The trip to make up for the cold (July 2012) Done 02/04

[DisneyFreak06]

The trip to make up for the cold! July 18-25, 2012

Disclaimer: This is where I will post all the links to the chapters! (So you can skip all the chitchat if you just want to read the TR or look at the thousands of pictures.)

Introductions

July 18, 2012
Part 1: On the Way!
Part 2: Port Orleans Riverside
Part 3: Riverside Mill
Part 4: Port Orleans pictures
Part 5: Waiting for the boat
Part 6: On the way to Downtown Disney
Part 7: Downtown Disney and Rainforest Cafe
Part 8: Volcano!
Part 9: Downtown Disney and Disney's Days of Christmas Store
Part 10: Trying to get back to POR before the storm
Part 11: My first WDW Park in TWO years!!!
Part 12: My first ride

July 19, 2012
Part 1: Main Street, USA
Part 2: Cinderella Castle
Part 3: Mostly the castle... and more
Part 4: Some more Tomorrowland and some more Castle pictures!
Part 5: Even more Tomorrowland and a little POR
Part 6: Back to DHS
Part 7: The wait is on and some DHS wanderings
Part 8: We show ourselves!
Part 9: Supper and the rest of the evening

July 20, 2012
Part 1: Epcot!
Part 2: Mission Space and a superb snack
Part 3: Dessert and lunch... in which order?
Part 3B: Food at Via Napoli
Part 4: A derailed train!!! (Yes, at Disney!)
Part 5: An afternoon break at POR
Part 6: More POR
Part 7: Downtown Disney again!
Part 8: EMH at MK
Part 9: More EMH
Part 10: Fantasyland (Mostly Peter Pan)
Part 11: Winnie the Pooh
Part 12: Winnie the Pooh Part 2
Part 13: Tomorrowland EMH
Part 14: Cinderella Castle at Night! (Many, MANY pictures of the Castle
Part 15: Cinderella Castle Part 2! (See how many pictures? I needed two whole posts!
Part 16: Haunted Mansion
Part 17: Splash Mountain
Part 18: Pirates of the Caribbean
Part 19: The end of a LONG day! (19 posts in my TR-it had better have been a long day! LOL)

News Bulletin: Some very important news about WDW... and Me! LOL

July 21, 2012
Part 1:Breakfast and the start of our day (at DHS)
Part 2: He called the head of security on me!!!
Part 3: Pixar Place and 50s Prime Time
Part 4: POFQ
Part 5: A major room issue.

July 22, 2012
Part 1: The Grand Floridian
Part 2: 1900 Park Fair Breakfast
Part 3: More GF and more POR
Part 4: The part where I found the receipts! LOL *This part was updated after July 23.

July 23, 2012
Part 1: Animal Kingdom
Part 2: The Safari
Part 3: The last of the Safari
Part 4: Expedition Everest
Part 5: Food
Part 6: Camp Minnie Mickey
Part 7: Festival of the Lion King
Part 8: FOTLK part 2

July 24, 2012 It was our last full day and was almost as sad as the actual last day!
Part 1: Breakfast at POR
Part 2: More POR and DTD
Part 3: World of Disney and POR
Part 4: More Port Orleans Riverside
Part 5: Still more POR
Part 6: Epcot!
Part 7: More Epcot.
Part 8: Figment! (Don't read this if you don't like Figment, LOL Many pictures of JITI)
Part 9: Goodbye Epcot!
Part 10: The Grand again
Part 11: More GF
Part 12: Walking right down the middle of Main Street USA
Part 13: More MK
Part 14: Riverboat!
Part 15: Around MK some more.
Part 16: Pirates of the Caribbean
Part 17: Haunted Mansion and Goodbye MK.

July 25, 2012 Such a sad, depressing day. But it was sunny and beautiful and other people were just starting their vacations. This trip was much too short!
Last morning at WDW. Goodbye WDW!

Pre-Trip information for the trip that will not be happening...
Some info
Some info with PICTURES! LOL Because I'm me... LOL

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Yes, this trip is the trip we took to make up for our trip to Disneyland in March. We said it didn't count because we found it too cold! We loved Disneyland, and California, the people, the hotel, everything. We just were bad Canadians who didn't like the cold!


If you haven’t read my other trip reports, you’re welcome to do so to learn a little more about me and my sister and our friend. We go by the Golden Girls and call ourselves Blanche, Rose and Dorothy. In real life, we alternate by our attitudes/behaviors, but for the trip reports, I am always Dorothy, Rose is always my sister (who didn’t get to come on the last two trips!) and Rose’s sister in law is always Blanche.

I am Dorothy, long time, big time Disney fan and I’m currently a French Immersion kindergarten teacher. Between pre-service teaching, full time classrooms and short term contracts, I’ve taught every grade between K-12 (French Immersion or Core French) except for grades one and six, although I’ve covered both for a sub day here or there). I love taking pictures, traveling, reading, (and more) and I come from a huge family. I have 9 siblings and 16 nieces and nephews so far. I really wish the tag fairy would find me with something fun.

This is me in at Disneyland in March 2012. (The trip that we need to make up for the cold, right?)


Untitled by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

This is Blanche. She’s the oldest of the three of us (only two for this trip). She is a paediatric nurse and also has nine siblings. I’m sure she has tons of nieces and nephews, but I don’t know the exact number. We share 2 nieces and 2 nephews though. She loves to travel and to read, but she doesn’t take pictures. Unfortunately, about 2 years ago, she hurt her hip and it still hasn’t healed, so she can’t do as many rides as she’d like. About 2 weeks before the trip, she broke her foot. Yep. Disney with a sore hip, and then a broken foot. Sore right hip. Broken left foot. Think about it! But we still went, with plans for many breaks. We went to Disneyland in March (trip report is in my signature), but we found it really, really cold. So we said that the trip could not count! We like hot weather… We loved Disneyland, but we were freezing most of the time. (We can get that here! We don’t need it on vacation in March).


Minnie by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Here we both are, to show you just how cold it was:


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You can read my TR if you want to read about the cold, but amazing trip, here is the link. I want to go back to DL, but I will do that in the summer, thank you very much!!!

 

[DisneyFreak06]

July 18, Part 1: On the way!

I always start my other trip reports writing really fun, but then slow down in the end and just post pictures. So this time, I’ll just start with a back story and mostly pictures and we’ll see what happens!

As is tradition, my nephew, who is now 17, but was 12 when I took him to Disney, spent the night at my place and came with us to the airport. Rose drove Dorothy to my house to pick us up, and we were at the airport. We went to the washroom before security and I met a Diser! She noticed my sweater, or my t-shirt, or my watch, or my earrings, or my ring, or my shoes! Hahaha. I can’t remember. I wrote down her Disname, but I can’t find where I wrote it! It was soos (and some numbers) or suze (and some numbers). So if you’re reading, it was lovely to meet you!

We went through security and Blanche had a Rose moment and realized she forgot her sunglasses in her car. The real Rose and my nephew had already gone, so she called them, and they would come back. I told one of the security people what happened when I saw my sister and they said to let her just put the glasses on the belt and I would pick them up on the other side. No need to go through security again! Small PEI airport has definite benefits! (besides being about 3 minutes from home!)


Oops! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

So we really had an uneventful flight. I think we were a little delayed, because we were not the only ones worried about our connection. Blanche got a wheelchair and held my carryon bag on her lap, (I packed light and had a little tote as a carryon) and I kept my slingback camera bag on my back, pushed the wheelchair and rolled her carryon too. Thank goodness we were flying through Montreal and we didn’t need to get our checked bags. We had met a couple from PEI that were on the same flight, and they sped off ahead of us, but we somehow made it through customs before them. The gentleman ended up sitting beside me on the flight. We were talking about his job (fisheries and environment) and then somehow we ended up talking faith and that both Blanche and I were single… Not sure how that all happened, but he was friendly. He offered to pray for us that we’ll find our matches and said that sometimes it takes as little as three hours. The whole trip long we kept saying “our three hours have past!” I’m not belittling his Faith or anything else, I actually thought it was sweet that he was going to pray for us. It was the time frame that got us giggling. So we chatted through parts of the flight, I made Blanche watch the first episode of Once Upon a Time, and I watched the first two (again!).

Before we knew it, we saw this sign:


Magical Express 1 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

I don’t think we waited 5 minutes to get on our bus, in fact, I think we just walked right on from the time we entered the line. We were also the first stop off the bus, and we were at our resort and checked in within an hour and 15 minutes of landing.

I love getting “real” DME buses!


DME 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

See Blanche’s boot? It was not easy for her to climb the stairs.


Broken foot by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


DME 3 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

I really have to buy me some Mickey hands next time!


Mickey hand by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Our driver, telling us which hotels were our drop off points.


DME driver by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

*sigh* Palm trees.

Blanche was probably sore. I was extremely happy, and I can’t help but show it!


Happy to be in FL! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


DME 4 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Getting closer! (One day I’ll be able to get an awesome shot of this without the big line in the middle and the windshield wipers!)


Yay! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Yay! 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Sorry… I photoshopped the bug guts out in the other ones, but these next few it was right in the way…


Yay! 3 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

And I know that is a lot of pictures for the sign, but we all know how much we love to see this sign! (If you don’t, you’re on the wrong discussion board and you may as well stop reading my Trip Report Right away because you’ll be seeing a lot of pictures you won’t like if this sign doesn’t make you happy!)


Yay! 4 (ew bug) by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Almost there! by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Port Orleans Riverside 1 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Someone on here once mentioned how much they loved the moss at POR because it made them feel like they were there in FL, so I took a picture for them.


POR 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Part 2: Port Orleans Riverside

Our room was ready!

We were in a water view room in Acadian House, on the ground floor. Room 8071, which is ground floor, with a pool within hearing distance, but you can’t see it because of the shrubbery. No biggie though, that wasn’t too important, the ground floor and being in Magnolia Bend was the most important to us.

The walk to our room:


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Room 1 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

It took less than 8 minutes to walk to our room. (And find it. I think we went the long way around the first time, walking slowly and taking pictures too, right?) So I snapped some pictures as we dropped off our things. We then went to grab a bite to eat as we were hungry.

Our room:


Room 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Room 3 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Room 4 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


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Room 8 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Room 9 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

I love these! It’s Tiana and Naveen!!!


Room 10 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

And Lottie and Big Daddy!


Room 11 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Room 12 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


Room 13 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


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[kaoden39]

I'm here! Now to go back and read!!

 

[DBLGRR]

Enjoying your trip report. We will be at POR in November. I can't wait to see your pics.

 

[JessiMommy]

Loving your pictures! Can't wait to see more!

 

[mickeystoontown]

Joining in!

 

[Lzylitnin]

Lovely pictures! I'm looking forward to the rest of your report.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

I'm here! Now to go back and read!!

Welcome to this trip report! When is your next trip? I don't tend to read pre-trip reports, but I know I read your last trip report.

Enjoying your trip report. We will be at POR in November. I can't wait to see your pics.

Thanks! I hope you love POR. It is extremely beautiful there! There will be many more pictures to come. I'm off to do another few updates when I'm done catching up!

Loving your pictures! Can't wait to see more!

Thanks! There will be many! I tend to put lots of pictures in my trip reports.

Joining in!

Welcome!

Lovely pictures! I'm looking forward to the rest of your report.

Thank you! Off I go...

Hey, I just so this guy... I like him! Hee hee hee! No throwing things at me if you don't like my TR!

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Part 3: Riverside Mill

The walk back to Riverside Mill.


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Our first lizard. It’s funny, I wouldn’t be thrilled at seeing a lizard here, but in Florida, I love it, mostly because it means I’m in Florida!!!


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The pool outside our room:


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I got the choose your own pasta. I loved watching him set fire to the food!


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Make your own pasta by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

The top ½ was really good. The bottom was way too greasy and most of the spinach landed at the bottom. And I didn’t like the chicken. I like chicken breast in things, not the dark meat, so I decided I would not get chicken the next time, because really, the rest of it was delicious!

Pasta 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

Blanche got the adult chicken fingers that we’ve had many times. She said they were awesome as usual.


Chicken nuggets by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

We bought the QSDP, because we love the convenience of it. We tend to eat more food when we’re on it, because we wouldn’t normally be getting desserts with every meal. We got waters to drink in the parks later on and we got something in our mugs as well. Blanche got grapes for her dessert and I said I’d get an ice cream cone, but I lost my receipt in the store when I bought a new lanyard. Oh well. I knew we’d be eating a volcano at Rainforest Café later on, so I wasn’t too concerned! LOL

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Part 4: Port Orleans Riverside


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More pictures for the walk back to our room, and back to the Main area.


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I thought the leaves on this tree looked plastic.


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(And yes, Blanche was allowed to walk some without her boot, but not for too long at a time!)


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[kaoden39]

What a pretty resort! Poor Blanche looks in pain.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

What a pretty resort! Poor Blanche looks in pain.

Oh my goodness! The resort was very beautiful. I'm going to have to go back to take more pictures, even if I'm not staying there!

Blanche was in pain, she needed to take breaks. But she didn't complain! She was a real trooper.

 

[kaoden39]

Welcome to this trip report! When is your next trip? I don't tend to read pre-trip reports, but I know I read your last trip report.



Thanks! I hope you love POR. It is extremely beautiful there! There will be many more pictures to come. I'm off to do another few updates when I'm done catching up!



Thanks! There will be many! I tend to put lots of pictures in my trip reports.



Welcome!



Thank you! Off I go...

Hey, I just so this guy... I like him! Hee hee hee! No throwing things at me if you don't like my TR!

Our trip is November 11th - November 16th. There is a huge group of use going. There are going to be nine of us.

Oh my goodness! The resort was very beautiful. I'm going to have to go back to take more pictures, even if I'm not staying there!

Blanche was in pain, she needed to take breaks. But she didn't complain! She was a real trooper.

That's good that Blanche is a trooper, it's so hard to have fun when you are in pain.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Part 5: Waiting for the boat


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We took the boat to DTD. We had an ADR for Rainforest Café, mostly just to be inside and try their volcano dessert!


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Yep, I take pictures of almost anything and everything!


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Even stones on the side of a building!


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Fishies!


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The couple ahead of us was really sweet. They had asked us questions about how many times we’d been here and what to do and things like that. It turns out that she used to be a cast member (she said a LONG time ago when she was a student or something) at Disneyland! I liked them! I think they got off at POFQ.


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Boat to DTD by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr 

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Our trip is November 11th - November 16th. There is a huge group of use going. There are going to be nine of us.

Nine! That's a huge group to me in Disney terms. No so much in real life terms... that's just my siblings!

That's good that Blanche is a trooper, it's so hard to have fun when you are in pain.

Very true! But she pushed and went on lots of rides, but did take lots of breaks too.

 

[DisneyFreak06]

Part 6: On the way to Downtown Disney


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In 2009, we’d stayed at POFQ. I loved it there too! But I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I’ve loved every one of the six Disney hotels I’ve been to!


Port Orleans French Quarter 1 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


POFQ 2 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


POFQ 3 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


POFQ 4 by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr


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In case you have never stayed at either Port Orleans resort, the boat goes from Riverside to French Quarter and anyone not going to DTD gets off there. Then it goes to DTD and everyone has to get off. It goes from DTD to French Quarter where anyone that wants to go to Riverside can get on. When it gets to Riverside, everyone gets off again. They only let a certain number of people on at Riverside so that more can get on at French Quarter too.

In 2010, I was staying at All Star Movies and I wanted to go to Mass, so I took a bus from DHS (where I was) to French Quarter to take the boat to DTD. (It’s cheaper to take a cab from DTD than the All Stars). The boat driver was asking all kinds of trivia questions and everyone kept guessing wrong. I’d wait a few minutes and then answer the question. At the end of the ride, the boat captain told the guests on the boat that we all sucked basically! LOL He said something along the lines of “If this young lady hadn’t been here, you wouldn’t have gotten ANYTHING right!” The only question I didn’t know was the names of Daisy’s three nieces. But then he gave the clue “Three months of the year, in a row.” And I knew it right off. He then asked me if I worked for Disney. When I said no, he said “Do you want to? They’re always hiring!”

It was the same captain, and I remembered him so well that I asked him for a picture. He was sweet and obliged.


Captain Michael by disneyfreak0306, on Flickr

 

[kaoden39]

I love the pictures of the rocks, and the ropes and such. Those are the photos that I take for my phone back grounds and such. I really enjoy them.

 

[kaoden39]

Nine! That's a huge group to me in Disney terms. No so much in real life terms... that's just my siblings!




Very true! But she pushed and went on lots of rides, but did take lots of breaks too.

That is a combined family trip. Our family minus one, my BFFs daughter(to replace my minus one), my moms BFF and her grandkids, one of which is my sons BFF.