AMAZING Engagment trip w/LOTS of Disney magic & 2 CM's named Dean PARADE UPDATE 5/5!

[Suzanna1973]

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[princess_momma]

You are too cute!! I love reading your TR and also your wedding PJ!! You are a riot!!

 

[DisneyCharacter]

I am loving the report so far! can't wait for more!

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Can't wait to see more!!

 

[ScotsMinnie]

I'm in!! Loving your TR so far! How lovely to have a proposal by the Cinderella wishing well. Too romantic!!!

You must have been so excited to be asked to be in the parade. I'm nt surprised you had a cry! I think I would have too!!!

 

[mkandjpsmom]

WOW grand marshals how awsome is that!!! Your engagement pics are wonderful what an experiance. I had no idea Disney did that! I am really enjoying your TR. Congratulations on the engagement and happy wedding planning!

 

[jenseib]

Joining in. this is so great. Sounds like you had so much fun.
I was there a few weeks before you and now I'm tryng to scope all the March TR's. LOL! It helps relive the excitemint.

 

[Jennifer48]

Grand Marshalls?! What a wicked awesome surprise!! Congrats Sam! I can't wait to hear (and see) more!

 

[NuttyDisneyMom]

Awesome TR so far! Congrats on your engagement! Can't wait to hear more

 

[MagicShell]

I just found your report and I am enjoying it. Can't wait to hear more.

 

[khertz]

I'm just catching up, but WOW! Those engagement pics are stunning! How exciting that y'all got picked to be the Grand Marshals! I can't wait to read about how that goes!! And the story from Turtle Talk with Crush was TOO funny! I love kids, they are so hysterical.

Can't wait to read more!

 

[mejkjj97]

Just found your trip reports and I am enjoying it very much!!

1st- Congratulations on your Engagement!!!
the pictures were beautiful

2nd- Congrulations on being Grand Marshalls in hte Parade- way cool

3rd- another Red Sox fan here and can't believe you got tickets to a game. How cool.

Can't wait to read more.

 

[bouncycat]

Joining in too, I'm hooked!!! How cool is that to be proposed to AND married at DW?? That would be awesome!!!

 

[LLLBelle]

You're TR is awesome, can't wait to read more!!!

 

[tiggersam00]

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Yay a new reader! Welcome and thanks for reading

You are too cute!! I love reading your TR and also your wedding PJ!! You are a riot!!

Aww thanks! We have fun on the boards thats for sure!

I am loving the report so far! can't wait for more!

I am posting as we speak I promise, sorry for the delay! Thanks for sticking with it

Can't wait to see more!!

It's coming up right now lol, I promise

I'm in!! Loving your TR so far! How lovely to have a proposal by the Cinderella wishing well. Too romantic!!!

You must have been so excited to be asked to be in the parade. I'm nt surprised you had a cry! I think I would have too!!!

Thanks so much! It was a truely wonderful proposal for sure, and the parade was amazing as well! I know something like that will nevcer happen again so I really do appriciate it

WOW grand marshals how awsome is that!!! Your engagement pics are wonderful what an experiance. I had no idea Disney did that! I am really enjoying your TR. Congratulations on the engagement and happy wedding planning!

Hi there! Yup they do E-Pics and honeymoon pics too, I found about them on the wedding board And being Grand Marshals was the coolest WDW experience, there was definitley some pixie dust on this trip

Joining in. this is so great. Sounds like you had so much fun.
I was there a few weeks before you and now I'm tryng to scope all the March TR's. LOL! It helps relive the excitemint.

Oh I am so excited to see what your trip brings! I bet it will be awesome, and from what i have been seeing on weather.com it looks like they are having a great spring down in WDW, perfect weather!

Grand Marshalls?! What a wicked awesome surprise!! Congrats Sam! I can't wait to hear (and see) more!

Yes it was wicked awesome lol! I have lots of pics to post today too

Awesome TR so far! Congrats on your engagement! Can't wait to hear more

Thank you, I am posting more today Thanks for reading

I just found your report and I am enjoying it. Can't wait to hear more.

Thanks you for reading it till now, I have a new post today for sure

I'm just catching up, but WOW! Those engagement pics are stunning! How exciting that y'all got picked to be the Grand Marshals! I can't wait to read about how that goes!! And the story from Turtle Talk with Crush was TOO funny! I love kids, they are so hysterical.

Can't wait to read more!

Thanks for joining in! Yes it was awesome for sure, and TTwC was too flipping funny this trip! I have never laughed that hard in my life

Just found your trip reports and I am enjoying it very much!!

1st- Congratulations on your Engagement!!!
the pictures were beautiful

2nd- Congrulations on being Grand Marshalls in hte Parade- way cool

3rd- another Red Sox fan here and can't believe you got tickets to a game. How cool.

Can't wait to read more.

Awww thanks! E Pics were a lot of fun (mostly because we were all alone in WS at the time)

Grand marshal was an awesome time, I just don't have enough words to describe how amazing it truely was!

And yay for another Sox fan! How amazing was the game the other night? I Ellsbury!

Joining in too, I'm hooked!!! How cool is that to be proposed to AND married at DW?? That would be awesome!!!

Welcome! It is going to be a ton of fun, and one heck of a crazy ride thats for sure lol!

You're TR is awesome, can't wait to read more!!!

Thanks for reading! I have a new post on the way...


Hi there everyone, thanks for reading and I apologize for the delay in posting. I have had a crazy week and time just slipped away but the new post is on the way -Sam

 

[tiggersam00]

Up Next Day 3 Part 2… Pre-Parade Jitters!

So Dave and I had just been asked (in my opinion) the most awesome question at the Magic Kingdom and we were ready to hit the park! We took our usual route and went left towards adventure land. Now I should probably tell you that Dave’s dream job is to be a driver on the Jungle Cruise… oh that boy! So of course we had to ride that first… the whole time I was bouncing around in line because the excitement had not warn off. We had a successful cruise through the jungle and made it back in one piece about 10 minuets later. Not bad for cruising to the Amazon and the Nile river, and back lol.

This is my level of excitement that day... such a dork I know

We decided that since we had gone on a few rides the day before we would take it easy today... Well easy for us did not turn out as planned. We followed the “let’s do what we feel” plan which we did not realize involved crossing the park an estimated 15 times during the day… we were all over the place. This is the last time I will do this way of touring because as relaxing as it was by the time we were scheduled to be in the parade we were so happy to be able to sit still for a half hour or so!

During the morning we rode BTMRR. Splash Mountain, got a fastpass for BTMRR for an hour away, got our 1st Dole Whip of the day, and did a little shopping. Now, getting packages delivered to your hotel is so easy, the downside is that you forget how much you bought because you are not carrying it all day, which in turn makes you forget how much $$ you have spent… good system Disney, very tricky.

So around 10:30 we decided to do a little shopping in the Christmas store in Liberty Square. I love Christmas (yes even in the springtime) and we found out how un-crowded this place is during the day. It was wonderful being able to look around without swarms of people around you. While I find a cute ornament for our tree (I try to get one on each trip) I see Dave talking to the ladies who work in the shop. There was a little circle around him so I wander over and see what is going on. The ladies all saw his “Just Engaged” Button and started doing the “girly” thing, asking how he did it, was she surprised, where did he propose, how long we had been together… you know usual girl talk. Dave’s head actually began to spin at this point…

He looked a bit relieved that I joined him because they all started asking me the questions that made my poor DF’s head spin. Which being a girl I happily began to answer. We did the whole looking at the ring thing, and we got the “Awwww’s” when I said he proposed by the wishing well. Also the lone gentleman CM at the shop came over and gets in on the conversation as well. So after chatting with them for a few more minuets we head over to the register to pay and right as we are leaving we say goodbye to our new friends who all yell “Noooo, you can’t leave yet!” So we stop and one of the ladies run’s over and says “We made you something!” They had made us a Mickey Ornament that they had written “Just Engaged WDW” on for us! It was really sweet and they all said they will be stopping by our wedding next year too lol! They sent it back to our hotel with the ornament I had bought (and they also wrote the date on the one I bought for free too). It was so nice and they said that on our trip in August we had to stop in and say hello to them! We will be doing that for sure, they were all so nice and made a special day even specialer (is that a word?)

At this point of the morning I am not even walking anymore, I am simply floating around the MK on cloud 9! But we realize that it is 11am and we are starving! Casey’s it is! We order some corn dog nuggets, fries and a drink, and sit and watch a few old cartoons while we snack. While sitting and eating lunch I look at Dave and notice that in the sunny FL weather he has taken off his jacket that he had on that morning… and he had on a shirt that he found randomly one day listing a pub crawl he once did in his wild and crazy youth lol! It said “Grab the Crew, Drink some Brew, Stay out Late, Bring Home a Date” … I am surprised that I let him out wearing something like that in WDW. At home is one thing, but this is Disney! I must have been so tired that morning I didn’t even notice (and he admitted he didn’t either, he just grabbed a shirt in his coma like state that morning hee hee) So I went into the shop connected to Casey’s and picked up a Mickey Tee for him to wear in the parade that day… how convenient that we were somewhere with unlimited souvenirs at our fingertips lol! Since then he has been wearing his Mickey shirt quiet a bit I might add…

So we finish our lunch/mid morning snack and head over to Tomorrow Land. We grab a fastpass for Space Mountain and then hit up Buzz (10 min wait), Monster’s Inc (5 min wait), the TTA (no wait) and the Carousel of Progress (no wait)! Gotta love the mornings at WDW! At this point it is around 12:30 and we decide to head back over to Frontier Land and use our Fastpass we got earlier for BTMRR. On the way we stop and ride the Haunted mansion again and the finally hit up BTMRR. The way our fastpasses were issued that morning was very convenient because we were able to have a few at a time with the 2 hour thing and the time of the ticket itself. So we also picked up another FP for Splash later in the day (it was very busy at this point and the wait times for those 2 were long… like 80 minuets long). Since it is 1:45 by now and we only have hour before we meet up with Dean again we grab one more Dole Whip Float, and head to Main Street to do a little window shopping (which actually turned into regular shopping… darn Disney and their tricks!)

I saw the greatest stuff in the art of Disney store (or whatever it is called at MK) and picked out all the things I would get if I hit the megabucks! In the Emporium I figured I would buy a few things that I had eyed earlier in the trip and have them shipped to the POP rather then wait until that last day and fumble with packages in DTD. I got 2 stemless wine glasses (Dave always complains that my wine glass with a stem blocks his TV view when he is laying on the couch lol) and matching T’s for my mum and I… back-story to this… when I was a kid my folks took my to WDW and we went on Mr Toad’s Wild Ride at the MK, now for some reason this ride scared the pants off me as a child! (Maybe it was the whole you follow Mr Toad to hell part of it… anywho…) so if I ever acted up after that trip my mom would say “Samantha you better behave or we will make you go on Mr Toad when we go to Walt Disney World”! This worked like a charm because I NEVER acted up after hearing that! So back to present day, I found a Tee in the “Vintage Magic Kingdom” collection of T’s with Mr Toads Wild Ride on it! So I had to get them for us, it was too perfect to pass up! I also got a photo album for pics of the trip and bamboo Mickey cutting board. So I head up to pay and get offered the gift with purchase they are doing… I am not strong enough to pass these up… I am the sucker that they market these for… so I buy the $10 Mickey watch for Dave and one for me too… I have no willpower.

I check my phone (why I didn’t just ask to wear the watch is beyond me at this point) and see it is 2:35!!! Yippee!!! So we walk over to the Firehouse and wait for Dean. He arrives a few minutes after we do and tells us to use the restroom now because once we go backstage we won’t have another chance. He tells us we are going to be riding with another family from Chicago that day and we have to wait for them to arrive as well. They get there and Dean opens up a bag and hands us each a set or personalized Mickey Ears and certificates saying we were the Grand Marshals that day… he also had a special one made for me that said “The future Mrs. English” on it which I thought was so cute!

Dean tells us that no pictures are allowed backstage and he will take a close up of us in the car but that is all he can do. I was just so happy I could have started dancing right then and there! So we head backstage and see it… Mickey’s Limo… our ride for the day… now I was a good Dis bride and asked if Dave and I could use it for our Wedding instead of the Carriage, Dean laughed and said “Well I bet you could, no one has even done that before!” I laughed and made a mental note to save up a ton of money for it lol!

The limo itself was very cool, all white with big colorful Mickey balloons on it and 2 rows of blue leather seats (which got very hot during the parade btw). It is an open top limo so they were al ittle warm when we sat down too. Dean then showed us a secret that not many people get to see on the limo… the treads on the tires… they are custom Mickey heads! I want those for my car! All the details on this car just blew my mind, it was awesome. So we settle into the car and are given our streamers to wave and told our job for the day… smile and wave… that was it… just have fun, heck I was already doing that and I figured this would be a good chance to practice my princess wave before the wedding lol.

Us before the parade

The Mickey treads!

So we are getting ready to go, Dean snapped a quick pic of Dave and I (and one of the tires) and he says “Ok be very quiet and listen” They announce that “the parade will be starting in just a moment, and that the Grand Marshal’s today are the ? Family from Chicago Illinois celebrating their 1st visit, and Samantha Lee and David English celebrating their engagement here at the Magic Kingdom from Newton Massachusetts!” Dean said we would hear it again during the parade but we might not hear it that well again. So streamers in hand, smiles on, Ears in place we were ready to go. Then, the gates opened…

Up next The Parade Itself!

 

[casnider]

I am caught up and on board. Loving your report. The pictures are just wonderful, congrats to you both. The Crush episode is just too much. How funny! And what a special surprise for the parade. I just love Disney!

 

[jackieleanne]

I am caught up on this trip report and so excited for the rest. Grand Marshall WOW! Now to read your wedding pj.

 

[tiggersam00]

I am caught up and on board. Loving your report. The pictures are just wonderful, congrats to you both. The Crush episode is just too much. How funny! And what a special surprise for the parade. I just love Disney!

Thanks it was such a great trip, makes me realllllllly want to jsut leave work right now, hop a flight to MCO and enjoy the world lol! If only it were that easy...

I am caught up on this trip report and so excited for the rest. Grand Marshall WOW! Now to read your wedding pj.

Thanks for reading! That was my fave disney moment for sure

 

[ScotsMinnie]

I am hooked!!!!!! How exciting! I love the tyres on the car!!!!!!

Can't wait to hear the rest!
Lx