I'm Going Over The Hill and I'm Taking Everyone With Me!--HUGE 3 post update 7/9
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If photobucket will cooperate I'll post the photopass photos from day 1 in a minute.
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I can't wait! More pictures! Whoo!
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Here are some photopass pictures from Day 2:
Lilys and castles: (my Lily just saw these and said "It's Lily!")
Cinderella meet:
obviously no one got a good photo of MY Lily and Lella
and look who arrived at the end of Day 2! It's Dsis and Dfamily! We didn't see them, but it looks like the photopass photographer did! Cathy, you are going to regret me having access to all your photopass pics!
Lilys and castles: (my Lily just saw these and said "It's Lily!")
Cinderella meet:
obviously no one got a good photo of MY Lily and Lella
and look who arrived at the end of Day 2! It's Dsis and Dfamily! We didn't see them, but it looks like the photopass photographer did! Cathy, you are going to regret me having access to all your photopass pics!
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Uh, Jham's sis! Where are your customs??? I know there is a cute Monsters one coming atleast!
The Lily's look cute! Darn PP guy didn't get a good one of your Lily did he/she! I love the one of Little drinking!
No Jeanne picture from that day?
The Lily's look cute! Darn PP guy didn't get a good one of your Lily did he/she! I love the one of Little drinking!
No Jeanne picture from that day?
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Subbing! Great TR, all the kids are so cute!
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Ohhh I love all the new pics!!!
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I love the pictures, Jeanne!! Your sister is very pretty, it must run in the family!! Your nephew reminds me so much of an older Luke!
In case anyone is looking for something new to read, I just updated my TR.
He was sitting on the other side of Sawyer, behind Lin's head in that picture. I took my job of watching your dear Jacob very seriously!
In case anyone is looking for something new to read, I just updated my TR.
Hey, I just noticed, Heather where is the child you were watching for me while I was taking Megan to the bathroom? It appears that he is not sitting with you!
He was sitting on the other side of Sawyer, behind Lin's head in that picture. I took my job of watching your dear Jacob very seriously!
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The pictures are completely precious!!!!! 
I do hate that the Photopass photographer did not take some more the times that the kids were not even looking at them with Cinderella.
I guess they do this all day every day and forget that this picture is the keepsake of a wonderful memory of a special time with Cinderella.
But you guys sure have some great ones!!!!
I do hate that the Photopass photographer did not take some more the times that the kids were not even looking at them with Cinderella.
I guess they do this all day every day and forget that this picture is the keepsake of a wonderful memory of a special time with Cinderella.
But you guys sure have some great ones!!!!
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OH I want to steal the Lily twins!!! How absolutely gorgeous!
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Oh, I hope Lily was Ok while the blankie dried. I am pretty sure that I would be spending time at the coin-op laundry mat at the resort paying to get DD's blankie dried that night. She will not sleep without it.
If there is a disboutique meet next year - I am there. It looked like so much fun.
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Florida Weather Today: Hi temp 73 degrees, precip 0 
We woke up with plans to hit DHS at rope drop. Unfortunately the Disney transportation system did their very best to undermine our attempts.
We met up with Dsis and her family (outside our door, their room was next to ours) and got to the bus stop in plenty of time, or so we thought. We waited…and waited…and waited….I counted busses. 5 AK busses stopped, 5 MK busses stopped, 3 Epcot busses…where was the DHS bus???? Well I didn’t just sit there and wonder, I started going up to every single bus and pestering the driver. Of course they all told me “oh, it’s the bus right behind me!” Until finally one woman listened and I heard her tell dispatch. Finally after 45 min. the bus showed up! I’m telling you, it’s a good thing we weren’t in a hurry or things could’ve gotten ugly. In fact, I’m sure they did get ugly, we were the first stop at our resort and there were 3 more stops in the route. The DHS bus filled up after 2 stops. You should’ve seen the faces on the poor people at the 3rd stop when we just drove by without stopping. They’d probably been waiting just as long. The bus driver tried to signal the angry mob that another bus was on the way. If only they had listened to me the FIRST time I nagged a bus driver.
We made it to DHS only a little after rope drop. DH was sent on a mission to get FPs for TSMM. Dsis got ahead of me (maybe because I was pausing for some not so great DH-less but dangit I’m getting my money’s worth photopass photos). I think someone's mad because he didn't get to go with his daddy. ETA: There's my sister in the background! I just noticed that!
I think we told DH we’d meet him by the hat which worked out well because HSM was just finishing up and Lily and my niece needed to do a little dancin’. (while Seth apparently stuffed his pockets with confetti).
Our first ride was ToT. Now DH seemed to be in an all out rush to GO THERE NOW so off I went, in the lead, pushing the stroller. I get to the entrance and turn around and only see Jayden walking with me. But who’s coming down the path? Is it the rest of my family??? Oh no no no, it's a group of 500 Brazilian girls! I can’t say whether or not they were cheerleaders, they did not subject us to any actual cheering. My first instinct is to jump in line but DH is not even answering his phone, so all 500 of them file past me.
Finally up the path comes the rest of my group snacking on oranges. 
This was our only real argument of the trip. DH is always the one racing from ride to ride, never letting me look around or shop, and here he is snacking on an orange telling me “I told you I was stopping, I had to get my vitamins!” I don't think it counts if you "tell" me when I have my back to you and I'm pushing a stroller through a crowd of people!
Lily managed to be tall enough for ToT.
She was excited to go on it until we walked into the building and it was kinda spooky. She didn’t get scared though, just less enthusiastic. I think she kind of liked the ride! (She may look a little scared in the photo, but the rest of the trip she kept asking to go back on "Towa of Terra" or it's alternate name the "up down up down" ride.) I had to buy the photo of her first “big girl” ride. (Don’t tell DH, he walked out of the dump shop ahead of me and said “Don’t buy ANYTHING!” So of course I bought it and had it sent to our resort so I walked out of there with nothing in my hands.) That made me feel a lot better over the whole “I need my vitamins” incident. It’s not like we hadn’t eaten breakfast before we left.
Next we moved on to Rock ‘n’ Rollercoaster. Luke was really sad because he was not tall enough to go on it. Not even close really. With all the stroller swappin’ going on, we (our group) went about 4 or 5 times. Of course I only went once. I spent the rest of the time waiting with kids, at times, too many kids! Or I should say too many babies in strollers! As I’m sitting there with 2 little girls in strollers, a man in an ECV parks right next to us and starts to smoke. In the babies’ faces. I couldn’t push both strollers at once to move them, and the 3 boys I had my eyes on were not much help. And wait, I have rights here! I ever so politely informed him where the actual SMOKING AREA was located. I thought of Sally Miss Cammie!
Now our friends were also at DHS this day. Do you think it is easy to meet up with someone when you don’t get to the park at the same time? I realized on this trip that it is almost impossible, for even if you do meet up, someone has a fastpass, someone else has already done everything you haven’t and vice-versa. We did manage a quick meet up outside the Great Movie Ride where we made plans for later in the afternoon.
Jessica made all the cool Jedi Mickey and Leia Minnie shirts!
Then we, meaning my family and Dsis’ family, went on the Great Movie Ride. I had only been on this once before and it was 8 years ago so I didn’t remember much. It was fine, a nice break. After the ride my family had ADRs at Sci-Fi Diner. We walked in the door and Pal Mickey started telling us about the diner. It was fun. We were seated in a car right up front.
I have to say we had amazing service at this meal! Our waitress was excellent!
We were all so tired, it was really relaxing to just sit there in the air-conditioned semi-darkness. The kids had a giant screen to lull them into the TV trance.
(Luke loves his ketchup! So I made him a "hidden Mickey" because he loves those too.)
We barely moved. It was so nice. The waitress said “So, is it your 3rd day?” I had to stop and think for a minute, then realized “yes actually it is.” “Ahhhh,” she says, “it always hits on the 3rd day.” I’m assuming she meant the glazed over look on our faces. I had a burger and a shake as I’ve been instructed by the Disboards in general. It was good. The onion rings weren’t bad either. Luke had most of my shake.
After lunch we met back up with Dsis and used our FPs for TSMM. I love this ride! We’d been on it before at Disneyland and it is a family favorite. I don’t know why but it just makes me laugh, all that shooting and spinning. I like it so much better than Buzz because I feel like I can actually do it, unlike Buzz where I pretty much feel like an idiot because I can’t even figure out what I’m aiming at, let alone hit the target. But that’s a personal problem, I get that.
We woke up with plans to hit DHS at rope drop. Unfortunately the Disney transportation system did their very best to undermine our attempts.
We met up with Dsis and her family (outside our door, their room was next to ours) and got to the bus stop in plenty of time, or so we thought. We waited…and waited…and waited….I counted busses. 5 AK busses stopped, 5 MK busses stopped, 3 Epcot busses…where was the DHS bus???? Well I didn’t just sit there and wonder, I started going up to every single bus and pestering the driver. Of course they all told me “oh, it’s the bus right behind me!” Until finally one woman listened and I heard her tell dispatch. Finally after 45 min. the bus showed up! I’m telling you, it’s a good thing we weren’t in a hurry or things could’ve gotten ugly. In fact, I’m sure they did get ugly, we were the first stop at our resort and there were 3 more stops in the route. The DHS bus filled up after 2 stops. You should’ve seen the faces on the poor people at the 3rd stop when we just drove by without stopping. They’d probably been waiting just as long. The bus driver tried to signal the angry mob that another bus was on the way. If only they had listened to me the FIRST time I nagged a bus driver. We made it to DHS only a little after rope drop. DH was sent on a mission to get FPs for TSMM. Dsis got ahead of me (maybe because I was pausing for some not so great DH-less but dangit I’m getting my money’s worth photopass photos). I think someone's mad because he didn't get to go with his daddy.
ETA: There's my sister in the background! I just noticed that!
I think we told DH we’d meet him by the hat which worked out well because HSM was just finishing up and Lily and my niece needed to do a little dancin’. (while Seth apparently stuffed his pockets with confetti).
Our first ride was ToT. Now DH seemed to be in an all out rush to GO THERE NOW so off I went, in the lead, pushing the stroller. I get to the entrance and turn around and only see Jayden walking with me. But who’s coming down the path? Is it the rest of my family??? Oh no no no, it's a group of 500 Brazilian girls! I can’t say whether or not they were cheerleaders, they did not subject us to any actual cheering. My first instinct is to jump in line but DH is not even answering his phone, so all 500 of them file past me.
Finally up the path comes the rest of my group snacking on oranges. This was our only real argument of the trip. DH is always the one racing from ride to ride, never letting me look around or shop, and here he is snacking on an orange telling me “I told you I was stopping, I had to get my vitamins!” I don't think it counts if you "tell" me when I have my back to you and I'm pushing a stroller through a crowd of people! Lily managed to be tall enough for ToT.
She was excited to go on it until we walked into the building and it was kinda spooky. She didn’t get scared though, just less enthusiastic. I think she kind of liked the ride! (She may look a little scared in the photo, but the rest of the trip she kept asking to go back on "Towa of Terra" or it's alternate name the "up down up down" ride.) I had to buy the photo of her first “big girl” ride. (Don’t tell DH, he walked out of the dump shop ahead of me and said “Don’t buy ANYTHING!” So of course I bought it and had it sent to our resort so I walked out of there with nothing in my hands.) That made me feel a lot better over the whole “I need my vitamins” incident. It’s not like we hadn’t eaten breakfast before we left.
Next we moved on to Rock ‘n’ Rollercoaster. Luke was really sad because he was not tall enough to go on it. Not even close really. With all the stroller swappin’ going on, we (our group) went about 4 or 5 times. Of course I only went once. I spent the rest of the time waiting with kids, at times, too many kids! Or I should say too many babies in strollers! As I’m sitting there with 2 little girls in strollers, a man in an ECV parks right next to us and starts to smoke. In the babies’ faces. I couldn’t push both strollers at once to move them, and the 3 boys I had my eyes on were not much help. And wait, I have rights here! I ever so politely informed him where the actual SMOKING AREA was located. I thought of Sally Miss Cammie!
Now our friends were also at DHS this day. Do you think it is easy to meet up with someone when you don’t get to the park at the same time? I realized on this trip that it is almost impossible, for even if you do meet up, someone has a fastpass, someone else has already done everything you haven’t and vice-versa. We did manage a quick meet up outside the Great Movie Ride where we made plans for later in the afternoon.
Jessica made all the cool Jedi Mickey and Leia Minnie shirts!
Then we, meaning my family and Dsis’ family, went on the Great Movie Ride. I had only been on this once before and it was 8 years ago so I didn’t remember much. It was fine, a nice break. After the ride my family had ADRs at Sci-Fi Diner. We walked in the door and Pal Mickey started telling us about the diner. It was fun. We were seated in a car right up front.
I have to say we had amazing service at this meal! Our waitress was excellent!
We were all so tired, it was really relaxing to just sit there in the air-conditioned semi-darkness. The kids had a giant screen to lull them into the TV trance. (Luke loves his ketchup! So I made him a "hidden Mickey" because he loves those too.)
We barely moved. It was so nice. The waitress said “So, is it your 3rd day?” I had to stop and think for a minute, then realized “yes actually it is.” “Ahhhh,” she says, “it always hits on the 3rd day.”
I’m assuming she meant the glazed over look on our faces. I had a burger and a shake as I’ve been instructed by the Disboards in general. It was good. The onion rings weren’t bad either. Luke had most of my shake.After lunch we met back up with Dsis and used our FPs for TSMM. I love this ride! We’d been on it before at Disneyland and it is a family favorite. I don’t know why but it just makes me laugh, all that shooting and spinning. I like it so much better than Buzz because I feel like I can actually do it, unlike Buzz where I pretty much feel like an idiot because I can’t even figure out what I’m aiming at, let alone hit the target. But that’s a personal problem, I get that.
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OH I love Lily's face!!! It's perfect!!! (I would have bought it too!). Love her skirt!!! You did a great job!
Props to Jessica on this update too. She did such an amazing job on those shirts. The turquoise looks perfect with the design.
So glad it was 73 the day I left!
Props to Jessica on this update too. She did such an amazing job on those shirts. The turquoise looks perfect with the design.
So glad it was 73 the day I left!
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We then split up and DH took the boys to Light’s, Motor, Action and then the Indiana Jones stunt show. Dsis took Dneice with the boys. I took my girls and we had a relaxing snack and made our way over to Beauty and The Beast. We stopped along the way for a few photos.
We weren't too sure who's arms she was running to...there was some suspense...
I think Mike W. felt a little snubbed, but seriously, who's cuddlier?
Finally we made it to Beauty and the Beast. I had never seen this show and it was my one “must do” for DHS. We met up with my friend and DD11’s BFF. Lily fell asleep in my arms while we waited for the show to start. As soon as it started she woke up from her 15 minute nap and was instantly engrossed in the show. She loves her some princesses!
(no good pics here)
The plan was for everyone to meet up after the show and head to Fantasmic. I didn’t really care if we saw it or not, but some people in the group really wanted to, so I was fine with that. Our friends had the Fantasmic dinner package. THEY managed to meet up before the show and find their seats. My girls and I wound up being the very last to be seated in the regular seats (thanks to a kind family that scooched over) before they started filling the “standing room only” section. We broke out the cheap glow bracelets while we were waiting.
We weren't too sure who's arms she was running to...there was some suspense...
I think Mike W. felt a little snubbed, but seriously, who's cuddlier?
Finally we made it to Beauty and the Beast. I had never seen this show and it was my one “must do” for DHS. We met up with my friend and DD11’s BFF. Lily fell asleep in my arms while we waited for the show to start. As soon as it started she woke up from her 15 minute nap and was instantly engrossed in the show. She loves her some princesses!
(no good pics here)
The plan was for everyone to meet up after the show and head to Fantasmic. I didn’t really care if we saw it or not, but some people in the group really wanted to, so I was fine with that. Our friends had the Fantasmic dinner package. THEY managed to meet up before the show and find their seats.
My girls and I wound up being the very last to be seated in the regular seats (thanks to a kind family that scooched over) before they started filling the “standing room only” section. We broke out the cheap glow bracelets while we were waiting.
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But where was DH????? Finally he answered the phone and told me he and the boys and Dsis and her family were getting something to eat. I told them good luck getting a seat. After many more unanswered phone calls he finally answers to tell me they just stopped them going up the hill because the stadium was full and they were turned away. UGH! So those of us that didn’t really care to see the show were IN IT, and those that really did want to see it were NOT. I told DH to take DS9 to the Animation building because he’d been dying to go there all day. They stayed there all through Fantasmic and we met them there after the show. IT WAS CROWDED! As we excited the first showing, people were lined up for the second showing as far as the eye could see! Seriously, it was the scariest line ever! I couldn’t imagine waiting in it! EVER! But the nice thing is that everyone in the park was in that line and when they filed in, it was blissfully quiet in the park. 
So, where was I...we met up just outside the Animation building and were just standing there chatting when we heard music coming from the Playhouse Disney building. We glanced over and saw characters…DANCING! 
It was a party going on in there! A DANCE PARTY! Hmmm…were we invited? We walked over and we just had to show our room cards for EMH and the bouncers let us in! When we first walked in, there were not very many people in there, maybe 30, and at least 4 characters. There were also 2 people there making free balloon animals! WOO HOO! This is my kind of party! They had a DJ doing the music. I think this was one of the highlights of our trip.
We had SO MUCH FUN! We danced and danced until some of us were worn out!
The characters kept switching out 2 at a time. We danced with Pluto, Goofy, Quincy, Annie, JoJo, Goliath, Mickey and Minnie.
We were exhausted and the cool night air felt so good! We decided to take advantage of the nonexistent lines and ran over to Star Tours before dragging ourselves out of the park. It was a long day, the park was pretty crowded until the first Fantasmic show departed, but we had a great day. I’m just sad I missed out on seeing some of my other friends that were there that day!
UP NEXT: Day 4: Tusker House
Finally he answered the phone and told me he and the boys and Dsis and her family were getting something to eat. I told them good luck getting a seat. After many more unanswered phone calls he finally answers to tell me they just stopped them going up the hill because the stadium was full and they were turned away. UGH! So those of us that didn’t really care to see the show were IN IT, and those that really did want to see it were NOT. I told DH to take DS9 to the Animation building because he’d been dying to go there all day. They stayed there all through Fantasmic and we met them there after the show. IT WAS CROWDED! As we excited the first showing, people were lined up for the second showing as far as the eye could see! Seriously, it was the scariest line ever! I couldn’t imagine waiting in it! EVER! But the nice thing is that everyone in the park was in that line and when they filed in, it was blissfully quiet in the park. So, where was I...we met up just outside the Animation building and were just standing there chatting when we heard music coming from the Playhouse Disney building. We glanced over and saw characters…DANCING! It was a party going on in there! A DANCE PARTY! Hmmm…were we invited? We walked over and we just had to show our room cards for EMH and the bouncers let us in! When we first walked in, there were not very many people in there, maybe 30, and at least 4 characters. There were also 2 people there making free balloon animals! WOO HOO! This is my kind of party! They had a DJ doing the music. I think this was one of the highlights of our trip.
We had SO MUCH FUN! We danced and danced until some of us were worn out!
The characters kept switching out 2 at a time. We danced with Pluto, Goofy, Quincy, Annie, JoJo, Goliath, Mickey and Minnie.
We were exhausted and the cool night air felt so good! We decided to take advantage of the nonexistent lines and ran over to Star Tours before dragging ourselves out of the park. It was a long day, the park was pretty crowded until the first Fantasmic show departed, but we had a great day. I’m just sad I missed out on seeing some of my other friends that were there that day!
UP NEXT: Day 4: Tusker House
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I love the trip report. You have a beautiful family.
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Thanks Kristine! Didn't I pick a beautiful color!
OH WAIT! Jeanne actually sent me the shirts. No matter what I am making for her I am always out of that size shirts and NO ONE within a 60 mile radius has them! So kudos to Jeanne on the shirt color!
Although a guessing women I am assumes it happened to be 2 shirts she just happen to have in that color! They do look really good on that color! I saw it on Jayden's friend early on in the day and just loved it!Okay, gotta finish sewing 2 shirts before I can finish reading the next installments!
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Jeanne picked out the shirt colors???? Jeanne you are a genius...i would never have picked that color and it looks gorgeous 
I never knew about the dance party at DHS...how fun does that look?!?!? Sorry about the Fantasmic fiasco
Also always runs right to Sully too...I do feel bad for Mike
I never knew about the dance party at DHS...how fun does that look?!?!? Sorry about the Fantasmic fiasco
Also always runs right to Sully too...I do feel bad for Mike
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