Halloween fun!- and we are heading back!!

[Yakety76]

The Winnie pic is SO adorable. Great cropping job on that one!

My favorites are the framed photopass shots. Those are SO much fun! Nice stuff.

I wish I could take credit for the cropping job on the Winnie picture. That was all the Photopass Photog.

I did have a little too much fun adding borders to all the pictures. I kind of felt the need to put each picture into at least two borders since they were there. I did especially like the borders that were specifically for Halloween. Those are really fun.

 

[Yakety76]

Friday afternoon was all about DCA!!

As soon as Kaleb woke from his nap, he and I headed over to DCA to meet up with everyone. We were so excited to take Riley on Soarin’ now that she is 40 inches. Bob had picked up some fast passes for us to use, so my mom and I took Riley. Riley loved this ride! She was grinning ear to ear and had her arms out in front of her like she was flying. I think the scent wasn't working quite right because we only smelled the oranges. However, it was still an amazing ride. My mom and Riley both say this is now their favorite ride.

On the way to meet up the with the boys, we met Stitch.

Bob took Kaleb over into Bug’s Land, so Kaleb didn’t realize he was missing out. We met up with Bob and Kaleb in Bug’s Land and went on the Flik’s Flyers. I feel bad because we never took my mom on Heimlich. Yet another reason we have to return.

We decided to head to Monsters. On the way we stopped to look in Candy Corn Acres. Kaleb really tried to pick the candy corns. He was in candy heaven.

We then continued on to ride Monsters which is one of our favorites.

After Monsters we found a nice place to sit for the Pixar Parade. We sat right across from the Grizzly River Rapids. Some birds were perched on the Grizzly head, so we watched them while we waited for the parade to start. I also got us some nice fresh fruit to eat. Yum!
The parade was so much fun. The kids especially loved the bubbles.

 

[tinkermell]

What a nice report.

I love how your DD ended up getting to meet Wendy afterall. That was so special! So many people complain about CMs, but the ones like those two, sure make up for the few others.

 

[Yakety76]

What a nice report.

I love how your DD ended up getting to meet Wendy afterall. That was so special! So many people complain about CMs, but the ones like those two, sure make up for the few others.

Thank you so much.

Peter and Wendy were amazing. I am still so thankful that they took that time with my daughter when they clearly didn't have to.
I can honestly say that in our two trips this year, we did not meet any CMs that I would complain about. On the contrary, the CMs we met have mostly been wonderful. Many seemed to really enjoy their jobs and go the extra mile.

 

[travelmel]

I love the pic of Kaleb on Fliks Flyers! I've seen other tiny dis-ers who REALLY get a kick out of that ride

Our crew is of the older sort and we don't spend much time there but now that I know about the smell-o-bit on Heimlick I want to go!

Great update

 

[Yakety76]

I love the pic of Kaleb on Fliks Flyers! I've seen other tiny dis-ers who REALLY get a kick out of that ride

Our crew is of the older sort and we don't spend much time there but now that I know about the smell-o-bit on Heimlick I want to go!

Great update

We really like Bug's Land. The rides seem geared more towards the little ones, but the atmosphere is amazing.
The Heimlick train is a lot of fun. Not really an exciting ride, but the scents and corny lines are still fun. Your daughter who helped you land the ride on the Lily Belle (was it Bailey?) would probably get a kick out of the details in Bug's land. From your trip report, she struck me as someone who would notice and appreciate details.

Thanks for continuing to read along. I will have the next updates soon. My husband is out of town for the week, so I will have plenty of free time.

 

[mommaU4]

Yay! An update!

So was Riley thinking you guys were crazy pointing to a non-exsistent Stitch on the ground? She just seems to be looking so hard. LOL She's adorable and the pic of her and Kaleb on the ride is so cute. The sheer joy on their faces is wonderful.


I love Bug's Land. We like to head over there in the evenings when it's practically empty and the kids can go on the rides with no wait, over and over and over. Ruben and I usually chill out on one of the empty benches and just soak up the atmosphere. ToT makes a nice backdrop while we are sitting there.

(sigh) Now I'm missing it......

 

[Jennifer03]

Your trip report is so cute. It sounds like you and your family had a great time. I love how Wendy and Peter spent time your daughter; what a wonderful experience that must have been for her!

 

[travelmel]

We really like Bug's Land. The rides seem geared more towards the little ones, but the atmosphere is amazing.
The Heimlick train is a lot of fun. Not really an exciting ride, but the scents and corny lines are still fun. Your daughter who helped you land the ride on the Lily Belle (was it Bailey?) would probably get a kick out of the details in Bug's land. From your trip report, she struck me as someone who would notice and appreciate details.

Thanks for continuing to read along. I will have the next updates soon. My husband is out of town for the week, so I will have plenty of free time.

Yep, it was DDB (Bailey) Thank you for noticing such a sweet thing. She's a girl's BFF. The other one is the comic relief and they're both cornballs for details and silly stuff just like their ole mubs. (That's how it sounds when they say mom with a cold... "mub")

Hubby's outta town and the disboards win!

 

[Yakety76]

After the Pixar parade, I persuaded my mom to hop over to DL to watch the Parade of Dreams. Riley and I love that parade. It brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear the music. It is time for the kids to eat some dinner and go to bed, but I really wanted my mom to experience the parade. She was more than willing to go off by herself and then come back to the hotel by 8:00 so that Bob and I could have some adult time. That’s right Bob and I get to head out on our own. No kids in sight. Okay… there were a lot of kids in sight, but none of them were ours.

Bob and I head back to DLH with the kids in tow. On the way, we stop at the Ralph Brennan’s Creole Café. This is the take out window for Ralph Brennan. Bob ordered the jambalaya, I got the fried chicken po-boy and the kids got the popcorn chicken kids’ meal. While waiting for Bob to get our food, Riley gets a really freaked out look on her face. She is having a bathroom emergency. She needs to go and she needs to go NOW. I park both kids in the stroller and run back to the Wonder tower. Bob is left in the dust to finish getting our food and try to figure out where we have run off too. Thankfully, we reached our hotel in time for Riley to do her thing and Bob figured out where went off too. On the plus side, no innocent by-standers were trampled by me and the kids on our dash to the hotel.

As for food, the kids’ popcorn chicken was so good. Bob purchased two orders, but was only given one. That was a bummer because I would have gladly eaten the second order. My po-boy was okay. Nothing spectacular. Bob said he his jambalaya was tasty, but not as good as what he has had in New Orleans. So for us, the kids chicken was the winner. Luckily we had some carrot sticks left over from the trick or treat part to supplement our extremely healthy dinner of deep fat fried chicken.

After a quick dinner, we went through the kids’ bedtime routines and got them to sleep. I will be honest and say that I managed to put myself to sleep while cuddling with Kaleb. Bob comes into our room at around 8:00 and woke me up while trying not to wake Kaleb up. I grumble for a couple of minutes and then we head out for a night on the town.

Walking back towards Disney it becomes obvious pretty quickly that the park is going to be packed. We aren’t overly worried because we have fastpasses for all the rides we plan on riding. This turns out to be a good thing because the park is actually busier than I could have ever imagined.

We head into NOS and get into the fastpass line for Haunted Mansion. Thank goodness for fastpass and thank goodness Bob collected them this morning. I don’t remember what the wait was, but it was insane. With the fastpass, we were ushered into the stretching room immediately. Oh, my! What a fun experience. Others have said that they found this version to be less scary than the original. I found it to be scarier- especially the stretching room and the wreath with teeth. I haven’t seen the movie since it first came out, so I am definitely feeling a need to see it again.

After the Haunted Mansion we head over to Splash Mountain. Once we reached the front of the line, the CM asked if we wanted the front of the log. Remembering that I have heard on the boards that the front will get me soaked, I politely said “No, thank you” to that. Bob sat in the back seat and I sat in front of him. So much fun. I was the only person on the log (including Bob) who didn’t get drenched. I was glad I didn’t get wet because I had forgotten my hoodie in the hotel room.

Next we tried to ride Big Thunder Mountain, but it was down. Bob was only able to ride this ride once on this trip because it kept going down. I wanted to ride this because I have memories of tricking my roller coaster hating grandpa into riding it by telling him it was just a train ride. Fun times!
It felt kind of weird for me to be riding the big kid rides. I haven’t ridden them since I was a kid. It was really bringing back memories of being there with my family and grandparents.

Next up was Indy. Again, fastpass really helped out with this one. The only downside to bypassing the line was that I didn’t get to explore. I did show Bob the rope that you can pull. It didn’t do anything for me, but it was fun to show him a couple of the “secrets” I have read about here on the boards. I had read that if you were loose on the ride, it wouldn’t feel quite as jarring. This worked for me. I tried not to brace myself or stiffen up and I didn’t get sore at all. I really liked the car itself and thought the ride was a lot of fun.

When we exit, we hear the booming sounds of fireworks. Bob loves fireworks and wants to stop and Oooo and Ahhh. I, however, want to ride another ride. We compromise and he gets a water and we watch for a couple of minutes before we head off. We were not quick enough, though. As we are travelling through the bottle neck area in NOS, the fireworks come to an end. There were a lot of people with little ones and I don’t know how they were doing it. I would have been freaked out if I had my kids with me. It was very difficult to move through the crowd. Luckily, it was just the two of us so we slinked through the crowd over to Tomorrowland. While walking purposefully towards Space Mountain, I tell Bob that I am about finished for the night. We decide that Space Mountain will be our last ride for the night. A mom and son were behind us as we come up to Buzz. The son is begging his mom to go on Buzz, but she tells him the line is too long. Bob turns around and offers her our Buzz fastpasses since we will not be using them. The son was so happy. I don’t know if they used them or not, but I was pretty proud of Bob for giving them the option.

We continue onto Space Mountain. I LOVE this ride. I had forgotten how great it is. I had a grin on my face the whole ride. I could definitely do that one multiple times. My body is telling me it is bedtime, though.
On the way out of the park, we stop by the castle and get some pictures taken. It was a really great night. I have loved every minute with my kids at the park, but Bob and I really enjoyed spending some time alone.

I forgot to bring my camera with us, so the only pictures I have are the photopass pictures.

 

[Yakety76]

Yay! An update!

So was Riley thinking you guys were crazy pointing to a non-exsistent Stitch on the ground? She just seems to be looking so hard. LOL She's adorable and the pic of her and Kaleb on the ride is so cute. The sheer joy on their faces is wonderful.


I love Bug's Land. We like to head over there in the evenings when it's practically empty and the kids can go on the rides with no wait, over and over and over. Ruben and I usually chill out on one of the empty benches and just soak up the atmosphere. ToT makes a nice backdrop while we are sitting there.

(sigh) Now I'm missing it......

Riley was actually pretty funny about that picture because she has no idea who Stitch is. We told her to point and Stitch would pop up in the picture and I think she thought he would really pop up.

I love the picture of them on Flik's. We have a very similar one of them on that ride in February. It is a real thrill ride for toddlers.

I know what you mean about missing it. Riley and Kaleb ask every day if we get to go back to Disney. Riley even put her birthday money in her piggy bank to save up for a trip to Disney.

Your trip report is so cute. It sounds like you and your family had a great time. I love how Wendy and Peter spent time your daughter; what a wonderful experience that must have been for her!

We had an amazing time. There is something about Disney that puts all of us on our best behavior, so we get to just enjoy everything and each other.
She loved meeting Wendy. It was definitely a highlight for us.

Yep, it was DDB (Bailey) Thank you for noticing such a sweet thing. She's a girl's BFF. The other one is the comic relief and they're both cornballs for details and silly stuff just like their ole mubs. (That's how it sounds when they say mom with a cold... "mub")

Hubby's outta town and the disboards win!

They both seem like very sweet girls. I hope my kids still want to hang out with me when they are that age.

 

[travelmel]

I wanted to ride this because I have memories of tricking my roller coaster hating grandpa into riding it by telling him it was just a train ride. Fun times!
It felt kind of weird for me to be riding the big kid rides. I haven’t ridden them since I was a kid. It was really bringing back memories of being there with my family and grandparents.

Aww! I'm so happy that you had such a great adult night out! It sounds perfect!

As for your trickery:

I tricked my bigtime roller coster hating grandma into riding "Back to the Future" at Universal Studios way back in the day. I did NOT lie. I told her it didn't move on a track

I don't know if you ever rode Back to the Future but it was sorta like a Soarin' type ride which made you feel like you were in a car ZOOMING through the scenes of Back to the Future and felt EXACTLY like a roller coaster. REALLY exhilerating! Poor ole thing! I think she liked it.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

I love the picture of your DD and DH on Dumbo! Too cute!!

 

[Yakety76]

Aww! I'm so happy that you had such a great adult night out! It sounds perfect!

As for your trickery:

I tricked my bigtime roller coster hating grandma into riding "Back to the Future" at Universal Studios way back in the day. I did NOT lie. I told her it didn't move on a track

I don't know if you ever rode Back to the Future but it was sorta like a Soarin' type ride which made you feel like you were in a car ZOOMING through the scenes of Back to the Future and felt EXACTLY like a roller coaster. REALLY exhilerating! Poor ole thing! I think she liked it.

That is so funny that you tricked one of your grandparents too. Maybe it is a sign of love that we wanted them to join us for some fun.
In my case it was probably more a sign of being ornery.

I don't recall the Back to the Future ride, but I probably did ride it. The time frame would be about right for when we used to visit. I mostly remember the Jaws ride, Kitt and the A-Team van. I also remember my brother being chosen to be in the Keystone Cops type skit they did. I wonder where that video is?!

We did have a great night out. Thanks. We don't go on dates very often. How perfect to have a date night at Disney!!

I love the picture of your DD and DH on Dumbo! Too cute!!

Thank you! They are both hams. As you can probably tell, the ride isn't even going. They just like to play to the camera.

 

[Yakety76]

For those of you patiently waiting for the next update, it is going to be a bit longer. I had planned on posting one tonight. I even uploaded the pictures I want to use to photobucket during naptime today. However, my Wii Fit yelled at me, so now I am feeling guilty about not working out as often as I should be. A machine should not be able to make a person feel this guilty.

I will work on the next update and get it on soon. Stick with me.

 

[mommaU4]

Somehow I missed your update on the adult time at DL! I just now read it. I'm glad you had some alone time together. One of my fondest memories of DL is when Ruben and I went alone on a cold, drizzly day and walked around sipping hot cocoa in an almost deserted park. Family time is nice, but so is adult time.
Great pic of you two with the castle btw.

 

[travelmel]

That is so funny that you tricked one of your grandparents too. Maybe it is a sign of love that we wanted them to join us for some fun.
In my case it was probably more a sign of being ornery.

Definitely two birds of a feather you and I!

I don't recall the Back to the Future ride, but I probably did ride it. The time frame would be about right for when we used to visit. I mostly remember the Jaws ride, Kitt and the A-Team van. I also remember my brother being chosen to be in the Keystone Cops type skit they did. I wonder where that video is?!

Too cute! We used to make homeade horror movies and my aunt and uncle had them transferred onto video for us (my cousins and I). It's great (well, sorta.. I was awkard and LARGE at 13!) to see them again. My grandma used to say we made horror films because we couldn't sing or dance. Now it makes more sense why I tricked her, doesn't it?? HA HA just kidding. LOVE YOU GRANDMA!

US was really fun back in the day. The "making movies" type show was closed the last time we went. I think that's really memorable part of a "studio" park that we missed. Ah well. Now I want to visit the Warner Bros Studio after seeing it here on the dis.

A machine should not be able to make a person feel this guilty.

That cracked me up!!!!

 

[travelmel]

That is so funny that you tricked one of your grandparents too. Maybe it is a sign of love that we wanted them to join us for some fun.
In my case it was probably more a sign of being ornery.

Definitely two birds of a feather you and I!

I don't recall the Back to the Future ride, but I probably did ride it. The time frame would be about right for when we used to visit. I mostly remember the Jaws ride, Kitt and the A-Team van. I also remember my brother being chosen to be in the Keystone Cops type skit they did. I wonder where that video is?!

Too cute! We used to make homeade horror movies and my aunt and uncle had them transferred onto video for us (my cousins and I). It's great (well, sorta.. I was awkard and LARGE at 13!) to see them again. My grandma used to say we made horror films because we couldn't sing or dance. Now it makes more sense why I tricked her, doesn't it?? HA HA just kidding. LOVE YOU GRANDMA!

US was really fun back in the day. The "making movies" type show was closed the last time we went. I think that's really memorable part of a "studio" park that we missed. Ah well. Now I want to visit the Warner Bros Studio after seeing it here on the dis.

A machine should not be able to make a person feel this guilty.

That cracked me up!!!!

 

[Yakety76]

Somehow I missed your update on the adult time at DL! I just now read it. I'm glad you had some alone time together. One of my fondest memories of DL is when Ruben and I went alone on a cold, drizzly day and walked around sipping hot cocoa in an almost deserted park. Family time is nice, but so is adult time.
Great pic of you two with the castle btw.

Thanks for reading along with me.
How fun that you and Ruben had the park to yourselves. I love days that are drizzly and just chilly enough for a light coat. Makes me really want to slow down and enjoy. I can totally picture walking around DL doing just that.

We were really pleased with the castle pictures. That photographer was a lot of fun. We don't have many recent pictures of just the two of us, so it is nice to have a picture were we both look happy and the background is spectacular.

 

[Yakety76]

Definitely two birds of a feather you and I!

Yay! I am not alone in my orneriness.

Too cute! We used to make homeade horror movies and my aunt and uncle had them transferred onto video for us (my cousins and I). It's great (well, sorta.. I was awkard and LARGE at 13!) to see them again. My grandma used to say we made horror films because we couldn't sing or dance. Now it makes more sense why I tricked her, doesn't it?? HA HA just kidding. LOVE YOU GRANDMA!

That is hilarious. Homemade horror movies.
How fun to see them again after all these years.

I have been hounding my mom to get our old pictures out of the boxes so that I can look through them. I think that is one of the reasons I like to scrapbook so much. I want my kids to be able to have all the pictures of the things we do and be able to look back and remember.

US was really fun back in the day. The "making movies" type show was closed the last time we went. I think that's really memorable part of a "studio" park that we missed. Ah well. Now I want to visit the Warner Bros Studio after seeing it here on the dis.

That is weird that US doesn't do the making the movies things anymore. When the kids get a little older, I will have to look into Warner Bros. Studios.

That cracked me up!!!!

It is pathetic that I take it so personally. I really want to come up with a good excuse when it asks why I haven't worked out or why I have gained a pound. The Wii should try going to four birthday parties and having a Halloween party all in two weeks and not gain any weight.
The guilt works on me though. I will be going to work out right after I post my next update.