Bec & Chris - Wishes Wedding 03/01/11 WP/WHR/SCP - Some extra pics and **COMPLETE**

[BecBennett]

Thanks everyone.

I'm just resizing photos in photobucket and then I'll get back to the TR.

 

[belle2211]

Wow! That shot is absolutely breathtaking!

 

[Bickimook2]

Awesome TR so far, can't wait to hear more! Beautiful pic

 

[BecBennett]

We slept in…

Well DF did, I took the time to sort out some of our stuff.

Not that late, but we didn’t get to AK at opening. We were there early enough that the wait for the Safari was only 15 minutes, so we met up with DF’s youngest brother and headed to it.

We then walked the long way around the EE and got fast passes, but because it was only a 20 minute wait we rode it too.

By this time I’d sent a msg to my brother and found that they were lined up for the safari and were going to head our way afterwards, and that DF’s dad and step mum were also just arriving at the park, so we told them all we’d wait for them at EE.

Once everyone arrived and all had FP’s for EE, we headed to lunch at Yak and Yeti.

I had the san choy bow, can’t remember what they called it on the menu, something like lettuce cups. They were lovely. Exactly what I felt like eating.

After lunch we headed into one of the treks, can’t remember which one, the one with tigers, not apes… That one.

Then we split up, DF’s dad and mum wanted to watch the Nemo show, and everyone else wanted to ride EE and Dinosaur, so we did that.

The FP for EE worked a charm, we literally walked straight onto the ride.

I really liked dinosaur, but the majority of the time I actually had no idea what was going on. Too many flashing lights and indistinguishable noises…

After dinosaur we waited to meet up with DF’s dad and step mum.

We decided to ride Kali River Rapids. DF’s dad decided to sit it out. So we loaded him up with bags and cameras and lined up.

I love rapid rides, and this one was really good, but really short! I know they’re generally short at the best of times, but this one seemed extremely short. Of course that didn’t stop me from getting the worst soaking…

So now we were all wet, and decided it was probably time to head back to the resort, but not before finding a churro! First day in the park equals churro. So we tracked them down, noshed away on them, then headed home.

Where we found this!

We got changed then headed back out to Epcot, and met up with DF’s family again. DF wanted to sample some of the beverages available in WS. I think we only got around to America before illuminations started.

We then made our way back to POR again and watched Bob perform for a little while. He’s so great!

Then we called it a night.

 

[BecBennett]

This morning we met back up with my family, including my aunts and decided to go shopping. So we caught a cab to the Orlando Premium Outlets. DF and I bought a new camera, just a point and shoot, but it was water proof to 5m, so we were looking forward to taking it snorkelling.

We spent a good part of the day there, and then headed back to POR as DF’s sister was arriving so we wanted to catch up with her. We stupidly caught the boat to DTD and then caught the bus to SSR... We obviously didn’t realise that it was like a 3 minute boat ride away and instead spent almost an hour on the bus trying to get there...

We finally did though and eventually all headed out to dinner at Fulton’s Crab house.

While we waited for our ADR we had a few drinks at Raglan Road and met up with my sister and her boyfriend who had also just arrived that day. They’d already eaten so once we’d been paged we parted ways.

My meal was lovely, but those that had the lobster or crab weren’t that happy with their meals. It sort of tasted like they’d cooked it all earlier in the day, and just gave it a quick reheat in boiling water before serving it...

After dinner we all separated again and headed back to our resorts. We were running in the princess family 5km in the morning, so we needed to get to sleep.

 

[sw33t_angel]

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That preview pic from Misty is.... UH-AMAZING!

Can't wait to see more and am enjoying following your TR!

 

[KitKat5]

Im so glad you started your TR!! I cant wait to read more! And by the way...that preview pic is GORGEOUS!! Cant wait to see more!

 

[BecBennett]

Thanks everyone! Hopefully I'll be able to post more tomorrow. I went to my BFF's baby shower on the weekend (the one that was supposed to be my MOH - she's only got 5 weeks left!!! ) and took my laptop to show her some pics, and then left the charger there

Hopefully I'll be able to pick it up tomorrow.

 

[elleinad16]

I just saw more of your pics on Misty's facebook! OMG. Seriously beautiful, girl!!!!!

 

[BecBennett]

Ooh, I better go check that out!

 

[BecBennett]

We had a really early start this morning, as we were going to run the Princess Family 5km. Luckily we were staying at one of the resorts that the busses picked up from, so we just had to get to the lobby.

There was a really great party atmosphere at the starting line. I don’t know who the MC was, but he had music blaring and he was getting everyone dancing and singing. I had our new camera, which I was still getting used to, so I got a lot of blurry photos.

We were way up the back, and I didn’t realise that there were signs indicating that you needed to start in a starting area that corresponded to how fast you run... We were amongst the walkers...

That was ok, because mum was a walker, and my brother probably not much faster, followed next by DF, then me and my sister, and my dad is probably the fastest. It was fine, it just meant when we started we had to start slow, and then step around a lot of people.

I finished in just over 30 minutes. This was a great run! I loved going through Epcot early morning, and thought it was great that there were characters along the track that you could get photos with.

I’m a bit competitive, so there was no way I’d stop for the characters, but it was a nice thought.

After the run we went back to POR and got changed and headed to DTD for lunch. We stopped at EOS and DF got a sandwich and I got some soup.

We were met by DF’s eldest brother, his wife and daughter who had arrived late the night before. They were coming back to our resort for tux fittings. DF’s dad also met us, as he hadn’t seen the other brothers in quite a while (being that he lives in the US, and they live in Australia).

We all jumped back on the boat and headed back to the resort. I think it was this day that I realised I hated the boats... We were all on the boat waiting to go and the skipper just seemed to be wandering around the dock, doing nothing! So frustrating! It was still half an hour until the tux appointment, but it was about then that they called to say that they were at POR...

I told them that my dad and brother were two doors down from us, so they could start with them, and hopefully we wouldn’t be long. I was wrong, half an hour later we still hadn’t reached POFQ...

We got to POFQ and again he stopped the boat, got off and stood around doing nothing. We asked him how long we’d be there for and he told us he was actually waiting for the other boat – which still confuses me, because no one ever swapped boats or anything. So we got off and walked.

Sure enough we beat the boat back to POR...

I feel so bad, but of course I’ve forgotten pretty much everyone’s names that we dealt with...

Anyhoo, the people from Carolyn Allen’s were awesome! They were so good and accommodating and we felt like they’d do anything for us!

Turns out that they are friends with (or related to, didn’t go too deep into it) DF’s eldest brother’s family doctor here in Oz... Small world hey...

After tuxes were taken care of, half of us went to MK, the other half went to DTD and I went to the Yacht Club to get my nails done.

I’ve never had a nicer acrylic job done on my nails! They were gorgeous!

I then caught a bus to MK to meet up with DF and whoever he was with. I’d been at WDW far too long, and not yet been to MK. It was weird...

So I turned up to MK and DF and his sister were lined up for Haunted Mansion. I told them I’d meet them when they got off, and had a look around the park.

I must say MK doesn’t have the same feeling at Disneyland. I was expecting it to be exactly the same, just laid out different and bigger, but it didn’t feel the same... It might have been the fact that the buildings were covered with the fake facades, but it didn’t have the “Disney” smell, and didn’t sound like Disney... It also might have been the fact that it was the middle of the afternoon and pretty busy.

I met up with DF and his sister and we rode BTMRR, and I think some other rides, but for the life of me can’t remember which...

We met up with DF’s brother and his family, and his dad coming out of Monsters Inc. And once again headed back to our resorts. We had reservations at Teppan Edo at Epcot, and were meeting with more guests, including DF’s mum and step dad.

My folks met us at POR and we headed to Epcot together. When we arrived we had time to ride Mission Space, DF, my brother and I rode the Orange side and my mum and dad did the green. I loved this ride!! I wanted to ride again and again and again, but it turns out I’m now married to a wuss, so only one ride allowed...

We met up with my sister after this, her boyfriend was sick so he stayed back at their hotel, which was sad because he loves the Japanese culture and would have loved Teppan Edo.

We then got a call from the new guests that had arrived that day. They had decided not to come to dinner because they didn’t want to use a whole day’s park ticket just for dinner. This really annoyed me, I had explained all of that when I asked them if they wanted to come to dinner 6 months prior, they were all for it. So this turned our ADR from three full tables down to 1 full table and 5 at the other table.

Dinner at Teppan Edo was awesome! I wouldn’t have minded trying to get another ADR here. Once again I can’t remember our chef’s name, but we chatted heaps. She knew the members of Operator Please, which are such a great band, and she told me that she was meeting up with them at SXSW.

I accidentally ordered the wrong thing, but it didn’t matter, what I got was great anyway.

(a bigger volcano then ours at a neighbouring table)

We then went and stood out on the balcony and watched illuminations again.

After the fireworks finished we caught the friendship boat to the boardwalk with my sister and brother, and DF’s brother and his family, while everyone else went back to their resorts.

We were going to meet up with the guests who didn’t come to dinner.

We had a few drinks and grabbed some ice cream, and caught up with what everyone had been doing over the past few weeks, as they’d all being road tripping over the US.

We’d been up since 4am, and it was now after midnight so we caught a cab back to POR and called it a night.

 

[Princess SarahK]

What a great day! Full of great stuff, your Teppanedo pictures are making me really hungry! --the crappy oatmeal I had for breakfast just isnt cutting it compared to those photos! Stupid diets!

Cant wait to read more!

 

[LuvLuvLuv]

i saw some pix on misty's facebook page last night!! soooooooooo pretty!! you must be so happy!! the one you posted was my favorite too... i showed it to DF last night and said, "this is why i'm spending $3000 for her" he said they were awesome too!! congratulations!

 

[BecBennett]

What a great day! Full of great stuff, your Teppanedo pictures are making me really hungry! --the crappy oatmeal I had for breakfast just isnt cutting it compared to those photos! Stupid diets!

Cant wait to read more!

Tell me about it! I'm so happy to be off my diet!

i saw some pix on misty's facebook page last night!! soooooooooo pretty!! you must be so happy!! the one you posted was my favorite too... i showed it to DF last night and said, "this is why i'm spending $3000 for her" he said they were awesome too!! congratulations!

I love Misty's work so much! I'm so happy with what I've seen so far, and can't wait to get the rest. She's such a good photographer that I would seriously consider seeing how much it would cost to get her to Australia to get more photos...

 

[QuirkyButterfly]

Wow! You did a marathon before your wedding day. You are made of stronger stuff than me. Congratulations.

I am also glad that you enjoyed tepan edo. It looks really nice and I wanted to go in September but DBF is not as keen. Maybe I can see if they accept walk ups and try and convince him on the day.

 

[BecBennett]

Gosh no! We only did the 5k, which is something like 3.3 miles. My dad has a few marathons under his belt, but the furthest I've ever gone is 14km

 

[mcarthur205]

Wow, that picture from Misty is beautiful! I'm looking forward to reading more of your TR and seeing more pics from the Wedding Day!

 

[BecBennett]

Sunday morning I met up with my mum and sister to go to SSR to get manicures and pedicures. The ladies here were lovely. Once again, no idea of names...

I shouted my mum and sister as a gift. Mine and mum’s toenails are still in the same condition today as what they were when we left the resort. They did such a great job!

DF had stayed in at the resort all morning and was starting to get a little bored. So I then left mum and my sister at DTD and headed back to meet him. His best man had only arrived late the previous night, and hadn’t been present for the tux fitting, so he also came to our room to try his tux on. There were a few changes needed so I called Carolyn Allen’s and they were able to organise all the changes. (They were so great!)

Don, DF’s best man and his girlfriend then headed into a park and we met back up with my family for a trip to Walmart. My sister’s boyfriend was finally feeling better, so he was able to join us as well.

We spent most of the afternoon at Walmart, you need to understand that there’s nothing like Walmart in Australia. We also wanted to pick up some nibblies and drinks, and a friend from home had requested a box of Red Velvet cake mix.

I think we spent a good couple of hundred dollars here, and thinking about it now, I can’t think of anything we came home with...

We headed back to POR to get changed for our hens night/stag night. The girls were meeting at DF’s dads room (they had a two bedroom suite at SSR) and the boys were meeting at Epcot for drinking around the world.

I got a text from one of my bridesmaids who was on her way to our room and asked me to wait for her, as she had no idea how to get anywhere. So I sat and waited. Everyone headed off to where they were starting the night, and I still waited. Half an hour later I got a call on the room phone from the front desk, it was Jess my BM “I’m at the lobby, they won’t give me your room number, can you come get me? I told her that was fine, and also let her know my room number.

I just picked up my room key and ran over to the lobby... No one was there... I looked through the whole lobby, I looked through the River Roost lounge, I looked around all the smoking areas, I looked through boatwrites, I even looked in the arcade... No one...

I hadn’t taken my phone so I ran back to the hotel room and tried to call her. No answer, so I sent her a txt asking where she’d gone. So again, what else could I do? I sat and waited...

Another half an hour passed and she still hadn’t turned up, so I sent a msg to my mum letting her know that I was still waiting for Jess. Then I got a call from another bridesmaid who was staying a few doors down from us asking how to get to SSR, turns out she was calling from her room, so I told her just to come down to mine and we’d go together.

Eventually Jess turned up!! Apparently she’d caught a taxi from her hotel to Port Orleans, and of course turned up at POFQ. You’d think the taxi driver would have asked her which one...

Then she’d gone inside and asked for my room number, they had of course told her that they couldn’t give it to her, but put her through to my room – not telling her then that she was at the wrong resort.

Half an hour later when I still hadn’t come to get her, she’d asked if they could call me again, this time knowing my room number she just asked to be put through to it, it was only then that someone clicked and asked her if she knew she was in the wrong resort...

She was then told how to walk from POFQ to POR, which she did, in high heels and a little dress.

So now she was standing in my hotel room, with sore feet, explaining that she’d left both her phone and her ID at her resort...

We had a laugh at the comedy of errors she’d been through, and headed over to her resort.

 

[BecBennett]

Finally we were back on the boat to SSR. I received a phone call from mum letting me know that there were a lot of hungry ladies in the room wanting a good meal... So we managed to get the whole party in to the Turf club for dinner.

The CM’s here were amazing! When they found out that it was a hen’s night they brought out helium balloons for each table and brought me a congrats card signed by Mickey, Minnie and all the CM’s.

It was so lovely, and made my mum cry! (I know there's a photo of it somewhere, I'll post it as soon as I find it...

After dinner, and a fair few drinks (I had been on antibiotics for a week, combating a sore throat, so I didn’t need many drinks at all... ) the oldies headed back to their resorts, and the youngens headed to DTD.

WE caught the ferry over, and it’s my opinion that we made the ferry captain’s night. At one part of the journey I distinctly remember us all chanting his name. His name was Jeff...

We danced around the Harley Davidson store for a while, and hogged the hogs.

We then found out that the boys were at Raglan Road, just next door. So in we went.

I don’t think the Raglan Road people were very happy with us, we wanted to dance to the band, but when we asked about moving some of the tables (the place was pretty empty except for us) they told us it wasn’t a dance club... Stupid Irish...

I decided to head home to bed when my dad and brother were going - a bit after 12pm. I wanted an early night as I could feel myself getting a little fluey, or something. However as being the case I was busting for the bathroom while waiting for the bus. So I made a run for it into Planet Hollywood, and sure enough I could see the bus when I came back out.

I then hoofed it back to the bus stop hoping that maybe it would hang around just long enough, but when I got there my dad was standing outside of the bus with the driver having a chat. The bus driver congratulated me, and we all got on, but before we took off the bus driver stood up, and gave a little speech, giving me marital advice in front of everyone. It was pretty funny.

Finally got home and updated on facebook what we’d been up to, watched a few cartoons in bed and turned off the light around 2am. I know, not really the early night I had been planning, but it was nice to relax after the full on night.

Around 4am I was woken by some scuffling and talking outside the door. I recognised DF’s voice immediately and realised he must have been saying goodnight to a few of the revellers, however from the tone of the voice I could tell he wasn’t ready for bed, and sounded like they were planning something.

Sure enough the door opens and I see 5 shadows sneak in, followed shortly by a red light then a camera flash. There were a few of these as I could see three people moving around the bed. I have no idea how they thought I’d sleep through this, but I played a long, until I could feel everyone sitting on the bed, when I spoke up and said “So... what are you up to??”

They then all jumped on top of me and grabbed a few more photos before turning the lights on. I think they were very disappointed that I’d woken up and spoiled their fun.

Obviously the bars had all closed and there was nowhere else to buy booze, so they’d come back to get into DF’s Caronas. We sat around chatting for a little bit, and I caught up with what everyone had done since I’d left.

Then they moved the party to the pool. I’m not sure which pool they went to, but I’m assuming it was Ol’ Man Island, as I couldn’t hear them, and I would have shooed them away if they’d tried to party so close to all those rooms.

I fell back asleep, but was woken once again to them returning, this time after going for an early morning swim. Only DF and his BM had gone in fully clothed, the others had been smart enough to get changed for a swim. So it was about now that DF lost all phone contact with the outside world, as his phone had gone swimming with him, as well as his wallet, his money, his annual pass etc.

Stoopid stoopid men!

I sent everyone home after that. It was too late/early in the morning for these shenanigans...

 

[figmentfan814]

What a beautiful sneak peak photo from Misty I love all the yummy food pictures, food at Disney is half the fun! I think its great you were able to do the run too while you were down there. It looks like everyone had great time on your night out too! Looking forward to reading more