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So I'm back from WDW.
We had a good trip.
Some things went as planned, others didn't.
I don't want to make a whole TR thread because I don't think it was that interesting
, but I'll post some things here. Hopefully you won't mind.
We didn't have any problems getting to MCO or with ME. Our room wasn't ready when we got to POR (it was only around 1pm), but we did get a room in Oak Manor like I had requested. (Actually, the CM accidentally gave us our room number, so I didn't have to call for it.) Our bags were in our room when we finally got back that night, so everything was fine there.
After we checked in we took the boat to DTD. We got to see the work being done on the Treehouse Villas. It looks like they're putting in completely new ones instead of just redoing the old ones, which surprised me. It'd be fun to stay there sometime, but I have a feeling that they'll be pretty hard to get if you aren't a SSR DVC member. We went to Earl of Sandwich to eat (I had chocolate pudding and potato chips...I love vacations!
) and then did some shopping. I got some things at the candy store, and they had some things at Art of Disney that were newly marked down by half, so I got a pretty Cinderella on a carousel horse. I'm still thinking about a Big Figure of Minnie as Mary Poppinson the carousel horse in Mary's white dress, holding an umbrella. It plays "Jolly Holiday" and is very cute, but of course, expensive.
Then we got a bus to WL and took a boat over to FW for HDDR. The check-in process was a pain (they didn't announce that you had to check in until there was a long line), but once we got in it was fine. We were a few tables away from the stage, right in the center. My dad got his (bald) head polished by Six-Bits, and he was also sung to by one of the girls. The food was good and we all had a good time. Except it was kind of chilly inside, and especially on the bus going back to POR!
I didn't have anything with sleeves with me at that point.
Then on Thursday we went to DHS. I had wanted to be there at opening, but the bus was late in coming and then my parents wanted to stop for breakfast. Once they were eating breakfast at Starring Rolls, I decided to run over to TSMM and at least get the FP, so I went over there and it was a 25 minute wait just for those! The stand-by line was 65 minutes. Finally I got the FP and then we did other things. ToT said it had around a 20 minute wait, but there was no wait! We walked right into the building and they opened the doors to the study! The only wait was right before we got on the ride, but that wasn't bad. I'll take it!
I love TSMM! I wish I could have ridden it more than once, to see if I could improve (I think I got around 59K, and I did beat my parents.
), but the lines were just too long. The FP were gone shortly after noon (while we were riding it), and we saw waits of something like 45-100 minutes throughout the day.
My CM friend came over and met us and did the Beauty and the Beast show with us. (She hadn't seen it since it had been redone years ago, and she also hasn't ridden TSMM yet, because of the lines.) She couldn't stay long, because she was having someone else coming in from out of town the next day and she needed to clean up her place.
My dad and I got a FP for RNRC for that afternoon, but when we got in line to do it, it broke down, and we were ready to leave, so we just went back early. It would have been nice to do Fantasmic, but even I was tired, and my parents are in their 70s. I think we left around 6pm.
So we went over to the CR and went to get our bags which were transferred over from POR. They weren't there!
They should have been there hours before, but they had nothing written on their sheet about any bags being delivered. We really didn't need our bags for a few hours, but my dad had wanted them, and he got totally mad. They made a few calls (the first woman was trying to get me to call
) and finally they said they had located them at POR and they were going to be sent over. That had taken forever. We needed to eat something, so we went over to the Gasperilla Grill at GF and came back over around 9pm, expecting to pick up the bags and go up and watch CSI. THEY STILL WEREN'T THERE!
They were still at POR! So finally after some more calls they were sent over and we got them a little after 10pm.
That was the worst part of the trip. My dad gets really upset about things like that, and I don't like it when he gets mad at Disney.
I'll write more later.
How cool is that??
I went to the gym last night for the first time since I got my Wii fit! I didn't stay long but I at least went through 6 of the 7 machines on my workout plan. It's a really nice gym b/c when you sign up you meet with a trainer and they ask you what you want to accomplish and they set you up with a plan with certain machines. the one machine i didn't do was for my arms and I already have 2 other machines that work my arms so no big loss! 
hope it feels better real soon 
have a wonderful day!
Have a great time. And I know what you mean about having something to eat on the plane. This time on AirTrans we only got a package of gingerbread tasting crackers-very small in size. If I hadn't packed some things in the kids' backpacks, they would have been starving by the time we got there. And airport food is 
Thought I'd add that here even though I did manage to call you on Saturday and leave you a voive mail! 
And from there, we had to go to our seats, where we watched the arrivals on a big screen. They also were introduced before the movie, and we saw them from afar. She got 3 autographs, but none from HSM3 cast. One was from someone on the new Suite Life on Deck.
I did clean all the bathrooms yesterday morning, so I just need to touch those up tomorrow night. I will definitly vaccuum and mop the kitchen floor - I must come home to a clean kitchen floor!!!!!!!
I will keep him in my thoughts and prayers
Please keep us posted on how he is doing.
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THAT would be cool!
That's good, I was hoping you would say that, because when some movies hit a 3rd time, they sometimes stink. I just love the storyline with these movies, and I do love the music too (I have a lot of it on my IPOD). I"m really looking forward to seeing it!!!
