My WDW Moms Panel Training Adventures!!! Includes my night in the Castle!

[DisneyJo]

2 more photos I've found!

And in the shower at AKLV

 

[T16GEM]

What a great day! I love the pirate rooms, and can't wait to hear about the castle suite too!

 

[Minniespal]

Just catching up on your thread Jo. Absolutely fantastic

 

[DisneyJo]

I really can not say enough how nice it is to read your replies, thanks

 

[DisneyJo]

After a half hour lay on the bed I once again gave up on the whole sleep thing and went and got a drink. We had all arranged to meet in Cathy’s room as lots of us had read that the 2008 panel received a basket of goodies at last years training, we thought it would be nice if we made baskets from us all to give to Laura, Leanne and her team. I took Cadburys chocolate and English tea. The amount of stuff we had was phenomenal!

Tonight’s plans called for us to meet at the bus at 6pm. We then headed for DHS where we arrived just as they turned the Osborne lights on. This was my first viewing of the lights and they were amazing, especially when they danced to the music. We very slowly made our way down the Street, the crowds were huge, as we were meant to be getting a group photo in front of the lights. Due to the huge crowds we didn’t make it in time though so headed straight to TSM. The line was huge but luckily Laura had special FP’s for all of us

My score is on the right, I so love this ride and I don’t even mind the sore arm it gives you

As we missed the earlier photo op we instead had a group photo taken outside the soon to be open American Idol. The poor photographer not only had to have us all looking good but also catch the revolving sign at the correct moment!

This is an unofficial photo, as all my TR photos are!

 

[DisneyJo]

We now had about 45 minutes of spare time so a few of us ran to ToT. This was really great, the first time I’d ridden in the dark and so much fun. My lack of sleep was again affecting me and I did think that maybe ToT wasn’t a good choice of ride but I was fine

Once we finished riding we literally had 2 minutes until we had to be at the Hollywood Brown Derby so we speed walked it, arrived all breathless and they were still waiting to be seated

We were shown to a huge long table and I sat with some of the 2008 panellists. A little way through our meal our special guest arrived, his name was Gary and he was hilarious, unfortunately he sat at the other end of the table to me so I missed all his jokes, but I could hear the laughs

After quite a long meal we were led back to American Idol but this time we went inside! BTW DHS was now shut and it was so lovely walking round an empty park, I could so get used to that No photos were allowed inside AI but I can say, having never watched the show, that it’s amazing, so life like and the opportunities it’s going to give talented singers is amazing!

We crawl back onto the bus and finally get back to CSR about 11.30pm, it’s been a long busy day. As I enter my room I see…………..

Then…………

Then I see the bed……….

Then the wall……..

The bedside cabinet……

The other bed……..

And finally Tinks shadow on the door………

This was the label on the box……

And inside the box………..

You could literally hear scream after scream coming from Casitas 1

As you probably know next year is the Year of Celebrations and this is one of the packages you can book. It really was fantastic and would be a wonderful surprise for a family. We were the first people to get the Celebration treatment and if you have the money I would highly recommend it, it didn’t do much to help me get to sleep though

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

WOW WOW WOW.

How did you get that huge Mickey home lol.

 

[Tammy Stringer]

Wow how fantastic - did you manage to get everything home without paying excess luggage?

Tammy

 

[DisneyJo]

WOW WOW WOW.

How did you get that huge Mickey home lol.

In a laundry bag as hand luggage

Wow how fantastic - did you manage to get everything home without paying excess luggage?

Tammy

They actually gave us all a prepaid box to ship things home, everyone shipped their dirty washing, but I didn't want to chance import duties, especially on dirty washing but I managed to fit everything in my 2 cases

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

In a laundry bag as hand luggage

They actually gave us all a prepaid box to ship things home, everyone shipped their dirty washing, but I didn't want to chance import duties, especially on dirty washing but I managed to fit everything in my 2 cases

They sent home dirty washing???

 

[wideeyes]

wow, you are so lucky.

 

[Lizzy Lemon]

You can definitely say this is a trip report unlike any other, just one brilliant surprise after another.

 

[wils]

The other bed……..

What lovely surprises! Probably being thick but is the 'thing' above a bag?

 

[natalielongstaff]

you are one lucky lady

 

[Chilly]

Wow Wow Wow

 

[PoppyAnna]

OMG Jo! All I can say is WOW WOW WOW....

I would take it home and re-create it all over again in my bedroom - DH would get an earful if he touched any of that......

You must have felt like a million dollars.

Can't wait for the next installment

 

[Cyrano]

Great installments. No wonder there were screams from your rooms.
What a lovely surprise

 

[T16GEM]

That is amazing!! What wonderful gifts and a great surprise!

 

[tennisfan]

What an amazing surprise back when you got back to your room. You were certainly treated well on this trip

 

[buzz for boys]

wow this the most amazing trip report ever !! Defo something you will never forget.