disney at christmas

[PHXscuba]

Our Christmas card photo last year was the family with Tigger (DH's favorite) from our trip in October 09. Love the picture with the whole Sweater Army -- that's a once-in-a-lifetime shot!

I get the big, soft, Mickey-eared gingerbread cookie because I am on the holiday tour on Friday!!!

My house is decorated for Christmas, so I am actually on schedule to leave. DH was wanting Christmas ideas and I told him I might just bring some things back from DLR for him to wrap up.

PHXscuba

p.s. I just noticed I'm over 1,000 posts ... woo hoo?

 

[PHXscuba]

Does anyone have anything specific they want me to get a picture of or check the price on next weekend? Reply to this thread or PM me. I'd be happy to do a little hunting for someone.

PHXscuba

 

[Sherry E]

Our Christmas card photo last year was the family with Tigger (DH's favorite) from our trip in October 09. Love the picture with the whole Sweater Army -- that's a once-in-a-lifetime shot!

I get the big, soft, Mickey-eared gingerbread cookie because I am on the holiday tour on Friday!!!

My house is decorated for Christmas, so I am actually on schedule to leave. DH was wanting Christmas ideas and I told him I might just bring some things back from DLR for him to wrap up.

PHXscuba

p.s. I just noticed I'm over 1,000 posts ... woo hoo?

Woo hoo! More than 1000 posts!!

You will get the big, portly, wide gingerbread cookie with sprinkled ears and red buttons on the tour!! That has got to be where the size difference comes in. They've got to be giving the bigger cookies to tour people.

You know what you can do for me - because you asked if any of us wanted photos of anything...take a photo of your holiday tour gingerbread cookie that you will pick up in ToonTown. Then, go into Marceline's or one of the other candy places that sells the smaller, narrower gingerbread cookies with chocolate Mickey ears and white buttons and take a photo of that cookie.

The post them both here, one after the other, when you get back - so we can see the difference!! Even though I know MattsPrincess' cookie was different than the one I saw in Marceline's, it will be nice to see both versions together!!

Those sneaky Disney people can't get a change in cookie size past us DIS'ers!!

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

I just posted this picture on the christmas card thread since it's my favorite disneyland holiday picture ever and I used it for my christmas card in 2008. I thought I should post it here too. Of course right when this amazing photo op came about it was also nap time for my then 2 year old who didn't cooperate very well.

We leave tomorrow at 4 am to drive down to Disneyland! I can't wait!

That's an awesome, extremely rare, shot. Enjoy your trip!

 

[pbbecker]

That's an awesome, extremely rare, shot. Enjoy your trip!

Thanks! I have a slight feeling we'll enjoy our trip!

 

[KCmike]

Don't want to be a downer on this thread, but I've spent so much time here planning and waiting with my Disney friends. I got the diagnosis of breast cancer this week, and we are cancelling our 30th anniversary trip. Our family is devastated, I have doctors and tests to deal with. We were supposed to be leaving tomorrow. We thought it might be good to get away for a week and have fun, but it's going to be too hard with this hanging over us, and we need to get the ball rolling on my treatment asap. Pretty rotten timing all round, before Christmas too. I will probably keep reading this thread anyway enjoying everyones fun vicariously. Give your loved ones an extra hug today and remember you just don't know what tomorrow is going to bring you.

More prayers coming your way. Keep the faith. Know that you have many people here supporting you.

 

[KCmike]

Omg Mike, you finally got to take a trip during Christmas! Did you absolutely love it? Did you do a trip report? I'm so jealous. This is the 2nd Disneyland holidays in a row that I'll be missing. I'm really enjoying the photos in this thread! I love your shot above! Yeah, who needs Photopass anyway?

No trip report. We went for a day (really about 8 hours) and had a great time. We spent the rest of our time in Monterey for our 20th Anniversary. First time we ever spent time away from the kids. Christmas was wonderful. We especially love IASM, HM Overlay, and the parade. I've been posting pictures on the picture of the day as well.

 

[KCmike]

 

[tdashgirl]

Don't want to be a downer on this thread, but I've spent so much time here planning and waiting with my Disney friends. I got the diagnosis of breast cancer this week, and we are cancelling our 30th anniversary trip.

Prayers for you and your family

 

[disneylovingfamily:4]

Doing last minute prep so we are all reaady to leave on Wed!! Got the oil changed n the car, doing laundry now to get everything lined up and packed!! Hope its not to early to pack, but I am getting so excited I cant help it LOL.. It has been a little tricky getting all this done since the kids dont know whats going on! We went and bought a stroller today and my 5 year old was asking why we needed a stroller LOL...

 

[PHXscuba]

OK Sherry, I will attempt to solve the Great Gingerbread Mystery of '10 next weekend. I was already planning a stop at Marceline's my first night, so I will be sure to pick up a Mickey-eared gingerbread man (mouse?) and take a picture of him in my average-sized hand. Then I'll get a picture of the tour cookie the next day. Anything for y'all -- I mean you're really twisting my arm here, you know!

If they aren't swamped, I'll see if the sweet-store CMs know anything about the differences between the goodies. I love chatting up CMs.

PHXscuba

 

[tksbaskets]

OK Sherry, I will attempt to solve the Great Gingerbread Mystery of '10 next weekend. I was already planning a stop at Marceline's my first night, so I will be sure to pick up a Mickey-eared gingerbread man (mouse?) and take a picture of him in my average-sized hand. Then I'll get a picture of the tour cookie the next day. Anything for y'all -- I mean you're really twisting my arm here, you know!

If they aren't swamped, I'll see if the sweet-store CMs know anything about the differences between the goodies. I love chatting up CMs.

PHXscuba

Tour cookie from 2009 YUMMMO~ Adult male hand....

Cookie consumed in about 5 sec after the pic~

 

[PHXscuba]

Is there a smiley for licking my computer screen? Drooling?

I think I gained a pound just viewing your photo, tksbaskets!! Thanks for sharing. I hope my cookie "measures up."

PHXscuba

 

[Sherry E]

The size of the cookie above is the same size that all the ears cookies used to be, whether on the tour or not. That was the size I bought at Marceline's in 2008. The only difference with the tour cookies was the color of the buttons and the ears. But you see how wide across they were? That is a portly waistline! That is not at all the size of the ones I saw in Marceline's 2 weeks ago, which were shorter, narrower across and with pointier feet.

MattsPrincess got a cookie on her tour similar to the one in the photo above, although they had changed the button color, I think, and the ear color. Still, MattsPrincess' tour cookie 2010 looks the same or very close in size to Tksbaskets' cookie from last year, but bigger than the ones that I saw this year.

So, PHXscuba, I anxiously await your side-by-side photos of the tour ears cookie and the Marceline's ears cookie!!!

 

[Sherry E]

Here is Marceline's ears cookie 2008 - you will find that the 2010 version is different when you get there!

 

[tksbaskets]

Man I want a gingerbread cookie right now!!

 

[Sherry E]

Man I want a gingerbread cookie right now!!

They sell them at WDW, too, I assume, right? So you'll still be able to have them when you head to Orlando. I wonder if their cookies have shrunk too!

 

[tksbaskets]

They sell them at WDW, too, I assume, right? So you'll still be able to have them when you head to Orlando. I wonder if their cookies have shrunk too!

I'll report back when I find out! I sure hope they sell them there too.

 

[mvf-m11c]

They sell them at WDW, too, I assume, right? So you'll still be able to have them when you head to Orlando. I wonder if their cookies have shrunk too!

The cookies looks so good that this time when I go to WDW in two weeks I have to get one.

 

[NewbieMouse]

We're going to be in the parks December 22, 23 & 24. I was checking out touringplans.com crowd calendar, and it rated Wed. Dec. 22th as the busiest day of the three (10/10 for the resort, 9.5 for DL and 9.8 for DCA). Does that sound right to you? I though Fri. (Xmas Eve) would be the worst, but they're rating it the least busy (8/10 for the resort, 6.2 for DL and 7.6 for DCA). They rate Thu. Dec. 23 as 8/10 (8.0 for DL and 8.8 for DCA). I got a three day hopper so we can have MM that day.

I'm starting to get crowd paranoia. I know it's going to be bad, but I was kinda leaving Xmas Eve as our "maybe not go as it will be too crazy" day. In all honesty, DH isn't aware day 3 is even an option, as he is less 'DLR-friendly' than the rest of us. I'm hoping the kids and I can turn him onto Day 3 while we are there, but even when I said two days, he took a couple of deep breaths

Do you think touringplans.com is way off? Maybe I should try ridemax?

FYI - You're not seeing double; I also posted this in the main forum in case there are those with experience using touringplans.com at times other than Christmas who might not look here.