Our first trip and our honeymoon at Disney World, what could go wrong?

[MickeyLover20]

Hi! I just found your TR and am enjoying reading it. Hope all is well with your family and can't wait to hear more about your trip!

 

[jelloarms]

hey, just wanted to let you know I started reading your TR a while ago. In fact, it was your TR that made me want to start an account and write my own TR! There are a lot of TRs on here but I thought yours was one of the more entertaining ones. I patiently await your return!

 

[KittyKat08]

Glad to hear from you.

I know life gets in the way and from what you've described life has certainly been keeping you busy. I'll be hear when you've got some time to finish up on your report!

This is what I dislike about my job as a teacher. I can only go on vacations during school breaks. So I'm afraid November 2010 is out for me.

Awwww that sucks! And the sad part is that is really the only time of year that hubby can get away without to much drama from his work. I fear I will never see Walt Disney World at any other time. Anyway I guess in honor of you offering and reading my TR maybe I can bring myself to do a few butt hustles for some fastpasses. After all I did just do it the other day at California Adventure for Soarin, so maybe there is hope for me yet.

Hi! I just found your TR and am enjoying reading it. Hope all is well with your family and can't wait to hear more about your trip!

Hello! Welcome aboard.

My family is all well, just super busy, thank you!

Working on an update now, thanks for reading.

hey, just wanted to let you know I started reading your TR a while ago. In fact, it was your TR that made me want to start an account and write my own TR! There are a lot of TRs on here but I thought yours was one of the more entertaining ones. I patiently await your return!

Well that is just fantastic. It was one particular TR that made me want to write my own as well. I'm so happy I was the inspiration for you.

I'm working on my return to you guys right now. Thanks for hanging around and good luck with your own TR.

 

[KittyKat08]

So I left off with getting our fastpasses for TSM and leaving the area.

Neither hubby or I new what to do next. I was getting irratated because we just couldn't make up our minds on anything. I was finally feeling much better and had lots of energy so I wanted to get going and get stuff done since this was our only day in this park.

Hubby kept asking me what I wanted to do and I of course kept saying I don't know which does not help the situation. On top of it, it was extremely hot out and that was making us more cranky.

Finally I said lets just walk until we find something. He took some pics along our mostly silent walk together.

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AJ absolutely loved this awning because I'm from the east coast and still have my accent (at times it comes out) so he had to take a picture of it.

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Again let me remind you these are all just random shots while we try to figure out what we want to do.

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At some point we found ourselves near the Honey I shrunk the Kids play area so we decided to check it out. Under any other circumstances I would have had a blast in there taking really fun photos but since I was in a poopy mood at the moment and it was hotter then hell in the play area we just took normal photos.

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After leaving there we decided to go over to the Backlot Tour, of course when we got there it was not open yet. AAAARRRRGGGGGGG!

Finally we make a decision about something and it didn't work.

So moving on we got ourselves over to the Muppet 3D Vison show. Hubby and I have seen it like a million times at home so we decided to pass on it. Thinking about it now we should have gone because at least it would have been cool inside and given us time to stop being cranky.

I loved this gate though. I'm a huge kermit fan.

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And the fountain was also really cute, I loved it.

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Coming up do we finally figure out what to do with ourselves or is the whole day a bust?

 

[jelloarms]

my guess is you do Muppets next. Your last photo is next to the Muppet's show building so thats how I came to that conclusion.

 

[Diamondintheruff]

I'm voting for muppets too!

It's always hot in the playground area. They need a water play area in there.

 

[KittyKat08]

my guess is you do Muppets next. Your last photo is next to the Muppet's show building so thats how I came to that conclusion.

I wish I could say that's what we did but alas we did not. Good guess though.

I'm voting for muppets too!

It's always hot in the playground area. They need a water play area in there.

No go on the muppets, even though we should have. I agree 100% they should put a water play area in there.

 

[KittyKat08]

So even though the muppet show was just starting we decided to move on since we had seen it so many times back at home. I still wish we had gone and seen it anyway.

Moving on we found ourselves next to the Star Tours area. Hubby and I made the decision to go on that ride because even though it's super old, it's a favorite for both of us. Before we got in line we took pictures around the area which I might add is very well decorated. I wish Disneyland had enough room for stuff like that.

Hubby had a blast playing around on this.

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After I was finally able to get him off so that the other little kids could play we headed towards the ride.

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Sorry for the star tours picture overload but I'm a fan, so therefore I have to take lots of pics. I especially liked this when you get off the ride, I thought that was super cute.

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One last photo as we leave the area.

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After our wonderful ride on Star Tours it became very clear to us both that we were very hungry. That was probably causing us to be very snippy with each other as well so we decided to find some food fast. When I looked around the area the first thing I saw was this.

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We decided to try our luck and see if we could get seating for lunch. I was pleasantly surprised when the CM at the podium told us it would be a five minute wait. Yay!

Well it wasn't even really five minutes before we were led to our car. We ended up sitting in the last row of the car behind a really nice family. Of course I didn't get any pictures of the food we ordered and I don't even remember what it was. Not to say it was bad, I do remember everything was very tasty and we liked it alot. I also remember that my dear hubby almost died on me while eating. He ended up getting a piece of food stuck in his throat and when he started coughing and gasping for breath, I started to freak out, as did our waiter who was expecting the worst from the look on his face. After what seemed like an eternity hubby was able to get the food out on his own but it was pretty darn scary. Well needless to say after his near death experience we made up from our stupid fighting and the rest of the day was great. I tell ya guys did we have an interesting honeymoon or what?

Our waiter who also probably lost a year or two of his life thinking hubby was gonna choke to death offered to take our photo before we left. First with us in the back of the car.

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Then he had us move up to the front of the car for a shot.

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All in all I thought the place was really cute and the food was good, so we will be returning to eat there again.

 

[jelloarms]

Glad to hear your husband was okay. I don't think I would know what to do if something was stuck in my throat.

Were the seats really close to the table? From all the pictures I've seen of the Drive In restaurant, it looks really cramped and uncomfortable.

 

[Diamondintheruff]

Other than my little star wars fan (Jedi DS6) the Studios is our least favorite park but next time I really want to take the kids to eat there. I think they would get a real kick out of it. I wonder how they do seating for 5? Different cars?

 

[KittyKat08]

Glad to hear your husband was okay. I don't think I would know what to do if something was stuck in my throat.

Were the seats really close to the table? From all the pictures I've seen of the Drive In restaurant, it looks really cramped and uncomfortable.

Yeah, I don't think I would have been so calm had it been me but since hubby is trained for situations like that because of his job he handles them much better. Still it was pretty freaky and I don't ever want to witness it again.

The restaurant to me is cozy. The seats are small but not so much that I found it uncomfortable. It's like a little bar looking table in front of you, but we had enough room for all our stuff and managed just fine. I guess it's just a matter of what people consider cramped and not cramped to them.

Other than my little star wars fan (Jedi DS6) the Studios is our least favorite park but next time I really want to take the kids to eat there. I think they would get a real kick out of it. I wonder how they do seating for 5? Different cars?

Really? I loved DHS, I thought the park was done really well and we had a blast with all the photo opportunities. I will admit alot of the attractions there are a bit cheesy but I guess hubby and I are goobers enough that we enjoyed it.

I think your family would really like Sci-Fi. The movies they play on the drive in screen are just so stupid it's funny and the atmosphere alone is great. The cars each have three rows that can seat two adults in one and probably three kids in one or two and two. You should be fine with your family of five to sit in the car. If not they do have tables mixed in there as well, but I highly suggest a car, it's obviously more fun that way.

 

[KittyKat08]

After stuffing ourselves on yummy food and feeling much more refreshed we decided to head over towards The Great Movie Ride.

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We took some pictures while on the ride but they didn't come out to great so I won't bother posting them. All in all we thought it was a cute ride, we would do it again as long as there was no line. We waited for about 10min for our turn so it was good.

Leaving the ride we got some pictures outside the area.

My precious Kermit.

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While hubby was snapping photos around the area I was looking at the show time shedule for the Indiana Jones Stunt Show. That was a must do for us since hubby is a huge Indy fan. The next show time was in about 20min so I suggested we head over to the stadium and do that. Hubby had been talking about this show ever since he found out it existed, I was hoping he would not be disapointed with it.

We snapped a few more pictures on the way over to the show.

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We still had time to spare before the show so we decided to walk around the area looking at the props. I was glad we did this before the show because when the show lets out it does right next to the area we were walking around in. Hubby was able to get pictures and look around without a ton of people in the same small area.

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[KittyKat08]

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And then it was time to go inside for the show. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the stadium was covered and comfy. We got really good seats pretty close to the front and then settled in for the show.

We have a ton of pictures but I will only post a few of the more decent ones. I liked the way the stage looked in the beginning.

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So the show starts with Indy dropping down from the ceiling on his rope, that was pretty cool. The whole beginning of the show was pretty cool actually. My favorite part was him running from the giant ball. It was alot of cheesy comedy again and stupid jokes but good none the less.

Most of the pics of Indy that we have did not come out to good because he was moving to fast.

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Rolling the ball back up, it was pretty funny.

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He isn't Harrison Ford that's for sure.

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So the show goes on they pick there people out of the crowd to participate and the main stage disapears to reveal the set in the back. Pretty cool, I thought it was done well. The show is really long but good, some better parts then others. I'm sure that we will end up seeing it again on our next trip since hubby liked it as well.

After that we decided to go and see the Sounds Dangerous Show with Drew Carey. Now I know this is probably the worst attraction at the park and I told hubby it was totally stupid and not worth the time (based on what I read on the DIS). Well he wanted to go anyway just to see what it was all about. Off we went.

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All we both have to say about it, is that we had a nice relaxing time resting our eyes and enjoying the air conditioner, great napping spot.

What the heck was Disney thinking with that attraction?

 

[KittyKat08]

So after we left the Sounds Dangerous attraction we decided to head over to the Backlot Tour.

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There was a fairly long line when we got there and we didn't make it in the first group of people so we had to wait about 20min. or so for the next group. We took some pictures while we waited in line.

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So then it was our turn to go in and we got to the first part of the tour. I have no idea what they called this part but it was pretty funny. So far for every show that has required audience participation we have been lucky to have pretty cool people that make it fun and they have a good time so we have a good time watching them.

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The before picture

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And then he was drenched

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After that we got ushered along and through the prop wearhouse. It would have been nice to have more time to look around in there instead of running through it. I think next time I'm gonna stop for more photos and just let all the people run ahead of me until I'm at the end of the line. From what we did see some of the stuff was pretty neat. Didn't get to many good pictures though.

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[KittyKat08]

Then we all boarded the tram for that portion of the tour.

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Our thoughts on the tram tour.

It was alright, don't think we would wait 20min. to go again but if it's a walk right in we would probably see it again. Some of the stuff is pretty cool but I think they could change it around and make it so much better.



More coming up, just going to stop and eat some dinner first.

 

[KittyKat08]

Upon leaving the tram we spent some time in that building that has all the wardrobes from some movies. It was cool to look at them but it was really hard to get any decent photos because of the dim lighting.

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By the time we got done wandering around inside there we noticed that they where still letting people in for the next showing of this so we headed there.

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That photo of the sign was taken earlier in the day at some point so that's why you don't see anybody wandering around.

So we headed into the ginormous stadium. It was a hike just to get to some seats and it was steep. I was not likeing how far up we had to go because of my fear of hights thing but I just snuggled close to hubby and was fine until I got used to it.

We got tons of photos from the show but I will just post some of my favs.

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The show was very cool, we both really liked it alot. I'm a total car girl so I like things like this. I grew up with two brothers and all there friends so I was around cars alot. It stuck with me for the most part which pleases hubby to death because he knows he can bring me along for car shows and races and shows like this and I will happily go.

So now hubby and I are on a roll and we are getting around the park and doing things finally. I had forgotten about our fastpasses for Toy Story Mania and when I checked them I was pleased to see that we were now in our time frame to ride it so we decided to work our way back over there.

But first we run into some characters that we want photos with.

Who will it be? And will AJ and I love TSM or not?

 

[Diamondintheruff]

Oh you are soo much better at remembering to take pictures than I am. I went on the same ride and took like 5 pictures and I was so proud of myself for remembering.

I agree they need to update the tram part and soon.

 

[KittyKat08]

Oh you are soo much better at remembering to take pictures than I am. I went on the same ride and took like 5 pictures and I was so proud of myself for remembering.

I agree they need to update the tram part and soon.

We are picture freaks. Sometimes I think it's not worth it because we end up with thousands of photos to go through and have to decide what to get printed and stuff. I think I'm gonna make hubby buy a camcorder this year then we can just have hundreds of DVD's instead.

 

[KittyKat08]

Some day I will get done with our day at DHS, I swear.


Anyway when we left the Lights Motors, Action show which was no easy feat by the way. I never felt more like a sardine then I did trying to get outta that stadium. Next time I will just sit on my booty until the place is cleared out instead of trying to push along with everybody else.

Needless to say after we were free from the masses, we headed on to TSM to use those fastpasses. Along the way we ended up passing a character greeting spot and it was none other then my guys from Monsters Inc. I had to have a pic with them so we asked the CM standing there how to get in line because it was not clear to us at all.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with this spot but it's inside a store kinda, and they have the area the characters are in roped off so you can see them you just can't enter. Well being our first time to the park, we were not wise to the entrance line. Turned out we had to get the most irratable CM to explain to us how to get in line. After she ever so rudely explained how to get to the entrance (which she really didn't make all that clear) we turned to head off. Just as we were leaving she yells out to us "The characters are taking a break right now anyway so it doesn't matter when you get in line".

So we turned around and said "Thanks but we will just wait for them to return, it's fine". Her response to that was looking at us like we were something she found on the bottom of her shoe that day.

We wished her a magical day in the hopes it would piss her off more.

So then we decided to hang in the store for a few minutes to look around and then finally we went on the search for the entrance line.

We found it, with the help of a nice guest outside who was more than happy to help us.

Of course when we saw the entrance I was laughing because there are no signs that say what it is, the area around the entrance does have Monsters Inc. stuff on it but it's still not clear what your walking into. I kept thinking to myself there should at least be a CM outside telling people what it is.

That was when I spotted her, the CM that should have been by the door was about 30 feet away, doing absolutely nothing. So after watching about a dozen families come over looking for the character entrance and hubby and I telling them they were in the right spot, I wanted to approached her so bad but hubby would not let me. Mind you when those families had been asking for the spot she never even glanced at them to help.

So after a few minutes of everybody waiting around she came over and said to us all "Are you waiting for the Monsters Inc. characters"? I think everyone just looked at her in silence.

So she opens up the door so we can all go through and just as hubby and I are about to enter I hear another family come up to her and ask if this was the right line for Mike and Sully and she says "Yes it is". The family thanks her for her help and she says "I'm glad to help you out, have a great day".

Well I couldn't help it, I turned to her and said "You would be more helpful if you could stand next to your post and actually be here to assist all the families that have questions instead of being 30 feet away so that nobody will notice you and doing nothing until you have to open a door. And with that I continued on to have my picture taken. Of course hubby looks at me like you just had to say something didn't ya.

I'm sorry but I just can't stand when people are supposed to be doing a job and they arn't. It drives me nuts, especially at a theme park and someplace like DHS were a ton of the guest are newbies and don't know what the heck they are looking for.

Okay slight rant over, sorry!

Finally it was our turn for the picture.

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Now that I had my picture it was again off to TSM.

Finally we arrived and started taking pictures before getting in line.

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I was already in love with it just from the decorations. It is such a cool area.

Then it was time to get in line and once I saw the inside I was more in love. The place is just great, totally awesome how it's done up.

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So big surprise but we loved the ride. AJ ended up beating me big time.

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I have since gotten a ton of practice here at home and now can beat most of the people I ride with. Yay!

 

[KittyKat08]

When we got off of TSM and back outside it was already getting dark. Now this next part of the TR requires some explaining. Hubby sooooo badly wanted to get over to the Tower Of Terror, I did not. This is the part that requires explanation.

Back in the day when I learned of TOT at WDW, I so wanted to go on it, it sounded like so much fun. Of course this was when I was younger and had more of a tolerance for rides like it. Fast forward to when I found out Disney was planning on building us our very own TOT at California Adventure. I was thrilled and couldn't wait for it to be done.

Well it was finally built and I went with my best friend one day who had already been on it and was ready for my turn. This was probably 4 years ago or so. Needless to say I went on, I almost peed my pants and I nearly broke my friends arm off and made her deaf. But I liked it, and had fun. I should also mention that we sat in the middle row with me on the outside. I did not like the fact that they don't make it easy to hold onto anything, I felt very unsecure.

So years went on and I went on it a handful of times always with my head burried in the arm of the person I was with and I was fine for the most part.

One of the last times I went on it I had the misfortune of sitting in the front row. That I did not like. I was completely petrified and did not have a good time. After that I said if I was going to go on the ride ever again I had to sit in the back row since I had found that I felt more secure back there and if you sat next to the wall there was a handle for you to grab. That was A-okay with me.

So now in talking with people about TOT at WDW I was told of all the differences from our TOT. I didn't think anything about it really but I would soon realize that those differences would prove to be my demise with TOT.

With our TOT we only have the option of up and down, ours cannot move forward so being that, our ride usually consist of some smaller drops with about two full drops. I like that because it gives me a chance to catch my breath.

So now that you know that little history I can continue with the story at hand.

We walked over to TOT and hubby stopped to get this picture.

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And we got a photopass picture.

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And then some more pictures.

I would love to do what this was saying.

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As we are walking through the line (which I love by the way, I think the place is decorated in the most awesome way) I was already shaking like a leaf and didn't want to ride. I seriously have some kind of love, hate relationship with this ride.

So we finally get up to our elevator and I tell hubby to ask the CM if we can be in the back row otherwise they needed to show me the exit. The CM was okay with that so he put us in the back row but behind a guy and his little sister. Well we get behind them and I kindly tap the guy on the back and say "Excuse me but do you mind if my husband and I switch places with you because I need to sit in the corner to feel secure and not get sick". At first he looked at me like I was crazy then he must have thought about it and decided it would be a good idea to switch with us. Most likely he thought of vomit.

Here is my elevator of doom.

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So how did I do on the ride you ask?

NOT WELL AT ALL. GOOD LORD I DID NOT LIKE IT!

Well I shouldn't say I didn't not like it because I did in fact like the beginning of the ride. It's different from ours and sooo much better, so that part I really enjoyed.

BUT THEN.............

When we shot straight up, I freaked, then we went straight down and proceeded to do that about 4 times if not more. I think I lost count and I was trying really hard not to puke.

I remind you all again that I was used to having a few smaller drops in the ride. In fact it's guaranteed with ours.

So after shooting straight up and straight down a serious of times, I had had enough and wanted off. I was seriously getting sick and I couldn't catch my breath for anything. I was about one more drop away from spilling my insides when the ride stopped, and this was much to the relief of the guy and his sister sitting next to us who had kept a watchful eye on me the whole time.

Upon exiting the ride my legs would not work and I was still feeling pretty sick so I had to sit down in the fresh air for a few minutes to recoup. The whole time I was glaring at hubby who kept saying I was getting old and how much fun that was.

Thanks alot honey.

Needless to say we didn't get the picture of us on the ride which I'm kinda sad about now because I'm never gonna go on it again. It would have actually been a funny pic since it did show me clutching hubby to death and you can see my cheeks kinda puffed out in the vomit position and the guy sitting next to us looking at me very worried.

It was that day that ended my time going on TOT either at WDW or here at home. I now refuse to go on it at all much to the dismay of my hubby who just loves the ride.

And so there you have it, my TOT story, I hope you enjoyed.






Coming up next.....Would I do better on Rock N' Rollercoaster or have a problem on that also?