Just the four of us...and several thousand other people (a spring break TR) ~ DONE!

[taymacsmom]

As if waiting a long time for a bus isn't hard enough, you sure don't need to having annoying people talking loudly and making it worse! No magic there! We also love the counter service restaurants. Might even do QSDP next year instead of the DDP.

 

[tigerdragon]

I realize I forgot a little about what we did when we first got back to MK so I'm going to backtrack just a little bit. When we first got there, right after the train station there were all kinds of things set up for kids to do and Alexander found where kids were jump-roping and he really wanted to participate. In my mind I was thinking, but there are so many rides here and you can jump-rope at home. I guess everything is better at Disney World so he just had to do it. He actually had to stand in line for this. Again, only at Disney World.

Then we went and had dinner at Cosmic Ray's, which you already know about.

After dinner Alexander wanted to walk through Mickey and Minnie's houses since he didn't get to do that earlier in the day. So off we went.

Behind Minnie's house

Alexander took this picture of me.

Mickey's house

I'm not sure what Dave and Mia were doing at this time. Probably just hanging out waiting for us.

We thought about taking the train over to Adventureland to ride Jungle Cruise but one was just pulling away so we decided to just walk over there instead. We have never ridden the train once in all of our visits. I hope to someday but it just has never worked out for us. We walked through Fantasyland then to Frontierland and stopped and got fastpasses for Splash Mountain for Dave and Alexander. I don't ride water rides because I hate being wet.

We made it to Adventureland and rode Jungle Cruise and laughed at some of the corny jokes. Alexander seemed to like the ride more than the rest of us. Sorry, no pics from it though. I told Dave not to be one of "those people" taking pictures because by the time we got to the ride it was already dark. I figured the flash would be annoying to everyone else. And yes, it was annoying when there were other people taking pictures. Thankfully nobody took a whole lot of pictures.

After our ride we went to see the Tiki Room show. We've never seen this show before either which will explain my moment of...dorkness. Is that a word? I don't think so but I felt that way for a few minutes. Okay, we had heard on the weather that there was a chance of showers with lightning in the evening. Now, if you've ever been to the Tiki show you know there are what looked like windows to me. Of course it's just part of the design of the building and they aren't really windows. But as the show was going it looked like lightning out the windows. Stupid me, I thought it was starting to storm outside for real. Dave looked at me like I was an idiot when I pointed that out to him. Duh, it was part of the show. I just had to laugh at myself then.

So we all enjoyed the show quite a bit. I wouldn't say it was something we have to do on every trip, but if we have time we'd certainly see it again. I know Mia really liked it because she was dancing along to the music.

By this time it was getting close to 9 pm and Spectromagic would soon begin. Like I've said, we're not really parade people but I do love Spectromagic. We found a great spot in Frontierland and I got ice cream while we waited.

As we were waiting it started to sprinkle a little bit. Dave and Alexander decided to go ahead and ride Splash Mountain instead of watch the parade because they were afraid if it started raining harder they would close the ride. So they left and Mia and I stayed for Spectromagic.

Before the parade started there was a high school marching band that came by. How neat that must be to get to play at WDW. This isn't a good picture but you can see where they were from.

Spectromagic started and I loved all the floats so much and Mia seemed to like them too. At one point Mr. Smee came up to Mia and shook her hand. She wasn't too sure what to make of that since she was still a little timid around the characters.

Here's a few pics of Spectromagic but they aren't really that great.

This is probably my favorite of all the floats. Sorry about the rope in the way, we were sitting down.

This was right before Mr. Smee came up to Mia

And here is an awful picture, but you can see Mia did hold her hand out. The look on her face says "I don't know about this".

Spectromagic ended just as the boys got back from Splash Mountain. Fortunately neither one of them were too wet. They said they loved the ride.

By this time we were all pretty tired and had had a wonderful day at MK. We made our way out through the masses on Main Street who were waiting for the fireworks. We stopped right outside the park and watched a little bit of the fireworks with the train station in the foreground. It was very pretty.

We made it on the bus fairly quickly, nothing like earlier in the day happened thank goodness. When we got back to the room we talked about what we wanted to do the next day. We had absolutely no plans. Alexander said he wanted to go back to AK which was fine with me and Dave since it's our favorite park. We also talked about a few of the things we wanted to do in other parks. So we hatched a plan to try to see all four parks and ride the three main modes of transportation at WDW (bus, ferry, and monorail) in one day. It was an adventurous idea that we've, again, never done before.

Coming up: Did we really visit all four parks in one day?

 

[tigerdragon]

Ducks in the pool....reminds me of the Sapranos!

Hey sis, I'm really enjoying your TR. It's a nice lunch break reading your updates!

LOL, I didn't even think about the Sopranos. That's so true though!

I'm glad I can make your lunch break so enjoyable.

Great MK pictures!

I love the pink madras plaid dress Mia has. Everytime I'm at Disney, I look at all that stuff in that pattern. I want something, but I never make a decision.

Glad you like the pics!

I just loved that pattern. When I saw the dress for Mia I just knew I had to get it. I don't know if you've seen them, but they have Mickey ears with that pattern. I thought those would be pretty neat.

As if waiting a long time for a bus isn't hard enough, you sure don't need to having annoying people talking loudly and making it worse! No magic there! We also love the counter service restaurants. Might even do QSDP next year instead of the DDP.

Yeah, those people were pretty bad. I guess they didn't have enough pixie dust spread on them that day.

I highly recommend the QSDP to anyone. I do enjoy eating at TS, but it's nice to not always be tied down to a reservation. I'm sure we'll use it again some time.

 

[MHTeacher]

So we hatched a plan to try to see all four parks and ride the three main modes of transportation at WDW (bus, ferry, and monorail) in one day.
Coming up: Did we really visit all four parks in one day?

Now that's a plan---Can't wait to hear if you managed to pull it off!

 

[taymacsmom]

Can't wait to find out if you got to all 4 parks in one day. We have managed to do 3 in one day but never 4. How fun!!

 

[tigerdragon]

Our last full day at WDW started with all of us sleeping in til 7:30. Okay, I know in the real world that's not sleeping in but when you're in the world of Disney it is. Mia even slept in and at home she's usually awake by 6:30.

We all got ready for the day and we headed to the bus stop. On our way there we passed the pool and found some ducks swimming around in it again.

Our bus pulled up right away and we were almost left at the bus stop, not because we were slow but because the bus driver literally stayed at the bus stop for about 5 seconds before closing the door. Thankfully a lady there saw us getting up from the benches to get on and yelled at the bus driver to wait on us. We left for AK and we were the only ones riding the bus again.

It was 9:30 by the time we arrived so we didn't make rope drop but that wasn't really a goal today.

Before we went through the gates we saw some characters.

First up was Rafiki

Then we saw Meeko, another first for us

And finally, one of my favorites, Timon. Meerkats are my favorite animal and I told Timon that. He seemed to be very flattered.

We also saw some cast members with a spider and a scorpion. Alexander was fascinated by them so we stopped to see them while Alexander asked some questions about them. I don't remember what he asked now.

We finally got into AK and went to Expedition Everest first to get fastpasses. Then we took the trail from Asia to Africa and saw that a few characters were out.

We saw Terk

Then we saw Flik

While we were waiting I took some pictures of the tree

After we saw Flik I noticed that Dave and Mia were occupied with something. It was DeVine! We have never seen her before and I for one was thrilled!

Dave fell in love with her and could have watched her all day. I have to admit, she was fascinating.

While Dave drooled over her Alexander and I went to see King Louie

I was barely able to pull Dave away from DeVine so we could move on to the rest of the park. We stopped to get a few photopass pictures.

Then we walked over to ride the Safari ride.

Here is one of my favorite photos ever of the kids while we were walking to Safari.

Don't they look so sweet!

We didn't take any pictures on the Safari this time because we just wanted to enjoy it without worrying about getting the perfect pictures. It was a great ride and we saw a lot of animals.

After the ride we decided to walk through the Pangani Forest Trail. First we stopped for a snack of a jalapeno stuffed pretzel and Sprite.

On the trail we saw the naked mole rats, pygmy mice, fish, ducks, etc. Then we came to the meerkats. Oh meerkats, I love you so! There was a CM there who would occasionally yell out some information about the meerkats. I told her she has the best job at WDW because she gets to watch the meerkats all day. She just looked at me and smiled. In her mind I'm sure she was thinking "yeah right lady, you just stand here all day and deal with irritating guests". Then she yelled out to everyone that even though the meerkats look cute you would never want to get near one or have one as a pet since they are wild animals and bite. I think she was talking to me there. Did she think I was going to try to steal a meerkat on my way out? I'm not that crazy.

A few pics of my favorite little animals

Aren't they cute!

We also stopped to watch these guys a little bit.

We left the trail and Alexander and I walked over to ride EE while Dave and Mia stopped to watch DeVine some more.

We met up after the ride and decided to leave AK and have lunch back at CBR. At the bus stop Mia played with a little boy who has the same birthday as her, April 4. He was turning three and Mia was turning two.


More to come later.

 

[tigerdragon]

Now that's a plan---Can't wait to hear if you managed to pull it off!

When we talked about it the night before I couldn't decide if we were being adventurous or crazy. By the end of the day I definitely think crazy.

Can't wait to find out if you got to all 4 parks in one day. We have managed to do 3 in one day but never 4. How fun!!

Which parks were you able to visit?

 

[codygirl5150]

What was Dave doing out in the trees with his shirt off???.....oh my mistake, that was a gorilla! LOL!

You can tell him I said that!

 

[taymacsmom]

We did EPCOT, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom. On our last full day, we always make a list of what ride everyone in the family would like to do one more time. (I always pick Soarin'!) Then we head out to hit the parks with those rides. It's a great way to end the trip.

 

[Disney_Jill]

You know you were planning on taking a meerkat and hiding in your bag on the way out. Guess the CM foiled your plan.
Sounds like you are having a great day!

 

[tigerdragon]

When we got back to CBR we still had not eaten lunch so we ate at the food court. Dave and I both had the turkey BLT that I had had previously. It was just as yummy as before. Dave got the chips with it and I got the pasta salad. Not for me but for Mia. Alexander got chicken nuggets and fries that came in a small pail with a shovel. I think his meal was $6.49 so that was a pretty good use of a kids counter service meal.

When we got back to the room Mia took a nap, I packed (boo!), and Dave and Alexander went off and rented a Searunner for 30 minutes and played in the arcade. They had way more fun than I did.

They got back to the room a little after 4 and we headed off to our next desination - Hollywood Studios. Unfortunately the bus took forever to arrive so we didn't make it to DHS until 5. While we were waiting at the bus stop there was a couple who was on the phone with Disney dining trying to get reservations to a restaurant and they weren't having any luck. They were given a few choices but didn't want to eat there. They asked me what I liked at DTD, where they were heading, and I suggested Wolfgang Puck Express. I guess they didn't like the idea of eating at a counter service place. This just goes to show, if you're going to WDW over spring break make your dining reservations in advance. That's my little PSA.

Okay, so our whole reason for going to DHS was that Dave wanted to get Alexander's picture with Mater and McQueen. Last year Alexander felt he was too old to pose with them but this year he doesn't think he is. I think it's because there is a Cars 2 coming out next year that he's excited to see.

On our way to see Mater & McQueen we stopped to get a Mickey ice cream bar for Alexander and I took this pic

I'm still mourning the fact that the best show ever just ended two days ago. What will I do on Tuesday nights now? I already miss you Jack, Hurley, and the gang. *sigh*

Anywho, so we made it to our favorite Cars and Alexander posed with them like a good boy.

After seeing the cars he just had to buy himself a little toy car so we did some shopping at a stand next to them.

And here's some pictures Dave took while we were waiting on Alexander to pick out his car.

That's one of those "just take my picture and get it over with" smiles.

Since we were so close, Dave and Alexander wanted to ride Star Tours one more time. I stayed back with Mia while they rode. We played around a little bit and then went into the store to wait for them. It just so happens that they were coming out right as we walked in. Just like earlier in the week. Do I have good timing or what? While in the store we bought some space ice cream. I remember thinking that stuff was so cool when I was younger. Now the thought of actually eating makes me sick.

After the ride Dave took some pics of Alexander.

I think Alexander got tired of all the pictures after a while and felt like the papparazzi was stalking him.

With that, we were done with DHS and headed off to catch the ferry to Epcot. Dave was very excited to ride the ferry for some reason. I was just ready to get to Epcot.

We did get to see the Swan & Dolphin, Beach & Yacht Club resorts, and the Boardwalk. We've never seen them before so it was nice to finally see what so many people talk about.

My reason for wanting to go to Epcot was to eat at Sunshine Seasons. I always get the chicken Caesar salad which is good, but I just love the desserts. Yummy!

But, I'm getting ahead of myself. We got off the ferry at the International Gateway at Epcot so we had to walk all the way to Future World for dinner. Mia had enough of the stroller at that point and insisted on walking. It was another very long walk with her. She likes to stop and explore everything. But we finally made it to Sunshine Seasons and I got to have my salad and strawberry shortcake. I asked Dave to get the butterfinger cheesecake which he was more than happy to do. I didn't want to eat cheesecake then but I did want to taste it. He also got the Ginger Mongolian Beef. Alexander got mac & cheese (big surprise). We all enjoyed everything very much. This is a must do on every trip for us.

I would have loved to have ridden Soarin' then but it was getting late and all the fastpasses were gone and the wait time was something like two hours. Instead we chose to ride Living with the Land. It was dark by then so it make the ride a little different.

After that we went over to the Seas and rode Nemo again. This was one of Mia's favorites.

We decided we were done with Epcot so we made our way to the monorail to go to MK. It was getting pretty late by then and we were all tired so we decided not to actually go into MK. But we did get to see all four parks even though we didn't technically enter the gates of MK. Alexander did use the restroom right outside the gates if that counts for anything. And we did get to ride the buses, ferry, and monorail.

It turned out to be an exhausting, adventurous, and fun day and I'm glad we did attempt all four parks. I just don't think we'll ever try it again though.


Up next: Our anniversary and we say good-bye to Disney World

 

[tigerdragon]

What was Dave doing out in the trees with his shirt off???.....oh my mistake, that was a gorilla! LOL!

You can tell him I said that!

Oh you mean sister in law!

We did EPCOT, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom. On our last full day, we always make a list of what ride everyone in the family would like to do one more time. (I always pick Soarin'!) Then we head out to hit the parks with those rides. It's a great way to end the trip.

That sounds like a pretty adventurous day too. That's kind of what we did with the day too although I didn't get to ride Soarin'.

You know you were planning on taking a meerkat and hiding in your bag on the way out. Guess the CM foiled your plan.
Sounds like you are having a great day!

Oh you figured me out, LOL. Dave says that our puppy looks like a meerkat so I guess I do have my meerkat after all. If she was a boy I could have named her Timon.

 

[taymacsmom]

Sorry you didn't make it to all 4 parks. Sounds like you had fun anyway. I feel kind of silly asking since I should know the answer to this but... Where is the ferry you took to Epcot from DHS? I too have never seen the BW and would love to catch a glimpse.

 

[tigerdragon]

Well, I am determined to finish this TR. Sorry it's taken so long to finish it.

We woke up at 6:30 and wanted to try to make it to rope drop at MK. There was no way that was going to happen. Dave had to finish loading the car and then we had to go and check out. On the way to check out Dave and Alexander popped into OPR to fill our mugs one more time and Alexander bought a bucket of Green Army Men.

We got checked out and made it here

Of course we had to take the tram and then the monorail and by the time we got inside MK it was already 9:30.

We started the morning off with me looking for a watch. I saw one the day before at DHS that I liked but didn't buy it then since we were leaving. Of course I couldn't find the same one at MK. So we left the stores without buying anything.

Since it was our anniversary we decided to have some photopass pics taken of just me and Dave. It did feel kind of strange just leaving our kids to the side and not having their pictures made too. But I like the pictures we got of just me and Dave.

We did the obligatory Tinkerbell photos. Look at my acting skills here.

As I promised Alexander, we were going to ride Indy Speedway before anything else so we headed towards Tomorrowland. But we did stop first for fastpasses for Space Mountain.

Alexander was thrilled that he was going to get to ride in a car all by himself. He can't wait to drive already and he's only 9. This is how I feel about him actually driving a real car . The wait was only about 20 minutes so it wasn't too bad. Alexander got in his car first. Then it was me and Mia in the car behind him and Dave was in a car behind us.

Everything went fine for about the first 30 seconds then I saw Alexander just sitting in his car in front of us and not moving forward. I yelled at him to go. I thought he was just waiting for us. He said his car wouldn't work. Well that was just great. I knew he knew how to make the car go so I knew this wasn't his fault. I then heard two oh-so-helpful men start yelling at me from the side where you can watch the cars if there was a brake pedal he was pushing. Clearly they had not ridden before and it was irritating me that they were offering me there "advice". By this time there were several cars backed up behind us. Dave actually got out of his car and checked Alexander's to see if there was something he could do. I really thought at this point a CM would see something wrong, or see Dave out of his car, and come over. That never happened.

So the "helpful" guys, and Dave, started yelling at me to push Alexander's car with mine. I am a rule follower and it does say no bumping. I really just wanted to tell all the guys yelling at me to just shut up. I didn't want to push his car but there was no help coming so I finally gave in and did it.

Dave had the camera and took this picture. You can kind of tell that I was pushing Alexander along here.

And see this sign, it reads "Keep at least one car space between cars". That so didn't happen.

So we made it to the end and realized the engine had just died on Alexander's car and there was just a little key you could turn in the back. Wish I had known that 10 minutes ago. And I still can't believe with me pushing Alexander, Dave getting out of the car, and cars backed up at one point that there was never a CM that saw anything or tried to help. And there are CM's everywhere at WDW! I was so frustrated by that.

Alexander was totally ticked off because he had so been looking forward to driving his own car and then that happened.

But we moved on with our day. We thought we all needed something relaxing after that so we all rode TTA together. I just love that ride!

Don't we look so happy?

A few pics from the ride

Evil Indy Speedway

After that Dave took Alexander to see/ride Stitch. I would have gone because I *gasp* don't totally dislike it but he said he wanted to go.

So while we waited on the boys Mia and I took some pictures which turned out to be some of my favorite ones of the whole trip.

First I got this picture of Mia actually wearing her Mickey ears. And she even posed for me, LOL.

Then we went to a photopass photographer and had these made.

Then the photographer told her to kiss me but she did this instead. It was so cute!

After our pictures we strolled over just in time to catch the Move It Shake It Parade. We enjoyed sitting there and watching everything. Mia was visited by Mr. Incredible and Frozone. She actually let them touch her hand and didn't pull away.

As the parade ended Dave called to see where we were and they walked over and met up with us. We had a little time to kill before our lunch at Crystal Palace so we went into the watch shop to look at more watches. I never did see the one from DHS so I found a classic Mickey watch with a brown band that I really liked. They have all the different Dooney & Bourke Disney bags in that store too so I spent a little bit of time drooling...er I mean looking at them.


Looks like I won't be finishing up today. More of the TR to come later.

 

[tigerdragon]

Sorry you didn't make it to all 4 parks. Sounds like you had fun anyway. I feel kind of silly asking since I should know the answer to this but... Where is the ferry you took to Epcot from DHS? I too have never seen the BW and would love to catch a glimpse.

At Epcot it's just past the exit at the International Gateway which I believe is between UK and France. At DHS as you are going to the buses instead of turning right to go to a bus stop just keep walking and you will see a dock. It's there that the ferry will take you to Epcot, the Boardwalk, and the resorts in that area. I hope I explained that well enough. It's been so long now that it's kind of fuzzy in my memory.

 

[taymacsmom]

At Epcot it's just past the exit at the International Gateway which I believe is between UK and France. At DHS as you are going to the buses instead of turning right to go to a bus stop just keep walking and you will see a dock. It's there that the ferry will take you to Epcot, the Boardwalk, and the resorts in that area. I hope I explained that well enough. It's been so long now that it's kind of fuzzy in my memory.

You explained it perfectly. I cannot wait to ride it! I am loving your report and your kids are too cute! The one of you and your daughter is precious. I wish I had had more pictures taken of myself with my little ones. I was always the one taking the pictures. Someday, when she is older, she will be thrilled to have that picture to look at!

 

[tigerdragon]

So it was finally time for our lunch at Crystal Palace. CP is a must do for us on every trip. We ate there for the first time on Alexander's fifth birthday and loved it. So we vowed to always eat there every time we go to WDW. This was our third time for lunch and we've had breakfast there too. They have all been fantastic! Dave and I decided having lunch there would be a perfect way to celebrate our anniversary so I made a note of it when I made the reservation.

I went and checked us in at the podium and we had to wait about 15 minutes. There were people showing up trying to get a table without a ressie. I think they were getting seated, but they still had an hour or more to wait. Make those ADR's people!

So we were seated conveniently close to the buffet on the right side. We had some Mickey confetti on our table shaped into a heart. So sweet!

Mia must have known it was our anniversary and decided to give us a well-behaved toddler as her gift because she sat down in her high chair without making one little peep. She usually starts crying when she has to sit in a high chair at a restaurant and we pull out everything from crackers to stickers and even Dave's iphone to make her happy. She didn't need anything this time. This was the start of another great meal at CP!

Dave and I took turns going to the buffet to get food for us and the kids. I don't even remember everything we ate now but I do know it was delicious.

Then the characters started coming around. First up was Eeyore, my favorite of the Pooh characters.

It was at this point that Mia decided she actually liked characters now. What! Why couldn't you have decided this a week ago little girl!?! But with her enjoying the characters it made our meal even better.

She liked to hold all of their hands and just rub them. It was really sweet!

Then we had good ol' Pooh bear come around.

He was fantastic with Mia. I think if he could have fit in my bag I would have taken him home with me for Mia to play with.

Next we had Tigger come around. Tigger saw that Alexander was wearing his Jedi Training Academy shirt and kept pointing at it and trying to "say" something about it but Alexander had no clue what he was saying. Truthfully, neither did I. But Tigger was a good sport about it anyway.

Here you can just see the frustration from Tigger that Alexander didn't understand him.

Doesn't it always seem that when you go to character meals there is always one character that takes forever to get to your table? You're done eating and just sitting there waiting...waiting...waiting. Well for us it was Piglet. There was no way we were going to leave without seeing him though. He finally showed up and Mia gave him kisses

and Alexander got his picture and autograph.

After lunch we stopped for a few more photopass pictures.

Then we started making our way towards the exit. We saw Daisy out signing autographs and decided to stop and see her. The line was kind of long but I figured Mia would like to see her since she loves watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

While waiting for Daisy, Dave and I took turns going to the train station. We've never been up there before and the view is spectacular.

We finally made it to Daisy and Mia loved her and was happy to see her.

We were about to leave but Dave decided he wanted a picture by himself with Daisy. I had no idea Dave was so in love with a duck. So I guess that makes Daisy and Devine that Dave fell in love with on this trip.

I told Daisy that Donald better watch out.

And with that, we were finished with the Magic Kingdom. We made our way over to the monorail to head back to our car. As we sat down I realized we never used our fastpasses to ride Space Mountain. I whispered that to Dave but there was no way I was letting Alexander know about it or he would have been begging to go back in.

We finally made it to the car and started to head off to Downtown Disney. Before we made it there though Dave wanted to stop and watch the racecars at, what is it called, the Richard Petty Driving Experience. I hope that's the right name. I always want to call it the Tom Petty Driving Experience. I'm not a Nascar person, can you tell? Dave really does want to try this out sometime.

We stopped for gas at the Hess station and then set off for Downtown Disney. Our first stop was the Lego store for Alexander. Oh yeah, I should mention, as soon as Mia got in the car she was out. We were able to put her in the stroller at DTD and she didn't wake up with all the moving. So like I said, Alexander went to the Lego store and spent the last of his money. Then we went to Once Upon a Toy and got a light saber for Alexander (because apparently the 15 or so he has at home just isn't enough ). I also bought a Disney Villains Monopoly game and a few other things.

We had a few snack credits left so I popped into Goofy's Candy Co. to pick up some goodies. Then I got us some sandwiches from Earl of Sandwich to eat on the road with the remaining CS credits. They were wonderful!

And that was the end of our time at Disney World. I don't know when exactly we'll be back. We want to see Disneyland and go on a cruise, Disney of course, so it might be a few years before we head back. But we will definitely be back to the Happiest Place on Earth.

 

[tigerdragon]

You explained it perfectly. I cannot wait to ride it! I am loving your report and your kids are too cute! The one of you and your daughter is precious. I wish I had had more pictures taken of myself with my little ones. I was always the one taking the pictures. Someday, when she is older, she will be thrilled to have that picture to look at!

I'm glad I made sense, LOL.

Thanks for the compliments! You're so sweet! I used to not be in most of the pictures then I started making a point to switch off being the camera person with Dave. Of course having the photopass people everywhere to take our pictures helps too.

 

[taymacsmom]

Wow! Done already. I get a sad feeling in the pit of my stomach even when someone else's trip comes to an end. Is that wierd? Unhealthy? Anyway, sounds/looks like a terrific trip! I took alot of notes from your report to use for our trip in 2011. We're coming up on only 12 months away (unless I change my mind and decide to go in August instead of the end of June!) Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories!

 

[tinkerbell615]

We only have about three weeks until we leave and I have enjoyed reading your report. I love the pictures of Alexander with Mater and Lightening McQueen. DS's fiancee's little boy will be so excited to see them. He loves cars! I hope we can find them. I have asked where they are and can't remember what I was told. He still does not know where we are going on 'cation (that's what he calls it), and I have been told we can't tell him until we pull out of the driveway. DH and I are about to burst at the seams!

I also can not wait to try the photopass pictures this time.

Thanks for the report !