Magic in a Winter Wonder World with 1,648 pictures

[WDWPrincess486]

I love your pictures!! And I really enjoy Space Mountain...I'm so happy they updated both the ride and the queue...it needed it! Can't wait to see more updates

 

[MICKEY4EVER!]

I can't believe your wait for Mickey was only 10 minutes! And you got Minnie in there with him! Totally awesome.

Your girls are so cute! I love all of the pictures you've got so far.

 

[praisehisname]

Great update and pictures! I'm so glad Space Mountain will be up and running when we get there!

 

[MICKEY4EVER!]

Great update and pictures! I'm so glad Space Mountain will be up and running when we get there!

Aw, have fun! You'll be there before you know it.

I like your screen name, by the way!

 

[kcandbella]

Subscribing! I am loving all the Christmas pics--can't wait to see more!

 

[disney<333]

I love your pics and all of the Christmas details throughout the park! So cool!

Thanks Becky! The christmas decorations are awesome and really make the most magical place on earth even more magical.

Thankfully, the music teachers do. Any play/concert I would be in charge of - people would run screaming! That wouldn't be very fun, would it?

Screaming? I think your exaggerating a little bit, no?

I love your pictures!! And I really enjoy Space Mountain...I'm so happy they updated both the ride and the queue...it needed it! Can't wait to see more updates

Thank you! I used to love SM but then I started getting sick on those kind of rides. After I had Emily so now I can't ride anymore. It desperately needed it. Half of me says PP needs it the other half says it doesn't. I think it needs at least more pirate ships.

I can't believe your wait for Mickey was only 10 minutes! And you got Minnie in there with him! Totally awesome.

Your girls are so cute! I love all of the pictures you've got so far.

I couldn't believe it earlier. The secret is to go at night.
Thanks for the complements on the girls and my pictures.

Great update and pictures! I'm so glad Space Mountain will be up and running when we get there!

Thanks! Only 6 days!!

Aw, have fun! You'll be there before you know it.

I like your screen name, by the way!

I second that.

Subscribing! I am loving all the Christmas pics--can't wait to see more!

Thanks for subbing. I'm doing an update right now.
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Tomorrow I'm teaching 3 art classes for Brownies so I ran around and was a crazy woman today working on that. Tonight was the closing ceremony for softball. The girls both got a trophy and they have a ceremony when all the teams go run on the field. Then they pick three "all stars" from each team to play in the all star game. Emily got chosen from her team.

 

[disney<333]

By the time we got of IASW it was 8:15. A special prince and princess had to go to the restroom so we went by PP.
Then we went to go use our FPs for Pooh.
Piglet looks a little scared to go on the ride.

question of the day is Piglet a boy or girl?

Get off your chair and come bounce!

Tigger is eager

Guy on the left- Eeyore's cousin?

While this is going on

Pooh is busy stuffing his face

Where do you get dumped into after a ride in Disney world?
A gift shop, of course!

You see that Pluto? Paint a picture of it in your head you'll need it for later.
By the time we got off Pooh it was 8:35. I talked to Mitch about different options of what to do.
Me- "The parade is in 25 minutes Main street is going to be crazy."
(Mitch's grumpy pill has kicked in.)
Mitch- I Don't care. I want to catch the 9:25 bus.
(The bus was only at 25 and 55.)
Me- "We can go to toontown and catch the train"
Mitch- "Nope"
Me- "We can ride HM and BTM with no wait and catch the 55."
Mitch- "Let's just go Mainstreet."
Me- "The parade is starting you can't walk!"
Mitch- "Yes I can!"
Me- "We'll see about that."
He was acting like the old man from Up.
I wanted to see the parade anyway. So we go through the castle and can't walk on the street and everybody is parked like a can of tuna fish on the sidewalk. A nice big I told you so!
So we parked our selves on the sidewalk. We were about 7 rows back but were still able to see pretty well there was just no room to bend my knees.
Here it comes

It's getting closer

I now present to you

The head mouse

Some instrument people

Chip n' Dale have started taking piano lessons and now was there big concert

I'd love to see this everyday

Here comes my friend

Go away Ursala!

 

[disney<333]

This guy escaped his fish tank and some how made it to the Magic Kingdom parade

This guy reminds me of the cricket

I have no idea how

The pigs are entering

Here comes Cinderella all dolled up to go out with her prince

Here comes snow white and her crew

Minnie is all dazed up for the parade

After the parade we were headed here

 

[ladybugmom]

YAY!! I just LOVE Spectromagic!! Sorry your hubby was a grump--it happens to the best of us doesn't it?!

 

[longing2Batdisney]

Hello! Barabra,
sorry I've been MIA, I have been just popping in reading and going about things around the house and errands.
sounds like fun teaching brownie classes...Congrats to the girls!!!
fun updates!!! funny how men get...Danny does stuff like that too !!!

Have a great weekend!
Connie

 

[praisehisname]

After the parade we were headed here

Uh oh...should we be worried?

 

[MICKEY4EVER!]

We went to meet Mickey at like Midnight last year (2008) and line was STILL forty minutes! I'm so glad you didn't have to wait as long. THat's a miserable wait with a little one.

I love your parade pictures! I could just hear the music as every picture rolled by.

My DH always gets GRUMPY when we go to WDW. That is why he now chooses to stay home. He doesn't like Disney! I can't imagine why!

 

[Brave teacher]

I am all caught up now! I can't believe Mcikey was on ly at 10 minutes! I hope I can pull a wait time like that for our next trip! Thanks for the SM pics! Why don't DH listen to us during times like this. Your plan would have worked out better (in my mind at least...heeheehee). At least you got an impromptu showing of Spectromagic!

I didn't realize how much I had to catch up on since my lst post. You are quick!

 

[disney<333]

YAY!! I just LOVE Spectromagic!! Sorry your hubby was a grump--it happens to the best of us doesn't it?!

I love it too. He was acting like if he missed that bus then he would be stuck in a desert for a year.

Hello! Barabra,
sorry I've been MIA, I have been just popping in reading and going about things around the house and errands.
sounds like fun teaching brownie classes...Congrats to the girls!!!
fun updates!!! funny how men get...Danny does stuff like that too !!!

Have a great weekend!
Connie

Hey Connie,
It's o.k. I think the only way to stay on top of all the TRs is to DIS 24/7 and who was time for that? Teaching the classes was fun but a lot of work getting it set up and then cleaned up. I was so glad Amy volunteered to come help. Emily was sleeping and I knew better than to wake her up.
Yes, like Carl from Up!

Uh oh...should we be worried?

Not at all.

We went to meet Mickey at like Midnight last year (2008) and line was STILL forty minutes! I'm so glad you didn't have to wait as long. THat's a miserable wait with a little one.

I love your parade pictures! I could just hear the music as every picture rolled by.

My DH always gets GRUMPY when we go to WDW. That is why he now chooses to stay home. He doesn't like Disney! I can't imagine why!

40 minutes at midnight! That's crazy.
I tear up when ever I hear the music. "On this magic nighttt a million lights are..."
Men need to go back for naps, I think.
He doesn't like Disney!!

 

[disney<333]

After the parade we made our way over to Guest Relations. When we were getting FPs for I think Buzz the CM told us before we left to get our passes re-printed so we did just that.

We were served pretty quick.
Once we were done we went back to the TTC via monorail. How I wish I could ride those everyday!!
A bus came a few minutes after we got there and we went back to the hotel.
Before I continue here was the plan for the trip.
Arrival day- MK
Day 1- AK and DHS at night for Fantasmic
Day 2- Epcot
Day 3- DHS
Day 4- MK
Day 5- DTD
So, a few days before the trip I was talking to my BFF on the phone and she said that her and her family would be at the MK sunday. I had always thought it would be so cool to go to Disney with them. But that meant changing our whole trip plans.
So, what did we choose?
You'll find out tomorrow.
Coming up next: Character Booliza

 

[that's nice]

Geez.... page 7????

Sorry Barbara, I didn't realize you started. I did take a small DIS hiatus though. Now I have to go back and read all 7 pages.

 

[disney<333]

Do you have any holiday traditions? Some thing that you do every year?
Please share!
Here are some of mine:
-Go drive around and look at the lights at Tradewind's park. (If you watched the episode of J and K plus 8, when Kate took the little girls to Butterfly world in Fl, that's the park.)
-Decorate a gingerbread house with graham crackers. (one that looks like junk but is fun to make and taste good)
-After christmas go to Michael's and buy gingerbread house kits on clearance and decorate them on new years eve.
-Go drive around neighborhoods on christmas eve and look at lights.
- Watch christmas day parade.
- This is a holiday tradition I like to happen every year. Go to Disney at the start of the holiday season. (thanksgiving) We went all the time when we lived in Orlando, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, and hopefully 2010.
- Have a Hanukkah party on the 2nd night of Hanukkah and have my mom and grandma come. This year it is going to be Mickey's very merry Hanukkah party.
- Bake holiday cookies (This weekend)
- Go to the movies on christmas day
- Have Emily peek at presents. I don't like this tradition but every year she searches the whole house. So now I have the list and Friday I'll just go and buy everything and wrap it up. (2 layers)

 

[disney<333]

I am all caught up now! I can't believe Mcikey was on ly at 10 minutes! I hope I can pull a wait time like that for our next trip! Thanks for the SM pics! Why don't DH listen to us during times like this. Your plan would have worked out better (in my mind at least...heeheehee). At least you got an impromptu showing of Spectromagic!

I didn't realize how much I had to catch up on since my lst post. You are quick!

I hope you can too. I have no idea!! Before we left and I was obsessively planning the plan was to watch it by HM then ride HM and BTM. (Both were supposed to be walk on) and then take the train to MS and leave.
Thanks to my new friend, the bulk uploader on PB I can upload 50 pictures in 1 minute.

Geez.... page 7????

Sorry Barbara, I didn't realize you started. I did take a small DIS hiatus though. Now I have to go back and read all 7 pages.

Better late then never is what I always like to say.
Have fun reading.

 

[disney<333]

So what did we choose?
Magic Kingdom with our friends.
The alarm clock was set for 7 but everyone stayed in bed until after 7:30.
We got ready for the day and had breakfast in the room. We got to the bus stop at 8:25 we just missed the MK bus so I decided we should just hop on the Epcot bus that came 5 minutes later.

By the time we got to Epcot it was 8:50 we had time to make RD at Epcot but the next day was supposed to be RD dat at Epcot so we monorailed (new word) over to the TTC
From there we hopped on a ferry.
A lot of work hugh?
Do Disney a favor and celebrate today

Time? 9:30.
The girls were saying on the drive up the day before that there was a certain guy that they just had to see who was known for lying. Anybody know who that may be?

That's right!
When we saw Pinnachio Mitch went to the bathroom an then to get FPs for SM they weren't until 12:15.
We met him up at SM
The walk over

We would be riding this later in the day

Aww, how peaceful

We would also be seeing this

and going inside here

Mitch caught sight of us and together we all walked over to TLS.
Trip after trip Amy has wanted to drive the car by herself but was always to short. Now she was finally big enough..

and was happy about that.
The wait was 25 minutes so we didn't get to ride right then.
crowd level

We then went over to Toon town to see some friends.
We had the fairies in mind but they had an hour wait But the princesses only had a 15 min wait.
So we saw them.
I was going to take a picture of the wait time sign but the CM looked at a guy who was about to like he was crazy. So, I decided not to.
tree while waiting in line

First up was this nice lady

Oh yea, when we were waiting in line my friend called and we decided to meet at SM at 10:25.
Next was Cindy

Picture limit

 

[disney<333]

First family shot of the trip

The girls and I thought Mitch should have a picture taken with Cindy by himself but he decided against it.
Last, but not least was Belle.

Where to next?