~A XMAS STORY~decorations, crowds, pixies..AND A BLOODY NOSE~ACTUAL UPDATE 11/9 p190

[punkin413]

So should I *read* Twilight? I have resisted up until last night. Then we saw a few of my girlfriends who love it. I was the one who wouldn't watch the movie so we played Wii instead! However, they all said I should read it! Do you agree? I'll give it a shot over the summer if I should!

YES! i didn't want to read it either but my best friend convinced me to and i finally gave in and i love all the books. can't put them down. the series would be a great summer read! i started on the first book in late january and i'm finishing up the 4th one now. they are very easy reads - not difficult reading at all. just enjoyable.

I will....and no problem. I can let everyone here know

Sorry your fishing trip wasn't warm. It was beautiful here today. They said the high was supposed to be 71 but I think it was much warmer than that!

Spring is so much fun I always love watching everything grow!!

thanks! it was beautiful on sunday here. but saturday was just too cloudy and the wind was cool. spring has become my favorite season. it used to be summer but as i've gotten older i'm enjoying spring more. i love leaving winter behind me and watching things bloom!

Still no baby!? Okay....change of plans. Stay in there 'til aunt Dawn can get time off from work. She could stay like that for weeks. Let's hope not!

nope. thanks for the directions to little margot!

My mom did the same thing except it was two toes. She had really bad bruises. I remember how much pain she was in so I hope your starts to feel better soon!!!!

I can't wait to see little baby pictures! She is going to be so cute!

two? ouch! i will for sure have LOTS of baby pics....when we gets here!

Any baby news????

nope, not yet. update coming up.

 

[hlrababy]

Too bad they don't live here. They could go to Scalini's and get the eggplant parmesan. No joke on the walls there are hundreds of babies that were born within 48 hours of eating the eggplant parmesean. I went the Saturday before Hollie was due and I took one bite and could not finish it!! I am a texture person and it was like marinara goo in my mouth!! Ugh!!!!!

I had a friend who ate it and had her baby the next day! Not me, I can't stand eggplant!!

Come on Margot!!!!!!

 

[aldisneygrl]

Oh, I hope she didn't do the Mineral oil thing. It tastes bad and it rarely works. Good old fashioned walking is better and it doesn't have an aftertaste.

Hope you become an auntie soon!

 

[punkin413]

i had an update all done tonight and then the internet dropped me. i've had such horrible computer issues tonight that i don't have the patience to do it again. sorry. i will try again when i get a chance.

no baby yet. jordan is still at 1 centimeter. she went to the doctor today and everything looks good - just still waiting!

and my toe was feeling better until yesterday when i accidentally kicked eli. i was walking out the back door and he walked in front of me and i hit him with the left side of my foot. it HURT!!!!!! bad. it felt like re-broke my toe. so now all the progress i had made with putting some more weight on that part of my foot has completely gone backwards. it's not hurting too bad - just a little pain every now and then. i can't get a sneaker on which is driving me nuts. i hope that problem goes away soon!

 

[punkin413]

Too bad they don't live here. They could go to Scalini's and get the eggplant parmesan. No joke on the walls there are hundreds of babies that were born within 48 hours of eating the eggplant parmesean. I went the Saturday before Hollie was due and I took one bite and could not finish it!! I am a texture person and it was like marinara goo in my mouth!! Ugh!!!!!

I had a friend who ate it and had her baby the next day! Not me, I can't stand eggplant!!

Come on Margot!!!!!!

wow.....i'll have to remember that for when i'm pregnant! i'm a texture person too but eggplant doesn't bother me unless it's overdone and mushy. if it's cooked right i like it. i don't like grainy things - like beans. yuck!

Oh, I hope she didn't do the Mineral oil thing. It tastes bad and it rarely works. Good old fashioned walking is better and it doesn't have an aftertaste.

Hope you become an auntie soon!

she said she didn't. i've done the mineral oil thing for "other" problems that i won't go into here and it didn't taste like anything to me. after i shot it i swished water in my mouth so maybe that's why.

 

[englishrose47]

Hi Dawn!Hope we have baby new very soon!! Hope the toe is on the mend!!!

 

[CanadianWDWfan]

Funny thing about babies, they are on thier own schedule...

I bet the anticipation and excittement is driving you crazy.

There's so many people waiting for her, doesn't she know it's no time to be fashionably late.

Well wishes for the toe, I can only imagine the pain. OUCH!

 

[punkin413]

Hi Dawn!Hope we have baby new very soon!! Hope the toe is on the mend!!!

thanks! i hope so too.

Funny thing about babies, they are on thier own schedule...

I bet the anticipation and excittement is driving you crazy.

There's so many people waiting for her, doesn't she know it's no time to be fashionably late.

Well wishes for the toe, I can only imagine the pain. OUCH!

i'm keeping busy so i'm not too stressed about it. i know she'll be here soon! thanks for the well wishes.

 

[punkin413]

so i have a few minutes and figured i'd re-write what i wrote and lost last night.

no baby news yet, by the way. go to the previous page for a more thorough update on that.

oh, exciting news.....ray and i are renting a cabin near tallulah gorge state park for our anniversary! our anniversary is on april 13th but we didn't want to do it the weekend before that since that's easter weekend. so we're going the next weekend instead. it's pet friendly so we can even bring the boys! we were gonna rent a pop-up camper but it's gonna save us about $200 (and some elbow grease) if we just rent a cabin instead. i will be back later with pictures of the cabin!

on to the TR!!!

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so it was time.....time to do what i'd been waiting for about 30 years to do.....TIME TO MEET TINKER BELL!!!!!

at promptly 9:45 about 4 CMs came out to the rope in toon town and proceeded to explain to us exactly how this would work. they said that we would all stay BEHIND them as we WALKED -- not RAN -- to the hall of fame to get in line in a nice, orderly fashion. i was right up next to the rope at this point since i was one of the first ones there. as soon as the CMs dropped the rope and started walking, some people around me put on their obnoxious hats. they were speed walking, not pushing or shoving, but cutting around me in order to get even an INCH closer to the front. i refuse to be rude just to get in the front. i won't do it. as long as i didn't have to wait 2 hours to meet her, i didn't care.

this one lady tried to pull a fast one and got up on the sidewalk to the left of us and tried to pass the CMs. the CM on the far left held out his arm and said to her in a very loud, assertive voice, "WE ARE WALKING!!!!!!" i wonder what it feels like to be 40 years old and reprimanded by a cast member in toontown at disney world??? what an idiot.

as we approached the hall of fame i went ahead and got in line while anna and chris dealt with the stroller, then they caught up to me. i would say we were about 10 families back from the front of the line. not too bad. i was happy because i knew we'd be outta there by around 10:30 or so!

they've completey redone the queue area here. the right side of the queue is the fairy line and it's got a green wall that is back lit and gets lighter and darker. very cool! and the left side is the princess line and it has the same thing except the wall is pink. i'm not sure what they did with the third line, if it's separated now or what. you can see the green wall behind chris in this picture.

here is the door to the fairies area....

here's a video i took as we were standing there. it also has part of where the CM at that door is explaining to us about the tiny photopass cards you get. these are GREAT! they're about half the size of a regular photopass card and they're on a bungee cord that goes around your wrist. i used this for the rest of the trip because it was so much easier to have on me than having to dig for the other one.

also, listen for luke being worried about shrinking. i had told him before that we had to shrink down to tinker bell's size to meet her and he was SO WORRIED about this! so we told him i was just kidding and any time a CM would reference it he would say, "i'm not tiny" or "i don't have to shrink."



we were let into the next hallway around 9:55, so we only waited about 10 minutes. this hallway is SO COOL! there are beautiful paintings of a forest all on the walls and flowers and grass, mushrooms, lady bugs, etc. sitting along the edges of the floor. also you can see fairies flying around every now and then!

here's a video. watch for the fairies to fly by!



more video i took while we were waiting in the hallway. watch luke trying to catch a glimpse of the fairies! so cute.



ray called me while we were waiting. he had woken up and showered and was ready to leave. i was glad he got to sleep in. he was exhausted because he gets random insomnia and it had hit him while we were on vacation. anyway, i told him the keys, his ticket and $20 were with his wallet and to just call me when he got on the monorail.

at exactly 10:02 the CM came out and said it was time for us to meet the fairies! i took a video of us walking in. the CM that leads you into the room was so funny - she was VERY into her job! she was telling us about the seasons and i had a hard time following her because she was talking so fast! she says something about being tiny and luke says, "i'm not tiny."



pixie hollow.....

iridessa then came over and grabbed luke by the hand and led him to her area. here are some pictures of them.

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[punkin413]

while we were standing there we noticed that tink was standing alone, so anna snapped a shot of her. SHE'S SO CUTE!!!!!!

you have no idea how excited i was.

here's some video i took of luke and iridessa. she really was so good with him. you will notice here that luke does his "cool guy" smile for the first time. that's what they have dubbed that crooked smile he gives. i think he does it when he's nervous and all these pretty fairies were making him so nervous!



anna and chris joined luke for a picture.....

here's some more video of iridressa and then tink is next. here she's telling luke how to stand like peter pan. he looks stressed - so funny! you will see the pictures of this below. also, when she tries to get a hug he leans in like, you may hug me now.



my turn to meet iridessa! she was so pretty. all i remember about it she asked me my name and i told her dawn and she said, "oh, well, then you must be a light fairy.....you bring up the sun!"

as you can tell from the above picture, it seems that iridessa was rather fond of me. i thought the graphic below was appropriate.

okay, so you've already seen luke meeting tink on the video but here are the pictures.

anna took this as i was walking away from iridessa and towards tinker bell. SO EXCITING!!!!

teaching him to stand like peter pan....

look at that crooked smile and those eyes. such a "cool guy"!

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[punkin413]

you may hug me now....

then it was MY TURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the only thing i could think of to say to her was, "i've been waiting my whole life to meet you." she giggled and said, "oh, you have not!"

she asked what my name was and i told her and she said the same thing as iridessa. here i'm telling her, "that's what she said!"

i don't remember what else we talked about. i think it was in total shock from meeting her. but she was the perfect tinker bell - very giggly and bouncy and just playful.

my dream really did come true! (yes, cheesy, i know, but still true.)

after we left i kept telling anna that i felt like i'd seen that tinker bell somewhere before. well, when i got home about a month later i was looking at pictures from my september trip with erica and look who i found playing alice.....

i'm pretty positive it's the same chick. which is kind of funny because those are my two favorite female disney characters.

next up was rosetta. for some reason we didn't get ANY photopass pictures with her. i'm assuming the photopass guy there didn't scan our card. i'm glad anna took some!

the "cool guy" smile again....

my turn! i don't really remember what she said other than she was very southern, like in the movie.

after anna took the above picture i started to walk away and then she said, "one more time," so that's why i'm standing all weird in this one.

here's the video of luke meeting rosetta. she blows him a kiss and he starts jumping up and down. so cute! this is also video of us walking out just so you can see the hallway you exit into.



one last look back as we were leaving!

this is the waiting area after you come out of the hallways there. this exits into the gift shop.

all in all, i'm SO GLAD we got to meet the fairies! i hope they keep this attraction around for awhile. they really do spend a good amount of time with each family. we got out of there around 10:15 so almost 15 full minutes in the room with the fairies. tinker bell was so cute but i do have to say that iridessa was the best as far as interaction. she was so fun!

oh, one other funny story about this. when i went home for christmas this year, i was at my friend melanie's house and her little girl, megan, wanted to watch the video of tinker bell. i have to preface this by saying that melanie's husband, lamont, is half black and half white. not that that matters for anything other than making the story funnier. so we're sitting there watching it and when lamont, who hasn't seen the tinker bell movie and of course knows nothing about it, sees iridessa come and grab luke by the hand, he goes, "IS TINKER BELL BLACK??????" the way he said it was so funny and i was just laughing so hard at him.

anyway, so that was our tinker bell experience. feel free to ask me any questions. i know this is a new attraction and some people are scared of it because of the waits but i thought it was totally worth it. if you count waiting for rope drop to start, we only waited 45 minutes. if you don't count rope drop and only the time in the queue, it was just like 10 minutes.

up next.....uncle scrooge really IS a scrooge!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

We finally got to your favorite part of the trip and I LOVED it! GREAT pictures! I just love that hallway! I did a photoshoot of my kids in it. We were in there by ourselves for a long time. Wouldn't it be pretty to do a little girls room like that? WOW! I'm putting the baby down for his nap and then I'll send that pic over. I had to upload everything and it's taken me a few days. I just now finished. Yay!

 

[rentayenta]

Oh Dawn, I love this!!! Meeting Tink sounds so cool! You look like a little girl next her- all smiles!

 

[troobabiee7]

Such cute pictures!!! I love how your dream finally came true : I don't think we'll get back there anytime soon so thanks for sharing the experience!

 

[tinkgurl]

Aw, Dawn! I watched the video as you're walking in the hallway with the fairies twinkling by! I'm such a sap- it made me teary-eyed and now I really miss WDW!

Meeting Tink looks like so much fun. Do you HAVE to meet all the other fairies?

 

[shannon47142]

what a great update--I can feel your excitement throughout the photos

 

[KatGarcia]

You look just as happy as I did meeting her! It was the coolest character thing ever!!!!

 

[dawz1026]

Luke is a heartbreaker already! I am shocked Alice is the same person...imagine if a child picked up on that...I guess they switch it up time and again.TINK is my hero! I want to collect all the fairy dolls that the Disney store has now..sooo magical! DH thinks Im off my rocker

 

[Spartangirl]

I love how excited you were to meet Tink! Thanks for sharing your experience! The pics are all so cute!

 

[Charleston Princess]

First, I hope your foot continues to mend and you are able to wear tennis shoes soon!

Second, Tallulah Gorge is just gorgeous! You'll have a great time up there!

Third, love, love, love all the pics and video of meeting Tink and the other fairies! Your excitement is downright contagious, Dawn!