Last update 3-31 Culli live lots of pics 2 posts worth...sadly going home today

[Disney Princess]

I don't know how I missed these before! Thanks for the pictures of EVERYTHING. Your family is so precious. It looks like you are making some great memories. I love the pictures on the couch after the 2:40 am MK night. Priceless. I hope you are enjoying yourselves!

 

[Sandy321]

Great HOCKEY pic!! I have to tell you my boys are now graduated HS (one graduated college ) Both were Hockey Players - the younger one had a girl on her team from early on - and everyone respected her - she was the smartest player on the team!! I think she viewed that hockey rink like a "pool table" always figuring out where that puck was going to be!!

gotta luv Hockey!! (esp compared to sitting out in the sun for a baseball game that never, ever seems to end!! Hockey - Ice is expensive... one hour. Done! )

 

[culli]

Had another awesome day at EPCOT yesterday...then went to the boardwalk at night.

I bet I saw something most people don't..........I saw a young girl getting arrested on the boardwalk. She must have been 17-20 and it was a knee slapper I tell ya. She was going nuts kicking, screaming, swinging at the cops...the cops did a great job of keeping things under control. They brought her down and cuffed her... she was going crazy, one cop had his stun gun out, now that would have just made my day. I'm so mad I didn't have a camera or my BB doesn't have a camera or video on it...NOW THAT would have been priceless. Everyone at ESPN club was laughing at her and was amazed at the fit she was doing...she might have also been on a trip? I can just imagine her going back home and answering the questions so how was your vacation at Disney...."ah got arrested on the boardwalk". I wonder if they have a special trading pin for getting arrested at Disney, I assume not a lot of people can claim that one. The cops and the Disney CMs did a really good job...I would have bounced her head off the cement a few times to settle her down. But than again probably why I wasn't a cop....someone does something stupid I say your going get what you coming to ya! Ok ok don't want to turn a nice vacation thread into a political thing so here are some HAPPY pics.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Cananda EH! I told my daughter to ask the lady at kidscot to spell her name in Canadian.....the lady looked at me and I said Santina EH! She laughed!

Belle.......Daddy's favorite!!!!!!! I like the yellow dress better.

 

[J&JAKV08]

Great trip report!! Thanks for posting. Your family is beautiful!!

 

[Greyhound22]

Great story...well not so much for the girl. I hope that isn't typical of the boardwalk. Enjoy the rest of your stay.

 

[culli]

Great story...well not so much for the girl. I hope that isn't typical of the boardwalk. Enjoy the rest of your stay.

We have stayed at the BW twice for a total of 13 nights (went down their almost all of those nights) and gone down their 3x's with this stay and this is the ONLY thing that I have seen. It has always been very family friendly and fun.

 

[culli]

We are leaving tomorrow, hard to believe that 2 weeks went by this fast. We loved the whole time and I could easily stay another 2 weeks. I wonder if our kids think we live here now? I'm sure it will be a mess when we leave but all good things must come to an end?

I want to thank everyone for sharing in our trip and all the kind words that you said about our family. I hope all of you post pics and do trip reports because I know I try to read them all and love looking at the pics.

Goodbye my friends and again thank you!

Some AK photos:

We had to tell my youngest son (Joey Deuce) that this was Marty (Zebra from Madagascar) and being it was in the morning and a little nippy he was wearing a coat..........yup it worked. Also we asked multiple CM and they no Zerbras at AK. I thought I saw pics of them so maybe they only at the villas?

Ahhhh the live of a male lion!

This is where a white rhino got on the trail and we were stuck right in front of the elephants for about 20mins. Usually when this happens I'm stuck looking at a brick wall or something. The elephants were very active and entertaining....I took about 30 pics of them but will only post a few.

Here are the white rhinos that caused the delay... when we got off the ride the FP line was out to the village. You can see one of the "zoo keeper?" vehicles in the 2nd pic.

Hint if you have kids, they have all the big name characters at Camp Mickey and the couple times we went it was dead, very small lines. it is continous line so they just switch "Mickey" not have him take a 15 min break.

Ok this was weird......they started the show, dancers everything then like 5-10 mins into it they said "sorry due to an unforseen situation the show is cancelled please exit". However they brought out all cast to mingle an take pics. Most people left so it was great and I don't think they are use to meeting and talking so it was really neat. They didn't have that "act" type personality it had the feeling of you were actually talking to a person, not sure if that makes sense or not. It worked out great for us as my wife, daughter and I already seen the show and the boys were just starting to enter meltdown mode. My daughter was loving meeting them all especially the female parrot. From what I gather someone got sick, was kind of weird how they started the show....my guess whoever it was might have been their last with Disney. The only part of the show that we didn't see mingle was the fire jugglers or whatever they are called so hopefully it wasn't serrious?

 

[culli]

Sadly we are leaving for the airport in a few hours...already checked in etc - gotta love the on resort check in magical express. Tried to post last night and I get everything in here and hit post I get that the site is down for maint..........what are the odds!!! However I always copy and paste into MS words as I have gotten burnt on that type of thing before.

These pics should give those wanting to know more about stromalong bay for the little ones. Kids would have spent the whole trip there so good thing it wasn't open until Saturday! The zero depth/beach thing they got going on is amazing I wish all resorts would do that. The pictures don't do the place justice it is plain amazing!

Kids loved playing "Dad is the shark" and they would run away up the beach.

The bridge going to the boardwalk

Waiting in the grass for the next boardwalk show

DTD - wish the pic would have turned out better or they had photo pass there as it would be a good Christmas card. Those of you looking for a good place to take a good photo for cards this is at DTD.

I have never seen a white as white as this outfit on Mary Poppins. Every MP I see just seems to be "Mary Poppins", hard to explain but they seem to always get this one right. Doesn't seem like they are in an "outfit" or done up!?

EPCOT was closing and Joey was so upset he didn't want to stop riding Nemo. I know people are the get there at rope drop but that seems to stressful. We are night people on vacation and sleep in, NO LINES stay on the rides as long as you want make them kick you out of the park..........that is the way we roll hehehehehe.

Camp May Goofy breakfast...no Mickey but Minnie, Donald and Goofy are there. The concierge made it my daughters birthday, he said it is worth it. Well they did sing Happy Birthday and came around twice to the table...and we also got two cupcakes for the kids.

Poor James spilt a full glass of OJ literally seconds before Donald showed up followed by the characters again on his own shorts...poor guy he was so upset but eventually got over it.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh home sweet home, have even left yet and I miss the place so I thought this would be a fitting picture to end the trip report!

 

[Disney Princess]

So great! I loved reading your trip report. It looks like your family made some wonderful memories. Thanks for sharing it with us!

 

[SunnieRN]

Awesome trip report!! Thank you for sharing your memories with us!!!

 

[Buckeye Fan]

This is the only pic of her I have on this computer playing hockey....it is from the 07-08 season. I also have one of her little 3 year old brother.

OMG! I think that's awesome, and the pictures are priceless!

I absolutely love hockey. My son is 13, and has played since he was 4. I keep trying to get my daughter to play (she's 6), but she has NO interest. Bummer!

Thanks for posting pics. That made my evening! She is SOOOO cute.