any Disfriend of Lidian is a Disfriend of mine! 
She is afraid of heights, and cried through the whole wonderful ride last year. 
That's okay, though because she and I have our own must do that we must do. We all left France. While they head to Future World for some California Soarin' we go the opposite direction...to where? We are obviously headed to another country, but to which? Ah lets mosey past Morocco, that's not where our must do is...
Does he take any pictures while they are gone? Of course not! 
I already knew exactly what I wanted to spend my wad on, and Charity had her heart set on something specific too. The problem for both of us is that our hearts are bigger than our wallets...but more on that later!
lovestruc), and I was so excited to do this. I had even seen a picture of the setting I wanted on the Dis lovestruc). I really love the Dis lovestruc), can you tell? For those of you who have not had a chance to do this I will explain... Our pearls are opened and....drums are beaten and...an announcement is made to everyone standing around watching and...
What?!? Hers was bigger than mine?!? 
Ah, she's my baby girl, how could I hold it against her? 
I was actually excited for her. She just loved the whole experience.
Why, we call Daddy and ask for more $$$ of course! He knew that this was what she and I had been looking forward to all along, so he readily told me to go ahead and put the remaining balance on the debit card. See folks, he is becoming the Disney man of my dreams on this vacation... 
We mosey on past The American pavilion...
She decided she wanted a funnel cake. So the game plan was that she and Gabe and Brian would head over to the funnel cake stand in the American pavilion while Charity and I trek back over to Japan to pick up our baubles. After much ado, here are the treasures we chose:
Love the carriage necklace! I really want to do this for my cousin while we are there. Her birthday is June (so is mine), so pearl is our birthstone. I just think it would be a neat experience for her to remember. Love the ring too. Wow, that's a big pearl
OMG!!! I love that carriage necklace too!! I never saw that one there!
You are making me hungry for Disney food all over again.... NUM... Just as I am planning to post pictures of our scrumptious Napoleon in my TR... We could have snack wars Oopsi???
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I mean, for all you all know I could totally be making all this stuff up since I have no pictures to prove any of it...
Apparently yesterday he heard the song "Good Life" on the radio and it gave him a bit of the Disney blues. This curmudgeon has been officially Disneyfied!!! 
Pick a Pearl was a great experience. I hope you will try it next time!
A little personal note: My wonderful Brian sent me a text message yesterday with just a few words, but they were words that melted my heart...
"I am ready to go back to DISNEY!"
He used to be one of the eye-rolling, dollar sign-seeing Disney grouches...now he comes home with the latest Disney news and talks about Disney all the time.
That is one of the few songs I don't mind that they overplay on the radio. It takes me back every single time! Hopefully someday my hubby will jump on the bandwagon too. I'll work on him
OMG I bet you wanted to marry him all over again
Isnt it great when you know you've finally converted them to disney
Loving your trip report-just dont often have time to comment
Everytime, I see your name on my list of subscribed threads, I smile. Being a natural born klutz, I think I should have had your screen name. 
I honestly never thought my husband would ever really LOVE Disney. I knew he enjoyed it and would do it "for the kids", but something clicked inside him on this trip that gave him his own passion for Disney. I couldn't be happier!
Brian and I have always been so different. We have always had different likes, dislikes and hobbies. It absolutely melts my heart that we share this passion for Disney now.
) Ahem anyhow, after we had gotten our jewelry we headed towards the funnel cake stand to meet up with the rest of the family. We met up with them halfway there, but there was no funnel cake in sight. Apparently the funnel cake stand does not take the Disney Dining Plan...what's up with that? So, our poor Jillybean was still without a snack. 
What to do? OH, Churros would be a great snack for her! So we all headed in that direction. It was decided that Brian, Charity and Gabe would hang out at our chosen spot for Illuminations while Jillian and I went to get some churros for her. We headed out, and were past Germany and Norway when I realized something....Illuminations starts in about 15 minutes and Mexico is pretty far away from Germany where we planned to watch it. 
Jillian decided that she was okay for now and would just wait until Illuminations was over to get a snack. Sweet girl! 
We trekked BACK to Germany just in time for Illuminations to start. Illuminations was a first for us. Last year we had tried to do Epcot commando style and after meltdowns insued, we headed out of the park right as Illuminations was getting ready to start. It was a great show. We all really enjoyed it, and will definitely do it again. We didn't try to take pictures. We have just a simple point and shoot camera, so the pictures would not have turned out well. Brian did, however get a somewhat blurry shot of Spaceship Earth from our spot in Germany:
There was another must do nearby that I wanted to try...actually two must dos that are in the same country. ) When we got there, there was a group of "single ladies" in front of us in line ordering margueritas. Yes, I was a bit jealous...of them being single? Nope, of the margueritas! 
Oh well, Jillian got her churros. We had never actually tried churros before, but I had read about them on the Dis and on the Disney Food Blog, so I knew she would be able to eat them. They were so good!! They were warm and crispy, and had a wonderful caramel dipping sauce. This made her extra happy, she got to have some caramel too! Oh well, it felt good to just be silly and have a little fun. We stopped at the troll to take the fun picture that everyone takes:
Now it was time for the other must do in Norway...and it involves MORE FOOD. So, if you are keeping track, since we returned to the park we have had a three course dinner, caramel popcorn, a big chocolate covered caramel and churros. That wasn't going to stop ME! In all fairness, we only ate about 1/3 of the popcorn and Charity had only taken a few bites of the the choco-caramel. Jillian did eat all of her churros...with a little help of course. Honestly, this must do was being purchased with the plan to save it for breakfast the next day. So we headed into the Kringla bakery for some of this:
Well, coffee for Brian and I, not the kids! 
Good morning, just checking in to see how you are doing?
Have a great day!
Yes, I was very proud of myself for coming up with that username. I too am a natural born klutz...and not usually so witty! I can sort of relate ... something hit my DH over the head and he actually had a great time this year. However, he's okay with never going back ... but at least while he's there he isn't whining as much as he has in years past.
...or maybe you could sneak something into his dole whip next time you go. 
and I have decided I am going to start having some great movie nights for my family once a month or every other month to help pass the between WDW trips time. We will have our first one this Saturday night. One of my BFF's has her hubby and son going on a Scout camping trip this weekend, so it will be just her and her DD. I have invited them to join us. I gave her a list of three options to choose from...I will be back later to tell you what we pick and what we plan to do. I will take pictures of movie night and post them on here too! I thought that would be a great way to beef up the TR and make it last longer too!
So, did you like the schoolbread? I wasn't too blown away by it. But I know lots of people love it. Oh wait, you had it for breakfast, so that will probably be in the next update.
It's not an amazing ride, by any means, but we like it. It's indoors, you're off your feet. What can be better? Thanks for checking in just to say hi... that makes me smile so big!
I have a feeling it is only a matter of time before your DH gets knocked over the head with a wand and drowned in Pixie Dust too
So, I have been reading through the movie night thread...the very long movie night thread...
