3 day getaway...I'm going to Disney World! COMPLETED!

My Disney princess alarm clock went off at 4:05 am and it was time to go! Now any normal day I would hate waking up before the sun but today was different. I was leaving for Disney!

Don't you just love that feeling knowing you're going to Disney World?!?!? I don't like waking up early but when we're getting ready to go to Disney...it's so exciting!!! Nice report so far! :thumbsup2
 
i'm enjoying your report and all the pictures! i did a long weekend getaway to WDW myself a couple years ago - making the long trip for a few days was still totally worth it. i look forward to your next installment!
 
Love the pictures! Looks like you had fun!

The Land building looked exactly like that last month. What a zoo!

Can't wait for more!
 

I'm working on uploading more pictures so hopefully my next instalment will be up soon!!




Yum! Your food looks delicious.

I always have to restrain myself with shopping the first day at Disney World. If I just went for it, I would come home with a billion dollars worth of purchases!

Can't wait for more!

I'm getting hungry just thinking about the food there. If you ever get a chance to try it GO! In my opinion you wont regret it.

I know what you mean about shopping at Disney World. I really try not to buy too much untill the last couple days of my vacation. But I had a giftcard and some of my Disney Visa rewards so I let loose a little and had a mini splurge!

Thanks for reading! The next chapter will hopefully be up soon!


Don't you just love that feeling knowing you're going to Disney World?!?!? I don't like waking up early but when we're getting ready to go to Disney...it's so exciting!!! Nice report so far! :thumbsup2

Thats the best feeling in the world! I didnt get any sleep that night, maybe 4 hours tops because I was so excited!
Thanks for reading! :goodvibes

i'm enjoying your report and all the pictures! i did a long weekend getaway to WDW myself a couple years ago - making the long trip for a few days was still totally worth it. i look forward to your next installment!

I love going to Disney but I think 3 days was just too short. I just got there and had to come back home. I don't think I would go for less than 4 days again. Theres too much travel time to just go for 3 days. But at least it was a great break from work!!

Thanks for reading! :goodvibes

Love the pictures! Looks like you had fun!

The Land building looked exactly like that last month. What a zoo!

Can't wait for more!

I had a blast but an even better time with B and K on Wed!!

Yea the Land building was a complete zoo. I could barely move around!

Thanks for reading :goodvibes

subscribing, great TR so far! popcorn::

Thanks for joining in! more trip report soon! :banana:
 
So after I got out of the coral reef I called B to see if she was on break at work. Sure enough she was! We talked for about 30 minutes about our plans for the next day and the weather in Orlando compared to Largo (where she lives). I could tell B was excited to see me the next day and I was excited to see her too! Thats the longest Ive gone with out seeing her, its like torture without my BFF! We said our good byes and I wished her a safe drive up to Orlando and that I would see her soon!

After I got off the phone with B it was time for me to hit the World Showcase. This along with Main St USA is my favorite place to be. I have been waiting for weeks to do the WS passport and now was my chance. I started in Canada and worked my way around counter clock wise. Everyone that I met while doing my passport was wonderful. I think some of them were kind of happy to talk to an adult rather than having a kid shove the passport or mask in their face.
Here are some pics of the world showcase.
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Canada
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The UK

I even got to catch Off Kilter! I have heard so many great things about them from right here on the Dis and I couldnt believe the great timing I had. These guys were great I will definatly be making a point to see them again!!!!
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After the UK next stop France!
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I went to Paris back in May and the Epcot version is exactly the same! My gosh I felt like I was right back on the streets of Paris. I waited to see the France film and wow what a beautiful country. Can ya tell I love France?! I have never seen that movie before and I thought it was very cool to have that large screen, It made me feel like I was really there! Anyway after exploring France I headed over to Morrocco.
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Japan and Italy...
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I continued to make my way around the world getting my stamp from each country. I really think the passport idea is wonderful! I got to meet so many great people at each stop. They were more than willing to answer my questions and offer information about their country. (I have more pics of the World Showcase but I dont want to bore you all! :goodvibes)

After my passport was complete It was about 6:30. I decided to head out of Epcot and see if my room was ready.
Look what I found on my way out...
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I thought that was pretty cool. I know, I know the little things excite me!
Anyway heres a pic of spaceship earth and the progress of the removal of "Epcot"
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I will miss the Mickey arm but I'm excited to see Spaceship earth without the arm.
So I headed off to the bus stop and there was a Pop Century bus just waiting for me!! I hoped on and took a seat and we were off! I must say I really love the music and clock on the buses. I know some of you disagree but I think its better to listen to music then the silence of strangers or upset kids. While on the bus I called the 1-800# I had been given before and my room was ready! When I got to the resort I found it was Located in the 60's building over looking the lake! Just what I requested. As I made my way to my room these little guys were outside my room
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How cute!
Heres my room...
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The only thing that annoyed me (my fault not Disney's) was that my room was backwards. Sounds funny right but Ive always had a room with the beds on the left and the tv on the right. This was my first time that Ive had a room with the beds on the other. I'm crazy I know but that was my little pet peeve I guess. :lmao:
Anyway I got freshened up and changed into a tank top since it was so hot and decided to head over to downtown Disney for some shopping and a sandwich. When I got to DTD I headed over to my favorite sandwich shop Earl of Sanwich! mmm I just love that place! I got my usual cannon balls sandwich and It was delish! At this time it was around 8:45 and I decided to just look around at the shops and soak in the atmosphere.
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Gotta love this store!
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The BBB was closed by the time I got to DTD but how cute is that?! I'm excited to see the new location in Cinderella's castle. Myself and a few other girls are going in October to be transformed into Princess for our Dis-meet! Everyone deserves to be a princess...Thats how I see it! princess:
Anyway after I just poked around in some of the stores at the market place.
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My last stop of the night was a goofy's candy co for my slushie I get every trip! 1/2 red and 1/2 purple....mmmmm mmmmmm good! This candy store is just too cute I just have to stop there everytime Im at DTD!
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After my slushie I decided to head back to my hotel room to get some sleep for the next day!

Up next...Magic Kingdom with B and K! BFF reunited! :banana:
 
I love pictures! Off kilter is one of my favorite things in Epcot. I will be waiting for more.
 
I'm going to have to do a passport of my own next time I'm at Disney. It sounds like fun! Earl of Sandwich is my favorite eatery in DTD too. I don't eat meat very often, but I make an exception for their Caribbean Jerk Chicken sandwich.

I'm getting so nostalgic ... and I was just there in May!! :rotfl: You're doing a great job so far, Cheryl.
 
Great pictures! :thumbsup2 WS is one of my fave places at the World as well. :goodvibes

Oh, and I'm the same way about my rooms in WDW. My beds have always been on the right side, so it weirds me out when they're on the left! :rolleyes:
 
World showcase is my favorite as well. I love to do the passport.

I think it's great that you're going to do BBB. That place looks so cute.

Off Kilter is on my list of must-sees for this trip.

It sounds like everything is working out just wonderfully for you on this trip (except for the room being backwards!).
 
Warning: I dont know how many different parts this day will be broken up into. I have so many pictures from this day that I want to share so just be warned. :goodvibes


Ring Ring..."Wake up No Sleeping" Stitch yelled in my hear. As much as I miss the old Mickey Wake up call...any Disney wake up call will do as long as im at "the world"! Anyway I was so excited because this was the day that I would be seeing B and K! I showered, got dressed and packed for the day since I knew I wouldnt be back till late. I opened the door and what did I find...
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AW my magical express information for back to the airport...It felt like I just got to Orlando...Oh wait I did! :lmao:

Anyway I headed to the Pop cafe and had my usual...pop waffle and bacon...man it feels good to be "home". I sat in the Cafe people watching and eating my breakfast. I was meeting B and K at the magic Kingdom gates at 10 so I had time. At around 9:15 I headed out to the bus stop to catch the MK bus.

I arrived at the MK at about 9:50 and I made my way through bag check and found a bench and waited for B and K. My cell rang and it was B and they were running late and they would be there soon. Thats totally fine...it gave me time to people watch! Thats one thing I love about Disney world, you could be sitting and you see people from many many countries just walk by. People from all different places and walks of life all enjoying the magic of Disney. Next thing I knew my cell was ringing again. They were here!!!! B said that they had taken the tram and were now at the ticket counter. I was confused. I couldnt understand how they passed me. I asked her what was around...a train station...a lake? she said no...next she said that they were told they need to take the monorail. Then it clicked...they were at the ticket center! I've never been to the Disney parking lots because Ive always taken the buses so I didnt know how the parking to park thing went. But now I do. She said they would be there soon.
While I waited I took some pics.
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Next thing I knew I head my name and it was B and K! I was so excited to see them! We hugged and said how much we missed each other. Now it was time to hit the park!

With a quick stop at the bathroom we were off to head down main street! Of course we had to get a pic of the 3 of us.
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Here we are, B, K and myself reunited! We like to call ourselves D.W.B but more on that later :goodvibes

As we made our way down main street we stoped infront of the castle and Dream along with Mickey was going on.
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Now we watched this show for about 10 minutes and from what I saw it was really cute! The only thing that I'm not sure if I liked was the fact that the characters eyes and mouths moved. But anyway the show was really cute.

At this time it was about 11 and B and K were getting hungry so I recomended Cosmic Rays Cafe so off we went! B and I had chicken strips and K had a burger. We sat there and caught up on life and made a plan for the day. This is when B reveiled that she wasnt a ride person! :scared1: We have been friends for 6 years and I never knew this about her! K and I made a plan to get her on every ride possible including Space, Splash and Thunder MT. We had set ourselves up with quite a task. So here are some pics from lunch...
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"Rock on were at the Magic Kingdom"
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"Mmmm these fries are good!"

So after lunch we headed over to tomorrowland and the first ride was the people mover (the TTA).
Heres a pic from the people mover
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While riding we went through Space mt as usual but this time the lights were on! This was a great time for B to see that it wasnt that bad and that she could do it. But still no budging from her. We saw Buzz from the TTA and thats where we knew we had to head next.

When we got there it wasnt too bad of a wait...30 minutes. So we hopped right in line!
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Here was my score from Buzz.
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B claims her gun was broken as she only got 2300. But K beat us both with over 100,000!
Heres K when he defeated Zurg.
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K was really coming out of his shell at this point and was enjoying himself.

After Buzz we grabbed a fast pass for Space Mt which our return time was 2:15-3:15. Next we were off to Fantasy land to ride Winnie the Pooh and Snow White. With 20 minute waits each we were done in no time.

We stoped to get some ice cream at
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After ice cream we went shopping at...
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Tinkerbell is my favorite Character over all so I was excited. And after reading on these boards you can see tink in her drawer I was excited to see for myself and show B. I knew she would appreciate it.
I waited at the drawer before saying anything to be so I wouldnt make a fool of myself if she wasnt working today but sure enough she was! How cool! I squeeled and B was curious what I was doing. I told her to look and something would happen. Next thing I head was "WOW" and I knew she had seen her. K thought we were crazy and didnt really care what we had seen so we moved on.

Up next we went to
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Haha B wasnt suposto be in the pic..we had a good laugh about her "fish face"
Anyway B was excited to see this since she had seen it on the Disney Channel when it first opened.
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I just had to get this pic I love Wheezy!
So next we got our glasses and of course we had to take a picture...or 7 of them. Take 1....
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All of them were either with B and her glasses crooked, or one of us wasnt looking at the camera. We were laughing so hard by the end of this. Oh and please excuse how gross I look. It was so wicked hot that day and I don't do well in the heat.
We seriously took 7 or 8 pictures and here was the best one out of them all.
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The show was amazing as usual and K was totally suprised how good it was. Thats all he could talk about...the magic was rubbing off on him! Score!!

Up next...our longest wait for 2 minutes of ride, Pirates, and will be ride any of the 3 mts!? Stay tuned!
 
I love pictures! Off kilter is one of my favorite things in Epcot. I will be waiting for more.

I was so excited to see Off Kilter! They were just amazing. I can't wait to see them again!



I'm going to have to do a passport of my own next time I'm at Disney. It sounds like fun! Earl of Sandwich is my favorite eatery in DTD too. I don't eat meat very often, but I make an exception for their Caribbean Jerk Chicken sandwich.

I'm getting so nostalgic ... and I was just there in May!! :rotfl: You're doing a great job so far, Cheryl.

Yes do a passport! I will be doing another one next time I go as well. It was such a good way for me to break the ice and ask about their home country. Since I was alone it was nice to talk to them for a bit and see what brought them to Epcot and Disney in general.

I know I'm getting all nostalgic just writing this. I keep thinking aww I was there one week ago and this is what we were doing etc. I miss it already...I know crazy!

Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad you like my report!

Great pictures! :thumbsup2 WS is one of my fave places at the World as well. :goodvibes

Oh, and I'm the same way about my rooms in WDW. My beds have always been on the right side, so it weirds me out when they're on the left! :rolleyes:

Aw isnt the world showcase great! I could seriously live there!

Hahah isnt that crazy how we can be thrown off by such a little change such as the beds on the other side. :lmao:

World showcase is my favorite as well. I love to do the passport.

I think it's great that you're going to do BBB. That place looks so cute.

Off Kilter is on my list of must-sees for this trip.

It sounds like everything is working out just wonderfully for you on this trip (except for the room being backwards!).

I would of never known about the passport if it wasnt for the Dis! Ive seen them being sold before but never thought about actually having them stamped and all. I would of never put 2 and 2 together. I cant wait to do another!

My/our timing worked out great for this trip I couldnt of asked for anything better. There were some issues on the way home but more on that later. :goodvibes
 
After we got out of Phillarmagic K was in total shock. He thought that show was the best thing that he has EVER seen. Oh and did I forget to mention he was singing the songs through the show. B and I just looked at each other and we said hes such a liar...he LOVES Disney!

Anyway we walked pass the Peter pan ride and B wanted to ride but the wait was 80 minutes! K wasnt too excited about waiting but B said if we were going to make her ride the 3 mts then we had to ride Peter pan...so off we went to join the line.
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Now this line never seems to move because of the amount of fast pass people. Not that I'm complaining because I'm not but thats just my observation. But we had fun in the line taking pics...
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Evil K
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and scared B. Believe me it was a long 80 minutes. But out of the whole 3 days this was the longest wait that I saw besides Soarin. Even some of the MTs had a lot less wait time then I would of thought for mid July. As we were waiting to ride our Space Mt. fast passes expired. But I told B and K that I heard here on the Dis sometimes you can still use them so we could give it a try later. We finally made it on to our flying boat and heres a pic of the 3 of us.
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I couldnt even tell you what B is looking at :lmao: .

So after 80 minutes of waiting and 2 minutes of ride we headed over to see haunted mansion.
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B and K were bummed that it wasnt opened. I can't wait till it reopens, Ive heard so much about the refurb to the DL one. I hope DW follows suit, I just love that ride!

Heres a pic of the liberty boat. In all the times Ive been to Disney world that is one thing I have NEVER done. Theres always next time
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This is big thunder mt railroad from over where Haunted mansion is
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We decided we better go grab fast passes for Splash mt then head over to ride Pirates. So on our way Woody's cowboy camp was going on! Thats such a cute show! "You got a friend in me....you got a friend in me...."
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So after the show was over we got our FP for spash and even walking by this ride B was scared. K and I were hoping that she would concor her fears and ride.
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Next off to Pirates! This is something we all were pumped for! I wasnt able to go on this last year due to the refurb and I was so excited to see the Jack Sparrow additions. Now this only had a 20 minute wait :woohoo:.
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Now I was in total shock of how life like Jack looked! Ive heard it was amazing but I just couldnt believe it. And I will admit that I took this pic with a flash. :headache: But it was the only one and I know that doesnt justify it but heres the pic anyway. So sorry to anyone that was on our boat.
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Jack again at the end of the ride (w/o flash)
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So after the ride we of course had to take pics with the hats on...its a must!
heres B
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Myself
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and K...now try to tell me he isnt loving every minute of this day! :lmao:
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Up next... a little ice cream goes along way!
 
She quickly returned with yummy bread and my Pirate punch. (yes its a kids drink...but were all allowed to be kids at Disney right?!)

:idea: Huh, it's a kids drink? :confused3 There are such things as kids and adult drinks...;) Don't sweat it, I ordered one too and I plan on getting another next time we go to the world. :thumbsup2
 
Great TR so far! I love the pictures... I wish I could go back for a few days, but I'm too far away! I'll live through your three trips this year then, Tinkerbell!
 
:idea: Huh, it's a kids drink? :confused3 There are such things as kids and adult drinks...;) Don't sweat it, I ordered one too and I plan on getting another next time we go to the world. :thumbsup2

Haha I read about these drinks from Fairy_tale_bride and I just had to have one! It was soo good.


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Great TR so far! I love the pictures... I wish I could go back for a few days, but I'm too far away! I'll live through your three trips this year then, Tinkerbell!

Thanks for reading! I will have trip reports for all my trips if you want to read them! :lmao:
 
really enjoying this! I am also 20 so its always great to know there are fellow disney lovers out there that are my age! Also, the other 2 people in my party for our upcoming trip are around that same age so its nice to see how your friends reacted to the rides and such
 





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