Dis-ers, dis-ers, everywhere?? Hey, where's Waldo?? The End & Final Thoughts

[Sabrina90744]

Sabrina- The kids did quite well with the time change. We let them have 6 hours of sleep on travel day and EE slept 3 hours on the plane. They went to sleep around 10:30 on the first night. From that point on, they were acclimated to the new time zone. Now that we're home, they're all messed up. EE is down at 7:00pm and up at 5:30am. Minnie is back on regular time.

I guess I will have to try that this next trip. My kids had a terrible time adjusting to the time, but then again they stayed up until their normal bedtime 9 pacific time, 12 Orlando time, the bad part was they wouldn't get up until 9-9:30, we ended up having to miss or reschedule most of our breakfast adrs.


Re: Tortillas, yummmm girl there's nothin like the taste and smell of fresh tortillas. I make some every now and then, I finally got the masa recipe down, if only my tortillas would come out in circles and not shapes of countries.

Looking forward to the rest of your report!

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Oh my God, my little Monchhichi!! I had one of those when I was young, LOVED it to bits, brought it everywhere. It broke my heart when his fur ripped and the beans started coming out. I remember trying to stitch it time and time again but it just kept losing weight until it was skin and bone, well you know, padding-less. I was so sad. I had no idea they sold them in WS. Thank you!! I'm gonna get myself one - a cousin of my dearly departed one! I mean, would ya just look at the guy on the right sucking his thumb - you just don't get cuter than that.

I know! The one sucking his thumb is the one I was playing with and singing the song, until Joe made me put it down. I should have bought one just to spite him!!

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

We decide to do LOEMH, inspite of TGM's advice. Nini and Waldo are broken. Their legs are hurtin', their dogs are barkin'. We leave them behind and Joe, Walt and I take on MK with the kidlets.
Side Note: The following segment is just the opinion of the author. It is not meant to insult, offend or upset anyone. We are DLR AP and we do compare *our* DLR to MK in this installment.
Joe, Walt and I are up early and we stop at the Kona Koffee Bar for our fix and some breakie. Coffee and danish all around... whoo hoo. Breakfast of champions. We jump on the Monorail in record time and arrive at the gates at 7:40ish. We find a line with only 1 couple, a mama, daddy, and 1 kidlet, I think only 1. We're standing there for about 10 minutes and the mama turns around and tells me "Well, your just full of lime, aren't ya?" What, what, what??? I look at her stroller and see a LGMHPC hanging from her stroller. Now I have 2 LGMHPC's tied with lime green ribbon on each stroller. A foam MH on my lanyard, a LGMHPC on Joe's backpack, a LGMHPC on my bag. I am lime overkill. Sweet mother of Jesus! I have found one of my peeps! We start chatting about the LOEMH (little ones extra magic hour) and such. I give her my "Disness" card so she can find me on the boards. They open the turnstyles and away we go. I didn't get her dis name... darn it. Hopefully she finds me..... "Hi dis-er from MK!!!"
We hoof it down Main Street. Wait, wait... I see the castle... oh my... how beautiful.

Nice crane!
Wait a second, that castle makes *our* castle look like a Hamster house. Not cool. Joe tells me to "Move it" meaning, let's get over to Fantasyland. What the....?? We approach FL only to find a rope and see alot of characters playing around in an empty Fantasyland.

The characters make it over to the rope and we count down FL opening. Whoo hoo! We're off!! TGM says hit Dumbo NOW! We park the strollers and Joe and Walt take the kids on the ride while I take photos.

Next, we hit up Peter Pan. Hello... no wait! DLR always has a crazy wait. I'm talking 40 mins, no matter what time of the day it is. We never ride it at DLR. DLR seriously needs to get FP for Peter Pan. After this we see Peter and Wendy playing tag with a group of kids. I ask Minnie, "Do you want to play?" "Nah, she says let's hit some rides." Attagirl!! We walk over to Pooh, again no wait. Now I like the setting for the Pooh ride in DLR... it's set in the woods. But I like the ride part at MK.

After Pooh, we headed over to IASW. Now IASW is WAY better at DLR. The building at DLR is so much prettier. The rides are totally different. I like the ride better at MK, Joe and Walt like DLR. After having that song pounded into my head Minnie decide to hit the Teacups, but first a quick photo of Minnie with Minnie.

We grab our strollers and head that way. Little is EE has been possessed by the terrible 2's and refuses to leave his stroller. He normally loves this ride, but he's holding out for Waldo, his best friend to arrive and ride on rides with him. Okey dokey, kiddo.
After our spin around in the teacups, we receive a call from Nini and Waldo, they are in the park and we set up to meet at Space Mountain. We walk on over to SM and wait and wait and wait for Waldo and his lovely bride of 50 years to arrive. Do you sense a pattern here?? We grab some cokes and send Walt over to get FP's for SM. Waldo and Nini arrive and they want to take the kids on the People mover. We sure miss this ride at DLR. I don't know why they had to change it to the Rocket Rods. Now, don't get me wrong, the RR's were really cool, WHEN THEY WORKED!! That ride was always down. Now the track just sits there... empty. Walt scores us some FP's and we hit decide to go Standby first. We literally walk ALL the way down to the ride and board. Ok, this looks different. We're open minded. We jump on and away we go. I'm sorry, but this ride SUCKS compared to DLR. They should just tear it out and start again. DLR has real seats like BTMRR and music that is piped into the headrest to enhance your ride. We got off the ride and we all gave eachother the look and started laughing. We tossed our FP in the trash and went to find Nini and Waldo. We waited for Nini & Waldo and told them about SM, they decided to pass. Next we rode Buzz. We liked the queue for BL in MK.

But the blasters in DLR come off the cars and it's much easier to shoot with. Toward the end of the ride it broke down for 5 mins and we were stuck! Little EE wants off!! Now!! Just great. We finally make it off and head for.... Stitch. Minnie wants to ride it next. Now I've read all I can read about how terrible this ride is. And now I believe it. That ride was so obnoxious. But Minnie loved it! She was laughing out loud with her silly 4 yo laugh. It was cute Waldo and Nini want to take the kids on the Indy cars. So I send Joe over to take photos of them on the ride. Needless to say, Waldo didn't hear Joe yelling at him to stop for the photo op. Oh, well. Time for me to hit the shops. I find my brothers dog a cutie little princess cone hat thing with ears, a mug for bro, a Tink shirt for Minnie and a hat for Little EE. I find Walt who is talking to a CM who used to live in Lake Forest, which is where I used to work. I find some other things and purchase them and send them off to the resort. The CM ringing me up asks about my 50th Anninversary DLR lanyard and I tell him we are from California. He asks what city. Turns out his mother lives about a mile from us. What a small world.
We want to hit the other side of the park, so we decide to jump on the train in Toontown. I remind Minnie of the Barnstormer from the vacation planning video and how she was dying to ride. Well, she has a change of heart, but Little EE wants to ride. We measure him up and whoo hoo!! He makes it. I ride with EE and Walt rides with Nini. EE loved it! He was yelling and laughing, it was a great memory for me.

We made a quick stop at the boat for some water fun.

We get off in Frontierland and the others jump on Splash. I'm not in the mood, so I stay with the kids. Waldo decided to stay with me. We're waiting for the others when all of a sudden, Waldo disappears. Great, he leaves me with 2 strollers and 2 kids. I wanted to take a pic of them coming down the waterfall, so I manuever 2 strollers up and around the little hill. Tah da! There's Waldo sitting down watching everyone go down. Thanks alot, Waldo. I get out the camera and prep for the shot. Waldo tells me he just saw them on the top. So I figure I've got a minute. I point and am ready to shoot. I'm standing there, waiting.... waiting.... waiting... "Oh," Waldo says "I think we missed them." I turn around to look at Waldo. And there they go. I totally missed the shot. Thanks, again, Waldo. I call Joe and tell him, we're frying out here, we're going into Pecos to get some lunch, meet us there. I grab a couple tables and have Waldo sit while I get the kids some lunch. By the time I get back, the others are there and we're getting orders together. I order the BBQ pork sandwich and a coke. I'm feeding the kids and here comes my lunch. Ewwww... it looks like road kill. I pick at it.. there's too much meat and too much bread... gross. I drink the coke and eat the yummy Peanut Butter cup dessert. Next stop... POTC. I know I am going to get flamed... but I don't find Johnny Depp sexy in the least. I love his CJS character, but I find him kind of goofy. And Orlando Bloom, well, he just seems more cute, than sexy. I dunno. Anyway, we're heading toward POTC when Little EE tells me "Uh, oh, mama." Oh no... he opened his sippy cup and spilled all his milk all over him. He's going to smell like sour cream in a few minutes in this heat. Joe takes him into the bathroom and cleans him up while I head into the nearest store for a new $25 t-shirt. Ok, everything is good. We ride POTC, but it seems our of order compared to DLR. Weird. We decide we've melted enough for today and start to head toward Main Street, when who do we run into....

He was very convincing as CJS. We leave Nini and Waldo with CJS and we head over to the Aladdin carpets. Joe and Minnie ride while EE and I enjoy the Tiki water sprayers. We head out walking completely through the gift shops on Main St. Ahhhhh!!! Air conditioning!!! Since Minnie has an appointment at 2:10 pm at the BBB, we decide we should part ways in the Poly lobby with Nini and Waldo taking Little EE back to the room. Walt, Joe and I take Minnie to catch a DTD bus.

Sorry this is a long one! Hope you enjoy!

 

[S.Poppins]

Subbing. What I have read so far is great! I will be looking for the Monchichis when we go - I loved mine and could sing every bit of the song. I promised myself I would not stay up till midnight tonight, so I will catch up tomorrow.

 

[tammyandtommy]

thanks for the update! Can I just say I want to pinch your sons cute little monchichi cheeks!

 

[Al and Kate's Mom]

Still hooked!

 

[PrincessV]

Teriffic installment! I'm really enjoying your comparisons to DLR. I've never even considered a trip to CA for DLR, figuring everything's the same and we live less than 2 hours from WDW. I think you're changing my mind! Seriously? The BL blasters DISCONNECT at DLR??? That would soo improve my score!

What's next... and where's Waldo?!

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Teriffic installment! I'm really enjoying your comparisons to DLR. I've never even considered a trip to CA for DLR, figuring everything's the same and we live less than 2 hours from WDW. I think you're changing my mind! Seriously? The BL blasters DISCONNECT at DLR??? That would soo improve my score!

What's next... and where's Waldo?!

Yup, the blasters DISCONNECT You should come! Leo would love it at DCA, they have Flicks Fair (Bug's Life). When you walk into Flicks Fair, everything is huge. It's like you're a little bug. Very cute. My kids love it.
I even volunteer to meet you there!

 

[DisneyObsession]

I am sitting here at work, catching up on your TR! I Love it!!! Can't wait to "hear" more about it!

 

[Becky521]

"Ohhhh... feutiful, pireworse" he says.

I think I am in love with little EE Your kids are absolutely beautiful.

We used to travel with a Waldo. Makes the trip interesting. Loving this TR.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Props to the peeps!!:

Annamonte, Bushdianee, dean556, uhtimex, s.poppins, disneyobsession: Thank you, thank you!!

UM: Dontcha love toddler talk? It almost makes up for the tantrums. I can't figure out how *they* learn to throw tantrums??? I could just see EE and Nora together. He'd probably just stare at her. He loves blondes. He'd give her the "How you doin'?" Joey Tribbiani line.

Al&Kate Mom: I NEED a support group. Where do I sign up? Little EE has been to the ER 3 times. 2 times already this year, this was his first set of stitches. The other times were for really bad bumps on the noggin. I swear I'm going to put that kid in a bubble.

DebIreland: Thanks! Boys aren't easy. Girls are drama, but I'd take drama over the crazy active boys! His famous line is "Saw-we, mama" He just melts my heart!

Sabrina: I don't have the arm power for homemade tortillas. Besides, mine also looking like obscure countries. Where in LA are you?

Tommy&Tammy: He's got the chubbies all over. Chubby cheeks, chubby thighs, chubby knees. He gets his cheeks squeezed all the time from the little old ladies in the stores. I just want rub his legs with butah, and chew on 'em!!

Becky521: Thanks! Feutiful is a new word. He learned in WDW, 'cause I kept saying, "Oh, look at the beautiful.... castle... princess...pool...!" Now, everything is beautiful!

Will try to get a new installment up today. I'm redoing EE's room from a baby nursery to a big boy room. He chose the "Cars" theme. Thank goodness, that's easy! Gotta finish painting today!

Hope I didn't miss anyone! I want to thank everyone for reading!! Hope you enjoy reading about my crazy family! I know I do!!

 

[Sabrina90744]

Props to the peeps!!:


Sabrina: I don't have the arm power for homemade tortillas. Besides, mine also looking like obscure countries. Where in LA are you?

Girl, I only do a dozen at a time and thats only every few months. Guerrero makes a pretty good tortilla that is raw you cook it on comal and they are pretty close to the real thing.

I live in Lynwood (near South Gate 710/105) and you?

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Girl, we're neighbors... I'm in Whittier. 605/105.
Oh yes, Guererro are the best. I used to live in OC and all they sell there is Mission.... ewww... those are frisbees.
I can't believe we are talking about tortillas!!

 

[Sabrina90744]

Girl, we're neighbors... I'm in Whittier. 605/105.
Oh yes, Guererro are the best. I used to live in OC and all they sell there is Mission.... ewww... those are frisbees.
I can't believe we are talking about tortillas!!

We are neighbors, cool!! I know where Whittier is, my old stomping grounds!!


So are you going to Mickey's Halloween Treat??

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Yes, we have tickets for 10/29.
Have you been before? We went when they had it at DLR like 10 yrs ago. and then we went again last year. It was so much fun!

 

[Sabrina90744]

Yes, we have tickets for 10/29.
Have you been before? We went when they had it at DLR like 10 yrs ago. and then we went again last year. It was so much fun!

No this will be our first time, we have tickets for the 31st. I havent even told the kids yet, they are going to be soo surprised to find out when they get up for school that day we are all playing hookey for the day. Now I just have to figure out where I will get them changed at.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Day 3 Continued:

We part ways with Waldo and Nini as they take the sleeping EE to their room. Joe, Walt, Minnie and I jump on a bus to DTD. We hike over to World of Disney and find the BBB. We're about 40 mins early. Walt and Joe decide it's too pink in here for them, so they take off and stay in contact via cellphone. A woman infront of us has a small toddler who is checking in, but the little girl doesn't want to do it. The woman has to cancel the appointment. We score her appointment. The girl at the front desk checks us in and asks me Minnie shoe and dress size. They give us a brochure that shows all the different hairstyles available and tell us to walk around until our pager goes off. We look around the store which is Princess overkill. I feel like I'm in pink hell. Minnie on the other hand is in pink heaven. Our pager goes off and we are assigned Fairy Godmother in training, Ginny. Ginny is not at all what I expected. She is very matter of fact and sort of cold at first. I can tell she's trying really hard to be like the others, who are all "oooohy and ahhhhhy" over everything. FGM Ginny tells Minnie there is a surprise in the dressing room for her. Minnie and I head into the dressing room and there hanging is a white garment bag is her Princess Aurora gown complete with shoes, wand and crown. We dress and return to Ginny for Minnies makeover.

Poor Minnie is sooooo tired, she's having a hard time staying awake. She loves her hair brushed, so this is very relaxing to her. We're almost finished, so I call Joe to come over and see his princess. Joe arrives and we're waiting for Minnie to finish. Joe casually asks me "How much is this?" I whisper, "About $200, but it includes the dress, shoes, hair, nails, make-up, wand, and crown and a photo shoot."
Joe:
Me:
I tell him, "Just be quiet and let the girl enjoy her day." We're sitting there and a father brings his 3 little girls in. Joe looks at me and says "$200, $400, $600....." I tell him, aren't you glad you only have 1 girl?
Princess Minnie is done and we walk out of there with a smiling Princess. It was worth every cent. We head over to Guest Services in DTD where they do the photo shoot. I takes all of 10 minutes for posing and pictures printed.

We head over to the buses. I'm worried about Minnie is this dress in the heat. We stop and get her a bottle of water. There is a little girl walking infront of us with her family, who is dressed like Cinderella, just from BBB as well. The girls get lots of attention as we make our way to the buses. Thank goodness, the bus comes, pronto. We get on the bus and so does Cinderella and her family. Poor Cinderella is tired and throwing a fit on the bus, screaming and yelling and hitting her mom. Now, I may get flamed for this, BUT....Our kids are not perfect, but neither kid has ever been a screamer, yeller, or hitter. They know temper tantrums don't work with us. Especially with Joe. I feel so bad for parents when this happens. They look helpless and frustrated. Now Cinderella's mother starts yelling and screaming at this child in the middle of the bus. I'm not a child psycologist, but I don't that helps. The poor girl screams and cries herself to sleep, the child that is. Of course Minnie is all eyes and ears and asks me, "Why is she crying?" "Why is her Mama yelling?" I tell Minnie, "Cindy is tired." Minnie shrugs and puts her head of fake hair in my lap and falls asleep, too. We stop at Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon, I can't remember. Anyway, a family of 5 gets on. The husband looks annoyed. Half of them sit to the left of us and the other half sit across from us. The husband tells his wife, "We're neva gonna make it" With a Pittsburgh accent. She tells him, "Well, that's yor fawlt you had to ... blah, blah.. blah, blah... blah... It's not my problem... blah, blah, blah.......
I can't believe what I am witnessing. It's very uncomfortable to sit between people you don't even know, who are having a public argument. Very weird.
Weird people.
Anyway.....
We get back to room and Minnie doesn't want anyone to see her until we leave for dinner. We all wash the *glistening* off. (That was for you ET) And dress for dinner. We jump on the monorail and head over to the GF for dinner at 1900 Park Fare. Oh my, that was a great buffet. I'm not a huge fan of buffets, Minnie is. Her favorite restaurant is Hometown Buffet We all sit to eat and after the first bite, Joe looks at me and says "This sure isn't Hometown Buffet!" We all We take lots of pics with Perla and Suzie. Little EE won't take a photo with character. He plays shy. We got him a few times with Prince Charming....

We leave 1900 PF, not before a quick photo with the REAL Fairy Godmother.

We head back to the hotel. We've nothing planned this evening, but maybe fireworks from the beach. We're back at the Poly and Minnie is getting alot of attention. She's having a hard time processing it, so I encourage her to at least say "Hi" back to people when they make a comment about her. We walk past a little girl maybe 3 yo and she says "Hi Sleeping Beauty" with such enthusiasm. Minnie giggles and says to me, "She called me Sleeping Beauty" Minnie says "Hi!" and the little girl yells back to her "I love you Sleeping Beauty!" and Minnie replys "I love you, too!" Oh my goodness, it was sooo sweet! After that encounter, Minnie had no problem throwing her Princess wave to all who said "Hi, Princess!"
We're not ready to go back to the room, so we do some shopping in the resort gift shops. I take some photos of the resort.

We all decide to do some night swimming, so we get our suits on and head to the pool, only to be told, the pool is closed due to high levels of electricity in the air. We head to the beach and score a hammock and decide to wait for the fireworks. Walt joins us on the beach. We're watching some serious lightening. Walt decides the lightening is too much, so he hightails it back to the room. I mean this 6'3" kid is running like a little girl for shelter. Joe and I are cracking up at the sight. We start to feel rain and see BIG lightening and head back to the room. Our room was a mess, so Joe and the kids watch the rain and lightening while I organize our room and prepare us for the MK tomorrow. I tell Joe, go down to the Tambu lounge and get me a cocktail. He take Walt with him and they bring me a yummy Mai Tai. We get the kids bathed and ready for bed, throw Chicken Little on the DVD player and we're off to sleep.

I think...
I think Little Ones Magic Hour is great.... I think Space Mountain is better at DLR.... I think Pukos Bill is yucky.... I think they Poly is really beautiful...I think I'm not even close to being ready to go home.

Where's Waldo Count: 2
Meltdowns: 2

Up next: Another day at MK, & CP and my $20 mistake & MGM
It's a great big beautiful tomorrow.......

 

[Al and Kate's Mom]

We walk past a little girl mayeb 3 yo and she says "Hi Sleeping Beauty" with such enthusiasm. Minnie giggles and says to me, "She called me Sleeping Beauty" Minnie says "Hi!" and the little girl yells back to her "I love you Sleeping Beauty!" and Minnie replys "I love you, too!" Oh my goodness, it was sooo sweet!

I LOVE this - what a great little princess you have - please tell her that she has a fan on the DIS!

 

[HMHunters]

Joe casually asks me "How much is this?" I whisper, "About $200, but it includes the dress, shoes, hair, nails, wand, and crown and a photo shoot."
Joe:
Me:

My DH would'nt have been He would have been Thankfully there was no BBB when my DH was little. We just had to do the $40 hair wrap. (Which I discovered could be done at home with $.07 worth of embroidery floss! I could have made a fortune off all the little girls in the neighborhood after I learned how to do this.)

But the pictures are BEAUTIFUL! She is definitely worth every penny. What a pretty pretty princess.

Can't wait to read more - Waldo was surprisingly quiet on this one!

 

[PrincessV]

I feel like I'm in pink hell.

But, oh boy, was it worth it - Minnie is ADORABLE!

Of course Minnie is all eyes and ears and asks me, "Why is she crying?" "Why is her Mama yelling?" I tell Minnie, "Cindy is tired."

I always struggle with that one - how does one explain to a toddler the many different parenting "techniques" and why some kids get yelled at, ridiculed, belittled, and others don't? I think you and Minnie both handled it well!

I tell Joe, go down to the Tambu lounge and get me a cocktail. He take Walt with him and they bring me a yummy Mai Tai.

I bet it hit the spot! Definitely one of the drawbacks when I traveled with DS solo. WDW should start a drinks room service program...