MrsHeg
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So after getting Brer Bear's autograph, it was return time on Peter Pan so off we went, gotta love those fastpasses. Our time was limited today so we wanted to do Brandon's favorites so we were headed in the direction of Buzz when we came across the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts, we would have been first in line but it took me a minute to get our the cards for them and people took advantage of that and cut in front, I did let a couple so that I wouldn't hold up progress, but I put my foot down after that. The girls in line were told that they would have to curtsy to her majesty and the boys would have to bow. 
Brandon handed teh White Rabbit his card first and the Rabbit showed it off to the Queen, she made the "Off with your head" motion to him, then when she got hers she underline the pharase, "Off with your heads". (it's Clare's page)
You can see Brandon is leaning towards the Rabbit here, he did bow though.
We stopped at Sunshine terrace and got Brandon some orange juice, (one of his favorites) and decided an Icee would be great in the heat, (can you tell we are Icee fans?) Brandon asked if he could go play with this globe while we were finishing our drinks and I said sure, you see these adorable looking children in the picture with him? They are horrible acting, mean kids. They were hateful to him, and the little boy pushed him, I know it was wrong of me, but I really wanted him to retaliate, the kids parents didn't say a word to them, and to solve the situation I just called Brandon away and we went for our final ride on Buzz.
And yes we did take another Zurg jail picture, but I'll post this guy instead of that one,
Buzz was signing autographs over by COP when we exited, Brandon was so excited to find out that Buzz uses a Laser Stamp for autographs,
From there we went to TTA, this is the perfect ride just to take a break. When we went through Space mountain I explained to Brandon that it was another rollercoaster that he wasn't quite big enough to ride yet, you could hear the people screaming on the ride, and he told me that he is NEVER going to ride that one. We still had our fastpasses from BTMRR when it was down earlier and were hoping that it was running again. As we went by the Teacups Brandon asked to ride again, he also wanted to ride Pooh, Pooh had a long line but the teacups didn't, so I grabbed fastpasses for Pooh and the boys got in line for the teacups.
We headed over to Frontierland, and the train was rolling.
Brandon would go Woooooo, and then get real quiet during the ride. As we were exiting we were chanting Choo Choo!!!!! Love that one too!
It was getting closer to our ADR time so we headed back through Fantasyland, stopped and rode Pooh with our fastpasses and went around by the Tommorowland Terrace to make it down to Tony's. The parade had already started but hadn't made it to Main Street yet, there was still plenty of room curbside, but I think it had more to do with the heat. We made it to Tony's a little early and had time to stop and watch this,
It was way too hot to stand in the sun so we were standing back in the shade, when the clouds came out, it was an immediate relief. This lady passed right in front of me. amd I thought of Elin as I took this picture,
As the parade ended the heavens opened up, but we were right there at the restaurant so we checked in and went inside to wait for our table. It didn't take long before we were seated at a table in the outer dining area where we could see what was going on outside. All the rain that we hadn't gotten all week was coming down at once. People were running out of the park, one poor girl's feet came out from under her and she fell hard, two CM's went and helped her up, she was walking but I know she was sore the next day.
We took our time with lunch, in hopes that it would slack up. No such luck, so we browsed around the camera shop when we came out. Brandon noticed this Princess and pointed her out to us,
Are you wondering why it's PawPaw in the picture with no Brandon? Well, he wouldn't get anywhere near her, and hid around the corner while we got her autograph. She saw Brandon's birthday button on my bag and told me Ha[[y Birthday, I told her it wasn't mine and she asked who's it was. I told her it was the little boy hiding around the corner. There was noone in lone so she went around the corner to wish him a Happy Birthday, when she got close to him he took off running. Pawpaw had to run and catch him, he was headed out the door into the rain. Brandon is not a cryer, he gets mad and won't talk to you, but he rarely crys. He was crying his eyes out and said he wanted to go HOME. Remember he wouldn't go near Kim Possible, and Ron Stoppable, he also wouldn't have anything to do with Alladin, so after pondering about it we have come to the conclusion that he is afraid of the face characters, I don't understand it, maybe one day he'll explain it to me.
I broke down and bought us ponchos to get back to the resort, they are already packed in the suitcases for our November trip, we take them to the parks for the "wet" rides when it is cooler so hopefully we will get some more use out of them. The water was like a river pouring down the hill as you exited the park so all of our shoes got soaked, but we all know never to go to Disney without extra shoes so that wasn't a problem.
It was time to start packing when we got back to the room, which wasn't bad because I unpack when we arrive and load the dirty clothes into garbage bags as we take them off. I throw in a fabric softener sheet to help with the odor, I also bring a stain stick, which I used a lot this trip, and as the bags fill we start packing them into the empty suitcases.
Our carry on was loaded down with chocolate.
I didn't do much shopping at all, (but I did make a purchase at the Christmas shop at MGM) so I left the boys to finish up with Brandon's bath and headed over to the gift shop. I needed a phot album for Brandon's autographs, I got him a book for his pressed pennies, and I picked up a stuffed Minnie, and a Mickey head necklace for Maddie. Maddie loved them, she really is a sweetie. Since we had an early dinner and he really didn't eat much I brought Brandon back some milk to drink with some cookies before we went to bed.
We called it a night pretty early, I had a 2:30 am wake up call.
One more installment after this, departure and some final thoughts.
Brandon handed teh White Rabbit his card first and the Rabbit showed it off to the Queen, she made the "Off with your head" motion to him, then when she got hers she underline the pharase, "Off with your heads". (it's Clare's page)You can see Brandon is leaning towards the Rabbit here, he did bow though.
We stopped at Sunshine terrace and got Brandon some orange juice, (one of his favorites) and decided an Icee would be great in the heat, (can you tell we are Icee fans?) Brandon asked if he could go play with this globe while we were finishing our drinks and I said sure, you see these adorable looking children in the picture with him? They are horrible acting, mean kids. They were hateful to him, and the little boy pushed him, I know it was wrong of me, but I really wanted him to retaliate, the kids parents didn't say a word to them, and to solve the situation I just called Brandon away and we went for our final ride on Buzz.
And yes we did take another Zurg jail picture, but I'll post this guy instead of that one,
Buzz was signing autographs over by COP when we exited, Brandon was so excited to find out that Buzz uses a Laser Stamp for autographs,
From there we went to TTA, this is the perfect ride just to take a break. When we went through Space mountain I explained to Brandon that it was another rollercoaster that he wasn't quite big enough to ride yet, you could hear the people screaming on the ride, and he told me that he is NEVER going to ride that one. We still had our fastpasses from BTMRR when it was down earlier and were hoping that it was running again. As we went by the Teacups Brandon asked to ride again, he also wanted to ride Pooh, Pooh had a long line but the teacups didn't, so I grabbed fastpasses for Pooh and the boys got in line for the teacups.
We headed over to Frontierland, and the train was rolling.
Brandon would go Woooooo, and then get real quiet during the ride. As we were exiting we were chanting Choo Choo!!!!! Love that one too!It was getting closer to our ADR time so we headed back through Fantasyland, stopped and rode Pooh with our fastpasses and went around by the Tommorowland Terrace to make it down to Tony's. The parade had already started but hadn't made it to Main Street yet, there was still plenty of room curbside, but I think it had more to do with the heat. We made it to Tony's a little early and had time to stop and watch this,
It was way too hot to stand in the sun so we were standing back in the shade, when the clouds came out, it was an immediate relief. This lady passed right in front of me. amd I thought of Elin as I took this picture,
As the parade ended the heavens opened up, but we were right there at the restaurant so we checked in and went inside to wait for our table. It didn't take long before we were seated at a table in the outer dining area where we could see what was going on outside. All the rain that we hadn't gotten all week was coming down at once. People were running out of the park, one poor girl's feet came out from under her and she fell hard, two CM's went and helped her up, she was walking but I know she was sore the next day.
We took our time with lunch, in hopes that it would slack up. No such luck, so we browsed around the camera shop when we came out. Brandon noticed this Princess and pointed her out to us,
Are you wondering why it's PawPaw in the picture with no Brandon? Well, he wouldn't get anywhere near her, and hid around the corner while we got her autograph. She saw Brandon's birthday button on my bag and told me Ha[[y Birthday, I told her it wasn't mine and she asked who's it was. I told her it was the little boy hiding around the corner. There was noone in lone so she went around the corner to wish him a Happy Birthday, when she got close to him he took off running. Pawpaw had to run and catch him, he was headed out the door into the rain. Brandon is not a cryer, he gets mad and won't talk to you, but he rarely crys. He was crying his eyes out and said he wanted to go HOME. Remember he wouldn't go near Kim Possible, and Ron Stoppable, he also wouldn't have anything to do with Alladin, so after pondering about it we have come to the conclusion that he is afraid of the face characters, I don't understand it, maybe one day he'll explain it to me.
I broke down and bought us ponchos to get back to the resort, they are already packed in the suitcases for our November trip, we take them to the parks for the "wet" rides when it is cooler so hopefully we will get some more use out of them. The water was like a river pouring down the hill as you exited the park so all of our shoes got soaked, but we all know never to go to Disney without extra shoes so that wasn't a problem. It was time to start packing when we got back to the room, which wasn't bad because I unpack when we arrive and load the dirty clothes into garbage bags as we take them off. I throw in a fabric softener sheet to help with the odor, I also bring a stain stick, which I used a lot this trip, and as the bags fill we start packing them into the empty suitcases.
Our carry on was loaded down with chocolate.
I didn't do much shopping at all, (but I did make a purchase at the Christmas shop at MGM) so I left the boys to finish up with Brandon's bath and headed over to the gift shop. I needed a phot album for Brandon's autographs, I got him a book for his pressed pennies, and I picked up a stuffed Minnie, and a Mickey head necklace for Maddie. Maddie loved them, she really is a sweetie. Since we had an early dinner and he really didn't eat much I brought Brandon back some milk to drink with some cookies before we went to bed.
We called it a night pretty early, I had a 2:30 am wake up call.
One more installment after this, departure and some final thoughts.
It is so hard to do everything that you'd like to on such a short trip. I'm sure your next trip will be much better. Make sure to plan some time for just Jonathan and yourself to do those things that you've just gotta do otherwise you may not get too with a large group
Happy Birthday Steffy!!!
The one little boy Princess likes is transferring to another class because the noon one isn't working for him as far as lunch and nap. That leaves just one other little boy. Kind of dull without more friends in the class.
I know I shouldn't gripe. Rack pins are $7 each so I am better off than if I tried to buy pins in the parks.
They mentioned back in April that they might put his route up for bid in October, but they haven't said anything since then. If they are taking his route away next month then he should DEFINITELY apply for the other job! He's not sure how it would impact his vacation bid, so that could be bad. At least DS gets out of school later this year, and Princess is a crummy nap-taker so she's never asleep when DS gets out of school. We could easily go pick him up if DH is stuck on a late route. DH also says this will help him build experience so he can advance in the company, which is a good thing. So hopefully he will at least apply and get some more info on it.
, I shouldn't complain, we can make it in about 9 hours.
