"Having a GRAND time - The Official GF Chat Thread"

[Lives4Disney]

I have more pics coming up!!!

My camera is a Fuji....it's not the pocket type - I will let you know the model when I hunt it down around here. I had a Fuji digital slim pocket camera years ago and it was the bEST camera I ever had - super easy and good pics...anyway...so when I needed a new one I wanted another Fuji. I LOVE it. It does all kinds of stuff and when I adjust it it tells me WHAT it is adjusted for....maybe other cameras do that, but my old one didnt so maybe it's a newer thing. I made some stupid mistakes and some pics aren't the best but most are decent....I would hold my finger over the flash (duh) or I forgot I had the flash forced off....(duh )

Thanks for the compliments.....more coming....

OH...the German dolls....with the "basic" outfit they are $125 with the "deluxe" outfits - which most of the traditional costumes are, they are $150. Wait til you see Lucy's.....she is adorable....the poor nice German girl had to spend almost 2 hrs hand curling her hair for the style Lucy picked out, but it's just soooo cute and the German doll maker, Nicole, was so sweet and interesting it made the time fly by.

I will get moving on the pics and camera info.

 

[goofygal531]

Channing, you have a beautiful family!

The girls look adorable in their personalized shirts!

I would love to try the Kitchen Sick but my kids are way to young to even make a dent in it!

Can't wait to see the photos from the Easter Egg Hunt at the GF!

By the way, does anyone know if there's a DVD player in the cabanas? I think I read somewhere that there is, I'm just not sure and can't find where I read it! I hope there is, it will keep my boys entertained much longer!

Have a great day everyone!
Mare

 

[Lives4Disney]

I am trying to go thru the pics on this first card.....the GF ones will be coming up!

Here's Friday at the MK - late afternoon & we were on our way back to the Swan and saw the line for the bunny was pretty short!

Here's a crowd pic on Friday morning from the TTA....this was still "light" considering what it turned into after Easter...

The castle that we didn't get to spend the night in... Maybe you'll be the lucky ones Spacec or Grannie Minnie!!!

Our LUCKY monorail...we rode up front 4 times this trip!!!

 

[Lives4Disney]

Epcot topiaries at the front entrance....it was SO CUTE and they were playing Beach Boys music all the time...it was hard to get pics becuase people CROWDED around and climbed up on the display....

 

[irisbud]

Thanks for sharing your pictures Channing! Your girls are lovely (and the outfits are great!). It looks like you guys had a wonderful time!

 

[Lives4Disney]

OK...got the camera and the other card.

It is a Fuji Finepix S800 and it is the size of the Sony cybershots I've seen. Not as large as a Canon Rebel. I thought I'd mind carrying it because I am used to just slipping the pocket digitals into my purse of pocket but it was fine around my neck every day. I tried to get a cute Disney strap but they totally cheaped out and the thing was SO SHORT it was wacked so poor DH put it on and took it off right there. The CM was nice and she agreed it was wrong & gave me a quick refund.

More coming - I will get the GF Easter ones up very shortly!! Kind of trying to go in some type of order.

 

[Lives4Disney]

I LOVE Carousel of Progress.....I also love the People Mover, haha....

Here's entering the CR from the front of the monorail on our way to visit our CM friends at the great old GF!!!

Anxiously waiting to MOVE and get to the GF!!! These were taken our first day, Wednesday 3/19.....

At the GRAND!!! This is a pic of the NEWLY carpeted 2nd floor lobby area!!! I thought the carpet was pretty and it helped with the echoing sound, too.....I really liked it...it looked cleaner than the dirty old tile, too.....I bet it's not, but it LOOKED clean.

Jojo playing checkers while we hung out on the 3rd floor visiting. That little fellow is Jose.

 

[Lives4Disney]

Visiting.......

EASTER!!!! We walked out of the back corner elevator and saw MINNIE!!!

We followed Minnie and Mickey and Goofy to the courtyard which was all decorated and set up with coffee and muffins and juice out on tables all around.... hope I have some pics that show that.

We were the second up there to get their autographs and pics.

The CMs handed out cute treat bags to collect the loot in.....

 

[Lives4Disney]

The pics are pretty clear, but I had to resize them all to photobucket them easier so they aren't as clear as they really are.

Here are more Easter pics!! Egg hunt! It was fun...they had the whole courtyard set up and signed in age groups. Everybody was very well behaved - parents included. Jojo got a great deal of loot including some cute key chains, bouncy balls and Easter rings and other junk - candy of course, too!

Lining up for the hunt to begin!!!!!

GO!!!!!!!!

 

[WishesQueen]

How cute are your girls, I wish my DD would dress up for Easter!!! Easter looked amazing at the GF, I can't wait to see more.

I am also going to check out your camera!! Thanks!!!

 

[Lives4Disney]

After the egg/candy hunt we noticed Alice and the White Rabbit were up on stage so we hightailed it over to them...no line!!

Then we went back up to our room to unload Jojo's treasures and get ready to head off to our Easter brunch at Epcot.

Here are some pics of the inside of the pavillion that the brunch was in....it was very cute, but HUGE and dark and expensive.

As you enter, there was a garden scene set up and to the left of this was Goofy (the same that we saw at the GF taking pics and giving autographs so we skipped him)

Also near the entrance just before you line up to check in.....

Our table was near this display on the back wall....

Here's a pic of the main food station.....

 

[Lives4Disney]

After brunch we hung out at Epcot a bit but it got so crowded it was a little uncomfortable for us so we went back to the GF to swim and hang.

More Epcot....this is in the England garden - they had it decorated and had Mr. & Mrs. Easter Bunny but the line!!! Also they had egg hunts all over Epcot that you could get tickets to participate in. We did here in England, but it was a 45 minute wait so we turned the tickets in and ditched.

More pretty topiaries.......

We went over to sign up for the Alice Tea Party in the Odyssee buidling.....Lucy was the one that REALLY REALLY wanted to do this....we had to wait around over an hour - but it turned out that she was the oldest one and felt kind of dorky....Jojo moaned the whole time we were dinking around and waiting for this party but SHE is the one that really liked it.....it was kind of cheesy though.

 

[Lives4Disney]

Have to throw these in because I never had a camera before that was fast enough to take these type of pics!!!!!

 

[Lives4Disney]

Pretty Epcot before we left to go back to teh GF....

We hung out and had a nice rest then asked the concierge CMs for a dinner ressie.....DH was Mr. Negative and didn't think we'd get one....well we wound up at 1900 PF Easter night!!!! It was kind of different how they ran this...they gave us a pager and had everybody wait in the lobby vs. how they used to have you line up and meet a character in the foyer area near the restaurant entrance. They are keeping that area empty now....no character until you enter.

 

[Lives4Disney]

You guys are probably like....go away...enough already.... WELL I HAVE MORE!!!!!!

Here is Saturday at MGM....this was cute streetmasphere show....Jojo had met the director before and he gave her his business card and told her she has "powers" and can "emote"....oh boy,, he hit the nail on the head with that one. She keeps his card forever hoping to run into him again.

Jojo proudly showing her card from director Vladimir Pooey. (that's him in the above photo w/the camera) We ate at the Brown Derby. I LOVE this restaurant. We eat here every trip and it remains a favorite. Great food, great service.

 

[Lives4Disney]

ok we're losers but due to the crowds we wound up doing something we haven't done since 2003. We rode the Liberty Belle.

Here's some MK pics from atop the ship.....I have more but I like these.

DH and Lucy sitting on a bench on the path next to the castle....we unexpectedly had a great view of the parade as it crossed from Liberty Square into the MK castle circle area..... We sat and watched the whole thing!

View of Belle from our lucky spots....

Jojo before the parade....

Jojo after the parade.....

 

[Lives4Disney]

I like this pic.....I started just snapping pics as we walked...

This was kind of cute....we stopped for a few minutes to watch the roundup show.

THis guy, MIKE, was the funniest captain we've ever had (well one of the best - we've had a lot and if you go late at night, they can get a bit "blue" and totally a riot)

CR MK TOWER construction....

I think I will try and see what's on my next card!! Haven't even looked yet!!!

 

[poohgirl6]

Lives,

Your daughters are so beautiful in their Easter dresses. Thank you for sharing these pics with us. Makes me wish my dd (now 22 and married) was still young enough to want to dress up and do girly stuff like that.

But there's always the chance of a granddaughter in my future (Just not too near future I hope )

Looks like you had a wonderful holiday with your family.

 

[mandymommy4]

Lives, great pictures! Easter at the GF looks like a lot of fun, and I LOVE how dressy Mickey and Minnie were! I can't figure out how to post pictures on this site any suggestions?

 

[Lives4Disney]

Here's the beautiful view from 4405.....except I didn't hold my camera level. Makes me kinda car sick looking at this.....

Here's a HIDDEN MICKEY PIC....Am I the only one that didn't know this was here??? (taken from the mural at the Maelstrom)

Spaceship Earth - which was AWESOME!!!! LOVE the updates. They did a fantastic job. I am not so sure about the narration, but the visuals - LOVE EM! And love that the wand has been removed!

Jojo's favorite PINK monorail.