Our Anniversary Week at the Happiest Place on Earth!! TR DONE 8/30 SOUVENIR POST SOON

[xoktenox]

Yay!

Awesome grades!

Thanks!!!!

 

[Sarah84]

Congratulations on the brilliant grades

 

[Sunset Cliffs]

Congrats on your great grades. You deserve to boast about them...I'm sure you worked really hard!

Ok, so when I started reading these boards, I read someone's pre-trip report and one of their top 10 things to do was get pretzels at Goofy's. I remember thinking how odd that was...to get that excited about pretzels. After reading about it more (and seeing all of the awesome pics) it is now pretty high on my list too. Isn't that funny? Except I'll be going for the rice krispy treats...or the caramel apples...yeah, I get it now! Great update!

 

[hlrababy]

Oh yum, now I want a rice krispy treat!!!!

I can't believe that mother on the bus! Seeing stuff like that breaks my heart for the kids!!!

 

[JenAusty]

I got my grades today, they were finally all online





3 A's and 2 B+'s!!! Sorry I just needed to brag a little there

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GREAT JOB little miss Smarty! hehe I always feel relieved when I seen my grades and they are really good.. it makes all the stress and hard work not seem so bad. YAY for being done with school!! YAY for summer! and YAY for awesome grades! Mine were pretty similar to yours-although I had more Bs. Now you can relax a little. hehe

 

[Goofy22]

Awesome on the grades!

 

[Me&3]

Fantastic Grades

 

[meanmom121]

Great grades girl: And good luck on that certification - but I'm sure you'll do fine. Nothing dorky about history. It's actually pretty interesting. My son, Scout, age 11, is dyslexia so school is very frustating for him - but he is making A's in social studies because it's fun and interesting to him. So you can make a huge impact on someone who needs a confidence boost.

 

[Charleston Princess]

Congrats on the awesome grades!!!

 

[xoktenox]

UPDATE COMING LATER TODAY! STAY TUNED!!

Congratulations on the brilliant grades

Thank you so much!

Congrats on your great grades. You deserve to boast about them...I'm sure you worked really hard!

Ok, so when I started reading these boards, I read someone's pre-trip report and one of their top 10 things to do was get pretzels at Goofy's. I remember thinking how odd that was...to get that excited about pretzels. After reading about it more (and seeing all of the awesome pics) it is now pretty high on my list too. Isn't that funny? Except I'll be going for the rice krispy treats...or the caramel apples...yeah, I get it now! Great update!

Thank you!! Once you see the pictures of the Goofys treats it allllllll makes sense! Those caramel apples look sooooo good, that might be my next goodie I get when I go there.

Oh yum, now I want a rice krispy treat!!!!

I can't believe that mother on the bus! Seeing stuff like that breaks my heart for the kids!!!

Rice krispie treat sounds yummyyyy even though I just ate some banana nut cheerios for breakfast LOL Those poor kids, I felt really bad for them and wanted to punch the mother!

GREAT JOB little miss Smarty! hehe I always feel relieved when I seen my grades and they are really good.. it makes all the stress and hard work not seem so bad. YAY for being done with school!! YAY for summer! and YAY for awesome grades! Mine were pretty similar to yours-although I had more Bs. Now you can relax a little. hehe

OMG I was soooo happy to see my grades! Thanks! I can finally relaxxxx! Today I woke up at whatever time I felt like it and can reeallllyyyy relax all day without knowing theres some kind of school work I should be doing. Its great!

Awesome on the grades!

Fantastic Grades

Thanks to you both!!

Great grades girl: And good luck on that certification - but I'm sure you'll do fine. Nothing dorky about history. It's actually pretty interesting. My son, Scout, age 11, is dyslexia so school is very frustating for him - but he is making A's in social studies because it's fun and interesting to him. So you can make a huge impact on someone who needs a confidence boost.

Thank you!! I have to get a review book for my next certification test asap and start studying. It's allllll on history so I really have to know my stuff. Congratulations to Scout on getting A's in social studies! I truly hope I cant make a difference in a student's life like that.

Congrats on the awesome grades!!!

Thanks CP!

 

[PopArtGal]

UPDATE COMING LATER TODAY! STAY TUNED!!




Thank you so much!



Thank you!! Once you see the pictures of the Goofys treats it allllllll makes sense! Those caramel apples look sooooo good, that might be my next goodie I get when I go there.



Rice krispie treat sounds yummyyyy even though I just ate some banana nut cheerios for breakfast LOL Those poor kids, I felt really bad for them and wanted to punch the mother!



OMG I was soooo happy to see my grades! Thanks! I can finally relaxxxx! Today I woke up at whatever time I felt like it and can reeallllyyyy relax all day without knowing theres some kind of school work I should be doing. Its great!





Thanks to you both!!



Thank you!! I have to get a review book for my next certification test asap and start studying. It's allllll on history so I really have to know my stuff. Congratulations to Scout on getting A's in social studies! I truly hope I cant make a difference in a student's life like that.



Thanks CP!

Yay! More TR today!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Woo hoo!!! An update means I have more ways to procrastinate today!

 

[xoktenox]

Hey everyone! Hope you're all having a great weekend. This is my first weekend of not having to think about school so that in itself is making my weekend wonderfulllll. The weather here isn't so nice though, only in the high 50s with rain on and off all morning. I'm off tomorrow so hopefully it will be nicer even though I need to head to the dreaded DMV. I lost my driver's license! I have NO idea where on Earth it is and I can't even remember the last time I used it. I went to purchase an adult beverage yesterday and couldn't find it, totally embarrassing. Anyway, hopefully I can get one tomorrow. I know that in a few weeks I'm going to end up finding it because that's just my luck but I need one in the meantime. Anyway, here's an update for you all

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When we last left off Chris and I had just ridden EE. Amazing!! We grabbed our fastpasses at it was about 8:30am at the time. We had breakfast ressies at 9:10 so we wanted to run over to the safari and get on it quick. AK was just gorgeous. I can't stress it enough. I totally got a new appreciation for it this trip. So we got over to the safari and walked right on. As we walked through the queue we saw a CM standing off to the side, directing people to where to leave their strollers. Chris and I then began a little game. We were thinking, "What a great job. Stand there on the line for the safari and tell people where to put their strollers all day...IN DISNEY WORLD!" So easy and you're in DISNEY so it must be great. We then started the "what is the best job in Disney world" game. So far, the stroller girl was winning. Anyway, here's some safari pictures. We walked RIGHT on. Literally a 3 minute walk and wait AND our jeep wasn't even half full. LOVE AM EMH!

He was hiding

Hippos!!

Blurry, sorry

Chris loved the gators

Wildebeast...yea idk how to spell that

Our safari guide was pretty good, but he seemed a little tired. He was good at pointing out hidden animals to us though.

I lovedddd the giraffes!

These guys were sooooo close to us! It was really cool!

The widdle baby elephant

Uh oh the road is closed...thats not good!

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I HATE birds and am deadly afraid but I like the color pink LOL

Ostrich eggs!

The lions rock...would we see any lions awake?

If you look reeeeeally hard you'll see a little dark hump on the rock...thats all we got to see of the lions today

Uh oh, poachers camp!

Oh no they got a baby elephant

Luckily we scared off the poachers and the elephant was safe. Phewwww it was a close call!

So while we were done with the safari it was 9:05. Perfect timing for us to head over to Tusker House for our character breakfast with Donald and the gang! Let me add a little note in here: I made dining reservations for almost everyday of our trip. We had no intentions of doing every ressie and this was one that I wasn't sure we were going to do. Well that morning we decided we would do our first ressie at TH. Would we do all the rest and regret not getting the Dining Plan? Or would we stick to our original plan and save a lot of money having NOT done the Dining Plan?

Back to the TR! We walked over to TH and checked in. There was already a line forming to check-in so I was assuming the TH breakfast is pretty good. We got our little buzzy thing and went and had a seat to wait for it to buzz. It was really such a nice morning. A little brisk but gorgeous nonetheless. They were predicting rain for later in the day but the way it was looking, no rain was in sight. While we were waiting I called the Mears number that the ASMo CM gave me at check-in to make a reservation for the bus to take us to Islands of Adventure the following day. I got right through and got us an 8am bus spot since IoA opened at 9 the next day. The nice woman on the phone told us it would be $18 each, roundtrip. Much better than last time I was at Disney when I paid $30 for a taxi ONE WAY before seeing the Mears buses and jumping on one to take us back to the resort at the end of the day. Anyway we're sitting there waiting for our buzzer to buzz and we spotted this going on on the side of the outside sitting area by the Dawa Bar.

A whole film crew set up, putting makeup on a few actresses. We had no idea what it was for but we sat there for a while and watched. The only actors we saw at the time were a woman and a young girl. I had a feeling it was for some kind of travel channel special or something which I thought was really cool! After sitting for 15 mins our buzzer went off! Time to go have some yummy breakfast!

We gave in our buzzer and there was a Photopass photographer waiting there to take our pictures before we went in to eat. I'm not going to post it now...you'll see why later! Anyway we walked in and were really stunned by TH. It was soooo nice in there! The themeing...well I really can't say enough about it. GORGEOUS! And the buffet was hugeeeeee. So we're shown to our seat by a really nice older male CM. What a great job to have after retirement! We were then greeted by our waitress who of course I can't remember her name and she took our drink order and poured us a cup of the best juice I've ever tasted in my life! The jungle juice at TH is soooo gooood! Then we went up to fill our plates with LOTS of food. I like how the line for the buffet isn't really a line. You kind of just walk in wherever you like or where you want something. There was soooo much food. Here's our plates

Mine

Chris's

We know how to eat! LOL I ate almost everything on my plate and then we went up and even got a little more! I really lovedddd the hash with the cornbread top...hmmmm delicious and its making me hungry now!

Chris really loved TH...and is a ham for the camera!

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[xoktenox]

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I forgot to mention that this was my first run-in with Mickey waffles. I love them!!! I got another one on my second time to the buffet LOL

As we were eating the characters started coming around! I was sooo excited to see them but a little nervous since we're obviously not the characters prime focus group But it was really so great. I took pictures of Chris and he took pictures of me with each character.

I told Daisy she's my favorite and she got shy

My boyfriend is crazyyy

Mickey was a real gentlemen and kissed my hand

Goofy was cool of course

When he went over to Chris he patted Chris's belly and Chris was like "Yeah I eat good" LOL

Sometime in between all this fun a CM came over and showed us the PP picture that was taken of us before breakfast...I HATED IT! I looked terrible. SO thats why I didn't post it. I decided we'd just have the guy take a picture of us on my camera on the way out.

And last but not least Donald, since it is his safari breakfast and all

Honestly, we loveddddd TH! We're probably going to eat there again in November if we're there on a day that AK has AM EMH. The only thing that I disliked about it here had nothing to do with the food, it was our waitress. While she was really nice and friendly, she was slow. The waitress for the tables around us was around much more often than her. I asked for coffee when we ordered our drinks before the meal and didn't get it until I had finished my whole first plate. Then we waited about 15 mins just sitting there waiting for her to come with the bill. Besides that, our experience here was perfect! Loved TH!!

Here's the picture taken of us as we left...still hate it but better than the first one

Up next:: a hidden surprise and another run on EE!!

 

[BrooklynnsMommy]

We had the same problem at Tusker House. The food and character interaction was great, but our waitress was so slow and inattentive. I wonder if we had the same one? How cool so see filming going on. When the next Travel Channel special comes out you'll definitely have to watch for those folks.

 

[tinkgurl]

Hey girlie. Good job on the grades! I hope I did good on mine!!

Nice update! The safari pics are so good. I love the giraffes too!

That looks like it was a fun place to eat. Chris is just livin' it up being cheesy for the camera...I'm sure because he knew you'd be posting it on your TR!

 

[2xcited2sleep]

What a fun morning at AK! That park is really growing on me too. You and Chris look like you were having so much fun!!

 

[PopArtGal]

You must have gotten the same waitress we did! lol

I went to the buffet and while I was gone my mom ordered mt coffee.

Well I ate my entire meal and at the end I asked her once more for coffee. In all it might have been asked 3 times.

I got it at the end.

We had the last serving so I took my sweet time and drank it hehe

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

We love Tusker House too. GREAT food and wonderful characters! I knew you'd love it!

You guys saw a lot of animals on Safari! One of these days I'm gonna go to AM EMH and do an early ride. I hear that's one of the best...and when it's raining a lot of them come out too.

Love the pics of you guys with the characters. They're so cute!