I Miss WDW already.... only the pics keep me going til next time...

[3NJDisneyDivas]

great trip report.
can't wait to read more.
your DD is adorable!!!!

Lisa

 

[NewCrew42]

Those pics of you dd on Snow White are too cute!

I am sorry she was so scared, but what a cutie!

Lovin it!

 

[huggiebear23]

Mari- I love this report. MORE MORE MORE

 

[mari360]

Today we wake up at 8am. We all start getting ready to head out to DHS. We have a ADR at Hollywood and Vine this morning. So we head to the car and drive over to DHS. I just love seeing that sorcerer's hat......

So we make it with more then enough time. As we were walking from the car to the park my DD decided that she wanted to take pics of everything and she wanted to be in all the pics....

We decide to walk slowly. There were not that many people when we got there and we had plenty of time. We head over to the restaurant. We only waited for about 5 minutes before they called us. It wasn't crazy in there either. Our server was from NJ which was so funny. He was very nice and helpful. I loved the theme of the breakfast. My DD LOVES LOVES LOVES playhouse disney so it was a plus for her. They had a great breakfast there... I loved it all. The only problem was that i couldn't get her to eat anything she was too excited seeing all of the characters....

This is our only family pic there.

So my DH doesn't know how to handle our DD when she goes crazy over characters and doesn't eat so he was getting very aggravated. I knew beforehand that i was going to have to fight with her in order to eat. But what happened next was so funny. He asked for it. Well my DH served himself a HUGE plate of food and my DD noticed. So when he told her that she has to eat all her food she turned looked at him and with a serious face she says to him "no you eat all your yummies" I wish i had the camera ready. But no luck. I thought it was tooooo funny. My DH didn't think so but i laughed anyway.

So we head out of H & V to walk around for a bit remember we still have the rental car my DH has to go into town around 11 to take care of some business so we decided to head out around 10:30. it was ok. So we leave and i tell you i wanted to KILL my DH. he convinced me to go with him saying that what he had to do woudl take only 10 minutes... i waited for him for 1 hour. i was livid... i could have been in the park... but whatever we ended up returning the car around 1pm and got dropped off at the park again. But since it's time for me to leave work right now i'll continue from home later tonight.... Here is a pic that i took when we got back to the park in the afternoon a lot more crowded then the morning....

 

[seacrestpromo]

Great TR Mari - Awesome pictures! My wife thinks your DD is so cute! This pic is adorable:

 

[NewCrew42]

Sounds like Playhouse Disney breakfast was a hit. It looks like there were empty tables in there while you guys were eating. What time was your ADR? Was the restaurant full when you left?

 

[Katiebell]

Mari, what great pics! My DGD (3) did not like the Snow White ride at DL AT ALL. She really didn't like any of the dark rides, but Snow White was definitely too scary Her very favorite ride was the teacups...but she couldn't say "teacups" and kept saying she wanted to ride the "teatops"

Looking forward to your next installment!

 

[mari360]

Sounds like Playhouse Disney breakfast was a hit. It looks like there were empty tables in there while you guys were eating. What time was your ADR? Was the restaurant full when you left?

My ADR was for 9:30am. Yeah it was empty. It was nice though We loved it.

Great TR Mari - Awesome pictures! My wife thinks your DD is so cute! This pic is adorable:

Thank you.....

Mari, what great pics! My DGD (3) did not like the Snow White ride at DL AT ALL. She really didn't like any of the dark rides, but Snow White was definitely too scary Her very favorite ride was the teacups...but she couldn't say "teacups" and kept saying she wanted to ride the "teatops"

Looking forward to your next installment!

That is cute teatops.... it's funny what comes out of their mouths at times... my DD says Jinglebell instead of tinkerbell.....

Once i get into work i'll do the next installment....

 

[mari360]

Hey all .... well my DH does what he needs to do and we had back to Disney area where i take this cute pic...

Again i didn't get to take a picture of the big Sign that the buses go under....maybe next year.... or in December....

Ok back to TR.... so we get to DHS and decide to walk around for a little bit but as we are walking down we see that HSM show is about to start so we sit there ant watch..

My DH decided to take a silly pic....

I notice it is now about 2:10 so i told DH lets walk over to playhouse disney they are starting a show at 2:30... so we go BUT that is when the most amazing thing happens... my DD sees handy manny going to the section where they do the meet and greet... so she Runs to where he is... so i guess no show for us.... we have a ADR at 3pm at Sci-fi.... ok so we get on line and she keeps talking about an episode of Handy manny that she remembers... but she notices no tools are there so she starts wondering about it...

then she sees her other fav character from Little einsteins... Quincy.... i dont' know if you guys ever watched it but all i remember is him saying "i cannot believe it" and my DD know that so she starts saying that over and over and over and over and over... well you get my drift....

It is now only like 2:35 so i todl DH we can walk over to Sci fi or try to catch the mermaid show since it starts in 5 min and it's right across from where we were.... so we go watch Little mermaid... cute show.... my DD loves little mermaid so it was great for her.... so we get out and he go get the stroller and walk over to Sci fi... we check in and we wait for about 20 min... in the mean time my DD is playing in the big car in the front...

we get called in and i automatically don't like it... i can't eat in the dark and then my DD and myself sit in the front of the car and my DH sits in the back... i thought we atleast faced each other but we don't so he is staring at the back of my head the whole time... the food was good i ordered a salad as appetizer, burger and fruit for desert...

Darn it i forgot to take a pic of my DH food again... this trip i think i got only 1 pic of his food.....

So the food was good i just didn't like the atmosphere of Scifi... i wouldn't do it again....

So we leave Sci fi and walk around for a bit... we walk over by playhouse Dis again....we go into a store by there and my DD decided she wanted cotton candy... i told my DH NO but when i walked out to see what was around there he got it anyway... well there is a little entrance to a display type thing there... i don't remember the name but here is a pic

So my DH and DD are tired me i can go on for another couple of hours... my DH then reminded me that we had not tried th e pool at CSR so we head back to the resort and get ready to go to the pool.....

The pool was great... my DD wanted to jump right in but i told her no... i wasn't going to get in and my DH didn't want to so i remembered there is a kiddie area so we went there. My DH and myself got some drinks at the bar i think it was called fransiscos... i get a pina colada and he gets a VERY STRONG margarita.... so we sit and watch her play for about 1 hour and a half... she started off by herself and then 2 other kids came along so she had a blast . here are some pics...

My DH acting like a kid again....

So around 8 we decide to head back to the room.... we weren't hungry so we just stayed in the room and we would go get food later... but my DD had another idea right after i took her a shower she lay down and fell asleep... she was on . So we put her in the stroller around 9:30 to walk down to PM and get somthing to eat.... we get it to go we want to eat in the room... so we get back to room and just hang out the rest of the night...

Next up: Epcot Day.....

 

[Jeanine3kids]

Great trip report your DD is so cute how old is she?

 

[Disneychix]

You handled the ID airport situation so calmly! I applaud you. My DH would still be hearing me scream!

Your DD is too cute. Looks like you are having a really fun vacation and it's only day2!

 

[mari360]

Great trip report your DD is so cute how old is she?

She is going to be 3 next month...

Thank you

 

[mari360]

Disneychix - I was just happy that everything turned out ok. Believe me i wanted to kill him. He knew... i shot him that are you effing serious face.....

 

[Huntava]

We stayed at CSR around a week or so before you, and did lots of the same things. I can't figure out how to post the pics, so I haven't posted the report yet. You have done a great job, it looks like your family had a great trip.

 

[mari360]

Today i let the DH and DD sleep in late. i was up by 7:30 i guess the excitement of being in Dis... so i watched some TV very low but they woke up around 8am anyway. So we all started getting ready and we head out the hotel door around 9:30. We decided to grab breakfast at the resort. THe restaurant there Maya Grill has buffet breakfasts. It was good. We had such a great waitress that morning. She was very nice and talkative. So i grabed a cup full of grapes for my DD and we were on our way. We decided to do Epcot this day. We didn't get to the park until about 11am. Oh how i love to see:

I decide that i wanted to go check out the section where someone told me that they can suspend you over the castle well the picture of it. So we walk over to

That is where i was told i could find it. But when i asked a CM they told me no that it was at the end of the Figment ride. But when we got into Innoventions i saw the fire safety house and my DD wanted to do it when all of a sudden i hear "marilyn" i turn to find myself face to face with our own Kristina "Huggie on Disboards" She was waiting for her DH and DD's. So we chatted for a while comparing trips. So we find her DH and it happened to be that her DH saw her the whole time and here she is looking for him. Well our girls were playing on the Kidcot (i think that is what they were called don't quote me on it) we were there i want to say for about 20 - 30 min. Very nice family...

So our family says our goodbyes to Kristina's family. We walk around innoventions for about 1 hour. My DD is starting to act up at this point. She wants to run around all over the place.... i'm losing it and so is my DH. She starts to cry when she doesn't get her way.....when i turn around and my poor DD got a timeout ... a timeout in WDW... poor child i hope she is not too traumatized...

So we decide to leave innovnetions after her 5 minute timeout... This is when we walk by the fountain by the epcot ball and i notice all the cameras and such... i thought it was just like a commercial so i didn't pay too much mind to it... We decided to head over to the figment ride. same as before... ok my DD was not scared of thsi ride i guess cause it's not as dark and more lively.. so at the end it was as if a ray or light came down on the section where they take pics... We were there for about 20 min trying to figure out which one we would do.... here are the ones we decided on....

we had a 2pm adr at Tepannayaki.. (Spelling) . we get there with time to spare so we sit and watch the lady that makes the candy animals. That is so amazing... and she makes one so fast. I was trying to get 1 for my DD but she was giving them out to the people that had the anniversay, birthday etc pins. Plus we had to get going. So this was our first time at this restaurant and it sounded very interesting.... Our chef was GREAT.... didn't speak great english but we got the jist of it...We sat with another family from tennssee very nice people.... so he starts to cut stuff up with his knife while putting on a show...

He cuts up some onions and makes a little volcano out of it. I though that was so cute... i mean i saw that at a hibachi place around my house but my DD never saw anything like that so she was sitting very quietly watching the show...

After all the banging and fliping things around this was the final creation... I also must add it was VERY GOOD.... one of my favorites now. I will def go back there again.

So we decide to walk around a little since we are super full.... we go by this little area that has the peter pan characters. Its a little playground but i DD decided she wanted pics in front of them...

She is too funny. Oh yeah i forgot before we left the showcase I we were walking by Canada section and i remembered that someone mentioned a Greygoose lemonaide thing... i got it and let me tell you i LOVED it... not too strong. It had a nice flavor to it....

We were done with all that around 4 and decided to head back to the resort... plus our camera battery died so i wanted to go back and get the charged one. We get to the room and DD decided that she wants to take a shower. I said ok because it was very hot and humid so we all took showers and got ready to go back. We had ADR's at 8:30pm at LeCellier.

Next up : Epcot Part II

 

[Jakesmom504]

Oh your DD is too cute!!! I can't wait to show DS your pics. It will be his first trip, and I'm still not sure how he will react to the characters so I'm trying to gear him up for it. We have 3 character meals so far and I'm debating on one more since he loves Little Einsteins. Your pics are great!!!

 

[huggiebear23]

Love the report. I cant believe I made it on your report. I feel so special

 

[luckytobeme88]

Truly enjoying your review. Beautiful family

 

[NewCrew42]

I love those pics you made at the Kodak thing in Imagination. I love the one of your dd flying over WDW!!!

 

[mari360]

So we left the resort on our way back to Epcot. We are all refreshed and ready to go. We get to epcot around 7:00. So we have time to walk around for a little bit. Nothing special just taking pics of the tapestry's around the park. So we get to LeCellier around 7:50. Our ADR was for 8pm.

I like the feel of the place. Based on previous reviews i was expecting to be sitting very close and crammed up with other tables. But we were fine. So as we are waiting for out drinks to come by in the table next to us there is this party of 6 that were sitting there that were compalining. I mean about everything the food, the waitress, everything but if you look on their plates all their food was gone. Come on if you really don't like don't eat it they could have gotten them something else. So anyway the manager comes over and the table starts saying how the waitress was taking oforever with thier food and that she was really rude to them. That she threw the plates at them with their food and how she was nasty. I hate people like this 1 because i dont' know if you guys realized this or not but the waitress is NOT the person that brings your food out. I wonder what the manager did for them. But they had the same waitress i did and she was great. Even the table next to them called the manager over and told them that the waitress was great. That the people were just being snobs. i just thoguht it was funny. So back to my food again i forgot to take pics of DH food. Oh well... So i ended up ordering the Le Cellier Mushroom Filet Mignon (Very Good) for appetizer I had a salad and desert I had the Creme Brulee...

Throughout the whole meal my DD was acting up again. She didn't want to eat, she just wanted to play with mer pirate mickey mouse my DH got her. She had to go to the bathroom im not exagerating about 5 times throughout the meal. And of the 5 times i took her she only used it 1 time. So again i can tell my DH is getting aggravated with her. I try to calm her down but i guess a sit down meal is not the way to go for her just yet. Especially when the restaurants take so long for everything. So i steped away to go to the bathroom and I come back and my DD is eating her food being calm and i wonder why.... I'm thinking i guess my DH had a talk with her but at i get closer to the table i see why she is so quiet....

I told my DH how can you do something like that. You are going to traumatize her. So he took it down but she remained seated and ate most of her food. So i guess it worked i just wish he would not have done that.

So we finish our meal and they are takign forever to bring out the check but i hear the fireworks starting so i tell my DH you take care of the bill i'm going to teh entrance of the restaurant with DD to watch the fireworks. We only got to see the last 5 minutes but it was ok. I waitied for my DH for about 20 min outside. I wnder what was taking so long. So he finally comes out and there is like a million people trying to go back towards the exit. I told him how about we walk around Showcase take some pics and just wait a little for most of the pople to leave. That worked out great. We walked around for about 30 min enjoyed the view, my DD could actually run around without worrying about bumping into anyone. It was a great night. Plus she also got very tired and zonked out on the bus. So We just sat at one of the benches for about 10 minutes just talking and my DD just played it was great. I wish i had a greygoose lemonade slushie but by the time we got there it was already closed. i left without tasting it again. Next time. So as we were walkign around i saw the scariest flower design ever. It gave me the creeps..

I'm sorry for who ever loved those but they really creeped me out. I don't know why they just looked as if they were going to start talking to you or something. I'm still getting chills thinking about here.

All in all it was a GREAT day.....

Next up: Blizzard Beach...