I Have a Feeling We're Gonna Cry Our Way Through This Trip!-Updated Feb 23!!

[shan23877]

Sounds like you have fun day planned!

I would definitely cry during the Opening Show and Wishes.

 

[katt789]

All caught up! Your plans sound great so far. I thought about going to Beaches and Cream for lunch on my HS day but I have an early dinner at Mama Melrose and I don't think I can do both in one day!

I know one of your other ADRs!

Thanks!! I just dont like any of the food at DHS, so I asked Jess where to go, and then this gives us a chance to check out yacht and beach club. There sure is going to be a lot of resort exploring this trip!!

Following along! Sounds like you've got a great trip coming up!! So jealous you will be in WDW in less than a week!

Thanks!!

Your MK plans make me wish I was there lol!

Looks like a great day and I definitely fully support the crying at all mentioned occasions.

Hahaha! Sorry! Just think of it as a few more months til you get to go!!

Sounds like you have fun day planned!

I would definitely cry during the Opening Show and Wishes.

Lol, Im just going to cry all the time!!

 

[wiigirl]

Great pics!

 

[katt789]

Gooood morning no sleeping!! It’s Wednesday February 27 Stitch and Mickey and friends will be waking us up bright and early as Paige and I will be jumping out of bed, shoving some food in our faces while we get ready, and headed down to the lobby this morning! You notice how I saw lobby instead of bus stop? Well, we’ll be jumping into a cab today as we’re headed over to:

Yup, that’s right, off Disney property we go! Last trip we nearly took a sporadic trip over to Universal, but decided that we just couldn’t afford the tickets to get all the way over there, much less all the merch we’d want, there wouldn’t be a dining plan, or the cab ride, so this trip, it was a need to do!

Islands of Adventure will be the only Universal Park we’re visiting today, as Paige and I are both Harry Potter fans, and we will even be decked out in Hufflepuff/Syltherin “Disneybound” wear today too! Obviously, we’ll be heading over to the Wizarding World first thing to get in there before the crowds do!

It’ll be a fairly relaxed morning of the Forbidden Journey, Flight of the Hippogriff, and who knows, if we’re feeling it, maybe we’ll even brave the Dragon Challenge!? Most of me plans on the light breakfast in the room so we can get a move on, but also so we can dine at the Three Broomsticks too!

Butterbeer, shopping and lots of exploring are also in order, but we’ll have quite a bit of time to get through everything, so it really will be a nice relaxing morning for us!

I know Paige wants to go on Jurassic Park, but I’m not really into that at all, no thank you, seems a bit too scary for my liking! Lol. Who knows if she’ll end up doing it, I’m guessing we’ll spend the rest of the morning wandering around and taking pictures with some of the other stuff, I’ve checked over the other rides and Spider Man is all I would do, since a lot of other rides will be down for refurb while we’re there. Sad face!!

My guess is just after noon we’ll head back to Pop, take a LITTLE break, maybe swim if it’s warm and we’re feeling it, and then we’ll be headed out to our next Disney Park! While we’re back at Pop we’ll both be changing outfits again as I’m Disneybounding as Ariel tonight, and Paige as Rapunzel! Yay!

Epcot!! Evening of FUN, yay!! We’ll take our time exploring, but obviously Soarin is on my to do list!!

And we’ll want to check out Test Track, especially since it’s all been re done since I’ve last been on it. I’m hoping it’s not too busy, but if it is we’ll just jump in to the single rider line to at least get on the ride. The rest of Future World isn’t too much of a concern for me, or either of us, I know Epcot is a really nice park, and I do love it, but it’s more for the look of everything, Paige and I could take it or leave it. We’ll explore all over the place, meet up with some characters, and probably grab a drink or two!

Somewhere through World Showcase we’ll probably grab a light lunch, or snack, and I personally really want to try the school bread again! The last time I tried it I didn’t like it, and I figure I should probably give it a second chance!

I mean, it looks yummy enough!! Norway will be our ending spot for the evening, as we’ve got an exciting dinner planned!

Yay!! I tried originally to get an ADR for CRT, but that didn’t happen, and it’s been a while since I’ve eaten at Akershus, and that was for breakfast, so I figured it would be nice to try out again. The idea of half a buffet, half a “choose your meal” thing confused me at first, but I think I have it figured out now, so that’s good! I have no idea what I want to eat here, but I guess I’ll figure it out later lol.

Dinner’s booked late enough that I doubt we’ll have time to catch Illuminations, unless dinner goes amazingly fast, but really, I doubt it. Thankfully we can slowly walk out of Epcot when it’s all done, and it’ll be nice to have the park emptied out by then! Yay! Hopefully we can get some nice nighttime photopass’s done on the way out too!


Points When We’ll Cry:
-Possibly while we walk up to Hogwarts, who knows?!

Things I’m Looking Forward To:
-Getting to see WWOHP again, best thing ever!
-Less time at Epcot
-Soarin!
-Experiencing Akershus for dinner!

 

[lvcourtneyy]

Yay Hogwarts! I've heard one side of the Dragon Challenge is more intense, I wanna say it was the Chinese Fireball. Idk how much of a difference it is!

Did you ever go the walking tour attraction across from the Mythos restaurant in IoA? We did it last time and it was fun for something different if you aren't into the big rides. And on our last trip, I found out there's an area in Seussland where the Dr. Seuss characters meet! Presley met them and had a blast but DBF and I were in the candy store lmao but I'm totally sad I missed them.

Oh I can't wait to hear how you feel about Akerhaus! I want to include it in whenever our next trip ends up happening, but I'm a little wary of the food situation!

You leave so soon!! Are you out of your mind with excitement yet?

 

[katt789]

So since the last trip, I've been thinking of things that I've either missed completely, or things that I really have wanted to do again, or could do better, and as I think of them, I've been compiling a list, and figured I'd post it on here, and you guys could comment and give some input!!


-More ridiculous pictures, and pictures in front of things
-Funny/different poses with characters
-Jumping photos at all parks
-Dance photos
-Silly ride photos
-Beat 6 rides in a row on EE
-Make a trip video!
-Eat at a new CS place in each park
AK: Flame Tree BBQ
-Nutella & Fruit waffle sandwich @sleepy hollow in mk
-Trails by the tree in AK (otters & kangaroos?!)
-Goofy ride/queue photos!
-See how many TSM/ToT rides we can get in
-Inside store pictures

-Buzz: ask how his Spanish mode is doing

Things We Missed:

-Test Track
-Spaceship Earth
-School Bread!
-Great Movie Ride
-DHS Parade
-RnR?
-Nemo show
-Monster’s Inc Laugh floor
-Teacups?
-FLE
-Disney Jr?


What'd'you guys think? Anything we should add in there?! Eeeek! We leave in two days!! (I don't count today, as it's almost over, and don't count Sunday cause we leave at like, 6 am!)

 

[katt789]

Hello again! It’s Day 5 of our trip, Thurs Feb 28th, and Paige and I only have one park for Disney left to do today! Seems kinda obvious that we’ll be headed here today:

Yay! Animal Kingdom, one of my favorites, and I’m super excited that we’ll have time to really explore everything, and even though there is “slight rain” forecasted for that day, chances are, it will change, and it won’t be as bad as last time was! Lol. (In case you were wondering, we got stuck in practically a hurricane last AK day!)

We’ll aim to be there right for rope drop, and we’ll be heading straight in to Asia for our first stop of the day…

First…and second…and third….and we have a goal to beat 6 rides in a row on Everest! That was the max times we got it last time, and then my head started to hurt, lol, so we have to beat that this time! Even if it means a bad headache, I’ll risk it!

After our millions of rides through the mountains, we’ll probably head over to Africa, and go on a little adventure through Harambe!

I’m pretty sure we ended up skipping this last time due to rain/lack of interest, so we’ve got to make sure to hit it up this time. Although I definitely think it is really lacking sometimes, with no “little red” story line it’s kinda boring, especially if you get a lack luster driver, or no animals. HOWEVER, we’ll still be doing it!

Judging my how long it might take to get 6 rides on EE done, I mean, it all depends on crowds, our next stop will most likely be into Camp Minnie Mickey, but not for characters, for the GREATEST SHOW EVER! Oh right, and it’s NOT CLOSED YET!!! I’m so happy for that fact, like, I don’t know how I’d deal with a trip to WDW with no Festival of the Lion King. Luckily, it looks like they’re going to build the new theatre, then move the show over, resulting in it only being closed for a week or so, thank god!

*sigh* Oh! I didn’t include who we’re Disneybounding as for today!! Paige is being Russell from Up, and I’m going as the Bird from FOTLK! How awesome!? Love it. It took me a bit to put together, but I managed to get it better than I thought, it helps that it’ll be a bit chilly that day too so I can wear tights and not be too hot!

When we’re done with the first showing of FOTLK, it’ll be time for some CHARACTER HUNTING!! One of my other goals for this trip is to meet as many characters as possible, so that’ll take up a good portion of the day!

Some of those pictures are from over a year ago, so obviously we won’t be seeing some of them, and somewhere in there we’ll most likely see a Pocahontas and King Louie and Baloo instead!

I know you’re probably all thinking “but what about Dinosaur?!” Well, Ladies and gents, that is a BIG no go for Paige and I, neither of us liked it, and spent the entire time with our heads down, eyes closed, and cringing, that, and the seatbelts don’t go left to right, and that’s just not okay….lol…

I definitely went to search for our ride picture to show you how terrified we are of that ride, but, no go, apparently we were so scared I didn’t think to snap a red neck photo of it! I’ve heard rumour of there being new entertainment over in Animal Kingdom, so if the “Wilderness Explorer” thing is up and running, I really want to check it out and maybe have a go at it around the park too!

Paige and I will obviously have more time to explore today, and probably check out a bunch of the paths that go into the tree of life, and we can kinda take it slower. I do however, want to stick around a bit later so we can actually see the Jamin Jungle Parade too!

When the parade ends, I’m guessing we’ll head over to FOTLK for one more watch, and then possibly head out of the park. We definitely have enough time to go back to Art of Animation before our dinner plans, but maybe we’ll hit up a different park. We really didn’t do a lot of Epcot the day before, so we’ll go with the flow and do whatever we feel like for a few hours.

Around 7:00, it’ll be time to head over to:

The Polynesian! I do want to get here with enough time to get a Lapu Lapu, or whichever the drinks that are in the pineapple are called! They look totally awesome and delicious! Does anyone know if you can wander around with it? Paige has never been to the Poly, and with it being one of my favorite places, we’ll take some time to explore it before heading over to Luau Cove!

That’s right! Courtney and Mel, you guys guessed right, we’re headed to the Spirit of Aloha show tonight! I had already done the Hoop De Doo, and it was a blast, but I had Paige choose between the two, and she chose this one, so that sounds like a plan!

I’ve heard some mixed reviews on this, and I definitely won’t be drinking as much as we did at Hoop De Doo, Lawl, but Paige isn’t legal age in the states yet so I don’t want to be a drunk little cucumber while she’s stuck not being able to drink! Lol. Hopefully it will be entertaining with tasty food! According to Shannon there’s at least some eye candy for the ladies, so here’s hoping!!

Since it’s been a long day, and we’ve been down in Disney we’ll be pretty wiped at the end of the day, it’ll be a quick bus trip to Downtown Disney, and then back to Pop to sleep! Unless of course we feel like staying up a bit later, than maybe we’ll shop at DTD a bit, who knows?!

Points We’ll Most Likely Cry:
-Festival of the Lion King,….durp…

Things I’m Looking Forward Too:
-Everest!
-Spirit of Aloha/getting to visit one of my favorite resorts
-Lots of time in AK
-Hopefully being able to do the Wilderness Explorer thing!

 

[shan23877]

Trust me there's plenty of eye candy. Enjoy the show!

 

[ronnmel]

For you list of things to do, I challenge you to meet a character that you have never met before!

Of all the dinner shows, Spirit of Aloha is the one that interests me the most. I love the Hawaiian culture, and I'm not gonna say no to the eye candy!

 

[katt789]

Trust me there's plenty of eye candy. Enjoy the show!

Yay! Haha I'm sure we will!!

For you list of things to do, I challenge you to meet a character that you have never met before!

Of all the dinner shows, Spirit of Aloha is the one that interests me the most. I love the Hawaiian culture, and I'm not gonna say no to the eye candy!

At first I was all "That's impossible! I've met all of them, but Wreck It Ralph is new! Lol

 

[katt789]

Well, it’s reached that time, our last full day in the parks…we’ve got a LOT to do today, as those of you who know me, I like to park hop everywhere on the last day, and just re-do everything that we loved and get to see it all again before we leave! Yay! I will be Disneybounding as Lottie from Princess and the Frog, and I’m pretty sure Paige is doing Ralph from Wreck it Ralph!

Today is Friday March 1 st and the first park of the day for us will be:

Yay! I know, I usually start at a different park, but I honestly feel like DHS is a LOT better when you’re there right for rope drop, it just adds so much time to get stuff done! We’ll stick to the original plan once we get in of course, and take a mad dash over to Toy Story Mania, I really want to ride this as many times as possible this trip, so we’ll jump in the standby line, and grab fast passes first thing! (In the opposite order though!)

If the line isn’t too bad when we get out of the first time, we might jump back in again, I mean, it is our last day, last chance ride! Then it’ll be a quick jump over to the terrifying end of the park as we take a chance on a shifty looking elevator!

And if we ended up liking it earlier in the week, Rock N Rollercoaster will of course be happening again. Then it’ll be time for our TSM FP to be used, and maybe on the way back down the street we’ll make a pit stop at Starring Rolls!

Om nom!! Delicious Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcake! Naturally with snack in hand, it’ll be time for a visit to the theatre of the stars, where we can catch a little show before heading out of the park!

Once out of Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Paige and I will jump on a bus and head over to Animal Kingdom! Since we were JUST there the day before, we probably won’t do a whole bunch of stuff, just a few rides on Everest, and I of course, will want to watch FOTLK again, lawl!

Naturally, we’ll be riding at least three times, once in the back, once in the front, and once wherever, and we’ll want to go again and again, so it kinda just depends on wait times of the actual ride.

Who knows, maybe something magical will happen this trip and we’ll get to meet those dancers?! Lawl. I don’t think I’d even be able to CONTAIN myself if that happened, I’d seriously just be a blubbering mess! Haha. Judging by our LOVE for Uncrustables, we very well might stop in Pizzafari for some kids meals for lunch, I mean, they’re awesome, delicious peanut butter and jam, and some healthy fruit that you can throw in your bag for later? Awesome!!

That will probably be it for Animal Kingdom, and we’ll soon be on the bus to either: the TTC or a Magic Kingdom Resort, I mean, we’ll have to transfer anyway, right?

**continued in next post**

 

[katt789]

I kind of really want to get off the bus at the Contemporary, partially because I want to check out the walk way over to Magic Kingdom, and I want to get pictures with the little silver Mickey ear thing (that’s at the Contemp, right?) Also I don’t know why, but that resort has been pulling at me recently, and I really want to stay at Bay Lake Tower next trip, and with the help of renting DVC points, maybe I’ll be able to!? WHO KNOWS?!

Anyways, long story short, we’ll be at Magic Kingdom, arriving just after lunch time, and it’ll be time for us to make some magic, and obviously, use up the last of our photopass and get as many pictures as we humanly possibly can.

I want to get some actual photopass pics right in front of the partner’s statue this time, and with the Roy and Minnie statue down in Town Square, like, so much love. UGH! I think at least one of the poses I want to do by the partners is with our backs to the camera, with our hands above our heads making hearts (think, Frump style lol) It’ll be great.

I’m guessing that Space Mountain Fast Passes will be on the list of first things to do today, and jump in the stand by line if it’s not too bad!

And maybe we’ll check out some stuff we missed in Tomorrowland before, or things we liked, who knows, I’ll be down for the people mover, duh!

Since we’re back in Magic Kingdom, and if Peri has left already (which I’m sure she will have,) we’ll pop over to Pixie Hollow to see what new friend is out and about today! And of course, do some other favorite meet and greets while we’re in the park with the most characters!

(p.s. Don’t know if I explained, but 99% of these pictures ARE in fact mine, specifically ones that actually have people in them. So, the random people are in fact people I know…lol)

Soon enough, say when it reaches around 6:00, we have plans to meet up with Ariana (Pluto0809 on here!) at least, I’m guessing it’ll be sometime around there! We might check out Phillharmagic, or do a character meet or two together. Maybe hit up some of those rides that are a bit more awkward for solo travelers to do? I don’t know about anyone else, but I find there are rides that I’d rather not do solo, even if I love, heck, my last trip I only went on like, two rides!

Soon it will be nearing 7:30 and time for us to head into the New Fantasyland, as we’ve got AMAZING DINNER PLANS!!

That’s right! As many of you have guessed/figured out, we are dining at Be Our Guest tonight!! I had one heck of a time getting this reservation too! So don’t think it was easy!! I had started checking long before the trip had actually been booked, and couldn’t find anything. Then one day, I decided to check (for the second time of the day) just to see if there was any cancellations. Now, I had been checking for: our arrival day, OR our Magic Kingdom day, OR our last day, really, anything would have worked, I could have skipped anything except SoA or Fantasmic for it. I made my way through the ADR site, and to our last day, checking for anything available for dinner, and lo and behold, THERE IT WAS!! I FREAKED THE HECK OUT!! Duh, of course I did!!

Of course I booked it right away and was super pumped that I managed to get it, and I mean, what more magical of a way to end a trip to Disney World than a dinner in the most magical restaurant of all!?

I’m kind of hoping that we’ll be seated in the Grand Ballroom, but also kinda hoping for the West Wing, and who knows where we’ll end up eating earlier in the week when we do CS lunch here?! I guess it’ll kinda depend on that. I’ve pretty much decided that I want the Cornish hen, along with the lemon meringue cupcake(?) lol I think that’s what I decided for a dessert.

Judging by the time of our ADR we won’t be seeing Wishes tonight, and the park might even be closed by the time we get out. DHS has evening EMH tonight, but I doubt we’ll be able to make it over there in time for anything fun, unless dinner is super fast, and we run, but really, it probably isn’t worth it.

Chances are we’ll mosey on out of Magic Kingdom and just take it all in, I mean, it’s the last night, the lights will all be on, the crowds won’t be that bad by that time of night, and we won’t want to go home yet!!

And that…will be it ladies and gents. That’s all folks. See ya real soon.
SAD FACE
Anyway, it’ll be around 9, and we’ll be tired. It might be time for some last minute shopping (anyone know how late the DTD shops are open?) and then it’ll just be back to Pop for the evening. I mean, we’ll need to stalk up on snacks for the plane ride home….

Lawl! And yes, that is actually my picture, and all the Uncrustables/kids meals that we used up our CS credits on for last trip! Ha! We sure do love those things! But in all seriousness, we’ll make a stop at the foodcourt on the way back to our room to pick some up, and some snacks for later, and then it’ll be time to pack up everything, and be ready to go!

I originally had a breakfast for the next day over at Kona booked, but couldn’t find flights cheap enough to get a midday flight back, and thus, we are leaving at like, 3 am on the Magical Express, where I’m sure we’ll cry if we’re not too deeply asleep, and before we know it, we’ll be home, and I’ll be at work that night *ugh*

And now, for the shocking and saddening news from Katt; this will be the last trip of mine until September 2013! Shocking I know?!? Well, I simply can’t afford the trips this coming year, and shouldn’t be spending money on a new annual pass right now when I simply need the money for dance and stuff. I mean, I could technically renew it right now, and not use it til Sept, but let’s be serious, then I’ll be tempted by the cheaper flights and room discounts and end up activating it earlier than I wanted.

This ALSO means that I will most likely not be auditioning again until September, so here’s hoping they do some online submissions again, or they really need people come spring, and flights/hotel are CHEAP. I won’t go into the parks, but might be down there over that time. Fly down, audition, come home. It will suck, but I just have to deal with it right now. It also gives me more time and money to focus on ballet, jazz, and fitness, so that when those Dream Along auditions come up in Oct, and the FOTLK in February, I’m ready, and can rock it!

Thanks for reading along, and I hope that you’re all having a magical day and read along to the trip report too!

See ya real soon!!!

 

[ronnmel]

Have a magical trip Katt!

 

[lvcourtneyy]

Have an amazing trip!!!!

 

[KyWildcatGirl01]

Hope you have a GREAT trip!!

 

[tinkerbell87512]

Hope you guys have an amazing trip!!!

 

[ronnmel]

At first I was all "That's impossible! I've met all of them, but Wreck It Ralph is new! Lol

I decided to look back through your previous trip reports to see if you really had met all of them and realized there was one TR I had never seen! :eek I believe it was your first one, so I'm off to reading it now.

BTW, you really have met them all, except maybe Phineas and Ferb? And the new Wreck-It Ralph obviously.

 

[Pluto0809]

Hope you are having a wonderful time! Looking forward to our meet on Friday!

 

[ronnmel]

It was quite interesting reading your very TR, seeing you experience things for the first time knowing all that you would come to do later on.

You were so afraid of trying Expedition Everest, yet now it's one of your favorites! Maybe you should keep that in mind when thinking about trying RNR.