luvfigment
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- Joined
- Aug 28, 2005
Great start...You guy always meet famous people! Y'all have great luck. I am going to try my best to stay updated. Looking forward to reading more and then hearing about your upcoming trips.
Great start...You guy always meet famous people! Y'all have great luck. I am going to try my best to stay updated. Looking forward to reading more and then hearing about your upcoming trips.
Holy smokes I would have gone crazy at the desk! The one time I rented points it was through a member here and we almost didnt have our ressie either, thank god we did, and you did as well! Looking fwd to reading all about it!
BTW I think we are going up for one of the star wars weekends too...can you smell a dis meet????
So glad I found a Mrs K tr!
All that business at check in would have had me hyperventilating! And with all the people who get accessible rooms that don't want them, I can't believe you didn't get one!
Hope you felt better as the trip went along; I'm ready for more!
I can't wait to hear about your trip. I hope to stay at Boardwalk someday too! I'm interested to hear how well you liked staying there.
We woke up both feeling much better. After I got us ready, we took the elevator to the first floor and I realized just how close we were to the boat dock, we had a fantastic room assignment. We never waited more than 5 minutes for a friendship boat from the Boardwalk the entire time we were there. We were already in love with the place. The atmosphere was wonderful and it is just a beautiful area.
. We were seated and [/SIZE]Alex[/COLOR][/FONT] Caruthers, Art Director of DHS, was our Imagineer. He was fantastic!! He had worked at Magic Kingdom as well and was a fountain of information. He had actually worked on the Jungle Cruise accessible boats, he was happy that Bill liked the way they worked. The time flew by. You could tell he really loved his job, he was so enthusiastic and informative.
The experience was so great that Bill and I booked another Dine with the Imagineer experience for our May trip as soon as we got back to the room that night. The server let us back out the side door.
I got my phone out to text Angela, from the Focker thread here on the DIS. They are a group of DISers that have been posting to each other for years and many have met in person. I am very fortunate to have gotten to know those lovely ladies online. They are such a great support system to one another.
. After meeting her, the first thing I will say is she is as beautiful inside as she is outside, such a lovely person, funny, and great to talk with.
In true Focker fashion, no pictures were taken. (I am an idiot, I would have loved to have gotten a picture with her.)
we thought they would have more stuff.
Not accepting walk ups at this time or something like that. It took a bunch of time out of her day to say reservations only over and over again.
They sat us at the Tracy and Bill table, I swear this is the 3rd time we have gotten the same table, I am going to suggest a plaque or something so people know it is ours!
(Grandma must have been a LUSH!!) for me:
Next installment Epcot we have a problem
Great!
Sounds like a lot of fun!
Do you get to pick or do they just have someone show up and you don't know ahead of time?
Angela is awesome
And this should surprise me why
Well poo...I was looking forward to new stuff in August
If I remember correctly they ised to do this. I also remember boards at the entrance to each park (i.e new City Hall) telling you which restaurants had seating available. Don't know why they stopped it!
I;m a bit disappointed becasue we aren't going there in August. Jimmy REALLY wants to go to Sci-Fi and I figure that the trip is really for him...right?
Uh oh
What an exciting day. 2 great meals. I really want to do Prime Time, we had an ADR for my last trip, but it didn't work out and we ended up not going.
Lunch with an imagineer - what an awesome experience! That really sounds like something I'd love to do with DH sometime. But I don't understand how they mess your name up like that - to me adding an "e" is much more uncommon!
I love taking the boats from DHS to Boardwalk or Epcot. So relaxing! Driving those boats would be a great job.
Great update, I think Terry and I would really enjoy Dine with an Imagineer...
I've only seen the gangster side of Great Movie Ride too...
I'm glad you are liking Boardwalk, it's one I am dying to try someday!!
What a great location! You are really selling me on the BWV! How far in advance did you rent points?
How cool that the Brown Derby has an opening ceremony and family of the day. The dining with an Imagineer sounds really neat. I am going to have to check that out, too.
What a fun lunch!! And so cool that you had a DISmeet!
I'm glad you were feeling better & enjoyed the day. Illuminations from the Boardwalk area is amazing!
What an awesome lunch! I would love to do that one day. Sounds like you had a great room location too!