Are you Push?? Our sister trip around the World - COMPLETED 6/13!

[cfw213]

Hello all and welcome to my second trip report! My name is Christina and I will be your tour guide through this magical trip report! We just got back from a wonderful 8 days at WDW and I can't wait to share all the details of the trip!

Some of our highlights from this trip:
-Our first ride on TSM!
-Cupcake from Starring Rolls
-First stay at a Deluxe resort & first stay on DVC points/as a DVC member
-Being at LM at AOA on opening day
-The PeopleMover (loveeee!)
-The Animation Class
-Big Blue Pool
-Fantastic meals all around
-Low crowds!
-Photopass
-Remy!
-Good weather
-So many laughs and wonderful company

The lowlights (not many of them!!)
-HOT!
-Lovebugs, yuck
-Astro orbiter
-Some bad encounters with foreign travelers
-Bad service at TS restaurants

Of course I will go into detail on all of these highs and lows in detail! If you are new to my TR, welcome! Pop over to my PTR (link here) for a full background of the trip...below are the basic intros!

Who? - This time it was just be my sister & I!

We are both accountants - I am 24 and she is 22. I work in Philadelphia and she is starting a job in October in the building right next door. She's my best friend and I'm so happy to be taking another trip with her!

When? - September 15th - September 23rd! We had 8 day park hoppers with WPFAM.

Where? - Saturday - Thursday night at Art of Animation - Little Mermaid section!! Friday & Saturday was spent at our first DVC resort - Animal Kingdom Lodge. We also had free dining for the first part of our stay, upgraded to the regular dining plan from QS. We purchased DDP for the AK portion of our stay, since DVC is not eligible for FD.

Why? - No reason, just fun

I love to read and respond to comments from readers, so please join me and leave me some comments - I hate to be all alone out here in cyberspace! And if you are doing a September TR (or any TR really), I would love to read along! Please leave the link for me if it's not in your signature

Also, since I *love* food, I will be doing a dining review for each table service meal, which will be included in a separate post from the respective days trip report. I will rate it on the following categories:

Food (obviously)
Service
Ambiance
Wait time
Would we visit again?

Each dining review will be accompanied by loads of pictures (much to my sister's dismay). Each restaurant will be ranked 1-7. Since we had 7 table service meals, I will rank them in the order that we liked them the most (ie: 1 was our favorite TS restaurant of the trip and 7 was our least favorite).

I also took TONS of pictures on this trip (over 700 on my regular camera, plus another 250 from Photopass with edits!). We did a PP share so unfortunately I won't be getting the disk until the beginning of November. I'll have to leave the PP pics out for now and then do a separate post when the disk comes in.

Thanks for reading along, I hope you enjoy!

[cfw213]

Friday - September 14, 2012
Day 0 - Part 1 - Pre-Departure Day!

Saturday - September 15, 2012
Day 1 - Part 1 - Departure day is here!
Day 1 - Part 2 - We've finally arrived!
Day 1 - Part 3 - Tour of our Little Mermaid room!
Day 1 - Part 4 - Our first park - Epcot!
Dining Review - Le Cellier
Day 1 - Part 5 - Taking a dip in Big Blue

Sunday - September 16, 2012
Day 2 - Part 1 - Animal Kingdom
Day 2 - Part 2 - Blizzard Beach, resort pics & a big mistake!
Dining Review - Kona Cafe
Day 2 - Part 3 - First visit to our favorite park!

Monday - September 17, 2012
Day 3 - Part 1 - Typhoon Lagoon
Day 3 - Part 2 - Studios fun!
Day 3 - Part 3 - Hollywood Studios, Pt. 2
Dining Review - Mama Melrose
Day 3 - Part 4 - More HS & Fantasmic!

Tuesday - September 18, 2012
Day 4 - Part 1 - AoA Little Mermaid photo tour
Day 4 - Part 2 - Lion King/Landscape of Flavors photo tour
Day 3 - Part 3 - Cars photo tour
Day 3 - Part 4 - Nemo photo tour
Day 3 - Part 5 - Downtown Disney afternoon
Day 3 - Part 6 - Disney Quest
Day 3 - Part 7 - Fun around Epcot!
Dining Review - Coral Reef
Day 3 - Part 8 - Meeting & Greeting

Wednesday - September 19, 2012
Day 4 - Part 1 - One more waterpark!
Day 4 - Part 2 - Hooray for Hollywood!
Day 4 - Part 3 - Nighttime in Hollywood

Thursday - September 20, 2012
Day 5 - Part 1 - A magic kingdom morning!
Dining review - Les Chefs de France
Day 5 - Part 2 - Evening in Epcot

Friday - September 21, 2012
Day 6 - Part 1 - Goodbye Art of Animation
Day 6 - Part 2 - Hello Animal Kingdom Lodge!
Day 6 - Part 3 - Lunch & a relaxing MK afternoon
Day 6 - Part 4 - Lots and LOTS of pictures
Day 6 - Part 5 - The worst ride EVER.
Day 6 - Part 6 - Downtown Disney
Day 6 - Part 7 - Shop til you drop!

Saturday - September 22, 2012
Day 7 - Part 1 - Dining in the Hundred Acre Woods! And our *almost* celeb encounter
Day 7 - Part 2 - Last stop in Hollywood!
Day 7 - Part 3 - Magic Kingdom Chaos!
Day 7 - Part 4 - Goodbye Disney World

March 27th - Real life update!

PTR link!!!!

[mxkris]

Woo Hoo! Can't wait!!! Looks like it's gunna be a great TR! Unlike mine!!!

[TMGosizk]

Followed you over from your PTR, which I really enjoyed! So excited to read your TR!!

[luckylady]

Nice to have a sister to do Disney with. Green here. Can't wait to read about all your fun.

[729tink]

My sister and I are planning a trip for next year! Can't wait to read about your trip!

[MK2010]

Just read through all your updates. So fun! We were at Disney just before you in Sept. So far we have several VERY similiar pics. I Lol'd at the quote as you pass under the train station at the entrance to MK cause I took that pic too! And DH and I did our date night at Kona on our first night at Disney.

[rachel09985]

I am still reading

Cute photopass pics!!!

[Lucys2200]

Just read all your posts and really enjoyed them can't wait to read more

[saintstickets]

Originally Posted by cfw213

Uhhh, oops, I fell off the face of the earth for the last three weeks!! I've been keeping up with my reading of everyone else's TRs, but just haven't had time to post some of my own! We closed on our new house last Friday so the last two weekend have been lots & lots of work. I'm taking a night to rest up so I thought I would post a couple updates...hope I still have some readers!!

Congrats on the new house! Been there done that. It's such a relief when you finally get settled in to a new house.

Of course you still have plenty of readers. We've been patiently (well...sort of ) waiting for your return and more fantastic updates! Now that you've posted, we want more!!

[MelMel11]

Count me in!! Sounds like a great trip!!!

[TMGosizk]

Oh dear! Delays and flight problems are never fun, but when on the way to Disney they're ten times worse!! Every time I've flown through PHL I've been delayed for hours!!! And I fly through PHL to visit my family in Williamsport all the time! It's very frustrating!

I am glad to hear it didn't ruin your plans for later that evening though!! Can't wait to hear about Le Cellier! :-)

[cfw213]

Originally Posted by TMGosizk

Oh dear! Delays and flight problems are never fun, but when on the way to Disney they're ten times worse!! Every time I've flown through PHL I've been delayed for hours!!! And I fly through PHL to visit my family in Williamsport all the time! It's very frustrating!

I am glad to hear it didn't ruin your plans for later that evening though!! Can't wait to hear about Le Cellier! :-)

This was PHL! Knock on wood, I never usually have problems, except these last two times I've flown to Disney...guess they really don't want me to go!!

[luckylady]

Bummer about the plane but great that you were able to make your ADR at such a great place.

[cfw213]

Originally Posted by luckylady

Bummer about the plane but great that you were able to make your ADR at such a great place.

Yep, I was worried about that! Le cellier was worth the wait though!