AAshleySEG
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- Joined
- Jan 16, 2012
I think I set an alarm this morning for 6:00 or something like that! I didn't want to wake up too early, but also, I wanted to get there already! We got dressed and ready, loaded up the car, and started heading to our first stop of the day breakfast!! We go to the same one every time, but somehow....Jeremy managed to miss the exit...LOL! So we had to search for another one, we ended up finding one on the other side of Jacksonville! It was a little more out of the way, but we found ourselves a Panera Bread!
We ran in, got our food to go, and then hopped back in the car to get on the road! We got our usual, I had the Spinach and Artichoke Souffle and Jeremy had the French Toast bagel with Honey Walnut Spread! About two hours later, we had the view we had been waiting for!!
It was still before check-in time, but we knew that if we were headed to Downtown Disney, parking was still going to be a mess, and it would be much nicer if we went ahead and parked at Kidani since it is covered parking, all of our luggage and everything would stay pretty cool! So we headed toward Animal Kingdom Lodge, and were greeted with our lovely Welcome Home! With the amount of time we have been this year, it sure felt like it was a second home!
Jeremy dropped me off at the Porte Cochere, I had done online check-in so it was a quick and painless process, I had already set up to be informed by text when our room was ready, and it wasn't at the time, so I went back outside, hopped in the car and we went to park!
We grabbed a few things, camera and such, and then walked over to the bus stop, and as soon as we got there, the bus to Downtown Disney was arriving! We hopped on and started the journey over there! Of course, it was going to stop at Typhoon Lagoon first! After that, we made it to DTD, soon to be Disney Springs, I wonder if I need to get used to saying it that way, that is definitely going to be a change!
We were meeting our wonderful friends Dan & Mindy here, gonna do a little lunch and then head over to DisneyQuest. Mindy had to work this morning so they were going to be here around 1:00, which gave us time to walk around some of the shops, even the Marketplace Co-Op Shop! We had not been in there yet, and were interested to see all of the cool stuff I had heard about, and it did not disappoint! Oh I almost forgot!! I bet you would like to see our Disneybounds today!! You may have guessed what they were from the title of the post, but maybe just not who was who!!
Jeremy was playing the part of Daisy today...hehe!! I was the other half of the puzzle, Donald!!
We thought it would be fun to do it this way, we had fun anyway! I think that is what matters the most right?? Throw people off every now and then!
Since we had missed our original Panera, and ended up eating later than usual, we weren't as hungry as we thought we were going to be for lunch. With that in mind, and after a conversation with our friends, we decided to meet them over at Earl of Sandwich!! Instead of eating a pizza at Wolfgang Puck Express, Jeremy and I split an Italian Sandwich, we did each get our own bag of chips and a drink though! Our reservation for dinner was at 5:05, so we didn't want to get too full before that though!
If you have never been to an Earl of Sandwich, you should really try it! They have some really amazing sandwiches! We may end up going there one...or two more times during this trip...just saying...lol!!
After we had a food snack! It was time to head over to DisneyQuest for a little fun! Dan & Mindy had driven, so instead of walking over there, we just rode in their car and parked on that side, which also was good for whenever we left, it meant we could spend more time there before we went to dinner!
We got into DisneyQuest and into the elevator to take us up, it makes me sad that they took away Genie from the elevator, especially recently
I wish they would put it back, now more than ever. We made it to the gaming floor and who would greet us, but Wreck-It-Ralph! Jeremy had to pose next to him as Fix-It-Felix though, it kind of looks like he is trying to get Ralph's nose or something though...hehe
On a Thursday, September afternoon, DisneyQuest is pretty empty, we could have literally done anything we wanted! Our first stop was the Pirates of the Caribbean, with pretty much no wait at all, all of the interactive games like that were empty. We walked around for a good while just picking and playing random games, we raced each other, I played Fix-It-Felix, and didn't too so well either...lol! At 3:15 I wanted to go down and do the Animation Academy, so Jeremy, Mindy, and I went down there, Dan stayed upstairs playing racing games! The character of the hour was Goofy!!
That meant that Jeremy was going to start acting Goofy when he posed for photos, oh wait, I guess he does that all the time We had maybe 10 or so people join us for the animation class! I was ready to get started!
I wish they would just print out your drawing for you, instead of having to pay $5 for it!! I mean, really Disney, it would just be a piece of paper! I mean, they could still make you go up and ask for it, just give it to us!! I took a photo of mine, I was pretty happy with it, it is a little difficult to draw on those electronic things, well for me it is anyway!
We finished up with that and went back upstairs to play some more games until it was time for us to leave and head over to Disney's Polynesian Village Resort for some food at Kona Cafe!
We ran in, got our food to go, and then hopped back in the car to get on the road! We got our usual, I had the Spinach and Artichoke Souffle and Jeremy had the French Toast bagel with Honey Walnut Spread! About two hours later, we had the view we had been waiting for!!
It was still before check-in time, but we knew that if we were headed to Downtown Disney, parking was still going to be a mess, and it would be much nicer if we went ahead and parked at Kidani since it is covered parking, all of our luggage and everything would stay pretty cool! So we headed toward Animal Kingdom Lodge, and were greeted with our lovely Welcome Home! With the amount of time we have been this year, it sure felt like it was a second home!
Jeremy dropped me off at the Porte Cochere, I had done online check-in so it was a quick and painless process, I had already set up to be informed by text when our room was ready, and it wasn't at the time, so I went back outside, hopped in the car and we went to park!We grabbed a few things, camera and such, and then walked over to the bus stop, and as soon as we got there, the bus to Downtown Disney was arriving! We hopped on and started the journey over there! Of course, it was going to stop at Typhoon Lagoon first! After that, we made it to DTD, soon to be Disney Springs, I wonder if I need to get used to saying it that way, that is definitely going to be a change!
We were meeting our wonderful friends Dan & Mindy here, gonna do a little lunch and then head over to DisneyQuest. Mindy had to work this morning so they were going to be here around 1:00, which gave us time to walk around some of the shops, even the Marketplace Co-Op Shop! We had not been in there yet, and were interested to see all of the cool stuff I had heard about, and it did not disappoint! Oh I almost forgot!! I bet you would like to see our Disneybounds today!! You may have guessed what they were from the title of the post, but maybe just not who was who!!
Jeremy was playing the part of Daisy today...hehe!! I was the other half of the puzzle, Donald!!
We thought it would be fun to do it this way, we had fun anyway! I think that is what matters the most right?? Throw people off every now and then!
Since we had missed our original Panera, and ended up eating later than usual, we weren't as hungry as we thought we were going to be for lunch. With that in mind, and after a conversation with our friends, we decided to meet them over at Earl of Sandwich!! Instead of eating a pizza at Wolfgang Puck Express, Jeremy and I split an Italian Sandwich, we did each get our own bag of chips and a drink though! Our reservation for dinner was at 5:05, so we didn't want to get too full before that though!
If you have never been to an Earl of Sandwich, you should really try it! They have some really amazing sandwiches! We may end up going there one...or two more times during this trip...just saying...lol!!
After we had a food snack! It was time to head over to DisneyQuest for a little fun! Dan & Mindy had driven, so instead of walking over there, we just rode in their car and parked on that side, which also was good for whenever we left, it meant we could spend more time there before we went to dinner!
We got into DisneyQuest and into the elevator to take us up, it makes me sad that they took away Genie from the elevator, especially recently
I wish they would put it back, now more than ever. We made it to the gaming floor and who would greet us, but Wreck-It-Ralph! Jeremy had to pose next to him as Fix-It-Felix though, it kind of looks like he is trying to get Ralph's nose or something though...hehe
On a Thursday, September afternoon, DisneyQuest is pretty empty, we could have literally done anything we wanted! Our first stop was the Pirates of the Caribbean, with pretty much no wait at all, all of the interactive games like that were empty. We walked around for a good while just picking and playing random games, we raced each other, I played Fix-It-Felix, and didn't too so well either...lol! At 3:15 I wanted to go down and do the Animation Academy, so Jeremy, Mindy, and I went down there, Dan stayed upstairs playing racing games! The character of the hour was Goofy!!
That meant that Jeremy was going to start acting Goofy when he posed for photos, oh wait, I guess he does that all the time
We had maybe 10 or so people join us for the animation class! I was ready to get started!
I wish they would just print out your drawing for you, instead of having to pay $5 for it!! I mean, really Disney, it would just be a piece of paper! I mean, they could still make you go up and ask for it, just give it to us!! I took a photo of mine, I was pretty happy with it, it is a little difficult to draw on those electronic things, well for me it is anyway!
We finished up with that and went back upstairs to play some more games until it was time for us to leave and head over to Disney's Polynesian Village Resort for some food at Kona Cafe!
Daisy's my Halloween costume this year!
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Thank you so much and I am really glad you enjoy our adventures! Don't be too shy now! Hope to have some new stuff up verrrrry soon! 
