Hip Hip Hooray for Christmas Vacation... Disney Style!!! A Dec 2010 PTR

Hi All, sorry I haven't updated in a while, work is really crazy right now and by the time I get home from work, all I have energy for is to eat a bowl of cereal and go to bed! :rotfl: Anyway, hoping to get to another update at some point between today and Monday! Hope I didn't lose any readers!

Still reading. I haven't had much time to post comments. Love the pics from the recent trip.
 
Still reading. I haven't had much time to post comments. Love the pics from the recent trip.

I know life has really been getting in the way of my Disney obsession! :rotfl: Glad you like the pic... More to come soon... I feel like I have so much to tell everyone and just can't seem to find enough time to do so!

Still here! popcorn:: Don't you hate when life gets in the way of Disney!!:rotfl:


Ain't that the truth Kelly!
 

Hey all, shockingly I have a few minutes of down time at work, so I thought I take a minute to fill you in on some things that are going on...

The December Trip: After eating at TRex in August and seeing how much Devon loved it, we decided to eat there in December too!!! So we will be paying OOP to eat there on Dec 3rd the day we arrive! My Birthday!!! YAY!!! :cutie: We have 5:45p ressies and from there we will be heading over to Epcot!

Also only 90 days to go now! The trip in almost paid offand I am super duper excited for it to hurry up an get here!

In other news, Devon starts school on Wednesday! I can not beleive my baby is going into the 3rd grade! :scared1: He is super excited! He has been extremely busy with football, as I! Thank goodness practices are only 3x aweek once school starts and games on Saturdays. Everyday practices is killing us both! :rotfl: But he loves it and that is all that matters!


In other other news.... We have begun to plan our trip to Disney for next year!!! :cool1: Here's the plan as of now. 8/31/11-9/6/11 staying at POP!!! I really wanted to go the end of Sept, but with Devon getting into the older grades, I really don't want to take him out of school so early in the school year. We are hoping to book the trip in the next week!!! :banana:

As of right now, it is Devon, me, my brother Tim, my aunt, my cousin and his wife going. We are just waiting to see if my mom, dad and oldest brother John are going to go. None of them like to fly so they are still up in the air about the trip. Once we get the yeah, or nay from them we are booking! Devon is super excited that so many people are going!

My only concern with the dates is that we will leave on Wed 8/31 and come hone Tues 9/6... These dates are over labor day weekend! How bust do you think it will be? What are your general thoughts of going this time as a whole?

Well that's about all the time I have right now. TTFN
 
I'm still here but swad we won't be there at the wsame time anymore. Yay for next years trip!!!! I don't know if I would go over labour day weekend but it's probably better than going over Christmas:confused3
 
Wow...you have been busy...but there is nothing like watching your little boy play football! Our oldest played for several years and Caleb cannot wait to be old enough to play. He is only 4 and loves to watch football on tv with me :happytv:

Yeah for booking a trip next year. We won't be going for quite a while after this trip so I will have to live vicariously through you and all the others that are going.

On the upside, DH has decided that he wants me to book a cruise to Bermuda for us next year. It is a firefighters cruise and we could celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary that way. This one would be a 7-day cruise without the kids. :banana: oops...maybe it should be :sad1: ha-ha! We will be putting our deposit down next week too!

Have a great weekend and I can't wait for the next update.

Trish
 
wow reese you are a disney planning maniac. The trip sounds fun. I dont know how the rest of the country is but our kids start school around here the week before labor day or the day after so if its like that everywhere it may not be too bad in disney. IDK:confused3 Just going off of what I know and its not much.:lmao:

We have made it a definite go for the disney princess so it looks like I will be going for a 4 night girls trip in feb. I am so excited. I need to register for the race which I am planning on doing next week after payday. Then we can book at the discounted rate. I will start a PTR soon. I hope you will have time to follow along.

I cant wait to hear more about the august trip.
 
I'm still here but swad we won't be there at the wsame time anymore. Yay for next years trip!!!! I don't know if I would go over labour day weekend but it's probably better than going over Christmas:confused3

Update coming up in a few short minutes... And I been checking wait times for the last few days, and I have to tell you it seems like it is dead there... Could just be a fluke thou! :confused3

Wow...you have been busy...but there is nothing like watching your little boy play football! Our oldest played for several years and Caleb cannot wait to be old enough to play. He is only 4 and loves to watch football on tv with me :happytv:


Yeah for booking a trip next year. We won't be going for quite a while after this trip so I will have to live vicariously through you and all the others that are going.

On the upside, DH has decided that he wants me to book a cruise to Bermuda for us next year. It is a firefighters cruise and we could celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary that way. This one would be a 7-day cruise without the kids. :banana: oops...maybe it should be :sad1: ha-ha! We will be putting our deposit down next week too!

Have a great weekend and I can't wait for the next update.

Trish

I do love it Trish!!!! :love: But I am also a nervous wreck when he's out there!!! I don't want me baby to get hurt! Plus he's the QB, so that D-line is gunning for him! :headache:

It's funny, next August's trip was not even my idea!!! My Aunt started the whole thing! But hey I'm not going to turn down a trip to Disney!!! :rotfl: You will have a blast on the cruise! My family had originally planned on doing a cruise next June, but now its Disney instead!!!

And hey I noticed your ticker says 3 months exactly!!! YAY!!! :banana: :cool1: :thumbsup2

wow reese you are a disney planning maniac. The trip sounds fun. I dont know how the rest of the country is but our kids start school around here the week before labor day or the day after so if its like that everywhere it may not be too bad in disney. IDK:confused3 Just going off of what I know and its not much.:lmao:

We have made it a definite go for the disney princess so it looks like I will be going for a 4 night girls trip in feb. I am so excited. I need to register for the race which I am planning on doing next week after payday. Then we can book at the discounted rate. I will start a PTR soon. I hope you will have time to follow along.

I cant wait to hear more about the august trip.

Hey Linds! I am so HAPPY that you are going in Feb!!! :cheer2: And I will absolutely follow your PTR along!!! Just let me know when you start!

Did your boys start school already? Devon goes back Wednesday!!!
 
Hey there Ladies & Gents! So sorry for the delay in Disney Fun... Life sort of got in the way!!!

Let's not waste anymore time here... Last I left offer we were hopping on a bus back to the MK for EMH, but boy oh boy did it sure look like the heavens were about to open up on bus ride!!!

Yeah... We made to right about... Here.... before the rain came again!!!

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Stupid Rain!!!

So this wasn't a little rain, like you could make a run for it... This was torrential rain that would have had you looking like you just jumped in a pool if you even attempted to step out in it!!! You know it was pretty bad, b/c even Tim suggested that we wait where we were until it slowed down!!!

So after about 20 minutes or so the rain finally let up some so we ran to the stores on Main Street for cover... We needed a change of scenery! LOL!!! The Emporium was PACKED!!! Guess everyone had the same idea we had. We looked around there and the rest of the shops on Main Street for 15 minutes or so and then I sent Tim to see if the rain had let up any more. Shockingly it did!!! YAY!!! First stop Space for some FP's to use later in the night!

While Tim grabbed the FP's, Devon and I walked into the store connected to Space b/c he thought he might want to buy something he had seen earlier in the day... But what did he just now realize was in here after 8 visits to Disney??? The darn ARCADE!!! IT was still a bit drizzly out, so I was ok letting him play here for a little!!!

I think Tim ended up like the Space Arcade more then Devon!!!

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Upon exiting the Arcade the rain had let up completely!!! Thank the good lord up above!!!

If you remember from earlier in the day we had got FP's for Thunder Mt. before we left MK so our next stop was to the Wildest Ride in the Wilderness!!!!

We practically walked right on... This is one of Dev's favorite rides. I just love seeing the smile on his face as he is waiting in line for rides! It's moments like that that truly make my trip so magical!

At this point it was getting close to 8pm and MSEP was scheduled to start at 9. I wanted to sit and get a seat at this point but Tim and Devon did not! Surprise Surprise.... They won... We rode Pirates again and Devon asked if we could go see if Ariel and Prince Eric were out near Aloha Island. Of course I said yes, but unfortunately they were not. BUMMER!!!

Ever since I started coming to Disney, I have always watched the night parade in Frontierland, somewhere between Pecos Bills and Liberty Tree Tavern... That is where we are heading now, Only I noticed this on the off beaten path and there was only 1 family in line!!!

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Devon was so excited to add their autographs to his collection... Of course we ran to get in line!!!

Now I have to say, I have seen many of princesses at Disney and this Tiana, may just had been out of the prettiest princesses I have seen in a while! Way to step it up Disney!!!

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Tiana and Naveen played their parts great!!! Naveen was cracking us up!!!

It was in the pic above that Tiana had asked Devon what these Phillies were on this shirt, he explained baseball to her and all of a sudden Naveen had this loud noise and said this baseball you speak up would mess up my beautiful nails!!! See??? LOL!!! Tim and I almost died laughing! It was hilarious!!!

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We said our goodbyes to the pretty princess and her silly beau and dashed to get a seat for MSEP. Luckily we were able to get front row seat right across and a little down from LTT. Perfect!!! We got settled a little before 9pm and Devon and Tim decided that they wanted Popcorn and a drink... Me being the best mommy and big sis ever goes and gets it for them while they save the seats...

Can I just tell you that I think I waited in line for popcorn longer then any ride that day!!! Holy Moley!!!! After a 1/2 of waiting I finally had my popcorn and drink in hand and made my way back to find the guys! At this point MSEP was starting in 5 minutes and the sides of the street were packed!!! All I kept thinking was if these 2 knuckle heads let people get in front of where we are sitting I will freak!!! Thank goodness they didn't!!! Within minutes of my arrival back to our viewing spot the lights dimmed and the music started!! I was so excited to see this new night time parade.

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I just loved how the gems glowed on this float!!! AWESOME!!!

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Lost Boys!!!

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And there you have it... MSEP!!! Overall I really enjoyed the parade and it was nice to see a change, but my heart is still with Spectro!!! The music alone during Spectro causes me to tear up and MSEP just didn't have that same effect on me.

Anyway back to the report. As MSEP came to an end, our next destination was to the hub in front of Cindy's castle for Summer Nightastic!!! Woo Hoo!!!

Cinderella's castle as I was fighting the crowds making my way over the bridge trying to get to Main Street

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Finally after some pushing and shoving to get as close to the front of the castle and possible we settled for this spot....

Not bad right??? I apologize now... Red hat man is pretty much in every castle shot. Sorry I'm a little on the short side!

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Well there you have it my multitude of pics from Summer Nightastic fireworks!!! So what did I think of them??? They were AWESOME!!! Some of the best fireworks I have seen in a while!!! I just loved how they had them exploding from every which way on the castle and all down Main Street!!! But.... They weren't Wishes!!! Again, the music alone chokes me up during Wishes and these fireworks didn't do it for me either! As soon as I hear "star light star bright..." I get the chills! Wish there was a way for Disney to incorporate Wishes' music and the pyrotechnics of Summer Nightastic... I'd me a very happy camper!

Anywho, back to nights festivities... Are goal was to make it across the hub to Tomorrowland to use our Space FP's... Mother of god, the mob of people trying to get out of the park was ridiculous!!! It literally almost took us 45 minutes to get to Space!!! At one point we lost Tim in the crowd so I texted him to say if we don't meet up before hand, go right to Space. Luckily once we hit the entrance to Tomorrowland the crowds thinned out and we finally found Tim!

Space was great as always!!! Even with a FP we waited a good 20 minutes in line, but no big deal... it was only 10:30pm and we had the park till 2am!!! Yay Boy!!!

After Space, we headed over to Stitches dance party!! Where we boogied on down for a little bit... Yes even my brother danced!!! Good time all around!!!

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Rocking out to the YMCA

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Once Stitches Dance Party was over, Devon said he wanted to ride Thunder Mountain again so we made our trek back over to Frontierland, but first we grabbed our FP's for Peter Pan!!! Time out to vent here... What is it about Peter Pan that there is always so ungodly wait time to ride this ride??? Don't get me wrong, I love this ride, but really at any given point of the day there is never less then a 45 minute wait time!!! Ok... back to the TR

Thunder Mt. had no wait at all... we hopped right on in our train and we were off!!!

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At somepoint during the ride, Tim and Devon decided they were going to ride Splash again if there wasn't a long line... Well there wasn't the wait time posted was 15 minutes!!! I decided that I was going to sit this one one!!! My hair can only take so much!!! LOL!!! I told the guys I would be sitting on the bench ride outside the gift shop as you came of Splash. We went our separate ways... The boys got in line and I browsed the gift shops! About 5 minutes later I got a text from Tim saying they were already on the ride!!! I figured I better get to where we were meeting now so, I walked on over and plopped my rear end on the bench and waited... I had no idea how tired I was till I sat down! LOL... I took this opportunity to call home... Yes, it was late, but I knew my parents would be up b/c the Eagles preseason game was on! We chatted for a bit I told my mom all about what we did that night and she filled me in on the Eagles game. As we were talking Tim and Devon showed up and they each talked to my mom as we walked back over to Fantasyland to ride Peter Pan.

Devon being Silly again!

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We arrived at Peter Pan, handed in our FP and walked right on to the ride. I love listening to "you can fly" as to go through this attraction!!!

After a quick flight with Peter we plotted our next adventure!!! Attempting to pull the sword out of the stone!!!

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Shoot!!! No such luck!!! Maybe next time!!!

Oh, I took this picture too as Tim and Devon were trying to remove the sword!

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I like it so much b/c of the castle in the background!

im and Devon wanted to check and see if Space had a long line so we hiked back to Tomorrowland!!!

Here are a few pics I took along the way

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Wait time posted for Space was 55 minutes!!! No thank you!!! We had already rode numerous times that day and at this point I think we were all exhausted so we decided it was time to call it a night as it was well past midnight now!

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Yes we were tired, but no trip to MK is complete without a hot dog from Casey's!!! So we grabbed some grub for our journey to the bus stop!

Surprisingly, there was no one in line at all at the All Star Sports stop... I was bracing myself for mass chaos, boy was I happy I was wrong! Then again it was only 1am at this point and MK was open for another hour, so I just we missed it!

A bus pulled up almost immediately after we got to the stop. We waited a few minutes for some more people to get on and we were off! Of course Devon fell asleep on the bus and we had to wake him once we finally got to Sports. Tim offered to carry him, but he was a trooper and walked all the way back to the room... We all changed into our jammies and were fast asleep dreaming of our next fun filled day at Disney within minutes!!!

Well there you have it folks, the completion of day 1!!!

Recap of the day... Yes it was hot and yes it was a little wet, but we all had a great time!!! We accomplished everything we wanted to do and even had some down time to re-energize!!! Couldn't have asked for a better day with my family!

Up next... Lounging poolside and dinner with the dinosaurs!!!
 
Great update! :) Your fireworks pics look good, even with red hat guy. I agree with you, though about Wishes. Wishes isn't just a fireworks show. The music to go along with it makes it amazing! I'm glad the rain let up enough for y'all to let you do everything you wanted. Peter Pan does always seem to have a ridiculous wait no matter what! I wonder why. :confused3
 
Love the pics. Our last trip we were at the entrance to watch the fireworks, I think we will need to be up by the castle next time. Of course, one of the nights we will probably sit on the beach at the Poly to watch the show.
 
Great update!!! I am sad that you didn't like MSEP as much as Spectro. I am looking forwad to seeing it, but I hope Wishes is back in Dec!
 
Great update! :) Your fireworks pics look good, even with red hat guy. I agree with you, though about Wishes. Wishes isn't just a fireworks show. The music to go along with it makes it amazing! I'm glad the rain let up enough for y'all to let you do everything you wanted. Peter Pan does always seem to have a ridiculous wait no matter what! I wonder why. :confused3

Thanks so much!!! Wishes is just amazing and holds a special place in my heart I guess. I swear I start tearing up as soon as it starts!

I'm glad the rain let up too! It was a great night!!!

As far as Peter Pan always having a wait your guess is as good as mine... I did hear though that that is one of the only attractions left that has not been refurbed and is still in its original state since park opening... Wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Love the pics. Our last trip we were at the entrance to watch the fireworks, I think we will need to be up by the castle next time. Of course, one of the nights we will probably sit on the beach at the Poly to watch the show.

Thanks!!! I highly recommend a stop right in front of Cindy's castle to watch the fireworks. That is where we have always watched them! Fireworks on the beach at Poly seem pretty great!


Great update!!! I am sad that you didn't like MSEP as much as Spectro. I am looking forwad to seeing it, but I hope Wishes is back in Dec!


It's not that I didn't like them, it was great, but just wasn't Spectro, you know what I mean? And yes Wishes will be back for December I am told!
 




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