It's a Jolly Holiday with LL. *FINISHED* Final Update on pg. 58.

[myrsfmly]

Great Update!!!

I always get choked up thinking about the big picture stuff of what a Disney vacation really means.

Loving the light fixture thread!

Have you tried ebay for the Gus Gus ornament?

 

[Sarilas]

I remember being on the DIS on your birthday and hoping you were having a fantastic time, LL! I'm glad you WERE!

 

[Dixielady908]

Looking forward to the rest of your report.....your pictures are beautiful....I'm totally enjoying them.

 

[Lady Lallie]

Awwww, Leslie! You made me cry! That's so nice to be so @ peace and to have come so far. Glad you had a Happy Birthday!

Thanks! I really am at peace.

Ahhh, what a beautiful update, LL!

Dinner looks good, and this DISer is glad that you ignored the idiots making fun of you and continued taking pics.

Your firework pictures are gorgeous! I am such a sucker for fireworks.

I am so glad that you got your fairy tale "happily ever after," and had a wonderful birthday at Disney World!

I laughed out loud at the hissy fit spanning two countries .

Oh yes. The hissy fit did indeed span two countries. Though one of us is still denying that it happened.

Hummmm Aren't those lights behind Hubby????

I am lovin your TR Trying hard to catch up.... Just found you today I read your PTR too!!!!

You caught me! I actually didn't notice the lights until we got home and I was looking through the pictures. I guess the light fixture thing started to become automatic.

Thanks for reading!!

I'm so glad that you had such a wonderful, special birthday. It sounds like other than some minor castle dinner issues it was wonderful.

It really was the best Birthday I have ever had.

Great Update!!!

I always get choked up thinking about the big picture stuff of what a Disney vacation really means.

Loving the light fixture thread!

Have you tried ebay for the Gus Gus ornament?

It's so true. That's why I love Disney so much. I have tried ebay in the past, I will have to keep checking.

I remember being on the DIS on your birthday and hoping you were having a fantastic time, LL! I'm glad you WERE!

I really did!!

Looking forward to the rest of your report.....your pictures are beautiful....I'm totally enjoying them.

Thanks for reading!!

 

[queensara]

I'm so glad that your birthday turned out better
than it started. The little pit of million dreams
pixie dust probably helped brighten the day!!!

I love your pictures, after looking at the DHS
pics, I noticed a lot of things that I have never
seen. My mission for this trip is to slow down and
look at things closer.

Keep the updates coming

 

[TarzansKat]

Wow. How did I let this much time pass without responding the the birthday chapter!!! Sorry about that, for some reason I thought I had.

What a wonderful way to spend your birthday! And that moment of clarity and gratefulness at the pool.

I get you. Totally, totally get you. Because I had similar thoughts one day while we were swimming. Must be that Disney water.

 

[Jennifer48]

Holy updates LL!

First, congrats on the Dream! How cool! Especially when you weren't in the best of moods, that must have really brightened your spirits!

Second, I love the WL. Its so quaint.

Glad you had such a magical birthday at WDW. You'll have to go back next year and get in for free!

 

[Roxychica7]

So..I just spent all of a good 3 hours reading your TR while I was at work. Yeah..lol. I love love love it! Subbin the rest of it!

 

[Lady Lallie]

I'm so glad that your birthday turned out better
than it started. The little pit of million dreams
pixie dust probably helped brighten the day!!!

I love your pictures, after looking at the DHS
pics, I noticed a lot of things that I have never
seen. My mission for this trip is to slow down and
look at things closer.

Keep the updates coming

That was my mission, to stop and enjoy everything. I think we did a good job but I still feel like I missed so much!

Wow. How did I let this much time pass without responding the the birthday chapter!!! Sorry about that, for some reason I thought I had.

What a wonderful way to spend your birthday! And that moment of clarity and gratefulness at the pool.

I get you. Totally, totally get you. Because I had similar thoughts one day while we were swimming. Must be that Disney water.

It must be. It's so therapeutic!

Holy updates LL!

First, congrats on the Dream! How cool! Especially when you weren't in the best of moods, that must have really brightened your spirits!

Second, I love the WL. Its so quaint.

Glad you had such a magical birthday at WDW. You'll have to go back next year and get in for free!

I think we are going back in December 2009. I am trying to finish this up so I can start a PTR!

So..I just spent all of a good 3 hours reading your TR while I was at work. Yeah..lol. I love love love it! Subbin the rest of it!

Wow. I to your dedication! Thanks for reading.

 

[belle8306]

I am all caught up! That was a wonderful update! The way you discribed being at Disney is exactly why I love it. So many people don't understand why DH and I keep going back. You said it well! I love the picture with the star wand and the castle. Beautiful! I am going over to the light fixture thread now!

 

[julezdisney]

Happy Halloween! Keep safe & have fun!

 

[Lady Lallie]

I am all caught up! That was a wonderful update! The way you discribed being at Disney is exactly why I love it. So many people don't understand why DH and I keep going back. You said it well! I love the picture with the star wand and the castle. Beautiful! I am going over to the light fixture thread now!

Thank you very much. I really was trying to hard to convey how I felt that night.

Happy Halloween! Keep safe & have fun!

Thanks! You too!


I am hoping to get to an update either tonight or tomorrow loyal readers!

 

[MinnieNurse]

Loving your report. Keep it coming-its helping me pass the time until my next trip in 47 days!!!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Day 6. Part 1.

Those Wilderness Lodge beds are so comfortable. I slept very well our first night there. I slept until 9:15AM. Then I got up and sat on our wonderful balcony, enjoying the sounds of The Lodge and updating my TR Journal. Marc got up around 10:15AM.

Around 12:15 we headed to the bus stop to make our way to Epcot. We waited about 5 minutes for a bus. Not long at all. The bus did stop at Ft. Wilderness on the way to Epcot but the bus wasn't even 1/2 full by the time we got there.

I love the soda machines at Wilderness Lodge.

We took some photopass photos, and they were doing the Stitch photo, I was very excited!

First up, we rode Spaceship Earth. All the other times we had ridden, we had sat in separate benches so we wouldn't be squished. Well I wanted to ride together so we could get some photos of us together at the end part. Well we get to the end part and our screen is loading and then it carps out. It says that it is having technical difficulties so we never get to see our future. How sad!

I did get these very pretty shots of the fountain though.

We headed to World Showcase, we made it there by 1PM. We briefly walked through Canada because we knew we were coming back later on.

We went to England for search for a Practically Perfect Nanny.

We went to the Toy Store where I fell in love with a stuffed bunny. I don't know if I have let my Bunny obsession be known but I love all things bunnies and rabbits. I really wanted this stuffed animal. It was $17.95 though. I was worried it was too much. I decided to wait and see if I still wanted it later on. More on that coming up. We saw Pooh in the toy store and I asked about Mary Poppins. They told me she was usually in front of the Tea Shop but since it was being renovated she would be around somewhere. I spotted her while we were exiting the back of the store. She was going "out back" to freshen up. Sigh. I was so sad.

We decided to wait a bit. No more than 2 minutes later and she was back out! I stalked her...ahem followed her to where she was doing greetings.

I used my Mission Impossible moves to follow here as stealthily as possible to her greeting area.

*Cue Mission Impossible Music*

Which was in front of the butterfly garden area. I was the first one to greet her. I was so excited. I was meeting MARY POPPINS! She delightful of course. I took a picture with just her and then Marc joined in, unfortunately there was no photopass photographer with her which is a gross oversight if you ask me. When Marc joined in, she asked if she could take Marc's arm. She told us we had delightful manners and sent us along our way. *Sigh* I was in heaven.

Mary was really quite perfect.

In my Mary Poppins haze, Marc and I decided to split a counter service fish & chips. We had decided to snack around the world today. They were flipping fantastic. I wish I had gotten my own portion that's how delicious they were. The shortbread was very yummy too. We sat outside to eat and it was just very nice.

I love the feel of England. After we ate, we headed towards France but not before I saw Mary leaving her post again. I took another picture of her leaving. I swear I am not a stalker. Of course, I disguised watching her leave with many pictures of the England scenery.

Mary Poppins & a Light Fixture. Life doesn't get much better than that!

We took a few photopass photos on the bridge to France. I don't really like how these ones came out. I think it's the shirt I am wearing. I wish I had worn something different this day.

Continued...

 

[Lady Lallie]

Day 6. Part 1. Continued.

We had just missed Belle & Beast so we decided to wait around France for them to come back out. I was on a mission to get a picture of the Beauty & The Beast stained glass windows. We found them and Marc took my picture in front of them. Mission Accomplished. I loved the library that the windows were in.

We headed over to one of the French Food Shops and found some lights on our way.

I can't remember the name of where we went for our French Snack, but we split a croissant. I let Marc pick and out of those yummy goodies he picks a flipping croissant. Oh well.

While we were sitting down to eat, I noticed that in the picture of me with the Windows, you couldn't see anything so we trudged back to them.

We must have took about 50 pictures of me in front of the gosh darned windows before we got the settings right. I would mess with the setting, hand it to Marc, he would take the picture, I would look, mess with the settings and so on and so on. Boo! Finally it worked, I couldn't give up after the 50th try. They are probably some of my least favorite photos from the trip. Figures, huh? I won't bore you with a bazillion pictures of me and the dark windows.

We made our way over to the Belle & Beast greeting area. Taking more pictures of course.

There was one group waiting. We probably waited another 5 or so minutes for Belle to come out. While in line we were talking with a lady about lines for characters and such. We started discussing "those" people who hold up the line while trying to find their photopass cards, and taking a lot of shots with multiple arrangements of people and so on and so on. She was a very nice lady and it was a nice conversation. Remember that.

Belle comes out. The first group goes and it's our turn next. I turn to Marc and ask him where the Photopass card is. He insists that I have it. I have no pockets and I know it's not in the bag. I know Marc had it. Marc says that I have it. I tell him that I know he has it. Of course, in a not nice tone. He tells me I have it in a not nice tone. We stare at each other. Belle stares at us. The photopass photographer stares at us. Everyone is staring at us as we look for our card. So finally a light bulb goes off and I realize I am doing EXACTLY what I was just talking about with the nice lady behind us, I just ask the photopass photographer for a new card. Talk about embarrassing! This is why they say Karma is a boomerang. It comes back to get you.

So we exit the line, we start our argument over again about the photopass card. He swears I have it, I swear he has it.

Marc and I continue to say not nice things to each other. Not our finest Disney moment, people. Marc walks away. Into another country. Just leaves me in France all by my lonesome and jets to Morocco!

While he leaves me in France, I am looking frantically all over for the card. I am tearing through our bag, I am patting my pants like I really have pockets in them and then it dawns on me.

Who had it?



Do you know?



Yep. You guessed it.



I had the photopass card.

While we were taking the first round of too dark Beauty & The Beast Window pictures, Marc had the card in his hand. I took it from him when I gave him the camera. While I was posing for the picture, I had it in my hand. I didn't want it in the picture so I did what any other woman would do.

I stuffed it down my shirt.

And forgot it was there.

Now, I am not in the practice of stuffing things down my shirt so I completely forgot it was down there. I feel really bad. I had forgotten that Marc had handed me the card.

I run over to Morocco and catch up to Marc and tell him I found the card. At this point, I am smiling and laughing and ready to poke fun at myself. Not Marc. He's not happy. He thinks I made a scene and he's embarrassed. I apologize, he apologizes and he's in a slightly better mood. Phew. Crisis averted. Hissy fit spanning two countries is over. And yes, we were THOSE people. I can live with that.

Coming up....
Morocco!
More World Showcase treats.

 

[jenjolt]

WOW!! What a great trip report so far LL!!! I'm staying at the POP during my trip, but your pics of WL are so inviting...maybe for my Christmas trip in early December I'll treat myself!!

I'm so glad you had such a great birthday!! I just have simply adored reading about your Disney Adventure over the last three days...I'll have you know that instead of grading tests the last three lunch periods have been spent reading your report and it was time well spent!! GREAT JOB!!

I finally finish Day 5 right as you post Day 6...wouldn't you know LOL!! Well off to read how your Day 6 went LOL

 

[Lady Lallie]

Loving your report. Keep it coming-its helping me pass the time until my next trip in 47 days!!!

I am so jealous you get to go in December! I hope you do a TR!!

WOW!! What a great trip report so far LL!!! I'm staying at the POP during my trip, but your pics of WL are so inviting...maybe for my Christmas trip in early December I'll treat myself!!

I'm so glad you had such a great birthday!! I just have simply adored reading about your Disney Adventure over the last three days...I'll have you know that instead of grading tests the last three lunch periods have been spent reading your report and it was time well spent!! GREAT JOB!!

I finally finish Day 5 right as you post Day 6...wouldn't you know LOL!! Well off to read how your Day 6 went LOL

Awww, thank you so much! Hearing comments like this make me more motivated to keep going. Thanks for reading!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

OMG...I love that you shoved your photopass card down your shirt!!! So many great pics!!! I love the one of the fountain though. You caught it perfectly- it's like the water is going to jump off the computer screen!!!

 

[Sarilas]

Note to self: Keep a tight leash on the photopass card!

Lord knows that exact conversation could very well be repeated by me come January, LL!

 

[belle8306]

Great update! "Mary Poppins & a Light Fixture. Life doesn't get much better than that!" This cracked me up! I thought your shirt was really cute! I love the stained glass windows. I wish I would have done some character pictures. We didn't do any on this trip. There is always next time!