, shocking I know. Wil Ferrell is just hilarious! It is so great reading this report!!
Thanks for reading! I think I need glasses so I made it easy on myself as well! Glad you like it! More WDW pics will be coming as soon as I get them scanned in. Luckily the Disneyland ones are on the computer! Thank goodness for digital camerasThat's totally crazy! It boggles my mind how big Texas is. I'm from Connecticut, where you drive 2 hours in any direction and you're in another state (or the ocean...depending on what direction you went in!)
Oh I know! I have a good friend from Texas and I remember calling her and saying I was in her state and wanted to stop by. She said I was still a days drive from her house!
I didn't have a car when I was a CP either! I just made sure to make friends with people who did
Where was Cici's pizza? At the Crossroads Center where Goodings was? Shoot is it still called that? I think it was Uno's at the time I was there if it was the same place.
What about Crystal Palace? I'm not big into character meals myself but everyone seems to love that place. Different characters than Chef Mickey's too.
My kids do not like Pooh.
OK I have to ask....WHAT is the Cool Dude?? Is there an age limit? I would love to make my boyfriend do this
Onetreehill can probably answer better than I can as she is the resident expert! We've never been but i dont think there is an age limit as I've seen pictures of grown men and women doing it. I thought about doing it myself and might still see if there is an opening. With Cool Dude you get colored gel in your air and a colored mickey head with gel in the back. I think some of the styles are mohawks or mickey confetti in spiked up hair.
Here is a link to her thread. Its awesome! Props Girl! http://http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1893384
My cousin and I went parasailing on our Disney cruise! It was awesome. Definitely do it! I didn't even know you could do this at WDW.
Subbing in! This sounds like a fun TR!
I love that you met your husband in the WDW College Program!
The old pics are great and your kids are adorable! Can't wait for more!
Thanks and Welcome! I'll get more old pics up soon. Gotta dig them out.
Whew! I finally made it to the end!
This is a pre-trip report? Holy cannoli, these WDW TRs are loooooong!
Seeing as how I dread flying with DS4 (especially since the "Mayday! Mayday! We're going down!" incident of Feb. 2008), I think it will be at least a few more years before my family braves a 6-hour flight... or is it even longer to Orlando?
I appreciate your willingness to "take one for the team" so that my family can live vicariously through yours. Thanks, Shawna.
Shoot, this is not a sacrifice this is a DREAM COME TRUE LADY! Seriously Alex, some of these awesome pre-trippies are like 200 pages long. Very fun to read. WDW is so much bigger than DL! 
Hey isn't that part of the joy of having children...that you get to embarrass them? It's my main parenting game plan.
The Cape May Cafe for breakfast is a good character meal - the tablecloths are paper so the kids can draw on them. When we went it was Goofy, Minnie, Chip'n'Dale. We also really like Garden Grill, it seemed a bit less hectic than other character meals - Mickey, Pluto and Chip'n'Dale when we were there. Don't know how often they rotate the characters.
Hope this helps.
Keep posting!
Di x
I'm glad I'm not the only one with a boy who has severe issues with food. I have a feeling once the teenage years hit they will eat more than the average to make up for it though! thanks for coming over! It really was a magical meeting. My own fairy tale. He has been a prince and an ogre over the years but I wouldn't trade him in for anything! Hey Shawna!!
Isn't there a Princess and Pirate Party that you, the kids and Jeff could go to?
I was watching "On Demand" the other day on Comcast, and the making of this event was on the line-up. It looks like fun
I'm thinking that I need to watch Talladega Nights and the Wedding Crashers, so I can catch some of your humor.
The Pirate and Princess Party are held during other times of the year. During Sept and Oct its the Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party (MNSSHP) and we are set for that. I'm so excited. I've heard its AWESOME! Keep it coming!! Before I stab you in the eyeball.
You're pregant with twins so you are forgiven for the outburst! Okay...I took some pics for Jeff today. I'll put them in my TR since there's a ton of 'em. I don't want to add 40 pictures of Palm Trees to your trippie. People will think I'm goofy enough putting them on mine.
Thanks! And feel free to post any pictures over here you want! We are all friends! Our favourite Will Ferrell film has to be Anchorman - hysterical! DH saw it on the plane on our trip back from Orlando 2004. He was hysterical with laughter - the flight attendants were looking at him funny. I swear at one point they thought about sedating him...he was almost falling out his chair laughing so much!
He now has 2 copies of the film, has got a quote from it etched on his i-pod, and quotes from it routinely. Sad thing is I can quote him back as well!
We all watched Elf at Christmas - funny funny funny!
I went a week later and laughed my rear off. Every time I watch it now I catch something new. Great one liners in that. We love Zoolander and Elf!!! "We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup."
When Buddy thought that writer was an elf, I was cracking up, I still crack up every time I see it.
hope this doesn't get me thrown off the thread, but I have never seen Anchorman
arty: She is having a party at her dance studio with a Cheetah Grils One World movie theme. Since the movie is set in India and there is a lot of hip hop and Bollywood dancing they are taking a hip hop class then having pizza, cookie cake and ice cream and presents and then they go back in the studio to take a bollywood class. How fun is that! 
I am making these head pieces with this beautiful Sari (Saree) fabric I found and some bracelets with gold bangles on them like belly dancers wear for the Bollywood part. I need to finish my shopping so i can make the bracelets today.
Oh man this is awesome. It's only $7.50!?!? I'm totally going to call BBB after work and see if I can book this for DBF
Ok, now I'm intriguied (?spelling?). Apologies if I've already missed that, but I need to know what the 'Mayday' incident is!!!!
Ok, now I'm intriguied (?spelling?). Apologies if I've already missed that, but I need to know what the 'Mayday' incident is!!!!
OK, I'll try to remember exactly how it went down (so to speak.)It is a not to be missed story but I will let her tell it. Alex, make sure you tell everyone here your story. Its too funny!
Step away slowly, children.
POP Century, Weve never stayed here. My dreams of Wilderness Lodge were dashed by my checkbook. Actually we chose for a longer 12 night stay so we ditched the High dollar digs and are headed to funky town.It looks like so much fun. My kids actually loved the pictures here as opposed to any other hotel and that is what this trip is about isnt it? Im tellin you though if the pirate rooms were done at the CBR we would rock that place!
VIP Parties we are invited to:Oct 7 MNSSHP! Ok so I know half the DIS is going on that night and we were not invited, we purchased our tickets but a girl can dream cant she? I am so hoping to see all of my new DIS friends there that night! Its going to be so much fun. Ive never been to one of the parties and I have such high expectations for this one. I LOVE me some Halloween!
Yachts I have procured for the children:
Morgan's birthday is Saturday so I'm in the midst of getting ready for the party.
I also need to get my trip countdown calendar done. i picked up some black poster board and I'm going to put the paint chips on them from Home Depot!
As we approached SeaTac Airport I heard the pilot announce we'd be making our approach shortly. I smiled to DS, "Honey, we're almost home!" He in turn sucked in a bunch of air and bellowed, "Mayday! Mayday! We're going down, we're going down!"
I shushed him as quickly as I could: "Stop! Stop saying that!" He was SO LOUD! I was mortified, but with a quick glance around us I could almost believe no one heard, except the guy sitting next to DS with his face turned toward the window and his shaking shoulders...
OMG!!!!!!
That was one of the funniest things I've ever heard!!! I know, mortifying at the time, but hysterical!
You must be really looking forward to the thought of a longer flight, who knows what new quotes he'll have for then!.
Thats a classic story isn't it!
"Ohh, it's the deep burn! Oh, it's so deep!"
We also like "I'm in a glass case of emotion!"....or "They've done studies you know. 60% of the time it works, everytime."
"The only way to bag a classy lady, is to give her 2 tickets to the gun show."
Have been training the children to 'kiss their guns' on request. However, they're nearly 8 now and they don't like doing it in public anymore.
Evenmore worrying is the fact that DH's favourite character and 'inspirational role model' is Brick Tamland...
Its so hard to choose one to immortilize isnt it? Jacob loves the Pop pictures too. He wouldn't consider anyplace else.
Which works out well price wise!!!
Isnt it great when it works out that way!
I heard about the pirate rooms, but I haven't seen photos yet. Will have to look for those.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/business_tourism_aviation/2008/07/pirates-of-the.html
We're looking forward to the party too!!!
The pirate cruise sounds like fun!!!
Our last trip was 5 days with 2 ADR's. My daughter is a picky eater, and doesn't like anything. Plus it takes less time away from the parks.
My son on the other hand eats more than me. He is getting taller and taller.
There is a LOT of repetition with the character meals. But Chef Mickey's does not have chip n dale. Tusker house has Daisy duck. O'hana has lilo & stitch.
I keep telling myself that he is not that into characters so I just wont force the issue just because I feel its something we "have" to do. Like "Oh we are going to WDW so we "have" to do 7 character meals" We have the 2 booked and I think that will be enough for him. If he chooses to see the characters at all this time. ( I need to keep that in mind! ) We can go in lines and do meet and greets to get autographs.
That'll be so much fun!!!
The party sounds great!!!
What a fun idea!!!!
Looking forward to seeing the countdown calendar.
What restaurant does Jeff manage? Am I allowed to ask? I'm an uptight paranoid private person so I understand if ya don't wanna answer.
ok, I got up to get DD off to school and came to the pc for more of the TR (which is cute btw) and uh I am not seeing much..don't be a slacker
impatient! I know I was going to get some pictures up today but I was at the school most of the day and behind the sewing machine the other making headpieces and bracelets for the birthday party. Tomorrow I'll post pictures of what has been keeping me from my report.
RACK RATE so Jake can play in the pirate themed pool. 
