Hey! Let's take a picture in front of the castle...all 28 of us!! UPDATES 10/26

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Well the power cord finally gave out and we just got a new one, so...I'm back!!

One week from today we will be arriving at WDW!!!!!

But right now...I will continue with this TR.

Here is the picture that I had to insert from WL. This is the one from PP where there's only 24 of us b/c one of my cousins had taken her kids to the bathroom and we didn't realize they were missing until we were already in place for the picture.

So last I left off with figuring out what time we had to be at the bus stop to make it to our 8am BBB ressie. I had called the front desk before going to bed to make sure of what time the busses came by. There was one at 7:20 we needed to be on, so Miren's godmother and I agreed to meet at 7 at the concierge desk, since she needed to get her tickets. Miren and I left the room a couple minutes before 7 and made it to the lobby in about 30 seconds...we ran/jogged the whole way! It was soooo cold!!! She was freezing so I told her if we ran we wouldn't be as cold - she immediately took off! We met up with Miren's godmother and went to wait at the bus stop, in the cold. Several busses came by before the MK one did. While we were waiting, one of my cousins texted me "48 degrees". Sheesh, no wonder we were cold!! (I just realized I keep saying how cold it was and in a week I will be saying how HOT it is!!!! For the record, I prefer the cold to the hot. Just wish I had packed warmer clothes...)

We had to wait a few minutes before being allowed into MK, but soon we saw this

Then I turned around and saw this

I love this!!!

And this!

A couple pictures of an empty MK

And finally we were here

This was Miren's second time (last time we did it at DTD, though) and her little cousin's first time. It was funny because Miren just sat there like an old pro and her cousin didn't quite know what to make of it.

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Still at BBB

Some pixie dust

The reveal

Ramon and Nerea arrived just as we were finishing up

When we left BBB we saw the Fairy Godmother; I guess she was checking on her trainees.

I forgot to mention, while we were at BBB, our party increased by 4. Miren's godmother's sister, their aunt, and two cousins drove up and were joining us for the day. They walked with us to Crystal Palace where we were meeting with the rest of the group for our 9:15 ADR; they would not be eating with us and we'd be calling them once we were done.

But on our way to CP, we had to stop for some pics with MeMom's Prince Naveen, oh and Princess Tiana, too!!

I'll never get tired of saying this: Princess Tiana's dress is absolutely beautiful!!!

We waited a little bit for everyone to arrive at CP and were seated closer to 9:30. Everything was yummy, as usual, and the characters were lots of fun! On my second trip to the buffet, I spotted some chocolate Mickey waffles I had never seen before, so I grabbed one...chocolate! Oh my goodness!! It was yum-my! Wish I had seen them on my first time up...

The birthday kids each got a cupcake and a card from Pooh and friends

After breakfast and bathrooms, we stood outside CP for a while and did some picture-taking, of which I did not partake apparently, because I don't have any. While we were standing around, and still all together, I said "hey! let's take a picture in front of the castle...all 28 of us!!" It was a now-or-never situation. When we had the planning party for our trip, it was an idea that we had discussed, but in an effort to remain as realistic as possible about the whole trip, we hadn't set our hearts on anything. So we had decided, if the opportunity came up we'd try it, if not, so be it. Well, it seemed like it might happen, so we made our way towards the castle. So...did it happen????

 

[MHTeacher]

Looks like the girls had fun at BBB.

Chocolate Mickey waffles? I've never seen them either. I may need to plan a trip to do some investigating......................

 

[MeMom]

I love this!!!

And this!

Me, too.

But on our way to CP, we had to stop for some pics with MeMom's Prince Naveen, oh and Princess Tiana, too!!

I'll never get tired of saying this: Princess Tiana's dress is absolutely beautiful!!!

Aaaah! A feast for the eyes, that boy is!

I agree about Tiana's dress - so pretty!

Family, fun, food, and Eeyore!

 

[BrooklynnsMommy]

I have been debating on doing the BBB with Brooklynn. My only concern is she is extremely tender headed.

Chocolate Mickey waffles sound fabulous!

 

[MEK]

Fabulous pictures of the girls at BBB and a great picture of everyone (minus the missing few) at the WL. What a big group! I can't wait to see everyone in front of the castle. Talk about an empty park when you got there - awesome!

Have a wonderful trip! You must be so excited to be going again!

 

[*dreamit*doit*]

Looks like the girls had fun at BBB.

Chocolate Mickey waffles? I've never seen them either. I may need to plan a trip to do some investigating......................

Miren loves BBB, her little cousin was not so sure.

Hmmm, an investigative trip - hey, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!

Aaaah! A feast for the eyes, that boy is!

I've seen another Naveen - this one is definitely the handsomer one.

I have been debating on doing the BBB with Brooklynn. My only concern is she is extremely tender headed.

Chocolate Mickey waffles sound fabulous!

I think Brooklynn would LOVE it!! It is such a cute experience. Miren is very tender headed, too...has complained EVERY day of her life as I've brushed her hair. This was the second time we've done BBB, both times she has just sat there, not a word!!! Go figure!

Fabulous pictures of the girls at BBB and a great picture of everyone (minus the missing few) at the WL. What a big group! I can't wait to see everyone in front of the castle. Talk about an empty park when you got there - awesome!

Have a wonderful trip! You must be so excited to be going again!

Thanks! I really like that picture, too!
An empty park is always nice. I especially like how quiet it is; it's a different feeling.

We are VERY excited to be going tomorrow!!!

 

[DisneyMom14]

I enjoyed catching up on your updates! I can't believe you guys are in Disney again !!!!! Yay!!!!

 

[Sunset Cliffs]

I hope that you had a fabulous time on your most recent trip!! We are back from DL & I am trying to get all caught up on the Dis now.

First of all, the picture of the large group is gorgeous! What a great place to have that photo taken too. The WL is the perfect holiday setting.

I love the picture of the ceiling & the chandelier at BBB. It is the little details that I like the most & I realize that I don't look up at Disey very often. I think that I am probably missing a lot! The girls look like they had a great time.

 

[*dreamit*doit*]

I enjoyed catching up on your updates! I can't believe you guys are in Disney again !!!!! Yay!!!!

Thanks Melanie! So when will you guys be there again?

I hope that you had a fabulous time on your most recent trip!! We are back from DL & I am trying to get all caught up on the Dis now.

First of all, the picture of the large group is gorgeous! What a great place to have that photo taken too. The WL is the perfect holiday setting.

I love the picture of the ceiling & the chandelier at BBB. It is the little details that I like the most & I realize that I don't look up at Disey very often. I think that I am probably missing a lot! The girls look like they had a great time.

Hi Alison! I know what you mean about trying to get caught up. I'm doing that myself right now. I'll be over to your TR in a bit.

The WL really is just perfect!

I try to see the little details but there are so many!! For some reason though, I really like ceilings and light fixtures.

 

[DisneyMom14]

I am planning to try to go back NEXT October. We really want to go during the Halloween season. It's not set in stone because we recently sold our old house after about a year of living in our new house. Right now we are attempting to catch up on bills. I hate when things get in the way of my Disney-happiness! So hopefully we can catch up and continue with plans to go. I got over a year, right?

 

[heaven2dc]

I would love to go sometime during the Halloween season too! Our upcoming trip will be the second time for me during Christmas season but I love all the fall decorations too.

 

[Stasieki]

Just signing on from Memom and Jill's report. Going back now to catch up. I love your itinerary. I always do a laminated one, too, but yours is the most organized one I have seen. I love it.

 

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I am planning to try to go back NEXT October. We really want to go during the Halloween season. It's not set in stone because we recently sold our old house after about a year of living in our new house. Right now we are attempting to catch up on bills. I hate when things get in the way of my Disney-happiness! So hopefully we can catch up and continue with plans to go. I got over a year, right?

Congratulations on selling your house, Melanie! (Wow, a year. )

I think you can make it happen! Over a year is plenty of time to catch up and continue with your plans. I find Disney to be an excellent incentive for getting things done!

I would love to go sometime during the Halloween season too! Our upcoming trip will be the second time for me during Christmas season but I love all the fall decorations too.

I LOVE the Christmas season at Disney but I think we will actually go for Halloween this year...I think...I hope. I booked for that weekend with our kickback offer we got at Pop last month - now I just hope we can keep it! We've never done MNSHP so I think we are going to make the decision in the next few days and then buy the tickets for that. The fall decorations are really pretty and warm, I thought. We were there last year just for one day with some of Ramon's family that was visiting from Spain. But, you really can't go wrong with the Boardwalk at Christmastime; it will be decorated beatifully for you.

Just signing on from Memom and Jill's report. Going back now to catch up. I love your itinerary. I always do a laminated one, too, but yours is the most organized one I have seen. I love it.

Thanks for coming over!

This was the first time that I did a laminated itinerary, and it was REALLY helpful keeping everyone and everything organized, otherwise, I think it could have been really overwhelming keeping it all together. I could easily do something like that for every trip, but sometimes I feel like it would be a bit much if it's just the four of us. There's always plenty of notes and an informal itinerary but nothing as presentable as these.


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Thanks to everyone who continues to stop by here! Everybody is welcome - posters and lurkers alike!

Okay, I WANT to finish this TR very soon...I really do. I won't move on to another one before finishing this one, and I have lots of pictures I want to share from our trip last month. We had a great time!! Several "firsts" and a sweet DISmeet. I want to tell you all about it, really, I do! But won't until I get this wrapped up.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

 

[MeMom]

Okay, I WANT to finish this TR very soon...I really do. I won't move on to another one before finishing this one, and I have lots of pictures I want to share from our trip last month. We had a great time!! Several "firsts" and a sweet DISmeet. I want to tell you all about it, really, I do! But won't until I get this wrapped up.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

It's too hard to have two reports going at once. We had a TR and a PTR going one time, and I couldn't keep up.

 

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It's too hard to have two reports going at once. We had a TR and a PTR going one time, and I couldn't keep up.

I don't want to make any promises I'm not sure I'll be able to keep...but...I hope to post an update or two tomorrow. Part of the problem was that I couldn't find a lot of pictures that I knew I had seen. Turns out they were from my cousins' cameras and today I just got them all onto my computer, except one very important one...TR title important...

 

[*dreamit*doit*]

Okay, finally jumping right back in here!

Well, I will leave you in suspense a little longer about our group shot because I found a couple of other pictures I wanted to add that continue where I left off with the Crystal Palace pictures. By found, I mean I borrowed them from my cousins. I knew there were other pictures I had seen but couldn’t find them; finally figured out they were from my cousins’ cameras that they had either posted on facebook or shared their accounts, so I just borrowed them from there – thanks guys!

Here are some more from CP:

Birthday card

Cupcake faces

Smiling faces

CP Christmas decorations

Outside of CP planning our next move.

Here I am with one of my cousins. Guess I was there, after all, Just no pics on my camera. Chit-chatting away, no doubt.

So, we finally decided to try to make our way over to the castle and take that group picture while we were all still together. We started walking over there and noticed everything was taped off. We made it to the hub by Walt’s statue and asked a CM if there were any PP photographers around because we wanted a group shot. She said there was a parade about to come through and we’d have to wait. So, wait we did.

Wonder why I don't have any pictures of this?

The music was really good and the girls were just dancing around and enjoying the parade.

As the parade was wrapping up, I saw a PP photographer and asked the same CM when we could take pictures. She said we could have taken them all along, just not cross to the castle; we had to do it from the hub. Um, yeah? Guess she didn’t understand my original question. Well, I wasn’t upset because we wouldn’t have waited to watch the parade otherwise, and we all ended up really enjoying it.

So, there we all were, all 28 of us. We found the nearest PP photographer and put him to work. He had his camera on a high tripod and he climbed up a ladder. Told some of us to move, a little to the left, a little to the right. When we were finally arranged to his liking, he started snapping away.

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Well, you’re not going to…not just yet, anyway.


Would you believe, I saw the PP pics online (we didn’t take many and they all came out great), and then missed my deadline to order them!!!!!!

However, one of my aunts did order it, and has it, but my attempts at acquiring a copy have been unsuccessful, so far. I will get it though, and then add it in later.

Moving on, we had been in the park for a few hours and no rides yet, so let’s go get our ride on!! Oh, but wait, not before our party grows some more. If you remember, we had been joined earlier by four more for the day, well now, two more cousins had arrived and were staying until tomorrow afternoon. So for this day at Magic Kingdom, we were now officially a party of 34!!

Where to first??

 

[MEK]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? No picture of the infamous 28! Great cliffhanger. I was soooooo ready. I hope you are able to get your hands on a copy of that pic real soon. I bet its great! Love the rest of your pics!

 

[DisneyMom14]

Aw man! No pic!??? Oh well, I guess I better keep reading. Great new pics and update. Over 30 relatives now??? That's incredible to be there all at the same time!

 

[*dreamit*doit*]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? No picture of the infamous 28! Great cliffhanger. I was soooooo ready. I hope you are able to get your hands on a copy of that pic real soon. I bet its great! Love the rest of your pics!

Sorry!!!! I know, I really have to get that picture soon!

Aw man! No pic!??? Oh well, I guess I better keep reading. Great new pics and update. Over 30 relatives now??? That's incredible to be there all at the same time!

Sorry! I'm really working on it, just don't want to be a pest about it. She'll get it to me...eventually. I guess I could just save it until the end, at this point.


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Busy, busy, busy these past couple of weeks getting back into the school routine. Will post another update soon!