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

[mvf-m11c]

Just only 10 Days until we are back at the Happiest Place on Earth and the D23 Expo.

The way its been going on the threads of the D23 Expo, I can assume that it will be very difficult to get into the presentations with a gap on only less than 30 minutes. I'm hoping that I can get into all of the presentations during my trip, but I am now setting up a backup plan just in case my DA and I can't do all those presentations that we want to do.

We are now considering changing the Lion King 3D presentation since I will be getting it on Blu Ray later this year and might go to the D23 Expo Live Auction that night. I didn't want to do this, but since we want to see the D23 Expo Live Auction, we have to skip the Lion King 3D.

Also now when I am at the parks on some of those days, a DISer asked me to get a picture of the construction wall design around the Carthay Circle Theater.

 

[tksbaskets]

Only 10 days! YEAH! I'm hoping you can do all the activities you had planned on. Having a Plan B is always a good idea. Looking forward to hearing all about it.

TK

 

[mvf-m11c]

Only 10 days! YEAH! I'm hoping you can do all the activities you had planned on. Having a Plan B is always a good idea. Looking forward to hearing all about it.

TK

Can't believe we are only less than a week till the trip and I hope that everything goes as planned. I haven't done my Plan B since I have been busy lately, but I should have it ready before this weekend.

Thanks TK

 

[kylie71]

Have a Blast Brent... when are you leaving? Can you post at night?? So we can live it with you?

 

[mvf-m11c]

Have a Blast Brent... when are you leaving? Can you post at night?? So we can live it with you?

Thank you Lori. I will be leaving to my grandmothers house on Wednesday night and my DA and I will drive to Anaheim Thursday morning. But before we go straight to DL, we have to stopped at my dads friend house in LA. We have to drop off some stuff for him and then we will be at DL in the afternoon.

I will do my best of posting all the updates, pictures and videos during each of those night. The way it is going right now during my trip, I won't be at the parks long except for Friday and Sunday night. On Thursday night, I will be at the Hilton to do the meet up with the other DISers after that go back to the hotel to get a lot of sleep and get in line early for the D23 Expo Friday morning. Saturday I should get back to the hotel that night to do the updates. I will do all the updates on my TR thread during the Expo while I am waiting in line and at night.

 

[deejdigsdis]

Not much longer now, Bret! I'm looking forward to your reports on the D23 Expo. Hope you get to see/do everything in your plan.

 

[Lil' Grumpy]

thank you very much! ,

oh, if by chance you are passing the store with the changing
dvd poster & can post a picture, i would greatly appreciate
the effort ( hoping they hadn't change it, as my request on
the picture site has been overlooked.)

we are getting ready too... for the member cruise. on the
dvc site, they are talking about the firing of the dvc president
so this should be an interesting cruise.

thanks for explaining "d23". i didn't know that. interesting.

sometimes you never know who you might come across. i met
this one lady in our records department. her grandparents had
a very special friends that they shared vacations with. "walt".
( they have pictures that the world has never seen..walt
being himself. )

sometimes i think it was a bigger destiny that he was a part of.
would have it work if his last name was "smith or jones"? what is
the "disney's" name background is...german?

doing pictures...one of my favorite came by pure coincidence,
when i told my daughter it was time for bed. she reacted with
a pouty face , that i seen before. ( i always thought some
of the characters' expressions were nothing more than imagination)
...anyhoo, the next night i hide my camera just in case she
did it again. here's the result,

how do i do the parks? well, i don't mind interacting with other
guests...& invite them into our family pictures,

, or

notice..i have my "own" trick or treat bag?


if you ever get back to universal...the character bkft. is
worth the costs, & the real "green eggs".

thanks again for being so nice, & i hope a whole bucket of pixie dust
fall all over upcoming trip!


oh, one of my hobby is a soap box derby director. i like to share a
picture of the 1937 champion that is connected to our home town
race. while it isn't disney, it does have some famous persons in
it...& that's the original.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Not much longer now, Bret! I'm looking forward to your reports on the D23 Expo. Hope you get to see/do everything in your plan.

Thank you Deej for following along. Just 5 more days and 6 days until the D23 Expo. I been looking forward to the D23 Expo since 2009 and hopefully this time I will give a good report and take good pictures of the Expo. I'm hoping that I will be able to see all the presentations at the Expo, but some of them I might not get into due to the limited space of the room and you need to dedicate some time waiting in the queues for the presentations.

Thank you Deej

thank you very much! ,

oh, if by chance you are passing the store with the changing
dvd poster & can post a picture, i would greatly appreciate
the effort ( hoping they hadn't change it, as my request on
the picture site has been overlooked.)

we are getting ready too... for the member cruise. on the
dvc site, they are talking about the firing of the dvc president
so this should be an interesting cruise.

thanks for explaining "d23". i didn't know that. interesting.

sometimes you never know who you might come across. i met
this one lady in our records department. her grandparents had
a very special friends that they shared vacations with. "walt".
( they have pictures that the world has never seen..walt
being himself. )

sometimes i think it was a bigger destiny that he was a part of.
would have it work if his last name was "smith or jones"? what is
the "disney's" name background is...german?

doing pictures...one of my favorite came by pure coincidence,
when i told my daughter it was time for bed. she reacted with
a pouty face , that i seen before. ( i always thought some
of the characters' expressions were nothing more than imagination)
...anyhoo, the next night i hide my camera just in case she
did it again. here's the result,

how do i do the parks? well, i don't mind interacting with other
guests...& invite them into our family pictures,

, or

notice..i have my "own" trick or treat bag?


if you ever get back to universal...the character bkft. is
worth the costs, & the real "green eggs".

thanks again for being so nice, & i hope a whole bucket of pixie dust
fall all over upcoming trip!


oh, one of my hobby is a soap box derby director. i like to share a
picture of the 1937 champion that is connected to our home town
race. while it isn't disney, it does have some famous persons in
it...& that's the original.

Your welcome Lil' Grumpy

Are you talking about the dvd poster by the entrance of the Emporium down MS? If that is the one, I can take a picture for you while I am at DL this coming weekend.

I hope that you and your family have a great time on the DVC cruise.

It's a pleasure of telling you what "D23" means. I like the magazines, especially you only get 4 a year which should be once a month, but it is great to read and know some stuff that I have never heard and seen before.

Very nice picture of your daughter with tink on it.

Also, you and your family in the pictures had a good time during MHP last year. Yes, I see the trick or treat bag that you get when you enter the park during MHP.

I will be going back to Orlando in December and plan to go to Universal Orlando to see the Wizardy World of Harry Potter with my family and my dads friend family. I will have to check it out.

Your welcome and I'm glad that you are following up on my TRs. I'm hoping that this will be a good trip next week and do all the stuff at the D23 Expo.

That is a very nice photo at the end. Who are the players in the picture?


Oh yeah, I just worked on my new schedule since my DA doesn't want to do the Disney Legends Ceremony. But she really wants to see the Making of the LMAUA a lot, so I change the plans so that she could see that presentations. When I made my first planning, I had doubts that when we finish the Legends Ceremony, we might not be able to get to Stage 28 on the 2nd floor and see that presentation. So this time, I changed that and made it easier to get into the presentation. With the new time opening, I would use it to do some more shopping at the Treasures of the WD Archives Store. I plan to get the WD Archives Catalog and some other collectibles just like what I am doing at the D23 Expo Dream Store. Than after the presentation, I will get in the queue for the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts at the D23 Arena.

Also, there is a low chance that I might not be able to get into the Legends of WD Imagineering since the time frame is less than an hour, but I might be able to get a back row spot. We'll just wait and see what happens.

On Sunday, I might skip the Making of Star Tours since I want to get in the queue for More of the Wonderful World of Vintage of DL and WDW.

Here is my new schedule.

 

[Lil' Grumpy]

yes that is right, thanks. ( back in 2008 when we did our first trip , i had no
idea what to expect. the dvd caught my eye, thinking disney
will always be putting out dvds so i decided to used that
window to "mark" our trip.

* this is the picture right before the store front. 2008. i wanted to try,
to "capture" my family first disneyland impression... what do you think?
noticed-we're wearing the same shirts?


sounds exciting! { your plans } . when we got home, i realized my camera
is probably lost forever. so i just started searching for those near the times
we were there. but to find someone with your insights made my day!

before i forget.....do you like baseball? from left to right- ty cobb ,
babe ruth, & casel stengel. where i work, we have quite a few
famous persons. one time i went & got a book on the history of
major league baseball & he was in it.

here's my son racing @ another town,

& his reward,

ps, the post card is from 1976.

that's the greeting when the local champions arrived in akron. the
girls were the cheerleaders from the university. i am such a "bad"
dad... i asked if the girls if they could kiss him again...missed the
first attempt, .fyi...they were used to kissing lil'kids
all day...my son was over 6 feet when he was 14. they went
a lil'wild! needless to say, we had to construct the car so he could
fit in.



"irish dancing", the girls can only wear wigs as the same of their
natural hair. 99.9& wear wigs because it takes appox. 4 hrs. to
"do",

here's the final,

that's the world champion...he beaT the "lord of the dance". he passed
over a professional career to teach children. we got in trouble with
our local school because she had to leave early for her dance class.
so she only able to do it for 3 years. her instructor was very upset
as she took to dancing liked a duck to water.

..it was the same after going to wdw, & taking over the ariel role.
i just re-watched the video from 2003. wow! not i know why that
lil'girl thought she was the real one.

all of these dress ups were her ideas. & it's this inspiration we like
coming back. so why we have many. many pictures-each trip is
special in different experiences.


what to do with all the disney stuff we have? we also adopted a few
families locally & are privileged they allowed us to give/share
our disney stuff,

if you look closely, you'll see some of the pictures we have taken.


oh, when i awoken after taken a nap during the show, i realized
my daughter was in the "show", 2008, do they still do it?

i almost missed her!,



ok? hope i am not boring you too much? , back when i was
just a college kid (20)- i backed pack all through europe/england.

here's a post card from that trip & the castle disneyland was
"model" from.

..wouldn't you know it? all that way & the guide was from ohio.
* but that meant i got to go all over it, to every room.

oh. i lost my camera off a mountain-swiss alps, go figure,


...so this sorta tells a little about us. thanks for listening , &
special thanks for sharing your "wonderful world of color" via those
great & inspirational pictures. many brought back our memories!
& should by in the disneyland displays!

 

[skiingfast]

Are you packed?

 

[skiingfast]

Are you packed?

This double post is just an extra reminder to pack.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Lil' Grumpy

Okay, I will now to take the picture of the dvd poster at the Emporium.

Those are very nice t-shirts that your family have on.

I'm glad that you like my pictures and hope you will like these upcoming ones.

I watch baseball, but I am more of a basketball fan. I watch Sportscenter all the time and I am watching it right now. That is so neat that you worked at a place where famous baseball players once came to town and play against the hometown team.

All of your pictures with your family are very nice and your daughter looks even more nice dancing in the pictures. The one show that your daughter was on stage, I believe it was the Indiana Epic Stunt Show at DHS? That is neat to get selected and go on stage and be part of the show.

Are you packed?

I got everything pack Matt. Got my DSLR camera, video camera, tripod, iPad, CPU, clothes bag, lanyards, hat, ice chest, info on the D23 Expo, etc. What else am I forgetting? Hmm, I think I got everything but I got another half a day to remember when I leave to my grandmothers house tonight.

Can't believe the D23 Expo trip is about to happen and I am going to enjoy this one so much just like the 2009 D23 Expo. Get to enjoy the park tomorrow and in two days the first day of the D23 Expo.

 

[kylie71]

Have a Blast Brent! I look forward to your post's!!
Drive safe down I-5!!

 

[kaoden39]

Have fun Bret!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

Have a Blast Brent! I look forward to your post's!!
Drive safe down I-5!!

The name is Bret not Brent. Thank you Lori, I will do my best to do a live TR at the D23 Expo. I will try to give you live updates at the D23 Expo when I am waiting in the queue for any of the presentations this week.

I will be actually driving down on highway 99 instead of I-5 because I will be going to Livingston to pickup my DA and then we will leave tomorrow morning.

Have fun Bret!!

Thank you Michele.

 

[kylie71]

I'm very sorry!

 

[mvf-m11c]

I'm very sorry!

It's no problem. Thank you.

 

[WDWJonasGirl]

Have a great time at the d23 expo!! I'll be there.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Have a great time at the d23 expo!! I'll be there.

Thank you Kaitlin, you have a good time and I hope you get to do all your planned events at the D23 Expo.

 

[mvf-m11c]

I'm just about to leave right now and head to my grandmothers house and will be in Anaheim around noon tomorrow.

Thank you everyone for following along the live TR.