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

[xoktenox]

You should be feeling pretty good by the end of this week, right?!?!?

A November evening sitting outside in Downtown Disney is surely something to look forward to!

After tomorrow I will feel sooooo good, one more final and I'm done! Even though November is far away, I keep thinking of it and it makes me happy and more relaxed!

Haha, you think it's cool I noticed your VS shirt?! Of course I noticed it girl!

And heck yeah we're twins!

Oooh how much does the hot air balloon thing cost?

The balloon thing is $16 for adults. I wanna try it!

 

[tinkgurl]

The balloon thing is $16 for adults. I wanna try it!

How many people fit in it at one time? If 4 can...we have to do it on our trip together!

 

[JenAusty]

hahahaha I can't believe I didn't catch that! I was thinking mob scene? What kind of store is that.. hehe I know thats not in the disney book. Well I'm blonde obviously.. hehe

 

[mickeysmyboy]

Great update! One of these days we're finally going to get to Earl of Sandwich! It sounds so delicious!

I gave my sister that Tink for Christmas this past year! I think I got it on ebay!

Hope all is going well with your finals!

 

[MeMom]

How many people fit in it at one time? If 4 can...we have to do it on our trip together!

I think I read that it fits up to thirty people.

 

[tinkgurl]

I think I read that it fits up to thirty people.

Whoa, then I think we'll be able to fit.

 

[xoktenox]

NOOO MORE FINALSSS FOR MEEE!!! I've never been soooo happy to be done with a semester of school in my lifeeee!

We were supposed to go upstate to see Chris's brother graduate this weekend but Chris didn't get approved for the day off at work because they're too short staffed. Sooo I'll most likely be back with another update this weekend too

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So when I last left you we were heading back to the Marketplace side of DTD for one last stop and a few people correctly guessed where....

Goofy's Candy Company!! Yes we walked back from the West Side and Pleasure Island to Goofy's because I knew this was a must-do stop! We went in and each picked our treat out. I'm very disappointed in myself because I didn't take pictures of what we got! But I got the rice krispy treat covered in milk chocolate covered in half rainbow sprinkles and half oreo. Chris got pretzels covered in milk chocolate, 2 in oreos and 2 in sprinkles. These treats were HUGE!! It took both of us days to finish them both and I never even finished mine all the way, I threw it out before we left!

As we were waiting for our goodies to be done I ran over to the Christmas shop while Chris waited for the food. I needed to pick up the ornament I had bought. It was there being personalized so I ran over quickly and picked it up and met Chris outside. We walked over to the bus stop, waited a little bit and crammed onto a bus. So we're riding back to ASMo and there's this mother and her 2 young kids on the bus. The little girl obviously had a mild form of down syndrome and the little boy just looked pooped. Anyway, the mom sits down on the seat and has the little girl sit on her lap. She's making the tiredddd little boy stand! So I couldn't hear what they were saying but eventually she got up and let the boy sit and the daughter sit on his lap instead. The poor little boy was falling asleep the whole way home and the mom just kept yelling at him to like hold the sister better. Meanwhile, she was fine! She wasn't making a peep and she wasn't falling off the seat at all! So after the first stop at ASSp the person sitting in the seat next to them gets up so the boy slides over and the mom sits down. The boy has a big shopping bag on his lap and he lays his head down on it because hes obviously wiped out. The mom is yelling at him the whole way to Movies to pick his head up and that we're almost there to stop falling asleep! Chris and I were really so sad for these 2 children. We actually saw them later in the week and the little girl was wearing the same pants she was wearing that night

So we got back to ASMo and walked back to the room. After getting ready for bed we both ate a little bit of our Goofy snacks and then passed right out! We had an early morning ahead of us at....ANIMAL KINGDOM!!! I was soooo excited to be able to wake up in Disney and have our first full day! Our wake up call was set for 6:30 because AK had EMH the next morning! Would we make it?


You'll find out soon because I'm going to start day 2 right now

 

[xoktenox]

(continued from last post)

So Day 2 finally begins! As I said in the last post the wake up call was set for 6:30 in the morning. After our long, tiring day the day before I was a little nervous that I was not going to wake up in the morning. Actually, I was more nervous Chris wouldn't get up than I was about myself Anyway, the phone rang at 6:30 playing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight." Does anyone else wish they could have the Disney wake up calls at home too? I know I do! While I was still soooo tired, hearing Disney music first thing in the morning woke me up! I quickly got out bed and headed into the shower, letting Chris sleep a little longer. I got out the shower, woke him and and we both finished getting ready. I wanted to make sure we were at AK by 8am sharp because I wanted to get in a ride on Everest and the safari before our 9:10am breakfast ressie. We finished getting ready and were out the door to AK by 7:40, a little later than I had hoped. Luckily, we got the bus stop and bus pulled up right away! Here we are ready for our first full day at Disney!!

Within a few minutes we were pulling into AK! I love how the All-Stars were so close to AK and DHS! Anyway I took some pictures as we were walking in

It was RIGHT before 8 when we got there because I remember seeing some characters walking away from the opening show...I think LOL Anyway our first order of business was to head to the guest services window and do a little fanagling with our tickets. Like I've said before, we had 7 days of tickets with 7 fun days on it but we knew we would only use 4 regular days and at most 3 of the fun days. I wanted to upgrade the tickets to 10 days and then add no expiration to just what we didnt use. We walked up to the window and the very nice CM told us happy anniversary which was a nice way to start the day. We asked her about what we wanted to do with the tickets but she told us that we would have to add the no expiration to all of the days on the ticket, not just the ones we didnt use. So I asked her to price that for us and I think it came out to be something like $220 each. That wasn't really in our budget at the time so I asked her if she could just tell us what it would be to add it to the 7 day tickets. That was only like $117 each sooo...we did it! I was so happy with the choice to do it because I think a regular 3day ticket with the water park and more option is like $230 and we only paid $117 since we got those last 3 days for free anyway with the 4/3 deal! After a quick swipe of the credit card we were on our way into AK! We walked in and headed straight for Expedition Everest because I knew riding it early was the best way to do it.

We got over to EE and the wait time posted was only 5 mins as I expected because it was so early and EMH. In the queue I kinda wished we had to wait a little while because it was so cool! I did manage to get SOME pics

I liked this sign

We waited like 2 extra minutes because we wanted the front. I should have remember from the DIS that the back is cooler! Anyway we rode after a total 5 mins waiting, if that. OMG sooo cool!! We loved it!! EE is definitely on my top rides in WDW if not my favorite. After we were done we ran over to the FP machines and got one for a return time of 9:20-10:20 so we could come back after breakfast. Next we headed over to the safari!

Coming up next: 2 week safari...would we see lots of animals?

 

[xoktenox]

i'm enjoying your trip report can't wait to read more...
great update !!

OMG I'm so sorry I missed your post the other day! We posted almost at the same time. Thanks for joining in, hope you stick around!

How many people fit in it at one time? If 4 can...we have to do it on our trip together!

I heard about 30, we should do it all together!

hahahaha I can't believe I didn't catch that! I was thinking mob scene? What kind of store is that.. hehe I know thats not in the disney book. Well I'm blonde obviously.. hehe

When I was reading it I was thinking "if Jen's not blonde right now she certainly should be!" It's ok, you know I am too.

Great update! One of these days we're finally going to get to Earl of Sandwich! It sounds so delicious!

I gave my sister that Tink for Christmas this past year! I think I got it on ebay!

Hope all is going well with your finals!

EoS was yummmm! I loved that Tink, I'm going to have to look on ebay for it since I was too cheap to buy it at DTD. Finals are done yayyyy!

I think I read that it fits up to thirty people.

Thats what I heard too.

Whoa, then I think we'll be able to fit.

I hope so!

 

[PopArtGal]

I'm kinda thinking you did Tusker House for breakfast?

I went there last time and liked it. We have a ressie for July.

I kinda want to ride EE...but I'm a bit chickener as I get older hehehe

I love ToT though. Would I be fine with it?

 

[BrooklynnsMommy]

Great update! So glad the semester is over for you, I remember that feeling - another one down and only X to go. I can't wait to visit Goofy's and create my own treat. I'll have to leave Brooklynn with MeMom since she would want to make her own and would be bouncing off the walls from all the sugar it would contain.

 

[bentleygirl22]

great update!!! Can't wait to read more

 

[tinkgurl]

Whoa, now that's what I call an update girl!

Oooh Goofy's Candy Co. looks SO good! We just might have to try this!

I'd love Disney wake up calls at home!

Yay! AK day! Isn't the entrance sign so cool?! I also love when you're arriving there and you can see EE. It get so exciting then!

The line for EE is so interesting. Trust me, we've had lots of time looking around in them. The back is WAY better!

Can't wait to get to the FoTLK part because that's when I talked to you!

 

[jenseib]

Loved the update!

 

[xoktenox]

I'm kinda thinking you did Tusker House for breakfast?

I went there last time and liked it. We have a ressie for July.

I kinda want to ride EE...but I'm a bit chickener as I get older hehehe

I love ToT though. Would I be fine with it?

Hmmm did we eat at TH for breakfast? You'll find out!

If you can do ToT you can do EE! EE is more fun than scary like ToT is!

Great update! So glad the semester is over for you, I remember that feeling - another one down and only X to go. I can't wait to visit Goofy's and create my own treat. I'll have to leave Brooklynn with MeMom since she would want to make her own and would be bouncing off the walls from all the sugar it would contain.

It feels amazingggg to be done with school...only 3 more semesters and I'll have my masters and be able to be a teacher! (I'm hoping 3 more anyway)

Goofy's was sooo cool. The treats are so big. I can't imagine giving little Brooklynn something like that. The sugar would take over her small body

great update!!! Can't wait to read more

Thanks!!

Whoa, now that's what I call an update girl!

Oooh Goofy's Candy Co. looks SO good! We just might have to try this! all the times you've been to disney and you've never done goofy's?! shame on youuuuu LOL

I'd love Disney wake up calls at home! it would be soooo much easier to get out of bed every morning!

Yay! AK day! Isn't the entrance sign so cool?! I also love when you're arriving there and you can see EE. It get so exciting then! I was OVER excited let me tell you haha

The line for EE is so interesting. Trust me, we've had lots of time looking around in them. The back is WAY better! on the EE line i didnt know if i should be happy i wasn't waiting or sad because i didnt get to check the queue out more LOL

Can't wait to get to the FoTLK part because that's when I talked to you!

Patience my friend

Loved the update!

Thanks!!!!

 

[punkin413]

But I got the rice krispy treat covered in milk chocolate covered in half rainbow sprinkles and half oreo. Chris got pretzels covered in milk chocolate, 2 in oreos and 2 in sprinkles. These treats were HUGE!! It took both of us days to finish them both and I never even finished mine all the way, I threw it out before we left!

it took me a few days to eat mine too, but wasn't it SO good? usually when you make rice krispie treats they get hard soon after but this was so good and soft the whole week. i want one right now!

The mom is yelling at him the whole way to Movies to pick his head up and that we're almost there to stop falling asleep!

what's up with people? i think parents have meltdowns at disney too!

so glad you liked EE! it's my second-favorite ride.....VERY close after ToT!

oh, and congrats on being done with the finals!

 

[tinkgurl]

Haha, yeah I'm embarassed I haven't been there yet. I just have never been in the mood for it when we're at DTD.

So what are you doing tomorrow on your first day of summer?

 

[mariakc]

Great update!!

Yummy...Goofy's Candy Co. sounds sooo good right now! I totally agree about the wake-up calls. Hmmm?? DH leaves for work before I wake up.....wonder if I can get him to call me every morning and play Disney tunes!?!? It's worth a try!

 

[ibedancin824]

K soooo I promised I would post after u made another update lol and right now is the perfect time cuz i need take a break from studying.... So I don't like the idea of having to get up at 6:30 on Vacation butttt I had to put on a brave face and make it look like I was excited to be getting up at the crack of dawn when Bry and Anna asked what time I was making breakfast ressies for hahaha..... Expedition Everest looks fun to bad scott will have to sit out.... can't wait to hear about safari cuz it should be the highlight of Scotts day haha .... and hurry up with the tusker house I want to hea bout it since u convinced me to book it hahah

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

OMG how on earth were u getting a $1000 gift card for $600?! Is that one of those AP things that I cant get? Everyday new reasons arise for me to move down South. Anyway, I can't believe they had all those ornaments on sale! They're actually not that badly priced normally but still 50% off means double the stuff. I hope they're on sale when you guys go againnnnn in August so you can buy lots of good stuff!

It was some random email they sent me. Quite a few people got them. I posted it in my PTR and other people said they'd gotten them too. Some people guessed they were "offers" sent after doing an online survey. I don't know. I asked my mom if she wanted to split the card...$300 each but worth $500 in the end for each of us. She said she'd never spend $300 at Disney! Well she spend $80 something on just that monorail! She spent $300 if not more! But the card at 40% off PLUS the 50% Christmas stuff would have been a darn good deal! Looking back...had I known all that stuff was 50% off I could have spent the whole $600 myself!

Love the latest update! AK looks a little crowded for the MEMH. Was it still bad once you got inside? SO cool that you extended your tickets! That's a whole other trip paid for in advance!

The mom you saw on the bus sounds like a real (bad word)!