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

[LMO429]

Just saw your Pre Trip Report. How ironic we will be on the same cruise as your parents. I am sure you know its the dis unplugged podcast cruise there are over 100 rooms with disers on that boat with your parents. should be a great time

afterwards we will be at the beach club for a week

have a great trip! and maybe I will see your parents on the wonder

 

[Nicole786]

Hooray for some good trip news!! We added another day to the trip, we are now arriving on May 8th to the Royal Pacific Resort (at universal) although it isn't disney, its still very exciting! So in honor of some trip news, and the fact that we are only 57 days away!! I decided to show everyone the iPhone itinerary cards i'm working on!! I do this every trip, I make individual cards that have an overview of plans. This trip, each card is themed to the hotel we're in!

 

[scottny]

great mini tr.

Love all the pics. The camera is great.

you are so close. I wish.

 

[Charleston Princess]

Oh, I love your iphone cards -- those are awesome!!!

 

[CanadianWDWfan]

What a great way to stay organized. You always do a good job of making the cards look cool too. I wish I was so talented.

Horray, for adding on a day!

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

very snazzy looking cards.

 

[troobabiee7]

I'm loving your mini-report. I had to laugh at Lightening Loops, that was my mom and dad's first upside down roler coaster too! I have a picture of them on it in the 80s, it cracks me up

Your pictures are AMAZING! I've been wanting a D-SLR forever but keep putting it off. Your pictures are convincing me more and more! How was it carrying it around? My camera now is TINY and fits right in the little zipper of my bag, I don't know if I'd have the patience to carry around such a big camera. Your pictures look great though! And you and your mom look so happy, I love it :

 

[Nicole786]

Just saw your Pre Trip Report. How ironic we will be on the same cruise as your parents. I am sure you know its the dis unplugged podcast cruise there are over 100 rooms with disers on that boat with your parents. should be a great time

afterwards we will be at the beach club for a week

have a great trip! and maybe I will see your parents on the wonder

I didn't realize when I booked but I think it should be fun for them. They don't really know of the podcast, so I hope the normal disney-cruise stuff is still in tact. Would be funny if they sat at a table with disers for dinner!

great mini tr.

Love all the pics. The camera is great.

you are so close. I wish.

Thanks! I know we are very excited

Oh, I love your iphone cards -- those are awesome!!!

THanks!

What a great way to stay organized. You always do a good job of making the cards look cool too. I wish I was so talented.

Horray, for adding on a day!

Aw thank you! It really helps us stay organized thats for sure

very snazzy looking cards.

Thanks!

I'm loving your mini-report. I had to laugh at Lightening Loops, that was my mom and dad's first upside down roler coaster too! I have a picture of them on it in the 80s, it cracks me up

Your pictures are AMAZING! I've been wanting a D-SLR forever but keep putting it off. Your pictures are convincing me more and more! How was it carrying it around? My camera now is TINY and fits right in the little zipper of my bag, I don't know if I'd have the patience to carry around such a big camera. Your pictures look great though! And you and your mom look so happy, I love it :

I was nervous at first about carrying it around, i brought a camera bag to carry around to use for other stuff too, but I always end up just wearing it on my shoulder like a bag, or if i know im not gonan be using it for a while messenger bag style. It wasn't as hard to carry it like I thought it was gonna be!

 

[Nicole786]

We continue on the xmas mini TR with a trip to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party! We had a blast here! I was so excited for this. I had been to it last year with David, and went to MNSSHP (like that one better though) and mom hasn't been to any kind of parties that WDW has. She was so excited!! We met a lot of the characters, enjoyed some rides that would normally have lines, and loved the shows/parade and especially the fireworks!! Pictures tell a thousand words, so here are some of the great pictures from the night!

Mom loved the stage show, she was getting into it!

But the biggest thrill for her was seeing the castle light up! We met a family while waiting and we discussed how unfair it was after we had been waiting for a family to just park themselves in front of us. I told my mom it wouldn't matter and that she would still be able to see! I was right, but I do agree with this. Somethings we just can't control in WDW too many people!

And here are the rest of the MVMCP pics!

Dinner @ Pecos Bills with the new system!

I love this stage show and so did mom!

Loved the hot chocolate!

Waiting for fireworks:

Parade pictures, gotta love disney parades!

I love this photo op with Donald!

We went to see Minnie which didn't really have a line but by the time we were done Mickey was done

Our last of the evening, we had a great time!

 

[scottny]

great update and pics.

I missed Twas the Night Before Xmas and I am still upset over it.

We were there 12/16 at Pecos Bills and did not see those machines. Biff just said he was glad because he hated the one at Contempo Cafe.

 

[KatGarcia]

awesome pics! you mom is just too friggin cute!!!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Oh, what a fun night! I especially like the hot chocolate cups -- I am such a sucker for theming.

The picture of you and your mom with Minnie is precious!

 

[Nicole786]

great update and pics.

I missed Twas the Night Before Xmas and I am still upset over it.

We were there 12/16 at Pecos Bills and did not see those machines. Biff just said he was glad because he hated the one at Contempo Cafe.

It's a really funny show im sorry you missed it but theres always next year, right?!

Thats really strange because the date of these photos are 12/12. Did they take them down??

awesome pics! you mom is just too friggin cute!!!!

Hehe! I hope to have some cute photos of this trip too!

Oh, what a fun night! I especially like the hot chocolate cups -- I am such a sucker for theming.

The picture of you and your mom with Minnie is precious!

I'm also a sucker for theming, I really enjoyed the halloween stuff too back in october!

 

[Nicole786]

We woke up bright and early tto be at Animal Kingdom rope drop. I remember it being really really cold, and we were really really early so we had a lot of waiting around. But just around the time to be let in we took some pictures

I liked how the opening was christmas themed!

Let the adventure begin!

I ran and went to go get EE fast passes, even though I was pretty certain mom was going to chicken out. I told her to meet me at Dinosaur. When I called her I said I was near the nemo attraction and was heading over. Apparently to her this meant go over to the nemo attraction, long story short we missed each other and it took another 15 minutes for us to meet up. Way to take advantage of opening park crowds Anyway, we went on Dinosaur (no wait thankfully) which we both love and had a great time on!

Afterwards, the first Nemo show wasn't too long away so we decided to go to this. Neither of us had ever seen it (Or maybe I had seen it once before, honestly I don't even remember lol) but we both really really loved it! We had great seats (first row of the second group) so I have some great photos! photography is allowed, but no flash photography.

Afterwards it was time for mom to face expedition everest. She was the most scared I had ever seen her so I told her I would go ride single rider (it took like 10 minutes) So she could watch the ride and we would still have our Fast Passes. This is exactly what I did!

When I came back out I tried to convince her to try it and she said she would. I said if she didn't want to go on it when we got to the front she could leave and I would go on it and reassured her I wouldn't be upset. Well guess what happened. One look at the train and she freaked out. I actually asked her to leave because I was scared for her health! I doubt the ride could do any serious harm to someone but the way she was acting she could have had a heart attack from her nerves! I rode myself again, this time front row. I lost my Fast passes though

We moved on!

We were getting kind of hungry so we stopped and shared a turkey leg! Mom had never had one we really enjoyed it! We also shared some ice cream but we didn't finish either Money well spent

After we ate mom said she had gained some courage and wanted me to FP everest again so we could try it once more. I sighed and went to fetch them. To kill some of the time we walked around and went on the Pangani Forest Trail.

We stayed in the gorilla area for a little while because there was a CM sharing some interesting facts. It was packed in there though and nobody would listen when she said to be quiet so the gorilla wouldn't be scared

Now back to Everest. Is this the face of someone you want going on a ride??

We watched some more (she watched, I shopped at a nearby kiosk)

She asked me for the 5th time a detailed recap of what happens. Skip this if you have never been on everest and want to be surprised! Here's what I told her.

You are on a runaway train going as fast as Big thunder mountain. Steep Hill, oh look Epcot!. Oh god, track broken. Backwards, backwards, backwards, darkness. Yeti comes tears up the track. Forward drop outside. Fastness going through caves, Outside, inside, yeti, done.

I think I did pretty good! When we got to the front of the line, we met the most wonderful cast member. I suggested if she was really scared to go talk to her. She was from ireland and really calmed mom down! Mom asked her for yet another recap and she gave her basically the same thing. Maybe with the irish accent it was a little nicer? Either way she decided to try it. I was nervous for her!

She held on to my arm like a death grip the entire time while I prayed for her life, literally.

Mommy survived!! She was so proud of herself for trying it and even though she was shaking a bit when she came off of it, she said she didn't think it was that bad, to this day says her favorite part was going backwards (excuse me, there was a favorite part? All I remember was the death grip:

(look at our arms)

When we got off the ride guess who was waiting for us?? Irish CM!! She was worried for her and wanted to see her reaction! I thought this was the type of Disney magic you really do expect and pay for! To this day I want to write a letter to Disney about this, but don't know her name and it might come accross inappropriate referring to her as "Irish girl" I think mom deserves a lunch break so off we go to pizzafari! My favorite (and only) AK counter service.

On the way out we stopped for some photos, and that concluded our Animal kingdom (quite an) adventure!

Question is, will mom ride EE in May??

Oh and this was waiting for us at Pop, how cute!

He went into our window with the christmas balloon mom had bought me the night before!

 

[Charleston Princess]

You are on a runaway train going as fast as Big thunder mountain. Steep Hill, oh look Epcot!. Oh god, track broken. Backwards, backwards, backwards, darkness. Yeti comes tears up the track. Forward drop outside. Fastness going through caves, Outside, inside, yeti, done.

That's it EXACTLY!!! I am so glad your mom tried Everest! It is a great feeling of accomplishment once you get off!

 

[MeMom]

I laughed at the pictures of your mom checking out Everest. She is really studying it intently. Once was enough for me. Unless my friend really wants to go on it badly (Thursday is AK day), I will be passing that one by only for pictures. It was a little too much for me, but if she wants to go, I'll be brave and do it again.

Looks like you guys had a great time together. I love my mother-daughter-granddaughter trips, and I hope there will be many, many of those in my future.

Animal Kingdom has such cool and unique Christmas decorations. I love the big tree out front.

Good pictures. Keep 'em coming!

 

[Grybo]

I think it would be fun if mom goes on EE when we go in May. I really hope she doesn't stay back alone. And I can't wait to go on Aerosmith.

 

[KatGarcia]

Go Mom!!!!!

 

[scottny]

Thats really strange because the date of these photos are 12/12. Did they take them down??

No clue. Maybe they take it on the nights of the party.

Great update and pics.

I have yet to see Nemo, I will definitely do it in October.

for her going on EE.

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

glad she road and pizza fari is our favorite and only CS that we go to in AK as well, we love the pizza and the subs there.