Brother & Sister, WL, AKL, and Parents on a Disney Cruise! We're off!!! 5/8!!

[troobabiee7]

Congrats on paying off the AKL!

 

[Grybo]

Congrats on paying off the AKL!

This is COMPLETELY off topic, but I love your avatar. FotC are the best.

 

[Charleston Princess]

This is COMPLETELY off topic, but I love your avatar. FotC are the best.

I just discovered who they were last night. A friend of mine was showing me clips and my sides hurt from laughing afterwards!

 

[Grybo]

Lol as a matter of fact, I have to perform a song for my guitar class, and sing it, and I think I'm gonna do one of their songs. Either "Business Time," "Albi the Racist Dragon," or "Jenny."

 

[Charleston Princess]

Lol as a matter of fact, I have to perform a song for my guitar class, and sing it, and I think I'm gonna do one of their songs. Either "Business Time," "Albi the Racist Dragon," or "Jenny."

Oh, I need to go youtube the dragon one and Jenny. I heard Business Time last night.

 

[troobabiee7]

This is COMPLETELY off topic, but I love your avatar. FotC are the best.

I just discovered who they were last night. A friend of mine was showing me clips and my sides hurt from laughing afterwards!

They're my FAVORITE!!!!!! Every week my whole family and I just sit there and cry from laughing to hard. This season's been awesome, but the best song's still "Leggy Blonde" from last season... Jemain's little solo CRACKS ME UP!!!!!

 

[Grybo]

I think the first season was so much better than this one, but this season has it's share of FotC awesomness. My favorite song from the first season has to be "Think About It." Jemaine's little mumbling session is hilarious.

"What's wrong with the world today? mmmmhmmhmm nay naynay!" Rofl.

 

[Nicole786]

Wow what a flight of the conchords fest this has become! hahaha! Fauntleroy, I agree with Kat, the food is worth checking out don't let it scare you! The meats are fairly normal the sauces you can put on are optional that probably makes it spicy!

Thanks to everyone for offering up congrats for paying it off I know we are excited in this house! As a matter of fact at this moment David is across the room playing the music for Haunted Mansion! Another mini-tr chapter coming up!

 

[troobabiee7]

I think the first season was so much better than this one, but this season has it's share of FotC awesomness. My favorite song from the first season has to be "Think About It." Jemaine's little mumbling session is hilarious.

"What's wrong with the world today? mmmmhmmhmm nay naynay!" Rofl.

They're the best! I actually love this season, it keeps getting better and better. And they film here in Brooklyn too!

 

[Nicole786]

We woke up bright and early for our ADR this morning with the princesses!! We had an 8:05 at CRT I couldn't believe our luck, mom was so thrilled to be eating in the castle and to see Belle, her favorite princess. It's all she would talk about sometimes. She would tell people "my daughter is taking me to disney world and im eating in the castle with the princesses!" Jeez, what is wrong with our family come to think of it?? It was so early it was still slightly dark and there were some hot air balloons that caught my cameras eye

The bus was here in no time, really worked out well. We arrived just before 8am to an enormous line, but it didn't take long to get through!

We took our photo with Cinderella and climbed the windy stairs up to the restaurant. Mom was blown away, but it is beautiful!

We had outstanding service like usual here, our waiter referred to us as princesses and always made comments about the guests of honor and was very in character! I love when a restaurant is so themed even the wait staff is in on it! The food was good but thats not what you pay for here, mom was waiting patiently:

Looking out the window!

In no time, they made the announcement the princesses were here! They came to our table first we were so thrilled. A lot of the pictures didn't come out because nobody could figure out my camera, so I opted to be the photographer when belle came around to get the perfect shot. When she did, I told her that she was moms favorite, here's what happened next:

Needless to say it was a great breakfast! We walked back down and we were first in line for rope drop! Here was our perfect view!

Wow! The fairy godmother was down there with us chatting away! And just like that the rope drop and we headed to take over fantasyland! Mom's favorite, ITASM was on the list, but I knew the order to do things, i'm no disney dummy. Peter Pan! Than Winnie the pooh (my favorite!) NOW IASM! Mom was on and so was I! Although not my favorite ride, you can't beat being in the MK on an overcast day enjoying the rides!

We moved on towards frontierland after that, stopping at the christmas shoppe just to see what they had! Turns out they had this monster sale going on, so we managed to pick up some really nice items! Than it caught my eye. Outside, with practically no one near it, sat an ornament kiosk. And next to that?? A CM working on personalization orders!! Could it be? Could the DD CM be mistaken when she told me the only other place to get it done was at DHS and you had to be there early because they stopped orders once they receieved a certain amount?? I approached cautiously inquiring about how long it would take. After all we still had another day here, maybe there was hope! They told me it would be done in just a few short hours! We were ecstatic! All we had to do was stay a little longer in the MK, you don't have to tell me twice! We contiuned on towards frontierland and mom conquered BTMR!

We moved on to pirates, another family favorite and than over to Tomorrowland for Monsters Inc (mom had never seen it and loved it) and mom's favorite tomorrowland ride:

And than we frolicked (mom, literally) towards the christmas shoppe to pick up our purchases!

And than our day at MK was over and we headed back to POP for an afternoon nap. We had an ADR to book that night but couldn't figure out where to go! Where would we end up? And would we wake up in time for fantasmic??

Here is one extremely happy related photo!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Ahhh, Mom was so excited to meet Belle!!!

The Mickey ornament is gorgeous!

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

very cool ornament, she did a good job

 

[Nicole786]

Ahhh, Mom was so excited to meet Belle!!!

The Mickey ornament is gorgeous!

I was really happy about the ornament and mom was adorkable with the princesses!

very cool ornament, she did a good job

She really did, I love it!

 

[Nicole786]

I know a few people have iPhones, and a few people have asked me in the past about how I was able to put my itinerary cards on the iPhone. I'm just using this space as a reference for how to do it. I've created a PDF that you can download here if you want to know how! This has really come in handy in my past trips to Disney and is a lot of fun to do!

 

[MeMom]

We were freshly rested before heading out this evening for dinner at Boma and than Epcot for illuminations! Waiting for the bus at Pop, even this has mom with a smile!

I was just standing at that bus stop yesterday! Oh, how I miss it!!!

We saw Illuminations Friday night. It is a touching production. I was going to buy the CD, as it's the only one of the parks CD's I don't have. I have Spectro, Animal Kingdom, Four Parks/One World, etc., but not Illuminations. I looked at it a couple of times and then decided I'd rather get Jill, Brooklynn, or Bella something else, so I put it back. Maybe I'll get it this summer.

The AKL pictures are beautiful. We went over there for supper one evening (just Mara food and zebra domes) and we watched the giraffes for a little while. There were several of them browsing from the trees. They are such beautiful, graceful creatures.

Mommy - daughter trips are so fun!

 

[Nicole786]

I was just standing at that bus stop yesterday! Oh, how I miss it!!!

We saw Illuminations Friday night. It is a touching production. I was going to buy the CD, as it's the only one of the parks CD's I don't have. I have Spectro, Animal Kingdom, Four Parks/One World, etc., but not Illuminations. I looked at it a couple of times and then decided I'd rather get Jill, Brooklynn, or Bella something else, so I put it back. Maybe I'll get it this summer.

The AKL pictures are beautiful. We went over there for supper one evening (just Mara food and zebra domes) and we watched the giraffes for a little while. There were several of them browsing from the trees. They are such beautiful, graceful creatures.

Mommy - daughter trips are so fun!

Im so glad you had a great trip and Mommy-Daughter trips are a lot of fun! I have the music from illuminations if you'd like me to send you the song! I only have that one song not the CD, so I can email it to you or something.

 

[Nicole786]

After a nap and a quick call to disney dining, we were off to DHS for mom to see the Osborne Spectacle of Dancing Lights! (and fantasmic) But first heres a photo of our POP room location, so close to classic hall, it was great!

Someone down the hall had their room decorated with DIS decorations (this was the week of Mouse fest so we so a lot of windows actually.

Once at DHS I took some photos of the xmas decorations! I love the themed tree!

Remember the days when Fantasmic was every night??

We had talked about the osborne lights for weeks so she was really excited for it. We got there pretty early so we just parked ourselves down in the streets of america and just waited patiently for sundown.

When it started to snow mom loved it! It was chilly too so it worked well! When the lights came on, here is what I caught on camera, I love this photo!

And even though it was crowded I went on my hunt for Sparklies, haha!

Needless to say Mom loved it, its one of the many things she still talks about today!

We had to time to spare for Fantasmic so we headed over to Disney animation so mom could check out one of my favorite DHS things, the chance to draw a character! We also saw frozone but the CM had some camera trouble lol!

I forgot who we drew (I think minnie) but mom had some trouble and got frustrated with it after a while (sound familiar, David??)

On our way to fantasmic we stopped for a photopass photo

And now it was time for a great show at fantasmic! Ah, the good old days when it was twice a night every night, so much more laid back! We got great seats and since we had a late ADR decided to share some nachos to hold us off. Of course the show was great!

After the show we followed the masses out to the buses because we were boarding the bus to the Wilderness Lodge!! Yep! Mom had a great idea after knowing my favorite hotel and restaurant that we could use our last ADR at Whispering canyon!! I was so excited!!

We had quite the character of a waiter, but he was so much fun!

Mom asked for "a lot of water" be careful what you wish for mom!

After dinner I walked around basking in my favorite hotel. I realized then that this is where I wanted to stay in May! At this point we were booked at POFQ, but not for long!

And a final image:

We went back to POP to pack so we could be up early the next morning for DHS and Epcot before leaving!

 

[troobabiee7]

Great updates! I love the ornament from the MK, so cute. We're both Jews from Brooklyn with little Oreo babies! We definitely have to plan something out for when you come up here!

And great pics of the Wilderness Lodge, it looks so gorgeous all dekced out for the holidays. How was Whispering Canyon? I've never been but am thinking of bringing my little cousin this summer!

 

[Pixieflip]

Oh, wow, very fun pre-trip report! The video of the reveal was awesome! And when you added the "when you wish upon a star" music, yep, I'm the sap that had tears in her eyes!

Do you mind if I ask you what program you use to do that? I have years of videos I'd really like to edit and no one I know can really tell me how! Thanks!

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

i love the water containers they come with, one guy they gave him like a 20 quart steel pot that they use for soups and stuff full of water.