England to Endor (via WDW!) - June 2010 TR UPDATED 02/19 - THE WAVE!

[Bookstamper]

I so want to do the Hoop-de-Doo revue!! It looks like so much fun and it appears you all had a blast!!!

Hi Tink! Thanks for posting! I think your family would LOVE HDDR!! Maybe one for next time? (when you get that new ticker!). It's also realy fun to explore the Fort Wilderness area - I so wanted to try out one of the golf carts that they have there!!

 

[TinksThree]

Hi Tink! Thanks for posting! I think your family would LOVE HDDR!! Maybe one for next time? (when you get that new ticker!). It's also realy fun to explore the Fort Wilderness area - I so wanted to try out one of the golf carts that they have there!!

I hope to make it there next time! I hope my parents will be going and I know they would love that place!! Everytime we go I want to check out Ft Wilderness and Wilderness Lodge....and I have yet to make it over to either!!

 

[Bookstamper]

DAY FOUR: June 6th

So after our more relaxing(ish) day yesterday, this morning we had a mission in mind: rope drop at AK, baby! Our alarm went off at 07:00 with the news that Stitch had escaped (again!) and I headed down to Everything POP to grab some coffee and breakfast (do you see a pattern starting to emerge...?)

Down at the drinks station I filled our mugs, grabbed a danish and legged it back to the room - we were against the clock! Half way back round the 60s building I see a problem - the lid to one of our refillable mugs had come off and coffee was sploshing around everything Not to be deterred I headed straight back to Everything POP, trying to find the lid on the way back. I hunted all over but couldn't see it anywhere! So I ask the cashier if I could get a spare lid? No. Could I buy a spare lid? No. Well there was no way I was going to buy a new mug just for the lid (to be fair to the CM it was peak breakfast time in there and I'm not sure that he had a clue what I was on about!) So I spend the next 10 minutes hunting round the queue areas, checking under the fridges and FINALLY I see a display of (new) mugs in the room, with an old lid on top!! I guess some time person had picked it up and left it there - so I grabbd that (needless to say I washed it off before using!) and legged it back to the room, phew!

Now all this lid hunting had made us pretty late so we didn't hit the bus stops until 08:50 - so much for rope drop! Nevertheless, we had good bus mojo and were streaming through the AK turnstiles by 09:15, which was a pretty good result after all! Normally we run / hobble / sprint off to Expedition Everest or the Safari, but there were already hoardes of people ahead of us so we figured this was a good chance to take it slow and check out the area around the Tree of Life instead:

We bumped into a Photopass photographer and decided to get some pics taken at the front of the park, before it got way too humid (= seriously bad hair day!)

They also have some really cool bird pens as you walk by the tree of life which are definitely worth a visit:

So after spending a little time with the parrots, we headed over to my favourite area of AK: DINOLAND!!

Dinosaur was pretty much a walk on so we headed in for a trip back in time. I LOVE this ride and we were in the front row, which I think makes it even cooler! Sal managed to get a good shot of our ride photo on the way out:

We then spent a little time checking out the Dinosaur gift shop: they had some very cool T-shirts in here, plus we couldn't resist the chance to hang out in the air con as it was seriously hotting up outside!

Having avoided the velocaraptors we headed over to EE to check out the wait times. I'm a big chicken so wouldn't be riding this one, but it's Sal's favourite coaster so she picked up a FP for later (with a return time of 10:50, which wasn't too long to wait - yey!) Next we decided to do the Maharajah Jungle Trek, which we hadn't visited before.

First up we saw a komodo dragon, who looked like he was just chilling out (or maybe heating up?) on his rock:

The CM near the enclosure told us that he had a blue tongue but he kept those lips firmly shut so we never got to see it! Next we headed into the bat section, where they had some massive fruit bats hanging around:

I asked the CM about these, and he told me a cool fact: bats have no ankles so they can't ever stand up, they always have to hang by their claws (which are like their hands) - who knew?! I was really keen to find out how old they were, but he didn't seem to know - however, he did say "well, some of the animals are on their last legs" which I thought was hilarious! I mean, it's sad that they may not be around much longer but it just seemed like such an un-Disney thing to say - well, I guess you may as well tell it like it is!

Next up so we saw a tiger, who looked about as hot as I felt!

After the Trek, Sal headed off to EE to ride and I hung out on the 'chicken rocks'! I've so-named the small seating area directly in front of EE, just off the pathway, which is filled with moms / partners / children / friends who are waiting for their loved ones to ride! I got talking to a really nice woman who was visiting from New Zealand - and we tried (without success!) to spot our relatives as the coaster zoomed past.

Here's Sal AFTER the event, having conquered Everest:

Next Up: Musical Nemo and too hot to eat a grape?!

 

[TinksThree]

Great update! We were at AK the same day but we began at Tusker House for breakfast so our 1st stop was Kilimanjaro Safari....sounds like we worked our way around the park opposite of you guys! I love EE but my DH took advantage of those chicken rocks after the 1st ride!!

I have to agree....it got very hot that day, but I found the crowds to be most manageable until around 1pm! We did not wait in long lines at all (except Kali).

 

[Bookstamper]

I love EE but my DH took advantage of those chicken rocks after the 1st ride!!

Hi Tink! You're certainly a lot braver than me to ride EE!! I bet Kali was great that day - I can't believe we missed it. I think I was perhaps a little put off by getting absolutely drenched on it last year - I was wringing out my clothes!! Did you have a good breakfast at Tusker House? We were headed there for lunch and it was great!

 

[Bookstamper]

DAY FOUR cont.

Sorry for the delay - we have been on holiday this past week in Denmark, just got back yesterday! So when I left off Sal had just done EE, whilst I perched on the chicken rocks taking photos! Walking back from Everest we passed the Flights of Wonder area where they had Twister the owl out on show:

We stopped a while and found out that he weighs just 3 pounds, despite looking pretty hefty! Then it was time for the first FOW show that day so we headed into the stage area and grabbed some seats mid-way down in the middle section. Now I have big bird fear so we kept well clear of this attraction on our first visit to Disney (the Unofficial Guide Book we had even made a point of suggesting ornithophobics stay away - well you don't have to tell me twice!!

However, on our last visit I got brave and headed in - well I LOVED it! What a cool show, and if you sit in the right place the birds don't even come near you! So we saw some cool stuff at this show again:

I love this guy with the flag! "Follow the flag...." (the irony being that we saw loads of tour groups doing just that around the parks!)

And they bring out this really impressive eagle the end of the show:

However, the heat was again beginning to tell! They have one bird that is supposed to catch grapes thrown to it by the presenter. Well, it missed like 3 in a row and then gave up all together - the CM just had to move on with the show and he was like "Oh, I think it's too hot to catch grapes"!!

After Flights of Wonder we headed over to catch Nemo The Musical. We had never seen this show before and were really keen to see it early as I'd heard the queue gets really long in the afternoon:

The theatre pretty much filled up right before the show started so we were really pleased to have gotten seats. As for the show? Hmm...well, I think some folks probably love it - and I really did enjoy it. Sal wasn't quite so keen (in her words, "Great costumes, shame about the music" ) I can sort of see what she means - the songs aren't all that catchy but I still teared up at the point when Nemo's family gets attacked, right at the start - that gets me every time in the film - and now on stage too!!

After we'd returned from the big blue world, it was time for lunch and we had a 12:00 ADR at Tusker House - yum! I was so hungry and really keen to try this place:

We were seated just as soon as checked in and had a great lunch Sorry I didn't take any food pics (was probably eating too quickly to catch anything on camera!) but Sal and I agreed it was really tasty food - we had salads, roasted meat, some shrimp curry AND way too much dessert! The servers were also really nice: Sal tried a pomegranite lemonade to have something different, but didn't care for it. Well our waiter noticed that she hadn't drunk much and bought over a coke without us even asking (or him charging) which I thought was really good.

So after lunch we waddled out of Tusker House and could see that the park was really getting pretty busy. Our original plan was to do the safari but the wait time wasn't looking great so we decided to head towards Camp Mickey Minnie which we haven't visited before. On the way we ran into these guys:

When we got down there, it was a 45 minute wait until Festival of the Lion King started up. Sal wasn't too keen on queueing in the heat but a CM told us that the queue area was mostly shaded and had a whole load of misters. Well the misters sold it to us and so we headed down there, for the coolest queue in town! After around 30 minutes they opened up the theatre and we headed inside.

I'd never been to FotLK before but I think it's my favourite Disney film, and I was really keen to see the show. Whilst we were waiting a whole group of med students came and sat behind us - it was really funny to hear them, as they'd fluctuate from talking about the Lion King to revising the heart valves and medical conditions they were obviously learning. So the conversation would go something like "Rafiki's my favourite...but what about cardiomyopathy....I hope they do the circle of life....do you know about valve stenosis...." It was kind of odd - I guess they were multi-tasking revision and vacation!

As we were waiting someone also started off a Mexican Wave and it just kept going for maybe like 5 minutes. Eventually it got to the point where the CMs were trying to stop everyone because they wanted to start the show! Finally, the show did get underway and it was really great from the start:

I particularly liked the acrobats you can see swinging around here:

So all in all a GREAT show - I would really recommend this to anyone, even if you are not a big fan of stage productions. The songs from the film are, in my opinion, amongst some of Disney's best and the props / stage arrangement was fanastic. Afterwards, we headed out and looked around CMM where they have several character meeting spots - including one with Donald, our fave! So, of course, we hopped in line:

By now it was around 15:00. We had plans to head to EPCOT later than evening and really wanted to shower and cool off beforehand so we decided to leave AK and head back to POP. When we made it back to the resort, we (literally) chilled out in our room - I found some car racing on TV and Sal read her book for a while, then it was time for a date with the future at EPCOT!

Coming Up: Sauerkraut Success and our first Illuminations!

 

[Bookstamper]

DAY FOUR cont.

So I just have a short update today to finish off our evening adventures for Day 4! When we left off, I was watching TV and Sal was merrily reading at our resort BUT that's not what we come to Disney for - so around 17:40 we headed back out towards EPCOT! Now this is the very first park that I visited at Disney way back in 2007, and I've got to confess it's still my fave. When the bus pulled in and we saw the giant golf ball I was super excited to get going BUT we decided to take it easy this evening - after all, we'd be back for rope drop another day (or would we?!)

First stop was Spaceship Earth which I think was pretty much a walk on. I really like this ride - I have never experienced the older version, but the Create Your Future feature sure is fun. Plus I love that Judi Dench narrates this - although I find it funny that at one point she says 'math' (whereas I guess being English she would normally say 'maths') I guess that part was scripted for her?

We searched real hard for some hidden Mickeys but couldn't find ANY!! So finally we settled for making our future - I think Sal drew the short straw in the wardrobe choices here:

We then hurried off the ride to see ourselves appear on the giant world map, looks like they had loads of visitors from the UK that day:

We e-mailed ourselves our postcard from the future (does this ever work for you guys? Ours always end up lost in cyberspace!), and then headed over to the Land Pavillion for an early dinner. Our original intention had been to try and get on Soarin' but the FP machines were all off (having probably distributed all the fast passes that day) and the entry area looked really dark and unstaffed so we figured the ride was down and / or closed for the evening (it was probably around 18:40 by now and Future World closed at 19:00).

Instead we grabbed some dinner at Sunshine Seasons - my favourite CS on property! Sal went for a ceasar salad, and I chose the Best Sandwich on Earth - yep, that's right folks: I had been dreaming about this sandwich for the past 8 months!! The smoked turkey deli sandwich

We got some seats and I took the above photo when just a minute later DISASTER STRIKES!!! I was chatting away (obviously getting a bit too animated) and knocked my coke all over the wonderous deli sandwich! The bread became a soggy mess, the filling seeped out and my wonderous sarnie was no more! I was so mad at myself - too frustrated even to capture the damage on film. I headed back to the counter but by they were just closing up and I'm not sure if they had any pre-made sandwiches left anyhow so I just had to settle for a bit of Sal's salad instead.

To try and cheer me up, Sal suggested that we head to World Showcase so we could see Illuminations later that evening. Our first port of call was Norway and I made a beeline for Maelstrom: this is such a cool ride, I think it's a bit underrated: as you can see, the wait time was only 5 mins

This sign had the couple in front of us really worried - I think they thought it would be similar to Splash!:

Just before we boarded our Viking ship:

We really enjoyed our ride and afterwards I was determined to see the Spirit of Norway film. I know this isn't to everyone's taste (80% of folks seem to rush right through) but I LOVE it. Sal always jokes though that by the look of things, the spirit of Norway lives in the 80s!! Still, I hope they don't update it anytime soon - I like it's retro charm.

After our ride I was really hungry so we visited Germany where I got a sausage, sauerkraut and bread. YUM! This was really good - we have eaten at Biergarten before but never the outside CS area. The bread was fresh and they had some great mustard to go with everything By now it was around 20:20 and we decided to go reserve a spot by the lake for Illuminations. We hadn't seen this before and I wanted to get a good view. We found 2 guys already sitting on the floor near Norway (no one else seemed to be lining up yet) so we sat with them for a while. Then I decided snacks were in order so headed to the Norweigen bakery to get a coffee and school bread - wow, that was huge!!

Finally the area started filling up and we stood up to reserve our spots. Then at 21:00, a voice on the tannoy system said 'Good Evening' - only he said it in a really Dracular-esque way, which totally cracked Sal and I up! So apologies to people who were standing around us and probably didn't know what we were laughing at. The display itself was really cool - and I loved the fire effects:

More importantly, I can't believe we have visited WDW 3 times before and never seen this show!! After Illuminations, we slowly headed out by Futureworld, along with massive crowds. The POP bus stop is the furthest from the EPCOT entrance and by the time we got there, around 50 people were queueing ahead of us. No worries though: we made it on the second bus that arrived and they kept coming really fast so we were back to POP by 22:00 after a fantastic day!

Coming Up Next: Back to the Future, and a Very Early Start!

 

[TinksThree]

Isn't FOTLK awesome? I just love that show! I haven't seen Finding Nemo but then it doesn't seem to interest me based on the pictures I have seen....I love the movie though! I thought Tusker House was very good but my family wasn't as agreeable! We ate breakfast though, so the choices were a bit different.

Epcot is my favorite park! I just love it for so many reasons! I haven't got to see illuminations in our last two trips! I really want to make it a priority!

 

[Bookstamper]

Isn't FOTLK awesome? I just love that show! I haven't seen Finding Nemo but then it doesn't seem to interest me based on the pictures I have seen....I love the movie though! I thought Tusker House was very good but my family wasn't as agreeable! We ate breakfast though, so the choices were a bit different.

I'm glad you really like FOTLK too - we thought it was so good that we are going to try and catch the full Lion King musical stage show in London later this year

Whatever your family thought about Tusker House: at least you got the all-important Donald photo! That's a must-get!

 

[ols386]

What is the TRON monorail?

Am enjoying your trip report.

You are both very photogenic.

 

[Bookstamper]

What is the TRON monorail?

Hi Ols386, many thanks for reading! The TRON monorail (or Tronorail, I guess?) is just a regular WDW monorail train which has been decorated to publicise Disney's Tron movie, which is scheduled to launch December 2010 I think. You can check out the movie site here - it looks pretty cool:

http://disney.go.com/tron/

Sorry, my photo of the TRON train wasn't all that great but it has a massive transfer all the way down both sides. I was pretty excited to spot it (we'd read about it on allears before leaving), but on the inside it's just the same as any monorail!

 

[ols386]

Ok, I see.

Will be waiting to read more of your trip report.

We will be staying at POP in January of next year.

 

[Bookstamper]

Thanks ols386! I reckon you'll really love POP, it is such a fun resort! Should have an update by tomorrow

 

[Bookstamper]

DAY FIVE: June 7th

This morning started with Stitch waking us up at 07:00 - nice and early as we planned to make EPCOT rope drop! We had requested the wake up call the night before so were surprised when the phone rang again at 07:15 Turns out that the front desk staff weren't sure if the Stitch call had worked so they called in person to check that we were up (well, we definitely were by now!) Then at 07:30 a desk supervisor called to apologise for any mix up (which there hadn't been!) so we tripley awake by the end of all that!

We headed down to the buses around 08:30 where it was already pretty busy, and finally made it to EPCOT at 09:10 - wow, that rope drop sure was proving to be elusive! I took a quick photo as we legged it in, towards Soarin':

As we entered the Land area, we headed down the stairs to where the Soarin' FP machines are located. I'd never really noticed the roof of this place before: it's decorated with hot balloons, which are pretty neat:

Well, we could see that the FP time was 10:30 - not too shabby for that time of the morning BUT just as we came off the stairs, a HUGE tour group arrived and ALL starting getting FPs - doh! This pushed the time back by an hour (in just a few minutes) so by the time we reached the front of the FP line it was more like 11:30, oh well! Now we certainly had some time to kill so we decided to get a leisurely breakfast at Sunshine Seasons. Sadly they don't do that smoked turkey sarnie for breakfast, so I got a bagel and cream cheese whilst Sal had an apple danish: both were really good.

After we'd eaten, it was time to re-visit an old favourite: Living with the Land. Despite the massive queues for Soarin', this attraction was a total walk on and the CM let us sit at the front of the boat - excellent! So we headed off on an agricultural field trip, and finally ended up in the green houses with a sighting of the infamous nine pound lemon:

A not-so-hidden Mickey amongst the lettuces:

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We grow pumpkins at home, but sadly I'm not sure if we can compete with these - what a whopper!

Space wheat?

Sal is sure that on our last trip, this wheat sign had the NASA logo - now it just appears to be a small space shuttle picture. Not sure if NASA have withdrawn their sponsorship, or maybe we just imagined it in the first place? I'll try to fish out a photo from an earlier visit for a little compare and contrast!

Whilst our boat was heading through the green houses we heard a deafening noise which Sal thought was a large truck or something at first? Turns out, it was raining TORRENTIALLY outside and the noise of rain on the roof drowned out the audio commentary - needless to say, we were in no hurry to finish up our ride! Nevertheless, by the time we exited the Land pavillion it was drying out - did we have good timing with the weather or what? So next we headed over to Sal's favourite ride in futureworld: The Seas, for a ride with Nemo.

The Nemo ride was really cute - I love the star fish at the end ("they sing that song all day...") Afterwards, we spent a little time looking around the aquarium. We visited the manatee area where 2 rescued manatees, Jasper and Lou, were being fed:

Then we looked at some of the larger tanks where there was a diver who had really great interactions with everyone watching. He would spot people's sports caps and shirts then signal thumbs up or down depending on how felt about that team! Evidently, he was a big Cubs fan which thrilled the little boy ahead of us (dressed top-to-toe in Cubs gear!)

We also found a hidden Mickey as an extra bonus!

After that we headed out towards Innovations so unfortunately, we did miss Turtle Talk but I guess you can't do everything - plus that's a good excuse for a return trip!

Next Up: A date with Beverley and a dream vacation with Pork!

 

[TinksThree]

I'm glad you really like FOTLK too - we thought it was so good that we are going to try and catch the full Lion King musical stage show in London later this year

Whatever your family thought about Tusker House: at least you got the all-important Donald photo! That's a must-get!

I would love to see the broadway version of The Lion King!

I liked the food at Tusker House (well not the do-nuts) but the rest of my crew wasn't so crazy about it. However, I was the one that ate things other than eggs, bacon and do-nuts!!

As we entered the Land area, we headed down the stairs to where the Soarin' FP machines are located. I'd never really noticed the roof of this place before: it's decorated with hot balloons, which are pretty neat:

Well, we could see that the FP time was 10:30 - not too shabby for that time of the morning BUT just as we came off the stairs, a HUGE tour group arrived and ALL starting getting FPs - doh! This pushed the time back by an hour (in just a few minutes) so by the time we reached the front of the FP line it was more like 11:30, oh well! Now we certainly had some time to kill so we decided to get a leisurely breakfast at Sunshine Seasons. Sadly they don't do that smoked turkey sarnie for breakfast, so I got a bagel and cream cheese whilst Sal had an apple danish: both were really good.

After we'd eaten, it was time to re-visit an old favourite: Living with the Land. Despite the massive queues for Soarin', this attraction was a total walk on and the CM let us sit at the front of the boat - excellent! So we headed off on an agricultural field trip, and finally ended up in the green houses with a sighting of the infamous nine pound lemon:

This was the same as our beginning! We had FPs around 11:30 and I had sent my kids ahead at RD!!

Whilst our boat was heading through the green houses we heard a deafening noise which Sal thought was a large truck or something at first? Turns out, it was raining TORRENTIALLY outside and the noise of rain on the roof drowned out the audio commentary - needless to say, we were in no hurry to finish up our ride! Nevertheless, by the time we exited the Land pavillion it was drying out - did we have good timing with the weather or what? So next we headed over to Sal's favourite ride in futureworld: The Seas, for a ride with Nemo.

WE were at DHS on this day and we were stuck in the ToT gift shop when the torrential downpour came through! I was thankful I was inside though becasue it seemed to come from no where!

After that we headed out towards Innovations so unfortunately, we did miss Turtle Talk but I guess you can't do everything - plus that's a good excuse for a return trip!

I love having things for teh next trip, but then again...it makes me want to go right now!!

Next Up: A date with Beverley and a dream vacation with Pork!

My kids make the Beverly a must-do on our trips!! Pork???? hmmmm, interesting!!
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Great up-date!! Even with the mixed-up start to your day, it seems like a success so far!!

 

[Bookstamper]

Hi TinksThree! Many thanks for reading - Beverley is a must-do for us as well, I don't know why we torture ourselves with it every year!! And I'm always surprised by how horrible it tastes!

An update is on it's way - it's been a holiday weekend here in the UK so we have been visiting Alton Towers (which is probably one of the largest theme parks in the UK) - had a great time but it made me miss WDW loads! I definitely need another trip to plan!!

 

[Bookstamper]

DAY FIVE cont.

So we left off with us visiting the rescue manatees (those guys sure love their lettuce!). We then headed out of The Seas into bright sunshine (where did all that rain go??? ) and I snapped a quick pic of the seaguls on the way out:

Our next stop was Innoventions and I was really excited to spend some time looking around. I think this area is seriously over-looked and it has loads of cool interactive games: so we figured it would be easy to lose an hour or so in there! On our last trip we tried The Sum of All Thrills which is kind of like a custom-designed motion simulator. Due to a design flaw our roller coaster didn't turn out so thrilling but it was really fun, and I'd highly recommend this to anyone - even folk who are too scared to ride real coasters, like me!

This time we ambled around and played on some of the video games, then we stumbled across The Great Piggy Bank Adventure and decided to give it a go! This is set up really neatly, so you play screen-based games at 3 or 4 different stations and convert your points into savings. At the start you have to decide what you will save for and our answer was easy: dream vacation, of course!! Here we are starting out on our first task:

What's even cooler is that you get your own piggy bank to keep track of your points (savings) at each station. Sal became very fond of ours and named him Pork!

So how did we score?! Well, we ended up saving enough for that vacation -just! woo hoo! If only, saving were so easy in real life...

Next stop was another activity where you could put yourself into a video game I don't remember the name of the attraction but you had to run, jump and boogie on film. The footage was then added to a platform-type game and you could play it right there and then. Here we are on-screen doing a victory dance having finished the game, move over Super Mario.....

By this time it was around 11:30 and time for our Soarin' return time. But as we left Innoventions we saw Club Cool right across the way, and couldn't resist a pre-flight drink! There are so many options to choose from....

But of course we went straight for the Beverley! Now it's not as if I haven't suffered at the hands of this drink before. Oh no, I've experienced it's foulness on every one of our four trips to WDW, but somehow I wasn't quite prepared for the yuckiness. Before:

And after......

Argh! Still reeling from the after-taste we headed off to Soarin' for a ride through California:

This was really fun as ever, and we got to sit in the middle section, 2nd row - not too shabby considering that we didn't ask or wait for any specific seating. My favourite part is when you see the skiiers going down those mountains - and, of course, the fireworks at the end!

After our whistle-stop visit to the West Coast, we decided to head back to POP for lunch and to chill out a bit. As we headed out of the park we took the chance to get some more photopass pics:

The photopass photographer did several Tink magic shots with us which were pretty cool (we had never done a magic shot prior to this holiday so we were out to collect as many different ones as we could!). I think my favourite is actually this one below - our poses just look so funny, Sal doesn't seem to pleased to see Tink at all!

Coming Up: a journey back through the years, and catching up with cousins!

 

[wlake]

Love the Tinkerbell picture! We have some like that -- two of us will look horrified at whatever the magic is while two will be thrilled!

 

[TinksThree]

I think maybe the Beverly is one of those experiences that you always think "maybe it wasn't as bad as I remember" but then you taste it and think "Nope, it was exactly as bad as I remember!!"

Our "Tink" picture is the ToT...they say look scared and we just look goofy!! I still have not lucked out on getting many special effects pictures.

Great update!! As always!

 

[jmskinner]

Just read through your whole TR. I hate when I do that because I never remember to comment on everything I wanted to. Need to keep a notepad by the computer.

Too funny that you keep submitting yourself to beverly. I think my stepdaughter nailed it, "it's good until you swallow it".

Sorry you didn't care for DisneyQuest. I can only take so much of it, but sure wish you had tried out the Pirate game. It is my favorite.

Those Spaceship Earth emails always end up in my junk folder, but somehow I don't find them for weeks.

That was awful about your sandwich, I'd been upset too.

I like Maelstrom also. And I am one of those that skips the movie, but I think I will stay next time. I honestly can't remember if we have ever watched it.

And you were at SWW the day before we were and you almost sat at the exact same spot as we did. It was a great location.