verleniahall
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2013
We love the Christmas lights too!!
Nudge, nudge! NYE and SWGE...Aaaaah I didn't realize you started this! I'm here!!
I love the pictures! I now want to do NYE eve!!! So you didn't think the crowds were that bad?
Nudge, nudge! NYE and SWGE...
And I guess because it's NYE, you could bring Steve... just this once!I'm in! I've already nudged myself in place for NYE 2019!
And I guess because it's NYE, you could bring Steve... just this once!
Yep, my Disney addiction is 100% to blame on the Jets haha
I actually pushed him and he fell.
You can't really tell, but Luke's tshirt he was wearing in our engagement photos says "999" on it, and has the hitch-hiking ghosts in the 9's - here's a better picture of it
Impressive!
Edmonton! I think I might have mentioned this before, but I'll be heading to your part of the country in October! Luke is originally from the same city as you (hence the love for the Jets)
we had decided to skip Christmas this year – which broke my heart a little bit since I love decorating so much
where she once again spoiled us by buying us a red KitchenAid stand mixer
We then went to the Olive Garden for unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks haha
this time at Famoso.
The pets were all really helpful while I packed…
Luke went to sleep at a decent time, while I stayed awake because I decided I needed to clean our house.
yep, it felt like -47oC with the windchill
we had actually bought a bunch of those bottles to put into our welcome bags for our wedding guests, so I told him he could steal one from there so he wouldn’t be without on this trip.
I was a little nervous watching them disappear on the conveyor belt as my wedding dress and Luke’s suit were inside one…
Once she was finished, she told us to follow her and she escorted us to the front of the line. We easily saved 20-30 minutes in line just by being randomly selected!
“What is the purpose of your trip?” To get married!"
I’m fairly certain my body composition is ~40% ketchup chips due to how often I eat them…
only to hear an announcement that our flight would be delayed due to one flight attendant not being there.
Luke and I were now patting ourselves on the backs for spending the extra money to fly direct – if this had happened any other time we’ve flown to Orlando we would have missed our connection.
and then hopped on the fake-o-rail! Am I the only one who considers this to be the first ride of the trip?
into our row, and almost immediately shown to our bus. It was already about half full, so we weren’t able to get seats in the front to try for a picture of the Walt Disney World sign. Oh well. We didn’t have to sit on the bus for long before pulling away from the airport
We only had to wait a few minutes before a bus pulled up to take us to our first park of the trip – Magic Kingdom!
I had purchased a Premier Passport the previous year (the annual pass which allows you access to both WDW and Disneyland
As we were speed walking along, I stopped. I looked over my shoulder at a man we had just walked past, then looked at Luke and said ‘I think I know him! I’m pretty sure it’s someone from the Disboards who writes trip reports that I follow!’
Also, Splash Mountain was our very first ride at Walt Disney World back on our 2016 trip, so it just felt right for it to be the first ride on this trip.
By the time we got off Splash, we were within our next fastpass window so we walked straight over to Big Thunder Mountain.
We didn’t ask for it, but we lucked out and were assigned the back row – the best row on BTMR!
Our third fastpass was for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. This is such a cute ride, I’d prefer it to be a bit longer but it’s such a smooth roller coaster.
Of course, I had to stop to take more castle pictures along the way
and checked in for our 9:20pm dining reservation at Tony’s.
we were able to get a really great spot to stand and watch from – and less than a 15 minute wait until it started!
I would never in a million years brave the crowds on NYE to see it, but in a decent-sized crowd on December 30th? Absolutely.
We love the Christmas lights too!!
Wow! Those are awesome pictures of the fireworks!
Yay So excited to find this TR!!!
The New Year's Eve fireworks are simply amazing, nothing else like them.....or so I thought, until I found out their 4th of July fireworks put the NYE ones to shame. Guess I have to figure out how I'll getback there in July one of these years!!!
I can't believe we never bumped into each other on your couple nights at Pop or during the weekend, but so excited to read about your trip
Aaaaah I didn't realize you started this! I'm here!!
I love the pictures! I now want to do NYE eve!!! So you didn't think the crowds were that bad?
I love the fireworks pictures! I love that they do the big event fireworks at MK more than once - we had a similar experience with July 3rd - it was great to have a chance to see the fireworks with fewer crowds (of course we were stupid and braved Epcot on the 4th, but ... we survived).
Joining in! The fireworks pictures are gorgeous!!
Joining in, I virtually met you on the fb group chat for the epic trip, I feel your pain with the way below zero frigid temps, average January day at my house, ugh! Glad the other flight attendant stepped in so you could get down to start your magical wedding trip! Wow exciting! We always start and end our trip in MK so great start!
Well, poop! Wish I'd read this earlier. I was just there.
Nice! Of all the things in my kitchen, that's possibly the one item that I would never get rid of. I love it. Thing works like a mule.
Only thing worth getting there, IMHO.
I ate there (in Jasper) once.
Aren't you so glad it's summer now?
Right about now, one of your guests is going "Hey! That was mine!!!"
(And all the US readers are going )
Nope! It's definitely the first ride!
(But not the last. Going the other way, it's not a ride. At all.)
I actually prefer not waiting. While front seat photo would be great... I wanna get there!
Nice! More of "no waiting"
Hadn't heard of that. Huh!
I haven't done that. I've done front row several times. I'll have to rectify this.