Grumpy turned Happy for Christmas!

[Monknmom]

Most of these are straightforward so there is not much explaining to do for them!

I love that test track lets you scan your card to put the picture on the photopass I really think that every ride should do that for you!

My friend that went to Disney the week before we did (she's the PTO head at Damien's school) showed me the Santa in Epcot and I had to take a picture of Damien with him! He was really great and so realistic looking! He even let a little boy before Damien pull on the beard (which was awesome because Damien kept denying that he was real)! This was him asking Santa about the elves and the telling him about the fake Santa he saw at the mall!

I want to say Germany, but I can't remember and didn't write it down...

China

Okay now that I have the CD I have more pictures and don't have to list the whole day at once! I can break it up and keep you hanging like Tammie!

 

[mommytominnie]

What a great update!! Love the PP pictures. Chip and Dale were one of Princess' favorite charactor interactions as well. I like the way Grumpy smiles in his pictures. My Grumpy was in the Marines and he still has that serious look when he takes pictures. It is very rare I can get one where he is smiling.

Oh my gosh!! I love your Santa pictures at Epcot. I did not know Santa and Mrs. Claus was there. I would of loved to have a picture with them. Actually, you got a lot of PP in Epcot that we did not know where there.

That's it, I need to book another trip so I can go back and get those pictures Can't wait to read more

 

[Monknmom]

What a great update!! Love the PP pictures. Chip and Dale were one of Princess' favorite charactor interactions as well. I like the way Grumpy smiles in his pictures. My Grumpy was in the Marines and he still has that serious look when he takes pictures. It is very rare I can get one where he is smiling.

Oh my gosh!! I love your Santa pictures at Epcot. I did not know Santa and Mrs. Claus was there. I would of loved to have a picture with them. Actually, you got a lot of PP in Epcot that we did not know where there.

That's it, I need to book another trip so I can go back and get those pictures Can't wait to read more

Thank you! Yeah K has a really nice smile- it gets him out of trouble with people all of the time!

Oh the Santa was great! There were 4 kids (that I know of) that went to Disney a week or so before us so they were telling me lots of stuff! And I like the different Santa's so I researched that! I can't wait to hear/read more about you guys too! What happened? I hope that everything's okay and your just taking a break!

 

[momabaarjo]

I love the picture of Damien bouncing up to Tigger. The crowd was so bad on the Character Trail that we did not see any characters and just wanted out of the area. I really wanted to look at the Christmas trees. K looks like he fits perfect in the EE area! He does have a wonderful smile.

I am also jealous of all the photo pass photographers at the different countries in Epcot...I swear the only one we found was at France! How on earth did you get TT without anyone else in the car with you?

 

[Monknmom]

I love the picture of Damien bouncing up to Tigger. The crowd was so bad on the Character Trail that we did not see any characters and just wanted out of the area. I really wanted to look at the Christmas trees. K looks like he fits perfect in the EE area! He does have a wonderful smile.

I am also jealous of all the photo pass photographers at the different countries in Epcot...I swear the only one we found was at France! How on earth did you get TT without anyone else in the car with you?

Thank you! I love that tigger one too! I have to say it was one of the ones I was most excited to see how it came out! Thank you!

We actually accidently kept finding the same guy walking through the countries at kinda the same pace as us (because he was taking photos and then would move on) and so we would stop him, I thought that we had more in the countries, but they are not there. LOL when I just read that comment about no one else in the TT with us to K and Damien, K said without hesitation "we were there at the crack of dawn" I can't wait to show him some of your crowded Disney!

 

[Monknmom]

This day started out great because since they had no extra park hours on this day we got to sleep in a 1/2 hour later- doesn't sound like a lot though when I type it!
I had been nervous for this day to come because everything that I read said that the 3 rides I wanted to get onto get crowded fast (RNR, TOT, and TSM) so I made a plan! K was going to do the mad dash to TSM and I was going to get Damien over to TOT so that by the time K got there we would all be there and ready to ride (Damien had to use the bathroom so it would take us a few minutes)! This park doesn't open like the other ones (well I guess that AK opens like this because they let you into the Oasis part before the park opens). So K went to the TSM way and I went to the TOT, little did I know that Damien likes Starwars (he's never seen it before) and heard the other child talking about the Jedi training so I thought about heading over there, but it would have messed up my plans that I had worked really hard on! So I convinced Damien that we will get over there later and we headed over to the TOT! When we got to the bathroom we saw other people being turned away from the ride, but I kinda ignored it thinking they just weren't opened yet (lucky for me right?) and proceeded with my plans. When we got out and K was heading to us we walked to him and snapped these photos:

They wanted us to look scared and the guy tells K "you're smiling, look scared" K replies "I smile when I'm scared" Oh too funny!

On our walk to the TOT K was telling us about the TSM crowd and people were pushing him for fastpasses and everything, he was glad that we didn't have Damien over there because even CM's got pushed I guess. Then we get to the TOT and they say that they are not opening it yet (I forgot the reason they gave us- I think that the eleveators got stuck in the 3rd dimension?), so we rush over to RNR and we rode that 3 TIMES without wait! Damien and K loved it, but my head was killing me! I wish that they didn't have it so jolty and with the music right in your ears! When we got out we saw that the TOT was working ! My son had been excited to ride it in the morning and then he was still okay when we were getting on. We finally get to the part where they sort us into rows and he chickens out! I mean he REALLY starts to act up! He was screaming and crying that he didn't want to go on and this and that and the lady was so good about it and letting me try to calm him down a second to get him on, but it was a no go and after a little more screaming and crying that I was going to go on (he wanted me to send K first to make sure that the ride was okay... talk about loving his dad!). K took him out and I went on. When I came off I was letting him know that all of these little kids were on (and I showed him) and he still didn't want to go on and K just wanted to get out because he was embarressed! So we did and on our way over to One Man's dream we had more photos taken:

K stood and read everything in the museum and Damien and I went into the movie to watch- I loved the movie and the stuff in the museum! I thought that it was so nice to have saved so many of his things and have the originals there and such! I liked it a lot. My husband had not realized that he had started out with no money and enjoyed reading about all of the downfalls that Walt Disney had to go through to get to the point where he was when he passed and to make it become what it is today! I agree with K that it's very inspiring! But as interesting as it was it was not interesting enough to keep my son's interest so we headed over to the backlot tour!
On our way over there I think it was we saw these guys taking pictures with fans so we had to jump in line! Little did I know that they don't give signatures

The action sequence and the museum and tour were interesting! I just about wet my pants when the water came gushing down because I wasn't paying attention to what they were saying (I think I was fumbling with the camera that wasn't working) and I was on the side that was closest to the water and all of a sudden you hear it coming and BOOM!!! Let me tell you that from there on I didn't let my mind wonder on any other rides! Then it was time to eat! We chose Studio Catering company. K got the Buffalo Chicken Sandwich with fries, a cheesecake and a coffee (go figure since I was refusing any more coffee snack credits). I had the grilled vegetable sandwich with fries, an unsweet iced tea and a holiday cupcake. Damien decided on the turkey club with a chocolate milk and a cookie for dessert. Everything we had was pretty good, but it was just so hot this day that we all wanted to rest, but none of them wanted to head back to the hotel to do so. So we let Damien play in the HISTK playyard for about a 1/2 hour! I wanted to catch the Lights, motor action because it had McQueen and I thought that he would like it, plus it was going to start in about 10 minutes, but instead Damien decided to met with McQueen and Mater instead and give up on the show! So we did as he wanted!

The whole time that we were standing in line for the pictures with the cars we heard singing and laughing and such and I could recognize the songs and voices, but could not for the life of me figure it out... but Damien did which made him so excited when he turned the corner and.....
UH-OH a Tammie cliff hanger was there...

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

OH NOOOO A Tammie CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!
haha Tammie.

Eek about the ToT deal. Sorry RnR gave you such a headache. Yeah, we've always found it more entertaining to watch the other ppl's reactions to that Backlot Tours!

I'm going to guess... Phineas and Pherb are around the corner. ( or is it really Ferb? idk haha and its one of Alexa's favorites.)

 

[shocky5]

I'm with Ashley - Phineas and Ferb around the corner?? Great cliffhanger!

I'm loving looking at your pictures! It's fun seeing some of the common locations with your family in them as I have with my family in them. I giggled at the one of Damien standing under the gorilla that's carved into the tree of life roots... on the way to Its Tough To Be A Bug... my boys were picking his nose...

And as for TOT... I don't know what to tell you about it psyching kids out at the load on... as you know... there's the "I'm too cool for this ride" exit that my children know well!

I love all of your roadside attraction pictures on your way to Florida! This is really why I want to make the drive one time in our lifetime with the kids... now to just get Eddie to pull his fingers out of his ears!!!

 

[Monknmom]

OH NOOOO A Tammie CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!
haha Tammie.

Eek about the ToT deal. Sorry RnR gave you such a headache. Yeah, we've always found it more entertaining to watch the other ppl's reactions to that Backlot Tours!

I'm going to guess... Phineas and Pherb are around the corner. ( or is it really Ferb? idk haha and its one of Alexa's favorites.)

Oh my yes that backlot tour was something! I am not so good at Tammie's cliffhangers! I have to leave them up to her!

I'm with Ashley - Phineas and Ferb around the corner?? Great cliffhanger!

I'm loving looking at your pictures! It's fun seeing some of the common locations with your family in them as I have with my family in them. I giggled at the one of Damien standing under the gorilla that's carved into the tree of life roots... on the way to Its Tough To Be A Bug... my boys were picking his nose...

And as for TOT... I don't know what to tell you about it psyching kids out at the load on... as you know... there's the "I'm too cool for this ride" exit that my children know well!

I love all of your roadside attraction pictures on your way to Florida! This is really why I want to make the drive one time in our lifetime with the kids... now to just get Eddie to pull his fingers out of his ears!!!

Yeah I guess that I should not have made it so obvious? I am not good at the cliffhangers!

LOL about that monkey! Damien gets called monkey so I wanted a nice picture (took forever and still came out blurry)! He was picking the nose of the troll in Norway of world showcase!

Yeah I guess I shouldn't have pushed him so on the TOT, but I thought that he would really like it!

You should go on a roadtrip! I will give you the website when you go and you'll see that there are so many little things that you find that weren't even on your map! I liked the drive there because we went along the back roads down to see all of that stuff.

 

[momabaarjo]

I just love all your family pictures...I really wished ours would have come out better...I seem to always have 1/2 of my face hidden by one of the kids...grrr. Sorry you did not get to Lights Motor Action...Damien would have loved Lightnings appearance!

 

[annmarieda]

I had no idea that you had posted so many updates and I had missed them!!!! I am so sorry!

I love all the pictures. You all look like you are having a good time!!!

The Santa looks to be a great one! We stopped for the one in MK, but not Epcot. Now I am super jealous, cause I do think yours was much better.

I don't blame Damien for being scared to ride ToT. I don't do that ride. I tried this last trip, but chickened out at the last moment. One and only time I did ride it I spazed out and bit dh...so really... I wouldn't find Damien crying about not wanting to go embarrassing. At least he harmed no one.

can't wait to read more. you and Tammie and your cliffhangers

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

I had no idea that you had posted so many updates and I had missed them!!!! I am so sorry!

I love all the pictures. You all look like you are having a good time!!!

The Santa looks to be a great one! We stopped for the one in MK, but not Epcot. Now I am super jealous, cause I do think yours was much better.

I don't blame Damien for being scared to ride ToT. I don't do that ride. I tried this last trip, but chickened out at the last moment. One and only time I did ride it I spazed out and bit dh...so really... I wouldn't find Damien crying about not wanting to go embarrassing. At least he harmed no one.

can't wait to read more. you and Tammie and your cliffhangers

Ann... you bit your husband... why doesn't that surprise me..

At least you've ridden it. I have not ever nor will I ever ride ToT. I can't deal with that stomach going into your throat feeling!

 

[annmarieda]

Ann... you bit your husband... why doesn't that surprise me..

At least you've ridden it. I have not ever nor will I ever ride ToT. I can't deal with that stomach going into your throat feeling!

That is my trouble to Ashley! So I held on to dh with my hands... then my arms wrapped around him. I couldnt "grab" with anything else... but my teeth. So that is what I did... grabbed his arm with my teeth.