My First Trip Report - but not our first trip - with photos. UPDATED Oct 2010

Great trip report!!!

I love all your photos!

After hearing how so many people are tackling these scarier rides like TOT and EE etc.. I am working up my courage to go on them when we are there
Dec. 26th - Jan. 1st


Debbie :thumbsup2

THANKS !!

You need to try the rides. They are all super fun. Disney doesn't have anything super intense. I like all of the "tame" rides, too and there are plenty of those. My DH doesn't like to ride the faster roller coasters. He would go skydiving in a minute, but not ride Rockin' Rollercoaster. Go figure. :laughing:
 
Anyway, I had the Lines app on my phone and BFF had Mobile Magic. We compared throughout the day who had the more accurate reporting of standby times and fast pass returns. And I have to say, that Mobile Magic was more accurate that day. As we were heading over to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, BFF and her DD10 (who didn't get a fast pass for it because she was at Country Bear Jamboree, I think) came flying by us yelling out, "the wait for BTMRR is only ten minutes !!" We got over there and sure enough, it was !! Mobile Magic wins again. We ended up riding it at about the same time ans then it was time for us to leave.



Is the lines App the one from touring plans? We leave in one month and one day.
 
So our trip is winding down and everyone is tired. Our plan was to go to Animal Kingdom and then go to Epcot at night and watch Illuminations which we have never seen. So we get up and make our way over to Animal Kingdom. I had noticed a day or two earlier that our newly acquired annual passes had an expiration date of Feb '11, which I KNEW wasn't right and DD's pass had a May '11 expiration. What ?? So when we got to AK, we went straight to Guest Services and asked them to change the passes to the correct date. After some time, this was achieved. Word of advice, CHECK THE EXPIRATION DATE ON YOUR ANNUAL PASSES. We sooo could have been screwed if we hadn't gotten this fixed. We got a fast pass to ONE ride for our trouble. The extra fast pass helped speed up our day considerably. We got a fast pass for EE and then headed over to the safari to use our "free" fast pass we got from Guest services. After that, we rode EE

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The kids finished up their AK passports at the kidcot stations

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We got a fast pass for Kali River rapids and then rode the train up to the petting zoo.

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and saw Jimney Cricket

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We got some ice cream and rode the train back down and everyone rode Kali River Rapids and got soaked.

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after that we headed back to the resort to catch the South Carolina / Alabama game. DN11 fell fast asleep right away which I thought was kinda strange. I thought for sure the boys would be all about some pool time. Anyway, the game was AWESOME !! South Carolina won !! We beat the #1 team !!! DH was super happy. We were all too tired to consider fireworks, so we decided to stay in. DN11 said he had a headache and I gave him some motrin. After an hour or so, I asked if he was feeling better and he said not really. I noticed his face was flushed and immediately dug out the thermometer I was immediately glad I packed. Fever of almost 104. I freaked and called my sister. We conferred on the plan and I kept watch over him the rest of the day and into the night. The fever would go down with motrin, but as soon as it wore off it got back up to 101 o 102 again.

We had planned for Epcot the next day and did stop in, but DN11 was feeling too bad and we decided to just go home. I felt so bad for him. My sister took him to the Dr. the next day and he had a fever for 7 days after that. None of the rest of us got sick and the Dr. said it was a virus since nothing showed up with strep or mono tests. That was one nasty bug !! He's OK now :)

I hope that everyone has enjoyed the photos. I will post some more when our photopass CD gets here. I wish everyone well and I hope you all have as much fun as we did !!
 
I love your great pics and trip report!!
They definitely got me even more excited about our trip just a week from tomorrow!

Thanks for your posts!
 

I love your great pics and trip report!!
They definitely got me even more excited about our trip just a week from tomorrow!

Thanks for your posts!

Thanks !!

I hope you have a great trip. The weather is GREAT there in October !!

I can't wait to go back. Maybe Christmas !!
 
So, I just got my Photopass disk today. Here are several of our photos

Our first day. Before we even entered the gates. At Animal Kingdom

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In front of the Dinosaur ride

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On the way out. Still soaked from Kali River Rapids

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And some "Baby Simba" pictures

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Epcot the next day

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Magic Kingdom

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And DD8 with some Tinker Bell accents

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Fairies !!! DD8 and DBFF's DD10 with Rosetta, Tinker Bell and Vidia. They LOVED the Fairies !!! Go early. Be at Toon Town about 9:30 and you will get a primo spot in line. We got there at 10:00 and we waited over 40 min. to see them. Worth it to get these photos !!

Rosetta - she was WONDERFUL with the girls !!!

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Tinker Bell

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Here she is checking DD8's pins. She was happy to find some Tinker Bell pins on her lanyard.

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and her she is signing my DBFF's DD10's autograph book.

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Her she is giving me some grief for not having any Tink pins. I told her I would absolutely work on that ... LOL

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Vidia was next - she was really great, too. Asked a lot of questions and seemed really interested in the girls.

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Hollywood Studios - Tower of Terror

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Epcot

Test Track

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I love that this photo is FREE on your Photopass card. I wish this were the case for all of the rides.

Epcot - World Showcase - right in front of Italy

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we couldn't get DN11 to smile, but the Photopass photographer could get him to stick out his blue tongue for every picture. She did a fist pump every time he did it. Funny :)

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More Animal Kingdom - Everyone was soaked from Kali River Rapids

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And last but not least ... STITCH !!

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In closing, the room number at our resort ... was 626. We talked about this every day.

I hope that everyone has a great trip. Be it sooner or later !! :lovestruc
 
Love this pictures...I sure miss Disney this time of year and trying to fit in another trip.
 




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