"Good Morning! No Sleeping!"- A Mother/Daughter January Getaway *Update 5/13*

[IadoreWDW]

Am I off the hook?

I read all your TR last night listening to D-Cot (Epcot was my choice of tunes last night) and it got me all excited for my upcoming trip!

We are staying offsite I want to stay at Pop but it just wouldn't work out for us

50s adr is reservered!

Looking forward to the next installment!

Sarah
Oh and belated happy birthday! All the best people are born in May
(it's my 25th on Wednesday!)

 

[Jazzabelle508]

"This Lady Is Using Me As A Tripod!"

So when we finished up at Via Napoli it was about 8:00pm. We still had an hour untill illuminations but my mom and i are totally those people you see who sit down for the nighttime shows at least an half hour (most likely an hour) in advanced. Now you may look at those people and wonder why the heck we want to spend an hour of our lives sitting on the ground waiting for a 15 minute show to start when we still can be riding rides and exploring the parks. Well, the reason why we stake out our spot is really simple, my mom and I LOVE illuminations!!! It is easily our favorite nighttime show in Disney and we have illumination viewing down to a science. Depending on what else we were planning to do that night we usually start looking for a spot for illuminations. We have tried out many different spots over the years and we figure that the best places to go are either Italy, America or Japan. We will pick out a good spot in the front in whatever section we end up sitting in and then depending on what else we have done that evening we may get a world showcase treat to enjoy while we wait for illuminations to start. On this particular night we obviously were full so we just sat down and waited together and we ended up sitting in Italy by the water. This is probably my favorite spot in all of world showcase to watch illuminations. We countdown to illuminations based on those fun little announcements they make telling us how much longer till the show starts. We also pass the time by looking through our pictures and playing a few basic card and dice games that are easy to carry around while we wait. It may seem like this takes forever but it really doesn't. Before we knew it they were making the 2 minute announcement and it was time for the show to start.

The show was simply amazing to watch like always but we had a bit of an unpleasent experience with a fellow guest while we watched it. This lady who was standing behind my mom was trying to get some pictures so she decided that the best way to do that was to lean against my mom like she was a tripod and watch the show and take pictures from this position. My mom then leaned over to me and said that this lady was using me as a tripod. It was right around this point that this same lady was begining to use me as a tripod as well. It wasn't so crowded that we were all forced to be smushed together either. I really have no idea why she decided to take her pictures like that. This lady was completely in control of what she was doing which is why this was so annoying. other than this lady the show was amazing, the weather was unbelieveably gorgeous the rest of the people by us for illuminations were perfectly pleasent and we didn't have to deal with all of that smoke.

Once the show was over and everybody clapped my mom and i both decided we wanted to walk the long way around world showcase to the exit because it was so pleasent out. Here is a pic we took as we were exiting the park.

As we were exiting both my mom and I agreed that tonight was the perfect night for min golf. neither one of us were very tired, like i said the weather was great and the next day was a free day so we didn't even have to worry about the next day's schedule. When we exited the park it was about 9:45 and the mini golf place closed at 11 so we ran to our car and drove over to winter/summerland. My mom and I are both big fans of this mini golf course! For one it is a relatively easy golf course unlike fantasia so if you aren't great at golf like my mom and i are this one is the better choice. My mom and I also adore the theming here. both sides are incredibly cute!!! My mom and I pretty much always choose the winter side because it is more classical. When we got there there were only a couple of families at the golf course because it was so late. We talked to a couple of really friendly cast members and we got the game started pretty quickly. Neither my mom or I really had our best games on this day. Don't get me wrong, we still both had reasonable games we just were both out of our zones. We both thought maybe the fact that we had just had a full day at two theme parks and now were mini golfing without a break might have had something to do with it. Despite the game's challenges I ended up beating my mom by one point (kind of unusual so i was happy). Btw it is really funny that I am doing this post today because my family and I just went mini golfing at a place near my for mother's day. In today's game my mom beat me but I ended up placing 3rd out of the 5 of us so I was pleased. Here are some pictures from our winter/summerland golf adventure.

After we finished up the game we ended up driving back to POP and refilled our mugs and then went back to our room where we tried some of the tiramisu which was really good!!! After trying the second dessert we both got ready for bed and watched some TV (Stacey, my name is earl and the office) while my mom played on her I pad and I wrote in my trip journal.

Continued in the Next Post

 

[IheartDDuck]

I totally have that shirt that you're wearing in your Via Napoli update. Gotta love Target!

Okay, I'm so confused. You can't get a pizza and add toppings to it on the Dining Plan? Is it that they're concerned that people will just start loading the toppings on and rake up the costs? That's just strange. It should have been explained before you ordered your food, because they're supposed to ask if you're on the dining plan when you're seated and then explain the deal. Clearly that didn't happen.

 

[Jazzabelle508]

Am I off the hook?

I read all your TR last night listening to D-Cot (Epcot was my choice of tunes last night) and it got me all excited for my upcoming trip!

We are staying offsite I want to stay at Pop but it just wouldn't work out for us

50s adr is reservered!

Looking forward to the next installment!

Sarah
Oh and belated happy birthday! All the best people are born in May
(it's my 25th on Wednesday!)

hahaha of course Sorry if that sounded really forceful, I definitely wasn't trying to be a witch about that but i feel bad if that is how it came across.

about POP not working out for you. Luckily There are plenty of good options offsite as well. Where are you staying? I always thought that those hotels right across from DTD looked nice. For me I would probably stay pretty much anywhere either on or off property (still prefer off property) just as long as I got to spend alot of time in Disney.

Yay for 50's!!!! I love it there and I'm glad i have persuaded people to go there . I have heard amazing things about pretty much every menu item there so you can't go wrong no matter what .

Thanks, it will probably be up this weekend once I start summer vacation. Hopefully I will be able to wrap up this TR by the time school starts up again .

Thanks!!!! and IKR . Exciting you are almost 25!!! My brother is also turning 25 this month, his birthday is this sunday. One of my really good friends also has a birthday this wednesday, May must really be a big birthday month huh, I seriously know tons of people with May Birthdays.

I totally have that shirt that you're wearing in your Via Napoli update. Gotta love Target!

Okay, I'm so confused. You can't get a pizza and add toppings to it on the Dining Plan? Is it that they're concerned that people will just start loading the toppings on and rake up the costs? That's just strange. It should have been explained before you ordered your food, because they're supposed to ask if you're on the dining plan when you're seated and then explain the deal. Clearly that didn't happen.

I love that shirt!! It is so awesome I got few more shirts like it for my birthday which made me happy! Target and Walmart both have great clothes! My big brother gave me a target card for my birthday, good chance that money will be spent on clothes

Yeah, that was really weird to us 2. I have no idea why they do that. Just get either a plain pizza or something else and you will be good. They did explain it to us before the meal but I think excitement about the meal and the italian accents made it so that message didn't come across.

I promise to be back on the weekend to get all caught up!!!

Looking forward to seeing you back here

 

[wakica]

I'm baaack! I've been back for a week and a half now but had to catch up on life and then get started on my trip report which is getting nicely established now so it's catch up time.

Looks like lots of good times were had loved seeing all your Harry Potter land stuff. We thoughrouly enjoyed WWOHP and we aren't even huge potter people. It's just so neat, nice and cozy in that area that we found ourselves drawn back again and again!!

I've never seen that mini golf course so it was cool to see some shots of that place too.

Oh and we are like you and find our spot quite early for Illuminations but our reasoning is twofold - we want a good spot AND our feet are usually so achy by then that the long sit is much welcomed. lol

Looking forward to more

 

[havingadisneyday]

Ha! Tripod lady made me laugh... I know it isn't very "disney-like" but you should have waited for her to lean real hard, then ninja-like stepped quickly to your right or left. Maybe it would have been a lesson for her that even in Disney people need their personal space, even if its just an inch or two. But it does sound like you and your mom had a great time! I'm looking forward to visiting Wilderness Lodge in December just to see those decorations... never stayed there either, but love, love to hang out there. I'm enjoying your trip report (and congrats on your part in your community play!)

 

[Jazzabelle508]

Hi everyone! Sorry I have been so terrible about updating this trip report. I have been having serious internet connection issues since I came home for the summer and the internet has been going out on me everytime I have tried to type a update .

I have also been not so good with my TR as I would like to be because I am going to DISNEYLAND TOMORROW!!!!!!! I am super excited! I haven't been there since I was four years old and I barely remember anything about it. I haven't even been to California Adventure! I am not any kind of expert on Disneyland, my family has been pure disney world my whole life! Basically this will be like my first trip to disneyland EVER so i hope to get myself a first visit badge. it will be interesting feeling the first trip sensation since i don't even remember my first disney world trip!

I will try to update this TR before I leave but if I don't I defintely will when I come back.

 

[JustADreamAway]

just started following....love your TR so far! Have fun at Disneyland!!

 

[midwesternbelle]

LOVE Your TR!!!! So cute that your mum would go to WDW with you... my mom loves disney but not enough to top with just her and i! That would be so fun1 Cant wait for more updated!

Ariel