70 to Freezing in 7 hours. A Nov/Dec 2011 trip report... updated 5/31

[petals]

Welcome to my second attempt at a trip report. My first trip report can be found here (http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2488262) and if you want to read the pre trip report to this trip you can find it here (http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2698298)

This was my fifth trip to Disney World.

The trip came about after a very bad start to the year left me a little anxious and sick so I needed something positive to look forward to and decided since in 2010 I'd seen Hallowe'en in Disney this year I wanted to see the Christmas decorations.

So that was why. Next was when.
I started looking at dates in April and wanted to be there when all the Christmas things would be going on in Seaworld and Universal as well as Disney World. I'm from Ireland so because the flight is so long I wanted to see everything when I could. So decided on 24th of November until the 8th of December.

The where for convience to the other non disney parks I decided to stay in the International Palms Resort on International drive but I also wanted to experience a Disney World hotel as I've never stayed in a Disney World hotel so decided to stay in Pop Century for two days before I went home.

So next up Who went...
Well first off moi. I'm 26 from Ireland and LOVE DISNEY. I have many favourite characters which include Stitch, Tigger, Eeyore, Dopey, Grumpy, Mickey, Minnie. Long list. I prefere the cuddly characters to the face characters pretty much. My fave park is Magic Kingdom and outside Disney is Seaworld. My favourite ride is small world (I am a very big kid!)

When I talked of booking the trip it was going to be me solo because momma didn't see the point in going back to same place for a fifth time. She eventually agreed to go because she didn't want me to go to Disney solo but several times threatened to pull out but she did come along. I won't reveal her age but her favourite characters are Dopey and Grumpy and her fave park is probably Magic Kingdom as well. Her favourite ride is Peter Pan.

Then I had my ever favourite trip mascot Angel along with me for the ride as well:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/IMG_0524.jpg
Momma and I are camera shy so Angel will be the only one appearing in pics here. There are pics of us on my facebook though.
And Finally for now some titles I was thinking of for this trip were:
All aboard the big white bus for Nov/Dec trip report
Should I take candy from a 5ft chipmunk?
I hope you win the lotto soon
My pants is falling off when do we get to eat?
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas? Yeah keep dreaming!
I think we cursed Epcot!
70 to Freezing in 7 hours
Please don't make me go home
A very Disney christmas
or just stick with the whole A Disney Therapy trip?!
Apart from the last two these were all things that were said at some point during the trip so will explain them as I go!

Index has moved because it was getting to long. It can now be found here. (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43470295&postcount=7)

[Caretames1]

I'm here!! and FIRST!!:woohoo:

Can't wait to hear all about it!

[GrammyJudy]

I would love to see the Christmas decorations. We are going in Jan 2012 but my next trip will be at Christmas...maybe 2012 but probably 2013. Tell us all the details!!!!!!:cool1:

[jenseib]

Joining in!!!!

[petals]

I'm here!! and FIRST!!:woohoo:

Can't wait to hear all about it!

I would love to see the Christmas decorations. We are going in Jan 2012 but my next trip will be at Christmas...maybe 2012 but probably 2013. Tell us all the details!!!!!!:cool1:

Joining in!!!!

Welcome all. I have many many pictures of Christmas decorations and the rest.
I took 3289 pictures in total between three cameras, photopass and phone so lots to share. Will have first update up by the weekend.
Tomorrow is last day of college for the year :)

[oopsiDAISY]

Count me in!

[petals]

Index

Day 1, part 1: And we're off (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43495582&postcount=13)
Day 1, part 2: And we're there! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43495674&postcount=14)

Day 2, part 1: Let the memories begin (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43534742&postcount=33)
Day 2, part 2: Quit while you're ahead (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43534852&postcount=34)
Day 2, part 3: Safari Time! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43569519&postcount=39)
Day 2, part 4: Beware of unsocial Tigers?! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43588195&postcount=47)
Day 2, part 5: Jingly fun in the Jungle (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43588351&postcount=48)
Day 2, part 6: Land of the 555 Christmas Trees (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43607485&postcount=58)
Day 2, part 7: Visiting old friends and the white bus! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43648953&postcount=63)
Animal Kingdom photopass and Video bits (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44027943&postcount=217)

Day 3, part 1: My Magical Happy place, I am back!!! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43716167&postcount=76)
Day 3, part 2: Shake your tail feather! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43726443&postcount=84)
Day 3, part 3: Lunchtime with some friends (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43746183&postcount=94)
Day 3, part 4: Time to dream along with the mouse! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43796646&postcount=107)
Day 3, part 5: Yes I should be a Princess! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43819514&postcount=121)
Day 3, part 6: He's coming for me! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43828200&postcount=127)
Day 3, part 7: Onwards for Adventure! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43857452&postcount=133)
Day 3, part 8: I made you smile (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43866936&postcount=138)
Day 3, part 9: I thought that was only for MVMCP (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43884426&postcount=151)
Day 3, part 10: Will we stay or will we go? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43900315&postcount=161)
Day 3, part 11: It's all about where you sit. (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43925531&postcount=172)
Magic Kingdom photopass and video pics (http://http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44158443&postcount=276)

Day 4, part 1: Dollars burning a hole in your pocket?! No problemo! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=43985431&postcount=192)
Day 4, part 2: Irish Liverpool man and Disney at Walgreens (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44003093&postcount=204)

Day 5, part 1: Where are all the people? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44051537&postcount=225)
Day 5, part 2: Queues, What Queues? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44096174&postcount=243)
Day 5, part 3: We did all that in how many hours? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44102988&postcount=253)
Day 5, part 4: A visit to new Furry friend! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44129374&postcount=265)
Day 5, part 5: A very hot meal! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44164921&postcount=282)
Day 5, part 6: Pick a pearl and other stuff (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44215255&postcount=313)
Day 5, part 7: A very wet Processional (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44223127&postcount=317)
Day 5, part 8: Illuminations or not? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44266729&postcount=333)

Day 6, part 1: I think I died and went to cupcake heaven! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44294065&postcount=347)
Day 6, part 2: Alot more firsts (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44333638&postcount=364)
Day 6, part 3: Continuing with our firsts (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44352313&postcount=376)
Day 6, part 4: More new friends and old favourites (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44416558&postcount=385)
Day 6, part 5: Parade Time (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44460074&postcount=399)
Day 6, part 6: Best mouse in the world and more! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44541136&postcount=421)
Day 6, part 7: Lights, Food, Fantasmic (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44651066&postcount=437)
Day 6, part 8: It's Snowing Momma! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44732482&postcount=460)

Day 7: Another "Lazy" Day (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44797424&postcount=475)

Day 8, part 1: Angel's day out (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44862279&postcount=491)
Day 8, part 2: From France to Japan (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44917616&postcount=506)
Day 8, part 3: From a Monkey to a Witch (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44951589&postcount=514)
Day 8, part 4: I think you insulted the Taarji! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=44983295&postcount=524)
Day 8, part 5: The highlight of Angel's day! (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=45026271&postcount=537)
Day 8, part 6: Will the video camera work on the second go? (http://www.disboards.com/showpost.php?p=45044554&postcount=544)

[momabaarjo]

Love the title petals!

[petals]

Count me in!

Welcome:flower3:

Love the title petals!
Thanks. I figured it was fitting considering I now have a cold coming on again from the change in temperature this week :goodvibes I prefered last week when it was 70 degrees!

[lovethattink]

Thanks for sending me the link! I'm here too!

[blessedmom4]

I am FINALLY here EMMA!!! Great start!

BUT, WHY not at least ONE picture of you?!? PRETTY PLEASE!!!!

[petals]

Thanks for sending me the link! I'm here too!
Welcome :goodvibes

I am FINALLY here EMMA!!! Great start!

BUT, WHY not at least ONE picture of you?!? PRETTY PLEASE!!!!
Welcome :goodvibes

There might be one or two later on in the report just not right now :) (Spoiler we had a dis meet during the trip.)


I will try post the first day soon. This week has been crazy busy trying to settle into everything again and not wanting to. Had college during the week but that wrapped up for xmas on Thursday and then on radio show we've been trying to record enough material for shows so we don't have to go into station for a while. I think we have best part of three shows done but we're doing a few more bits next week to have them done and hopefully will get more shows out of that. Went back to work today then as well and shop was really busy until about 6 when it went total opposite. We had small bursts of people but it was otherwise dead. I've been going through the pics and trying to put them on facebook while I save them all on disks and I've ordered my photopass as well. Oh and also remember in my trip report I was saying I had a cold before Florida. It went away in Florida but it's been sooooooo cold here the last few days the cold is back. Maybe I'm just allergic to Ireland and should move to Florida permantly?! :) I think monday I may sleep after that week lol but I will try get day one up asap!

[petals]

So the day before we left was really busy. Had to finish last minute packing but then also wanted to spend time with the doggies who would be staying at kennels. I brought them for walkies before the kennels man arrived. One of my doggies Stitch was from the pound and he is happy enough to go with kennels man in fact he smiles (yes the dog smiles) when he sees the kennels man because he knows he's going to be walked everyday and I don't always get to walk them between work and college. After their walkies I clean yard after them and what not to spend time with them. Little dog (i got him as a pup he's now 2 but still my puppy) did not want to go with kennels man at all! When kennels man arrived Stitch got in the car but Gizmo ran for it and I had to chase him down the road to catch him. Poor puppy.
As well as minding the doggies I had college work to do and radio work to do as well plus I wanted to try put up Xmas tree before I went. I had put it together a few days before (artificial tree) but wanted to get decorations on it and ended up only putting lights and tinsel on! Busy busy day and it resulted in me only getting 3 hours and 39 minutes sleep (the phone alarm said so!)

I was up at 5.30am because we had to get bus to the airport at 7am! Angel and I took a pic of our completed countdown calendar! (notice angel in his xmas gear... I was a little excited about this xmassy looking castle i was headed for)
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/24112011222.jpg
I still had lingering sniffles from a cold and still had chesty cough so tried to snooze a bit on the bus and we were just about to pull into the airport when I started feeling really sick.
Ireland's main airport has had a revamp recently resulting in a new terminal for the airport and it was my first time using the new terminal which I was also excited about. It was very mod looking:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/24112011227.jpg
but I was disappointed by the lack of Xmas decorations. The other terminal normally had snowmen, reindeer, penguins and such decorating the place. Anyhow we checked in no problemo:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/24112011225.jpg
See the name of our airline.. remember it for later in the trip as it will come up again!
After we checked in we went for food to see if it would make me feel any better it didn't. I was in the toilet three times after it with dodgy tummy :( Of course as well the tablets to settle the dodgy tummy were in the case which had already been checked in so once we got through security Momma headed off to the chemist to get me something to make me feel better.
I was very happy once we got through security to find some Xmas decorations finally:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/24112011228.jpg
Not much but still shiny. I also took my first food pic of cute cupcakes i saw and got a pretty strange look off guy that worked in cafe for taking it but anyways:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/24112011229.jpg
We wandered into duty free then Momma to shop and me to get water and had a bit of a fright the screens with gate numbers said wait in longue for our flight but while we were wandering around duty free it said final boarding call for our flight. I think it was a mistake because I checked the screens again and it just said go to US customs area.
We got through here no problemo again. It was kind of cool because they showed us our bags on a screen which they didn't do last year and checked they were our bags. I also didn't freak the security guy out this year with my indecisivness over what my job was :rotfl: When we got to gate Angel and I did our usual plane spotting:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/24112011234.jpg
This would be the fabulous plane that would take me to my happy place
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I needed another toilet stop at this point so left Angel on a chair with my Momma when I got back there was a small boy of about 7 or 8 sitting in my seat. Momma said he basically just sat on top of Angel regardless of the fact the seat was obviously taken sooo when he stood up to say something to one of his family a few seats down I sat back in my seat. Then small seat stealing brat said to his mother that lady just took my seat. His mother told him it didn't matter! Go away people I'M GOING TO FLORIDA MUCH?!
The flight boarded on time and we were sitting with a great view of the wing:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9023.jpg
Soon enough we were headed for the run way
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9028.jpg
and I'm inwardly shouting hurry up and take off.

I should prob split this here because it's a little long but continued in next post :)

[petals]

So as I was saying we were on board about to take off and they started playing the flight safety video. There was this kinda cute little cartoon guy but I was a little concerned for him esp at the oxygen mask part and the blow into the whistle part because he had no mouth:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9026.jpg
I think I have a better pic from the way back of the mouth-less dude. When dude was done with the safety instructions it was time to say bye bye to Ireland for two weeks:
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Each seat had their own little entertainment screen with movies, radio, games and tv shows or you could track flight progress and info on it. London to Miami yeah!.. oh wait should that not be Dublin to Orlando?!:confused3
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9036.jpg
The flight attendants served drinks and snacks fairly quick into the flight but the snacks were these manky little yokes:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9037.jpg
Momma had two packets because I didn't like them. I instead explored the inflight entertainment and was happy to find a Disney movie:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9038.jpg
They were getting food ready and I started feeling sick again with the smell of it but decided to try something anyway. As always the choice was beef or chicken! I got the beef pasta and practiced my food pics:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9046.jpg
Felt a small bit better after and had a little snooze but the snoozing didn't last long because I woke feeling like I was choking. Apparently cold and airplane air don't mix well and my throat was all caught up! So instead I entertained myself by watching Yogi Bear, did some puzzles, coloured (big baby I know,) started reading Disney after Dark. Somewhere in the middle of that we finally arrived over America and I felt the need to take a pic :)
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9047.jpg
Also in the trip report diary I got a little reflective of the past year. I'll spare the details but with stress and anxiety I really needed to get to my happy place and couldn't believe I was finally on the way there. I started watching hoodwinked but before the end the first sighting of Orlando came into view and it was time to land:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9053.jpg
The flight was nine hours in total but it passed pretty quickly and it was largely uneventful although there was tears as when we were landing already being sick and fluy I got big pains in my ears which made me cry! Angel as well got lots of compliments on the flight. The people behind us thought his shoes were really cute (he had twinkle toes for bears on) and Air hostess said he was really cute as well on way out of plane. The flight landed half and hour ahead of time and the first thing I noticed about Orlando airport was THEY HAVE DECORATIONS FOR XMAS:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9054.jpg
Also had my first sighting of the main mouse:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/DSCF9056.jpg
I think we landed at 4.20 the luggage took ages to come out. The lady at the taxi desk (no magical express for us as we were going to international drive.) was confused by our transfer passes (again take note) we eventually managed to get a taxi and left the airport at 6:10 but then the driver circled around and went back to pick up someone else he had forgotten so we finally left the airport at 6.20! Two hours after we had landed.
We were staying in same hotel as last year. The International Palms resort on international drive. They have a resort area and a "Towers" building. Momma does not like the towers as it looks tall and reminds her of a prison. Last year we were put in the towers and she asked for a different room in resort area. This year we were put yup you guess it in the Towers again. Momma wasn't happy. I on the other hand actually prefere the towers as they are more recently built and the rooms are bigger and look cleaner than the resort area although it did seem like whole resort had had a revamp since last year. Anyways I convinced her to stay in the Towers but she was never happy about it. Our room:
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We booked the bus for our first park day. I got a quick snack of these:
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc125/petalsdance/Florida2011/25112011237.jpg
and then had an early night.

Next up first disney day!

[afwdwfan]

I'm here!

Great start... sorry you were still not feeling very well for the flight. That had to have been a miserable 9 hours to be stuck on a plane while you're feeling under the weather. At least you ened up in Orlando at the end of the 9 hours though.:thumbsup2

Great move stealing your seat back when the kid got up.:thumbsup2 :lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

:wave2: Mind if I follow along?

I do hope you get to feeling better pretty quick. I’ve been ill while traveling in the Orlando area before, and despite all the entertainment to be had, it just ain’t as much fun. :sick:

[petals]

I'm here!

Great start... sorry you were still not feeling very well for the flight. That had to have been a miserable 9 hours to be stuck on a plane while you're feeling under the weather. At least you ened up in Orlando at the end of the 9 hours though.:thumbsup2

Great move stealing your seat back when the kid got up.:thumbsup2 :lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

:goodvibes Welcome. The flight wasn't bad i kind of perked up alittle after I ate but I couldn't sleep at all. I didn't mind to much though because I was headed for Mickey's house! :)

Yeah I actually forgot to say on the report there but when I was getting my bags in Orlando same kid that stole my seat and his family kind of gathered around me as I was trying to get me suitcases I think there was about 15 of them in total :scared1:

:wave2: Mind if I follow along?

I do hope you get to feeling better pretty quick. I’ve been ill while traveling in the Orlando area before, and despite all the entertainment to be had, it just ain’t as much fun. :sick:

Welcome :)
I don't think I'd mind being sick in Disney to much though. Once I can be in Mickey's house i'm happy :)

[momabaarjo]

How miserable you must have been on that flight....:sick: but knowing how much this trip has meant to you...your first sighting of Mickey made all better.

We are actually flying out of a new terminal too...really looking forward to seeing the renovation completed because it has made flying out a headache the last couple of years....funny thing is it only has 5 gates...:rotfl2:

I so loved the picture of Ireland from the plane...it is on my bucket list to hike those green hills someday!

Great about a Disney movie in flight...I checked our flight movies today and Harry Potter 7.2 is playing...I know what we are watching!

Love the lucky charms...perfect and fitting for you!

Sorry about the little toot who took your seat....:scared1:they surrounded you at baggage...I am getting pretty bold lately and am saying things to rude people...tired of being the nice guy!

[blessedmom4]

:hug::grouphug::hug::grouphug::hug: for the tough flight!

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[Caretames1]

I think I would have been stir crazy on a 9 hour flight!:scared1: Especially if I wasn't feeling well. Then to throw 2 hours on top of that still at the airport! I would have crashed in the hotel lobby:lmao:

Angel is very cute and her shoes are sweet!

[petals]

How miserable you must have been on that flight....:sick: but knowing how much this trip has meant to you...your first sighting of Mickey made all better.

We are actually flying out of a new terminal too...really looking forward to seeing the renovation completed because it has made flying out a headache the last couple of years....funny thing is it only has 5 gates...:rotfl2:

I so loved the picture of Ireland from the plane...it is on my bucket list to hike those green hills someday!

Great about a Disney movie in flight...I checked our flight movies today and Harry Potter 7.2 is playing...I know what we are watching!

Love the lucky charms...perfect and fitting for you!

Sorry about the little toot who took your seat....:scared1:they surrounded you at baggage...I am getting pretty bold lately and am saying things to rude people...tired of being the nice guy!

After the food I kind of felt better until the landing part so it wasn't to bad on the flight.

Ireland is nice but it's cold and wet most of the time!

it said Harry potter was meant to be on our flight going back but it wasn't.

Those lucky charms I love them. They used to sell them in Ireland years ago but for some reason don't any more so when I go to America I'm like first stop Lucky Charms time :) I was going to bring a box home with me but they were like 5 dollars in walmart and it was to much out of my disney money :rotfl:

Yeah that annoyed me when they were surrounding me so I fully planned on accidentally on purpose hitting them with me cases to teach them not to stand so close but they moved to opposite side before my cases came out :goodvibes


I think I would have been stir crazy on a 9 hour flight!:scared1: Especially if I wasn't feeling well. Then to throw 2 hours on top of that still at the airport! I would have crashed in the hotel lobby:lmao:

Angel is very cute and her shoes are sweet!

Flight passed pretty quickly so it wasn't to bad. I was very eager to get to Mickey's house :) I think we got food and went straight to bed though when we got there.

Angel got many compliments around the airport and on the plane that day and in various other places during the trip!

[petals]

:hug::grouphug::hug::grouphug::hug: for the tough flight!

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Love the picture :)

[momabaarjo]

A little passive agressive are we....:rotfl2:I probably would have done the same thing too with my suitcases!

[jenseib]

oh my , how awful to be sick when flying. I can barely stand the 2 1/2 hour flights I have to Orlando. We have talked of going to DL, but the flight scares me.

[petals]

A little passive agressive are we....:rotfl2:I probably would have done the same thing too with my suitcases!

Who me? :littleangel: I reckon when they stand that close when I'm trying to get my case they deserve to get hit :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

oh my , how awful to be sick when flying. I can barely stand the 2 1/2 hour flights I have to Orlando. We have talked of going to DL, but the flight scares me.

I think it's worth it when you get there though. How long is flight to DL?

[jenseib]

Who me? :littleangel: I reckon when they stand that close when I'm trying to get my case they deserve to get hit :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:



I think it's worth it when you get there though. How long is flight to DL?

There isn't many directs, but most look around 6 or 7 I think. It's been awhile since I looked. But then with an hour or two stop over

[petals]

There isn't many directs, but most look around 6 or 7 I think. It's been awhile since I looked. But then with an hour or two stop over

Stop overs are worse because it ends up taking all day between stop overs and waiting around and long flights! :sad2: it's still worth it when you get to Mickey's house though :goodvibes

[lovethattink]

That's a long flight! I saw the motel you stayed at. It's very close to Universal. Did you walk there? That street (Kirkman) is crazy busy to get to the parking garage.

Sorry you were sick for the flight.

[Caretames1]

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[jenseib]

Stop overs are worse because it ends up taking all day between stop overs and waiting around and long flights! :sad2: it's still worth it when you get to Mickey's house though :goodvibes

I was wrong. My friend from California is in town this week and I asked her. From here it's 5 hours and coming back it's like 4 1/2. Still a long flight though.

[petals]

I was wrong. My friend from California is in town this week and I asked her. From here it's 5 hours and coming back it's like 4 1/2. Still a long flight though.

Yeah that's like flight to canary islands for us.. except Mickey isn't in canary islands! I went there once or twice went swimming with sealions there actually but it just doesn't have the same feel as getting off a plane and knowing Mickey is like ten minutes away :goodvibes sorry random tangent there! :)

[petals]

I need a little bit of help from all of you wonderful people again. I bought my niece a 12 inch Duffy (naked) and the book for Xmas and her momma just rang and apparently Duffy is her new best friend to cut a long story short but Build a bear clothes aren't fitting it. Can anyone suggest where I might get clothes small enough for a 12 inch Duffy for her to dress the poor naked bear :)


Also want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas
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and want to take a quick moment to thank each and everyone one of you for reading my ptr and joining this tr (there's an update coming for Xmas ;) ) and also for making me smile. This year has been a tough one and I've had alot of down moments but everytime I come on disboards and read your lovely comments or your trip reports or ptr I come away with a smile and happy thoughts of Disney so thank you all. (ok soppy end) :goodvibes

[petals]

So back to the trip report.
Day Two Part 1 (this trip report could get long)

This morning was Black Friday and I don't think we are brave enough to try shop in the conditions I heard about plus I needed a Disney fix ASAP so we had our first Disney day.
First off we were woken up at 6am because somebody (must not start rant) rang momma from Ireland and once they disturbed my sleep I just got up washed and dressed to head for our Disney bus because there was no way I was going back to sleep when I knew we were hours away from getting to our first park :)
We went out to wait for the bus from our hotel to Disney and I took early morning pic of hotel entrance:
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At 8.30 a big BLUE (this is important take note) bus arrived to take us to Disney. This isn't my pic but because of importance of colour of the bus for later in the day I wanted to share the bus was kind of this colour:
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By 9 o'clock we were seeing this:
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It's a little lopsided but I had the BIGGEST smile on my face ever when I saw that and every care, worry, annoyance in the world just floated away I was back in my happy place!
Our hotel bus brings us to the Epcot coach park so we had to use our first Disney bus to take us to our first park. While we were waiting in line two seperate people asked us if we knew how to get them to Magic Kingdom and I directed them to the monorail like Disney was a second home. Momma was like woah you do know alot about Disney :rotfl: and that was only at the start of the trip. I had warned her as well that once I saw the castle I may cry and while waiting for our at Disney that morning I told her I was so happy I could cry and she was like don't start blubbing here. I held it together because soon the bus arrived and it was time to:
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Like that?... Can you guess where we were headed yet?



Yup:
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And it was all decorated for Xmas as well. Walking towards the park we started to notice the first of many Xmas trees we would see and this one was GIANT!:
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and that's only the top half!
I loved the decorations and how they had Winnie the pooh characters underneath:
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We paused for a photopass pic (i don't have that disc yet) and I took a few more pictures before we headed over to get our tickets:
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The tickets actually said Our family name Safari on the back which I wondered was it because we got them in Animal Kingdom or do they all say that on them.
Tickets in hand we headed in to Animal Kingdom (after a few more pics :) )
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There was some birds out to greet us:
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and then we stopped for some more photopass pics in front of Tree of Life since I had ordered the photopass cd already I planned to make full use of the photographers lol. I told momma if you see a photopass person let them take your photo they already have my money :rotfl:
Anyways once we had our pics taken and I took my own pics of tree of life we headed for our first destination
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Next up quit while you're ahead

[petals]

Day Two, Part Two:

In above post I'd left off where we were headed to our first destination and probably the main reason I was very anxious to get to Animal Kingdom on time but even in a rush there's always time to take pictures along the way:
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and get our first ever fast passes:
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We have never used fast pass before and would definately give it a huge :thumbsup2
And then it was time.. If you haven't guessed already we were headed to Africa and our reason was because we had our first adr of the trip in Tusker House for breakfast at 10:05. I was a little anxious about it because I wasn't sure we would make it on time but we had loads of time that morning. We stopped for our photo with Donald and then I sneeked this so I wouldn't have to buy their photo (which they never did show us but anyhow) :
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We were seated fairly quickly and informed our waiter would be Neil and once he served us drinks we could head for the buffet. While we waited for Neil, Goofy came along (pic is missing from my computer :confused3 ) I had last years autograph book and Goofy's name was last and when he spotted it he started pointing to himself. Neil came and gave us our drinks and I told Momma that breakfast had set price so take as much as you like we're paying for it anyway so I practiced food pics first:
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this is what all that is:
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Then when I went back to table took a pic of my plate:
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Doughnuts for breakfast? Gotta love it but more importantly. MICKEY WAFFLES:
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Daisy came along and there was no sign of Momma so I asked some guy at table behind me to take the pic which he did. Daisy was tiny like smaller than me and I'm 5ft 3 or shorter lol:
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Then Momma came back and this was her plate:
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and this was her other plate:
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:scared1: no way would I be able to eat all that!
This is also where fun began because Neil decided to make it his mission to win Momma's affection. He kept coming over to chat and Momma wasn't happy with this. First he asked her if it was the best breakfast she ever had and she went NO! He left for a while to prepare the bill but came back with new determination to win her over (plus he'd spotted her bagging some of her brekkie for later... well we paid for it) So he said to her since you've got half the buffet in your bag am I the best waiter ever. She was like NO! So he asked her if it was his hair that she didn't like (he was bald) She just gave him a dirty look and he said he'd go off to brush it so it parted in the middle. In the meantime a parade started and this guy marched on by:
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Neil our lovely waiter came back after the parade with a tray of paper cups saying these were lovely hot chocolates and we had to try them and then tipped the tray on top of our table......



No worries the cups were empty but Momma went from shocked face to angry face in about 2.5 seconds and Mr. Neil scooted off finally accepting he wasn't going to win her over. It was kind of funny though :lmao:

Afterwards he quietly came back because I think we had a late breakfast there and it was obvious they were trying to clear the area we were seated in and characters had stopped coming around there so we didn't see them all and Neil came over to find out what ones missed us and made sure that Mickey Mouse came to see me so they got him to come to a side wall for a pic with me which I thought was nice of them.

I had asked momma most days what she thought of what we did that day and regarding tusker house she said she didn't like the big bald (i'll put the nice word in) man who wouldn't let her eat her breakfast in peace :rotfl:



Next up Safari Time!

[afwdwfan]

Good call on going to the parks on Black Friday. I wouldn't go anywhere near a store on that day. :lmao:

The Christmas decorations at the parks are great. I'd never seen them before this year, and I really want to do it again.

It looks like a great breakfast. It sounds like you had a good server, who was really trying hard to make it a fun experience. I know how your momma felt though. Sometimes I just want to eat in peace and be left alone too.:rotfl2:

[petals]

Good call on going to the parks on Black Friday. I wouldn't go anywhere near a store on that day. :lmao:

The Christmas decorations at the parks are great. I'd never seen them before this year, and I really want to do it again.

It looks like a great breakfast. It sounds like you had a good server, who was really trying hard to make it a fun experience. I know how your momma felt though. Sometimes I just want to eat in peace and be left alone too.:rotfl2:

Yeah I can't handle Xmas sales crowds so don't think I'd have been in to good a humour if we started the holidays at Black Friday shopping! :goodvibes

The Christmas decorations were amazing! I really want to go that last week in october and first week in november though so i'd get halloween and christmas in all on the one trip :rotfl:

The breakfast was funny (I thought) and I thought it was really nice of them to make sure I'd seen all the characters since they were obviously trying to clear up.

[Caretames1]

Aww, we loved the Tusker house! the characters were very interactive and the waitstaff was great!

I'm enjoying the Christmas decor, I can't wait to someday hit Disney for Christmas!

Nice bus:rotfl2:

[petals]

Aww, we loved the Tusker house! the characters were very interactive and the waitstaff was great!

I'm enjoying the Christmas decor, I can't wait to someday hit Disney for Christmas!

Nice bus:rotfl2:

Disney at Xmas is amazing!

Yeah pay attention to the bus it will be important for later on in day 1! :)

[petals]

Day 2. part 3:

So after breakfast momma took a moment to compose herself and we wandered the shops of Africa for a few mins i took pics of the pretty stuff :) :
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I noticed in shops in Animal kingdom there was a top similar to mine which was:
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except tops for sale were gold and black. People kept asking me where I got mine! I'd made it. I got the mickey head online and then glued/sewed it to the top. Mine cost like 6 dollars altogether the one for sale was 32!
Anyways after that it was time to try out this fast pass system (we loved it) and we were off on a two month Safari in Africa:
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We saw baby elephants:
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We had to cut our safari short though because poachers interupted it. So once back at base we headed off through a lovely forest trail:
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We were standing watching those ducks when Momma felt a PLOP!!! Some fat little bird just pooped all the way down her top and got a bit in her hair as well. She had a white top on and was very upset about it being destroyed. A CM saw her distress and brought her to a backstage CM bathroom to try wash a bit of it off while the fat little bird sat victoriously in the tree above us! While I was waiting for Momma I went hippo watching as well:
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This next pic you will see a hippo in the water if you look really really really really really close...
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Yeah I can only barely see it but only because I had a vague idea where it was from the fact a Daddy was telling his small boy beside me look it looks like a big rock! :rotfl:
When Momma was back we headed off in search of Lilly but first stopped by Timon's cousins:
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Then Baby Lilly.. but she was nowhere to be seen. I asked a CM because I had come all the way from Ireland the least baby lilly could do was come out and say hi but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO :rotfl: CM said she thought she was in the cave but wasn't out however Daddy decided this year that he was in a posing mood and so I got these pics:
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After our voyage through the forest we decided to head to a different continent but along the way I found two other friends with no lines and so got pics with these guys:
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Before stopping at this pretty view to get a few magic shots taken (I don't have those yet :( )
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Next up Beware of unsocial Tigers?!

[MEK]

Subbing and back to read. Just skimmed through your pictures and they are lovely!

[petals]

Subbing and back to read. Just skimmed through your pictures and they are lovely!

Welcome :flower3:
And thank you :) I like pictures. I took over 3000 on this trip :littleangel: :goodvibes

[afwdwfan]

Wow, your momma just isn't having a very good morning. :lmao: I'm glad that a CM was there to step up and try to make things better though.

Sorry that you didn't get to see Lilly.

[Windsor Princesses]

That AK Christmas tree is so pretty, I see why you wanted to go at this time! We're taking our first Winter Disney trip in just 3 days :yay: we are so excited and seeing all these beautiful photos makes us even more excited to go!

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Disney is certainly lovely during the holidays. I seen it twice, I’d like to do it again (but in early December next time).

We haven’t been to tusker house since it was made a character experience, but we always enjoyed the breakfast available here. When my son was younger, we’d head over to Harambe and get passes for the Safari and then go eat breakfast. I always found the atmosphere at Tusker to be very relaxing.

The Pangani trail is a lot of fun as well… most of the time… ummmmm….
Your mom was having a fairly difficult morning now wasn’t she?
May that nonsense not continue any farther (and may it not include any chance encounters with unsocial tigers).

Looking forward to the next installment!

[jenseib]

Wow, what a morning. Bird poop and all. When I was a kid, we walked out of church once and bird flew by and pooped on my moms head. We had to rush home and she was NOT happy at all. I think my sister and I cried about it. :laughing:

[petals]

Wow, your momma just isn't having a very good morning. :lmao: I'm glad that a CM was there to step up and try to make things better though.

Sorry that you didn't get to see Lilly.

Yeah Momma was very upset that her new white top was destroyed. But she got lucky and got to go backstage in Disney even it was was only to use the bathroom :goodvibes

That AK Christmas tree is so pretty, I see why you wanted to go at this time! We're taking our first Winter Disney trip in just 3 days :yay: we are so excited and seeing all these beautiful photos makes us even more excited to go!
It really is amazing there at Xmas. The decorations alone are fantastic! When we came home the decorations in our home town and capital city were such a let down compared to disney. No dancing lights or anything over here :rotfl:

Disney is certainly lovely during the holidays. I seen it twice, I’d like to do it again (but in early December next time).

We haven’t been to tusker house since it was made a character experience, but we always enjoyed the breakfast available here. When my son was younger, we’d head over to Harambe and get passes for the Safari and then go eat breakfast. I always found the atmosphere at Tusker to be very relaxing.

The Pangani trail is a lot of fun as well… most of the time… ummmmm….
Your mom was having a fairly difficult morning now wasn’t she?
May that nonsense not continue any farther (and may it not include any chance encounters with unsocial tigers).

Looking forward to the next installment!

I would definately go back in holiday time prob same time of year but I'd really like to go back for last week in october and first week in november to get the halloween and xmas decorations in :)

I'm trying to remember what comes next I think it gets better for her. :goodvibes
Tusker house was fun but I think we went to late.

Wow, what a morning. Bird poop and all. When I was a kid, we walked out of church once and bird flew by and pooped on my moms head. We had to rush home and she was NOT happy at all. I think my sister and I cried about it. :laughing:
I felt kinda bad for Mam she was very upset over her white top and it was fairly unpleasant for her. I think it came out when she got home and washed it but she was afraid it wouldn't.

[petals]

Day 2, part 4:

After getting photopass pics and what not we headed to the ruins of an ancient temple in the form of the Maharajah Jungle Trek!
We had to be very careful though because there were Tigers about:
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First we had a game of odd duck out:
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Then we round the corner and sure enough there was a Tiger lurching:
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I think he was feeling a little anti-social that day however because he would not pose for pictures. At least Lilly's daddy posed instead!
Then I had a little bit of a slow moment because I took this picture thinking oooh pretty:
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and didn't spot this guy and girls until the CM said he's a bit of a player with the three ladies:
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Someone else was apparently feeling (and looking) a bit grumpy that day as well:
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But there was some very pretty bird houses on this trek and I kinda want one for my garden:
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After that scary encounter with the anti-social Tiger it was time for a snack in the form of:
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hmmmm Mickey Ice-cream sandwich bar! :lovestruc
After filling up on Mickey's ice-cream we headed on over to Dinoland USA to check out the area and it was even decorated for Christmas:
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I wandered the shop there as well for a bit while I was waiting for a certain doggy to take a snack break and spotted this guy:
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Who knew Dinosaurs wore santa hats?!!
Some super cool disney food:
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This dude would not wait for a picture which made me sad:
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But this guy came back out for a picture and I think I was third in line so no huge wait:
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When I went back to Momma (she won't do character pics) some strange man had come over to her and given her a Disney button (those where her words) and I was like aws I want one where is the strange man. She gave me hers instead:
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After that we said goodbye to Dinoland USA:
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and headed off to find a spot to watch the parade.



Next up Jingly fun in the Jungle.

[petals]

Day 2, part 5:

On our way out of Dinoland we tried to see the Winnie the Pooh characters but CM sent us away because they had gone for snacks so I went and got pics with these guys instead:
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We then wandered up to the gates of Africa and sat on a bench outside the first-aid/childcare place and I wandered another one of the shops while we waited for the parade since it was fairly quiet in that area. It was a great place to sit for the parade because it never really got busy there that day and parade came straight down out of Africa. But that's a side note for now while I was waiting I took pics in the shop to pass the time.
Duffy for 2011
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and he got a new hoodie for 2012:
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Cute Christmas tree:
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I thought these were cute:
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There was a Mickey mouse one with Pluto pj's and slippers on.
I also like how they made the girl bug (name?) a Disney princess :
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While I was doing all that Momma was sat on a bench outside making a little friend for herself. She sat beside a mother who had a handicapped child with her. The little girl had got a Peter Pan playset in the shop and was sharing all the pieces with Momma. They moved on once her sister and daddy came back from wherever they had been and then it time for the Jingle Jungle Parade:
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I like how they even decorated the big animal floats:
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Poor Donald's on the naughty and nice list. Santa just couldn't make up his mind:rotfl:
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After the parade we went to sit down and decide where to next and a lady told us we dropped our autograph book behind the bench. It wasn't ours but we figured it was prob belonging to the little friend Momma had made because at one point when they were beside us the stroller toppled over so it prob fell off it then. Anyway we took it with us hoping we'd meet them along the way and if not we would hand it into lost and found.


Next up land of the 555 Christmas Trees

[blessedmom4]

All caught up again!! Loving the pics, although I do hope you post one of you...:rolleyes1. Thanks for being such a support to us and hoping 2021 is wonderful to you!


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[jenseib]

I love all your photos and the parade. You got some fun trek photos as well. I never seem to be able to go through there leisurely with the family, and I didn't even walk through it in Aug, since our time was limited for the most part.

[petals]

I love all your photos and the parade. You got some fun trek photos as well. I never seem to be able to go through there leisurely with the family, and I didn't even walk through it in Aug, since our time was limited for the most part.

We don't really do the big rides ever so we do shows and the trails in Animal Kingdom instead. They're nice except I wanted to see how big Lilly was and never got time to go back!

All caught up again!! Loving the pics, although I do hope you post one of you...:rolleyes1. Thanks for being such a support to us and hoping 2012 is wonderful to you!


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Thank you. There might be a pic of me eventually.
Hope you have a great 2012 as well :)

[petals]

Bumping back up the question about 12 inch Duffy and does anyone know where one might get clothes for 12 inch Duffy. The outlet store was selling them naked and DN10 is looking for clothes for him because the build a bear clothes are to big!

Also does anyone else have cd of Magic in the streets? I got one when I was there in December and it the music plays fine on my dvd player but it won't read on my computer. I wondered if this was just due to copyright but I wanted to put it on my ipod :(

[blessedmom4]

Bumping back up the question about 12 inch Duffy and does anyone know where one might get clothes for 12 inch Duffy. The outlet store was selling them naked and DN10 is looking for clothes for him because the build a bear clothes are to big!
(

I meant to answer this yesterday. Lisa has 12 inch Duffy...she just uses the BAB clothes...yes, they are a bit big, but they do work! Of course, Lisa also puts her BAB clothes on her AG doll..she isn't picky, as long as they have clothes... and she knows that is all we can afford, so she makes do...Maybe someone has a pattern and your niece could have some made??? That would be GREAT!

[MEK]

3000 pictures!!!!! You go!

Really enjoying all your AK pictures. Its my favorite park and you got some great and unique shots. I was just there a few weeks ago and now I can't wait to go edit my trek pictures after seeing your. I loved the mahalarjah trek and it was wonderful to be able to enjoy it in the cooler weather.

Keep those pictures coming!!!!!

Didn't you just love the Christmas parade?

[afwdwfan]

Great pictures. I loved the details of the Jungle Trek. DW said she wants one of those bird houses.

I didn't even notice the dinosaur with the santa hat when we were there. I must not have been paying enough attention when we were in Dinoland.

[Caretames1]

I'm glad you are doing a TR, you have a great way of "telling" about your trip!:thumbsup2

I really need to get back to the Tiger trek, it always seemed to get skipped, along with the bird show.


Love the parade pics, it looks so festive!

[petals]

I meant to answer this yesterday. Lisa has 12 inch Duffy...she just uses the BAB clothes...yes, they are a bit big, but they do work! Of course, Lisa also puts her BAB clothes on her AG doll..she isn't picky, as long as they have clothes... and she knows that is all we can afford, so she makes do...Maybe someone has a pattern and your niece could have some made??? That would be GREAT!

I think DN10 prob just wants Disney Duffy clothes... May have to explain she'll have to make do and get the bigger Duffy for her birthday.

If anyone reading can make Duffy clothes let me know though.

3000 pictures!!!!! You go!

Really enjoying all your AK pictures. Its my favorite park and you got some great and unique shots. I was just there a few weeks ago and now I can't wait to go edit my trek pictures after seeing your. I loved the mahalarjah trek and it was wonderful to be able to enjoy it in the cooler weather.

Keep those pictures coming!!!!!

Didn't you just love the Christmas parade?

I like taking pictures of things I like.. Lots of pictures! :goodvibes I also took six video tapes of footage in past years that has been only been three so looking forward to getting stuck into them and making holiday dvds but waiting for photopass to arrive to start that. Will prob rip a few more pics off the video footage as well :)

Animal Kingdom is one of our take it easy parks hence starting with it.

Great pictures. I loved the details of the Jungle Trek. DW said she wants one of those bird houses.

I didn't even notice the dinosaur with the santa hat when we were there. I must not have been paying enough attention when we were in Dinoland.

Thank you. I loved the bird houses they were cool looking.

The dinosaur with Santa hat was inside the shop in Dinoland not sure what it was called. I was killing time because CM sent me away from Pluto line. He wasn't going to let people form a wait line when Pluto was going in for a snack!

I'm glad you are doing a TR, you have a great way of "telling" about your trip!:thumbsup2

I really need to get back to the Tiger trek, it always seemed to get skipped, along with the bird show.


Love the parade pics, it looks so festive!

Thanks. Trip report lets me hold onto Disney for a bit longer while I try figure out finances and times for when I can go again :rotfl:

We totally missed the Tiger Trek the passed three times we went so I made it my main mission to visit that this year!

The parade was so cute with all the Xmassy stuff. That of course was timid though compared to the rest of the Xmas stuff in the other parks wow factor :goodvibes

[petals]

Day 2, part 6:

This trip report is going to be alot longer than I thought! Part 6 of first park day and i'm not finished yet. Firing these up this week though for two reasons first the day 2 pics are all sitting in photobucket waiting for their story to be told and secondly I'm going back to college next week so won't have as much time to update as often and another 14 days to get through so lots of Xmassy Disney fun for a while :goodvibes

Anyways back to trip report
After parade we headed down to Camp Minnie Mickey to meet a few friends and Camp Minnie Mickey was of course decorated for Xmas.
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There was loads of Christmas trees there hence the land of 555 Christmas trees title for this update (although there may not have technically been 555 Christmas trees but there was alot for one area of the park :) ) There was basically a Christmas tree for many Disney characters:
Chip and Dale:
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Meeko:
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Pocahontas:
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Pluto:
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I guess Country bears?
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Nemo:
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The Lion King:
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No idea but hey it's another Xmas tree:
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Lilo:
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and finally ( for now) Stitch:
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Next up Visiting old friends and the white bus!

[afwdwfan]

This trip report is going to be alot longer than I thought!
I know what you mean. I started writing up more of my TR in Word today and ended up with about 3 pages for not quite all of day 1. I'm going to have to do some edit work so that I don't bore everyone.:lmao::rotfl2:

Next up Visiting old friends and the white bus!

uh oh... not the blue bus???

Thanks for posting the pictures of the trees. We didn't get to spend a lot of time in Camp Minnie Mickey. That was something I was really looking forward to.

[jenseib]

I love those trees. I hope to someday see them!

[Caretames1]

Wouldn't you just like to do a tree like Disney does? I'm so not creative, but it would be cool to have that.

[petals]

I know what you mean. I started writing up more of my TR in Word today and ended up with about 3 pages for not quite all of day 1. I'm going to have to do some edit work so that I don't bore everyone.:lmao::rotfl2:
I'm just looking and Animal Kingdom was one of the days I prob took less pics so if that's like seven chapters long how long will the other days be :rotfl: Yay holding on to disney trip for lots of time to come :)

uh oh... not the blue bus???
Ah you'll have to wait and see where that story came from! :goodvibes I might get it posted tomorrow though.

Thanks for posting the pictures of the trees. We didn't get to spend a lot of time in Camp Minnie Mickey. That was something I was really looking forward to.
No bothers. I loved all the trees and xmas characters


I love those trees. I hope to someday see them!

Wouldn't you just like to do a tree like Disney does? I'm so not creative, but it would be cool to have that.

Those trees are amazing and the ones at the park entrances are just Huge! I so want a disney tree!

[petals]

Day 2, part 7:

So while we were wandering Camp Minnie Mickey I decided to go off and visit some old friends. Momma won't do character pics so she went off to find a bench to rest on. I went along first to see the number one duck:
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In line for Donald there was a little one and her nanny. She must have only been about three if even but when I got to the top of the line Donald had to go for a snack and this little one thought he was going home and tried to follow him. I let her go ahead of me when he came back and while she was waiting she amused herself with the buttons which were all disney characters on my crocs!
Of course each of the Camp Minnie Mickey characters had their own Christmas trees as well. This was Donald's:
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Next up was Thumper. I was super excited about him because last year I saw Miss Bunny and Thumper but Thumper went in for carrots just before I went to meet them and only Miss Bunny came out so this year I got his furry self:
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After Thumper I finally got my Santa Goofy picture I had been wanting all day:
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The pictures from Santa Goofy seemed a bit weird to me because they are all off centre but what I didn't cop was there was a sleigh to the side of Santa Goofy. It's not really good in any of my pics so maybe photopass ones will be better whenever they arrive. Goofy of course had his Christmas tree as well:
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One of the good things about going to Disney without kids is the ability to slow things down and not rush to rides and whatever and take in what is around us and this includes watching people and sometimes over-hearing conversations that you really don't want to be listening to. In line for Minnie Mouse was a prime example of this as the couple behind me were rowing. he had been naughty and had been texting his old girlfriend and she had been looking through his phone catching him at this. Bad argument to be having in Minnie line. For some reason I don't have the Minnie pic on photobucket but I do have her Christmas tree:
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Also in the Minnie and Mickey lines they had these super cute bird houses in the trees which again I want one for my garden:
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Of course I couldn't leave Camp Minnie Mickey without visiting the best Mouse in the World:
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He had his own Christmas tree as well:
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After that we went to Festival of the Lion King and were in the giraffe section:
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Last time I went to FOTLK they took in Simba and Pumba at the end before the audience left but this time they left them out so people could take pics with them. Of course Happy snappy got pics:
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One thing I did notice as well was the all the park hours had changed from what was on the time sheets the week before I went over. When I had been planning it said Animal Kingdom would be open until 7 but when we got there they said it was open until 8. So after the Lion King we were going to go to Finding Nemo but when we read the times the shows stopped at 6 and it was only really coasters that were on until park close. We stopped at Flame Tree Barbecue for some food before we decided to head back towards Epcot for our hotel bus. I was keeping all the receipts for trip report purposes really but later on when I was back at the hotel I noticed the Flame Tree Barbecue receipt had a voucher on the end. You could get 20% off your purchases if you bought them before 12 noon in Mouse Gear in Epcot, Mickey's of Hollywood or Keystone Clothier in DHS, Island Mercentile at Animal Kingdom, The Emporium in Magic Kingdom and World of Disney at DTD and it was up until January 2nd. I thought it was cool and kinda made us keep watching all our receipts from then on!
Anyway that was a side note before we left Animal Kingdom we went to Lost and found because we still had the autograph book from the parade time and we went along and explained to the CM where we had found it and he told us that the lady had come in looking for it and he had her details so could now get it sent to her hotel for her. We were super happy about that because the little one was so sweet sharing her toys with Momma.

When we got to Epcot it was about 7.30 and our bus wasn't until 9. We didn't really want to go into the park so we sat on a bench watching Beethoven's Christmas movie on my ipod while we were waiting. At one point we decided to move from the bench over to our bus stop. So our hotel had given us a letter saying our bus stop was at Lane C 21 great! So we went to find lane 21... yeah it doesn't exist anymore because now the lanes are 25-52! Eh where's our bus going to be?

So we were standing obviously looking a bit lost and confused because the security guard came over to ask us if we needed help and we told him about our bus and asked were lane 21 would be. He added up and figured it would probably be lane 45. He said he would check though because he had a folder in his office with all the hotel buses and what lane they would be in so he asked what hotel which we told him then he said and what colour is your bus. Momma went It was white! at the same time that I went Blue! and we got a confused look from the security guard. Momma kept going it was white I'm sure it was white. I was like eh nope it was navy blue and security guard eventually went yeah the bus for that hotel is normally blue! :rotfl:
He eventually confirmed that it was lane 45 and we did manage to get our big white-blue bus but from then on everytime I saw the bus coming I'd go joking Look Momma the big white Disney bus is coming! :rotfl: It's also where the title option "All aboard the big white bus for Nov/Dec trip report" came from!

And that was Day 2! The park crowds didn't really bother us for Black Friday and only wait time I noticed although we didn't go on it was Everest was 45 minute wait time.


Next up My Magical Happy place I am back!!!

[jenseib]

I love all the little trees. I hope someday to see them for myself :thumbsup2

[afwdwfan]

It looks like you had a good time meeting the characters. I really wish we had made it that far before nap time... :rotfl2:

I'm glad you were able to find the right bus so that you could get back to your hotel.:rotfl:

Those 20% coupons were nice to have. We noticed them and made use of them. Just shows you how much they mark everything up to begin with though.

[petals]

I love all the little trees. I hope someday to see them for myself :thumbsup2

Good excuse to go! :) I want to get back to Disney asap :goodvibes

It looks like you had a good time meeting the characters. I really wish we had made it that far before nap time... :rotfl2:

I'm glad you were able to find the right bus so that you could get back to your hotel.:rotfl:

Those 20% coupons were nice to have. We noticed them and made use of them. Just shows you how much they mark everything up to begin with though.

I loved the characters in their Xmas outfits. When I went up to Minnie she was dancing to the Xmas music in the background they were really cute in the Xmas outfits though.

Bus was confusing but I thought it was funny with the white bus!

I loved those vouchers we saved so much and could then buy so much more :rotfl:

[archdandy]

I loved all the different tree's at AK! I wish I could have been there for Christmas! I can't wait to read the rest of your trip.

[petals]

I loved all the different tree's at AK! I wish I could have been there for Christmas! I can't wait to read the rest of your trip.

There's loads more to come :goodvibes I just put the Day 3 pics back on the computer to edit them and so far there's 187 but I know there's few on the video camera I need to grab for the story as well :littleangel: and yeah Everyone should visit Disney at Christmas time it's just amazing!

[Caretames1]

That would have been so neat to have the chance to photgraph the FOTLK floats after the show!


And people arguing in line to so dumb! Go home and fight, I'm here to enjoy my day!

[petals]

That would have been so neat to have the chance to photgraph the FOTLK floats after the show!
I know I've never seen them leave them out like that before. Was totally cool!

And people arguing in line to so dumb! Go home and fight, I'm here to enjoy my day!
Defo there should be rule no arguing in character line!
The Lady did tell her other half she was done with the trip and wanted to go home now but like hello xmas minnie is in front of you smile and be happy:goodvibes

[amandaw]

Joining in to hear about your Disney adventure! popcorn::

Great start so far! :thumbsup2

[petals]

Joining in to hear about your Disney adventure! popcorn::

Great start so far! :thumbsup2

Welcome :flower3: and Thank you.



There'll be more soon I'm not sure when though. I'm waitinf for photopass to arrive to start my dvd making of the holiday and I'll have more pics from the video then no doubt :)
Tomorrow I go back to college though so life is back to busy. Have two essays to do which </start rant> I really don't see why they are part of our course considering our course is Radio and Television production and in Radio and Television all scripts are kept as short as possible so I'll never be writing 3000 word essays and wonder what i'm gaining by doing them for the course </end rant> And I'm back to dancing soon :dance3:

[amandaw]

Welcome :flower3: and Thank you.



There'll be more soon I'm not sure when though. I'm waitinf for photopass to arrive to start my dvd making of the holiday and I'll have more pics from the video then no doubt :)
Tomorrow I go back to college though so life is back to busy. Have two essays to do which </start rant> I really don't see why they are part of our course considering our course is Radio and Television production and in Radio and Television all scripts are kept as short as possible so I'll never be writing 3000 word essays and wonder what i'm gaining by doing them for the course </end rant> And I'm back to dancing soon :dance3:

Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of DIS fun? :rotfl: I know I do! And I don't blame you one bit about your rant! I'd feel the same way about a 3000 word essay. Best of luck with it!

[petals]

Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of DIS fun? :rotfl: I know I do! And I don't blame you one bit about your rant! I'd feel the same way about a 3000 word essay. Best of luck with it!

I just think they're pointless considering the idea of the course is to train us for the radio and television industry and nowhere in that industry will I have to write a 3000 word essay! :rolleyes:

[petals]

This week has been zzzzzz! It's been so hard to get back into things and I'm pretty sure I've missed morning train all but one morning :lmao: January is a crappy time for our family anyway as we have family anniversary's in January. It's my dad's anniversary today! I was also having chest pains and I've so far written 100 words of my first 3000 word essay :rolleyes: but whatever! What I did do was more important because I edited pics for another update... see next post. One good thing my lecturer is unknownly incouraging my photo addiction :) He said we should take photos of everything we do and have camera with us at all times (like I need incouragement) My class couldn't get over the 3000 pics and think I'm obsessed and couldn't believe I wouldn't be the only adult as crazy into disney and queuing for characters as me!

I still don't have photopass cd

and I still can't get my Magic in the streets cd to play in my computer :(

[petals]

Day 3, Part 1:
Saturday 26th November 2011

Anyone thinking of going in November/December this year this day was obviously falling in Thanksgiving weekend and there was no Christmas party on in the park but there was a few surprises throughout the day so if you didn't want to shell out extra money for the Christmas party this might be a good day to visit the parks?!

Anyways we got up early. Our hotel had two bues to the parks in the morning one at 8.30am and one at 12.30. We got the early one all the time for obvious reasons. We went out to reception and pretty soon our big white-blue bus arrived to take us to the land where dreams come true and this morning I was super excited because I was going to my uber magical happy place! We got to Epcot shortly after 9 and took the Monorail to Ticket and Transportation centre:
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Quick stop for a pic:
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and then in our own Disney tradition we got the Ferryboat over to the most Magical Kingdom on earth (probably) for the first time this trip:
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first view of Mickey's house:
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Soon we arrived at my magical happy place (it was a quarter to ten when we arrived I zoomed in on the clock :) ):
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We went around the corner and little miss snappy here got way overwhelmed! So many decorations, I was in my happy place, so many lights, I was in my happy place, what direction to go first, I was in my happy place! *runs around in excited circles to wear down excitement.* and then cue alot of picture taking:
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I like how I got a little rainbow in the corner of this pic:
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One of first things I noticed about Magic Kingdom was no 45 ft Christmas tree this year. Instead was this:
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It was still cute though! And then Lookie the castle through all those wreaths:
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MOMMA WE'RE IN THE MAGICAL PLACE WHERE ALL WORRIES GO AWAY!!! Before I had a melt down I took Momma's ticket because she won't queue for characters and went off to get these fastpasses:
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Then in order to calm down and try decide what direction to go in next we headed for the Emporium:
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I took that pic and then heard music start outside so ran out to see these guys:
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Doesn't the lady with the green skirt on the end look like she has no feet in that pic! but yay another disney ambition filled. I'd never seen them before and hoped to see them and was not expecting them to be out then but there ya go. When they finished we went back inside to finish looking and picture taking:
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See the Mickey Mouse that was the Christmas outfit for 2011 on the plushies. I then took pictures of some of the cute window displays:
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Again when I was looking up park hours it said Magic Kingdom would be open this day until 10pm but when we got the park times on the day it said the park was going to be open until 12am! So I left the decision on how long we stayed with Momma as it would determine the rest of the evening. We could get taxi back to hotel or else leave park early and get our hotel bus at 10.30. I left her to think that over for a while and we headed up towards the hub:
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my artsy pic:
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Next up Shake your tail feather!

[amandaw]

I love Christmas time at Disney! Isn't it the best?

I wonder why they didn't have the big tree up at the front. :confused3

Can't wait to hear what all you did in MK!

[Caretames1]

I may be wrong, but I think the big wasn't there because they take it down for the parade taping the first weekend in December. Maybe the little tree was there as decor until then?


Nice decor photos! I can't wait until I can see it for myself. Good catch on the singers!

[afwdwfan]

That's right. The big tree goes up after they film the parade. We didn't get to see it either.

Great pictures. I always love that first moment when you arrive in the Magic Kingdom. Such a great feeling.

[amandaw]

I may be wrong, but I think the big wasn't there because they take it down for the parade taping the first weekend in December. Maybe the little tree was there as decor until then?


Ahhh....that makes sense. Thanks for the info! My family does the 2nd week in December, so I've always seen it up. Didn't think about the parade.

[petals]

I love Christmas time at Disney! Isn't it the best?

I wonder why they didn't have the big tree up at the front. :confused3

Can't wait to hear what all you did in MK!

I know everything was so pretty.

I have many pictures from Magic Kingdom. Waiting for my photopass to start my dvd and put the video on the computer. I can do first few updates but need pics from the video for one of them because something happened that distracted my picture taking but I caught the start of it on video. :goodvibes

I may be wrong, but I think the big wasn't there because they take it down for the parade taping the first weekend in December. Maybe the little tree was there as decor until then?


Nice decor photos! I can't wait until I can see it for myself. Good catch on the singers!

Ah you'll have to wait and see on the big Christmas tree :)

I found that I'd seen all the pictures of the castle etc in advance and they were wow and the videos made me cry but when you are standing there in front of it it's just out of this world!

I wanted to see those singers and didn't really expect them to be there I just heard the music and took off with Momma trailing behind I hoped! :rotfl:

That's right. The big tree goes up after they film the parade. We didn't get to see it either.

Great pictures. I always love that first moment when you arrive in the Magic Kingdom. Such a great feeling.
Thanks..

Again wait and see on the big Christmas tree! ;) I was just expecting it to be there and was slightly deflated for about 2 seconds because it wasn't!

[lovethattink]

Wasn't there a tree near the castle? My memory is terrible. Guess I'm going to have to wait and see...

[petals]

Wasn't there a tree near the castle? My memory is terrible. Guess I'm going to have to wait and see...

Nope all that was near the castle was alot of Poinsetta's the castle stage had a few Christmas trees but no 45ft tree like the other parks!

[petals]

I've spent the day studying for what will be a third of my essay and my head hurts now so have an update :)

Day 3, Part 2:

This will be mainly pictures but I'm sure you won't mind.
Once we made our way to the hub and I amused myself with picture taking we decided to wait for the first Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it Street Party of the day before our next destination so it began and there was much shaking of tail feathers and picture taking:
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I learned from other trip reports that if you stand in certain places you get pretty pictures with the castle in the background so I moved from one side of the street to the other and then took these:
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All the while Momma's job was to watch the time so we would make it to our next destination on time. So she started saying we need to go as the street party started to leave. Uh huh just a few more pics and we'll go:
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Next up Lunchtime with some friends

[lovethattink]

Great pics of Move it, shake it parade!

[amandaw]

Great pics! I'll have to remember that spot for parades to get the castle in the background. :thumbsup2 That's if my son will actually let me watch a parade. :laughing:

[petals]

Great pics of Move it, shake it parade!

Thanking you :)

Great pics! I'll have to remember that spot for parades to get the castle in the background. :thumbsup2 That's if my son will actually let me watch a parade. :laughing:

Thank you :)

We normally stood with our backs to the castle every other year until I saw the trip report pics. I dunno why but I never really copped if I turn around I could get the castle in the background of the parade pics :goodvibes

Move it Shake it parade should be fun for him though because he'll get to dance with the characters. Tell him Woody wants to dance with him :)

[amandaw]

Move it Shake it parade should be fun for him though because he'll get to dance with the characters. Tell him Woody wants to dance with him :)

I'll tell him that & see if he'll stay for the parade then. Normally, when he finds out a parade is about to happen he starts complaining that he just wants to do rides. Typical male. :lmao:

[Caretames1]

Love all the pictures! We saw the Move it Shake it parade like 3 times in one day in Jan! And took photos everytime!:lmao:

Where's lunch!!

[petals]

I'll tell him that & see if he'll stay for the parade then. Normally, when he finds out a parade is about to happen he starts complaining that he just wants to do rides. Typical male. :lmao:

But parades are fun! :)

Love all the pictures! We saw the Move it Shake it parade like 3 times in one day in Jan! And took photos everytime!:lmao:

Where's lunch!!
I think Move it, shake it and the dream along with mickey show is on so often everytime you cross the park via the hub you end up seeing one of them :goodvibes

I'll try do lunch update laters back to college tomorrow and won't be able to do another update until next weekend at least :scared1:

[MEK]

I totally missed all those cute little christmas trees when I was at AK. I bummed. How cute. I just never made it to that part of the park.

Your story about the white bus is pretty funny! :rotfl:Glad you cleared that up for momma!

Lovely pictures of the MK. What a beautiful day. I am really enjoying all your pics!

[jenseib]

I love the parades. I could take pictures of them every day and never get tired of it.

[petals]

I totally missed all those cute little christmas trees when I was at AK. I bummed. How cute. I just never made it to that part of the park.
They were all at camp Minnie Mickey. I loved how there was so many themed to all the characters. I could imagine all the characters let loose to decorate their trees :)

Your story about the white bus is pretty funny! :rotfl:Glad you cleared that up for momma!
Yeah I thought that was funny. I have no idea what made her miss the colour of the bus in the morning. I'd say she was prob thinking of the bus we got from Epcot to Animal Kingdom. That was white ish with a bit of purple and red :rotfl:

Lovely pictures of the MK. What a beautiful day. I am really enjoying all your pics!
Thanks. I have loads more :rotfl:

I love the parades. I could take pictures of them every day and never get tired of it.
Me to and then I video as well and take more pictures off the video camera :goodvibes

[petals]

Okie I sorted the video pics for Magic Kingdom so all pics ready to have their story told for Day 3! Strange thing when I was looking at tapes from the holiday I know the first day I went under the arch I had the camera on and lens cover off and recording from the time we came round the corner until we got under the arch and yet on the tape there's a minute of blue screen and it starts at Safari. The arch is totally missing :confused3 may get it next time :goodvibes Anyways one more update before I go back to college tomorrow:

Day 3, Part 3:

When we got to Magic Kingdom the main reason we didn't want to go to far away from the Hub was because we had an early lunch reservation here:
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As the Move it, shake it parade moved off we had just enough time to cross the bridge to Crystal Palace and check in for lunch. We got our pager:
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and then waited about ten more minutes before they started letting people in. Our lunch was at 11.35 so they were clearing the place after breakfast before they let anyone in. Result being when they called our name we were first into the section they were putting us sitting at. Our waitress was Cindy she brought drinks quickly and then largely stayed away which Momma was happy with :goodvibes She did come back once or twice to check everything was ok but didn't bug Momma like the guy in Tusker.
I had this t-shirt on today which proved to be a good interaction point as well:
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Being first in as well we got our first visitor very quickly as Piglet came straight over and he loved the t-shirt as his best friend was on it:
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and Eeyore followed close behind:
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how cute is his tail hanging behind him:
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After Eeyore there was no sight of Pooh bear or Tigger and Cindy confirmed they wouldn't be there for a while so we headed off to the buffet. My plate:
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I think the mac and cheese and meatballs were from the kids section but they suited me better than the choice on the adult section at the time. I think when I went up some of the selection for adults wasn't out yet because Momma did get steak which I didn't see at all but she was behind me a good bit. Only negative I had about it though was the Broccoli was very spicy!
Anyway Momma's first plate:
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and her second plate:
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This meal was a major hit with Momma because it was "proper" food as she deems it potatoes and veg in other words and plenty of it.
The place was a bit slow at filling up and Piglet paid us a second visit. Momma refused to get into a picture with Piglet (busy eating) so Piglet kissed her head and made her pay attention to him. Eeyore came back to us as well. He seemed confused as to what tables he had already been at because he pointed to the autograph book to see if we wanted him to sign. :confused3
After a while we did get more visitors first Tigger:
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Tigger did not like my T-shirt and was pointing to himself so I told him I would buy one of him later and this made him happier.
Our next visitor was the Tubbie little Cubbie himself and he loved my T-shirt of course:
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I was watching as Tigger went around he kept stealing people's hats and putting them on for the pictures and I also took this pic which I thought was funny:
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Looks like Winnie the Pooh decided to have some lunch with some guy. I guess maybe his friends were at the buffet. It looked funny though.
We did go for dessert at some stage as well. There wasn't much there that I wanted dessert wise but my plate:
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Those little things with chocolate in the middle had a kind of chocolate hazelnut filling and were super yummy and i could have had many more.
Momma's dessert plate:
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I know we had a bowl of ice-cream between us as well but there's no pic of that for some reason.
Momma's verdict on it was the lunch at Crystal Palace was worth the money but Tusker house breakfast wasn't but hey one win is good enough for me for now :) Crystal Palace didn't feel as rushed as our other character dining experiences either so major :thumbsup2 for Crystal Palace.
Before we left I went off to take pictures of the toparies as well. Those things are amazing they are totally made out of flowers (except the hats and scarves obv: )
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Next up Time to dream along with the mouse!

[amandaw]

Sounds like it was a really great lunch with some great interaction! I've been wanting to try Crystal Palace & had been fixed on doing breakfast there. But, I think I would definitely consider it for lunch after reading your review! :thumbsup2

[kaileighbug]

Great update....now I am hungry. Just found your trip report and enjoying it so far.

[afwdwfan]

I always enjoy Crystal Palace. The character experiences there are usually very good. I'm glad the server was more in line with your momma's desires than the one from Tusker House. :lmao:

[petals]

Sounds like it was a really great lunch with some great interaction! I've been wanting to try Crystal Palace & had been fixed on doing breakfast there. But, I think I would definitely consider it for lunch after reading your review! :thumbsup2

Lunch was good there. Lots of choice and definately more worth the price than the breakfast at tusker. Maybe I've a soft spot for the Tubbie little cubbie but i enjoyed the lunch there more than Tusker.

Great update....now I am hungry. Just found your trip report and enjoying it so far.

Welcome:flower3: and thanks

I always enjoy Crystal Palace. The character experiences there are usually very good. I'm glad the server was more in line with your momma's desires than the one from Tusker House. :lmao:
I love the Winnie the Pooh characters. Tigger and Eeyore are two of my fave characters.
Yeah the server pretty much left us alone for the meal which was good. :goodvibes

[momabaarjo]

Sorry I have been missing for so long....I am so loving your pictures and realizing there was a whole bunch that I meant to take and forgot!

Your poor momma...first the waiter at Tusker house and then that nasty fat bird!

I am sorry you did not get to see Lily...is seemed a lof the animals during our day at AK did not feel in the Christmas spirit and want to show themselves. I love you super cool disney food...be brought home a lot of those boxes trying to use up snack credits for presents for friends. I will have to live the parades through you because my family was never interested! I missed the trees at AK...by the time we got to Camp Minnie and Mickey the crowd level was so awful that I just gave up!

Hope things are starting off well with school!

[petals]

Sorry I have been missing for so long....I am so loving your pictures and realizing there was a whole bunch that I meant to take and forgot!

Your poor momma...first the waiter at Tusker house and then that nasty fat bird!

I am sorry you did not get to see Lily...is seemed a lof the animals during our day at AK did not feel in the Christmas spirit and want to show themselves. I love you super cool disney food...be brought home a lot of those boxes trying to use up snack credits for presents for friends. I will have to live the parades through you because my family was never interested! I missed the trees at AK...by the time we got to Camp Minnie and Mickey the crowd level was so awful that I just gave up!

Hope things are starting off well with school!

Momma had a bad morning in Animal Kingdom! I don't think she was to upset though in the end.

I was afraid of that happening crowd wise with Camp Minnie Mickey alot of people seemed to be heading that way after the parade but they must have gone to FOTLK because besides the mice the other lines were fairly short for characters.

I thought the boxes of sweets were cute. I wanted to seven dwarves one but when I went to buy them there was none :(

We actually started college in September but we had from 15th Dec until 9th Jan off. This week we're in television studio and we've about another month or so lectures then it's work experience and projects. There's two essays due up as well which as I posted before I have issue with. Our lecturer said we should start a webpage to show what we do though. I started messing with a blog. I don't know how much I want to share though lol. I'll prob blab about Disney a bit for something to fill it up for a while lol Clickie (http://www.petals3485corner.blogspot.com/) if you want a lookie

[jenseib]

I love Crystal Palace as well. Glad you BOTH had a good time and good food!

[Caretames1]

I'm glad you (and your Mom:thumbsup2) enjoyed the Crystal Palace! We love it there, and honestly after doing both breakfast and dinner, I'd do both again.

Your desert plate looks so good to me! The little things with chocolate look the best!

[petals]

I love Crystal Palace as well. Glad you BOTH had a good time and good food!

Yeah I loved it and Momma liked it. Plus we got to see Eeyore finally and not just take a pic from a distance :goodvibes

I'm glad you (and your Mom:thumbsup2) enjoyed the Crystal Palace! We love it there, and honestly after doing both breakfast and dinner, I'd do both again.

Your desert plate looks so good to me! The little things with chocolate look the best!

I would defo do it again! Those chocolate things were yummy. I kinda want one now :goodvibes

[petals]

Allow me to interrupt this trip report to say I have found the man of my dreams :rotfl:
So went along to Disney shop (an excellent way to kill time) yesterday and they had new Vinylmation and dolls and muppets and woah I want one of everything.
I did take a pic of the window display:
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I went back today to get some Vinylmations and the CM that served me I all but asked him to marry me (not really but I thought it :lmao:) First he asked if I was a collector of the Vinyls I was like yeah. He said in their merchandise room they have a display of all Vinyls for sales purposes only but they are all there including chasers and he said he dreams of owning it one day but says it'll prob never happen. He then asked if I'd ever been to the parks and got any there. I was like I've been 5 times. He said he went in September and the Halloween stuff was out he said one day park was normal and next it was Halloween in the park and it was brilliant cue excited child here going omg I went in November/December last year and everything was done for Christmas and OMG the castle it was just amazing. He was like that castle is wonderful. Love the whole conversation :)


And just for fun as well. I started playing with a blog and couldn't decide what to write. So when stuck go back to disney Clickie (http://petals3485corner.blogspot.com/2012/01/animal-kingdom.html)

[momabaarjo]

Hmmmmm....I now see yet another reason for you to visit that Disney Store (which everytime you show me the displays tells me I need to make a trip across the pond)...

[petals]

Hmmmmm....I now see yet another reason for you to visit that Disney Store (which everytime you show me the displays tells me I need to make a trip across the pond)...

I could be wrong but I'm guessing they're going to change the window display every month to suit the princess. If so I want a pic of all of them :)

The Loves disney guy told me there was a charm bracelet and for each princess month there would be a different set of charms for the princess of the month. Cute idea.

[petals]

Day 3, Part 4:
So when we left Crystal Palace the Move it, Shake it parade was going on around the hub again. Momma and I stopped to get some photopass pics because we saw a lone photographer standing nearby CP and I had told Momma since it's paid for already make everyone of them we see take pics of us :rotfl:
I'm trying to remember if Momma went to first aid at this stage as well. I know she went in for plasters at one point and had to sign a book to say why she had visited first aid but i don't remember when she went. Anyway we headed over to the hub to get closer to the castle just as the Move it, Shake it parade was moving off so I got these pics:
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Then we went up to stand in front of castle and take pretty pics. Can never have to many pics of the castle:
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Soon enough the Dream along with Mickey show started. Only difference between 2010 and 2011 was in 2010 the main characters were in blue outfits and 2011 they were in original colours but shiny! I recorded it (i think) because in 2010 tape ran out during the show and Momma was nowhere to be seen with the other tapes. I also took many pics of course:
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(evil woman trying to take over the kingdom---yes I am reading Kingdom keepers :) )
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(Are the princes triplets? )
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After the castle show we headed back down main street towards the exit but skipping into the Bakery for some seasonal food pics on the way:
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I so want one of those apples but just can't bring myself to spend 10 dollars on an apple.
Just before the hub as well there is a board that has wait times of the major attractions in each area and I noticed at that point which was about 1:45 ish wait time for Peter Pan was 65 minutes and wait time for Winnie the Pooh was 60 minutes. I don't think I've ever seen WtP with a 60 minute wait time! The Park seemed to be getting busier and busier as the day went on.




Next up Yes I should be a Princess!

[Caretames1]

Mmmmm, Main Street bakery photos! I need, I need! LOL

[petals]

Mmmmm, Main Street bakery photos! I need, I need! LOL

I know they look yummy and cute all at once but sooooooooo expensive that makes my head confused :goodvibes

[amandaw]

Great pics of the show! And those bakery pics are especially great & yummy! My DH loves candy apples...but I'm with you - I can't see spending $10 on an apple. :eek: He's already let me know that he is getting an apple when we return this December. :rolleyes:

[petals]

Just for fun i did another disney related blog post as well Clickie (http://www.petals3485corner.blogspot.com/2012/01/animal-kingdom-in-holiday-season.html)

Great pics of the show! And those bakery pics are especially great & yummy! My DH loves candy apples...but I'm with you - I can't see spending $10 on an apple. :eek: He's already let me know that he is getting an apple when we return this December. :rolleyes:

Thanks. I love that show.

Why do the apples have to be so expensive. It's not like the ingredients cost alot apple, marshmallow, chocolate, sugary stuff :rotfl: There's cheaper yummy options out there. One apple is more expensive than some of the meals at the quick service restaurants like :rotfl:

[amandaw]

Just for fun i did another disney related blog post as well Clickie (http://www.petals3485corner.blogspot.com/2012/01/animal-kingdom-in-holiday-season.html)



Thanks. I love that show.

Why do the apples have to be so expensive. It's not like the ingredients cost alot apple, marshmallow, chocolate, sugary stuff :rotfl: There's cheaper yummy options out there. One apple is more expensive than some of the meals at the quick service restaurants like :rotfl:

First of all....very nice blog with great pics!

And that is so true about the apples costing more than a QS meal! Never thought of it that way.

I saw in an earlier post that you're reading the Kingdom Keepers series. Is it any good? I love, love, loved the Harry Potter series; have read the Twilight books (thought they were ok) and loved the Hunger Games series - so I do like some young adult series. But, I've been wondering if Kingdom Keepers is really good or if would be "too young" for me. :confused3

[jenseib]

those apples look wonderful...I must get one some time.

[blessedmom4]

Oh Emma..LOVE your pictures! And it sounds like you have found a good man...at least he likes Disney! :goodvibes I love the charm idea, how fun! Still need a picture of you know what....:rolleyes1

[weezy26nm]

Before I had a melt down I took Momma's ticket because she won't queue for characters and went off to get these fastpasses:
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I didn't even know these existed :scared1: Where do I go to get them?

[petals]

First of all....very nice blog with great pics!
Thanks you :)

And that is so true about the apples costing more than a QS meal! Never thought of it that way.
I only thought of that as I was posting that comment about them.

I saw in an earlier post that you're reading the Kingdom Keepers series. Is it any good? I love, love, loved the Harry Potter series; have read the Twilight books (thought they were ok) and loved the Hunger Games series - so I do like some young adult series. But, I've been wondering if Kingdom Keepers is really good or if would be "too young" for me. :confused3
I like younger books. I love Harry Potter and Twilight and I read a series called House of Night (vampires again.) I like Kingdom Keepers. I don't know if that's because I'm a disney fan or whether it's just good. I want the whole series though and I don't think it's too young but it depends on what you think is to young I suppose. Maybe try get the first one cheap off ebay and if you don't like that don't get anymore of them. I read the first one and wanted to know what happens next though so it might hook you in :)

those apples look wonderful...I must get one some time.
They do look so good. The snowman one was really cute. I think someone should have a word with Disney people about their prices though :rotfl:


Oh Emma..LOVE your pictures! And it sounds like you have found a good man...at least he likes Disney! :goodvibes I love the charm idea, how fun! Still need a picture of you know what....:rolleyes1
Thank you :)
Yeah he was nice. Think he might have freaked out if he knew what I was thinking though :rotfl:
The picture will come eventually. :goodvibes


I didn't even know these existed :scared1: Where do I go to get them?
They are in the corner to the left of Tony's as you're facing it. There's a wooden gate that says something about Bikes on it and the machines are just there hidden away. If that makes any sense.

[weezy26nm]

Thank you :flower3:

[petals]

Thank you :flower3:

No probs. They came in very handy esp for Princess line :)

[lovethattink]

Oh those bakery pictures!!! I can easily pass on the apples, but those are the best cupcakes!!! They taste so good!!! The only thing I don't like is that the icing stains the tongue and teeth temporarily. The cake on a stick look so cute! Like lollipops! But if I'm going to eat cake, I need LOTS of ICING!!!!!!

I shouldn't even be so enticed by the goodies. We just ate supper and I thought I was full.

[petals]

Oh those bakery pictures!!! I can easily pass on the apples, but those are the best cupcakes!!! They taste so good!!! The only thing I don't like is that the icing stains the tongue and teeth temporarily. The cake on a stick look so cute! Like lollipops! But if I'm going to eat cake, I need LOTS of ICING!!!!!!

I shouldn't even be so enticed by the goodies. We just ate supper and I thought I was full.

I think Disney goodies don't count. Even when you're full you've room for disney food :)

The cupcakes are yum defo

[petals]

I'm sick (again!) got another bad cold. I should be in bed but who wants another update :)

Day 3, Part 5:

So we were headed towards the exit but we weren't leaving any time soon I had some fast passes that were burning a hole in my pocket so we headed towards Town Square Theatre. As I was going in I noticed the wait time for the Princesses was 40 minutes and for Mickey Mouse was 5 minutes :scared1: That shocked me. Why wasn't Mickey's line as long as Princesses?!
Anyways Momma went to find a chair to rest on and I went to Princess line first with my fast pass and waited about ten minutes before I got in the room and up to Princesses.
First was Aurora
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She said she liked my t-shirt (see CP post) I told her I wore it because we had lunch with Pooh bear. I had pigtail plaits in my hair that day and she said she liked them and asked if my fairies did them for me. I told her I didn't have any fairies that I did them myself so she said she thought she should get me to do her hair. No problemo I accept the job :goodvibes
Then on to Belle:
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She made a mess of my autograph nearly! She asked my name and I guess was going to write my name instead of Belle but she made it very scribbly to cover up the mistake and it's barely noticable now :rotfl:
She said she had read books on calligraphy and they were great and asked what my favourite books were. I couldn't think so off the top of my head said Harry Potter. She said they were Chips favourite books as well.
Last but not least came Cinderella:
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She asked how far I came in my pumpkin. I said 9 hours flight from Ireland. She asked if I was a princess there and I said no so she said I should be a Princess and at that point totally won my affection forevermore as I responded Yes I should be a Princess!! :)
I left the Princess room circled back to front of the building and went to use my fast pass for the Mouse which I really didn't need to use because his line was so short anyway (poor Mickey :( )
I took some pics in the Queue first
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and soon enough I was getting hugs from my favourite Mouse:
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And again the t-shirt I had on got attention. The photopass lady thought it was cute that when I was standing to the left of Mickey it looked like Winnie the Pooh on my t-shirt was looking up at Mickey Mouse!
After having fun with the characters we went back out onto Main street to grab a good spot for the parade. I left Momma sitting and I took a few more scenery pics:
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We sat on the corner just opposite the emporium outside of the Confectionary shop and off to the left as we were sitting I was looking at a certain character who was just standing there in front of where you'd get the fast passes for Mickey and the Princesses and there was nobody but the CM near her. I watched for about 5 minutes and she was standing waiting and still nobody going over. I did notice a few other people watching her but nobody seemed sure if she was taking pics or what. So I grabbed the autograph book and camera and ran on over and Miss Practically Perfect in every way Mary Poppins was indeed waiting for people to come over to her:
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She was admiring my pins and asked which my favourite was. I said Mickey Mouse :) And when I went over to her all the other people that had been watching came over behind me everyone was waiting for someone else to make the first move :lmao:
Before the parade there was one of those high school marching bands out I took pics of course:
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Next up He's coming for me!

[amandaw]

You had some really fun meet & greets! Sadly, I've never met the princesses. And I don't guess I ever will since I only have a boy. But, that's ok, he tells me I'm a princess all the time & that he's a good knight there to save me from the bad guy (daddy). Poor Daddy always has to be the bad guy! :lmao:

When we were there in May, there was hardly any wait for Minnie & Mickey. I guess a lot of people still just don't know that's where they are now. :confused3 Which is fine by me, since we have to go see them every trip. :thumbsup2

[afwdwfan]

Nice day at MK! Looks like it must have been a bit crowded though with a 60 min wait on the board for Pooh.

Great use of FP to meet some characters. I don't know why anyone would want to wait 40 min to meet the princesses though when you can get an FP and do something else.

Sadly, I've never met the princesses. And I don't guess I ever will since I only have a boy.
Who says you can't go meet them on your own??? :confused3

Actually, I have pictures that were taken with Cinderella when I was probably about Reid's age. Apparently I had kind of a crush on her.:lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

[amandaw]

Who says you can't go meet them on your own??? :confused3

You're right....I guess I could! :thumbsup2


Actually, I have pictures that were taken with Cinderella when I was probably about Reid's age. Apparently I had kind of a crush on her.:lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

That's funny! I've asked Reid several times if he'd like to go meet the princesses. I usually get 1 of 3 responses:

1. No! Princesses are for girls. I'm a boy!
2. If I mention Belle, he gets a shy look, turns away & just "NO!"
3. He tells me he's afraid to meet Ariel because she might splash him with her tail. :confused3

[petals]

That last pic is very big :confused3 dunno why!

You had some really fun meet & greets! Sadly, I've never met the princesses. And I don't guess I ever will since I only have a boy. But, that's ok, he tells me I'm a princess all the time & that he's a good knight there to save me from the bad guy (daddy). Poor Daddy always has to be the bad guy! :lmao:

When we were there in May, there was hardly any wait for Minnie & Mickey. I guess a lot of people still just don't know that's where they are now. :confused3 Which is fine by me, since we have to go see them every trip. :thumbsup2
Is it because people don't know where he is? I thought he was less popular than the princesses and felt sorry. Wanted to give him extra hugs.

You should go alone to the princesses. Or tell him they said they wanted to meet your prince maybe then he'll go?

Nice day at MK! Looks like it must have been a bit crowded though with a 60 min wait on the board for Pooh.

Great use of FP to meet some characters. I don't know why anyone would want to wait 40 min to meet the princesses though when you can get an FP and do something else.

Who says you can't go meet them on your own??? :confused3

Actually, I have pictures that were taken with Cinderella when I was probably about Reid's age. Apparently I had kind of a crush on her.:lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

Yeah Magic Kingdom definately seemed to get busier as the day went on that day. I guess because it was open til midnight that day everyone went there when other parks closed or whatever. Maybe because it was weekend as well there was extra people there.

Fast passes are great idea for characters.


1. No! Princesses are for girls. I'm a boy!
2. If I mention Belle, he gets a shy look, turns away & just "NO!"
3. He tells me he's afraid to meet Ariel because she might splash him with her tail. :confused3
I like them especially the last one!

[Caretames1]

We still haven't made it into the new M&G area for the princesses and Mickey and Minnie. I wish we'd had made it for MNSSHP.

The school district I work for, the high school will be marching in Disney in April. One of my co-workers is excited for her son to be going, but so sad that she can't join him. I think that would be so fun!

[petals]

We still haven't made it into the new M&G area for the princesses and Mickey and Minnie. I wish we'd had made it for MNSSHP.

The school district I work for, the high school will be marching in Disney in April. One of my co-workers is excited for her son to be going, but so sad that she can't join him. I think that would be so fun!

The new meet and greet is cool and the little shop you come out in is cute although I didn't get any pics but it's full of Mouse themed items only.

We danced in the Magic Kingdom in 2005 and 2008 as part of Irish dancing school. We danced in Tomorrowland I think it was called Galaxtic theatre or something like that I believe it's gone now. But it's such an amazing experience. They told us we were "honoury cast members" for the day and of course you get to see a little bit of backstage. We saw where they had floats stored and where they let off the fireworks. They took us by bus from changing area to the stage area and at stage area first year Chip and Dale came back stage and some of the younger dancers were teaching them how to do the 1,2,3's which is basic irish dance step. It was really cute but we weren't allowed take pics backstage. I think it was 2005 they told us we broke park records because we were first group since Magic Kingdom had opened that managed to fill an outdoor venue and keep it full for the entire duration of the performance. They said most people just wander in and out of the venues like that but not ours and they said we were going to be in disney hall of fame with that. I dunno how true that was but that's what they told us. They also gave us an exclusive t-shirt and pin the first year and our dance teacher a banner and director mickey ears and the second year they gave us a different t-shirt and our dance teach got another set of ears and a performing mickey statue. It was brill. So yeah the marching bands must have so much fun as well :)

[petals]

Day 3, Part 6:

Part 6 and it's only 3 o'clock :lmao: and what does 3 o'clock mean in Magic Kingdom:
BALLOONS:
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No of course it was time for the Dream come true Parade and it wasn't raining this year. In 2010 when we saw this parade it poured rain but it was still fun anyways pics:
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Stitch was very naughty. A little girl beside me had a massive pink and white lollipop and he tried to steal it off her.
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I took that pic and then went to get one of Figaro and the goldfish but noticed this instead:
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It's a hidden partners statue :)
I should also remind you that I was wearing my tinkerbell pin lanyard with these two pins on along with others:
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So I was taking my pics and doing my video taping and then I noticed a certain villian scowling right at me:
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And then MOMMA HE'S COMING FOR ME!
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He came over and picked up my pins and started shaking his finger at them apparently he didn't like the Tinkerbell ones then he threw the pins back down and Mr. Smee picked them up and dropped them just as quick like they were to hot to touch. It was kinda a funny moment but also a first because we've never had characters interact with us like that in the parade before so was cool. :goodvibes
Anyway on with the parade pics:
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After the parade we hung around Main street for a while and I took more pics of the shop windows. Emporium was cute they had story of Mickey's Christmas Carol displayed in their windows:
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At 3.35 (park times are so handy to keep for trip reports) we watched the Dapper Dans. I was so excited bout this because I saw so many vids but never saw them for myself:
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They sang a good few songs and then posed for pics. Momma wasn't impressed by them. I thought they were great!



Next up Onwards for Adventure!

[amandaw]

Such fun parade interaction! :goodvibes And you got some really nice parade pictures, too! :thumbsup2

I also really like the pictures of the windows displays of Mickey's Christmas Carol. We love that movie.

[afwdwfan]

Wow, fun interactions during the parade. I've never really had any experiences like that either. That's some nice extra pixid dust! :thumbsup2

I'm glad that you were able to figure out that the 3 o'clock parade is at 3 o'clock! :lmao:

[jenseib]

Great shot of the Dapper Dans...we have never seen them either.....yet.

[petals]

Such fun parade interaction! :goodvibes And you got some really nice parade pictures, too! :thumbsup2

I also really like the pictures of the windows displays of Mickey's Christmas Carol. We love that movie.

I love disney parades. The interaction was fun though.. The blurrier pics were from the video camera!

I thought the window displays were cute. Wish they would bring that movie out on dvd over here. I haven't seen it for sale for years and would love a copy of it.

Wow, fun interactions during the parade. I've never really had any experiences like that either. That's some nice extra pixid dust! :thumbsup2

I'm glad that you were able to figure out that the 3 o'clock parade is at 3 o'clock! :lmao:
I think the t-shirt that was floating about the parks gave us the hint about the parade. You know the one with Goofy on wondering what tiem the parade is at.

It was a fun parade. I was videoing at the time and was like why does he seem to be looking at me and taping his hook at me oh cripes he's getting closer and all ya can hear in background is Momma laughing. :lmao:

Great shot of the Dapper Dans...we have never seen them either.....yet.
They were brill. They sang all Christmas songs for the season. I'd like to hear their halloween set as well. They got some dude out of crowd to sing with them as well and they posed for pics after.

[petals]

attempt number two at updating I actually typed this last night and deleted it by mistake! I'm sick I'm tired I need a disney trip this is next best thing:

Day 3, Part 7:
By the time the Dapper Dans were over Momma had decided we would stay until park close and get taxi back to the hotel :cheer2: so we headed off towards our next Adventure!
I'm alway trying to find things to do that we haven't done before in order to prove to Momma that there is a point in going to the same place 5 times and we hadn't really done most of the rides in Adventureland so we headed that way.
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We were crossing that bridge over to Adventureland and I had the video camera out in one hand still because I hadn't put it away after the Dapper Dans. I also had my camera in my hand and was linking arms with Momma on the other side when we came across ULTIMATE RUDE UNDISNEY LIKE GUY! We were walking along minding our own business and he literally plowed right through me so hard he nearly knocked me over, plus nearly knocked the stuff out of my hand and hurt my should in the process. Then I looked back because he had come from nowhere and he was throwing me the worst look imaginable as if I had done something wrong. I was shocked. Momma said I hadn't done anything because I was just walking in a straight line and he just plowed right through me. We weren't going to let the ultimate grump spoil our day though so we continued on towards the Jungle cruise to grab some fast passes.
The we went off to explore the Swiss Family tree house. I don't ever remember doing this and wait time was 0 minutes so win win for me. Momma said we did it in 1995 though! Whatever pics:
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I spy pretty castle :)
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I was daring mother to stand in front of the camel but don't think she trusted me:
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We then went off to do the new old tiki room:
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I loved the singing totem poles:
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Finally it was time to use our Jungle Cruise Fast passes. Wait time for the stand by line was 40 minutes. Momma said she liked the idea of fast passes and I had to agree :) We've never done this before so I found the guides jokes fairly amusing and seemed to be the only one on the boat laughing at them. Oh well! Pics:
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Plus we made it safely back to dry land just in time to head back towards the hub for something I had been waiting for since the you tube videos I saw last May made me cry!




Next up I made you smile!

[amandaw]

So sorry about the rude undisney like guy! :headache: I hate it when you have to deal with rude people anywhere, but especially at Disney!

I love the Jungle Cruise! I don't care how many times I ride it, I still laugh at all the jokes. :laughing:

[petals]

So sorry about the rude undisney like guy! :headache: I hate it when you have to deal with rude people anywhere, but especially at Disney!
He was really shocking because it was so unexpected and he really hurt my shoulder.

I love the Jungle Cruise! I don't care how many times I ride it, I still laugh at all the jokes. :laughing:

I was laughing but trying to keep it quiet because nobody else seemed to be laughing with me. :rotfl:

[afwdwfan]

He wasn't pushing a stroller was he? :rolleyes1 Just kidding, I'm pretty sure I didn't run anyone over while we were there. :lmao:

I'm sorry you had a rude guest experience. It seems there were a few of them around.

I always appreciate the puns on Jungle Cruise. I always laugh, but it usually right after I groan.:rotfl2::rotfl: Nothing like some cheesy puns to make things better.

I'm sorry you couldn't get your momma to stand by the camel. I can't believe she wouldn't trust you.:rolleyes1 :rotfl:

[petals]

He wasn't pushing a stroller was he? :rolleyes1 Just kidding, I'm pretty sure I didn't run anyone over while we were there. :lmao:

I'm sorry you had a rude guest experience. It seems there were a few of them around.
Nope no stroller. Maybe he had a row with his other half he seemed very huffy! :confused3

I always appreciate the puns on Jungle Cruise. I always laugh, but it usually right after I groan.:rotfl2::rotfl: Nothing like some cheesy puns to make things better.
I heard more groans than laughs on our cruise lol!

I'm sorry you couldn't get your momma to stand by the camel. I can't believe she wouldn't trust you.:rolleyes1 :rotfl:

I think she'd actually seen it spitting before I told her to stand in front of it. That or the wet patch on the ground might have given it away. I did trick her on another ride though (it pays to read about these things in advance :) )

[petals]

Are photopass usually really slow. I was looking on the order status it said I ordered it on the 8th it was shipped on the 13th and it not here yet. Maybe it's just international postage that's exceptionally slow :confused3 I'm like a child waiting for Christmas though waiting for this cd because i want to start my dvds and I left space in the facebook albums for photopass pics :rotfl:

So I'll treat yee to one more update before crazy starts again. I've been sick all week so didn't go to college and did no college work in my sickness I read Kingdom Keepers II instead :littleangel: So back to work tomorrow and have to edit the radio show and then have to spend next week catching up on the radio shows as I have material for 4 shows now and haven't done one and I also have to write another 2000 words of the first essay that is due up :scared1:

Anyways

Day 3, part 8:
We made it out to the hub on time to grab a good spot and I was literally bouncing with excitement. I'd seen videos of this in May and cried. I'd watched them randomly since then and got excited and cried and couldn't wait to see it for myself. Quick pic while I was waiting:
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Then the Move it, Shake it street party came along :rotfl: we may have got there a little early for the main event but whatever I finally got a good pic of Minnie in the street party :
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I got the Main mouse as well:
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I noticed that the mice don't get off the floats for the dance party as well which I thought was odd. Anyways once that drove/simmied/danced off it was time for the main event. I asked Momma if she wanted to get closer but she said no so she sat on the back of a bench in the hub but she said she could see anyway I just told her make sure you can see stage and castle she was happy enough. I went a little closer to get video and pics because it was time to light the castle (warning overload of castle photos coming up) :
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It was amazing and beautiful and I laughed and cried. The videos are great but there is nothing like seeing it for real. It was just outstanding and I went back to Momma once I had my fill of standing there gobsmacked and normally when I went back to her after these shows or whatever she would look a tad bit bored (prob of the waiting around more so although she doesn't have the same love of disney as i do) but this time she had the biggest smile on her face she thought it was gorgeous. Her comment was that she felt very lucky to have seen the castle lit up like that in person. We stood and gazed in wonder for a while longer before heading on to our next destination.



Next up I thought that was only for MVMCP!

[amandaw]

Awwww, that's so sweet that the castle lights made your mom smile! :goodvibes

Sounds like y'all had a really nice night!

[petals]

Awwww, that's so sweet that the castle lights made your mom smile! :goodvibes

Sounds like y'all had a really nice night!

The castle was gorgeous. Every where I walked in the park from that point onwards my head would swivel back to have another look at the castle. I think Momma wants someone to do our house like that next Christmas. I'm up for that :rotfl:

[lovethattink]

Looks like you were at a great spot for picture taking for the castle. Would you believe I missed that this year?! With Anakin's photosensitivity, we didn't get to see it. I'm never at a park without him. So it just didn't happen. :( So I am living vicariously through all the wonderful photos people have posted!!

It is an amazing thing see, and in person makes a huge difference!!

[amandaw]

The castle was gorgeous. Every where I walked in the park from that point onwards my head would swivel back to have another look at the castle. I think Momma wants someone to do our house like that next Christmas. I'm up for that :rotfl:

If you find someone to put up lights like that on your house, send them my way, too! :lmao: I love decorating the house for Christmas! :goodvibes

[petals]

Looks like you were at a great spot for picture taking for the castle. Would you believe I missed that this year?! With Anakin's photosensitivity, we didn't get to see it. I'm never at a park without him. So it just didn't happen. :( So I am living vicariously through all the wonderful photos people have posted!!

It is an amazing thing see, and in person makes a huge difference!!

The pictures are amazing but it's nothing like seeing it in real life ya should try sneek away and see it this year.

If you find someone to put up lights like that on your house, send them my way, too! :lmao: I love decorating the house for Christmas! :goodvibes

It'd be so pretty. The castle looks like it was dipped in sugar imagine your house looking like that! :goodvibes

[blessedmom4]

Dear Emma, Your TR is wonderful and I LOVE the pictures!!! The castle is GORGEOUS! Praying your weekend is nice and CALM!!!!

[petals]

Dear Emma, Your TR is wonderful and I LOVE the pictures!!! The castle is GORGEOUS! Praying your weekend is nice and CALM!!!!

Thanks. I'm still a bit sick but have work zzzzzzz!

[MEK]

I could have sworn I commented on your TR earlier this week. :confused3 I know the DIS has been acting weird. Maybe I just read before work one day and never got a chance to comment, but I remember thinking I commented that aurora looks likes she's on drugs or alcohol in that princess picture. :rotfl: Maybe just a terribly bad picture, but that bright red lipstick needs to go. :rotfl:

Your parade pictures are wonderful. Thanks for sharing all the pictures of the castle lighting. Just beautiful. I didnt actually get to the castle as it was lighting up in December and it looks so pretty!

[momabaarjo]

I hope you are feeling better and that Photopass CD has found its way to you!

I have to agree with you that the castle is amazing but covered with Christmas lights...it takes my breath away.

I think you should be a princess, too! Why is it that Aurora is not played by very pretty girls...all the other princesses look great. I had to :laughing: about the prince...yep looks like they are triplets to me, too!

Sorry about the yucky non Disney nice man who ran into you...seems like there were quite a bit out that needed a little Disney and holiday attitude adjustment!

[petals]

I could have sworn I commented on your TR earlier this week. :confused3 I know the DIS has been acting weird. Maybe I just read before work one day and never got a chance to comment, but I remember thinking I commented that aurora looks likes she's on drugs or alcohol in that princess picture. :rotfl: Maybe just a terribly bad picture, but that bright red lipstick needs to go. :rotfl:
I went back to look she does look a bit funny. I thought Cinderella this year wasn't as pretty as the one I saw in 2010 either but she won me over with her comment I should be a princess :rotfl:

Your parade pictures are wonderful. Thanks for sharing all the pictures of the castle lighting. Just beautiful. I didnt actually get to the castle as it was lighting up in December and it looks so pretty!
Thanks and it was gorgeous. I really can't get over how beautiful it was. There's loads more pictures to come as well. I took over 3000 I get a little snap happy when I get to disney. It's kind of like walk walk snap walk walk snap walk snap walk snap :rotfl:

I hope you are feeling better and that Photopass CD has found its way to you!
I'm better than I was last Monday but still sniffly. It just doesn't want to go away. No photopass CD yet. I'm hopeful it'll arrive next week and Monday hopefully when I'm off college! I left space in my facebook albums for some of those pics and I'm like a child at Christmas waiting for it :rotfl:

I have to agree with you that the castle is amazing but covered with Christmas lights...it takes my breath away.
Wasn't it gorgeous. Oh I want to be back in front of that castle right now. It's pretty all the time but Christmas with the lights it was like magical times a million!

I think you should be a princess, too! Why is it that Aurora is not played by very pretty girls...all the other princesses look great. I had to :laughing: about the prince...yep looks like they are triplets to me, too!
Next time I might get a tiara before I meet the princesses :) The princes do look like triplets especially Snow Whites prince and Cinderella's prince look the same in that pic. I wonder are they actually related!

Sorry about the yucky non Disney nice man who ran into you...seems like there were quite a bit out that needed a little Disney and holiday attitude adjustment!
There seemed to be a few people around like that when we were there though.

[jenseib]

I think your Momma is so funny. It's like she is daring you to prove to her that there is more to do and she is playing devils avocate.
Beautiful castle pictures. I sure hope to see this myself in Nov.!

[petals]

I think your Momma is so funny. It's like she is daring you to prove to her that there is more to do and she is playing devils avocate.
Beautiful castle pictures. I sure hope to see this myself in Nov.!

I'm always going on about disboards to her and trip reports and Disney, Disney, Disney and she gets sick listening to it sometimes. She always says she doesn't see the point in going back to the same place over and over but she goes she has fun and then swears she's never going again! But last two trips I have convinced her that there is lots that we haven't seen especially with Epcot.

The castle is so pretty. :lovestruc

[petals]

I should be in bed but was editing day 4 and 5 pics instead :goodvibes Disney is better than sleep anyway. I thought I might squeeze one more trip update in before I get into the essay tomorrow!

Day 3, part 9:
So after gazing at the most magical castle in the world for a while we headed over to Tomorrowland although I continued to crane my neck as far as I could because I just couldn't take my eyes off that amazing castle. We stopped along the way to take pics of these guys:
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I went to trade a vinlymation and noticed this dude popping out of the ceiling:
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Then I thought this event was meant to be for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party only but this was Saturday after Thanksgiving and The Tomorrowland Christmas show was on so we went to watch:
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The singer was overly perky like dipped in sugar fake perky but I liked the characters especially Stitch! My favourite quote from the show "Santa is big snitch who breaks into peoples houses and spies on children." I was taking video of the show as well as pictures and we had my bros video camera with us and apparently it had decided to lie to us because we had been using it on and off during the day but it said all during the show that it had a full battery so I kept taping but then just at the last song it died completely. How can it be full one minute and completely dead next. I was sad because I wanted to tape fireworks and MSEP and Magic Memories and you and from pre-planning the trip this would be the only chance to get MSEP and Wishes on tape this trip. At that point I was so disappointed and Momma's feet were getting so tired we started to talk about leaving earlier than planned!
While deciding we went to the laugh floor. I love that show it's so funny and I love how they pick on random audience members although I always pray it's not me lol:
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After the laugh floor Momma wanted some tea (note we hadn't eaten anything since Crystal Palace at lunch time) so we went to Tomorrowland Terrace Restaurant for something quick to eat while we tried to decide whether to leave or not. I don't remember if Momma got anything other than tea but I got a childs chicken nugget meal. I had started eating before I remembered to take a picture:
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There was a cookie with it as well:
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We decided to do one more "new" attraction before we made our decision. We wanted to go on the Peoplemover but it had a break down while we were waiting so we hopped out of the line and went to Carousel of Progress instead because we'd never seen that before either:
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It was kinda cute but there was a group of teenagers in the back talking and laughing loudly jeering what was being said basically which was kind of disturbing for anyone else trying to watch and listen to what was going on.
After that we headed back towards main street and I took one more pic on the way:
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Next up will we stay or will we go?

[afwdwfan]

I always love seeing the castle, but especially with the lights. It really is just an incredible sight the way they make that ice effect with all those lights on it.

It looks like you're having a lot of fun, and I'm glad you got to do Carousel of Progress for the first time. I always make time to see it, just because it has been there since the first time I went and it is one of those attractions with Walt's fingerprints all over it. It isn't anything extra special or exciting, but it just "is" Disney.

I'm sorry your momma's feet were getting sore. I hope you didn't have to leave early, but it might be for the best. You wouldn't want to miss things later in the week because she pushed it too far and suffered the rest of the trip.

[lovethattink]

OOOOHHHH!! Another thing we missed. I didn't know there was a Tomorrowland Christmas show. So glad to catch it in your TR. I think the quote you said, would make my little guy scared of Santa. So maybe it's good we didn't see it.

[amandaw]

I love the Carousel of Progress! It may be old & not very high tech....but it's just a sentimental favorite of mine! I think I'm going to introduce Reid to it this December. I haven't done it on our last 2 trips & I miss it! :laughing:

Sounds like y'all were having a good night! Although, that is very frustrating about the video camera. :headache:

Can't wait to hear how late y'all ended up making it!

[petals]

Finally got on dis it was telling me server busy for the last few hours :sad2: I'm taking a study/work break though. I'm up to 2200 words on the first essay only another 800 to go :lmao: and starting to try edit radio programmes as well!

I always love seeing the castle, but especially with the lights. It really is just an incredible sight the way they make that ice effect with all those lights on it.
I know it was so pretty I couldn't take my eyes off it.

It looks like you're having a lot of fun, and I'm glad you got to do Carousel of Progress for the first time. I always make time to see it, just because it has been there since the first time I went and it is one of those attractions with Walt's fingerprints all over it. It isn't anything extra special or exciting, but it just "is" Disney.
Magic Kingdom was a long day but we did get quite alot done and I loved it. I love the Disney parks because in my head I leave everything outside those park walls and it's just total happy fantasy except for people plowing through you but you know what I mean :rotfl: Carousel of Progress was good. It was different and tamer than alot of the crazy rides. I liked how the dog was in every scene as well he was cute.

I'm sorry your momma's feet were getting sore. I hope you didn't have to leave early, but it might be for the best. You wouldn't want to miss things later in the week because she pushed it too far and suffered the rest of the trip.
We were already discussing if we were going to be able to change the schedule in anyway so all will be revealled soon as to what we did.

OOOOHHHH!! Another thing we missed. I didn't know there was a Tomorrowland Christmas show. So glad to catch it in your TR. I think the quote you said, would make my little guy scared of Santa. So maybe it's good we didn't see it.
Ah that was just Stitch's take on things and Stitch is cute. I wasn't expecting the Christmas show to be on that day because I really thought it was only for MVMCP. Maybe it was only on that weekend because it was Thanksgiving weekend I'm not sure if it was on the following Saturday as well in the park. :confused3


I love the Carousel of Progress! It may be old & not very high tech....but it's just a sentimental favorite of mine! I think I'm going to introduce Reid to it this December. I haven't done it on our last 2 trips & I miss it! :laughing:
Carousel of Progress is nice though. I like the simple things better than the crazy things like Tower of Terror in the parks :rotfl:

Sounds like y'all were having a good night! Although, that is very frustrating about the video camera. :headache:
I was so disappointed with the camera because I had everything planned out so well in order to fit everything in and that was just the first thing that started to derail my plans a bit. The camera was already acting up and i think all six tapes got caught in it at one stage as well so dunno how much footage i lost there as well. :sad2:

Can't wait to hear how late y'all ended up making it!
All will be revealled soon :)

[Caretames1]

Awww, that's too bad the camera died. I would have been so upset! John tapes what we do almost all day. Kadence sits here and watches the trips movies over and over. I love knowing that if I want, I can watch Wishes or any of the parades whenever I want!

[petals]

Awww, that's too bad the camera died. I would have been so upset! John tapes what we do almost all day. Kadence sits here and watches the trips movies over and over. I love knowing that if I want, I can watch Wishes or any of the parades whenever I want!

I was really upset. I normally tape the shows and parades and some of the rides depending and then I make dvd's of the trip with the pictures and videos. Hence the waiting impatiently for photopass I'm dying to get at the dvd and start it but I could only do the first two video bits because then I need to put the photopass pics in and they're not here yet :rotfl: It is brill being able to watch them whenever and I love having the moments like us dancing in Magic Kingdom and Citywalk on tape forever :)

[jenseib]

bummer about the video tape. Sometimes my camera does that too. I'll take it somewhere in it dies right away. Luckily I usually have a spare.
I guess it's time for me to go make supper as those nuggets loked tasty and made my tummy growl

[MEK]

I hear ya on the snap happy with the pictures. I tend to do the same thing at times, although I think you have me beat with 3000 pictures vs my 1800. :rotfl:

The Christmas party looks like a lot of fun!:santa:

[petals]

bummer about the video tape. Sometimes my camera does that too. I'll take it somewhere in it dies right away. Luckily I usually have a spare.
I guess it's time for me to go make supper as those nuggets loked tasty and made my tummy growl

The picture cameras I was sorted for this trip I had three :rotfl: and a spare card just in case it was the video camera that I nearly through in the pool several times as I shouted profanities at it and cried over it :rotfl:

I wish i was back in Disney eating those nuggets.

I hear ya on the snap happy with the pictures. I tend to do the same thing at times, although I think you have me beat with 3000 pictures vs my 1800. :rotfl:

The Christmas party looks like a lot of fun!:santa:
I like my pictures lol. Momma thinks I'm crazy taking so many but I don't care :)

That wasn't the Christmas party it was just on at the weekend in Magic Kingdom when we were there. I thought that show was only meant to be on for the Christmas Party though.

[petals]

Okie two days ago I had loads of work to try catch up on but spent last night editing one show and then college cancelled lectures today so spent all of today editing the rest of what I had for the second show now waiting on whatever was recorded tonight to be sent my way. Did I mention I do work experience in a radio station and that's what all that is for. College wise I have two essays due both with pretty much exactly the same subject but worded differently in the question. One essay is 3000 words the other one is 2500 but I finished the 3000 words of drivel one only have to type it now and will try do the other one tomorrow since it's pretty much the same as the first one. Soooooooooo to celebrate I can do another update yay! (I just can't stay away :rotfl: )

Day 3, Part 10:

So firstly I forgot to mention in the last part when we went for food at Tomorrowland Terrace Restaurant. In the Restaurants I'm never sure whether they'd serve me a kids meal since they're for guests under ten or whatever so usually I tell Momma what I want, give her monies and she goes up and orders the food for both of us while I go off and find a seat for us. So we did all that and I was sitting at a nice table near the wall gazing at the pretty castle and a CM came up and went sorry but you can't sit here. I was kinda like sorry what? She went if you don't have food you can't sit down. So I was like oh yeah no worries my Momma is getting the food now she's in the queue you see that lady there (pointing at Momma) see she's just getting the tray now. Cm says sorry but you'll have to get up and wait outside the seating area until she has brought the food over or my boss will give out to me. Confused much :confused: I was too but I decided not to keep up a conversation that was hurting my head it confused me so much so I got up and went over to walk my mother to the seating area since she had the tray at that point!!!

Anyways back to the moment when I left off we were heading towards main street debating on whether we would be able to come back another night to tape the parade and fireworks since the video camera had gone dead. I had done the schedule of where we needed to go everyday in order to see everything or as much as we could and I wasn't sure that we would have another chance to see Wishes and the Parade. Certainly if we were to come back we would have to give up seeing or doing something else so we decided to stay just in case. We got a place on an extremely crowded hub (the park just seemed to get busier and busier as the night went on) and then we just waited. I took pics of the castle to amuse myself it was just so pretty:
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Then the Magic, Memories and You started. We'd never seen this before and it looks so much better in Real life than on the You tube videos. My camera didn't really take good pics of it from where we were:
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Momma said she thought she saw us on one side of the castle at one point as well but I didn't see it.
Next was wishes and I just love this show everytime that cute little starlight star bright song starts I want to cry I just love it so much. Again the pics aren't wonderful but whatever:
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In the middle of wishes though we had a surprise because is it a bird is it a plane no... Tinkerbell flew out of the castle and down towards Tomorrowland. Again was not expecting that so I'd share the picture but it was pretty much a green streak in the sky as I was not prepared for it :rotfl: Again I think this was a special happening for the weekend after Thanksgiving :confused3 Anyways back to the wishes pics my fave part is when the castle has the stars on from Sorcerors Apprentice:
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Then they went and turned the sparkly lights back on and just made it even prettier:
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and big finale:
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Next Parade was at 11 so we decided to wait it out since the hub was clearing a bit after wishes and we managed to get a curb to sit on. I watched more of Beethoven on my ipod while I waited and I seem to remember Momma got 40 winks leaning on my shoulder :rotfl: I also took more pics of the pretty castle:
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It was a little silly with the timing of Magic, Memories and You because if you wanted to get a place for Wishes at 10 you ended up seeing the 9.45 MMAY and then if you waited for the second parade which was at 11 you saw MMAY a second time at 10.35. The pic didn't get any better the second time:
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and I just noticed all those pictures are castle pics love it :rotfl:

Next up it's all about where you sit.

[jenseib]

Tinker bell is a regular. She (or sometimes it's a he) does it every night as long as the winds are good.
I don't think I have seen her though as we usually don't stop to stand for wishes. I think we did it once and were off toe the side where we couldn't see well.

That CM sounds like a witch...with a capital B.

[amandaw]

That's frustrating about the CM @ Tomorrowland Terrace. I had the same thing happen to us at Pinocchio Village Haus.

Those are such pretty pics of the castle! I always love looking at the castle but it looks especially magical during Christmas, doesn't it?

[momabaarjo]

I think I had the same problem as you and food...forgetting to take a picture before I started eating. I never really got my family to buy into the idea of taking pictures of food...they looked at me like I was crazy! Sorry about the seating thing and the CM. I don't understand why it is such an issue about holding a table when you can see the person in line. :confused3

Loving all your pictures of the castle...I have to say I must have taken hundreds between the castle and wishes! Tink does fly most nights...depending on the weather. I learned that when I researched my first trip a couple of years ago! Too cool...I would hate to have her job!

[afwdwfan]

I always love Wishes. I'm glad you got to see it... and Tink. :thumbsup2 :lmao:

I'm sorry the CM tried to move you. I've been hearing that they do that once in a while at some quick service places when it is busy though.

[petals]

Tinker bell is a regular. She (or sometimes it's a he) does it every night as long as the winds are good.
I don't think I have seen her though as we usually don't stop to stand for wishes. I think we did it once and were off toe the side where we couldn't see well.

That CM sounds like a witch...with a capital B.

I have never seen her before and totally wasn't expecting to see her either.
yeah that CM was just weird.

That's frustrating about the CM @ Tomorrowland Terrace. I had the same thing happen to us at Pinocchio Village Haus.

Those are such pretty pics of the castle! I always love looking at the castle but it looks especially magical during Christmas, doesn't it?

I know I love that castle so much :lovestruc

I think I had the same problem as you and food...forgetting to take a picture before I started eating. I never really got my family to buy into the idea of taking pictures of food...they looked at me like I was crazy! Sorry about the seating thing and the CM. I don't understand why it is such an issue about holding a table when you can see the person in line. :confused3

Loving all your pictures of the castle...I have to say I must have taken hundreds between the castle and wishes! Tink does fly most nights...depending on the weather. I learned that when I researched my first trip a couple of years ago! Too cool...I would hate to have her job!
I remembered most times and Momma let me take pics of hers even though she thought it was weird. She knew it was for trip report purposes though. That's what confused me it wasn't busy and Momma was at the counter waiting for them to give her the tray. It wasn't like it was packed with people and she was at the back of the line she was at the tray counter!

I've never seen Tinkerbell fly before. Maybe we were standing in the wrong place before because we usually go at warmer times of the year.


I always love Wishes. I'm glad you got to see it... and Tink. :thumbsup2 :lmao:

I'm sorry the CM tried to move you. I've been hearing that they do that once in a while at some quick service places when it is busy though.

Wishes are my favourite fireworks and Tink was an added surprise :)

That was it though it wasn't busy from what I remember Momma was the only one in line and she was at the tray counter.

[afwdwfan]

That was it though it wasn't busy from what I remember Momma was the only one in line and she was at the tray counter.

Geeze, if it wasn't even crowded, it is just ridiculous for them to worry about that.

[petals]

Geeze, if it wasn't even crowded, it is just ridiculous for them to worry about that.

I know I think the CM was just looking for something to do. :confused3 I have never heard of that before that you couldn't sit in one of the counter service places until you had food what about families with a tonne of kids. Would it not be alot easier for Mommy or Daddy to get everyones order while the other one brought the kids to sit down instead of two parents trying to contend with kids and get food at the same time. :confused3

[petals]

Real life update. Remember I was saying bout our essays and college work. One of the essays said at top 3000 word dissertation and at bottom of page it said 2000. Most of us presumed 3000 words and since it's due next friday at this stage most of us have it written yeah they told us yesterday there was a typo there and it should be 2000 words :headache: They did say if we'd written already then leave it at 3000 words but that's so many words I needn't have stressed over :rolleyes: oh well.

We finished college a bit early today so I had a stroll through some of the shops while I was waiting for train and we have a shop called Pennies over here that sell cheaper clothes than the brand name shops as such but they have character t-shirts (i got loads in there for my hols before) but I found this one today and of course it came home with me:
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I also have a question for y'all. I'm thinking of later in the year and how to make a possible Disney related trip. One of the ideas in my head right now is a solo trip but I know I'd feel safer on Disney property than international drive but I also know I'd like to visit Seaworld, Universal and The outlets so does anyone know a cheapish option to get to those places and back from Disney Property?

[lovethattink]

I know I think the CM was just looking for something to do. :confused3 I have never heard of that before that you couldn't sit in one of the counter service places until you had food what about families with a tonne of kids. Would it not be alot easier for Mommy or Daddy to get everyones order while the other one brought the kids to sit down instead of two parents trying to contend with kids and get food at the same time. :confused3

Only during holiday times or when crowd prediction levels are high do they do that. I haven't ever been there for that, but I have read it on many TRs.

I also have a question for y'all. I'm thinking of later in the year and how to make a possible Disney related trip. One of the ideas in my head right now is a solo trip but I know I'd feel safer on Disney property than international drive but I also know I'd like to visit Seaworld, Universal and The outlets so does anyone know a cheapish option to get to those places and back from Disney Property?

You can take a Mears taxi from your resort to those other places. The cheapest way to go is the Lynx bus. But I wouldn't take the bus, I'd rather pay more and use a taxi.

[petals]

Only during holiday times or when crowd prediction levels are high do they do that. I haven't ever been there for that, but I have read it on many TRs.
I have never seen that happen before. Plus it really surprised me because the palce really wasn't that busy at the time. Like Momma was literally the only person in line.

You can take a Mears taxi from your resort to those other places. The cheapest way to go is the Lynx bus. But I wouldn't take the bus, I'd rather pay more and use a taxi.
I was thinking that was probably the way. Will have to see what happens. We're discussing a few holiday options at the mo so we'll have to see which one happens. :goodvibes

[petals]

I thought I might as well try finish Day 3 since I'm avoiding any real work so...

Day 3, Part 11:
When I left off we were waiting for Main Street Electrical Parade to start. Soon after The MMAY ended we started to hear MSEP music and pretty lights started coming towards us from Main Street and since the video camera wasn't working for me I took lots of pictures instead:
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We were sitting on a curb just in front of the bridge where people would come out of Tomorrowland onto the hub so if you looked left (facing the street) I could get pretty pics like this:
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but if you looked right (facing the street) I could get prettier pics like this:
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See it's all about where you sit :goodvibes
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We did notice on that Float that some of the fireworks weren’t lighting that night for some reason anyways last but not least of the parade pics:
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After the parade we headed down Main Street of course taking pictures on the way:
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Confectionary shop windows:
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I love the way Daisy is dressed in the same Christmas outfit that the CM’s were wearing.
We went into the Emporium after that because I wanted to pick up a new friend for Angel (trip mascot.) OMG it was so busy in the Emporium and some people were pushing past trying to grab things from shelves as if they were going out of business in the morning. Crazy stuff for 11.30 at night! Anyway I managed to squeeze through the masses and get what I wanted before we headed out for the Ferry. I took a pic of the decorations on the way out as well:
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I seem to remember that since we left the park at 11.30 and it wasn’t closed until 12 we got out slightly ahead of the masses so when we got to the Ferry back to Ticket and Transportation it was just arriving and there wasn’t a huge crowd so we hopped right on. From Ticket and Transportation we got a taxi back to our hotel. I may have finished the Beethoven movie I’d been watching on my ipod in the taxi and once back in the hotel I introduced Angel to his new friend:
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Before I introduced myself to the pillows. It was a long fun filled day!
Momma told me after only thing that bothered her was her feet. She didn’t really like the Dapper Dans but liked their instruments and I had noted in my trip diary when I was pre-planning the trip the internet told me that the park would be open until 10 but the internet lied because the park was open until 12 two extra hours of fun.

Next up Dollars burning a hole in your pocket?! No problemo!

[Caretames1]

Sorry you had to move your seat while waiting for food. I had heard they were doing that, but I thought it was more to make sure that people who brought food into the park didn't use up the seats for guests buying food from counter service places. She should have let you stay with your Mom just getting the food so quickly!



Nice photos of the MSEP! I love how the Castle is in the background! You have given me inspiration for next time!

[petals]

Sorry you had to move your seat while waiting for food. I had heard they were doing that, but I thought it was more to make sure that people who brought food into the park didn't use up the seats for guests buying food from counter service places. She should have let you stay with your Mom just getting the food so quickly!
It was really weird but I wasn't in the humour to argue the point with her at that stage in the day.

Nice photos of the MSEP! I love how the Castle is in the background! You have given me inspiration for next time!
Thank you. I think I stole the idea off one of Tim's (thats nice) trip reports. I know I saw pics where someone had being standing on the Hub taking parade pics and got the castle in the background and I thought I should look into that for next trip :goodvibes it made for very pretty pictures. My fave two are the critters on their way up to castle and the Pumpkin heading to the castle ball :)

[amandaw]

What a fabulous day y'all had! :goodvibes

You got some great pictures of MSEP! You really ended up getting some great parade spots for picture taking! :thumbsup2

I saw your post before the update about doing a solo trip & how to get to Universal, shopping, etc. I think someone else suggested it but I will 2nd the Mears suggestion. We used them for transportation to/from Universal in Dec. 2010 & it was economical, easy & quick.

[lovethattink]

Yes!! Love the castle in the backround of your pictures, especially since it's the ice castle!!

[afwdwfan]

I know it has already been said, but the msep pictures with the castle lit up in the background are incredible.

[MEK]

Your Mickey Irish T-shirt is adorable!

I traveled to WDW solo, but I didn't venture off property. I know there are options for getting around and I guess you could always splurge for a cab. I bet you can find the info you want in the transportation section of the boards.

Love, love. love your parade pictures. They make me feel like I am right there watching. Great job!

[momabaarjo]

OMG...that picture of the castle and the mushroom has to be the most incredible picture I have seen of the parade! You need to be in photography...great eye and I must say great camera!

[petals]

What a fabulous day y'all had! :goodvibes

You got some great pictures of MSEP! You really ended up getting some great parade spots for picture taking! :thumbsup2
Thank you :) Yup it was a fun day. I love the Magic Kingdom. Momma says when I get to Disney it's like someone turns on a light bulb that wasn't on all year round and I beam with happiness :)

I saw your post before the update about doing a solo trip & how to get to Universal, shopping, etc. I think someone else suggested it but I will 2nd the Mears suggestion. We used them for transportation to/from Universal in Dec. 2010 & it was economical, easy & quick.
Yeah I figured Taxi but that might get expensive. Maybe I'll stay on international drive for a few days while I do those if i do the solo trip :confused3

Yes!! Love the castle in the backround of your pictures, especially since it's the ice castle!!

I know it has already been said, but the msep pictures with the castle lit up in the background are incredible.

Thank you both. That castle is so pretty and even prettier with the icey lights on it. I love those pics :)

Your Mickey Irish T-shirt is adorable!!
Thanks. I have loads of Disney t-shirts now but I couldn't resist that one :goodvibes

I traveled to WDW solo, but I didn't venture off property. I know there are options for getting around and I guess you could always splurge for a cab. I bet you can find the info you want in the transportation section of the boards.!
I didn't spot the transportation section oops!

Love, love. love your parade pictures. They make me feel like I am right there watching. Great job!
Thank you :)

OMG...that picture of the castle and the mushroom has to be the most incredible picture I have seen of the parade! You need to be in photography...great eye and I must say great camera!
Thank you. That is one of my fave pics. Also love the way the pumpkin looks kinda like it's going up to the castle for the ball. I have thought about doing a photography course at some stage. I'm always taking pics. That camera is only a little digital camera.

[jenseib]

Great picture. I'm gonna have to try that sometime.

[blessedmom4]

LOVED the parade pics and :love::love::love: the Irish Mickey shirt! :goodvibes Need/want one! :goodvibes

[petals]

Great picture. I'm gonna have to try that sometime.

Thanks. I love that parade although I prefere Spectro for the music!

LOVED the parade pics and :love::love::love: the Irish Mickey shirt! :goodvibes Need/want one! :goodvibes

Thanks :) The T-shirt is cute I thought. Was one of those I wasn't leaving the shop without it! Dunno if they'll sell them anywhere in America. Penny's/Primark is a cheaper clothes shop over here.

[petals]

I love the Disney Store. The CM's working there now some of them seem to have alot more love for Disney than the ones that were there this time last year.

I was there last night and watching two little girls in front of me got Disney Princess dolls. So the CM put them in seperate bags then showed the little girsl the box of Mickey Confetti telling them that Tinkerbell stopped by last night to leave off some pixie dust and this was Tinkerbells pixie dust. She offered some to both the little girls and told them they had to make a wish and then sprinkle the pixie dust into their bags. It was super cute and just made me smile!

Also Dublin Disney store got an exclusive trading pin. I'm on my way out to dancing at the mo but will take a pic later and try post it.

[momabaarjo]

I love the Disney Store. The CM's working there now some of them seem to have alot more love for Disney than the ones that were there this time last year.

I was there last night and watching two little girls in front of me got Disney Princess dolls. So the CM put them in seperate bags then showed the little girsl the box of Mickey Confetti telling them that Tinkerbell stopped by last night to leave off some pixie dust and this was Tinkerbells pixie dust. She offered some to both the little girls and told them they had to make a wish and then sprinkle the pixie dust into their bags. It was super cute and just made me smile!


This makes me smile just reading about it!

[amandaw]

I love the Disney Store. The CM's working there now some of them seem to have alot more love for Disney than the ones that were there this time last year.

I was there last night and watching two little girls in front of me got Disney Princess dolls. So the CM put them in seperate bags then showed the little girsl the box of Mickey Confetti telling them that Tinkerbell stopped by last night to leave off some pixie dust and this was Tinkerbells pixie dust. She offered some to both the little girls and told them they had to make a wish and then sprinkle the pixie dust into their bags. It was super cute and just made me smile!

Also Dublin Disney store got an exclusive trading pin. I'm on my way out to dancing at the mo but will take a pic later and try post it.

How sweet! :goodvibes

I wish we had a Disney store in the city we live in. The closest one is about 2 hours away. :sad2:

[petals]

This makes me smile just reading about it!

I thought it was really cute. Some of the CM's in there aren't bothered but I like the ones that put in that extra special touch for their customers. That's the disney magic.

How sweet! :goodvibes

I wish we had a Disney store in the city we live in. The closest one is about 2 hours away. :sad2:

Ours only opened last May and I was like a child a Christmas when I found it. I hadn't heard that it was opening and went around the corner one day and saw the word disney and ran across the road going OMG OMG OMG OMG :rotfl:

[petals]

Just wanted to share some pics from the Disney store the other day.
First Dublin's exclusive Trading pin:
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Also more Hidden Mickey's in the trees:
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[amandaw]

Love the pin - very cute!

And I love that the tree has Alice in Wonderland & Hidden Mickey's! :goodvibes

[petals]

Love the pin - very cute!

And I love that the tree has Alice in Wonderland & Hidden Mickey's! :goodvibes

I loved the pin when I saw it. I love the exclusive Irish stuff. Plus the normal Europe exclusive pins they have in the Disney Store are normally 12 euro but that one was 5 euro.

I love those trees. They change the pictures on the trees every so often and I think I take pics of them everytime I go in there! :goodvibes

In other news I forgot to mention above the photopass cd still has not arrived. I was waiting out the 15-21 working days postage thing I get from slow shippers on ebay but tomorrow is 21 days so me thinks I need to ring photopass. They sent it Friday the 13th wonder if that's why it's not here yet :rolleyes: having said that it'll prob arrive tomorrow now (one can hope)

[lovethattink]

I hope your photopass cd arrives soon!

[petals]

While I'm here I thought I might as well update on my favourite subject.


Day 4, part 1:
Sunday 27th November 2011

Today was our first "rest" day. I put that in inverted commas because I cannot rest on holidays. I can maybe sit by a pool/swim for an hour or so and then I have to do something. I just can't lie by a pool all day or whatever because I'm thinking of all the things that I could do in a park or whatever else I'm not seeing by "resting" but we had spent two full days in the parks since we arrived so today we lay in until ten (a bit more rest because other days we got up at 6.30am.) Breakfast wasn't to exciting we had bought bits and pieces for the room so I had these for breakfast:
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I am actually such a child. They used to have these in Ireland when I was little and I loved them. Was never allowed get them often because they were expensive and Momma deemed them junk and I was to have proper breakfast as mothers do so when I'm in Florida and discovered them like everytime I need a breakfast I get either those or fruit loops :goodvibes

Anyways we took our time getting washed and dressed and then at 12 headed outside the hotel to get iride to Premium Outlets we intended going to mass since it was Sunday so we went to the Outlets at iride stop 42. That is one very good thing about the hotel we were staying at as well, the iride stop is literally right outside their main entrance. We had a kind of funny moment for us anyway today as well because I had small tin of vaseline that I was using on my lips because they were very dry and I convinced myself that I was putting it on while waiting for iride but more on that later.

We got to the Outlets and while I got stuff in Tommy, Guess and Gap the main one and the one you all are probably more interested in hearing about is of course the Disney outlet store. I love this place:
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I took pics of some merchandise I prob should have shared these alot sooner :goodvibes
Giant Duffy:
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He was like half the size of me and reduced from 60 dollars to 30 and so would have come home with me except for the fact that he would have needed his own seat on the plane :rotfl:
I thought these dudes were cute as well:
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They were 9.99 from what I remember.
I took this pic when I got back to hotel that evening but it's all the stuff I bought in Disney Outlet that day:
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and just to give you idea of prices and a very good excuse to visit the Disney Outlets. Dress at front was 15.99 reduced from 32.95. The Duffy was for my nieces Christmas present so can't share price in case she sees sometime but it was 12 inch one and cheaper than parks. The little snowmouse was 4.99 again reduced I think from 15.99 or something of the sort. The vinylmation I got two the same one for trading mostly because they were marked 8.99 down from 16.99 but when I went to the counter they were 2.25! :eek: The Hip lanyard with Stitch pins was the one I found most odd I suppose because in the outlet that was 7.99 and it was the only thing I found in the parks that was in the outlet except in the parks it was 29.95 so how is the outlet selling it so cheaply? Anyways half the Disney store bought we moved on and I took random pics as I went. I think this was Tommy's window but I thought the Christmas Penguin was cute:
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We went into the Dressbarn and spent so long in there we missed mass but Momma didn't mind. I found a dress I liked and was going to buy it but noticed a rip in it and it was the only one in my size so they rang the outlets at the other end of international drive and asked them to hold one in my size until the following Wednesday and the manager there said no problem. I thought that was nice of them that they were willing to keep it for us. It did however throw another problem at my planned holiday schedule as I did not plan to go to the other outlets that day some reworking of my plans as going to be in order :rolleyes:
We ate at subway at some point during the day as well. I have receipt but no food pics! Once we decided we had seen all the shops we wanted we headed back to the iride and I took pics along the way of course:
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I was very excited to see the Turtles. I used to love these dudes when I was little. Think I wanted to be Michaelangelo :rotfl:
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Bye bye Premium Outlets see you next time:
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Sorry that was a bit word heavy and hazy I apparently didn't feel the need to write much about it in my trip diary.


Next up Irish Liverpool man and Disney at Walgreens

[petals]

I hope your photopass cd arrives soon!

Me too. If it's not here tomorrow I'm either emailing them or ringing them though because the photos have expired now and I think it's lost personnally because normally things get here alot quicker than that from U.S.

[amandaw]

I sure hope your Photopass CD arrives soon!

I used to love Lucky Charms when I was little, too! Those little dried up marshmallows are just sooo yummy for some reason! :goodvibes

What a fun-filled day of shopping! I really need to get to the Disney outlet one day!

[petals]

I sure hope your Photopass CD arrives soon!

I used to love Lucky Charms when I was little, too! Those little dried up marshmallows are just sooo yummy for some reason! :goodvibes

What a fun-filled day of shopping! I really need to get to the Disney outlet one day!

I think I'll send a search party out for the photopass cd. Praying it arrives tomorrow been watching the post like a hawk since last week.

Those marshmallows are the best. I love them. You'd think they'd still sell them over here what with the little leprechaun on them.

The Disney Outlet is the best shop in the outlets :goodvibes We love our shopping at outlets though because all the designer clothes are so much cheaper in America. Like I get jeans in Tommy over there for like 20 dollars the same or similar jeans in Tommy over here would be approx 200 dollars. It's crazy difference like so we fill our cases coming home :rotfl:

[amandaw]

I think I'll send a search party out for the photopass cd. Praying it arrives tomorrow been watching the post like a hawk since last week.

Those marshmallows are the best. I love them. You'd think they'd still sell them over here what with the little leprechaun on them.

The Disney Outlet is the best shop in the outlets :goodvibes We love our shopping at outlets though because all the designer clothes are so much cheaper in America. Like I get jeans in Tommy over there for like 20 dollars the same or similar jeans in Tommy over here would be approx 200 dollars. It's crazy difference like so we fill our cases coming home :rotfl:

That is indeed a crazy price difference in the clothes! :scared1: I don't blame you for stocking up!

That is kind of funny that y'all don't have Lucky Charms there. My husband & I really want to go to Ireland one day. It's one of our top "wish list" vacation spots. Hopefully, one day!

[momabaarjo]

What great bargins you found out the outlet...I am not much of a shopper so outlets never seem to lure me and when I do go I never find bargins like you! Dress Barn is one of my favorite stores!

What a great deal on the large Duffy...although his own plane ticket would make him a really expensive friend!

[afwdwfan]

Good luck with Photopass. I just had to deal with them on a customer service situation that took them a few weeks to resolve. It wasn't fun.:sad2: I might write in detail about it after I get done with the trip part of my TR.

I hope you enjoy your "rest" day. I completely agree with you though, it isn't very relaxing to just sit around when I'm at Disney World. I can sit around anywhere, if I'm going to spend my money to go to Disney, I want to take full advantage of it!

[petals]

That is indeed a crazy price difference in the clothes! :scared1: I don't blame you for stocking up!
I know we attempt to bring nearly empty suitcases so we can fill up although that doesn't always work because we can never decide what we want to leave at home :rotfl:

That is kind of funny that y'all don't have Lucky Charms there. My husband & I really want to go to Ireland one day. It's one of our top "wish list" vacation spots. Hopefully, one day!
I want them over here. May get on to Kellogs :rotfl: Ireland is a pretty country but what I would say if you are coming bring warm clothes and more importantly a good raincoat. It rains most of the year and our summer is pretty much a bad Florida winter.

What great bargins you found out the outlet...I am not much of a shopper so outlets never seem to lure me and when I do go I never find bargins like you! Dress Barn is one of my favorite stores!
I think the bargains are good for us though because it's so expensive to get all that stuff in Ireland. Momma was going in to Dressbarn I hadn't planned on getting any dress last trip

What a great deal on the large Duffy...although his own plane ticket would make him a really expensive friend!
I know he was so cool and I had carried him over to show Momma and he was so soft and cuddly as well.

Good luck with Photopass. I just had to deal with them on a customer service situation that took them a few weeks to resolve. It wasn't fun.:sad2: I might write in detail about it after I get done with the trip part of my TR.
It's not here suprise suprise and I also noticed that my status has changed on photopass website it did say I'd ordered on the 8th and it was shipped on the 13th now it looks like I haven't ordered it at all. Why must they be so unmagically and slow! :sad2:

I hope you enjoy your "rest" day. I completely agree with you though, it isn't very relaxing to just sit around when I'm at Disney World. I can sit around anywhere, if I'm going to spend my money to go to Disney, I want to take full advantage of it!

The "rest" day was good. Agree with you on the sitting around. I can sit and sleep at home on holidays I'm go go go :rotfl:

[petals]

Well I rang Disney Photopass and i am not impressed at all. This kind of thing completely disappoints me when it comes to Disney and I am not at all incouraged to use photopass EVER again.

Story. I pre-ordered the CD in october for the November trip. Pics were all taken November and December obviously and I then edited them all and ordered the cd the first week in January as I got an email saying the photos were due to expire on the 8th of January.

That's all fine. I FRICKIN ORDERED THE DANG CD BEFORE THE 8TH OF JANUARY and was waiting and waiting and waiting and nothing happening so I looked at my online account and I believe I posted here the same day that I looked online and it said order was processed SHIPPED the 13th so I have been deliberately waiting for 21 days to come because on ebay they say 15-21 working days for orders from U.S. to get to Ireland. All fine today is 21 working days since 13th of January so no cd.

I look at my photopass account today and the order I made in January is gone and it looks as though my last order was the pre-order of the cd. The status on the order is gone as well obviously. So I rang them and they have no record of the CD being ordered at all. NOT FRICKING GOOD ENOUGH. I look in my email and there's nothing there to say they processed it and I look at the credit card statement and nothing on that either but i know I 110% ordered that dang cd on the first week of January because I did it before the photos were due to Expire and I remember it gave me a choice of downloading them or getting the CD and I choose the CD because I wanted to have a copy to hold onto. NOW THEY DECIDE TO GO AN LOOSE MY ORDER ALTOGETHER. How the hell can that happen like it said it was processed on the 8th of January and now they've decided I didn't order the cd at all. NOT GOOD ENOUGH and I am so Fricking mad right now! :mad::mad::mad::mad: I do not get how when I know I ordered them did they just completely ignore the order. They've put my pictures back up now but I'm going to just get the download now because I am not taking the chance that they ignore my order for a second time. VERY disappointed in Disney Photopass.

[amandaw]

So sorry to hear about your experience with Photopass. I've never done it & this definitely doesn't make me want to spend the money on it. I hope you're able to get your photos downloaded without any problems.

[MEK]

So sorry to hear about the photopass experience. That is so frustrating and I don't blame you for being angry. I am glad they were able to upload them again for you so its not a complete loss. But, wow, what a delay. I hope you get them soon. :flower3:

[petals]

So sorry to hear about your experience with Photopass. I've never done it & this definitely doesn't make me want to spend the money on it. I hope you're able to get your photos downloaded without any problems.

So sorry to hear about the photopass experience. That is so frustrating and I don't blame you for being angry. I am glad they were able to upload them again for you so its not a complete loss. But, wow, what a delay. I hope you get them soon. :flower3:

I got my photos. I downloaded them to the computer rather than order the CD but I really am not happy about what happened. They basically ignored my order I should have copped on when the confirmation email didn't come through when I paid for the postage. I wanted the hard copy of them and tbh with the price of them I would have expected to get that instead I got an unmagical CM telling me they'd no History of my order and that what I was saying couldn't be the truth. :sad2: So bad because I like the photos and the experience to actually get my photos was just extremely unDisneylike

[petals]

Want to do the update for second half of day 4 so then I can go back and put vid pics and possibly some photopass pics for the first two days. I may even post a pic or two with me in it just for Judy :scared1::goodvibes Anyways:


Day 4, part 2:

So we left the Outlets and got the iride headed back for our hotel or at least in that direction. Please excuse the lack of pictures for now while I tell a little story but on said iride we had one of our eh funnier/random moments from the trip. Coming from stop 42 it's the last iride stop so we had a long way to travel since we were getting off at stop 15 or thereabouts and at that time of day people were leaving work or shopping centres or Seaworld or heading to work for the evening whatever point is the iride was busy. Then at one stop this guy got on and he was obviously a regular the driver knew him anyway and announced to those close enough to hear him that this guy was a fantastic "Irish" singer and sang in an Irish pub on international drive and if we wanted a good night out we should go along and see him perform. Okie and said guy was not a bit shy and was very much putting on a notice me performance in the middle of the iride where he was standing. He was talking quite loudly which is where Momma and I spotted the biggest problem but he was telling people whether they wanted to listen or not that he was from Cork in Ireland and had moved to Florida ever so many years ago. We said nothing loud enough for anyone to hear.
So anyway Mr. Performer was mouthing in the middle of the iride and the driver went whatever his name was sing Danny Boy. I love when you sing Danny Boy it's so good. At which point Momma couldn't take the performance anymore and said loud enough for Mr. Performer to hear but to the driver please don't get a Liverpool man to sing an Irish song I'm from Ireland and that man doesn't have a Cork accent he has Liverpool accent. (Liverpool is in England no Ireland for those of you who may not know this side of the Ocean very well) Mr. Performer then decided to tell whoever was near him he was originally from Liverpool but had moved to Cork when he was young. He then went silent til we left the iride. It was funny though :rotfl:


If you recall then from part 1, I mentioned I thought I lost my vaseline that I was using as lip balm. For some reason my lips were really dry and I was not going to live without that vaseline on that day anyway so we decided on the way back to the hotel that we would get off the iride at Walgreens to see if I could find more there and then walk down to see if by some miracle the tin was still under the seat at the iride stop :rolleyes:

So into Walgreens we went and I found Disney stuff so I took pics of course:
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I need these:
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That cookie there was the Minnie one I got and a Mickey one and they were nearly the same as the ones they were selling in the parks at the time except in the parks they were 3.95 in Walgreens they were .99c. I got something for my lips that wasn't vaseline but it would do and I also got Christmas themed M&M's. I thought the wrapper was cute enough to warrent a picture:
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Purchases in hand we left Walgreens and walked down towards the hotel so we could check the iride stop for my vaseline. I was very upset over losing it. I took pics on the way down the road as well. I don't know why but I was suprised when I saw Christmas Decorations on International drive. Kind of like the airport I just wasn't expecting to see them:
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I love the big light up chips (or fries? We call them chips over here. When I ask for a plate of chips in Florida I get a plate of crisps.) on the side of McDonalds:
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This was my favourite decoration:
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A palm tree and a Christmas present because palm trees are the first tree you think of when you think of Christmas :lmao: The vaseline wasn't at the iride stop we had used that morning either :sad2:

We got back to the hotel pretty early that night compared to other nights anyway and we both needed it at that stage because our feet were starting to feel all the walking plus we had another fun filled day planned for the next day. What was the first thing I saw when I went into the bathroom?!


Sitting underneath the mirror looking up at me was my lost tin of vaseline that I'd been so upset about losing :rotfl:


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[amandaw]

That is too funny about the guy on the bus. As soon as you said your mom stated he was from Liverpool, I was like "WHAT?!? That's not Ireland!" He needs to stop being a poser! :laughing:

Enjoyed all of your Christmas themed pictures! Glad you were able to find your vaseline. It's a bad feeling when you have dry lips & nothing for them. :sad2:

[momabaarjo]

Everyone posts how fun and Disney their Walgreens are...but not ours! :guilty: I too love that decoration of the palm tree and present...

Sorry about the photopass...my only issue was that the most important pictures of the WHOLE trip my ds2 meeting Lightning McQueen were lost (thank goodness I took my own pictures) and that in MOST of the family pictures my face is half hidden by my ds1, you would think the photographer would have seen this in the lense and fixed it!

I have not gotten my photopass CD yet, but the lady who did the share is busy with mardi gras, so I am not too worried.

[MEK]

Don't you hate when you lose something and then find it in the most obvious place? :laughing: Happens to me all the time!

I can't believe your mom said something about the "Danny Boy" singer. :rotfl: Too funny! I bet it will be awhile before he gets up and sings on the iride again.

I really wish you could find Disney goodies at other Walmarts like that.

Glad you got your pictures downloaded. I guess you'll just have to burn your own CD which is a little aggravating considering you paid for it and the postage. Looking forward to seeing your pics!

[lovethattink]

Well I rang Disney Photopass and i am not impressed at all. This kind of thing completely disappoints me when it comes to Disney and I am not at all incouraged to use photopass EVER again.

Story. I pre-ordered the CD in october for the November trip. Pics were all taken November and December obviously and I then edited them all and ordered the cd the first week in January as I got an email saying the photos were due to expire on the 8th of January.

That's all fine. I FRICKIN ORDERED THE DANG CD BEFORE THE 8TH OF JANUARY and was waiting and waiting and waiting and nothing happening so I looked at my online account and I believe I posted here the same day that I looked online and it said order was processed SHIPPED the 13th so I have been deliberately waiting for 21 days to come because on ebay they say 15-21 working days for orders from U.S. to get to Ireland. All fine today is 21 working days since 13th of January so no cd.

I look at my photopass account today and the order I made in January is gone and it looks as though my last order was the pre-order of the cd. The status on the order is gone as well obviously. So I rang them and they have no record of the CD being ordered at all. NOT FRICKING GOOD ENOUGH. I look in my email and there's nothing there to say they processed it and I look at the credit card statement and nothing on that either but i know I 110% ordered that dang cd on the first week of January because I did it before the photos were due to Expire and I remember it gave me a choice of downloading them or getting the CD and I choose the CD because I wanted to have a copy to hold onto. NOW THEY DECIDE TO GO AN LOOSE MY ORDER ALTOGETHER. How the hell can that happen like it said it was processed on the 8th of January and now they've decided I didn't order the cd at all. NOT GOOD ENOUGH and I am so Fricking mad right now! :mad::mad::mad::mad: I do not get how when I know I ordered them did they just completely ignore the order. They've put my pictures back up now but I'm going to just get the download now because I am not taking the chance that they ignore my order for a second time. VERY disappointed in Disney Photopass.

I got my photos. I downloaded them to the computer rather than order the CD but I really am not happy about what happened. They basically ignored my order I should have copped on when the confirmation email didn't come through when I paid for the postage. I wanted the hard copy of them and tbh with the price of them I would have expected to get that instead I got an unmagical CM telling me they'd no History of my order and that what I was saying couldn't be the truth. :sad2: So bad because I like the photos and the experience to actually get my photos was just extremely unDisneylike

Don't fret yet. Did you print out your orders and confirmations? Remember I had problems with my last order. None of the MK pictures were on the cd. I also had problems with my first cd order too, with the computer. Both times I called and wonderful cm helped me and resolved the issue. They can retrieve old pictures. Did you call photopass?

[lovethattink]

Everyone posts how fun and Disney their Walgreens are...but not ours! :guilty: I too love that decoration of the palm tree and present...

Sorry about the photopass...my only issue was that the most important pictures of the WHOLE trip my ds2 meeting Lightning McQueen were lost (thank goodness I took my own pictures) and that in MOST of the family pictures my face is half hidden by my ds1, you would think the photographer would have seen this in the lense and fixed it!

I have not gotten my photopass CD yet, but the lady who did the share is busy with mardi gras, so I am not too worried.


Our walgreens isn't Disney either. And I'm close to Disney, but I guess not close enough, lol. For stocking stuffers and stuff, we head to the Walgreen's nearest to Cross Roads. They have Disney stuff there!

[petals]

That is too funny about the guy on the bus. As soon as you said your mom stated he was from Liverpool, I was like "WHAT?!? That's not Ireland!" He needs to stop being a poser! :laughing:
I think that's why Mam said it out loud. She wouldn't normally do things like that but he was being such an attention seeker she'd had enough :rotfl:

Enjoyed all of your Christmas themed pictures! Glad you were able to find your vaseline. It's a bad feeling when you have dry lips & nothing for them. :sad2:
Thanks. I'm a creature of comfort I know what I like to use and if I can't have it I'm not happy but will make do. I got lip balm in walgreens but I really wanted my vaseline :rotfl:

Everyone posts how fun and Disney their Walgreens are...but not ours! :guilty: I too love that decoration of the palm tree and present... .
I loved all the Disney stuff at Walgreens. Those Snow Mice could be pushed down and stretched back out again. I spent a while playing with those while Momma shopped :goodvibes

Sorry about the photopass...my only issue was that the most important pictures of the WHOLE trip my ds2 meeting Lightning McQueen were lost (thank goodness I took my own pictures) and that in MOST of the family pictures my face is half hidden by my ds1, you would think the photographer would have seen this in the lense and fixed it!

I have not gotten my photopass CD yet, but the lady who did the share is busy with mardi gras, so I am not too worried.

It really is a pity because they do take some good pics. With mine there was some blurry pics and later on in the trip on character isn't even looking at the camera when the photographer is taking the pic as in he's looking off to the side and has his body twisted that way as well. You'd think the photographer would have waited until all characters were looking at the camera but no :confused3 I always get someone to take the same pics with my camera though just in case!

Don't you hate when you lose something and then find it in the most obvious place? :laughing: Happens to me all the time!
I know I hate it lol! Momma did joke to me about it for a few days after every so often going ah where's the vaseline let's go back to the iride and check if it's there! :lmao:


I can't believe your mom said something about the "Danny Boy" singer. :rotfl: Too funny! I bet it will be awhile before he gets up and sings on the iride again.
It had to have been annoying her though because she wouldn't usually do that unless the person was really really annoying her.

I really wish you could find Disney goodies at other Walmarts like that.
I loved them. I think if airlines didn't have baggage restrictions I'd have bought half of florida lol!

Glad you got your pictures downloaded. I guess you'll just have to burn your own CD which is a little aggravating considering you paid for it and the postage. Looking forward to seeing your pics!
I know I'm not really happy about that. I'm wondering if there's price difference between downloading as opposed to the cd because it doesn't really seem fair to have them at the same price and I pre-paid for the cd not download!

Don't fret yet. Did you print out your orders and confirmations? Remember I had problems with my last order. None of the MK pictures were on the cd. I also had problems with my first cd order too, with the computer. Both times I called and wonderful cm helped me and resolved the issue. They can retrieve old pictures. Did you call photopass?
I rang them and they activated the photos again but all but told me I was lying about placing the order at the start of january. Everything from their computer systems are highly automated to it just wasn't possible. It frickin was possible i did order them and it did go missing somewhere in their automated system. I downloaded the pics instead of ordering the cd when they reactivated them because I'm not taking the chance they lose the order again and take another month to send them to me! Not really happy though because I pre-paid for the cd!

Our walgreens isn't Disney either. And I'm close to Disney, but I guess not close enough, lol. For stocking stuffers and stuff, we head to the Walgreen's nearest to Cross Roads. They have Disney stuff there!
That was a Walgreens on international drive so I suppose they have to have Disney and universal stuff and the likes because it's so close to all the hotels.

[afwdwfan]

That would have been hilarious to see your Momma call out the singer's accent. :lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:

I'm glad you found your Vaseline. :thumbsup2 :rotfl2:

[petals]

That would have been hilarious to see your Momma call out the singer's accent. :lmao::rotfl2::rotfl:
It was funny. He went very quiet when he heard we were Irish as well :goodvibes

I'm glad you found your Vaseline. :thumbsup2 :rotfl2:

That was a bit of a slow moment :lmao:

[momabaarjo]

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[blessedmom4]

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[petals]

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Thanking you. Love the pictures :) :lovestruc

[petals]

Just a little message for all my readers and lurkers alike :)

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[petals]

Just sharing a few random edits from photopass pics for Animal Kingdom day and a few pics I took off the videos and stories they reminded me of!

Photopass first. In corner of one of the pics I noticed Stitch was driving the train:
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There was many pics of characters "free" as well:
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Love him:
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I found Minnie:
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Xmas tree by night so pretty:
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Video pics:
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Goofy's trailer:
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This dude was a legend!
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he was carrying the monkey with the Santa hat and stopped in front of me and was making Monkey noises to the child beside me when I turned the camera on him. He looked at camera going oh hello and then looked through lens as if searching and went "You have a very nice sitting room."

There was another CM came over to a child beside me and the child had a Nala but only Nala's head was sticking out of the bag. The CM asked the child if she only bought the head and not the rest of the body. :lmao:

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[amandaw]

Love the pictures! :goodvibes

[petals]

Love the pictures! :goodvibes

Thanks :goodvibes

[momabaarjo]

Looks like a great day in AK...photo pass pictures? Does that mean you have your CD?

[petals]

Looks like a great day in AK...photo pass pictures? Does that mean you have your CD?

No no CD. They told me I never ordered it :rolleyes: I reckon they never processed it because I did order it but the re-opened them and I downloaded them because I don't trust them to send it to me now!

[lovethattink]

Glad you were able to get the pics. Can you download them to your own disc before the digital download expires? Fun ak pics!

[MEK]

Great pics. I took so many pictures of the AK christmas parade but never saw Goofy's trailer. That is too darn cute!

[petals]

Glad you were able to get the pics. Can you download them to your own disc before the digital download expires? Fun ak pics!

Yeah I saved them all to the computer and then put them on disk. I just don't really understand it because if you pre pay for photopass cd why are you not getting a cd but getting an option to download. Is it the same price to download as to buy a cd for example if you didn't pre order but just bought when you came back from your trip.

Great pics. I took so many pictures of the AK christmas parade but never saw Goofy's trailer. That is too darn cute!

I only spotted it on my video don't think I saw it on the day either. On the video I'm focusing on the side of his car as well instead of him and I also didn't notice til the video the side of his car had different character themed christmas stockings there was stitch and lilo and others. That might be in my pic on the parade but I didn't really notice them before :goodvibes

[petals]

Okie so I won't have video pics for Magic Kingdom for a while so I'll just continue with this:


Day 5, part 1:
Monday 28th November 2011

Today we got up early and Momma found Minnie and Mickey had left her a note and a present:
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It was an early Christmas present from me :) After all the excitement of a suprise present we caught our usual blue/white bus (we called it that ever since the first day and for the rest of our trip) at 8.30 to DISNEY!
The blue/white bus drops us at Epcot bus park which was handy that day because we were going to Epcot for the day so by 9 ish we were seeing:
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and shortly after admiring the pretty entrance, toparies and our favourite giant golf ball:
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This one was a crop from a photopass:
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Monorail flying by I'm try to watch photos I seem to have got alot of monorail pics and different colour in each one I'm wondering if I got them all:
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Back to the toparies and golf ball:
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We eventually actually went past the Golf Ball and into the first shop that we saw lol I think we're just automatically attracted to them. Either that or we were looking for something in particular I don't remember anyways I saw this cute little Mickey on top of an Xmas ornament and he wanted his picture taken:
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We strolled further into Epcot and I of course took pics along the way:
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We then decided to go to Mouse Gear to search for a new friend for Angel and use one of our 20% off vouchers that we'd gotten in Magic Kingdom. It was soooooooooo quiet in Mouse Gear I think we were like the only people there besides the CM's. Because the bus drops us at Epcot bus park we were in Epcot by 9.10. We missed rope drop but the park seemed very quiet as we were strolling around. Anyways I took pics as we wandered around Mouse Gear:
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I eventually bought the hoodie on that display.
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We left without a new friend for Angel because they didn't have the one I wanted but back outside and there was more photo opportunities for the snap happy photographer:
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After that we headed in the direction of some rides.




Next up: Queues? What Queues?

[blessedmom4]

LOVING the pics (Love them more if you were in one :love:). That was SO SWEET to do that for your Mom!!!! You ARE a great daughter! :goodvibes:goodvibes

[lovethattink]

Yeah I saved them all to the computer and then put them on disk. I just don't really understand it because if you pre pay for photopass cd why are you not getting a cd but getting an option to download. Is it the same price to download as to buy a cd for example if you didn't pre order but just bought when you came back from your trip.





Great Epcot pics too. Oh how I miss the Christmas decorations!!

I think it was the same price for either the digital download or the cd. I went with the cd. Pre-order with discount on either is $99.99, to buy it after the trip instead of as a pre-order it's $149.99.

[petals]

LOVING the pics (Love them more if you were in one :love:). That was SO SWEET to do that for your Mom!!!! You ARE a great daughter! :goodvibes:goodvibes
I have some of those in photobucket now. I'll post them after the weekend. I'm going to visit my baby nieces this weekend (they not really babies at 10 and 13 but they still my baby nieces even if the 13 year old is taller than me :rotfl: ) The pick a pearl was another one of those things I wanted to show Mam we'd never seen before plus I wanted to do something different for her for Christmas.

Great Epcot pics too. Oh how I miss the Christmas decorations!!

I think it was the same price for either the digital download or the cd. I went with the cd. Pre-order with discount on either is $99.99, to buy it after the trip instead of as a pre-order it's $149.99.

I love Christmas in Disney World. I think the CD is probably worth 99.99 dollars more than downloading them yourself. It's all a bit expensive though considering the mistakes they make. Last year they put one of the pics in my photobook crooked. Good job the pictures are so nice!

[afwdwfan]

I'm glad you were able to catch some monorails in pictures. I actually walked around EPCOT one day with the intent of getting a picture of a monorail going by, but for some reason or another, I always seemed to forget until it was past or I just didn't have a camera handy.:lmao::rotfl2:

[amandaw]

Ok, for some reason, I read your Epcot update yesterday but didn't post a response. Don't know what my deal was....Sorry!

That is so sweet of you to do that for your mom! :goodvibes I've done the Pick a Pearl thing in Las Vegas. It really is a lot of fun. Although, my DH didn't think it was too much fun when they kept giving me free oysters to pick more pearls & make more jewelry! :rotfl:

Love all of the pics of the different Christmas decor! We changed our trip for this year, so it looks like I won't be seeing Mickey around Christmas. Oh well....at least we're still going! :thumbsup2

[petals]

I'm glad you were able to catch some monorails in pictures. I actually walked around EPCOT one day with the intent of getting a picture of a monorail going by, but for some reason or another, I always seemed to forget until it was past or I just didn't have a camera handy.:lmao::rotfl2:
I have a few monorail pics from across the trip. Dunno how many different colours I got but I didn't actually realise I was getting different colours in all the pictures either it was only when I got home and looked at them. :goodvibes


Ok, for some reason, I read your Epcot update yesterday but didn't post a response. Don't know what my deal was....Sorry!
That's ok better late than never :goodvibes

That is so sweet of you to do that for your mom! :goodvibes I've done the Pick a Pearl thing in Las Vegas. It really is a lot of fun. Although, my DH didn't think it was too much fun when they kept giving me free oysters to pick more pearls & make more jewelry! :rotfl:
Lol I love it. Pity they don't give free oysters in Disney :rotfl: I just thought it was something different to give her for christmas instead of like a bath set or perfume or pyjamas or something else.

Love all of the pics of the different Christmas decor! We changed our trip for this year, so it looks like I won't be seeing Mickey around Christmas. Oh well....at least we're still going! :thumbsup2
Aws at least you'll see Mickey though plus it'll be a great excuse for a 2013 trip as well :) We have two trip ideas floating around at the mo. will see which one happens my only conditions are Mickey Mouse has to be involved in some way :)

[Caretames1]

Trying to get caught up here on my subbed threads! :thumbsup2

I'm sorry to hear of the photo pass screw-up! That really doesn't put them in the best light, but I really love the service. At least they could have given you a % off or offered you a new CD with the downloads.

Such nice Christmas decor photos. I so want to immerse myself in that someday.

I got my girls that pearl cage and they love it! I can't wait to see how big of a pearl was picked!

[amandaw]

Aws at least you'll see Mickey though plus it'll be a great excuse for a 2013 trip as well :) We have two trip ideas floating around at the mo. will see which one happens my only conditions are Mickey Mouse has to be involved in some way :)

We're hoping to do another Disney cruise in 2013. But, if that doesnt work out, I'm sure we'll be back at DisneyWorld.

I hope one of your trip ideas work out for you! And as long as Mickey is involved, then it should be ba great trip! :goodvibes

[jenseib]

Your Mom is just too funnyfor calling that guy out. I would've died laughing.
Epcot looks really pretty all spruced up for Christmas. I am afraid they won't have anything out yet when we go next Nov. I think we will be too early yet. I just read a TR that had the same dates for us (but was 2011) and it looked like nothing at Epcot was decorated yet.

[MEK]

More lovely pictures!!!!!! I love the Epcot christmas decorations! What a cute necklace you gave your mom. Awesome surprise!

[momabaarjo]

What a nice gift and what a thoughtful daugher! Anytime one can make their mum smile....

[petals]

Trying to get caught up here on my subbed threads! :thumbsup2

I'm sorry to hear of the photo pass screw-up! That really doesn't put them in the best light, but I really love the service. At least they could have given you a % off or offered you a new CD with the downloads.

Such nice Christmas decor photos. I so want to immerse myself in that someday.

I got my girls that pearl cage and they love it! I can't wait to see how big of a pearl was picked!
They seem a little lazy considering how much you pay for their photos. But they are nice photos as well.

I love the pearl cages they so cute.

Christmas at Disney is so pretty! :lovestruc

We're hoping to do another Disney cruise in 2013. But, if that doesnt work out, I'm sure we'll be back at DisneyWorld.

I hope one of your trip ideas work out for you! And as long as Mickey is involved, then it should be ba great trip! :goodvibes

I want to do a cruise. Momma wants to go to New York so if we go there there'll be a cruise attached.

My other trip would be a solo trip to Florida so we'll see which one happens but I need my Disney fix!

Your Mom is just too funnyfor calling that guy out. I would've died laughing.
Epcot looks really pretty all spruced up for Christmas. I am afraid they won't have anything out yet when we go next Nov. I think we will be too early yet. I just read a TR that had the same dates for us (but was 2011) and it looked like nothing at Epcot was decorated yet.

I think Epcot are one of the later parks to decorate. The Candlelight processional doesn't start until after Thanksgiving afaik. Dunno if they decorate it before then.

More lovely pictures!!!!!! I love the Epcot christmas decorations! What a cute necklace you gave your mom. Awesome surprise!
Thank you :) I love the Christmas decoartions to

What a nice gift and what a thoughtful daugher! Anytime one can make their mum smile....
It was something different :) I don't like giving people the same type of thing every year for Christmas so wanted something different.

[amandaw]

I want to do a cruise. Momma wants to go to New York so if we go there there'll be a cruise attached.

My other trip would be a solo trip to Florida so we'll see which one happens but I need my Disney fix!


Oooh....New York with a cruise would be lots of fun. Would it be one of the Disney cruises sailing out of New York?

A solo trip would be fun, too. I'd like that one day to do all of the things I want to do & just spend as much time as I want taking pictures.

[petals]

Oooh....New York with a cruise would be lots of fun. Would it be one of the Disney cruises sailing out of New York?

A solo trip would be fun, too. I'd like that one day to do all of the things I want to do & just spend as much time as I want taking pictures.

It would be Disney cruise from New York. I'd like to do the two or three day cruise to nowhere but Momma wants to do New York this year and I don't think there's any two day cruise left for this year so may have to see if we can do one to florida that includes castaway cay. I'd be devasted..... NOT!!! :rotfl:

Solo trip would be over halloween and including first week of November so I could do MNSSHP and MVMCP!

[amandaw]

It would be Disney cruise from New York. I'd like to do the two or three day cruise to nowhere but Momma wants to do New York this year and I don't think there's any two day cruise left for this year so may have to see if we can do one to florida that includes castaway cay. I'd be devasted..... NOT!!! :rotfl:

Solo trip would be over halloween and including first week of November so I could do MNSSHP and MVMCP!

Those both sound like great vacations! Either way, you'll have fun! :goodvibes

[petals]

Those both sound like great vacations! Either way, you'll have fun! :goodvibes

Yeah just have to find time to discuss them and book one college is a bit :scared1: busy at the mo! Lots of assignments and assessments to be done before lectures finally finish so we can concentrate on our final projects!

[petals]

I was out and about during the week and found this really cute St. Patricks day card which needed a pic:
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Then last weekend I went to England to visit my sister and two nieces. Saturday one of the girlies was going to a concert so we had a quiet day and just hung around the house mostly. Sunday was the same although DN10 and DS and I went to see The Muppets. I went again even though I saw it in Florida in December but it's brill :) Momma and DN13 went to see Woman in Black. Then Monday the girlies had school so Momma and I went shopping for a while and of course went to:
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They had Muppets in the window:
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I was raging because there was this really cool looking cart that was meant to look like it was made from acorns, wood and leaves like the fairies made it and it was full of Tinkerbell stuff and I took a pic to show y'all but my crappy phone decided not to save the photo. It did save the pic of the front of a super cool Muppets Notebook:
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and these cute pictures that were in the baby section:
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I got a punk rocker Stitch vinylmation and Angel got a new friend and a new t-shirt from build a bear:
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[petals]

I could do college work or I could do a trip update :)

Day 5, part 2:

So when I left you we were about to head off in the direction of some rides and a whole lot of firsts because most of these rides we have never actually done before :eek: Our first stop and new experience was to visit a cute purple dragon called Figment. Ride was a walk on and I’m pretty sure we were the only people on the ride at the time we went. Pics:
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We also learnt a lesson on that ride that it pays to read ahead. I had been reading FreezinRafiki’s trip report so knew about a certain stink room and when I copped what was actually going on in the ride once it got to the stink room I held my nose. Momma saw me doing this and I hit her hand off her nose going no leave it down. So then Figment let out his stink and Momma went YOU’RE A BEE WITH AN ITCH! :lmao:
After exploring ImageWorks for a bit we then went in to see Captain EO. We’d never seen this before either:
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It was ok. I don’t think we’ll rush to it again but it was interesting to see once. We also heard a man giving out to a lady before we went in about a show with Michael Jackson being included in a Disney park after all he is supposed to have done. I was pretty much thinking oh just get over it and stop grumping, YOU’RE IN DISNEY WHO CARES ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE! Maybe that’s just me though :confused3
Anyways we explored the shop for a few mins. I took pics (shock horror: )
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Then we headed for:
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Before heading in to visit Nemo’s fishy friends I took a few pics:
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We finally went inside for our journey under the sea:
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Next up: We did all that in how many hours?

[lovethattink]

Too bad the Tink pic didn't come out!! How was the movie the 2nd time around? Is it one you can see twice?

I missed that Figment tree!! Good catch!

[petals]

Too bad the Tink pic didn't come out!! How was the movie the 2nd time around? Is it one you can see twice?

I missed that Figment tree!! Good catch!

The Tink cart was really cute

I liked the Movie even the second time. Second time I was anticipating what was coming up but it was nice to introduce the niece to the Muppets and my DS laughed alot at the cheesiness of it. I've now got two of the songs stuck in my head. :lmao:

You might notice as I go on in the trip report I had a thing for the Christmas trees so if I saw tree I took pic :) Plus figment tree was purple my fave colour so win win :)

[MEK]

I saw Captain EO for the first time in December and I have to agree with you - it was OK - I'm glad I saw it but I definitely won't be running back to see it anytime soon. :rotfl:

Love your Figment pictures. glad you decided to update instead of studying! ;)

[petals]

I saw Captain EO for the first time in December and I have to agree with you - it was OK - I'm glad I saw it but I definitely won't be running back to see it anytime soon. :rotfl:

Love your Figment pictures. glad you decided to update instead of studying! ;)

Disney is always better than study! :littleangel:

[lovethattink]

My favorite color too!

[amandaw]

I love Figment! So glad you got to experience it.

I have not done Captain EO. I just feel like I'd be wasting my precious park time but maybe it's worth it doing once. :confused3

[Caretames1]

Kadence loves your Muppet photos, her fav is Kermit and Miss Piggy. We haven't seen the movie yet, soon!

We haven't done Figment or Cap EO, Dh is not too interested, but maybe some day. \

Nemo! Love Nemo, and make it a must do everytime!