Our *R&R* TR 7/31 - 8/6 Wilderness Lodge We Are Home! Update Page 6

[Disney Brat]

I just found you, and I am loving your TR so far!! Your DD and DS are soooo sweet!! Can't wait to read more!!

 

[TinyDancer]

Then we were off to see Beauty and The Beast! This show was SO good!! Also, a nice break.

Loved it!!

We were just about ready to leave, it was SO hot and the kids were tired.. it was almost three o'clock and we were on our way out.. then we realized we were just in time for the Block Party Bash!!

The parade was cute! We decided to leave since we were so hot & the WL pool was calling our names!! Another successful day at the parks..

 

[TinyDancer]

I just found you, and I am loving your TR so far!! Your DD and DS are soooo sweet!! Can't wait to read more!!

Thanks!! I have a lot more to post so stay tuned.

We took over 300 pics, I am only posting about 200 of those lol.

 

[TinyDancer]

Your family is so cute! You all looked so nice in the matching outfits! That room in the WL is great! Nice view!

Have fun!

Thanks! I LOVED our view at WL. I would wake up before 7am every morning just to watch the ducks swim in the pool! Good times.

Love the pics of WL. We stayed there right before I got pregnant the 1st time.

It's a wonderful place isn't it?

 

[Raecheal]

Beauty and the beast is one of my favorite shows at DHS!! The block party bash is good as well...DHS is dbf's fav!!!!

 

[TinyDancer]

Beauty and the beast is one of my favorite shows at DHS!! The block party bash is good as well...DHS is dbf's fav!!!!

Well, my little girl did NOT like Gaston. Everytime he was on the stage, she would look at me and say 'Ba. Ba. Ba.' (BAD) When he would leave the stage, she said 'ba all gone? ba all gone?' It was so cute!

 

[TinyDancer]

Ahhhh Magic Kingdom. Yes I do believe it is the happiest place on earth! We arrived on the charter boat from the WL. What a nice little ride on the lake, and OH SO convienent. Here we are in front of the castle!

The beautiful Castle itself!

I do believe I am a castle picture junkie. I mean, how many pics can you take of the castle? A LOT, right?!

After we look at and walk through the castle, we headed STRAIGHT for Dumbo! This was probably DD's FAVorite ride! She cried when we had to get off of it.

Next we headed to Cinderella's Carousel! I looked for the horse with the ribbon around it's tail and did not see it.
BTW, it was really hot & we are NOT used to that heat.

After the Carousel, it's 10 am so we head straight to Toon Town! The wait to see the Fairies and Princesses is already 20 minutes, so we skip it. My DD doesn't really know who they are yet.. we'll meet them next time! Instead, we head to Mickey's house!

I never knew Mickey was such a slob! He DOES have a nice garden though!

We waited in line probably 20 minutes to meet.....

Mickey & Minnie!! My DS went to Minnie first and kissed her on the cheek! DD quickly kissed Mickey on his nose!

This might possibly be our Christmas card this year.

After meeting Mickey & Minnie, DD and I go to Minnie's house while DH & DS ride Goofy's Barnstormer!
I LOVED Minnie's house! SO cute.

It's about 11am now so we ride the train to the main station and head back to the WL for our lunch ADR at WCC!
I didn't take any pics there, but I will say skillet meal was awesome. I am not a huge fan of BBQ, but those ribs were TDF! The baked beans were VERY yummy too!

After lunch we went back to the room for a quick nap. My kids are early to bed early to rise kind of people, and we wanted to watch the fireworks, so they needed a middle of the day rest. It worked out VERY well!

Next up.. the rest of our FIRST MK day!

 

[TinyDancer]

We wake up from our nap feeling great, so back to MK we go! First we went to the teacups, another favorite ride of my kids'!

It's just starting to rain a little, so we ran over & got in line at It's a Small World. I just love this ride, and my kids do too! Several times through out the ride though, they made the announcement to remain in our boat if the ride stopped. It never did, so I guess everything was ok!

DS is just dying to go ride the 'little cars' so we did! DH stayed behind with DD.

Funny story about these cars.. I know that they are on a track, but I still tried to steer. I say 'tried' because those things are hard to drive! Anyway, as we are riding along, banging into the rail, my DS says 'Mommy, why is it that you can drive a huge truck, but not this tiny car?'


By now it's pouring the rain and we have no ponchos. Every day of our trip, I have told DH that we need to buy some. Did we? No. We just got soaked instead! It actually felt nice, after the 90+ degree weather. I am STILL happy, even in the rain.

We headed over to TomorrowLand and stood in line for Buzz's Space Ranger Spin. DS was really looking forward to this one since he loved Toy Storia Mania! We rode, then got FPs to ride again!

Next we went in to Monster's Inc Laugh Floor. For anyone that hasn't done this, it is a MUST. SO funny!! We all loved it.

I don't have many more pics of the rest of the day, since it was raining and we were doing as many indoor attractions as we could. We did Buzz Space Ranger Spin again, then we went back to FantasyLand. I tried and tried to talk DS into Snow White's Scary Adventures, but he was not having it.
We rode Peter Pan's Flight (loved it!) and then The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (loved it too!).

By now, we have missed the parade. I was so sad.. but then we realized that we had an awesome viewing point for the fireworks. We were right beside of the Carousel. The CM said that they DO shoot off some smaller fireworks from the top of those buildings right there. WOW! They sure do!! My kids refused to come out of the safety of the stroller. They were NOT impressed by the fireworks AT ALL. Too loud they said.

I, of course, loved it.

Here is the castle in the rain

And in the dark (for some reason I couldn't get a good pic of it in the dark)

Oh! We also did Dumbo once more that night..

Here are my exhausted children on the way out

Overall, it was a wonderful day.

 

[Disney Brat]

Two fantatic updates!! The kids look sooo cute in the tshirts!

 

[TinyDancer]

Two fantatic updates!! The kids look sooo cute in the tshirts!

Thanks Tiff! I love those shirts so much, I've planned DD's next birthday party around them!

 

[Malibelle]

Yeah, I can't belive your back already. I haven't been online much. Looks like you had a great time. The kids in the shirts are so cute!

 

[Raecheal]

Wow... two great updates. I love all your photos from MK... wishes is my favorite.

I love, LOVE how everyone is matching.

 

[PrncessA]

Great TR! Beautiful family, you look like you had a fantastic time!

You are giving me hope for our first trip next month w/ our 4yo and 2yo. We are staying at the WL and I was worried that taking a break to go back during the day would take up a ton of time, but you seem to have done PLENTY and still work in the down time~!~

 

[TinyDancer]

Yeah, I can't belive your back already. I haven't been online much. Looks like you had a great time. The kids in the shirts are so cute!

I can't believe we are back already either.

Wow... two great updates. I love all your photos from MK... wishes is my favorite.

I love, LOVE how everyone is matching.

Thanks! I loved matching us all! It was a lot of fun.

Great TR! Beautiful family, you look like you had a fantastic time!

You are giving me hope for our first trip next month w/ our 4yo and 2yo. We are staying at the WL and I was worried that taking a break to go back during the day would take up a ton of time, but you seem to have done PLENTY and still work in the down time~!~

Oh lucky you! I would LOVE to go in September. Our first Magic Kingdom day was the only day we left the park and took a nap. It turned out to be the best day that we had. On the days that we didn't take a break, we were finished with the park and back to the hotel around 3 or 4pm. It was just too hot, and too much for our kids. The nap time worked WONDERS.

 

[Disneychix]

Great updates!

I love the pic of you smiling in the rain! And the last pic of the kids sleeping is priceless!!

 

[My2DisneyBoyz]

Great report - I love the pics from HS. Did ds really like the parade there?? I am trying to figure out how we can fit that in because I think my boys would really enjoy it.
Pics of your dd in Mickey's house are adorable!
We are also staying in WL next month! We are getting one of the bunk bed rooms - do you remember your room number?? I would love to have a specific room to put in our room request. Up until now we haven't been able to find specific info on where the bunk bed rooms are hidden.

 

[TinyDancer]

Great updates!

I love the pic of you smiling in the rain! And the last pic of the kids sleeping is priceless!!

Thanks! I loved how they both just passed out on the way out of the park too! Now, carrying DD all the way back to the room was a little more difficult on my arms lol.

Great report - I love the pics from HS. Did ds really like the parade there?? I am trying to figure out how we can fit that in because I think my boys would really enjoy it.
Pics of your dd in Mickey's house are adorable!
We are also staying in WL next month! We are getting one of the bunk bed rooms - do you remember your room number?? I would love to have a specific room to put in our room request. Up until now we haven't been able to find specific info on where the bunk bed rooms are hidden.

My DS didn't really know what to think of the parade. It seemed to me that the 6 year & up crowd REALLY were the ones that got into it! My DS is a little shy at first though.
We were in room 5149. The lodge is shaped in a huge U. If you can get a room facing outwards toward MK, you can probably see a lot more of the fire works than we could see. We could see the top half only, b/c the lodge blocked part of our view.

 

[TinyDancer]

Animal Kingdom and ..... Breakfast with Donald at the Tusker House!!

We had to be up early for our 8 am breakfast with Donald! We decided to take the bus to AK, and we were running about 10 minutes late. Then my DS fell on the sidewalk and split his big toe open.. Luckily a nice lady came along and gave us some band aids, we get him all bandaged up and run toward the entrance. They let us right in and it was SO neat to be there walking around before the park was officially open. We get to the Tusker House (such a neat place!) and get our pic made..

My DS just thinks that this is the neatest thing! He LOVES that all of the characters are going to be coming to HIM! DD, on the other hand, is NOT happy at all. She is scared to death of the characters now. If she sees one coming towards her, she cries. We did get a couple of good pics, but with us being in a hurry that morning, I forgot the kids autograph books.

DS wanted a pic of this!!!

Here is Donald!!

I love this one lol

I do have to say that character meals are the way to go. I had two scheduled (Lilo & Stitch) but I had to cancel it because we were going to be leaving a day earlier than I had originally planned. NEXT time I'll schedule more character meals! I loved them!!
After eating, we rode Kilimanjaro Safaris. LOVED this. Next we walked on the Pangani Forest Trails..

Some of the animals we saw on our safari!

We rode the Wildlife Express Train (didn't see any wildlife?!) to Rafiki's Planet Watch. DH was not into it so he stayed put with DD while DS and I walked around. WHILE DS and I were walking.. DH saw Pocahontas. I was SO disappointed because I really wanted to see her and I had the camera.
Anyway, here are the kids on the elephant. Funny thing happened, there was a group of people in front of us, and my son saw that they were trying to take a pic, so he squatted behind the elephant until they were done Everyone was cracking up.

Then we walked a bit, and went to DinoLand. It was getting to be unbearably hot, and we couldn't really find anything that both kids were big enough to ride. Everyone was tired, so after a few pics in front of The Tree of Life (photopass) we left to go back to WL to swim!

Tomorrow.. our last MK day. We are going to Frontierland, Adventureland, and Liberty Square.

 

[TinyDancer]

Our last day at Magic Kingdom. We decided to take the bus since they started running at 8 am. We are trying to hurry down to the bus stop and we get there as soon as the bus is pulling out. So we wait, and we wait, and we wait some more. DS is asking me "Where is the bus? When will it be here?" I was getting SO frustrated, and really worried that we wouldn't make it by rope drop!
We decide to run to the boat dock instead, and they are just loading up! All is well again!

We get to MK and line up on the left side of the entrance, so we can run to Frontierland!! DS is SO excited to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad! We tried to stop at Splash Mountain along the way for FPs, but the machine is broke! So on we go, DH stays with DD and DS and I WALK onto BTMR. LOVE this ride!!
It nearly scared DS to death though.. as we are getting off I said are you ready to ride with Daddy? He says, No I don't think so. I said, I know!! Play a trick on him.. tell him it's SOOO scary! He says, OK! I will trick him!!
So, he rode again. They are in the back seat.

Next we got in line for Splash Mountain, just DS & I. The wait was supposed to be 30 minutes but it MAY have been 20. Not too bad, and this ride is so much fun!! We got the rider switch pass but DS was not going back on it LOL. Instead, it was back to BTMR again! He is really getting into this now!!

We headed over to The Haunted Mansion. Wow were my kids scared at first!!

They were ok by the end though, when they saw that the ghosts were nice!

We headed on to Adventureland, saw this guy..

and rode POTC.

It was just getting ready to rain so we ran inside the Enchanted Tiki Room. We get seated, the show starts, and then something goes wrong. All of the birds just stop.. um.. ok.. weird! The CS walks in and says sorry folks but we are having technical difficultes and we need you to exit to your right.
Off we go into the rain again! I love how abandoned it looks when it's raining! DS is soaked by now and when he wants this guy to spit on him... we say go for it!!

The rain is slowing, so we sit and eat a Dole Whip. YUM. I thought it would be more pineapple in it though?? Here is DH in line getting it.

We are walking, and we see.....

Jasmine is SO pretty!!! We didn't stand in line for pictures though.. maybe next time!

DS and I were fascinated with the Treehouse...

I've seen the Swiss Family Robinson movie before so I totally get it.. but DH doesn't have a clue! He needs to watch the movie!

 

[TinyDancer]

While in Adventureland, DS & I saw

DS was pretty nervous when we were standing in line.. Once I told him that they don't TALK, he was ok!

We had dinner reservations at Tony's Town Square at 5pm, so we headed toward Main Street, I snapped these pics on the way..

Dinner at Tony's... it was absolutely our FAVORITE meal at WDW. I had shrimp scampi (WONdERFUL), DH & the kids all had spaghetti & meatballs. Everyone agreed it was the best! Since it was our last night there we splurged a little and the kids got the nearly $7 drinks (Lightning McQueen for DS, Tinkerbell for DD).

After we finished up we came out and found..........

DD didn't even cry this time!

So, we have our bellies full, DS and I are ready to go! DH and DD are a different story.. they decided to go back to the resort and swim.. DS and I are on our own! Where does he want to go? Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!!! We have a FP so we go right on, then he wanted to ride It's A Small World ONE more time. I still couldn't talk him into Snow White's Scary Adventures though!
He really wanted a pretzel & a Coke, so we got some snacks and sat close to the castle and just relaxed.

It's getting late, and I am wondering if DH is able to get DD to sleep (she needs me at bedtime) so DS & I decide to make our way up Main Street toward the exit, and we shopped a little along the way. I found the cutest Minnie Mouse purse for DD, and DS got a sword!

Main Street and the Train Station

We had to check out the next morning, but DH snapped one last pic

We were all SO sad to leave. I can't wait to plan our NEXT WDW trip!!!