70 to Freezing in 7 hours. A Nov/Dec 2011 trip report. Updated 4/28

[petals]

Looks like a great day in AK...photo pass pictures? Does that mean you have your CD?

No no CD. They told me I never ordered it I reckon they never processed it because I did order it but the re-opened them and I downloaded them because I don't trust them to send it to me now!

 

[lovethattink]

Glad you were able to get the pics. Can you download them to your own disc before the digital download expires? Fun ak pics!

 

[MEK]

Great pics. I took so many pictures of the AK christmas parade but never saw Goofy's trailer. That is too darn cute!

 

[petals]

Glad you were able to get the pics. Can you download them to your own disc before the digital download expires? Fun ak pics!

Yeah I saved them all to the computer and then put them on disk. I just don't really understand it because if you pre pay for photopass cd why are you not getting a cd but getting an option to download. Is it the same price to download as to buy a cd for example if you didn't pre order but just bought when you came back from your trip.

Great pics. I took so many pictures of the AK christmas parade but never saw Goofy's trailer. That is too darn cute!

I only spotted it on my video don't think I saw it on the day either. On the video I'm focusing on the side of his car as well instead of him and I also didn't notice til the video the side of his car had different character themed christmas stockings there was stitch and lilo and others. That might be in my pic on the parade but I didn't really notice them before

 

[petals]

Okie so I won't have video pics for Magic Kingdom for a while so I'll just continue with this:


Day 5, part 1:
Monday 28th November 2011

Today we got up early and Momma found Minnie and Mickey had left her a note and a present:

It was an early Christmas present from me After all the excitement of a suprise present we caught our usual blue/white bus (we called it that ever since the first day and for the rest of our trip) at 8.30 to DISNEY!
The blue/white bus drops us at Epcot bus park which was handy that day because we were going to Epcot for the day so by 9 ish we were seeing:

and shortly after admiring the pretty entrance, toparies and our favourite giant golf ball:

This one was a crop from a photopass:

Monorail flying by I'm try to watch photos I seem to have got alot of monorail pics and different colour in each one I'm wondering if I got them all:

Back to the toparies and golf ball:

We eventually actually went past the Golf Ball and into the first shop that we saw lol I think we're just automatically attracted to them. Either that or we were looking for something in particular I don't remember anyways I saw this cute little Mickey on top of an Xmas ornament and he wanted his picture taken:

We strolled further into Epcot and I of course took pics along the way:

We then decided to go to Mouse Gear to search for a new friend for Angel and use one of our 20% off vouchers that we'd gotten in Magic Kingdom. It was soooooooooo quiet in Mouse Gear I think we were like the only people there besides the CM's. Because the bus drops us at Epcot bus park we were in Epcot by 9.10. We missed rope drop but the park seemed very quiet as we were strolling around. Anyways I took pics as we wandered around Mouse Gear:

I eventually bought the hoodie on that display.

We left without a new friend for Angel because they didn't have the one I wanted but back outside and there was more photo opportunities for the snap happy photographer:

After that we headed in the direction of some rides.




Next up: Queues? What Queues?

 

[blessedmom4]

LOVING the pics (Love them more if you were in one ). That was SO SWEET to do that for your Mom!!!! You ARE a great daughter!

 

[lovethattink]

Yeah I saved them all to the computer and then put them on disk. I just don't really understand it because if you pre pay for photopass cd why are you not getting a cd but getting an option to download. Is it the same price to download as to buy a cd for example if you didn't pre order but just bought when you came back from your trip.

Great Epcot pics too. Oh how I miss the Christmas decorations!!

I think it was the same price for either the digital download or the cd. I went with the cd. Pre-order with discount on either is $99.99, to buy it after the trip instead of as a pre-order it's $149.99.

 

[petals]

LOVING the pics (Love them more if you were in one ). That was SO SWEET to do that for your Mom!!!! You ARE a great daughter!

I have some of those in photobucket now. I'll post them after the weekend. I'm going to visit my baby nieces this weekend (they not really babies at 10 and 13 but they still my baby nieces even if the 13 year old is taller than me ) The pick a pearl was another one of those things I wanted to show Mam we'd never seen before plus I wanted to do something different for her for Christmas.

Great Epcot pics too. Oh how I miss the Christmas decorations!!

I think it was the same price for either the digital download or the cd. I went with the cd. Pre-order with discount on either is $99.99, to buy it after the trip instead of as a pre-order it's $149.99.

I love Christmas in Disney World. I think the CD is probably worth 99.99 dollars more than downloading them yourself. It's all a bit expensive though considering the mistakes they make. Last year they put one of the pics in my photobook crooked. Good job the pictures are so nice!

 

[afwdwfan]

I'm glad you were able to catch some monorails in pictures. I actually walked around EPCOT one day with the intent of getting a picture of a monorail going by, but for some reason or another, I always seemed to forget until it was past or I just didn't have a camera handy.

 

[amandaw]

Ok, for some reason, I read your Epcot update yesterday but didn't post a response. Don't know what my deal was....Sorry!

That is so sweet of you to do that for your mom! I've done the Pick a Pearl thing in Las Vegas. It really is a lot of fun. Although, my DH didn't think it was too much fun when they kept giving me free oysters to pick more pearls & make more jewelry!

Love all of the pics of the different Christmas decor! We changed our trip for this year, so it looks like I won't be seeing Mickey around Christmas. Oh well....at least we're still going!

 

[petals]

I'm glad you were able to catch some monorails in pictures. I actually walked around EPCOT one day with the intent of getting a picture of a monorail going by, but for some reason or another, I always seemed to forget until it was past or I just didn't have a camera handy.

I have a few monorail pics from across the trip. Dunno how many different colours I got but I didn't actually realise I was getting different colours in all the pictures either it was only when I got home and looked at them.

Ok, for some reason, I read your Epcot update yesterday but didn't post a response. Don't know what my deal was....Sorry!

That's ok better late than never

That is so sweet of you to do that for your mom! I've done the Pick a Pearl thing in Las Vegas. It really is a lot of fun. Although, my DH didn't think it was too much fun when they kept giving me free oysters to pick more pearls & make more jewelry!

Lol I love it. Pity they don't give free oysters in Disney I just thought it was something different to give her for christmas instead of like a bath set or perfume or pyjamas or something else.

Love all of the pics of the different Christmas decor! We changed our trip for this year, so it looks like I won't be seeing Mickey around Christmas. Oh well....at least we're still going!

Aws at least you'll see Mickey though plus it'll be a great excuse for a 2013 trip as well We have two trip ideas floating around at the mo. will see which one happens my only conditions are Mickey Mouse has to be involved in some way

 

[Caretames1]

Trying to get caught up here on my subbed threads!

I'm sorry to hear of the photo pass screw-up! That really doesn't put them in the best light, but I really love the service. At least they could have given you a % off or offered you a new CD with the downloads.

Such nice Christmas decor photos. I so want to immerse myself in that someday.

I got my girls that pearl cage and they love it! I can't wait to see how big of a pearl was picked!

 

[amandaw]

Aws at least you'll see Mickey though plus it'll be a great excuse for a 2013 trip as well We have two trip ideas floating around at the mo. will see which one happens my only conditions are Mickey Mouse has to be involved in some way

We're hoping to do another Disney cruise in 2013. But, if that doesnt work out, I'm sure we'll be back at DisneyWorld.

I hope one of your trip ideas work out for you! And as long as Mickey is involved, then it should be ba great trip!

 

[jenseib]

Your Mom is just too funnyfor calling that guy out. I would've died laughing.
Epcot looks really pretty all spruced up for Christmas. I am afraid they won't have anything out yet when we go next Nov. I think we will be too early yet. I just read a TR that had the same dates for us (but was 2011) and it looked like nothing at Epcot was decorated yet.

 

[MEK]

More lovely pictures!!!!!! I love the Epcot christmas decorations! What a cute necklace you gave your mom. Awesome surprise!

 

[momabaarjo]

What a nice gift and what a thoughtful daugher! Anytime one can make their mum smile....

 

[petals]

Trying to get caught up here on my subbed threads!

I'm sorry to hear of the photo pass screw-up! That really doesn't put them in the best light, but I really love the service. At least they could have given you a % off or offered you a new CD with the downloads.

Such nice Christmas decor photos. I so want to immerse myself in that someday.

I got my girls that pearl cage and they love it! I can't wait to see how big of a pearl was picked!

They seem a little lazy considering how much you pay for their photos. But they are nice photos as well.

I love the pearl cages they so cute.

Christmas at Disney is so pretty!

We're hoping to do another Disney cruise in 2013. But, if that doesnt work out, I'm sure we'll be back at DisneyWorld.

I hope one of your trip ideas work out for you! And as long as Mickey is involved, then it should be ba great trip!

I want to do a cruise. Momma wants to go to New York so if we go there there'll be a cruise attached.

My other trip would be a solo trip to Florida so we'll see which one happens but I need my Disney fix!

Your Mom is just too funnyfor calling that guy out. I would've died laughing.
Epcot looks really pretty all spruced up for Christmas. I am afraid they won't have anything out yet when we go next Nov. I think we will be too early yet. I just read a TR that had the same dates for us (but was 2011) and it looked like nothing at Epcot was decorated yet.

I think Epcot are one of the later parks to decorate. The Candlelight processional doesn't start until after Thanksgiving afaik. Dunno if they decorate it before then.

More lovely pictures!!!!!! I love the Epcot christmas decorations! What a cute necklace you gave your mom. Awesome surprise!

Thank you I love the Christmas decoartions to

What a nice gift and what a thoughtful daugher! Anytime one can make their mum smile....

It was something different I don't like giving people the same type of thing every year for Christmas so wanted something different.

 

[amandaw]

I want to do a cruise. Momma wants to go to New York so if we go there there'll be a cruise attached.

My other trip would be a solo trip to Florida so we'll see which one happens but I need my Disney fix!

Oooh....New York with a cruise would be lots of fun. Would it be one of the Disney cruises sailing out of New York?

A solo trip would be fun, too. I'd like that one day to do all of the things I want to do & just spend as much time as I want taking pictures.

 

[petals]

Oooh....New York with a cruise would be lots of fun. Would it be one of the Disney cruises sailing out of New York?

A solo trip would be fun, too. I'd like that one day to do all of the things I want to do & just spend as much time as I want taking pictures.

It would be Disney cruise from New York. I'd like to do the two or three day cruise to nowhere but Momma wants to do New York this year and I don't think there's any two day cruise left for this year so may have to see if we can do one to florida that includes castaway cay. I'd be devasted..... NOT!!!

Solo trip would be over halloween and including first week of November so I could do MNSSHP and MVMCP!

 

[amandaw]

It would be Disney cruise from New York. I'd like to do the two or three day cruise to nowhere but Momma wants to do New York this year and I don't think there's any two day cruise left for this year so may have to see if we can do one to florida that includes castaway cay. I'd be devasted..... NOT!!!

Solo trip would be over halloween and including first week of November so I could do MNSSHP and MVMCP!

Those both sound like great vacations! Either way, you'll have fun!