A girl ought to Celebrate what passes by-New PTR link up 7/16/10

[TyRy]

I'm going to WDW next month! I hope I can update soon.

 

[Hedy]

I'm actually going to be home and not busy with guests this weekend, so hopefully a decent Universal or PTR update can occur soon. I went to WoD NYC for possibly the last time this weekend-and got a new I mickey NY lanyard, as well as pin trading for a bunch of the muppet wearing ears pins*. I paid my trip off in full yesterday (and now I love free dining, LOL, because my food is also paid for for the most part). I still need to order my MNSSHP ticket (I kind of spent the visa dollars I was going to use for it at WoD. Oops).
I'm inviting the godmother to join me to my F&W day on Saturday, so we hall see how that goes (poor thing was up here the past few weeks, all went well save for the dual ironies of a hurricane coming the day she was to spread her DH ashes off Nantucket (it was rescheduled, but the irony of coming from FL to have a hurricane in MA was not lost on us), as well as the day we were going up to the North shore of MA for her DH's memorial service being the day of Senator Kennedy's funeral, which made things interesting).
*In 2011 when I finish my Universal trip report, I shall tell you the story of IASW not just being a ride, as I learned via a CM at the outlets I was trading with

 

[KathyRN137]

I'm actually going to be home and not busy with I paid my trip off in full yesterday (and now I love free dining, LOL, because my food is also paid for for the most part). I still need to order my MNSSHP ticket (I kind of spent the visa dollars I was going to use for it at WoD. Oops).

*In 2011 when I finish my Universal trip report, I shall tell you the story of IASW not just being a ride, as I learned via a CM at the outlets I was trading with

So much good stuff to look forward to!

Congrats on the pay-off... that feels good, doesn't it?!

WoD is a den of temptation!


Kathy

 

[Hedy]

So, I ordered my MNSSHP ticket today over the phone. It's going to be will call, so let's hope my dad doesn't invite himself again. My confirmation includes part of my name, so we can only hope. I ordered a corset for the bodice part of my costume*. I'm hitting Joann's this weekend to get ribbon for my bow, and Sally's for those clippie things. I bought the lipstick and eyeshadow in this Youtube video. The lipstick looks a little too 80's/campy with the nude liner. It looks ok over a berry color, but as I have better plans for MNSSHP than reapplying my lipstick, I may go with a deeper red lipstick. I know it's red in the photos I'm going by, but I'd rather not look weird. Tangentally, I've decided against extensions, as I'm concerned it would look too mullet-y. I tried to do a hair trial run this evening and learned three things 1) If you own a cheapie flat iron, curling your hair with a flat iron is an urban legend, 2) That is not hair product on my curling iron, it is rust. So looks like I'll be picking one up at Sally Beauty as well.
It's finally clicking that I am going next month. This has been such a draining year I could so use the WDW therapy. I invited the godmother to join me the day I'm hitting up F&W fest.
I finished designing the shirts for mom's Alzheimer's walk (well, the back-I cheated and used Zazzle). I'm torn between just wearing one of their shirts, or seeing if someone on the DISigns board has an Alzheimer's disney shirt.
* When I asked if there were any rules regarding costumes to "Whisper," who took my call, she only said they had to be appropriate. And then she suggested I be comfortable. I was surprised, as I thought I might get the warning

 

[Hedy]

I awoke in my club room. I got dressed, in my customary Universal attire of a quick drying shirt and shorts, sunscreened myself up (I was using Avon's sunscreen with bug repellent, among other sunscreens, in hopes to avoid whatever my immune system did not like biting me-my foot remained normal size, so I guess it worked. Of course, then I got eaten alive by mosquitoes at work one night. ), and headed off to the club lounge. After having a light breakfast of club level free fruit, club level free juice, and grabbing club level bottled water (I guestimated all four items at being about $12 together, if you were a family it could really work out well for you.) I headed to the club level elevator, and headed downstairs.

Now, on the whole RPR beats the heck out of HRH, but it is a lot easier to find out how to walk from HRH to the parks than RPR. Once I got on my road; however, it was smooth sailing onto IOA. I exchanged my voucher for a pass at the front gates easily.
I then encountered my only traffic jam of people all week. It was opening time, and people were moving slowly. I noticed that Universal has ID kids for kids at the front gate for sale-seems like a good idea to me. I, however, needed no ID if I got lost, so I headed onto Marvel island. Now, now that Disney owns Marvel, I may be able to say this and not get smacked in the face. Spiderman? Best ride in Orlando. I'm sorry, but it is I popped in my earplugs, and went on. Today I was being good about my hydration rules (one bottle of something or other every hour, Coke only after two other drinks), so I sat down on a bench, started sipping a water and bang! My misty-mate banged to the ground and broke. I checked in with Mom, she was waiting test results on Belle. I walked onto Toon Lagoon, and headed onto Popeye. I went around once, got soaked, and stayed onto again. This was not good-as I was wet, I slid all over the seat. Not fun. I headed off, dried off with my handy-dandy towel, and resunscreened up. I stopped in th hatchery party of Jurassic part-see me as a dinosaur

While I'm looking forward to Harry Potter land (though I'm not a hardcore fan), I am very upset over the new Dueling Dragons entrance http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2496/3799475940_69cb502df5.jpg.

I then headed onto Seuss Landing...

 

[lazydoxy66]

Yay! You've started!

Sounds like Club-Level works for you. I like the "Hedysaur".

 

[DisneyJo]

Oooh sounds like a great morning so far with the free breakfast, sorry about your misty mate though, both mine have been broken

 

[jcc0621]

I'm finally able to catch up on everything. Great start to the TR> Jim and jimmy LOVED Universal. Hopefully next time I will be with them!. We just jpoined the Your First program and they upgraded them too. Jim said it was awesome. BTW - my superbowl ticket? Once jim explained I was sick, etc they let him trade it in a non-expiring ticket. I don't have to use it by December 31st!

Sorry about your cat too

 

[KathyRN137]

Happy you got your party ticket...and I'll just visit US and IOA vicariously through you this year!

Will we ever get there? I'm not sure...we're such Disney freaks in our house!

Tell us a little more about your resort... any pix?


Kathy

 

[Hedy]

Hello all. Things have been crazy arund these parts, but I wanted tp share the following:
1. Five weeks from today I will be in the MK
2. I bought stuff to make a hairbow last weekend-once this weekend and its activities* are over, I will make it. I also bought a glow-in-the-dark wand (I got two light-up Mickey necklaces at the outlets in August-they were $4 each!) and a disney princess ring. I am trying to convince myself I don't need the princess treat bag/back sack I saw at Joann's. I also got a new curling iron, as well as a lip crayon at Sally's that will work (now I just need some time to do a hair and makeup trial run).
3. I'm ordering the shirts for mom mom's alzheimer's walk soon-I can't come up with a good Disney one, so I think I'll wear the same one from Zazzle they are getting, but I think I'll put the one in eight statistic on the back. I'm also planning on ordering a shirt with this logo.
4. I ordered the Vinylmation Mickey to use as an autograph book, as well as an aquarius** pin and an eeyore shirt from Disney shopping.
5. We saw Mickey and Minnie last weekend (they were at Jack and Sally's and we'd take the boys out). They enjoyed the trip a great deal, and loved AKV-this was their first time staying at Kidani. They did Goofy's candy co for the first time, and loved it. They liked Sannaa, had some slight drama there, but nothing strong enough for me to cancel the ADR, though I may pay OOP there as the desserts were not good, according to Minnie.
*Tomorrow, I am making balloon animals at a local town's fair for mom's soup kitchen.
**To quote my AIM profile in high school "I'm an Aquarius. I think it explains a lot"

 

[Hedy]

Yay! You've started!

Sounds like Club-Level works for you. I like the "Hedysaur".

That I did

Oooh sounds like a great morning so far with the free breakfast, sorry about your misty mate though, both mine have been broken

I bought a Universal one, which I like a lot better than my misty mate.

I'm finally able to catch up on everything. Great start to the TR> Jim and jimmy LOVED Universal. Hopefully next time I will be with them!. We just jpoined the Your First program and they upgraded them too. Jim said it was awesome. BTW - my superbowl ticket? Once jim explained I was sick, etc they let him trade it in a non-expiring ticket. I don't have to use it by December 31st!

Sorry about your cat too

Awesome!

Happy you got your party ticket...and I'll just visit US and IOA vicariously through you this year!

Will we ever get there? I'm not sure...we're such Disney freaks in our house!

Tell us a little more about your resort... any pix?


Kathy

I'll have pix later, fear not.

 

[Hedy]

L'shana tova to those to whom it applies.

 

[Hedy]

One month and I'll be heading to WDW! I made my DME arrangements yesterday-I can live with grabbing my bag off the carousel (let's just hope I listen this time ). I'm anxiously awaiting reports once the F&W fest opens on Friday.

I have a Universal update in another tab, but making 200 balloon animals in six hours can do in your fine motor skills for a bit.

 

[Hedy]

1. One month from today I will be at MK!
2. I dropped my keys at work and my keychain broke-I can't find a picture of it online, but it was a pink rhinestone purse with a hidden mickey I got at WoD NYC. Good thing I'm heading down there next month, right?
3. My docs came! They have luggage tags, and a planet Hollywood voucher*, as well as a 30 minute gift card to an ahcade. I also like that they included a photopass ticket. I'm not planning on getting the CD, but I may buy a few pictures after MNSSHP.
4. My corset arrived-I nailed the size (for over a shirt), but is a pain to get on and off-I'm planning on popping some velcro on it to aid things.

 

[Hedy]

I love Seuss landing-I really think it may be one of the best themed areas. I rode the sneech ride-I liked the side I got this time-the side that goes through the restaurant. I also went on the Cat in the Hat ride. I wandered around the Lorax display, then headed out of the park.
Walking from IOA to UO is a nice walk, past the NBA zone, Hard Rock cafe, onto the entrance. I got in, and headed to Finnigan's, UO's Irish pub. I had the

Finnegan's Potato and Onion Webb - A mountain of thinly sliced potatoes and onions, hand dipped in beer batter, crisply fried golden brown and served with malt vinegar. $5.95

, as well as a cokewithnoice please (which had no ice-glory hallelujah!). I also got some nice Irish bread as well as apple butter. The meal was very good, and not much more than a counter service, especially with the AAA discount. I headed across the street to the Irish store-they had family crest mugs, but the names on the shelf did not have either spelling of my last name, nor mom's maden name-I found it interesting purely because while Mom's maiden name is fairly uncommon, my last name is dead common (at least the spelling we use); however, it is frequently thought of as being English. Whatever, it's Universal's loss, right? LOL
I had planned my trek to UO based on the Beetlejuice show. I popped in my earplugs, and got ready. I think this is one of the best shows at Universal Orlando. The music is good, the jokes are modern and funny (Twilight during a dracula bit, John and Kate plus 8)-I'd caught Beetlejuice on ABC family about a week before I left, while I liked it, I don't think it was necessary to enjoy the show. Also, please note that it is PG-13, I would have some reservations about having my nephews seeing it (13 and 9) due to some of the double entendres and costumes. Having seen that show, I headed over to MIB, and baited my breath for the lockers from heck...only to find that they were not giving me any problems. I boarded my vehicle, and tried to defeat the aliens.

Things I do not understand-why is it that the only ride that takes place in New York, is not in the New York set.

I got in line for the Simpsons ride-I'm not a huge Simpsons fan, but this ride's snark level is hysterical. I popped into the outlet at the exit. I was thinking about hitting up happy hour at Pat O'Brien's, but Citywalk was closed for a party. I got in line by the water taxi to take that home for the evening. A water taxi came, and got filled out. I was behind a family with two kids, and two parents. The parents were being whiney, bratty and cranky, and the kids were mirroring that behavior. After waiting a bit, a TM came out to tell us that due to there being lightning within five miles, the boats were not operating. Ma and Pa Brat began flipping out. I headed over to Margaritaville, and grabbed a pedicab. It was now five-ish, there was a torch lighting ceremony at 8pm. I grabbed a light dinner at the club lounge-marinated veggies and rice, and a glass of wine. Beer and wine were free. I headed down to the pool.

I liked the torch lighting ceremony-it was very well done. I poked around the pool-the splash area had wooden floors. Eek! I headed upstairs, and went to bed.

 

[jcc0621]

I"m getting more information from you about Universal than I did from Jim and Jimmy

Jimmy apparently LOVED the Simpsons though!

 

[Hedy]

I"m getting more information from you about Universal than I did from Jim and Jimmy

Jimmy apparently LOVED the Simpsons though!

Boys. LOL. When the Evanses got home from WDW, my brother sent us an e-mail saying they had a great time-and a two second video of Mickey (his younger brother, my older brother) in front of the Castle.

 

[Hedy]

My bow is done, so now I just need try everything on together, and figure out what to do with my corset to keep it on over my blouse.
I'm loving the early reports on the

, and I love the looks of some of the merch-I had a dream about these messenger bags last night .

 

[Hedy]

I had a lot of fun at the New England DISmeet today-we went to the Christmas Carol train tour, which was excellent, but not something I'd wait more than 30 minutes for (AKA, in my book, if I were taking kidlets I'd get there early).
I was reading Jaime/Tiggerbell's TR today, and I realized that I need to set aside a night to see Bob Jackson at POR (I've never seen him, I've only stayed a PO resort five times in the past 16 years). I'm leaning towards the first Saturday I'm there.

 

[Hedy]

Some photos from the Christmas Carol Tour yesterday. It looks like it's going to be a seriously gorgeous movie.

There's no great proof of Disney Magic than people getting excited over "snow" in Boston in September.

Also, my Ariel hair test run went well-I curled it, then pinned back pieces for a neater half up than with an elastic. I also added some loops like in this tutorial, to help keep my bow in place as well as add some details. Please ignore the Myspacey pose (once my $5 Amazon gc comes in, I'm ordering a steek to take photos at WDW), as well as my going out to dinner makeup.