Disney Brides Conquer the World! A mini weekend getaway! Final Update-2/28

OMG you have some crazy pictures of me karen haha. good times. It was so freaky walking by the MK and NO ONE was there! we felt so stupid after. love the WCC pics. I am such a pot stirrer. poor pirate :rotfl2:
 
Great Updates Karen!!!!!! Love all your pictures :)
 

I never knew you could create your own Rice Crispy Treat either :confused3 I can't wait to do it in May

Love all your photos :banana:
 
Great update Karen, it just looks like you all had such a great time!!! Love Goofy's, I love making the Rice Krispy treat, it is so much fun and they are so yummy!!! Love the WL pictures, that place looks really neat, I might have to stop by there when I get back, it looks beautiful!!! So you are going on the Western Cruise?? Are you working in a trip to DL with that?? I love DLR, it is my favorite!!!:goodvibes
 
I can't believe you didn't know you could make your own treats at Goofy's!! That's the best part of DTD! :)
 
Great Updates Karen!!!!!! Love all your pictures :)

Thank you!!! :goodvibes

aww you girls are so funny!!! I am glad you all had a great time! :goodvibes

LOL Wish you could have been there!! Maybe next time! :) We had so much fun!

Great Update!!:thumbsup2

Thank you!!

I never knew you could create your own Rice Crispy Treat either :confused3 I can't wait to do it in May

Love all your photos :banana:

I know it was the GREATEST thing!! You so have to do it! They are awesome, too!!!! Thanks for reading along! :goodvibes

Great update Karen, it just looks like you all had such a great time!!! Love Goofy's, I love making the Rice Krispy treat, it is so much fun and they are so yummy!!! Love the WL pictures, that place looks really neat, I might have to stop by there when I get back, it looks beautiful!!! So you are going on the Western Cruise?? Are you working in a trip to DL with that?? I love DLR, it is my favorite!!!:goodvibes

Thank you so much!!! They ARE SO YUMMY I do agree! I can't wait for April to make another one! :rotfl2: The Wildnerness Lodge is gorgeous! I've heard it's really pretty at Christmas but I haven't been there during that time. No trip to DL unfortunately! It is my favorite too but we're just doing the Western and then an overnight stay at AKL in WDW. I'm still excited, though and can't wait!!!!

I can't believe you didn't know you could make your own treats at Goofy's!! That's the best part of DTD! :)

I know I agree now! lol! You guys are the ones who told me about it!! :rotfl2:

Yay! Another great update! :)

Thanks girl!! :goodvibes

oh! You have to try the gingerbread Mickey. It's the best I ever had!

Where do you get gingerbread mickey at? I've never heard of it! Are you talking about at Christmas time?

Final update on the way! :sad2:
 
Monday, January 12, 2009

We woke up on Monday morning and ate the fruit that we had taken out of the concierge room at the Poly from the night before! :rotfl2:

I got up about 30 minutes before the alarm because I wanted to go to the gift shop of the hotel and see if I could find a shirt for my mom. It was a shirt that I had seen at MGM that had Dopey on it and it said, "I'm with Grumpy". If you remember from our Christmas trip report, we jokingly said that my mom's nickname is Dopey and my dad's is Grumpy! Well, I was going to buy her the shirt at MGM the day before, but they didn't have any special Grumpy shirts so I put it back. We went to DTD that day and in the World of Disney store, I saw a men's shirt that said, "I'm Grumpy because you're Dopey!" I got so excited but my excitement didn't last long because WOD didn't carry the women's Dopey shirts!!! I bought the Grumpy one for my dad anyway in hopes that I would find the other shirt for my mom somewhere else. Ok so that takes us to this morning....

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I got to the gift shop before it even opened! lol!

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I walked around for a while and looked, but no such luck in this store! I was so bummed!!!!

After having no luck in the store, I went up to the check in counter to ask for a Magical Gatherings button. I'm not sure why we didn't get these on check in but I collect the buttons and I wanted one, dangit! lol! I got one for Heather, too! I then went back to meet up with Heather in our room and make sure everything was packed and ready to go! I also called and booked a bounce-back plan for September with my parents!!!! :woohoo: So excited! We'll be staying at the Wilderness Lodge!!!!

We had plans to meet up with Mary, Crystal, Jen, and Jeff at Epcot so we hurried to check out. The guy kept me on the phone FOREVER setting up the reservation for September! As we were checking out, we saw that our "free" upgrade wasn't so "free" after all! We booked a standard room. Disney upgraded us without asking, then charged us for the room! NO MA'AM!! Heather noticed and asked the lady about it. She had her manager look at the invoice and gave it to us at the price that we booked it for! Made no sense at all!!!!

So after all of that was said and done, we had bell services hold our luggage and we headed for the buses.

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We finally got to meet Mary! Yay! Mary's first response to Heather....can you guess?! "WOW! YOU'RE TALL!!" :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

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Thanks to Crystal and her magic card, I was able to get into Epcot for the day!! Yay!

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First stop: Soarin!

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The line was SO SHORT! I've NEVER walked through the Soarin line that fast before! We asked to be on the front row. Well apparently this honeymoon or engaged couple or something had asked the same thing but they wanted to pick their seats. The girl had heard that the edges of the rows on Soarin were really scary and she was afraid of heights so she was scared to ride on the end. We convinced them to move down just one spot (which didn't put them on the end) so that we could all sit together!

Guess who was on the end instead??

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ME!! Haha! During the ride, the girls kept saying, "Karen! Are you ok??" lol!

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After Soarin, Crystal FINALLY got to hold a Mickey Pumpkin!!! Yay!

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lol!

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We rode the land, too just for Crystal!

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This is my favorite scene on The Land! I just love puppies! Haha I'm a dork!

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The nine pound lemon!

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Cinderella Pumpkin!

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I never noticed this Hidden Mickey until today when I was resizing the picture! :)

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After The Land, we headed over to Test Track!

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We first stopped for a second to watch this band! They were really good!

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YAY MARY IS TALL ENOUGH TO RIDE!!! :rotfl2:

We kept getting questions all day about our sweatshirts...."WHO GOT MARRIED?!?" Our response...."We ALL did!!"

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To this response, Heather said, "TO EACH OTHER!" :rotfl2:

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Probably my FAVORITE picture from the whole trip!!! I love it!! :rotfl:

After Soarin, it was getting close to lunch time and our Magical Express bus left for the airport around 1:15 p.m.

I begged to first stop in Mouse Gears so I could see if they had the Dopey shirt for my mom.

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Thankfully, everyone agreed!

Guess what I found inside?! THE SHIRT! I actually prayed that morning on our way to Epcot! I was like, "God, I know this is like the DUMBEST request EVER, but PLEASE please let me find this shirt for my mom cause I know it would make her so happy!" Just goes to show you that He cares about the little things, too!

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I snapped this on our way out

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We arrived at DTD via Mary's Car! Yay!

Lunch was of course at Earl of Sandwich!!!

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I had a turkey sandwich that I don't remember the name of! lol!

We ate fast so we still had time to get Ice Cream at Ghirardelli! My favorite!!

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I'm looking forward to April for some more Mickey rice crispy treats and THIS drink in Ghirardelli! It was AMAZING! My mouth is watering just thinking about it! They crushed up pieces of their caramel chocolates and mixed them with ice cream! SINFUL!! lol!

Sadly, we didn't get to stay in Ghirardelli long because it was time to go! Heather and I made our way to the bus stop just as a bus was pulling away! UH OH!!!!

We waited and waited for a good 20 minutes until finally another bus pulled up. We made our way over to the P.I. side of DTD and apparently our driver was getting off of work and they were changing drivers. Well, this new driver got on the bus, took his SWEET PRECIOUS TIME getting all of his stuff together and we sat for another good ten minutes or so. We were so anxious and mad that finally Heather went and told him our dilemma! It was already like 1:05 p.m. by this point and we had to be at our Magical Express bus stop by 1:15 p.m. He abruptly and rudely told Heather that he could NOT speed in the bus! HELLO!!! That's NOT what she was asking you to do! She wants you to QUIT taking your precious time and get us to our hotel!!! Just GO already! Ugh. Finally, we left and arrived at our hotel at 1:15 p.m.!!! JoDee and Pat were on the bus and had saved us seats.

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This is us RUNNING through the resort to get to the bus stop!!!! lol!

As we arrived to the bus and told the bell hop to get our luggage, we were told by the bus driver that the bus was FULL and there was no room for us! Heather knew better because JoDee and Pat were saving us seats! She was like, "OH NO! We are supposed to be on the 1:15 p.m. bus! We ARE getting on this bus!" :rotfl:

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He let us on!! :rotfl2:

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WHEW!! We were EXHASUTED from running!!! lol!

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Yay for JoDee and Pat saving us seats!!!

We of course arrived at the airport like 2 hours before our plane time. The line at Southwest to check in your luggage was MASSIVE!!!! Pat somehow saw the guy at curbside with no line and waved us over to get our luggage there! THANK YOU Southwest curbside guy!!! lol! We tipped him generously and then went to wait on our planes!

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Sadly, the time had come to say goodbye and go our separate ways!

I had SUCH a wonderful trip and REALLY enjoyed meeting up with everyone! I can't wait till we do this again!!! I had such a great time with everyone!

We made it safely to New Orleans and then I made it back home in one piece! Pixie was overjoyed to see me! lol!

Here's Jason the next day enjoying his Disney treat!

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That's all until next year!!! Thanks for reading along!! :woohoo:
 
Wow Karen - what an awesome adventure!!!:goodvibes

It sounds like you guys had a complete blast! Very fun!

Love Jen and Jeff's concierge upgrade at the Poly...nice!!! Did you say you are going to be staying there in September? And also at Wilderness Lodge? Is it a split stay?

And what's this an April visit too? LOL! I'd say you are getting your use out of your Annual Pass!:)

Thanks for bringing us along on your trip!:goodvibes
 
As always Karen, a great update and an awesome trip report, I really enjoyed reading along and can't wait until your next one, that sounds cool about the cruise, at least you will get some Disney tied into it, that is the best!!!:goodvibes Your ice cream looks yummy!!! Sounds like a wonderful trip and so glad about the shirt, love the prayer!!!:thumbsup2
 
i forgot about some of those pics, TOO FUNNY! I was getting SO mad at that bus driver, he was literally taking FOREVER. I did NOT want to miss that bus! and then the never of the other driver to say they were full..um NO WAY! haha. I was determined

karen I have two pics of bobby after i gave him his RCT< one of him smiling adn holding it and one of him eating it, just lke jason! I love it!
 
i forgot about some of those pics, TOO FUNNY! I was getting SO mad at that bus driver, he was literally taking FOREVER. I did NOT want to miss that bus! and then the never of the other driver to say they were full..um NO WAY! haha. I was determined

karen I have two pics of bobby after i gave him his RCT< one of him smiling adn holding it and one of him eating it, just lke jason! I love it!

LOL That's funny! I was making Jason pose for the pictures! Haha! I was getting mad at that bus driver too and I couldn't believe when he told you that he wasn't going to speed!!! Crazy people! I seriously wanted to say, "SHE DIDN'T ASK YOU TO SPEED!!" Ugh.

Wow Karen - what an awesome adventure!!!:goodvibes

It sounds like you guys had a complete blast! Very fun!

Love Jen and Jeff's concierge upgrade at the Poly...nice!!! Did you say you are going to be staying there in September? And also at Wilderness Lodge? Is it a split stay?

And what's this an April visit too? LOL! I'd say you are getting your use out of your Annual Pass!:)

Thanks for bringing us along on your trip!:goodvibes

Thank you so much!!! We did have a blast! Loved every moment of the trip! No we aren't staying at the Poly! I WISH but we aren't! Lol! We are going on a Disney Cruise in April - taking a Western cruise on the Magic. The days are Saturday to Saturday. When we return to port, we're taking a bus to the Animal Kingdom Lodge for a 1 night stay then coming home on Sunday. No parks unfortunately but I did make reservations at Boma!!! Yay!!! Then in September, we're staying at the Wilderness Lodge as are my parents! I unfortunately don't have an Annual pass, either. Heather does, but I don't. We usually only visit Disney once a year so Annual passes wouldn't be worth it for us. Ah well. I'm glad you enjoyed the report!!!! I can't wait for the next one! :thumbsup2

Great report. I am glad you were able to find the shirt for your mother, yes even the little things.

Thank you! I was so excited to find that shirt!! I'm glad you understand! :goodvibes

As always Karen, a great update and an awesome trip report, I really enjoyed reading along and can't wait until your next one, that sounds cool about the cruise, at least you will get some Disney tied into it, that is the best!!!:goodvibes Your ice cream looks yummy!!! Sounds like a wonderful trip and so glad about the shirt, love the prayer!!!:thumbsup2

Thank you so much!! I can't wait for the cruise! Just about 6 more weeks! Yay!!! That ice cream was to die for! One of the reasons I want to stay an extra night after our cruise is so we can go to DTD for ice cream and mickey mouse rice crispy treats! :rotfl:
 




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