Our two week land and sea adventure! W/ LOTS OF PICS!!!(UPDATED 6/17 pg.16 post 227)

[lmillercrew]

Great update!! I can't wait to go to TSM! The queue looks amazing! Not sure why your hands were cut off, but apparently the photo guy didn't think you should have hands!

 

[Girldreamer02]

When we got there the parade was a bit late and there was a bunch of space open on the curb in the hub at the front of mk so we decided to sit down and wait for the parade to come since we hadn’t caught it yet and were planning to anyways. It worked out perfectly! I went and got batteries for our flip since we forgot to grab them at the resort from our room.

I went in there to get batteries

I love Mary Poppins!

if you look at the bottom of this float you'll see me and dh's reflection...how clever of him to do that. I'm wearing pink and he is the one in the white with the camera of course!

Afterwards we watched the daper dans on main street usa. We hadn’t watched them or taken any pictures of them before so I was pretty excited. I love to see and do different things and get pictures of stuff that we don’t yet have pictures of. Especially for scrapbooking purposes. They sang about me in their song as I was standing there recording them with our flip and dh was taking pictures. They said they fell in love with a girl on the street in pink and then said something about my big feet. I told dh…they made fun of me! He said well at first they said they were in love with you so that balances it out.

Okay I have to finish this up tonight or tomorrow because I have to go pick up dh from work! Sorry to cut it short, but at least I updated today. Thanks to everybody who is following along and for the comments...I really appreciate it!

 

[lmillercrew]

I love to sing, so how cool would that be to be a Daper Dan at Disneyworld!!! Those guys are amazing! I did see you in the reflection on the float. Pretty neat!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Great update!! I can't wait to go to TSM! The queue looks amazing! Not sure why your hands were cut off, but apparently the photo guy didn't think you should have hands!

Its worth the wait! IMO at least! The queue is amazing! I heart it! Yea...I guess we weren't suppose to have hands...kind of pointless to even put them up in the first place, but oh well...maybe they were new.

I love to sing, so how cool would that be to be a Daper Dan at Disneyworld!!! Those guys are amazing! I did see you in the reflection on the float. Pretty neat!

Those guys are very amazing! They are rather funny too! Thank you...I thought it was neat as well...my husband the photographer...he thinks hes just full of good ideas sometimes lol.

 

[LD NURSE]

Fun report!!Look for next installment!!!!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Fun report!!Look for next installment!!!!

Thanks for joining in and welcome to the dis...I see your "earning your ears." Hopefully I'll get some more put up tomorrow! Bare with me I'm visiting family in ohio and I've been babysitting a lot! Thanks for joining in again!

 

[scottny]

all caught up.

great updates and pics.

I don't understand why people complain while in line.

That is great you got to spend time with them.

 

[Girldreamer02]

all caught up.

great updates and pics.

I don't understand why people complain while in line.

That is great you got to spend time with them.

thank you...yea I don't understand that either...I mean you had to of known that you would be standing in lines when you decided to book a disney vacation...don't bother coming if your going to ruin the fun for everybody else! I think so too...thanks for following along!

 

[Girldreamer02]

I'm going to try really hard to get an update up sometime today, but I have to babysit two different kids today so I make no promises. Just wanted to let everybody know I didn't forget about my trippie...just had a busy weekend hanging with the fam!

 

[Girldreamer02]

We had to head toward the castle for dinner. We saw the step sisters and step mother again, but again their line was closed so I was sad again. We checked in at CRT and got our picture taken with Cinderella and then headed upstairs. To my surprise we were seated at the two person table by the window and I was super excited since that is where dh proposed! I was sad at the same time though because I knew we wouldn’t be seeing a proposal since we were sitting at the proposal table. It was nice to sit there though and it brought back a flood of amazing memories!

I love suzy and perla!

I was trying to take a picture of the menu because I thought it was so cute on the back and our waiter told us, you know it would be easier just to take it with you. Dh said we can do that? He said, no I just told you that you could take it, but really I’m not going to let you. I liked that he was joking with us. It was a good time. He got us a good one that wasn’t wrinkled and didn’t have anything on it. So that was super sweet of him!

The fairy God mother was awesome and she even posed for dh to take a picture of her while she was talking by our table during her little show. Dinner was good and our waiter was so sweet! He even offered to take our picture for us. I forget his name, but he was wonderful! I should pay better attention to that stuff, but sometimes I forget to write it down because I get consumed with other details.

After dinner we stopped by guest relations to look at their pin book because the cm outside told us there was a pin book inside. Thanks for the heads up! We didn’t know! We chatted with the two cm’s inside while we looked through the book. We found three pins so dh traded two and I traded one. After our trade we left and took the pink monorail back to the transportation and ticket center. We asked to sit up front and actually got to so that was exciting since we never got to sit up front before! The conductor didn’t speak much english though because he barely said two words to us. He was from brazil and I think he was still learning the language. So dh and I just talked to each other and he took some pictures.

this is the nice guy that told us we could sit up front!

excuse my lazy eye in this pic...eek

We caught the bus back to dhs to use our fast passes for tsm. We also got a few photo pass pics and pin traded on the way out of the park. When we got to AKL we went in the gift shop to see if we could find pins we wanted to trade for. We found the letter A we had been looking for and also the baby ariel for disneymom1980’s little girl because she was trying to collect the baby princess set for her while she was in the park and that was the only one she needed. So we traded for that for them. We also got our shirts finally from the tee shirt place in dtd. They turned out really great! I would highly recommend going there and getting a tee done at the beginning of your trip!

Since we had come back to the resort early to relax we decided tonight would be an excellent night to do laundry. We packed quite a few clothes, but we couldn’t pack enough for two whole weeks that we’d be gone since there is limited room for luggage on the cruise so that’s why we had to do the laundry. Usually when we do just a week in Disney we don’t do laundry, but since it was a two week vacation there was no way around it. We sorted laundry and headed down to the laundry room, which was thankfully right around the corner from our room. We put in two loads of laundry and then we went to the mara to fill our mugs.

About 5-10 minutes after we got back to the laundry room it was time to put the stuff in the dryer. Well the stuff that could be put in the dryer. I can’t dry my stuff b/c it will shrink so I had to go back to the room and hang it up to dry. Then dh and I sat in the laundry room waiting for our stuff to dry. It took about 20 minutes and we folded our stuff and headed back to the room. In case anyone is wondering its two bucks for a washer and two bucks for a dryer. A dollar for tide (we brought our own from home) and also a dollar for bounce sheets, but you only get two in a box so its not worth it. We didn’t use bounce sheets, but the lady in there told me so we wouldn’t buy them. I talked to my mom for a while after we did our laundry and we ordered room service since we ate at four and we were pretty hungry by now. That’s the problem with early adr’s. We were going to do dtd or another park, but we were tired and worn out and it was only the middle of our week so we took it easy and went to bed semi early.

Up next: lunch at tusker house and some fun at ak

 

[Girldreamer02]

dh and his glasses glare...grrr...he kept forgetting to take them off for the pics

see what I mean? This would of been a cute pic if it weren't for the glare

i thought it was a great idea to have a photopass person inside AKL...we got these taken before we headed to our room to do laundry

 

[KristinAnne]

Another great update. I love CRT too. We had our Disney magic there for our anniversary. Love the photopass pics, especially the one at DHS at dusk and the ones inside AKL.

 

[Girldreamer02]

Another great update. I love CRT too. We had our Disney magic there for our anniversary. Love the photopass pics, especially the one at DHS at dusk and the ones inside AKL.

Aww yay! I love crt and their food was even good this time! Last time I remember not being very impressed, but I enjoyed it this time! Thank you!!! More coming soon!

 

[kmab00]

Oooh CRT is AWESOME!!! I love love love their food! I still dream about it from our Honeymoon!!! I can't wait to go back! That's so cool you got to sit at the same table, too! Can't wait to hear more! Love the pictures! The front of the Monorail is so much fun, too!!!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Oooh CRT is AWESOME!!! I love love love their food! I still dream about it from our Honeymoon!!! I can't wait to go back! That's so cool you got to sit at the same table, too! Can't wait to hear more! Love the pictures! The front of the Monorail is so much fun, too!!!

It was awesome! Lol you crack me up! Yes, I was super excited to sit at that table! We even got a pic since we were sitting at the same table as when dh proposed! Thank you thank you! Yes, it was very fun...hopefully next time we'll have someone more talkative !

 

[scottny]

another great update and pics

dinner looked good.

front of the monorail

 

[lmillercrew]

Your lazy eye comment made me giggle. I really liked the pics of you two inside AKL. It's a great portrait picture.
I'm glad that you enjoyed your meal at CRT.
Isn't it great when you have to be domestic while on vacation?

 

[Girldreamer02]

Your lazy eye comment made me giggle. I really liked the pics of you two inside AKL. It's a great portrait picture.
I'm glad that you enjoyed your meal at CRT.
Isn't it great when you have to be domestic while on vacation?

glad I could provide a laugh lol. Thank you...I liked those pics too! Oh yes...it was fun to do laundry lol...made me feel like I was at home. I don't mind though it was something to do besides sit in the room and be bored since we came back so early.

another great update and pics

dinner looked good.

front of the monorail

yes...woot for the front of the monorail!!! thank you!

 

[Girldreamer02]

Adr: Tusker House 1:25

Weather: High 80/ Low 62

Today was our AK day so I was hoping that it wouldn’t be to warm since when its warm in florida…it can be about 10-15 degrees warmer at AK! Luckily I think it stayed pretty nice on this day as I recall. Also looking back at the pictures I was mostly wearing a longsleeve tee so that’s a good indicator too!

We got to AK around 10:30. It was a nice short bus ride from AKL and we stopped for a few photo pass pictures before getting a locker. Our first stop was Festival of the Lion King! The line was pretty short and we didn’t have to wait long to be let in. Also it was very shady and cool so standing in line wasn’t so annoying because we weren’t being baked to death like you normally are standing in this line.

We were looking for a figment pins on this day to complete our figment emotion sets. There were two different sets and we were pretty close on both sets. We went to Its tough to be a bug and also had a short line for that. It said 15 minutes, but I don’t think we waited that long. After we were done with its tough to be a bug we headed for the tusker house for our lunch adr.

We had never ate here so I had no idea what it was going to be, if I was going to like the food..etc etc. I’m a pretty picky eater, but dh on the other hand is the exact opposite. To my surprise it was a buffet, which I totally wasn’t expecting, but was rather excited to find out! Breakfast at the Tusker house is a character breakfast, but lunch and dinner are just regular. This place is pretty big so I’d be interested to see how breakfast and characters work out. I’d think that they wouldn’t have a lot of time to get around and all that, but who knows. Its Disney and they are good about all that kind of stuff! The baklava here was to die for! I ate like three or four pieces! Sooo delicious!!! Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. Hehe.

After lunch we got to met king louie and baloo and we were super lucky because we were their last family of the day! Also we were lucky because if we had not got in line we wouldn’t of ran into the cm that had the second to last figment pin that we needed! It was angry that we found so we were super excited!

After all that excitement we stopped to get a few photopass pictures taken and the lady did the baby simba picture with us. Then she told us, but we already knew. Sorry to spoil it for her because she was super excited to tell us, but we had done it before! I was glad she did the baby simba picture though because we hadn’t done it yet on this trip and I hate to ask!

When you eat at tusker house you can opt to get the priority seating for nemo, which I didn’t know, but dh told me. I think you have to be staying on Disney property though because they asked to see our key to the world card to see which resort we were staying at.

So from our photopass pictures we headed to get in line for nemo. Luckily they were already heading inside so we didn’t have to stand in line long! Also we found another pin we were looking for on the way to getting in line. It was a snowflake pin…not sure who it was, but I remember being excited to find it because it was part of the set we were collecting.

We were in the midst of several sets while on this Disney trip…there were just so many cute sets out when we got there. The alphabet was the main one that was really popular and the whole thing was cm only pins so it was kind of hard to find them. Anyways sorry for getting off on a tangent.

Nemo was really good, but I was a little bit sad because the lady that did dory last time was AMAZING, but the lady we had this time was just okay. No offense to her, but the other lady that did it last time we were there had just the right energy for the part. This lady wasn’t bad by any means, but I just enjoyed the other lady more. We took some video with our flip as well. I might post some if dh gets it up.

After nemo we decided to head to camp Minnie mickey to see some characters since there was a lion king show about to start and we were hoping the lines would be short. This turned out to be a GREAT idea! The lines were very short and some had no one in them at all!

I had to go to the restroom first and while I was in there a guest was trying to trade with me…I didn’t have any traders on my lanyard…at that point I had everything on there just for show and dh had all my traders. The cm was trying to explain to her that I was a guest and I didn’t have to trade my pins. Also she went and got her daugheter and I’m sitting there thinking I just came in here to pee and now this lady is out there trying to track down her daughter to look at my pins because I did have some good ones on there. She finally came back and the girl was about my age or maybe a little older and she was like mom I’m not taking her pins she isn’t a cm.

So basically the mom wasted both my time and her time. If I wasn’t so busy laughing inside I would have been more annoyed. Lol. I had a sparkly fairy that kept getting a lot of attention. Shes the blue fairy I believe from pinocchio. Everyone seemed to like her and asked me where she came from or would try to trade for her. Funny thing is…I was going to give her to disneymom1980’s little girl, but then I became very attached to her once I was in disney and decided against it, but I still had other pins for disneymom’s little girl so it wasn’t a biggie.

I'll post more pictures later hopefully...I'm having issues with flickr...so I'll try again later...sorry!

 

[KristinAnne]

You guys do some great pin trading! How do you decide which are your trader pins? That's the part I don't understand! hahaha Do you have duplicates?