wait to hear about those! :goodvibes Great update!

[xoSamma]

alish isn't figment a dragon not a dinosaur? I could be wrong.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Yay an update! :yay:

I dream about Disney food ALL THE TIME! :cloud9: Ahh I just love it so much!

You guys definitely got two of the best desserts from Sunshine Seasons - the Strawberry Shortcake and Chocolate Mousse Cake. SO GOOD! :love:

I haven't really explored Innoventions before... so i should definitely try to do that sometime soon!

And oooh rings?! I can't wait to hear about those! :goodvibes Great update!

Innoventions is so much fun!! They have this design your own roller coaster simulator in there and a piggy bank game and an intriguing weather thing that we never got the chance to do.


alish isn't figment a dragon not a dinosaur? I could be wrong.

oh my goodness you are right!!!! how could I have messed that up?! I was just listening to one little spark and i remembered why I am scared of him and the dreamfinder's, their voices give me the willies.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Are You Two Brothers?
August 19, 2011

Once again I find myself in the situation in which there was a table service that I was not a part of. Fortunately for you I am a great story teller so I will still give you an idea of what happened.

While we kids were using our imagination and traveling through space and dancing to 80’s music and stuffing our faces. Half of the “The Eights” were off to enjoy a relaxing lunch at Le Cellier

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Awww parents, how cute. Still in love after 27 years.

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They were seated and ready to have a great meal!!! As they glanced over the menu they stared adoring over their glasses into one another’s eyes and discussed what to order

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they finally decided on the cheddar cheese soup.

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Adam’s Cutester really enjoyed the meal.

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After all that cheese soup they decided to go explore the world!!! (Now of course they ate more food and delicious desserts unfortunately all they photos Danielle has on facebook of their meal are those 2 sooooo, if she is actually following a long with this, maybe she will add them, if not I guess you will all just have to go to Le Cellier and see what it’s like for yourself!!!)

As I said they were going to take a leisurely stroll around the world. Here is pa loving the Disney life.

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They ended up in Mexico which just so happens to be where we were headed at the end of our last enstallment!!!

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What a coincidence!!! I can now hop back to the fun people, aka Me, Andy, Sam and KC.

As I said last time Andy and I wanted to go make some rings. So we headed off to Mexico. Let me tell you this was the hottest day in the history of Disney. We trudged from The Land to Mexico. Passed by the Duffy stop in Mexcio and talked about how if we weren’t full we could go for a Mickey premium bar. We made it to the little shop (outside the air conditioned pavilion, booooooo) and decided on the design for our rings. They guy gave us a receipt and told us to go get it stamped by the cashier. When we walked into the little hut Andy had another moment. The guy that was cashing us out was on of the international college program students and had a very thick accent that Andy didn’t really understand so when he asked Andy and KC if they were brothers he quickly responded with “No we are just dating” because he thought that he was him and myself. It was so funny, yet another moment we refuse to let him live down (:

At this point Ma had called and told us that they were making their way to us so we had to stay where we were. We were dying of heat and we needed to find a way to cool off. We decided that the little boat ride in Mexico would do the trick! So into the air conditioning it was. On our way inside we stopped to listen to the mariachi band unfortunately as we did, there was a toddler who had had more sun than they could handle and started shaking and passed out. It was so sad and scary but then the lead violin from the band ran down the stairs to help out. Sooner enough there was a crowd gathering so we decided to give them their space and go inside.

As I recall there was actually a little bit of a line and the group of people in front of us were trying to chug their margaritas before they made it to the front of the line.

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After our enjoyable chase of Donald around May-he-co we wandered outside to pick up our rings. Which turned out like this

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We waited a little longer for the rest of our group to catch up so Sam and KC tried on some sombreros from Norway.

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This is where the two stories collide. Sombreros. So from there we decided to go and use our fast passes for

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Magic!!!

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Hidden Mickey (:

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We have 2 photos of Andy like this now. I will take one every trip until he is a little old man

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After an invigorating ride we decided to cool off in the little spray car wash outside. Fun!!!

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After we were all misted and feeling good we decided to head off and do something that we might regret forever…

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[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

So I don't know if anyone really cares BUT I am going to be updating regularly for as long as possible because I am on winter break and once I get back I get started working on the spring musical Little Women (which I will be playing the role of Beth March: SO EXCITED :goodvibes) which means I will be completely bogged down. So I am going to get this thing as far along as possible


That’s One Taste That Can’t Be Un-tasted:
August 19, 2011

When we last left off “The Eights” were on their way to do something they might possibly regret forever. Now how many of you can guess what that is? Does the title help? No? How about this…

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Still no…? Ok it doesn’t get any clearer than this

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So as you can see we made our way to what is known as (or use to be known as)the cool club, I miss the igloo that used to be the entrance with the creepy dead guy in the freezer and the SNOW (which at this moment buffalo is really lacking, who would have guessed)!!!

Anyways, we needed a way to cool off of the hottest day in Disney history so we figured why not guzzle some free pop.

We walked across that oh so sticky floor to one of the pop dispensers and started tasting the delicacies from around the world. Then for some reason one of us decided to have a Beverly drinking contest…

Anywhere you go on the disbaords you will find tons of reactions to this “bitter drink that is suppose to stimulate the appetite before dinner”. Here is how “The Eights” would rate it.

So the plan was to fill one of those little cups about halfway with the delectable apatite stimulating concoction. Those cups seem small, but let me tell you, once you are trying to down a half a glass of the weirdest tasting pop you have ever had it is not so small AT ALL!!!

First up we have Andy, glass half full he decided to throw it back. Apparently he thought that rolling his eyes into the back of his head would make the taste a little less terrible.

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And the result is…

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Not so much.

Next was Sam, she kind of psyched herself out and I think that made her hate it even more. Before…

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And after…

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For the heck of it why not one more…

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Sam’s reactions were THE BEST so here is another just to show you how much she loved it

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Man that is one taste that can’t be un-tasted

Next up was Ma, she was ready, she wasn’t going to let it get her!!!

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And… it didn’t, she didn’t mind it at all

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Lame.

Ok moving on, next was Adam. I thought he was going to call us all sissy’s. Let’s see how he did…

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How ya like that Beverly Adam?!

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Huh… not so much.

Moment of truth. It was my turn. I was terrified. I consider myself to be pretty adventurous, but with the reactions some of them were having I didn’t want to do it. But I gave into the peer pressure, hey everyone else was doing it. Might as well join in!!! As you can see I went in with caution…

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My response…

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Eh it’s not too bad. I was more terrified of how badly it was going to taste and it was nothing. But I’ll stick to the German Krest. Mmmmm mmmm, that stuff is good.

Up next was Danielle. She has had it before and didn’t like it but decided to give it another chance since she didn’t really remember it. Here we go

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Her result?

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Apparently slapping herself in the face was more enjoyable than drinking that stuff.

And last but certainly not least we have KC (Pa decided not to join in at this part I guess). He decided to jump right in because I don’t have a before shot of him… Here’s how much he like it

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Not a Fan.

So the outcome was: 2 not totally againt//5 never drinking that again//1 undecided.

SO on your next trip to the world I dare you to take this Beverly Challenge. Fill a glass half way and chung it as quickly as you can and make sure you get photos of the before and after faces and bring them back here and show me!! Or if you have a Beverly Story to share please feel free I would love to know where you fall in our tally.

After that experience the family decided to treat themselves to some shopping. I traded my vinilimation in the mousegears store and the rest of the family decided to jump on the trading bandwagon and Ma, Kc, and Sam all bought one to start trading. I am such a trendsetter.

When I traded I reluctantly traded my Norwegian Friend for a cutester wearing raind boots which I loved because I wear my rain boots so often that I have worn holes in two pairs of them already.

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Sam ended up with a really creepy one. I told her that she had to trade it right away, which she did. Smile and pretend you like it…

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Kc was next to open his. He wanted a Donald one really badly and guess what he ended up with…

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Lucky. Ma was last to open hers. And she got one that I LOVED

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When I was little I was TERRIFIED of all of the characters, like one of those “please stay away from me and I won’t scream” kind of babies, but for some reason when I met Chip and Dale (in their rescue ranger clothes) I was not afraid of them. That is probably my earliest Disney memory as a 4 year old, I walked up to them so nonchalantly, just like “hey guys how you doing” and my father was so surprised. Moral of the story Chip and Dale are basically my favorites now (aside from Minnie mouse, Pluto and Ariel of course. Who can pick just one favorite right?).

After we watched everyone open and immediately trade their Vinilimation we decided to split up because we had dinner reservations to get to and we had to go around the world to get there!

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And the it happened. Danielle told us she left her Key to the Kingdom Card back at the room….

Totally not my fault! I asked Adam if he had it in his wallet and he said yes. :headache: Instead he had our paper tickets and the other ones were still in the plastic bag from Typhoon Lagoon.

And I know I took more pictures of Le Cellier food. I’ll have to go through the ~1,000 pictures I took last trip and find them. lol

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Welcome to America: We Have Guns & Fast Food
August 19, 2011

During the last installment of “The Crazy Eights” we had a not so enjoyable time drinking some Beverly at the Cool Club and the rest of the family jumped on my vinilimation trading train.

From there is was once again time to split up for another round of who can stuff their face the most!!! I know, it seems like we were just eating, next time we are going to have to arrange for some late night dinner reservations.

After waving goodbye to half of our party we were off to our reservation all the way around the world. So we started off on our trek, and I know I have said this a million times but this was literally the HOTTEST day in Disney vacation history. So hot that we made it from Mouse Gears to the Port of Entry shop where we went inside to browse the merchandise aka soak up that beloved air conditioning.

While we were there I think we stopped and looked at a few things and then I used a mirror to come out my snarly hair (I don’t know why I remember that). So once we refreshed we were off. I was hopping to stop in all of the countries look around and enjoy. We stopped outside the store to take a photo of Andy and I with the France sign outside because we have always dreamed of going there…

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So then we walked around the World Showcase at the quickest pace we could without melting. We decided to forgo Canada (we live in Buffalo and Canada is only a short drive away, we can go there anytime). We were booking it in hopes of finding some more air conditioning. As I recall we went through the shops in the UK Pavilion because KC wanted to check out The Beatles things that they had for sale. I showed him some cups that he really liked but they were like $50 (good news, I found them at Target and got them for him for Christmas for $15)

We stopped on the bridge to get a photo of Andy and I in front of the Eiffel Tower. I wish I looked better in it, it makes me sad that we didn’t take another one… lol oh well all the more reason to take another trip!!!

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We decided to pass all other countries and head straight to America. We laughed when we went into the store because once we looked around there wasn’t anything really worth buying in there and so Andy said something along the lines of “Welcome to America all we have is fast food and guns”.

We left the store and I wanted to see the American Adventure, I remember on the trip we took when I was in 10th grade I was a huge history fanatic and LOVED the show so yea, I was going to make them all suffer through it. Sadly, the next show wasn’t starting until 10 minutes before we were scheduled for dinner. BUT as we were walking by they told us that the Voice of Liberty would be performing shortly so we went in and decided to listen to them while soaking up all that great music not to mention air conditioning!!!
So while we waited for them to come out, we found the nearest empty bench and had a photo shoot for course!!! At this point we had been up since 6:45 so we were a little loopy and starving…

So a dreaming of sleep photo shoot it was

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I don’t have the slightest idea what I am doing in this one but like I said we were exhausted.

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This one Sam told me to sleep like I was Miley Cyrus (in one episode of Hannah Montana she is having a “good dream” and it makes her smile, we always laugh about it)

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This is our rendition of it again

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Then we saw a lady actually curled up and sleeping on one of the benches. Doesn’t she know you are not allowed to close your eyes at any moment of a Disney Vacation!!! I tried to snip a picture but it didn’t turn out very well…

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Shortly there after the singers came out and we soon realized that we sat on the wrong side of the room, that must be why that was the only bench available in the room.

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I am obsessed with their dresses. At school I am a costumer of sorts and I would love to make/wear a dress like this *fingers crossed for my Little Women costume* Also I must add that I was OBSESSED with the girl in the blue dresses wig. I tried to take a close up but it didn’t turn out for the remainder of the performance we called her hair.

As they neared the I looked to my left and there were the two cutest children in a Tiana and a Belle dress dancing and playing together while they sang the national anthem. Cutest thing I have ever seen!!! Once again I tried to snipe a picture that didn’t turn out. But let me tell you, they were precious!!!

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When they were done singing we made our way outside and I had them pose in front of the fountain. I was all about the photo ops on this trip.

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If you look closely in the background there is a girl in a bright blue shirt with her shoes and socks off sticking her feet in the fountain (THAT’S HOW HOT IT WAS) shortly there after her whole family joined in and in no time the friendly guy who invited us in to listen to the singers was yelling at them to get their feet out of the fountain and put their shoes back on if I recall correctly he started off saying “shoes must be worn at all moments when in the parks” and when they didn’t get the hint he started scolding them. Don’t mess with America!

As we ran away from American we found ourselves at our dinning destination

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I was so excited for this dinner. It was my choice because I love France and the Eiffel tower and have always wanted to eat there! Now was the chance, we gave the nice girl outside our name and waited for our names to be called.

When our name was called I got really nervous, I am ALWAYS nervous to eat in EPCOT because of the authenticity of the waiters I am terrified of making a fool out of myself. So our lovely French waiter (who was really cute and so nice) brought us our bread.

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It was pretty busy in there as I recall and it was actually pretty loud. Our friendly waiter took our drink orders and as we waited patiently we took some photos.

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I didn’t realize how close together the tables in place were and let me tell you we were SURROUNDED by French speaking people. It made me even more nervous. I was hungry and wanted some bread but we weren’t very sure how to attack it. Sam was so kind as to cut us each some chunks of bread

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And shortly after Sam started sawing away at it our waiter made his way back with our drinks and for some reason we started saying “he’s coming, he’s coming! stop sawing the bread!!” So she quickly swept the crummy mess under our plates and thanked him for our drinks. As we looked around the room at our many French neighbors we noticed that they were all just ripping the bread apart and Sam said “well maybe I should have done it that way”.

Ok now here is what you were waiting for the food pictures!!! I must admit for months prior to our trip Sam and I sat up all hours of the night on the restaurant boards searching through photos of the places we wanted to try and the photos we saw we how we picked where to eat.

I ordered off of the 3 course menu (more bang for my buck) because I was DYING to try the French onion soup, as of last year I was obsessed with it and the way everyone raved about it I couldn’t pass it up.

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Let me tell you, the soup wasn’t bad but hot soup on a hot day (even if you are sitting in air conditioning) not the best idea that I had. Man I was dying of heat. Anyways as I finished up my soup someone stopped by our table!!!

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It was REMMY which was another reason that we scheduled the reservation at the time we did because he only comes out at certain times. We were so excited to see him!!! When the waiter rolled over his cart he asked us where we were from and we all just sat there for a second in shock like “Oh my gosh where are we from…” it was that anxiety I tell ya! Sam quickly responded with “BUFFALO!” he must have seen the terror in our faces because he said something along the lines of “This isn’t a test, but if this is a witness protection kind of thing we promise not to tell anyone” we laughed and Remmy gave us his recommendation, which he apparently said “extra dessert” but with the accent all I heard was “eggs” so after he walked away I asked everyone why he recommended eggs for dessert and they all laughed at me.

So back to the food, it arrived shortly after Remmy was wheeled away. KC and I Both ordered the Macaroni and Cheese which we both thought had an over abundance of nutmeg in and tasted like a bad Christmas cookie so between eating the soup and trying to shove that down when I didn’t really like it and attempting to save room for dessert I didn’t even eat half of it. It was so cheesey and rich and I wanted to like it but the nutmeg was out of control.

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Surprise. surprise Andy got some more chicken which he loved and I kicked myself in the butt for not getting.

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And another Surprise Sam got steak, she is all about getting her steak and getting her money’s worth. I just asked her what she thought of it and she still raves about it, she said the green beans were so delicious and oh the potatoes, one of the best cut of steak she has had. She would totally go back if it wasn’t for me disliking my meal. She got he sauce on the side which she said she would do again because even though it was tasty it would have ran all over everything and she wouldn’t have liked it as much.

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Before we could even fully digest our food the dessert was presented to us. Our waiter was so cute he would stand to the left side and place our place ever so gently in front of us. At one point he went to refill my drink and replaced the a full glass but before he took the empty one away he held it out to me as a gesture to take the straw so I could reuse it but I didn’t get the hint… ugh the anxiety was really taking hold of me at this classy restaurant.

So for dessert Andy and I got the chocolate cake which was actually pretty good (not as good as sunshine seasons because it was a little more grainy?) also I am not a fan of strawberry so the sauce was a turn off.

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KC got creme brulee, which he didn’t end up finishing because he was stuffed from the heavy mac and cheese.

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Sam had the Creps she wasn’t a fan she said that the apples were to smushy and chewy for her taste. BUT she did eat all of it, getting her moneys worth.

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As I looked out the window it had noticed that the skies hard turned REALLY gray and it was so windy so we decided we better get going. I went to use the bathroom which might I add was SO tiny.

So we got our bill and saw that we would have spent close to $170!!! Holy moly for four people, thank goodness for that dinning plan

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As we gathered our belongings and just as we did the skies opened up and we were caught in a downpour. We put on our ponchos and we dashed to the front of the park because we were off to meet up with the rest of “The Eights” for a crazy night!!

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Happy New Year everyone. pixiedust: I hope that you all had a happy and healthy holiday season. And thank you once again for joining in on this crazy trip report and i hope that you continue to enjoy it and if you are a newcomer WELCOME!!!

A Night of Firsts
August 19, 2011

We dashed as fast as we could without wiping out all the way from France all the way to the front of the park in order to catch the monorail to the Magic Kingdom. As we waited I took a photo of my favorite mode of Disney transportation (I posted that to facebook and within seconds people were liking it, gotta love the monorail)

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So we hopped on drenched and sitting in our cold plastic capes trying to keep warm and salvage are snarly hair. Sam and I didn’t want our vera’s getting ruing so we figured we would tie up our ponchos so that they would stay dry. We got stuck on the monorail for a while. When we finally made it to the transportation center the rain was so bad everyone made a mad dash from the EPCOT monorail down around and up to the Magic Kingdom one.

So while we were enjoying the rain run Danielle and Adam (possible Ma and Pa) were enjoying some food at one of our favorite quick service places Pinocchio’s Village Haus with Adam’s new friend.

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By the look of it they had a pretty good meal. Once again maybe she can do a report in a report and post her pictures on here.

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We made it through baggage check made a quick restroom stop and decided that it was raining to hard to try to run to anything so we did some shopping on main street. There was so much rain but when it finally let up we made our way to

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Andy had never been here before and it was shelter from the drizzle so we walked in. The line was not to bad but it took a while. So we took some pictures. In his first one Andy’s hair is pretty drenched.

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Basically the theme of this trip was, any day Alicia straightens her hair mother nature is not going to be accepting that and there fore make it rain.

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modeling out Mickey ears!!!

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Finally we made out way through the door to the monster world

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And as we crammed in like sardines we watched the pre show video.

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We each took a shot at our Roz impersonations, KC does it the best and soon we were headed in. We didn’t make it onto the screen at any point but the people that they picked were good sports and made the show really funny. One of the people on the screen had a somewhat obnoxious child who wanted to be on the screen really bad and would make funny faces and jump around in the background all of a sudden the entire audience burst out laughing because as he was doing so he fell off the bench and for a quick second disappeared from the screen and then popped back up like nothing happened.

From there we moved onto

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One of the family favorites!!! Ma and Pa ended up in the car behind us and we got separated.

But the four of us had a really nice time on our tour of Tomorrowland. This really is one of my favorites it’s so relaxing and has such a nice breeze on a hot muggy Dinsey night. Also I love going through space mountain.

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Andy loves to wave to people as we go through the stores.

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From here we headed to another one of Disney’s murder attractions and another one of my personal favorites. and it’s another one Andy had never seen before so off we were to…

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We were all very excited!! It really just melts my heart I love it so much. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow shinning at the end of everyday (:

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We made it out alive and smiling. Well for the most part. Pa and Andy kind of used it as a naptime because we were exhausted from being awake since 6:45 that morning. But there was no time to stop!! We had to keep going after all Magic Kingdom was open until 2am.

Off we were to our next stop, which was Space Mountain. But this is where my camera dies so we were relying on Danielle at this point lol

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Longest line ever. We were excited because we thought we were going to be able to play the queue games but the line wasn’t backed up that far. We ended up spending a lot of time in the blue snake line that just serpentines so many times. Ugh we were so tired I was falling asleep in line but not Sam she was excited and ready to go.

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For sure if you are falling asleep this is the ride to get on it will wake you up so fast and give you energy to last the rest of the night. It was our first time on it in a while because it had been closed for refurb on our last trip down. MAN did it make my eyes water.

We got off and checked out our picture. It was clear that Sam knew where it was because she was ready and posed.

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And then there was me…

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By the end of the trip I just started covering my face because I ALWAYS looked stupid in these.

So from Space Mountain we stopped in Fantasyland on our way Frontierland so that KC could buy the shirt he had been wanting.

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He put it on as soon as he paid for it right over the clothes he was already wearing. Then we were off once again. In search of the wildest ride in the wilderness!!!!

We showed them our key to the kingdom card and got in the basically non-existent line. That is honestly one of my favorite parts about this line. If you walk just slow enough walking through all the rooms twists and turns it is basically a walk on late at night.

Before we knew it we were waiting to be seat!!! Look how happy we all were running on no sleep. *Warning Alicia Face*

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Andy and I ended up in the very last row, which I thought was no big deal until one of the guys waiting in line ahead of us said that that was the best seat at night because you get tossed around so much. I was terrified at that point and as the ride started I began to scream. OH MY GOSH that was the best ride ever, I always want to ride in the back!!! That guy did not lie it was AMAZING.

So then we did some Splash Mountain with the sad dead birds on the river boat. If my camera would have had some life left I would have gotten some pictures but alas it did not.

From there we moved onto Pirates of the Caribbean which I am terrfied of since I learned about George years ago. Sam and I swear we saw a guy standing on one of the porches in the ride on our last trip. Poop my pants. So when the ride stopped this time I almost cried. I have never been a huge fan of this ride because of the animatronics.

Then we made our way to the Jungle Cruise because I heard that it is a completely different experience at night. So we had to give it a try and let me tell you if you haven’t done it I would totally recommend that you do!!! The way they have it lit and the way the fog comes off the water on a hot night is so cool. Of course I may have been close to sleeping at various points because the speakers on our boat weren’t working very well.

So after that sleepy ride Ma, Pa, Danielle and Adam headed back to the room while the rest of us headed off for one more ride on Space Mountain. After that we debated doing more but we could barely keep our eyes open. We moseyed to the front of the park and left around 1:30am. We waited a while for the bus and the rest of the night is a blur because I pretty sure we all passed out on the way back to the resort. After all we had yet another early morning ahead of us and 6:20 comes early when you don’t get to bed until 2:30.



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[xoSamma]

cool bro :)

[Eira]

ooooo! Monorail pictures! I just rode the monorail in Seattle on New Years! Not quite the same... lol!
I love your face on space mountain and the turkey leg shirt!
George? Who's George!?! omg, I am going to go find out. I hope this doesn't scar me. :scared1:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

ooooo! Monorail pictures! I just rode the monorail in Seattle on New Years! Not quite the same... lol!
I love your face on space mountain and the turkey leg shirt!
George? Who's George!?! omg, I am going to go find out. I hope this doesn't scar me. :scared1:

Haha!! that is Danielle's favroite picture of me on the entire trip... :sad2: I really don't know why it turned out like that. I am going to say that it was a combination of exhaustion and excitement.

"George, the typical story goes, was a young man who, while welding or perhaps bolting a high area of the superstructure of the building which would one day become Pirates of the Caribbean, met with a horrible accident and fell to his death. From day one of the operation of the attraction - December 15, 1973 - inexplicable events plagued the attraction. Breakdowns were constant and unmotivated. Female castmemebers were mysteriously patted on their rear or had their bra straps snapped. Stories of George grew. In the early years, it is said that an old woman would often enter the ride and ask for a boat to herself. On the in-ride security cameras, she could be seen weeping and talking to nobody. Eventually, it was discovered that she was talking to her son - George." if you want to read more about it here is a link GEORGE!!! (http://www.2719hyperion.com/2009/03/goodnight-george-ghost-story.html) you can probably just google it and get information. We read about his story before we went down a few trips ago and ever since i have been just a little bit scared to ride it :rotfl2:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Totally not my fault! I asked Adam if he had it in his wallet and he said yes. :headache: Instead he had our paper tickets and the other ones were still in the plastic bag from Typhoon Lagoon.

And I know I took more pictures of Le Cellier food. I’ll have to go through the ~1,000 pictures I took last trip and find them. lol

yea yea yea.... now where are those food pictures? it would be so much easier if you just added your own updates here lol

[Eira]

Haha!! that is Danielle's favroite picture of me on the entire trip... :sad2: I really don't know why it turned out like that. I am going to say that it was a combination of exhaustion and excitement.

"George, the typical story goes, was a young man who, while welding or perhaps bolting a high area of the superstructure of the building which would one day become Pirates of the Caribbean, met with a horrible accident and fell to his death. From day one of the operation of the attraction - December 15, 1973 - inexplicable events plagued the attraction. Breakdowns were constant and unmotivated. Female castmemebers were mysteriously patted on their rear or had their bra straps snapped. Stories of George grew. In the early years, it is said that an old woman would often enter the ride and ask for a boat to herself. On the in-ride security cameras, she could be seen weeping and talking to nobody. Eventually, it was discovered that she was talking to her son - George." if you want to read more about it here is a link GEORGE!!! (http://www.2719hyperion.com/2009/03/goodnight-george-ghost-story.html) you can probably just google it and get information. We read about his story before we went down a few trips ago and ever since i have been just a little bit scared to ride it :rotfl2:

AAAAAaaahhh! :eek: I think I did know about George and then forgot about it, I probably just tried to block it out cause it's creepy. :rotfl: That story freaked me out!!! A few years ago I rode POTC by myself and I thought it was so cool, but now! let me tell you I will never do that again. :scared1: Gives me the heebie jeebies!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

AAAAAaaahhh! :eek: I think I did know about George and then forgot about it, I probably just tried to block it out cause it's creepy. :rotfl: That story freaked me out!!! A few years ago I rode POTC by myself and I thought it was so cool, but now! let me tell you I will never do that again. :scared1: Gives me the heebie jeebies!

Oh my gosh how brave of you!!! I could NEVER do that. Even before I knew about George lol. I am so scared of the anamatronics in that ride they give me the heebie jeebies too!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

The Race is On!!!
August 20, 2011

On the morning of August 20 I shot out of bed like rocket at 6:20 shortly after just having fallen asleep after a long night at the Magic Kingdom. I showered got ready and woke up everyone else because this was a “Hollywood Studios” coughMGMcough.

According to my iphone Disney diary we were on the bus at exactly 7:15 and headed to one of the scariest and thrilling morning of our lives. Yep you guessed it, we were going to be partaking in Disney’s black Friday equivalent… the toy story mania run!!!

We made it into the park past the turnstiles and line up behind the massive crowd. We were counted down 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…!!!!!

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And we were off. I kid you not there were people everywhere jumping through planters, squeezing where I didn’t think it was possible to squeeze. As the friendly cast members pointed us in the right direction and kept the line in a pretty orderly manner we made it safely and jumped in the fastpass line. When we got there the line was back up all the way to One man’s dream and wrapped around to the Voyage of the Little Mermaid.

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OUTRAGEOUS!!! We have never done this before so I was amazed, I mean I had heard that this was a crazy experience but pictures just don’t do it justice. It was crazy.

Ok so anyways fastpasses in hand

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We decided to try to jump in the standby line but it was already up to over an hour so we headed in the other direction!!! Get me outta there. So we were off, past my favorite (but down for refurb.) attraction, my beloved Ariel, maybe next time…

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And then I came face to face with the other love of my life. A Terror filled Tower that I had yet to ride yet. It was calling my name.

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This part of the park was basically a ghost town (no pun intended). Unfortunately we were headed to check in just yet. We were headed to hang out with Aerosmith

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It always seems that this line is way longer than ToT so we opted to do it first. There was virtually no line so it was great!!! Sam was pretty excited (and tan)

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KC and Sam are photo bombers!!

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We passed by my number one Disney pet peeve (that marble door that makes a terrible racket and people can’t seem to keep their hands off…) into the movie room and straight into line.

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We were so excited when we were told to head to the very front row. Woo Hoo!!!!!

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Of course Sam and I snagged the front seat, Andy didn’t know if he could handle it so Sam and I sacrificed ourselves for Andy’s well being (:

Man were my eyes watering when we got off. It was perfect and exciting and I would love to ride front row every time. After we were completely woken up by that wild ride we were off in search of more fun

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Sam was handed the golden ticket and we were on our way.

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The excitement was all around us. First time to ride my favorite ride in so long the wait was killing me!!!

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We made our way into the lobby to check in and we were told that our room was ready but OF COURSE the elevator was broken

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we would have been fine taking the stairs but they told us there was a scary elevator we could use in the basement so we opted to take an adventure ;)

AHHHHHH the elevator fell 13 stories after we were confronted by ghosts. What a crazy adventure it turned out to be (but nothing like the one we would have later in the trip: stay tuned for that!!! You won’t want to miss it!!!!)

We made it out safely and it just so happened that there was a vinilimation box in the gift shop so I did a quick trade a roo and ended up with a little ghost friend of my own.

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We made our way back to the crazy corner known as Pixar Place to use our fastpasses.

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We passed the still long line to get a fast pass. If you remember from earlier our fastpasses were good for 9:45 and 10:45 and this was what the return times were already up to 45 minutes after the park was officially open

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Yep you read it right they were already for 6:05pm. CRAZY!!!!!!! So we jumped in line and were ready to have some fun with our friends Buzz and Woody. We have the Toy Story Mania game for the Wii and Andy and I had spent a few hours competing against one another and we were excited to see who would win the real deal

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Sometimes I wonder how many times this particular drawing has been photographed. I know I take a picture of it every time I see it.

So who would win? Andy or Myself? I guess you will just have to tune in next time to see!!!


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[Disneyfreak508]

First off... YAY FOR LITTLE WOMEN! I'm so happy that you got casted :goodvibes I hope I get to be in a few musicals over the next few years... those are my favorites!

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As for the updates, HAHAH that beverly update is AWESOME. Omg. Thank you for the fantastic pictures. :rotfl: I'm not a big fan of any pop and I'm pretty much only a water drinker, so I bet that I wouldn't be a fan of Beverly either!

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LOL in the "dreaming of sleep" photo everyone is making the deer face. :thumbsup2 Yesss.

LUCKY you got a cute waiter. We got a waitress last time... I was so mad. :rotfl: And LOL about being nervous in the WS restaurants... I've been there!

Oh no I'm sorry you disliked the mac and cheese :( The nutmeg is a very overpowering flavor, and I could see why some people wouldn't like it!

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YAY FOR THE MONORAIL! I'm obsessed with that thing.

OH MY GOSH I'm just realizing... August 19th is the day we arrived in Disney! I REMEMBER this rainstorm! This is exactly when Nat and I were getting to our room right at the very beginning of our trip!!

LOL oh the Laugh Floor. I ALWAYS impersonate Roz. I know that entire show I've seen it so many times.

THE DEAD BIRDS!!! I'm so glad you noticed them too lol.

We were definitely at Magic Kingdom at the same time because that was the night we surprised Kristen!

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HAHA the black friday equivalent. BUT REALLY.

It's weird to think that it was so crazy in August, because anytime I went to TSM on my past trip (which was A LOT) I didn't really experience anything that crazy! And it was the busiest day of the year. Strange.

I love your nails by the way. SUPER cute!

Okay I'm caught up! Hooray! :goodvibes

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

First off... YAY FOR LITTLE WOMEN! I'm so happy that you got casted :goodvibes I hope I get to be in a few musicals over the next few years... those are my favorites!

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As for the updates, HAHAH that beverly update is AWESOME. Omg. Thank you for the fantastic pictures. :rotfl: I'm not a big fan of any pop and I'm pretty much only a water drinker, so I bet that I wouldn't be a fan of Beverly either!

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LOL in the "dreaming of sleep" photo everyone is making the deer face. :thumbsup2 Yesss.

LUCKY you got a cute waiter. We got a waitress last time... I was so mad. :rotfl: And LOL about being nervous in the WS restaurants... I've been there!

Oh no I'm sorry you disliked the mac and cheese :( The nutmeg is a very overpowering flavor, and I could see why some people wouldn't like it!

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YAY FOR THE MONORAIL! I'm obsessed with that thing.

OH MY GOSH I'm just realizing... August 19th is the day we arrived in Disney! I REMEMBER this rainstorm! This is exactly when Nat and I were getting to our room right at the very beginning of our trip!!

LOL oh the Laugh Floor. I ALWAYS impersonate Roz. I know that entire show I've seen it so many times.

THE DEAD BIRDS!!! I'm so glad you noticed them too lol.

We were definitely at Magic Kingdom at the same time because that was the night we surprised Kristen!

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HAHA the black friday equivalent. BUT REALLY.

It's weird to think that it was so crazy in August, because anytime I went to TSM on my past trip (which was A LOT) I didn't really experience anything that crazy! And it was the busiest day of the year. Strange.

I love your nails by the way. SUPER cute!

Okay I'm caught up! Hooray! :goodvibes

Thank you so much. I can't wait for it to start. And i wish you the best of luck with your next three years at NU. I would love to come back and be able to see you in something!!!

I feel like the Beverly tasting was one of the highlights of our trip.

I LOVE the fact that we can cross reference trips. Since you are way far ahead of me with your report after I do an update I like to go back and reread yours so that I can see what you guys were up to on that day. usually we were around the same place because both of our groups were all about the Extra Magic Hours. I still can't believe we were there the same time and I never saw you until the plane ride home!!!

The dead birds were SO SAD. I was going to comment that on your report yesterday!!! haha. By the way I am really looking forward to reading your december trip report!!! Thanks for reading along with mine :worship:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Mania, Munchies and Much More!!!
August 20, 2011

This was it, the moment we have been practicing for, the moment of truth!!! We handed over those beloved fastpasses to the cast member and we were in!! Of course we had to take some obligatory 3D glasses photos…

KC was all ready to go. What a macho man.

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For it being relatively early after an extremely late night Sam was looking rather chipper!!!

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Andy and I were also raring to go!!!

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Don’t let the smiles fool you, we are pretty big competitors and since I ALWAYS loose at Buzz Spaceranger Spin this was my one chance to prove myself worthy.

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We made our way up the stairs and then right back down. I must admit for a second there I was a little upset that the fastpass line didn’t really let us see all those fun and memorable toys from my childhood. I quickly took that thought back when I remembered the fast pass line saved me about 3 years of waiting in line. Mr. Potato Head might be fun and all but if I got out of that long line I had no complaints.

We eventually saw a less active Mr. Potato Head anyways… hidden mickey?!

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We made our way to the ride vehicle and our chariot of fun awaited

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I wish that they would have put Sam and Kc in a car so that we could face one another rather than have our backs to them. Oh well…

And now the moment you have all (possibly) been waiting for!!!

I am pretty sure I won!!! But I am not 100% sure. My reasoning behind me winning is that Andy would never be the yellow player because he hates the color yellow and I ALWAYS get in the ride first. Scores

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After that I probably rubbed it in his face that I kicked his but (or it could very well have gone the other way) It’s funny that I can’t remember who won but I can remember that a cast member chased us down because Andy had left his sunglasses on the ride. How sweet that was of them!!!

From there we made our way down the Streets of America in search of some snacks. Instead we found some water to play in on a hot morning. Yay for cooling off!!!

Andy was a little hesitant

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But Sam was all about getting her cool on

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Then I saw it a window display which not only could I relate with but couldn’t resist taking a picture of.

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I feel like I will need to make this my facebook profile picture anytime I take a Disney vacation from now on. Precious!!!

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At this point we had gotten a call from Ma, Pa, Danielle and Adam saying that they had finally gotten their lazy butts out of bed and they were on their way to meet up with us. So we pulled up to a snack cart and unloaded some precious snack credits! Sam got a churro, Kc got a pretzel and Andy got some popcorn while I munched on the pop tart I had in my bag from the hotel room.

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They apparently lied to us when they called because my notes say that “we walked a lot looking for them” and I decided to take this picture while I waited since I bought the outfit from forever 21 with this specific park day in mind. I have always felt like I was born in the wrong era and I love dressing up like someone out of the past. Ugh what I would give to have lived in the golden age of Hollywood <3

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After waiting a lot longer than we thought we finally met up with the rest of the group. We stopped to watch one of the street shows and formulated a plan which was to turn and get tower of terror fastpasses.

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We decided to split up because us kids wanted to go to art of animation and do a drawing class!!!

We got there just a little too late because one of the classes had just started and there was already a pretty big line forming. We figured why not sit and enjoy the air conditioning. After all we had been running on only like 3 and a half hours of sleep.

We sat patiently and Andy moved between conscious and a deep sleep while we waited.

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They lady who ran the class was really nice and as we went along with the drawing we had to guess who it was we were creating. Let me tell you thought I would have rather known from the start who it was I feel like it might have turned out better. Anyways there was a mom and two little girls sitting next to us and once everyone figured out who it was (Pluto, one of my absolute favorites the younger of the two girls was getting upset because she didn’t like the way it turned out the cast member was so nice and told her that everyone’s Pluto was beautiful in their own way. Precious. And then the little girl found out that she shared a birthday with Pluto and she was so happy!!!

So here is the result of our drawing class

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I think it’s pretty easy to see that once again Sam’s turned out the best.

We went into the gift shop and looked around at all the magnificent art and I did some vinilimation trading like always. I can’t even begin to describe the excitement I felt whenever I saw one of the boxes!!! Since basically all of the places have different rules you never know what you will end up with, unfortunately this time the one I ended up with I wanted to get rid of right away.

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From there we were off to meet up with Danielle, Adam, Ma and Pa who had just gotten done eating lunch.


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[xoSamma]

cool bro! :)

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

So.....

It's offical....



I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!!!

Andy's father was kind enough to give us some money towards a trip for our spring break as Andy's Birthday present and and early graduation present for me!!! So we will be headed down (just the two of us) March 5-9. I have been trying to plan this for about a week without getting my hopes up because we weren't sure if it was going to happen. BUT NOW IT IS!!!! I can hardly contain my excitement I was just jumping around his kitchen out of complete joy. AHHHHHHHHHHHH. I am freaking out. I am off to plan. I am pretty sure we will be staying at the All Star Movies and doing the Quick Service dinning plan. SO if anyone has any suggestions please feel free to let me know I am totally new to the world of value resorts and quick service dinning plans.

[Eira]

The TSM rush blows my mind! I haven't experienced it yet, and I know fast passes are the way to go, but man, it frightens me a little.:rotfl:
Oh, and I didn't even know that art of animation existed until I came on the DISboards. I know I would love it and I kick myself for not knowing about it! It always sounds so fun on people's TR's. Did you guys all keep your pluto drawings? I think it would be cool to make a scrap book of the all the drawings accumulated over the trips.
YaY for a Disney trip! That is super exciting! :cool1:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

The TSM rush blows my mind! I haven't experienced it yet, and I know fast passes are the way to go, but man, it frightens me a little.:rotfl:
Oh, and I didn't even know that art of animation existed until I came on the DISboards. I know I would love it and I kick myself for not knowing about it! It always sounds so fun on people's TR's. Did you guys all keep your pluto drawings? I think it would be cool to make a scrap book of the all the drawings accumulated over the trips.
YaY for a Disney trip! That is super exciting! :cool1:

At the start I was a little scared for my life, but they actually keep it really under control and organized.

I think they are somewhere around here. I never thought of making a scrapbook, what a good idea!!! I am going to try to find them and make one now :thumbsup2

I am SO excited for the trip. We just booked everything today. We got SUCH a good deal through southwest. We will be staying at the All Star Movies in a preffered building (hopefully Toy Story) from March 4-8, so far no dinning plan but we are working on saving up for it. I can't wait!!!! :banana:

[Disneyfreak508]

Thank you so much. I can't wait for it to start. And i wish you the best of luck with your next three years at NU. I would love to come back and be able to see you in something!!!

Aww I would LOVE if you came back! I'm sad we are only going to have one semester together :( But it's going to be really fun! Thank you SO MUCH for all of your help and advice again, you have no idea how much that helped. I am really excited - I really feel like transferring was SUCH a good decision!

I LOVE the fact that we can cross reference trips. Since you are way far ahead of me with your report after I do an update I like to go back and reread yours so that I can see what you guys were up to on that day. usually we were around the same place because both of our groups were all about the Extra Magic Hours. I still can't believe we were there the same time and I never saw you until the plane ride home!!!

I know, right!? That's so cool! I love when you figure out when we were there at the same time. Too funny! And oh my gosh I think it's so funny that you saw me on the plane!! Were we sitting near each other!? I still can't get over how crazy it is that we have so many connections :laughing: Disboards brings people together!

The dead birds were SO SAD. I was going to comment that on your report yesterday!!! haha. By the way I am really looking forward to reading your december trip report!!! Thanks for reading along with mine :worship:

Oh the birds! LOL they cracked me up.
And aww thank you so much! I am so excited to write it... I look forward to writing those updates, they're really fun! Christmas in Disney is a whole new experience! And oh of course! I love your Trip Report! :goodvibes

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As for the update...

YAY FOR TOY STORY MANIA!!!!! :banana: I'm obsessed. If you couldn't tell already from twitter. I MISS THAT RIDE. I am sad that I can't ride it every day anymore </3

I really like that Disney Vacation sign. You should definitely make that your profile picture in march!

That's super weird that the animation lady made you guess who you were making. I don't know how I would feel about that.

AND YAY FOR YOUR TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: I'm so so so happy for you!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Hottest Day... Longest Line... EVER!!!
August 20, 2011


We found the rest of our group at their quick service restaurant of choice which happened to be Studio Catering Company… I think. Here is some of the menu

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Man I could really go for a grilled veggie sandwhich right now… But it looks like someone in their group had their eye on the turkey sanwhich.

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And of course real life food pictures

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We waited a little for them to finish up and plotted out our next move. We figured since we were in this neck of the woods we would head over to…

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We hopped in line and the waiting began.

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I kid you not. We waited…

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And we waited…

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and we (crabbily in the heat) waited…

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And then I played with my creepy vinilimation

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And then!!! After all that waiting… we ALMOST made it into the building!!! Oh man… so close, we could just barely feel our beloved friend the air conditioning seeping out of the building!!!

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After spending a good 30-35 minutes in the outside part of the queue we were finally in!!! And theses guys were arranging out trip for us. How kind

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This guy kept me occupied for a while but getting into this room took literally like eight years…

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By this point my feet were hurting me SO BADLY that I was sitting on the ground in the line that wasn’t going anywhere anyways. I was hungry since all I had to eat since 9:00 that morning was pop-tarts and we were holing off on eating because we had a late lunch scheduled.

SO, enough of that complaining since I did enough of it in that line. I must have fainted or gone into a foodless coma because before I knew it (not really because it took us 65 minutes to get through the line) we were finally here…

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You can see the excitement in our faces!!!

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Danielle didn’t even look all that excited and she was the only reason we got in line in the first place!!!

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Anyways. We got off. Andy HATED it. The line made him crabby and the ride made him feel sick, whether that was because he had not eaten anything but popcorn that day or because he gets motion sickness I guess we will never know because he refuses to ride it again. Add that to the list of things Alicia can’t do in Disney anymore…

So we gift shop stopped and sucked up all the air conditioning we could before we headed out into the blazing sun once again.

Now Danielle looks really cute in this photo and her teeth are like shockingly white but I think the thing that makes it is the guy with the shades who is like posing in the background

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This photo looks like it was taken outside the muppets gift shop. I’m not sure this is from Danielle’s photos. But I had to show you the creepy vinilimation Adam got.

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Incase you didn’t get a good look in the first photo let’s try a close up

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First of all that thing is creepy. Secondly how did that thing even fit in the box?!

Moving on from the scary bird… We decided to take a family trip through the movies. You know what that means… One of my personal favorites: The Great Movie Ride!!!

No pictures from there on any of the 3 cameras huh… Must be because once again Andy and Pa used this as a nice cool nap ride. I can remember nudging Andy quite a few times because I was so disappointed he was sleeping…

So since everyone was sleeping on the last ride we decided to do one we knew would wake us all up. We made our way back down Sunset Blvd.

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And decided to check back into my favorite hotel on Disney property!!! And what en exciting and reviving ride it was. Of course since I knew that there was a vinilimation box in the gift shop I had to trade my scary guy right away. Boy was I glad I did because I ended up with this cute little guy from Toy Story 3 (:

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Sam was right behind me and eager to trade as well. Andy guess what she got…

Twins

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The Lady at the desk was so nice and said that if we wanted we could trade again but we both liked them too much so we said no thank you.

From here we decided to split up again. Ma, Pa, Danielle and Adam wanted to head back to the room and nap before their dinner reservations. What lazy Disney goers!!! Do they not remember that they slept in?! Oh well their loss.

From there the four of us brave souls young enough to stay out more than a few hours at a time made our way over to the Muppets but the line was out the door around the corner and there was quite a bit of time before the next show started, so that was a no go. So we tried desperately to do some shopping but my feet were killing me!!!

So we decided to find a place to sit down. As we began to look the skies opened up and I kid you not, buckets of water fell from the sky in minutes. We ducked into the ABC Comissionary to take cover from the storm and unfortunately it was packed in there with people doing the same thing. It took us about 10 minutes to find a place to me to rest my aching feet.

Our dinner reservation was in about 30 minutes so we didn’t want to eat anything but boy did we stare at people’s food like sad starved puppy dogs . They had this hamburger there that had chicken nuggets skewered on it, I don’t even really like hamburgers that much but boy did it look good to my starving tummy.

We waited out the storm and our dinner reservation for a good half an hour and the rain was still coming down. We were going to have to make a dash for it if we wanted to eat that day. Want to know where we were headed….



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[xoSamma]

cool bro :)

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

I know, right!? That's so cool! I love when you figure out when we were there at the same time. Too funny! And oh my gosh I think it's so funny that you saw me on the plane!! Were we sitting near each other!? I still can't get over how crazy it is that we have so many connections :laughing: Disboards brings people together!

No we weren't near each other at all on the plane, we were really close to the back. But that flight was a happening place to be, one of the teachers from our high school who adam and andy had and KC found out he would have for this year, was on the plane as well. It's a small world!!!


Oh the birds! LOL they cracked me up.

were they fixed for your trip? I hope they are fixed by the time March roles around lol


AND YAY FOR YOUR TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana: I'm so so so happy for you!

AHHHHH Thanks!!!! I can not wait :yay: I love being able to have a ticker lol

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

cool bro :)

thanks Sam :thumbsup2

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Drive Away Your Worries and Cares at this Drive In Theatre
August 20, 2011

When we last left off we were caught in a monsoon waiting our reservation. We were avoiding the storm in ABC Comissionary and when the time came we knew that we had to make a break for it.

Fortunately for us we were only headed next door to

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Now… don’t let this picture fool you!! I had taken this earlier when the sun was still sharing it’s love with the earth. But, at this particular point in time the sun was no where to be seen and we were running out the door into a literal pool of water that was rushing out of the drain pipes of the building.

We quickly ducked into the shelter of Sam’s restaurant of choice for that evening the Sci-Fi. But before they let us in they were turning people away, apparently a lot of people used it as a shelter and didn’t intend to eat there. We let the guy at the door know that we had a reservation at 3:30.

We waited excitedly and patiently in one of the most uncomfortable, cold, dark and cramped waiting rooms I have ever been in. We were lucky enough to get a seat because with the rain that room filled up fast. People kept trying to get in and out of the rain but without a reservation no one getting pas the guy at the front door. It was about 3:15 so we looked over the menu and decided what to eat, which was silly because we had known for months before what we were going to order.

We waited a good 15-20 minutes after our reservation time and we were finally seated. Andy and I cam here on our last trip and just got sundae’s because I wanted him to go in there, I LOVE the atmosphere of this place (as I said before, I was born in the wrong era. I totally belong in the 50’s).

We were seated in a pretty teal car with a great view and since Sam and Kc hadn’t been here since they were toddlers we let them take the coveted drivers seat.

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We were so excited to get started. As we waited for our waitress we sat back and watch some lovely clips and cartoons from a time that I would have loved to live in. As I type this I am listening to the video loop. I can’t get over the things they though would happen in the future, they music of the time, and of course the dancing hot dogs at intermission. I think we sat through the show a total of 2 times.

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Our waitress brought us our drinks. We all got either coke or sprite with a shot of cherry. Mmmmmmm so delicious!!! I also got a “Space Invaders” (premium blue margarita) which I could not wait to try and felt so cool as it was set in front of me with it’s glowing ice cube

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Let me just start of by saying. WOSRT MARGARITA EVER. That is usually my drink of choice whenever I go out. But this was terrible. It was literally a glass of salt. I felt bad not drinking it because it cost $10 so I chugged it in between giant gulps of my sprite. I ended up leaving it half full. I kid you not when I left there I couched and tasted salt. It was equivalent to when you are in the ocean and against your will you get taken under and accidentally take in the salt water. Ugh gross. I felt so sick after it. My mother still yells at me for not sending it back and telling them I wouldn’t pay for it.

Anyways the day was made completely better when our food arrived!!! From the cute little place behind us. I just couldn’t resist the photo ops in this place <3

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So we will start with Sam’s meal: Beef and Blue Salad - Sliced Butcher tender steak with a Wedge of Iceberg lettuce topped with blue cheese dressing, tomatoes and Bacon. She loved it. She actually even tries to make it at home from time to time.

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Next KC and I: Angus Chuck Burger - Flame-broiled beef patty topped with your choice of Cheddar or Swiss cheese, sauteed onions, mushroom, or crispy bacon and served with a choice of cucumber-melon salad or French fries.

His

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Mine:

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Let me tell you. Usually I am not a big fan of burgers, whenever my family has them at home I either find something else or don’t eat that night. BUT THIS, oh my goodness was perfection on a bun. If I could have it right now I would. My only regret was that I was too stuffed to finish it all.

And last but not least Andy: Smoked St Louis style ribs - Basted with BBQ sauce served with French fries and coleslaw. Man did he devour those things. AS you can see half the French fries were gone before we could take the photo. Luckily he hates coleslaw so I got to eat it because I inhale that stuff like it’s nobody’s business. Mmmmm.

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At this point I had been sitting in wet clothes freezing my but off. Not to self: next time bring a sweater. IT WAS FREEZING in there, let me tell you I am usually really good friends with air conditioning and never get cold but boy oh boy did I shake while I was sitting there in that convertible. I wanted to put up the top and blast the heat. I went to the restroom to try to warm up and when I came back dessert was sitting there waiting for me.

Once again we will start with Sam’s: Warm Apple Crumble. Once again she loved this and wants to go back just to enjoy this one more time.

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KC and Andy both got sundaes wither because they were to full or didn’t really like anything else on the menu. Sorry the picture stinks, it’s hard to get a good photo in there it’s so dark. But hey it’s a sundae you get the point

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And last but not least my deliciousness: Cheesecake - With caramel sauce and treats. That description does not in anyway make sense to me. Even though it was cheesecake it was layer with red velvet cake MY FAVORITE!!!!!!! Ugh this was the only reason I agreed to come here (this was before I tasted that burger). Let me tell you. This was good. It was the perfect combination of cheesecake and red velvet. Mmmmmm.

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One of the ladies in the car next to us was nice enough to take a group photo for us.

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From there we paid the bill and booked it out of there because it was SO COLD!!! We stepped into the warm sticky just rained Florida air and decided to head back to the room to nap because we had done almost everything and were way to full to move.

So we hopped on the bus and headed back to the room. Unfortunately the bus took a while and by the time we got to the resort I had to pee so badly that I got off at the first stop in search of a bathroom because I was about to burst (must have been that salty margarita and ton of sprite I drank). We told Sam and KC we would meet them back at the room.

I’m not sure how long we slept for but I can remember not wanting to wake up. I got changed for the night then Andy and I headed to the main building because I wanted to buy a hoodie that I saw in the gift shop on our first day. When we got back to the room I woke up Sam and KC and we got on the bus and headed back to “Hollywood Studios” coughMGMcough.

All rejuvenated and refreshed (in my new hoodie)

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We jumped off the bus and spotted our destination looming in the Florida sunset. We had fastpasses from earlier in the day and couldn’t let them go to waste!!!

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Would we survive another encounter with the Twilight Zone? What were we up to later that night? Well you will just have to



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[xoSamma]

cool bro :)

[Disneyfreak508]

were they fixed for your trip? I hope they are fixed by the time March roles around lol


Yes the birds were all fixed by December! So I think you'll be in the clear!

Yay for Sci-Fi! :goodvibes I absolutely LOVE it there. And I totally always say that about the 50's too... I totally belong in that era. That could be why I love DHS so much.

Oh no! I'm so sorry your margarita wasn't good! That's such a disappointment.

I'm really sad because they changed the Red Velvet Cheesecake shape at Sci-Fi. I mean, it was still REALLY good... but the piece you got just looks so much more appetizing than the one I ate in december. Mine was so much smaller!

Hahaha I can exactly picture that feeling right now of being SO exhausted, going from the hot air to the cold, and then just wanting to go to sleep. Like.. I know that feeling to a tee. God, I miss it.

I HAVE THAT HOODIE! :goodvibes I brought it with me to college! hehe (:

Great update!! Can't wait for the next one!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Yes the birds were all fixed by December! So I think you'll be in the clear!


YESSSSSSSS!!!


I'm really sad because they changed the Red Velvet Cheesecake shape at Sci-Fi. I mean, it was still REALLY good... but the piece you got just looks so much more appetizing than the one I ate in december. Mine was so much smaller!


I saw your picture (on twitter I think?) And that is why I think Andy and I are going to try 50's Prime Time on our March trip lol. And just to switch it up a bit.


I HAVE THAT HOODIE! :goodvibes I brought it with me to college! hehe (:


Haha yay!!! Represent Disney (: We will probably end up wearing them on the same day one time and be twins. I literally wear it everyday it's my favorite/warmest hoodie.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

The Love Birds Double Date
August 20, 2011

So while we were off enjoying the freezing cold that was the 50’s Ma, pa, Danielle and Adam had other plans. They were headed to my dream hotel (no not the Hollywood Tower Hotel) The one and only Polynesian <3 Ugh what I wouldn’t give to stay there….

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SOOOO PRETTY………….

ANYWAYS… They were headed off to a dinner that Sam almost jumped ship and sci-fi to go to… Ohana. So since I wasn’t there we will be doing a bit of make believe again…

Here we go…

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They arrived in the lobby of the Poly, the most magical place within the most magical place on earth (I am only guessing because I have never spent a lot of time here) And they couldn’t wait to get their date night started. What better way to start it off then by taking prom pictures?!

Ma and Pa

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Danielle and Adam

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Me, Andy, KC and Sam

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Oh wait we aren’t a part of this story…

Moving on

They started off with a refreshing round of tropical drinks while they waited to be seated…

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While they waited to get started Danielle fell asleep…. AGAIN. Goodness that’s all this girl does!!!

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But don’t worry she woke up and took a bath with a hot wash cloth that’s used to wipe your hands?

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And then the food started rolling in. The towering skewers of meat.

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Pa was in heaven!!! Shrimp anyone?

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Adam had a nice cold drink and was also thoroughly enjoying himself

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Even the vinilimations were having dancing and having a splendid time

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Everyone was enjoying the splendid plethora of scrumptious food

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Everyone that is except Danielle apparently

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Just kidding she was in heaven when she saw this… bread pudding, which I have never had because I kind of refuse to eat here but my entire family raves about it.

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From there all happy and stuffed they made there way to a special part of the resort that as a kid we were all dying to try

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Danielle’s favorite Disney character ever is hands down peter pan

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She figured they would walk over and see if they would let her in just to take a look around and they did!!!

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How magical, if I was a kid and had to be put into a day care this is where I would want to go. Such great theming.

That wraps up the photos I was able to get my hand on from their dinner. I hope that you enjoyed my story telling once again!! If you have any questions feel free to ask them and I will make sure Danielle see them.



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[Windsor Princesses]

So..... It's offical.... I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!!!

Andy's father was kind enough to give us some money towards a trip for our spring break as Andy's Birthday present and and early graduation present for me!!! So we will be headed down (just the two of us) March 5-9. I have been trying to plan this for about a week without getting my hopes up because we weren't sure if it was going to happen. BUT NOW IT IS!!!! I can hardly contain my excitement I was just jumping around his kitchen out of complete joy. AHHHHHHHHHHHH. I am freaking out. I am off to plan. I am pretty sure we will be staying at the All Star Movies and doing the Quick Service dinning plan. SO if anyone has any suggestions please feel free to let me know I am totally new to the world of value resorts and quick service dinning plans.


If you haven't booked yet, the Pop has a much better bus service than the All Star Hotels. There are times where one bus stops at all three and it just takes a long time; however, until the new Pixar Animation hotel opens up the Pop bus runs alone and saves you a ton of time.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

If you haven't booked yet, the Pop has a much better bus service than the All Star Hotels. There are times where one bus stops at all three and it just takes a long time; however, until the new Pixar Animation hotel opens up the Pop bus runs alone and saves you a ton of time.

We did already book the All Star Movies. I heard about the bus issues but I was hopping that since we will be down there during kind of "off season" that the bus situation won't be terrible. A bunch of people also said that the buses are usually only shared in the after noon and since we wont have a park hopper we will most likely go to the park for opening and stay until closing. Also a bunch of people from the theatre department at college are going down and staying in the same hotel. I really appreciate the advice though. I am dying to try the POP out one of these times :thumbsup2

[Disneyfreak508]

Oh my GOD Ohana. yum yum yum :love: Why don't you want to eat there!? It's amazing!!... unless you don't like meat. Because that could be slightly inconvenient at Ohana.

mmm I want to go there NOW. Easy Mac cannot compare.

What is the neverland club exactly?

And who else is going down to Disney over break from NU!? Ahh you guys are gonna have so much fun! :goodvibes

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Oh my GOD Ohana. yum yum yum :love: Why don't you want to eat there!? It's amazing!!... unless you don't like meat. Because that could be slightly inconvenient at Ohana.

I just feel like I wouldn't like it. I'm not really sure why. I guess I just feel like everything would be covered in pineapple? not the case I know. Also I am a HUGE dessert person and don't like bread pudding (I know that is ridiculous)


What is the neverland club exactly?

It's basically the babysitter's club of the Poly. For those parents who take their kids to Disney and decide to leave them in the room I guess lol


And who else is going down to Disney over break from NU!? Ahh you guys are gonna have so much fun! :goodvibes

Ummm I think there are like 6 or 7 of us going down. I can't wait to see Bobby!!! I am going through with drawl. I hope the first week of classes is treating you well!!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

A Nightmare Fantasmic!!! (in a good way)
August 20, 2011

When we last left of we were on a magical journey to my favorite place within my favorite place, the Hollywood Tower Hotel. We had fastpasses that we grabbed on our way out earlier and needed to use up.

So we hopped in line and before we knew it we were heading into the library.

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Apparently it was a steamy night because that hoodie that I just bought came off as soon as we entered the park as I recall. As you can see in this photo where we are just hanging out in the basement

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So after yet another scream and thrill filled ride on we decided to head down to the end of Sunset Blvd. and get some snacks before we went to line up for Fantasmic! We got Andy and I split cotton candy and a deliciously refreshing cherry slushy or Gourmet Ice I think is what is was called regardless of the names it was delicious. Sam got a lemonade slushy and KC got a blue raspberry one (of which I got no pictures…) We took our refreshments and found a seat on the curb.

My proof of snacks… KC blue tongue haha

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So as people started to swarm we got up off the curb and started the line a forming. It was about 9:10 at this point and we were waiting to be let in for the 10:30 showing so we were in for a wait. Luckily the people around us were very friendly. One of the ladies near us saw Andy’s pins and asked him how pin trading worked, being the shy kid that he is didn’t know what to say seeing as he had just started pin trading. I talked to the lady who told me that it was a lot nicer sounding that she thought it was, she thought that people would just take her kids pins no matter if they wanted to trade or not.

So about an hour later, at exactly 10 they led us up the long and winding pathway to the theatre. It was kind of scary seeing as we were at the front of the line crammed in like sardines but we made it without loosing anyone. We stayed in the courtyard for a wile and listened to the music (I believe Disney’s version of mambo #5 was playing, what a classic). We slowly piled into the theater. I was so anxious to get like a front row seat because it was going to be Andy’s first time seeing the show and I wanted him to love it as much as I do. So we made our way down but they were filling in section by section… We reluctantly filled in a row about 10-15 rows back one section away from being direct center. BUT THEN they started filling seats over there, so we jumped ship and moved down and we got EXACTLY FRONT ROW DEAD CENTER and the best part was that we had a bench all to ourselves. WE WERE SO EXCITED!!!!

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So I’m not going to lie from here on out the pictures are going to be kinda sucky, my camera take great pictures in the day light but at night it sucks, so just use your imagination.

We ended up with some college program kids behind us and the one was talking about Everest and how Miley was going to ride it or had ridden it or something, I tuned them out they were kind of annoying…

One of those carts drove by with all the flashing lights and before we knew it the show was starting.

This photo reminds me of the travel VHS I had when I was little because they advertised Sorcery in the Sky where they had the giant blow up Sorcerer Mickey on top of the great movie ride and fireworks came out of his fingers, I always wanted to see that fireworks display and I don’t remember ever actually doing so.

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Now onto some blurry but comprehendible photos

Here we have some dancing 80’s tastic monkey’s. I love the music and the floats at this part

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Then the princesses came out at this point I disregarded all of them except for Ariel, I adore her <3

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she is just the most precious Disney character ever!!! I apparently was done with Ariel and decided to snap some shots of snow white (she was my original favorite when I was younger, I had a snow white bedroom)

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I apparently stopped taking picture for a while until Maleficent came out in dragon form. Look at how close that railing is, that has never happened for us before we are usually way up in the nosebleeds!!

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The rest are blurry and nasty so I will spare you the headache and skip to my favorite part of the entire thing. The steamboat at the end, it makes me tear up just thinking about how magical it is!!!

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I have a love for steam boat willie that I can’t really explain, I think it started because when growing up my mother had a sweatshirt of Mickey and Steam Boat Willie shaking hands in front of the castle (I think it was for Mickey’s 80th birthday?) anyways I love him for that reason.

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Hi Belle!!! I love your dress, my friend Ryan is making me one just like it!!!

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Minnie Mouse and Pluto!!! My other two favorites <3 (for real, the first thing I am going to do on my trip in March is purchase myself a Pluto Pillow Pet)

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Sad attempt at Ariel you can’t see anything but what looks like one of the 7 dwarfs being sea sick over the railing lol

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So after that, I asked Andy how he liked it and his response was “That’s not what I was expecting!!! How didn’t we hear all that going on while we were in line?!”. He loved it and I wasn’t really sure how to answer his question, I guess the theatre is just really far down there…?

Anyways we exited the park along with the tons of other over flow from the show

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We were all about getting home to bed because we had gotten so little sleep the past few days so we booked it to the bus and didn’t stop for anything… except the bus which took a while. Well I lied we slowed down so I could take a photo of the tram because I thought it looked so funny.

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When did the trams get doors? How strange, anyways when I was little that was my favorite mode of Disney transportation, as a little kid I can remember falling asleep on my moms lap to the breeze blowing on my face as we rode through the parking lots waiting to hear the cute little names for our parking lot. I actually still get really sad that we don’t drive anymore because I loved the tram and the parking lot names so much. ANYWAYS we booked it to the bus which wasn’t there so Sam braided my hair

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Which from this point on is what she would do anytime we found ourselves waiting around. There’s a lot of hair in our family that was open for braiding and she had just learned how to fishtail braid.

That is my last picture for the night. We went home and slept and continued to sleep because the following morning no parks had extra magic hours in the morning…

Whatever would we do?



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[Disneyfreak508]

LOL if you watch the part of our video when we're all lined up for Fantasmic, Kristen and Nat are dancing to Mambo Number 5 when they have their *COLLISION* :laughing: So funny.

SERIOUSLY omg we must have been sitting next to each other. I'm not even kidding hahaha because we were dead center too! That's so insane.

Your pictures actually are pretty good! Good job! :)

You're having a Belle dress made for you!? That's just beautiful.

I HAVE THE PLUTO PILLOW PET IN MY ROOM!!!! :goodvibes

That's a really good point Andy had... I never can hear it when I'm standing in line either! I don't know how they do that.

Oooh I like your purple hair! Very cute!

And ps my first week of classes is going GREAT! I am so happy I decided to come here. Oh my God. :goodvibes It's just great. I hope I get to see you around soon!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

SERIOUSLY omg we must have been sitting next to each other. I'm not even kidding hahaha because we were dead center too! That's so insane.

I know I still can't even believe it. you must have been on one of the small benches in the front row right next to us!!! I still can't believe that we never saw you until our very last day.

Your pictures actually are pretty good! Good job! :)

Haha mine are no where near as good as yours. I though about writing that in there please see Disneyfreak508's Fantasmic update because we basically sat in the same exact seat and she got legit pictures :rotfl:


You're having a Belle dress made for you!? That's just beautiful.

Kind of... my friend Ryan (he is a design tech major focusing on costuming). He wanted to make a Belle dress, she is is FAVORITE and asked if I would be the model for it when it's done. So it's being made to fit me but it won't be mine. BUT we are planning on doing the college program next fall and he said if we get in I can wear to Mickey's not so scary halloween party lol[/COLOR]


Oooh I like your purple hair! Very cute!

Thanks!! I miss it SO MUCH. I had to re-dye it when I did Damn Yankees in the Fall. I was going to redo it but the bleach destroyed that strand of my hair so i decided not to put it through more trauma lol.

And ps my first week of classes is going GREAT! I am so happy I decided to come here. Oh my God. :goodvibes It's just great. I hope I get to see you around soon!!

YAY!!! :goodvibes I am so glad you are enjoying it!!! I knew you would fit in perfectly.

[xoSamma]

cool bro :)

[mom of princess]

Love your TR:)

Don't know if they still have them but I got DD the Pluto pillow pet from Disney movie rewards. It's slightly smaller than regular ones but bigger than the minis.

Can't wait to read more.....

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Love your TR:)

Don't know if they still have them but I got DD the Pluto pillow pet from Disney movie rewards. It's slightly smaller than regular ones but bigger than the minis.

Can't wait to read more.....

Thanks, I'm glad you are enjoying our craziness :thumbsup2

And I will have to look into the pillow pet situation!!! Thanks for letting me know :goodvibes

I am hoping to get this thing wrapped up soon. After rehearsals start I won't have much of a life anymore with senior year wrapping up. Also I would LOVE to get it done by my next trip lol. I can't multi task as wel as some of our fellow Disers haha.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

So ten days ago was my birthday!!! 22 boy do I feel old. ANYWAYS, Andy was lovely enough to get me tickets to Disney on Ice (he has done so for the past 4 years, it’s kind of a tradition). Basically I just wanted to share some pictures with you incase you have never seen it or were wondering about it.

AHHHHH!!!! It was amazing (it always is) but even more so because Tangled was involved <3 so precious

Ok so I will start out with my birthday present from my parents. Ok well I technically picked it out (I am no good with birthday surprises). I found it on ebay for cheaper. I REALLY wanted a purple one but the only one they had was like $80 so sorry… but no. The great thing about buying them on ebay and not from the Disney store was that I was able to pick the design I got!!! I specifically wanted on with Dumbo and Mickey on it and lucky for me the user had 4 of them available!!

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Not that you can see the Dumbo or Mickey, but trust me they are there. I also got a gift card for my March trip (:

Ok so back to Disney on Ice…

*WARNING*: Some of these photos are not the greatest because of my lame camera being really zoomed in, but they will give you a pretty good idea of what was going on.

Like I said it was amazing. SI the first Act started out with the Incredibles, they were kind enough to get us all stretched out and warmed up for the show.

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Next up was Alice in Wonderland. For some reason I have a slight obsession with her, I think it is her dress and they way she finds EVERYTHING “curious”. Either way she was really cute.

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I’m glad that I got this shot beucase for some reason that cake was always one of my favorite parts of the movies, again not sure why as I child I was weird I guess but anyways the delicious looking cake

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next out was the Queen of Hearts and her card friends. They were crazy!!! They had 2 faces and feet on the back of their feet. I was amazed at how well they could skate like that.

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Next up was Peter Pan!!!

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The first musical that I was ever in, way back in the 7th grade, was Peter Pan and I remember the girl who played the crocodile was always getting stepped on because she had a contraption like this and couldn’t get up off the floor. So sad.

In addition to having an obsession with Alice I have an obsession with Wendy (maybe because they were voiced by the same person? Who knows.) Andy and I were Peter Pan and Wendy for Halloween.

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All you need is faith, trust and a little bit of pixie dust

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So that brings us to intermission. This is one of my favorite parts because that means it’s Icy time!!!

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Man oh Man!!! Those things are delicious. So while we were indulging in our Icy we almost missed the second act starting!!! We ran in just as the Lion King was starting

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Hakuna Matata

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The did a beautiful partner skate to Can You feel the love tonight. Most of thos pictures came out blurry. But let me tell you watching all of the partner skates made me want to become a figure skater!!!

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Ok so next came in some of the Seven cutest little men.

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Magical!!!!

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Like really?!? This has got to be terrifying. I do tons of lifts with dance classes and shows that I am in and I am scared to do those standing on the ground let alone on ice skates. AMAZING!!!

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Aladdin was next with some more crazy lifting.

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Jasmine was so sassy I loved it.

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NBD. Just your average kick line… ON ICE. Seriously I have a hard enough time going forward when I ice skate.

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Then they went on a magic carpet ride.

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How precious <3

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Why not just throw in a back flip while we are at it!!

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Continued In Next Post!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43839239&postcount=96)

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Continuing on with Aladdin and Jasmine. After that crazy back flip they decided to try out an extra scary lift!!!

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Like the weight placement on that has to be perfect or else they are done for.

They hopped back on their magic carpet and rode off into the sunset

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Next up was Ariel, pardon my lack of pictures in this section I was just loving on how adorable she was.

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Next up the second cutest princess Rapunzel!!!! And her frying pan…

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Then they picked a lucky little girl to help them send up the floating lantern <3

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I might have cried a little.

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It was just so perfect…

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Then then Mickey and Minnie came out dressed all fancy

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They introduced Tiana who did some pretty crazy tricks

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this one scares me, she is so happy but has no idea that he can’t see anything!!!

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But don’t worry, they made it out alive

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Mickey let Minnie know that she will always be his princess

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And then out came the lovely couples

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All of their costumes are just so perfect!!! I can’t get over it.

Oh hey Ariel!!! You’re my fave!!!

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Spinning skirts are my favorite

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So magically I can’t even get over it!!!!

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I adored Belle’s & “Adam’s” costumes. They were all sparkly and pretty. To bad I could only get their backs…

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See Ya Real Soon!!!

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Ok so that’s it for the Disney On Ice update. I hope you enjoyed it!!!

Now onto some more recent life update!!!

On Friday of last week I just happen to glance at the audition schedule for Disney and wouldn’t you know they were holding an open call for MY DREAM DISNEY JOB!!! For those of you who don’t know it’s Clair DeLune in Hoop Dee Doo. I was so torn beucase the audition would have been Monday at 10 am. I talked to so many people about it and they all said that I should give it a go and I was all set to get on a plane and go and audition but I didn’t. I don’t have the money and I can’t just drop out of school so I am really hoping that they will have another one before I get to be to old.

In happier news…

Yesterday the applications came out for the Disney College Program!!! AHHHHH. I applied as soon as I got out of class/theatre meeting last night at 7 and I was paranoid I failed. But I got an email saying that I was chosen to take the Web Based Interview today and I passed that part as well!!! So I have my phone interview this Sunday at 4:30. I am so excited I can’t wait. I applied once my freshman year and was accepted but had to turn it down. It has always been my plan to go down after college so that I can get my foot in the door without worrying about having to make the decision to stay there or go back to school. So that’s all I have for now I will keep you updated on how it goes. Wish me Luck!!!

[xoSamma]

Cool bro :)

sassy age-in jasmine pose!!!
the girl who got picked for the floating lantern was not as cute as the little rapunzel they picked the night before


also this sunday!!!! that is like unreal!!!!

[Disneyfreak508]

Oh my Gosh Alicia your Disney on Ice Pictures are BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank you so much for taking so many. I forgot my camera and then my cousin's camera ran out of battery halfway through so I was sad I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked. :headache: Yours are all fantastic! And you guys had AMAZING seats!!! Wow. Awesome, awesome. That show was phenomenal.

I'm sorry that you didn't get to audition for Clair... but if it's meant to be it will happen someday! :) I'm sure of it. And if they don't have auditions anytime soon, then something better is in store for you! You're so talented - I'm sure you're going to do great things!!

I am really excited for you to do the College Program/application process! I seriously can't wait to hear about it through your perspective. Good luck on your phone interview - I am sure you're going to do awesome. Just smile through the phone! :) Remember lots of details so you can tell me all about it!

I wish I could go SO bad next semester but I really can't. I am pretty much set in stone on going next year in the spring though. Because I think if I waited any longer I would be too far into the program here to leave for a semester. But at least if I do Disney next year I'll have time to catch up here when I get back for my last two years. And if I have to take summer classes/stay an extra semester I really don't care. Then after my DCP I can go down to Disney as seasonal in the summers/christmas breaks until I graduate :) Yay!! That's the hope anyway. Sorry I just gave you my life plan there haha. I give you MAJOR props for waiting until you graduated because if I did that I would probably die because I'm so impatient lol. I'm so anxious to get to Disney I can't even tell you. :laughing:

So yeah. Thank you for your pictures - they were awesome!!! :goodvibes

[mom of princess]

Thanks for the preview of what I will be seeing March 1st with my DD and he rest of the 2nd grade for their field trip. We will be loving it but some other parents, not so much.:confused3

I watched Tangled last night, just because, and felt the tears well up at the end. AGAIN. Such a great movie, sigh.... Can't wait to meet her in 6months.:thumbsup2

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

sassy age-in jasmine pose!!!
the girl who got picked for the floating lantern was not as cute as the little rapunzel they picked the night before

also this sunday!!!! that is like unreal!!!!

She was SO sassy. She like didn't even participate in the floating latern send off it was so sad lol

SUNDAY!!! I know!!!! I am nervous but tomorrow I am making a list of my top 3 jobs and why I want to work them. I figured I will mention i want to do entertainment but won't focus on it because they can't pick me for that anyways.

Oh my Gosh Alicia your Disney on Ice Pictures are BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank you so much for taking so many. I forgot my camera and then my cousin's camera ran out of battery halfway through so I was sad I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked. :headache: Yours are all fantastic! And you guys had AMAZING seats!!! Wow. Awesome, awesome. That show was phenomenal.

I am really excited for you to do the College Program/application process! I seriously can't wait to hear about it through your perspective. Good luck on your phone interview - I am sure you're going to do awesome. Just smile through the phone! :) Remember lots of details so you can tell me all about it!

I wish I could go SO bad next semester but I really can't. I am pretty much set in stone on going next year in the spring though. Because I think if I waited any longer I would be too far into the program here to leave for a semester. But at least if I do Disney next year I'll have time to catch up here when I get back for my last two years. And if I have to take summer classes/stay an extra semester I really don't care. Then after my DCP I can go down to Disney as seasonal in the summers/christmas breaks until I graduate :) Yay!! That's the hope anyway. Sorry I just gave you my life plan there haha. I give you MAJOR props for waiting until you graduated because if I did that I would probably die because I'm so impatient lol. I'm so anxious to get to Disney I can't even tell you. :laughing:

So yeah. Thank you for your pictures - they were awesome!!! :goodvibes

Thanks!!! I tried really hard but the more I zoomed in the fuzzier they were. I took like 300 pictures though lol. It's hard to get them in action.

As soon as I finish and find out how I did I will let you know and I will be happy to help you out!!! I know how badly you want to do it!!!
So far it has been pretty simple just a little terrifying at points lol. Surprisingly though I am the least nervous for the hardest part of the process. I am going to like write down ALL of the questions they ask me so I can help out anyone who needs it.

It was SO hard waiting until after my senior year especially seeing other people younger than me going down. But I feel like it's the perfect time to go down. It prolongs the harsh real world just a little longer haha. So fingers crossed that I make it in!!!

Thanks for the preview of what I will be seeing March 1st with my DD and he rest of the 2nd grade for their field trip. We will be loving it but some other parents, not so much.:confused3

I watched Tangled last night, just because, and felt the tears well up at the end. AGAIN. Such a great movie, sigh.... Can't wait to meet her in 6months.:thumbsup2

It was so magical, I was singing a long and taking pictures the whole time!!! I hope that you and your daughter really enjoy it!!!

I agree, it is probably one of my favorite Disney movies. It's just so precious. i can't even contain my emotions during it. Those 6 months are going to fly by!!! AHHHH DISNEY :lovestruc

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Did You Bring The Room Key?
August 21, 2011

Ok so first up we have a short but sweet little update for ya!! As I mentioned at the end of my last update we headed home early the night before (if you call midnight early) so we could catch up on some much needed sleep.

We got up at exactly 8:45, wow I knew I was going to be sleeping in and even though I did I didn’t want to get up. But we did and we all got ready and headed to the main pool the “the springs” the one in congress park was closed for refurb it was kind of upsetting.

As we set out to the pool (a 5-7 minute walk) we got halfway there when we realized that we had all left our room keys in the room. FAIL, everyone was gone. Danielle and Adam were doing a segway tour in EPCOT and none of them were getting back anytime soon. So we decided what the heck, might as well finish our trek.

We were one of the first ones to the pool that morning. The water was a little bit cold but we warmed up to it really fast.

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We got bored of swimming after probably 45 minutes but the slide was going to open up shortly so we stuck around. There was a long line by the time it finally opened at 10, they picked the kid of the day and he got to go down the slide second (the lifeguard went first) but as soon as he left the kid of the day and his siblings started goofing off. The one kid pushed the other down the slide and the other one tried to go down standing up. They were really rude. Needless to say we each went down one time and we were done with that.

I texted our parents to see if they were coming back anytime soon but they weren’t and we needed to get back to the room to get ready for our lunch reservation. We walked to the main building and Andy and KC went in and asked for a new room key so that we could get in and ready before they got back. At this point it was about 11 and our reservation was at 1:30 so we had plenty of time.

Once everyone was back to the room and finished getting ready we hopped on the bus to EPCOT at around noon.

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Just enjoying a nice afternoon bus ride

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Point the way!!!

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We arrived rather quickly, no outrageous wait for the bus. Who can resist a photo opp of the “golf ball”? not me that’s for sure!

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We had some time to kill so we decided to go check out Innoventions. Ma wanted to try some weather room thing but like the last time the line was too long so we decided to try

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Basically it was like cyber space mountain at Disney quest only BETTER!!! You can’t really see it from the picture but there are two chairs on a big metal arm simulator thing.

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It basically is trying to teach you math and science and stuff lol. You get to pick the speed and height of hills and loops. As we waited we watched other people have a go at it.

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And then Andy got a little freaked out.

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He is not a fan of things like this and neither is Ma so they decided they would ride together and they would make theirs nice and easy. Which meant I got to ride with Sam!!

But we still had quite the wait to go so Sam did what she does best and braided Pa’s hair

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Finish product

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Soon enough we were at the front of the line and handed our card

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We went in and started building our rollercoaster. They give you a ruler and dial and you have to manipulate it to work without crashing and you are timed, the entire thing is kind of nerve wrecking.

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Sam and I were all about making ours really fast and loopy. We realized afterwards that we should have done big loops at the slowest pace so we could stay upsiddown longer. Oh well, next time.


We got off and decided to head over to our lunch destination. Were were we going?



Tune In Next Time!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43872568&postcount=102)

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Best Lunch EVER!!!
August 21, 2011

After we got the flippy flippy rollaercoaster riding out of the way we decided to head over to our 1:30 lunch Reservation

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What cute handles on the doors!!!

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This one was my pick (:

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We got there early and the place was packed!! We had two separate tables (avoiding that outrageous automatic gratuity). I had Ma request a tank side table

We decided take a seat on the floor because there were no seats available and our feet had been hurting from all the walking over the past few days.

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So we waited and enjoyed the décor

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Our names were called and we were lucky enough to be taken to table that was right up a long the side of the tank.

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Ma, Pa and KC we seated at a booth not to far away.

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It was time to order drinks. I believe Andy and I got root beer and Sam got Coke. I also decided that since my drink and the sci-fi the night before was terrible I would treat myself once more.

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It turned out like this and let me tell you TOTALLY made up for the glass of salt I got the night before. SO GOOD.

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So as we waited for our food to be brought out we sat and enjoyed the fishes swimming by. And then we saw this guy!!!

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Food arrived really quickly!!! So let’s get to the yummy food pictures!!!

We will start with Sam: Grilled New York Strip Steak - Served with horseradish smashed potatoes and market fresh vegetable. The horseradish potatoes did not intrigue her so she substituted for French fries. To say the least this was not her favorite steak of the trip.

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Andy is up Next: Grilled Mahi-Mahi - with laughing bird shrimp, hearts of palm, jasmine rice and a coconut lime sauce. He LOVED it. He keeps asking if we can go back in March but I’m not spending $25 on a piece of fish. Sorry Andy, maybe when we do the dinning plan again.

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And last but not least My lunch: Seared Chicken Breast - Served over Spaetzle finished with applewood smoked Bacon chicken broth. It was SOOOOO GOOOOOOD. I wrote in my journal that it was the BEST LUNCH EVER!!! Ugh I don’t even know how to descibe it, but it you are ever going to eat at the coral reef and haven’t tried it yet do!!! So good.

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Don’t let this picture fool you, it seems like a really small portion but it was not. I was so full afterwards I almost didn’t want dessert. To prove to you how good it was and show you that literally I basically licked it clean.

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Next up came our dessert. We got the chocolate wave all around.

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Ok so this was pretty good, the cake was warm and gooey and crispy at the same time but the chocolate that came out had a wear clear go with it that was a huge turn off for us all. None of us ended finishing them (possibly because we were so full from our delicious entrees).

As we were getting up to leave this guy can and perched at the table right next to us.

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We strolled out of the park because we were too full and too hot to do anything but slowly stroll out of the park

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We headed to the monorail station to head over to the Magic Kingdom. You will never guess what happened next.


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Hottest Day... Longest Line... EVER!!!
August 20, 2011



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First of all that thing is creepy. Secondly how did that thing even fit in the box?!
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His neck pops off. lol

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

His neck pops off. lol

That makes him even creepier!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Surprise!!!
August 21, 2012

Ok so in my last post I lied. After lunch we didn’t head straight to the monorail… We went and rode Ellen’s Universe of Energy. Going in I promised I wouldn’t fall asleep, but I may or may not have closed my eyes for an extended period of time during the pitch black radio room…

Anyways from there we stepped out in to the Florida heat hopped on the monorail and made our way to the Magic Kingdom to catch up with Danielle and Adam. When we arrived we hopped on the Train and rode it back to Frontierland. Where we grabbed these

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We waited for what seemed like forever for Danielle and Adam to make it back to that corner of the park. We were waiting out front of Haunted Mansion but the sun was boiling us so we went into the little gift shop right next to the queue. Shortly there after Danielle and Adam came in saying that they had some big news for us…

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They had just gotten engaged at the wishing well near Cinderella’s Castle!

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So after all that excitement we went and jumped in the line for Haunted Mansion.

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So once we made our way threw the creepiest ride ever, after many foolish spirits had disrupted our doom buggy, we used our fastpases for the wildest ride in the wilderness!!! From there we went over to Mickey’s Philharmagic and on the way we ran into this dance party!!!

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We ducked into one of the gift shops near Country Bear Jamboree and trade my vinilimation

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Next we headed over to grab some fastpasses for Space Mountain

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While we waited for our time to role around we decided to do the laugh floor again.

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The show was basically the exact same as when we saw it early in the week so we decided that once a trip is probably enough for this show. We used our Got out and grabbed some fastpasses for Buzz

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We hopped on Space Mountain and when we got out we all traded our vinilimations again!!!

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From there we decided it was time to russel up some grub. So we headed back over to Frontierland to Andy’s favorite quick service in all of Disney World.

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I really love this place because they have the special little order Kiosks where you just punch in your order, I just think it is so neat!!! So we ordered our food. Andy and I had a little trouble with out touch screen so we took a little longer, meaning everyone was basically don by the time I got to pictures.

Andy and I got taco bowls, and chocolate cake, unfortunately I made the mistake of getting Iced Tea which even though it was sweetened I didn’t end up drinking any of it because it was weird. I made the same mistake with the first meal of our last trip at Pinocchio’s except that time I got unsweetened and it was basically water. Lesson learned do not get Iced Tea in Disney Alicia, it always disappoints lol

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We gobbled up our tacos and headed out. Up next was Pa’s favorite

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Which due to a small fire had recently been restored to the original beauty that we all know and love. SO MUCH BETTER than under new management (sorry Zazu and Iago).

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We made our way back to main street singing “in the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room” made out way back up to the bathrooms near the entrance and after a short potty break we decided to pull up a seat for the parade.



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EXCITING NEWS!!!!!

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Today I got my email saying that I was accepted to Participate in the Fall 2012 Disney College Program!!!!


I will be working in the costuming department, which I think will be a perfect fit for me because I already work in a costume shop! I am a little bummed that it is a role that gets little to no guest interaction but I am still so grateful for the opportunity. I have my Entertainment Audition on March 16 so fingers crossed I get pulled to be in a parade or something, that would be AMAZING!!! Anyways, i just wanted to update you on my life journey lol Thanks for reading a long. I can't wait to spend 6 months (or possibly the rest of my career) in the Happiest Place on Earth!!!!!!!

[saintstickets]

EXCITING NEWS!!!!!

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Today I got my email saying that I was accepted to Participate in the Fall 2012 Disney College Program!!!!


I will be working in the costuming department, which I think will be a perfect fit for me because I already work in a costume shop! I am a little bummed that it is a role that gets little to no guest interaction but I am still so grateful for the opportunity. I have my Entertainment Audition on March 16 so fingers crossed I get pulled to be in a parade or something, that would be AMAZING!!! Anyways, i just wanted to update you on my life journey lol Thanks for reading a long. I can't wait to spend 6 months (or possibly the rest of my career) in the Happiest Place on Earth!!!!!!!

Congratulations!!! :banana: That is fantastic news! I wish I had done something like this in my younger years. Good luck getting the job you want.

[caravarela]

Hi Alicia,

I just found your trip report a few days ago and now I'm all caught up! You are ADORABLE and I love your TR. I think it's so cool how your family all loves Disney together :goodvibes

Congrats on the CP!! How exciting! I'm 26 and still in college, if I didn't have a husband/kids I would totally apply for that. So fun :woohoo:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Congratulations!!! :banana: That is fantastic news! I wish I had done something like this in my younger years. Good luck getting the job you want.

Thank you very much!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!! I can hardly believe it still haha.

Hi Alicia,

I just found your trip report a few days ago and now I'm all caught up! You are ADORABLE and I love your TR. I think it's so cool how your family all loves Disney together :goodvibes

Congrats on the CP!! How exciting! I'm 26 and still in college, if I didn't have a husband/kids I would totally apply for that. So fun :woohoo:

YAY!!!! :yay: I'm glad you found me haha. Thanks so much fo reading a long!!! I'm glad you are enjoying it so far :goodvibes

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls!!!!
August 21, 2011

So we had found a pot to stand right near the gate where the parade starts. We didn’t wait very long at all. It was on Andy’s to do list to watch a parade this trip so we decided to humor him. (usually we make a dash back to Frontierland as the parade goes on because as everyone knows that’s prime ride time.)

The music started the gates opened and the floats were off!!!

Minnie Mouse <3

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When KC was like 4 he had a VHS of this parade but in Disneyland that he watched like a million times a day. I must admit I prefer Spectro Magic.

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Oooooh, how pretty…

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I liked how they talk to the people watching them but I wonder if they ever run out of things to say…

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It was at this point that I noticed something that would really peeve off the ladies over on the wedding planning boards.

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A Bride, in her dress, with her flowers?!?! 99.9% of DFTW Brides are told that this is not permitted/illegal. So what is she going there? I got so distracted that I got no more photos of the parade lol.

The parade ended and we headed with the rest of the crowd down Main Street. We stopped in the shop where Andy picked up a zip up that he has is eye on and Sam bought a Tiana skirt.

We made our way the rest of the way to scope out a spot for The Magic Memories and You (our first time seeing it!!!) and Wishes.

We got really good “seats” leaning on the railing/sitting on the ground on the walkway from Main Street to Tommorowland. This was the lovely view from behind

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We took a lean and we were all set for some magic.

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The Magic Memories and You had started shortly after, I had purposefully not watched a video of it or listened to the music before hand because I wanted to experience it for the first time in real life and be totally blown away.

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It was so magically that I couldn’t do anything but watch (sorry for the lack of photos) but literally I felt that knot in my throat, the music and the pictures and ugh. I can honestly say that this is the best thing Disney has ever created <3

We took a short intermission and then Tinkerbell flew over our heads and Wishes began

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Haha what a sad picture that is, but you get the idea lol

And now I flood you with some obligatory castle shots from wishes.

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With the tears streaming down our faces we headed over to Tomorrowland and hopped on the peoplemover and can you believe there was a line?!? You know what that means…

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Pardon the frizziness and fades purple hair, they Florida water really did a number on my hair. For March I’m going to have to remember my deep conditioner lol

The old people were slowing down…

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But we had these to use!!!

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They handed us theirs because they said that their backs couldn’t handle Space Mountain again. God, please don’t ever let that happen to me!!! So as we headed to the line we heard a mother arguing with her two sons because she wanted to head back but the line was over 100 minutes so I stepped in and said, we have two extra fastpasses if you want them. They were SO grateful and we felt so good to be able to help someone out. It rememinded me of our second trip that we took with our studio when a group of 4 of us were dresses the same from Mickey ear to flip flops and some Spanish kids walked up to us and handed us 4 fastpasses. MAGICAL!!!

Anyways so we rode Space Mountain and then headed over to Fantasyland for a magical time on the “kiddy rides”. I had to ride Snow White one last time before they did away with it!!!

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I love the old dark rides and I am sad that they are doing away with a majority of them

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I always loved her wooden shoes. I wonder where all of these statues things go once the ride is taken apart?

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Once we took our (possible) last spin on Snow White’s Scary Adventure we headed over to the Carousel, which looks so beautiful at night

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From there we went and rode It’s a Small World. Then headed over to Frontierland got soaked on Splash Mountain and debated doing more but we were running on empty. So we decided to stop at a snack card get some frozen lemonades and head back to the room. But not before I stopped on Main Street to check out the fudge situation, I was craving some mint chocolate fudge which they didn’t end up having but we bought Andy’s sister some cute cups instead and moseyed to the bus stop and called it a night at around 1:30.


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In the Circle
August 22, 2011

So, today was kind of a sleep in day. Alarm went off at 8 o’lock. Andy and I were headed to Animal Kingdom and Sam and KC were headed to POR (that’s the resort the people from the studio were staying at) to get ready to dance.

Just as Andy and I were ready to leave KC busted through the door freaking out because he had put the wrong shirt on (they all had a purple shirt that was similar to their recital shirt but was slightly different for the Disney performance) so he RAN back from Downtown Disney to change.

Once he left we headed out. It was a steamy day in Florida as you can see by the fog on my camera.

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Once we made it to Animal Kingdom (the tree is the only major icon we didn’t get our picture with lol no time to stop)

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we headed for Everest to get fastpasses

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After we snatched those up we headed back over to Dinoland to get on Dinosaur.

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Now, I am or may not have mentioned how I am TERRIFIED of this ride.

There was the cutest little British girl next to me who couldn’t have been anymore than six who was telling her dad how she was going to keep her eyes open the whole time and let me just tell you… SHE DID!!! When the ride was over her dad asked her how she liked it she said it was awesome but she had to cover her ears because it was too loud, I turned to her and said, you did better with that than I did and I am 21!!! She was so proud.

We were dropped off into two gift shops and I decided that of course I had to purchase something!!! But it was a magical something that took me back to my first Disney trips when I was really little.

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And it was a snack credit, so no money was actually spent!!! Ugh these literally are my childhood in a nutshell.

We decided to do another first for Andy ad headed over SUPER early to the first showing of the Festival of the Lion King!!! On our way there we saw this….

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Wait no those are cute. It was something much much less cute than those….

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I told Andy that we had to step on it because I was not getting stuck in line anywhere near them and that’s where they were talking about heading.


We booked it to the line and we were one of the first ones in line, which meant that I got to enjoy my snack and be misted.

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As I said earlier we were there REALLY early so by the time we were let in we looked like this…

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But it was so worth it. Kept me nice and cool.

When we were let in we made our way to the benches on the opposite side and got the very front bench behind the handicap seating. SCORE!!! Until they told us we had to move to make room for the little kids, which I really wouldn’t have had a problem with if they had moved us as soon as we got there but they waited until like all of the seats were filled and then told us to get out of there after all the good seats were taken?!? I was kind of man, it was Andy’s first time seeing it and we got poopy seats but two people ended up moving down so we could sit on the end of a closer row. THANKS!!!

Now for the onslaught of FOTLK pictures.

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And then I saw her!!! Well not really her just it, you see the first time that I saw this show (back when it wasn’t an in closed building but an open air pavilion) I decided that if I were ever to be in the show this is the costume I would want to wear. This is that costume most of the time I keep my on on this person the entire show lol

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Then Andy found his favorite part of the show

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And my favorite animal

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Ohp, there is my favorite girl again!!!

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What a great ending to the show

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Andy LOVED the show. We quickly gathered our belongings and headed out. Then we saw this and new we had to get away.

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Off we ran and by ran I mean we walked the fastest we could!!!


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Ok so, with this other Disney Trip coming up I am really hoping to have this thing completed before I leave. I mean it should be done already we are getting close to the trip being six months ago!!! I can't even believe it. In addition to the trip I have rehearsals and auditions coming up so I spent ALL day yesterday trying to get it finished. I made it though our 2nd to last day. So from now on I will probably be updating AT LEAST once a day. So don't forget to check back I don't want anyone to get too far behind!!!



Run Away!!!
August 21, 2012

So when we last left off Andy and I were running for our lives, ok maybe that’s a little extreme but we were trying desperately to get away. And we did… phew!

So as we waved to by to Camp Minnie Mickey and their cute little statues

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we crossed over the bridge and saw the yummy looking swamp water!!!

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Then I saw this which I thought was REALLY cool.

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I figured it must have been left over from when Camp Minnie Mickey was originally suppose to be Beastly Kingdom, it only makes sense right because it looks like some kind of reptile. Anyways I thought it was neat. It makes me sad that they just put Camp Minnie Mickey there because they ran out of time/money and it was a quick fix. Oh the things that might have been!!!

ANYWAYS…

We made our way through the park back to Expedition Everest to use our fastpasses.

As we traveled I took some pictures of my beloved giraffes

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As we continued our walk we ran into DeVine!!!

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A large group started to gather and we had places to go and things to do so we trekked onward!!!

We made our way through the fastpass and right to the back of the front of the line. AKA we made it right on in the second to last seat.

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OH MY GOODNESS!!! Best way to rid this ride. It makes you feel like you are going upside down at the part when you go backwards. It was amazing.

So after our exhilarating ride with the Yeti, we decided it was time to spend another snack credit!!! And you know what that means when you’re in Animal Kingdom!!! Actually you probably don’t know so I’ll just tell you haha

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It’s a little glass of heaven (but really, it’s from heaven and it’s glowing) on a HOT Animal Kingdom day.

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Andy and I each took our turn sipping from the strange but eco friendly paper straw

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PERFECTION!!! You can see me starting to smile with happiness lol. So after e gulped down that glass of blue deliciousness we headed over to the train (which was on my “Bucket Liste” for this trip)

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Thankfully all of our luggage had arrived safely!!!

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Haha just kidding, but I love that Disney does stuff like this it makes me so happy.

Oh yea, and just in case you were wondering…

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But really, don’t do it!!!

Shortly there after the train pulled up. I just think it awesome that it’s like sidways. I cant get over it haha

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Awww yea, ridding the sideways train

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Rafiki welcomed us to his planet watch and we were off

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So this is another thing that Andy had never done before. Man this kid is behind on all things Disney, it’s a good thing he’s got me to catch him up!!!

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I thought this sign was cute, it was in the room with all the frogs

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So we hung out there for about 20 minutes. As I recall we made a penny on the way out and we made our way back to the train just as it was pulling up. This sign was in front of us and it made me laugh…

Sit politely, I know the Animals are cute but don’t jump out and touch them!!! I guess it could also be love one another, even if you can’t stand each other that’s no reason to jump out of the train to get away from each other. Either way, I laughed.

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We made it back just in time to get our butts over to our lunch reservation



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Yak and or after the Yeti?
August 22, 2011

We made our way from the quaint little train ride to our dinning destination for the afternoon, which just so happened to be.

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We got there at 1:15 for our 1:30 reservation. We made a penny and decided to wait around and see if we could see Danielle and Adam, they had a reservation for 1:30 as well but we couldn’t sit together because they only had reservations available to sets of two on the website. We were basically seated right away and said hi/bye just as they walked in.

We were taken upstairs and seated right by the window. I must admit all of the tables we got on this trip were fabulous!!!

Here is Andy showing off our lovely view

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We looked over the menu but I really didn’t need to I came her for one reason only Lo Mein!!! Our waiter was SO nice and very efficient. I do think it’s kind of odd that Disney doesn’t run this place but they are inside of a park and accept the dinning plan. Oh well, I wasn’t complaining I had been wanting to try it for a while!!!

I ordered a Spirte and it came with the eco friendly paper straw of course!!! But the real point of this picture was to see the cool table

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We ordered and I anxiously awaited my delicious Lo Mein

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And then it arrived. It was literally a mountain of Lo Mein - lo mein noodles, carrots, cabbage, green onions and bean sprouts. Served with chicken $15.99. SO GOOD and I would have eaten it all too if I had a bigger stomach haha. The best part was the 8 million soy sauces they had on the table just waiting to be gobbled up and obviously when I say 8 million there were maybe 4 haha.

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Andy got Crispy Mahi Mahi - Filet of mahi mahi, Japanese bread crumbs, Cantonese sweet and sour sauce, jasmine rice and stir-fried veggies. - $20.99. He really liked it he just wish that he would have asked for the sauce on the side (as we all know from this report Andy is not an adventurous eater by any means so of course he didn’t like the sauce haha)

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Enjoying our delicious meal. Notice: Andy’s plate is half empty and even though I made a huge dent in my order you couldn’t tell, it still looked untouched.

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The mountain could not be conquered

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I am so ashamed

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But I had to save room for dessert!!! And since we were headed back to the room right afterwards I just got it to go

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(of course it made it all the way back to the room and sat in the fridge for the rest of the trip and remained unconquerable, there was just so much food this trip!!!)

Then Andy decided to be adventurous and eat a bean sprout!!!!
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Verdict….

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Bahahahaha, he was not a fan. At least he tried!!!

Then our dessert came out. This is another one of those things that I had to have. Of course everyone just goes there for the dumplings or whatever it is with the yogurt sauce but I was not about that. However I was all about the sorbet and since I was so full I was even more about a delicious and refreshing light dessert

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There was raspberry, lemon and mango. Next time I would ask for two of the raspberry and no mango. I really loved the coconut on the top. Yummm so cold and refreshing.

So we packed up and headed out. It was then that I realized we still had these to use

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I asked Andy if we could ride again but he was really full and afraid it would make him sick. I may or may not have made him feel guilty until he rode it with me.

Thank goodness we made it off sickness free!!!

We headed ALL THE WAY BACK to the bus stop, we made a quick stop in every place that had air conditioning along the way because it was to hot and sticky to breathe.

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We exited the park in hopes of hopping right onto an air conditioned bus but of course that didn’t happen, we waited around like 30 min- 45 min with a family of younger kids who were also melting in the heat.

When the bus finally arrived we hopped on it and headed back to Saratoga Springs, we planned on going swimming and waiting for Sam, Kc, Ma and Pa to get back from dancing to head out. But as soon as we got on the bus they started pumping that air-conditioning with the sleeping potion in it and Andy was out

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The heat and running and not sleeping apparently can really get to you!!! I must have fallen asleep shortly there after because I can remember being woken up by my camera flying off my lap and sliding across the floor of the bus.

So in the end rather than going swimming we decided to stay in the air coniditoned castle of a room and sleep for 45 minutes instead.



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Those Poor Kids
August 22, 2011

So while Andy and I were off enjoying the sweat Kingdom of Animals KC and Sam were off entertaining the people of Downtown Disney.

They walked to downtown Disney to get a bus to met the people from the studio at Port Orleans Riverside so that they could catch a bus… back to downtown Disney? Lol apparently before hand they did a brush up rehearsal.

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The bus had to take them to a certain spot in downtown Disney that Sam and KC apparently couldn’t get to unless they were on the bus which was another reason for them having to go meet up with the others.

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The chipper gang made it to the stage all in one piece are were excited to get going!!!

HI SAM!!!

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Mickey got all dresses up for the occasion

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So they started dancing!!!

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The studio has danced there I want to say 5 or 6 times. We use to dance in the Magic Kingdom and we were allowed to wear costumes. But the rules have changed a lot since then and they have a short time limit so they all just wear the same thing now.

But they seem to have a good time regardless

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And it seems like they had a pretty good turn out

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The poor kids must have been melting by the time they were done. I mean all Andy and I were doing was walking around but these kids were high energy moving around and going crazy. I give them credit. There a billion pictures from this but I figure I would just give you a little taste of what they did.


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I Guess There Is Some Sleeping In Disney...
August 22, 2011

After we awoke from our much needed nap, everyone was back at the room and getting ready to head back out for the evening.

We left the room at around 6 to head over to “Hollywood Studios” but not before we got some door pictures (haha apparently most of the trip we forgot to take them!!!)

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To the bus stop!!!

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What a massive resort, I couldn’t even tell you which patch of buildings we were haha

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When we arrived

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We went straight for the fastpass machines over by Tower of Terror. But of course they were broken!!!

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So Sam and I did a photo shoot with the gate. “Sam, look scared and terrified of the hotel”

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Shortly after one of the machines was fixed so we got out fastpasses from there while they took apart the other machine.

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Fastpasses in hand we were on our way in search of dinner.

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I feel like we literally just ate, but apparently its time once again to stuff our faces!!! Maybe this guy will give you a clue to where we ate dinner this night…

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Basically everyone got the same thing. Pepperoni pizza and a caesar salad and a cookie. They told us that they were out of Mickey rice crispies but some how Ma managed to get her hand on one. What a JIP!!!

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I was the only one to get a veggie pizza. Mmmm I want it right now. The salad and pizza combo, I don’t know who came up with it but THANK YOU!!! This is seriously the most delicious food you can get on Disney property haha but really!!!

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After dinner we decided since we were in the area that we would go see Muppet Vision 3-D!!! But not before getting a million pictures in front of that cute fountain

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I just love how the incorporate all of the muppety touches to this area

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Then it was time for the show so we headed in. Right after I said “Sam go make it look like the is grabbing your head!!!” Poor Sam, she is always the one I make do the silly things in photos

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Check it out 3-D action before we even get in to door!!!

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Hi there!!!

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When we got in we attempted to make our way all the way down the row, we are patriotic people, but the family in front of us decided to plop down right in the middle of the row. How unpatriotic!!! So joking Pa made a stink about it and said something a long the lines of “don’t you people listen? Move all the way down the row” they didn’t get up so all 8 of us basically crawled over their laps. I bet after that they wish that they would have moved!!!

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Of course the show was funny as always. But the Swedish Chef wasn’t making an appearance for some reason. So canon for them to shoot off but Statler and Waldorf still surrendered anyways. That was always one of my favorite parts on the vacation planning video from the 90’s.



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Trading Like Crazy!!!
August 22, 2011

So after we got out of the show we headed over to the Muppet store

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Where we all decided to trade our vinilimations. This is the one I got, kinda lame…

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And here are the whole lot of them

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We decided that our next stop would be

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Andy has never done this and I felt like he NEEDED TO!!!

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I wish that they still had this. When I was growing up I always wanted to be Disney’s next Annette Funcello

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I took this photo, I don’t really know if you cant tell what it is lol, because when I was younger I went to Disneyland and this was my FAVORTIE part of the entire place. I never actually got close to it I just remember seeing it from really far a way but my goal is to go back and see it up close!!!

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Dumbo<3

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I don’t really know why, but I have this new found love for Dumbo and I am sad that it will be closed on my next trip down because I was actually going to ride it!!!

For some reason I really want a tattoo of Walt’s signature, not sure where, I just want it lol

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This display case made me really sad. Lost EPCOT come back!!!

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Mickey sure has grown up over the years, look how different he looks!!!

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This is my dream vacation spot. Disneyland Paris, I must make it here at least once in my life

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So the movie wasn’t starting for a good 15-20 minutes and my impatient family couldn’t wait so we decided to skip it. How sad that made me cry more than the movie itself does. Oh well another thing to add to the list of things to do in March

From there we decided to go use our fastpasses and made our way back down Hollywood Blvd. I had to use the restroom so as everyone went into the villain store to trade vinilimations yet again I handed mine over to Andy. This is the one he got me… what bad luck!!!

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I needed to get rid of this as soon as possible because it creeped me out!!! I know I am suppose to feel sad for Big Baby but I couldn’t…

Sam got an agein

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Photo Opp in front of my favorite ride

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Watch out Disney World we are here!!!!

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Ahh I am so behind :headache: I miss disboards haha I need to catch up!

Oh my God Saratoga's pool :lovestruc I miss it so much. I haven't been there in forever!

I STILL haven't rode sum of all thrills yet! I need to get on that next time!

CORAL REEF YUM! Oh my God yayyy.

Ahh yay you have a tank side table! I have never sat at one before!

YUM THAT STEAK I WANT IT!

AHH CHOCOLATE WAVE I MISS THAT DESSERT. :love: I'm sorry you guys didn't love it :( Maybe we just got a really good batch or something I don't know.

AWW THEY GOT ENGAGED :love: How precious :)

ahhhh Pecos Bill! I need a burger from there. Right now. Ahh.

YAY FOR THE COLLEGE PROGRAM! Oh my God I'm so excited for you, you have no idea. I can't wait to hear all about it. I hope that the audition goes well... if they don't notice how amazing of a dancer you are there is going to be a BIG problem! But hey, the costuming would be AWESOME. Oh my gosh if I had the skill level I would dedicate my entire life to working for costuming at Disney. I saw the costume area on a tour a few years ago and I fell in LOVE. It the absolute coolest thing I have ever seen. And you get to work with DISNEY COSTUMES. It's ridiculously fantastic. So whatever ends up happening.... I'm sure you are going to have the greatest role ever!

Anyways.... I prefer SpectroMagic too. I heard they're bringing it back so I'm REALLY happy about that!

Magic Memories and You is my FAVORITE show. Oh my God. I have listened to the soundtrack WAYYY too many times.

Aww that's SO nice of you to give away your fastpasses. That probably saved them SO much frustration.

How do you even eat those jawbreakers!? hahaha
....Ahh you have pictures. Now I understand. Very nice trip reporting.

I can't believe they made you move! That's absolutely ridiculous! I would have been SO mad haha

Yay for lots of updates! I will try and keep up as much as I can! I think during our March break I am going to try and write a ton of updates so I can post them even when I'm super busy at school. I HAVE NO TIME.

The back car is definitely the best in Expedition Everest... I totally agree!

Haha good job on updating Andy on Disney! That's our job as the Disney obsessed girls! :laughing:

That Princess and the Frog sign is PERFECT. Love that.

YESSS YAK AND YETI! THE LO MEIN IS MY FAVORITE THING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. Oh my God. Ahhh. I am dying I miss Disney food SOOO much :(

sldsjkfhasldkjhvbkdzkljsn DISNEY PIZZA! :love:

EW BIG BABY! He creeps me out so much :laughing:

Ah sorry for my ridiculously long comment. But I loved the updates! I'm so glad I finally got to catch up!! I can't believe your trip is so soon!!! :banana:

[Hockeyfan17]

Hey Alicia, Thanks for the fantastic trip report. I am planning our first ever trip to WDW this August, and reading some trip reports has helped me plan, but even more so, made me really excited to go. I am taking my family, DW, and two DD's (4 and 7). We are staying at POR in a Royal Room August 21-28. Your TR for August was great, because I was hoping to get some perspective on what it was like at WDW in late August. We are from Southern Ontario, and will be flying Southwest out of Buffalo, like yourselves.

Also, congratulations on the Disney College Program. That sounds like a lot of fun. All the best for your next trip, and I will look for the report when you return. Cheers.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

YAY FOR THE COLLEGE PROGRAM! Oh my God I'm so excited for you, you have no idea. I can't wait to hear all about it. I hope that the audition goes well... if they don't notice how amazing of a dancer you are there is going to be a BIG problem! But hey, the costuming would be AWESOME. Oh my gosh if I had the skill level I would dedicate my entire life to working for costuming at Disney. I saw the costume area on a tour a few years ago and I fell in LOVE. It the absolute coolest thing I have ever seen. And you get to work with DISNEY COSTUMES. It's ridiculously fantastic. So whatever ends up happening.... I'm sure you are going to have the greatest role ever!



Thank you!!! I AM SO EXICTED :scared1: Thanks for the good luck at the audition, I can't wait for that part. I know it's hard to get into entertainment through the college program so I'm not getting my hopes too high. I am just so thankful to get to go down and get my foot in the door!!!

Hey Alicia, Thanks for the fantastic trip report. I am planning our first ever trip to WDW this August, and reading some trip reports has helped me plan, but even more so, made me really excited to go. I am taking my family, DW, and two DD's (4 and 7). We are staying at POR in a Royal Room August 21-28. Your TR for August was great, because I was hoping to get some perspective on what it was like at WDW in late August. We are from Southern Ontario, and will be flying Southwest out of Buffalo, like yourselves.

Also, congratulations on the Disney College Program. That sounds like a lot of fun. All the best for your next trip, and I will look for the report when you return. Cheers.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! If you have any question feel free to ask. POR is AMAZING, that's where we have stayed on our two previous trips. I love that resort and would live there if I could and I'm sure the royal room will only make it even more magical!!! n ething I can tell you for sure is it will be HOTTT :lmao: we were literally melting the entire time, thank goodness for mickey ice cream bars and air conditioning. I'm so glad that my report can help you out a little. Thanks for reading along :goodvibes

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

You Are Stuck In The Twilight Zone!!!
August 22, 2011

As we made our way down Hollywood Blvd. we approached the Hollywood Tower hotel and jumped in line.

I’m not sure if this is Andy trying to give his best impression of the creepy cast members or what but that’s what I am going to assume it is.

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Sam was kissing ghosts

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Andy and I were just taking we are so happy in Disney photos haha

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We made our way through the library and into the long line in the basement. LONG line so sam decided to do some hair braiding

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After we were done dropping 13 stories we headed over to Rock n’ Rolletcoaster. The wait time was very deceiving. It said like 45 minutes but it ended up being like an hour and a half. So obviously we had to…

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But then they finished before they even made it into the building

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After that long wait the parents decided to ditch us and once again it was Andy, Sam, KC and myself left to roam. We headed over to Toy Story Mania to try our luck at it.

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Someone’s getting sleepy

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Bullseye

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I loved this game when I was younger

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We made it to our car and it was MY FAVORITE TOY STORY CHARCATER!!!!

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She is perfect. I can’t wait for m March trip, I hope we get to stay in the toy story section. Either way I am getting my picture with her. Am keeps telling me “they took her down to repaint her”. I would seriously cry.

And the scores
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I’m pretty sure Andy won, he always does… haha

We made our way back to ride Tower of Terror one more time for this trip. First a few pictures of use with light up things and the big hat!!!

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We checked in one final time, but little did we know this time we would be checking in for longer than expected.

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We made our way through the line and in the basement Sam took these photos which I keep meaning to like edit and put together but don’t have time to do haha

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So we got on the ride and we were going through all fine and then all of a sudden the ride stopped. Right after the floor where you see the ghosts and they welcome you/tell you to get out and we just stopped. It was pitch black and people we like “WHAT?!?” we sat in the dark for about 3 or 4 minute and thought we were going to die. Then the lights came on and someone from the control booth started to talk to us, they told us how they could see us through a camera in the upper corner of the elevator, so we waved to them and asked what was happening… apparently their camera didn’t have speakers because they just kept saying we will fix the ride momentarily. The people sitting behind us were so funny!!! After about 10 minutes we started going back down, they tried to unloaded us from the elevator but the seat belts wouldn’t unlock so we were stuck a little longer. We finally got out

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This is Sam being happy to still be alive and on the ground. While we were in there we kept joking that the elevator was going to drop and there were some people who were in there riding for the first time that thought we were serious. I think it would have been cool to be evacuated from the ride but they brought us down and put us on a different elevator.

So needless to say it was a very eventful last ride on the Tower of Terror.

We exited the park stopping for popcorn for Andy and I FINALLY got my mint chocolate fudge which was delicious.


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Its All Pure Magic Wrapped Up in Pixie Dust
August 23, 2011

So the next morning the Alarm went off at 6:30 for our last park day ): It’s always a sad day when you realize your trip is coming to an end. But we weren’t going to let it get us down!!! We had too much to get done. So we were out of the room ad on a bus by 7:30 to make it to our first Magic Kingdom rope drop.

We arrived at the park at 7:46 exactly. We made it through the baggage claim and trough the turnstiles JUST as the park opening music started.

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But really I would not have a problem being one of the trolley people for the rest of my life. Getting to open the Magic Kingdom EVERDAY what a life.

We watched the show and it was just so magical then everyone started squeezing through the archways into the park. It was time to

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Mary Poppins I love you!!!

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There were people EVERYWHERE.

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Our first order of business was to head over to Tomorrowland and get fastpasses for our last rounds on Space Mountain. From there we headed over to the Indie Speedway.

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I haven’t been on this in forever I feel like

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Andy loves driving fast/race cars. To bad these cars got like .5 miles per hour haha

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Sam was just chugging a long behind us

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From here we decided to knock out all of the Fantasyland rides before the crowds got there. What better place to start than

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Zero wait. They were basically just waiting on us to ride.

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I love how these next two photos came out

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That last photos makes me sad. I look so tan. Unfortunately when I go down in March I will be loading up on sunscreen because the show I am in this semester the director sent us an email saying we need to be as pale as possible to fit the time period… BOO!!!

Our next stop was

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Andy’s dad calls him Roo so anytime I see these two I always think of that

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After years of knowing but never seeing I finally witnessed with my own two eyes they picture in owl’s house of Mr. Toad handing over the deed to the ride to owl

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Oh how I miss Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride although that is the ride that gave me my irrational fear of weasel’s haha

Up next

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We were really knocking these rides off quickly there was basically no one around, Anyways my next question is… Does it bother anyone else that Wendy is the only one on this ride that wears actual clothing? Or am I just the only one who notices it?

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Ariel wanna be

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I was tigerlilly in 7th grade so I automatically just love her. Although here her eyes are really creepy.

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Another shot of Wendy being the only one without painted on clothes

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After that we tried to make it on Haunted Mansion but we didn’t realize that Frontierland didn’t open until later. We waited the 15 minutes until they dropped the rope and just as we were about to het in line for Haunted Manison they told us it was broken. Sam and KC had to get to the picture taking spot (the dance studio was having a group shot taken in front of the castle) So we decided not to venture to far. So we headed to Sleepy Hallow and got a funnel cake

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While we were eating Andy made a friend. He wanted so badly for the little bird to come and eat out of his hand but the bird kept his distance.

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As we were leaving we saw the stepsisters who sam really wanted to meet

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but the line was so long. I asked if he wanted to wait and she said no because she had to get to the picture meeting place so we decided this picture would work well enough. Smile…

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We split up. The headed to the rose garden and we hung out in front of the castle until we could get new fastpasses.



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Now It’s Time To Say Goodbye…
August 23, 2010

So while Andy and I waited to get new fastpasses we decided to have some fun in front of the castle.

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So when it was time to get more fastpasses we headed over to Splash Mountain. On the way there we stopped in one of the stores to trade my vinilimation (remember I still had “big baby”)

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The lady was actually really sad that I gave up Big Baby she said “no one ever wants to keep this poor thing, there are like three of them in this box” which honestly made me a little sad but didn’t make me sad enough to keep it haha

We headed over to Splash got the fastpasses and still had some time until we were to meet up with Sam and KC so we hid out in the Splash Mountain gift shop and sucked up some of the air conditioning.

We got the text from Sam and we were headed back over to Tomorrowland to use these guys

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We decided it was so fun that we would jump in the stand by line and when we were done with that we could get more fastpasses so we grabbed one more round for Space Mountain.

After a thrilling ride through inner space we headed back over to Frontierland to ride Splash Mountain with these

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On a hot day like this all I wanted was to get soaked

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We did so much back and forth walking on this day. Next we were off to Haunted Mansion to walk through the new queue.

I don’t really get what these two have to do with the ride but I would love to learn more about them. They are so intriguing.

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I tried to get a picture of her eyes. Didn’t work.

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We were off once again to the other side of the park. But not before we traded our vinilimations (for me my last trade)

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Sam got Marie, which she probably would have stayed with had the back not been so scratched up and gross

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I got Dodger. The one that I saw online before we left, the one that made me get into trading these things, the one that I had my heart set on finding

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He to this day sits happily on the counter in my kitchen. Which makes me wonder who had this before I did. How many people just passed him a long. Kind of sad. But it makes me happy that I ended up with him. So that end’s my vinilimation trading for this trip. But no worries I already have a new one for my March trip.

Continuing on to Tomorrowlad and Space Mountain

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After the ride we were starved after all, all we had had to eat was some funnel cake. So we headed to Cosmic Rays, a lunch I had been looking forward to for a long time!!!

I gave everyone my spare change so that we could get Mickey straws.

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Here is Andy’s and mine’s tray . ½ rotisserie chicken and a Philly cheese steak. Andy was kind enough to get the carrot cake for Pa and I got chocolate gelato. Which Sam and KC didn’t know was an option and were bummed that they didn’t get but it basically ended up melting before I ate it anyways. As for the philly cheese steak it was DISGUSTING and I would never get it again!!! I wish I had gotten chicken fingers. I ended up eating like half of it and then eating a container of pickles.

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Sam and KC both made the right choice. Chicken nuggets and chocolate cake.

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We decided to head out. Saying goodbye to the Magic Kingdom is SO SAD.

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One last shot of the castle

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and then of course Minnie and Roy. I wanted to sit with them but the bench was SO HOT you could have cooked and egg on it.

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And then it was See Ya Real Soon Magic Kingdom…

Kind of heart breaking



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Open Up Your Heart and Let the Memories Begin
August 23, 2011

So after waiting 8 years we finally caught a bus back to the hotel. Once we got back we decided to go for a quick swim!!! It was really fun, they had a dance pool party and a drenched t-shirt relay race. The sky began to look like it was going to open up and we were getting sleepy so we headed back to the room. Drowned rats.

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We got back to the room and it started to pour

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Perfect time to take a nap!!!

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So I got up before everyone because I wanted to get all showered and ready for dinner than night at my favorite place in all of Disney!!! Well, that and Sam and Andy LOVE sleeping for as long as possible.

So we were all just about ready to go. Sam was sporting her new Tiana skirt that she bought.

I did photo tour of the castle and got this shot. Look at how giant that window is!!!

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Door Pictures, we clean up pretty nicely if I do say so myself.

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Sam’s and KC’s is a little blurry. But you get the picture

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So the four of us were off to EPCOT for a splendid dinner. One of our must returns after last trip. Gobbled that food up, more on the later!!!

When we arrived it was just barely drizzling, all that work on curling my hair and the humidity basically killed it… haha

Anyways, we had a while until our reservation so we decided to hop on Spaceship Earth. Haha those photos always make me laugh

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So from there we headed over to dinner. I WAS STARVING!!! Basically I went into beast mode and was on a mission to get me some of my favorite dinner in Disney.

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But not before our annual photo opp…

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AND THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


















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HOLY MOLY I ALMOST DIED!!!!!!!!!!

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But really, Sam still makes fun of me for the stupidity that came out of my mouth

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I was literally the luckiest girl in “the world” that night and I still am. Andy is perfect and I cannot wait to start our lives together (after he graduates of course, so we are looking at 2-3years).

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So we got inside and I had to call EVERYONE!!! Aka Ma, My grandmother and my best friend Julie. While I freaked out for 8 years Andy went and checked us in.

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SO AFTER ALL THAT EXCITENT, I was so worked up I hardly ate anything… me the one who was so hungry and couldn’t wait to get into the restaurant didn’t eat half of my food and I didn’t order a dessert. BUT I did get pictures of everything and we will be returning in about 10 days to eat the delicious meal I missed out on!!!

Just like last time we all got Pollo a las Rajas - Grilled chicken breast served over red peppers, onions, chile poblano, chorizo (Mexican sausage) and melted cheese

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Literally this is the best richest creamiest mouth watering chicken you will ever eat. The photo always makes me laugh because after our first time there we looked through photos and Sam looked at it and said “I ATE GREEN RICE?!?”. It is so dark in there we didn’t know what was on our plates but we always chow it down. It is also a HUGE portion. Mmmmmmm, I cannot wait until we meet again plate of deliciousness.

So desserts came out

Andy got some regular vanilla ice cream with caramel swirls, I think I ate 75% of it, usually I hate caramel but I was all about this. They put candles in it and said sorry that they didn’t have an engagement song to sing to us.

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The other two I don’t know what they are because all of the dessert on the online menus are no help but here are some pictures anyways.

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Awww congratulations! :bride::groom:

I really enjoyed reading your trip report.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Awww congratulations! :bride::groom:

I really enjoyed reading your trip report.

Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you enjoyed reading along :yay:

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Well This Is A Lame Night!!!
August 23, 2011

Going back in time for the last time. Really quickly. Ma and Pa had gone on a date to Kona Café. I’m not sure what they ate, but if I recall correctly they weren’t as pleased with it as they thought they might have been but it was still good?... just not the best. Don’t quote me on it though.

So some pictures of the happy couple (enjoying some tropical drinks)

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And now for some food!!!

Steak of some sort?

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Another drink?!?

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They weren’t so good at food pictures because they went right into dessert haha

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This must have been what my mother said she wasn’t a fan of because she only ate half of it…

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So jumping to the future, which in this case is in the past because this trip report is taking me 8 years to get done!!!

Incase you got lost, we are back in EPCOT, Ma and Pa arrived there just as we were getting out dessert (or special ice cream with candles)

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I actually really love this photo, but it makes us look like babies. Or maybe we just look like babies in real life. But I am 22!!! Maybe that baby face will come in handy later on down the line when I am an old lady.

Anyways!!!

So we went outside and waited for Danielle and Adam to arrive. While we were waiting we headed over to Norway. I was freezing!!! I ran to use the bathroom and when I got back we hopped in line for Maelstrom.

Even though his picture is completely blurry I think it captures our peronalities perfectly

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Then Danielle found out that we had just gotten engaged as well. So we took a sister picture. YAY DISNEY ENGAGEMENTS!!!

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So after an amazing ride through Norway and a lack of movie we exited, my parent bought some more drinks and while they were stopped I saw that they had VOSS water, which you can get in groceries stores here in NY but Andy refuses to let me buy it because it’s like $7 a bottle. SO I used my snack credit for the day on it, I had been stock piling them the entire and since it was the last night I figured why not!!!

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Such a good decision!!! It was like straight from the heavens, ice cold and perfect. And I was in Norway drinking it to even better!!!

This is where I am a slight mistake. We were all really tired and for some reason freezing, that cold rain and my dress and air conditioning were not doing so well for us so we decided to head out early. Mind you it was like 10 or 10:30 and the park was open late for extra magic hours which we had originally planned on staying for but we decided to head out early. Or last night in Disney and we were calling it a night really early!!!

So then I said something a long the lines of “what a lame night!!!” and everyone started laughing and said “Hey now Andy tried really hard” and of course I have yet to live it down and apparently the night we got engaged will always be “a lame night” haha.

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So we headed back to the room. When we got back to the room Andy and I decided to walk over to Downtown Disney and see what was still open. We stopped in the design a tee store and made shirts but they weren’t going to be ready until the next morning.

I got back to the room and decided to take pictures of my pretty new bling. Literally he could not have done a better job!!! Emerald cut Amethyst is what I have always wanted/told him (for some reason I am not a huge fan of diamonds but I do LOVE purple)

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And one more. I took this in the sunlight because it sparkles so beautifully

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That’s enough of ring pictures now. So we came back and finished up the sad task of packing to go home the next day ):

Ending on a happier note though

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[Harters2WDW]

Lurker here....love the TR!! I hope my DDs still want to travel to WDW with us as they grow up! Congrats on the incredible proposal! You are all too adorable! :goodvibes

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Lurker here....love the TR!! I hope my DDs still want to travel to WDW with us as they grow up! Congrats on the incredible proposal! You are all too adorable! :goodvibes

Thank you :lovestruc and thank you for joining in!!! If your kids are anything like the children in my family they will be sad when they have to go to Disney without you!!! I just got back from a trip (first one without my parents/siblings) and let me tell you it was almost as sad leaving them behind as it was leaving Disney on the last day of the trip.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Hello... if there is anyone still there... I am back!!! I hope that haven't lost to many readers. Life has been crazy andI can't believe it's been over a month since I last updated this. So much has happened another trip, my entertainment audition, rehearsals for my musical. AHHHHH :scared1: hopefully I can update more regularly now. But I have a quick update for you all tonight!!!

Also I have started another trip report and it's located here incase you are interested:

We loved it so much WE HAD TO GO BACK!!!
A Spontaneous Spring Break Trip Report (http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2892760)

Hope you enjoy and I'm so sorry to keep you waiting!!!


Last Day To Play!!!
August 24, 2011

It’s always a sad day when you wake up and it’s almost time to go home. But knowing that we still had almost one full day left ahead of us we were wake at around 8:15 and reluctantly started the day.

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Everyone showered and finished packing. I took one last look out at our lovely view.

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We finished packing and we headed over to downtown Disney to pick up the shirts that we had ordered the night before. Ma and Pa stayed behind to check the luggage for the plan ride later that night.

It’s our last day but we’re going to make the most of it!!!

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I had to get photos of everything between our room and the design a t store. Including this cute light cover. All the little finishing touches Disney put on everything are just perfect!!!

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Everyone stand on the front lawn for one more amazing picture of the view

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The sun is shining not a cloud in the sky and we are still in Disney, enjoy it while we can!!!

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Ok so maybe we don’t enjoy it all that much.

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Catching some last minute lizards

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Our castle in the sky. Seriously the weather could not have been more perfect on our last day

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The walkway from our resort to down town Disney was so quiet, peaceful and short

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We picked up our t-shirts and we headed over to Goofy’s Candy Company to wait for everyone to meet up and get on a bus to our 11am breakfast reservations at 1900 Park Fare

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Disney rice crispies are seriously unlike any other. I wonder what the secret is to making them so irresistible.

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Andy and I went to put our shirts on while Sam and Kc played in the water.

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Then I got a call from Ma saying that they were still waiting on the bellhop to come get the bags to send our bags a head. So we stayed there and played a while longer

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We got another call shortly after saying that when the bellhop finally got there he told them that all the people in the party had to be present with photo IDs in order to check the luggage. So they told us we would have to allow time in our schedule later to make sure everything was taken care of and that they would get to the bus stop as quickly as they could.

We got in line for the bus at 9:55 so that we would have plenty of time to make it to the Grand Floridian by 11. We enjoyed a nice relaxing sit at the bus stop

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It was all going well, we were as happy as we could be for it being our last day. One last family meal before we were off and incase I didn’t mention we were going to the 1900 Park Fare Breakfast!!! Couldn’t wait to get Mickey Waffles and try out a new place.

Happy Happy Happy. Engaged and wearing cute shirts. What a great day!!!

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So we waited

And we waited.

Danielle and Adam had called and let us know that they got there and checked us in for our reservation and asked us to hurry

And we waited some more

And then it was 10:55 still no bus with a half an hour ride to get to the restaurant. It was then that we realized that we wouldn’t be eating Mickey waffles that morning…

Danielle called us to let us know that if we hurried we could still make it, they stopped serving breakfast at 11:30!!! To bad it wasn’t that simple there still wasn’t a bus there to take us. An hour had passed and not one single Grand Floridian bus came by actually none of the buses from the monorail loop had come during that hour or else we would have gotten on one of those and taken the monorail.

Well tension was running high since we had gotten up so that we could have one last delicious meal together. All I wanted was a bagel. So my father talked to one of the transportation people who was standing nearby and they said there was nothing they could do for us. Which they thought was funny because on one of the first days there they were at Blizzard Beach and they had waited so long that a special van came to pick them up.

Oh well, so we were all really crabby because we had been looking forward to breakfast and it wasn’t going to happen. So what did we decide to do instead? Go shop of course!!!

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Of course since we were having a bad day we had to buy some ice cream to make ourselves feel a little less sad.

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And let me tell you it made us a little happier so I guess it worked.

From there we decided to walk back to Saratoga Springs and see if there was anything that they could do for us over there.

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Here we go…

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Oh yea and then I spilled ice cream on my new shirt and it stained. But that would be the least of our worries for they rest of the day. Whatever do I mean?


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[NoOrdinaryPrincess]

Just read your entire TR!! COngrats on getting engaged! Are you planning a DFTW?

[Windsor Princesses]

Thpose shirts are so cute! What was the store called in DTD that you got them made at?

[Muslickz]

OMG you make me want to go see Winnie the Pooh or Peter Pan right now.... and lets not talk about the funnel cake.... mmmmm awesome lol

-M

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Just read your entire TR!! COngrats on getting engaged! Are you planning a DFTW?

Oh wow!!! Thats a lot of reading haha. Thanks you so much for the congrats!!! I hope you enjoyed reading :)

Thpose shirts are so cute! What was the store called in DTD that you got them made at?

Thank you!!! I believe it was called the Design-A-Tee store. It's connected to the scrap booking/mickey ear store. They were so much fun to make. Tons of colors and clip art.

OMG you make me want to go see Winnie the Pooh or Peter Pan right now.... and lets not talk about the funnel cake.... mmmmm awesome lol

-M

Haha disney movies are the best!!! There's never a wrong time to watch one. And Disney Food in General, but the funnel cake :lovestruc

[Disneyfreak508]

I realized I never finished reading this trip report! That needs to be changed.

Okay, you and Andy in your Mickey ears is probably the cutest thing I have ever seen. You guys melt my heart. SO CUTE :lovestruc

You're making me consider the whole vinylmation thing. I don't know. I'm a little hesitant but it looks kind of fun...

I love your big family. I feel like it would be so much fun to go to Disney with that many people - especially since you guys all love it so much! :goodvibes

I WANT TO BE A TROLLEY PERSON TOO! That literally is my dream job. That or being Belle in Beauty and The Beast Live on Stage. Either of those would be beyond perfect.

LOL I wonder why nobody wants to keep big baby... IT'S FREAKIN' CREEPY THAT'S WHY, LADY :lmao:

Aww that picture with you, Roy and Minnie is adorable!

YAYYY HE PROPOSED! :goodvibes How magical! What was the thought process behind choosing the location? I love to know details! :goodvibes

WOW your ring is BEAUTIFUL! Such a pretty color! :lovestruc

Your shirts are PERFECT! I love them!

OH NO! I'm so sorry you missed your breakfast reservation. That's awful! :(

[Jazzabelle508]

I know i am a little late here but I'm in :) So cute that both you and your sister got engaged in disney! That must have been so much fun! Love the shirts you guys made as well!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

I'm back from a long hiatus. Sorry for the lack of updates. But I am officially a graduate and have nothing really to do with my life until August so hopefully I will be able to update this far more and get it over with. We are so close to the end.

Not What We Expected But Still Good
August 24, 2012

When we last left off we received the bad news that there would be no Mickey waffles and Strawberry soup in our near future, which stinks because that was the meal I was most looking forward to.

So, we stopped and got ice cream and walked back to Saratoga Springs to see where to go from there. Ma and Pa went to the front desk to talk to someone about making new reservations.

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They explain our predicament to the people at the front desk and they felt so bad that they offered to call any place that we wanted to eat and see if they could get us in. Cool, only problem is the place we wanted to eat has no availability and we couldn’t go into a park because we had no passes so our options we limited.

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They finally found an opening at Olivia’s which is at Old Key West (the place where we were originally going to stay!!!) I checked out the menu on my undercover tourist iphone app and the food didn’t really interest any of us. So the pain in the butts that we are asked to be switched, we ended up deciding on Trails End Buffet mainly because I really wanted mac and cheese.

They were nice enough to call over there and say they squeezed us in “not many openings” and that they called a cab for us so that we could be there as soon as possible and to top it off they were giving us cab vouchers so we didn’t have to pay for it. AWESOME. No more waiting for a bus.

So we took a seat in the lobby and waited for the cabs to arrive

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The taxi’s showed up and took us right to the check in building little did we know we had to get on a bus to take us back to the restaurant. So we waited inside the lobby cabin while we waited for the other 4 to arrive (we had to take 2 taxi vans because we all wouldn’t fit in one). When they got there we walked to the bus stop and enjoyed the fresh air and perfection that is fort wilderness.

Tri-Circle Ranch, how stinkin’ clever!!!

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We use to stay here when we were little. I remember loving it and the bunk beds that they have in the cabins. This was the stop that made me so excited to have kids and bring them to Disney. So many fabulous memories!!!

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Before we knew it the bus showed up and we were on our way to stuff our faces one last time.

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The goodness of a buffet was calling!!! When we walked in there was LITERALLY no one there. We had the place all to ourselves after the people at SSS said that they managed to squeeze us in haha. Upon entering the restaurant we were faced with the sad reality that only breakfast and dinner were buffets. Oh well gimmie FOOD!!!

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Now for some major food pictures since there we 8 of us eating there we tons of options selected.

Let’s start with me because I remember what I got…

Barbecue Pulled Pork - with corn-bacon coleslaw, picked green tomatoes, and house-made potato chips served on a toasted butter roll. IT WAS SOOOOO GOOOOD. Usually I would just say that it was because I was starving but no, it was perfect and delicious. When it first came out I thought it wouldn’t be enough but I didn’t even end up finishing it.

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Adam, Sam and KC both got the

Angus Chuck Bacon Cheeseburger topped with bacon, cheddar, lettuce, and tomato served with sweet potato fries. Sam doesn’t even remember eating it so I guess it’s nothing to write home about.

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Andy decided on

Fried Chicken and Waffles - served with rosemary maple syrup and butter. I thought it said chicken and waffle fries so I was really surprised when it was actual waffles. He really liked it but once again the portion was too huge to finish, he did his best to make a dent in it.

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I am assuming that this plate belongs to Ma because whenever she sees sweet potatoes fries on the menu she HAS to get them. It looks to me like this was

Chicken Waldorf Salad Sandwich - with cranberries, grapes, apples, and walnuts on toasted multigrain bread served with house-made potato chips

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I have no idea what this is and the menu doesn’t have anything like rib sandwich, I think it’s Danielle and the only reason I say that is because of the shirt in the background of the picture.

So… mystery sandwich

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And last but not least Pa

Spicy Grilled Shrimp and Andouille Sausage - served over cheese grits with red-eye gravy.

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Yum Yum, stuff my face

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Slowing down and getting full… (That’s an Alicia face if I have ever seen one)

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After that beautiful face it came time to order dessert. Which half of us skipped. Having skipped it the night before I was determined to force down at least a little dessert.

I decided to try my hand at

Wilderness S'more - dark chocolate mousse layered with graham crackers and topped with toasted marshmallows, and drizzled with chocolate sauce. Holy guacamole was it good. I wish I had saved more room. Delicious, light and rich mousse ugh I want some right now!!!

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I think Sam KC and Adam got this as well.

Ma got hers to go (which she regretted, she didn’t think about it being sorbet and being in hot Florida. Melty and soupy so she the tried to stuff it down before we left.)

Angel Food Cake - with fresh berries and raspberry sorbet, a no-sugar added dessert

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I believe that this was either Pa’s or Danielle’s

Warm Sticky Bun Sundae - warm pecan sticky bun layered with vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, and whipped cream

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We chomped away at dessert and had to get a move on because we were headed back to Downtown Disney to spend the rest of our hard earned cash.

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so close…

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We made a quick pit stop and took some more pictures while we waited for everyone to waddle outside

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I had to go see my favorite part of Fort Wilderness which is…

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Doesn’t look like much but ever since I was a kid I have been AMAZED by this story.

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The tree ate the lawn mower!!! Ahhhh, that’s crazy. I still don’t get how it happened but I am completely amazed by it.

Stuffed full and ready to pop we decided to waddle over to the bus stop to get back to the front of the resort.

Or so we thought...

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[Grumpy's Wife]

I've never eaten at Trail's End but have stayed at Fort Wilderness once. It's so peaceful and beautiful there. All the food pictures look delicious, hard to choose. Maybe worth a try on my next trip.

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

I've never eaten at Trail's End but have stayed at Fort Wilderness once. It's so peaceful and beautiful there. All the food pictures look delicious, hard to choose. Maybe worth a try on my next trip.

We never had either but let me tell you it was SO GOOD. When I was writing this update I kept thinking to myself I have never really heard this place talked about all that much. I would totally recommend it!!! I love everything about Fort Wilderness. It makes me sad that our family has exceeded the maximum occupancy for the cabins because I know we would go back there every time if we hadn't.

[jwgm2012]

Just found your TR and am all caught up! Congrats on all the "real" life happenings... thanks for the entertaining read!

gina

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

So I decided to do a little life update because I have been gone for so long and SO MUCH has happened.

I’ll start with Little Women. When I was about half way through my first trip report I was going through the audition process at school and praying that I would be cast in the Spring production of Little Women. When I started the second one I had been cast and that was the main reason for falling so behind in the two reports was the rehearsal process/run of the show.

So here are just a few pictures from the production.

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All those piano lessons (haha the two of them) really paid off!!!

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Act Two:

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That musical was THE BEST experience of my life. I met and made so many new friends. I literally just cried the entire last few days of the run. My family in the show got as close as real family. Ugh I miss it and them so much. I’m so glad that I got the experience.

Since it was the big “Gala” musical of the year they had a big happy party for the big spenders. These are the March Sisters all dresses up and pretty.

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From there we move to the end of the year theatre banquet. It’s basically prom in college.

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Fellow Diser Jess !!!

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The we moved into Senior Week. The Theatre department did our own special celebrating by going to a classmate’s beach house. When we got there me and my friend Sean we like “Jess lives around here somewhere!!!”. Little did we know she lived right down the street and she was celebrating her birthday. She invited us over to have some DELICIOUS cake.

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Her and Kristen we getting really excited for their upcoming trip.

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Which brings me to graduation.

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Of course I had to add a special Disney touch since I am moving there in August!!! I wanted to write I’m going to Disney World but I thought I might get in trouble for that so I stuck with a “hidden” mickey.

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Holy cow have the past 4 years flown!!! I can hardly believe that it’s been that long.

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That about wraps up my senior year of college. Moving to Disney in about 90 or so days!!! But honestly I just couldn’t wait that long to go back so…



I’M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD… AGAIN!!!

I could hardly believe it. I was just there in March and before that August but I NEED TO GO BACK and I just graduated so what better way to celebrate? We literally just booked everything yesterday and we will be going May 26th-30th. Just a short quick spontaneous trip thanks to my friend Bobby who got us AMAZING discounts for being a cast member.

So it will be Andy, myself, Sam and her best friend Brittany. Staying at the All Star Movies kind of winging it as we go. I can’t believe I am going back. AHHHHHH I am so grateful.

That’s it for life, as of right now. I am going to try to get another trip update in soon and before I know it I will have another trip report to write up. Hope everyone follows along with that one too!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

And They Went Weah Weah Weaaaaah, All The Way Home
August 24, 2012

When I last left off we were just about to enjoy what we all thought would be a leisurely stroll back to the bus stop of Fort Wilderness Campground. It did not turn out that way at all…

Just as we were rounding the corner we saw that a bus was at the bus stop and we were sure how often they came around so the race was on, except we were all so stuffed and it was so hot that none of us wanted to run. Luckily Adam picked up our slack ran ahead and asked the bus to wait so we made it with no major trouble.

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Full stuffed and cheerful

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So we got off that bus at the main bus stop and decided that since we had some time left we would spend the remainder of our day shopping around at Downtown Disney.

But as luck would have it the buses REALLY DIDN’T like us that day. AT ALL!!! We waited and waited and waited. We were just about to use the other two taxi vouchers that the front desk gave us when a bus pulled up and we jumped on it.

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If I recall correctly we had about an hour and a half to spend once we arrived. The game plan: Go buy last minute items, head to Goofy’s Candy Co. to use up all the snack credits and then head to Earl of Sandwich for some on the run dinner. OK BREAK.

The thing is we arrived and it started to downpour and boy do I mean DOWNPOUR!!! Before we knew it everyone was scattered around world of Disney snagging things and going absolutely crazy, we don’t do well with time constraints apparently. My last minute items consisted of these cute pens

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And some Mickey Rain boots. I AM OBSESSED with rain boots. My freshman year of college I got a pair for Christmas and when I wore them around everyone laughed at me now they are a hug fashion thing so HA!!! To all those people who laughed at me. But since when I have gone through 3 pairs of them because I wear them so often the rubber wears out and they get holes in them.

And bought some last minute items for his family and we took Sam to get chased out. From there we realized that we have maybe 20-30 minutes at most to make it back to the resort in time to catch the Magical Express.

Great just what we need more stress. Thunder and lighting crashing, buckets of water coming down, shopping bags in hand Sam, Andy and I try to make a game plan but Ma books it out the door and says “Meet you later” What the heck?!? Next thing I now EVERYONE is gone so I call Pa and he says he is already at Earl’s with KC but they have no idea where Danielle and Adam are.

So we split up. Sam and I to Goofy’s too get snacks and Andy took our lunch orders and went to meet Pa and KC and Earl’s.

We spend all our snack credits without almost any trouble. It’s funny how you can spend your entire trip making a list of all the things you want but then when it comes down to crunch time you become the most indecisive person EVER, well maybe that’s just me.

I picked up

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And got Andy one of the lollypops because he is huge on pure sugar things.

We spent all the snacks just as the boys arrived with the food.

They had successfully spent all of the quick service credits except one. They also just decide to skip on half the drinks for the meals they did use because they had no way of carrying all the cups. Keep in mind we still had no idea where Danielle and Adam were…

There was no time to waste so we set out in the rain to the bus but then we remembered the bus would first stop at the other end of Downtown Disney and the possibly a water park so we passed.

Unfortunately that meant trekking all the way back to the springs section of the resort. The walk from Congress Park to DtD was short but the walk to the springs was probably like 15-20 minutes. But we really had no choice we had to make it back to catch the bus to the airport.

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I literally cried the entire walk back. I was cold and sticky and wet and my bags we heavy… Happy Last day in Disney. We should have taken this as a sign to just not leave!!! But nope our sad wet bodies waited for the sad bus to come get us.

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We made it back with maybe 10 minutes to spare but there was still no sign of Danielle and Adam…

We all tried calling her but she didn’t answer. Called Adam and he didn’t answer either. Magical Express came and Magical Express went we didn’t get on it. Yep that’s right, we missed the bus to the airport!!! Oh darn too bad.

So we asked and luckily there was another bus coming within a half an hour and they told us there was room on that one. So, sadly we would be going home anyways. All that was left to do was wait it out. I really enjoy this one because you can see the downpour in the background

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Wet rats!!! Oh I’m sorry Mice.

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We still had no idea where the other two were and this caused quite the hubbub amongst the family. So I went in to try to come out my drown rat hair, Ma ran in to use up the last quick service meal.

While we were inside a lady saw Mine and Andy’s Just Engaged Buttons and Gave us each a free Disney pin from her lanyard. Picked a monorail pin (which later fell off while I was at school last semester) and Andy picked an Aladdin pin

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After a little waiting finally Danielle and Adam showed up. Apparently they decided they didn’t want to stick to the game plan of a quick lunch from Earl of Sandwich so they decided to go to Wolfgang Puck Express. At this point it was one of those Are you Kidding me?!? Moments. And then they told us how “it was raining to hard for them to walk back” so they hopped on a bus. Which took them to the other end of DtD or something like that. EVERYONE was crabby and it was raining and we were leaving. NOT A GOOD DAY…

We tried to get happy

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But we were leaving Disney so all those smiles were lies!!!

We did however had bags full of Earl of Sandwich so that made the day a little brighter

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And I had Mickey rain boots so it was even better

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And before we knew it the sad bus arrived and we were headed into the worst and saddest leg of the trip ):

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Tune In One Final Time!!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Just found your TR and am all caught up! Congrats on all the "real" life happenings... thanks for the entertaining read!

gina

Thank you and thanks for reading along!!! I'm kind of sad that it's coming to a close. Oh well guess I'll just have to take another trip and write about it haha :rolleyes1

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Disney Crafts and Trip Information Update!!!

Hey everyone we are vastly approaching our departure date. 3 days 2 hours and 36 minutes!!! Ahhhh spur of the moment trip planning is so much fun and so stressful at the same time.

So let me just you a little back story on how this trip came to be. I graduated on the 12th about a week or two before that Bobby (a friend of mine from school who is just finishing up doing College Program now) posted on my facebook wall saying that his family has time share points to use up at Bonnet Creek for a few days and that I should fly down and see him because all I would need to pay for is the flight and he would take care of the rest.

This really got me wanting to visit again. So I sulked around a little because I wasn’t able to go. On the day of graduation I got an envelope in the mail from my school my grandmother said that it was a bill I opened it up and to my surprise it was my last work study pay check, all those hours in the costume shop really paid off!!!

So I just kept saying I’m going to Disney for graduation!!! On May 13th (mothers day) my mother asked me where I wanted to go for my last family vacation before I moved away, of course I said Disney but she wasn’t biting. So just for the heck of she was playing around on southwest.com and found a really great deal for Andy and I to go for just over $300 a person for flight and room she then said “It would be even cheaper if you took your sister with you!!!” So I immediately texted Sam and was like I’m going to Disney want to come with me?!”

Just after that my friend Keirsten (another friend from school who was with me on my March trip) called and said that she needed to see me before she left, she is studying abroad in London this summer and wanted to say goodbye so I went up to Niagara Falls to help her pack and say goodbye before she left for the summer. While there my sister and Andy both texted me asking if I was serious. Obviously I was, I’m not one to joke about Disney!!!

I got home that night and started fake planning with Sam. She really wanted to go but she also wants to visit me in the Fall so that we can go to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. So we started scoping out deals and she asked her friend Brittany if she would like to join us.

We went to sleep super excited and hesitant at the same time. We promised we would wake up early the next morning and discuss it more. I literally couldn’t sleep that night. Ugh it was killing me I just wanted to book it!!! The next morning I woke up and Sam said “go back to sleep, you are going to be sad airline flights went up”

BOOOOOOO. So then my world crumbled a little and I cried as I felt a Disney trip being torn away fro me… But then a light bulb when off in my head, I know a handful of people down there now doing the college program so I reached out to all of them and asked if there was anything they could do to help. A mutual friend of mine and Sam’s said that she would love to help but she is coming home for memorial day so the most she could do was get us 40% off the room but if we knew someone who could check us in we could get 50% off.

We didn’t want the fight prices to go up so we booked those right away. Going down on JetBlue (I have never flown anything but southwest so I am a little nervous for this) and Southwest coming back. We looked and it was actually cheaper to fly out the night before than it was to fly in the following morning and the price difference was equal to that of the room. This was a great deal because we wouldn’t have been getting into the airport until 1 or 2 in the afternoon wasting a whole park day. So we booked the flights and I called Bobby.

Onto Bobby who is literally the reason for this trip he booked us the room that night but he was only able to get us the discount at POP for the second half of our stay. We said book it and we’ll stay at the All Stars for the first half!!! He gave us the total and when we did the math the price was not discounted so to be safe my mother actually went on and booked a second room at regular price for the entire week.

The next day I woke up and decided to do some Disney crafts!!! I love arts and crafts they are literally my favorite thing. A while ago I bought cheap Mickey Ears off eBay because I was thinking about making Andy a pair. Never got around to it so I decided to make myself a pair for the upcoming trip. I went to the dollar store and bought some glue and I had an old headband lying around the house and decided just to play with it

This is what I started with…

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It was a beautiful sunny day so I decided to work on my tan and glitter the ears outside. I covered the ears with basic tacky glue from JoAnn’s

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Then I did a bad thing. I cut up the ears. I felt like a murder when I was doing it. Ugh it broke my heart but they were $3 so I didn’t feel too bad. I cut out the ears leaving just enough felt around the edges and I then used my sewing skills and sewed the ears to the headband. The bow that I used was actually on the headband I just ripped it off and repositioned it. And here is the end result.

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The purple ones are mine. Sam and her friend Brittany liked them so much she came over the next day and I made them some with the foam ears they had gotten from their cotton candy at Disney on Ice.

Anyways back to trip planning!!! I figured you could use a nice break from reading.

While I was outside enjoying the sun (listening to my beloved tower of terror music loop <3) Bobby had been frantically trying to get a hold of me. Whoops…

He called Disney and was able to get half our stay discounted but the first day or two was blocked off because it was a holiday. He said there were no rooms left for the first two nights of our stay at any of the value resorts or at the moderates, the only two places with availability were Saratoga Springs (two separate rooms each a king size bed) and Animal Kingdom Lodge totaling over $600 a night. I almost lost it I was nervous and ready to puke because we had plane tickets but nowhere to sleep!!! I was beginning to think it was a terrible idea booking the flight that we thought was going to be a great idea. Bobby said worst comes to worst you can all sleep on the floor of my apartment I leave here the day after you so the worst they can do is kick me out.

Then I remember!!! The night before ma booked a room the entire length of our stay!!! What a lifesaver, AHHH I started screaming and told Bobby. He told the cast member he was on the phone with and they were able to morph the two reservations together!!!

All was well again and we were all SO HAPPY!!! A huge thanks to Bobby for working it all out for us!!!

So now the game plan: Bobby has 2 main gate passes left which can each get 3 people into the parks. Which means that we will split the cost of a two day park hopper for one of us and we will do all 4 parks in 2 days!!! Thank goodness Magic Kingdom has 3 am extra Magic hours.

We are staying at All Star Music and we can’t wait to have a full day in Disney where we do outside of the park things. We have major plans that I am going to keep a secret until the trip report.

Two days ago I went out to get the mail and I was saddened because my school’s theatre sends out a newsletter at the end of every semester and there were Little Women pictures all over it. I was suddenly SO SAD, so sad as a matter of fact that I missed out on these beauties

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Our Disney pins that we ordered from eBay and our Mickey mail!!!

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Suddenly, at the sight of the yellow tags, I was feeling the slightest bit better. Although we won’t be able to use the yellow tags because our plan arrives too late in the evening.

Oh well I’M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!! That’s the long story of how the trip came about. Sorry for so much reading. But I can’t wait to get back and share all of the excitement with you!!!

[Disneyfreak508]

Can I just say how I started cracking up when I saw your ticker? :rotfl: YOLO TRIP! You're perfect hahaha

Don't even worry about flying Jet Blue! I actually like it even better than southwest. I fly both of them all the time. You'll love it - you get TV's!

And ahhh such cute minnie ears! Love them! I'm so excited for your trip!!

[Leasha_Loves_Disney]

Can I just say how I started cracking up when I saw your ticker? :rotfl: YOLO TRIP! You're perfect hahaha

Don't even worry about flying Jet Blue! I actually like it even better than southwest. I fly both of them all the time. You'll love it - you get TV's!

And ahhh such cute minnie ears! Love them! I'm so excited for your trip!!

We have so many funny little sayings for why we go back. YOLO just seems to sum them all up. When we were planning that's all we kept saying: Airline tickets went up...? YOLO!!! We have no place to stay the first two nights of our trip...? YOLO!!! Andy literally hates the word so he's a little less than thrilled that we chose it but YOLO!!! haha

That's a relief, I am just terrified for checking in now. But Sam's friend flies JetBlue all the time. But maybe it will be less stressful since we won't be leaving until late at night.