BE's never-ending fun ** 4 completed TR's ** Thousands of Photos

[Belle Ella]

Ahem! I seem to remember walking around aimlessly looking for something when there were no friggin' carts open yet because somebody didn't want to sit down to eat! No wonder I was pissy.

By that point I had already said I was fine eating at Cafe Orleans but it wasn't open so you wanted to wander around. I said I didn't care, just that I would prefer not to sit down just yet. The only thing that was open anyways was the Riverbelle Terrace and you refused to eat there.

 

[wvnative]

By that point I had already said I was fine eating at Cafe Orleans but it wasn't open so you wanted to wander around. I said I didn't care, just that I would prefer not to sit down just yet. The only thing that was open anyways was the Riverbelle Terrace and you refused to eat there.

So next time you do this, try to remember that Tomorrowland Terrace and Carnation Cafe are also open for breakfast. I love the breakfast at Carnation!

I ended up with a sunburn too, but not until Sunday and not as bad as yours looks. That looks like it hurts.

We were also back at the hotel by 9 pm and in bed shortly thereafter. lol Two hours of sleep just doesn't cut it at my age. lol

Oh, and I checked HOJO for our dates but they are no longer offering the entertainment rate while we're there. I'd go earlier, but that defeats the purpose of going on her birthday. hehe Her birthday was kind of a bust last year since her friends were nonparticipatory so I decided this year I am not waiting around for them to do something. We've done Desert Inn before and it works out fine for as little time as we spend in the room. The shorter walk is a plus too. lol

 

[Belle Ella]

So next time you do this, try to remember that Tomorrowland Terrace and Carnation Cafe are also open for breakfast. I love the breakfast at Carnation!

I ended up with a sunburn too, but not until Sunday and not as bad as yours looks. That looks like it hurts.

We were also back at the hotel by 9 pm and in bed shortly thereafter. lol Two hours of sleep just doesn't cut it at my age. lol

Oh, and I checked HOJO for our dates but they are no longer offering the entertainment rate while we're there. I'd go earlier, but that defeats the purpose of going on her birthday. hehe Her birthday was kind of a bust last year since her friends were nonparticipatory so I decided this year I am not waiting around for them to do something. We've done Desert Inn before and it works out fine for as little time as we spend in the room. The shorter walk is a plus too. lol

Honestly, the sunburn isn't as bad as it looks. It never hurt, and it was definitely more brown than pink by Saturday morning. It was just looking like a lobster Friday night. It takes a lot to get me to burn normally, I'm a born tanner most days. Or at least I used to be. Sheesh. But at least I remembered to put sunscreen on the rest of the week!

OK, so I have a whopping 20 photos from Saturday edited and uploaded. Methinks the next part of the trip report may take me quite some time!

 

[blabbermouth]

Hi! Just checking out your report. Too bad you had to head to bed early. I'll wait patiently for Frick's evening alone report.

 

[Belle Ella]

Hi! Just checking out your report. Too bad you had to head to bed early. I'll wait patiently for Frick's evening alone report.

Hopefully she'll be able to get hers up soon I'm almost done editing the first installment of my report for Day #2, so hopefully I can get something up tonight, but in the mean time here is a story of me doing something really idiotic today!

I locked my keys in my car when I got to the campus parking lot today. It's actually been 3 years since I've done this, so I guess that's pretty good. But not only did I leave them in my car, but they were very obviously visible - no way was I going to walk to class and ask my sister if she had a key to my car because as it turned out, my cell phone was still in the car too! My only saving grace was the fact that I had popped the trunk so I could put the purse that I was switching out with my school bag back there. Why is this important? Well, as I discovered today there is a little pull tab back there to unluck the back seat to push it forward! Whodauthinkit, right? So all I had to do was climb into my car through the trunk. Boy am I glad I'm a small person, because that could have been ugly. It was embarrassing enough to do that in a full and busy parking lot. Yeesh. Can you just picture it?

 

[Belle Ella]

Just a little note ... I'll post the link to the photo album in the first post, because this was my first day of going a little camera crazy And I don't really know if I feel like copying and pasting hundreds upon hundreds of URL codes. My wrists are sore enough as it is just from editing them!

Frack's Magic Morning
Day 2​

Alrighty now, where to begin? Our 4 day park hoppers came with one early admission on a Magic Morning day, which we had two options on our vacation - Saturday and Sunday. We opted to use them on Saturday! The park hours were 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. so that meant MM started ay 7:00 a.m.! We had pretty much decided Friday afternoon/night that we would get up nice and early and get ready so we'd be ready to go at around 6:15 a.m. so adding in our walk down Harbor we would get there ready for them to start checking bags at the esplanade. I've always been an "I've got to be there early!!" kind of person and I like to be in the front of lines if I can do anything about it. So I set the alarm to wake me up at 5:00 a.m. and I was definitely ready to get out the door by 6:15 a.m. Frick, not so much. I don't even know what time she got back to the hotel the previous night, so I guess that wasn't a really big surprise. So once again I made my way off to the park all by my onesies. At least it wasn't dark out.

I love MM! I don't even know why myself and others find it so exciting, but I guess anything that means one more hour in the happiest place on earth is just the best news ever. It was certainly enough to mask over all the blah-ness from the day before. The line for the bag check moved fast, and it was nice not to be surrounded by a gargantuan mob. I can't remember the last time I was at the park gates for a MM. My last vacation, when I was staying at the GCH, I used the monorail entrance so I could get my shot at riding the Nemo submarines without running over there and/or waiting in a line for well over 2 hours. That experience worked out in my favor and I was on the first submarine out that morning. Little did I know about what I was missing by the front gates. There was a family directly ahead of me in line and another family just next to me on my right who were selected as Honorary Citizens and got to "open the park". There's nothing like getting to count down ...

10

9

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5

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3

2

1

Let the Magic begin!!

And then the next thing you know you're waking through the turnstile and your own your way towards Main Street again! The original plan had been for Frick and I to hit Fantasyland for our MM since the lines there can get crazy ridiculous and you don't have the Fast Pass option, but since I had left her behind at the hotel I figured I would get in some pictures and then meet her there when she gave me a ring. So I took a few pictures at Central Plaza and then made my way through the Castle to Fantasyland.

So once I actually found myself in Fantasyland, my resolve to wait for Frick before going on any rides dissolved faster than you can say ice in the sun. There I am looking at the ride for my favorite Disney movie and Princess of all time, Snow White's Scary Adventure. I couldn't help myself - there was nobody in line at all so I just walked right on. Boy what a fun surprise it was for me to get the Happy cart and then as I get on I'm informed by the CM operating the ride that I'm the first one on for the day! Sweet. He handed me over one of the Happily Ever After buttons, and it pretty much made my day!

 

[kaoden39]

Oh my talk about the perils of Pauline. I hate it when I do things like that.

 

[kaoden39]

Oh what a cute button. I love it. It's a good thing you dodn't wait.

 

[Belle Ella]

Dagnabit! Who on earth had the crazy idea to limit photos to only 25 in a post? Totally cramping my style here!

 

[RiverLou]

Can y'all tell that I'm not a morning person, yet?

 

[Belle Ella]

Can y'all tell that I'm not a morning person, yet?

Crazy *** night owl. Night time makes me loopy - and not in a good way. Me no likey.

Grr. Are you hiding on AIM again? I has a questions for you.

 

[RiverLou]

Crazy *** night owl. Night time makes me loopy - and not in a good way. Me no likey.

Grr. Are you hiding on AIM again? I has a questions for you.

I lovels nighttime.

Don't know what yer talkin' 'bout....

 

[Belle Ella]

I lovels nightime.

Don't know what yer talkin' bout....

Sillies. Anyways, have you uploaded your pics yet. I don't have any from the "next" part of the TR because we used your clickity-click-snap thing.

<---- Needs sleep.

 

[kaoden39]

I hate mornings but motherhood makes you learn to do it whether you want to or not.

 

[Belle Ella]

I hate mornings but motherhood makes you learn to do it whether you want to or not.

I am such a morning person. No kids necessary. Glad it also means I can get my work done early and have some daylight left to enjoy.

This makes me happy - I just finished editing pic#100 from day 2!!

 

[Belle Ella]

Together again​

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Day 2 cont.​

After I made my way off Snow White's Scary Adventure - all smiles of course - I make my own little tour around Fantasyland. I took a ride on the King Arthur Carousel, Peter Pan's Flight, and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Believe it or not, two of of those three I had never actually been on before. Heck, who knows, I may have never actually been on the carousel before but I'm pretty sure that I have. I live for carousel's, they're awesome. I love horses, whether they are real or not. You just have to use your imagination and they come to life!

I was just about to go on Pinocchio's Daring Journey when I finally got the call from Frick that she was in the park. Or at least that I noticed. We kept playing phone tag every time we split up - calling each other back and forth maybe 4 or 5 times before we finally got to talk to each other. We're both stubborn and hate leaving messages, lol! She still had all of the Fantasyland rides to do, so we had to decide what order we wanted to go in. We came to the general consensus that first would be the spinning tea cups on the Mad Tea Party. We had a lot of fun pulling my camera out and taking pictures of each other while spinning our cup - which had to be teal, of course! I show my love for my boys in teal anywhere I go.

OK, so there are a whole bunch of photos from that, but I would go over my picture limit in this post if I tried to post them all! I did add them to the album though. Afterwards we made our way back over to Snow White's Scary Adventure and on our way in we couldn't pass up a photo op!

After that we went back over to Peter Pan's Flight - still only a 10 or 15 minute wait at that point - so she could get on before the line got packed., and then we went on Dumbo the Flying Elephant!! Yet another ride that I had never been on. I've always been too chicken to even do the kiddie rides. Well, this certainly was a vacation of firsts. I don't have any photos from those two because we used Frick's camera and not mine since she's not exactly use to using manual settings on an SLR like mine as opposed to a point and shoot like the one she has. She'll have to share those ones.

 

[Belle Ella]

Frick & Frack go wandering​

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Day 2 cont.​

By that point it was after 8:00 a.m. which meant that the rest of the park was opened. Frick wanted to finish her rounds on the Fantasyland rides, and so I was sent on the glorious hunt for Indy Fast Passes since I'm the faster walker between the two of us. You can just call me Speedy. I ended up taking my time along the way though to get a picture of the Adventureland sign. Normally I'm a Sign Queen, and I make sure I take pictures of every single sign, everywhere, but this time things were a little different so it's one of only a few that I have.

She was still nowhere to be found when I got back to Fantasyland, so I sat and watched The Queen appear in the window above Snow White's Scary Adventures and took a few more photos around Fantasyland.

I guess again we kept missing each other and we finally met at the carousel after a little confusion. We knew we wanted to go back over to New Orleans Square and ride Pirates and Mansion again. We were going to cut through Frontierland this time, but on the way we made a pit stop through the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough - so, so, so glad this was brought back! While walking through Frontierland, we saw them getting ready for the boarding of the Mark Twain - so this was probably about 9:00 a.m. - and planned to come back sometime over the weekend to make sure we got a ride. Too bad it never happened. I'll just have to add it to my list of things for the next time I go. But we just kept walking along the Rivers of America towards NOS.

Anybody else out there love to take a look at the names of the boats/cars/trains that they're riding on? This go around on Pirates we got the Valentina. So pretty much our ritual every time we finished one set of our plans we always found ourselves heading back to the hub where I just had to stop Frick by a certain little statue.

 

[Belle Ella]

Character mania!!
Day 2 cont.​

Right about now would have been the point that Frick finally decided she was ready to head back down Main Street to use the ATM because she had forgotten to bring cash with her and was fresh out. Yes, we realize now that there was a closer location right over in Frontierland, but we had forgotten at that moment and would discover it's use later on. But it's a good thing we didn't because as soon as we reached the ATM we got bombarded with characters - and who did we see first?!

Mickey Mouse!!​

Crazily enough, in all of my Disney vacations I have never really taken the time to do character pictures. I do remember once when I was really little going around with my autograph book, but we don't have any actual photographs in the house and I know for a fact that I have never gotten my picture with Mickey before and Frick said that she didn't think she had either. I love seeing character pictures, and I wanted as many as I could get my hands on, regardless of my "age". Disney years are totally different than real people years, I'm telling you. It's like the reverse of dog years or something like that. So of course we had to stop - and not even seconds after we got into the Mickey line, Goofy popped out as well!

At that point Frick ditched me again to go get her cash while I waited out in the sun where it was nice and warm. Well, at least now we figured out where all of the redness and tanness came from. I will admit this, as much as a I love Hockey (a winter sport), I am a summer girl at heart. Life is no fun unless I'm in the sun. OK, tangent! I found a way to pass the time though, because Donald Duck and Pluto weren't far behind Mickey and Goofy, and then I found another favorite. Oh, and I also saw Cruella come out and walk by while I was waiting in line to see DD. GRR! I wish I had followed her because it was the one and only time I saw her the whole time we were there and I am bummed I never got a picture. Her and The Queen. Dagnabit all! But that's alright because I saw my favorite Bert.

Have I mentioned yet that he is by far my favorite? When I get around to sharing the photos from the rest of the day it will be clear why. He's just hilarious. We had a nice little conversation about our stripes and how you shouldn't work when you're on Holiday.

 

[DizNee Luver]

You have some of the clearest pictures I've seen on these reports!!! They're beautiful in color & clarity.

Love the character pics.......they just make you happy all over!!!

 

[Belle Ella]

You have some of the clearest pictures I've seen on these reports!!! They're beautiful in color & clarity.

Love the character pics.......they just make you happy all over!!!

Thanks I love photography and loved taking my fancy new SLR to DL. Well, it's not so new anymore, but it hasn't seen much action outside of hockey games and the town that I live in. This is also the first time I've ever really edited my pictures before. Yeeeps!

I have decided I have to look at the character pics every morning to get me all warm and fuzzy every day. They are so awesome, and there's still tons more. Oooh. Can't wait to get to the rest of them.