Sooze's Surprise Trip for DS's 8th UPDATE! p.20 #287 11/3 Link to New TR p.19

[DisneyJo]

Bless Tyson with his reaction of disbelief, so sweet

Wow MS on the Orange side, how brave, did you not do it?

 

[teacher2525]

looking forward to hearing more. I surprised my 3 boys last August and did such a good job pulling it off that no-one believed me until we hit the airport . DS#2 watched the jet blue map the whole ride, I think he was afraid we weren't really going.

 

[timandlesley]

O.K. I am soooooooo sorry I am late to this party, what a GLORIOUS surprise you pulled off for Tyson. I can't believe you actually did it, how cool! I wasn't surprised by Epcot being your first stop but ORANGE SIDE, WOW! I've done it once and prefer green for sure. Brave child. You guys got a lot in so far, looks very uncrowded, was it?
Can't wait for the rest, I'm along for the ride now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lesley

 

[Sooze]

I know, it takes me far too long to update... bad Diser... bad!!

3 great rides in the morning, i am guessing that they had run out of chicken, so they offered you some breaded beef tenders.

Ooooo.. good guess, but not even close!

Congratulations on pulling off the surprise. Looks like you are having a fun morning at Epcot. I am too afraid to try MS, I don't want to have motion sickness the rest of the day! But I do love Soarin'

We love Soarin' too, but I was so amazed at Tyson's willingness to ride Orange side, I was along for the ride!

I can't wait to find out what you had for lunch(if not the chicken strips).
And yes I do think you found a hidden mickey on the tt line. I love hidden
mickey's.
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sandy

We love hidden Mickey's too! We've moved beyond the book and like to find them ourselves!!

your TR! We are heading to WDW in October and I love reading about everything you did. It's really getting me excited about our trip1!!!!!!

Glad to add to your excitement!! October is just around the corner!

Bless Tyson with his reaction of disbelief, so sweet

Wow MS on the Orange side, how brave, did you not do it?

Oh... I braved it.. many times on the trip, actually! Matt was the one who could only handle it once!

looking forward to hearing more. I surprised my 3 boys last August and did such a good job pulling it off that no-one believed me until we hit the airport . DS#2 watched the jet blue map the whole ride, I think he was afraid we weren't really going.

Wow! Keeping it from THREE kids... that had to be tough! How cute that #2 had to watch the map.. funny!

O.K. I am soooooooo sorry I am late to this party, what a GLORIOUS surprise you pulled off for Tyson. I can't believe you actually did it, how cool! I wasn't surprised by Epcot being your first stop but ORANGE SIDE, WOW! I've done it once and prefer green for sure. Brave child. You guys got a lot in so far, looks very uncrowded, was it?
Can't wait for the rest, I'm along for the ride now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lesley

Ok... Lesley's here... I guess I can update now!... Just kidding! I'm sure you've been busy cramming in the rest of your summer. I'm just glad you made it over!!

Update coming SOON!!!

 

[Sooze]

No... we didn't see the Dream Team. In fact... we didn't see them at all the two days we were there.. not even in passing. But we DID get a dream.. of sorts...

We headed to our usual Epcot CS, the Electric Umbrella. Matt and Ty got their chicken strips, I got a burger! While we were eating, we discussed going back to OKW for some swim time, then clean up for our ressies at Chef Mickey's that night. We had already ridden all three of our favorite rides and it would feel good to swim.

Then.. someone decided to share the Disney magic!!

A mom walked up to us with a handful of Dream Fast Passes. She said, "Would your family like to have these?"

Matt and I perked right up!! "SURE!!!!"

She continued, "We got them because we were in the right place at the right time... " and she sounded confused.

Aw man... another dream awarded to a family that had no idea what it was.

She added that they have a young son who is too small to ride most of the rides, so they really couldn't use them. So she passed them along!!

WOO HOO!!! Change of plans! Let's go ride everything again.. without waiting!!

Matt in awe:

A closer view:

So we scrapped the swimming idea and enjoyed using our fast passes!! We got to ride our three favs twice that day... it was great!! Several people asked us about the passes and we were honest about not really winning them. One lady wanted to know where we got them, because she wanted to know where to be to win something. ROOKIE!! I explained that we didn't win them, but that the dream giveaway was completely RANDOM!! Geez.. these uneducated Disney folks kill me....

After our Dream Fast Pass fun, we were ready to head back to OKW to get ready for our dinner at CMickey's and some MK EMH. Tyson was absolutely DYING to get on the monorail, so we hopped a ride over to TTC and then a bus home...

Tyson, finally on his favorite mode of transportation:

And just in case you haven't seen enough of my handsome boy:

Mommy and mommy's little man:

Waiting for the bus... this is what Matt did FAR TOO MUCH OF on this trip... TEXTING! But I let it be.. we had taken him off tour and away from Carolina Crown for a few days, so he had to stay in touch somehow...

And I'll close with a shout out to our little 'pseudo' dream:

Up next, our dinner at Chef Mickey's and my encounter with Donald... find out why this picture made me laugh harder than I've laughed in a long time!!

(Dan, I hope you're still around, 'cause you're gonna love this!!)

 

[timandlesley]

Love Love Love that you guys got the Dream Fast passes. I overheard so many families who won them sounding so confused and almost put out by winning them that I was thinking "Just hand them over, WE'LL appreciate them!" so glad you found someone to do just that.
Can't wait to see what has you laughing so hard! Great update, Tyson is getting so big/handsome!
Lesley

 

[dddisrunner]

Great update Sooze! How sweet of that family to spread themagic to you guys! We were amazed at all the people who were "clueless" as to the Year of a Million Dreams Love the pic of you and Tyson on the monorail! My DH and I are reading together and we CRACKED UP at the picture of you at Chef Mickey's Looking forward to more!

 

[PrincessV]

A mom walked up to us with a handful of Dream Fast Passes. She said, "Would your family like to have these?"

Wooo hooo!!!!

I explained that we didn't win them, but that the dream giveaway was completely RANDOM!! Geez.. these uneducated Disney folks kill me....

Tyson, finally on his favorite mode of transportation:

Mine too!

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

im still here and want to knw about that picture, get to updating missy.

 

[jwwi]

Woo Hoo, dream fast passes. How fun!

Lol, my Nephew and his DW got them at AK, but they had already gone on the rides they wanted, so they didn't use them. Unsure if they passed them to someone else.

Tyson looks so happy to be on the monorail.

Fun day, looking forward to the story behind the Chef Mickey's picture.

 

[Sooze]

Love Love Love that you guys got the Dream Fast passes. I overheard so many families who won them sounding so confused and almost put out by winning them that I was thinking "Just hand them over, WE'LL appreciate them!" so glad you found someone to do just that.
Can't wait to see what has you laughing so hard! Great update, Tyson is getting so big/handsome!
Lesley

You can't be upset with Dream Fast Passes, no matter HOW you get 'em!! Planning on updating tomorrow night so you can hear the funny story. Of course, I'll never be able to tell it as funny as when it was actually happening.. but I'll try!!

And thanks, I think Ty's pretty handsome myself!

Great update Sooze! How sweet of that family to spread themagic to you guys! We were amazed at all the people who were "clueless" as to the Year of a Million Dreams Love the pic of you and Tyson on the monorail! My DH and I are reading together and we CRACKED UP at the picture of you at Chef Mickey's Looking forward to more!

Hopefully you'll crack up even more when you hear the story behind it! It was one of the best (and smallest.. hint hint hint) Donald's I had ever seen!

Mine too!

It never gets old, does it? I love the monorail!!

im still here and want to knw about that picture, get to updating missy.

I know, I know!! I'm working on it. I thought I'd be able to bust out this quick 2-day getaway.. but seem to be having trouble finding time to get online and work. Plan on checking in tomorrow night, k?

Woo Hoo, dream fast passes. How fun!

Lol, my Nephew and his DW got them at AK, but they had already gone on the rides they wanted, so they didn't use them. Unsure if they passed them to someone else.

Tyson looks so happy to be on the monorail.

Fun day, looking forward to the story behind the Chef Mickey's picture.

Oh.. I hope they passed them on!! Of course, the only ride I'd use AK FP's on is EE!!! Can't get ENOUGH of that ride!

and Tyson sure was happy! He had been begging to ride on the monorail since lunch... even with the Dream FP!

Hope to have the Chef Mickey segment up tomorrow night (after the kiddos go to bed!)

 

[MomofCKJ]

So great that you got Dream FPs! And it is mind boggling how little a lot of people know about Disney "stuff". You just assume everyone is as obsessed as the rest of us DISers! LOL!

Allyson

 

[Sooze]

So great that you got Dream FPs! And it is mind boggling how little a lot of people know about Disney "stuff". You just assume everyone is as obsessed as the rest of us DISers! LOL!

Allyson

So true... so true!! I just can't imagine spending that much money on a vacation and NOT doing the research!! Of course, spending an hour a day talking to people you don't even know about Disney... not sure if that qualifies for research... but I'll say it does!!

 

[Sooze]

After our long-awaited monorail ride to the TTC, we hopped a bus home and had just enough time to relax our feet for a moment before heading back out for our dinner date with Mickey. We were excited to meander around the Contemporary.. I just love the concourse...so we jumped in our car and drove there. We were going to do MK EMH, so it would be nice to be able to walk to the car afterwards.

Got some nice shots of the new... um... DVC?... Tower.... ((Crossing fingers and hoping!!))

Here's the walkway that will connect the tower to the main building:

We really didn't have too much time to meander.. we had one of the first reservations of the evening. So we checked in and waited.. very briefly.. for our table.

Matt and Ty messing around while waiting:

See my beeper... watch it go off quickly!!

When we arrived at our table, which was right next to the kitchen doors, we found this birthday surprise:

Tyson sat facing the kitchen doors, back to the buffet, and had a GREAT time watching people come in and out. I'm not being sarcastic... he REALLY did love it!

We made our first round at the buffet, which I thought offered a decent variety and the food was pretty darn good for a character buffet!! Sorry, I only took pictures of our first round, because after that, we were imersed in character fun!

Tyson's YELLOW plate special!

Matt's GINORMOUS salad:

My little-bit-of-everything:

And.. here come the standard character-interaction shots:

continued...

 

[Sooze]

Then, suddenly, the fun came to a stop... Tyson's belly started hurting... and this was before dessert!! Buddy, you can't miss the make your own sundae, plus plates and plates of cakes and goodies!!!

This is what I ended up with:

We realized that Ty had DOWNED two full glasses of chocolate milk. No WONDER he wasn't feeling right:

But he seemed to perk up when they came out with birthday cupcakes for the many birthday kids in the place:

We participated in the birthday song fun:

Then.. out of the corner of my eye, I notice a very SMALL Donald Duck making his way past our table. I said, VERY QUIETLY, mind you.." Awww... he's so SMALL!"

Well.. Donald stopped right in his tracks to turn and give me a dirty look. I know, he can't really change his external face.. but I know there was a mean face in there, and I felt it through the costume! I DID!!!

So I said, "Oh... Did you hear that?"

And Donald shook his head YES! I felt so bad! I really did not intend on him (or her) hearing me say that.. but he really WAS short!!

So he carried on nicely with Tyson:

Then I, with my tail between my legs, asked for a photo op with the vertically challenged Donald. NO.. I didn't say that!! I just begged for forgiveness and asked to take a picture with him. He unwillingly gave in and let me get in for a shot.

Smiling happily, I crouched in for a shot.. Matt counted to three and JUST as the flash went off.. I felt a whoosh, and noticed a large white object in front of my face:

OH NO HE DIDN'T!!!! Then he turned to me, but his hands by his head and did the "Nah nah nah nah nah" bit, then ran off!

We DIED laughing!! It was hilariously funny!!! He didn't even offer to take a good picture, he just ran away!! I LOVED IT!!!

We finished up with the MAN himself!

One last cute picture, then off to MK!

There is not much to tell about MK. Once again, we were all gung ho about staying up late and riding some rides. But once we got there, we realized how BEAT we were!! We hopped on the train with the intent of doing a full circle, but ended up getting off at Toontown Fair.

Matt and Ty got in line to ride Goofy's Barnstormer, while I took time to call and check in on Shae. I sat on Minnie's porch and chatted away, then noticed Goofy's ride was not moving anymore. My poor boys waited a good 20 minutes, only to have to back out of line with everyone else. Bummer!!

Next up, Matt and Ty took on Buzz while I ran around looking for a new Pirate shirt to give to Tyson tomorrow morning for the cruise. I ended up finding a GREAT one, not at the PoTC ride, but at the big ol' shop on Main Street. You'll have to wait for the next update to catch a glimpse of it!

I did pass this cute little guy on my Pirate shirt adventure:

I'm not sure what else we did. I think we bailed pretty early! We wanted to make sure Tyson was well rested for his pirate adventure.

We ended up back home for the night:

We were all surprised to find this waiting for us (Or for Ty, I should say!)

We revealed to Tyson that he was going on a real pirate cruise in the morning. I had showed him pictures of other DIS boys on it when we were at home, and he seemed really interested and excited. But now that HE was the one going, he seemed a bit apprehensive. He said, "Are you guys going with me?" When we told him no, he got nervous... oh boy... What will tomorrow hold?

 

[ncsjodi]

Great update, Sooze. Tyson looks really excited. I can only imagine how DD7 would look if she were going to Disney all by herself. I took her on the Lucas Oil Stadium tour all by herself on Saturday. She liked it, but I'm thinking that Disney would have been a better choice...

Hope school is going well for you. What grade are you teaching this year? I remember your saying that you'd be heading back to the classroom this year. We're done with six days of second grade and she's already telling me that she doesn't want to go! I'm thinking we'll have a long year!

Can't wait to see you again at the big meet in a little more than a week! And it's the day before my birthday!

 

[micandminforever]

I think the Donald picture was great, a Donald with an attitude.

 

[dddisrunner]

That is quite possibly one of the greatest/funniest moments I have ever read on the DIS! LOVED Donald's attitude! Glad Tyson perked up with his cupcake! Thanks for sharing!

 

[PrincessV]

OMG, the Donald incident is hysterical!
Sounds like a great day!

 

[FauntleroyFAN07]

great picsof the new DVC at Con...i cant wait to see it in december.

loved the pics at chef mickeys.


looking forward to the pirate cruise.

hope things went well with it