behind the scenes, a teenage aspect

[jackdis]

How about a little more before the weekend's over? Please??

 

[TeenReese13]

xoprincessmomxothankyou, I really enjoy writing and I am glad you are enjoying my writing, if that makes any sense?

Dreaming WDW Have fun in Disney! You should be there right now. sorry I never got back to this sooner to give you even more teen perspective before your trip.

DebIreland Chillax is an awesome word, I try to use it as often as possible, mommy hates when I say it to her, she sais it makes her feel old. "Yea, Jim and I are brats, we should have told mommy about the slippers but I think she handled it well.

greenmickeyfanatic wow, you've got a whole party going on in your siggie. lol I love Tinkerbell! I am updating soon. like in five minutes.

jackdis I guess I have to get started on an update since you have so patiently waited, thankyou.

 

[TeenReese13]

Today is MGM, I was excited about this park, I wanted to ride Tower of Terror first, rock-n-rollercoaster was on my must do list. It was a mental list, I don't need to write it down and have a color chart and percentage wheel and crowd consesus to know what I want to do. not that there is anything wrong with that, but for me that is school work, and I am on vacation! although I do wish I would have taken notes because I am having a hard time remembering the details now.

I can't remember if we made rope drop, I don't think we did, but I know we were there kind of early because there was absolutley no line at ToT, I should back up and say, Mommy abandoned the whole go left plan for MGM because the things we wanted to do first were to the right.

I do remember the details of the ToT lobby, it was creepy, I loved it, then in the room where we watch the short introduction was completely cool, I was all about it but yet I wanted it to hurry so I could get to the ride. The boiler room felt like it was right out of Nightmare on Elm Street, I swear I could hear kids singing, "1,2 Freddy's coming for you, 3, 4 better lock the door..." I thought any minute I would see him, but then that would be gory and horrific and Disney isn't about that.

I have to say I was nervouls when I got on the ride and got my belt on.

OK total truth here, no lying, I was terrified about this whole thing, I didn't really want to do it, I hate elevators, hate them with a passion, I will take the stairs over an elevator any day, elevators don't like me, they never have. They like to trap me and holed me there, not for ransom, but just cause they get their kicks out of my fear. Elevators are living breathing animals, mean and sadistic animals. Mommy assured me this ride would be fun and I trust mommy so that is why I went.

I could not get that seat belt tight enough, i pulled and pulled on it till it couldn't pull anymore, then I thought, maybe I don't want this seatbelt on, maybe this is the way the elevator plans to hold me captive, but then again, seatbelts are for safety, maybe all elevators should have seatbelts in them. The doors closed and the lights went out, I couldn't breathe, I reached for mommy, she whispered it was ok. But mommys always say it's ok even when it's not. for example, when I was 2 I cut the tip of my finger off when Jim accidently closed it in the door, Mommy kept saying it was ok, even though I was bleeding bucket loads, when I was 3 Jim and I rode our bikes with mommy on one of her walks, I lost control going down hill and didn't know how to stop, I must have been going 90 mph (maybe even faster ) and mommy was chasing after me trying to catch me and stop me and yelling "it's ok, it's ok" then I crashed into the grass and flew up over the handle bars, once again bloody mess, but mommy kept saying it's ok. So really IT'S OK, doesn't do much for me anymore

The ride started moving, and it was pretty good, Glass shattered at me, I saw the missing guests, alright maybe it really is ok, the doors open and I see the park outside, pretty cool I think, then the elevator dropped out from under me, I left my seat even though I had that belt pulled so tight I still flew out of my seat, I screamed so loud, I had no idea I could even hit that note, I could see my scream in front of me, everytime I would scream I could see the stream of red light come from my mouth, so now I know screams are red, nobody believes me on that one, but it was true. Alright now you would think the elevator had it's fun with me and it was over, but no, it shoots me back up again and then drops me again, it did it a few more times. I start yelling never again, I'm done! it seemed like hours later the ride of terror came to a stop, I could not get out of there fast enough. I couldn't walk all that well, Daddy was holding me up some.

We went to look at our picture, I was mad, my screamy redness did not show up in the picture, it was just me with my mouth so wide you could hardly see my face. It was scary to see my eyes, I thought I looked wild, like I should be behinde bars. I told Mommy I was done, I would never ride that again. And she said it was ok. OK? I will never be the same again, this is a scar I will have forever.

We headed over to RnR after that, the family kept talking about ToT, I wanted to forget it. We got in line, it wasn't suppose to be a long wait, and really it wasn't but the kids around us were rude and annoying, mommy said to me and jim, that (meaning those kids) is what I never want you to be, seeing how stupid they were Mommy has to never worry about that, some of the teens kept lighting up ciggarettes and when they were told there was no smoking by a Cm they apologized but as soon as the cm left they would light one up again. They kept trying to let all their friends cut infront of us, Mommy finally put a stop to it, but then one of the boys got rude and crude with mommy, Daddy stepped up and was our hero, I won't tell you what he said or did cause he said he is not proud of it, but I was proud that he defended mommy. The air guitarits were pretty entertaining, we laughed at them, I think they thought maybe we liked it. Anything but..

Once inside it went super fast, we were in our limo in no time at all, and I have to add it was my first time in a limo, I didn't know the ride was going to be as fast as it was but I loved it, I love roller coasters and this one was so different then any other one I had ever ridden. The neon lights and the music were perfect for this, I like that you are not just looking at a track.
It was over way too soon, I knew I wanted to come back to it and ride again.
Mommy bought the picture and I have to laugh everytime I see it.

We weren't sure what to do next, we were hungry so we decided to see if we could eat earlier than our reservation was made for. We headed to SCi-Fi, it was hard to find, we walked by it a couple of times, I don't know how we could have missedit, but we did. Finally we made it there and mommy was in a bad mood by then, the lady at the counter said they would take us soon, so we sat and waited, to me the place looked cheap, I didn't tell mommy that, I don't know if it was under construction or if they always have plywood walls but I wasn't excited for this place. Our name was called and we followed the skater dude, when I first stepped into the actual restaraunt I was stunned, this was not cheap looking at all, it was cool, no it was kool. I had never been to a drive in before, man I have really missed out. We were taken to our car, I am loving it, I don't even say anything cause I was trying to take it all in. Our server was cool, he paid alot of attention to us. We all ordered our food and then just watched the show till our food came, Jim and I were laughing at how fake the monsters on the screen were, but what is even funnier was for back in that timeI am sure it was actually scary and real looking to people, can you imagine taking someone from that era and teleporting them to 2007 and having them watch The grudge? or even an 80's classic horror film like friday the 13th, they would end up commited to a psych ward.
The food was good, the portions are way too big, and my hamburger was the size of a planet, Daddy had to help me finish it. For dessert I got a sundae, or maybe it was the shake, I tried both I just can't remeber which one I ordered, mommy had the cheese cake, I wished I had gotten that it was so good.
To this day we still talk about Sci-Fi, Daddy loved it so much, we even talk about opening up a restaurant with a theme like that, we would be the it spot. I would love to waitress and wear skates. But we think instead of Sci-Fi movie clips we would play classic movies, alot of Elvis and of course I suggested we have Grease night. Daddy sais it's a good concept but he doubts it will ever happen. Maybe that is what I will do when I am older, I will open up a dine in theatre.

We left with majorly full belly's and wandered around till we just bumped into something we wanted to see. It was the muppets 3-D movie.



I will try and write more later, but I have to get ready to meet some friends tonight. It's my first night off from cheerleading in a month and i want to just hang out. I will be better at posting, I leave for Mi. in 2 weeks and would like to be finished up by then.

 

[jackdis]

Once again, that was great! Have fun with your friends!!

 

[greenmickeyfanatic]

i am obsessed with tinkerbell i have 3 bags markers jewelry my cellphone case and more stuff!!! i loved your post try to write back soon

-------------------------------------------------Rachel-------------------

 

[disneyaddicted]

Good update Reese, even if it did take weeks to get it out there. Even if it was a little dramatic. The Dr. sewed the tip back on so why are you still complaining huh?
I can't wait to go back in December, I think you should ride ToT again, it'll be......OK!

 

[greenmickeyfanatic]

ahh!!! where did everybody go? ahhh!!!

 

[disneyaddicted]

Reese isnow at her Dad's in Mi. for the summer, she will try to update from there. It should be easier now that she isn't trying to keep up with cheerleading and gymnastics.

 

[greenmickeyfanatic]

o ok i hope it is soon

 

[njdisneyfreak]

You're report is so great! I haven't read it in a while, but now that I'm done teaching for the year, I was able to come back. I was glad that you hadn't written a HUGE amount of chapters, since I was able to catch up quickly.

I know you're in Michigan now, but please make the time to keep up with your trippie. I have all summer and your descriptions are awesome! I wish I could get more of my students to be so real in their writing.

I'll be here waiting.

 

[TeenReese13]

Hello everyone.
Believe it or not I did try to post again since I have been here but it wouldn't let me sign on, I called mommy and told her and we couldn't figure out why, i think now it is because mommy always stay logged in.

So I left off at MGM. wow this is hard to do now since I don't have mommy by to answer questions.

After we ate at Scifi we just walked around a bit. Mommy had a plan for the parks but all she had planned for this park was TOT and RNR and we did those. I am sure we looked lost.

We sort of just found things to do. Muppets 3-D was one of those things. Jimmy didn't want to do this, Daddy said he had to. Daddy was pretty excited for this too, he and mommy were doing the reminisining thing about when they were kids and the muppets were the big thing and how they never missed an episode. They both agreed that John Denver as the guest host was one of their most memorable ones, mommy even remembers the song inch by inch row by row, gonna make this garden grow. And thanks to mommy now I know it too. (but I don't want to)
i didn't want to do this either, but i wasn't about to listen to another long lecture about..You kids don't know what good tv is. you are spoiled with your 500 channels and too much to choose from, the classics are lost on you...
So I went in quietly, pretending that i was on board for this baby show. And now I have to say, i enjoyed it. Is it something i would watch every week? never! but it was nice to see this time.

SIDENOTE Mommy went and got the muppets christmas on DVD, not the christmas carol one but the actual muppets where the gang is all going to Fozzy's mom;s place for Christmas and Miss Piggy is late and the cook wants to "cook" big bird. Her and Daddy watched it several times over this past winter, they also set up a date night to watch the "christmas classics" like rudolph the red nosed reindeer. NO BRATTY KIDS ALLOWED can you believe they called me bratty?

Anyway, back to my report, this show was pretty ok, I had never seen a real 3-D show before, we did that shark week a few years ago where we got our 3-D glasses at lens crafters and then watched the show on TLC, it wasn't very 3-dy. This was, i did duck a couple times and yes I tried to grab Gonzo's nose, I think Jim like it too. When we left the theater Daddy said he loved it.

Mommy and I shopped around in the girft store, I could tell mommy wanted to buy it all, possibly to recapture some childhood memories? she ended up putting everything back. I bought a few things for friends back home. I'm nice like that

we then found Star Tours, I say found even though we weren't really looking, we probably should have looked at the map more, we might have done more if we did.
Star Tours was pretty good. I just kept thinking about my bio Dad. If he were here this is the only thing he would do over and over, just like when we are at his house and he makes us watch the movies with him over and over, and play the stupid starwars card game over and over until I beat him and he accuses me of cheating, throws the cards at me and quits. (act 3 years old much Dad?)
My real daddy, kent (the only Dad I want) was so much fun on this, he and Jimmy both had me laughing so hard. Daddy is a movie quoter and he just went to town quoting lines from all the starwars movies, then the rest of the day Jim and Daddy kept talking like Yoda. "too hot it is, burning up I am."
Mommy and I did one of their computer pictures, I wasn't going to but changed my mind, I am glad I did, it is a good picture and I swear I look 18 in it, you can see the pic in mommys TR.

At some point in the day a CM shot me with a water bottle, I wanted more, so I ran up to her and made myself an easy target, she got me square in the face. aaah refreshing. Back then I could care less how I looked, so every chance I got I would cool off, i would run through the little vapor showers they had or ask to be squirt with water, I didn't care. I think I might care now, I know when I go back I will be concerned about my hair frizzing or something, who knows? maybe Disney will make me feel care free again.


We found the HISTK play area, we went to investigate, just mommy and me, not Daddy and Jim, they are boring. I climbed around on things and mommy took pictures, lots of pictures, I am sure she was planning a layout design in her head with each snap of the camera. Once mommy got her pictures she wanted to go, I wanted to stay and keep playing but didn't say anything, I know the place is for younger kids, but I was always being mistaken for a younger kid so I might as well get something out of it, like playing on a play ground right?
I havent grown much taller and am still called shorty and peewee by my friends, but I think my face has aged and I look older now.

We were walking aimlessly again and mommy wanted to get her pic with sorcerer Mickey, Jimmy and I fought her on it, I do feel bad we gave her such a hard time, and i could see it hurt her, i know all she wanted was to see the mouse. She got mad at us and told us to go do what we wanted. Daddy says me and mommy are too much alike and that is why we blow up so easily at eachother, but that is also why we feel so bad afterwards too. I knew i had to leave so we could both calm down. I looked back and saw Dady holding mommy. she had her face buried in his shoulder, i wanted to cry.

Jimmy wanted to do TOT and RNR, I said I would do RNR but not the tower. so we went over to it, and the line was forever long, we didn't think to grab a fast pass. So Jimmy begged me to do TOT, i fought him all the way till it was over. Yes i rode it again, and I hated it just as much the second time, only this time I didn't have mommy telling me I was ok, It was just Jim, burp/laughing. I felt sick, i didn't want to go again. we checked again on RNR the line was a little shorter so we got in to line for that. It went faster without stupid people making spectacles of themselves. Jimmy and I just talked about everything till it was our turn to go. I liked it again. Jimmy isn't really a rollercoaster person, he hates things that go upside down but he liked this one cause it was in the dark and he didn't know he was being flipped half the time.

After RNR we called mommy and said we were ready to leave. We met up with the parentals near the front. I told Mommy i would go back with her to get a picture of Mickey, she said she was tired and would see Mickey later in the week. The walk back to the bus stop was quiet, I could tell mommy was still upset, I figured I had offered to go back so she should just get over it. I said something to her about it and mommy said it's the fact that it even had to go that way, there was no reason for any of it and she wouldn't enjoy a picture with Mickey knowing that she had to argue to get it. I can see her point, I guess the moment was ruined. But by the time we made it back to Pop mommy and I were good again and making new plans.

We all went into the cafe to get something to eat. It wasn't very good and I am sad to say alot of that food was wasted. Mommy bought us all refillable mugs. Living like royalty now we are! Jimmy and I filled up with slushies and headed into the arcade, mommy came in and filled up our game cards with more money, she even got a card for herself (more than likely for the scrapbook) and played some games too, she gave her tickets to me to help me catch up to Jimmy.

Later in the room Jimmy wanted to go back to MGM, we were all gonna go but mommys feet hurt, then I decided I wanted to stay and swim, we hadn't done that yet. So Daddy and jim left for EMH at MGM and mommy and I got suited up for the pool. It was fun just the two of us. Mommy will always play pool games with me. We had a hand stand contest, I won! Who can stay under the longest, I won! a dunking contest, mommy won. Mommy was pruning up and got out, but she stayed by the pool and watched me swim for a bit. I found a girl my age to talk to, we were just starting to have fun when her parents called her in. So I got out and mommy and I went back up to the room. We showered, got on our jammies and went and filled our mugs with slushies. We had fun walking so slow, taking our time to get back to the room. then we just layed on the beds and talked till the guys came back, then all we heard was Jimmy the rest of the night. I wish I had gone to MGM and seen it after dark, but I think mommy and me needed alone time to get us back on track.
The next day was Epcot, I was looking forward to this park (just like all of them) mommy had been as a teenager and said she liked it. I wanted to be able to share a part of mommys teenage memories, this is going to be fun I thought as I drifted off to sleep.

 

[TeenReese13]

You're report is so great! I haven't read it in a while, but now that I'm done teaching for the year, I was able to come back. I was glad that you hadn't written a HUGE amount of chapters, since I was able to catch up quickly.

I know you're in Michigan now, but please make the time to keep up with your trippie. I have all summer and your descriptions are awesome! I wish I could get more of my students to be so real in their writing.

I'll be here waiting.

I plan to try and update more, it keeps me busy and helps the time pass by quickly, but it makes me homesick for mommy at the same time.

I am glad you like my TR. Enjoy your summer off! no kids!

 

[jackdis]

I plan to try and update more, it keeps me busy and helps the time pass by quickly, but it makes me homesick for mommy at the same time.

Another great installment. I'm sending hugs to you. I know your Mom misses you so much, too! Us moms are like that!!!!!

 

[disneyaddicted]

Hi Reeses cup! I loved the update, you made me miss you even more, if that's possible. I am counting the days until you and Jim are home with me again, then I will start the Disney count down again.

I am excited for the next update, I like reliving our family trip through you now. xoxoxo
luv, luv, kisses n hugs

 

[greenmickeyfanatic]

I havent grown much taller and am still called shorty and peewee by my friends, but I think my face has aged and I look older now.

lol thats funny cuz im almost 13 and i get called shortstuff and piglet and get handed kiddie menus at resturant they usually say im 8 mostly cuz im 4'9

 

[TeenReese13]

Another great installment. I'm sending hugs to you. I know your Mom misses you so much, too! Us moms are like that!!!!!

Thank you for reading and for the hugs. I get to see Mommy in 42 days

 

[TeenReese13]

lol thats funny cuz im almost 13 and i get called shortstuff and piglet and get handed kiddie menus at resturant they usually say im 8 mostly cuz im 4'9

I am taller than you, I am 4'10. I grew an inch in 1 month. I love it!! I don't get handed kiddie menus as often as I used to, It depends on how I am wearing my hair really.

 

[TeenReese13]

Hello everyone, this is the Epcot installment, I want to hurry up and get through the worst of it.

We kind of slept in that morning, all of us were so tired. Daddy is almost always up with Roosters, ( when we had roosters) but even he kept hitting snooze.

we made it to Epcot mid morning, Daddy is like a baby, he gets cranky when he hasn't had enough sleep, he was really on a roll that morning. It wasn't the first time he had to scan his fingers but you would of thought it was by the way he started griping. Everything that day was a conspiracy and he had to keep telling us why.

important side note Daddy isn't as bad as he use to be, he has calmed down alot, i don't know if it's because he realized it was making everyone mad or if it's because mommy said he sounded like a crazy person? either way he has chilled out alot and now we can watch movies in peace without him telling us that we were being conditioned. And please don't get me wrong, daddy has a lot of strong points and I believe alot of what he says is factual but sometimes you gotta just roll with it, especially at Disney.

So the first thing we do at Epcot (aside from ignoring daddys antics) is ride spaceship earth. I loved this ride for only one reason, it's air conditioned! I was so hot that day, I wished I had worn shorts and not capri's. My braniac brother kept adding to the information of the ride, like the ride would say something and Jim would have to give us the why when where and how of it all

Next we went and got fast passes for test track. I was uber excited for this one, it looked like so much fun. We went in to one of the buildings, it said Road to Tomorrow on the sign outside, Daddy changed it to road to tyranny.
We all played think-a-ma-jig. Jimmy won both times. Let me vent for a minute here. Jimmy is a freakin genius, a boy wonder, a wiz at everything. he never studies but always gets A's, he reads something once and knows it forever, he can build anything, but he wastes all his talent (academic talent) all he cares about is music, it drives me mad, because I struggle for every A i get, I study for hours and am lucky to pull out a B. My mommy even had to get me a tutor in science because I couldn't get higher than a C, and I want to do well, Jimmy just wastes his brain. if I was able to just get A's without trying, life would be so much easier. but on a different note, I am more athletic, I can beat him in running, pushups, situps, I have won the presidential fitness award 4 years in a row, he hasn't come close to that. Is that how it works? you either gets brains or brawn but not both? I would trade for brains in a minute.

well after jim whooped everyones behinds Daddy said he had enough and went out side. Mommy lingered inside for a long time, she kept wanting to "test" everything, but I know she was trying to avoid seeing Daddy as along as possible. When we went outside Daddy pointed to the sign and said to Mommy, "Road to tyranny" I saw it coming, mommy's eyes turned red her shoulders puffed up and she let Daddy have it then all was silent except when jimmy whispered wow! We walked to HISTA it was deathly quiet. I hated that, we were at Disney, our first real live vacation ever! and mommy and daddy weren't speaking to eachother. We went into the building thinking we were gonna see a 3-D movie but first we were given a commercial/movie to watch about kodak. I was watching mommy and daddy closely and trying to figure out the best way to leave should another argument start, but they kept it to low whispers, although I think the majority of the people in their would have preffered to watch and argument instead a kodak commercial. Fianlly we got to head in and grab some seats. I was sitting next to mommy, but Daddy asked me to switch with him so I did, then he took mommys hand and whispered in her ear, I am sure it was an apology. Mommy smiled and kissed his hand. I love my parents, they never stay mad at eachother for too long. They have a rule to never go to bed mad, so sometimes it's 2:00am before they go to bed, but they aren't mad. (I think that was TMI)
I really like the show, I really hated the mice part, I just kept telling myself it's not real and I made i through just fine. Jimmy kept tickling my neck though. Outside it was HOT! Those fountains looked so inviting, I could picture myself sliding down the glass pyrmids into the cold refreshing pool below. Mommy said "Reese, stand here and I will take your picture." So I did, then sploosh, I got hit with a huge jet of water, it was fun, and funny and felt so good.
Things are a bit foggy here, I can't remember the order that we did things. I know we did that energy ride with Ellen Degeneres BORING!!! Maybe that is why i stink at science it bores me. It was air conditioned and I got a good nap, so did mommy, her feet were hurting her pretty bad, so she was happy to sit when ever she could. And I saw Daddy rubbed her back the whole time.
Jimmy really liked the ride. He likes to learn new things, i asked him why he is always watching educational shows and the history channel, he said he is conducting an experiment to see that if he fill his brain with so much knowledge will it eventually explode.

I know we went to mission space. Everybody at home said not to ride it, it was getting alot of bad publicity on the news, but daddy said you can't always believe what the news says, then Jimmy pipes up with "They can't report something false like that, they could be sued."
OK so were back to should we ride mission space or not. We threw caution to the wind and got in the teeny line. I swear it was walk on, which is good because I had no time to change my mind. I was not worried about my health, I just a physical for cheerleading and was gold star healthy, Jimmy has a heart murmur, but it's what's called a funtional murmur, he had to have some kind of test run EKG? to get it checked out before he played football one year, and he is healthy, the DR said he would out grow the murmur. The only thing that worried me was this is a ride that comes equipped with barf bags. I do get ar sick and motion sick, never to the point of tossing my cookies up, but then again, I had never been on a ship to mars so that could all change. I prayed I would not get sick, mommy was praying too, when she is whispering to herself that is what she's doing. When we see an ambulance or fire truck racing down the road, or if the fire whistle in town goes off mommy starts her whisper prayers.
I don't remember everyone elses job, I know mommy was a button pusher, I was the pilot. I thought sure, why not give that job to the youngest and furthest from getting her lisence. I have backed mommys car out of the drive way for her at times, and never hit anything. (Grandma has hit our mailbox twice,and mommy hit our garage once) so I guess we'd be ok.I just wished all they needed was to have the ship backed out. When we got into our tiny little box the first thing mommy and I did was check to make sure we could reach the barf bags, and we could. Right before take off my mouth got really dry and my stomach was so full of butterflies, that's the same feeling I get when trying out for cheerleading, and then my lips stick to my teeth and I think I look like a horse. Take off was harsh, it was painful on the guts, (now I can strike astronaut off my list off career inquistitions.) once we were just floating in space it wasn't so bad, until we overshot our landing, (was that my bad?) I blame alot of the disastrous ride on Jimmy, he went nuts just pushing every button, Mommy did good, she pushed her button when told to and then kept her hands on her harness. Daddy would not be good in space situations, he froze up, I watched him, he never once did his job. We are alive today only because of me. And Inever even got so much as a thank you from anyone. I wanted to take a barf bag with me for the scrapbook, just to prove I didn't need it, but I didn't , I left it for the next person.

Next up was test track I have already proven I could pilot a space ship, so this next thing was going to be easy, All I had to do was sit there and be a test dummy. We used our fast passes but still seemed to have waited a long time. Finally it was our toon. I was ready for the worst. Give me pot holes! give me speed, give me sharp turns. I am ready.
I feel let down a little by this ride, it was fun, but not thrilling like I had anticipated. But honestly, if any of you have ever been a passenger in my cheerleading coach's car, test track would not impress you either. Mommy and I have traveled with Coach to many overnight competitions. Coach is a multi tasker, she must have eyes on the top of her head because she is always looking down at itinerarys and rosters, and answering her phone which always seems to end up on the floor under her gas pedal, and drinking her coffee and reapplying her fake nails all while she drives.

It was now time for Coral Reef. And not a minute too soon, I was so hungry and thirsty. We got seated pretty quickly and our server had our drinks to us in minutes, aaaah, refreshing, even if it was coke. The place was really neat, it's not very often we go to restaraunts where you don't get to color in the menu. Our server was so cool (and a hottie hottie hot hot!) He talked to Jimmy alot about music and he went out of his way to help me. I didn't like any of the desserts on the adult menu, so he brought me a make your own sundae from the kids menu. It was fun, but then after trying daddys cheesecake I wish I would have ordered that. I really thought that seafood would be the main choices on the menu, but nope, not true. Mommy and I ended up getting the chicken and Jim and Daddy got steak, Jim ate the steak, can you believe it? He lives on cereal and microwave burritos at home because he is such a picky eater, mommy says that about me, I just like to be careful about what I eat, I will munch on carrots before I eat cookies, but I do give in to cravings, I hate cake and frosting, I like brownie batter better than brownies. So maybe she calls that picky?
We left with full bellies and walked around the aquarium, Mommy and I posed for alot of pictures with the finding nemo sea creatures. I like the manatees the best. they are so big and yet gentle.
We went over to soarin, the wait time was astronomical and I can't remember if the fast passes were all out or if the return time was later than we were staying but whatever the reason we did not get fastpasses and we did not get to ride soarin. At the time it seemed like no biggie, but now after readng about it on everyones trip reports I wanna do that so bad, it's first on my list for when we go back in Dec. and yes, I do read trip reports, I just never comment because I don't know what to say, and mommy is always logged on anyway.
We weren't sure what to do next, we hadn't gone to world showcase yet. We talked about it, but mommys feet hurt so much and we were all tired so we decided to just go back to the resort. As we were leaving Daddy got really happy, he said he would never go back there, either mommy didn't hear him or she chose to ignore him.
I will be back in a bit to post more of that day,I need to stretch a bit.

 

[TeenReese13]

I am fuming mad , I just spent a long time adding to this report and it all went blank, roaoooor! I will go again but it won't be as long and as detailed. Oh that just gripes me!!!

We went back to the resort and changed to go swimming, we played our regular pool games, but got bored so fast with that. Then we played an exciting round of MarcoPolo (not) Jimmy finally gave up on the pool and left. That is when the fun began, not because he left but because Mommy and Daddy worked with me on my cheerleading stunts. It's great that my mommy is a certified coach, she taught Daddy how to base and he was pretty good, i wanted to get my full liberty with a twist down and with Daddy's help I was able to, it was a bit tricky, I am used to having a back spot help push me up a bit, but once I got the hang of it I was doing great, I wanted to try a one man full liberty with Daddy basing me like they do on the college level, but both mommy and daddy said no. A few times on the cradle I got water up my nose, and one time I hit the water hard and it stung my back, like a reverse belly flop. But I just kept on keeping on till we got cold and the parents got tired.
We went and changed, we were all starving hungry but none of us wanted to go out, so we went down to the pop cafe for some over cooked rubber and extra dry straw. That's my way of saying it was yucky, not everything was gross, but the majority of the food was. I used a snack credit to get some fresh veggies and dip, yuuum. I could live on veggies and dip. Then Jim amd I went to the arcade, Mommy did some shopping, daddy went back to the room.
The arcade was fun, jimmy and I were getting along, he gave me a bunch of his prize tickets. What a nice kid.
We went back to the room and all of us played cards, Sets and runs is one of our favorites, then Daddy and I played a couple of games of BS. I am a pretty good BSer I guess Cause I won a game, Daddy must be good too, cause he also won a game. We have designated family nights at home, we have to set aside time because we are all so busy, me with cheerleading, Jimmy with his music, daddy is gone alot because of his business, and mommy is always busy with her business and just being a mom, taxi driver, time manager, she isn't the cook though, that is Daddys job. It was cool being at Disney and still doing our family game night, it wasn't a planned thing but it was still cool, I'm glad mommy brought the cards.
We made it to bed pretty early, I am sure it was before midnight, the next day we were going to Animal Kingdom, I was really excited for this park, I love animals, and couldn't wait to ride Expedition Everest.

I didn't take my time here, so I am sorry for all the typos, but I am on summer vacation and this is starting to seem like work now. only because my other installment disapeared.

I am going to post a few cheerleading pictures, I know it's not really Disney related, But it is part of me and I am part of this report so by some degree it is Disney related.

This is me in a full, as you can see I am getting too tall to practice fulls in this particular building, my head hit the ceiling.

This is at the competition where we won our bid to nationals, I am flying a cradle there. This was after my knee injury and I was so happy to be back competing

This is me in a prep at an exhibition, Cougars has 3 competitions squads, anyone from any of those can try out for the performance and public relations squad, we go to elemantary schools, May Fests, parades, grand openings, everything just to get the Cougars name out there and get more sponsors. It's a fun squad, more layed back then competition squad.

This is one of my favorite stunts to fly, it's called a peter pan, but we just call it the crazy stunt. I am the flyer on the far right in the brown shorts.

This is the ending of the crazy stunt, the middle girl falls forward and is caught by her bases, the 2 of us on either ends just fold out in a prep then cradle from it. We are supposed to twist from it, but that is how I injured my knee, one of my bases stepped out of the stunt and didn't catch me on the twist, I landed on my knee, I was out of commission for a while and missed the first 3 competitions and wasn't able to compete individual jr prep at all this year. But I am all better now, I don't even have to wear the knee brace anymore.

So anyway, thank you for letting me share my cheer moments with you, I am away from all of it now and missing it so much.

I will be back in a few days to try and finish up this TR.

Goodnight.

45+pink$ mommy

 

[dddisrunner]

Great updates Reese! I loved seeing all of your cheerleading pictures! I agree the Energy ride with Ellen is boring! I can't wait for you to go home to your mom! Your posts back and forth are making me tear up! Your lucky to have such a great relationship with her! She's lucky too because you really seem like a great, fun kid (as in her child not that you are a kid! ) Can't wait for more!