My Baby Girl Is Turning 13-Time For Another Mom/Daughter WDW Trip!!

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Pixie Dust for Lauren!!

 

[miceli20]

Hey Cammie, my dd and I love reading about you and Lauren's trips. She is begging for one herself and I'm trying to convience her dad that she and I should go alone . But until that day we are proud owners of JoBro tickets her in Louisiana. She doesn't know yet we are going to suprise her on her 13th birthday with the tickets. I hope ya'll have fun and keep on writing.

 

[Camster0307]

Oh goodness - I so apologize for my absence! Life has certainly gotten in the way of my DISing this past week! I hope to catch up tonite!

Wow!! I can't believe you waited that long but 4 passes was just awesome of them!!

They were worth the wait!

Yeah, good question...... Should I text her and let her know for you? I'll be sensitive, something like "hey, ur mom is goin 2 wdw w/out u - c ya!"

Hey you - don't be getting me in trouble with my 13 yr.old! I'll tell her myself -- eventually!

WOW the fast pass option is great YEY for CECIL YEY for you am so glad you had fun with your daughter. I wouldn't mind waiting that long for the bus either. Can't wait to hear more. How did the spring chorus concert go?

Concert was good. But you know how it is - you sit there for an hour to watch your own kid for about 4 minutes! And, as for our Disney wait, in the end - not so bad.

Crazyyy how long you had to wait for a bus, I wonder what actually happened? So cool that you got those fastpasses though!

It was crazy long wait. But for future reference I now know - at that time of the day, Disney is not super concerned about getting people from the park to the resort. LOL

Love that Cecil came through for you a lot faster than the bus!!

I love the new refillable mug designs....I may have to see if one of you May goers will get me one

Let me know if you want one - they are cute!

Sorry for the wait but boy it sure was worth it! Yeah for Cecil!

Yay for Cecil. Very nice man!

TOTALLY awesome! Disney sure knows how to turn an annoying situation into something AWESOME! what a great guy!! your room looks beautiful and i cant wait to hear about the rest of your trip!!

Disney does customer service right!

I just found your TR... how very cool that you took your daughter for her 13th b'day. Our daughter will be turning 13 in Oct. We are booked for Dec.... but rethinking going closer to her b'day as a fun thing for her..

Cool deal with the Fast passes...

What time of the year do you like the best in Disney?
Angela

Hi Angela! Thanks for reading! As for my favorite time of year at WDW? The holidays! As a family, that's when are annual trip is and we just love it! Good weather, low crowds, and festive atmosphere - the best!

Cammie, sorry about the bus wait - that's rediculous! I'm glad you got the ride and FP to make up for it! Yah, you are going to have to bring something greqat back for Lauren, or she'll never forgive you!

I know. I know - I'm going to owe her something big!

Uh, I'm so late! Anyways, that's a ridiculously long bus wait! But it was pretty worth it for those rockin fast passes!

Lauren looks beautiful in her bikini! I swear, we have to stay at the BW sometimes! It looks so awesome! And we'd love to be so near that great bakery!

Can't wait for Epcot!

The BW is FABULOUS! Although we thing WL is a very close second!

I fell a little behind but I'm all caught up now! Wow, dinner at Yachtsman looks SO good. on Lauren with the stealth texting in her lap!

What a great CM in the bus manager. A personal drive and magic fast passes!!

Boardwalk looks beautiful! I've been partial to Beach Club but I may have to change that...

Oh and cheese fries and mozzarella sticks... Perfect lunch!

No apologies necessary - as you can see, I haven't been very good about keeping up myself!

BW. Beach Club. To me, it's all the same - still just minutes from walking to Epcot. The Best!

Glad you finally made it to your favorite "home base!"

Nice to get those FPs.... did you feel a bit like breaking into a chorus of I've got a golden ticket from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory??


Kathy

That's so funny because I was thinking that! Lauren tore open the envelope and I yelled out her for breaking the golden seal!

My baby girl is turning 13 in June so I just had to read your trip report. I am LOVING it! My DH and I are celebrating our anniversary in May at the Poly. I'm hoping we get a good bounceback offer. A mother/daughter trip would make an excellent 13th birthday gift (especially since texting works at WDW)

OH my goodness - that would make an awesome 13th birthday gift! Lauren just loved all of the special attention. She's now trying to make plans for her Sweet 16 - but this time, she wants to plan it along with some friends!

i'm so behind! "life" has happened lately and i've just had no dissing time. so unfair!

yummy dinner at the yachtsman! i want to go there one day.

and so sweet of cecil to take care of you. disney does it like nobody else!!!

what a nice day at the pool...... i could go for one of those right now.

No worries Dawn - I've been in the same boat this past week. Cannot believe other things are getting in the way of my DISing!

Thanks for checking in though. Our transfer day to the BW didn't start off as planned but ended up pretty well!

 

[MichelleVW]

I will look into this problem after Monday afternoon. But for now, I can't afford to lose the use of my computer because..........

JONAS BROTHERS PRESALE TICKETS GO ON SALE TOMORROW! Lauren is in the fan club and has access to presale tickets; I have been given instructions to get the best possible seats - which I'm thinking means "as close to Nick as possible!" LOL. So yeah, I'm not screwing around with my computer until after I get these tickets so wish me luck! And I promise to have an update soon after tomorrow morning!

Oh yeah, I know the stress of getting Jonas Brothers tickets!! My girls will be gone when they are in Dallas so we are driving to Alabama so they can go to a concert there with their friend who is a big Jo Bro fan too.

The Jonas Brothers actually go to my church but we haven't seen them there yet, but my girls are at an event tonight to hear Mrs. Jonas speak! My DD16 has high hopes that Mrs. J will see her and decide she is the PERFECT match for Nick.

My girls are in the fan club too and my DD18 actually met them in Raleigh last year...you should see the picture of her with them...she has the biggest smile and crazy looking eyes, it's too funny!

 

[Camster0307]

I totally understand!! SIL is trying to get them for my neice!!LOL!

Did she get them? It was crazy hard!

Oh my gosh, this is getting hilarious!! Ummm Cammie I figured I would throw this out there... my grandson is three. When we went to wdw last Sept the only times he had meltdowns were once while waiting to go on astro orbitors (got way overheated and wouldn't drink anything) and when he couldn't ride EE because he was too small. I have absolutely no idea where he got all the courage to ride all the rides he rode. He wont even go on the store or outlet kiddie rides...at disney he rode everything he could and wasn't afraid of anything. Amazing to say the least! Not too shabby for someone who just turned three!! This was in NO way posted to add more pressure, just an observation.

Congratulation to Lauren! Fantastic finish!! Good going!!

I hope Amanda is feeling better! Colds are the worst!

Sorry I wont be able to meet you in May, would have been a blast I'm sure!!

Good luck getting great Jonas Brothers tickets!

Gee Sunnie - thanks for making me feel better! I think it's a done deal - I will be conquering EE -- or face the wrath of my friends on the DIS!

And I'm sorry we won't be seeing you in May. Weren't you supposed to be there too? Did I miss something?

Hi Cammie! So sorry to hear that Amanda has been sick, but I'm glad to hear she's feeling better.

I just want you to know that my DD9 just thinks that Lauren is the coolest kid ever! She asks me if she can sit at the computer with me to read your trip report. Tell Lauren she has a "little sister wannabe."

Hope you all were able to score those Jonas Bros tix.

Alan

Hey Alan - that's so sweet to hear what your daughter thinks of Lauren. She has seen your trip reports also and has read along with this one and thinks your daughter is adorable. Seriously, she is going to be SO MAD that she is not a part of this mega-DIS meet in May. She really is starting to appreciate the friendships I've made here and she wants in - she wants to meet some of the kids. I hope someday we can all hook up down there together.

Happy to see your back

Also happy to hear amanda is feeling better and the Lauren did good in her competition (well, I think 4th region is good)


Good luck with the Jonas Brother tickets

LOL. Yes, fourth was good - all things considered. We have our Jonas tix now just waiting to hear on the meet and greet.

Completely understand take care of your girls. Wishing you the best.

Thank you. Things are much better this week. Just so busy; and with the weather warming up - we're out more. Sorry I've been so negligent in my posting duties here but I will update tonite.

Hope everyone feels better and that you got great seats. Happy you are the mom of a Jonas fan and not me.

Hey now - this is one mom who truely doesn't mind tagging along to a Jonas Brothers concert! I will admit - I like their music; and -- have you seen them?

Hi Cammie! Hope Amanda feels better soon and you get great Jonas Brothers tickets!

Thank you! She's doing much better and had a great week!

Hope Amanda feels better soon!

Thanks Kathy! She seems to be much better now. Of course, the warmer weather has helped.

The boards are driving me nuts!!! I just hit "User CP" and your TR just popped up, even though I hadn't read in several days, it never alerted me that there were any new posts!!! Weird!

Yeah on the tickets!!!! Has Lauren already plotted them out on the seating diagram??? I hate that the JBs cancelled their show here, Ally is still so mad!

Looking forward to more TR!

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for you that they'll be doing a show in their area! (and I still am confused with what is going on with these boards.)

awesome that Lauren did so well at the event. sorry to hear that amanda's stuff got messed up. if it makes you feel better I messed up our router so bad that the internet company had to come out and fix it. of course that messed it up even more. I thought I would be smart and have fixed for tim when he got home bit turns out i really messed it up. It took over an hour for him to straighten it out.

I swear Laura - I could use you out at my place. I still haven't figured out my wireless router. Yes, believe it or not, I'm cannot figure out how to go wireless in my house!

Oh my goodness!!! That's amazing about maybe getting to meet the JB! I really hope it works out.

Can't wait to hear more about your trip.

Keep your fingers crossed for that happening. Lauren would just die!

Oh what a gret connection I'm excited to hear what happens nextI wish it would happen for Lauren she deserves it. Good thing Amanda is feeling better

Thanks - Amanda is doing much better. And I'm so hoping this friend can come through for us.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for that you guys get the meet and greet. What a thrill that would be for her!

Thank you. We can use all the good luck we can get. I think of it actually happening, and I know she'll just freak!

Hey Cammie - sorry that Amanda was so sick -and fourth is still great! Congrats to sweet Lauren! I'm sure you guys are just so happy about the Tix too!

You know me - we are very happy to see the concert. Lauren is so excited!

congrats on the jonas brothers tickets! i'm sure she's so excited. and i so hope you guys get to meet them. i hope she doesn't totally lose it!!!!

glad amanda is feeling better.

No, if she meets them - she WILL totally lose it! And I would love to see it!

Awesome for you Jonas Bros. ticket score! Hopefully that will make it up to Lauren that you are going to Disney without her

I hope that Amanda is feeling better!

LOL. You just gave me an idea - hopefully when I tell her about my May trip, I'll then be able to say - but the good news is......you're meeting the Jonas Brothers!

Oh wow!!!!!!!! I hope it works out to MEET the Jonas Brothers! I can't wait to hear if it works out!!!!! How exciting!!! Lauren will flip!

Score on the tickets...and maybe new camera too.

And, I'm glad to hear Amanda is feeling better.

SEriously Brook, if I get that new camera, I'm going to be looking for input from you. You have such great pix on your TR and I would love to get your advice!

Yeah - I know. You'd be proud that for our trip next year (just Carlos & I) I'm booking BW area for us - you need to help me pick where. It is just for probably 2 nights or 3 tops - so I'll need you to tell me where to book - 10th anniversary, so think romantic.

WAY COOL!! about the Jonas Bros.

and I was wondering if she was competing in Destination Imagination....great job on the Instant Challenge!!!

I was a coach for a couple of years and both girls have participated.

OMG - yes, Destination Imagination! I can't believe you know it! I didn't know how to explain it here. This was our first year; although the team has done it for three years now. I'm new to it all but it was so fun. And they did really well but an 8th grade team eventually won. How have your girls done?

Yay on the Jonas Brother tickets you must be psyched!

Oh yes, we're very psyched! July 17th cannot get here soon enough!

Pixie Dust for Lauren!!

Thanks Ellen! Keep it coming - I really would love for this meet and greet to work out for her!

Hey Cammie, my dd and I love reading about you and Lauren's trips. She is begging for one herself and I'm trying to convience her dad that she and I should go alone . But until that day we are proud owners of JoBro tickets her in Louisiana. She doesn't know yet we are going to suprise her on her 13th birthday with the tickets. I hope ya'll have fun and keep on writing.

Well that's a VERY cool 13th birthday gift! I'm sure she'll be so excited! What is the exact date of your show? I'm thinking I may have to stretch out this TR until the summer so we all have a place to come back to and talk about our Jonas Brothers concerts!

And I highly recommend a one-on-one trip if you can manage it. I know it's something Lauren will treasure for the rest of her life. I hope you get to do one someday!

 

[Camster0307]

Oh yeah, I know the stress of getting Jonas Brothers tickets!! My girls will be gone when they are in Dallas so we are driving to Alabama so they can go to a concert there with their friend who is a big Jo Bro fan too.

The Jonas Brothers actually go to my church but we haven't seen them there yet, but my girls are at an event tonight to hear Mrs. Jonas speak! My DD16 has high hopes that Mrs. J will see her and decide she is the PERFECT match for Nick.

My girls are in the fan club too and my DD18 actually met them in Raleigh last year...you should see the picture of her with them...she has the biggest smile and crazy looking eyes, it's too funny!

"Crazy looking eyes"

Your post has me cracking up! So I guess you live in the area of their Texas neighborhood, huh? Tell your DD16 to back off - Nick's perfect match is here in Massachusetts. He just doesn't know it yet!

And seriously, if you want to post that pic of your daughter with them -feel free! I think if Lauren gets her chance to meet them, she will actually have an out of body experience. Based on how delirious she was at the 3D movie, I'm not so sure she can survive a personal meeting.

 

[babytrees]

OMG - yes, Destination Imagination! I can't believe you know it! I didn't know how to explain it here. This was our first year; although the team has done it for three years now. I'm new to it all but it was so fun. And they did really well but an 8th grade team eventually won. How have your girls done?

The girls teams did horrible...lol. Cassidy's because of the teacher in charge's prejudices toward non G/T kids....of course if he didn't have non G/T kids he wouldn't have had coaches.

They always did great with instant challenges. The only reason Abi and I didn't do it this year is the stuff that happened in our house and she would have been the only girl...she wasn't prepared to do that again.

So what challenge did they do?? We had 2 favorites.

One of our radio stations is giving away front row tickets to Jo Bros concert...I should have put that I needed to win them so that I could be as cool as Miss Cammie.

 

[Camster0307]

Hold on to your hats, people........I FINALLY have a new installment!

So I last left off with Lauren and I enjoying a day at the BW pool. We had just unpacked in our room and were heading out to Epcot for the evening. We had dinner ADRs at Tutto's for 7pm.

Aaah - the Boardwalk at dusk!

Now the big decision as we enter Epcot through International Gateway - which path do we take? Do we head over the bridge towards France; or stay straight towards England? Now it must be noted, here it was our FOURTH day at WDW and I had yet to have ONE frozen slushie from France!

So I think you probably know what direction I wanted to go.

BUT.......something else caught our eye - The Team Kim Possible kiosk. Since this was a new attraction, we decided to check it out. And boy am I glad we did because we were HOOKED! So. Much. Fun.

Now I don't want to give too many details away for fear of ruining for those of you who have yet to try it. The basics: you stop at a kiosk, run your park card through a machine, and a ticket pops out telling you where to go to receive your first mission. Since we were already in England, the CM there just let our mission be there. Once you turn in your ticket, you get a cell phone (yes, a REAL cell phone), which is programmed to play a video telling you what you need to do......................

This is our ticket for a later mission but I wanted to post it to show you what they looked like:

The cell phones:

Anyone familiar with the cartoon Kim Possible will recognize the characters that appear on the phones. Anyway, your "mission" is centered on one country and involves you searching throughout that particular country looking for various things. It truly is sooo cool and a brilliant idea. I have to admit, I've been coming to Disney for over 10 years and there are some buildings in the various countries I have NEVER even gone into before. This experience forces you to go into them. Lauren really enjoyed it. You search out clues and also "trigger" various gadgets secretly placed throughout the countries with the phone. Again, I don't want to give any of it away for those of you will be trying it. But it is pretty amazing some of the things they have rigged to happen. For some missions, you also have to approach some CMs in the countries, saying a secret code, until you find the right CM who is part of the mission. They then "slip" you something to help in the mission. Very funny.

Here are some shots of Lauren during our mission in England...........

Yeah, that tea bag was what we needed to get from a "special" CM working in one of the UK shops.

Our last stop for our mission in England was back behind the toy store where Pooh and friends hang out. We were outside, following instructions to complete the mission - which involved something funky with this window:

Well, evidently there was NO ONE inside meeting Pooh and his buddies; they heard us outside and pulled Lauren in through the back door for pictures!

After finishing our mission, and deciding that our goal would be to complete ALL of the missions before the end of our trip, Lauren and I headed out to our own personal mission - purchasing a pretzel in Germany and a beverage in France.

First stop - Germany for pretzels. But not before listening to some dudes in skirts...................Off-Kilter!

Ok - NOW the pretzel:

And onto France for me!

Since our dinner ADRs were soon approaching, I didn't want to fill up with a frozen slushie so I opted for a lovely Kir Royale!

I want. I want. I want...............

It was now time to head over to Tutto's!

Next installment - dinner and birthday celebration, Italien-style! And TWO fireworks shows!

One more shot................

 

[ididitrn]

DH and I were there a few weeks ago and saw lots of families on their Kim Possible missions. It looks like so much fun...kind of like "The Amazing Race". Did Lauren get to complete a mission in each country?

 

[alan_renfroe]

Wow...great update! DD & I just read your latest chapter and we ALL ABOUT that Kim Possible mission. How fun is that??? DD is excited that she will get to have a cell phone....at least for a little while!

DD wants me to tell you and Lauren that she is SO JEALOUS because you got to meet Eeyore! That is her favorite character! Anyway, she'll get to meet all the Pooh characters on our trip in May, as we will be having breakfast at Crystal Palace one morning.

(I think I am as excited about the Kim Possible thing as DD is!!)

 

[MichelleVW]

"Crazy looking eyes"

Your post has me cracking up! So I guess you live in the area of their Texas neighborhood, huh? Tell your DD16 to back off - Nick's perfect match is here in Massachusetts. He just doesn't know it yet!

And seriously, if you want to post that pic of your daughter with them -feel free! I think if Lauren gets her chance to meet them, she will actually have an out of body experience. Based on how delirious she was at the 3D movie, I'm not so sure she can survive a personal meeting.

Ok, you asked for pics and you got em!! My girls saw the 3D movie no less than 5 or 6 times....they are insane.

They actually got to meet Mrs. Jonas last night and said she was amazing and so sweet. Alyssa thanked her for raising such wonderful boys and told her that their music has helped her through some rough patches in her life (we are ex military so she went to 3 different high schools). She also said Mrs. J noticed her "little bit longer" necklace that the proceeds went to diabetes research and she thanked Alyssa for that.


Here is a picture of Alyssa with her Meet and greet wristband.

Here she is with Big Rob....notice major crazy eyes!!

And here she is with the boys!! She actually barely remembers Nick and Kevin since she is a Joe fan and said she shook Nick and Kevin's hands and then asked Joe for a hug which she got! She said Kevin was so sweet.

Here are a couple of her senior pics taken with her Jo Bros stuff....she is truly obsessed...

I am totally loving your trip report!!

 

[torsie24]

Yay! Love the new installment! Kim Possible looks so much fun!!! I can't wait! I didn't know aout having to find special CMs - how funny!!

 

[saratogadreamin09]

New installment

I LOVE lauren's EPCOT shirt

Off -Kilter LOVE THEM My dad and cousin actually got into a fight about them our last trip. My cousin was making fun of them so my dad started going on and on about how good they were

 

[KathyRN137]

Wow, Cammie! I'm glad I read all about the KP missions... I kind of knew about them, but not the particulars.

I will have to schedule a lot more time in WS this year... I will have two thirteen year old girls with us and I think they will get hooked!!!

for the JB meet & greet!


Kathy

 

[ortholablady]

Isn't the Kim Possible thing fun? I did it with my sister-in-law and my 6 year old nephew. We did China and England. It really does show you things you might just walk by and not even notice. We didn't finish England though. We passed the phone and my nephew off to my brother and my son who had just met us at Epcot after watching something at ESPN the weekend at DHS. Sis-in-law and I didn't want to miss Off Kilter! Love them!

 

[shebaxric]

Hi Cammie,
I just came across your trip report and am enjoying it!! I just caught up and am ready for more. You are so lucky to have a wonderful daughter to share a great birthday trip with!

 

[AmandaSparks730]

May I steal Lauren's cool outfits?

Congrats on the JoBro tix! I'm going with my best friend to their July 18 show in Boston

 

[miceli20]

Cammie our concert is for August 15 in New Orleans

 

[portocall]

Cammie, great update!

My DH is such the Kim Possible fanatic and I know he is looking forward to the Kim Possible adventures... I am so glad to hear you had fun with that. I am sure we will be doing more than once.

 

[dvc4life]

Cammie - great TR! You and your daughter are adorable. And you are very lucky that you two are able to share such a wonderful time together! My girls are looking forward to the Kim Possible missions when we go to EPCOT in June. Thanks for sharing a little bit about them. They look pretty fun.

Can't wait for the next installment!