cinderaimee
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- Sep 26, 2016
OMG the lost Magic Band would have made me crazy! Sounds like a great morning at AK.
My internship was in Austin, TX. We live in DFW. It wasn’t feasible for my family to pick up and move with me, as we have house, schools, and DH’s career here so instead I spent the last year living in two cities. I got up super early every Monday to drive to Austin for work, spent the week in Austin staying with a cousin, then drove back to DFW every Friday and spent the weekend at home. This was my life every week for the past year. While also completing a dissertation. Needless to say, my free time amounted to about zilch. So we needed this trip in the worst way to celebrate me Phinnaly being Ph.inisheD.!!
Thank goodness they didn't give him any trouble with the lost magic band.
I've eaten at Tusker House before. Love it!
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Congrats on your PhD. What an amazing accomplishment.
Your matching manicures are adorable.
That is pretty good, even with your Griswald Parking expierence.
What is with kids and naked mole rats?!? My girls love naked mole rats.
I am trying to get Morgan to make one like this, She draws all the time.
Coronado really does look beautiful! Is that tower that is being built there DVC or regular hotel rooms?
I sure hope the rest of your mornings don’t start like your AK morning. I cannot believe that your husband’s magicband was in the car the whole time. Too funny!
We rode FoP for the first time in June, and wow, we all loved it! It’s a new favorite for us, too! The whole Pandora area is just so well themed and truly beautiful to walk around, especially at night.
OMG the lost Magic Band would have made me crazy! Sounds like a great morning at AK.
Following! Yep, I would have a very difficult time staying off-site too. We stayed at CSR last July and liked it too. We didn't find the construction to be a bother either and really appreciated the refurbished rooms. I would totally stay there again...
Amazing! Congrats!
That's awesome everything worked out with DH and he was able to get to the ride.
Oh my gosh, you had me laughing with that update! I love the selfie (because I STINK at taking selfies), and the MB story. Can't wait for more .
I just got here so I have lots to say!
Congratulations on finishing your PHD! I know that was a grueling year for you with so much commute and being away from your family, but you did it! Be proud of yourself and enjoy the ride from here on out!
We don't have children, but I understand the Disney bubble. We have stayed offsite the night before our trip officially starts, and it's just not the same. We are doing it again this year on Halloween, but my husband is insistent that we go to Disney Springs to be immersed in the magic.
CSR is quite lovely! I've never been, but I would love to stay sometime. Your pictures are gorgeous.
I love Cora's adorable Lion King romper.
I didn't know about the secret menu at ASMo, but that's cool that you ordered it! I'm not so sure about that burger. . .
Lol now that they've been bus"christened" (I just can't use that other word when speaking of your children) they like it, they really like it!The kids decided that they wanted to take the bus, so
Omg lol but I actually love this scene in SE it makes me think of sitting in my grandparents living room watching TV with them in the late 70's/early 80's. I however have a face........and the worst.
Ha! I love it!I walked up to find CM’s leading folks in a dance through of YMCA as one of the activities and DH was participating right along with the children. So, of course, I took pictures and videos before he realized I was there.
So, so so true. We usually ride Figment, once a trip and all I can think is how can this could be a better ride. Maybe one day.I love Figment too, but this ride is junk.
I love it! I did this with the girls and they actually didn't find it that bad... They both drink seltzer water with me, and I think Beverly tastes a little like seltzer or club soda.We were thirsty at this point and decided to quench our thirst with a stop at Club Cool. The kids have tried the Beverly before, but it had been years and they didn’t remember, so I decided to take advantage of that and get them to try it again. Here is the progression:
Ha! Now, I will always have to see if I can see as well!This girl creeps me out! I wrote about this creepy girl last time and here she is again. It just seems like she has no face and is likely the purest embodiment of evil in disguise as a Disney animatronic. This time Alex was determined to verify that she has a face so he craned his neck around as far as he could as we went by. He swears she does, but I still cannot stand her. #isurvivedcreepygirl2018 #thestuffofnightmares #nottodaysatan
I love the comparison pics!2016
2018
How long did it take you door to door? I always figured it would be long but wasn't sure exactly how long..So this is obviously Epcot. We decided to take the long way to Magic Kingdom. Rather than just hopping the bus from Beach Club, we entered Epcot through the International Gateway, walked to the front of the park, and hopped on the monorail! Time consuming? Yes. Extra steps? Yes. But the kids wanted the experience of arriving to MK by monorail for their first view of the castle, so I obliged. We literally just walked through Epcot and stopped nowhere except for this photo.
Monorail!
It's so bitter sweet, isn't it?!I died a little inside realizing that I now have kids who are old enough to know and care about that kind of thing.
The lines for the people mover seem to be more normal these days. Boo.We headed to our first ride – I love me some Peoplemover and wanted that to be the first thing we did. Well it had a line. A long one. Like, for real. I had never seen that before.
I rode the new version for the first time a couple weeks ago, and I agree, I prefer Soarin' over California. But it's still fun.Next up was a more necessary FP reservation – Soarin’! I prefer the California version, but still love this ride.
Hehe...isn't it fun when you can give Beverly to someone who doesn't know? I may have done this to DW and DD. They had no idea, and were not impressed.We were thirsty at this point and decided to quench our thirst with a stop at Club Cool. The kids have tried the Beverly before, but it had been years and they didn’t remember, so I decided to take advantage of that and get them to try it again.
This girl creeps me out! I wrote about this creepy girl last time and here she is again. It just seems like she has no face and is likely the purest embodiment of evil in disguise as a Disney animatronic.
We arrived at the toll plaza at 6:48am and I was quite pleased as I pulled into the parking lot…and then somewhat less pleased as I proceeded to drive right by all of the parking and back out the exit. What can I say? It was early, it was kind of dark, there were no CM’s out directing traffic yet, and I haven’t driven through the AK lots all that often.
So I sheepishly made my way back up Osceola to the turnaround to get back into AK, made the wrong turn again and ended up back at the exit! By this point DH was laughing at me and the kids had had it with me.
We stood waiting until about 7:30ish, when they started letting people into the park. Cue misadventure: the sequel. As people in front of us started tapping in, DH says “where’s my Magicband???”
Next it was time for a new dining experience – Tusker House! I have had a reservation booked at TH for every trip we’ve taken at some point, but always ended up cancelling for one reason or another. DH, who as I mentioned is a huge Donald fan, insisted that we were keeping the reservation this time, dangit (possibly with more *colorful* language)! So we did. And it immediately became my new favorite character meal. Our ADR was for 10:50 so we could head over right after the first FotLK show and the timing was perfect, as we got to sample breakfast and lunch foods. So so soooooo good!
The kids had drawn pictures of the characters for our homemade autograph books, so Mickey insisted on taking pictures with the drawings of him, which was really cute.