"I'm tired of this, can't we go to Disney World now?" Birthday TR! 5/28 MK Part 4!!

[tink774]

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to more.

I'm glad that you're enjoying it, and thanks for reading!

Thanks!!!! It's my first time staying at a value resort we usually stay at OKW (my family are DVC members) and I think it's going to be so much fun! I requested the 60's area because my dbf loves the 60's, so hopefully we get it. I think those toilets are at every resort, I know they're at OKW, they sound like space shuttles lifting off!!! Thanks in advance for any more thoughts!!!



This happens to me all the time. Once I was shopping with my mom and a lady told me she didn't think I was any older than 13!!!! I was 21 at the time!!!! Oh well like you said we'll be thankful for that once we get older! I can't wait to hear more about your birthday day!

Wow! Mistaken for 13, how crazy! Yes, we'll definitely enjoy this in a few years! For me, the most depressing part was when I stopped getting taller and my younger sister kept growing past my height.

I hope that you get your request for the 60's buildings! Both times that I've stayed in that area, we've been on the third or fourth floor of the Mowgli/Baloo building facing the lake, and it was so nice and quiet! You'd never know we had neighbors at all!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Wow! Mistaken for 13, how crazy! Yes, we'll definitely enjoy this in a few years! For me, the most depressing part was when I stopped getting taller and my younger sister kept growing past my height.

I hope that you get your request for the 60's buildings! Both times that I've stayed in that area, we've been on the third or fourth floor of the Mowgli/Baloo building facing the lake, and it was so nice and quiet! You'd never know we had neighbors at all!

My brother is already way past me! He's 3 years younger than me and is about 6 ft. tall and I'm about 5ft 2 so I call him my big little brother. Thanks for the review of pop!

 

[kaos928]

I'm glad that you're enjoying it, and thanks for reading!

Wow! Mistaken for 13, how crazy! Yes, we'll definitely enjoy this in a few years! For me, the most depressing part was when I stopped getting taller and my younger sister kept growing past my height.

Ugh this happens to me all the time!! BOTH of my younger sisters are taller then me also. No one EVER believe that I'm the oldest.

Once I got IDed for a R rated move, and I was 21! I couldn't believe that girl actually thought I was UNDER 17 And the lady at the gas station was CONVINCED that I was one of those stings were they try to catch people selling alcohol to minors

Everyone says I'll be happy about it when I get older, but I don't think my round baby face is going to stop me from getting wrinkles! But everyone thinks my mom and one of her sisters are twins or just the same person... they are 12 years apart! My aunt gets pretty upset over this!

OK I'm rambling now I had two Ice Lattes today (my fave!!) lol Can't wait for mroe of your TR

 

[katiebelle21]

Great start so far!

I just noticed that you have the Yacht and Beach Club on your ticker!! Are you staying there? If so, I'd love to read a PTR if you have one. I've never stayed at any Deluxe, but the BC and YC look like they'd be fantastic resorts to try!

I am staying at the Beach Club again this year. My husband and I stayed there last year and loved it!

 

[tink774]

Once I got IDed for a R rated move, and I was 21! I couldn't believe that girl actually thought I was UNDER 17 And the lady at the gas station was CONVINCED that I was one of those stings were they try to catch people selling alcohol to minors

LOL Once Rob and I went to a movie, and I think at the time he was 20 and I was 19... something like that. Anyway, it was an R-rated film, and he was buying the tickets for both of us. I was standing next to him at the window and the lady in the box office points at me and says, "I need to see her ID!!" Just me! How embarrassing.

And a couple of months after my 18th birthday, I went with his family out to some restaurant/casino. I was with Rob, his mom, his grandmother, and his great-aunt and uncle. As we're walking in the security guard makes a big show of running up to me and demanding to see my ID immediately. Again, not even Rob. Just me. I wonder if these ID hounds realize how much they are embarrassing people unnecessarily. A simple, "Excuse me, could I please see your ID?" would be so much more pleasant!

I am staying at the Beach Club again this year. My husband and I stayed there last year and loved it!

Awesome! The BC looks like such an awesome resort, and I hope to try it at least once in the future! Hope you guys will have a wonderful time!


I'm in the last 25 hour stretch for final exams. My only one today isn't until 7:00pm, so I'm going to try and use the rest of the day to prepare for that and get some more work done on the paper I have to turn in tomorrow. It's wonderful to think that I'm so close to being done, until I realize how much I still have to finish before then!! But then I will definitely update my TR for you guys!

 

[katiebelle21]

I'm in the last 25 hour stretch for final exams. My only one today isn't until 7:00pm, so I'm going to try and use the rest of the day to prepare for that and get some more work done on the paper I have to turn in tomorrow. It's wonderful to think that I'm so close to being done, until I realize how much I still have to finish before then!! But then I will definitely update my TR for you guys!

Good luck on your exams! You're almost done!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

I'm guessing your last final is over! I hope they all went ok and you got your paper done! Can't wait to hear more about your trip!

 

[tink774]

I'm guessing your last final is over! I hope they all went ok and you got your paper done! Can't wait to hear more about your trip!

YES. I just walked into my apartment and will promptly be collapsing into bed. I'm going to try and write the next update tonight! Haha, I know that I'm exhausted because my plan was to come home, open a bottle of my favorite wine that I got specifically to celebrate the end of the semester with, and watch the LOST episode that I didn't get to see last night. But I think that it will have to wait. Two of my friends and I were writing papers in the library until 2:00am last night, and then I got up at 5:00am to finish writing and study some more for today's exam. And it didn't help that I had a bit of a panic attack during my exam last night (it was super stressful), and so then I was feeling very anxious and stressed the rest of the night until I took a nap from 3:30 to 5:00. Then I felt pretty clear-headed and got the rest of my work done on time. And now I'm done with classes until July 6th, when my summer session starts.

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Well I'm glad everything went ok. It's nice to be able to relax a bit. Well enjoy your nap and that special bottle of wine!! (I can't say my classmates and I limited it to one bottle but we did something similar! <---That's us after our "celebrating")

 

[tink774]

Well I'm glad everything went ok. It's nice to be able to relax a bit. Well enjoy your nap and that special bottle of wine!! (I can't say my classmates and I limited it to one bottle but we did something similar! <---That's us after our "celebrating")

I'm pretty sure my roommates think I'm already some sort of drunk only a couple of weeks after my birthday, haha. I bought a bottle the week of my birthday, had one last week, and now the new one for celebrating the beginning of summer. Neither one of them drinks much at all. One of them turned 21 over a year ago and she's had maybe one and a half glasses of wine since then. I just like to keep some in the cabinet to have a glass every once in a while, and luckily my favorites are extremely cheap so I can afford to do so. Just not one for the high-class stuff, I guess.

Glad to hear that you're finished, too!! Hope all of your exams went wonderfully!

And now I'm off to catch up on LOST, because all my friends have been talking about last night's episode and I'm dying to see what I missed! Then I will start working on the next update.

 

[kaos928]

I'm pretty sure my roommates think I'm already some sort of drunk only a couple of weeks after my birthday, haha. I bought a bottle the week of my birthday, had one last week, and now the new one for celebrating the beginning of summer. Neither one of them drinks much at all. One of them turned 21 over a year ago and she's had maybe one and a half glasses of wine since then. I just like to keep some in the cabinet to have a glass every once in a while, and luckily my favorites are extremely cheap so I can afford to do so. Just not one for the high-class stuff, I guess.

Glad to hear that you're finished, too!! Hope all of your exams went wonderfully!

And now I'm off to catch up on LOST, because all my friends have been talking about last night's episode and I'm dying to see what I missed! Then I will start working on the next update.

Yep I gotta have a bottle of White Zinfandel in the fridge! Some days you just need to put your feet up and have a glass. My fav is also cheap like $8 or something I love it though! I can't wait til I'm finally done with this semester, although I am taking a "May Term" class which is 8:50 to 1pm Mon-Fri for two weeks But at least I'll get it over with! Then I'm taking one online class in July. It'll all be worth it so I can have a super easy last semester in the Fall and have Tuesdays and Thursdays off which will save me about 2 hours of driving!!

 

[tink774]

Yep I gotta have a bottle of White Zinfandel in the fridge! Some days you just need to put your feet up and have a glass. My fav is also cheap like $8 or something I love it though! I can't wait til I'm finally done with this semester, although I am taking a "May Term" class which is 8:50 to 1pm Mon-Fri for two weeks But at least I'll get it over with! Then I'm taking one online class in July. It'll all be worth it so I can have a super easy last semester in the Fall and have Tuesdays and Thursdays off which will save me about 2 hours of driving!!

That's my favorite, too! Do you have a favorite brand? I'm partial to Oak Leaf and not just because it fits with my college budget.

I'll be taking a July semester with two classes, both just electives because I have a lot of those to fill up before I can graduate. I actually have more electives to use up than classes left for my major! I was registered for a May term, too, that would begin on Tuesday and meet 3 hours a day until June 3rd. But as it got closer, I decided that I really needed the break, and since I was doing July too, I could take the time off. It looks like this fall I'll only have classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday if my registration stays the way it is now. I haven't done that since freshman year, and it could be pretty nice! Good luck with your May semester!!

 

[tink774]

So I'm working on the newest update for my TR (I know, I've been awful lately!) and I realized something. I left my detailed list of everything that we did during our trip back at my apartment! I'm currently home for a few weeks before my summer class starts, and I realized that I left that list on my nightstand when I was packing up clothes and stuff. So I'm going to try and squeeze out some updates on what I remember and go from there!

 

[tink774]

Oh my goodness, Photobucket is being ridiculous right now! It's making uploading my pictures quite an ordeal.

Sorry that I haven't updated in so long! I've been quite the lazy DISer over the past couple of weeks. And then today, I was suddenly struck with the urge to be at WDW and enjoying a ride on Splash Mountain. So I figured that updating my TR would make me feel better, and here is part three of my birthday at the MK!

My Birthday at the Magic Kingdom!! – Tuesday, April 21, Part 3

So after I got my picture with the chipmunks, Dad and I were finally heading down the rest of Main Street, U.S.A.! And now we come to…

Birthday Wish #2 – Ride Pirates of the Caribbean first!

In the last couple of years, it’s somehow become a tradition for me on Disney trips to make Pirates the first ride I do on the first day at the MK, so I wanted to continue that with this trip! The first time I rode this after all of the refurbishing was back in May 2007. I’m not crazy about all of the changes, but I feel like some of the updates are pretty neat! So we headed off to Adventureland!

We went past the Crystal Palace and Dad and I talked about whether or not we should have tried to get an ADR there for breakfast. While it would have been really fun to do for my birthday, we would have just been too tired to get there much earlier than we did. And besides, that’s why there are future trips! I’ve never had breakfast at CP, so I will try it one day. Here’s a silly picture of Rob and I with Piglet during a dinner at CP back in January.

We walked through to Adventureland and when we heard the music as we walked over the bridge, we got really excited! We made our way to Pirates, and as we went by we saw Rafiki and then Captain Hook and Mr. Smee. I thought about getting my picture taken with Hook and Smee, but the line was pretty long so we decided to skip it. But here is one from when my sister and I met them back in December 2007. It’s embarrassing that she’s three years younger than me but I’m the short one. (And can you tell that this picture was taken by my dad? )

Finally, we arrived at Pirates!

There was only a five minute wait at this point, so we chatted about what to do next while we waited. Dad and I got a seat in the very back of the boat, behind a big family celebrating a reunion. We enjoyed the ride, as always! At one point while we were sitting there, I remember thinking about what I’d be doing back at college if I wasn’t sitting on a boat riding Pirates of the Caribbean in the Magic Kingdom. And while it didn’t hit me quite yet, I felt so very fortunate! I think it was right around 11:00am at that point, so I would have been sitting in my second lecture of the day (and probably doing a crossword puzzle because I hated that class… shhh!).

We finished exploring the Caribbean with Jack Sparrow and embarked on a one-way trip to… the gift shop! I looked around at some of the new merchandise, and tried to decide what I should get Rob on the trip. After looking at the shotglasses, I decided that I would find him one of those somewhere in the park, because he collects them to display in a glass case at home (I take the credit for starting this, because I bought him the first shotglass in his collection during my study abroad trip when we stopped in Amsterdam for the night. I figured, what shotglass could be cooler than one from Amsterdam?). But I didn’t find one there, so we headed back into Adventureland. Oh, and am I the only person who thinks that the Davy Jones/Goofy plushes are creepy? I wish I’d taken a picture!

Dad and I had decided that this was a good time to go get Fastpasses for Splash Mountain, so we made the quick walk over there.

Welcome to “Rontierland!”

We got FPs for 11:45am, which was a little less than forty minutes away. So we decided to hop in line for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad! The sign said the wait was ten minutes, but we probably waited closer to fifteen or twenty. We were seated at the very back of the train, which was really cool to me since that’s where the ride is most exciting! I stole an idea from my sister when I saw a picture that she took while she was on the ride two weeks before. While we were on the big hill, I took the chance to snap a photo of us!

The sun was behind us, but it was so bright outside that we were forced to squint. And then I couldn’t help myself but to try this one!

After the ride, we noticed that we still had a couple of minutes before our FPs for Splash Mountain, so we took a quick bathroom break. Then there were still a few more minutes, so we just waited outside the FP entrance for like three minutes before 11:45am. I took a picture of the façade over some construction work near the MK train.

Finally, it was time to ride Splash Mountain!! We were seated in the back of the log with a rather disinterested family in the rows ahead of us. I love to take pictures on Splash, so here are a few for you!

And then I took our picture after the big drop!!

Looks like there’s a traffic jam up ahead!

We decided to buy the picture, but I don’t have it scanned in yet. Unfortunately at this point, I’m a bit fuzzy on what exactly we did when we got off Splash Mountain. So I’m going to end part 3 here and update again ASAP after I retrieve my list of everything that we did from my apartment!

 

[mickeystoontown]

Thanks for the update! I wish I could remember to take pictures while on Splash Mountain. I did take a few on Big Thunder Mountain while we were whizzing through the dinosaur bones.

 

[tink774]

Thanks for the update! I wish I could remember to take pictures while on Splash Mountain. I did take a few on Big Thunder Mountain while we were whizzing through the dinosaur bones.

I'd never taken pictures on Big Thunder Mountain before, it was really fun! I tried to take some indoor pics on Splash without the flash, but they all came out really blurry. But it's such a fun area to take pictures in! How did your pictures in the dinosaur bones come out? I tried it, but the flash accidentally went off (outside! I couldn't figure that out because it was on Auto Flash) so it came out almost completely white!

 

[mickeystoontown]

They came out pretty good. Of course, some of the scenery was whizzing by but it made for a cool picture.

 

[tink774]

Finally, an update!!!

My Birthday at the Magic Kingdom!! – Tuesday, April 21, Part 4

So we got off of Splash Mountain, purchased our picture, and tried to figure out what we should do next. Since it was just after noon, we were getting hungry! I love to eat at Pinocchio’s Village Haus in Fantasyland, so that’s where we went. We slowly made our way through Frontierland and Liberty Square to get there. As we passed Peter Pan’s Flight, we decided to get FPs for it. Now this is where I’m a bit confused as I look at my play-by-play account of the day. It says that we got our FPs before lunch, but I don’t think two hours had passed by after getting them for Splash Mountain. So I’ll just say that at some random point while we were in Fantasyland, we picked up FPs for Peter Pan at 3:45pm.

Oh! And this is where I’m going to tell you where the title of my TR came from. It was so funny! Dad and I were walking through Fantasyland heading for lunch, and we passed by this family with a little boy. The boy was clearly tired and not enjoying the heat, and he turned to his father and said, “Dad, I’m tired of this. Can’t we go to Disney World now?” It was definitely one of the highlights of the day for me!

Usually I like to eat inside at Pinocchio’s to enjoy the atmosphere. I love all of the images from the film on the walls. But today, we decided to eat outside. While I went inside to get my food, Dad stayed at the table. I decided to get a personal cheese pizza, because I always get at least one of these on every WDW trip. Pizza is one of my favorite foods ever, and there is never a time when I’m not in the mood for it. The line wasn’t long, and it took me about five minutes to order my food and head back to the table with it. Then Dad headed inside to do the same, only he went healthy and ordered a salad. Then he stopped off at the fruit cart outside and grabbed two bananas for us. I don’t have any pictures of my meal, but it looked something like this:

As we were eating, we decided that our next stop would be PhilharMagic since we were right next to it. By the way, I was being a horrible DISer at this point and forgot to take any pictures! So here are a couple of photos from a past trip to keep you awake!

I love this show so much! It took me years to actually give it a try, but once I did it quickly became one of my favorite attractions in the MK. It brings together some of my favorite Disney songs, and you just can’t help but love Donald! So this was a must-do for my birthday. There was no wait to get inside, and so we hung out with our opera glasses for about five minutes before they opened the doors to the theater.

Not quite opera glasses, but you get the idea!

As we were watching PhilharMagic, it finally really hit me that I was in the Magic Kingdom for my birthday! I don’t know why it took so long, but once I finally felt like I was really there (I guess I was in a happy dreamlike state up until then) I was so happy and never wanted it to end!

By the way, I discovered that I have a slight colorblindness while on this trip! On the way to Disney, I was telling my dad about how I can’t see most of the 3-D stuff in shows like PhilharMagic. The images are clear, but I don’t see most of the stuff popping out at me like I’m supposed to. And my dad told me that I probably inherited some of his colorblindness. Wait… why didn’t anyone tell me about this?! Apparently I have trouble seeing some greens or something like that. I talked to my doctor about it, and he agreed that it seems to be greens that give me trouble. Weird, huh? But just wait; there are more medical discoveries on the way in this TR!!

After the show, we walked around the gift shop for a bit and decided to get a few things.

Are you paying attention, Sara? This is what I purchased that reminded me of you and your PTR! Sorry that it’s so wrinkled and badly positioned in the picture, I had to unearth it from a pile of clothes in my suitcase to take the picture.

I loved Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride when I was younger, so I had to get this shirt!! The film is definitely one of my favorite Disney movies so I was thrilled to find it. I also got these Mickey earrings with my birthstone. It seemed appropriate for the day!

Dad and I got a few more things as well, including a small snowglobe for Mom to keep on her desk at work, a pair of Mickey birthstone earrings for her, and some Donald stuff for my younger sister. We had enough to qualify for the $15 blanket, so we got that too! Since we didn’t have enough time to send everything to POP, we just sent our packages to the package pick-up at the front of the MK along with our Splash Mountain photos.

After our shopping, we backtracked to the Haunted Mansion to visit some ghouls!

I have no idea why my pictures of the mansion came out so crooked. Oops.

We had about ten minutes to wait outside, so I entertained myself.

We had an awesome ride through the Haunted Mansion. I really enjoy the changes that they’ve made over the last couple of years. I do miss some of the old elements, though. On the way out, we picked up a hitch-hiking ghost! By this point, it was about 2:30pm according to my account of the day, and we decided to make our way over to Tomorrowland!

On the way there, we passed by the teacups and saw the White Rabbit on the ride! My sister had seen him there during her trip two weeks before, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him around the park so I was excited! Dad and I stopped and tried to take a couple of pictures.

This was the closest that he got to us.

We got to Tomorrowland and browsed through one of the gift shops near Cosmic Rays (Mickey’s Star Traders? I can’t remember!). Space Mountain was closed for refurbishment during our trip, and this really emptied out Tomorrowland! There was almost no one in the whole area! We weren’t too bummed about Space Mountain, but we were sad that the Tomorrowland Transit Authority was also closed since it runs through the mountain. This is one of our favorite rides, and it would have been nice to do together. Oh, well! We grabbed some FPs for Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin for 3:20pm. It was around 3:00 at this point, but the line was actually pretty long. No one was interested in the FPs, I guess. So with about twenty minutes before our FPs would work, we decided to kill time by riding the Speedway!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Are you paying attention, Sara? This is what I purchased that reminded me of you and your PTR! Sorry that it’s so wrinkled and badly positioned in the picture, I had to unearth it from a pile of clothes in my suitcase to take the picture.

I loved Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride when I was younger, so I had to get this shirt!! The film is definitely one of my favorite Disney movies so I was thrilled to find it. I also got these Mickey earrings with my birthstone. It seemed appropriate for the day!

Haha, Yay!!! I loved that ride! And of course I loved that I was in the ride as "Madame Sara"!!! I have to find that picture and post it! That shirt is really cute, I've never seen anything from Mr. Toad's, I'll def. have to look for it on my trip. Thanks!!!