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[Sherry E]

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[mvf-m11c]

Nice to see more photos from your trip Sherry. Can't wait to see more.

I'm so excited to be back at DL during the Holiday season tomorrow. I hope u keep track of my live TR and I will be posting photos live at the park.

 

[Sherry E]

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[Sherry E]

Nice to see more photos from your trip Sherry. Can't wait to see more.

I'm so excited to be back at DL during the Holiday season tomorrow. I hope u keep track of my live TR and I will be posting photos live at the park.

Oh yeah, your trip is tomorrow, Bret! I was thinking it was next week, for some reason. I'm excited for you! Your pictures will be awesome - they always are.

And then it's off to WDW for you in another few weeks, right?

Have a great time!

 

[bumbershoot]

OK Sherry... you really aren't helping my "Disneyland at Christmas" homesickness I'm feeling this week!

I agree! And I'm saying that despite this insane trip I'm about to take, b/c DLR in December is *known* to me, while WDW is the great unknown. For all I know, they have no crazy-colored bright and pretty wreaths anywhere unless you go pay for a party (and we have no plans at this time to do that).


Love the report!

This was my first time EVER meeting any DIS'ers in person, and I was soon to meet a few more during the course of the day as well. It's nice when you meet someone for the first time but feel like you've known them forever. I go for long periods of time without seeing my longtime friends in person and only communicating via e-mail, so it's really not that much different meeting someone in person whom you've only chatted online with.

Yes yes yes!

Do you know that one of the very first "meets" I ever had with someone online was when I was planning my wedding, and I met someone to go shop for her wedding gown! And that day, at the third store, she FOUND her gown. I had just met her, and was there when she got her (really awesome) wedding gown, that was a designer label but about to be discontinued and marked down to some insanely low (relatively low, it's a wedding gown after all) price.

OK I got side-tracked there (the same friend broke my heart into a million pieces just a couple years later so the memory is bittersweet), but the point is, I love meeting people that I know online (as long as I know they all like me, which, um, can sometimes be tricky when you're as opinionated as I am LOL).


I believe I met Nancy at Cafe Orleans during the Diva trip I took, and of course I've met MaryJo! I'm so glad you got to meet her; I knew you were meeting Nancy, but MaryJo was a surprise addition there! And how cool that you met so MANY Dis'ers!

OK I'm blathering but I'm just so happy for you.

 

[kaoden39]

Sherry I love your pictures. I am not a firework person. My family loves them and cannot understand why I don't. I can't explain it either. Who knows? There are just so many more things I want to do.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Oh yeah, your trip is tomorrow, Bret! I was thinking it was next week, for some reason. I'm excited for you! Your pictures will be awesome - they always are.

And then it's off to WDW for you in another few weeks, right?

Have a great time!

Yes, u r right bout that I'll be in WDW in just three weeks. DL will always be my favorite park during the holiday season.

I am now in Livingston, ca by Merced right now and I will leave straight from here to Anaheim first thing in the morning.

Thx, love the pics

 

[deejdigsdis]

First, I have to say that reading your mini TR was exactly what I needed tonight. My mother-in-law called this afternoon to fill us in on the results from an MRI that my brother-in-law had this morning. He has been having problems seeing out of one eye. It turns out that he has a brain tumor and might have Multiple Sclerosis as well. (He also had a brain tumor 27 years ago.) As we got further into the conversation she said, "And I might as well tell you right now that a lump was found when I had a mammogram last week and I go in for further testing on Friday." As you can imagine, your TR was a welcome distraction -- I even laughed out loud a few times. So thank you.

OK, moving on...

Photobucket. GRRRR. When I went to upload pictures this morning I noticed the changes. So far I'm not fond of what I see. I haven't really spent much time figuring stuff out, but I do know that I had trouble loading some pics and I've never had that happen before. Annoying.

I was surprised to read that you've never met up with any DIS'ers before! I'm glad that you got to meet up with so many. It sounds like you had a great time. (Weird question: Do you pronounce "Ros" like Ross? Or Roz? Or Rose? Or some other pronunciation that I didn't think of? I just wanted to know if I was pronouncing it correctly in my mind as I read. )

Your "moment" when you knew you were THERE... Hmmm. I wonder if it will change when you go back next month. I guess it will...given that I don't think you'll be in the parking structure. Keep me posted.

Those pink and white flowers... You're right. Very un-holiday-esque. That sounds like a term I would come up with! I loved all the poinsettias last year.

You also mentioned at some point how you hadn't felt that warm fuzzy feeling yet. Do you think it had anything to do with going in so much later in the day than you are used to? I realized during my last trip that the FEELING is so much more intense when I go in first thing in the morning, right at opening, as opposed to moseying in around lunch time. Whatever the deal was, I hope you get the warm fuzzies when you arrive in December.

Gingerbread smell... you know, I don't think I smelled it at all when we were there the last week of October. And I know for sure I didn't smell any peppermint in IASWH last year.

And some of my LOL moments... (sorry - I didn't use the quote feature)

THIS: I didn't even need to get a new photo taken. Mind you, I SHOULD get a new photo taken because the old one is hideous. I showed my AP to other people and said, "Is this not the worst picture you've ever seen?" The silence was deafening as they struggled for words...

THIS: I have no clue if the PhotoPass person accidentally snapped this before handing my camera back to me or if I accidentally snapped it, but somehow this photo ended up on my camera..and it's hilarious!:

THIS: When I pulled up to the loading dock and hopped out of my car, I noticed that Ros and Mary Jo were nowhere to be found. I waited and waited and waited and no cars were coming. How could I have missed them, I thought. They couldn't have gotten ahead of me - they were behind me on the same track! It's not like they could pass me in the next lane over!

And the random crowd picture you have (the one where you can see Mary Jo taking a shot as well). Hurley Guy totally looks like he's posing for you!

OK, I've probably taken up enough space. I hope you can use your gift cards over the phone. I tried to buy our MHP tickets over the phone with gift cards and the CM said they couldn't do it. Then she said she would check with a supervisor -- still couldn't do it.

Looking forward to your report next month!

 

[funatdisney]

Also, one observation I had was that, despite the 83-ish degree temperature, it felt different. I think I can safely say that 83 degrees in November feels different than 83 degrees in, say, August. I don't know why that is, but it didn't have the 'harsh edge' to it that Summer weather has. Normally, I would have been miserable in anything above 75 degrees, but it did not feel that bad - it did not feel as bad as it has on some October days when I have been at DLR and it was in the 80's. In fact, I spotted many people in the IASWH line who were wearing sweaters and what I would classify as Winter weather clothing. Now, I would not go so far as to say it was cold, because it was not, but 83 degrees in November is just not as grueling as 83 degrees in Summer.

I tend to agree with you, and have I noticed the same thing. I think it has to do with the shorter day and sun angle. There is significant decrease in the amount of time that the sun is hitting the earth than in the summer. In addition, the sun angle is slightly lower in the horizon and not as over the earth as it is in the summer. The rays from the sun are not as intense. Anyway, that is my reasoning. Someone can correct me here.

Glad you had a great trip and got to meet lots of good DISers.

 

[joyfulDisneytears]

Hi Sherry! Yay! I'm glad to read another TR from you! And hooray for your upcoming trip!

That's awesome that you got to meet so many DIS people when you went! I think I'm not posting nearly enough on the boards in general, I haven't really gotten to know anyone yet.

I still hold out hope that I will one day have an AP in my hand for DLR...I'll definitely have to come up with some DIS meets of my own because I have a feeling DBF will not be able to put on a happy face for how often I'll want to visit. He's totally ok with Disney in small, sporadic doses, but to him DLR is a one-day event every couple years. Unacceptable!!!

 

[Sherry E]

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[funatdisney]

Well I guess that decides it. Do you have lots of cards? How do they process them at the front counter? by swiping them? The good thing about arriving as early as you want is that there should be no one in line when you arrive. That will save you some time.



Liza

 

[Sherry E]

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[funatdisney]

I have done that myself - arrive super early on my check in date to take advantage of the MM. Of course, I was checking into the GCH at the time. Although there was only two CMs working the front desk at the time and two people in front of me, there wasn't that much of a wait. I know that PP is a much smaller front desk, so there could be only one CM working when you arrive. Hopefully, you won't have to wait too long. What time did you want to arrive at PP?

 

[mvf-m11c]

Hope everything goes well when u check-in at PPH during your stay next month Sherry.

 

[kaoden39]

I wonder if the CM's that told you that you cannot do it over the phone have done so that they don't have to? They probably get a bonus for going through phone calls as quickly as possible. Just a thought. I hope you get a line with nobody in front or behind you.

 

[Sherry E]

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[funatdisney]

I checked in super early at GCH before, too, and there were other people there. Not tons of people, but people - and it wasn't an MM day. The day I check in at PPH, it will be an MM day. I don't think I've ever cheked in anywhere, at any time, when others were not checking in too.

It may seem absurdly early to all of those non-early risers out there, but I will have to get to PPH no later than 6 a.m., really. Think about it - MM starts at 7:00 a.m. I want to get the most of that MM. I have to get to PPH, unload my bags, deal with scanning all the gift cards to pay off my hotel balance and get my Key to the Magic - and if there are any other people in front of me, then that will eat up time. Then I have to take my bags over to the Bell Desk and deal with that. And then I have to walk from PPH to DLR (even with the short cut through GCH, it will take a while), then get in the line of other people waiting for the MM.

Don't forget to factor in the time you will spend to take a good look at GCH's Tree and take a picture .

I completely agree with you on NOS decorations. Bret's last year's picture and current picture on the Christmas at Disney thread really brought it home. I am truly disappointed and saddened by this report.

 

[Sherry E]

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