Our 3rd Annual Holiday Trip to DL in November - November 22nd - 25th, 2013 Post #3416

I did TK. The atmosphere at the game was so energetic, way different than being at a NBA game where the atmosphere is just okay. During the biggest basketball weekend of the year in college basketball, it was outstanding. It was fun and exciting. After a good time out there in Houston, I am now looking forward to this weekend.

Was it like that everywhere in Houston, from getting off the plane until when you got back on? Just some energy in the air, groups of people talking bball the whole time?
 
I did TK. The atmosphere at the game was so energetic, way different than being at a NBA game where the atmosphere is just okay. During the biggest basketball weekend of the year in college basketball, it was outstanding. It was fun and exciting. After a good time out there in Houston, I am now looking forward to this weekend.

Glad you had so much fun. We went to the Frozen Four (NCAA Hockey tournament) last year and really enjoyed the atmosphere there too.
 
Was it like that everywhere in Houston, from getting off the plane until when you got back on? Just some energy in the air, groups of people talking bball the whole time?

The atmosphere was so high for all the fans of UConn, VCU, Butler and Kentucky. Mostly the small schools like VCU and Butler were so energetic to be in the Final Four. Kentucky is back in the Final Four in over 10 years and the least energetic fans when I got there was UConn. Everywhere I drive around Houston, I always see a logo of the Final Four at the airport, office buildings with the facade, restaurants, and stores that have a logo of the Final Four. When I was about to leave, the energy was not that high for the other three teams while UConn was still energetic of winning the whole thing.
 

Glad you had so much fun. We went to the Frozen Four (NCAA Hockey tournament) last year and really enjoyed the atmosphere there too.

When you went where did they hold it? Were you following one of the teams in particular?
 
When you went where did they hold it? Were you following one of the teams in particular?

Hi,
We are die hard University of Michigan Wolverine fans. We have season tickets. Last year the Frozen Four was in Detroit, MI which is less than an hour from home. Our Wolverines missed the finals by one double overtime bad call goal....not that I'm bitter or remember.

This year our team is in the frozen four in Minnesota. Too far to travel. They play in an hour and a half. GO BLUE!

TK
 
Hi,
We are die hard University of Michigan Wolverine fans. We have season tickets. Last year the Frozen Four was in Detroit, MI which is less than an hour from home. Our Wolverines missed the finals by one double overtime bad call goal....not that I'm bitter or remember.

This year our team is in the frozen four in Minnesota. Too far to travel. They play in an hour and a half. GO BLUE!

TK

Lucky day today beating the #1 team. Go WHCA! ;)
 
Breat have a safe drive down, In case you don't check in Good Luck on day one of the competition.
 
Breat have a safe drive down, In case you don't check in Good Luck on day one of the competition.

TY Matt, can't wait to leave today and head on over to Anaheim. I will still check the boards on my iPad while I am at Anaheim, so I might check in and see what is going on. I know that I won't be in the park today since I won't arrive in Anaheim around 9-10pm. What you have mentioned awhile ago, that I will be taking some pics of the past pics of the rides and scenery of DCA. Even though this is a short trip, this is not as small as that one day unexpected trip last year Unexpected trip to DL March 26, 2010. It was neat to take a bump and go to DL for a few hours last year.
 
Let us know your progress in the tournament.
 
Let us know your progress in the tournament.

I will Matt. I am just an average player and hope to do well. If not, I'll just head on over to DL on Saturday and Sunday.

Good luck Bret!
TK

TY TK


Also I have been working on my PTR to WDW in December. It is not even half a year towards my trip, but the other people that are coming with me want to know what are the best days to go to the specific parks. I used TP and my knowledge at WDW. Here are the days of which park I am going. This includes MVMCP & Universal Studios IoA.

12/10 Saturday - EPCOT (TP 8/10)
12/11 Sunday - MK/MVMCP (TP 1/10)
12/12 Monday - IoA/Epcot (TP 6/10)
12/13 Tuesday - DHS (TP 3/10)
12/14 Wednesday - IoA/MK (TP 3/10)
12/15 Thursday - AK/Epcot (TP 1/10)

At EPCOT on Saturday and Thursday, my group wants to eat at Le Cellier and Bistro de Paris on those days. This time I am hoping I can get Le Cellier on one of those two days since when I tried to get a reservation for it last December and was unsuccessful. What do you think and what should I change?
 
I will Matt. I am just an average player and hope to do well. If not, I'll just head on over to DL on Saturday and Sunday.



TY TK


Also I have been working on my PTR to WDW in December. It is not even half a year towards my trip, but the other people that are coming with me want to know what are the best days to go to the specific parks. I used TP and my knowledge at WDW. Here are the days of which park I am going. This includes MVMCP & Universal Studios IoA.

12/10 Saturday - EPCOT (TP 8/10)
12/11 Sunday - MK/MVMCP (TP 1/10)
12/12 Monday - IoA/Epcot (TP 6/10)
12/13 Tuesday - DHS (TP 3/10)
12/14 Wednesday - IoA/MK (TP 3/10)
12/15 Thursday - AK/Epcot (TP 1/10)

At EPCOT on Saturday and Thursday, my group wants to eat at Le Cellier and Bistro de Paris on those days. This time I am hoping I can get Le Cellier on one of those two days since when I tried to get a reservation for it last December and was unsuccessful. What do you think and what should I change?

HI Bret,
Looks like fun! What is TP? Is this a type of busyness indicator for the park?

If you can't get into Le Cellier at EPCOT I'd recommend Tutto Italia Ristorante in Italy. We were very pleased with that this past December.

Why aren't you spending a full day at IoA? Just curious.

TK
 
At EPCOT on Saturday and Thursday, my group wants to eat at Le Cellier and Bistro de Paris on those days. This time I am hoping I can get Le Cellier on one of those two days since when I tried to get a reservation for it last December and was unsuccessful. What do you think and what should I change?

Are you going to stay offsite again? The days to avoid are based on what has EMH. So if you stay onsite you go to them anyway to use EMH, if you stay offsite you do the opposite. Only special events change that, like Christmas and Trick or Treat Parties or Star Wars Weekends.

Mainly I wouldn't go to MK all day. Split it up for the above reasoning.

I didn't follow Le Cellier too well, was Le Cellier down your last trip when they redid the restaurant? It's a signature now. Have some choup. If you don't know what choup is, it's not on the menu as choup, just ask and I'll tell you what it is.
 
HI Bret,
Looks like fun! What is TP? Is this a type of busyness indicator for the park?

If you can't get into Le Cellier at EPCOT I'd recommend Tutto Italia Ristorante in Italy. We were very pleased with that this past December.

Why aren't you spending a full day at IoA? Just curious.

TK

I don't know why I am writing this post while I am at DL.

TP is touring plans it is a website that gives out good info at WDW and DL. It shows a crowd predictions on these days and it is a good information to help me plan which park to go etc.

I will look into that restaurant TK. This time I am hoping of doing more restaurants while I am at WDW. I might also have to get a TiW card so I can save some money.

All of my group only wants to go to IoA for Harry Potter World and they don't care about the other activities at IoA. As you know from my last TR, I barely did anything else out there. So I thought we could do IoA on one half day while we go to back to WDW the second day.

I really liked the ne
 
Are you going to stay offsite again? The days to avoid are based on what has EMH. So if you stay onsite you go to them anyway to use EMH, if you stay offsite you do the opposite. Only special events change that, like Christmas and Trick or Treat Parties or Star Wars Weekends.

Mainly I wouldn't go to MK all day. Split it up for the above reasoning.

I didn't follow Le Cellier too well, was Le Cellier down your last trip when they redid the restaurant? It's a signature now. Have some choup. If you don't know what choup is, it's not on the menu as choup, just ask and I'll tell you what it is.

Yes, my group is planning on staying at the Sheraton Vistana Resort again this December. I looked on the dates that had EMH and avoid them since we can't stay during those times. I would like to stay on-site again, but it is nice to stay at the resort.

I am planning on doing MVMCP on Sunday which is my birthday and another night so my group can see Wishes and DEP. They have miss it since it moved to WDW last year.

I wanted to do Le Cellier last year, but it was already booked and I tried to see if they had any openings during my trip with no luck. I'll look forward to what Choup means.

My goodness, yesterday was so ugly while today is a little chilly but very nice weather.
 
Yes, my group is planning on staying at the Sheraton Vistana Resort again this December. I looked on the dates that had EMH and avoid them since we can't stay during those times. I would like to stay on-site again, but it is nice to stay at the resort.

I am planning on doing MVMCP on Sunday which is my birthday and another night so my group can see Wishes and DEP. They have miss it since it moved to WDW last year.

I wanted to do Le Cellier last year, but it was already booked and I tried to see if they had any openings during my trip with no luck. I'll look forward to what Choup means.

My goodness, yesterday was so ugly while today is a little chilly but very nice weather.

Cheese + Soup = choup.

Weather looks to be getting much better considering how bad it was.
 
Cheese + Soup = choup.

Weather looks to be getting much better considering how bad it was.

I see Lol

The weather is way better than yesterday, well especially up on the grapevine. It was hailing at the top and I have seen a lot of accidents up there. It was scary, I got there in one piece. Today is just a little chilly, but not that bad. Way better than yesterday.
 
Now it's time for another TR to DL again. After 1 1/2 months away from DL, its time to go back there and enjoy another time. But first, the reason I am there in Anaheim is to compete in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series Tournament that was held at the Anaheim Convention Center. It was fun and it was also very crowded at the ACC because of the Cheer competition. I will talk about that later on my TR.

Since I didn't get to Anaheim late Friday night, nothing happened that night at DL. So I will show you the pictures of the BW Anaheim Inn which is only a few hotels down right by BWPPI. This was a very nice hotel and has all the standards.

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Now is time to get to the TR on Satuday.

Day 1 – April 9, 2011 – Part 1

After a miserable day of getting to Anaheim on Friday night, I am all rested up and about to participate in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Tournament at the ACC. But first, I decided to head on over to DL and do a few things before I went over to the ACC.

I left the BW Anaheim Inn at 8am and got to the park at 8:10am. It was a nice day with barely any clouds and not as crowded in the morning. The first thing I did was head on over to INDY and get a FP. After that I just walk around Frontierland and see some areas that I like to go. I have barely taken any pictures so mostly I will be writing about it.

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After going around Frontierland, I decided to head on over to TL and go on BLAB. When I finished that ride I had a 900,000 point game, I was kind of disappointed that I did not break the 1,000,000 point mark, but it is a good score.

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It was already crowded this morning when SM was already at a 25 minute wait.
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Than I just walked around the park and take a lot of different pics of everything.

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I had to get some pics of the Matterhorn.
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Very interesting when I got to IASW, it was already 8:45am and the clock wasn't showing. I was curious if it was broken or something.

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Then when I got to BT Ranch, the Sneak Peak of the POTC was happening this month. It was just a shame, I just didn't have the time to do everything on this trip.

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After walking around the back, I went to CC and see that nothing has changed since they have closed the land in February. The Fred Gurley with Holiday 5 car set was passing over CC.

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Splash still closed during this time and won't be opened till when I get back to DL in late May.
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After finishing up in CC, I head on over to TL and get another FP. I past through the different areas around DL and had to get some pics. Also there was something very interesting that Saturday morning when a TV crew was on the left side of SB castle. I asked a CM right around that area and said what was going on and she said that they were filming a commercial. I don't know what commercial it was, but it was neat to see that.

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Matterhorn Mountain
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Monorail Mark VII Orange
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Than it was almost close to 9:30, so I head on out of DL and head on over to DCA.

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I will get back to the TR another day.
 





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