My 1st PTR/TR: An unexpected trip, Disney in December 4 *Day 3 6/5 Illuminations!*

[stacikristine]

Great update--no worries that it was short! I LOVE the WS countries! Good luck finding your memory card--I hate it when stuff like that happens!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Good Luck finding the other memory card!!

That is so nice about your Grandfather, a nice moment for you.

 

[disneydusted]

Hi Jess! It was good to read a new post about your trip. I hope that memory card shows up for you (and us! ). How is Riley's leg doing?

 

[Roxychica7]

Just wanted to say hi! I'll be back later to catch up!

Thanks for sticking with me! I'm impressed at how speedy you've been with updating your TR! Hope you're doing well!

u need to try the brat and saurkraute in germany it is awesome..there pretzels are also really really good.

Ah, we both LOVE brats, we were seriously contemplating one, but the fish and chips won out this trip. We will definitely get a brat next time!

Great update--no worries that it was short! I LOVE the WS countries! Good luck finding your memory card--I hate it when stuff like that happens!

I don't think you can take a bad pic in WS. There's so much to see! Thanks for the good luck, I'll be looking hard this weekend!

Good Luck finding the other memory card!!

That is so nice about your Grandfather, a nice moment for you.

Thanks LL! I'm glad Disney is always there for all kinds of memories. I can not imagine how many memory cards we're all going to go through during Gnomefest!

Hi Jess! It was good to read a new post about your trip. I hope that memory card shows up for you (and us! ). How is Riley's leg doing?

Hey girl! Riley is doing great, just getting into that "hey..I don't have a broken leg!" stage too quickly..it's only been a week! Thankfully she does have a splint on, but I already caught her up on the bed a few days ago! I'll post a few more updated pics of her for you

 

[disneydusted]

Still no memory card? I hope you can find it.
Glad to hear that Riley is feeling better. Hopefully she will behave herself and not jump up on the bed!

 

[Roxychica7]

Still no memory card? I hope you can find it.
Glad to hear that Riley is feeling better. Hopefully she will behave herself and not jump up on the bed!

No...I just don't understand where I could have put it! The searching shall continue this weekend, man, I hope I find the sucker! Although I still have a lot of photopass pics to post so at least its not a total loss I guess.

Riley gets her cast off and stitches out on friday, already 2 weeks down! About 6 more to go before she can be her normal self again.

 

[disneydusted]

Hey Jess! I have saved this post just for you! I am thinking after I post this I will be a 500 posts and a DIS Veteran??? We shall see!
I hope Riley is doing well and recovering without her cast ( I think she got it off)

 

[disneydusted]

YAY!!! It worked! I've joined you in the DIS Veteran group!

 

[Roxychica7]

YAY!!! It worked! I've joined you in the DIS Veteran group!

YAYYY!! Welcome to the new Veteran! And I love the new family pic you have!! I'm getting aggrevated trying to find my memory card, I'm thinking it's at Dbf's sister's place (that was the 1st place we were when we came home from WDW), so I'll start posting some photopass pics soon!

 

[disneydusted]

Thanks for noticing our picture... it took me forever to figure out how to do that! But I finally got it!
I hope you card shows up, good idea to check Dbf's sister's place.

 

[2xcited2sleep]

Hi Jess! Sorry I fell so behind but I've enjoyed catching up this afternoon! Glad you enjoyed Beaches 'n Cream and Beach Club. I cannot wait to visit there this fall! Five months and counting!

Hope you are able to find the missing memory card... that would be awful if it has gone permanently missing!

 

[Roxychica7]

I FOUND MY MEMORY CARD!!!!


Oh thank god...it was in my checkbook box where I have all my extra check packs..ran out of checks, and ta-da!! Why it was in there, I have no idea! But, I haven't even looked at any of these pictures yet, so I definitely owe everyone an update as soon as I can!

 

[Roxychica7]

Hi Jess! Sorry I fell so behind but I've enjoyed catching up this afternoon! Glad you enjoyed Beaches 'n Cream and Beach Club. I cannot wait to visit there this fall! Five months and counting!

Hope you are able to find the missing memory card... that would be awful if it has gone permanently missing!

I think your latest update C might have been good luck! No problem on falling behind though, I certainly have fallen behind on my own TR! I can't remember, have you been to Beaches and Cream before? We LOVED it!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Yayayayaya!!! I am so excited for an update!!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

Congrats on finding the card!

 

[Roxychica7]

Yayayayaya!!! I am so excited for an update!!

I know!! It's about darn time for an update!! Especially compared to you!

Congrats on finding the card!

Thank you!! I was browsing your food report tonight, wow...are there any places that you haven't eaten at yet? I love how the pics are so close, I could almost taste them!

 

[stacikristine]

YAY YAY YAY You found your memory card! I can't wait to see all of your new pictures!

 

[Roxychica7]

YAY YAY YAY You found your memory card! I can't wait to see all of your new pictures!

Thanks!! I'm sooo glad I found it!

 

[Roxychica7]

Ok guys...so I apologize for me misplacing my memory card and on top of that, not having a great memory now of what happened with our trip! Thankfully I do have the last 3 days of our trip and I still have to post all of our photopass pictures! But thank you all for sticking with me!!

Day 3 Continued: Wednesday, December 17th

Ok...so when we last left off about, mmm...2 months ago?! Blake and I were enjoying one of our snacks, a pretzel from Germany that we had decided to eat in front of the American Pavilion.

The Candlelight Processional was going on. I forget who was the host for that night, but we stood around for a few after we ate our pretzel and I got a video for my grandmother. The lights are really pretty and I love the orchestra. Not sure I would ever pay our of pocket for the package since you can see and hear everything from the ropes. Now I would understand if it was inside, but we were only 2 or 3 feet away from where the paying people were and we had a clear view of everything.

The sun was starting to set as we approached our next pavilion..Japan!

You can see the spaceship earth, the christmas tree, and all the illumination firework barges

Japan is one of my favorites, it's SO pretty

I think we had skipped a few pavilions because I was determined to see the candy maker. She was closing up shop as we got there, but had another show at 7:30, so I snapped a picture really quick in case I forgot her if we got tied up at other pavilions

Blake and I decided to kill some time by getting a snack, and looking at the Koi pond and the big department store.
The fish were huge and really pretty. Totally a screensaver if I would have turned the camera around!

Close up! Love this one!

I was really hoping that the sushi would be fresh, since it is Epcot after all. We really should have went to the actual sushi bar and split a roll, but we didn't. So, it was what I would have expected for packaged sushi, hard slimey rice and just not all that great. I took a picture anyway. Bummer.

Then what's next? Light pictures for LL of course!

I liked the shadows on the buildings..

 

[Roxychica7]

So, then it was time to head to the department store!

Holy crap do they have some awesome things in there! The oysters, food tools (what the heck is a food tool? I'm having trouble coming up with the word!) and the outfits!

I loved the Karate Kid growing up, especially the 2nd one. Always wanted a Bonsai tree. I was contemplating getting one but figured we might have some issues on the plane, so I decided against it. Goodbye my Bonsai tree!
This was was my favorite shaped tree.

I love the wine and candy section. All the colors and shaped bottles and cartoon images on them. So cool!

While I waited, I wanted another snack since the sushi didn't really do it for me. I decided on a snowcone! Excuse me, a Kaki Gori! Here's the description from allears!

Kaki Gori $3.28
Shaved ice topped with fruit syrups: choice of strawberry, honeydew melon, tangerine, or rainbow (all three flavors)

I got all 3 as you can see!

Sorry for the closeup! I think Blake misjudged his closeness in the dark!

Then she started! She was going SO fast..she made dolphins and dragons and unicorns and fish..whatever the kids wanted in whatever color. Snip snip here, cool it off here, paint it here...I snapped pictures as fast as I could, here were some of the finished products.

Gold Dolphin

Purple Hummingbird

I'm pretty sure this was a turtle. It just didn't have it's shell on yet!

Well, that's it for now guys! Hopefully it was worth the wait! We're heading to Virginia Beach this weekend to hang out with Dbf's family, so I'll catch you all when I get back!