Dreams Do Come True in Port Orleans. ~~*The End! Final Thoughts. 2/25 Pg. 41*~~


Friday January 15th.

Jen and I were up bright and early this morning. In fact, I woke up about 15 minutes before the alarm was due to go off so I got up and showered early.

I did more blister prevention this morning. I had a routine at this point. First I put on the Asic brand anti chafe cream, kind of like body glide. Then I would let that dry and then put the powder into my sock and swish it around. I also wore my double layer socks that I bought for the first time on this trip. I was anxious but I was prepared. In my park bag I made sure to pack extra body glide packets, bandaids, moleskin and blister bandaids.

It was a process to say the least.

I had a bit of a food protection process too!! Leslie was kind enough to let me borrow her foot powder and I swished that around my sock and then I band-aided up the areas I knew were sensitive!! We were quite the pair when it came to our feet LOL (Pun was totally not intened).

We left our room at just about 8AM and headed to Hollywood Studios. We were the FIFTH car in the parking lot. I was amazed. We made it on the tram and then to the turnstiles and Jen was the FIRST person in line. We had good mojo going this morning.

I may or may not have had a first at the turnstile dance that I participated in!! It was great fun!!!

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We met a very nice couple in line…I believe they were from Texas. Is that right, Jen? That is correct, they were from the Dallas area! I had a great time talking to them about things in Texas!!! They were old park pros and I was telling them about the horror of the TSM stampede the previous day. I was nervous to say the least. Jen and I agreed that I would stay back and just let her go for the fastpasses and we would meet at the standby line when I got there. I would NOT be trampled two days in a row.

When they let us into the street up to the rope, Jen was right up against the rope and I was a few people back. The nice couple let me cut in front of them to be with Jen.

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We watched the morning show and then we were OFF.

Or were we?

This day the CM’s made a chain, linked arms and everything and led the crowd towards Toy Story Mania. They most definitely did NOT do this the day before. This way is so much better. It made me wonder if someone had gotten hurt the previous day and they had decided to go back to doing this. In September 2008 they had done this when Marc & I had done rope drop for TSM. They were pulling people out of line who were running, people were much more calm and orderly and when we got to the TSM area we had green army men barking out orders to march nicely. Much, much better than the day before.

Jen was the second person at her fast pass machine and we were quickly in the standby line. We didn’t wait very long, even shorter of a wait I had the previous day.

Apparently the mojo was following with me, because for the first ever I was behind someone that was quick and the machine worked!! It was great to get in and get out of that line and meet up with Leslie to ride standby!!

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Jen beat me. Bah! But I had better accuracy.

Accuracy always thwarts me LOL!!! I did have a lot of fun playing the game!!

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My favorite part of the ride decorations.
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After TSM, I noticed that Buzz and Woody were in the window of their greeting area. They weren’t scheduled to be out until 10 so I was excited. We hopped in line.

Picture for Jordan. LOL!! Got to love being able to act goofy at Disney!!
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I love this picture of us! It’s so cute. We only had to wait a few minutes too, that made it even better. Character mojo was with us that is for sure!!!

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When we got out, we saw that the green army men were still out. So we got in a line. When he was done with the little girl in front he just marched away! The CM told us to follow him and we did.

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I wish we had done pictures with us saluting…oh well. Oh that would have been such a cute idea!!

We decided to head over to The Voyage of the Little Mermaid, we had about 10 minutes to catch the next show. We made it and got to sit in the front row. Jen, you did a bandaid maneuver in this show, right? Yup, I was feeling a bit of discomfort but after some quick fixing everything was okay, I would still be a bit paranoid throughout the day. However I think we both agree a lot of it was probably just in my head LOL!!!

My feet were feeling GREAT! No Bandaids had been used by me and no blisters had developed. I was loving my blister products and the double layer socks.

Continued in the next post....
 
The show was just as wonderful as I remembered. Little Mermaid is still my favorite Disney Princess movie.

It was a great show!! I really liked the Under the Sea scene!!!

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After Little Mermaid we decided to grab another set of TSM fastpasses and then ride Great Movie Ride. Jen of course requested the Cowboy scene and that is the one we got. We had a great older gentleman as our CM and I really enjoyed his take on the narration.

I love me that Cowboy scene, only the 2nd time I have ever seen it, both times with Leslie!!! I just get so excited when the bank explodes...great stuff!!!!

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I had been exchanging texts with Melissa (mickeysmyboy) throughout the morning and during the ride she told me that they were headed in our direction. So once we got off GMR, we hung around and sure enough after a few minutes her family was there.

She was so delightful and her kids were beautiful. Her youngest son was quite the flirt with us! Her DH was gracious enough to take a picture of us. What a great DISmeet! I really enjoyed meeting up with Melissa and her family! I enjoyed talking hockey with her hubby! Prince P would have been proud LOL!!!

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After saying our goodbyes, Jen and I headed over to the first American Idol show. Neither of us had seen it before and it was on my list of must dos and I’m glad we did. It was quite enjoyable! I have to admit I wasn't sure about it, because I haven't watched American Idol before!! I was glad we did it, was very fun!

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Our first singer was a 14 year old girl and I don’t remember what she sang. Do you, Jen? She was quite good! You could tell she was nervous but she did a really good job. I have to agree, did a great job!! She sang a song by Taylor Swift I believe, Our Song!!!

Next was a female singer, probably around our age and she sang Reflections from Mulan. I think Reflections is what it is called. She did really well! I liked her a lot. She had a amazing voice!!!

Third was a gentleman from England, who wore manpris and who sang Billy Ray Cyrus’ song Achy Breaky Heart. It was funny, he sang okay but the choice of song was just too much for me to take him seriously.You have to give kudos to him though, it takes guts to sing that song in front of a crowd LOL!!!! I would have never done it LOL!

The judges were good, they really were good imitations of the real AI judges.

I was very happy that the second singer won! She really deserved it.

After Idol we walked towards the Animation Building. We tried to go through the gift shop like we did in May but there was a CM stationed there and they would not let us through. So we had to go through the main entrance but they did have a path so you didn’t have to sit through the video.

We got inside and Sorcerer Mickey didn’t have a line!! So we met him, the CMs surrounding Mickey were less than great. They weren’t really paying attention to their jobs so we quickly moved on to the Up Characters.

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I was very excited to meet them, we passed on them in May and I regretted that. We only had about five minutes to wait and it was our turn.

Jen has been planning on telling Dug, “SQUIRREL!” And she did. It was really funny because Dug perked right up and tried to find the squirrel. I really loved meeting them. They were so cute. I like our pictures too. They came out well. The "Squirrel" line was a lot of fun!!! Dug acted just as if he had seen the squirrel...way to funny!!!

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After meeting the Up Character we decided to head towards Muppets. On the way we stopped at Writer’s Stop and ordered the delicious carrot cake cookie to share. We noticed that they had the Mary Poppins cookbooks here too! We almost bought them but didn’t want to have to carry them for the rest of the day.

Let’s chat about the carrot cake cookie, shall we?

So.

Freaking.

Yummy.

It was so good, so rich, so sweet, SO YUMMY! I’m glad we split it and even then we didn’t finish it all because we had an unexpected lunch ADR coming up. We had added it this morning before we left the room. I’m not telling where yet because I’m mean like that. The carrot cake cookie was the perfect mid-morning snack.

Ditto to everything you said!! The cookie was so good, but so rich!!! My favorite part was definitely the icing...such good cream cheese icing!

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Jen took this picture for Patricia and her Alice Birthday preparations.

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We explored the Streets of America. Stopping at the Chinese Laundry to take pictures for Jordan. Awful pictures but there you go. That is my princess kung-fu in case you are wondering Jordan!!!

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Then we went to the Singing in the Rain umbrella and tried to do not so normal poses. I love these pictures of us, I think they are going to get framed and placed on my wall at work!!!

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We decided to hit up Muppets 3D. It was good show like always but I’m ready for an update. I love the muppets and they deserve better. We browsed around the Muppet shop and then decided to check in for our lunch early at……..

Coming up….

Mystery ADR. Can I enter my evil laugh...MMMMMUUUUUUAAAHHHHH

Another change of plans.

And EVEN more changes of plans. OOOH changes...I like changes LOL!!!
 
Hi

I have been lurking and decided to post :goodvibes

Great DHS day! Yay for no TSM stampede :yay:

About the Muppet 3d movie :3dglasses they are updating it :woohoo: It will be in Disney digital 3d and I am guessing they will be making a new movie for it :confused3 either way it will look better :thumbsup2
 
That carrot cake cookie looks just like my pumpkin whoopie pies - cream cheese filling and all! :thumbsup2

Excited to find out where the ADR is for! :woohoo:
 
Hi

I have been lurking and decided to post :goodvibes

Great DHS day! Yay for no TSM stampede :yay:

About the Muppet 3d movie :3dglasses they are updating it :woohoo: It will be in Disney digital 3d and I am guessing they will be making a new movie for it :confused3 either way it will look better :thumbsup2

Thanks for delurking!! :goodvibes

I've heard the rumors about the Muppets so I'm really glad that they are re-making the movie! I'm sure it will be fabulous! :thumbsup2
 
My goodness you are updating machines! I love it.

What a super fun day. Love the pics of an empty DHS while you are standing waiting for rope drop. Glad the CM's handled the running of the fast passes better this day!

Great pictures of you too! As others have said through your words and pictures the enthusiasm really is contagious and I can tell you guys had a really great time.

Sorry to hear you are no longer planning on Oct, Leslie. :sad1:

Looking forward to the mystery ADR and ch-ch-ch-changes. popcorn::
 
I'm so glad they were better at keeping the TSM stampede at bay this time!

That carrot cake cookie looks AMAZING. Something else I need to try. I love both your singing in the rain pictures, so cute!
 
Voting for Sci-Fi for Lunch! (for some reason i think you had Brown Derby at another time...or cancelled it all together??? You changed too many times- I lost track :headache:)
 
My goodness you are updating machines! I love it.

What a super fun day. Love the pics of an empty DHS while you are standing waiting for rope drop. Glad the CM's handled the running of the fast passes better this day!

Great pictures of you too! As others have said through your words and pictures the enthusiasm really is contagious and I can tell you guys had a really great time.

Sorry to hear you are no longer planning on Oct, Leslie. :sad1:

Looking forward to the mystery ADR and ch-ch-ch-changes. popcorn::
I was very happy that the CM's handled the whole TSM thing much better.

Thank you. We had a really great trip. I like writing about it while it's all still fresh in my mind.

I'm sorry about October. You, MEK and maybe CP (who I was going to convince to take another trip) are the main reasons it was hard for me to let go of October but I just don't think it's going to work out. Who knows though, things might change.


I'm so glad they were better at keeping the TSM stampede at bay this time!

That carrot cake cookie looks AMAZING. Something else I need to try. I love both your singing in the rain pictures, so cute!
It was much better! I can't say enough good things about that carrot cake cookie, so yummy.

Voting for Sci-Fi for Lunch! (for some reason i think you had Brown Derby at another time...or cancelled it all together??? You changed too many times- I lost track :headache:)
Hmmm...you'll have to wait and see. :rolleyes1
 
Yes there was!

35% off Mods.

40% off Deluxes.

45% off Deluxe Villas.

And I'm pretty sure there was 30% off values but I'm not 100% sure. Someone may have used the bounceback....:rolleyes1

uh oh Jordan....

Wow what a morning!

I am so happy that the CM's handled the TSM rush better, I just wouldn't have expected that in Jan at all!

You had amazing character mojo and it's only Jen's first full day, wow! Love that the new shirt is already on :)

Very cute about Dug. Love the look of that Alice book. We enjoyed AI, glad you did too, we were pleasantly surprised at the quality of the singing.

I cannot believe I was following you AND Melissa on FB and didn't even realize you had a DISmeet in there! How very cool.

Where or where are you going for lunch?
I want that cookie!!!!!!!!!
 

We explored the Streets of America. Stopping at the Chinese Laundry to take pictures for Jordan. Awful pictures but there you go. That is my princess kung-fu in case you are wondering Jordan!!!

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Then we went to the Singing in the Rain umbrella and tried to do not so normal poses. I love these pictures of us, I think they are going to get framed and placed on my wall at work!!!

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We decided to hit up Muppets 3D. It was good show like always but I’m ready for an update. I love the muppets and they deserve better. We browsed around the Muppet shop and then decided to check in for our lunch early at……..

Coming up….

Mystery ADR. Can I enter my evil laugh...MMMMMUUUUUUAAAHHHHH

Another change of plans.

And EVEN more changes of plans. OOOH changes...I like changes LOL!!!

Thanks for the Chinese Laundry shout out. Jen-too funny with the combo princess/kung fu pose...

Great umbrella pix!
 
Hmmmmm mystery ADR....:confused3
OMG that cookie looks amazing! Super moist!
Yay for the Dismeet with Melissa! :goodvibes I was wondering if you were going to meet up with her! :thumbsup2
Love all of your character pictures! So funny about Dug! I hope I get to see them ;) Kevin really cracked me up in the movie too. :rotfl2:
Hahahahahaha LOVE your Jordan pictures!!! :rotfl2:
Cute poses for the umbrella! Those are both very frame worthy! :worship:

Tracy
 












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