Jennifer & Charley's 9/15/11 SBP/The Attic 12/9 Feat DisneyWeddingPodcast!

[jlocmac]

We're on Randy's blog and Facebook page today!! How exciting?!

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 (cont)

After we got ready, we took off for DTD! The only thing that was planned.. was the fact that we had to get something to eat. We were starving. We decided to just start walking and see what looked appetizing.

Of course we came across the Gold Man...

He's awesome. My little sister and I took pics with him when they were there. Everybody was just piled around him.. nobody was walking up to get pics. So Charley told me to get up there. I get very nervous doing stuff like that.. but I wanted my pic... and he handed me the guitar!

I didn't know he was messing with my veil!!

He was great! We walked around the stores a little bit. Not really looking for anything in particular.. but then we ended up in the Christmas store.. never a good thing for me!!

We got a few ornaments.. I actually spent like $100 in there. Not TOO bad. But then Charley had the idea to use other Disney items (ie magnets, small toys) and turn those into ornaments. Smart idea there husband!! So we bought a lot of magnets, and boxed toy sets that had small figurines in them. We're going to hot glue or thread some line through them for Christmas ornaments!!

Anywayyyy... I didn't really take a whole bunch of pics while we were there. We ate at Wolfgang Puck Express. Charley had the bacon wrapped meatloaf again. I had the spaghetti. Both were delicious. I'm sad I didn't get a pic of mine. That was the biggest plate of spaghetti I've ever seen.

We went in every store imaginable trying to find Charley the Mickey hat that has the different Mickeys from the different times all around it. NONE of the stores had it. They were all sold out. (Note here... ALL of the stores have had them every time we've been since the wedding. lol)

Then we made it back to the Gold Man. Don't get me wrong.. we spent a lot more time in all of the stores. I just didn't take pics. I don't know where my head was.

Then I told Charley he had to get up there for his pic. He wasn't too happy about it. He said there weren't any guys going up there. So what!! You are!! hahaha

Then I went back up!

Then he handed me the guitar again. The band was playing in front of us, and he wanted me to act like I was playing.. then he started dancing all crazy!! We were laughing. Charley tried to take pics of me standing there trying to give him the guitar and he was dancing all crazy like.. and I was just standing there with my jaw dropped down!! hahaha Guess you had to be there!!

A man asked if we wanted our pic together with the Gold Man, but they were taking him away. It was almost time to close up shop. So we made our way back to the car..

All in all.. this was a great day!! We had a lot of fun.. even though I was in a sour mood at the park. The day definitely got better!!

We went back to the resort. It was after 11pm and there were still people all hanging out in the lobby like it was midday.. watching tv and everything. Go to bed people!! lol We went up to the room... lounged around for a while and went to sleep.

 

[jlocmac]

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Today was our Epcot day. We knew from going after the wedding, that there weren't a lot of rides we wanted to do. We mainly wanted to walk around WS.

I don't remember what time we woke up. I know we didn't sleep very late. It was probably around 7 or 8am. We showered and dressed and headed out the door. I make this whole process sound a lot easier than what it really was. Charley had to drag me in from the balcony...

I couldn't help it. Once the zebra started staying around our area.. I was hooked. Even more so than before he showed up!!

Then there was the usual.. "I can't find anything to wear.", "Which shoes look better with this shirt?", "Should I wear my hair up or down?"

Funny to me!! Then we would leave the room.. get to the elevators (which felt like they were miles away), and realize we forgot something. This didn't only happen on this morning. This happened EVERY morning. Sometimes we would even make it all the way to the lobby before we realized we were missing something. It's always the important things that get left behind. Our wedding rings... passes... sunglasses. You name, we forgot it!! You can bet your *** I didn't forget those ears or pins though!!! hahahaha

*Off note.. any of you seen the Target commercials for Black Friday with the blonde chick?? How freakin hilarious are they? Especially the new one in the card section of Target! Back on note* haha

So as you can guess, we drove to Epcot.. like we drove everywhere else. Well, we drove to T&T and took the Monorail to Epcot. Woo exciting! lol

As you know by all of the previous pics and statements.. we were all about character pics and autographs. Mainly the pics, since we'd preordered the Photopass CD. So when we went by the Character Spot and there was like a 10 min wait.. we jumped on that!! Never mind that we were about the only people in line that didn't have a child. Who cares?! We don't! lol

So I give you our pics from the Epcot Character Spot

 

[jlocmac]

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 (cont)

How freakin cute are those Photopass borders?? And why do I always want to type Photoass instead of Photopass??? hahahaha!!!!

It didn't really take us long to get through there. We were glad we were able to knock all of them out in big swoop!!

So, according to my pics.. we then went to Test Track. We didn't get to ride this with Adam and Jessica. Plus we knew they did Photopass pics!

It was awesome!! We both loved it! We basically walked right onto the ride... or hopped right in the car.. whichever you prefer! That's the way all of the rides were... no wait times at all!

Then we went to The Seas with Nemo & Friends. I can't help. We did this one with Adam & Jessica.. but I just love Dory. She's so funny.

Then we made our way towards WS.

 

[jlocmac]

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 (cont)

Then we ran into a few more guys!!

But then we all got really itchy!!

Then we jumped on over to the Pluto line.. which really wasn't a line at all!

And then we were off again.. to go exploring around the world. (actually we didn't take as much time as we would've liked... it was really hot again) So I'll just show you the pics we took while we were walking around.

So Charley took my pic

I took his pic

I told him to move up towards me some, because it looked dark.

He says.."We might need to take another pic of you!" lol

Then he wanted me to take some pics of him looking at all of HIS autographs.

Hardly any people...

Most of these pics were places we took bridal pics at. We took some here, but Regina didn't use any. Guess they didn't look so hot! lol

Throughout that walk through around the world.. we stopped for more character pics.

 

[jlocmac]

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 (cont)

We knew Belle would coming soon.. so we decided to wait for her. The Photopass guy was standing in the shade.. so Charley asked him if he could take our pic. He was really nice and told us he would. We didn't know that he was standing there waiting for Belle to come. We just thought he was getting out of the sun. Anyway.. he took some pics..

So then we could see Belle walking towards us. She was still kind of far away.. but we could see her. A woman walked up with her family and asked the Photopass guy if he could take their pics. The man politely told her that he couldn't.. Belle was coming, and he had to take those pics. Her response.. in front of her children "Well you just took their pics". How elementary can you be?? She kind of rambled on some more. We didn't really pay her any attention. We just moved over to the line that had formed for Belle and waited for our turn.

We made it up there, and she was very sweet. She asked us about the wedding and honeymoon. It was really cool.

Then we found Aladdin and Jasmine. They were really funny. They told Charley he must've stolen my ring from the vaults!! lol

Jasmine told me to pose like a princess... ???? haha

Then we took some pics before we left.

At some point during this day.. we stopped to grab something to eat. It was so forgettable, that I don't remember where it was!! hahaha I know I had a chicken caesar salad, and it wasn't that tasty. I don't remember what Charley had. I know it was better than mine though. Thank God he had fries!!

So we went back to the resort to chill for a while before we came back to the park for dinner at the Coral Reef.

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

First--- The Responses!
-Tell Charley he is poop and should let you move to Orlando.
-I’m sorry I missed the .5!
-I don’t think they have pool homes in Wisconsin. We don’t have… pools here haha! (Well, some people do. I live right in the city of Milwaukee though, which is pretty urban.) It was a balmy 45 degrees today though!
-Um, you could do a VR at AKL. Duh.
-And I REALLY WANNA READ YOUR VENDOR REVIEWS JUST SAYIN

Oh and Jennifer and Beth, I am NOT CRAZY! YOU GIRLS ARE! (And that episode of HIMYM was so sad.)

Now, onto the TR!
-Um, I’ve never seen the Gold Man. He looks awesome. I love the picture of you with the guitar!!
-LOVE the Christmas ornament idea! You should take pics. Nice thinking, Charley!
-Also, Wolfgang Puck Express is amazinggggg.
-Omigosh that second picture of you with the guitar is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in the history of the world. Not even an exaggeration.
-Thursday, Sept 22! My birthday!
-I am obsessed with Target’s Christmas Champ. A lot of people hate her, but I relate.
-You look so cute in the picture where you’re waiting for Mickey to sign your autograph book.
-Oh, you’re making me miss Epcot soooo much.
-Charley looking at his autographs! Ha!
-Ughhhhh what was up with that woman?! People are so self-righteous and irritating sometimes.
-Eeeek a picture of you with Belle ON my birthday!!!!!
-Did you eat at the American Adventure? Their salads are eh.

Sorry I was so late! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!

 

[mickin]

Love all your pictures so far.......

Just wanted to say that whenever I see ure pj title and it says HM I always think haunted mansion instead of honeymoon....lol

 

[jlocmac]

First--- The Responses!
-Tell Charley he is poop and should let you move to Orlando.
-I’m sorry I missed the .5!
-I don’t think they have pool homes in Wisconsin. We don’t have… pools here haha! (Well, some people do. I live right in the city of Milwaukee though, which is pretty urban.) It was a balmy 45 degrees today though!
-Um, you could do a VR at AKL. Duh.
-And I REALLY WANNA READ YOUR VENDOR REVIEWS JUST SAYIN

Oh and Jennifer and Beth, I am NOT CRAZY! YOU GIRLS ARE! (And that episode of HIMYM was so sad.)

Now, onto the TR!
-Um, I’ve never seen the Gold Man. He looks awesome. I love the picture of you with the guitar!!
-LOVE the Christmas ornament idea! You should take pics. Nice thinking, Charley!
-Also, Wolfgang Puck Express is amazinggggg.
-Omigosh that second picture of you with the guitar is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in the history of the world. Not even an exaggeration.
-Thursday, Sept 22! My birthday!
-I am obsessed with Target’s Christmas Champ. A lot of people hate her, but I relate.
-You look so cute in the picture where you’re waiting for Mickey to sign your autograph book.
-Oh, you’re making me miss Epcot soooo much.
-Charley looking at his autographs! Ha!
-Ughhhhh what was up with that woman?! People are so self-righteous and irritating sometimes.
-Eeeek a picture of you with Belle ON my birthday!!!!!
-Did you eat at the American Adventure? Their salads are eh.

Sorry I was so late! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!

-Charley doesn't mind me moving down there. He just said he couldn't come with me at first!!
-Don't worry, most people do!
-We live in the country, in a very small town. There's like 4 red lights. No joke!!
-A VR sounds great.. even though those words make Charley cringe! lol
-I'm going to do them, I promise. And I'll try to do them before your wedding.!!

-HIMYM has been pretty sad but funny at the same time.. at least for the past few weeks it has.

-You must try to find the Gold Man. All I can remember about the location was a stage across from him with bands playing on them. There was also a seating area to the side of him.. I believe.
-I took pics of the ornaments last night. At least the ones I could take before the camera died... story of my life! I just have to get them uploaded to computer..along with the other 1000+ pics we've taken over the past couple of trips.
-I definitely want to eat at WGPs during our Christmas trip.
-Thanks!! Like I said, you must get your pic taken with him. It was fun.
-Yay for bdays!!
-Like I said before, Target lady lol
-Thanks. I'm so glad we did the Photopass disk.
-We liked Epcot a lot better after this trip. When we went with Adam & Jessica.. we were like.. why does everybody like this? lol But we really had fun!
-Yeah, like I had no part in getting autographs too.
-Charley & I laughed about the lady all day. It was so funny. She was being so childish in front of her own children.
-Belle was really sweet. Her, Aladdin, & Jasmine were really chatty.
-We ate Future World somewhere. Looking at the Disney site.. I think it was Electric Umbrella.

Thanksgiving was great. We ate a lot of food.. was miserable all day long. It was perfect!! And you're never too late.

Love all your pictures so far.......

Just wanted to say that whenever I see ure pj title and it says HM I always think haunted mansion instead of honeymoon....lol

Thanks!!!

I was thinking the same thing the other day when I was changing it. It looks like we're totally obsessed with the Haunted Mansion. lol


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So I've done horribly at updating this over the holiday break. We go back to work tomorrow, and I'm definitely not done. I'm going to try to work on it some today while Charley's at softball practice. We have to redecorate our tree today as well. It was sitting on it's side when we got up this morning. Don't know what happened.. but I'm pretty sure it has something to with my cat Tripp. Needless to say, Charley says we're buying a fake tree next year! lol We have 1 fake tree that's like 3.5-4'. It's decorated with all of our Grinch stuff. Then we bought a real tree yesterday from Christmas tree farm. Its 6.5' tall!! But it has been very aggravating, and it's just reminded us why we bought the small fake tree a few years ago.

Now on to the TR..

 

[jlocmac]

Thursday, September 22, 2011 (cont)

When we got back to the room, Charley fixed us a pot of coffee. I don't know what's wrong with us... but we're like an 80 yr old couple who drinks coffee at 4 in the afternoon, even though it's 100 degrees outside. lol It's ridiculous. We sat on the balcony together for a while watching the animals. It seemed the later in the week it got, the more animals that were out. I don't know if they were all getting checked out like the giraffes were or what. But I was glad we finally starting to see something besides those buffalo thingies and birds and ducks. haha

Apparently it was feeding time for the animals. Those vulture looking things were out there (I think they are actually vultures), and they were throwing them big chunks of meat. (pretty sure it was big chunks of meat)

Here they are eating their big chunks of meat!

The zebra seemed to want to stay towards the far left of our balcony.

Then it started to rain. The vulture thingies weren't too happy about that. That was after the 2 of them argued over the pieces of meat. lol 1 of them took off running to climb into a tree. It was really funny. Charley went inside to take a nap before we went back to Epcot for dinner.

He wasn't a happy camper during that whole ordeal. I think it lasted maybe 10-15 mins. lol He flapped his wings the whole time though.

Then the sun came back out.

I looked back through the glass to see what Charley was doing. I'll post the pic that didn't contain the nice hand gesture that given to me!!! HAHAHA

So I took some more pics of the animals since the sun was back out. Do I even need a reason??

Then I went back inside to lay on the couch and read my book for a while. I think I mentioned that I was reading The Help on our trip. I love to read!!! Doesn't really matter what kind of book it is.

But.... eventually I too, fell asleep. I think I slept for maybe an hour and a half... something like that. I immediately grabbed the camera and went to the balcony to take some pics.

This is what you get when you go from the freezing cold room to the hot, humid outdoors!

My camera kept fogging up, so I just gave up. lol

I don't know why some of these pics are darker than others. They were all taken at the same time. Maybe it got really cloudy again? Maybe I was playing with the setting on the camera (which I'm known to do quite frequently).

This is compliments of Charley. He took pics of the poor animal going to the bathroom. lol

 

[jlocmac]

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 (cont)

So we got ready for dinner at Coral Reef. A bit slowly as usual. Our reservations were for 8pm. We drove, then took the Monorail. Pretty boring all around. The weather was pretty crappy though. It was very misty... which sucked because I wore my hair down. It starts to look very ratty when it's misty and humid as well.

Anyway, we got to the restaurant maybe 20 mins early. They gave us a buzzer and we waited. That's as exciting as that was. Our buzzer went off around our reservation time... and we were taken inside the restaurant. It was gorgeous!! I loved the tanks. I prayed we were going to get seated at one of lower tables. There were plenty of them open!! But NO! We were seated on the 2nd level, at the 2 table back. UGH! I was so disappointed. I know it's nothing major. But I really wanted to sit by the tanks. Oh well.. that's life! There was another newlywed couple seated next to us. They were at the table in between ours and the edge of the 2nd level. I tried to take pics of tanks. I don't know if I didn't have the right setting on the camera, the lighting wasn't right, or the distance.. but they didn't come out worth a crap. It made me very ill, but I moved past it. lol

We both order the NY strip with horseradish mashed potatoes and asparagus. I'm very picky about what I eat, like I've said before. So I got the steak, because I know I like steak. I always say I'm going to try something new, but never do. I forgot to take a pic until I was about halfway through. Sorry!

It was delicious though!! We both enjoyed it. The potatoes were kind of strong to me, but they were good. I don't eat asparagus, so Charley ate that.

Then we ordered dessert. I got The Chocolate Wave. Charley got Vanilla Creme Brulee. I tried Charley's, since I didn't like the 1 from the WGPs earlier in the week. I still didn't like it. Needless to say, I don't like creme brulee! lol Mine was the sweetest thing I've ever put in my mouth. That's no lie. It is so rich, it's just ridiculous. I couldn't eat it. Charley ate as much as he could, which wasn't much. We both drank pomegranate lemonade. Overall good meal. I can't believe I didn't get a pic of the dessert. I really suck at the food porn pics.

Our waiter offered to take a pic of us. This is what we got.

Slightly blurry, but that's the way it works. lol It took him a while to make it around to the tables in between everything.. and then a while to get our checks. We were going to try to make it to Illuminations, but that didn't look like it was going to happen. He finally made it around to us. He was a very sweet guy though.

So we hoofed it out of there. We've never seen Illuminations, so we didn't really know where to stand. We just tried to find a spot that wasn't overrun with people. We managed to find a little spot in between 2 booth things. There were only 3 people standing there.. so plenty of room for me and Charley.. that was until this older couple completely wedged their ways in front of us. I kid you not...basically pushed us out of the way. If this had not been an older couple.. I would've probably gotten very ugly. I already said some not so nice things. It got to the point where we couldn't see crap. We just spouted off a few more ugly words and took off. lol

We decided that we were just going to leave. We started walking out, but then saw that we could see pretty good behind this group of people. We stood there and watched for a minute.. then slowly starting walking towards the exit. We were just very irritated by this time. We turned around a few times to check things out.

Luckily we were able to make it out of there before everyone else started leaving.

We took a Photopass pic.. and took off!

We got back to the resort. It was still pretty early. It was probably our earliest night in. We took everything back up to the room once we got to the resort, then went back down to The Mara and got something to drink. We sat up in the room watching our Thursday night shows, just like we do at home... except we had all kinds of wild animals right outside. We ate snacks that we'd acquired over the trip.. and just hung out together.. just us.. not hundreds and hundreds of other people. It was nice! We stayed up pretty late. I think we just knew the end of the honeymoon was coming fast. It was pretty depressing to think about.

We finally turned the tv off and went to bed. We had to get up pretty early for our breakfast reservations.

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

We got up around 6am or so and took showers..and got ready for breakfast. We had an 8:15am reservation at 1900 Park Fare!! We were very excited. I love the character meals. They're so much fun!

I was a good girl and didn't take forever getting ready. The fact that it was still too dark to be out on the balcony taking pics has nothing to do with that!

We made sure we had everything with us that we would need throughout the day. We were going straight to HS after breakfast. We didn't bother bringing a bag in anymore. The zipper busted on ours earlier in the week...plus it helped out not having to go through baggage check.

Anyway.. I forgot to mention this, probably because I can't remember which day it happened on. I'm pretty sure it was Thursday afternoon though. As I said earlier in the TR, our phone died on like Monday, I think. We had it on charge all week. No such luck. It just wouldn't come on. I did everything I could think of. I held the home button..mashed it over and over..nothing would work. I told Charley that our families were going to freak out, because we'd been texting them and sending pics up until it died. He was like "whatever". lol Anyway..when we got back from the park (on whichever day it was) our room phone starting ringing. It was my Mom! haha She said they were all going crazy. They thought something had happened to us. I told her no, the phone had died. I told her to start looking up the problem online or call Verizon. We chatted a while. She had trouble getting through to our room. She initially asked for me by my married name. They didn't have anyone listed by that name. She said she thought about it and called back. I had booked everything under my maiden name. She explained everything to the CM that answered the phone, got all the info correct, and was connected to our room. We got everything straight and told her we would see them Sat when we got home.

I also forgot to mention we received honeymoon messages from Mickey & Minnie at both resorts we stayed at.. along with the message we received on the wedding day. We have all of those recorded on our phone!!! lol

Ok.. so that had nothing to do with 1900 Park Fare.. sorry!! Moving on....

We drove to the GF and found a parking spot. Which is so darn aggravating. If there's better places to park, just let me know. We knew where the restaurant was, because we scoped it out earlier in the week when we went to the GF Cafe for dinner. We got over there and a nice CM told us that wouldn't be open until 8am exactly. BOO!! We waited for about 15 mins or so before they even opened the area up.

Here's Charley waiting

While we were waiting

Pretty soon, it was time to get ready. They had us go ahead and line up for our pics, which I didn't know we would be taking. lol

Of course we bought them. It was our honeymoon. We wanted everything. lol It wasn't exactly time to go in yet. They just went ahead and started doing pics because the people were starting to move in. From the pic taking spot, we were moved into another line in front of the entrance doors.

Then they pulled this little girl up that arrived a few minutes after us. They whispered with her for a minute.. and tried to get her to say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It wasn't working.. she just kind of stood there. lol Guess she was scared. I told Charley they should've picked me. I would've been able to handle it without a problem. hahaha

Then the door opened and Mary Poppins came out!

She led the little girl and her family in, then we were seated. Our server was a very sweet girl who kept the juice coming!! We were seated in the back room, which kind of disappointed me at first. But the characters moved back there pretty fast and we were close to the bathroom. lol The buffet was right through the door, so we were good.

I forgot to take a pic of my food... but Charley did take one of his last plate.. lol

The characters came pretty steady. We never felt rushed to get out of there. If anything, they kept telling us to take our time. It was great. So up 1st was Tigger.. 1 of my favs.

There was a pretty rowdy family beside us, but the Dad was really nice.. and took pics for us. Another gentleman also did. You'll be able to see him in some of the pics.

There was a family that was seated in the area with us. They had like 3 or 4 kids. None of them looked over 10, and 1 was still a baby. The Mom was pretty crazy. She kept making backhanded remarks to the Dad about sitting there while she was fixing plates for all of the kids.. and ranting and raving. It was crazy. People kept staring at her. We were probably 4 tables away, and we could hear everything they were saying.

There were other families the same size, that had no problem having a pleasant meal. 1 parent would stay at the table, while the other fixed the kids plates. Our fav was when the Mom just piled a bunch of stuff on 1 plate and brought it in to divide between everyone. Saved a lot of time. Charley even told 1 Mom how well behaved her kids were as they were leaving. It was their twin daughters birthdays, and they also had 1 a little older. The Mom said they were probably just still in shock cause they hadn't been since they were really small. lol

Anyway.. that's a little off topic! haha

Next up was Pooh. He is super cute..if not slightly creepy!!

I don't remember what happened here. I know I was taking a pic with Pooh and Tigger came up behind us. Somehow my veil got caught up around his tail and got snatched off. We were all laughing. I told him that it was my veil, not his!!

This kid was terrified of the characters!! He just wanted to eat. His mom was 1 of the ones that did the pile the plate method! This was her coming back and noticing that Tigger had arrived while they were gone. The kid kind of freaked!!

Then Mary Poppins came. I could see them coming from the other side of the restaurant.. so I would give Charley a play by play of where they were. He was really excited to see Mary!! Did I mention after the Halloween party we saw a Mary Poppins and chimney sweep guy.. Charley said that's what we are dressing up as next year. lol

We chatted for a few minutes. She was really nice and beautiful!!! I mean really beautiful!! lol She kept asking if Charley knew that I was perfect in every single way!!! hahahaha If she only knew!

Next up was Alice! She was funny and had a lovely accent. I love people with accents. Doesn't matter where they're from. I just love accents. lol

I don't remember what she was saying here. We were messing with Charley pretty much the whole time. She was a blast.

The gentleman stretching in the background, is 1 of the guys that took some of our pics!

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

Then came the Mad Hatter! He was a real character. I'm kind of iffy with the character whose faces I can see!! lol So this was a real task for me. I do better with the ones in full costume. But these guys were really great.

And then Pooh was coming back around. By this time, we were done.. check paid, pictures received.. all of that done.

That's all of our character pics from 1900 Park Fare. I highly recommend this place if you like character meals. It was so much fun. The food was your typical breakfast type foods, but it was good. I like breakfast anyway, and the have all of the stuff that I can't make. lol So it works out both ways!!

Everyone was really nice here, the CMs.. as well as the other guests. Everyone asked about our wedding and honeymoon. And of course it's nice to tell people you actually got married at Disney World!!!

I forgot 1 thing. Not long before we were leaving.. a couple of kids came running in through the door leading towards the bathroom area. They ran straight to Pooh and Tigger and kind of butted their ways up. Pooh and Tigger kind of tried to brush them off.. like they knew they weren't supposed to be in there. I'm pretty sure they were just walking by the restaurant, through the resort.. and saw the characters in there and decided to try and get an autograph. They finally signed for them, and the kids walked out the door. lol I was like.. damn parents!!! hahahaha

So our last character meal of our honeymoon was over with! I was soooo sad. I knew we were coming to an end really fast, and I didn't want that to happen. But I didn't want to be depressed on our last full day there, so I cheered right on up. lol

We gathered up all of our stuff and headed towards HS.

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

It was pretty late by the time we left the GF. I was really surprised by how long we stayed there. lol It was probably after 10am by the time we made it to HS. I'm pretty sure it was that late. We kept talking about how late it was.

We knew we wanted to ride TSM. We hadn't rode it yet, and everyone raves about it. We knew the wait would be about forever, so we were just going to grab a FP and be done with it. As we suspected, it was packed out before we got anywhere near the entrance for ride or FP kiosk. We finally wedged our way up. I don't remember what time the wait was, but it was a long time. We got our FP, I think it was for after 1 sometime. I can't be for sure on that one.

Anyway.. we went on to ride ToT of course. The wait was pretty much nada. So that was great!!

This ride is so much fun!! We love it!

 

[jlocmac]

Is it just on my end or are my pics still sideways and huge. I promised I rotated and resized. If it doesn't look that way on your side of the screen, I'm sorry!

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

After ToT, we went to Rock N Roller coaster. The wait time was a little longer than we wanted to wait, so we went to the Beauty and Beast show instead. We got there pretty late to be getting a decent seat. We just grabbed 1 at the back of the middle section. Then a VERY tall couple proceeds to sit directly in front of me.. only a few rows down. And the girl was wearing a tiara on her head, so that's in some of my pics. lol These are the times when it's not so great being 4'10.5". hahahaha Anyway, we loved the show. It was great. Charley and I passed the camera back and forth trying to take pics that didn't contain audience members body parts in them.

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

I know you're all happy to see ALL of those pics... sad thing is, that's only half of the ones from the show! lol

 

[DoomBuggy0922]

-Wow! Just 4 stoplights? That’s crazy. There’s, like, four stoplights per light here. I don’t know why. I can’t figure out these Midwesterners yet!
-Chris also cringes when I say VR… maybe it’s because we aren’t married yet? What does he know.
-I’m also really glad you did the PhotoPass disc. Just sayin!
-I like when the characters are nice. I asked Sleeping Beauty once if she had just woken up from a nap, and she looked at me like I was dumb.
-I am sorry your tree fell down--- but I am so jealous that you have a real one! Chris won’t let me get one. I think he’s The Grinch.
-LOL! I just cracked up at your vulture/meat comment. Hahahaha.
-LOL! Guys are so weird. Why do they love to take pictures of animals pooping??
-I’ve never been to Coral Reef. Glad you guys liked it.
-I’m also really sad your honeymoon is ending. ☹
-Awww I’m also sorry your phone died.
-Oohhh pretty pictures. We’re eating there on the 5th--- woohoo!
-You definitely would have supercalifragalisticed the heck out of that word.
-Mickey shaped plates?!
-That’s kind of awesome/kind of annoying about the kids! Darn kids.

I’m really excited to read more, but also really sad that it’s coming to an end. ☹

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

After Beauty & the Beast, we went to Rock N Roller Coaster. The wait was way better by this time. You can take really good pics of the ToT during the walk through.

It didn't take long to go through the line. Before we knew it, it was almost time!!

Then we set out to walk around the park to see what else we wanted to do. We passed some of the actors on our walk.

They noticed us after we had completely passed each other. She stood up in the buggy and turned around to holler at us. She just yelled Congrats, and asked how long it had been since the wedding. We told her..and they both kind of scoffed at us! They said it was too soon. We shouldn't even be out the room yet!!! LOL! We went back and forth for a few mins, and then about our merry way. It was really funny though.

Then we passed by this lovely young lady.

She was talking to her Mother about all of the crazy things and people she was seeing. Then she spotted us standing across the street and started telling her Mother about people that get married down there. Then her Mother wanted to know if she was getting married. lol She said unfortunately not. But she told her everyone just wears the veils around all of the time, even after the weddings. I just shook my head yes at her. She then told her Mother that she thinks the brides only continue to wear them because they want attention! I yelled that's right across to her. haha We stayed there and listened a few mins longer.. and went about our business.

We passed by these interesting people, and I had to take a pic for my Dad.

And of course this 1

I can't remember what we did next. I know we watched The Little Mermaid, and Muppets. I just don't know what order or when really. I don't have pics of those.

Anyway, after that.. we went to Pizza Planet. I know some of you have expressed a dislike for PP, but we loved it. I'm really picky about pizza, so I was shocked that I liked it so much.

Of course, all you get is my half-eaten plate of food.

Then we walked through One Man's Dream. We didn't stay to watch, because it was almost time for us to go on TSM. Finally!

Can you imagine how much this stuff is worth?

 

[jlocmac]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 (cont)

So then it time for TSM. We went to the FP line, which was ridiculously long.

After we made it through part of the line, someone asked us if we were a group of 2... we said yes and got moved into another line.. which was WAY shorter than the 1 we were previously in. After a few more groups, it was our turn!! It was fun, and we laughed. I would ride it again.. but with that said.. I won't wait in a long line, and I won't run to grab a FP. If we make it on, we make it on. It's not a do or die ride for us.

It was probably around 3 or so by this time. I really can't remember. I'm pretty sure it was though. I think I was wrong on the FP time for TSM. I think we were to come back between 2 and 3pm. Anyway, we decided to leave.

On our walk a round, we passed a Photopass person. We decided to stop for pics...especially considering we were in front of ToT.

Then he/she (can't remember) decided to try some other pics.

I thought they came out pretty good!!!

So we headed towards the exit.. again stopping in every store we passed trying to find Charley that damn Mickey hat. We took the tram to our lot.

ToT from our parking spot.

Then we made our way back to the resort to rest and decide what we would do that night. We were originally going to go back to Epcot, but we decided we didn't want to go to the parks. A surprise, I know!

 

[jlocmac]

-Wow! Just 4 stoplights? That’s crazy. There’s, like, four stoplights per light here. I don’t know why. I can’t figure out these Midwesterners yet!
-Chris also cringes when I say VR… maybe it’s because we aren’t married yet? What does he know.
-I’m also really glad you did the PhotoPass disc. Just sayin!
-I like when the characters are nice. I asked Sleeping Beauty once if she had just woken up from a nap, and she looked at me like I was dumb.
-I am sorry your tree fell down--- but I am so jealous that you have a real one! Chris won’t let me get one. I think he’s The Grinch.
-LOL! I just cracked up at your vulture/meat comment. Hahahaha.
-LOL! Guys are so weird. Why do they love to take pictures of animals pooping??
-I’ve never been to Coral Reef. Glad you guys liked it.
-I’m also really sad your honeymoon is ending. ☹
-Awww I’m also sorry your phone died.
-Oohhh pretty pictures. We’re eating there on the 5th--- woohoo!
-You definitely would have supercalifragalisticed the heck out of that word.
-Mickey shaped plates?!
-That’s kind of awesome/kind of annoying about the kids! Darn kids.

I’m really excited to read more, but also really sad that it’s coming to an end. ☹

I shall respond to you now, because I desperately need a break from this TR! My butt is killing me! TMI, I know.

-Yes, just 4 stoplights. It's madness. The closet large town to us is about 20 mins away, so that's where we go for pretty much everything.
-Guys don't know crap. Our VRs are going to be beautiful.
-You really do get a lot of pics if you take advantage of the Photopass people. Not to say that they're always the best of pics, but at least you got 1.
-Don't you just want to slap the characters when they act like that? lol Just sayin!!!
-I'm sorry my tree fell down too. It led to a slight argument 1st things this morning about how he put the stand on.. and we actually think it was all the cat's fault. I've caught him messing with it several times today.. and I've pulled countless chunks of his fur from the needles. Was he climbing it, I don't know. Hidden kitty cam maybe? hahaha We don't normally have real trees either. They make a mess. We have needles everywhere.
-All of our animals were great and funny to me.
-Charley took several pics of the animals doing not to great things. lol We do have a pic of 1 of the largest gorillas pooping that I took at AK but decided not to post. I know 1 yr at Busch Gardens, we came up on their chimps doing the naughty!! And I mean going at it. The male was pushing the females head around and all kinds of crap. Needless to say, the parents were ushering their kids right out of there!! I have pics if you'd like to see!!
-The Coral Reef was good.. all except not sitting by the tanks.
- I'm glad you're eating there. I'm pretty sure the Mickey plates were for the kids.. but Charley just had to have 1. lol

I'm so sad it's almost over. I still have to do vendor reviews though.. and post pics from our high-resolution disk. Plus I was going to check on everyone's FB pages to see if they had any pics from the wedding that I missed. Anything to keep it going.. even though I told Charley that I was almost finished!!!

 

[mebbradley]

I shall respond to you now, because I desperately need a break from this TR! My butt is killing me! TMI, I know.

-Yes, just 4 stoplights. It's madness. The closet large town to us is about 20 mins away, so that's where we go for pretty much everything.
-Guys don't know crap. Our VRs are going to be beautiful.
-You really do get a lot of pics if you take advantage of the Photopass people. Not to say that they're always the best of pics, but at least you got 1.
-Don't you just want to slap the characters when they act like that? lol Just sayin!!!
-I'm sorry my tree fell down too. It led to a slight argument 1st things this morning about how he put the stand on.. and we actually think it was all the cat's fault. I've caught him messing with it several times today.. and I've pulled countless chunks of his fur from the needles. Was he climbing it, I don't know. Hidden kitty cam maybe? hahaha We don't normally have real trees either. They make a mess. We have needles everywhere.
-All of our animals were great and funny to me.
-Charley took several pics of the animals doing not to great things. lol We do have a pic of 1 of the largest gorillas pooping that I took at AK but decided not to post. I know 1 yr at Busch Gardens, we came up on their chimps doing the naughty!! And I mean going at it. The male was pushing the females head around and all kinds of crap. Needless to say, the parents were ushering their kids right out of there!! I have pics if you'd like to see!!
-The Coral Reef was good.. all except not sitting by the tanks.
- I'm glad you're eating there. I'm pretty sure the Mickey plates were for the kids.. but Charley just had to have 1. lol

I'm so sad it's almost over. I still have to do vendor reviews though.. and post pics from our high-resolution disk. Plus I was going to check on everyone's FB pages to see if they had any pics from the wedding that I missed. Anything to keep it going.. even though I told Charley that I was almost finished!!!

I bolded the things that I agree so so so much on!!!