Jiminy'sGirl
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I promise cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-get-a-bad-haircut that I'll finish Day One today. Right now, in fact. I am starting to get scared...I mean, if it takes me three installments over a week long period to complete a day at DTD and checking into the hotel, how long will it take for a 12 hour day at MK? 
Ok. Moving on.
So, we had stuffed potato head pieces and spent a small fortune at Once Upon A Toy. I had been molested by Buzz Lightyear's statue, and it was time to to go World Of Disney. I was slightly nervous to enter this place because my MIL tends to get lost a lot. She just doesn't have a good internal compass (blessherheart) and she tends to wander off. Kind of like a three year old might do. Add that to her need to look at every single item in a store (except clothes), and I knew all the variables were present for a catastrophe at WOD. I highly anticpated needing a loudspeaker and a cattle prod.
Well, we had to start with the obligatory and ubiquitous hat pics...
I tried on the Minnie veil, but as you can see, no one took my picture. And I put the rastafarian Goofy hat on MIL, but she snatched it off before I could get a decent pic. She is not a crazy hat kinda person. She doesnt like much that draws attention to herself, whereas I love to draw attention to myself. I would embarass her many times on this trip. Let's just say she didn't love our time at Primetime Cafe and leave it at that for now...
Actually, as soon as we were dropped off at DTD, we saw a 30ish chick in light-up Minnie ears. MIL was so surprised that an adult would wear that in public. I told her this was WDW - you'll see much crazier things than that on grown adults. I told her to loosen up. In a nice way of course.
So we shopped at WOD. And shopped. I had looked at everything twice and still no sign of MIL. I gathered up the rest of the troops and began hunting. And hunting. We finally located MIL in the watch/pin section. She wanted to get the kids a pin - McQueen for Buzz and Sleeping Beauty for TP (THE PRINCESS). Well, we weren't doing the pin collecting thing, but I told her she could get it for them for their backpacks or something. Well, they didn't have McQueen. I told MIL we'd be shopping a lot over the week, and surely we would find him. Well, we never did. He was always sold out, often to the kid who got there 5 seconds before we did. And can I just tell you how many places we looked?? We could ahve ridden approximately 2.6 more rides per park, according to my calculations, if we hadn't spent so much time hunting down the elusive McQueen pin. After we gave up and bought a Mater one instead, Buzz seemed confused. We late found out that he thought we were looking for a PEN. He was disappointed, because he had visions of using said PEN at school...Guess what we spent our last day at WDW searching for??
So now, on to Lego Land, or whateevr they call it. Buzz adores Legos and he already knew about the wall of legos you could stuff in a cup and purchase. Donlad was still fresh off his high from stuffing more potato body parts in the box that then the CM, so he was fired up. We had to stop for some pics...
I'm not sure why Donald looks like he is about to spit. He does not normally look this way.
OK, so we filled the cup...You can get a surprisingly large amount of Legos in there...
The kids played outside for awhile, and all in all we spent about an hour in this store...But nothing too remarkable happened. Moving on.
So, we wanted to have dinner with the Earl. Well, I did. No one else much cared, nor did they know anything about any Disney restaurant. They were happy to let me choose. Which was a-ok with me!
Well, we were on the DDP. SO I cruise up to the counter and ask about Kids Meals. The man says they have mac and cheese and PBJ. I inquire about dessert and sides.
"OH, it is all a la carte. It's just the sandwich for everyone."
"OK, but on the DDP don't we get a dessert and a side of some kind? Maybe a bag of chips?"
"Nope."
"So my kids will get a PBJ, and that is it?"
"Yep."
"Heather, that FUll Montague looks good. Just get the PBJ and buy some chips" says Donald.
"No, because I know that this dude is not giving me the right info. And that isn't going to fly." I say to Donald, soto voice. "Sir," I say in a perky voice filled with sweetness, "I did a lot of research, and I pretty sure each one of us at least gets a dessert. We paid a lot of money for the DDP, so I hate to buy a bunch of food OOP."
"Then I guess you aren't eating here."
Those were his REAL WORDS, people. Now, I was planning in my head at this point to just buy this meal OOP and use the CS credits at AK on Friday (though there are so few places there to eat right now I wasn't sure just where I would use them!), but after this snarky comment, we turned around and left.
We had dinner at the ASMu food court.
And can I just say, my kids and MIL loved it? MY kids had grilled cheese and fruit and carrots and ate every bite. MIL had the turkey dinner and proclaimed it delicious. And she never proclaims anything delicious. She is just not very outpsoken that way. I don't even remember what I had - I was still dreaming of the Earl. But Donlad was thrilled by his refillable mug purchase. He was already calculating how much he could drink. He wanted to be sure to take Disney for as much as he could.
OK, so we took the long walk back to Building 4, Rock Inn, and got ready for bed, dreams of MK dancing in our heads. Actually, the kids played with their new toys for about an hour. Then they laid in bed and talked for about an hour. I knew for sure we were never going to make the opening show at this rate. Will we get up when Stitch calls at 6:30am??? Tune in next time to find out...
Day One Wrap Up: We made it to WDW in good time, and the kids were super excited to be there. They loved getting their gift bags from Mickey and Minnie, and they couldn't wait to thank them in person the next day. Kiddos and Donald liked the resort. MIl did not seem Wowed by anything, but was going with our flow. She is very accomodating and wants others to have fun, but neevr seems to have much herself, but I think she is just introverted. She did not even comment on the resort, it was as if she saw three story bongo drums everday. I at least thought she might say they were tacky, because they really are (though in a wonderful way!).
All in all, I would say the vacay was off to an awesome start!!!! I couldn't wait to walk down Main St. the very next day with my family!!!
Ok. Moving on.
So, we had stuffed potato head pieces and spent a small fortune at Once Upon A Toy. I had been molested by Buzz Lightyear's statue, and it was time to to go World Of Disney. I was slightly nervous to enter this place because my MIL tends to get lost a lot. She just doesn't have a good internal compass (blessherheart) and she tends to wander off. Kind of like a three year old might do. Add that to her need to look at every single item in a store (except clothes), and I knew all the variables were present for a catastrophe at WOD. I highly anticpated needing a loudspeaker and a cattle prod.
Well, we had to start with the obligatory and ubiquitous hat pics...
I tried on the Minnie veil, but as you can see, no one took my picture. And I put the rastafarian Goofy hat on MIL, but she snatched it off before I could get a decent pic. She is not a crazy hat kinda person. She doesnt like much that draws attention to herself, whereas I love to draw attention to myself. I would embarass her many times on this trip. Let's just say she didn't love our time at Primetime Cafe and leave it at that for now...
Actually, as soon as we were dropped off at DTD, we saw a 30ish chick in light-up Minnie ears. MIL was so surprised that an adult would wear that in public. I told her this was WDW - you'll see much crazier things than that on grown adults. I told her to loosen up. In a nice way of course.
So we shopped at WOD. And shopped. I had looked at everything twice and still no sign of MIL. I gathered up the rest of the troops and began hunting. And hunting. We finally located MIL in the watch/pin section. She wanted to get the kids a pin - McQueen for Buzz and Sleeping Beauty for TP (THE PRINCESS). Well, we weren't doing the pin collecting thing, but I told her she could get it for them for their backpacks or something. Well, they didn't have McQueen. I told MIL we'd be shopping a lot over the week, and surely we would find him. Well, we never did. He was always sold out, often to the kid who got there 5 seconds before we did. And can I just tell you how many places we looked?? We could ahve ridden approximately 2.6 more rides per park, according to my calculations, if we hadn't spent so much time hunting down the elusive McQueen pin. After we gave up and bought a Mater one instead, Buzz seemed confused. We late found out that he thought we were looking for a PEN. He was disappointed, because he had visions of using said PEN at school...Guess what we spent our last day at WDW searching for??
So now, on to Lego Land, or whateevr they call it. Buzz adores Legos and he already knew about the wall of legos you could stuff in a cup and purchase. Donlad was still fresh off his high from stuffing more potato body parts in the box that then the CM, so he was fired up. We had to stop for some pics...
I'm not sure why Donald looks like he is about to spit. He does not normally look this way.
OK, so we filled the cup...You can get a surprisingly large amount of Legos in there...
The kids played outside for awhile, and all in all we spent about an hour in this store...But nothing too remarkable happened. Moving on.
So, we wanted to have dinner with the Earl. Well, I did. No one else much cared, nor did they know anything about any Disney restaurant. They were happy to let me choose. Which was a-ok with me!
Well, we were on the DDP. SO I cruise up to the counter and ask about Kids Meals. The man says they have mac and cheese and PBJ. I inquire about dessert and sides."OH, it is all a la carte. It's just the sandwich for everyone."
"OK, but on the DDP don't we get a dessert and a side of some kind? Maybe a bag of chips?"
"Nope."
"So my kids will get a PBJ, and that is it?"
"Yep."
"Heather, that FUll Montague looks good. Just get the PBJ and buy some chips" says Donald.
"No, because I know that this dude is not giving me the right info. And that isn't going to fly." I say to Donald, soto voice. "Sir," I say in a perky voice filled with sweetness, "I did a lot of research, and I pretty sure each one of us at least gets a dessert. We paid a lot of money for the DDP, so I hate to buy a bunch of food OOP."
"Then I guess you aren't eating here."
Those were his REAL WORDS, people. Now, I was planning in my head at this point to just buy this meal OOP and use the CS credits at AK on Friday (though there are so few places there to eat right now I wasn't sure just where I would use them!), but after this snarky comment, we turned around and left.
We had dinner at the ASMu food court.
And can I just say, my kids and MIL loved it? MY kids had grilled cheese and fruit and carrots and ate every bite. MIL had the turkey dinner and proclaimed it delicious. And she never proclaims anything delicious. She is just not very outpsoken that way. I don't even remember what I had - I was still dreaming of the Earl. But Donlad was thrilled by his refillable mug purchase. He was already calculating how much he could drink. He wanted to be sure to take Disney for as much as he could.
OK, so we took the long walk back to Building 4, Rock Inn, and got ready for bed, dreams of MK dancing in our heads. Actually, the kids played with their new toys for about an hour. Then they laid in bed and talked for about an hour. I knew for sure we were never going to make the opening show at this rate. Will we get up when Stitch calls at 6:30am??? Tune in next time to find out...
Day One Wrap Up: We made it to WDW in good time, and the kids were super excited to be there. They loved getting their gift bags from Mickey and Minnie, and they couldn't wait to thank them in person the next day. Kiddos and Donald liked the resort. MIl did not seem Wowed by anything, but was going with our flow. She is very accomodating and wants others to have fun, but neevr seems to have much herself, but I think she is just introverted. She did not even comment on the resort, it was as if she saw three story bongo drums everday. I at least thought she might say they were tacky, because they really are (though in a wonderful way!).
All in all, I would say the vacay was off to an awesome start!!!! I couldn't wait to walk down Main St. the very next day with my family!!!
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