September TR... UPDATED on July 11th, 2009--FINAL DAY POSTED.

All right… were back with Day 4. We have been extremely busy with work, the holidays, looking for a place to live and our newest little addition to our family, Stella Victoria. She’s only 4 months old… but an absolute joy.

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We left off on Day 3, which was a huge post. We’ll most likely start to make them smaller as I’m not sure if people are still even reading our PJ. Day 3 was amazing with beautiful weather. I fell in love with the Toy Story Mania ride, we both fully recommend Mama’s Melrose and absolutely adore the characters in the block party bash. I must admit I wasn’t a huge fan of Disney’s Hollywood Studies.. but I def. grew an appreciation for this park: not to mention at nighttime It’s beautiful.

DAY 4. (Just Me (Racheal here) Dbf, is too busy.. I’ll get him to write the next installment.

We always seem to get into a perfect routine in the mornings when in WDW. Dbf wakes up first, showers while I drag myself out of bed. We get ready; head over to the caf. at POP Century, eat and then we head out to the park. Although every morning we debate about whether or not to bring our re-fill able mugs, if yes, than dbf carries them around all day, if no, then we have to buy our drinks when we’ve already purchased the mugs.

We arrived at Magic Kingdom at 7:30am on Thursday, September 25th, 2008. The Fall/Halloween decorations were absolutely beautiful. I believe we’ve ONLY seen the Christmas Decorations.

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After seeing the Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween party sign.. I knew it was totally worth purchasing those tickets.. even IF dbf was a little hesistant. We headed over towards Tomorrow Land to ride Buzz light-years and Space Mountain. I was excited for Buzz light-years because this is where I beat Dbf by 200,000 points. WOO HOO for me. I really got into this ride, whereas last year it was the most boring ride I was forced to go on. Next we walked over to Frontier Land, we wanted to accomplish all of the big more popular rides and our favorites early in the morning. Everyone knows the lines are less busy and the park itself is less busy. We snapped a couple of pictures of the Castle on the way.

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Once we arrived in Frontier land, we went on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Splash Mountain.

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By this time it was, it was 8:50am. We had managed to do all three mountains and few extra’s in little less than an hour. We weren’t in a rush, just enjoying a beautiful morning. After the three mountains, we headed to Adventure Land and rode the Pirates of the Caribbean. Here's a photo of us waiting in line....

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Next we grab some Fast passes for the Jungle ride, and went over to one of Dbf favorite The Enchanted Tiki Room. It was so dead that morning, we were the first in line.

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By this time it was 9:40am and we needed a cold snack. It was so hot, I was sweating buckets. ON A SIDE NOTE: Sorry if this is t.m.i. but something I hadn’t anticipated was the fact that I had mostly packed skirts. Khaki and Jeans…skirts. I have never experienced chafing in my life until this trip.. my inner thighs hurt so much… so much so I had to purchase baby powder this day. Next trip.. I’ll mostly pack shorts or capris.

During this trip I had a couple of “Must do’s” in my head that I must do. One of which was to try the famous Dole Whip, pick a pearl etc, attend the food and wine festival. We walked over to Aloha Isle Refreshments and ordered. Ironically, Dbf ordered the Dole whip and I got a soft serve of Vanilla and Chocolate ice cream. I am NOT a fan of the Dole whip. It’s way to pineapple for me. We sat down in the sun, and enjoyed our cold refreshments.

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I'll leave you with that our fastpass time was up so we headed over to the Jungle Cruise. Did they let us on?

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Till next time....
 
Completely missed you pre-trip report and only just found this! Definitely signing on.

I can spot some things in common here! I turn 23 this year and my and my Dgf head out to WDW in September. It'll be our first time out there together and will celebrate our 7th anniversary there. Been together since I was 16. She is a year younger. Both Disney fanatics though... and although I am the male, unlike your Dbf....I have seen Beauty and the Beast! lol

Looking forward to more guys!
 
Completely missed you pre-trip report and only just found this! Definitely signing on.

I can spot some things in common here! I turn 23 this year and my and my Dgf head out to WDW in September. It'll be our first time out there together and will celebrate our 7th anniversary there. Been together since I was 16. She is a year younger. Both Disney fanatics though... and although I am the male, unlike your Dbf....I have seen Beauty and the Beast! lol

Looking forward to more guys!

Hey... Were glad your here!!! Are you and your dgf going this september? Where are you staying? Were going at the end of September for 9 days with Free Dining.. I AM SO EXCITED to be back home!!:cheer2:

Wow.. there are def. some things in common.. you two have been together for a long time.. that is really sweet. :goodvibes

You updated! :banana:
That ice cream and dole whip sure look amazing :hyper:

I UPDATED. :cheer2: pixiedust: I know.. its been a really long time... we've been so busy. Were moving in 18 days and still haven't packed a thing.. were house training a puppy and i'm starting to plan another WDW trip. MMMmmmMMMM..... The ice cream and dole whip were delicious...isn't hte dole whip your fav.? hows your moving coming along, 1 week left?
 

Hey... Were glad your here!!! Are you and your dgf going this september? Where are you staying? Were going at the end of September for 9 days with Free Dining.. I AM SO EXCITED to be back home!!:cheer2:

Wow.. there are def. some things in common.. you two have been together for a long time.. that is really sweet. :goodvibes


We're going September 2nd and will be there for 2 weeks. Staying off-site, but have a 14day unlimited hopper pass.
 
Hey I loved your post. Can't wait to see more! ::MickeyMo

Thanks!!! Welcome..


O.T. UPDATE::goodvibes

I'm in the middle of uploading some photos for our next installement... in the mean time I wanted to share that we are going to see DISNEY ON ICE: 100 Years of Magic. It was a Valentine's Day gift from Dbf.. :cloud9: :love: I"M SO EXCITED. :banana:

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Continue DAY 4

We’re back… Hello out there.. I do hope we STILL have some lurkers out there :S if not, then thanks to the ones who have and continue to read our TR!!! We left with our fastpass time up, and we were headed on the Jungle Cruise. We lost a bunch of photos, but here are some of the photos I can still find for the Jungle Cruise.

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I was much more disappointed this year by the Jungle Cruise. I think I realized this time around that the ride experience depends almost completely on your “guide” and their delivery and quips inserted. I found the guide on our first trip a few years ago to be hilarious with dry, self-depricating humour. This time around it felt like a forced delivery. So if your experience wasn’t great, give it another chance with another host.

By this time it was 10:28am, we had done most of the ‘popular rides’, it was hot and I needed a nap. I def. was not in a good mood this day… I just was not feeling the Disney magic at all. I felt like dbf was not appreciating our Disney trip and that hurt my feelings, I was tired and … did I mention it was HOT. I think another issue was the whole “Year of a Million Dreams” . I remember we kept seeing people wearing the Mouse ears (meaning that the Dream Team had given them something) but we never saw the team. You kept figuring you’d see them around the next corner and were more and more frustrated when they never turned up. We headed back to the hotel…

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where I was able to nap and Dbf watched the family channel… (which we still watch to this day: love it) Yeah, I don’t think I EVER, even as a child, watched the Disney Channel. It’s odd how addictive some of those shows become when they’re all that’s available and you’re too exhausted to leave the hotel room for a while. We ate lunch and headed back to MK for 2:00pm.

On our way in we ran into this little guy:

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and took some more photos of the castle.

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Our first ride in the afternoon was Mickey’s Philamagic, one of dbf favs. It is a GREAT ride to do midday when you’re hot and tired. There’s always plenty of room, the wait has always been short in our experience, it’s Air-conditioned and the 3D show is phenomenal (the apple pie gets me every time).

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Next were the race cars….We decided to ride together on this one.. partly because I just wanted to sit in the passenger sit and soak up the Magic Kingdom as I was having such an off day… but it didn’t work that great.. but I took a tons of photos of really nothing.:lmao:


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After the racecars, we made our way over to the Comedy show. It was def. Hilarious…. But I’m so glad I was not selected to participate. I would have been soo embarrassed. My favourite part was that the guy who shoved his way past me to get into the auditorium faster ended up being the butt of the first dozen jokes!

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We did the people mover next…


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grabbed some cold ice cream... found a table and sat down to eat them.:cool2: The Ice cream was delicious… sorry I didn’t take any photos.. it was melting really fast. After our ice cream, I think we were both pretty much done with Magic Kingdom.. yep NO PARADES or even WISHES. Dbf promised we’d make it to MK one more evening… so I could catch wishes and the spectromagic parade. Spectromagic was one of the activites on my must do list. Dbf purchased a balloon for me... I wanted one so bad.. I also got to hold ALL the balloons.. which are actually pretty heavy. I picked a purple one for $10

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and off we were back to the Hotel for a relaxing evening. I remember you were obsessed with those balloons from the moment you first saw them on Day 1! I remember you had a really tough time accepting that it had to be broken down before our flight home. Sadly we were back into the room by 5:25pm but after all, we had a big day tomorrow. It was Friday… the first day official day of the International Food and Wine Festival; we had our “Aqua Seas tour” (which dbf thought was going to be a BIG waste of time and money). NEXT UP EPCOT.
 
More posts please! When are you going in SEPT? My DF and I will be on our disneymoon at that time for Free Dining.:cool1:
 
:wave2: Hi, you have done a great job so far with this TR.

I read everything from your plans, getting ready up to now.
I hope you decide to finish the trip. I'd love to hear all about it.

It's so neat that you and DBF add comments together.

Are you still going this September?

i'm happy to meet someone who lives in Ottawa. Cheers! :goodvibes
 
More posts please! When are you going in SEPT? My DF and I will be on our disneymoon at that time for Free Dining.:cool1:

I'm going to post this weekend hopefully.. we've been so busy. Were suppost to be in Disney from Sept 22- until the 29th -- however we may have to cancel the trip... for AUSTRALIA. : ) We'll see.

:wave2: Hi, you have done a great job so far with this TR.

I read everything from your plans, getting ready up to now.
I hope you decide to finish the trip. I'd love to hear all about it.

It's so neat that you and DBF add comments together.

Are you still going this September?

i'm happy to meet someone who lives in Ottawa. Cheers! :goodvibes

Thank you. It's hard to continue when i feel like nobody is reading. I'll try to add an installement this weekend... I have family coming up to visit for the next 10 days.

We still have our reservation- however we may have to cancel. Like i said above... we may be cancelling so we can save up some $$ to travel to Australia for 2 weeks..:goodvibes We'll see tho.

It's nice to mee you... especially someone who's in Ottawa. :hug:
 
I'm still reading. :banana:

Australia for two weeks sounds incredible. I don't blame you one bit for cancelling your trip in September to save up for that.

Hope you guys and Stella are doing well :goodvibes
 
hey i'm still reading! i'm still reading! :) don't stop updating. I'm sorry I haven't posted anything LOL I usually have enough time to hop on real quick, read and then get off! i haven't even updated mine! LOL But i love reading your TR!

WOW Australia?!?!?! uhhh, I love disney but would prob say heck yeah to Australia!!!!!! omg!!! :thumbsup2

hope your move went well!!

Your new addition is just precious! she's beautiful!! :) Love!
 
I'm still reading. :banana:

Australia for two weeks sounds incredible. I don't blame you one bit for cancelling your trip in September to save up for that.

Hope you guys and Stella are doing well :goodvibes

Ohh.. Phewww.. it's so nice to know some people are still here. Just typing up an installement now.. it should be posted by tomorrow night!!

Were doing really well.. thanks for asking. Were actually going (with my cousin) bungee jumping and rip glide'ing this saturday!!! I'm so nervous.

hey i'm still reading! i'm still reading! :) don't stop updating. I'm sorry I haven't posted anything LOL I usually have enough time to hop on real quick, read and then get off! i haven't even updated mine! LOL But i love reading your TR!

WOW Australia?!?!?! uhhh, I love disney but would prob say heck yeah to Australia!!!!!! omg!!! :thumbsup2

hope your move went well!!

Your new addition is just precious! she's beautiful!! :) Love!

Thats okay. It's really nice to hear your still here and reading along... I keep reading your TR- Love it.

Were still working out the details to Australia.. unfortunetely we're having some technical difficulties.. so maybe Disney is still in the running for this September.. i'll explain in my post.

Thanks.. she is absolutely beautiful.
 
Ohh.. Phewww.. it's so nice to know some people are still here. Just typing up an installement now.. it should be posted by tomorrow night!!

Were doing really well.. thanks for asking. Were actually going (with my cousin) bungee jumping and rip glide'ing this saturday!!! I'm so nervous.

Oh yeah, we're still here!

Bungee jumping! :eek: Part of me (the crazy part) wants to go bungee jumping SO badly, but the other part of me (the sane, rational side) is nervous about even thinking of trying it. Have lots of fun and let me know how it is! :goodvibes
 
Australia sounds wonderful, even if it means no Disney! :goodvibes

I will look back later to see if you update.

Bungee jumping, you are so brave. I could never do that! :scared1:
 
O.T. POST:

Just wanted to pop in and apologize for not making a post. We just found out my grand-mother, who is like a mother to me... has lymphoma Cancer. We are just waiting to find out what stage she is in and if it has spread throughout her body. :mad::sad1: Please keep us in your prayers.

BJ was amazing.. i guess i can post couple of photos. We were the first jumpers of the season and it was a cold, saturday morning. We had to cancelling our free-dining and our trip to australia this year.. for obvious reasons... but their will ALWAYS be next year.


I will post the begining of our next day this evening when i get home. Thanks for hanging in there with us... :goodvibes
 
O.T. POST:

Just wanted to pop in and apologize for not making a post. We just found out my grand-mother, who is like a mother to me... has lymphoma Cancer. We are just waiting to find out what stage she is in and if it has spread throughout her body. :mad::sad1: Please keep us in your prayers.

BJ was amazing.. i guess i can post couple of photos. We were the first jumpers of the season and it was a cold, saturday morning. We had to cancelling our free-dining and our trip to australia this year.. for obvious reasons... but their will ALWAYS be next year.


I will post the begining of our next day this evening when i get home. Thanks for hanging in there with us... :goodvibes

Oh Rachael, I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. I can't even begin to imagine how hard that must be. You, your family and most of all your grandma are in my thoughts and prayers :grouphug::hug:

You should post some pictures, I'd love to see them!
 
Very sorry to hear about your grandmother. Sending lots of pixiedust: for a good diagnosis.

Can't wait for more TR!
 












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