"It's So Much Fun Not Knowin Where You're Goin" Oct. 2013 Celebration! **6/22 FIN**

[amberg93]

Day 2, Part 4: "Want a balloon animal?"



Alright, so when we last left off (two months ago, eek!) Marie and I had just met Dug and Russell, who were completely lovely.

Now that we'd finished that, we set off to see It's Tough to be a Bug. When we'd gone in Nov. 2012, we hadn't seen it just because we hadn't wanted to. This time around we were determined to try some new things.

The best part of It's Tough to be a Bug is walking into the entrance and seeing all the carvings in the Tree up close.

We got to go into the section for people with wheelchairs, of course. Really it's a whole different experience to do Disney this way and not always in the best way. I got the option to transfer to a seat, so I ended up doing that for the show to get the full experience.

First though, here's Marie and I in our bug eyes

The show was interesting, but I'll admit not my favorite 3-D show that Disney offers (which is still and will forever be Mickey's Philharmagic). Marie was super not a fan though. She got really scared when the spiders came down and kept shaking her head and hiding her eyes. She's a keeper.

After that, I was getting super tired. I'd grown used to naps and while I wasn't walking around, doing stuff was still exhausting (something I have yet to grow out of). So, we decided to leave. However, I forgot to say in my last update that we'd run into the super nice CM Amanda, (the pin trader from Pooh) who was on the college program while waiting for Dug and Russell. Not only had she remembered us, but she specifically stopped by when seeing us in line to offer us another chance to look at her new pins! What a sweetheart!

Given how sweet she'd been to us, we went back to Guest Relations for the THIRD TIME that day and stood in line all over again. I know, it's crazy. But with how sweet she'd been, we definitely felt like we had to stop and give a good review of her. I hope that she ended up getting it in the end because she was just a sweetie. She totally deserved to get recognized for it.

With that done, we moseyed on out of the park and got in line for a bus.

It's super sucky to share busses. I mean, we usually left in times that weren't too busy so it didn't matter that much, but still, I missed the days of POFQ where no matter when we traveled, our buses were always nice.

I was getting bored waiting for the bus, so I snapped a couple of pictures. Most turned out bad.

As you can see, there are crowds everywhere

Finally, we caught a bus back to the resort and we had to go fix the mess with our annual passes/magic bands. Marie chose to get the money just taken off our room bill (which was currently zero) so essentially, giving us the $45 to spend at a later time.

While she was doing that, the concierge people were bored and one started to make balloon animals right in front of me. It was pretty awesome, the girl joked, "If my mom could see what my student loans are going toward now..." and I laughed as well. She noticed me and asked if I wanted to have the balloon animal.

OF COURSE I SAID YES! I mean, who turns down a balloon animal? Not me. That's for sure. I don't even like dogs and I kept this little fella.

With our magic bands sorted out, we took the trek back to Broadway building 7, the whole time wishing that we'd just shelled out the money for a preferred room. Ugh. Such a hike when you don't want to do it. Not to mention the burning sun and poor Marie having to push me the whole way. She was such a trooper, I don't know how she did it.

Luckily, our room was empty (spoilers?) and we got settled in to do some relaxing.

And by relaxing, I mean, I wrote in my trip journal (which I forgot in Michigan currently so this isn't as accurate as it could be ) and Marie looked over our bows to see if they were all there.

Here she is checking off bows as she goes along. Note the Pooh Bear blankie, which she made for me in the hospital and I have an irrational attachment to as I've used it all throughout treatment.

Also, note the bears on the bed. The bears go with me everywhere. The brown one is Mariebear and the light one with clothes on is Ambear. They were created so Marie and I would always have someone to hug when the other isn't around. Milobear is the naked one, which Marie got me during her first trip to meet our good friend Eli (who will be joining us in MAY! ) and then there's a Pooh Bear holding a Piglet that my inlaws got me who has been with me since I woke up in the hospital. The Mousekeepers always made sure that they were comfortable and well taken care of

Here are the pins I got that morning. Marie is still jealous about Carl.

And here are Marie's two pins she got.

Once Marie counted the bows, we realized that we'd gotten an extra one we didn't order. So we texted Hayley to tell her about the bow and promised to bring it with us when we'd see her that night.

Now that all of that was out of the way, it was finally time to start the real relaxing

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[DisneyKid4Life]

OMG Amber I am so happy to see you post. I was wondering how everything was going with your treatments and despite what I'm sure was a trying process, I'm so delighted to hear the results.
Thanks for sharing your photos. I especially like the last one.
Stay strong!!!

I think you can be forgiven for taking some time off.

Philharmagic for the win!!!! Good choice!! It is indeed the best. Bugs is simply fun for my entertainment of watching and listening to everyone else. That is pure evil joy.

I would take that baloon animal in a heart beat. Fo sho.

Oh man, that bears story is just too precious and sweet.

 

[amberg93]

OMG Amber I am so happy to see you post. I was wondering how everything was going with your treatments and despite what I'm sure was a trying process, I'm so delighted to hear the results.
Thanks for sharing your photos. I especially like the last one.
Stay strong!!!

I think you can be forgiven for taking some time off.

Philharmagic for the win!!!! Good choice!! It is indeed the best. Bugs is simply fun for my entertainment of watching and listening to everyone else. That is pure evil joy.

I would take that baloon animal in a heart beat. Fo sho.

Oh man, that bears story is just too precious and sweet.

Thanks, Rob I felt super bad like, leaving people hanging and not posting anything during cancer treatments isn't a nice thing to do. I should have topped by and said something. Oops.

And thank you, I'm glad. It was really hard for me at first to even look at pictures of where I'd been, but I'm happy to see them now and see how I've changed. I'd like the last one if it had more hair in it though

Philharmagic is just gold. I don't know how people don't like them.

It was a great balloon animal, it lasted the entire trip! I just sat him up on our table and let him guard everything. He kept things safe.

And I do love my bears. Though I get weird looks for bringing them on vacation, but they deserve it lol

 

[amberg93]

Day 2, Part 5: Main Street of Doom!


So, Marie and I relaxed for a little bit before we decided that we wanted to go for a swim. Sorry everyone, I only have pictures of our swimsuits Not that You'd want pictures of me in mine, sickly isn't very attractive.

I'm sure you can guess who belongs to which suit.

So we swam for a good 40 minutes or so. The lifeguard was really nice because I had to be super cautious about getting my pain patch wet and not getting water into the hole in my neck, so he basically told off anyone who splashed near me. What a nice guy. Also, he pointed out when my plastic covering my patch was starting to fall off. Good job, sir lifeguard.

Once we finished, we went back to the room, laid down a little and then had to get ready to go. We were meeting Hayley, as I said, is of Magical Ribbons fame. I'm sure you all know how talented and awesome she is.

By the time we got finished with swimming, resting and getting ready, it was pretty late. I don't have the exact time with me, but when I get my TR journal I'll add it.

We decided just to eat dinner at the resort before heading to Magic Kingdom because it'd be too late once we got there. Not to mention too busy.

Marie got herself some chicken Alfredo and some sort of dessert seen here that I can't remember (banana bread?), it came with a side salad and she grabbed a water. She liked it, but it wasn't amazing.

I stuck with spaghetti and meatballs, which had been my meal the year before when first getting to Disney. I also grabbed a mickey chocolate dipped rice crispy treat which would mysteriously vanish at some point during the night.

Whatever time it was, it was quite late. By the time we hopped the bus and made it to MK it was after 7 for sure. That night I wanted to walk myself, so I had a walker, which was frustrating and tiring in a lot of ways, but we managed.

Cutie pumpkins.

There were a bunch of first day custodial workers out and they were practicing their broom art! How cool is that?

After that we started up The Main Street of Doom! Goodness the crowd levels were ridiculous. Trying to move was crazy, cause it was one of the few nights without a Halloween party and it was a weekend day, everyone was there, and to top it off it was close to parade time. Talk about a nightmare.

I did snap a picture of the cute pumpkins up above Casey's though. Look how adorable they are!

Since we decided to cut through the area next to Casey's in order to meet up with Hayley (who we were supposed to be meeting with in Liberty Square), we decided to stop with the Photopass photographer and get a Castle picture together.

Note: Marie is super adorable all the time. I always stand awkwardly, especially right now when I'm thinner than I'm used to.

Hayley met up with us just over by Adventureland so I snapped a quick picture of her and Marie before we had to get on our way to Liberty Square.

Note: Photobomber in the background. I laughed so hard later when we realized it.

After that we headed toward Liberty Square and got a spot where I'd be able to see sitting down on the walker to watch the MSEP. Even not from the front, there was a path cleared right next to us.

Rant alert!! Do not read if you aren't willing for a bit of ranting.

So, I've got a great spot to see, right on the edge of the white line although a few rows back right in front of the Hall of Presidents. The CMs keep telling people not to cross the white lines. People keep doing it to try and stand and keep blocking my view (the handicapped section across the street was full). CMs keep telling people off. AND THEN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE PARADE STARTS, THEY LET EVERYONE STAND IN THE WHITE LINE AREA! Seriously, like, they're like, okay you all can stand here now. Effectively cutting off every view I had and making it so that everyone who'd listened about the white line rule could no longer see. I was pretty livid. Luckily, there was a nice woman who kept people in check if they tried to push ahead of me and stopped a man to be like, "Excuse me, this girl right here can't see when you stand in front of her like that.'

Even with the nice girl though, our parade few was restricted to the top of the parade. Meaning that we saw this (note: Hayley loves taking pictures so she took them the whole parade):

(I saw less of this, since I was sitting on a walker, so I got like the FG head and stuff)

Basically, that's what my view was like the whole time. I have more pictures but since they're all such crappy angles and (spoilers) we'd see it again, I'm not posting them

Now that we'd seen the parade though, we moved on to our next adventure.

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[amberg93]

Oh my goodness I am the worst at updates. And I'm leaving on Sunday for a week in Cancun with Marie! So, I'm going to try and knock a few updates out of the park before that.

Also, I got some very good news. I am now, officially in remission. No more tumor, no more cancer. I'll still have to get checked every so often, but you know what? It's great news.

So on that happy note. I now continue with our trip (which was forever ago now :/)

Day 2, Part 6: Glow With the Show


So, the only reason why Hayley was at MK that night was because it was the premiere of the Glow with the Show ears. Of course that meant that post-Parade we headed straight to the Hub to watch and see the show.

Marie actually bought me some! They'll make another appearance in the report because we do love them.

Here they look all cool on their cart.

Then the Magic, the Memories and You started and we had a view partly blocked by trees. Oh well. C'est la vie.

I like this one a lot. Again, Hayley was playing photographer.

And then Wishes started and it was magical all over again.

And then we got ready to head on even more adventures with Hayley!

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[amberg93]

Day 2, Part 7: "I've never done this before!"


Fair warning, we somehow decided to not take pictures of anything until the parade again. Oops. And if you don't like the MSEP you won't like this post

Okay, so once Wishes had finished, we went ahead and got going over toward Adventureland. Looking at the wait times, we all decided to hop onto Jungle Cruise. We had a great and very funny skipper named Mariel.

After that, we went to Pirates and rode without much wait, chatting the whole time with Hayley about bows. At the end we got to exit out an elevator that Hayley had never been on. Hence the chapter title.

It was actually pretty cool. We ended up coming up behind the building and then walking around the left side. It was a new and interesting experience for all of us.

Since we wanted to catch the MSEP again, we decided to head toward Frontierland. It was around 10 when we got to Big Thunder Mountain and got a return pass for the alternate exit for 10:20. We decided we'd go ahead and use it post parade.

So I went and grabbed a spot right on the edge for the parade while the girls went and got some snacks. They got me a pretzel, Marie a churro and Hayley a churro and a coke. Then we settled in and waited for the fun to start.

Which it did and we had a much better time. And Hayley continued to be the photographer of the group.

Tink is so cute it hurts.

Cinderella is also adorable.

Do you ever think about how hot these people have to be?

Charming's face though.

For the longest time I didn't even know the clock was Midnight for Cinderella. Oops. I thought it was Big Ben for Peter.

I love Peter's face in here. It's just so funny.

I'm not going to lie, I am creeped out by that float. It's just so... creepy.

MURICA! Finishing strong.

Whew. Now that we've gotten through that, we can continue on with the TR and finally see the end of day 2! So stay tuned for the end of our day so we can move on.

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[amberg93]

Day 2, Part 8: "Ooh, look at the glass slipper!"


Satisfied with our second parade viewing we headed back to Big Thunder Mountain to use our pass. While waiting our turn Hayley, Marie and I talked some with a CM about Doctor Who because of Hayley's shirt.

Who doesn't love Doctor Who?

Marie and I rode in the front row and it was pretty awesome. I'm not going to lie.

After that we made our way into Liberty Square where we noticed that the wait time for the Haunted Mansion was about 15 minutes so we hopped in line.

I can never get enough of that ride. It's creepier at night for some reason. But still awesome. Plus, I can always sneak a kiss from Marie

Once we had visited our spooky friends we decided to head to the Carosel but we didn't end up riding it after standing around for a minute.

Instead, we walked over toward the Fairytale Hall to meet with Cinderella and Aurora because the wait time was less than 20 minutes.

I love all these paintings. I wonder if they're going to add ones of Anna and Elsa now that they'll be meeting there?

Though I don't know where there would be room. Logically, they'd have to take one out and probably that gorgeous Mulan one. I guess we'll see what happens.

The famous glass slipper. It looks so tiny. My feet wouldn't fit in there for sure. Cinderella had small feet, no wonder no one else fit that slipper in the Kingdom.

Cindy was very sweet but not particularly memorable.

Aurora was the nicest that we'd ever met though, so that's saying something. And she's so pretty. I hope she gets her makeover dress back soon.

Hayley was still with us at this point but she just took pictures because she said she'd met them recently and didn't have any particular inclination toward doing it again currently. Oh well. At least we got more great pictures from that night.

However, right after that she had to get going, so we walked together up to the Castle. Marie and I were tired anyway, so it seemed like a good time to call it a night.

I love those murals. I want copies in my home We only took one that night though.

Look at the Castle. Hayley got some great pictures. Honestly, I'd hire the girl to take my family pictures or do a Disney photoshoot.

It's so pretty all over. I want to live in it. Or stay in it.

Look at how cute Marie is. I wanna just scoop her up. Cutie.

Hayley is super pretty. And this time there were no photobomers Thank goodness. One is enough.

We went out and got a pretty empty bus after a short wait. They played Life Is a Highway and I jammed along and we were back at the resort at 12:35 and back to our room at 12:42.

After a very long day, Marie did a few computer things and we both got cleaned up and finally went to sleep.

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[DisneyKid4Life]

Oh Amber I am SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE IN REMISSION. Honestly, I was just recently going through all my subs and when I saw yours in the list I was was thinking that I hope everything is okay. So very happy right now! Have a wonderful trip!!!!

Oh my, aren't those non party nights insanity???

YAY Glow with the Show. I bought a pair too. I had too!

So glad you got to watch MSEP again WITHOUT the chaos. I still miss Spectro even now, but MSEP will always be my childhood parade.

 

[amberg93]

Oh Amber I am SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE IN REMISSION. Honestly, I was just recently going through all my subs and when I saw yours in the list I was was thinking that I hope everything is okay. So very happy right now! Have a wonderful trip!!!!

Oh my, aren't those non party nights insanity???

YAY Glow with the Show. I bought a pair too. I had too!

So glad you got to watch MSEP again WITHOUT the chaos. I still miss Spectro even now, but MSEP will always be my childhood parade.

Thanks! I'm super glad to hear it too! It's a great feeling So thanks for the congrats. It's awesome to know that those days are behind me.

It was cray. I was amazed at how many people were around.

How can you not? They're the best.

I never got to see Spectro since I waited so long to go to Disney, but I'm sure that it was amazing. I do think that MSEP is good, but it's a bit outdated. You know what I mean?

 

[amberg93]

Real Life Update #4: Mexico Mini-TR and Good News!




Alright, so Marie and I have just returned from our week in Mexico. We stayed at the lovely Gran Bahia Principe Coba in Riveria Maya. Here are some pictures of the experience.

They had Disney Junior but not regular Disney and Marie and I spent a little too much time watching it every day. But it was in English!

As you can see, it was a nice place and with Marie's perks the whole trip including flights and transfers to the hotel cost us a little under $290 CAN. So, while it was no Disney, it certainly was nice.

Also, as you can see, I got super sunburned But c'est la vie. It was still a great time and for the price it can't be beat.

While we were there we also made an important decision and, got some awesome news.

Number One: We will be going to Disney in September! We're planning on staying in the All Star Sports once more (our destination for May) during the week of the 20th. Yay Disney time!

Gotta put those APs to good use.

Next, I finally, finally, got my confirmation about residency for Canada! This means next time I leave Canada (on the 1st) I will go back to Michigan and send in all my passport and last few documents so that when I enter Canada again I can land as a Permanent Resident! March is really looking to be the turn around month for 2014 thus far!

So now that all of that is out in the open, I propose we get back to our regularly scheduled trip report! Woot!

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[DisneyKid4Life]

HOLY COW $290????? WOW! So very glad you did this trip Amber. Obviously at that price it's a no brainer, but regardless, I think you've earned it.

YAY more Disney time. September this year is looking to be loaded with DISers too. In fact, I'm "this close" to planning a trip myself. I need some MNSSHP!

How fabulous to finally have your permanent Resident Status. As a Canadian, let me add, we're happy to have you.

 

[mickeymouse108]

following along. I am glad your chemo is over and I hope you had a great time I cant wait to hear about your trip.

 

[amberg93]

HOLY COW $290????? WOW! So very glad you did this trip Amber. Obviously at that price it's a no brainer, but regardless, I think you've earned it.

YAY more Disney time. September this year is looking to be loaded with DISers too. In fact, I'm "this close" to planning a trip myself. I need some MNSSHP!

How fabulous to finally have your permanent Resident Status. As a Canadian, let me add, we're happy to have you.

Yes, the price is amazing! We get trips like this offered each year because the company buys out a certain amount of rooms and if they don't sell them all then we can go to any resorts with open rooms so they have hotels in quite a few places that we can experience. It's awesome.

If you do end up going we totes need to have a Dis-meet! Marie and I have never done one before (scandal!). And everyone loves more Disney time

Yay! I'm glad that Canada loves me as much as I love it.

following along. I am glad your chemo is over and I hope you had a great time I cant wait to hear about your trip.

Thank you! I'm glad to have you here and I hope you enjoy it.

 

[amberg93]

Day 3, Part 1: Food Mistakes and First Aid


So, anyone who has ever followed a certain frump's TRs knows the famous saying of 'no sleeping at Disney'! I'm here to tell you, Marie and I blew that saying out of the water because there was tons of sleeping at Disney.

We got up at 10 AM. You read that right, we didn't wake up until 10 at Disney. I have no shame. I was recovering.

Which translates into: it took us a long time to get up and get ready even though it was already 10.

Marie put on her Esmeralda bow by the amazing Hayley. Honestly, her talent is astounding.

All the sticky notes were reminders for when my pain patch had to be changed.

And we left out the Mousekeeping envelope of the day.

Marie needs to stop being so talented all the time. Right?

We made it to the bus stop at around 10:45. I know, the horror. And there was a huge line actually. Which was strange. But here's the worst part. RANT ALERT! There was this guy also in the handicapped line with a scooter, right. HE BROUGHT 7 PEOPLE INTO THE LINE WITH HIM! Okay, I get it, you don't want to split up your group, but they arrived after we did and none of them were younger than ten years old. It's just so annoying when people do that. Really, I think the limit should be about 2 people. Technically you only need one person to go with you in the line, but sending one person to the end of the line is just silly. But once you've got someone to go with them, don't cut off the rest of the line so that you don't have to wait in it or stand on the bus. I'm sorry, it's just super annoying. Ugh. And of course they were super obnoxious people too. Figures, right?

Anyway, annoying people aside, we got onto the bus and made our way to our park of the day.

At around 11:25 we were outside and seeing this lovely sight:

Okay, I'll admit, the weather doesn't exactly look inviting, does it? Spoiler alert: it isn't.

Confession: at the time of this photo I still hadn't seen the movie. That's what happens when you're in the hospital and then subsequently having too weak of an immune system to go places.

Now that we'd arrived, we decided on our first ride of the day.

Star Tours! I had such a great time on our first trip that we rode twice in a row and I was eager to go again.

Apparently the queue has stairs (which I don't remember about it) because we were given a return ticket for twenty minutes later.

While we were there we also double dipped and pulled some FP-s for later use. They had a good return time that we'd be able to use shortly after our ride.

Since we were hungry, we headed over toward Backlot Express to have some food. Well, Marie went to get the food, I got us a table instead.

This is where I made the greatest food mistake of the trip.

Marie got a bacon cheeseburger and some chocolate mousse. Since I have no notes about it, I assume she was satisfied.

This is my big mistake. I got the spicy buffolo nuggets. Okay, cause I thought, hey, they can't be too bad. I was wrong.

My exact notes read this: Spicy nuggets spicier than expected. DO NOT EAT AGAIN!!! Also, my mousse was too chocolately. Gross.

Overall, the meal was not good. It was my own fault, but I now associate the burning that happened in my mouth to Backlot Express. If we go again, I'd probably just get the kids chicken nuggets instead.

Now that it was done, we headed over to Star Tours again to use our pass. Expect, something went horribly wrong this time. I got soooo motion sick that it was terrible.

I spent the whole ride wishing it would be over already and trying not to throw up. Ugh. Not a good start to the day at all. We gave away our FP-s to a couple that was about to go into the standby line and decided to move on.

Since we'd never hit up Muppet Vision before, we decided to head over there.

Unfortunately, I was feeling so sick and terrible about everything that I started crying while we were waiting for the show. It was terrible. I felt like I was ruining Disney World.

And I'll share a little something else. When I got sick, physical things were the least of my problems. Being a previously strong 20 year old, I got back to walking and moving about very quickly. Chemo didn't hit me that hard physically either. What did happen though was severe depression. I felt hopelessness, despair, unimportant.. the list goes on. Somewhere along the line, I got it in my head that going to Disney would cure that depression. We all know that's not how it works though.

So, what ended up happening was that I suffered from being sick and from my illusion being shattered. Embarrassed and in tears, Marie and I headed over to the first aid station where the lady gave me a Dramamine and told me I was welcome to use one of the rooms to lay down for a bit.

I did. I laid down on a cot and cuddled up on the little cot. I cried for a while, apologizing to Marie the whole time for ruining Disney, but eventually calmed down.

We probably stayed for a whole 45 minutes or so before I finally felt ready to face the parks again. The first aid worker gave me some water and I felt contented to finally get back out into the parks.

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[amberg93]

Day 3, Part 2: A race to be won



Now that I was on the up and up again. We decided to go ahead and re-check our FP+ times at a kisok to make sure that they were all right.

Seeing that they were, we headed over toward the Animation Courtyard.

We had some important people we were waiting to meet.

Need a hint?

Oh wait, that's more than a hint. Oh well. They were getting ready to close the line, so we hurried into one of the coolest queues for character greeting.

They were the absolute sweetest.

Look at them! Seriously. We had such great character interactions.

As you can see Vanellope held Marie's hand.

And then, when I got back into the chair to leave. Vanellope 'raced me' on the way out. Ralph held out his arm to stop her from 'winning'. It was the cutest thing.

Seriously, this interaction turned my whole day around. Afterward I was feeling so much better.

With our guests taken care of, we headed over to Pixar Place.

Since we had a FP+ for TSMM for between 1:40 and 2:40 that's where we were headed.

The wait time says 120 minutes, but I'm going to level with you, it was lying.

I mean, does that look like a two hour line to you? No, no it doesn't. They pump up the numbers for TSMM to discourage riders. I think so anyway. It's a good policy.

Can you guess the phrase? (Marie could not)

A kind stranger took a picture of the two of us.

Marie looks spiffy in her glasses.

Selfie with my Rockin' Rollercoaster Bow.

Once Marie won with her 129,000 point score to my 118,000 point score we left.

We were going to meet Phineas and Ferb but the line was closed, so instead we took pictures with Duckie Momo!

Duckie Mo, Duckie Mo-Mo, he's your very best friend!

If you don't watch Phineas and Ferb, you're denying yourself the pleasures of life. I'm telling you flat out.

PERRY!

I love Perry. I'm not going to lie, Marie got me a Perry pillowpet when I was in the hospital and it's one of my favorite 'cancer gifts'. Because when you're sick people give you things and while it's annoying sometimes, sometimes it's nice.

But since we couldn't meet Phineas and Ferb yet, we needed something else to do.

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[amberg93]

Day 3, Part 3: "Mom, Phineas and Ferb are meeting people at Disney World!"


Since Phineas and Ferb were out of the question, I directed us over to another two characters who I love.

Of course I'm talking about Lightning and Mater!

I'm going to be straight up here. I think Cars and Cars 2 are the best Pixar movies. No sarcasm, no lies, it's the truth. I'm unbelievably excited for Cars 3!

I know everyone else is like, bleh, Cars but Cars grew on me after my cousin who is 13 years younger than me broke our DVD from watching it on repeat so many times. I can quote both movies in their entirely.

Having met the big stars, we decided to try and go to Muppet Vision, but the line was super long so we skipped out on it again. Oops.

Instead, we made our way back over toward the Phineas and Ferb greeting area to take some pictures of it.

It's just so well done it's cray.

It's the inexplicable giant floating baby head!

Admiring finished, we checked the time to see when they'd return and headed into Stage 1 to look around.

I had some fun with this book before Marie pulled me away.

Then we headed outside and took a seat in the shade for a few minutes where we just relaxed and allowed ourselves the down time.

Seeing that Parkside Antiques gave out a Christmas vibe, Marie was all over that and we headed over to the store to look around after a few minutes.

What we didn't count on was how tiny it is in there. Have you ever tried to maneuver a wheelchair in that store? Don't. It's not fun.

Once that was finished we realized that it was getting close to Phineas and Ferb coming back so we went to start the line.

Then people cut in front of us because the line got moved and no one thought to ask us about if we were in line. Ugh. I hate people sometimes.

While waiting, they played songs from the show and we jammed out. If you've never heard songs from Phineas and Ferb... well you need to change that ASAP.

Some annoying parents were letting their kids climb on the chains and the fences and everything else and it reminded me of my many hours working at an amusement park and telling kids off for doing just that. Nothing annoys me more than people who don't respect amusement/theme park rules. They're simple and they're for safety.

Someone behind us commented that Phineas looked scary when he came out and Marie said one of my favorite things of the trip: "Of course Phineas looks scary, his head is a triangle!"

After cracking up for a few minutes, we were called to meet the brothers.

As you can see, I'm a bit star-struck. Ferb looks star struck too. How sweet of him.

So I asked him if I could tell Candace that he was meeting people at Disney World.

He turned around and walked away. Phineas on the other hand put a 'shh!' motion and shook his head a lot.

Marie told me how silly I was because Candace would be all "Mooooom, Phineas and Ferb are meeting people at Disney World!"

The boys agreed.

Clearly, Phineas is a model. Look at him working it out.

Obviously we needed to have an air guitar picture.

Meeting Phineas and Ferb made us so thirsty though that we had to go ahead and get something to drink. So we made the short walk over to Pizza Planet and grabbed ourselves some ice waters.

I like the cups, they're so cute.

Now that our thirst was quenched, I told Marie that I wanted to get some ice cream. A first for me at Disney because on our first trip I never felt up to it.

I know that we're all supposed to get mickey bars and they're supposed to be superior, but I'm going to tell you a secret... I don't like mickey bars. It's not personal to mickey bars, it's just that I'm not a fan of hard chocolate coating around my ice cream. I don't even like Klondike bars.

Hence why I got an ice cream sandwich.

Oh, my goodness. This thing was delicious. I didn't know it was cookies and cream ice cream inside but it made my life so much happier. I chowed down without a single care.

While I was eating, we asked a CM about Character Palooza and got told, "I think it's 5:45 to 6:15 or something."

Spoiler alert: we were lied to again.

Blissfully unaware of the lie, we headed on our way to find something else to do.

Continued in Next Post​

 

[DisneyKid4Life]

If you do end up going we totes need to have a Dis-meet!

That is a for sure!!!

At the time I think you are totally justified sleeping in. Actually, that was smart.

I've probably said it before, but I am stealing the Mousekeeping envelope idea.

I think the fact that those people were obnoxious would be what did it for me. I despise obnoxious people.

Hmm, I can't honestly remember stairs in the Star Tours queue either.

Ooh I haven't had the buffalo nuggets before. Spicier than expected. Food to know. I wonder if the spicy nuggets contributed to your motion sickness.

Oh Amber, I feel so bad hearing about this. I can completely understand the emotional toll it would take.

What a great way to get back in the game than a meet with Ralph and Venelope. A little Disney magic there I think!

Ugh, SO FRUSTRATING watching parents let their kids play on the chains. You know when they hurt themselves they'll just blame Disney. Absolutely no accountability.

OMG you would go CRAZY in Disneyland. Obviously with Carsland, but Phineas and Ferb have a dance party show WITH the Fireside girls. When I was there in 2012, they cancelled one of the shows, so they all did a meet and greet which apparently was rare. You can see the photo in my sig (I know it's small, but still).

 

[amberg93]

I've probably said it before, but I am stealing the Mousekeeping envelope idea.

I think the fact that those people were obnoxious would be what did it for me. I despise obnoxious people.

Hmm, I can't honestly remember stairs in the Star Tours queue either.

Ooh I haven't had the buffalo nuggets before. Spicier than expected. Food to know. I wonder if the spicy nuggets contributed to your motion sickness.

Oh Amber, I feel so bad hearing about this. I can completely understand the emotional toll it would take.

Ugh, SO FRUSTRATING watching parents let their kids play on the chains. You know when they hurt themselves they'll just blame Disney. Absolutely no accountability.

OMG you would go CRAZY in Disneyland. Obviously with Carsland, but Phineas and Ferb have a dance party show WITH the Fireside girls. When I was there in 2012, they cancelled one of the shows, so they all did a meet and greet which apparently was rare. You can see the photo in my sig (I know it's small, but still).

Go ahead and steal away

And I know, obnoxious people are the worst. Ugh.

I'm going to keep an eye out if we do it regular queue in May to find the mysterious stairs since they've got to be there somewhere.

Yes, know the spiciness. Be prepared for it. Don't think they're going to be easy because it's Disney because it's a lie . I'd avoid them at all costs if you aren't sure of your spiciness handling. They probably didn't help my stomach either.

I'm glad to report that it was the worst time I had in a park because I think after that I just held it to realistic expectations. Disney World might be a magical place but even Disney magic can't make everything in the world better. You know?

My Youth Minister Todd and his wife Kara (mentioned in my first update and will be mentioned again) were CMs at Disney for a while and Todd worked in attractions at Epcot and he'd get to the point where he'd tell the kids once and the parents once and then just let them hurt themselves. Like, there really isn't much else you can do. People go crazy in amusement parks.

ZOMG I so want to go to Carsland. It's a dream of mine. AND PHINEAS AND FERB DANCE PARTY?! I have admired that photo in your sig and been wondering about how it got there but now I'm just super jealous to know that it's like uber rare too. You've got all the Disney luck it seems

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Appologies that I missed you update a week ago or so but that is soooooo awesome that you are "officially in remission. No more tumor, no more cancer"!!! Not sure if there is an official "no more cancer happy dance" but there should be!

I get a smile on my face seeing how happy you are at the character meet & greets! Some solid Disney medicine right there!

Happy to hear you are going back to The World ... and Canada's gain is definitely our loss

 

[amberg93]

Appologies that I missed you update a week ago or so but that is soooooo awesome that you are "officially in remission. No more tumor, no more cancer"!!! Not sure if there is an official "no more cancer happy dance" but there should be!

I get a smile on my face seeing how happy you are at the character meet & greets! Some solid Disney medicine right there!

Happy to hear you are going back to The World ... and Canada's gain is definitely our loss

Thank you! I don't know if there is an official dance but I'm going to say mine looked a bit like this smiley Except I'm not that coordinated

Aww, it was really all the characters. They were so amazing to us this whole time that I just couldn't help but be so thrilled. I had such solid character meets throughout the trip that I really felt special. Spoiler alert: One will make me cry later in the trip.

And don't worry, I'm going to keep my citizenship. Canada and the US can share me I don't want to go against any country that has Disney