My Son Loves Halloween...5/5 3 updates! Main Street, castle, statue photos

[RachelNinja]

I hope you two have a fantastic time!

 

[Seewhatimesdone]

Everything looks great! Have an awesome time and enjoy MNSSHP!!

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

Have a great trip, can't wait to hear all about it!
Di x

 

[kathleen27]

We’re Back!!!

We had an amazing time.
Wish we were still there.
Friday night it didn't seem real that we were in Disney.
Then today, I woke up thinking about what park we would go to, and realized I was home.

It was really short, but we did a lot!
Didn’t get to everything we hoped though.
We forgot to do a couple of things.
Tried some rides we hadn’t been on yet.
Met some new characters. Some I was real excited to meet too!
Had a few amazing character experiences as usual.
And even though Jacob knew a lot about Disney, I managed to surprise him a few times with really cool stuff he'd never heard of.

Came home exhausted!
Didn’t even start unpacking last night. Only took out the toothbrushes.
My legs hurt from all that walking.

The Halloween party was fantastic!
Boo to you is now my favorite parade.

Jacob’s skeleton pirate costume was really cool.

Jacob did a great job decorating our window.
We saw a couple of other cool windows.

We visited all four parks – (one was a very short visit) – but we spent the most time at the MK.

We made it to 4 of our 5 ADRs.

It was so HOT the first few days, not as bad Mon & Tues (it got cloudy).
I’m told I missed 6 inches of rain at home.

I started to download all the photos. But once again my hard drive is full. Need to do some more deleting. I have full videos of every concert the kids are in. I just deleted a folder and it wouldn't fit in the recycle bin!

There’s no way we could have done a trip like this with Hannah or anyone else with us. We did a lot of rides she won’t try and stayed out late several nights. I even had a melt down one night because I was so tired.

Hannah was happy to see us last night, but I don't think she missed us much. She had a sleepover Friday night, her grandparents took her shopping Sat, She went roller skating with her Dad Sunday. And she had another sleepover Mon, there was no school Tuesday, so she stayed at that friends all day. Joe picked her up on the way to the airport.

This was our first time on site and with the buses. Mostly the buses were great. I could not drive after being out so late. We usually had our eyes shut on the bus ride back. We only had one time where the bus was very late, and took way longer than we thought. Of course it was when we were trying to get to an ADR.

Jacob got an Indiana Jones hat last trip, and this trip he bought a different hat on the last day. When I got up this morning he was wearing his new hat making mickey shapes with his Cheerios.

He was supposed to have an all day, hour long bus ride / mountain climbing field trip for all the eighth graders, today, but it was postponed due to the weather. Probably good he didn't. Instead he had a cross country meet this afternoon. Don't know how he did it.

And lots of things reminded us of our friends from on here.

Wake up! It's time to go!!!
Have a great time!

Your post is about when I woke up.
Which was earlier than I planned, but a good thing because I needed every minute to make it out the door on time.

Have a GREAT TRIP Kathleen and Jacob!!! arty:

Thanks! We did!

You are on your way! Have a wonderful time!

Allyson

Thanks! It was Amazing!

I can't wait to hear about your trip when you get back!!!!!!!!

(ETA: Ok, I think I went overboard with the exclamation points...)

I use a lot of them too!!!!!!!

Have an awesome time!

Thanks! We did!

I hope you two have a fantastic time!

Thanks! And I picked up Kingdom Keepers and Jacob loved it!!!
He got to the exciting part, and he brought it to Epcot with us.
I'd stop to take pictures, and he'd have pulled out the book.
I had to make him stop trying to read and walk at the same time.

Everything looks great! Have an awesome time and enjoy MNSSHP!!

Thanks! And Welcome!!!

Have a great trip, can't wait to hear all about it!
Di x

Thanks!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Welcome home. I'm so happy you had a great time and I can't wait to read all about it.

 

[kathleen27]

Welcome home. I'm so happy you had a great time and I can't wait to read all about it.

Thanks!

I've got all my photos downloaded. Now I need to start Jacob's.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Welcome home Kathleen! How were the crowds?

 

[kathleen27]

Welcome home Kathleen! How were the crowds?

Most of the lines weren't bad.

We walked on a lot of rides. At MNSSHP, and at pm EMH at the MK everything was walk on or short wait.

MK sat during the day was really crowded.
We didn't get much done then.

The longest lines we saw were for Toy Story Mania (- and they were out of FP sometime before 1pm.) And I couldn't believe the line for Snow White and all 7 Dwarves at the MNSSHP.

World Showcase was a bit crowded late afternoon and evening, due to food & wine fest.

We checked the times board, and figured out what we needed to FP (Soarin, Test Track, Rock n Roller coaster) and what we could ride quickly and it worked out great. With the number of days you have you shouldn't have a problem riding everything.

Have an Amazing trip!!!

 

[MeMom]

I'm looking forward to seeing all the pictures of your trip! Jill, John, and Brooklynn leave Saturday morning, so as you're showing me your pictures, I'll know that they are down there enjoying the very same things!

 

[MomofCKJ]

Looking forward to your pictures!

Allyson

 

[DisneyTiger]

Hi Kathleen,

Welcome home to you and Jacob. It sounds like you had a wonderful time. I thought I saw Jacob in the airport on the 26th but he was with a big group of people so I figured it wasn't y'all. I know that it's hard for the trip to be over after so much planning. I am so sad too and we're still here, but only for one more day I CAN'T wait to see all of your pics. I really want to see your fairy dress and Jacob's skeleton costume. Glad you had a safe trip back. I hope the transition back into reality isn't too hard Are you planning on doing a Trip Report?

 

[irky416]

Welcome back! I can't wait to hear more about your trip. You are doing a TR, right!?

 

[kathleen27]

I'm looking forward to seeing all the pictures of your trip! Jill, John, and Brooklynn leave Saturday morning, so as you're showing me your pictures, I'll know that they are down there enjoying the very same things!

I hope they have a great time! The party was so much fun. Is Brooklynn dressing up? I need to catch up on everyone else reports.

Looking forward to your pictures!

Allyson

Thanks! We did take a lot.

Hi Kathleen,

Welcome home to you and Jacob. It sounds like you had a wonderful time. I thought I saw Jacob in the airport on the 26th but he was with a big group of people so I figured it wasn't y'all. I know that it's hard for the trip to be over after so much planning. I am so sad too and we're still here, but only for one more day I CAN'T wait to see all of your pics. I really want to see your fairy dress and Jacob's skeleton costume. Glad you had a safe trip back. I hope the transition back into reality isn't too hard Are you planning on doing a Trip Report?

I was thinking of you at the airport. Our flight was 10min late, which put us closer to your time. The pop ME line was right next to the BC ME line. Jacob was wearing his usual striped polo shirt at the airport.

Welcome back! I can't wait to hear more about your trip. You are doing a TR, right!?

yes, We are doing a trip report (together), so I am kind of waiting for Jacob to start. Not that I'm ready. I finally got Jacob's photos downloaded this morning. And tonight I backed everything up to DVDs and to the external drive. Now I need to start sorting through photos. And add borders to the photopass and have it sent.

I think I will continue on this thread, just have it moved over and add the links to the first post.

 

[jmskinner]

Just found your thread and thought I would subscribe. We were there 09/26-09/28. What night did you do MNSSHP? We loved the parade also. I also have a Jacob, almost 10. I'll be waiting for the TR!

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

Hi Kathleen,
Can't wait to hear all about it, I hope the wait times are still as short when we go!
Di x

 

[kathleen27]

Just found your thread and thought I would subscribe. We were there 09/26-09/28. What night did you do MNSSHP? We loved the parade also. I also have a Jacob, almost 10. I'll be waiting for the TR!

Welcome! We actually went to MNSSHP twice. We loved the PP party so we figured we'd love this one too. Jacob is definately one of my favorite names!

Hi Kathleen,
Can't wait to hear all about it, I hope the wait times are still as short when we go!
Di x

Early November, I think they will be. Just Sat was bad.

OK I am sorting photos and I have some of Friday written, so I need to get together with Jacob tomorrow, and hopefully we will get started with the trip down!

In the meantime, thought I'd put up some of our Disney on Ice photos from the weekend before the trip. This was Sunday 9/21.

They had a display of princess dresses in the lobby.

Snow White's dress:

Belle gown:

Jasmine's outfit:

Hannah told me to make sure to get a picture of Abu!

Sebastian:

Flounder and Ariel's gown:

Cinderella's gown:

Hannah requested this picture as well, Cinderella's glass slipper:

Friends of Cinderella's:

Hannah pointed out that Sleeping Beauty's dress was missing. Maybe they couldn't make up their mind which color to use.

We had great seats, second row, thanks to presale codes!!!

This was especially great, because we could really see the skaters. We've been to Disney on Ice as well as Champions on Ice before. But this is the first show we've been able to see since Hannah started ice skating lessons a year and a half ago. I was pointing out some of the moves that she was learning. Though they do them much quicker!

The show included Cars, Little Mermaid, Lion King, and Tinkerbell and the Fairies.

I'll just add its really hard to take photos of skaters. They move FAST.
These are a mix of my pictures and Jacob's, and was a great test for his new camera.

We had to start with an intro of Mickey and Minnie!!!

They had some car trouble.

Goofy being goofy!

Maybe the cars gang can help that little car.

Miss Sally

Back in working condition!!!

Continued.....

 

[kathleen27]

The Little Mermaid

Ariel

Prince Eric

Hannah loved this!

Under the Sea:

Ursula

The Lion King

I just can't wait to be King with Rafiki instead of Zazu.

Scar

The Stampede

Simba learns about Hakuna Matata

Timon tells Pumba "Lay down before you hurt yourself"

Mickey back out before or after intermission.

 

[jmskinner]

Love the pics of Disney on Ice. We made it to the Incredibles ones a couple of years ago.

 

[wdwgirl03]

The ice show looked great! Thanks for sharing your pics.

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

Fantastic pictures!!!!!!
What was the name of the show? We tend to get them over here a year or so after you.
We've seen The Incredibles on Ice last year, and have tickets for HSM on ice before Christmas.
I agree, its good for the kids to see what they could do on ice if they keep learning. Heather was learning how to do a 'waltz jump' today.... .....no spectacular falls.......yet!
Di x