Delicious Indeed!

[Jennifer48]

I love the make your own treats at Goofy's! Your gingerbread Mickey sounds delish! I usually get the pretzel sticks dipped in milk chocolate covered in peanut butter cups. YUMMO!

 

[Bridora]

Yum! Your treats looked and sounded soooo good! I think I'd have to get a pretzel rod, too. We've only been in there once, though, and it wasn't to do the make your own treat. Once I see all that stuff in person, I might have to change my mind!

 

[PirateKate]

I love those make your own treats from Goofy's! I'll be interested to hear how you liked the gingerbread mickey. I'm thinking of branching out next trip and getting that instead of the mickey krispie treat.

It was fun seeing all the merchandise pictures. Almost like actually shopping at DTD. We very seldom buy anything, but I love to look.

 

[RachelNinja]

We've not done the make-your-own treat ever. Looks good; I'll wait to see if it tasted as good as it looked!

It's not like the most amazing thing I've ever eaten, but it's SO much fun on vacation. Like if they had one of these by my house, I'd never go. Being in Disney though makes EVERYTHING FUN!

I have never done the make your own treat at Goofy's Candy Co. I may have to give it a try. I've only bought pre-made items before.

Those pre-made items look delicious though! There are things there that just aren't in the same category as the make your own. I think I should do BOTH next time, hehe.

OMG I loved the EoS update! Seriously might be my favorite place to eat at Disney World!

Loved the make your own treat, too! Looks like fun, except I'd probably go for the pretzel! Can you still do a rice krispy treat? Yum!

I could go for one of those sandwiches right now! I wish they could make a sampler plate. I'd like to try a bunch of them! Have like, 2 bites of each!

Yes, I do believe you can still make a rice krispy treat. I don't particularly care for them because my mom makes them, and I really like hers. I do admit, having it in the shape of a Mickey head DOES tempt me though ...

I still haven't done the 'make your own treats' even though it looks like fun - I always just grab something that's already made

Those ready made treats look so good though! I don't blame you. And the make your own treat thing takes time, so you'd have to be willing to wait for it. Thankfully, no one was ahead of us so we didn't have to wait that long.

I love the make your own treats at Goofy's! Your gingerbread Mickey sounds delish! I usually get the pretzel sticks dipped in milk chocolate covered in peanut butter cups. YUMMO!

Chocolate covered pretzels are my favorite! And we both love peanut butter too! It just happened to be that that day, I was in the mood for something else. Next time!

Yum! Your treats looked and sounded soooo good! I think I'd have to get a pretzel rod, too. We've only been in there once, though, and it wasn't to do the make your own treat. Once I see all that stuff in person, I might have to change my mind!

When you look at the little paper and see all the options, it suddenly can get very overwhelming! Haha, too many choices!

I love those make your own treats from Goofy's! I'll be interested to hear how you liked the gingerbread mickey. I'm thinking of branching out next trip and getting that instead of the mickey krispie treat.

It was fun seeing all the merchandise pictures. Almost like actually shopping at DTD. We very seldom buy anything, but I love to look.

I'll write about the gingerbread and the apple soon

Yeah, I LOVE looking at DTD. There's too much that I like though in terms of stationery items, board games, books, tshirts, etc!

 

[RachelNinja]

Tuesday, February 22: The Rest of DTD

After we bought our treats, Ray wanted to go to the Lego store, so Howard went with him. He took pictures of some of the displays, like the Harry Potter one.

Of course, he looked at all the Star Wars stuff too.

I'm sorry, but isn't this harsh yellow light just so painful? Ray also examined the Woody figurine. Next time, I want to look for the Andy under his foot!

While the boys were there, the girls were in the Christmas store. I wanted to get stockings because the previous year, I found SUPER cute ones with like, Sorcerer Mickey holding his hat upside down. The hat was the part that you could fill with goodies! I wanted to have stockings for both Howard and me for our future apartment. Alas, they didn't have any that we liked. I saw this because Howard likes Cars, but neither of us actually liked the stocking.

They had these that were pretty cute, but we just really liked the Sorcerer Mickey one more.

It was fun seeing this in real life since I had seen it on the Disney website before. It's really expensive for something so small.

These are cute to have if you don't actually want to buy and wear ear hats.

I think we went to Once Upon a Toy to do some Vinylmation trading at this point. At first, we looked at the ones that they had. I liked these Jrs much more because they were of Disney characters, but boy, they were still really expensive for $8.95! Nik and I thought about it, but boy of us decided not to get it.



We were having fun living through the fun of trading through the other 3! This one was definitely a good trade! I picked the number, which was 15, my favorite number. It's my birthday date.



Isn't it adorable? It's a caramel apple! There was a funny moment here though as Howard said, I wonder what that thing in the middle is, and I was like, "It's the stick." Haha, he knew it was the stick, he meant to ask what plastic it was, haha.

Dani traded and got this cute one.

Our next stop was Guest Relations. I just wanted to check to see how many more days left I had on my no expiration ticket. I asked, but now I don't remember. Haha, I think at that point I still had 3 left.

Howard looked at the maps.

We decided to head BACK to the pin store. We knew there was a trading box there, so there was still more to do! I snapped a picture of these pins. Cupcakes! Very cute.

Okay, what's funny about the beginning of this video is that Dani asked for #8 (her birthday date), and the one that the CM showed us was one that Dani had already gotten and traded away! Haha, I guess it wanted her. That's why we were laughing.



Dani chose the black one for Ray, but I think she had also bought another one and had opened it while they were waiting for me at Guest Relations. I know she had this one at one point.

We began walking to where the car was parked. I took a video of the walk out because they were playing "You'll Be In My Heart," which is one of my favorite Disney songs. I love Phil Collins! Once I got home, I was happy to have this video just because it just shows how carefree we were while walking to the car, and it was relaxing! When I'm there with my dad, he's very much like, "We gotta leave, let's go!" He doesn't like DTD much.



This is actually one of the picture Howard took of me while I was filming the video. Haha, I think it's funny to see my foot up like that. You can also see behind my sunglasses case that's attached to my bag the little hint of green! It was my LGMH.

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[RachelNinja]

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There was one more store I wanted to hit before we left ... BASIN!!! I was so excited to see what was there and smell stuff. I had only read about it until that point. I always think these things are funny because what exactly does Blue smell like?

This was the best part about it though. Nik picked one up and was like, this smells like Love Spell. We were like, "It is Love Spell." HAHA.

There were so many things to sniff!

It was amazing how everything actually smelled like what they said. Like this birthday cake SMELLED like birthday cake. Why you personally would want to smell like birthday cake is something I don't quite get yet, but I guess if others want to smell fruity, why not smell cake-y?

I had a ball as Howard took pictures.

Sniff sniff.

There were some I liked, but I don't use bar soap to wash my hands. I'm a big fan of liquid soap, so I didn't get one.

I did regret it afterwards though! I REALLY liked this ginger ale one (the red one), but I didn't get it!!! I told myself, "Eh, I don't need it." But I've still been thinking about it since. I guess it's because I really like ginger ale. I always want to have it on hand in case I feel nauseous. It really helps when I'm feeling sick, so I've come to associate even the smell of it as comforting.

Oh well! When Howard and I left, we had to look for the 3 of them. They didn't stays there that long. I guess the smells were too overwhelming for them. They actually went to ... I guess it's Arribas Brothers? I'm too lazy to look it up. This is another store that I had never been in, so it was fun to see things there.

They had such pretty classic character pieces.

IASW!

Creepy frog.

Pretty sparkly things.

Pretty Disney sparkly things. Dani and Nik brought me over here to show this stuff to me, and the CM was like, "You can try it on and take pictures if you want," but we were like, oh no it's okay. Nik did say to us that when her future boyfriend proposes, it should be done with that glass slipper in the picture though, haha.

Nik did try this one though!

Soon it was time to leave! We put the caramel apple one on the spot where the castle one was previously when we were in the car.

Ray went through his stuff, and I took a picture of one of his purchases.

Goodbye!

Home please!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Oooh, you got the apple one!! Do you know that's the chaser in that set? Lucky! Looks like you guys had fun with the vinylmation trading.

I have never been into Basin but a lot of people seem to rave about it. I might have to check it out when I go in October.

 

[IheartDDuck]

I love your virtual shopping. I wish I had that much self control, but, alas........

I do really love that Nerd Chip though. How have I never seen him before?

 

[kathleen27]

Goofy's Candy Co. looks like a lot of fun. There are a lot of good desserts in those photos! We've never actually been there. I think we really need to go on our next trip.

We did make it to Basin & Earl of Sandwhich for the first time this year though!
We enjoyed Earl, and Basin was fun. I don't use bar soap either ( I have trouble breathing around bar soap ), only liquid. There was something I was thinking of getting though - some kind of lotion / cream, but then I looked at the price.

Photobucket won't play videos for me today, so I'll have to try again another day. This happens to me a lot.

 

[HowWeird]

He really liked the white one with the black stripes and the red, yellow, and blue. He said it was by a certain artist, but I don't remember what it was. I'd ask him now, but he's not at his desk at work.

In the memories store (forgot the exact name), I saw the punch that I had been eyeing for a really long time (as in, years!). I didn't buy it though at any time of this trip. BUT it doesn't mean it didn't come home with me! Oh wait, it sounds like I stole it, haha. No, Howard went back on another day and picked it up for me as a surprise! Well, it's not a surprise for you readers now because I just told you.

Then we went to World of Disney for a bit where they had Mickey shaped pasta and this guy with a weird smile holding it up.

Caught up!

Mondrian is the name of the artist

Getting that punch for you wasn't a surprise for you either! Haha I just can't hide anything from you, can I?

Haha you always like pointing out when I smile weirdly. I promise that I'll try to smile normally for our wedding pictures!

 

[PirateKate]

That caramel apple Vinylmation is kind of cool. I usually like the ones that look like characters, too.

It's nice to take your time and have fun at DTD. I hate feeling like I have to rush while trying to shop.

 

[RachelNinja]

Oooh, you got the apple one!! Do you know that's the chaser in that set? Lucky! Looks like you guys had fun with the vinylmation trading.

I have never been into Basin but a lot of people seem to rave about it. I might have to check it out when I go in October.

Yup, Howard knew it was a chaser! Haha, I just liked that it was cute!

I think the stuff at Basin is pretty expensive considering it's not entirely Disney in my eyes. However, that ginger ale soap ... ahhhh, I gotta go back!

I love your virtual shopping. I wish I had that much self control, but, alas........

I do really love that Nerd Chip though. How have I never seen him before?

Haha, I started crafting before this trip, so I actually compared everything I wanted to craft supplies. That's how I was able to resist!

I think they got the nerd Vinylmations at D-Street. They walked all the way over there because they were already hooked!

Goofy's Candy Co. looks like a lot of fun. There are a lot of good desserts in those photos! We've never actually been there. I think we really need to go on our next trip.

We did make it to Basin & Earl of Sandwhich for the first time this year though!
We enjoyed Earl, and Basin was fun. I don't use bar soap either ( I have trouble breathing around bar soap ), only liquid. There was something I was thinking of getting though - some kind of lotion / cream, but then I looked at the price.

Photobucket won't play videos for me today, so I'll have to try again another day. This happens to me a lot.

I think it's fun to have some Disney stuff to munch on during the trip home or at while at home. I still have cappuccino chocolate covered pretzels! They're individually wrapped, so they're still fresh.

Yeah, those prices are like, whoa. Haha, I'm so used to the price of a huge refill of liquid soap!

Aww, hope you can watch the videos when you have the chance! I like seeing videos because it's interesting hearing people's voices and how they act and move in real life.

Caught up!

Mondrian is the name of the artist

Getting that punch for you wasn't a surprise for you either! Haha I just can't hide anything from you, can I?

Haha you always like pointing out when I smile weirdly. I promise that I'll try to smile normally for our wedding pictures!

Yes, exactly, Mondrian. Haha, there would be no way I'd remember that. But at least I still remember Frank Gehry!

Hehe, nope, you can't hide anything from me, but that's okay! I still love your random surprises when you DON'T tell me about them when you come over!

I think you won't have to force smiles on our wedding day, haha. So it'll all be like, "I've got me a wife now" kind of smile,

That caramel apple Vinylmation is kind of cool. I usually like the ones that look like characters, too.

It's nice to take your time and have fun at DTD. I hate feeling like I have to rush while trying to shop.

I like the caramel apple one because we all were able to try Nik's once we got back to the condo. Sweet memories!

I still have never really looked at everything at DTD. It really is a full day place! But this was the longest I had ever been there, and it was really fun!

 

[RachelNinja]

Tuesday, February 22: Fun Adventures at the Condo

After we left DTD, we followed Howard's trust GPS to find our way back home.

Before we headed back home though, we stopped by Publix once again. I don't really remember why we went there. It might have been for drinks or something we needed for dinner, but since we were there, Nik bought some sangria!

We were like, "Take a picture with the $3 you got from Ray!" Haha, just to refresh your memory, Ray had said he'd give Nik $3 if she ate the entire head of the chocolate mousse from Le Cellier, and she did! This was what she bought! She was carded though, which makes sense because to some degree, I'm sure we all just looked like kids! We were carded the other day too when we bought the Seagrams stuff (the only stuff I like, and it's a Florida memory because we get it with my family), so I showed my ID then.

Once we got back to the condo, we settled in and changed into comfy clothes since we knew we'd be in for the rest of the night. The caramel apple settled in too, but I think there might have been some jealousy.

I think it's possible that some took showers too, but after that was all done, we were ready for some snacking! Bring out the Goofy's Candy Company snacks! Here are Howard's pretzels.

And here's my gingerbread Mickey. Haha, look how chubby he is because he's so covered!

Of course, I took video of it! You can see Howard carefully taking the stickers off his box. You can also see the layout of the condo. We were discussing how we look at the CM name tags to see where they're from. I love Nik's, "Do you want some pretzel with your chocolate?" And I love the reaction when it falls apart a bit! Okay, maybe you should just watch it!



There was a slight problem with mine though as you can see in this brief video. You can see Nik's gorgeous apple in here too!



I cut up my goody into pieces so that everyone could taste it. It looked kinda sad all broken up! Haha. As a reminder, mine was the gingerbread man with milk chocolate and walnuts with dark chocolate drizzle.

This actually was one of my top ten favorite pictures of the entire trip. I wanted to get a shot of everyone and the yummy snacks, so I stood up on the chair to get it. It's not a fantastic shot by any means, but it just captured the fun we were having, I think. Haha, plus, you can see our big basket bowl thing of snacks. It was just sitting on the table, so we ended up plopping our snacks from home and from Publix there for consumption throughout the week. Haha, and you can see the Lactaid that I took out on the bottom right for Howard and me.

This is what was left of my poor poor guy. DEVOURED!

Well, that night Dani and Ray cooked dinner. I had brought Hamburger Helper from home because it was on sale a few weeks before, and we knew that would be one night's meal. Even though it might be a hassle to carry everything down, it wasn't impossible since it was Amtrak and not a plane with limits. Plus, we were able to save money! My mom helped me out with knowing what to bring (ex. Hamburger Helper, potato pancakes, salt, pepper, sugar, tea bags, etc.).

Since they were busy in the kitchen, I took the time to take pictures of all my souvenirs from that day since I KNEW it wouldn't happen at home! The first thing I bought was these Nerds Kooky pens! I had mentioned them earlier in the TR, and I did actually go back and get them. The reason for that is because I didn't find them in ANY of the other stores we went to, so I really did see that it was limited (or I was tricked into it, haha), so I went back to get them because I LOVED them!!!

I like how the signatures are on the back. You can also see that it cost $18.95, which was a pretty big cost, but I know that you can buy Kooky pen ink refills on the website (or at least that's what I saw last I checked), so I figured I'd have these pens forever.

I think I also mentioned earlier that the mom of one of my former students who is now one of my good Disney friends gave me a gift card the day before I left for vacation. She told me to get good food with it, so I bought some snacks from Goofy's to bring home. The winner out of these 3 was definitely the dark chocolate covered almonds. Yummy! I'm getting to really like almonds (Howard's favorite). The cappuccino pretzel clusters are good, but they have a particular taste to them that sometimes I'm just not in a mood to have. The milk chocolate crispies weren't as good as I thought they would be. I guess because they're very small, it's a lot more chocolate than crisp. I wouldn't get that again.

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[RachelNinja]

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Now here are the things I got using the engagement gift money we received from a current student/former student/their mother (they LOVE Disney too, so I knew right away that I was going to spend it on Disney kitchen things so that every time we used it, we would think of them!). I chose a Mickey pancake ring. I already have 2 egg rings, but this is bigger than the egg ring.

As you can see, it was $6.95. You can use it with eggs too, but I had thin, overcooked eggs, so I can't imagine using it for that unless it's for a few eggs.

All kitchens need ladles!

Not all kitchens need ladles for $5.95, but since I had the chance ... I'm going to have to be careful using this. I want it to last!

I also picked up 2 trivets/pot holders/jar openers.

Despite the many purposes, I got it to use as trivets. I like that if they get dirty, I can just wash or wipe them down. The ones my mom has are made using like, basket material or something, so they can't be cleaned.

They were $9.95 each. Bringing Disney magic home is rather expensive!

Measuring cups were next! I'm still a "use-a-recipe" to cook kind of person. I haven't gotten used to winging it.

I didn't get a picture of the cost, but I have it upstairs packed away so I'll be able to check it if I want to know.

The measurement is on the handle. Haha, it took me a while to realize where it was.

Lastly, the thing that I KNEW I wanted to have before we even got there was the pepper grinder. Since we had the opportunity and the money, we got the salt one too.

I LOVE freshly cracked pepper on things especially on Italian food! If we didn't have the engagement gift money, the only thing I would've bought out of all these things would've been the pepper mill.

In the bag of stuff were our papers from Goofy's. I took a picture of it for memory's sake.

But then I threw them away because they were dirty, haha.

Soon after, it was time for dinner! Yay! First cooked dinner at the condo! Stay tuned to see our spread.

 

[kathleen27]

I can watch the vidoes now! Its great to hear you guys, especially because you are laughing a lot. That's one of the best things about Disney to just relax and laugh! I also enjoyed the walk through DTD.

The kitchen stuff looks great! I think it will all be useful, and you'll enjoy using them. Its always nice to be able to use something Disney in the kitchen. I bought the same measuring cups this year!

 

[RachelNinja]

I can watch the vidoes now! Its great to hear you guys, especially because you are laughing a lot. That's one of the best things about Disney to just relax and laugh! I also enjoyed the walk through DTD.

The kitchen stuff looks great! I think it will all be useful, and you'll enjoy using them. Its always nice to be able to use something Disney in the kitchen. I bought the same measuring cups this year!

Yay, I'm glad you were able to watch the videos! I know that during our next few trips, I'm going to be taking more videos. I just love love love watching them. It just brings the memories back in full force!

I've started to get the drive to cook, so I'm glad I have some Disney things that I'll be able to use when I have my own kitchen!

 

[RachelNinja]

Tuesday, February 22: Just as Good as Le Cellier

Okay, some of you might think I'm exaggerating by saying that our Hamburger Helper dinner was as good as Le Cellier, but I'm really not! Haha. It's not so much the quality or cost of the food, we just want yummy food (filet or ground beef ... both yummy!) and the chance to just relax and eat together! We really did have SO much fun!

Despite the low placement of the TV (it was actually in the back of the high counter dividing the kitchen and the living room), we were excited to just lounge on the couch and watch a movie! I THINK this was the day we watched Inception. I was the only one who didn't see it. Did I mention that we watched Despicable Me on the night we had Cracker Barrel? This is what happens when you take forever to update.

Along with the HH (and what was in the picture was only PART of it since we made 3 boxes!), we had a potato dish. We were initially thinking of like fries or something when we were back at home and planning our meals. Then we decided on a freezer thing to cook on the stove since the oven would require a baking sheet and foil.

This was rather yummy though! I think it was an Ore-Ida thing. With this and the HH, we used a lot of ketchup. OH WAIT, that might've been why we went to Publix. We needed ketchup! Haha. I had brought packets of ketchup from home, but I didn't realize that Ray was a ketchup fanatic (Dani and I use it a lot too), so we ended up needing a bottle.

We were healthy and had some spinach LOADED with garlic. It looks like very little, but it was a lot and it just cooked down. I think we started with 2 packages.

Dinner was served! Again, it doesn't look like much, but it filled the 5 of us! There was still more HH in the pot, but carbs get to you! Plus, we had the sangria and the Seagrams (Fuzzy Navel and the Berries one I finally got to try!).

The movie was really good even though we had to pause it a few times so that they could explain things to me. Haha, I'm a little slow when it comes to these kinds of movies. Some parts were scary too, so they warned me about them because I don't like anything slightly scary or startling. What a great night! We definitely had fun even though it was a rest day. We were prepared for Magic Kingdom the following day!

Before Howard went to sleep, he took a few photos of everyone's Vinylmations. I'll just post a few here so you can see which ones we had at that point.

I think I mentioned during our Earl of Sandwich trip that the 3 of them bought Howard the Nerd Donald as a thank you for driving everywhere. Then you know about the caramel apple because I just updated that.

I think that the Cinderella Castle one was Ray's at that point. Howard was going to trade it, but Ray liked it so they traded instead.

Haha, this is entertaining to me.

Time to sleep, you guys! Rest up for Magic Kingdom!

 

[NeverlandClub23]

I love when "rest" days turn out to be some of the best days! I adore the video of Howard eating the pretzel. Especially when he says it's good and you're like "Just Good?!?" Haha! Men!! And when he says "Delicious Indeed". It looks like you guys had such a great time!

 

[RachelNinja]

I love when "rest" days turn out to be some of the best days! I adore the video of Howard eating the pretzel. Especially when he says it's good and you're like "Just Good?!?" Haha! Men!! And when he says "Delicious Indeed". It looks like you guys had such a great time!

It's going to be so different when I'm there next year for my Disneymoon. We're not going to have rest days! I wonder if we'll be able to handle it!

We really did have so much fun! We're already thinking about a 2013 trip together!

 

[RachelNinja]

Wednesday, February 23: Good Morning, Good Morning!

I was super excited for our Magic Kingdom day. I know that MK is a lot of people's first park of the trip, but because of that fact, I follow the guides that say don't do MK on a Monday. I still love Epcot, and I like that it's kind of a calmer park to start the trip and all, but I still get super excited for MK day!

I don't remember much about the morning, but I know I did get up early as always. I got ready fairly quickly, and I also ate breakfast as did Howard. We purposely bought cereal at Publix to eat (not as filling as eggs or something) because then we'd be able to eat an earlier lunch before the crowds hit all the restaurants. The rest of the crew had some trouble getting up and ready fast enough. I believe the time we planned on leaving the house was pushed back about 25 minutes. It was okay though. We had discussed in advance that if we needed to delay things, it'd be okay. Ray and I both have bad gastrointestinal problems, so sometimes it's just not feasible to leave at the right time. I was eager to leave, but I was patient at the same time because I've been there!

While we waited to leave though, we remembered that Howard still had another Vinylmation from the outlet that he had not yet opened! Of course, at this point, I was ready with the video camera! I think I was loading the dishwasher or something, so that's why we were in the kitchen.



You can see just how excited Howard and I are about the fact that he got the Herbie one. It's not that we love the movie or anything (in fact, I haven't even seen the movie!). It actually has a lot to do with Virtual Magic Kingdom. Haha, if you've been reading for a while, you know that for me, everything is either related to Kingdom Keepers or VMK! In the game, it took a while for me to trade for all the pieces of the Herbie costume. The code was from the DVD box, so there was no way I could get it without trading. I just loved the costume, so I was so thrilled to get it (click here to see the pieces). On top of the costume, there was also a couch that I absolutely LOVED that I also had to trade for. So that's why the Herbie Vinylmation was one that we had hoped he would get. Yay for my ability to pick great ones! Haha.

We eventually made it to the car to head on our way! It was a bit chillier that morning with some fog, so I was actually extra excited. I absolutely abhor being hot in the parks! We took the highway right by the back entrance of our timeshare property and before we knew it, we were on Disney property! You can see from these pictures just how crowded it was.

Isn't it so cool how a sign can get you so excited?

Despite having a later start, we actually got there early enough to park VERY close to the Ticket and Transportation Center.

There was absolutely no need for a tram, so this was the first time that I had ever just walked! I never understood why that would be a good thing because I LOVE taking the tram (we missed the opportunity to take trams in 2010 too because we were close enough at Epcot and then later on, my dad dropped us off at the parks!), but it literally took us a few minutes to get to the front. No need to wait for a tram!

There were no trams running at this point, I don't think, so there was no one to wave to as we walked this path. Haha, of course, as we left the park, I had to wave!

We needed to take a bathroom break at this point for we are no longer children who can hold it in until the last possible second. Haha. I had pill water in me, and the rest needed a stop as well, so that was our first "attraction," haha. It was still foggy and a little misty, but we were almost there! Howard took some scenery shots since we had to wait for Ray.

Look at my cousins making sure they look presentable for Mickey Mouse. Hehe. I felt presentable already because I had my castle shirt on, my New Balance sneakers, and my LeSportsac (the whole "I love my bag" thing from 2010)!

Howard took this picture of me.

This is the picture I was taking as Howard took a picture of me!

We were cracking up about a lot of things as we waited. I don't even remember what it was, but we were having a ball! Later on when Ray came out, he was like, "You guys were so loud. I could hear you from the inside." HAHA. Well, at least we're at WDW, so it's okay to have fun!

We finally walked up the ramp to the monorail and like always, I pointed out the spot where I fainted and had to be carried to the top of the monorail platform and laid down on a bench. I still run by quickly. It gets me nervous! Thankfully because we were still early, we actually got an ENTIRE monorail car to ourselves!

Can you just feel the excitement? And that is an amazingly terrible angle because my lower half looks extra large instead of its regular large.

Being me, I recorded part of our trip! I seriously LOVED their excitement about everything!



We were there in no time flat. We saw Bay Lake and other fun sights.

But what we were most excited about was MAGIC KINGDOM! And YAY, it looks like we were going to make it for the OPENING SHOW!!!