"Nothing's sweeter than summertime and a Disney vacation!" -A 2010 TR- *UPDATE* 10/17

[celeste.]

hey everyone, I was all ready to update, but Imageshack doesn't seem to be working for me right now. Hopefully soon it will be running, so I can finally update!

 

[celeste.]

Day 6: Epcot

We're on Day 6 already. Our second to last park day! :[
We were going to spend it at Epcot, but first we went to Old Port Royale for breakfast.

I think i had a muffin or something else from Grab & Go, but I didn't keep track of my breakfasts.
DSis & I:

We then went to the bus stop to wait for a bus to Epcot! We were going to ge there for rope drop. & when we got there we were towards the front of the herd and before we knew it the characters came out and threw pixie dust and then the park was opened!
We marched on over to Soarin' and rode the standby line. It wasn't too bad of a wait this early.
The family behind us had two little girls. One of them kept complaining that she had to go to the bathroom, but she said she could wait until after the ride. But right after we boarded our hang gliders and before we fastened our seat belts, we see the father and the daughter get off the ride, I guess to go to the bathroom. This left two empty seats on Soarin'. Couldn't the kid have waited 3 minutes until after the ride?!
Anyway it was a great ride. After it we went over to ride Test Track a few times using the single rider line.

Then DSis & I wanted to ride Nemo ride at the Seas, so we went over there while our parents sat that one out.
A few pictures on the way, we always tend to go the longest possible route in Future World. it's pretty confusing to get around.

The Seas!

It was walk-on, like it usually is these days. I remember when it first opened we waited around 30 minutes for it. The queue is really long, too (and empty).
A few pictures from the ride. It is dark in there, so they're not the best.

After the ride we went to go meet up with DParents.
I spy them on a bench!

We took a picture nearby:

The it was almost time for the World Showcase, so we went over to that. but not without taking a few pictures!

You can see Tower of Terror in the distance. I never realized how close the two parks were to each other.

The first country was Mexico! I love this pavilion because it's inside and nice and cool, but it makes you feel like you're outside!
This fox was very cute, but it cost a pretty penny!

Then, no visit to Mexico is ever complete without a ride on the Mexico ride!

A picture as we exited Mexico:

Then we went to Norway. We rode the Maelstrom & I of course covered my eyes during the troll part.
Then we stopped in the bakery and picked up two school breads for later.
After that we wanted some lunch so we all went to China to eat. For some reason i only have pictures of my drink and dessert, but I think it is because I got orange chicken like last time.
So here, you can enjoy pictures of my caramel ginger ice cream (which was so good, it tasted a little like pumpkin) and my peach oolong tea:

Then we looked around China.
DSis & I:

The next 'country' was the outpost and there, we sat down in a shady area and DMom & I ate our school breads! Yum!!
I think it was here that i had an idea about a new attraction. Like the world showcase, they could have something where instead of countries, they have cities from around the USA. Like, New York City, Chicago, Nashville, San Fransisco, etc. And they could have foods and souvenirs that each city is known for.
I think I should be hired to be an Imagineer!

DSis bought a headband in Mexico and put it on here:

Continued in the next post

 

[celeste.]

Another picture we took in the outpost:

Next country was Germany & there we saw Snow White with a little line. So I decided to wait to meet her.
She said she liked the flowers on my shirt.

We looked around the shops in Germany for a bit and then it was on to Italy!
The new restaurant there just opened while we were in WDW, so it was cool to see something so new. It looked nice:

More Italy:

Next up was Japan!

I love the store here, it's so big and it has so much stuff!
Monchichi! I got one a few t=years ago that is dressed like a pineapple. It's so cute!

mmmmmm, I love Pocky! It's delicious!!

Then we exited the shop. DMom was in the bathroom or something so we waited for her here.

When she came back she took this candid-ish picture of us:

The next country was Morocco! It's so pretty here and it makes you feel like you're in Aladdin or something!

DSis & I in Morocco (it's funny, I just picked this picture out to bring in for a project in Italian class)

Then we looked around in the shops.
They even have magic lamps here!

& camels

Next up we went to France.

We wanted to see the France movie because last year just DDad & DSis saw it & they raved about it!

Now, my cell phone never rings, but that's probably because it's usually off, haha. and of course I picked out an extra loud ring tone just for Disney, I think it was a Miranda Lambert song. and what do you know, my phone starts ringing in the middle of the movie. It seemed loud, but DParents said they didn't even hear it. It turned out to be my friend & I called her after the movie.

DSis got a Napoleon afterward because she didn't have school bread.
As we exited France, we saw Marie out. But just as we got on the line she had to take a milk break, we decided to wait anyway though because we would be second in line when she came out.
She came out in a little bit after.

Then we saw the DTD hot air balloon off in the distance:

We went to the UK to look around:

After that we went to Canada, but for some reason I don't have any pictures from that.
We then exited to World Showcase:

& we then took a ride on Spaceship Earth!

Coming Up: Spaceship Earth & more!
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I may try to actually update during the week this week, but I'm going to a Lady Antebellum concert on Tuesday. It's a real concert that's part of their headlining tour so that will be fun. So maybe I'll put up pictures from that on Wed/Thurs.

 

[Terrie..]

Nice update - it doesn't look too crowded at Epcot.

 

[celeste.]

Nice update - it doesn't look too crowded at Epcot.

Thanks! It wasn't very crowded at all. It was nice.

 

[MomOf2Gals]

cool update. your pic with snow white came out great. cant wait to look at the countrys on my trip.
it would be cool to see ur pics from the lady a concert, i'm seeing lady a with my oldest daughter on their tour at the end of october in mn.

 

[celeste.]

cool update. your pic with snow white came out great. cant wait to look at the countrys on my trip.
it would be cool to see ur pics from the lady a concert, i'm seeing lady a with my oldest daughter on their tour at the end of october in mn.

Thanks!
I'll post my Lady A pics later! Have fun at your show, they're great live.

 

[mandas08]

Another concert goodness girl...I'm jealous! Cant wait for another update and to see your concert pics!

 

[celeste.]

Hey, wow it's been awhile since an update happened! I'mworking on one now, though if anyone's still interested in the report.

Another concert goodness girl...I'm jealous! Cant wait for another update and to see your concert pics!

Thanks, i'll post the link to the folder soon!

 

[celeste.]

Here are the pictures from the Lady Antebellum concert on 9/28 in NYC! David Nail opened up for them & it was a really great show overall!

Click here for the photos!

 

[celeste.]

Day 6: Spaceship Earth, DTD, & DHS
All right back on track with this TR!
So I left off with us just finishing off the World Showcase and heading to Spaceship Earth.
SE of course didn't have too long of a wait.

This time I sat with DMom. Here are some pictures from 'our future'.

So after Spaceship Earth we just went back to the bus stop to wait to go back to CBR for a bit.
So we waited an average amount of time for a bus, but the ride back to the hotel did not take an average amount of time. They were training a new driver. There were 4 other CM's on the bus helping her.
So as we're driving I see that we pass the main entrance for CBR, ok I figured we were just going to go in the side entrance for buses. But then we passed the bus entrance. okayyyyy, where are we going? then all of the sudden we're turning toward a big Pop Century entrance sign! A man in front of me goes, "do we always go this way?" a woman replied, "oh there's multiple entrances to CBR" the man said, "yeah, but we usually don't turn into Pop Century..."
So the four CM's that were training her go, 'oh I think you made a wrong turn.' Really?! So we make a u-turn where she almost turns into a tree and soon we were back at CBR! finally.
We went back to the room and relaxed a bit and then went to DTD for dinner.
We drove over to DTD and went right to Wolfgang Puck express. I got pizza and so did my parents. DSis got the pasta dish that I got the other day. And for dessert DMom, DSis, & I got cheesecake! it was sooo good! One of the best cheesecakes I've ever had! DDad got frozen yogurt.
After dinner we looked around DTD.

So we head back to the hotel after this.
DSis & I decided to just run back to Hollywood Studios for a bit and pick up the cool Mickey that I liked so much, the one that looks like Slash.
So we head to the bus stop and catch a bus rather quickly to DHS. We were the only ones on the bus. Wow, nobody's going to DHS tonight?
We get there shortly and realize that there were no bag checkers, weird & also that everyone was coming out of the park. weird again.
Then we see a sign that says the park closes at 7 PM.
7 PM?!! what kind of park closes at 7 PM? ok, maybe we should have checked beforehand but I didn't think DHS closed that early!
So we once again got on a bus back to CBR.
We hung out around the hotel before going to bed for the night.

Coming Up: DHS in the morning

 

[nessz79]

So as we're driving I see that we pass the main entrance for CBR, ok I figured we were just going to go in the side entrance for buses. But then we passed the bus entrance. okayyyyy, where are we going? then all of the sudden we're turning toward a big Pop Century entrance sign! A man in front of me goes, "do we always go this way?" a woman replied, "oh there's multiple entrances to CBR" the man said, "yeah, but we usually don't turn into Pop Century..."
So the four CM's that were training her go, 'oh I think you made a wrong turn.' Really?! So we make a u-turn where she almost turns into a tree and soon we were back at CBR! finally

Wow- you would have thought that among the 4 of them, someone would have noticed the wrong turn! :lol:

 

[celeste.]

Wow- you would have thought that among the 4 of them, someone would have noticed the wrong turn! :lol:

I know, they were too busy chatting, haha.
Thanks for reading!

 

[MomOf2Gals]

cool update.
too bad that hollywood studio closed so early, i'll keep that in mind for our trip.

 

[celeste.]

cool update.
too bad that hollywood studio closed so early, i'll keep that in mind for our trip.

thanks, yeah be sure to check all closing times, haha.

 

[hlrababy]

Hey! I am a little late joining in, but I want to join in on the fun!