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

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?

You should see our collection...it has grown quite a bit since december 06' when we started collecting! There are a few pics of our cork boards on my pre trippie that you can check out if you haven't already. Some of our traders dh bought on clearance on disneyshopping, which is actually where the blue fairy came from that I mentioned in my last post. She was a mystery set I believe and I discovered I had another one of her once I got home so I am going to send one to disneymom1980's little girl after all b/c I have to send them that baby ariel too! Dh and I went through all our pins from our last trip that we had on hand and picked out some that we decided we didn't want and he also bought a lot of 50 or so on ebay and different random lots of 10 or so throughout the year so thats how we ended up with our traders. We just trade ones we don't really care for or if we aren't in love with it we'll trade it. Its can be hard to decide, but when it comes down to wanting a pin and having one that you might want to trade and you really want that pin and this is your last trader...then you trade it. :rotfl: And if I get one and decide I don't like it then I just trade it with someone else even if I thought I loved it at the time. I do that all the time. Hehe. So yea...oh and I don't believe we currently have any duplicates because those get traded too. All the "crazy pin people" that you'll see outside the pin shop in dtd or at epcot they have duplicates out the wazoo, but we don't hold on to duplicates because we aren't at disney enough to do what they do. Maybe someday. We won't be crazy though. And some of them aren't. :thumbsup2 Thanks for following along! :woohoo:
 
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Some pictures from AKL on our balcony.

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Now for a few of my fave pics taken on the tri pod at night of the savannah from our balcony

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I'll post the photopass ones later...flickr is still acting up slightly. Thank you for being patient while I work through technical difficulties. :thumbsup2
 
I apologize everyone...dh has been sick and we are still in ohio! We are going back to Va on thursday...hoping to get an update done soon!
 
No problem! :) I hope he feels better soon!

I LOVE those pictures from your AKL balcony!! So pretty!!
 

great update and pics.

those last 3 shots are gorgeous.

Hope he feels better soon and have a safe trip home.
 
I promised these quite some time ago, but things got crazy while we were in ohio and dh wasn't feeling well...he still isn't, but he feels better than he did. And we are back in Va at our apartment with a better internet connection so here are some more pics and I'll get an update up either tomorrow or monday and get this thing moving again. :thumbsup2

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it was a bit chilly so I threw a layer on...i always dress in laters at disney its my saving grace!

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I love my husband! :love:

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i wish the lady would of told me to lower my shoulder slightly so matts smile could be seen, but its still a cute pic!

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we were the last family of the day to see baloo and king louie!

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Minnie was excited b/c not only was she on my shirt, but it said I was a princess and I married my prince too! She loved it! She told us she wanted a ring from mickey and that one my size would do quite nicely. Work it minnie...you deserve it girlfriend! :rotfl2: I'd try for bigger than mine if I was her...I'm sure she could pull it off!

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I love this picture b/c minnie put our hands on each other...it was so adorable! She really made our day...she was very cute and interacted with us for quite some time!

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I love to take pictures with goofy b/c first of all...well he is goofy! Secondly he is one of few disney characters that I dont' feel like I have to slouch over to be on their level.

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I don't know why, but I really like this pic...thanks photopass people!

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donald was a lot of fun as well! I think he loved all the attention! :thumbsup2
 
No problem! :) I hope he feels better soon!

I LOVE those pictures from your AKL balcony!! So pretty!!

thank you...he still isn't feeling the best, but after going to the er once and being tested for everything under the sun they found nothing wrong with him. He got into his gi (he has crohns disease) and they squeezed him in for a upper and lower scope and saw a few ulcers at the bottom of his esophagus, but they were almost gone and the dr said it looked like they were part of a bug that was passing through his system. So thats all the answer we got was that he had a bug passing through. He was so nautious that he could hardly eat or drink anything for about 3 weeks. He lost a bunch of weight too. Hes still running low grade fevers...hopefully it'll pass SOON!! If the fevers don't go away soon I'm going to see if I can talk him into finding another dr here in Va since that was all in ohio. Thank you...those akl balcony shots were some of my fave of the trip! :thumbsup2

That picture of the purple sky and trees at AKL is gorgeous! Just great!!!!

Thank you very much! I can't take the credit though...dh did it. He is awesome! :thumbsup2

great update and pics.

those last 3 shots are gorgeous.

Hope he feels better soon and have a safe trip home.

Got home safely! :thumbsup2 Thank you! I'm so jealous your going to Europe! Very awesome!
 
I jumped ahead and put up my character photopass pics before I wrote out the meet and greet. Oh well! Anyways so we met Mickey and when we were going to see Minnie she went on a break, but we were first in line to see her when she came back out and there was no one behind us. When she came out a cast member asked her if she had been kissing Mickey while she was back there and Minnie hid her face like she was embarrassed and shook her head yes. It was so cute! Of course they were kind of back in the little wooded area so if there were little kids around they wouldn’t of heard, but I have good hearing and I didn’t have anything else to pay attention to since it was Minnie we were waiting for.

Of course after she read my princess shirt she wanted to see my ring and of course she was telling her handler she wanted one. We made sure to let her know we’d tell Mickey. Matts shirt says first time as mr and mrs in case you can’t read it. Both our shirts we had made at dtd at the design a tee shop. I had the mr and mrs shirt too, but didn’t want to be twins with him. Lol. Donald read our shirts too and he was pretty excited about it. His handler had us kiss him, which I thought made for a cute picture! I love to have pictures that are different from year to year. Not just the same photopass thing every single year. Gotta spice it up a bit folks! I get bored easily. Lol.

There was hardly any wait time for any of the characters because FOTLK was going on and the parade was going on as well. After our meet and greet we decided it was time to pin trade and shop around a bit. I bought a pink mickey journal that was on sale! Woot for sales! We did a little pin trading as well before leaving for the day. We stopped at the locker to get our stuff and to take a picture of the truck with Minnie, mickey and friends on it. We then headed for AKL for a snack and relaxation. What better place for a snack and relaxtion than our balcony?!

Around seven or so we headed to DTD and ate at Earl of Sandwhich…I know that we had ate here earlier in the trip, but its so freakin’ delicious that I couldn’t resist at least one more time!!! Of course, what is a trip to DTD without dh having to stop by and see the crazy pin trading people!

The lady we had traded with at Epcot traded with us again and a little old lady who was starting to lose her marbles…I felt so bad for her, but we didn’t jip her on the pins. We gave her very good pins! I know other people probably try to since she isn’t all there, but dh and I would never do something like that. The last lady we traded with actually called some of the other pin traders there crazy and she said she was the most normal one there. Lol. She gave us eight of the letters we needed and we gave her two ap pins in return. Ap is artist proof in case not everybody knows that. I know I didn’t until dh told me! She gave us her number in case she got any duplicate letters during the week and we made plans to meet on Friday because we had two pins she really wanted that she was willing to give us letters for even if she didn’t find duplicates so we were pretty excited! We really wanted that whole darn alphabet!

The little old lady that I mentioned gave us a Cinderella pin I really wanted and mickey holding a teddy bear. They are so cute! I’m a huge cindy fan! She told me the same thing about one of her pins four times. This particular night we completed our animal set that is on a black backround, the people that is the same backround(they are silver figures on black), one of the figment sets, and one set of fast passes.

I bought a set of mickey through the years while I was waiting for dh to deal with the one lady from epcot because I didn’t like her at all and I couldn’t stand to watch her try to work deals with dh. Luckily in my mickey through the years package I bought it was two that I didn’t have yet so I was stoked!! I think I’ve already mentioned that the mickey through the years set was a mystery box set and that there were ten in the set and I wasn’t leaving Disney until I had all ten!

We bought a box on the way out for the night as well, but they were two I already had, but that isn’t a bad thing because they became traders. We decided to forego shopping to beat the crowds at the end of the night and got back to AKL around 10:30. I went to the mara to get soda for us and I also got some apples with carmel. Yum! When I got back we sorted through our mass of pins and got ready for bed. We were going to try for rope drop at Mk the next morning!
 
Sound like you had a very effective pin trading day! Here's to hoping you get the alphabet!
I like the different pics with the characters too! Last time we were in Epcot, Chip and Dale were playing with DH about his Harley shirt, and one of them pretended to be riding a motorcycle in our pic. It was a lot of fun.
I hope your DH starts to feel better. It's terrible not knowing what's making him feel bad.
I SO want to make DH a shirt with Bruce, the shark, on it. DH was shark bait two years ago, so it's like his thing now. Anything shark. :laughing:
 
Those are such cute pictures with the characters! I love that Minnie had such a good time with you. I wish we had done more with the characters! That's the best thing about Disney...there is always a next time!
 
Sound like you had a very effective pin trading day! Here's to hoping you get the alphabet!
I like the different pics with the characters too! Last time we were in Epcot, Chip and Dale were playing with DH about his Harley shirt, and one of them pretended to be riding a motorcycle in our pic. It was a lot of fun.
I hope your DH starts to feel better. It's terrible not knowing what's making him feel bad.
I SO want to make DH a shirt with Bruce, the shark, on it. DH was shark bait two years ago, so it's like his thing now. Anything shark. :laughing:

Yes, we felt very accomplished that night about all our pins! You'll have to stay tuned to hear about the alphabet! :thumbsup2 Aww you pic sounds super cute with chip and dale! I love it when they are super interactive! :banana: Yea, I feel bad for him, but he is slowly feeling better. If you check at design a tee at dtd you might find that they have bruce the shark. I'm not sure because I didn't look at much besides mickey and minnie b/c thats what we wanted. :thumbsup2
 
Those are such cute pictures with the characters! I love that Minnie had such a good time with you. I wish we had done more with the characters! That's the best thing about Disney...there is always a next time!

Thank you! The first year we went it felt like everytime we saw characters we were on our way to our adr's or to see a parade or something. When we got home after the trip I told dh that I was sad because we didn't get to meet as many characters as I wanted. So he promised me next time we went back we could see unlimited characters and ever since then we've done a pretty good job at being able to hit them up. We might have to come back sometimes like with the fairy God mother and the step sisters, but we still made it happen! :banana: They are the best thing...well I like the desserts too. Hehe. I heart minnie...she is the biggest sweetheart! :love:
 
Day 6 Thursday Jan 29th

Weather: High 82/Low 52 Very windy
Adr: Coral Reef 12:00

So our great plan to make rope drop was flawed by the fact that there was emh on this morning and we failed to realize that so by the time we got to the park at fifteen till nine we were way late because the park opened a hour early for emh and thats when they did the show and all. We tried really hard though and I give us a A for effort because had it not been emh we would have been able to see it since we got there fifteen minutes before hand! I was rather annoyed though because we got up early for nothing, but since we were there we decided to make the best of it and it ended up being a rather good time!

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We got to meet Mary Poppins, whom I love! She said chin up and something about reading about Ohio in her books and it was very cold there and her umbrella would freeze. Yea, well Mary we don’t have that problem since we are traveling for work and living in Va. Lol. I left that part out though. Its so much easier so say we’re from ohio and leave it at that.

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We tried to look around for somebody to take our pic together, but no one was really around for some odd reason so we had to do it separately. Maybe next time! This was another first for us though. We had never taken our pic with goofy on main street.


We did photo pass pics on main street and pin traded up main street. Although there were emh hours the park was still opening at 9 for the rest of the masses so all the cm’s were standing on main street waving and that’s how we got a bunch of good pins. Dh and I went in a few stores too since he was trying to cheer me up.

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I know it might seem silly, but this is one of my fave things about MK...when you go in the gift shops in the morning right when the park opens and all these guys are perfectly stacked up. They are so stinkin' adorable! Dh caught minnie and I having a tender moment...I was holding her hand hehe

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I loved how they made minnies and mickeys hang...so cute!

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I ended up finding this really soft plush mickey and a steam boat willie. I was in heaven because I had been looking for a plush I wanted since I collect them and as soon as I found them I told dh these were the two I wanted on this trip and I wasn’t going to change my mind! He was like well can we get them on the way out? I said yea, that’s fine, but we are getting them today because they are so stinkin’ cute! Come to find out I’m glad I got them this day on the way out because I looked a few days later and they were no where to be seen so I was glad I snagged up my new furry friends when I had the chance! Steam boat was a limited edition…I have number five hundred and something out of 2400 and he was made for the 80th anniversary I guess. He is just so stinkin’ cute! I freakin’ love me some steamboat willie! He’ll make a appearance in pictures later on in the report!

As we were walking toward the castle I remembered that I still wanted to try to see the step sisters and step mother from Cinderella so we made our way back there to see if they were out! There was a handler and she confirmed that yes indeed they should be out anytime now. So we just stood there and waited. I was so freakin’ excited that I was beginning to forget that I was upset about missing rope drop!

After what seemed like forever the step sisters and step mother came walking toward the meeting area and they were carrying on. It was rather funny. When they got to their spot they were going on about the weeds and how mother nature had it in for them because the wind was blowing and the leaves were falling on them. I don’t remember all what they said, but if anyone has met them then you know what I’m talking about. They are a riot!

On this day I was wearing the mr. and mrs shirt so they asked me what my last name was and I told them. They told me how a man named Charlie Butts on main street wanted to marry Drezilla, but she didn’t like his name because it was dreadful and that he would probably have to change his last name since she wouldn’t take his. They told me I was lucky to have a good last name.

They asked if Matt was my prince and I told them yes and they asked if he had rich brothers, but he told them he was the rich brother so they told me if I didn’t think he was handsome I should still hang on to him. Lol. After our fun shaniganians with the step sisters and step mother we decided to see if we could find the fairy God mother since I REALLY wanted to meet her!

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Here they come!!

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going on about the weeds and such:rotfl: they were all into it

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its to bad all those trees were around casting shadows on it, but its not to bad of a picture despite that. They yelled at their handler (i forget his name) to stop putting on his lip gloss (it was chapstick):rotfl:and come take our picture so that dh could be in it too. How thoughtful of you ladies! :thumbsup2

So we basically sat and stalked her spot for about ten minutes before she appeared. Matt saw her come out the door right next to where we were sitting and he gave me a look and I was like what are you looking at me like that for? He gestured over to where she was and I jumped up out of my seat! I hadn’t even seen her walk out of the door because I was to busy people watching in the other direction. So I told her that I had been waiting for her and she apologized. There was no need and I made sure she knew that. I just wanted her to know how excited I was to finally meet her!

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We were being blown away at this point and my lazy eye made a return b/c I was so stinkin' tired. :lmao:

Up next the rest of our morning at MK and then our semi miserable afternoon at epcot.
 
Those step sisters are something else! :rotfl2: Too funny!!

Loved the update! :thumbsup2
 
Those step sisters are something else! :rotfl2: Too funny!!

Loved the update! :thumbsup2

Yes, they really are!!!! :rotfl: Love them! This is my second encounter with them...our first was at 1900 park faire in dec 07' for dinner when anastasia sang happy birthday to me in the most screeching voice you can possibly imagine. :scared1:Thank you! I have more coming! :thumbsup2
 
I hope we get to meet the step sisters/mother and Fairy Godmother on our next trip!!
I wouldn't have noticed the handler in that pic had you not said anything. I think because you know he's there, it draws your eye to him. I do like that it was offset of the castle.
Sorry you had to wake up early for nothing!! That's like waking up on a Saturday and get ready for school thinking you have school that day. :laughing:
 
I love that picture with the castle and the horse too! The step-sisters are great!

Thank you! Yes, indeed they are!

I hope we get to meet the step sisters/mother and Fairy Godmother on our next trip!!
I wouldn't have noticed the handler in that pic had you not said anything. I think because you know he's there, it draws your eye to him. I do like that it was offset of the castle.
Sorry you had to wake up early for nothing!! That's like waking up on a Saturday and get ready for school thinking you have school that day. :laughing:

Just stalk them! Hahaha:rotfl2::rotfl2: No seriously, the step sisters and step mother were where belles story time is, but opposite the story time...obviously. And then the fairy God mother was on the other side of the castle on the back side. If you walk down that path way past the wishing well and the smoking area you'll get there. :thumbsup2 Yea, I'm a tiny bit ocd lol so I notice a lot:rolleyes1 Yea, I've done that waking up early for school thing once or twice...glad I don't go to school anymore. Lol. :thumbsup2:banana:
 












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