Heat, Headaches but So Much Fun! My June Birthday TR (Trip Wrap-Up 10/12)

[Dancegrl624]

Meghan -- You should be dancing through Disney! I bet you and Madison could show us some great moves!

Oh, and awesome first full day!

Maria

I know that Tony would never be caught dead doing anything like that! As far as me and Madison go, we would dance all over WDW. That video looks like something my parents, sisters and I would most definately do. It's just so creative.

ITA! That was such a cute fun video! I was wondering if they just kept singing that song throughout the trip to be able to edit it like that! DH and I were laughing out loud! Thanks Meghan!

I didn't have a chance to show it to Tony last night. It's just the cutest thing I've ever seen!

You guys were at the POP at the same time we were!

SCORE! That's awesome! We were shocked to find our rooms ready at our early check in as well.

Our oldest daughter picked this resort based SOLELY on photos of the Hippy Dippy pool.

Hey, that's our room! (Third floor, right between the two dancers.)

We were at DHS for Extra Magic Hour that night. We happened to be in Voyage of the Little Mermaid during the rain so we missed it thankfully.

Looking forward to future installments!

How awesome! I can't believe I took a picture of your room. I wish we would have had more time to explore Pop, but there's always next time!

What a great update!!! WOW! I can't believe how many characters you saw!! We totally missed the animation building and now I'm kicking myself for it! I just LOVE the Up character pics!! Soooo cute!! Ally's favorite is Russell! Glad to hear that you had a great birthday!! Can't wait to hear more!

Thanks Becky! We did see a ton of characters our first night. It was a great start to the trip. All of the UP characters were so amazing. They're all so adorable!

 

[Welshcakes]

Hiya - I'm here caught up and on board!

Enjoying your TR, can't wait for more

I have learnt so much from this site (still a newbie) for instance I did not know about the umberella - can't wait to get my photo with it! only have to wait another 8 months for my trip.

 

[Villainess]

WOW! That video is awesome!

Your birthday at DHS sounds like you had a blast! Waiting for more!

 

[Dancegrl624]

Hiya - I'm here caught up and on board!

Enjoying your TR, can't wait for more

I have learnt so much from this site (still a newbie) for instance I did not know about the umberella - can't wait to get my photo with it! only have to wait another 8 months for my trip.

Since joining the DIS back in Sept, I have learned more than I thought was possible!!! I thought I was a Disney fanatic and know-it-all before, but I was so wrong!

WOW! That video is awesome!

Your birthday at DHS sounds like you had a blast! Waiting for more!

I hope to get an update posted soon. I got my photopass cd yesterday, so I just have to upload them to photobucket. Stay tuned!

 

[PookieB]

Sorry about your birthday dessert. I'm understand I'm like a big kid myself. Sounds like you had a great birthday! Can't wait to see your photopass pics. I know that family video is great!

 

[BellaSoleil]

I'm here! Just found you! Great start.

I have to say that you and Tony look adorable in your glasses.

 

[onelilspark]

I could get my Dad to do it with me. My Mom & Brother would just be on video rolling their eyes

 

[Raecheal]

Although i'm no longer in welland.. living in the capital.. I love to visit the niagara region.. especially niagara on the lake. Have you ever been? That's really sweet of her to invite your family to the cottage.

I know.. i've sub to so many too.. there's alot of good writers out there.

I love it when you walk out of classic hall and there's a bus just pulling in....Wow you really caught alot of charactes.. all your photos look like madison had a blast.

The photo of you and Madison in the car is absolutely beautiful.. I really enjoyed reading about the Sci Fi Dine in because we have reservations there in about 2 weeks..

I"m glad you had an amazing birthday!!!

Great update...

 

[Dancegrl624]

Sorry about your birthday dessert. I'm understand I'm like a big kid myself. Sounds like you had a great birthday! Can't wait to see your photopass pics. I know that family video is great!

The dessert was delicious, so I didn't care about the whole candle thing after awhile!

I'm here! Just found you! Great start.

I have to say that you and Tony look adorable in your glasses.

Aw, thanks Soleil! I really don't mind wearing my glasses because I actually like them. I've had them since Madison was born! I just haven't found another set of frames that I really like.

I could get my Dad to do it with me. My Mom & Brother would just be on video rolling their eyes

My parents would definately be game and my sister would probably do it too. We really don't care because we're never going to see those people again!

Although i'm no longer in welland.. living in the capital.. I love to visit the niagara region.. especially niagara on the lake. Have you ever been? That's really sweet of her to invite your family to the cottage.

I know.. i've sub to so many too.. there's alot of good writers out there.

I love it when you walk out of classic hall and there's a bus just pulling in....Wow you really caught alot of charactes.. all your photos look like madison had a blast.

The photo of you and Madison in the car is absolutely beautiful.. I really enjoyed reading about the Sci Fi Dine in because we have reservations there in about 2 weeks..

I"m glad you had an amazing birthday!!!

Great update...

I have been to Niagara-on-the-Lake and it's so beautiful! I really want to get up there again. Having a bus pull up right away is the best thing ever. Especially when it's super hot outside. Madison loves meeting the characters. I'm so glad she's not afraid of them! I hope that you have a great time at Sci-Fi!

 

[jenseib]

All caught up. Great update. HS sound fun. I really want to do SciFi next time we go. If I could miracously make $2,000 on the side in the next 3 months, I could most likely talk DH to go since we got a pin for free dining. But fat chance of that happening. LOL! Anyone want to just give me $2000 as a gift? LOL!

 

[Dancegrl624]

Hi everyone! Sorry I've been gone so long. I had such a busy week with Vacation Bible School and all of Madison's activities. We had a jam packed weekend too. Well, I got my photopass cd last week, so I thought I'd post my pics from DHS for you. This will be a photo update! Some are duplicates, but I wanted to show some of the neat borders that they have. Enjoy!

Entering our first park of this trip

I just love the confetti border. After our January trip, not all of the new 2009 borders were available, so I went crazy with this trip!

Here are the two "UP" borders you can choose from. For some reason, they're not available for the pics of the "UP" characters. Neither are their autographs:

Meeting the UP characters:

Here's that pic I mentioned of me and Russell. He had come over to ask how old I was and such and he was just so cute! I'm so glad the photopass photographer snapped this pic. You can see how very happy I was!

And here's us leaving the park for the night:

So, those are my pics from Day One at DHS! I'll be back in a bit to post another update.

 

[Dancegrl624]

Day Two
June 25th
EMH at MK

After a wonderful night's sleep, I woke up at 5:45am. I didn't even feel tired as I got myself ready for the day, but I did have a pretty bad sinus headache. I wasn't going to let that stop me though! Once we were all ready to go, we grabbed a light breakfast at Classic Hall. Just like the day before, it was not busy in there at all. We all ended up sharing a plain bagel, a chocolate chip muffin and some lemonade. We had an ADR at CM's later on, so we didn't want to get too full. Again, we didn't have to wait for a bus. We arrived at MK around 7:30am.

You can actually SEE the humidity in these 2 pics!

We quickly made our way down Main Street and headed to Fantasyland. Well, we stopped for some pics first!

I'm thinking this border is for the new Pirates League, but I liked it. We do look like quite the characters, don't we?

We decided to ride Peter Pan first because that line always gets so long so quickly. We then went across the way to Small World. Sorry about my very dark and fuzzy pics. I had to either use the night setting which made the pics blurry or the action setting which made the pics dark. We had the whole boat to ourselves! There was no one in line.

I've always loved the can-can dancers!

Did you know that the koalas are Hidden Mickeys? We read about it in the Hidden Mickey book. Take a close look at their faces

After Small World, we went over and rode Winnie the Pooh (about a 5 min wait). Then, we walked over to the Mad Tea Party. We literally walked right on. There was one tea cup left and it was for us! The only reason I even went on this ride was for the pictures. I get a little quesy on spinning rides.

Before the spinning:

During the spinning!

I was laughing so hard!

As we got off the ride, we saw Alice!

She was such a good Alice!

con't in next post....

 

[ladybugmom]

YAY! LOVE the PP pics! We didn't have an UP border option! Cool! Weird though that you couldn't use it on the UP pics!? Love the nighttime pic in front of the hat! Awww! IASW was Claire's favorite ride! Your teacup pics are sooo much fun and we met that same Alice!!

 

[Dancegrl624]

After our visit with Alice, we started walking towards the hub and we took some pics along the way.

By this time, it was almost 9am (didn't we do a lot?!). So, we decided to wait at the rope for Tomorrowland. Once the rope dropped, we went straight to Buzz and then got in line for the Laugh Floor (9:10am). Once again, we had our joke used! We must know some pretty good corny jokes! Then, we went back to Fantasyland to see Mickey's Philharmagic! Madison had "seen" it when she was 3 (she wouldn't put her glasses on) and we couldn't wait for her to see it (down for a refurb in January). She loved it and we did too. It's just so much fun to watch! We then ventured over to the Haunted Mansion. The wait was only 10 minutes!

Maddie and I waiting in line

After the HM, we had to start making our way to the exit. I think it was around 10:30 or so. As usual, we had to get some pics!

I captured the reflection! I was so proud of myself

Sorry about all the pictures and not a lot of typing! Anyways....I'll leave you with this for today. I'll be back soon!

 

[Dancegrl624]

YAY! LOVE the PP pics! We didn't have an UP border option! Cool! Weird though that you couldn't use it on the UP pics!? Love the nighttime pic in front of the hat! Awww! IASW was Claire's favorite ride! Your teacup pics are sooo much fun and we met that same Alice!!

Thanks! Speaking of nighttime pic of the hat, I totally forgot to post one! It's my favorite picture that I took on this trip. That Alice was so cute! While she waited for the next child, she's swoosh her dress back and forth, spin around, etc. So adorable!

Here's my forgotten picture!

I'm so proud of myself yet once again!

 

[princess&her4princes]

WOW Meghan!!! You got some GREAT photopass pics and I'm loving all the new borders, too, very cool! I love the Tink pic of the three of you...it's just too cute!! Loving this TR!!!

 

[Mndisneygirl]

Great pics Meghan! I would be proud of the nighttime one too.
How early did MK open that day? You got a lot done that morning. It seems that so far your sinus headache didn't slow you down!

Can't wait for more!

 

[Dancegrl624]

WOW Meghan!!! You got some GREAT photopass pics and I'm loving all the new borders, too, very cool! I love the Tink pic of the three of you...it's just too cute!! Loving this TR!!!

I really like how our photopass pics turned out. We really didn't get a lot taken, but I used a ton of borders! I really like that Tink pic too. So glad you're enjoying my TR!

Great pics Meghan! I would be proud of the nighttime one too.
How early did MK open that day? You got a lot done that morning. It seems that so far your sinus headache didn't slow you down!

Can't wait for more!

EMH started at 8am and the park opened to everyone else at 9am. We did a lot in that first hour. Even if you look at the pics as we were leaving the park, Main St doesn't look too busy yet. I was really pushing through that headache. I was trying not to complain about it, but sometimes I couldn't help but complain a little!

 

[ladybugmom]

Oooh--more pics!! YAY! Love the ones of the family in front of the castle and with Tink!! Can't wait to hear more!

 

[Raecheal]

Wow, Great update!!! I love all your photopass photos.. the ones with borders!!! I love the photos you took of the castle with the reflection.. good job.. they turned out great!!