How "just one trip" became three (babies)... update 6/29, huge triplets photo update

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

I can't wait to hear your exciting news!

 

[Lease]

While Code is working on the end of day 1 I wanted to interrupt the TR with something Code bought on our last day of the trip and something he surprised me with after we had been home for a while.

As a bit of a bookworm myself I love Belle, especially Belle in the blue dress. We spent a lot of time looking at lanyards and in the shops for a Belle not in the yellow princess dress. We looked everywhere and were not able to find one. While waiting in line to buy something for our last day Code took the search to the internet (via his cell phone) and found the pin on the left on ebay and placed a bid. It came a couple days after we got home. Then a week later he surprised me with the other Belle pin. I am so spoiled!

Oh and this isn't the news Code mentioned

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

While Code is working on the end of day 1 I wanted to interrupt the TR with something Code bought on our last day of the trip and something he surprised me with after we had been home for a while.

As a bit of a bookworm myself I love Belle, especially Belle in the blue dress. We spent a lot of time looking at lanyards and in the shops for a Belle not in the yellow princess dress. We looked everywhere and were not able to find one. While waiting in line to buy something for our last day Code took the search to the internet (via his cell phone) and found the pin on the left on ebay and placed a bid. It came a couple days after we got home. Then a week later he surprised me with the other Belle pin. I am so spoiled!

Oh and this isn't the news Code mentioned

What a sweet hubby!

 

[EasyGoing*]

Love this report brings back so many memories. Thanks for sharing yours

 

[pl'smama]

While Code is working on the end of day 1 I wanted to interrupt the TR with something Code bought on our last day of the trip and something he surprised me with after we had been home for a while.

As a bit of a bookworm myself I love Belle, especially Belle in the blue dress. We spent a lot of time looking at lanyards and in the shops for a Belle not in the yellow princess dress. We looked everywhere and were not able to find one. While waiting in line to buy something for our last day Code took the search to the internet (via his cell phone) and found the pin on the left on ebay and placed a bid. It came a couple days after we got home. Then a week later he surprised me with the other Belle pin. I am so spoiled!

Oh and this isn't the news Code mentioned

Okay Lease, that is just too sweet. You guys are so cute together.

Suz

 

[Code]

Wishes

After Spectro, we literally ran through Liberty Square towards the hub in hopes that a good railing or garbage can spot would be open to set up the Gorillapod for pictures of Wishes. Unfortunately despite being a very low crowd day, the hub was already packed. Oh well, the downside of watching Spectro in Frontierland, I suppose. We looked around for a bit before I spotted one of the big spherical cement railing toppers on one corner of the bridge from Main Street to the hub. I asked the people standing next to it if it would be ok to set my camera on top of it and stand on the other side of the railing so as not to bother them. They agreed, and I stepped over the railing.

Now, in the instant that I came up with this bright idea, I was assuming that the ground on the other side of the railing was even with the sidewalk.. the bushes certainly made it look that way. When I stepped over the railing, though, I learned this was not the case as I stepped down about 3 feet farther than I expected to, almost falling completely backwards which I'm sure would have ended with me in the water under the bridge. Luckily I regained my balance, stepped back up on to the railing, and we watched the show.

Disclaimer on these pictures.. in all the confusion with almost going for a swim and the awkward angle at which I had to operate my camera, I forgot to change the ISO from the 1600 I had it set for Spectro. Also most shots were very crooked, and not zoomed in far enough so I had to crop heavily. These shots were the few I (just barely) salvaged from deletion. Oh well, at least there is a funny story to go along with them Lesson learned for next time: arrive earlier!

Wishes for the first time was spectacular, by the way! Very well choreographed, awesome theme, great music, love the castle lighting, and it even tugs at your emotions (Quote from Lease: "all kinds of chills and warm fuzzies" )

After the show, we wandered around the hub for a bit...

...then wandered through some Main Street shops on the way out of the park...

On the bus ride back to the hotel we met a nice older couple who were spending the ride talking to two kids (brother and sister) about their favorite Disney characters. The man then offered both of them pins of those characters from his lanyard (he was obviously a seasoned pin trader)... it’s little things like this that remind you that the Disney magic is real.

We got back to the hotel too full of Magic Kingdom induced joy to sleep so we went for a short swim. We made it back to the room around midnight and it finally caught up to us that we had been awake for 21 hours on 3 hours of sleep. We crashed hard and slept deep. What a great day 1!

Next up.. some important news! (I'll post it tonight before bed so I'm not dragging this on too long)

Go to Didn't Get Enough

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

I think it is funny that your barely acceptable pictures are what most of us would consider our really GOOD pictures.

 

[Hedy]

I think it is funny that your barely acceptable pictures are what most of us would consider our really GOOD pictures.

I'm with her.

 

[Lease]

These shots were the few I (just barely) salvaged from deletion. Oh well, at least there is a funny story to go along with them Lesson learned for next time: arrive earlier!

Also learned: Railings are in place for a reason! All I saw was Code go over the railing and he just kept dropping.

I think it is funny that your barely acceptable pictures are what most of us would consider our really GOOD pictures.

And he wonders why I often hand him the camera instead of taking pictures, I just don't have the same talent

 

[scottny]

i think the pics look great. how u did drop down.

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Lease, I have the same approach to picture taking that you do. Of course I love it when a picture turns out really well but I am happy if it is simply okay but still captures the magic of the moment.

Of course I would love it if I had Code's talent so that I could have beautiful pictures and capture the moment all in the same picture.

 

[Code]

Didn't Get Enough...

About halfway through our trip, I realized that I didn't want this visit to be our last one for quite a while as was the plan, so I went to work on Lease, jokingly at first but increasingly more serious. By day 6 or 7, she started to come around, and as we got near the end of the trip, we were both about 95% sure we were going to return soon. In the week following our return home, we solidified the last 5%, then figured out when we are going back, and it's sooner rather than later! We got spoiled by the low crowds in September but we don't want to wait a full year, so I looked at the Unofficial Guide crowd calendar for minimum possible crowds and came up with 3 options: early December, late January, or mid-May. December is too soon, and May isn't quite as low crowds, so......

This trip report is now also a pre-trip for January 24 to February 1, staying at Pop Century!

I never thought we'd be going back so soon, but we just didn't get our fill, and this one really will be our last trip for quite a while We think a winter trip will be an interesting and fun change of pace as neither of us have been there outside of summer, and to be honest we're looking forward to visiting without the dining plan. Splash Mtn will be closed, which is a downer, but the two big attractions we missed this time (Rock 'n' Roller Coaster and Spaceship Earth) will be open!

Back to our regularly scheduled trip report.. next up, day 2!

Go to Day Two--Pirates, Turtles and Food

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Wow, you are lucky to be going back so soon!

 

[Rootskate]

That is so cool that you guys are going back!! Great pictures, too!

 

[TKDisneylover]

Another great installment Code & Lease. The pictures are beautiful as usual, I could feel the chills from the photo with the fireworks going straight up in the air and the crowd glowing from the light. Awesome!

Congrats on planning another return trip! Looking forward to your next installment!

 

[pl'smama]

Congrats guys on your impending return to the world!! That will be awesome. DH and I thought kind of the same thing after our first trip as a family with our DD, then 3.5. We went in Dec '06, which was a fantastic time to go! Now we head back to Run Amuck in Jan '08!! We will miss you by four days!

Tell me, anything you will do differently the next time around?

Suz

 

[roxannensteve]

That picture with Lease & the background blurred out is very nice - how do you do that

 

[abbybeth]

great pics as per the usual .... glad to hear the official announcement (even though I can officially say that I knew before! yay, I feel special!)

but I defnitely will be getting a gorrillapod!

 

[Hedy]

great pics as per the usual .... glad to hear the official announcement (even though I can officially say that I knew before! yay, I feel special!)

but I defnitely will be getting a gorrillapod!

Have a great trip C&L!

 

[Lei]

Your pictures--especially the castle ones, with or without Wishes!---are just.....

Okay, I'm lost for words.