Hope your neck and back are feeling better. Congratulations on the Jeep!
I love the FoF parade. It may honestly be one of my favorite things at WDW. It is just so cheerful and uplifting. I have the song on my phone and listen to it way more than I care to admit
Thank you! Every day the neck situation gets a little better...someday, in some kind of alternate reality, I'll have a day where I can just relax and maybe it would work itself out more quickly. Sadly, I am always running around doing something because I'm not very good at relaxing!! But today I can turn my head almost normally, so that's progress!!
I agree about the music! It makes me so happy. I felt the same about Paint the Night in
Disneyland!! Ooh, I need to get the FoF song on MY phone too, that's a good idea!!
Glad you got to see FoF! Great photos, especially of the dragon breathing fire!
Nice photos around the resort! I'm sorry you were feeling crappy

I hope the early night helped!
Yes! I was so excited to see it again. I do not get tired of it!
I bought some advil when I got back to the resort from MK, and the CM at the counter said I was the third person in a row who had bought it. I blame the barometric pressure...the rain, the sun, the humidity low then high...it was kind of a crazy weather day.
Woohoo! I just figured out how to do this multi-quote thing in individual little quotes. Game changer! Ummm I'm way too excited about this. Let me reel it in a bit.
Ugh. I hope the "surprise" party that your mil had to have went okay. Did her trip happen yet? I kind of hope she looks at all of your awesome pictures and feels like she missed out. But I'm spiteful that way so....
Easywdw had a review on it and said the location for the parade viewing wasn't good. If someone really wanted to meet Tiana and her prince then it would be good for them. And the snacks and ice cream sounded good. But I would want a really good parade viewing spot. The thing I hate about parades is feeling like I'm in a can or sardines and getting pushed around so I end up in the back and can't see anything so I don't like the parades as much. So if I'm not getting a great view then I'm not going to do a party like that. Your spot looks great though. I should try it there next time.
That is a weird magic shot for that location.
Well I don't like how her pockets stick out of the bottom of her shorts but I'm old. I know it's in right now.
Love all the animal pictures and I thought your rocking chair selfie was cute! Your new jeep is beautiful. Enjoy it!
Learning multi-quote in bits and pieces was a total game changer for me too!! It felt like I had met a major life milestone, lol!
The party was pretty good...it was SO HOT on Sunday, and I didn't realize my shirt was so low in the back, and ended up with a pretty bad sunburn. It figures I couldn't get out of that party unscathed, LOL!! Her trip is officially on for October. I don't know the exact dates. But I have Disney to look forward to in October, so she can have Ireland!
That's what I had read about the Tiana party, too! I looooove Tiana and Princess and the Frog, so it was something I had initially been looking forward to, but then I was put off by the reviews. The best view I've had of Festival of Fantasy was standing on the porch outside of the Christmas store in Liberty Square. And where I was this day was good too! Someday I will take the time to see it up around the flag pole or from the train station and stake out a spot early!
I know! I was so confused...it's not like there's a Toy Story of Terror overlay or anything! So weird.
Haha, I don't like her shorts either. Although I would totally have worn them when I was her age.
Thank you, thank you!!
Oh no, the mother-in-law saga continues! I hope she had the most fabulous birthday...
Absolutely! That, or she needs to invest in a pair of sunglasses for the squinting issue. That can cause headaches and wrinkles and stuff. And it makes your face look funky.
Okay...um...what? Haha
Hello Gorgeous!
Oh no, cliffhanger!! I hope you feel better!
It never ends *sigh* Even more, I'd mentioned they were coming yesterday?? ended up not coming and changing to today. They'll be here around 1:00. Woo.
I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and say she wasn't really gagging over the old lady hamming it up for the photopass...at least she didn't openly call me fat like the girl on Men in Black a couple of years ago!!
More giraffes...I was in heaven!!
1. I really need to make time to see that darn parade. and 2. I LOVE how much there is to look at around AKL>
It really is a good parade! The Maleficent sequence is pretty incredible, I LOOOVE Prince Philip battling the crows and thorns. It's unique and clever!
AKL is like its own magical little sanctuary. It's the perfect place for "resort time", which I'm not very good at normally! It was nice to just enjoy my surroundings.
I have a love/hate relationship with being stopped on attractions because there is always the thought of "This is it! I'm gonna be evacuated! I'm gonna see it all!" and then you hear the voice tell you the ride will continue shortly. LOL happened to me on TTA and I was so excited to make all my friends (and DisTwitter) super jealous. hahahahah
Your view at AKL is amazing and I'm so jealous!
I feel you! This was the first trip I was never stopped on HM or Little Mermaid...I want to get stuck and go through Haunted Mansion SO BADLY!! If I ever win the Power Ball, you'd better believe I'm shelling out whatever cash necessary for a private tour of it!! I want to see all the details.
It was so peaceful! The only thing that even came close was the first time I took my family to WL and there were deer grazing by the otter pond when we arrived.
I hope you were just tired and feel good the next morning! AKL is fun to explore. It looks like a good time at MK with FoF and HM. The girl behind you is just way to cool for PP pictures!
AKL was so dreamy...I knew it was going to be good, but I was honestly a little surprised by how it really transports you to another place. I mean, I'm not sure WHY I was so surprised, it's Disney after all, but it was really very special!
Haha, that poor girl...one day she'll be a weird old lady fake screaming in front of HM, too!!
I am laughing hysterically over the Toy Story/HM PP picture

Whaaaat???
I hope your neck is feeling better. I did something to the left side of mine about two weeks ago and the chiropractor has been working on it since. I think she's taking another X-Ray tomorrow b/c we can't figure out what the problem is

I can't get the quote feature to work on my IPad but those busts in the beginning of the HM queue? On our Marceline tour last month we learned the story behind those and it's super cool

Just about every time we walk through Adventureland it's crowded, unless it's early in the morning! Even if the rest of the park isn't that crowded that seems to be a congestion point. Aladdins Magic Carpets maybe lol.
How did you get Debra Frankie Romano Heck to like your Instagram pictures??!!! Doesn't she have to follow you to like them?? Remember I'm an Instagram moron
Right?!?!? I don't understand AT ALL. So, so weird!
Ugh, I hope your neck feels better too. Today I can turn my head most of the way, which is a big improvement.
The busts are one of my favorite features of HM!
LOL...it's totally the Magic Carpets! Or the Dole Whips! I always want to spend more time in that area of the park, but the crowds just sort of pull us along and we never end up there longer than stopping for a treat or a specific ride!
It's all about those hashtags! The first picture she liked was one I took in California last June for Throwback Thursday (#tbt) and I guess she must have been looking through #california related tags?? Then the next was one of my #SpaceshipEarthSunday pictures. Either way, it was pretty cool! I've had a few Disney character performers like my photos, and lots of rappers b/c of the #nwa hashtag that can either represent my geographical location or the rap group, LOL!
I think it's running until July? Not sure if it was extended. We haven't watched FoF since our first trip, and I've thought of doing that, but first I have to convince Josh to watch it again.

She's like "why is that lady so scared of her phone?"
So weird! I've had PP photographers do weird borders of magicshots before. But this one makes no sense!
I wondered that too
@ariane37 she doesn't have to follow you to like a picture, but it does help people see the pictures more regularly.
I kind of thought it had gone away after the reviews...but admittedly, I did not follow up on it at all! Even though I love Princess and the Frog!!
Haha, the trials of having no pockets came back to...wait for it...HAUNT me!
They also did a magic shot on Main Street where the Lost Boys ran into the photo, but I think they did that one because of my shirt?? I don't know, maybe that's a common one for Main Street b/c of the parade?? Either way, the Toy Story one made no sense at all!!
I'm pretty sure she was looking around at California related pictures because that's the first one she liked. It was pretty exciting! Like I said to Ariane, if anyone even sort of famous likes my pictures, it's usually rappers because of #nwa, LOL! I'm sure they expect to see something hip hop related and end up seeing pictures of my kids at the lake, HAHA!
In your first pic on Micky & Minnie in the parade what is Micky doing?

The busses at AKL were always full for us either coming or going. So frustrating at the end of a very long hot day and you have to stand or should I say hold on for holly heck so you don't fall in someone's lap.
I hope you weren't getting sick.
And Minnie says, "Mickey! There are children present!!"
Buses to and from MK were always standing room only with AKL, it was frustrating. Nothing like standing for at least 20 minutes and nearly getting waaaay too up close and personal with other guests, right?? And I love babies and all, but they were alllwaaayyys crying at the end of the night. All of them. At the same time. Those poor parents.