A 16th Birthday/New Years Celebration(with 75,000 friends)updated 1/27

[MHTeacher]

No trip report update right now…working on it, but I’m not quite there yet.

But I just had to share that UPS delivered a large box to my house today from the Disney store on-line. I couldn’t help myself when they put all that holiday stuff on 40% off! Here’s some of the good stuff I ordered.

Mickey stockings for Kevin and Reid: $5.99 each

Minnie stockings for the girls and me:

“The Blue Fairy” ornament: $3.99

And lastly, a Minnie shirt for me: $5.99

So, I’ll have to wait 11 more months to pull out the stockings and the ornament, but as soon as the temps hit 70 degrees, I’m wearing my new Minnie shirt

 

[ladybugmom]

You will really like TSM---it's soooo much better than Buzz over in MK. Your girls will get a kick out of it.

We got the TSM game for Wii for Christmas and it's a lot like the ride at the Studios. I think the one game I played may have helped. I actually went over 100,000 on my score this year!

We got that Wii game for Christmas, too!! Ally has had sooo much fun playing it!!! Wow--over 100,000!!! That's impressive!!

 

[ladybugmom]

LOVE your purchases!! I ordered a bunch of Christmas stuff from Disney Store online as well! I got that same Blue Fairy ornament! Those stockings are too cute and I love the shirt!! You could wear it now but layering it over a long-sleeved shirt!! I did that today with my new BAMA National Championship shirt!!!

 

[MHTeacher]

LOVE your purchases!! I ordered a bunch of Christmas stuff from Disney Store online as well! I got that same Blue Fairy ornament! Those stockings are too cute and I love the shirt!! You could wear it now but layering it over a long-sleeved shirt!! I did that today with my new BAMA National Championship shirt!!!

Ha--too funny that you got the same ornament. I had to get that one, because, of that line in "Wishes"...."Well, I'll be...it's the Blue Fairy!". There was a 2009 ornament that was $1.99, but I was too late. They were all gone. *SIGH*

I could layer the shirt now, but I think I'll save it for........ Let's just say that I'm going to be adding not one, but TWO tickers very soon!

 

[MHTeacher]

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Tower of Terror was awesome, as always. I always love it when there are ToT virgins on the ride. They’re so funny, especially the ones who are terrified before it even starts. I always get a kick out of them. After finishing up at Tower of Terror, we set off to find Elizabeth and Reid.

We headed toward Star Tours. Now Kevin and I do not do this ride. Something about simulator rides messes with my head. My mind and body aren’t experiencing the same thing, and it just messes me up. (Nope…can’t do Mission: Space, original version, never tried the safer version; can’t handle “Body Wars” over in Epcot…is this even still there? NO, just found the answer to that! See..That proves that I haven’t gone looking for it in the past 8 years! ) While the kids rode that, we sat outside and people watched. VERY INTERESTING!

After the kids were finished, we still had almost an hour until our dinner reservation. We were all so tired. I suggested that we walk through “Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream”. Walk might be a slight exaggeration. I really passed right through, and sat outside the theater until time to enter for the show. When the theater opened up, we wound up on the back row. Now, not trying to be sacrilegious, but I was soooo tired, I decided to try to take a 15 minute power nap. In my defense, I have watched the show on previous visit, and it very informative and moving to a Disney geek-fan, such as myself.

Since I had gained my second wind, I was ready to go. It was close enough to our dinner ressie to go and check in at 50s Prime Time. Our reservation was for 4:30 and I checked in about 4:20. It was extremely crowded and they were running behind schedule. As I waited, I overheard people trying to walk up and score a table. I wanted to scream, “People---why would you come to Disney during the most crowded time ever, and not make dining reservations???”

Here’s a picture of Elizabeth and Rachel after we were seated at 5 o’clock.

Kevin chose the steak, 1st time for him to eat this and I took the fried chicken, as always. I asked to substitute the greens with just green beans. Yes, I am a Southerner, but I do not eat greens. AND, speaking of being a Southerner, 50’s Prime Time could learn a thing or two about cooking green beans from my granny! OH, and another Southern update, I am proud to report that 50’s now has sweet tea, and not that fountain sweet tea yucky stuff….the real stuff, brewed on site. I tasted Kevin’s and it was pretty good. All three kids ate……..yes, chicken nuggets! Prime Time has always been good about letting my kids eating off the kid’s menu, regardless of their ages. Actually we asked for, and paid for, an adult portion of the kid’s chicken nuggets for the bigger girls.

Now, I have only learned to like green beans during my adult life, but I could not eat all of these so-called green beans. Of course when our “mom” came to clear our plates she fussed on me for not cleaning my plate. She proceeded to feed me my green beans. Reid really got a kick out of seeing this!

Coming up…..”I’m going to tell you what you can do with that party horn!”

 

[brookelizabeth]

I could layer the shirt now, but I think I'll save it for........ Let's just say that I'm going to be adding not one, but TWO tickers very soon!

Can't wait to hear all about it!

Coming up…..”I’m going to tell you what you can do with that party horn!”

Great picture!!! My FIL acted up during our meal, that update will be coming very soon on my TR.

Your "Coming up" title had me laughing out loud! Uh-oh!!!

 

[racefanof88]

All caught up now . Love the report and your pictures are amazing. You have a beautiful family. Your nephew looks like a cutie pie. The cake looks soooooooo good. In May of 2008 we got a cake for Amanda and Tyler's birthday and it was gross. We got it at the Plaza and we took one bite of it and ended up throwing it away. Now last year I special ordered Dallas a cake and had it delivered to Sci Fi for our lunch and it was amazing $85.00, but amazing

The whole wait staff came to our table and said they had never seen a cake like it before and then our waitress explained that the cake Chef had hand painted the Mickey and it was the first time they had ever seen that done too. I still have Mickey in my freezer totally intact.............. The cake went DOWN.

Was ya'll's cake good? I want to order another one, but I don't know what to say we are celebrating....

Where in Bama do you live? I live in Mobile and it takes us 8 hours to drive to Disney. I swear if I had my way we would go to Disney every weekend I'm off.

 

[MHTeacher]

All caught up now . Love the report and your pictures are amazing. You have a beautiful family. Your nephew looks like a cutie pie. The cake looks soooooooo good. In May of 2008 we got a cake for Amanda and Tyler's birthday and it was gross. We got it at the Plaza and we took one bite of it and ended up throwing it away. Now last year I special ordered Dallas a cake and had it delivered to Sci Fi for our lunch and it was amazing $85.00, but amazing

Thanks for reading ! We had an awesome time, and yes...the cake was delicious!

The whole wait staff came to our table and said they had never seen a cake like it before and then our waitress explained that the cake Chef had hand painted the Mickey and it was the first time they had ever seen that done too. I still have Mickey in my freezer totally intact.............. The cake went DOWN.

So Mickey is still intact in the freezer? I've debated what to do with the chocolate disc with the age 16....I guess I could freeze it, couldn't bring myself to throw it in the garbage!

Was ya'll's cake good? I want to order another one, but I don't know what to say we are celebrating.....

Do we really need an excuse to eat cake???

Where in Bama do you live? I live in Mobile and it takes us 8 hours to drive to Disney. I swear if I had my way we would go to Disney every weekend I'm off.

We live in Florence, northwest corner of the state, on the Tennessee River. It takes us about 12 hours to drive to Disney---best route I've found for us is to to to Montgomery on I65, then head toward Dothan, then on to Tallahassee. Then of course, you know the way from there.

We are huge Tide fans, have season tickets, so we head to Tuscaloosa every weekend there's a home game during fb season.

 

[ladybugmom]

Ha--too funny that you got the same ornament. I had to get that one, because, of that line in "Wishes"...."Well, I'll be...it's the Blue Fairy!". There was a 2009 ornament that was $1.99, but I was too late. They were all gone. *SIGH*

I could layer the shirt now, but I think I'll save it for........ Let's just say that I'm going to be adding not one, but TWO tickers very soon!

I know!! They had sooo many ornaments on there that when you clicked on them they said "no longer available." It was such a tease! I don't understand why they keep them on the website?!

TWO tickers?! How exciting!!!! Can't wait to hear what's in store!!

 

[MHTeacher]

New Year’s Eve/Day 3---Part 4

When we finished up at 50’s Prime Time, it was almost 6:30. The times guides for the day stated that they would be passing out celebration hats and party horns for New Year’s Eve beginning at 6 p.m. There was one location listed: the entrance of Lights! Motors! Action! Well even if we had not known where this was, it would have not been hard to find it. Just walk the opposite direction of all the crazy folks walking around tooting that crazy party horn!


Wow, they had that distribution set up. You had to walk through the entrance of the stadium, and then make a u-turn to head down the street towards the exit. It was a little crazy, but I guess, the CMs couldn’t just stand in the middle of the street and get mobbed! We got our hats and party horns and I took this snap shot of the kids.

Then, Reid proceeded to drive us crazy blowing that goofy party horn for the next 5 minutes. After he and Rachel began blowing it in each other’s ears , "evil mother witch" had to step in. “Funs over kiddos…”


We headed to Toy Story Mania to use our fast pass. We got this game for Wii at Christmas, so I was anxious to try out my new skills. (All 3 days of practice I’d had before I had left home for Disney!) I scored over 100,000!

We decided to head back to ToT to use our last 2 FPs….Guess who got those? Not me. I know that it is Kevin’s favorite ride, and I made that mother sacrifice, and told Rachel to ride with her dad. Elizabeth, Reid and I would sit outside the “hotel” and wait for them.



NOW, this begins the WORST CROWD EXPERIENCE we had during this trip. We were trying to head to the exit of ToT, but unfortunately the first Fantasmic show was letting out. We got caught up in that crowd, and we were going the wrong way! IT WAS CRAZINESS!!! I saw one woman just pushing her stroller right through people, all the while, screaming, “Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep….”, like she was some sort of ECV! I decided that it must be ok to run over people, as long as you say “beep, beep, beep, beep, beep…..” NOT REALLY!


We finally made it to the hotel exit, but wouldn’t you know it, Reid had lost an arm in the process….NO, just kidding. It wasn’t quite that bad. (BUT CLOSE)


Up next…. “Do you want to stay and watch the next Fantasmic too?”

 

[MHTeacher]

Just noticed something really funny in one of these pictures.

I'll give you a two hints---

1. Look at the picture of Elizabeth and Rachel sittiing in their car for the TSM ride.

2. Think about the reason for our trip.

 

[wigdoutdismom]

Sorry I've been MIA for a few days but I'm playing catch up today! The birthay cake was beautiful, glad it was tasty too!
Just finished page 1 and going back to read!

 

[wigdoutdismom]

I can't believe how quickly you got onto RNR! 15 min! crazy!
Shocker and I are giant fans of TOT too, Baylor is a no way Jose'.
Hmmmm, it looks like Elizabeth is getting ready to drive on TSM without her glasses and Rachel is asleep at the wheel in that picture. Am I close?

I can't remember, are we overlapping on our summer trips?

 

[MHTeacher]

Hmmmm, it looks like Elizabeth is getting ready to drive on TSM without her glasses and Rachel is asleep at the wheel in that picture. Am I close?

Ha...but no, that's not it. Specifically, You need to look at the car they're riding in.

I can't remember, are we overlapping on our summer trips?

I don't think so, from the looks of your ticker. We'll be there May 22-29. WAIT....you've got so many tickers, I missed one! I think we may be overlapping!

 

[wigdoutdismom]

Ahhhhh, it's the number!
We arrive on the 30th. Drat!

 

[lovegrumpy]

Loving it. The crowed pictures is on reason I don't wanna ever go during nye.

 

[ladybugmom]

Oooh oohh!! They are sitting in car #16!!!! How cool!! It took me a minute to see it!! I can't imagine how crowded it must have been on New Year's Eve!! YIKES!!

 

[MHTeacher]

Ahhhhh, it's the number!
We arrive on the 30th. Drat!

Yes you got it.

The 30th? We'll be home by then. We'll just have to try again next May!

Loving it. The crowed pictures is on reason I don't wanna ever go during nye.

I know...the pictures are kind-of-scary, aren't they? But actually, we had one of the most fun trips we ever had!

Oooh oohh!! They are sitting in car #16!!!! How cool!! It took me a minute to see it!! I can't imagine how crowded it must have been on New Year's Eve!! YIKES!!

Ha Becky! You got it...# 16 car, 16th birthday trip!

You'll have to try NYE when your girls are older.

 

[lillylynnb]

Thanks for the pictures my DH wants to go this year that week and i keep saying its going to be crazy but hes not listening so maybe these pictures will show him what i mean. I mean come on 265 minutes for any ride is just crazy! But oh to be there for Christmas and NYE that would be great !

 

[MHTeacher]

Thanks for the pictures my DH wants to go this year that week and i keep saying its going to be crazy but hes not listening so maybe these pictures will show him what i mean. I mean come on 265 minutes for any ride is just crazy! But oh to be there for Christmas and NYE that would be great !

My daughter has always begged to go on her birthday, but we've always put her off on that one since she has that luck of being born between Christmas and New Years. But this year was a big birthday...Sweet Sixteen, so we gave in.

It's not the ideal time to visit if you've never been, but we went with the attitude that we've been there , seen it and done it at some point during a past visit. You know what, we had a great time, one of the best times we have ever had there. So, it is completely doable ! Don't let the stories scare you too much!