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

[OneTreeHillAddict]

The Full House thing was interesting too. I was wondering though...what other shows have been filmed there? I've seen the Full House and Roseanne episodes. Loved them both! One Tree Hill needs to go to Disney! I'll definitely be an extra in that episode!

Okay...what made you mad at Disney? Do tell....

Love your O'Hana pics. That's one of our favorites! Those Mickey waffles are delicious!

 

[irky416]

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!

I don't know if we'll be doing breakfast that early next time!

The Full House thing was interesting too. I was wondering though...what other shows have been filmed there? I've seen the Full House and Roseanne episodes. Loved them both! One Tree Hill needs to go to Disney! I'll definitely be an extra in that episode!

Okay...what made you mad at Disney? Do tell....

Love your O'Hana pics. That's one of our favorites! Those Mickey waffles are delicious!

I know Boy Meets World had an episode. And so did Step by Step. Sabrina the Teenage Witch did an episode but it was mostly focused on Animal Kingdom. I think I've read about a Family Matters episode, but I've never seen it (also never seen the Roseanne episode). Not sure about any others!


I have the next update typed up, I just have to get the pictures in it. I've been working on a project that has been taking up my computer time the last week. It's almost done, so I should be able to update soon. The project ended up being a little bigger than I expected and my perfectionism is making it take longer. I decided to make my own weekly calendar to print out for the school year so I could add in my own pictures on each page and it's taking longer than I thought. Of course, it has to be pretty, so I keep playing with fonts and pictures over and over again. Sorry to keep you all hanging!

 

[irky416]

Chapter 13 – Annoyed at Epcot

We walked up from the parking lot and headed for the line to get in. We all had a bag so we had to go through the bag check. The bag check line was enormous! Ok, that’s not entirely unexpected. It’s a Saturday and shortly after the park opened. What made me so angry was that they only had two people checking all the bags. And those two people were really checking the bags. (I know that’s what they’re supposed to do, but many of them just open, peek in and set you on your way.) It was taking forever. We waited in line for almost 20 minutes. I find that a little ridiculous. I didn’t understand why they didn’t get more people there. (It's like waiting in line at Walmart when there's only two lanes open and the middle of a Saturday when there should be more open!)

This just added to my already bad mood. I hate waiting around. The morning was not shaping up to be a good one.

We FINALLY got in and we took a couple pictures and got in line for some Photopasses.

The Photopass guy was taking forever and then when it was almost our turn, some people who didn’t speak English jumped in front of us and got to be next. The Photopass guy saw it but didn’t even say anything about it. I was really annoyed now. I smiled for the pictures and tried to move on.

We sent DBF’s parents and DSis over to Test Track and DBF and I decided to run over and get FP’s for Soarin and meet them at TT. The whole way over, DBF was trying to get me to cheer up. He reminded me that we were on vacation and not to let little things get to me. I was trying. We got to the Land and I was annoyed at how far away Soarin was and how many steps and paths we had to take just to get to the FP machines. (I told you I really woke up on the wrong side of the bed this day! I was annoyed at how big the park was!) We tried to get back to TT, but took the long way around. Things were just not working out for me.

We got to TT and thankfully the wait was only about 15 minutes still. I convinced myself I was going to try to enjoy this. I hadn’t been to Epcot in about 10 years and so hadn’t done most of the stuff that was there and didn’t remember much about what I did do.

We took some pictures in line and while we were waiting to start.

I liked this ride. It was fun. I wanted to go back on it but we never made it back. Of course we had to take a picture in the new cars!

I told you we like to act like statues!

We also played with Jack a little bit while we were waiting for DBF’s dad to finish looking at the cars. I also bought a bumper sticker and a keychain.

(jack wanted that, but I told him no!)

I love that you can add the ride picture to the Photopass. I wish they would do this on all the rides!

We still had some time before our Soarin’ FP’s so we headed over to the Nemo ride. I was looking forward to this ride. DBF and I love Nemo!

Continued Below...

 

[irky416]

Chapter 13 continued for more pics...

There was a Photopass guy out front.

I then had to take a million pictures of the outside, and a video of the “Mine, Mine, Mine!” (We bought DBF’s sister a bib with the seagulls on it that says Mine, Mine, Mine on it for her baby – she’s due in a month!)

"You guys made me ink!"

Ok, I can't put this picture that's supposed to be here in because part of the code has a bad abbreviation in it that the DIS is blocking. (Now even the computer wants me to be annoyed at this morning in Epcot!)

The sign said the wait was 10 minutes, but when we walked through, there was no one there. We decided the wait was actually just the amount of time it took to walk through the queue. (It was really long!) DSis posed for this picture while running through the line. The queue was actually nice and I would have enjoyed seeing it a little more.

We got in our Clamobiles and were off.

Here’s a couple pictures and a video. (Sorry the video’s so choppy. I took individual ones and then decided to add them all together.)
DBF's dad took this one...DSis and I are in the next clamobile over.

I loved this ride. It wasn’t until we got back that I realized the DIS hates it. I don’t really understand why. It’s way better than the rides in Fantasyland that always have huge waits. It was really cute. I had to download Big Blue World because even after being home for 3 weeks I was still singing it! I’ve been listening to it on my iPod all the time. (Much to the dismay of DBF and DSis!)

I was determined to get a picture in Bruce’s mouth this trip after seeing them all here. We got off the ride and headed over to look at the fish and find Bruce.

We didn’t spend very long looking at the fish. We did find Bruce. The Bruce picture got me annoyed again. There were a bunch of people who wanted their picture taken (obviously). But, there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the line because there were a bunch of unsupervised little kids who kept running up and pushing in front of people (and I mean like climbing in front of them inside the sharks mouth and talking to their parents outside the shark in the front) and were getting in their pictures. The parents didn’t seem to care even though they saw other people trying to get pictures and getting in their way. Oy.

Finally, someone said something to the kids and they disappeared. However, the people right in front of us decided now was a good time to take 50 pictures and they all had to be just right. Oy again.

We finally got our turn. While DBF’s dad was taking the picture, DBF’s mom was doing what she thought was taking a picture with their camera. She was actually taking a movie. The video cracks me up because we’re in the shark waiting for her to take the picture and stuck in the pose and then you hear her go, “Uh-oh!” Oops. We still got our picture!

Our picture: (I think this might go on my desk at school!)

The video


We then posed with Anchor and Chum.

We saw the sign about how to avoid a shark attack and I thought this one was interesting. I don’t know why I didn’t take a picture of the whole sign.

We were then going to go in Turtle Talk with Crush because I really wanted to see it. We headed up to the entrance and just as we got there, they closed off the line and said they were full. Argh! Can nothing work out for me today!? The next show wasn’t for about 20 minutes so we decided to just head over to Soarin and hopefully make it back for Turtle Talk later.

Up Next: Soarin and will I stop being annoyed?

 

[wdwgirl03]

Great update and pictures! 20 minutes for the bag check does seem ridiculous! I would be annoyed too.

I also really like the Nemo ride.

Your story about trying to get a picture with Bruce reminds me of our trip in January. We were looking at all the cars after Test Track and wanted to get a picture of us "driving" in one of them. Well, there were a couple people who were doing the same thing before us so we waited. They get out and then out of nowhere comes these 2 kids and they proceed to climb in the car and were not going to get out. Their mother didn't even care and just let them play in there. We decided to just gave up. Grr, it's so frustrating sometimes!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

What was going on at Epcot!? I don't get the whole bag check anyway. If someone wanted to bring in a weapon they'd put it under their clothes, not in a bag. Duh! What they SHOULD do is run the detector across people IF they're trying to be "safe". Seriously...what's the point!?

How'd you like Test Track? I think that's our all time favorite ride at WDW. The kids ride it over and over when we go.

 

[jmskinner]

20 minutes for bag check! I would be very annoyed. This actually sounded just like me when having a bad day. Just nothing works!

I had to laugh at the video of DBF's Mom saying "uh-oh". Now you were holding up the line. I liked Nemo and completely missed the photo ops. I'll have to go back and do that.

Looking forward to the next report.

 

[irky416]

Great update and pictures! 20 minutes for the bag check does seem ridiculous! I would be annoyed too.

I also really like the Nemo ride.

Your story about trying to get a picture with Bruce reminds me of our trip in January. We were looking at all the cars after Test Track and wanted to get a picture of us "driving" in one of them. Well, there were a couple people who were doing the same thing before us so we waited. They get out and then out of nowhere comes these 2 kids and they proceed to climb in the car and were not going to get out. Their mother didn't even care and just let them play in there. We decided to just gave up. Grr, it's so frustrating sometimes!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes Nemo!

I hate it when people don't realize others are waiting for a picture, too, or just don't care.

What was going on at Epcot!? I don't get the whole bag check anyway. If someone wanted to bring in a weapon they'd put it under their clothes, not in a bag. Duh! What they SHOULD do is run the detector across people IF they're trying to be "safe". Seriously...what's the point!?

How'd you like Test Track? I think that's our all time favorite ride at WDW. The kids ride it over and over when we go.

I don't really understand the bag check either. Especially because half the time they just glance in the bag and say ok.

I enjoyed Test Track. I was bummed we never got to go back and ride it a second time.

20 minutes for bag check! I would be very annoyed. This actually sounded just like me when having a bad day. Just nothing works!

I had to laugh at the video of DBF's Mom saying "uh-oh". Now you were holding up the line. I liked Nemo and completely missed the photo ops. I'll have to go back and do that.

Looking forward to the next report.

I usually don't get annoyed that easily (I'd be in trouble teaching 7th grade if I did!), but it was just a bunch of little things that probably wouldn't annoy me on a normal day, but when they all add up it just makes it seem worse than it is.

I did think it was funny that we ended up holding up the line. At least we didn't make her figure out how to fix the camera and keep on waiting that whole time for a pic! We got one with one camera and that was enough for us.

 

[irky416]

DBF just "yelled" at me about the time we spent in line for the bag check. I guess it only felt like 20 minutes. He said it was closer to 10. That's still a long time for a bag check line!!!

 

[Indiana Jacob]

Those mickey waffles look good! Hope you make it to Turtle Talk later.

 

[reyasmommy]

Great Trip Report! I love all your pictures. I never made it to Turtle Talk because it was always full. HOPE you got your chance. I'm also hoping we'll be able to catch it on our trip to DL next month.

 

[reyasmommy]

Oh, and I wanted to mention that Windsor Hills looks really nice. We were going to stay there last year but decided on Lighthouse Key Resort instead. It was the first time we ever stayed off site, but we really enjoyed it. Loved being able to stretch out and have all that room, rather then being cramped in a standard sized hotel room.

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

See...now I have decided that people can't get the picture thing right when they get near Nemo! What is up with that?

The line thing with Wal-Mart painted a perfect picture for me...me, three kids...no lines open...AAAHHH!!!! Yep, I would have been in a bad mood too!

 

[irky416]

Those mickey waffles look good! Hope you make it to Turtle Talk later.

Looking at Mickey waffles always makes me want some!

Great Trip Report! I love all your pictures. I never made it to Turtle Talk because it was always full. HOPE you got your chance. I'm also hoping we'll be able to catch it on our trip to DL next month.

Thank you and welcome!! I didn't know they had Turtle Talk at DL. (Ok, I really don't know much about DL!) I hope you get to see it!

Oh, and I wanted to mention that Windsor Hills looks really nice. We were going to stay there last year but decided on Lighthouse Key Resort instead. It was the first time we ever stayed off site, but we really enjoyed it. Loved being able to stretch out and have all that room, rather then being cramped in a standard sized hotel room.

It was nice. I like staying off site. Especially because you have so much more space. I don't know how 4 people share a value room...when it was just DBF and I it felt crowded.

See...now I have decided that people can't get the picture thing right when they get near Nemo! What is up with that?

The line thing with Wal-Mart painted a perfect picture for me...me, three kids...no lines open...AAAHHH!!!! Yep, I would have been in a bad mood too!

Hahaha...Nemo must bring out the worst in people and cameras!

I can only imagine how much worse the line thing would be with three kids in tow!

 

[LITTLEKID58]

Luv all the pics...TFS

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

I seem to always have a day like that at WDW. And it's so hard to get out of the bad mood, no matter how hard one tries!

I hope things got better for you after getting shut out of Turtle Talk!

 

[NotSoEvilStepmother]

Just spent the last 45 minutes catching up on your report and I really like it. Everyone has off days (when I was there, you didn't want to be within 50 yards of me at the Animal Kingdom ). Your pictures turned out so well and I'm jealous (1300 blue/grainy pictures can do that to a person). Sounds like you guys were having so much fun. Can't wait for more.

 

[Michelle_and_Aaron]

I'm so sorry you missed Turtle Talk. That was so great when we were there in June. But at least you get to go on Soarin soon! As we were talking about next spring's trip recently I found out that that was actually Aaron's favorite ride of all 4 parks. I have to admit it is in my top 10 as well.

 

[irky416]

Luv all the pics...TFS

Thank you!!!

I seem to always have a day like that at WDW. And it's so hard to get out of the bad mood, no matter how hard one tries!

I hope things got better for you after getting shut out of Turtle Talk!

It is hard to get out of one of those moods. Things do get better a little later.

Just spent the last 45 minutes catching up on your report and I really like it. Everyone has off days (when I was there, you didn't want to be within 50 yards of me at the Animal Kingdom ). Your pictures turned out so well and I'm jealous (1300 blue/grainy pictures can do that to a person). Sounds like you guys were having so much fun. Can't wait for more.

Thank you! Did anything specific happen at AK or was it just one of those days? I would be so sad if all my pictures didn't turn out. Was your camera on the wrong setting? I had that problem a couple times this trip. I changed the setting for the indoor pictures and forgot to change it back, so they didn't turn out very well.

Thanks for reading!

I'm so sorry you missed Turtle Talk. That was so great when we were there in June. But at least you get to go on Soarin soon! As we were talking about next spring's trip recently I found out that that was actually Aaron's favorite ride of all 4 parks. I have to admit it is in my top 10 as well.

We missed Turtle Talk the first time...we do go back to try again to get in...

Soarin' and my opinion of it will be up next!

 

[NotSoEvilStepmother]

Thank you! Did anything specific happen at AK or was it just one of those days? I would be so sad if all my pictures didn't turn out. Was your camera on the wrong setting? I had that problem a couple times this trip. I changed the setting for the indoor pictures and forgot to change it back, so they didn't turn out very well.

Thanks for reading!

AK was the first day of our trip--we were there at opening after getting to the off-site hotel (dump) at 2 AM and having trouble with our reservations and we'd just spent all of the day before traveling from the west coast. My camera just...well, it stinks. I didn't notice before we went (isn't that always the case?) but all of the pictures I'd taken within the last year and a half had turned out grainy and the other camera's had been blue since we bought it. I want to just plan another trip so I can take the pictures again.