cinderaimee
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- Sep 26, 2016
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Loving your TR! That dinner at Le Cellier looked ah-mazing! You and your H seem like you have so much fun no matter what.
I believe you heard Martin "the singing" boat driver. We meet him and his wife on our trip in July 2017!! His wife works at Geyser Point Bar & Grill and he drives the boats. We really enjoyed talking with them. We had just taken the boat and had him as our captain and then went to eat at Geyser point. We were telling our waitress, his wife, about this awesome boat driver and she said " that's my husband!"
I got some entertainment sat out on the balcony tonight because there was a boat captain on the Wilderness, Contemporary, Fort Wilderness route who was singing “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” SUPER loud.
Every 15 minutes I heard faint singing, looked up, and his boat was approaching
By the time he got to the Wilderness dock I could hear him so loud and clearly, just absolutely belting it.
It was so funny
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I LOVE THIS BALCONY.
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I love the look of the Disneyland Hotel and the Grand Californian but I bet they're very expensive
Ha! I love that he did it enough that you could get a video of it.
We haven’t been there yet. But we did go when it was Pizza Planet, and I think the biggest complaint is that it is literally the same food from before.
Just found and read your whole TR!
Love it!!!![]()
coconut = not good
So don't eat less.... just eat earlier. Got it!
That sub looks good! How was it?
Ugh, is right. Really?
I miss when you could find unique items in the shops.
I remember watching him on TV (black and white, no less) when I was a kid. I was devastated when I found out he had died years earlier. I thought it was live.
Absolutely. That's underhanded and unfair. Doing it earlier is research.
You do? I think it's terrible. We have so much more to offer than.... Beaver Butt soap.
Thank you for the great tips about Paris and Heathrow!
DVC is pretty good about offering deals to members to get them to add on more points. When we added on at Poly we got 110 points for the price of 100, plus we got an extra year's allotment of points up front to be used that year. As far as booking, it can be a bit frustrating owning at two resorts because when booking at the 11 month window, we can only book AKV with AKV points and Poly with Poly points. We haven't had any trouble switching to other resorts that aren't our home at the 11 month window, though. Just the Grand Californian, but they're so small, it's super hard to book there. At this point, we're a fan of split stays because of transportation so the two contracts suit us; that's actually why we want to add on at Riviera when it becomes available so we have an EPCOT resort.
My favorite bathrooms in DHS!
OMG me too! It's never going to happen.
Same favorites as me! Except I can't choose between Splash and Tower.
It looks like you planned it![]()
I love it![]()
Sounds like a great evening in EPCOT!
Pedro I don't like coconut in my sweet treats either, but I promise the coconut in the magical cookie bar is not coconutty at all! I didn't even know it contained coconut until you told me!![]()
Nice! Small though, I could definitely eat two!
Me too! I must say I even preferred the Frozen take-over to the Star Wars take-overit's too much and I don't care for it!!!
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Oww that's so sad Pedro!!![]()
Nooooo I love the Beaver Butt!I bought a Beaver Butt lip balm from there once!
And pyjama shorts with bears and huckleberries on them! GAH I love those shorts! I love that shop!![]()
Loving your TR! That dinner at Le Cellier looked ah-mazing! You and your H seem like you have so much fun no matter what.
So enjoying your trip report, and looking forward to reading more!!
Hi Katie. Life is rather overwhelming right now and it's all I can do to read... which I did. And enjoyed every bit of each update very, very much! You two were having such a wonderful time!![]()
What a wonderful trip! We're staying at WL this December and I am so excited (and your pictures make me even MORE excited to stay there!)
I believe you heard Martin "the singing" boat driver. We meet him and his wife on our trip in July 2017!! His wife works at Geyser Point Bar & Grill and he drives the boats. We really enjoyed talking with them. We had just taken the boat and had him as our captain and then went to eat at Geyser point. We were telling our waitress, his wife, about this awesome boat driver and she said " that's my husband!"
Yes, VERYHowever, if you're going to stay on property and going to spend the $$$ anyway, I wholeheartedly recommend the Grand Californian
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I would know. Trust me. I've been down this road before.
"There's no coconut in this."
"<sniff> Yes there is."
"No there's not. At all."
"Yeah, there is."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes. Check the ingredients."
"See? None! Cocoa. Sugar. Milk. Flour.... oh... coconut."
I think you are the only person I know that's said you preferred the Frozen take over to anything.
Okay, then.
But come up to the real Canada. Fair warning... it's big.
i.e. drive for 8 hours and... you haven't gotten anywhere yet.
Nice to see you back, Katie.![]()
That's your superhero power! An inbuilt coconut detector! SO USEFUL!![]()
I admit it guys, I'd take Frozen over Star Wars![]()
I would love to come to Canada! Where are the best places to visit?
You too! I'm heading over to your new TR now!![]()
Everywhere except where I live and all of Saskatchewan.
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Oooh, awesome idea! I may have to copy that if they have the cookie and chocolate flight in February!The chocolate flight was fantastic, it was basically just three huge cups of melted chocolate.
I even dipped my cookie in the chocolate flight like a child![]()
We didn’t set an alarm this morning, but I still woke up at 7:30am![]()
watching my idol Stacey on Must Do Disney.
The blue January skies are incredible![]()
After about 5 minutes we were on a bus to Epcot!
On the bus Jamie showed me a gif of a cute pig and said that he wanted one.
But I told him he’d eaten one yesterday!
We made it through the huuuge bag check line, and into Epcot
I definitely wanted to come back later to get that jumbo cookie and the sipping chocolate flight!
But for now, we got the scallop and the pork roulade![]()
Aaaand within one hour, Jamie had broken his ‘no eating pigs’ promise![]()
…Which turned out to be two shrimps, and a big pile of batter![]()
What we were given can only be described as something resembling the mess that a dog would make on his daily walk.
But the most hilarious part of this to us, was that it was absolutely DELICIOUS![]()
YAY for dog poop.
We were very full at this point, but I simply HAD to go back to the first booth in the America pavilion to get the cookie and the chocolate flight!
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Although I can’t eat blue food so I made Jamie have that part![]()
I even dipped my cookie in the chocolate flight like a child![]()
Everyone on Soarin’ was super enthusiastic, and a bunch of people screamed when the eagle flew in front of us![]()
And everyone clapped at the end
Soarin’ is the only attraction I ever see people clap afterwards.
It was busy, by Spaceship Earth’s standards!
God bless Fastpass+.
Ryan Gosling’s Papyrus video![]()
“Do you remember the Avatar logo? PAPYRUS! I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!”
Because on the second game.
We both scored 9/10.
However.
We were CERTAIN.
That.
There were.
ONLY 9 TASKS.
We were pretty rusty since it had been over a year since we’d made a car.
We only scored 223, while the top of the day was 232![]()
I am magical.
However unfortunately we still missed something and only scored 230, so we still didn’t make the big screen![]()
The elusive towel animal!
I think this was our first one ever!
We were so excited!
We carefully moved him over to the shelf beneath the TV where he would sit and watch over us for the rest of the trip![]()
I like the monorail in this shot below![]()
We headed straight over to Liberty Square to our 6:35pm ADR at Liberty Tree Tavern!
This was our first time eating here!
We checked in and the lady asked for a phone number to text us when our table was ready, and also where we were visiting from.
We thought she was just being friendly, but we noticed she actually typed in where we were from, which we thought was odd..
Then as we were walking through, they announced,
“From the beautiful, wonderful, country of England, the [my surname] family!”
And everyone cheered and clapped!![]()
One guy even booed us!
(Which could be expected in Liberty Square during this “time period” I suppose)
These new changes to the dining plan are EXCELLENT.
Alcohol is now included!
I was impressed with the meal so far, but the “ooey gooey toffee cake” for dessert was by far the best part.
We left the restaurant at around 8pm very happy, but we had basically eaten ourselves into a stupor.
On the way out we saw a woman talking to a baby in a stroller.
Only as we got closer, we realised it was not a baby, but a little tiny dog![]()
We got off the monorail at the Contemporary and went to a bar called Outer Rim, which is next to Contempo Café and Chef Mickey’s.
Outside we saw PETER PAN taking photos with people!
He loves the job, as he gets to drive a boat without having to do any of the maintenance work to it
When we arrived at the Wilderness Lodge he told parents to take their kids “by the hand, hair or head, and get off my boat.”
We got back to our room and chilled, showered, and saw the Electric Water Pageant go by at about 10:15pm!
What's wrong with where you live, and Saskatchewan?!![]()
What we were given can only be described as something resembling the mess that a dog would make on his daily walk
“From the beautiful, wonderful, country of England, the [my surname] family!”
One guy even booed us!