Joy in the World, A Christmastime TR of sorts. Lots of pics.

[morgtroy]

I am in! We leave on Saturday morning, and I am so excited I cant contain myself..so any pics I see of yours today and tommorow are going to make it worse!!! Glad you had a great trip!!

Thanks for subbing, I already posted to your TR to have a magical time.

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Count me in too!! I'll be there in 8 days and can hardly wait to see all the holiday decorations!

You will love the decorations, they do an amazing job.

I'm subbing! Congratulations on your win - looks like it couldn't have happened for nicer people! Your trip looks beautiful so far! We are owners at SSR - love it!

Thanks for your very sweet comments. We had a wonderful time.

I'm here for the show!!! I want to see all the christmas decorations. Did you go to MVMCP?? The entrance of MK is so pretty with all the wreaths and garland.

It is so pretty at Christmas. Yes we did do MVMCP, I'll post about that later. Thanks for subbing.

I see that they have added more flower decorations in front of the MK. The Mickey head made with poinsettia's were not there Nov. 12th yet.

I looked for your link to your pre-trip. How did you win the DVC for 3 years? Was it part of the YOAMD?

The grounds crews are very talented. I noticed one morning that sometime during the night or very early morning they had changed all the flowers in the gardens right in front of our building. Part of the Magic.
I entered a contest that was on the Disney email newsletter. I still can't believe I won. All the people with the contest were so very, very nice to speak with. It wasn't part of YOAMD, but it sure was a Dream to me. I look forward to the adventures over the next 3 years. My DH couldn't make this trip, it's harder for him to get off work, but we hope to go back next year, the whole family. As I said I'm still blown away and feel so very blessed.
Thanks for subbing.

 

[bop28]

I'm in! But did I miss the dates of your trip?

 

[caralyn817]

I'm hooked! Can't wait to hear more and see some more picture! I leave in a few days for a trip of my own and can't wait.

 

[morgtroy]

I'm in! But did I miss the dates of your trip?

Thanks for subscribbing, the dates were Nov. 28 - Dec 3, we just got back.

I'm hooked! Can't wait to hear more and see some more picture! I leave in a few days for a trip of my own and can't wait.

I hope you have a blast, I was just in awe of the decorations, so pretty. Thanks for subbing.

 

[morgtroy]

This was Friday after Thanksgiving in MK and a specto night, no less. Of course it was crowded. But we're in Disney world so what.
We walked in to these sights.

The castle lights were not on yet, but I was loving all the decorations. I don't remember exactly what we did first but there were waits and crowds. I think we checked out the wait times at Buzz and Space Mt. Too long. We then went to toontown and checked out Mickey and Minnie's house. The wait times for the Fairies and princesses was too long. We took the train over to Frontierland. We did manage to ride Aladdin Carpet Rides and Big thunder Mt. Railroad.

We did a glimpse of this from Frontierland.

What's next?

 

[autumnpalm]

Oh, it's so beautiful.

Enjoying your TR so far!!

 

[morgtroy]

Oh, it's so beautiful.

Enjoying your TR so far!!

Thanks for subbing. You don't have long. Can't wait to hear about your trip. Staying at the poly would be a dream. That resort is so beautiful.

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

How did I miss this? I glanced through the PTR...great pics btw! And so far this one is wonderful. I wish I could rush it so I could see everything before we go. You must live close to me??? It takes us about 9 hours too. Sometimes longer depending on when we leave. PM me your town if you prefer not to say on here. The holiday stuff is looking so pretty and you...OMG you won a DVC for 3 years! How lucky! What a wonderful prize. How many times a year can you go? I wish we could win a free trip...but man, three years worth! That's great! Okay girl...I am here for a couple of more days anyway. Show me as much as you can.

 

[morgtroy]

How did I miss this? I glanced through the PTR...great pics btw! And so far this one is wonderful. I wish I could rush it so I could see everything before we go. You must live close to me??? It takes us about 9 hours too. Sometimes longer depending on when we leave. PM me your town if you prefer not to say on here. The holiday stuff is looking so pretty and you...OMG you won a DVC for 3 years! How lucky! What a wonderful prize. How many times a year can you go? I wish we could win a free trip...but man, three years worth! That's great! Okay girl...I am here for a couple of more days anyway. Show me as much as you can.

Yes, I do live kind of close to you. I'll PM you. Yes OMG is right. Like I said, I still can't believe it. The points really vary by room style and times of the year. Kind of like the prices, value season uses less points, weekdays are less points than weekends. If you use them wisely you could get several trips in a year. I'm still in shock. I wouldn't even let myself get excited about it until I got everything. The prize even included cash to pay taxes on it. My tax guy wasn't thrilled until I told him that, then he was like OMG, go and have a blast. Along with the excitement, I have a great feeling of being humbled by it, thinking how blessed. I like the word blessed better than lucky, since I know all good things come from God.
Thanks for joining, I posted to your report that I'll get the times guides to you tonight. I'll try to get more pics up for you and the others that are going soon.

 

[tmkinney]

Great start, loving all the Christmas pics!

 

[morgtroy]

We were in the masses and going to do the later, 2nd Spectro. But first Wishes. Love the music starting up. And we were standing on the bridge and had a great viewing area. Got a close up of tinkerbell, but unfortunately it's on my camcorder instead of photos. I'll try to get that uploaded later. But here are some pics. Dare I say it again, the castle was amazing. Ok it's a lot of pics of the castle, but you know they change the lights and it looks different and well you know I just it.

Then we made our way, wall to wall people to the bathrooms over near Crystal Palace. Luckily most people were leaving. Then we went down Main St. to the train station to watch Specto.
It was so beautiful, my pics do not do it justice.

 

[morgtroy]

It did clear out some and we hung out around the train station and got some popcorn and had a great place to watch spectro. The closest I've ever been. We've watched it from near the castle and also in Frontierland before but this time right in front of the train station.
My DD took some pics in an area they have near the train station. (Sorry, didn't get rid of red eye on those.)
Here they are..

And Spectro

These guys have got to get dizzy.

I got a kick out of this one. The lights on the umbrella kind of look like lightning in my pic

Well, that's it for our first few hours in the world...Am I posting too many pics? This is not every pic, I'm insane with photos. I told you guys I scrapbook.

 

[morgtroy]

Great start, loving all the Christmas pics!

Thanks, this will be mostly a photo report. I just left photobucket running at home one night this weekend to upload pics and I only uploaded part of them. You know how many pictures I take. Crazy I know.

 

[heaven2dc]

I was so excited when I heard you won the DVC contest and now you're on your first DVC trip! How blessed you truly are I can't even imagine!

I will be leaving this Saturday and staying at BWV with boardwalk view and will be taking hundreds of pics myself. My daughter, fiance & baby w/b joining me on the 17th and I can hardly stand it I'm so excited!

The Christmas decorations are so beautiful - your pics are great! Since you arrived on the Friday after Thanksgiving, how were the crowds compared to previous trips? (it looked a little packed but considering the holiday weekend, I guess you would expect that.) Our MK day is the day my DD arrives (we have base tickets) and we hope to see Wishes that night since I didn't buy MVMCP tickets. I plan to go to one park per day before she arrives to take all the pics I can so I can help her with DGS who is 14 mos old. That way she & her fiance can enjoy themselves while I enjoy my grandson!

You have a beautiful family and I hope you had a wonderfully magical vacation

 

[morgtroy]

I was so excited when I heard you won the DVC contest and now you're on your first DVC trip! How blessed you truly are I can't even imagine!

I will be leaving this Saturday and staying at BWV with boardwalk view and will be taking hundreds of pics myself. My daughter, fiance & baby w/b joining me on the 17th and I can hardly stand it I'm so excited!

The Christmas decorations are so beautiful - your pics are great! Since you arrived on the Friday after Thanksgiving, how were the crowds compared to previous trips? (it looked a little packed but considering the holiday weekend, I guess you would expect that.) Our MK day is the day my DD arrives (we have base tickets) and we hope to see Wishes that night since I didn't buy MVMCP tickets. I plan to go to one park per day before she arrives to take all the pics I can so I can help her with DGS who is 14 mos old. That way she & her fiance can enjoy themselves while I enjoy my grandson!

You have a beautiful family and I hope you had a wonderfully magical vacation

Thanks for your very sweet words about my family. We did miss my hubby not being with us this trip. Our past trips have been the most fun family thing and we are a tight little family so one of us not there was a little sad. I was glad my MIL got to go.
Yes it was crowded that night. I prepared everyone, well I tried to, that it would be crowded Fri and Sat. The crowds did ease a little on Sunday and a little more on Mon. and Tues. We did do MVMCP, I'll put more info on that later, but I called it Mickey's Very Crowded Christmas rotfl: . We've gone in Sept on both previous trips and the crowds are lighter then. But it was worth a little crowd to see the decorations. So, so pretty.
I hope you have the most magical trip, be sure to take your grandson to camp Minnie Mickey in AK to get his pictures with the characters.

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Candy Cane Garden...is that where Santa meets? Tell me about the meet and greets. Were they dressed up for the holidays yet? Were you able to meet Red Belle anywhere other than the party? Great Pics and thanks for sending the times over!

 

[luckylady]

Congrats on winning the DVC. That makes taking trips there so much eaiser. Looking at all those great pictures makes me want to go back there. Hmm thank you I think i may hvae to plan a couple only trip for next Dec. I miss being there at that time. Can't wait to read more.

 

[morgtroy]

Candy Cane Garden...is that where Santa meets? Tell me about the meet and greets. Were they dressed up for the holidays yet? Were you able to meet Red Belle anywhere other than the party? Great Pics and thanks for sending the times over!

I think Santa may be there at times, but he wasn't then. During MVMCP, they had him on a bench in the circle right in front of the train station. They took your picture with the castle and main st at your back. We unfortunately didn't want to wait in the long line for that. I also regret to say we did not see Belle in her red dress or the fairies. We stopped by twice and both times the wait was an hour. Most of the character meet and greets did have holiday outfits on. Too cute.
I will say if you are doing the photopass try to get a pic with the fairies and with Bolt at HS. I didn't know this before the trip but they have some really cute photopass borders for the fairies and for Bolt. I'll be posting some character pics soon.

Congrats on winning the DVC. That makes taking trips there so much eaiser. Looking at all those great pictures makes me want to go back there. Hmm thank you I think i may hvae to plan a couple only trip for next Dec. I miss being there at that time. Can't wait to read more.

Great, you should do a Christmas trip. I loved all the decorations. Thanks for following along.

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

I think Santa may be there at times, but he wasn't then. During MVMCP, they had him on a bench in the circle right in front of the train station. They took your picture with the castle and main st at your back. We unfortunately didn't want to wait in the long line for that. I also regret to say we did not see Belle in her red dress or the fairies. We stopped by twice and both times the wait was an hour. Most of the character meet and greets did have holiday outfits on. Too cute.
I will say if you are doing the photopass try to get a pic with the fairies and with Bolt at HS. I didn't know this before the trip but they have some really cute photopass borders for the fairies and for Bolt. I'll be posting some character pics soon.

Cool. DD is taking both Holiday Belle's in hopes of getting a picture with her dressed this way. I hate lines but I'm going to have to stand in one for Santa. Speaking of....I need to get the PP ordered. Like TODAY. Your pictures are making me want to go right now. I can't wait to see these character pics. We're big time character nerds.

 

[luckylady]

Great, you should do a Christmas trip. I loved all the decorations. Thanks for following along.

We have gone there for Christmas..twice. Once in 2002 and after I said I'd never go at Christmas again found ourselves there again in 2004. I'm thinking first week in Dec should be no crowds.