3rd Times a Charm! Mar. 8-14..lots of pics

[Stephanie VanMeter]

Your pictures are awesome! You will not regret stopping at all those photopass people, Claire will never be that age again. I can't wait to see more.

 

[jenseib]

I hear ya on the 20lbs thing! The photopass people had my DH and I bending down to be next to DD in the stroller, and let's just say some of the poses were very unflattering! I'd love to go at Christmas too but DH is a huge deer hunter and he takes off work during Thanksgiving... he'd never get two vacations back to back and he'd never miss hunting! I did go when I was 15 the week before Christmas and I loved it, but I'd love to go back as an adult and appreciate it more-but I need to win the lottery too!!

LOL! I am just standing and some are really unflattering

 

[jenseib]

Your pictures are awesome! You will not regret stopping at all those photopass people, Claire will never be that age again. I can't wait to see more.

I'm just starting on my next installment! My computer likes to be slow when I'm trying to hurry! LOL!

 

[tinkerbells mum]

I love the photopass pictures can't wait to see more xx

 

[TxRabbit]

I LOVE the idea of the red dress for a Christmas picture! Claire looks beautiful in the ones you framed out.

 

[lizet313]

GREAT pictures Glad you received photo pass.

 

[jenseib]

So when I left off, we were playing games until the Incredibles came out. Once they came out, I had Claire finish up her game and we headed over to their line. It wasn’t long at all. We’ve seen the movie before, but Claire didn’t really remember them all to well. (we actually watched the movie this weekend again. LOL)

She went right up to them though and seemed to have a good time with them. She was very “awed” that Mr. Incredible didn’t write his name, but rather used a stamped. That was really cool in her eyes. LOL!

This picture is not good at all, but I had to post it because it is so funny. Claire really thought Mrs. Incredibles boots were that coolest thing ever and she goes and rubs her leg. LOL! If DH would’ve tried that she would’ve slapped him! Heck, I would too!

I jumped in for a picture too. They didn’t have a photopass with these guys either.

After the Incredibles we headed out to find DH. He was in Walt’s One mans dream thinking that is where we were.
Finally we connected after beeping each other over and over. LOL!

He decided to take Claire and I was going to go on Rock N Rollercoaster.
Claire started complaining that she wanted to ride rides. We asked if she wanted to see the Ariel show, and she said “no, I already met Ariel, I don’t need to see a show”. LOL!
So they headed off to the Great Movie Ride with her complaining in tow.

I took off towards RNRC. I got to thinking, and thought, “well she wants to ride rides, let’s show her a whopper” LOL! So I beeped Skip and told him that when he was done to bring her over and meet me by Tower of Terror and lets take her on that. I didn’t know if she would like it or not, but that is a thrill ride, so she couldn’t complain about that part. LOL!

 

[Disneychix]

I can't wait to see if Clarie liked TOT!! That's awesome that you let her try it!

BTW, I love love the picture of Claire kissing you on the cheek It's too precious!

 

[jenseib]

I can't wait to see if Clarie liked TOT!! That's awesome that you let her try it!

BTW, I love love the picture of Claire kissing you on the cheek It's too precious!

Thanks. I loike that picture too. I'll get working on the next installment soon. Claire just woke up, so I need to get her breakfast. I was hoping to have more time before she woke up, but that pretty much guarenteed I wouldn't. LOL!

 

[GeminiAngel]

OMG! TOT! How cool, I can't wait to find out what happens.

 

[MagicShell]

Those photopass pictures are great. I have never been able to make myself pay that much money for the CD. Maybe I will have to next time. I really wanted a picture with Sorcerer Mickey but my camera messed up just at the wrong time. If I had done photopass I would have gotten my picture that I wanted.

I can't wait to see what happens with the Tower of Terror!

 

[jenseib]

OMG! TOT! How cool, I can't wait to find out what happens.

Those photopass pictures are great. I have never been able to make myself pay that much money for the CD. Maybe I will have to next time. I really wanted a picture with Sorcerer Mickey but my camera messed up just at the wrong time. If I had done photopass I would have gotten my picture that I wanted.

I can't wait to see what happens with the Tower of Terror!

First part of TOT coming right up! LOL!

 

[jenseib]

So off to RRNC I go!

I went into the Single Riders line. I found out later that DH didn’t know there was one and went into the standby line, so his wait was a little longer, but he said it moved pretty fast.
This was the first time I have rode this ride. I was a little nervous. I used to love rollercoaster’s, but as I am getting older, they just aren’t as thrilling anymore, and I prefer the tame ones. Most of Disney’s are very tame.
I got on in about 10 minutes.
All I can say is WOW! That take off is really intense. I’m glad the whole ride isn’t like that, or I would wimp out. LOL! You go from zero to 60 in just a few seconds. WHEW!

The ride was great though. VERY short! Neat with the music playing in your ears. Definitely one to do again sometime. My older DD, Paige, would love it. When I took her when she was 7, we had to ride TOT over and over because she loved it so much. I think she ended up riding it 10 times in 1 day. She was also a big fan of test track and when you did that full our speed around the track she would scream” make it go faster”.

I really need to see if DH will let me take Paige down for a girls trip sometime. Myabe get my mom to come along too, and then she can go with Claire when we do the rides Claire’s not tall enough for. LOL!

After RNRC, I beeped DH and he was still on the Great Movie ride. So I stopped off and got a Mickey bar. YUM. I have to have one every year.

I started making my way back towards them for something to do.
I stopped off and got a photopass shot of me with TOT in the background.

We met about half way. They announced that the Block Party Bash was about to start. I asked Claire if she wanted to watch it first, and she said “NO, she’s seen enough parades”. Oh well.

So off to Tower of Terror. Again I was a little nervous. It had been 10 years since I rode it, and I had heard they made it more intense since then with more drops. I was more nervous for me than Claire. LOL!

The line was next to nothing. I had to talked to a TOT CM while eating my Mickey Bar and he said it had been walk on almost the whole day so far. We had about a 5 minute wait till we went into the pre show. Love the Twilight Zones stuff.
We then went to get in line for our elevator. There was a girl about 10-12 in line with us just crying away. Her mom kept pointing to Claire and telling her if this little girl could ride it, she certainly could. I did tell her that it was Claire’s first time.

We then got seated. We were in the back row. The crying girl was in front of us, still crying. I had tried to make her feel better, but it just wasn’t going to happen. I told her if she could ride RNRC, which she did and loved, this was a piece of cake. I was kind of trying to convince myself too.

To be continued…..

 

[jenseib]

So the ride begins! We go up and it does the whole Twilight Zone stuff. Fun but a little creepy too. That was more what I worried about with Claire, but I constantly told her that it was just pretend. I think she was getting sick of my saying that. LOL!

Then came the drop.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!









Not so bad at all.
Claire did fine and said it tickled her butt. LOL!
This was MUCH tamer than I remembered. In the old days…before the drop you could wait up to 5-10 seconds just sitting there waiting and you never knew. This time it dropped almost immediately. And it didn’t drop nearly as far as before. We did the whole length back then and several bunny hops and then the length a couple more times. The biggest drop was not bad, and the bunny hops were so tame.

Claire loved it and kept talking about it as we excited. We asked f she wanted to ride again, but she said no she was hungry.
The crying little girl hated it and had a look of terror in the ride picture.
So with Claire being hungry, we went off to find something to eat. The request was a hotdog…..of course.

 

[Stephanie VanMeter]

When my dd was 4, we went up with DH and the boys but then came back down the chicken exit (a nice elevator) It was not her wanting to come back but me. Ever since then she will not get on the ride. But, she blames me and said if I would of let her ride it then she would have been ok. This year she is 10 so we will see. She will ride everything else on property!

 

[MyMuse]

OMGosh!

I didn't go on RnRC or ToT. I was too wimpy.

I am going down again in May for my niece's birthday, we'll see how it goes. I'm also trying to gear up for Splash Mountain.

Does RnRC go upside down??

 

[mickeystoontown]

OMGosh!

I didn't go on RnRC or ToT. I was too wimpy.

I am going down again in May for my niece's birthday, we'll see how it goes. I'm also trying to gear up for Splash Mountain.

Does RnRC go upside down??

Yep...it does go upside down and it has a corkscrew. I HATE rollercoasters but love RnRC. You're going so fast you really can't tell you're upside down. And, it's in the dark so you don't know how high you are. Love it!

 

[jenseib]

When my dd was 4, we went up with DH and the boys but then came back down the chicken exit (a nice elevator) It was not her wanting to come back but me. Ever since then she will not get on the ride. But, she blames me and said if I would of let her ride it then she would have been ok. This year she is 10 so we will see. She will ride everything else on property!

I knew I could handle it, and Claire really had no clue what it actually did though. LOL! She said she liked it, but only time wil ltell if she goes on it again. LOL!

OMGosh!

I didn't go on RnRC or ToT. I was too wimpy.

I am going down again in May for my niece's birthday, we'll see how it goes. I'm also trying to gear up for Splash Mountain.

Does RnRC go upside down??

Yes, but it's dark ,so half the time I didn't know which way I was...up or down... LOL! The ride is great, but that take off really gets your gut.

 

[Cynt]

Mommy to Claire - how in the world do you get your daughter to wear her princess dresses every day to the parks? I am a mom to 0 but an auntie to 17 and there is no way I could get my nieces to wear a princess dress every day. Maybe one day to the boutique but that would be stretching it. I can hear them now, "Auntie it's hot, it itches, it's uncomfy, I need to potty, it's in the way, it's dirty, I want to put my shorts on, etc, etc." How do yo do it? Enquiring minds want to know. And I have two girlie, girlie nieces. They would be ok for about an hour and then I would need to change their clothes. And dressing up a second day would be out of the question.

O, and I'm mad at you. I hate reading trip reports because I always get sucked in like a soap opera so I just read completed TR but for some reason your TR caught my attention and just like that I've been following this report for a couple of weeks. Keep up the GREAT job!! Love the borders on your photopass pics.

 

[jenseib]

Mommy to Claire - how in the world do you get your daughter to wear her princess dresses every day to the parks? I am a mom to 0 but an auntie to 17 and there is no way I could get my nieces to wear a princess dress every day. Maybe one day to the boutique but that would be stretching it. I can hear them now, "Auntie it's hot, it itches, it's uncomfy, I need to potty, it's in the way, it's dirty, I want to put my shorts on, etc, etc." How do yo do it? Enquiring minds want to know. And I have two girlie, girlie nieces. They would be ok for about an hour and then I would need to change their clothes. And dressing up a second day would be out of the question.

O, and I'm mad at you. I hate reading trip reports because I always get sucked in like a soap opera so I just read completed TR but for some reason your TR caught my attention and just like that I've been following this report for a couple of weeks. Keep up the GREAT job!! Love the borders on your photopass pics.

LOL! Claire actually choses to wear the dresses. Last year I borught them along with some othr clothes and most dayts she stayed in the dresses all day long. She just likes it. This year she did change a couple of times, but for the most part she stayed in costume. LOL! She wears them at home around the house. And when we go to tractor pulls with my DH, she will sometimes chose to wear a princess dress there. LOL! She just prefers dresses anyways. She wears dresses most of the summer. She thinks she really is a princess.
Now my other DD would never have done that. She liked shorts and rarely wore any dress at all. My sister was kind of a dress kid, so I think Claire takes more after her.
I am happy she does like it, because it makes it fun for me too.