Chasing a Dream: September Trip Report Update 12/11 FINAL THOUGHTS/TRIP FAVORITES

[bjscheel]

So did you take time to get the Soarin fastpass first and still were first family at Character Connection? Or did you go straight there?

 

[addicted2dizney]

ok Tammy! I need another update! I am definately going into Dis withdrawls this week!

 

[tmkinney]

What a nasty lady, sorry about that. Good for your DH going back to have a chat with her . Glad you hit the character jackpot. Such cute pics of all of you with them! The ones with Belle are adorable too.

Thanks, I couldn't believe how rude she was!

Nasty lady!! I'm glad your prince charming came to your rescue!!

ugh... I can't stand people like that. I have encountered a few too during my dis travels. I always bend over backwards to say, "no, no, that's ok" if someone bumps me and apoligizes! Some people just missed the sprinkle of Pixie dust when they come on in the gates! Love the group picture and your daughter just cracks me up! I love her little hands in all the pictures. She just looks so delicate! Adorable!

She definitely missed out on the pixie dust!! Rachel was loving posing for all the pics, but still a little shy too, she never has fully warmed to Goofy, I guess because he is so big!

Don't you hate it when other peoples foul attitudes bring your day down.

That group shot with the characters is great, what a unique opportunity!

The pictures of the kids with that characters are great as well.

Thanks! We were so happy to get the group pic, it was a great day!

So did you take time to get the Soarin fastpass first and still were first family at Character Connection? Or did you go straight there?

No, we didn't take time to get Soarin FP's first. But when you are first family at Character Connection, you go thru really fast, so we went to Soarin and didn't even have to FP, we just waited in line!

ok Tammy! I need another update! I am definately going into Dis withdrawls this week!

Okay, I will try to get an update out tomorrow!

 

[pjstevens]

What an amazing photo! Congrats on getting some pixie dust (even after the MEAN lady).

 

[tmkinney]

What an amazing photo! Congrats on getting some pixie dust (even after the MEAN lady).

Thanks, it made our day!!

 

[tmkinney]

After we had our great pic taken with all the characters, we made our way over to Soarin. The wait was only about 5 minutes. As we were waiting in line, I don't know if it because Rachel was so anxious about riding something she didn't know what it was, but she gagged and threw up a little. I was so afraid she was going to get sick and that would be the fate of our vacation, but luckily it was just a minor incident that didn't happen again!! She liked the ride pretty good and after that we headed over to Living with the Land. This was our first ride on this, and I liked it. It is very neat to see how things work. Here are some pics from our boat ride:

After we finished the ride, we headed over to the Seas with Nemo & Friends. Rachel was very excited about this ride.

This was another walk on ride, we were very lucky this day....

After the ride, the kids had fun looking at all the fish:

They did not want to leave the aquarium!! Before we left we took this photo op:

We missed Turtle Talk with Crush this year, which I hate, because that is such a cute show. But since we had already seen it we headed over to ride Figment. Well we walk up and the CM tells us that the ride is down for about 30 minutes, so we went over to Innoventions instead. I had heard that people sometimes see the Dream Team around this time, it was a little after 10:00, so we walked in and there was no one... But the kids had fun checking things out and wanted to do this:

So Dawn & I had the idea to let the guys do it with the kids and we would run over to the other Innoventions to see if we see the dream team. Well, the guys were not happy about this, thought we were crazy for hunting down the dream team, but we didn't care and went anyway! So we start walking and what do you know, we see this couple wearing Dream FP's. So we asked them where they got them. The guy said "if you keep going about 30 feet you'll see. So me and Dawn take off and

They asked us how many were in our party and we said 7. They asked where the others were and we said they were back behind us and they gave us enough! That was the very last ones they were handing out then so we were very lucky!! They then told us that if we were to win anything else, the whole party would have to be present, that the only reason they let it slide this time was because that was the last ones they were giving out at that time.

So me and Dawn are once again on and we rush back over to the other Innoventions building and they were still in the Where's the Fire game. We decided we would hide the FP's because we knew the guys would be running their mouth and we were right!!! They came out and said, "Didn't find the dream team, did you?" We just looked down and said "No..." Then they kept giving us grief "we told you not to go..." yadda yadda We couldn't wait at that point to pull them out and rub it in!!! You should have seen the looks on their faces - priceless! They shut up real quick after that!!

We decided to go use our FP's on Mission Space, this was Hunter's favorite ride last year. So we go over, and don't even need the FP... Everyone but me and Rachel rode, I don't think she met the height requirement but I wasn't going to make her ride it anyway. So she and I checked out the gift shop that was at the end of Mission Space while they were riding. While we were there she picked out a Minnie and Mickey pin dressed like Eric & Ariel. What seemed like forever, Alan comes out but Hunter wasn't with him, he stayed behind with Dawn, Ray & Hadley playing in the play area after Mission Space. After about 10 minutes I called Dawn and she said they wanted to play a little longer. So after 10 MORE minutes, I go in looking for them because Alan, Rachel & I are scortching HOT outside!!! We finally get the kids out of there and then we head over to ride Test Track.

Afterwards we stopped to get a pic of the boys with the Test Track car, especially since this was their new favorite ride:

By this time Alan is starving (in my earlier post I said he was not happy because all he got was a banana for breakfast! ) and I knew if we didn't get something to eat soon, I would be dealing with a very ill person! So we stopped for lunch at the Electric Umbrella. It was a nice break from the heat and the food was pretty good too, just very crowded inside!!

Up next:

World Showcase

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

for Dream fastpasses and that was really nice of them to give you guys fastpasses for everybody even though they weren't with you.

 

[pmama]

Wow, I never once thought to go looking for the dream team. Can't believe you got them at Epcot and HS. How exciting!!

 

[addicted2dizney]

Man that is amazing! I still get so mad thinking how I missed them by minutes at the Walt attraction at DHS! I am super, super happy for you guys! That is great, wow! 3 times in ONE trip!

 

[tmkinney]

for Dream fastpasses and that was really nice of them to give you guys fastpasses for everybody even though they weren't with you.

Yes I was afraid they wouldn't give us the extra FP's! Turns out we only used them for Test Track, but it will still great to win!!

Wow, I never once thought to go looking for the dream team. Can't believe you got them at Epcot and HS. How exciting!!

We were definitely excited!!

Man that is amazing! I still get so mad thinking how I missed them by minutes at the Walt attraction at DHS! I am super, super happy for you guys! That is great, wow! 3 times in ONE trip!

Yes, this was definitely the best trip ever!!! (Until next time that is.... )

 

[kaysmommie]

Cute pics and update! Congrats on the Dream FP's!!!

 

[Belle_princess]

I'm in!!!

 

[tmkinney]

Cute pics and update! Congrats on the Dream FP's!!!

Thanks!

I'm in!!!

Thanks for joining in!

 

[dddisrunner]

WOW! Another dream, that's awesome! You really lucked out with the crowds on the rides! Thanks for the great pics!

 

[tmkinney]

WOW! Another dream, that's awesome! You really lucked out with the crowds on the rides! Thanks for the great pics!

Yes we were very lucky, it was an awesome trip!!

 

[tmkinney]

Sorry its been a long time since my last update, I will be finishing up this TR soon though... I'm kind of dreading it, then the trip really is over and I don't know when I'll have another to look forward to. Kind of depressing...

Oh well, when I last left off, we were at Epcot. Before we headed to WS, we went to Innoventions for the Disney Visa Meet & Greet free photo. We got there a little after 1:00 and were about 3rd in line. They didn't open until 1:30 so Dawn and I held our place in line while the guys took the kids over to play some games in Innoventions. After they let the first family in, they came back over and the lady checking the Visa cards gave the kids disney halloween tattoos that were really cute. When it was our turn, we headed in and the photopass guys immediately started taking pics:

Well, we were lucky this day, we had Goofy.....

And, it was soo cute, Minnie AND Mickey were hiding from the kids. The photopass guys told them to look around to see if they could find anyone else:

I thought Minnie was it, but Mickey was hiding pretty good! They came out and it was such fun.

I just love this pic of Rachel with Minnie. Minnie is her favorite (next to Ariel that is..) You can tell she just loves Minnie, here she was on

When I walked in, Mickey pointed at my shirt and made a big fuss over it, it was cute. These characters were really fun.

It was nice to be able to have private time with the characters and not feel rushed.

After we left here, we did head over to WS. Our first stop was Mexico, and we ran into:

And, believe it or not, that is the only pic I have from WS!!! After Mexico we headed to Norway and did the boat ride, and after that we were all beat so we decided to head back to the room. So yet another year I did not make my way around WS. I really want to do this someday, I know from everyone else's pics that it is just gorgeous.

Coming Up:

More photopass pics leaving Epcot
MK at night

 

[pmama]

Very smart of you to go to the Visa shoot early. If I ever attempt that again I will definitely go early. That is so cute that Mickey and Minnie hid from you all. Sounds like a great meet.

 

[dddisrunner]

Great pictures! I love Rachel's dress, it is so cute! I still can't believe how lucky you were with the "walk on" rides!

 

[kmab00]

Hi! I'm a newbie to your trip report....saw you post in someone else's trip report and I wondered how you got to be the lucky one to have a picture taken with that many characters!!! I couldn't stop reading! Your little girl is adorable!! I'm glad you guys got so much character interaction! Looks like they were everywhere! I can't wait to hear more!!

 

[tmkinney]

Very smart of you to go to the Visa shoot early. If I ever attempt that again I will definitely go early. That is so cute that Mickey and Minnie hid from you all. Sounds like a great meet.

It was a great meet, you should definitely try to do it next trip!

Great pictures! I love Rachel's dress, it is so cute! I still can't believe how lucky you were with the "walk on" rides!

Thanks! Yes, we were very lucky with crowds, I'm sure it is a lot different from when you go in June.

Hi! I'm a newbie to your trip report....saw you post in someone else's trip report and I wondered how you got to be the lucky one to have a picture taken with that many characters!!! I couldn't stop reading! Your little girl is adorable!! I'm glad you guys got so much character interaction! Looks like they were everywhere! I can't wait to hear more!!

Thanks for joining! Yes, we were so lucky to have that pic with all the characters. After seeing your post I went and read some of your TR from your December trip. I am in Christmas mode, I put my tree up this weekend, it is my favorite holiday. Your TR is great, I can't wait to read more and I love all the pics! I hope I'm lucky enough to see Disney during the holidays someday!