Colleen's Aug/Sept trip report....

[hlrababy]

Hey Ms Heather! I can't wait to meet you. Will you bring your client too? I saw your man on OTH tonight. WTH is up with him!? Weird.

Whats up!!! I know, I am so excited!! That was all I talked about this weekend to Chad's mom about meeting you guys!!! Of course I will bring my client! I will put it on the calendar

You know, the more he kept talking I looked at Chad and said, He acts like he is a motivational speaker! still a cutie though!! haha

Hey Girl! Glad to see you came over! I'm really starting to get excited for the trip in Dec now too!

Whats up!!!! Oh my goodness, me too!!!!!!!! It will be here soon and then I will go picture crazy when I meet everyone!

 

[scottny]

just got back last night but will be over this week to read this. if you want to read mine from Europe it will be starting tonight.

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[teekee2]

I'm here...how am I every going to get ANY work done if I'm here reading all about your trip?!? Oh well, I'll figure something out I'm sure...lol I loved all the pictures you have up so far. They are great! Can't wait to read more!!

 

[Goofy22]

Yay! Welcome!



Why is your picture so small!??? You have to make them bigger or I will go blind trying to see them. Awww.....thank you for saying such nice things about us. Now go and tell them the truth! ha ha KIDDING!

I won't tell the truth I just wont do it! LOL! Just joking they are great people! BTW the pic is probably so small because I scanned the small one!!!



Oh no. Not another addict! My kids share a laptop and get violent over FB games. I might have to delete it all if they can't get along.

Yep! The first thing he did when he got home from school was to sign onto facebook!


Welcome all who have joined since last night when I was on here last!! I hope you all stick with us it should be fun!!

 

[Goofy22]

So nice to meet you!!! I wish we had taken a picture. <Duh!> Ya know what though....I saw you like 3-4 times and that's kind of cool. Right? So are you done with your edits? I saw those borders on FB. So cute! Your man did good!


Tammy! I would be mad to that party scene wouldve been the coolest thing to have a part in!!! Yes there were alot of nekkid ppl that scene w mouth n skills was hysterical!!! I wish it was as easy as you going over the river court! lol! NOOOO I did not know that Brooke n Julian were a couple in real life!!! I did hear James and she was divorced from Chad a few yrs ago .


Whats up!!!! Oh my goodness, me too!!!!!!!! It will be here soon and then I will go picture crazy when I meet everyone!

It will be here really soon I'm trying to plan now!!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Onto the 23rd...this was the first day of our free dining package. Our first ADR was made at Teppan Edo. The BEST food in all of WDW (IMO anyway). But, before we could go to Epcot we had to switch rooms and settle into Pop. We sent Sidney over to deal with all of that. Meanwhile we all got dressed and packed up the little bit of stuff we'd taken out over at CBR. By the way they do NOT have elevators over there!!! I could not believe that. And of course we were on the second floor with two huge boxes full of mess! The mousekeepers used their lift to get our stuff up to the second floor. I just think that's crazy! I will say this was the best room we ever had at CBR. I liked the double windows...you can see that here.

After a couple of hours we were settled and ready to go to Teppan Edo. It was as delightful as ever. We eat here a lot and we get the same server every single time. Same room. Only thing different is the chef. We've never had the same chef. I've shared TE pics many times so I didn't take a whole lot this time. As a matter of fact I think most were taken by the baby. LOL

This one could live off of white rice and be a happy person! He was an "adult" this time though and tried out a filet for the first time. He enjoyed it too. I was shocked.

Our sweet server took a pic of all of us.

I tired the green tea pudding and it was actually pretty good.

Art near the bathroom. I thought it was pretty.

On our way out we spotted the candy artist! This woman does a fantastic job as you all know! We watched her for a couple of minutes then moved on.

By now the potty break was over and it was time to get our clothes dirty. Yep. Guess where the red liquid ends up!

Luckily he was wearing red so the stain didn't show too much.

Our next stop was the show in the American theatre. I LOVE this show myself and the kids were interested too. Again, didn't take many pics or write anything down.

Afterwards we wandered around World Showcase for a bit. The kids went into Germany for some fudge and we walked out and saw this in the store.

I asked the guy if they'd ever sold one and he said two total. All of this stuff is gorgeous but it is very very expensive! Go in and check it out though. Pretty stuff!

Gabby liked this too. She wonders why I wouldn't buy it. Come on now...what the heck would I do with this thing at home!?

We continue our journey around the World and I told Sidney I wanted to watch the movie in China and check out the acrobats since we'd never seen them. We still had a good hour before the kids did their thing so we met Mulan...it was nice to meet her inside. The picture turned out much nicer I think.

Then we waited for the movie to start....beautiful picture of us huh? Nice candy on the tongue and all.

The movie was FANTASTIC and now I want to tour China. Any of you been there? How is it? I seriously want to go ~ BAD! The movie rocked! Definitely check it out if you get the chance!

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[OneTreeHillAddict]

After the movie we went back into the waiting area. (Everything was moved inside for the day so I'm assuming there was rain at some point...I just don't remember.) We waited for the kids to come out. Had nice front row seats. Yay! These kids were awesome! I have video too but never added it. I can later if ya'll want. We were all speechless as we watched them do their thing. Make sure you check them out if you haven't before!

We also took a tour of the museum and Gabby wanted to try on a kimono. She had $75 to spend on whatever she wanted but the deal was shop around the first week and make a decision at the end. This was one of the options.

We started to leave World Showcase and saw this little lady on the way out. Look at her foot. Poor thing. She was so sweet. I LOVE the birds/ducks. I know some of you are anti bird on here but they don't bother me. We like to stop and watch them from time to time.

Next up Future World!!!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

haha, yes that is true! Now why didn't I think of that?! You could've come over to the WL, that would've been fun. Hopefully sometime we'll have trips planned at the same time again and we can actually meet!

I don't know!? We drive so we're free to do whatever.

I am very proud of him! And anything that lets me get pictures to use is a great thing! I rednecked the photos for Facebook off Photopass until we get the CD though...

I did that in May. For the Star Wars pics. I wasn't going to buy a disc for 20 pictures!

I'm sorry that that guy was a jerk (I almost wrote another word, but realized this was a family forum, and not the feminine cares aisle in a drugstore... if ya get my drift.) But way to go for sticking it to him! I almost wish I was there... but I probably would have been dying laughing, and that might have ruined it.

He was something else but I'm sure he will think twice before he does anything now.

And I remember that text message that I got from you - I can't wait to hear further details about those two!

LOL Yes I did figure out my ADR's. I had a copy in my purse that I had brought to the Mountains to work on a couple of weeks before. Thanks goodness I had that or else I would have been doing walkl ins. Not that it would have been a problem. It was dead most places anyway.

Hi! I'm in! Glad you are doing another TR Tammy - I know you felt a bit burned out after the last one. Looking forward to more!

I know. Plus I was working on ME. Which I still am but there's no sunbathing required at this pouint so I have a few extra hours now. I do miss being tanned though. ha ha

I'm here ladies!!

Welcome Ms Lauren!!!! So glad you came over. Can't wait to meet you!

Hurray! Another TR

btw I just became addicted to One Tree Hill this summer when we decided to disconnect our cable service saving some $$ and purchased those tv converter boxes to watch local channels. Well stupid me didn't realize you needed an antenna to hook up to those boxes and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the outdoor antenna hooked up (there is a bunch of wires from the previous owner's Direct TV antenna but not the wire coming down from the big antenna on the roof). So long story short - we've been watching dvd's all summer and I discovered Season 1 of One Tree Hill and loved it! Am up to Season 5 but the library here doesn't have it yet so guess I'll have to break down and find one used online to get caught up.

Back to the TR, love those pirate rooms! How cute are they You guys are real troopers moving ahead with the day after no sleep - great parents

Can't wait to read more

It's a really good show. Very underrated if you ask me! I was LOL last night at all the nekkid people. I do miss Chad and Hilary but life goes on, ya know? I'm sure Mark has a great season in store for us. I can't wait for 90210 and MP tonight!

Those rooms were adorable! With the bulky furniture they need to be a tad bit bigger though.

The Pirate Room looks awesome! I am so glad they have new mugs. When I went in Feb., they still had the Million Year Dreams mugs, so this October I am finally getting a Celebration mug!! I can't wait to read more of your guys trip report.

This is the second style of "new" cup atually. The first edition looked like the old ones but with this motif. Now they're all smooth on the outside instead of indented. I wonder why they did that!?

Yay- you're back!!! I'm late, but I'm here. I can't wait to read more!!!!

Better late than never at all right!? Welcome!

I can't beleive I am on page 3!!! How did this get by me?? I can't wait to read more. I really wish we were able to meet up!! But there is always next year right!!

Hey girl! I'm so glad I got to meet you. I wish we could have hung out some more. I'm sure your hubby would have warmed up in no time. Your boys are so adorable and they seem like such sweet well mannered kids. I wasn't big on the food that night. I wont be dining at that joint again. You?

Joining in. Looks like I've got a lot to catch up on. Since it's already on page 3.

I'm going to make sure I stay away from everyone. I've got a cold or something. For about 24 hours we thought I might have swine flu. So I don't want anyone to get sick from my computer. lol

Nah, you haven't missed too much. Colds were going around at Disney. That's for sure! Did you see on the news while in FL how bad that swine flu was going around!?

I'm here!!! "Tired in an elevator" Love it!!!!!!!!!! I've been gone from here so long--when you cancel a trip and don't have another one planned, it's not much fun on here! I'll try to keep up though... can't wait to hear from both of you about your trips!!!

Well, I knew YOU would get it! ha ha I'm so happy to see you here! Be glad you're waiting a year to go. Customer service is way down and the parks/resorts are dirtier than ever. Evidently they have laid off a lot of people or something.

I'm here

As always laughing already and your only on page 3 ! Can't wait to read more !

Laughter is good! Thanks for coming over! This one has a lot of different stuff in it we haven't done before.

I'm here too! Sounds like a pretty decent start. I have been thinking about CBR too since I recently saw that awesome pirate pool. Did you get any pics of it?

Not a single pic of the pool! Can you believe it? I never take pics over at CSR either and they have an awesome pool! (And of course I always regret it!) I took waterproof cameras with me. I don't think they were unpacked just yet.

Whats up!!! I know, I am so excited!! That was all I talked about this weekend to Chad's mom about meeting you guys!!! Of course I will bring my client! I will put it on the calendar

You know, the more he kept talking I looked at Chad and said, He acts like he is a motivational speaker! still a cutie though!! haha



Whats up!!!! Oh my goodness, me too!!!!!!!! It will be here soon and then I will go picture crazy when I meet everyone!

Ya know it's just a few weeks away. Don't think I wont be watching his calendar for real. I hope a good show is there during our visit. Boy would that be FUN! I'm not so much excited about going back to WDW but I am really excited about meeting all of you!

just got back last night but will be over this week to read this. if you want to read mine from Europe it will be starting tonight.

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Ooooh I can't wait to read that one Scott! So you had a great time then!? I want to go there one of these days!

I'm here...how am I every going to get ANY work done if I'm here reading all about your trip?!? Oh well, I'll figure something out I'm sure...lol I loved all the pictures you have up so far. They are great! Can't wait to read more!!

What up T!? Were planning another crazy adventure to Florida...you and me. Of course this one doesn't include the rodeo and celebrities. Not yet anyway. Things can still change. ha ha

Yep! The first thing he did when he got home from school was to sign onto facebook!


Welcome all who have joined since last night when I was on here last!! I hope you all stick with us it should be fun!!

Oh dear. Another one.

 

[xoktenox]

Yes!!! I need to put your digits in my phone like NOW! lol

Do you still have them? I'll PM you them again if you want!

The pirate rooms in CBR are so cool, I love the curtain separating the bathroom and bed areas.

We enjoyed TE too! The servers are SOOOO polite and the chefs cooking right in front of you is the best part.

 

[heath-and-javens-mom]

Im here!!!!!!

 

[pmama]

We're trying Teppan Edo in December. We've never been before. We can't wait to try it and so glad to hear good reports.

 

[Goofy22]

Im here!!!!!!

Thanks for joining us Farrah.

We're trying Teppan Edo in December. We've never been before. We can't wait to try it and so glad to hear good reports.

I don't see how you can go wrong at Teppan Edo the food was Great the best dinner we had our entire 10 night stay! We're doing it again in December on the 2nd!!! I'll have pics when we get to that day we didn't go until Sept 1st ! I have alot of pics from Teppan Edo

 

[nu2wdisneyw]

Tammy I love ur pictures from Epcot!! I am so glad I got to meet up with you...too bad it was only for a sec. No I will not be eating there anymore!! Was not good at all! I am so mad because I had ressies for TE that night and changed them!!

 

[Goofy22]

Tammy I love ur pictures from Epcot!! I am so glad I got to meet up with you...too bad it was only for a sec. No I will not be eating there anymore!! Was not good at all! I am so mad because I had ressies for TE that night and changed them!!

Funny I had the opposite happen my husbands cousins came to visit for the day that we had Tutto booked so we cancelled and went out to eat with them and since we were doing HDDMR on Sept 1st at 9:30pm that worked out perfectly as I called Disney Dining and made a late lunch ressie for Teppan EDO on Sept 1st! I had TE when I was doing Deluxe but when I went back to reg FDP I cancelled it! I was so happy that we spent the day with the cousins on tutto day after hearing the reviews. Tammyand DH Sidney told me that was best choice we couldve made and I have to say they were definitely right! Now thanks to them my entire family is hooked oN TEPPAN EDO !!!!. They want to do it in August in the begining and end of the trip!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Do you still have them? I'll PM you them again if you want!

The pirate rooms in CBR are so cool, I love the curtain separating the bathroom and bed areas.

We enjoyed TE too! The servers are SOOOO polite and the chefs cooking right in front of you is the best part.

I did last night. Now I don't see them in my stash. Just text me and it'll be in there that way. Will that work? Oh Sidney ate at CP with my sister on our last day. He said it was better than ever before and that Pooh was "nice" to them. Of course Pooh may have been scared to walk past the table with Chimere sitting there. She'd kick Pooh's back side! ha ha ha

Im here!!!!!!

Oh yeah! There's my girl! So who all is coming with you now? The whole fam or what!? Is Alicia doing a TR? I forgot to ask.

We're trying Teppan Edo in December. We've never been before. We can't wait to try it and so glad to hear good reports.

We have a lot of those type places here and they're all good but the people are not as nice as the ones at Epcot. They are all so sweet, well, the host on our last day was a B, but inside they've always been over the top. You wont get thirsty or run out of white rice! That's for sure.

Tammy I love ur pictures from Epcot!! I am so glad I got to meet up with you...too bad it was only for a sec. No I will not be eating there anymore!! Was not good at all! I am so mad because I had ressies for TE that night and changed them!!

Thanks girl! So what did you think of WDW!? Will you go again!? Did you book a bounceback? Oh no way....I would be sick. I wanted to try out every place at least once. I was highly disappointed in my meal over there. The dessert was good. That's all I have to say about that.


Colleen...it's a given we do TE twice a trip now.

 

[lauren_elizabeth]

Mmmm, Teppan Edo looks SO GOOD! I've never eaten at TE in Disney, but we have a Japanese Steakhouse 5 minutes from our house called Sakura and it's seriously one of my favorite restaurants - YUMMO! Now I'm debating switching one of my ADRs to Teppan Edo... Hmmm!

Gabby looks so cute in that kimono! She's absolutely gorgeous, Tammy!

The family pic at TE turned out really cute, too!

 

[joy13]

Love the update! I planned on TE for our upcoming trip but I have had issues the last two times we have had hibachi here at home, so I was afraid to try it. Epspecially since I don't know what was causing them I can't believe my trip is just over a month away!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

FUTURE WORLD ~ Here we come! Of course I don't know the order we did stuff or what all we did for that matter. I know we went on Test Track and Mission Space because we always do that. (And I have some pics from TT on here.)

Looks like we ended up over in The Land after a few rides. We rode Soarin' while in there but one of my favorites....the boat ride that takes you through the greenhouse and all was closed! Blah! I love the Living with the Land tour. I was so disappointed. That and TTA being closed in the same trip. Ick! I hear that opened back up this week though! Woo Hoo! Can't wait to get back on TTA and the boats should be up and going by the time we go back!

I have found that Sunshine Seasons is one of the BEST places to eat at WDW. They have yummy salmon and the chocolate coffee crumb cake....OH MY WORD! That is some good stuff! Not to mention they have lemon juice packets for my water!!! I LOVE this place! Here are some pictures from our delicious counter service meal!

Oh and I just saw this. It was taken at Teppan Edo earlier that day. "Mama what do we do with the hot towels!?" (Whatever you'd like son...)

We finished up the day at Epcot and went back to Pop. I know boring huh? (That I don't even remember what all we did.) We had bought several cute gifts in the weeks before we left. They were going to be left in the room by the "Tinker Fairies". Well, my oldest ones knew better and they let me know. Great. Wonderful. Now what!? I asked them to play along for their little brother's sake and they did. Darn it though. I didn't want them to figure this kind of thing out just yet. Here is what the Tinker Fairies left for them...

Oh and the dessert the kids picked out that evening back at Pop. A favorite of everyone just about....

And that my friends is the end of our second day. Now it's time for Colleen to join in. Let's put the pressure on. We want details girl. Lots of them. This is your first official trip report and it better be good! (I'm just messing with you.) We have to slow things down a bit though. I tried to hurry along these first couple of days and now I'm worn out and behind again. Go ahead and start up your "getting ready/airport" thing that you do.

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Mmmm, Teppan Edo looks SO GOOD! I've never eaten at TE in Disney, but we have a Japanese Steakhouse 5 minutes from our house called Sakura and it's seriously one of my favorite restaurants - YUMMO! Now I'm debating switching one of my ADRs to Teppan Edo... Hmmm!

Gabby looks so cute in that kimono! She's absolutely gorgeous, Tammy!

The family pic at TE turned out really cute, too!

It is! We have some of the best places like that here but the service....it's so much more authentic at WDW than locally. I'd switch! I have a couple of ADR's there. Maybe you can join our table. I'll let you know when mine are.

Aww. Thanks (about the dress). She loved it!

Love the update! I planned on TE for our upcoming trip but I have had issues the last two times we have had hibachi here at home, so I was afraid to try it. Epspecially since I don't know what was causing them I can't believe my trip is just over a month away!

Now you guys have me wanting Miyabi's! Or Kyoto's. Trust me....the one in Epcot is delicious! I'm going to keep running my mouth and then I wont be able to get an ADR at TE. Too late I guess. The secret is out!

 

[Goofy22]

Ok , So our day started at about 3:30am well I should really say my day! I woke up started to get evryone's clothes out and everything ready to go! I had my boarding passes printed from the night prior so they were already in my bag! I woke everyone up and around 4:15am we were off to I-95 to the Philadelphia Airport but first we had to goto Winner Airport parking where we would check our van in and then get driven in our car to airport by a valet driver, We arrived at the airport about 5am exactly what I had planned since we had a 7am flight! We got our bags out and headed to the Airtran counter as we had to check 2 suitcases! It went really quick even though there were quite a few ppl in line! Now we're headed to the metal detectors and I panic!!! I was suppose to ask the Orthopedic Dr if DD would beep since she has a metal pin and clip in her knee from her reconstruction surgery and I don't have a note to explain!!!

Well of course I send DD through first because I figure if she don't get through we can't go anyways! So she goes through the metal detector and it didn't beep!!! I was soo relieved I really thought it was going to and I didn't know what would happen then! now we were headed to our gate to wait for our flight. We went to get some breakfast sandwiches and coffe while we were waiting there was alot of ppl up and out to fly at 7am I was actually a lil surprised our flight was full.

So at 6:20am we started boarding and we were off on time actually I think it was like a min early! Upon take off we had alot of turbulence and DGN's face was like what the heck is happening?
I was like ohhh this isn't going to be good! So I got the puke bag ready just in case! She was fine after a bit it did lighten up some! Other than the turbulence and a few screaming kids we had a pretty nice flight we had arrived in MCO at 9:15am ! When we landed I turned my cell phone on and within minutes I had a text from tammy wondering if we had arrived yet? I sid funny you asked we literally just landed! then we were off to The DME line where we gave our passes and were shown which line to get into! Our bus made 4 stops ! We stopped First at CBR then POP then it was going to the Swan and Dolphin.

We only waited in the DME line maybe 5 minutes before boarding the bus it took us about 35 minutes to get to POP ! We're finally at Pop we grab our carry on bags and Dh, DD and Ds, DGN head to the Kids seating area and watch Tv while I head to the online check in! There was maybe 2 ppl in front of me while the reg line had about 11 ppl in it! It took me a few minutes I was checked in and had all my info and guess what our room was ready! We were in the 60's RM#5110 it was ok but couldve been better.
We were between Baloo and the greeen Yo yo closest to the kiddie pool!

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