princessesandpascal
"Guys, I want a castle."
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- Jan 31, 2012
Keep your hands, arms, feet, and legs inside at all time, and be sure to watch your kids:
Because this here is the wildest TR in the wilderness!
“Fight Me, CRY-lo Ren!” and Other Tales of Mayhem! A May 2016/Grad Trip Report!
Alternative Titles: “7-out-of-10 Too Much Water” “What Time is it? Mickey Mouse Time!” and “No Crying Until We Get to Frontierland!”
Welcome to our trip report! I am so excited to be back on the Disboards for another trip and am ready to share all the insane memories and hilarious moments from my latest Disney vacation. If you’d like (because I’m notoriously slow at TRs and you might want something to do between chapters), you can read about my last Disney adventure (with my mom!) right here: "All Aboard the Seven Dwarfs Whine Train!” It was a pretty good one, I promise. We had lots of adventures last year, but this year, we had just as many adventures, so let’s meet this year’s travel partners!
First of all, there’s me!
I’m Shannon, I’m 22, and I’m the proud almost-owner of an English undergrad degree. I was the chief planner extraordinaire of this trip, stepping into the role my mom took for all of our past trips! This was my 7th trip to the Most Magical Place on Earth. When I’m not writing about our Disney trips, I’m writing novels for kids, trying to get them published, and chasing a dream career as a professional writer (either for television or books). I’m also an avid TV watcher (currently: Fear the Walking Dead & The 100), a fledgling blogger, and a scrapbooking extraordinaire.
Favourite Park: Magic Kingdom
Top 3 Rides: Haunted Mansion, Dinosaur, Splash Mountain
Character I’m Most Like: Elsa
Favourite Character Encounters of the Trip: Flynn Rider (Parade), Rapunzel, Tiana and Naveen, Joy and Sadness
Favourite Meal of the Trip: Via Napoli
Favourite Disney Treat: School Bread
Top 3 Favourite Disney Movies: Tangled, The Little Mermaid, Big Hero 6
Up next, there’s Cassie!
Cassie is 21 and my best friend in the universe. We’ve been emotionally inseparable since our first year of high school (almost eight years of friendship!), and even though we attended university an hour apart and are physically separated, we’ve grown even closer over the years that we’ve been apart. This is Cassie’s first trip to Disney AND her first time out of the country! She is a recently finished undergrad in pharmacology and human biology, and when she’s not reminiscing over Disney she’s nerding out over something, working her job at an amusement park, or sending me snapchats of her boyfriend’s adorable dog.
Favourite Park: Epcot
Top 3 Rides: Big Thunder Mountain, Star Tours, Spaceship Earth
Character She's Most Like: Belle
Favourite Character Encounters of the Trip: Tarzan, Rapunzel and Cinderella, Buzz, Mickey
Favourite Meal of the Trip: Garden Grill
Favourite Disney Treat: Darth Vader Peanut Butter Cupcake
Top 3 Disney Movies: Tangled, The Lion King, Meet the Robinsons
My mom and dad are also both part of the trip a little: but they didn’t accompany us on our adventure. My dad (not a Disney fan, but has been on a trip with Mom and I once) drove us to the airport, and my mom (huge Disney fan, plutopuppy around the DIS, has been my trip partner for the last ten years) was on a cruise to the Caribbean with her sisters pretty much the whole time we were gone. (She was gone from the 29th to the 7th, whereas Cassie and I were gone from the 4th to the 10th.)
This trip has been about six years in the making. We’ve always wanted to go to WDW, and we’re so excited to have this trip. We originally wanted to go for our High School grad, but then ended up planning for our university one instead, especially since we could take the trip without my mom tagging along. We had five and a half days of fun in the sun (and rain!), we stayed at All-Star Movies, and we were on the Disney Dining Plan.
If you like Disneybounding, Flynn Rider, food, fun, Festival of Fantasy, pixie dust/glitter, Cry-lo (I mean, Kylo) Ren, getting wet on every single ride (even the Mine Train), learning about colours from Phil Dunphy, people thinking you're high school grads when you're actually college grads, puns, purple Magicbands, breaking character, learning how to speak monkey, Deadpool levels of sarcasm, and seeing a newbie’s first trip, then follow along on our journey! This Trip Report will be more fun than teaching Chewbacca how to fist bump and it’ll even make Sadness jump for joy!
So let’s go!
Table of Contents:
Introductions (you're here!)
Because this here is the wildest TR in the wilderness!
“Fight Me, CRY-lo Ren!” and Other Tales of Mayhem! A May 2016/Grad Trip Report!
Alternative Titles: “7-out-of-10 Too Much Water” “What Time is it? Mickey Mouse Time!” and “No Crying Until We Get to Frontierland!”
Welcome to our trip report! I am so excited to be back on the Disboards for another trip and am ready to share all the insane memories and hilarious moments from my latest Disney vacation. If you’d like (because I’m notoriously slow at TRs and you might want something to do between chapters), you can read about my last Disney adventure (with my mom!) right here: "All Aboard the Seven Dwarfs Whine Train!” It was a pretty good one, I promise. We had lots of adventures last year, but this year, we had just as many adventures, so let’s meet this year’s travel partners!
First of all, there’s me!
I’m Shannon, I’m 22, and I’m the proud almost-owner of an English undergrad degree. I was the chief planner extraordinaire of this trip, stepping into the role my mom took for all of our past trips! This was my 7th trip to the Most Magical Place on Earth. When I’m not writing about our Disney trips, I’m writing novels for kids, trying to get them published, and chasing a dream career as a professional writer (either for television or books). I’m also an avid TV watcher (currently: Fear the Walking Dead & The 100), a fledgling blogger, and a scrapbooking extraordinaire.
Favourite Park: Magic Kingdom
Top 3 Rides: Haunted Mansion, Dinosaur, Splash Mountain
Character I’m Most Like: Elsa
Favourite Character Encounters of the Trip: Flynn Rider (Parade), Rapunzel, Tiana and Naveen, Joy and Sadness
Favourite Meal of the Trip: Via Napoli
Favourite Disney Treat: School Bread
Top 3 Favourite Disney Movies: Tangled, The Little Mermaid, Big Hero 6
Up next, there’s Cassie!
Cassie is 21 and my best friend in the universe. We’ve been emotionally inseparable since our first year of high school (almost eight years of friendship!), and even though we attended university an hour apart and are physically separated, we’ve grown even closer over the years that we’ve been apart. This is Cassie’s first trip to Disney AND her first time out of the country! She is a recently finished undergrad in pharmacology and human biology, and when she’s not reminiscing over Disney she’s nerding out over something, working her job at an amusement park, or sending me snapchats of her boyfriend’s adorable dog.
Favourite Park: Epcot
Top 3 Rides: Big Thunder Mountain, Star Tours, Spaceship Earth
Character She's Most Like: Belle
Favourite Character Encounters of the Trip: Tarzan, Rapunzel and Cinderella, Buzz, Mickey
Favourite Meal of the Trip: Garden Grill
Favourite Disney Treat: Darth Vader Peanut Butter Cupcake
Top 3 Disney Movies: Tangled, The Lion King, Meet the Robinsons
My mom and dad are also both part of the trip a little: but they didn’t accompany us on our adventure. My dad (not a Disney fan, but has been on a trip with Mom and I once) drove us to the airport, and my mom (huge Disney fan, plutopuppy around the DIS, has been my trip partner for the last ten years) was on a cruise to the Caribbean with her sisters pretty much the whole time we were gone. (She was gone from the 29th to the 7th, whereas Cassie and I were gone from the 4th to the 10th.)
This trip has been about six years in the making. We’ve always wanted to go to WDW, and we’re so excited to have this trip. We originally wanted to go for our High School grad, but then ended up planning for our university one instead, especially since we could take the trip without my mom tagging along. We had five and a half days of fun in the sun (and rain!), we stayed at All-Star Movies, and we were on the Disney Dining Plan.
If you like Disneybounding, Flynn Rider, food, fun, Festival of Fantasy, pixie dust/glitter, Cry-lo (I mean, Kylo) Ren, getting wet on every single ride (even the Mine Train), learning about colours from Phil Dunphy, people thinking you're high school grads when you're actually college grads, puns, purple Magicbands, breaking character, learning how to speak monkey, Deadpool levels of sarcasm, and seeing a newbie’s first trip, then follow along on our journey! This Trip Report will be more fun than teaching Chewbacca how to fist bump and it’ll even make Sadness jump for joy!
So let’s go!
Table of Contents:
Introductions (you're here!)
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