Mr & Mrs Oakie take on the World

[cherokeemamma]

Greetings MrOakie!
Really enjoying your TR. Thanks for posting and including pics. I have never seen the tree lady. Does she hang out in certain areas of AK or is it hit or miss seeing her? My DS and DD would love it . Any advice on spotting her?
Thanks

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

Wow, ya'll take some amazing pictures! at the psycho bunny!!! Love that you include pictures of your meals too. Can't wait for more....

 

[rer1972]

Great pictures MrOakie.

Sony CD Mavica

That's a good camera. Our repo dept. had one but someone dropped it . I don't think the newer more expensive one is any bettter.

Maybe we should do a "best caption contest" for this picture? See if you can figure out what he's thinking

"You take one more picture buddy and I'm coming up there", is what Mr. Gorilla was thinking.

I also ran to get us some water to cool off. While in the shop, we were looking at all the pictures of everybody on the ride, screaming and hollering Ducking to the left, and trying to protect their children. We were thinking "what's up with that?" It can't be that intense can it?

Love the kid in the second row; buddy not hearing the roars is not gonna help ya. I've ridden Dinsosaur more times than I can remember and I still lean over every time that darn dinosaur comes up on the vehicle. I can't wait to ride it again!

We had a couple new guests in our hotel room.

Very creative; and with stickers and all.

However, I don't think you want to mess with this psycho bunny

Not psycho; it's animatronic .
Great update. Hope your feeling better today.

 

[BeautyNBeast]

Loving your TR! I love that you are so into WDW! Cannot wait to read more

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

Great report so far. I love the pictures.

 

[Jennifer48]

I'm in.

Devine is the tree lady's name. I've only seen her once in my three trips to AK. I'll look for her this weekend!

 

[uhtimex]

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I think it is pretty clear what he is thinking.

"will the cease fire in the middle east hold? and if does not, how involved will Iran and Syria become in the conflict. If Iran becomes too involved would that spike the crude oil prices and in turn raise the gas prices? That could cause the travel industry to slow down which would cause attendance here at AK to drop off and maybe they would shut the park down......I am not going back to that little zoo in Iowa I won't do it"

or he could just be thinking about lunch

This is a great report and the pics are wonderful

 

[MrOakie]

Greetings MrOakie!
Really enjoying your TR. Thanks for posting and including pics. I have never seen the tree lady. Does she hang out in certain areas of AK or is it hit or miss seeing her? My DS and DD would love it . Any advice on spotting her?
Thanks

From what I read about other peoples trips to Animal kingdom is that she's not out all the time. We got lucky I guess. We were just walking along and I saw her and had to get her picture. I think she was near the entrance to the exotic bird show. I'm not sure if you just see her there or all around the park.

This was another picture of her. Very hard to spot when she's stopped on the side of the paths.

 

[pixie dust 112]

I think it is pretty clear what he is thinking.

"will the cease fire in the middle east hold? and if does not, how involved will Iran and Syria become in the conflict. If Iran becomes too involved would that spike the crude oil prices and in turn raise the gas prices? That could cause the travel industry to slow down which would cause attendance here at AK to drop off and maybe they would shut the park down......I am not going back to that little zoo in Iowa I won't do it"

or he could just be thinking about lunch

This is a great report and the pics are wonderful

 

[MrOakie]

I think it is pretty clear what he is thinking.

"will the cease fire in the middle east hold? and if does not, how involved will Iran and Syria become in the conflict. If Iran becomes too involved would that spike the crude oil prices and in turn raise the gas prices? That could cause the travel industry to slow down which would cause attendance here at AK to drop off and maybe they would shut the park down......I am not going back to that little zoo in Iowa I won't do it"

or he could just be thinking about lunch

This is a great report and the pics are wonderful

You've got me and my DW busting a gut laughing

 

[dwheatl]

I'm loving the TR. Your photos are fabulous, except I'm trying to lose the weight I gained this summer, and your food pics are driving me nutso! I'm going to brush my teeth before I start hunting for an all night shrimp restaurant.

 

[Hoosier Mom]

Does Devine talk?

 

[rer1972]

Does Devine talk?

Only if you try to chop her down.


MrOakie I thought I read where you didn't think you wanted to do an update for your day at Epcot? Pleeeeeaaaasssssssse. Even it was bad I'm sure there could be some benefit to sharing bad experiences(my therapist says that all the time ), and I bet you have some good pictures. Unless it was so bad that you really don't want to relive it again.

 

[PigletFairy]

love the TR! Do you know where i could get this coveted free everest picture coupon?

 

[MrOakie]

love the TR! Do you know where i could get this coveted free everest picture coupon?

I'm not sure if they are still offering the coupon, but we got ours by playing the EE game on Virtual Magic Kingdom (www.vmk.com). Our voucher said it was good until the 31st of August. So I don't know if you can still get it

 

[MrOakie]

Only if you try to chop her down.


MrOakie I thought I read where you didn't think you wanted to do an update for your day at Epcot? Pleeeeeaaaasssssssse. Even it was bad I'm sure there could be some benefit to sharing bad experiences(my therapist says that all the time ), and I bet you have some good pictures. Unless it was so bad that you really don't want to relive it again.

Well, I do plan on posting a report for our Epcot Day (Day #3) Just didn't feel like posting it when I wrote about it earlier. It wasn't a good day... but MGM and Magic Kingdom made up for it

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Great TR. I love the pictures. Oh, and that photo of your wife with the bug glasses... is she wearing lime green?
Thanks for sharing!!

 

[MrOakie]

This was going to be our second day in the parks. Epcot had early magic hours, but we decided not to go early. DW's feet were still sore from Animal Kingdom the day before, so we thought we'd try and take it easy today.

We left CBR around 10 AM, and had about a 5 minute wait for the bus to Epcot. When the bus dropped us off at Epcot, we didn't realize we'd be dropped off in the back 40. It was quite a trek to the entry. Our first stop was a trek over to Soaring, to get fast passes. I was really shocked when I looked at the time stamp for our return. We got our passes around 11:15 AM, but our fast passes told us to return at 4PM. Long wait, and now we couldn't get another fast pass for another hour. I really wanted to check out the greenhouses on the Living with the Land boat ride, but it was closed.

To kill some time, we headed over to The Living Seas, and explored the aquariums. We thought about Turtle Talk with Crush, but it was so crazy in there. During our exploration, we took these photos.

After leaving the aquariums, we found our way over to Honey I shrunk the Audience, and decided to wait in line. It seemed like over on hour wait. I didn't know what was going on (didn't remember the line taking this long when I took my dad to Disneyland in CA). I remember the show being funnier, but I guess that's what a few years do to your memory At least we were out of the sun. We also rode through Journey Into Imagination With Figment. Kinda corny (definately for kids) We did get my DW a Figment stress ball. She was squeezing it the rest of the day. LOL

 

[pixie dust 112]

This was going to be our second day in the parks. Epcot had early magic hours, but we decided not to go early. DW's feet were still sore from Animal Kingdom the day before, so we thought we'd try and take it easy today.

We left CBR around 10 AM, and had about a 5 minute wait for the bus to Epcot. When the bus dropped us off at Epcot, we didn't realize we'd be dropped off in the back 40. It was quite a trek to the entry. Our first stop was a trek over to Soaring, to get fast passes. I was really shocked when I looked at the time stamp for our return. We got our passes around 11:15 AM, but our fast passes told us to return at 4PM. Long wait, and now we couldn't get another fast pass for another hour. I really wanted to check out the greenhouses on the Living with the Land boat ride, but it was closed.

To kill some time, we headed over to The Living Seas, and explored the aquariums. We thought about Turtle Talk with Crush, but it was so crazy in there. During our exploration, we took these photos.

After leaving the aquariums, we found our way over to Honey I shrunk the Audience, and decided to wait in line. It seemed like over on hour wait. I didn't know what was going on (didn't remember the line taking this long when I took my dad to Disneyland in CA). I remember the show being funnier, but I guess that's what a few years do to your memory At least we were out of the sun. We also rode through Journey Into Imagination With Figment. Kinda corny (definately for kids) We did get my DW a Figment stress ball. She was squeezing it the rest of the day. LOL

Oh No! We Love FIgment. Both kids and adults. I bet we do this at least 3 times every trip. Just mentioning it in your TR is making me sing the song!

I really want to see Turtle Talk! When we went in July it was just to crowded! I hope we get to see it in September!

 

[MrOakie]

Since I didn't take good notes while at Epcot, I'm trying to piece together the time line for the rest of the afternoon. I know we rode Test Track, Mission Space, and finally got to use our fast passes for Soaring, but I can't remember what order.

I think it was Mission Space up to bat next. We decided to do the green line for the less intense ride. I kinda wish we had done the more intense one. This ride was a blast. We really did like Mission Space. Our co-pilots on our ride were from Russia. They were too funny. DW was trying to point at the buttons they needed to push. They enjoyed the ride too. After MS, we headed on over to the Electric Umbrella and had some lunch. No lunch photo this time. I forgot to take a picture before we started eating.

After lunch, it was getting close to our fast pass return for Soaring, so we headed out. What happened next I thought was really stupid. Our Fast pass said we could return at 3:50PM for Soarin. We timed it almost perfect, and got up to the CM at the fast pass return line, and showed him our passes. It was 3:48, and he wouldn't let us go in. He said we had to wait 2 minutes. Mind you... nobody was in line behind us, and once inside the return line, it took us about 3 minutes to get up to the point where they actually took our fast passes. Kinda stupid on the first CM if you ask me. I guess everybody has a bad day though.

Soarin was nice. I felt a little home sick though when I rode it. I was born in San Francisco, and I love California, so it was kind of emotional And I love the soar over Disneyland with the fireworks.

Alright... .guess its getting late so i better finish day 3 a little later.

Here is one shot I forgot to post at the beginning of Day #3.

TaTa for now