Here we go again, with live updates, Photopass pics added post #735

[wayneg]

Call me silly, but as i've never been to 50's PT i have a question.......

Those things your looking into just after you wrote "Onto Desserts" - what are they? are they the dessert menu's?

and what are they called? I've asked everyone in my office and noone can remember????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master

Pics of desserts on there.
Being in my 40's I just assumed everyone knew what they were and how to use them but its funny seeing all the teens and younger pick them up and have no idea how to use them.

 

[Cyrano]

Woken at 5am this morning with a text including Matt's GCSE results. Better than he expected.

1x A*
8x A
5x B
1x C

Hope your class did well Luke.

Superb result

 

[eeyorefanuk]

But not THAT much? I wouldn't spend that, BUT for a special occasion/celebration it is worth a splash out on a nice cake. I just don't have enough people to share it with

take me - take me

 

[2Tiggies]

take me - take me

Oh that would be great! Even the small cakes are too big for 2 people. Imagine good company AND good cake. I call that getting to have your cake and eat it .....

 

[howlongtillsummer?]

Helllllooooo!

I got back on Tuesday but it has taken me up till now to read this whole thread!! Tired!

I think I saw you Wayne, on Sunday night in Tomorrowland. Was your wife wearing a light up Tinkerbell?

I was in building 19 too!! They must have put all of us UKers in the same area.

Very lucky the meet wasn't washed out - we got almost drowned at Animal Kingdom that day. Looks like you had a fantastic time.

Oh, and very well done Matt!!!

 

[2Tiggies]

Helllllooooo!

I got back on Tuesday but it has taken me up till now to read this whole thread!! Tired!

Welcome home! Did you have a good time?

 

[howlongtillsummer?]

Aww thanks.

We had the most amazing time! It was really the most wonderful holiday ever.

I loved everything about it. The hotel was beautiful and our room was really convenient to the bus stop and little pool. The bus service was absolutely excellent. We never waited more than 10 minutes for a bus. I also got some great bargains - so much so that when the TSA opened one of our cases on the way home they were unable to close it and is came out last - all taped up!!! Thankfully nothing was missing!

We had lots of little magical moments too - my DD was artist of the day at Olivia's, I got a nice cupcake, card and choc strawberries for my birthday / wedding anniversary, my DH was Beast in Belle's Storytelling, we had goreous views at loads of our tables ... .... I will think of more!

Also, you cannot beat seeing the bill of $100 dollars reduced to zero
Free dining worked brilliantly for us.

Hope everyone is well - missed being on here!

 

[wayneg]

Hi Kathryn, yes that will have been us, why didn't you say something? I don't bite.

Glad you had a good holiday and well done booking next year already.

As most know I am not a fan of buses but we have tried to use them more this trip, can't really fault the buses, longest wait was today about 15 mins but usually just a few mins and 1 arrives, my problem has been the parents of children on the buses, absolutely no care for their children, allowing them to run about a moving bus or shout and scream all the way from OKW to MK without once speaking to them.

Dining plan is working great for us also, upto around $3,000 of food and snacks so far

 

[Netty]

I'm still trying to catch up with this thread- read up to page 21 so far..
Looks like ya all having such a great time!!

 

[cherjp]

I'm still trying to catch up with this thread- read up to page 21 so far..
Looks like ya all having such a great time!!

Page 21 !!! hurry up Netty or Wayne will be back home and have gone again before you catch up ! hahahaha !

 

[wen-tom]

phew

just read all 38 pages

needed to get in the mood - only 6 days to go until we hit the world!

looks like a fab holiday and yummy food pictures

 

[eeyorefanuk]

Oh that would be great! Even the small cakes are too big for 2 people. Imagine good company AND good cake. I call that getting to have your cake and eat it .....

My sister and I ordered one of the publix cakes to be delivered with the garden grocer delikver on arrival as a surprise ............. we struggled to eat it as out of the room most of the time.

 

[howlongtillsummer?]

Wayne I did stop in my tracks and get ready to say something! But I chickened out in case it wasn't you! It would be typical of me to have got it wrong and call out to a random stranger. Dh and DD already think my board hobby is odd enough without that happening!! Anyway I know now!

Hope all is still going well.

 

[Netty]

Page 21 !!! hurry up Netty or Wayne will be back home and have gone again before you catch up ! hahahaha !

I'm reading, I'm reading!!!

 

[aaronandterri]

Great GCSE results Matt, well done you !~ see i keep telling hubby Disney is educational...lol

Loving this thread for my Disney fix~ keep the updates coming, and loving all the food porn, sure ive put on 10lbs just looking at them pictures...yummy!

 

[wayneg]

Great GCSE results Matt, well done you !~ see i keep telling hubby Disney is educational...lol

Loving this thread for my Disney fix~ keep the updates coming, and loving all the food porn, sure ive put on 10lbs just looking at them pictures...yummy!

Not just Disney but travel in general is a massive help in education, Matt's best result was media (an A*) which included him producing a travel magazine about his trips abroad. Whenever I see his 1st headteacher from junior school she remarks about Matt's travels and talks he did about going to Amsterdam with his Grandma's etc. Experiences kids learn by travelling cannot be gained in a classroom.

If you gained 10lbs by looking I am dreading standing on those scales on Monday.

Matt has uploaded a couple more video clips http://www.youtube.com/user/StitchMatt#p/u Everest & frog chorus

 

[cannp123165]

Great updates! The Mickey cake looks delicious!

 

[scojos]

Dining plan is working great for us also, upto around $3,000 of food and snacks so far

we calculated (kids were considered adults for the ddp..)
14 x 240 = $3360 av cost of ts
14 x 100 = $1400 av cost of a CS
14x5x4 = $280 tot cost of snacks
ddp "cost" = $5040 for 5 pax for 14 nights.

we saved a fortune

tbh no way would we have ever eaten that amount of food had itnot been free, and we left alot of desserts/snacks that we could have had but didnt, iykwim

tracy

 

[luke]

Welcome home Tracy!!
Yeah we loved dining too and managed to use up all our credits through just buying stupid stuff in the end likes some EoS sandwiches for the journey home - note, they do not taste good after sitting in a rucksack for hours

 

[Mrs Doubtfire]

If you gained 10lbs by looking I am dreading standing on those scales on Monday.

Don't even think about it!!

I am loving reading your report & it is great that Matt got such good resultsthumbsup2