My Trip to the 2013 D23 Expo - That's a Wrap!

It was fun, even as sorcerers we had to wait and pick and choose. Obviously I didn't get an update last night and now I'm on hold with WDW dining trying to get into F&W special events. Over100 calls before I got in the queue!:eek:

Woah! :eek: Good thing we're not doing any special events for this trip. I hope you get what you want.
 
I can't wait to read more and see your haul. I loved your introduction. I have just watched the whole performance of Alan Menken courtesy of the DIS and the finale. I am keeping Richard Sherman for tomorrow. I would have loved to actually be there.

Corinna
 

Just to put my two cents in, and to add in the stuff Alison probably won't remember, I stayed up the night before we were going to make those 4:00 AM calls so I could wake Alison up. This is our usual routine when we need to be up at an inhuman hour of the morning, as I don't want to take any chances on me not waking up. Alison does not wake up very easily, usually I have to pull the covers off her and pull her up and out of bed (normally to a chorus of very cranky words). This time when she finally heard me say "It's 4 AM and you have to call Disneyworld" she came to and bounded up.

With both of us calling on the cel phones, doing about 20 calls each a minute, it was probably about 1000 calls before one of us got an answer. Then, the recording said that the wait was over 30 minutes long....:rolleyes1

10 minutes later I got answered, so we both waited, and waited, and ... well, you get the idea. Suddenly, Alison burst out with words I would not want to put on a Disney related site, ending with "....I got cut off!":eek:

I gave her my phone, got hers and started dialing again.

An hour and a half after we started dialing Alison finally got a human being on the line and was able to make all 3 of the reservations she wanted!:dance3:


I was finally able to roll over and go to sleep for the night.
Take care
Fran
 
:wave2: Hi Fran It is so nice to finally " meet " you Can't wait to meet you both very soon Congratulations on your new home and getting the F & W ressies !

Ruthie
 
Just to put my two cents in, and to add in the stuff Alison probably won't remember, I stayed up the night before we were going to make those 4:00 AM calls so I could wake Alison up. This is our usual routine when we need to be up at an inhuman hour of the morning, as I don't want to take any chances on me not waking up. Alison does not wake up very easily, usually I have to pull the covers off her and pull her up and out of bed (normally to a chorus of very cranky words). This time when she finally heard me say "It's 4 AM and you have to call Disneyworld" she came to and bounded up.

With both of us calling on the cel phones, doing about 20 calls each a minute, it was probably about 1000 calls before one of us got an answer. Then, the recording said that the wait was over 30 minutes long....:rolleyes1

10 minutes later I got answered, so we both waited, and waited, and ... well, you get the idea. Suddenly, Alison burst out with words I would not want to put on a Disney related site, ending with "....I got cut off!":eek:

I gave her my phone, got hers and started dialing again.

An hour and a half after we started dialing Alison finally got a human being on the line and was able to make all 3 of the reservations she wanted!:dance3:


I was finally able to roll over and go to sleep for the night.
Take care
Fran


That's great that you were able to get the reservations you wanted. I myself uttered that same thing while calling Disney today and I got cut off.:rotfl:
 
Just to put my two cents in, and to add in the stuff Alison probably won't remember, I stayed up the night before we were going to make those 4:00 AM calls so I could wake Alison up. This is our usual routine when we need to be up at an inhuman hour of the morning, as I don't want to take any chances on me not waking up. Alison does not wake up very easily, usually I have to pull the covers off her and pull her up and out of bed (normally to a chorus of very cranky words). This time when she finally heard me say "It's 4 AM and you have to call Disneyworld" she came to and bounded up.

With both of us calling on the cel phones, doing about 20 calls each a minute, it was probably about 1000 calls before one of us got an answer. Then, the recording said that the wait was over 30 minutes long....:rolleyes1

10 minutes later I got answered, so we both waited, and waited, and ... well, you get the idea. Suddenly, Alison burst out with words I would not want to put on a Disney related site, ending with "....I got cut off!":eek:

I gave her my phone, got hers and started dialing again.

An hour and a half after we started dialing Alison finally got a human being on the line and was able to make all 3 of the reservations she wanted!:dance3:


I was finally able to roll over and go to sleep for the night.
Take care
Fran

Welcome to the Dis!!!


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So nice to "see" you here. :thumbsup2

Congrats on scoring the F&W events.
 
Just to put my two cents in, and to add in the stuff Alison probably won't remember, I stayed up the night before we were going to make those 4:00 AM calls so I could wake Alison up. This is our usual routine when we need to be up at an inhuman hour of the morning, as I don't want to take any chances on me not waking up. Alison does not wake up very easily, usually I have to pull the covers off her and pull her up and out of bed (normally to a chorus of very cranky words). This time when she finally heard me say "It's 4 AM and you have to call Disneyworld" she came to and bounded up.

With both of us calling on the cel phones, doing about 20 calls each a minute, it was probably about 1000 calls before one of us got an answer. Then, the recording said that the wait was over 30 minutes long....:rolleyes1

10 minutes later I got answered, so we both waited, and waited, and ... well, you get the idea. Suddenly, Alison burst out with words I would not want to put on a Disney related site, ending with "....I got cut off!":eek:

I gave her my phone, got hers and started dialing again.

An hour and a half after we started dialing Alison finally got a human being on the line and was able to make all 3 of the reservations she wanted!:dance3:


I was finally able to roll over and go to sleep for the night.
Take care
Fran

Aw Darlin.

How sweet of you to post the backstory on my thread. :love: :hug:

I'll even quote this post over on my WDW PTR thread when I finally have time to update everyone with the specific events we were able to book! :thumbsup2
 
Congrats on getting your reservations. I was able to book my deminars last week and then hadn't planned on anything and then decided to try for the Parisian Breakfast last night...got right in and got it booked. :) No non-Disney words here. :)

Jill in CO
 
I'm so behind but I see F&W and Fran :wave: M took his iPad and the family computer so the kids have stolen my iPad. It's a pita to phone post only.
 
Suddenly, Alison burst out with words I would not want to put on a Disney related site, ending with "....I got cut off!":eek:

I gave her my phone, got hers and started dialing again.

An hour and a half after we started dialing Alison finally got a human being on the line and was able to make all 3 of the reservations she wanted!:dance3:

This cracked me up!:lmao: I'm glad you were able to get you reservations.

:wave2: Fran, nice to have you join us!
 
Nice to hear that you got all of your reservations for the F&W Festival when you have your WDW.
 
Good luck with booking F & W hope you manage to get what you want! Happy unloading can't wait to see and hear about what ya got!

Check out my PTR, all the info is there!

Woah! :eek: Good thing we're not doing any special events for this trip. I hope you get what you want.

::yes:: it's a zoo!

I can't wait to read more and see your haul. I loved your introduction. I have just watched the whole performance of Alan Menken courtesy of the DIS and the finale. I am keeping Richard Sherman for tomorrow. I would have loved to actually be there.

Corinna

I'm wondering how much my TR will do since everyone seems to be seeing everything we did online already. I hope that everyone finds it worth it! I'm glad you found a link to the concert. It was totally amazing! I hope to at least give some info on something that hasn't already been reported here.

Not this time, it seems I'm fashionable late to the party.:rotfl:

:welcome: I'm glad that you at least made it over here!

Hope you got what you wanted for F&W.

::yes::

:wave2: Hi Fran It is so nice to finally " meet " you Can't wait to meet you both very soon Congratulations on your new home and getting the F & W ressies !

Ruthie

Thanks!

That's great that you were able to get the reservations you wanted. I myself uttered that same thing while calling Disney today and I got cut off.:rotfl:

Welcome to the Dis!!!


smiley_welcome.gif



So nice to "see" you here. :thumbsup2

Congrats on scoring the F&W events.

Yay! :yay: :cool1: :welcome: Welcome to Fran! Thanks for coming out of lurkdom!

Congrats on getting your reservations. I was able to book my deminars last week and then hadn't planned on anything and then decided to try for the Parisian Breakfast last night...got right in and got it booked. :) No non-Disney words here. :)

Jill in CO

I'll be interested how that goes! Please tell us!

I'm so behind but I see F&W and Fran :wave: M took his iPad and the family computer so the kids have stolen my iPad. It's a pita to phone post only.

I know! How cool that Fran decided to join us! Sorry you have only your phone. I hate when that's all I have! Let's hope that Fran keeps going with us!
 
This cracked me up!:lmao: I'm glad you were able to get you reservations.

:wave2: Fran, nice to have you join us!

I know! Isn't is nice to have Fran's commentary....even if it isn't the most complimentary towards me.....:rolleyes1

Now y'all will hear the other half! :lmao: I always give you the sugar coated version, evidently now we're going to get the one from the bottom of the bag where sugar wore off! :rotfl2:

Nice to hear that you got all of your reservations for the F&W Festival when you have your WDW.

Yes, I'm glad we ended up with the events we wanted. Thanks Bret! I will get caught up on everyone else's TRs pretty soon. Next post is on the House thread as to why I'm not keeping up! :rotfl:
 
I know! Isn't is nice to have Fran's commentary....even if it isn't the most complimentary towards me.....:rolleyes1

Now y'all will hear the other half! :lmao: I always give you the sugar coated version, evidently now we're going to get the one from the bottom of the bag where sugar wore off! :rotfl2:


I'm already drawing my chair in for watching from the sidelines. popcorn::

I guarantee you......it'll be just like my relationship with DH. EXACTLY! ::yes::
 
I wanted to give y'all an update tonight, but sometime ago I updated to photobucket "automated backup" which basically meant that photobucket took every photo on my computer and uploaded it to storage, even if I already had the freakin photo there of even if I didn't want the photo. I was wondering why I had exceeded my storage. Well Now I paid for the upgraded storage, but I'll probably use it with all the photos I take.

I have deleted the app on my computer and all the photos it uploaded. Heck I want to choose which ones go to photoucket!

I'm already drawing my chair in for watching from the sidelines. popcorn::

I guarantee you......it'll be just like my relationship with DH. EXACTLY! ::yes::

:rotfl2: I'm so glad to hear that! We always think we are just like any other couple, just with different plumbing, and this helps confirm that. We both have our differences, but in the end we work them out!
 
I have finally pretty much given up on Photobucket when they removed the unlimited storage option as the amount of storage that I ideally need would be way to expensive. I have switched my loyalty to Flickr where all the photos I uploaded from my last trip did not even start to make a dent in my free allowance.

Corinna
 
I was going to use this photobucket option so I feel I have been spared... Thank you. A sliding doors moment...
 
I have not watched a single thing online, patiently waiting for your TR :)

And sugar coated or bottom of the bag it doesn't matter to me :goodvibes
 













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