Seizures, Storms and Surprises, May 09'-UPDATE 7/22

[Disney4nonah]

Day 2 - MK - Part 3​

I worked on part 3 yesterday here at work, it was long, went to post, and LOST my whole post while re-logging in... so here it goes again....I'll copy my post before I try to submit this time.... UG I was so mad...

Quick note i'll post the rest of the pics for today when I get home and edit my post, forgot my pics at home and didn't save them all to photobucket.

ONTO the report.

When I left you we had just finished up with the photopass person on the trial in front of Crystal Palace.
us...did I already post this??? oh well...

Me with my open mouth...UG

Tink made an appearance...

We then walked over to the Tiki Room got in for the next show pretty quickly, great timing....becasue we had the wheelchair we got a good spot right next to the exit. I have to say I personally like the old Tiki Show, they did 30 seconds of my Tiki song.. WAHHHH it was my favorite. Oh well, i'm still glad we went. We left and headed back over to Fantasyland to use our PP FP's. Got over there walked up to wheelchair entrance and gave her our FP's. We waited while some people got off. The people ahead of us had a screaming 10 or 11 yr old, thinking back maybe he had ADD or ADHD, but he was screaming and kicking and at the point he was being dragged onto PP he was and stiff as a plank board, the boy did not want to go on there. HELP ME!!! NO!!! I SAID I DIDN'T WANT TO GO ON THIS!....the MOM was telling the CM "He's going on this" the CM didn't say a thing but they did have to stop the ride for them to get on....NOW we know why it's so crowded... The CM walking back to us while they were really nice to the family, were shaking their heads to us, LIke OMG.... it was pretty funny...PP is my favorite ride, I've ridden with both grandparants and my Dad now they are all gone so it's a special ride for me....Them holding me and pointing to all the things i could look at. Well it was ruined by that kid screaming in the dark, HELP ME! LET ME GO!! STOP IT! STOP THE RIDE! I WANT TO GET OFF! OH goodness, DH was laughing like crazy telling what a good story this will be for his best friends. He shut up near the end and we could enjoy it. As we got off and walked out he was in the alcove of the exit hysterically crying on the ground with both parents trying to calm him down. Anyway...whatever... We turned and went over to Small World, again i got teary as it's my grandmas favorite ride and she's been dead 6 months so you know it was hard. I looked over the boys both were dozign the whole ride. haha After that we went to go eat, at Pecos Bill, the boys got Cheesburgers, i got a Bucket of Meat (taco Salad) it was ok, it looks just like that too until you go to the fixins' bar and well fix it up. It made me not hungry anymore which was good. The seating was crowded and we went right at 11:15ish... We talked about how much we had gotten done, and made plans of what to do next. Left went to SM to get FP's as line for 50 mins long. As we left there the Train conductor asked if we wanted to ride the train? WE said, WHY YES WE DO WANT TO... So he led us to the wheelchair entrance and we waited for the train, there were lots of lizards to watch scurrying along the tracks... The train only took about 7 mins to get to us, we loaded up and rode over to ToonTown and got off and took the nice uncrowded walkway behind the speedway to Tomorrowland. We took a quick bathroom break and I went over to see about Carousel of Progress, it only had one CM there and so i knew the ride must be down. He said yes it was down should be up later. So we went to SGE, it was Ok, i actually liked alien adventure better..and that Burp was Gross..ick! We got off that and went to Buzz, we stood in our longest line of the day 30 mins SHOCK AND AWE!! My brother was very droopy looking...we discussed leavign and coming back...but just then a CM walked down the line saying that MK was going to stay open an extra 2hrs. tonight! YAY US.... We decided to stay for Buzz and leave and come back...Buzz was fun but it was hard to hit the targets. We got off and headed out that was 1:30pm. Along with everyone else who found out it was open late, went back to the resort and we all fell asleep so fast in our sub zero room, we had to turn down the air conditioner lest we freeze.... haha. A nice storm raged outside and made it even easier to sleep.
Woke up at 3:30pm, jumped in and out of shower and got ready to go to dinner OFFSITE
Left on our way to Manny's Chophouse which got rave reviews from some Disers on the Budget board, now it's in Haines City about 20 miles away but I knew we wouldn't be disappointed. It was delicious and the rain carried on while we were in there that was wonderful... The steak was huge and so well flavored and we got out of there at $50 without tip...wowo, our cheapest dinner to date... haha
Our plan was to go directly back to MK and get everythign else done and watch Wishes. We got back into the park at 7pm and it had just got done raining...went over to SM and it was closed because of lightning. So we went and were Forced to ride BTMRR which was great. then it started raining. and BTMRR closed so we coulnd't go on it again. Went into the Brier patch gift shop and looked around along with all the others, one of our $1 ponchos ripped. And DH said just buy the Disney ones, which I did, Best money we spent, they worked well... SM and BTMRR were still closed so we decided to walk slowly to fantasyland hit whatever we could and then we'd be in tthe vicinity for Wishes. PP was back at 70 mins so that was out, wasnt' going to make the boys go on SW again. Decided to hit Snow White, it was fun, I was so scared of it when i was little. Then we did Philharmagic, OH Man this is our new #1 favorite, Wonderful...DH loved it... decided to go get a Wishes spot and did in the round in front of the castle. DB had to go potty of course 5 mins before it started. So i had to run him over to the noodle place he was fast though and we made it back with a minute to spare. WISHES was wonderful.
This little Portugese girl in a MInnie outfit screamed and cried the whole show though and kept saying what sounded like "Cannon" it was very funny and DH had to get a small recording of it, She did not enjoy the fireworksm that was behind us.

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To our left was a Australian family that had wandered over and their son had no poncho but everyone else had a Disney one and he whined and whined and cried "I'm cold" that he wanted a poncho. Come to find out when his mom was int he bathroom he took his slightly ripped poncho off and thrown it away and Mom was not going to buy another. He hung on her and whined it was disturbing and she looked like it was the last straw for her. So after he had detached(and moved away) after Wishes, i walked over and asked if she would like one of our $1 Ponchos for him as we had upgraded. She was so appreciative she gave me a hug and said that would be wonderful because she wanted to do a few more things and they would of had to leave. I said anything to make her night a little more magical...Gave her the poncho, we waited for people to leave..Glanced around and they were a little down the street that MOM smacked her son on the bottom, pulled him around to talk to him, and then started putting the Poncho on him. Way to go MOM! So yay we spread Magic too...
We headed over the bridge back to tomorowland and Went to Monsters Laugh Floor, Oh man we laughed and laughed, it was great! After that went back to Carousel of Progress which was now open and us and 6 others got on our ride back in time! by the end we were all singing that song it was so fun! After that we went back over to Frontierland to go on SM and BTMRR.
YAY they were open and both walk on's.... SM was awesome and it was DH's first time so it was funny to trick him that every fall was the big one! Yeah he didnt' appreciate that. When it came time for the big fall I was so scared I forgot how much i don't like it...until it's over...LOL DH and DB loved it of course. Got off and had to get a copy of the pic becasue DB looks like a poster child for that ride, like he should be on commercial, it's very cute.

and he got a Splash Mountain T-shirt. We went over to BTMRR and rode again, wonderful and we love it at night, so differnent. We had the last two rides on BTMRR of the night! THAT'S RIGHT we closed MK. the CM said we could leave the wheelchair at the ride and they would take it back. So we did that and DB walked out. We got some great pictures from the photopass girl in front of the castle, it was great! You'll see we're all wet from SM...

We then walked very slowly out!!! it was a great night, Drove out and back at the resort, we got in bed and were all out in a matter of minutes. NeXT up EPCOT, Teppan Edo...Do we stay seizure free? STAY TUNED....

 

[crocko]

Wow -- sounds like a great day!

Glad you liked Philharmagic and Monster's Inc Laugh Floor.
I did both for the first time in December and thought they were outstanding. Laugh Floor vaulted to being one of my favorite attractions in the "World"

 

[Disney4nonah]

I absolutely love the photopass pictures. You guys can strike a mean pose.

Thanks, they are much better then i thought. It was fun

Great updates . Your photo pass pictures are so good.

Thanks, we tried...DH hates all his pictures, whatever he's a cutie

Following along.....enjoying the report so far!

Welcome and thanks for joining! Hope to have more pics up tonight!

Hip Hip Hooray! You're going back to WDW! Nothing can cure the post trip blues like planning another trip!

OH Man, my mood has improved so much. I'm presenting places to DH and showing him food pics. He so wants to do the O'hana breakfast and now Dinner now that he's since dinner pics! YAY me! See it's all about how you work them(husbands)LOL!

Wow -- sounds like a great day!
Glad you liked Philharmagic and Monster's Inc Laugh Floor.
I did both for the first time in December and thought they were outstanding. Laugh Floor vaulted to being one of my favorite attractions in the "World"

We LOVED them, and one of the joke in Monsters was a running joke the rest of the trip! When i see someone thinking Monsters was just ok, i don't get it. haha Philharmagic it's just all around good. Thanks for sticking with me, it's tougher then i thought to get these postings done... haha

 

[defendthehill]

A very nice report. Loved the PhotoPass pics and Splash Mountain!

 

[Nuwanda9]

Just popping into say your Splash Mountain picture is great!! Your brother looks like he is having a fun time!!

 

[Disney4nonah]

A very nice report. Loved the PhotoPass pics and Splash Mountain!

Thank you, yeah they didn't turn out too bad.

Just popping into say your Splash Mountain picture is great!! Your brother looks like he is having a fun time!!

Oh Goodness, we I laugh everytime i see that picture. He loved Splash!

Going to write up day three now. WOOHOO!

 

[Disney4nonah]

Day 3 - Epcot - Part 1​

I will post pics as soon as I get home from work. Doing both at work just isn't working, haha

Wow we were tired on Wednesday but we had things to do! We all agree it felt like today was the hottest day but it could've just been us. We got to EPCOT and missed rope drop but only by like 30mins. We got in made a beeline to get the wheelchair and went on over to Soarin to get FP's. I heard it's all uphill and didnt want to push the wheelchair in so, i just sent in DH. I thnk DB was made at me for getting the wheelchair again but I ignore him, so he's not good company while we wait for 15mins for DH to get back with FP's, he said thre were lines for FP's in there and he got in the line that didn't move, poor guy. We just stood in the shade and people watched, it was kinda nice. Our passes were for noon and it was only 9:30 so not too bad. We went on over to the SEA for a little Nemo and Friends action, after a nice walk thru the air condition non-exsistent line we loaded into our clam shells. While not a blow your mind away ride, it was cute, i'd do it again... we de-clammed and walked out to await Turtle Talk w/Crush. OMG this was hilarious. The little kid interaction with Crush was too funny. Will do this again too because each time would be different (kid interaction). We left there, didn't go to the tanks because It looked crowded, I walked thru the gift shop to see if they had any Pearl(small octopus character) and didnt' see her. Got tired of waiting for our turn in front of the Attaction sign out front so no good pic there. We walked thru the walkway and you could see the line for the character greeting but we didnt' stop. I wanted to get DB a FP for the Kim Possible missions. WE got it a FP to pick up our communicator in Italy which was perfect. Now it was time for Test Track! woohoo!, we went over and Standby was 40 min wait, so we decided to hope in the single rider line since i remember from some Diser's posting you are often times in the same car. it was a nice 15 min wait. We got into the pre-show and we're used to the "Disney Way" you stand for the little pre-show as the excitement builds and then you move to the ride. Well you can just walk thru the show and that's what everyone did, so finally we decided too to....what rebels we are.
Got in line and wited less then 5 mins to get our car. DB and I were in the first and DH was in the one behind. MY thoughts? it was an OK ride, and upon more reflection, i think it's because I kinda got motion sick, just like i would in a car. The outside track ride was spectacular but again got a little ill. So to me it was an OK ride. We unloaded and waited for DH, so we missed our pics, or they were just changing when DH got off because we waited for him. Dang it, we should have waited down in by the ride pics... oh well, He did not want his pic so I didn't photopass it. He thought it was just ok as well. We still had time before our FP for Soarin so we decided to go over to Spaceship Earth, it said it was a 20min wait so we jumped in line. I realized I hadn't been taking that many pics so I took some pics while we waited. The boys were thrilled. haha

A shot of the day's footwear...DH yelling now in the backround "Real Men Wear Crocs"!! LOL

DH not so happy with all the pic taking...And OH, DH would like to give a shout out to the Brave man wearing his daughters Pink Princess backpack...DH says that man is secure with his manhood...LOL

We were on it 17mins woohoo! We got in our vehicle and got to do all that fun stuff on the touchscreen...and began our journey..Love it in there so slow and peaceful...Toward the end we got to help create our future, complete with my silly face I made..DH loved his Stick body and felt he could be very happy with it... DB was behind us so i don't know what his furture was, he was still being moody. Got off and briefly wandered around the exit before moving on. It was time for Soarin! made the trek back over there and stood in about a 15 mins line to get on, We were unfortunetly in Row 3 the lowest one, so we saw everyone's feet. I was so nervous, i hate not knowing what a ride is going to do. Wow it was so fun and not a shock to the nerves, I liked it. DH thought it was OK he said next time we'd stand around and wait for Row 1 - Woohoo, wouldn't you know it we're going back in Jan 2010 so we'll be able to do that. We exited our Flight thru Cali and walked on over to The Land ride, again it was about a 15 min wait in standby. The first part kinda hokey but the greehouses those were great! we loved it...DH really like it. DB he thought it was boring but he's moody...so we didnt' care.

It was 12:30 and we had a 3:15pm ressie at Teppan Edo, our one big splurge of the vacation as far as meals go. So we headed on out to the World Showcase....we stopped for some nice pics, loved the flowers and the garden areas they were beautiful.
We walked into Mexico, we didnt' stop we were headed to Norway and onto Italy to get the Kim Possible. But it's ok we'll stop on our next trip. Walked to Norway and it started to rain, how cool...just in time to run into Maelstrom. I like Maelstrom, we all liked it... we even stopped and watched the film at the end because we could sit down. haha..
We didnt' stop in China - I know what loosers...and i don't really get that area the "outpost" between China and Germany? Did they run out of countries? In Germany the only thing I did was stop and cancel my ressie at Biergarten I was on the phone with reservations for 20 mins when my phone died so i was kinda in a rush to get over there and to cancel in time for them to be able to get someone else in.

OOPs, have to get back to this later, I have to get something here at work done before lunch. BRB..

 

[mickeystoontown]

Great little update. Darn those things at work that have to be done. I get that a lot too!

Can't wait to see the pictures and read more.

 

[dd50]

Sounds like you are having a great time.

 

[Disney4nonah]

Day 3 - Epcot - Part 2​

-Just a note - I've tried adding pics today and either the photobucket site is having problems or something else is wrong, I can't get all of the added. I'll try at work.

Also work has gotten much busier so I'm getting no time to stop and do a TR update, so I apologize. OK, continuing on...

We left Germany and trudged to Italy to pick up DB's Kim Possible communicator. I asked him to pick it up and take with us to Japan, since we were going to hang out and look at everything as well as have lunch. He did a couple mission as we hung around outside in Japan, then one took him somewhere I dont know where because he walked away and I lost him. He was gone for about 15mins and I was getting scared, what if he was somewhere having a seizure, yadda yadda...He wandered back 15 mins later and told me to chill out..."Chill out" exact words...whatever. We wander back inside he does the I think final mission in the big store (sorry can't remember name off top of my head) then he found a place to return the communicator, it was a cute little secret deposit rocklike lantern, it was out of the way and drew no attention, I can only think it's like that so no one try's to break in and steal any. Anyway he had fun and got to do the whole one mission. DH had taken the camera to get shots of the Samurai in the Gatehouse of the Castle in Japan, he LOVES Japanese anything... We sat on a bench and rested, boy I was tired. We went into the store for a slow browse, bought some very nice chopsticks as both DH and I use them alot to put up our hair while mowing lawn, other stuff...And I bought some neat fruit candy.
It was time for our Reservation so we walked up the stairs to the second floor above the gift shop and Entered. I didnt' know that upstairs housed both Teppan Edo and Tokyo Dining which is mainly sushi. The cute little hostess gave us a beeper and we sat in the sitting area to wait to be seated. Across is the seating for Tokyo Dining and they had just started a little tutorial on how they made sushi there, it was on a big screen that you could watch and see how theyworked. It was some kinda of squid roll, I wasn't paying attention to DB, he was annoying my anyhow. But I glanced over and he's watching them on the screen and leans over and says I don't see one thing here I want to eat. He doesn't eat seafood, actually neither do I. But he looked like terrible...LOL it was so funny. So i had to assure him we were going to the other side where they served chicken and steak. He said he'd believe it when he saw it.
Our beeper when off we walked to be seated with a nice looking family. They were quiet, you could tell they didn't want to talk so we didn't. I did tell my DB not to crowd the grandmother that was next to him and she spoke up and said he was fine so they were nice. We did actually laugh together over a couple cute things their kids said...but never really bonded. OH well, our chef came and DB was so happy he could have steak and chicken, which is what all the adults at our table had, our chef made fun of us. It was a great time and the food was good and with very little seasoning, it was just cooked well. I only got one shot of the table. This was our most expensive meal $107 before tip, but it was worth it, I'd go back.
We left and I believe it got hotter while we were in there, we walked to Morocco and decided we were tired, so we hopped on the boat that took us back to the entrance to the world showcase. We were tired. We exited the park after we got some photopass pictures. Again i'll post those as soon as Photobucket lets me.
In the car we discussed that next trip we do world showcase first becuase we skipped so much. So that's the plan for Jan 2010, we are going to Epcot first! It deserves to be explored not deplored by this family, i feel we judge it by all the walking.
Let's see we went back to the room and instead of taking a nap we changed and went swimming. Oh My, nothing has ever felt better, when you are tired and hot it's just the ticket. We swam for about 35mins and headed to the hot tub which at POFQ is so cute it's in a little bricked alcove nice and secluded. We sat in there only about 10 mins because it was hot...headed back to the room and WE NAPPED... we didn't eat dinner, per se because we were stuffed from our 3:15pm late lunch. We woke up late we wanted to go to the Swan for Karaoke at Kimonos Lounge. I thought it was at 8:00pm but UH Oh, it was at 9:30pm, my bad. So we had to go to the trendy lounge attached to Il Mulino New York Trattoria we had some excellent drinks and ordered one of there small pizzas to split, see we were just trying to kill time. Again perfect timing as it started to pour outside and we had a birdeye view of people running for cover. We had successfully dodge another downpour bullet! YAY US...
Finally it was 9:15pm and we thought it was safe to wander the way of Kimonos for a little Karaoke.
It was quite trendy itself, has vintage kimonos hanging up, very nice in there. The KJ(Karaoke Jockey) had just passed out books so we sat and took a look. There was a boy that came in with his mom and you could tell this is what he wanted to do. I don't blame him we Karaoke a couple time a week at home, DH sings everynight. We each were able to get in a couple of songs and it was nice kids could sing too, that one boy sang three times and he was good. We were sitting in front of him so we all talked and he sings all the time at home. We had a great time but we were still tired and we had to get up for our 8:40am O'hana breakfast...So we headed out to go back to the room at about 11pm. YAWN.....
-DB had no seizures today at all and seemed ok if a little moody... I thought we were going to luck out!
-DH said his favorite part of Epcot is Spaceship earth. For that and the fact it was super hot that day i have to take him back. He has to love Epcot.....like I love Epcot..WAHHH....
-next up O'hana and our Universal Thursday
Thanks for sticking with me everyone

 

[crocko]

Fun! Sounds like they've added some fun end-of-the-ride stuff to Spaceship Earth since I was last on it (7 years ago...)

As I get older, I'm starting to love EPCOT more and more...glad you'll get to go back soon

 

[mickeystoontown]

Great update even if it didn't include pictures. I'm a little worried.....you said your brother was moody all day. That's not good for a person with epilepsy. Hope you made it through the rest of the evening seizure free.

 

[Disney4nonah]

Fun! Sounds like they've added some fun end-of-the-ride stuff to Spaceship Earth since I was last on it (7 years ago...)

As I get older, I'm starting to love EPCOT more and more...glad you'll get to go back soon

They did all this building your future stuff! it's great...Me too I'm having withdrawls.

Great update even if it didn't include pictures. I'm a little worried.....you said your brother was moody all day. That's not good for a person with epilepsy. Hope you made it through the rest of the evening seizure free.

I know i know, i couldn't get it to work and was working on it at work and pushed save a little to fast and then couldn't get back to it. Stupid Photobucket, it's either slow or down.... Getting to the pics now....you are very patient! haha

 

[Disney4nonah]

Since my last post was picture lacking, here's all the pictures for epcot together...

I didnt' get pics of everything, I love these and the playground they surrounded, which they closed because it was going to rain...

 

[Disney4nonah]

DB in Mexico

The only pics I got in Teppan Edo, mostly because i got stares with the flash...

I just have to say, this is one of the TWO drinks I consumed the whole trip because it was too hot....that's just crazy for me on vacation, let me tell you... LOL

 

[Disney4nonah]

Pretty much after lunch we were hot and now stuffed and tired. So we headed back to the our room for some pool time and a little nap.
And her are all the photopass pics in one spot. We got these on the way out, no line, very nice!

OH OH, I basically call them the Squinty Eye Family Photos....look at that sheen of sweat on me...HOT I tell you HOT!!

 

[Disney4nonah]

Hi, Sorry i haven't been able to update. Work has been crazy working a lot. I hope to have something up this weekend. Hope to read a lot more too, I haven't been doing anything. See you soon!

 

[mickeystoontown]

Hi, Sorry i haven't been able to update. Work has been crazy working a lot. I hope to have something up this weekend. Hope to read a lot more too, I haven't been doing anything. See you soon!

Hey girl! I've been wondering where you were. Glad to hear it was just work and nothing medically wrong with anybody. I look forward to reading an update.

Lisa

 

[Disney4nonah]

HI, again I apologize, we've been reducing people and i"ve had to do mandatory travel, with a laptop but little to only sporadic internet connection. Getting tired, seeing the midwest though... HOpe to get back to this soon...like in an airport on something like my hundreth layover...*sigh*

 

[mousebymarriage]

Love your trip report and pics, can't wait to hear more.

*My brother also has epilepsy and I completely understand how you felt when your DB disappeared while doing the KM mission. When my brother wanders away (and he does this often and without thinking about it) I worry that he may be having a seizure somewhere and no one is there to help him. He has broken his nose a couple of times when falling while alone having a seizure and when he comes out of the seizure he tends to be a little confused so I worry that he won't know where he is.