A Family Of Four's 10th Trip To WDW [lots of pics!];; COMPLETED.

[PrincessPeanut]

I'm in! You're off to a great start!

Oh, and I love your Taylor Swift shirt! She's one of my favorites.

Looking forward to more.

 

[jpprincess1]

You are a totally awesome writer...especially for someone of your youth. It looks like you all are having such a great time and you all look so easy going. I am looking forward to more.

Yeah, our trip is like in 60 days!!
,
Jess

 

[celeste.]

I'm in! You're off to a great start!

Oh, and I love your Taylor Swift shirt! She's one of my favorites.

Looking forward to more.

Thanks! Taylor Swift's one of my favorites, too!

You are a totally awesome writer...especially for someone of your youth. It looks like you all are having such a great time and you all look so easy going. I am looking forward to more.

Yeah, our trip is like in 60 days!!
,
Jess

Thank you!!

 

[celeste.]

So, now we’re on Day 3!
Today we went to Disney’s Hollywood Studios! It was EMH in the morning, so the park opened at 8 AM!! We quickly ate breakfast and went down to the bus stop to wait for a DHS bus. We waited a while for a bus, but one did eventually come and we were there for rope drop.
When the park opened we went straight to Toy Story Mania, of course. There were herds of people going over there. When we got in line we didn’t wait too long.
Here are some pics of the waiting room:

the ride was awesome! We got to ride in a Woody car, too. He’s my favorite from Toy Story! It is definitely one of my favorite rides in Disney World! So then we wandered around a bit. Me & DSis wanted to go on Toy Story Mania again. So we started to wait on line. Right when we got up to getting the 3-D glasses the ride was down for technical difficulties. So, we turned around and went back outside.
I took this pic outside:

we looked around the shops in Pixar Place for awhile.
Then we decided we should have a snack. We went to Starring Rolls Café:

here’s the food. Top left: chocolate croissant (mine), next to that to the right is a cheese Danish (DMom’s), then below mine is an apple turnover (DSis’). And the coffee is my DDad’s:

while we were eating our snacks, a nice girl came over and gave us two fastpasses for Tower of Terror. My DSis would use them later.
after that we wandered back over to Pixar Place. I really wanted to meet Woody, so we decided to wait on line to meet them. The line wasn’t long at all.
Me, Woody, & Buzz:

DSis, Woody, & Buzz:

after our meeting with Buzz & Woody, my DSis decided to use her fastpasses for Tower of Terror. Me, DMom, & DDad looked around the shops for a bit.
In the hat shop, they had a bunch of Mickey ears on display, the ones you could get personalized and look what they had on display! My name!

so after that exciting encounter with my name, my DSis came off Tower of Terror. She went on twice and really liked it. Then we went over to use our Toy Story Mania fastpasses. So we went on that again. The second time it was great again!
After that, me & DMom went to the Beauty & The Beast show. I love that show. Probably because Beauty & the Beast is my favorite movie. While we did that, DSis & DDad went on the Great Movie Ride.
Here’s a picture I took at the show. Not too many of my pictures came out too good.

I also videoed a little bit of it. Here’s my video. Just click to view:

me in front of the Beauty & the Beast sign.

After that we went over to Catalina Eddie’s for lunch.
I got pizza, DSis got chicken fingers, and I really can’t remember what my DParents got.
Sorry, no pics of the food.
After we ate we looked around the shops on Hollywood Boulevard.
On our way we took this pic in front of Snow White topiary:

The shops are nice here. I especially like the one at the end with all the autographs and stuff.
So, after we shopped a bit we decided to head back to the WL.
We took the bus back. We saw one waiting at the WL bus stop so we ran to catch it because the bussing system wasn’t too good this year and we didn’t want to wait another hour for a bus.
Then we were back at the WL.
We rested a bit and I think DMom did laundry or something.
Then at around 4:00-ish, we went to Wolfgang Puck Exoress for dinner again.
This time I tried the pizza. Very good!

DMom got spaghetti & meatballs. She said it was delicious!

DDad & DSis got barbeque chicken quesadillas. The said the were great!

DMom & DDad got frzen yogurt for dessert, but me & DSis wanted to get something from Goofy’s Candy, so we got something wrapped to save for another time.
Me & DDad at Wolfgang Puck:

then we headed over to Goofy’s Candy.

Me & DSis wanted to get dipped rice krispie treats. So we filled out our little form and waited for them to make it.
Some pictures of them making mine.
Putting it in Butterfingers:

taking it out:

yum. Here’s it finished. It’s dipped in milk chocolate, butterfingers, and drizzled in caramel!

DSis got it dipped in dark chocolate, pecans, and drizzled in caramel:

then we may have looked around a bit or just headed back to the WL, I don’t remember.
So we drove back to the WL.
Me & DSis went to MK this night again. We wanted to ride Big Thunder Mountain in the dark. So as soon as we got there we got fastpasses for Big Thunder. I don’t think we had too much of a wait for the fastpass because we just looked around frontierland shops and then we went on. I love Big Thunder in the dark, even though it wasn’t really too dark yet. It’s so much fun, everything’s all lit up!
After we rode that I think we looked around Fantasy Land.
Here’s a picture I got of the castle.

DSis really wanted to meet Ariel in her grotto, but the wait was 70 minutes long! So we passed on that.
All the waits were really long on this night, so we went over to Main Street to look around.
I took this on our way:

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[celeste.]

then we decided to take a couple of pictures in front of the castle.
Me & the castle:

DSis & the castle:

now we went to the Main Street shops.
I tried on this hat:

DSis like this Ariel dress:

at the Confectionary, I bought a marshmallow lollypop. I wanted to eat it on the boat back to WL. As we walked out of the Confectionary, Spectromagic was starting, so we watched it for a bit.

Mickey!

Ariel!

then we decided we should catch a boat back to the WL.
Me & my lollypop. Can you tell DSis took the picture? It’s all swirly behind me!

when the boat came the electrical water pageant was going on so we followed it in the boat. It’s really cool to see it so close up:

then, we were back at the WL.

Up Next: EMH rope drop at Animal Kingdom!

 

[heaven2dc]

Your pics of TSM are so cool! Do you mind if I use one as a screensaver?

I've never had any candy made at Goofy's but I went there my last trip and the line was sooo long. Maybe next trip

 

[MLinDisney]

Wow! loving your TR! You saw so much and took so many great pics. I love those dipped rice crispy treats from Goofy's Candy Co!! Can't wait to read about the Animal Kingdom.

 

[celeste.]

Your pics of TSM are so cool! Do you mind if I use one as a screensaver?

I've never had any candy made at Goofy's but I went there my last trip and the line was sooo long. Maybe next trip

thanks!! and i don't mind, go ahead!

Wow! loving your TR! You saw so much and took so many great pics. I love those dipped rice crispy treats from Goofy's Candy Co!! Can't wait to read about the Animal Kingdom.

Thank you!

 

[celeste.]

This morning was another EMH in the morning. The park opened at 8 AM.
When we got there DSis went right to Expedition Everest and me, DMom, & DDad went to Dinoland to ride Primeval Whirl!
Me & DMom on Primeval Whirl:

after we rode that twice, DSis came off of EE and took this picture:

we then decided to ride Triceratops Spin. Me, DDad, & Dsis rode it.
Here’s us on the ride. DDad looks like he’s sleeping & DSis looks scared, haha. :]

then on our way out of Dinoland, we took this:

we decided to go over to the Safari, now.
I took this of EE while we were going:

The Safari didn’t have much of a wait, so we went on.
A lot of animals were out on this morning:
Giraffe!

Elephant!

Rhinos!

after the Safari, I think we went on one of those trail things. I’m not a fan of the trails. I don’t have any pics of it, sorry.
After the trail, we decided to take the train over to Rafiki’s Planet Watch or whatever it’s called.
We went to the Harmbe station:

the train was really cool. We rode sideways. I really liked it.
When we got to the Planet Watch, we saw Pocahontas!
Me & Pocahontas:

the picture’s a little dark because of the shadows and stuff.
We looked around a bit. And saw these cute spotted frogs:

then we headed back. We had 11:30 ADR’s for Yak & Yeti! Even though we didn’t have that dining plan, we love that restaurant and had to go there!
So we headed over to Yak & Yeti after the train ride. I think they took us a little earlier than 11:30.
I got the Honey Chicken with Fried rice:

DDad got the Skirt Steak with I think shrimp & rice:

DSis got beef & broccoli:

DMom got lo mein:

it was delicious!
Then it was time for dessert! Everyone got fired wontons, but me. I got the Sorbet.
Sorbet:

I don’t have any pics of the wontons, sorry.
After we ate, DDad & DSis went to the Flights Of Wonder show. Me & DMom went to Camp Minnie & Mickey to meet some safari characters!
The lines weren’t really that long.
First up was Minnie!

then we waited on line for Mickey. So when it was almost our turn Mickey took a ‘cheese break’. So the photopass guy felt he needed to keep us entertained. So he started to ask some trivia questions and when you got one right you won a pen. And guess who won a pen! Me! The question was: What year did Snow White come out? I knew it, 1937.
So anyway Mickey came back from his cheese break and I got a picture with him:

on our way out from there we took this pic:

after that, we looked around the Animal Kingdom shops and met up with DDad & DSis.
After we shopped a bit, we decided to take the bus back to the WL.
So, waiting for the bus took a while. We waited for a good 40 minutes! We saw 5 Contemporary & Polynesian busses! The group of people in front of us waited over an hour for the bus! So finally a bus came and we all climbed on it.
When we got back to the WL, DSis wanted to send some postcards so we bought some at the Mercantile. She wrote them out on a bench in the lobby.
After she did that and mailed them, we went to look around the WL outside.
I took these pictures:

the pool:

so then we went back to the room and rested for a bit.

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[celeste.]

After we rested we went to Epcot for dinner.
We took the bus to Epcot. I don’t think we waited too long for a bus this time.
When we got to Epcot we went straight to the World Showcase. I stopped at that little store thing right before the countries because I wanted to get a pressed quarter there.
So we looked around Canada, then the UK.
When we got to France we saw Belle & the Beast out. I really wanted to meet them together so we hop on line. We were stopped by the character handler because “the Beast has to go to the castle now, so this line is closed”. So I decided I would try to meet them again the next day we were here.
So we went into Belle’s library and took these pictures:

in front of the stained glass [it’s a little dark]:

next we went to Morocco. We found this really nice room in Morocco. It had no ceiling so the sun could come through and stuff.
Here are some pictures:

then we were getting hungry so we went to look for something to eat.
Me & DSis went to USA to eat and DMom & DDad went to Germany to eat.
The USA eating area was really nice. It was like all glass and bright & sunny. It wasn’t too crowded either.

I got a hamburger with chocolate mousse for dessert. It was good. DSis got chicken fingers and apple cobbler for dessert.
Then we met up with DMom & DDad and looked at the rest of the countries.
After that we headed over to ride Spaceship Earth.

I sat with DMom and this time we took some pics of our future:

then since the bussing system was horrible this year, we decided to take the monorail back.
So we took the monorail to TTC & then to Contemporary. Here are some pictures taken from the monorail:
Grand Floridian:

MK:

We are entering the Contemporary:

we looked around the Contemporary shops for a bit.
Me in a Sorcerer Hat:

then we decided to head over to the bus stop and go back to the WL.
Taken outside:

me & DSis:

Contemporary & BLT:

so, a boat finally came. But they stopped right before us because they couldn’t fit all four of us. Ok, fine. But then he goes “are there any groups of 2 people?” then a group of two comes. Then he goes “anymore groups of 2?” and two more people come. That’s FOUR people who just got on!! Why could he fit two groups of two but not four people?!
Anyway, so we waited another long time for another boat.
One finally came and we were the first ones on.
Then we were finally back at the WL!

Up Next: MK, Resort Hopping, & PM MK!

 

[shordiebecka]

Great TR so far. The part about the CM asking for groups of 2 is hilarious....I would have said something to him!

 

[celeste.]

Great TR so far. The part about the CM asking for groups of 2 is hilarious....I would have said something to him!

Thanks!

 

[celeste.]

We are now on Day 5!
So it was regular opening at MK today, so we got there around 8:45.
We took the boat. This is DSis on the boat. Doesn’t she look just too excited?

here’s us waiting for MK to open:

it wasn’t too crowded today:

Donald & Daisy in the opening show:

a crowded main street:

now here’s the castle close up!!

so we decided to head straight to Big Thunder Mountain!

when we got off Big Thunder Mountain it was so empty around it!

after Big Thunder we wandered around the empty adventureland for awhile, then we decided to go over and ride some fantasyland rides! We rode Peter Pan, Winnie The Pooh, & we saw PhilharMagic. DMom & DDad decided to go over and get fastpasses for Buzz Lightyear. Me & DSis went on Snow White’s Scary Adventures!

so after we rode that, we went over to meet DMom & DDad. We rode Buzz Lightyear and we went on Indy Speedway.
After we were in Tomorrowland for awhile, we went over to Toontown.
Once we were in Toontown, DSis & DDad went on Goofy’s Barnstormer and me & DMom went to go meet the princesses. I wanted to get some good pictures with them after the fiasco the other night.
We hardly waited at all the meet them!
Belle:

me & Aurora:

me & Cinderella:

me & Cinderella [again]:

me & Belle:

me & Belle [again]:

Now, aren’t those pictures much better than the ones my DSis took?
Then we met up again with DSis & DDad. We decided to take the train over to Fronteirland:

monorail taken from the Main Street stop:

we were getting pretty hungry, so me & DDad went to Pecos Bill’s for lunch and DMom & DSis went to Columbia Harbor House.

I got a hamburger & DDad got some sort of pork sandwich. Well, we ate outside because we didn’t know there was indoor seating. The birds at Pecos Bill’s are awful. They swoop down right over you and eat your food. It’s really not good.
After lunch we walked through Liberty Square. Still empty:

we took this in front of the castle:

we didn’t eat our desserts that came with lunch so we went over to the Main Street ice Cream Parlor!

I had strawberry ice cream. I really don’t remember what everyone else had.
We went to look in the Main Street shops after we ate.
I heard the Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It parade going on, so I went to watch it while everyone shopped.

Minnie!

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[celeste.]

Jessie!

Chip & Dale!

some guy on stilts:

then we headed out:

we saw Daisy leaving as we were leaving:

we decided to take the boat back:

we got one of those big boats. The ones where you can sit inside.
We sat in the front:

me & DSis:

DParents:

then we were arriving back at the WL’s dock:

we went back to the room and stuff. Then we decided we were going to visit some other hotels. I really wanted to go to All Star Music, so we went there.
As we were going to the car, I saw a cloud that kinda looked like Mickey!

after the drive, we arrived at ASMu!

I wanted my picture with the giant Cowboy boots.
Here it is!

a banjo [I wasn’t climbing I in the bushes to get a pic with that]

it looks like it is stepping on me!

here’s a picture down ‘Broadway’:

we then went inside to the gift shop area. There they have like a wall of pictures of all different musicians. It’s pretty cool. Here are some pictures I took of people I like:

next resort we went to was the Pop.

we went into Everything Pop!

we looked around there and it’s a very nice shop. Good for a resort gift shop!
We then saw this as we left:

next resort was Coronado Springs, where we would eat dinner! We stayed at Coronado a few years ago. It’s a very nice resort!

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[celeste.]

first we looked in their gift shop. This is my favorite resort gift shop:

then we went to Pepper Market to eat. Me & DMom got pizza and DDad & DSis got Mexican food, I think quesadillas.

as we left I got my picture next to the Three Caballero topiary:

some buildings of the resort:

that’s all for now.

Up Next: MK at night & DDad’s lost wallet!

 

[tiggerfan6]

Great Trip Report! Can't wait to read more! my kids like looking at your pictures.

 

[MLinDisney]

Enjoying your TR! You did so much while you were there! Can't wait to read your next installment. Tomorrow we leave for our Disney trip!!!!

 

[shordiebecka]

loved your pictures of CSR because that's where I am staying in November

Can't wait to hear more. Do you have any pics around the lodge?

 

[PrincessPeanut]

Great update!

We just returned from the WL last week, and it was absolutely amazing. I'm hooked. The boat ride is such a nice feature.

 

[MouseKTeer]

Hi! We love Small World too--it's timeless.

Thanks for the photos of morning EMH at MK...they really show the advantages of going there early. Not that I'd have much luck getting our group there then