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

[jordanyosh]

VIP seats? very interesting..................................................

 

[punkin413]

AW! Margot is so cute!

Wow, that show in front of the Castle looks so neat! I definately want to go there during Christmas again. I really want to see that show AND the Castle looks so neat!

it's so great at christmas! i hope you get to go during that time soon.

That looks like a cute show! Sometime I'll figure out a way to get there in December! I just love the castle lights.

Margot is such a cutie!!!

it's a great time to go, especially early to mid december before the madness of christmas starts.

Hi Dawn! I'm glad you were busy, cuz now I'm not behind! I was on a vacation to see family in Calif, DL and Lion King in Vegas - now we're temporarily in Boise!

Loved the pics of Margot! She gets cuter every day!

Poor Luke - I'll bet he was in some pain.

Thanks for sharing the videos - so fun!

cool! i hope you had a great time! yes, margot is a cutie and i get to see her NEXT WEEK! luke seemed fun but he's a tough dude.

Margot's pictures are adorable! She looks a lot like her Daddy

Those castle pictures are GORGEOUS! And the show looks so adorable. Poor Luke. But I'm still surprised at what a big boy he was! What a fun night

i think so too! she's got her mom's nose but otherwise she's brett made over.

thanks! the show was really cute. and yes, luke was such a trooper!

Poor Luke, he looks roughed up. I am glad he was able to continue his night and still have fun.

Margot's pictures are beautiful.

i felt so bad for him! he was a tough guy that night.

OMG everything is just so gorgeous...including Margot! What adorable pictures.

I love the castle show video! And i can't wait to hear what the VIP spot for the Christmas parade is because I will sooooo be sitting there when we go

thanks! you will have to wait to see the VIP spot but i will tell you this - it's *almost* impossible to get!

love margot's little painted toenails!! I have decided I really am in trouble if I ever have a girl...I have been looking on etsy...the art/craft website and they have some adorable Minnie/mickey/princess type designs!! They are too adorable!!

jordan said she paints her toenails because she gets sick of hearing, "how old is he?" oh, i'm gonna be in trouble either way! every time i shop for margot i go overboard.

Margot is such a cutie pie!!! When is the next time you are heading to see her?

What gorgeous castle pictures!!! I just love how pretty it looks all decorated! Between that and the castle show photos/videos I am ready to decorate for Christmas!

i'm going to nashville next weekend so i'll get to see her then.

thanks! hopefully you didn't go pull out your christmas decorations in september.....if so i'm sure your hubby is ready to kill me!

more replies later....i can barely hold my eyes open!

 

[VandyFan10]

i'm going to nashville next weekend so i'll get to see her then.

Who me??!!??

Oh....you are talking about Margot

OH....and GO DORES!!!!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

i'm going to nashville next weekend so i'll get to see her then.

thanks! hopefully you didn't go pull out your christmas decorations in september.....if so i'm sure your hubby is ready to kill me!

Nope, I didn't, but I did pull out all the fall decorations yesterday!

 

[punkin413]

first off, i just have to say....

WAY TO GO COMMODORES!!!!!!!

we won last night 45 to ZERO.....awesome!!!! i was so happy they won their first game!

Awww, I love Margot's pictures!! She is such a sweetie pie!!!

Oh wow...I am gonna have to watch the Christmas show!! that is something we haven't done yet!

I love your castle pictures! I am so excited and can't wait to see it soon!!!

i agree! i can't wait to see her next week.

i will send you our "plan" that we had for MVMCP - we got to see everything that night that we wanted to. there's so much going on it's best to go in with a game plan. i'm not one to have a specific plan for park touring except at those parties!

Love the Tonga Toast pictures, yummy!

The castle is so beautiful, hopefully I will be heading back to see them real soon....

Your niece is so adorable, thanks for sharing the pictures.

it was good....just not DISNEY good!

great update and pics.

I know how it goes with work now. I got a paralegal job and am in my 3rd week.

those pics of Margot are too cute.

I am off to Europe on Thursday so I will catch up again when I return. If your on Twitter follow along, link is in sig. I will b eposting live from there when I can.

thanks! congrats on the new job!!! i have a paralegal degree and did paralegal work before i decided to become a court reporter. it was a tough gig! i hope you enjoy it. oh, i'm so jealous that you're in europe right now!!! i hope you're having a blast.

Loved seeing the pictures of Margot. She is precious! I know you are excited to get to see her again next weekend.

The Christmas pictures are great. You are looking quite festive in your hat and light up jewelry. Brooklynn got that necklace last year and loved it.

We're focused on our October trip right now, so I've been looking at MNSSHP stuff on youtube. I'm saving watching your videos for when we get back from that trip, because then we'll be starting the countdown to the December trip. It'll be so fun to see the castle all lit up again. I love every different holiday at Disney World!

thanks! i can't wait to see her on saturday.

ray and i both both got that necklace and we both loved it! it was festive.

no problem about the videos. i'm sure you've already seen them but there lots of video in mine and erica's TR from MNSSHP if you wanna go see them again. i loved that party!

Adorable pictures of your niece! Awhhh! She is a smiley baby girl!

Poor Luke! His face was so puffy! Tough little guy!

Can't wait for more! Sorry, so busy at work! We'll be here, no hurry!

thanks! she's a big ham. i felt so bad for luke that night. poor guy!

The photos of Margot are so cute, beautiful

The Castle photos are gorgeous, can't wait to see it all lit up like that again. Can't wait to here about your VIP parade seats!

thank you! you got to see the castle all lit up from the INSIDE....lucky! i bet it was beautiful that night.

Margot is such a cutie and her cute little toenails were painted!

The video from the show is great! One day I will see it myself, even if I have to go by myself.

yeah, jordan paints them because she says she is tired of people asking how old HE is! i hope you get to see disney at christmas sometime....you'd love it!

Meeeeeeee toooooooo!!!!!! Not to much longer

That is an AWESOME picture!!!!

That's a great one too.....Love it with all the characters and it's perfectly in focus!!!

thanks! it was so hard to get a good picture of that show. i think my batteries were dying at that point.

Okay, we have moved up to the Nov 19 party so you have 78 days to spill the beans.....you gotta tell us the top secret parade location and let us know if any old Disneyholics can get in or if you have to be pixie dusted

hopefully i'll have the parade chapter up soon! um....you have to be pixie dusted...sorta. you'll have to wait and see!

Ok Dawn you thought you were behind I just read 30 pages of your report (I skipped most of the responses though).

Glad to hear about Brett and Margot - great news

Poor Luke - The first couple of pictures didn't look too bad (from a mom's point of view) until I just saw the last one where you meet them after it happened - he's all black and blue too! Poor Baby - I totally understand my DS8 just got hurt a couple of weeks ago at the playground. He was looking behind him to see if the kid he was playing tag with was after him and when he turned around he ran into a metal bar that was the railing of the stairs to the slide (OUCH) I had to take him to the ER and he ended up getting four stitches in his eyebrow and he was such a big boy didn't even flick an eyelash when he got the novacaine shot (I would have cried). Tell Anna I totally understand why later she broke down (((HUG))

glad you're caught up. ouch about your DS!!! i'm glad he's okay. i would have cried too! i'm such a baby when it comes to anything like that.

VIP seats? very interesting..................................................

yep, you'll have to wait and see!

Who me??!!??

Oh....you are talking about Margot

OH....and GO DORES!!!!!

you are so silly! but i'm coming to see YOU too!!!

Nope, I didn't, but I did pull out all the fall decorations yesterday!

i just can't do it yet. i feel like i haven't gotten my full summer yet. i love every minute of summer and we've had a very mild one this year. i can't believe it might be over! i know most people think i'm crazy.

 

[winkers]

[yeah, jordan paints them because she says she is tired of people asking how old HE is! .

You can dress a baby girl in head to toe pink with a big bow on her head and someone will still call her a "he".

 

[punkin413]

You can dress a baby girl in head to toe pink with a big bow on her head and someone will still call her a "he".

i know! i always try to look at what they're wearing if i'm not sure. and if they have on something that could go either way i say, "boy or girl?" before i assume. people are silly!

 

[stacopp]

I have absolutely loved your TR and can't thank you enough for sharing! We are headed to WDW in December and this TR has really helped me decide what to do and got me excited!!!
Thanks

 

[punkin413]

hey, everyone! okay....3 things before i continue with my TR!

1. i have blonder hair.....

got it done on saturday and i like it so far. oh, and notice the vandy shirt. go 'dores.

2. this will be the last update until after we get back from savannah. we are going the first weekend in october and i know i'll want to share pictures and after this TR is over, i won't have a place to share them.....OH, THE HORROR!!!! i only have 1 more installment after this one so i want to save that until after we get back from our trip to savannah so the TR won't close until then. plus i'm going to see margot this weekend so i'll want to share those too.

3. so i've already begun planning our december 2010 trip....yes, i'm insane!!! anyway, we are planning a very loosely-planned trip, if that makes sense. we hopefully will have a little one with us and i don't want to commit to much, just sort of do what we want to do when we want to do it. of course i will have to make ADRs in advance so that will set our schedules a little bit. and some events i know i want to attend, such as MK EMH and AK EMH. i'm going off this year's hours because they usually tend to be similar. of course all this is going to change who-knows-how-many times before i make my reservations!

oh, and we're playing with the idea of doing the deluxe DDP that trip. we both want to try some of the 2 TS restaurants and we figure this is the time to do it. if we have a baby with us, no big deal to take a fussy baby out of a restaurant for a few minutes, right? but a grumpy toddler is a different story. so we figure we might as well take advantage of the fancier places while we can.

anyway, here's what i have so far. i'd love to hear your thoughts!

12/10 Friday –
~Drive down/stay at Clarion near Sea World

12/11 Saturday –
~Check out of Clarion
~Sea World
~Check in at VWL
~Dinner at California Grill

12/12 Sunday –
~MK (rope drop)
~Go by GF to see Xmas decorations
~dinner at Yachtsman Steakhouse/see YC and BC Xmas decorations
~DHS for EMH and Osborne Lights

12/13 Monday –
~Free morning
~dinner at Ohana
~MK - Spectro & Wishes & EMH

12/14 Tuesday –
~Free morning
~Dinner at Flying Fish - see Boardwalk decorations
~Free evening

12/15 Wednesday –
~Free morning
~AK around 1:00-2:00
~Jingle Jungle Parade at 3:45
~Early Dinner at Boma - see AKL decorations
~AK EMH until 8:00

12/16 Thursday –
~Epcot Segway Tour at 9:30 (this is only if my sister ends up coming around the same time as us - she and Jon, her BF, are thinking about it. They can babysit!)
~Lunch at Tutto Italia around 1:30
~DHS
~Fantasmic at 6:30
~Dinner at Kouzzina

12/17 Friday –
~Free morning
~Breakfast at 1900 Park Fare with Alice, the Mad Hatter & Mary Poppins
~MVMCP

12/18 Saturday –
~Sleep in, check out, drive home and be sad

like i said, all very tentative since i'm....um.....over 400 days away from our trip!!!!

anyway, on to the TR........

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when i last TR'ed we had just finished watching the "celebrate the season" show in front of the castle and were on our way to our VIP seats for the parade.

many of you asked where these super secret VIP seats are located so that you may find them on your upcoming trips. well, let me just say that you can sit there.....if you fall at cosmic ray's and bust your nose and lip!!!! we got these seats because of luke's fall. the CMs had told anna to be at the liberty square bridge at 10:20 for the 10:30 parade. she had asked if we could join them and they said it was no problem.

we got over there and saw anna and chris right away. they were checking in with the CM. so we joined them and the CM led us to a seating area that was roped off on the left side of the bridge if you're facing the castle. there were about 3 rows of about 8 seats in this area. we got in the front row.

i have a feeling that the guys that were sitting to the left of ray (who was the first person in our party as the parade heads down the road) were either CMs or friends of CMs or very "close" friends of CMs. they were getting LOTS of attention from a lot of the characters and performers and it made for a fun parade.

i liked sitting here because there wasn't a crowd across the street so most of the characters looked our way. plus the castle was in the background from some of the pictures!

also, there was a CM standing across the bridge who apparently was there to do any wardrobe adjustments for the characters. if you think about it, this is sort of a halfway point for the parade so maybe that's why he's there.

anyway, on to the show.....

ladies and gents, i present to you....MICKEY'S ONCE UPON A CHRISTMASTIME PARADE!!!!!

hi, peter! it looks like alice knew that CM over across the street. he may even be blushing a bit there.

here come mickey and minnie!

the pooh gang.....

we kept yelling for eeyore and he finally turned around for us as they were walking away....

at that point anna looked down at luke, who was sitting in her lap, and saw this.....

poor little guy! i'm so sad he missed it!!!

these ladies looked like they had a fun job!

uncle scrooge kept rubbing his fingers together like he wanted more money....

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[punkin413]

more holiday skaters....

the very pretty horse that pulled the carriage of......

......donald and daisy!

donald was having a wardrobe malfunction. see the CM?

weeeeee!!!!!!

i didn't get a very good picture of chip and dale's float. they were throwing snowballs and threw one at the guys near us....it was funny!

the seven dwarves!

one of the dwarves was having a wardrobe malfunction, as well. i can't tell which one though. you can see him over across the bridge getting something done to his foot.

snow white and prince charming....

here comes cinderella!

for some reason her carriage stopped right in front of us for a few seconds. and this cinderella was SO PRETTY!!!! wait until you see the video....the way she and prince charming are looking at each other.....

here she's waving to the guys next to us.....

in this picture you can see she's kind of leaning forward. she was waving to anna here. and after she waved to her, anna giggled like a little girl. it was soooooooo funny!

dancing members of the court....

more princesses....and my favorite, belle!

i thought that i had just caught her hand in a weird position in this picture but in the video she really is giving the guys next to us the "i love you" sign in sign language.

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[punkin413]

there were LOTS of helper elves in this parade and this is where they start....

goofy on his candy-mobile!

more dancing elves....

when the gingerbread men went by you could smell gingerbread in the air....it was so cool! and i love how they're flat on the back like real gingerbread cookies.....

you can kind of see the smoke in the air that smelled like gingerbread here....

she was cooking up a storm.....

more elves.....

this guy was hilarious! he stopped in front of us to ask for directions. you'll see it in the videos below.

the toy float....

the toy soldiers marching by were SO AWESOME! the were so loud and really playing marching band music. i loved them!

yes, even more elves....

a few of these elves stopped and asked us if we'd been good this year and told us santa was on his way.....

and this guy said something like, "have you been good this year?" and one of the guys next to us said, "NO!!!!!" and then this guy was like, "um.....okay......i'm gonna go over here now!!!!!" i have no idea what that was about (and i probably don't want to know) but it was hilarious!

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[punkin413]

santa's reindeer!

here he comes!!!!!!

this parade was SO awesome and if you go to MVMCP or to MK within a week of christmas (when they start showing it every day during regular hours), you should definitely see it! i was so bummed that luke missed it but i knew he was sooooo tired. at least he has the videos to see, which you're getting ready to see right now!

here it comes.....



here's where we're yelling at eeyore. ray wanted a picture of him because he looks like eli!



here come uncle scrooge and the "ice" skaters.



donald and his wardrobe malfunction.....



chip and dale throwing snowballs and more "ice" skaters. you can hear me tell anna, "i want that job! skating through the magic kingdom."



the dwarves and another wardrobe malfunction....



here's the big cinderella moment. watch this....it's sooooooooo sweet! isn't she pretty??? i love when he touches her nose and she blushes.



the princesses and their court.....here's where belle signs to the guys next to us!



the elves and goofy.....here's where it gets even more fun!



the gingerbread men....they smelled so good!



here comes the dude in the car....he was too funny!



here are the toys and the toy soliders. they are awesome!



here come the elves that were talking to us. my DVD player kept freezing up during this so they're in short spurts from here, on out.



this is the elf that asked some dude behind us if he's been good and he says no and the elf just doesn't know what to say. it's really funny!



here comes santa!!!! sorry for my DVD player freezing up. i have no idea why it was doing that.



so that was it! it was a great parade....i'm glad we got to see it!

up next.....i say goodbye to MK for TWO YEARS!!!!!!

 

[jordanyosh]

Great pix of the parade. It actually looks like a fun parade and I'm NOT a parade person as you know.

Even from your pix it looks like Cinderella and Prince Charming are actually a couple. I wonder if it's true....

We have a woman from church who retired early and now works for Disneyland working with the Electrical Parade. She loves it and sometimes gets to drive the floats!

2 years is a long time between trips...

 

[IluvXU]

Oh Dawn... I got to get back to a Christmas Party. I for sure want to have a Christmas at Disney someday, but that parade and party were too fun.

Planning a year and a half out is fun....

 

[Charleston Princess]

Your new blond hair is fabulous looking!

I love that you are planning your trip 400 days out! That would so be me, too!

Lovely parade pictures -- the princesses are so pretty in their Christmas finery!

 

[Sarilas]

#1 - CUTE HAIRS!

$2 - Great parade pics! We just planned a completely spontaneous trip to the World for November and HAD to get tickets to MVMCP. I cannot wait for our girls to see it all! (Or sleep through it all and watch it on video later...)

 

[tinkgurl]

Dawn! I love your hair! So cute!

Wow, this parade looks like so much fun!! Cinderella's carriage looks so neat. And I'd love to smell the gingerbread part! Too bad Luke fell asleep!

 

[MyMuse]

Thank you for those photos! I am going in December but will miss the parade completely since I'm not going to MVMCP.

I'll revisit tomorrow to appreciate them fully as I gotta hit the sack now to wake up at the crack of sunrise to book another days worth of ADRs!

Love the new 'do! and planning 400 days out is a good thing.

I may go back for the F&G festival!

 

[winkers]

hmmmm.....now I have to decided if those awesome parade seats are worth "accidently" tripping one of my kids for.

 

[rentayenta]

How I love the holidays at Disney.