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

[wdwgirl03]

Ohhh I really like the picture of the Shamu show with the trainers and how you can see the whole thing on the screens too.

 

[jmskinner]

Love the pictures from Seaworld. Especially that one of the Walrus through the tank. Love Walrus's.

Oh, and talk about WDW Withdrawals. I so want to book a week with that special they have going on. DH looks at me and says, "You live a hour away???!!!" He doesn't get it.

 

[irky416]

Looks like your Sis had some fun. Oooh. I'm curious about what your DBF learned about what to NOT do at WDW.
About Disney withdrawels...
I totally know how you feel. There's been so many ads/ Travel Channel shows on about WDW/ What will you celebrate? that it's been hard not to. And the new deal sounds amazing. Hope you can get back there real soon.

I've been entering the contest every day to try to win a pin! The new deal is amazing and I wish I could take advantage of it!

Great updates - I'm all caught up now!

I loved your pics of WS - it is so beautiful...speaking of which...I am having WDW withdrawal symptoms myself! I have been doing the price checks as well...

Looking forward to hearing what NOT to do - sorry you had a bad day!

Thanks! I'm glad I'm not alone on price checks!

Next update should be soon! I was trying to work on it last night but the hockey game got too interesting! Usually I can type while I watch but I was actually yelling at the tv last night! I never do that!

Love Wishes, dislike Illuminations
, never seen Fantasmic...

I also have gone on orange of MS. And I hate it. But I go for FH. Once a trip. He goes everywhere I want and supports my Disney Habit even when we should be saving for a life together and he just let be buy DVC... so i figure going orange and feeling mildly ill all day is the least I can do for him!

I loved Fantasmic! Just as good as Wishes but in a different way. Wishes tugs at your heartstrings, but Fantasmic is just fun! I'm glad I;m not the only one who dislikes Illuminations!

It's nice that you'll ride MS for Josh! No way I would ride orange again no matter what. I did not enjoy the feeling I got after riding it!

How are your wedding plans going, btw?

Ohhh I really like the picture of the Shamu show with the trainers and how you can see the whole thing on the screens too.

Thanks! (from DSis of course!) I gave her our new camera to take and she had some trouble figuring it out because usually we have Canons but I gave her the waterproof Olympus. Some of her pictures didn't turn out very well.

Love the pictures from Seaworld. Especially that one of the Walrus through the tank. Love Walrus's.

Oh, and talk about WDW Withdrawals. I so want to book a week with that special they have going on. DH looks at me and says, "You live a hour away???!!!" He doesn't get it.

Thanks! DSis loved that picture for some reason.

at your DH! I would want to go and stay too! I would love to book the new deal, but sadly I can't take that much time off school and we've already booked Hawaii woohoo: ) for the two weeks it's still good in June after I get out of school.

I wish they would do a weekend special or something! I'm dying to go but I think I'd have to go alone (anyone I know who wants to go has no money and the few people I know who can afford it either don't have the time or the desire to go) and I don't know if I'm up for that.




Next update soon! Thanks for sticking around! I know it's kind of slow going at the moment, but I am going to finish this!! I'll give you a hint about what NOT to do. It has to do with Downtown Disney...

 

[PrincessNewsie]

Listen, it should make you feel better that my TR is even furher behind PLUS I haven't even TRIED to start on my AUgust one. Since we didn't have a digi camera, they're all on CDs and i wrote the TRs on a laptop that crashed so who know if those will make it anywhere before the wedding.

Wedding planning is back in full swing, I'm on bridesmaid dresses and we just ordered our save the dates. I bought DVC Saturday; $19000 for 170 points. We got $850 off and were able to plunk down $8000 at signing, but I'm still financing over $10,000. Goal is to have it paid off within two years. We're still waiting to hear if Josh is going active or staying reserves; so my future plans after June are on hold for quite some time. At least I have a March ski trip (made possible by DVC developer points) and a a next December Disney trip to look forward to in addition to my wedding and honeymoon... it makes uncertainty suck that much less.

I love your ideas, you are so freaking creative. Want to come plan my whole wedding for me?

 

[jmskinner]

I wish they would do a weekend special or something! I'm dying to go but I think I'd have to go alone (anyone I know who wants to go has no money and the few people I know who can afford it either don't have the time or the desire to go) and I don't know if I'm up for that.

If you ever decide to make a solo trip, I'd meet you there.

 

[PrincessNewsie]

at your DH! I would want to go and stay too! I would love to book the new deal, but sadly I can't take that much time off school and we've already booked Hawaii woohoo: ) for the two weeks it's still good in June after I get out of school.

I wish they would do a weekend special or something! I'm dying to go but I think I'd have to go alone (anyone I know who wants to go has no money and the few people I know who can afford it either don't have the time or the desire to go) and I don't know if I'm up for that.

Why won't DBF go again?

 

[irky416]

Listen, it should make you feel better that my TR is even furher behind PLUS I haven't even TRIED to start on my AUgust one. Since we didn't have a digi camera, they're all on CDs and i wrote the TRs on a laptop that crashed so who know if those will make it anywhere before the wedding.

Wedding planning is back in full swing, I'm on bridesmaid dresses and we just ordered our save the dates. I bought DVC Saturday; $19000 for 170 points. We got $850 off and were able to plunk down $8000 at signing, but I'm still financing over $10,000. Goal is to have it paid off within two years. We're still waiting to hear if Josh is going active or staying reserves; so my future plans after June are on hold for quite some time. At least I have a March ski trip (made possible by DVC developer points) and a a next December Disney trip to look forward to in addition to my wedding and honeymoon... it makes uncertainty suck that much less.

I love your ideas, you are so freaking creative. Want to come plan my whole wedding for me?

Congrats on your DVC purchase! I hope everything works out for you.

You should totally post pictures of your STD's and the bridesmaid dresses you're thinking of! Keep us involved! Is it weird that I love hearing about wedding plans from internet friends but not at all from real-life friends? (Maybe because I know I don't have to go to the wedding itself...I hate going to weddings!)

If you ever decide to make a solo trip, I'd meet you there.

Ohhhh...that makes going solo very very tempting!

Why won't DBF go again?

DBF won't go again because he's been 3 times in a one year period and he feels that's good enough for a long time.

He also is refusing to go this year because we are going to Hawaii in June and I promised him (stupidly) that if he agreed to go to Hawaii and spend the extra money on that trip, I wouldn't ask him to go on any other trips this year to make up for the extra cost of Hawaii.


I have no real excuse for not having an update. Sorry! I started to play Pokemon and got rather addicted and so have been doing that when I could have been updating my TR. I'll try to get to one this week!

 

[PrincessNewsie]

Congrats on your DVC purchase! I hope everything works out for you.

You should totally post pictures of your STD's and the bridesmaid dresses you're thinking of! Keep us involved! Is it weird that I love hearing about wedding plans from internet friends but not at all from real-life friends? (Maybe because I know I don't have to go to the wedding itself...I hate going to weddings!)

DBF won't go again because he's been 3 times in a one year period and he feels that's good enough for a long time.

He also is refusing to go this year because we are going to Hawaii in June and I promised him (stupidly) that if he agreed to go to Hawaii and spend the extra money on that trip, I wouldn't ask him to go on any other trips this year to make up for the extra cost of Hawaii.


I have no real excuse for not having an update. Sorry! I started to play Pokemon and got rather addicted and so have been doing that when I could have been updating my TR. I'll try to get to one this week!

Yeah, I promised Josh if we went to Disney on our honeymoon for a week, I'd go wherever he wanted for the second week. He's a miami, fl native so he picked the Keys... Then I booked a Disney trip Dec 17-23 and one the first weekend in October (food and wine and christmas). Josh told me if I cancelled those, we could buy DVC (since that was another 2500 we would have spent on disney and i already had 6000 saved up and i can put 1900 on my disney rewards visa for 0% for 6 months).

I know all about bartering with sig others for trips, but mine are always for Disney. Some day it will be for Ireland. I have no desire to go to Hawaii, but you'll have to try to change my mind!!!

I will keep posting stuff in my TR about the upcoming wedding, it's what is taking me so long to do this TR. I spend so much time online researching weddings I never feel like updating the TR.

 

[irky416]

Yeah, I promised Josh if we went to Disney on our honeymoon for a week, I'd go wherever he wanted for the second week. He's a miami, fl native so he picked the Keys... Then I booked a Disney trip Dec 17-23 and one the first weekend in October (food and wine and christmas). Josh told me if I cancelled those, we could buy DVC (since that was another 2500 we would have spent on disney and i already had 6000 saved up and i can put 1900 on my disney rewards visa for 0% for 6 months).

I know all about bartering with sig others for trips, but mine are always for Disney. Some day it will be for Ireland. I have no desire to go to Hawaii, but you'll have to try to change my mind!!!

I will keep posting stuff in my TR about the upcoming wedding, it's what is taking me so long to do this TR. I spend so much time online researching weddings I never feel like updating the TR.

I'd love to go to Ireland someday!

Hawaii is in the top 3 of my dream destinations. I have wanted to go forever, so I'm really excited we're going! I just get bummed when I think about having to go the whole winter to make it through before I get to go. Usually we go out of town for at least a weekend to get away from the gross weather!

I love Disney and am dying to go back, but in the future (at least until kids come into the picture) I will probably be sticking to weekend trips. It's the perfect place for those for me! There is just way too many other places I want to go to spend all my travel money and time in Disney World!

 

[OhMari]

Bumped to the front.

 

[irky416]

Ok, since we had a cancellation for no reason today and I was already at school when they canceled, I am up and am going to go ahead and try to get this finished! It will be shorter than I planned, but I have to finish it just so that I know I did!

Chapter 23 - A Not So Great Idea

This was our down day. DSis and DBF's parents went to Sea World, so DBF and I were on our own to figure out what to do.

We decided to sleep in! We got up, had a leisurely breakfast, checked some email (and the DIS of course!) and then decided to head out to get lunch.

I had read about Earl of Sandwich here and really wanted to try it out, so we headed over to Downtown Disney.

We got there right at lunch time, so it was rather busy, but we weren't in much of a rush so it was no big deal. OMG! It was sooooooo good!! I had the All American minus the cranberries and DBF had the Earl's Club. (I had to go look them up because my memory is not that good!)

While we were eating, we came up with the game plan for the day. We decided we would go to Epcot first (I wanted to find Dopey and buy my sister one of those good luck cats in Japan that she'd been admiring) and then we'd head over to Animal Kingdom for a little bit to see anything we had missed since we'd only ever been there once.

Here's where thee not-so-good idea came in. We had decided that neither one of us felt like driving all over creation so we would leave the car at DTD (1. I know! Shame on us! Not proper DIS etiquette! and 2. We had to come back there anyway because I wanted rice krispy treats from Goofy's on the way back.) and take the bus to the parks.

HUGE MISTAKE!!! After waiting for a bus to a monorail resort, having it make 2 or 3 stops on the way there and then having to wait for the monorail and then transfer monorails it took us almost an hour to get to Epcot. And to make it worse, in that time we watched the sky go form a lovely clear blue to a cloudy gray.

We finally made it to Epcot and had a Photopass taken. (Notice my tie-dye Mickey shirt!)

We caught the boat over to the World Showcase and I got my sister the cat. I wish I would have bought myself one!

Then we headed to France to get a snack and saw the only really rude people we encountered the whole trip. The two girls who were working the crepe cart were talking to each other constantly in French to the point of sounding and looking annoyed every time they had to stop the conversation to take a guest's order. This really annoys me and because of this I don't shop at the grocery store 2 minutes from my house and drove 15 to a different one where the employees don't do this!

The crepe was pretty good though!

If only this were the real Paris!

It had started to drizzle earlier and the drizzle was annoying me so I had to go buy a hat to keep the mist out of my eyes.

Grabbed some more pictures of the WS! You can see the drizzle in the first two pictures!

We met Snow White and she signed my bag

We had just missed Dopey and the attendant wasn't in a very good mood and didn't seem like he'd be willing to let us wait until Dopey came back to get a picture. Oh well. No Dopey this trip.

It had started to clear up a little and the lines for the rides we really long so we decided to just head out to Animal Kingdom. We took a couple more pictures first and then went to catch the bus.

I also tried the stitch feature on my camera. I could probably get this better if I played with it in Photoshop.

I think I'm close to my picture limit, so...
Coming up very shortly Chapter 22.5 - Continuation of the not so good idea!

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

Looky! Looky! You are still around! Glad to see an update. I wanted to go to Earl of Sandwich too...nobody else did...but there is next trip!

Love the cat! DD is always admiring those in resturants...I will have to share with her the paper you photographed.

 

[irky416]

Chapter 23.5 - A Not So Great Idea Part 2

We were waiting for the bus to Animal Kingdom and it took forever to come! I don't remember time now, but it was at least a half hour and we watched buses for all other parks and resorts come and go. So frustrating for me! I wish we would have just driven.

And again, by the time we were on the way to the park the sky had started to open up again. It was pouring when we reached Animal Kingdom, so we ran to that shop in the front and looked around for awhile.

DBF enjoys playing with the hats

And enjoyed forcing me to wear one!

The rain slowed down a little bit so we headed into the park. I really wanted a picture of me with baby Simba for some reason, but the Photopass guys were hiding from the rain. I asked one to take our picture and he reluctantly agreed so we only got one and no Simba. (Actually, from looking at the pictures, I guess it was raining harder than I remembered! I was glad I had bought that hat!)

We headed over to It's Tough to be a Bug and we did that three times with hardly no wait. It was much more enjoyable the second time we watched it.

After that we decided we were tired from all the waiting and bus rides and to just leave. We did like nothing that whole day. I was not pleased! Oh well. It was fairly relaxing. At least I got some pictures of the tree (which I might be hanging in our new house!).

Again, we had the problem with the buses. We got on the first one that came that was fairly close to DTD (don't remember which now) and headed to that resort and then had to wait again and head back to DTD. We spent so much time on buses and waiting for buses. I will never do that again and would recommend to anyone to drive. Maybe we just had bad luck, but I like having my own car to come and go as I please.

We finally got back to DTD and did some shopping and window shopping.

Goofy's was the first stop! I love it there! Actually I love the dipped make your own stuff!

Jack wanted his own treat!

Our treats... just looking at these makes me want one so bad!!

A lovely video of them being made


And the finished products!

Eventually we headed out and decided to get dinner. We both kind of wanted to go to Pecos Bill but didn't want to pay for parking to just eat dinner. Another mistake! We ended up at Golden Corral and it was so expensive and not that great. We could have eaten at MK and parked and had time on the rides for less than it cost the two of us at Golden Corral.

We got back to the condo and just kind of hung around until DSis and DBF's parents got back an hour or so after us. DSis, DBF and I ended up "playing Sumo Wrestler" and having a great night before going to bed. All in all a very relaxing day, but a rather unproductive one. I think you need those every once in a while!

Up next: MGM or Hollywood Studios...

 

[irky416]

Looky! Looky! You are still around! Glad to see an update. I wanted to go to Earl of Sandwich too...nobody else did...but there is next trip!

Love the cat! DD is always admiring those in resturants...I will have to share with her the paper you photographed.

Thanks for coming back!! Once I get caught up on mine I am going to get caught up on every one else's reports I've missed!

Earl of Sandwich is sooo good! Drag (or bribe) your family next time if you have to!

I love the cat too. DSis keeps it on her desk at school.

I hope you guys are doing well. I will have to get over to your TR to see what's new. Any new trips in the works? (Edit: I should have read your signature! Are you going to do another TR?)

 

[irky416]

Since the trip was so long ago, I will mostly go form my pictures. I don't remember the order of things anymore or all the little details. Grrr to life getting in the way of my trip report!!!

Chapter 24 - Hollywood Studios

DBF's parents decided they wanted to sleep in and weren't up for a whole day of parks, so DBF, DSis and I left without them early to make it there for rope drop.

We had to get the customary picture of the sign. I didn't even have to tell DBF to get this picture. He was learning! ;o)

We had some things we really wanted to get done first thing here. Toy Story Mania fast passes were number 1. DSis wanted to get the pictures with the High School Musical stuff and wanted to see the pep rally. Our plan was to run right to TSM but we got sidetracked by pictures near the front gate.

Then we found the high school musical stuff...DBF was not pleased with these pictures!

Doesn't he look so happy to be holding that sign!?

We headed over to TSM which was very very new at the time we were there. Grabbed FPs and took some pictures.

We always have to act out the statues!!!

We did the Great Movie Ride and ended up waiting forever!

We also did The Little Mermaid and again just missed a show, so ended up waiting forever.

After that we met up with DBF's parents and did some more stuff (Obviously, but I have no idea what at this point!). We split up a lot on this day because we all ended up with fast passes for stuff at different times because of them coming late.

We saw the Power Ranges but I had no desire to meet them as I never ever saw the show so I just grabbed a picture.

Then we found the Singing in the Rain umbrella!

We found were Buzz and Woody were but decided to come back later because we wanted to go see Indiana Jones!

We had to stand in the back for the show, but at least we didn't have to wait!

Of course, DSis and I wanted to yell STEVE! right after Indiana Jones got rolled over!

We headed over to ToT to ride and get FP's for the stuff over there. Of course, we took pictures on the way!

We saw some Streetmosphere people who we really liked!

We found some Photopass people and stopped for more pictures.

I don't think we look very scared!

I'm at my picture limit, so I will have to stop here.

Up Next: Musical and Incredible

 

[jmskinner]

An update. Isn't it funny, if you don't go commando you feel like you weren't productive, but then you also know you probably need a day of rest.

Your day at AK reminds me of our last day at DHS. Went to the big Star Wars store they had during SWW and then just went back to the hotel. Can't believe you rode ITTBAB 3 times.

Glad you are finishing up the TR. So, are you moving in to the new house yet?

 

[The Moonk's Mom]

Thanks for coming back!! Once I get caught up on mine I am going to get caught up on every one else's reports I've missed!

Earl of Sandwich is sooo good! Drag (or bribe) your family next time if you have to!

I love the cat too. DSis keeps it on her desk at school.

I hope you guys are doing well. I will have to get over to your TR to see what's new. Any new trips in the works? (Edit: I should have read your signature! Are you going to do another TR?)

I know, life just gets in the way sometimes. We are doing well, thanks for asking! Hope you are too!

We are going back! I am in full mode of trying to figure out what ti sew for the kids...I am starting much later this year too! But, last year for my birthday I got a new sewing machine and that makes life a ton easier! Maybe a TR...not sure yet...we shall see...

 

[wdwgirl03]

Yay, you're back! Great updates. I love the Mickey tie dye t-shirt. Very cute. So are the HSM pictures.

That's funny about wanting to yell out "STEVE!" at Indiana Jones...when we saw that I kept thinking about that scene in Full House.

 

[LaurenMic]

Yay you are back! I was just hoping the other day that eventually we would get to find out about the rest of your trip! How is your school year going?

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

An update! A really good one at that!!!