"ENCHANTED TALES with ROB" - A Birthday/Christmas DISer Celebration! **NEW TR LINK**

[shan23877]

Sounds like another fantastic DISmeet! For the record, I would likely make you say "about" several times as well.

What a lovely message in the UK pavilion for Walt's birthday. It's nice to know that not all CMs were clueless about it.

 

[MEK]

Yay! You got to meet Brenda and Emily! I am just missing them by a few days in May. So bummed! Sounds like you had a wonderful meet. And I believe they are every bit as lovely in person as you described them.

I love walking through a park at night after it has closed. It's so cool!

 

[MEK]

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I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!

 

[annie170]

It's great that you were able to meet Brenda and Emily before your cruise. Even nicer that she brings gifts!

I'm glad there were a few CM's who remembered Walt's birthday!

So...are you an "aboot" guy?

 

[Jennifer84]

I've read so many trip reports where people have met Brenda and Emily... makes me want to meet them!! They sound like the sweetest ladies!

I'm glad this was such a magical day for you!

 

[leftaslide]

I'm tired just reading this update....what a busy day!

And what an awesome DIS meet! They seem like such nice people. Good for you guys!

Well, that's ABOOT all I have to say.

Thank you, Canada, for the Kids in the Hall, the rock band Sloan, John Candy, and good beer!

 

[TinksThree]

Once again I fell behind and had a lot of catching up to do but I was successful!! Sorry Wishes didn't work out but the following day sounds like it was pretty awesome!! Great pictures as usual and what a great Dis meet! I bet those CMs don't know the significance of November 18th either!

 

[thornton0511]

Yay for update!

Ahhh Epcot I am so glad that you posted the pic of the CM that drew the lovely chalk Happy Birthday to Walt picture. All is not lost apparently I cannot believe how many did not realize. It's freakin Walt Disney people!! That would have been so cool to see at FOLK. I would have cried like a baby!!!

How awesome that you had a dismeet with Brenda and Emily! I am following her adventures too and its so crazy that there seemed to be so many of us there that week in December! GAH! I could never do that though...well maybe if it was like a big dismeet with a whole lot of people. I am just so awkward. So much less awkward communicating and sharing this way lol!

That is so funny that they wanted to hear your accent....bahahahaha I would have done the same thing Rob An American accent is just so boring, and if you're southern like me...annoying...LOL! Good thing your not British because I could listen to that all day long. They could read the phone book for all I care

That is so sweet that they bought you Birthday presents! So awesome!!

Oooh the lights in the ground at night are my favorite! And Fantasmic and Illuminations all in one night?! WOW! Oh and BTW I am glad that you were able to find your way around to Brenda and Emily....you know if it had been me it would have taken 4 hours, 3 Disney buses and a friendship boat to get there lol! Great update, can't wait to hear more

 

[katt789]

What a wonderful udpate!!

So happy to see that the cm's in UK did something for Walt's birthday, that was definitely needed and brought a smile to my face!

Ah Em & Brenda!! I had the lovely pleasure to meet Brenda a few days after, but Em wasn't around at that point lol. Super glad that you guys all got along so well, she really is a lovely and fantstic person, these Disney people I tell ya! They're the best!! Although they must forget I'm from Canada….or my maritimer only comes out after a few drinks…because I have never been asked to say about! Bahahaha (I thought that, and then realized you are from much further east than I am, and that's probably why….my accent does only come out after a few…bahaha #maritimepride)

Glad you were able to get back to your car afterwards and lovely pixie dust in the sidewalk photo! Lol.

Yay for happy awesome updates!!

 

[teekathepony]

I love that you celebrated Walt's birthday everywhere! So awesome! And also awesome about the chalk drawings
I can't lie, I wish so much that I was in the middle of this DisMeet! I'm a little jealous But very happy for you all, it sounds like a wonderful meeting. (Oh, and if you want to keep up the charade that Canadians don't have an accent or say "eh" -- make sure Brenda and Em never watch the Canadian broadcasts of the Olympics )

I also just realized that I had seen Illuminations AND Fantasmic on the same night!!!

on Walt's birthday, no less. Quite a feat!

Wonderful birthday gifts, how sweet and thoughtful!

Rob, your trip is off to a heck of a start!

 

[Tiggerrn2]

What an awesome ending to your day!!!
Love the chalk drawings in England!! And finally some definitive confirmation of the day!
Very thoughtful of Brenda and Emily to bring a little gift along for Walt's (and your) birthday!
Quite the feat to see both fireworks shows in one evening-especially when you weren't even trying.

 

[gracer9977]

What an absolutely amazing and magical day you had.

I love that the CM at Rosie's was able to help redeem the disappointment of other CM's not realizing what a special day that was. That cupcake looks totally yummy as well.

So sad that you got blue Mickeys at all the magic band entrances. I thankfully did not have any problems with the MB's when we were there. Just one blue Mickey when I tried to get in to Animal Kingdom but there was a helpful CM there to let me go through. So while I like the MB's I hate the new FP system but that's a whole other story.

I shed a few tears when you met Talking Mickey and that he actually wished you a Happy Birthday on Walts's birthday. Great picture of you together with him pointing at the sign.

I just saw Fantasmic this last time and it was as great as I remember it being. My kids LOVED it and were totally sitting still and watching it the whole time. I am SO glad I was not closer cause it was like 45 degrees so if I had water misting me the whole time I would have needed to be de-iced at the end of the show. I too dislike the preshow. Why do they do that, it is just totally annoying. Just let us sit there and wait for the show to start. Not to mention the woman we had was SO LOUD. It was like she was screaming into the microphone. We were all happy when they went away.

So Fantasmic and Illuminations in one night is awesome!!!

Brenda and Em!!!! Hurray!! So glad you got to meet up with them. Sounds like a wonderful dismeet and a perfect way to end the day.

 

[amazingact21]

How fantastic! You got to meet Brenda and Em! They both seem like such nice people; I'm glad you got the opportunity to spend some time with them face to face. And that's so sweet that they brought you birthday presents!
What a great way to round out Walt's birthday.

 

[JessM]

I'm so glad you found the Happy Birthday Walt tribute in the UK! Now that I see the picture I actually remember seeing it that day!

I'm also so glad you got a chance to meet up with Brenda and Emily! And how wonderful was that timing! It sounds like you had a wonderful evening with them! I haven't met them but from reading Brenda's trip reports they seem like wonderful people so I'm glad you got a chance to spend some time with them this trip!

So happy you guys managed to catch Illuminations, that holiday finale is a nice touch!

How nice of them to bring you a birthday present! I love the T-shirt! And funny enough, I got that exact same card from my bff for Christmas! Too funny

 

[Pluto0809]

I'm back from my trip and all caught up on your TR!

You do really like that Move it Shake it parade! Mom and I actually caught it this last trip but it was all weird because it was too windy. There were no stilt walkers and the characters were not in the presents, they were just riding on the floats.

Ugh, that Mine Train! Every time I go I keep hoping it will be open! I'm not even sure I'm going to get to ride it in May when I'm there next. I'm also worried with all this anticipation, it won't live up to the hype.

I wasn't the biggest fan of the 3 o'clock parade either but I am excited to see the new one when it debuts. Mom and I did the KTTK tour last week and we got to see rehearsals for the Sleeping Beauty float. I was so cool! We also got to see what is left of the old parade floats as they are being dismantled.

Talking Mickey is awesome, isn't he? Mom and I got to play card tricks with him when we went last week!

I agree that the FP+ for Fantasmic is kind of a waste. The seats they give you aren't the best that's for sure. Although if you don't mind being off to one side, not having to wait in line an hour before to get a seat wasn't a bad thing.

Awesome meet and greet!

 

[Wood Nymph]

When I found out that our departure day was Brenda and Emily's arrival day, I was really sad.

We've walked through Epcot a few times after the park was closed when we stayed at the BC. It is beautiful at night when it is empty. You get to see them power-washing the park, too.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Great update! Glad that you found Brenda and Em to be lovely in person and enjoyed the DISmeet ... that would be super awkward if that was not the case and you spent the evening trying to get away from them and going back to find the original lovely ladies you saw at the fountain

Also glad you found the chalk artwork .... not that I am expecting every last CM to know/care bunches, but you would think they would have like the pre-show Fantasmic! people be aware and address Walt's birthday.

And seeing both Fantasmic! and Illuminations in the same night is bucket worthy! Glad you got to experience that

 

[missangelalexis]

Love the Happy Birthday Walt chalk drawing, so wonderful!

I am SO glad you had such a fantastic Dismeet

 

[lvcourtneyy]

I'm glad somebody finally recognized Walt's birthday! You'd think that'd be like, covered in morning report or something... Like p.s. today's the birthday of the man who kinda dreamed up this whole place and made you have a job so celebrate it please? kinda deal?

Brenda and Emily sound so sweet! And um, yeah, I would've done the same thing with about and again.

Ah that's awesome that you got to see Fantasmic and Illuminations in the same night. Hm I wonder if there would be a way to see all 3 nighttime shows in the same day?

 

[Linda67]

Great update Rob It makes me proud to be from the UK to see the Happy Birthday message the UK CMs had written
I was one of the DISers at Blue Zoo with Brenda and Em that evening!
Sounds like you had a wonderful meet with them