September 10-13 2009 Trip Report - Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 (club33), Day 4 (last day)

[jenn&nelsonrego]

Where will we put the tips??

I have faith that you gentlemen will find a spot!

 

[kingLouiethe1]

I have faith that you gentlemen will find a spot!

 

[I<3EvilQueen]

Where will we put the tips??

In his leather harness or the leather arm band on his arm

 

[zeitzeuge]

After missing Magic Mornings the day before, we made sure we were in bed early so we could make it in time for the 7am opening. We arrived at 6:30am, like we were told and we found ourselves the only people on the plaza. The security person who showed up 15 minutes later told us they changed opening time to 9am, so MM wouldn't start until 8am. Nice.

This day is all about relaxing and soaking up as much of DL as we can before we left the following morning back to Dallas.

We were first in line of course and once they opened the gates, we let the small crowd literally run past us. We had already rode all of the dark rides in fantasyland and the rides in tomorrowland numerous times the past few days with little or no line, so we didn't care about using that hour to ride anything. Instead, we used that time to take some photo's of a nearly empty park. After about 15 minutes, mainstreet was almost a ghost town and so was the HUB. Great photo opportunities. By the time 9am rolled around, we decided to spend our last full day riding everything again. We like to spend as much time wandering around the park, riding our favorites one more time.

Even after full opening of the park, we were able to ride everything in Fantasy and Tomorrowland by noon. We decided to run over to DCA one last time, rode TOT and CS one more time, ate at the place by Soarin', then finished up MORE shopping, then headed back to DL. We rode Mark Twain, the train, monorail, Subs, POTC, Splash, Big Thunder, mixing it with shopping and some last photopass shots before getting our CD. We paid 59 for just a CD, no printouts with borders. Does that sound about right? I thought we got photo's included with that price last year. Who knows.

The girls wandered around some on their own, getting photo's with Princesses. We had no desire to stand in line for two hours with them, so we headed to Toontown for a while, which was nothing but a sea of screaming children for some reason. We didn't last long and headed out to IASW and rode it three times in a row. There were no lines, so we just stayed in the boat. Nothing like embedding that song in your head for the rest of the day!

We hadn't seen Celebrate! A Street Party, so after IASW we planted our butts near IASW, nibbled on a couple Churro's caught the parade. Actually, it wasn't as bad as I kept hearing. Sure, it's nothing NEAR the parades of before, but it didn't suck. I'll be glad when ELP comes back to DL next year, where it belongs. We missed not being able to see it this year.

After the parade, more mindless wandering, snacking, shopping. We spent quite a while buying more Christmas ornaments. We have an entire Disney tree/garland we put up every year so we have to continue with this buying addiction as well.

It was starting to get a little dark. The girls were getting tired and headed back to DTD for dinner. We joined them for Mexican food, then headed to the hotel to freshen up for a few minutes. We decided to take the Monorail back to the park, but when it showed up, it came in short on the loading dock, shut down and wouldn't move. They had to restart the monorail, which by the way takes forever. We made it just in time for Magical Fireworks one last time, but watched it from IASW which is really amazing! The show on IASW front is really cool and you're SO close to the fireworks. Then headed to NOS which is our favorite part of the park for the last few hours. We wandered around, rode POTC in a boat all by ourselves, then walked out just in time for Fantasmic! so we could get a few shots of Murphy the Dragon.

Always a sad point of our trip. We want the weekend to last forever, but know that it has to come to an end. We slowly walked through the park, through Mainstreet and out the front gates, without saying one word to one another.

We both know how each other feels. Hate seeing it come to an end. It's the only place where we both can act like kids again, leave all troubles behind and forget the world even exists for a few days.

Until next time.........


Few of our favorite photo's:

 

[OrlandoMike]

Your pics are amazing! And ya, leaving is always sad, but only one thing to do! Start planning the next trip!

I for one think its high time you planned a WDW trip!

 

[rpmdfw]

I for one think its high time you planned a WDW trip!

 

[zeitzeuge]

I know, we really do. Steven's not as excited about going as I am. He's such a DisneyLAND fan more then a Disneyworld. But he said he does want to go. Kind of depends on how the money situation is at the beginning of the year after owning this home for a few months.

 

[OrlandoMike]

Kind of depends on how the money situation is at the beginning of the year after owning this home for a few months.

Make's you kind of wish Home Depot had a rewards program!

 

[wallyb]

We need to go west young men!
I wana see Murphy ans the colored water show thingy

 

[OrlandoMike]

I'm ready now, but I dont think the Colored Water Show Thingy is open yet!

 

[TuckandStuiesMom]

AWESOME TRIPPIE!

 

[zeitzeuge]

I'm ready now, but I dont think the Colored Water Show Thingy is open yet!

Fantasmic of course is all updated and running. When October hits, 2-3 shows on the weekends. World of Color is slated for Spring 2010, but they don't specify anything more specific. That could mean March through June knowing them. They were suppose to have Paradise Pier lake filled middle of September, but it still has so much work to be done, last we saw it. Now we hear it being filled by November, early December to start running tests. I follow a guy on Disneygeek.com. He goes to DL every other weekend with pictorial updates of both parks, especially WDCA.

I'll keep you all updated. We all need to go at the same time!

 

[OrlandoMike]

We all need to go at the same time!

You name the date! I am in!

 

[zeitzeuge]

Steven's going to be in Orlando for work during April 27-30th. We're thinking of him staying and me flying up there for a 4-5 day WDW vacation after his work thing is over, IF we can find a decently priced hotel. Is that a decent time of year to go? This way we only have to pay for one flight. We're thinking our DL trip next year might be Gay Days for a change.

 

[Jeff90]

Hey Zeitzeuge!

Wow! I have just caught up!!! Now, we wanna go to CA....

Enjoyed the pics!!!! Glad you guys had fun!

 

[rpmdfw]

Steven's going to be in Orlando for work during April 27-30th. We're thinking of him staying and me flying up there for a 4-5 day WDW vacation after his work thing is over, IF we can find a decently priced hotel. Is that a decent time of year to go? This way we only have to pay for one flight. We're thinking our DL trip next year might be Gay Days for a change.

That's actually a really good time to come to WDW. It's after Spring Break, but before school lets out. The weather will be fairly nice, too. Getting a decently priced hotel also shouldn't be an issue. I want to say that the WDW value resorts run around $80 to $100 that time of year. And there's currently a listing on Orbitz.com for the Hotel Royal Plaza (downtown Disney area, with free shuttles to the parks) for $88 a night for that time frame. If you'll be renting a car, there will be even better deals for off property hotels, but you may end up with a better deal if you stay on Disney property without renting a car.

 

[zeitzeuge]

Hey Zeitzeuge!

Wow! I have just caught up!!! Now, we wanna go to CA....

Enjoyed the pics!!!! Glad you guys had fun!

Thanks! I can't believe we're already trying to plan our next trip!

That's actually a really good time to come to WDW. It's after Spring Break, but before school lets out. The weather will be fairly nice, too. Getting a decently priced hotel also shouldn't be an issue. I want to say that the WDW value resorts run around $80 to $100 that time of year. And there's currently a listing on Orbitz.com for the Hotel Royal Plaza (downtown Disney area, with free shuttles to the parks) for $88 a night for that time frame. If you'll be renting a car, there will be even better deals for off property hotels, but you may end up with a better deal if you stay on Disney property without renting a car.

Thanks for the advice. We'd probably take the shuttle from airport to hotel. A Disney value hotel would probably be our best bet. I'm a stickler about a cheap hotel since we are only there for about 6 hours a night to sleep and that's it.