The one with the NON-Photos and the ever changing title, 7/11, updates galore!Pgs 6&7

[Twingle]

Howdy, my amazing Dis friends! We are back home, in essentially five pieces(seven really, don't forget Nana and Papa), and had a wonderous time in the land of the Mouse! Hate coming back home, it's really just more fun to be in Disney, not cooking, or cleaning the house, and having magical moments and all, but we don't have that many DVC points nor do we have enough cash to stay in the resort hotels as long as I would like to (365 nights sounds about right?).

We had a great time, lots of magical moments, I met a few Dis Boards friends (my DH was dead impressed by THAT), no meltdowns (in and of itself a miracle) and I took lots of non-photos. I'm dead on my feet, we got home about 2 am this morning, and my amazing rooster/children were up by 8 am. Guess they thought we were going back to the parks or something. We wish.

And, just because there were only two superbly incrediable rude moments, I'll go ahead and share them now, because we just want to get the nastinest out of the way.

****

Saturday, June 16th, I was in line at Earls to get lunch. There was a Dream Squad member in front of me, and I asked him if he gets alot of people following him around the parks. He told me, and I quote, I don't have my name badge on right now, I don't need to acknowledge you at all. Let's pretend you don't exsist and aren't speaking, okay?



Can you BELIEVE that? Of course you can't, it's unbelievable, that's why. Apparently someone had tinkled in his Wheaties that morning. Shame, shame, shame, especially coming from a Cast Member.

****

Sunday, June 17th, DD#1 and I were trying to find an available horse to ride on Cinderella's Carousel. I finally found one by a little boy, about 3, and his dad. I went to put DD#1 on the horse, and the dad says "oh, does she want to ride this one? TOO BAD, I JUST DECIDED I WANT TO RIDE!" and THEN the little boy called me a word that you sometimes use to refer to a female dog. Can you believe THAT? IN DISNEY? At the ripe old age of THREE?

We later saw this same set of "guests" ahem, ahem, I use the term sarcastically, where my son was waiting in line to try to pull the sword from the stone. Little Mr. Nasty Mouth Boy cut in front of my son to have a turn. The dad then says, "Oh ya, go ahead and have your turn son. I don't care if you cut in line, because what are they going to do about it?"



Really, what's the point? Why say something so rude? To whose benefit is that? My girls will sometimes go to the front of the line, not understanding always that there are others waiting turns. That's when you take them by the hand, and show them to the end of the line, taking responsiblity for them and TEACHING THEM THE RIGHT WAY. Totally irks me, because those are the kids that are going to grow up thinking they are owed something for doing nothing.

Anyway.

In ten days those are the only two turds in the punch bowl, which is pretty dam good, considering there were a bagillion people there. I know, I counted.

I have over 1000 photos to download, so I should be able to post some sometime next month. I have dial-up, remember? If I try to do more than about 10 at a time, my computer has to have a flippy-fit and cry about it.

Hope everyone is doing well thanks for reading! I'll share some of the fun stuff as soon as I can.

And, just so you know, remember that awesome packing job I did? TOTALLY bit me in the butt. Can you figure out why?

I had $85 in Disney Dollars.

I had $340 on the Rewards Card.

I spent it all.

And then some.

Where the frig do you think I put the souvies?

 

[DisneyJo]

Welcome back but I can't believe those people, I wish that CM did have his name tag on so you could have reported him!!!!!

 

[heavenleigh412]

Howdy, my amazing Dis friends! We are back home, in essentially five pieces(seven really, don't forget Nana and Papa), and had a wonderous time in the land of the Mouse! Hate coming back home, it's really just more fun to be in Disney, not cooking, or cleaning the house, and having magical moments and all, but we don't have that many DVC points nor do we have enough cash to stay in the resort hotels as long as I would like to (365 nights sounds about right?).

We had a great time, lots of magical moments, I met a few Dis Boards friends (my DH was dead impressed by THAT), no meltdowns (in and of itself a miracle) and I took lots of non-photos. I'm dead on my feet, we got home about 2 am this morning, and my amazing rooster/children were up by 8 am. Guess they thought we were going back to the parks or something. We wish.

And, just because there were only two superbly incrediable rude moments, I'll go ahead and share them now, because we just want to get the nastinest out of the way.

****

Saturday, June 16th, I was in line at Earls to get lunch. There was a Dream Squad member in front of me, and I asked him if he gets alot of people following him around the parks. He told me, and I quote, I don't have my name badge on right now, I don't need to acknowledge you at all. Let's pretend you don't exsist and aren't speaking, okay?



Can you BELIEVE that? Of course you can't, it's unbelievable, that's why. Apparently someone had tinkled in his Wheaties that morning. Shame, shame, shame, especially coming from a Cast Member.

****

Sunday, June 17th, DD#1 and I were trying to find an available horse to ride on Cinderella's Carousel. I finally found one by a little boy, about 3, and his dad. I went to put DD#1 on the horse, and the dad says "oh, does she want to ride this one? TOO BAD, I JUST DECIDED I WANT TO RIDE!" and THEN the little boy called me a word that you sometimes use to refer to a female dog. Can you believe THAT? IN DISNEY? At the ripe old age of THREE?

We later saw this same set of "guests" ahem, ahem, I use the term sarcastically, where my son was waiting in line to try to pull the sword from the stone. Little Mr. Nasty Mouth Boy cut in front of my son to have a turn. The dad then says, "Oh ya, go ahead and have your turn son. I don't care if you cut in line, because what are they going to do about it?"



Really, what's the point? Why say something so rude? To whose benefit is that? My girls will sometimes go to the front of the line, not understanding always that there are others waiting turns. That's when you take them by the hand, and show them to the end of the line, taking responsiblity for them and TEACHING THEM THE RIGHT WAY. Totally irks me, because those are the kids that are going to grow up thinking they are owed something for doing nothing.

Anyway.

In ten days those are the only two turds in the punch bowl, which is pretty dam good, considering there were a bagillion people there. I know, I counted.

I have over 1000 photos to download, so I should be able to post some sometime next month. I have dial-up, remember? If I try to do more than about 10 at a time, my computer has to have a flippy-fit and cry about it.

Hope everyone is doing well thanks for reading! I'll share some of the fun stuff as soon as I can.

And, just so you know, remember that awesome packing job I did? TOTALLY bit me in the butt. Can you figure out why?

I had $85 in Disney Dollars.

I had $340 on the Rewards Card.

I spent it all.

And then some.

Where the frig do you think I put the souvies?

utterly disgusting the way those people behaved!

Unfortunately, I found your pre-trip report TODAY so I kinda missed wishing you a good time!

Did you packing the souvies have to do with anyone bending over???

 

[lonegirl]

I totally believe your stories yet they are so unbelievable. To think I've been wasting time trying to get my boys to look at people when they are speaking or being spoken to. This whole time I could have just taught them to rip off a few choice words.........

 

[praisehisname]

Saturday, June 16th, I was in line at Earls to get lunch. There was a Dream Squad member in front of me, and I asked him if he gets alot of people following him around the parks. He told me, and I quote, I don't have my name badge on right now, I don't need to acknowledge you at all. Let's pretend you don't exsist and aren't speaking, okay?

No way!!! I just read that to DH and we're both appalled! Makes you wish you could real fast pull out your camera or cell phone and snap a picture to email Disney.

Denise

 

[roxannensteve]

I can totally believe "guests" can act that way but a CM? So rude - he doesn't deserve to have his job. Now, I want to hear the good stuff. I just know, it outweighed the bad. Right?

 

[Twingle]

Just jumping in here to let you know in three days I have been able to download . . . drumroll please . . . 201 photos! WHOA! OOHHH! AAHHH! AND that's with leaving my computer on nearly all day.

Seriously need to spring for the broadband.

DisneyJo, heavenleigh412, lonegirl, praisehisname, and roxannesteve, thank you all for your posts! YES, the CM was truly amazing in his rudey-dudey-ness, and with the comfort that little boy used that four letter word was just sad. And to think I get upset when my son says "stupid".

Lots of good stuff coming, eventually. I may just go ahead and start the TR, and add photos later. Would that be acceptable? Are there any rules to the TR-ness?

Also, I'm going to send a PM to have this pre-trippie moved to the regular TR board, since we're home. The title will be "The one with the Non-Photos and the ever changing title", because I'll change the captions every day depending on what park/event happened that day.

So yes, lots of good stuff to come, and no, no one had to bend over to hold our souvies, although that would have made going through airport security mighty interesting!

 

[nts4wdw]

Did you start your trip report? Did I miss it? Welcome Home!!!!

 

[Twingle]

Hi Lynn! THIS is the trip report. I was attempting to download all our photos before I really got into the swing of things, but oh my gosh, coal will turn to diamonds faster than I can upload all our photos.

Hhhmm. Upload, download? Which one? I've used both.

In any event, I'll go ahead and start the TR in ernest. Let me get the kids some food, and then I'll be back.

 

[Twingle]

June 7th - So, we (ha ha ha, that would be I) did our awesome packing job that you may recall, everything was packed into the car, just had to get the little one's to sleep, which usually is a total non-issue.

Not tonight.

The excitement was in the air, and the girls knew there was only one more sleep until Disney. The key term here is "sleep". My girls usually go to bed around 7:30 or so, my son around 8:00. I know that may seem wicked early to some of you, but hello, all three of my kids are ALWAYS up before six a.m. Talk about your cruel and unusual punishments, but I digress.

Long story short, none of the people in the house under four feet tall were actually asleep until almost ten o'clock. Long enough for mean momma to come out several times and finally threaten to go to Disney all by herself if they didn't shut their eyes and go to sleep RIGHT NOW.

After the little ones were in bed, it was time to do the last minute run around to see what, if anything, I had forgotten. Seemed like I had it all together (pretty unusual, that) so DH cleaned the hamster cage and off we went to bobo land to catch a few winks before our wake-up time of 4:30 a.m.

June 8th - The only thing worth mentioning here is that DH and I woke up and got ourselves together, threw the kids in the car around 5:15 or so, at which time they all woke up and decided they were ready to start their day. So much for them sleeping in the car.

Picked up Nana and Papa at their place (about 30 minutes from us, and conveniently located on the way to the airport. no, I don't know why we didn't spend the night at their house either. hindsight is 20/20 and all that.) and miracle of miracles, we did not run into any traffic getting to the airport.

See, I know that over there <------- it says my location is just "Virginia". But I live in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and we fly out of Dulles Airport. There is usually enough traffic that the Pope may swear over it.

So, off to the airport we go, and DH always drops us off and then goes and parks the car. I even remembered to give him his boarding pass this time. Yay me! There was a super nice luggage taker . . . what are they called? Sky caps? Airline hops? Cast Members? Whatever, he was nice, very chatty. BUT THEN, he said the utmost blasphamost thing.

He said Disney was overrated!

He obviously does not Dis.

And yes, our flight did not leave until 9:15 a.m., and it was just past 7:00, but I have a huge fear of missing planes. I know we could've arrived later, but really, the airport is such a fun place to people watch.

Made it through security no problem, except that DD#2 was totally and completely terrified of going through there. I don't know if she thought she had to go through where the bags go or what, but poor girl just sobbed and sobbed. The security agent was nice though, and let me hold her while I walked through the metal detector thingy. I should mention here that ONE of the security agents was nice, because the one checking the bags said something along the lines of "don't know why people take kids like that anywhere", and sir, if you happen to be reading this, we take them places because society frowns on us locking them in their cages 24/7 like they deserve.

Kidding.

Found our gate, no big deal, it was right by a Dunkin' Donuts - BONUS! Purchased some coffee, milk, and munchkins (cue the music from Wizard of Oz) so we could have some nibbles before take off. DS passed the time with his nose in a book, he loves to read, which in turn, I love that he loves to read.

DD's passed the time doing this:

playing with My Little Pony's.

talking on the phone (I called them a few times on my cell phone, which they were in hysterics over).

and playing in the bathroom. They loved the automatic potties and sinks. They were in their glory in Disney, let me tell you. (sorry, didn't take a photo of the bathroom. use your imagination.)

This was our first time flying with JetBlue, and I LOVED this airline. I'm usually a United type of gal, but JetBlue was awesome. Part of the awesome-ness (yes, that is a word in Twingle land), was the fact that I could print off the boarding passes at home and didn't have to wait in the big honkin' line at the airport. And I know that some of you will say, well duh Twingle, United does that too, but not always they don't. Especially if you are redeming points through RCI. Then, in the money you save, you have to go through LOTS of red tape, jump through numerous hoops, and promise them your first born child to get your boarding passes. Also, JetBlue is supposed to have some wicked leg room.

And they do.

Wanna see?

I am 5'10, and DH is 6'4. Those are our knees not banging into the seats in front of us.

Here is DD#1 wearing headphones, I think she was watching the Backyardigans.

Here is DH - he's watching the Backyardigans too.

Totally uneventful flight, only took about two hours. Nice crew, leg room, got to let the kids veg out in front of the telly. We took off, we flew, we landed. Everyone was well behaved, including the adults, lots of excitement about going to Disney and everything we wanted to do while we were there.

Coming up next, Orlando Airport & Magical Express.

 

[nts4wdw]

So I did find it! Great start! Am I gonna be in it? Huh? Huh?

 

[MNRMommy]

I have not read to catch up since you got back (asuming you are back). Just wanted to drop by and say I am back from New York and can't wait to catch up on your TR!!!

 

[praisehisname]

Hey! Glad you had an uneventful flight. We've never flown Jet Blue, but I'd love to try it sometime. Too bad they don't fly out of BWI...

Looking forward to hearing more about your trip!

Denise

 

[Twingle]

Yes Lynn, you found me! Of course you'll be mentioned, silly girl.

MNRMommy, welcome home! Hope you had a great trip! I'm hoping to bounce over to your TR today and catch up. Thanks for reading mine!

praisehisname, JetBlue has plans to fly out of both Regan and BWI in the upcoming years, because they had such a good response from Dulles. Keep checking, because when they first started flying out of Dulles they had some AWESOME deals. I was able to find $29 each way, but we couldn't go then.

So, let's finish up day one, okay?

June 8th, continued We landed, gathered all our crud and de-boarded the plane. I try really, really hard to not have my children use the airline potties. Partly because my girls don't go alone yet and we are a tall family, and partly because those airline potties are fun, fun, fun to them. So, after we got off the plane, it was time to hit the potties. Some serious love was given to the fact there were automatic potties in the Orlando Airport also.

Rode the mini-monorail to the main terminal, which my girls thought was a blast. Lots of "wheee!" and "let's ride it again!". My son still had his nose buried in a book.

THEN, we were able to see all four parks at once! What, you don't believe me? Here you go:

See, there is the Castle, the Ball, and it's not in the picture, but the Tree of Life and Mickey's Hat were all there too! AND, we threw pennies in the water fountain. AND, we rode the big honkin' elevator and the super steep escalators.

We didn't even need to go to the resort, we could've just stayed at the airport. Who knew it was such fun?

After a healthy lunch (not) of McDonald's, which hello, we have in Virginia, we went to the Magical Express counter. There wasn't much of a line, which was nice. When we used ME in December, 2005, the line was outrageous. Got everything taken care of, and there was a bus all ready to go.

See?

Sorrry, I don't remember the bus driver's name, but she was very nice. Welcomed all of us and made a big deal over my kids. Love that friendly-ness that is Disney.

DD#1 fell asleep on the bus ride, and woke up as soon as I carried her in to the front desk. She LOVED that the CM welcomed her "home". The CM was from Scotland, and my DS really liked her accent. She gave all my kids balloons, which was nice.

We were in the Carousel, room 2221. Right by a bus stop and really close to Downtown Disney, which was great. For some reason, I neglected to take photos of our building and our room door, so sorry about that.

Now, let me interrupt myself here by saying we really like Saratoga Springs. I know it's big, but I lived in Manhatten for 12 years, big does not bother me. I like how close it is to Downtown Disney, DH likes that fact that it's not obnoxiously Mickey-fied. I know, he's wierd. We've always had really good luck with getting what we need once I call the front desk. However, their delivery system really needs some work. We were having a Basket from Sarah delivered, my DH had flowers delivered (nice surprise, that was), and we had groceries delivered from Garden Grocer. We had to call EIGHT TIMES to find out where our stuff was. Sorry, but that's bordering on silly.

Here's photos of our basket and flowers, after they were finally delivered at almost 11:00 that night:

We had reservations at Chef Mickey's that night, which is one of our fav places to eat. Love the character interaction, and my kids usually do really well with buffets, can almost always find several things they will eat. Apparently, DD#2 was super duper hungry, because she didn't like leaving her food in order to hug the characters. This was to be a reoccuring theme. After she did this at three different meals, Papa would find out where we were sitting and then go get a plate of fruit to give her for firsties before the characters came around.

We purchased some glow cube drinks for the kids, which my son wouldn't drink because he doesn't like soda. So, I had it so he could get the cubes. I really liked it, wanna see?

Also, Chef Mickey's had these really cute itsy Mickey Ears, that I just had to try on.

Yes, that's really a dessert in my hair, but I like to be silly. My kids like it too. My DH sometimes pretends to not know me.

After Chef Mickeys we went to Downtown Disney to look around. No shopping was done (miracle), but the kids played at the Lego play area and Nana and I did some heavy window shopping. The girls rode the train and the carosel while DS examined the Build your own Light Saber display at Once Upon a Toy with Papa.

Back to the room for bed, because tomorrow morning we had ressies at Crystal Palace for breakfast, and then spending the day at the Magic Kingdom!

Next up, cheerful greetings at Crystal Palace and a runaway Dumbo!

 

[byoung]

nice report

 

[DisneyJo]

Loving your TR

 

[Twingle]

Hi byoung and DisneyJo! Glad you're enjoying the TR!

June 9th We had ressies at Crystal Palace at 8:25, so I requested a wake-up call at 6:30. We had horrible luck with the busses when we were at Saratoga Springs in December, 2005, so I was allowing a minimum of one hour travel time for each destination. This worked really well, because we rarely had to wait over 15 minutes for our buses. Go me!

DS answered the phone (actually, our call was for 6:34, because I was trying to avoid Stitch. Didn't work, it was still Stitch who called.), and wanted to know what the heck was up with the Stitch guy. He was way too loud for so early.

Had a few issues waking DD#2 up, she was just a lump in the bed, see?

Ventured our way to the Magic Kingdom (whhooo! my happy place!) and could not find the sign for the special breakfast ressies entrance ANYWHERE. Neither could the other three adults I was traveling with or DS, the amazing reader. Couldn't see it at all. So, I asked a cast member. And they pointed out the way big, really hard to miss sign.

Duh. Guess I shouldn't have gone quite so blonde before the trip, huh?

Main Street was really, really quiet so early in the morning. It was nice, almost like we were the only ones there! We had to stop every five feet or so, because my girls wanted to pick up every Mickey Head Confetti that was on the ground. It took a really long time to walk to Crystal Palace this way, but we have a bucket full of confetti.

When we were getting seated at Crystal Palace, we happened to see a family we know from Virginia! Granted, I knew that they were going to Disney the same time as we were, and I knew they were eating at the Crystal Palace this morning. So, I said a very big cherry "HELLO!" and the CM says:


Oh my gosh! You are SOOOOO FRIENDLY!




Like I greet everyone in a resturant like that as soon as I walk in.

Whether or not I know them.

Which could be really fun, or really creepy. Depending on if you are a glass half full or glass half empty type of person.

Now, my children are very familiar with almost all of the Disney characters. However, they apparently don't know Jack about Pooh and Friends. DD#1 wanted that little pink thing (Piglet to you and me) to come see her. And DD#2 wanted the orange zebra (Tigger) to stop by. And my DS wanted to know why the is-it-supposed-to-be-a-donkey? (Eyeore) was so sad looking.

Apparently, I have to break out the Winnie the Pooh treasury that I last read to the kids when the girls were still in the womb.

Breakfast was a fun affair, with me yelling !HELLO! at everyone that I saw (not really, but it made me laugh to write that), but we all marched in the parade and the food was tasty.

After breakfast we headed over to Toon Town, stopping at It's A Small World, the carousel, and Dumbo.

We love Dumbo, especially the photo prop one by the ride. He was really in a zany mood today, and let me have a ride while only holding his tail, see?

The wind was whipping through my hair, I had an excellent view of the park, my kids were amazed.

Oh hush. It's fun to be silly and play. I really don't need to be committed.

Yet.

 

[DisneyJo]

Duh. Guess I shouldn't have gone quite so blonde before the trip, huh?

It took a really long time to walk to Crystal Palace this way, but we have a bucket full of confetti.

Awww sweet

So, I said a very big cherry "HELLO!" and the CM says:

Oh my gosh! You are SOOOOO FRIENDLY!

DD#1 wanted that little pink thing (Piglet to you and me) to come see her. And DD#2 wanted the orange zebra (Tigger) to stop by. And my DS wanted to know why the is-it-supposed-to-be-a-donkey? (Eyeore) was so sad looking.

OMG that's hilarious, orange zebra

Breakfast was a fun affair, with me yelling !HELLO! at everyone that I saw (not really, but it made me laugh to write that)

Made me laugh too

He was really in a zany mood today, and let me have a ride while only holding his tail, see?

 

[praisehisname]

(actually, our call was for 6:34, because I was trying to avoid Stitch. Didn't work, it was still Stitch who called.)

I haven't been to Disney since 2004...do they not have Mickey calls anymore? Is it only Stitch?

So, I said a very big cherry "HELLO!" and the CM says:

Oh my gosh! You are SOOOOO FRIENDLY!

And DD#2 wanted the orange zebra (Tigger) to stop by.

That's so cute!

Oh hush. It's fun to be silly and play. I really don't need to be committed.

Yet.

Man, if I tried that stuff with my kids, they would be sooo embarrassed! Hmm, maybe I should do that when they're getting on my nerves...

Denise

 

[winkers]

Apparently someone had tinkled in his Wheaties that morning. Shame, shame, shame, especially coming from a Cast Member.

I can't believe a cm said that!!! But I had to laugh about the wheaties comment. ONe of my brothers favorite sayings was "who peed in your cherios?"........I said that to my 13 ds the other day and he just looked at me like huh?

The wind was whipping through my hair, I had an excellent view of the park, my kids were amazed.

Oh hush. It's fun to be silly and play. I really don't need to be committed.

Yet.

I love that picture!! That is totally the type of thing I do. My kids have grown to act like they don't know me. My favorite thing to do to them is seat dance in the mini van at stop lights! Ok, and when I'm picking ds up at middle school is a fun time to blast "sexy back" and pull out a few of my 80's moves also. I'm such a mean mom.