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If you're going to do that, I think you need to take a translator. Maybe someone who already knows his way around Tokyo. Someone, I dunno, married to another cute redhead...
Return to the Scene of the Crime: The Lurkyloos First Anniversary at WDW! New VIDEO!
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If you're going to do that, I think you need to take a translator. Maybe someone who already knows his way around Tokyo. Someone, I dunno, married to another cute redhead...
lurkyloo
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this just made me laugh out loud and spit on myself!!
Mission accomplished!
I believe the age limit is 16 and up, so you'll just have to make it a date with DH!
You should do it! Don't you get tours included on that Deluxe Dining Plan? Or at least a discount?
Great idea!
Whew!
I never want this TR to end!!I know the disappointment you feel that your DH doesn't care for surprises. My DBF tells me after our last WDW trip of me secretly planning a surprise every day that he would've been equally as excited had he known what the plan was the whole time. Boo! Who doesn't love surprises?! Who doesn't love that feeling that something SPECTACULAR was planned just for you! But I digress...
See, that's exactly what I'm talking about! Boys are silly.
Are those Oreo cookies from DTD real Oreos or faux-eo's? (I finally cleaned the drool off of my keyboard to ask since that was posted 148 pages ago
I don't remember if they're Oreo brand, but they aren't crappy tasting like Hydrox and other faux Oreos.
Hello! I followed your link from I don't know where and have finally caught up here. It's very late and I'm exhausted at this point but your TR is great.
Thanks! Sorry it wore you out!
Just wanted to say that I LOVE your wedding dress...so pretty.
Aw... thank you! It was totally the opposite of the kind of dress I thought I wanted - go figure!
No offense to the lawyers in the audience... Disney lawyers are a whole other breed anyway!
You need to go back in January!!!
OK, if you say so!
I don't think you'll wipe out - that guy was trying some fancy stuff.
Oh, but don't the employee ones go faster than the tour ones? Just think, you coulda been lapping those other suckers!
I like the way you think!
If you're going to do that, I think you need to take a translator. Maybe someone who already knows his way around Tokyo. Someone, I dunno, married to another cute redhead...
Sold!!!
It would work really well, too - we could both celebrate our anniversaries. 
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Fun update on the Segway tour with a bit of romance thrown in. I love the pics of you under the arch this year & the wedding photos from last year. Can't wait to hear about the rest of the surprises.
lurkyloo
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Anniversary Surprise #2
OK, so this one was more of a nostalgia trip for me than a real shocker for DH Im pretty sure that when he discovered we were going to take a Friendship Boat from the International Gateway to the BoardWalk he didnt, like, wet his pants or anything. But I wanted to reminisce about that fun trip from our ceremony to the reception, so we braved the biting cold to sit in the back all by ourselves.
Its not the same without the Roots, dagnabbit!
It actually wasnt too cold on the back of the boat, and it was nice to relive the experience a little. The trip kicked off a couple hours of me giving annoying historical play-by-play for everything we did: And this is when were took a boat to the BoardWalk with our guests... and this is the staircase we all walked up to get to the lobby... and this is the place where the videographer suggested I strike a cliched pose in the window and I wouldnt do it until she told me it would make my waist look small.... etc.
The Attic!
Anniversary Surprise #3
When I first started planning our anniversary, Id looked into the cost of doing brunch for two at the Attic, which would have been a great follow-up to the Segway tour through Morocco. But the food and beverage minimum at the Attic for a non-wedding event is $3,500 even I cant eat that much! My next idea was to have breakfast for dinner during our private IllumiNations party, but that would have been $800 on top of the regular party price because it required setting up an on-site kitchen yikes!
So in the end, I decided we could get pretty close by having brunch at Spoodles on the BoardWalk, which was also the site of our informal rehearsal brunch the day before the wedding. Again, not a huge surprise, but a fun thing to do. And, hello, Mickey waffles!
...And this is the table where we sat for our rehearsal brunch...
We notorious free-water-drinkers splurged on hot chocolate cuz it was so dang cold.
Classic Golden Waffle - with whipped mascarpone cheese, honey, chopped pecans with bacon or sausage
Spoodles Breakfast Platter - All You Care to Eat platter of scrambled eggs, breakfast potatoes, French toast, bacon, sausage
I asked for another sausage and they brought me three! It was almost like eating on a cruise ship....
Anniversary Surprise #4
When my dessert party event planner, Tess, and I had been wrapping up our plans, she said to let her know if there was anything else she could do for us. I got to thinking about the Disney Difference, and it made me bold enough to ask her if she could unlock the Attic for us to take a quick peek on our anniversary. She was more than happy to do it, and we arranged to meet around 11:30am. I had to come up with an elaborate cover story, though, because DH would still not know about the dessert party and might wonder who this person was and why she was letting us into the Attic. So I made up a story about how she had helped me do research for the weddings book (which she really has, cuz theres a part about setting up an anniversary event like our dessert party).
After we waddled outta Spoodles, we had a little time to kill before Anniversary Surprise #4, the peek into the Attic, so we wandered around the BoardWalk Inn. DH snapped pictures while I kept up a running narrative of exactly what wed been doing in each spot a year before....
...And then we walked under this chandelier...
...And then we took a fabulous picture on these stairs...
...And then we went down this water slide...
OK, not really, but DFTW couple Caryn & Mark took wedding pictures at the pool cuz they met when they were lifeguards there! I told this story to the lifeguard at the top of the slide while DH took pictures, and she seemed duly impressed. In fact, she may even have leaned over the rail a little to scope out her co-workers....
Must... not... make barf joke!
Another thing we didnt do on our wedding day:
About this time I realized Tess was texting me to see where we were, so I not so subtly steered DH in the direction of the Attic.
We trudged down the 2 1/2-mile hallway...
And when we got there, we discovered...
OK, so this one was more of a nostalgia trip for me than a real shocker for DH Im pretty sure that when he discovered we were going to take a Friendship Boat from the International Gateway to the BoardWalk he didnt, like, wet his pants or anything. But I wanted to reminisce about that fun trip from our ceremony to the reception, so we braved the biting cold to sit in the back all by ourselves.
Its not the same without the Roots, dagnabbit!
It actually wasnt too cold on the back of the boat, and it was nice to relive the experience a little. The trip kicked off a couple hours of me giving annoying historical play-by-play for everything we did: And this is when were took a boat to the BoardWalk with our guests... and this is the staircase we all walked up to get to the lobby... and this is the place where the videographer suggested I strike a cliched pose in the window and I wouldnt do it until she told me it would make my waist look small.... etc.
The Attic!
Anniversary Surprise #3
When I first started planning our anniversary, Id looked into the cost of doing brunch for two at the Attic, which would have been a great follow-up to the Segway tour through Morocco. But the food and beverage minimum at the Attic for a non-wedding event is $3,500 even I cant eat that much! My next idea was to have breakfast for dinner during our private IllumiNations party, but that would have been $800 on top of the regular party price because it required setting up an on-site kitchen yikes!
So in the end, I decided we could get pretty close by having brunch at Spoodles on the BoardWalk, which was also the site of our informal rehearsal brunch the day before the wedding. Again, not a huge surprise, but a fun thing to do. And, hello, Mickey waffles!
...And this is the table where we sat for our rehearsal brunch...
We notorious free-water-drinkers splurged on hot chocolate cuz it was so dang cold.
Classic Golden Waffle - with whipped mascarpone cheese, honey, chopped pecans with bacon or sausage
Spoodles Breakfast Platter - All You Care to Eat platter of scrambled eggs, breakfast potatoes, French toast, bacon, sausage
I asked for another sausage and they brought me three! It was almost like eating on a cruise ship....
Anniversary Surprise #4
When my dessert party event planner, Tess, and I had been wrapping up our plans, she said to let her know if there was anything else she could do for us. I got to thinking about the Disney Difference, and it made me bold enough to ask her if she could unlock the Attic for us to take a quick peek on our anniversary. She was more than happy to do it, and we arranged to meet around 11:30am. I had to come up with an elaborate cover story, though, because DH would still not know about the dessert party and might wonder who this person was and why she was letting us into the Attic. So I made up a story about how she had helped me do research for the weddings book (which she really has, cuz theres a part about setting up an anniversary event like our dessert party).
After we waddled outta Spoodles, we had a little time to kill before Anniversary Surprise #4, the peek into the Attic, so we wandered around the BoardWalk Inn. DH snapped pictures while I kept up a running narrative of exactly what wed been doing in each spot a year before....
...And then we walked under this chandelier...
...And then we took a fabulous picture on these stairs...
...And then we went down this water slide...
OK, not really, but DFTW couple Caryn & Mark took wedding pictures at the pool cuz they met when they were lifeguards there! I told this story to the lifeguard at the top of the slide while DH took pictures, and she seemed duly impressed. In fact, she may even have leaned over the rail a little to scope out her co-workers....
Must... not... make barf joke!
Another thing we didnt do on our wedding day:
About this time I realized Tess was texting me to see where we were, so I not so subtly steered DH in the direction of the Attic.
We trudged down the 2 1/2-mile hallway...
And when we got there, we discovered...
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lurkyloo
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Anniversary Surprise #5
...Tess had set up brunch for us in the Attic!!!
I was in shock! Here I am complaining about how I have to do all the surprising, and she got me good!
She was standing there with three of the Boardwalk chefs, plus a server and a personal chef to wait on us. I noticed one of the chefs was the guy we did our wedding menu tasting with (and this time he wasn’t on his Crackberry!), and the server had been at our reception! I was so surprised, I don’t remember what anyone said, but I know we thanked them profusely and then Tess introduced us to our server and chef before she and the other chefs left and said to call her if we needed anything. She also said the Attic was not reserved that day and that we could stay as long as we liked!
Now some of you may recall that just five paragraphs ago we were stuffing ourselves silly at Spoodles, and boy oh boy was I sorry now. The chef was set up to cook omelets to order and—oh, the irony—had Mickey waffles with all the fixings!
On top of that, there was a gorgeous display of chocolate-peanut butter candy and a solid white chocolate Tinkerbell waiting for us at our table!
I think there’s an ironic children’s story in here somewhere about gluttony... I was filled with remorse, at any rate—but not too filled for Mickey waffles!
DH thought he might be able to squeeze in an omelet.
There was enough food there for 10 people, it seemed, and we encouraged the chef to fix something for himself and our server so it wouldn’t go to waste. (This was the only thing about the experience that was uncomfortable for me – having two people waiting on us who surely could have been doing something more important!)
While we were eating, Tess texted me that our anniversary party at UK Pubside was going to have to be moved inside Rose & Crown due to the cold. Ordinarily I would not have taken this well, but at that moment I was too happy to care.... which may have been the plan, but who cares – free brunch at the Attic!
I had the presence of mind to ask her to have them display our cake on whatever table we got so at least Nathan & Jensey would have something to shoot before we got there.
I felt like I’d returned to Brigadoon – I went running to all the windows and had to look into every corner. I demanded that DH take pictures of everything so we could remember this special place and this special day, some of which I will bore you with now:
“...And this is where the Roots sat and edited some of our pictures...”
“...And this is where we sat and looked at those pictures on their laptop...”
...Tess had set up brunch for us in the Attic!!!
I was in shock! Here I am complaining about how I have to do all the surprising, and she got me good!
She was standing there with three of the Boardwalk chefs, plus a server and a personal chef to wait on us. I noticed one of the chefs was the guy we did our wedding menu tasting with (and this time he wasn’t on his Crackberry!), and the server had been at our reception! I was so surprised, I don’t remember what anyone said, but I know we thanked them profusely and then Tess introduced us to our server and chef before she and the other chefs left and said to call her if we needed anything. She also said the Attic was not reserved that day and that we could stay as long as we liked!
Now some of you may recall that just five paragraphs ago we were stuffing ourselves silly at Spoodles, and boy oh boy was I sorry now. The chef was set up to cook omelets to order and—oh, the irony—had Mickey waffles with all the fixings!
On top of that, there was a gorgeous display of chocolate-peanut butter candy and a solid white chocolate Tinkerbell waiting for us at our table!
I think there’s an ironic children’s story in here somewhere about gluttony... I was filled with remorse, at any rate—but not too filled for Mickey waffles!
DH thought he might be able to squeeze in an omelet.
There was enough food there for 10 people, it seemed, and we encouraged the chef to fix something for himself and our server so it wouldn’t go to waste. (This was the only thing about the experience that was uncomfortable for me – having two people waiting on us who surely could have been doing something more important!)
While we were eating, Tess texted me that our anniversary party at UK Pubside was going to have to be moved inside Rose & Crown due to the cold. Ordinarily I would not have taken this well, but at that moment I was too happy to care.... which may have been the plan, but who cares – free brunch at the Attic!
I had the presence of mind to ask her to have them display our cake on whatever table we got so at least Nathan & Jensey would have something to shoot before we got there.
I felt like I’d returned to Brigadoon – I went running to all the windows and had to look into every corner. I demanded that DH take pictures of everything so we could remember this special place and this special day, some of which I will bore you with now:
“...And this is where the Roots sat and edited some of our pictures...”
“...And this is where we sat and looked at those pictures on their laptop...”
lurkyloo
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We braved the cold to take a few quick pictures on the patio, and we even did a quick little dance!
Then we dashed back inside and took more pictures.
Yes, even of the bathroom!
It was such a trip to be there, and I enjoyed every minute of it—but I missed our wedding guests! Sometimes, for some people who may or may not be me, when you plan the wedding you are mostly focused on getting everything to be exactly as you want it and not so much on what the guests want. Being in the Attic again without them reminded me of the immeasurable love and joy our guests shared with us on our wedding day and showed me how empty (literally and figuratively!) the celebration would have been without them.
Finally, I couldn’t think up any more excuses to stick around. Our server boxed up the candy and ginormous Tinkerbell for us, and I think we grabbed some bottles of water. I tried to take it all in one last time, cuz who knows when we’ll ever get back to the Attic (future Disney brides, I’m looking at you...). I was a little sad when we left Brigadoon, but at least I got to narrate our Friendship Boat trip back to the BoardWalk.
“...And this is where we were walking back from the boat and two little girls ran up and said in unison, ‘Congratulations!!’...”
And then, even more exciting, we got to see Cinderella’s Glass Coach in all its glory, complete with nippy ponies!
“I *keel* you!!!”
Up next: Animal Kingdom and the Final Anniversary Surprise!
Then we dashed back inside and took more pictures.
Yes, even of the bathroom!
It was such a trip to be there, and I enjoyed every minute of it—but I missed our wedding guests! Sometimes, for some people who may or may not be me, when you plan the wedding you are mostly focused on getting everything to be exactly as you want it and not so much on what the guests want. Being in the Attic again without them reminded me of the immeasurable love and joy our guests shared with us on our wedding day and showed me how empty (literally and figuratively!) the celebration would have been without them.
Finally, I couldn’t think up any more excuses to stick around. Our server boxed up the candy and ginormous Tinkerbell for us, and I think we grabbed some bottles of water. I tried to take it all in one last time, cuz who knows when we’ll ever get back to the Attic (future Disney brides, I’m looking at you...). I was a little sad when we left Brigadoon, but at least I got to narrate our Friendship Boat trip back to the BoardWalk.
“...And this is where we were walking back from the boat and two little girls ran up and said in unison, ‘Congratulations!!’...”
And then, even more exciting, we got to see Cinderella’s Glass Coach in all its glory, complete with nippy ponies!
“I *keel* you!!!”
Up next: Animal Kingdom and the Final Anniversary Surprise!
irisbud
I wished upon a star and... ...Disney Bride in 200
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That is so cool! Talk about Pixie Dust!
Good thing you had already eaten or you would have had to try to convince your DH it wasn't another surprise, LOL
Wow, I need to get off the DISboards once in a while. I feel stalkerish as I always seem to be on here when you post an update
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Good thing you had already eaten or you would have had to try to convince your DH it wasn't another surprise, LOL
Wow, I need to get off the DISboards once in a while. I feel stalkerish as I always seem to be on here when you post an update
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lurkyloo
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Wish I'd seen it that way at the time...Don't worry - we ended up getting do everything but dinner outside - hooray!
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I feel stalkerish as I always seem to be on here when you post an update
that would be MY job...i have a bit of a rep
lurkyloo
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that would be MY job...i have a bit of a rep
Yeah, whaddup - posting right in the middle of my update?!
Thanks for reminding me - I meant to post that picture!!
irisbud
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that would be MY job...i have a bit of a rep
Oops! Sorry Betsy! Next time I will wait until after you post. That way I might seem a little less creepy
zoegirl
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Carrie, I have been lurking on your thread for weeks, and I just wanted to let you know that I have loved every bit of it. I think it's disneybridetoni that always says "more, more more!" and I wholeheartedly agree.
I loved my big traditional church wedding 10 years ago, but you make me want to get married again at disneyworld!
I loved my big traditional church wedding 10 years ago, but you make me want to get married again at disneyworld!
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at the risk of pirating the thread again..Just Do IT!!!
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What a wonderful anniversary!! I can't wait to hear about the dessert party. I love that picture of you in your wedding gear looking at your wedding pictures! It's great!!
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What a wonderful anniversary surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I wish I had your connections. That would be so fun!!! I was looking at your pictures at the brunch and thinking wow my wedding was there 2 days before that....
I just spent the last hour catching up on what I missed while on vacation and you are still working on your anniversery day. I guess I'll have to be patient.
I may have a chance to go to San Diego and LA/Anaheim/Disneyland again in May. I'll let you know if we book it!
I may have a chance to go to San Diego and LA/Anaheim/Disneyland again in May. I'll let you know if we book it!
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