An Adventure with the Mouse 8/13 to 8/20, 2006

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We then left Spoodles and got on the ferry boat back to EPCOT.

It was so shallow under the Boardwalk the duck could easily stand

We then got our late night EMH wristbands as we reentered EPCOT to contnue our trip around the world.

We then went inside and watched Impressions de France, but not before some quick photos

Morocco

It was about this point in our journey around the world that we ran into the family whom we had talked to while waiting in line for Soaring. We also got stopped by a young women from England she loved our homemade shirts and she asked us if we could have our picture taken with her. Of course we obliged, I should have asked her friend to take a picture using my camera but did not think of it fast enough.

Japan

Onto the American Pavillon

 

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Italy

Germany

Sunset at World Showcase

China

Norway
So we waited forever in Norway to ride the maelstrom, it broke down they would get in running and it would stop again. Eventually we got to ride it, we ended up missing most of Illuminations, which was alright as we had already seen it on Monday. But we did see the ending of it as we were walking to the front of the park, to ride rides for EMH.

Self potrait while on maelstrom

Mexico

 

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We then went to the front of the park camera shop to pick up our 2 free prints from having a Disney Visa card, as my Mother was convinced they would close early.

From here we went and rode Test Track and the mild side of Mission Space, as I was not risking getting sick due to all my previous motion issues on this trip as a side effect of the antibiotic.

We rerode Soaring and Living with the Land.
It seemed bizarre to me at night that you could see the dark, even though they had lots of bright lights on.

It was now almost Midnight and the park was closing soon. We were all pooped, although we did consider getting in the 1 1/2 hour long wait for Soaring so that we could reride it again. Instead we headed back to our hotel to crash.

Although we made one quick photostop. I had always has this brainy idea that I wanted my picture taken of me laying on the lighted pavement in EPCOT, it didn't work too well although I think it would have worked with a tripod and I only had a mini tripod perhaps another trip. We tried the flash but than you couldn't see the pavement lights.

 

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great trippie! I just read the whole thing. I love all the pictures!

 

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Since we were out past midnight, due to EMH we slept in late. We got up and had some breakfast. We went to the Character Premiere Outlet, we also checked out some of the other outlets. We got some great deals on stuff, alot of the stuff we got was from the Happiest Celebration on Earth, which was still going on and most of the stuff was less than half the original price. I got 2 Hapiest Celebration shirts (which are both already too big although they fit when I bought them) and , a Black Disneyland Happiest tote bag(I wish I would have bought more than one as it is my favorite tote bag, I love the size, a coloring book, some playing cards and some other stuff for about $40.

From here we headed to Downtown Disney, at Downtown Disney I was originally supposed to meet some friends from college for lunch. Well they got stuck in traffic and were running late so my family ended up eating at Wolfgang Puck Express, our food was very yummy. As my friends still hadn't arrived we started traveling around downtown Disney. We were in the Days of Christmas shop when my friends called. I met up with Renee', Charley, Rusty, and Nathan. Unfortunately we did too much yapping and I didn't get a group picture of everyone and didn't take many pics, most of these were before I met up with everyone.

Warrior Goofy Renee'

Since my friends stopped to eat before they got to Downtown Disney and I ate at Downtown Disney, we just stopped for ice cream at Ghiradelli's however I was stuffed from my lunch and knew I had a big dinner coming up at Whispering Canyon Cafe so I didn't get anything.

 

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I met up with my family and we drove over the Wilderness Lodge, we were slightly early so I walked around taking pictures. However this got me in trouble with our waitress as while I was on one of the higher floors taking pictures I got a phone call saying our table was ready and I wasn't around. She gave me a hard time since I wasn't ready when they were ready for us, it was just the start of the fun that was too come.

 

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We were seated at our table and given our menus. The fun had begun, my brother and I knew some of the fun stuff they might do, on the other hand my parents did not. Although this was there most talked about dining experience of the trip. I almost did not go, as I was seriously considering going over to the University of Central Florida, my college alma mater with my friends for the knighting of the new UCF Marching Knights, they have a special ceremony in which the new members become full blown Marching Knights and I would have loved to have went as I could have seen many more of my friends but I decided to stay at WDW as I was not sure how I would get back to WDW if I went with them. The Marching Knights are an organization that is very near and dear to my heart as I spent 4 years marching with them and this was their final season marching in the Citrus Bowl as next year they are getting in on-campus stadium.

Sorry for the sidetrack, back on topic at Whispering Canyon Cafe. Somebody pass the Ketchup, I need a yellow crayon, pony races, napking twirling, two birthday guys having to ride the stick ponies around the restaurant and sing Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs as they didn't want to have the wait staff sing Happy Birthday to them. They turned me into the Statue of Liberty and my brother got a double milkshake with 2 straws attached to each other as he wanted to see what would happen if he finished his milkshake very quickly. He was hoping they would bring him a huge one like they bring of sodas. Although the device they created did not work.

I wore my Statue of Liberty decorations out of the restaurant, got some odd stares and into the drizzle and they didn't last as the paper started falling apart.

Straw collection from another table as they kept throwing straws at them.

 

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Yes we actually did eat hear and not just get involved in all the fun.
Our appetizers
Mixed greens, if you don't have the All you can eat skillet

Nachos

Salad for all you can eat skillet

Entrees
Sauteed Grouper it was good but I didn't like the side that came with it

Grilled Pork Chops with substituted veggies

All you can eat skillet for 2 people

Cornbread

We got our desert to go and I never took pics
we had the Smore's cheesecake which was yummy
Kahlua chocolate cake
Apple Caramel Pie which we didn't realize had ice cream, opps. So it melted all over.

Walking around in the rain taking pics after dinner

construction

A snail friend on the curb

We headed back to All Stars, I went fo a swim and then I packed my stuff as we were going home tomorrow, it went way too quickly and I hardly got to see any of my college friends or any of the Disfriends I wanted to as it just didn't work out there were many plans but they never seemed to work out for some reason or another.

 

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We got our last Disney themed wake up call for awhile. We got up and were off to our Breakfast at the Cape may Cafe, I had never eaten here before and we enjoyed it alot.

When we arrived we were told that Chip and Dale had a fight although we did end up seeing both of them. But they did not want to be in the same area of the restaurant. I loved drawing on the table cloth with the crayons.

The food was very good and I think tried a bit of everything.

Chip

Minnie

Dale

Dale's hand sprouted Mickey ears and it really wasn't touching me it just looks it.

I had to track Goofy down as he never made it to our table

Can you tell my parents did alot of sitting and waiting in pairs of chairs??

We then walked to the boat dock, to take it over to the Boardwalk

 

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We waited a couple of minutes and I got sick of waiting so I started walking to the Boardwalk. As the weather wasn't too hot on this trip it was a nice walk but if it was hot it could be a miserable walk.

We went into the gift shop on the Boardwalk and I tried on some hats. We also finished off the rest of our snack credits, we got several bags of chip and Dale snacks, and cookies and rice krispy treats. We had trouble though as we were trying to use too many snack credits at one time. They figured out the problem and we were on our way with our goodies.

Notice the Jesus Loves in the clouds by a skywriter.

 

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Since we were unsuccsessful in our mission as we were going to get sandwiches and things to go at the Boardwalk bakery but they didn't have what we were looking for and the food place at Beach club didn't either we drove back to the All Stars resort.
We wanted the prepackaged stuff and neither place had it, I am sure they could have wrapped stuff for us but we didn't want to bother them. We wanted the food wrapped as we had leftover counter service credits and we were taking the food with us to the airport to eat before our flight at 3pm.

After we retreieved our sandwiches and salads drinks and ice cream which we ate at the food court. We all hopped in the car for our trip to the Sanford airport.

Orlando Under Construction Forever

Buh, bye Downtown Orlando

We ate our food at the ariport and made sure to either finish our drinks or pitch them before we headed through security at the airport. We had a fairly uneventful flight except that my ears were still bothering me pretty badly.

Sleeping on the way home

Back in Pennsylvania

My cat Penny was uber excited to see us, she wouldn't leave me alone as I was trying to upload pics, so she got a close up

After my trip the next day I headed back to work and started my graduate classes in Nonprofit management, hence the reason it took me so long to finish my trip report. I was also diagnosed with reflux which is most likely where my "ear and sinus" problems came from as those symptoms pretty much went away after I was on rerflux meds.

My next Disney trip is hopefully 2 back 2 back Magic Cruises next September, yep 14 days on the Magic. If not the 2, hopefully I will be able to do 1 of the seven day Magic cruises but I am currently booked on 2 from September 8 to 22.

 

[swankybeth]

Thanks for taking the time to finish your report, I really enjoyed your beautiful pictures.