Monsters, bugs, and… Jack Sparrow!? Final Update 7/13!!!!

Aww look at Jack on the monorail! He's having the time of his life! :goodvibes

You all really took pictures of EVERYTHING didn't ya? Love it! :thumbsup2

I showed DBFF your Jack and she likey! :lovestruc
 
Just got caught up on your TR after our move. Loving all the pics and how you added Mickey and Minnie!

Had to tell you, I finally got a Dole Whip yesterday on our first day trip being Florida residents. I went all out with the Pineapple Float! Thank you for helping me find it.

Oh, and wanted to ask you what day you were at Animal Kingdom. I was thinking we were at WDW at the same time and we got hit with a huge rain storm on Friday, June 20th.

Looking forward to the next installment.
 
Wow you guys had great luck with the Monsters!! Dh would love to get picked, me not so much!! LOL With my luck I will be the one picked!!! But hey you are in Disney, who cares, have fun!! Loved the update, can't wait to hear more when you get back!! BTW, did you end up wearing your Tie Dye shirts?? (I am also over on that thread!!lol)
 
Great so far! I really like the Animal Kingdom:simba: pictures and the pictures with Jack. pirate: Can't wait for more.


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I was looking at my subscriptions and I was listed as last post on your tr today. :confused3

:lmao:
Jacob was using my computer and forgot to log out of my user, so the top of this post is from him.
 

Whew caught back up on your tr. I have had one heck of a two weeks so it was nice to immerse myself in your trip for a while today. We got moved into the new house, mostly. I had to go out of town for a business trip for a week then when I came back to town one of my cats had been missing for two days already but my husband did not want to tell me on the phone and sadly yesterday the search for her ended badly.
So right now all I really want to do is read about everyone on here and start planning my next trip.
Anyway, sorry to be a downer. I really did enjoy your last few updates and can not wait to read more.
 
Whew caught back up on your tr. I have had one heck of a two weeks so it was nice to immerse myself in your trip for a while today. We got moved into the new house, mostly. I had to go out of town for a business trip for a week then when I came back to town one of my cats had been missing for two days already but my husband did not want to tell me on the phone and sadly yesterday the search for her ended badly.
So right now all I really want to do is read about everyone on here and start planning my next trip.
Anyway, sorry to be a downer. I really did enjoy your last few updates and can not wait to read more.

Sorry to hear about your cat.
 
Hi everyone! I'm back. I had the best vacation I have ever had. :goodvibes (*gasp* I know! It wasn't in Disney!) Jack had lots of new adventures, too! ;)

I just thought I'd check in and say hi. I will get to replying to everyone's comments tomorrow probably, but it has been a long day and I'm going to be passing out from exhaustion soon.


Michelle_and_Aaron I am so sorry to hear about your cat. That happened to us before and I know how it feels. :hug: Sometimes people don't realize how much pets can be a part of your family and how hard a loss can be. I'll be thinking of you.
 
Hi everyone! I'm back. I had the best vacation I have ever had. :goodvibes (*gasp* I know! It wasn't in Disney!) Jack had lots of new adventures, too! ;)

I just thought I'd check in and say hi. I will get to replying to everyone's comments tomorrow probably, but it has been a long day and I'm going to be passing out from exhaustion soon.


Michelle_and_Aaron I am so sorry to hear about your cat. That happened to us before and I know how it feels. :hug: Sometimes people don't realize how much pets can be a part of your family and how hard a loss can be. I'll be thinking of you.

Glad to hear you had a great time!! You will have to fill us in a bit!! :upsidedow

Michelle_and_Aaron I too am sorry to hear about your cat, it is so hard to lose a pet!!:hug:
 
I am subbing!! I haven't caught up yet, but I sure plan on it!:goodvibes
 
Ok, I finally have a few minutes to reply to comments! I hope I didn't miss anyone's. If I did, I apologize! I haven't even unpacked yet and barely have any clean clothes left, so I really have to get moving on that.

I kind of forgot about everything while on vacation, so I am going to have to go back and see where I left off, because I really don't remember. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a new chapter up soon! It'll take me awhile to get all caught up on everyone else's TR's, but hopefully not too long!


I only went to see Monsters Inc once so I don't know what you meant by reenacting the movie. What did DBF have to do? Haha, what happens if people haven't seen the movie ...

Haha, love that pic of Jack in mid-air!

Basically, the Monster on stage does a quick retelling of the story of the movie. They pick a Sulley - who is supposed to look big and scary. (DBF put his hands up in the air like in the picture and made a scary face.) Then, they pick a Mike Wazowski (who they remind the person who got picked has only one eye - sometimes it takes the person a while to figure out they are supposed to wink!) and a Randall and a Boo. The Monster tells the story and each time a character is mentioned, the person picked from the audience has to "act out" that part. It usually ends up going really really fast to get it all in so really they're just on screen for a few seconds each time their name is mentioned. All he really had to do was keep his arms up and be scary!


You really did have great experiences at Monsters!!!

Sounds like fun.

OK, my much much younger sister loved full house, but I don't remember it very well. :sad2: I am going to have to find that episode to watch. My kids saw Full House while we were traveling and loved it!

I love Full House! I watch it in reruns all the time. The Disney episode should actually be coming up on ABC Family soon (if you have that channel). I just checked the schedule and it's not this week, but if I remember I'll keep an eye on it!

Aww look at Jack on the monorail! He's having the time of his life! :goodvibes

You all really took pictures of EVERYTHING didn't ya? Love it! :thumbsup2

I showed DBFF your Jack and she likey! :lovestruc

Hahaha... I can't help the picture taking! It's like a disease!

(When we were on the cruise, some lady told me she took 27 pictures underwater while snorkeling. We had just bought a underwater digital, so I had a ton of shots, and I told her I took about 300 and her mouth just dropped open. :rotfl: )

Who wouldn't like Jack!? But, thanks!:goodvibes

Just got caught up on your TR after our move. Loving all the pics and how you added Mickey and Minnie!

Had to tell you, I finally got a Dole Whip yesterday on our first day trip being Florida residents. I went all out with the Pineapple Float! Thank you for helping me find it.

Oh, and wanted to ask you what day you were at Animal Kingdom. I was thinking we were at WDW at the same time and we got hit with a huge rain storm on Friday, June 20th.

Looking forward to the next installment.

I hope your move went well and you enjoyed your first pineapple float!

We were at AK on the 20th as well!

Wow you guys had great luck with the Monsters!! Dh would love to get picked, me not so much!! LOL With my luck I will be the one picked!!! But hey you are in Disney, who cares, have fun!! Loved the update, can't wait to hear more when you get back!! BTW, did you end up wearing your Tie Dye shirts?? (I am also over on that thread!!lol)

Being picked in Monsters wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

I wore my tie dye shirt one day, for a little while. It was actually too hot for me to have so much material on, because the tshirt was kind of big. I didn't end up wearing the spiral Mickey shirt I did, because of too much white on the shirt and the rain, if you catch my drift.

I went and saw your shirts and they turned out really well!! :goodvibes

Great so far! I really like the Animal Kingdom:simba: pictures and the pictures with Jack. pirate: Can't wait for more.


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editing to say:
I was looking at my subscriptions and I was listed as last post on your tr today. :confused3

:lmao:
Jacob was using my computer and forgot to log out of my user, so the top of this post is from him.

Haha. Thanks Jacob!

I am subbing!! I haven't caught up yet, but I sure plan on it!:goodvibes

:welcome: Thanks for subbing!
 
Being picked in Monsters wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

I wore my tie dye shirt one day, for a little while. It was actually too hot for me to have so much material on, because the tshirt was kind of big. I didn't end up wearing the spiral Mickey shirt I did, because of too much white on the shirt and the rain, if you catch my drift.

I went and saw your shirts and they turned out really well!! :goodvibes

I caught your drift...;) lol

Thanks for the compliment on our shirts! :flower3:
 
I want to say thanks to you all for all the kind words.
Irky I am so glad you had a good cruise. I can't wait to hear about it.
 
I have to admit, after our trip last week, I am having a hard time getting back into this TR. I'm going through pictures from our cruise and I feel like that's all I want to talk about! I'm hoping that after I write a few updates, I'll be back into it. I hope this chapter doesn't sound too different. And of course I would have to start with the day that I was the most annoyed on our vacation!

Anyway, on with the report!

Chapter 12 – Breakfast at Ohana
(The start of Day 3 - Saturday, June 21)

Our reservations were at 7:30 which meant we had to get up way too early to make it. We were all a little cranky on the way over. (I actually couldn’t shake the crankiness until way later in the afternoon.)
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(I took a picture of this everyday, much to the annoyance of DBF who had to take the picture because I was driving. One day, he refused to do it and you don't want to know what I did! :rolleyes1 )

We parked at Poly and headed in. We were waiting in line for awhile to check in. I was getting concerned we were going to miss our ADR. I think they really need two desks…one for people who have ADR’s to check in and one for all other questions, etc. I have read other people have had this problem, too.

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Anyway, since we were there right at opening we didn’t have to wait too long. Can you tell from the pictures we were tired and cranky!?

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Once we were seated I was excited for Mickey waffles and Ohana juice! (Which they had on our cruise as Pass-O-Guava! We were so excited; DBF and I had three glasses every morning.)

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(I now have these pink leis and the yellow leis from our last trip in the back window of my car. Along with my pirate Mickey Antenna topper, my car is very easy to spot!)

They brought us our food very quickly and the characters came right over to our table. Stitch was first, must to DSis’s dismay. She hates Stitch. She sucked it up for the picture, though.
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Stitch signed my bag and then posed with DBF and I. DBF’s parents didn’t pose with any characters again.
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Shortly after Stitch was Lilo.
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There was a pause between characters and I took the opportunity to take a Mickey Waffle picture. I could really go for one of those right now!
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Mickey came next.
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Then, Pluto. Pluto decided to lick DSis’s head. He kept moving his tongue all over her head and she couldn’t tell what he was doing. She was freaking out, and kept asking me, “What’s he doing!?” I tried to take a picture but you can’t really tell what he’s doing. You can tell she’s scared but still cracking up. DSis wasn’t the only one Pluto would “go after”...

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As Pluto was leaving our table they called for the parade. As Pluto walked around our table, he started petting DBF’s mom on the head. She didn’t know what to think. On his way around the restaurant, he stopped back at our table and started flirting with DBF’s mom again. It was so funny. We were all laughing about Pluto flirting with DBF’s mom.

Parade Pics...
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We finished up our breakfast (which was rather expensive thanks to the Holiday pricing…what holiday is in June!? Can you tell I was not in a happy mood this day?) and headed back out to the car. We stopped for a couple pictures on the way.

We have this thing where we have to act like statues in case you didn't notice!
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When we got back to the car, we started a discussion about whether we should leave the car at Poly or drive over to Epcot. I warned them what I had read about on the DIS about parking in the resorts, but we had not gotten any type of tag and again we had asked about it and were told we didn’t need one. We spent what felt like ages “arguing” over what we should do. At that point, I really didn’t care, I just wanted to get going. I knew we had to get to Soarin and Test Track at a decent time if we wanted to ride. It was probably around 8:50 at this point. I don’t like waiting.

We eventually decided to drive over to Epcot so if we ended up staying all day we wouldn’t have to catch the monorail later tonight.
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We drove over to Epcot and luckily we had the AAA parking pass. We got to park really close. It was nice. It was already a little after 9 and not having to wait for the shuttle would save us some time. Little did I know, waiting for the shuttle would have been fabulous compared to the wait we experienced next…

Up Next: Our day at Epcot begins with me being angry at Disney.
 
Awww man. You left me hangin'. What in the world made you so mad at Disney?

The pictures looked great, especially love the ones where you are all tired and cranky. I know my family looked like that several mornings when we got up early. But, we still love to do it don't we???
 
Awww man. You left me hangin'. What in the world made you so mad at Disney?

The pictures looked great, especially love the ones where you are all tired and cranky. I know my family looked like that several mornings when we got up early. But, we still love to do it don't we???

Sorry! I should have the next update soon.

It's hard to get up early when on vacation, but at Disney I wouldn't do it any other way!
 
Awww, doesn't sound like a very good day! Glad to hear that you felt better in the afternoon. Curious to know what made you so angry with Disney!

Question about the Mickey waffles ... are they really yummy or is it because they're just in the shape of Mickey? I mean, I'm sure they'll be yummy to me just because the only waffles I ever eat are the frozen kind. But I'm really excited to eventually have a Mickey waffle one day, but don't want to be ... disappointed? Although if I think about it now, anything in the shape of Mickey might automatically taste better to me ...
 
Sounds like you had a great time on the cruise.

Stitch is so cute in the pictures, How could she not like him. :rotfl:

Sorry everyone was cranky, some mornings are tough, and that is very early.

The Mickey waffles look great. :goodvibes

Waiting to hear what happened next to make you mad!
 
Came over from another TR to start reading yours!

:welcome: Thanks for joining in!

Awww, doesn't sound like a very good day! Glad to hear that you felt better in the afternoon. Curious to know what made you so angry with Disney!

Question about the Mickey waffles ... are they really yummy or is it because they're just in the shape of Mickey? I mean, I'm sure they'll be yummy to me just because the only waffles I ever eat are the frozen kind. But I'm really excited to eventually have a Mickey waffle one day, but don't want to be ... disappointed? Although if I think about it now, anything in the shape of Mickey might automatically taste better to me ...

The day was actually pretty good, but I had a hard time shaking my crabbiness. If something little went wrong, I got in a bad mood all over again.

The Mickey Waffles are really good! Believe me, I like shaped food as much as the next person (like the frog face waffles they have at Rainforest Cafe) but it's not usually enough for me to love the food just because it's fun.

If you've never had made from scratch waffles, I think you'll enjoy it. They're really light and fluffy. Add some butter and syrup and :cloud9:!

Sounds like you had a great time on the cruise.

Stitch is so cute in the pictures, How could she not like him. :rotfl:

Sorry everyone was cranky, some mornings are tough, and that is very early.

The Mickey waffles look great. :goodvibes

Waiting to hear what happened next to make you mad!

She really hates Stitch! She hates that movie and gets annoyed whenever I mention that I love Stitch. I don't know what's wrong with her!! :confused: ;)
 
Oh! You guys do look tired! I do not go for early morning eating...ever! Even for Disney!

Sorry this is turning out to be a bad day...hope it was the only one!
 












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