Oh boy - the Up characters! I LOVED that movie - especially Dug. I hope they are still there when we visit in a couple months (staying at BCV - so I hope you post some BCV pics!).
Still had fun though!!! I'd love to stay at the Poly one day- it always looks so beautiful!!
We were there that week- the infamous week of ridiculous rain, right before your trip- May 16th (a sunny day!!) to May 20th.
We love the Poly almost as much as we love our Beach Club Villas home. I would love to add on point someday, and I think the easiest way to make it happen is if Disney would just wake up and give the people what they want, DVC at the Polynesian!
Literally, within minutes of getting her wristband, SAB was closed down on account of thunder and rain in the area, so Melissa came back to the room right around the time I got back. We waited the weather out for a bit and then once it cleared out, headed over to the dunes cove “quiet” pool. 
Apparently, this was like a 1 to 2 week test period. We had one of the two person tables next to the where they put the crab legs, and you would have thought this was people’s last meal ever given how that stuff was attacked! 
I tried them, but to me, they always have been too much work for the end result, so after playing with trying to get the legs open, I gave up. That isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy this meal however, as it has lots of great stuff for carnivores! I especially liked the carving station (which last trip I TOTALLY forgot about ever hitting up).
We headed back over to GMR, but it STILL had a 40 minute wait 
, so we went down sunset instead. RnRC wasn’t working, so I did Tower twice using my FPs and then RnRC was working again, so we used our two sets of FPs on that from earlier in the day. From there we head back over to GMR, where the line was finally like 15 minutes, so we did that and then head back to the resort.
I love that print from BCV - we are so excited about staying there at the end of the summer!
OK, so maybe I'm just realizing something that everyone else knows - but are you using your FP's pretty much whenever you want? I thought you had to return in the time frame they give you? Am I just clueless on this?
I love that print from BCV - we are so excited about staying there at the end of the summer!
OK, so maybe I'm just realizing something that everyone else knows - but are you using your FP's pretty much whenever you want? I thought you had to return in the time frame they give you? Am I just clueless on this?
) This was supposed to be our big time to “do the mountains” but ONCE AGAIN there was issues! At the rope drop, we dashed over and I got FPs for splash. The idea was to then do Big Thunder, but it was down from like 8 to 8:45,so we just ended up doing splash a couple times in a row. (Also, there was an issue w. the FP machines, as they were spitting out return times of 10am instead of starting at 9am which is usually what they do form EMH). Anyway, after I realized that the splash FP return time wasn’t going to be any use to us b/c of our chef mickey ressie, I talked (OK, I b#llsh*ted) a CM into trading for a Big Thunder FP, so we ended up riding Big Thunder a couple times. We tried to go do jungle cruise again, but the lines were still bad, so we did Haunted Mansion and Pirates again I believe. (BTW, here’s a pic of donald in a costume I had never seen before, and if you have Donald, you need Daisy too right?!?)
Nice TR! I'm subscribing! Last time we were at AK's RFC it was horrible too. I think I ordered the cheese pizza too (due to the the lack of options...) and ugh, how gross!
Also, we're planning to check out Ohana on our next trip for the first time...so great to hear such good things about it!
BTW - I love how you and DW have a nice plan for your days at Disney due to your varying levels of reverence! My DH isn't a huge fan (shocking I know...) and I think we're going to try splitting up on the next visit. He just wants to relax, sit by the pool, and relax some more, whereas I feel like it's a waste of time at Disney!! Any other tips for dealing with a less-than-enthused DH? We only get to go every 3 years bc of this too...
What a great report! I remember your report from your last trip and that I just looooooooove your pictures!I think that was from your first trip home?
The picture of EE before the storm is really creepy!!
Glad you like the pics!
We started out with our favorite, the orange grand mariner slushie in France and moved onto the lemon slushie in Italy, which we liked, but not as much as our favorite. Here are a couple pics from france:
, so we just watched it as we walked through world showcase and out of Epcot.
A lot of the rest of the morning was just walking around and taking pictures. I wanted to get pics of the stormtroopers on top of the entrance way, but never caught them there. Also, because there was a special american idol special event that day (the recent winner Kris Allen was there to help promote the AI experience), Mickey and Minnie would not be in their SW costumes until well after I left the park in the afternoon, so that was a bummer. I ended up waiting in like a 15 minute line right before 9am for chewbacca and got in a brief line for stormtrooper donald duck, but that was about it in terms of getting in line (for example the line for Vader was just way too long for me to care). Here are some of my SWW pics:
When MGM first opened in 1989, we went and there were only 2 attractions-the Great Movie Ride and the Backlot Studio Tour. At that time, the tour was about a 2 hour tour in 2 parts-one part was the tram, catastrophe canyon, etc. The other part was inside, walking, and included the Bette Middler little movie thing and the kids riding on the big bug.
