Samantha and Wes's Magical Disney Escape 08.09.10 - Last thoughts about our Trip!

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here is the website with our Randy pictures on it, I finally have the discs from him and we are not so patiently waiting to get our Disney disc in the mail hopefully this week sometime :confused3

I was trying to get our blub book started but my laptop isn't reading Randy's discs so I can't upload them onto it, I'll have to use our home computer to make them... which means it will take me longer :sad2:
 
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here is the website with our Randy pictures on it, I finally have the discs from him and we are not so patiently waiting to get our Disney disc in the mail hopefully this week sometime :confused3

I was trying to get our blub book started but my laptop isn't reading Randy's discs so I can't upload them onto it, I'll have to use our home computer to make them... which means it will take me longer :sad2:

Great pics! How come they are all Monotone?
 
At the dinner the night before my new mother-in-law told us we needed to cancel the breakfast with them the next morning as they were not going to be able to get checked out and to our hotel in time for breakfast.

So we spent the morning packing up and my mom, dad and sister picked us up to help us move over to Coronado Springs, where we unpacked and then my mom, sister and I went to the outlet mall while my Dad and DH went golfing. None of the girls felt much like shopping so after a very short shopping trip we went to Epcot to try to sort out the bill from dinner on Saturday at Rose and Crown. We hit were headed to Test Track when the boys called and said they were headed over to Epcot. While we were waiting for them we got in the single riders line where we were delayed briefly for weather and then we met the boys. As were were in the pre-show the ride got shut down for weather and we were given fast passes to return. We then decided to try Via Napoli for dinner so we headed back to the World Showcase. Dinner was great for the most part.

We started with the Fritto Misto which was pretty good. My Mom had the Bistecca salad which was very good. I had the individual Margheritta pizza which was fantastic! My sister had the spaghetti e polpetti which was also fantastic. DH and my dad had the picante pizza, they didn't like the broccoli-rabe as it was quite bitter and there was tons of it on the pizza whereas the sausage was barely present. We had some wine and it was a lovely evening but DH and I cut out before the bill (Thanks Mom and Dad!) as we had to be up at 3am for my hair and makeup appointment before our MK/AK photo shoot the next day. We found out later that they server brought out a dessert with a candle as we had been wearing our just married buttons. As soon as they saw we were gone they blew out the candle but my sister enjoyed the dessert (whatever it was :laughing:)

We cabbed back to Coronado Springs from the Beach Club and tried to get some sleep, it was after 9pm when we left the park and our alarm was going off at 2:30 the next morning.
 


The alarm was very early this morning and the girl from Beaute Speciale was right on time. I had a few pictures I took of my hair from the wedding day in the mirror after dinner and I told her the colours Patricia used for my makeup and off she went. I was dressed and ready at about 4:45 and our pickup was at 5, and then it was 5 and no one was there, and then 5:05 and we tried to call to the Yacht Club to see if there was a problem and the photographers were there, and then it was 5:15 and I was calling Amy, and the Yacht Club and the front desk at CSR ad finally the Yacht Club told me that the photographers had just left there and having found out we were at CSR were on their way to us.

...this was the one thing that had been wrong on the BEO when it was sent to me and I did just what Amy told be to do to fix it... crossed it out and wrote in Coronado Springs before I faxed it back. I was so mad and upset it was the biggest expense outside of the wedding package itself and the biggest mistake made on DFTW's behalf.

I was a little frantic when Mike and his assistant Erika pulled up but they were great and said we'd make time for pictures and not to worry.

We got to the Magic Kingdom and we did the castle shots and the carousel shots but I had wanted to get some shots on the path at the back of the castle like some featured on the Event Photography website but with all of the hubbub I completely forgot until we were back in the room.

We then went over to AK where they were a little less used to bridal shoots, the lady at the gate wanted DH and I's photo IDs and while, wonder of wonders I had a wallet in DH's pocket we ended up not needing to show them. We did some photos in Africa and got told to move the van, then some on the forrested path to Asia, then we moved the van to what we thought was Asia, but was about 20 ft in the park from where we were before. The some in Asia and as we were leaving Mike saw the train station in africa that goes to the conservation station and we stopped there to get some shots that ended up being some of my favourite shots!

We had a lunch reservation scheduled at Tusker House that day with reserved seating for Finding Nemo but ended up cancelling that and the massages we had booked to relax by the pool and do some laundry. We went to Pepper Market for dinner/lunch that day and really enjoyed the food though it did seem to take quite a while for them to make everything.
 
We had breakfast at Kona and a private cabana (beachcombers shack) at Typhoon Lagoon that day.

We drove over to Kona as we had rented a car for about 2 weeks for our stay at CSR and picked it up the day before. Kona was fantastic. We weren't that hungry and as we both wanted to try the Tonga Toast we ended up spliting an order of that with the special juice for me and Kona coffee for DH.

Then we headed over to Typhoon Lagoon. We were there right about open and checked into our Beachcomber Shack. The shacks were great we had a cooler of water, refillable mugs, a call button for the attendant and towels. We also had the option of ordering drinks and food from our attendant so that we did not have to go get it ourselves.

Our attendant was great and our shack was rght next to the giant wave pool. We had a great time that day and stayed until about 4pm. I would not have been happy at the water park that long normally but having the cabana to go back to and read my book in while DH enjoyed himself made it so much better for us to be able to spend the day there. At $250 for the Shack no matter the # of people it is pricey but it was gift to DH for the early morning photoshoot that I wanted. We enjoyed it so much that we decided to book a cabana for our planned day at Blizzard Beach at teh end of our trip.

We had dinner booked with all of my family and my best friend at Le Cellier that evening. My best friend's boyfriend had decided to come on the trip at the last minute so we had to add a person to the reservation that afternoon, it all worked out and we had a fantastic meal. Our server was great and brought us champagne with our dessert for being newlyweds.:bride:
 
Not aure if anyone is still reading but I will try and update and get as much of the trip report done this weekend as I can. Also as a little reminder of Disney Cirque Du Soleil has a show in Calgary that is closing this weekend and DH and I are going to the last show of it's run. It'll be like seeing La Nouba which we have done both times my husband has been to Disney World now!
 


Not aure if anyone is still reading but I will try and update and get as much of the trip report done this weekend as I can. Also as a little reminder of Disney Cirque Du Soleil has a show in Calgary that is closing this weekend and DH and I are going to the last show of it's run. It'll be like seeing La Nouba which we have done both times my husband has been to Disney World now!

I'm still reading, and I would love to see updates!!! Have fun at Cirque du Soleil Calgary! I wonder if there will be Cowboys featured in that one.....:rotfl:
 
Call 407-WDW-PLAY and tell them the park and date you want they can be booked 180 days in advance like dining reservations and it was a great way for both of us to be able to enjoy the water park for the day.
 
Today we had an early breakfast for 7 (aka all my family and friends) at 8:15 at the Crystal Pallace. Wes and I ended up running late and it took forever for the monorail to get us to MK but we got there and got checked in for breakfast where we picked up a new Just Married pin for DH as he had forgotten his that morning. Breakfast was a lot of fun. We all enjoyed the food and we had a lot of fun with the characters.

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we then split up as this was my best friend's last day in Disney and her boyfriend's first time in the MK so they went off to tour until they dropped and my mom, dad, sister DH and I went off at a more leisurely pace. At about 1pm DH and I realized that we had a lunch reservation at the Grand Floridian Cafe and we weren't going to get there in time. I tried to call Disney Dining to cancel but was told the wait to speak to an opperator was 25 minutes... longer than we had before our lunch. This was the only dining reservation we had that we didn't cancel if we didn't go to it. About 2:30 my parent and my sister decided to head to DHS while DH and I decided to see if we could grab a late lunch at Grand Floridian Cafe. When we got to the GF the cafe was closed so we decided to go back to CSR to do some laundry and hit the pool. We had lunch/dinner at the Pepper Market which we enjoyed quite a bit.
 
Today we headed to Epcot. We had lunch reservations at Tokyo Dining. The food was AMAZING! We had (way too much!) off of the sushi menu! I tried to look it up on allears.net but they don't list the sushi :confused3

I know we had a california roll, a dynamite roll and some other rolls. We had a great time at lunch and the servers gave us a ginger cake for our celebration and an oragami heart that said love. I am sure we went on some rides as everytime we went into Epcot we rode Soarin'.
 
Today we had breakfast at Donald's Safari Breakfast. I LOVED the speacial juice but DH wasn't enthralled. He refused to ask for any other juice so he just drank water all breakfast, too bad for him! We enjoyed the food here probably more than at any other breakfast buffet, it was soo good! Plus it was fun being back outside of the restaurant where we had our bridal portraits done a few days before.
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We then had a late lunch/early dinner reservation at Mama Melrose before Fantasmic! that night with my sister. We enjoyed our lunch though we ate WAY too much. They let us order any appetizers which included DH ordering the appetizer plate for two. We had a fun time at lunch and then we really enjoyed Fantasmic! It was the first time the three of us had seen the show and we really enjoyed it.
 
Today we had the Keys to the Kingdome tour with my sister and dinner at California Grill just DH and I. The tour was AMAZING! we learned soo much about the Magic Kingdom and we really enjoyed the experience. My sister and I are the huge disneyfiles of the family and we really liked it. My DH is just getting into Disney and he still really enjoyed it.

We were some of the first to arrive for the tour and we got to hang out in the front of main street while the rest of the group arrived. We then picked up our headsets, name tags and some water and we headed off on the tour. We got to see where the water for Splash Mountain is stored and reused, the back of POTC, the Electric Lights Parade floats, and ride the Jungle Cruise with some unique comentary by our tour guide rather than the skipper. We found out that the skipper can control how wet you get so laugh at their jokes! We also rode Haunted Mansion with some unique perspective and some fun hidden mickeys :)
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It's midnight and I have school and work tomorrow so I will leave it there for tonight. I'll try to add more tomorrow.
We stuck around the park for a bit but it was hot so we headed back to rest up a bit before DH and I went to California Grille for our 1 week anniversary dinner
 
I am going to add some Randy pictures that haven't been seen along with a link to the facebook posting and the pictures of his page for anyone interested as I don't think I did that before.

Here is the facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=1010174369

and the link to his page:
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Me getting ready
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yes I did wear that robe because it went with my wedding colours!

My sister attempting to walk unescorted down the boardwalk
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Oh good bricks much more stable!
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Our hats!
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Our Wine Box Ceremony
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My flowers closeup
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Pink Champagne! (actually it's raspberry juice added to the champagne
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What my mom calls our "running away from home" picture
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A favourite shot that both Stephanie from Disney and Randy captured beautifully
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Here is one showing my shoes!
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and the boardwalk again
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and to compare...
here is my hair inspiratin pic
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and my wedding day hair (mine is a lot longer than hers)
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