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[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Oh Lessa that Character Meet with Pooh was hilarious !! I also got some good shots of it !! They were really hammimg it up for us !!

I can't wait to see your pictures from it.

 

[emmaca]

I love the Pooh characters - that looks like so much fun!

I wonder if you got some sunscreen in your eye - that's happened to me and the kids at some point or another, and it's AWFUL.

The same thing happened to me a few days later, the morning started out sunny, so the sunscreen went on, then the rains came, and my eyes were like buckets, the light really afffected them, so here I am in Magic Kingdom. with rain pouring down and I am wearing sunglasses. So I think it was the sunscreen as well.

 

[momrek06]

Great updates, CHIP......ummm, I mean Lessa!!! (Sorry I could NOT resist!)

All your pictures are fabulous!! I especially love the WS pics!!

You all looked like you had so much fun at the Character Meet!!

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Great updates, CHIP......ummm, I mean Lessa!!! (Sorry I could NOT resist!)

All your pictures are fabulous!! I especially love the WS pics!!

You all looked like you had so much fun at the Character Meet!!

Thanks Kar! The Pooh meet is one of my favourite memories from the trip.

 

[DisneyJo]

Looks like you all had fun with Pooh and friends and fancy bumping into Rosie again

I didn't know you could ask for a PP photographer, how did you do that?

 

[lisalonglash]

What a great update, Lessa!! Love all the great pictures - I've never seen the Pooh characters in "person" yet - it looks like you all had a really fun time! I'm really looking forward to your update on the DIS meet!

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Looks like you all had fun with Pooh and friends and fancy bumping into Rosie again

I didn't know you could ask for a PP photographer, how did you do that?

Yep, it was a lot of fun getting to share some of our Disney trip with Rosie.

The photopass photographer, one of the Disers, podsnel, coming to the meet was staying at AKL concierge. She simply phoned up the concierge team a few weeks before the trip and told them what was going on and they arranged it all for us. Who knew right?! He also finagled us a very special surprise but that will have to wait for the update.

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

What a great update, Lessa!! Love all the great pictures - I've never seen the Pooh characters in "person" yet - it looks like you all had a really fun time! I'm really looking forward to your update on the DIS meet!

It was such a fun time, I was laughing my butt off. Wouldn't it be great if one could actually laugh their butt off instead of exercising?

The dis meet update is coming tonight! Be prepared for tons and tons of pictures. You will go blind from looking at all the line green.

 

[bound2travel]

Hi Lessa,

I've finally caught up. I wasn't on as much the past few days as I was trying to get keep up with a tragic news story down here (auto accident killed 3 teens) - didn't know any of them, but very sad.

Be glad the chocolate chip wasn't from hagendaz ice cream. I got some on a white shirt years ago and NEVER got it all out. Cute story with Belle telling you about the stain.

I didn't know Pooh and gang were in the UK. Where is it located? I love Pooh - he is just so cute.

Can't wait to see the MMM photos. I didn't get them on my card and I haven't had a chance to call Disney to see if they can still put them there. I may have to "lift" them from others TRs

Kristi

 

[racefanof88]

Your pictures are so good. My photo pass pictures are sad . I love the Pooh meet pictures. Don't you just wonder what the people dressed as the characters are thinking? It is hilarious about Pluto and your cleavage. Then if you look at Donald's eyes................ I really enjoyed meeting everyone that day. So far I haven't seen any meets for my September trip. I can't believe I forgot to give the photo pass photographer my photo pass card .

I have learned a hard lesson about shoes and Disney. This trip I wore my Crocs and old tennis shoes. I rubbed my feet with body glide every morning and put moleskin on pressure points and then rubbed my feet every night with aloe gel. It really worked .

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Hi Lessa,

I've finally caught up. I wasn't on as much the past few days as I was trying to get keep up with a tragic news story down here (auto accident killed 3 teens) - didn't know any of them, but very sad.

That's always terrible.

Be glad the chocolate chip wasn't from hagendaz ice cream. I got some on a white shirt years ago and NEVER got it all out. Cute story with Belle telling you about the stain.

I would have been so mad if I hadn't been able to get it out. That is my favourite summer skirt!

I didn't know Pooh and gang were in the UK. Where is it located? I love Pooh - he is just so cute.

They are at the very back of the Toy Shop. There is a little wall that sort of hides them from view.

Can't wait to see the MMM photos. I didn't get them on my card and I haven't had a chance to call Disney to see if they can still put them there. I may have to "lift" them from others TRs

Kristi

Feel free to copy as many as you want, that is why I am going to torture everybody's eyes with all the lime green and post ALL of them. There are a lot!

 

[wvdislover]

It was such a fun time, I was laughing my butt off. Wouldn't it be great if one could actually laugh their butt off instead of exercising?

I'm for that one!!!

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Your pictures are so good. My photo pass pictures are sad . I love the Pooh meet pictures. Don't you just wonder what the people dressed as the characters are thinking? It is hilarious about Pluto and your cleavage. Then if you look at Donald's eyes................ I really enjoyed meeting everyone that day. So far I haven't seen any meets for my September trip. I can't believe I forgot to give the photo pass photographer my photo pass card .

Actually the photopass photographer messed up the photopass cards. It turns out that only the master card had all the pictures from the meet on it. Everybody else who got their cards swiped ended up with two random pictures from the very very end when everybody was getting up to leave.

What I had to do was call Photopass up directly and give them the number of the master card that podsnel provided and I was then able to get them on my cd. No worries though for those who didn't get them added to their cd as I am going to post them all and then everybody can just copy the ones they want.

I have learned a hard lesson about shoes and Disney. This trip I wore my Crocs and old tennis shoes. I rubbed my feet with body glide every morning and put moleskin on pressure points and then rubbed my feet every night with aloe gel. It really worked .

This was the first year I had problems with my feet, then again the 07 trip I pretty much more Crocs or comfy flip flops all the time and the same for the 08 trip. Silly me wearing the flipslops because they were pretty.

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

I'm for that one!!!

I would be super skinny right now if it actually worked.

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: This announcement is to warn all readers of this trip report that they should shield their eyes to protect them from the sheer amount of lime green that is about to bombard their computer screen. Never before has a Disney Park seen this much lime green all at once. It left passersby in wonder as to who these crazy people could be. If not for our polite manners we could have been mistaken for a Brazilian tour group.

There are a lot of pictures, I posted every single one so I had to divide this update into four parts. You have to read until the very end to find out who the special visitor was who graced us with their presence. Now onto the pictures!

ALL MMM DISERS feel free to copy any of these pictures, I know a lot of you didn't end up getting the photopass and so probably don't have a lot from the meet, help yourselves!

As 3pm rolled closer people slowly started to trickle in. Those of us already gathered would shout out when they spied a lime green shirt in the distance. We would then all squint our eyes and try and guess who it was approaching. They would then be greeted with hugs and exclamations when they arrived.

Our personal photopass photographer was busy snapping away, he did a great job capturing the spirit of the meet, many people were unaware that he was there snapping away so he got some great candid shots. I was also busy snapping away in between conversations. Everybody got along wonderfully, there were so many of us there that it got rather confusing actually.

I am not even going to try and remember all the screen names of the people who attended so I am just going to copy and paste the list from the first post of out meet thread.

- alan_renfroe
- englishrose47
- podsnel
- karajeboo
- Camster0307
- MaryAZ
- Lifelong_Dreamer
- Mysteria
- askelton
- leamom2princesses
- ford91exploder
- Poohsticks71
- Disney is Magic
- colinsdad
- InDashMP3
- jmelyn
- racefanof88
- APB513
- ckdsnynt
- Vegasnative
- luckywife
- Amy162
- JohnEric

Now that is a long list to begin with and then you have to add in all the family members also tagging along, we were a pretty large group.

I'll start off by posting my pictures

In case you can't read that the shirt says:

alan_renfroe
the thong wearing,
tiara and tutu sporting,
lover of the hokey-pokey-
and-all-things-brazilian
organizer

This is an "inside" joke for those who participated in the meet thread, Alan was supposed to come flying into the meet like Tinkerbell dressed in all those things. I guess he thought a shirt would be good enough to satisfy us.

Everybody laughed and admired the shirt

Don't you just love Rosie's tiara and earrings?

The kids all seemed wiped out, couldn't blame them, it was HOT out that afternoon, I could have used a nap myself.

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[Lifelong_Dreamer]

AND NOW THE PHOTOPASS PICTURES

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[Lifelong_Dreamer]

CONTINUED IN NEXT POST, IT IS THE LAST ONE I SWEAR!

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

And now the group shots! It took a little while to hustle everybody together. Some had branched off to take their kids over to see Sleeping Beauty, others were deep in conversation. Everybody was soon corralled together though.

Everybody started to move like the group was going to break up, the photographer said to hold our places he had a surprise for us! What was our surprise? He had arranged for Sleeping Beauty to come over and get in the group shot with us! So not only did we get our very own personal photopass photographer that day but we also got our very own princess!

All the people walking by were staring at us wondering who we were, some were even taking pictures of us, it was hilarious! I think having Princess Aurora join us for a picture was such a special touch.

The pictures done everybody got up and started chatting again, the photographer was still taking pictures though.

The meet was wrapping up and the photographer was all done with the pictures. He made a master card of the photos and gave it to podsnel, he then scanned the rest of our cards as well. Turns out that the photos didn't show up on our cards, only the master card had the pictures. That was easy to fix though, all we had to do was call photopass up and give them the card number and they added the pictures to our account.

Mom and I said goodbye to those remaining, we wanted to make it over to Italy to see the World Showcase Players!


Well I hope you all enjoyed the millions of pictures that were taken at the meet. I know it was picture overload but I wanted everybody to have the chance to copy the pictures if they attended the meet. If there was a picture that you liked and you want it in its high resolution send me a PM and we can arrange for me to e-mail it to you.

It was a lot of fun getting to meet so many Disers, many whom I had not even chatted with before that day. Dis meets are a lot of fun and I strongly encourage anybody to participate in one if there happens to be one planned during your vacation. You get to meet a lot of great people and have lots of fun.

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[jcc0621]

OMG Lessa, that looks like you guys had a ton fun!

Who made the shirts?

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

OMG Lessa, that looks like you guys had a ton fun!

Who made the shirts?

Alan made the design and then posted it on one of those websites, maybe zazzle or cafepress? And then everybody who wanted one could order them. One of the items that the site had available was a thong so there were many good jokes about who was going to order the thong with the meet logo on it.