Eat, drink, and we are married! Our Disneymoon with the Mouse!

[TCKK]

Sounds like a fun report. Count me in!

Cathy

 

[Monica20039]

Can't wait to here more

Thanks for reading! Welcome!

This is going to be great! I love hearing both perspectives!

We love sharing both perspectives! He's vanilla and I'm chocolate when it comes to our personalities.

Loving your TR so far - can't wait for more!

Thanks for reading!

Ok....time to get the out and sit back and relax cuz this is going to be one fun trip!! That old can wait!!!

Hey, gimme some popcorn too!

subscribing

More popcorn...welcome!!

Congrats on your marriage! Great start to a tr! I have a feeling the two-sided tr is going to be good!!!

Thank you! Thanks for reading!

Sounds like a fun report. Count me in!

Cathy

Glad to have you here Cathy!

 

[Monica20039]

In case you all want some Culinary Porn from our honeymoon, here's the link to our Dining Reviews!

Don't read on an empty stomach- may cause severe hunger pangs and Disney withdrawals.

 

[Monica20039]

Plane that is supposed to fly over and around a major hurricane.

Like I was saying...we're at the gate waiting for our flight. Daniel is checking football stuff, I am reading threads on Disney dining here at the DIS. Basically I am trying to keep myself occupied.

Some more people arrive and look at us because we're matching:

Whatever, we're newlyweds and we're entitled to be cheesy. Yup.

Finally, we board the plane and the pilot assures us that he is going to fly above and around the hurricane. Fine by me. I'm sitting by the window, and I am super paranoid. The stewardess comes by and asks what I want to drink and I want to say, "Top shelf margarita" but realize that it's 10:45 a.m. I opt for coffee. I don't like coffee. Eh.

Coffee comes in the middle of some awful turbulence. Lovely.

Pilot announces, "If you look to the left you can see the hurricane folks."

I snap a picture at this point:

If anyone sees the hurricane, please let me know.

I shut my window, and try to drink my coffee. I'm so occupied with not spilling hot liquid on myself nor my Mickey shirt that I stop paying attention to the turbulence. Eventually the flight is smooth again, and all is well in the world.

We land, which is the most terrifying part of the flight to me, and I am super psyched to be in Orlando, FL. It's beautiful!! The weather channel predicted rain, but there wasn't a cloud in sight.

My happy mood is quickly gone when I realize I have no earthly idea how to get to the Disney Magical Express counter. We get on the shuttle, and then we get off.

Me, "I think we get on the shuttle."

Daniel: "I don't."

Me: "I'm pretty sure."

Daniel gets off the shuttle.

Fine, be difficult.

We walk around some more with dumb looks on our faces.

Me: "Let's get on the shuttle."

Daniel:"I told you we should get on the shuttle."

Me: "What?!"

We get on and finally arrive on the right side. Then a TSA person sees us in our Mickey shirts and points us in the right direction. Finally, we see a CM holding a DME sign.

I approach her and she informs me to walk roughly half a mile, take the escalator down, and I would then see the desk. We walk. We go down the escalator. We finally see the DME desk. A couple gets in line in front of us, and we are about to follow them when a CM tells us only 1 of us can go check in.

Me: "But they...fine."

I didn't have the energy to protest. I check us in, we walk down a little red carpet onto bus 1 to the All Star Resorts. Our driver was friendly, and the video they show really gets you into the Disney spirit.

I heard about long waits for the DME, but it was a quick and painless process to us. We got from Orlando MCO to our resort in about 40 minutes. Not bad considering our bus made a stop at All Star Sports first.

After being dropped off, we proceed to check in. The CM was helpful and friendly, so I decided to ask for a King bed.

CM: "Ma'am we don't have many available."

Me: "I understand, could you please check though? It'd make our day!"

CM: Winks at me and talks to some girl for a minute, and then comes back with the news, "We can get you into a King room away from the pool but close to the main building."

SCORE! The rest of the check-in process was easy and quick.

Then we walk over to room 2642 at the All Star Music Jazz Inn 2...

To be continued!

 

[freeair]

wow congrats to the newlywed..well we are planning to go there and i can't wait to see there..

 

[patches07]

Can't wait to see more pictures.

 

[heaven2dc]

Hurray!! You landed safe and sound! I forgot to tell you congratulations in my earlier post - CONGRATULATIONS NEWLYWEDS!!

I can't think of a better place to spend a honeymoon - btw the popcorn bucket is getting low so am putting it down to do some actual work (since I am reading this at work ) and will keep my eyes posted for your next update!

 

[butiflfeet]

I made my way over here from the link in your food porn thread. I can't wait to hear more about your trip, it's helping me pass the time until we leave for our anniversary trip in a couple weeks!

 

[TCKK]

Looking forward to more story and more pics!

 

[Monica20039]

Okay I am back!

We head to our room, and I expecting the worse. The WORSE. Why?

Trip Advisor!

There could be a million good reviews and 10 horrible ones, and I will remember the horrible ones.

We open the door, and I am surprised. In a good way.

The room is really nice! It's clean, there's cute decor, it's spacious, nice bathroom, privacy curtain (next time please use it Daniel), and plenty of storage for our 9 day trip. Perfect!

Here are some pictures:

We freshen up, and head on out to Disney's Hollywood Studios!

We have an ADR at Sci-Fi- You can read our review here.

As soon as we walk into the park, we head on over to the Tower of Terror. Daniel is afraid to get on it, so I tell him to wait in line with me, and that there's a chicken exit. We enter the library, and we cannot hear a word of the video because there is a large group of teenagers. Boo!

We then get in another line, and Daniel is looking for an exit. I know where it is, but I play dumb. He doesn't ask anyone, so on we go! Luckily (for me anyway) we end up on the very front row! How exciting!

The ride was so much fun! Not as scary as I thought it would be, and Daniel was laughing the entire time. This would be common throughout our trip- I think some people scream on rides, and Daniel happens to laugh on them. Fair enough.

After the ToT, I run over to Aerosmith only to find out it is out of order for the evening. Alrighty.

Then we go to Star Tours. To get him on the ride I tell him it is a Jedi training show. He whips out his light saber keychain and on we go...and then once he sees what it really is, he gives me a mean look.



But once the ride starts, he really likes it! He laughs through the whole thing.

Whew.

Then we walk over to get on the Great Movie Ride, AKA the Great Waste of Time Ride. I didn't like it, but we did take some pictures:

I don't understand why so many rides at Disney are like this. Get on boat, ride through some scenery and narration, get off. Good thing there are plenty of other things to do besides these type of rides!

Rush over to the Toy Story Mania ride- wait time 80 minutes.

Daniel: "Let's go."

Monica: *remembers Daniel being uncooperative at airport* "I'm getting in line."

Daniel: "Fine."

Total wait time: 20 minutes!

I absolutely loved the decor! Here are some pictures:

 

[Monica20039]

I loved the Toy Story Mania attraction. My arm was killing me by the time it was over, but it was tons of fun. I scored around 140,000 and Daniel got about 136,000. He didn't care for the ride much, but I wanted to go on it over and over to try and beat my score.

But then I saw a green creature, and I ran.

Mike Wazowski!!

Monsters Inc. is my favorite movie. I get in line to take a picture with them, and it was so fun!

I also took pictures with the Disney Villains (very amusing, when they saw our Just Married buttons they said "How unfortunate"- hilarious), Chip and Dale (not the Chippendales), and Pluto.

I didn't think meeting the characters would be a big deal to me, but it was! I loved interacting with them, and I knew the pictures would be priceless. I am glad I waited in line to meet them, and I am glad I participated in a Photopass share from the boards. I stalked the khaki vests in each of the parks to get lots of great pictures! We browsed through them, and we're really pleased. I reccommend jumping in on a Photopass share if you can.

There were evening EMH, but I honestly felt that it wasn't worth it. The park was super crowded, so the lines to me seemed worse during the EMH in the evening. On day 2, Epcot has morning EMH, so we decide to head to the resort and rest up for Epcot.

The All-Star resorts bus stop is far away. I think it was closer to Epcot than to DHS...I am kidding! But there was a crazy line. The lady in back of us kept trying to cut in line, and if you remember I am a gold personality type:

I follow rules and expect others to do the same.

I don't understand why the issue even comes up. Get in line! If you're tired of waiting or don't want to wait then:

-Imagine how the people at the front of the line feel. They have been there longer.
-Take a taxi.
-Take your own car.

I mean, really- the line cutting at the bus lines was a recurring issue throughout our whole stay, and I found it annoying.

~*Off my soapbox*~

Luckily, lots of busses come, and we head back to ASMu to get some sleep for Day 2 of our trip: Epcot!!

Be back tomorrow with details about Day 2

 

[WeLuvDiznee]

COngratulations! Looking forward to more!

 

[Hendoendo]

Monica I am loving your trip report, especially when your hubby gives commentary pretending to be negative. When I saw your logo of Mickey and Minnie kissing I did a doubletake. I tried to remember where I saw it before. Then I remembered that I used the same logo to make polo shirts for me and my wife when we went on our Disneymoon in 2006. I surprised her with them on the first morning we were heading to the parks. I always look for trip reports from honeymooners so I can relive some of those great memories. Keep the good posts coming

 

[little1kry]

Headed over here from you dining report. This one is just as fabulous!
And congratulations!

 

[Monica20039]

COngratulations! Looking forward to more!

There's plenty more to come- hope you have lots of popcorn!

Monica I am loving your trip report, especially when your hubby gives commentary pretending to be negative. When I saw your logo of Mickey and Minnie kissing I did a doubletake. I tried to remember where I saw it before. Then I remembered that I used the same logo to make polo shirts for me and my wife when we went on our Disneymoon in 2006. I surprised her with them on the first morning we were heading to the parks. I always look for trip reports from honeymooners so I can relive some of those great memories. Keep the good posts coming

Another Disneymooner! How sweet of you to make shirts for your wife. I cannot imagine a better place to honeymoon than Disney. Are you all planning on going back for any anniversaries?

Headed over here from you dining report. This one is just as fabulous!
And congratulations!

Thanks!

 

[Monica20039]

While looking through our 1,200 Disney pictures this morning, I remembered some attractions we did at DHS our first evening that I forgot to comment on:

Sounds Dangerous with Drew Carey- Should be titled Sounds Boring! I didn't like this attraction at all!

Muppet Vision 3D- AWESOME! Must see on all future trips. It's really cute.

Journey Into Narnia- Think of this as an interactive movie trailer. It was okay, but basically a big promotion of the movie, which makes sense.

Some funny pictures of us from that night:

Finally, when we did get back to ASMu we discovered that the DME people had left our luggage in the room. YAY! I was surprisingly paranoid about our luggage, but everything went well with DME.

And we also discovered all the construction going on at our hotel in the main building. I have no clue what they are doing at this point, but we do figure it out later in the trip...

The construction really wasn't a huge deal except that we had to walk ALL the way around the main building to get to our room instead of taking a shortcut through the lobby. Oh well. We need the exercise.

NOW I am ready to move on to Day 2- Epcot!

 

[Princess.Rachel]

Congrats!!

Great trip report so far can't wait to hear more!

 

[gattra]

Your trip report is so great, so far! I can't wait to hear more. Congrats on getting married

 

[accountingbabe08]

you guys are such a stinkin cute couple. Can't wait to read more.

 

[Hendoendo]

Another Disneymooner! How sweet of you to make shirts for your wife. I cannot imagine a better place to honeymoon than Disney. Are you all planning on going back for any anniversaries?

Yes we are planning on a 5 th anniversary trip with our daughter who should be almost 4 at that time