The Taylors had a long Trip with some happy and sad times!

[eeyore3847]

We got out of the meet and greet and hit some characters!

Nicholas with walle again! He loves that Robot!

then there was handy Manny. Nicholas would not go near him... He was so excited and he kept saying 'Manny' 'Manny' - when we walked away Nicholas was crying. He was so upset with himself not going to see him... he was just a little scared!

We tried to ride TOT but it was down, which it was for a lot of the trip! We were then walking back to DL to see sally and jack!
We waited in line for a while and finally got up there. They were spot on! Awesome!!! They loved the girls outfits and sally loved Nicholas' outfit. The girls started talking to them... asking sally if she got all her leaves yet, josephine was talking to jack about where zero was and that our dog scrappy can be his friend... it was sweet. I think we spent almost 5 minutes with them, which I am sure annoyed the people behind us in line.. here are some pics of the conversations!

Nicholas decided to sit down instead of interacting!

Then he stood up and went right up to sally!!! The only character he went closer than 5 feet away to! He pulled up his pants to her to show her sally on his overalls and said "pretty". Oh I thought it was an awesome moment. he would not go near anyone by himself but sally - yes!

Then it was time for a group picture and nicholas said "no" oh well.

 

[wisegal]

I love to outfits your kids are wearing. Did you make them or buy? Tottaly off topic how was the NKOTB concert?

 

[eeyore3847]

I love to outfits your kids are wearing. Did you make them or buy? Tottaly off topic how was the NKOTB concert?

NKOTB was awesome!!!! Loved it!!!!
I made nicholas and Josephines skirt set. Anastasia's outfit I got from another boutiquer.... I just love the outfits!! Everyone in DL just went crazy for them!
Lori

 

[jessica52877]

I love the pictures with jack and sally. Dallas didn't want to see them! We saw them out 2 different times, although I know the day we had on our jack outfits we did not see them.

I love Nicholas showing Sally his Sally! How cute!

 

[eeyore3847]

ok, time for another update....
well we left jack and sally and decided to go back to Calif. Adventures. The girls wanted to ride the new Toy story ride...
but on the way out the girls wanted pics with chip and dale again!

as we go into CA we grab some quick photos. The Photopass guy was all about getting some great shots. He told everyone to clear the stage to get pics for the girls. IT was really nice. He was like our personal photographer. haha

Heimlick(sp) only comes up for about 30 seconds once every 5 minutes to say something funny.

We stopped off at the Golden Wiener to grab some super yummy hot dogs! We love that place!

we then went over to Toy story mania and we waited in line for 40 minutes then it was shut down! so we got a line pass to come back later. that was a bummer. We go around and ride the little Mullholland Madness rolelrcoaster and the Goldyn Zephyr. We went to find Push and he was not out! We missed him the whole trip. Anastasia rode Grizzly Rapids as a single rider. She loves that ride and then we went back to DL since CA was closing!
We go straight to fantsyland and we are through the castle and we are deciding what to ride. Well a nice CM comes up to us to ask the kids what they want to ride. They say Peter pan but it is a 50 min. wait. She says "come with me!". She takes us through the exit and we wait a couple minutes and get to talk with her. She is part of the Dream Squad! She says she loves her job, she asks us if we are AP holders. We say yes and She says "oh thats too bad." I did not push why she asked. but I think sometimes thy do not always give out big prizes to AP holders. Anywho, she rides the ride with the girls and Nicholas and I get our own ship! It was a fabulous ride. We love it. When I get off the girls are holding up to tinkerbell pins. The CM says "tinkerbell put them in my bag while we were riding for the girls!". it was so nice of her and shewas super nice. I did not get a picture with her, I totally forgot!
We rode the tea cups again, and a few others before the park closed!
Got a quick night picture in front of the Front as we were leaving for the day!

 

[eeyore3847]

DAY 3:
Well this morning started out with me tired but ready for another day of fun!!!
We get to the park a few minutes after opening.
Nicholas just would not smile, he woke up tired and grumpy! And I left JoJo's bows at home grrrr.

Off to Fantasyland first. It is less busy first thing in the morning!

I tried getting a pic of them walking through the castle but nicholas was not having any of that!

We of course rode Snow White again and then The carousel. Which Nicholas loves!!

Then we went on Dumbo... oh Little nicholas loved it!

We also rode Casey Jr. Which we all got in the back car. Love that ride and nicholas loves Choo Choos.
We walked around to frontierland and saw Woody was out!
Well We had to get some pics and autographs and he was so silly with the girls! Nicholas would not go tooo close!

We then go to Splash Mountain! Well we get up to the front and there is basically no wait. There is rules for how tall a child has to be to take a younger sibling on. Anastasia missed it by 1/2 an inch. So Jojo could not go but the CM asked me if my husband was in the Park. I said "no, he flys in later." so she says to hold on. She gets on there phone and talks to someone and comes back and says."it is not busy so another CM would love to take the girls on the ride and go throught the exit!" WOW! that is awesome. We meet Holly and she is so darn wonderful. She took the girls straight on and said when she got on that the girls are wonderful and they were making her laugh the whole time. She took a pic when they got off. It was really wonderful for them to do that.

 

[eeyore3847]

Day 3 - again...
ok so then we head over to CA to go the meet and greet for disney visa again.

and then we saw a few fun characters and had to get pics!
The queen refused to sign josephines book till she curtsied(sp).jojo said no and the queen put her hands on her hip and then jojo did!

And Nicholas loves his Wall -E

and TOT was down again! So we decided to ride Toy story and see if it was up again.

Yep it was up and we got to go in the front of the line with the pass the day before. IT WAS AWESOME! we loved it. it was an amazing new fun ride!

 

[Ferry Joy]

I have to say your outfits for the kids are gorgeous!
I am glad that you met so many wonderful people in the park. Lots of magical moments. Now I'm bracing myself for the sadness.

 

[eeyore3847]

I have to say your outfits for the kids are gorgeous!
I am glad that you met so many wonderful people in the park. Lots of magical moments. Now I'm bracing myself for the sadness.

oh one more day for the sadness.
I loved all the outfits we had for the trip. these smocked sets were awesome.
Lori

 

[eeyore3847]

UPDATE :
Well Scott called and said that His plane had landed and he was looking for the shuttle to the Hotel. So we left and went back to the hotel. We went to our room and then about 15 minutes later Scott arrived... We all took a break and got ready to change for Mickey's Trick or Treat!! WOOO HOO
Oh we loved it. it was so Fabulous that we are already planning next years TOT!
We got to CA and waited in line! Nicholas said "pics please!"

and then he held out his costume like the girls do there skirts. he was funny!

and he did not want a picture with jojo - just by himself!

We took a few pics of the CM's Dressed up. They had the music alreeady blarring!

Our first priority was the Step sisters then Peter Pan.
Well, Anastasia was not there! I was not happy about that at all!

Then off to meet Peter Pan and Crew. Nicholas at this point was clingy to Daddy. The little boy I knew that was getting so independent and wanting to take pictures decided to cling to daddy the rest of the night. ggrrrr

Then we decided to take our energy to finding candy and Rides.
We stopped at some candy stops and also went to Toy Story Mania. Which Rocked again! Love the new ride! Then Anastasia and Scott went on Calif. Screamin.

We headed over to the boardwalk and rode a couple kiddy rides.. We met some Green Men on the way.

We went over to see if Anastasia had arrived with her mom and sister and instead it was the Evil queen!

We headed over to Monsters inc ride and checked out some dancing parties!

We headed over to Flicks Fair to ride all the rides.

our last ride of the night was Tower of Terror! The park had closed and we were one of the last families out!

They got so much candy that it filled a small suitcase. I enjoyed the healthy treats they gave out. Nicholas went crazy for the raisins and Freeze dried fruit. It was nice to see my healthy kids in the last hour ask only for 'healthy snacks please". the CM's would ask, "no candy". They would say, "no thank you." we had so many healthy snacks that we ate them the rest of the trip and also brought some home. We are still eating them. It was so fabulous. Scott and I thought it was so well organized and we loved it and will be back next year!

We went back to the hotel since it was past 11pm and there was still a couple more days left in the parks!

 

[eeyore3847]

Update: Day 4 - Friday
Well, we woke up friday and Scott says "whatis up with jojo's eye." - Her right eye was completly closed and id had yellow crusty stuff. For all you mom's you know it is Pink Eye. Well we are in Calif. it is 7 am, what the heck do we do. well I looked at the Pink eye medication we had home before we left when I was packing and thought "why would we need this!". I am kicking myself. Josephine has only ever had it once before in her life.
I wait till 8am and call our pediatrician. they tell me that they will not call in a prescription without seeing her.
So I call our Nurse Hotline on our insurance. she lets me know that there is 3 in-network places we can go and gives me info. So I call the first one and she says they are not busy and gives me great directions.
We arrive at the urgent care - wait 15 minutes to be seen and then go into the room.
here is Josephine in the room!

and nicholas did not want to be left out!

This was just the start of a bad day. We then get a prexcription and head to the Target near DL. The pharm. says an hour to wait. I then ask him "please we are on vacation can it be quicker." he got us our antibiotics in 5 minutes! Target is awesome at home for prescriptions and in DL! WOO HOO!
While in the Urgent care I called disney dining and moved our 9am reses at Minnies to 10:50...
We'll we go to DL at 10:30! We gave her her first dose of meds and off we went to the park. At this point we thought, it's ok we will make the best of it no big deal!
We rushed out the door, so I wore my glasses this day.

Ok we get to Minnie's at 10:45. Check in and get sat immedietly. The restaurant was practically empty. which we thought was wierd at that point. we were next to a family that wer the most obnoxious people ever! the mom had the highest pitch voice when she talked to her 1 year old making her take pictures. ugghhh I needed a drink after sitting next to them.
Well I got up got the 3 kids food, scott got his and I got coffee. At this point the characters kept coming by FAST. All these characters were within 15 minutes, literally one right after the other so I never got a chance to get a omlete or food etc...

Nicholas loved pooh but would not go near him!

So I get up to grab food and the Buffet was cleared. They start clearing a little after 11 am. Did we know that. no! Did they tell us, "hey get food it will be gone soon." - no!! I was mad! Scott at this point said leave it alone, lets not ruin the day. Don't worry about it. At this point I thought, ok I'll just let it go, we were determined to have a great day....

 

[eeyore3847]

We decided to go to Pooh and ride Splash. I ride and we get a switch rider for us to use later and little did we know the chaos that would bring.
And then we Decided to ride Pooh!

We ride a few more rides then head back to the hotel to change for ariels!
We get There and check in!

We sit down and the new menu is fabulous! Amazing food and it was perfect!
The princesses come around.
Let me say that SW did not oohh and ahh at anastasia's set. she was there less than a minute and anastasia tried to talk with her about the dwarfs and SW was just not going along. I wanted a pic of just anastasia with her, but it just did not happen.

Cinderella was in AHHH of Jojo's set. She adored it and was asking jojo all sorts of questions and anastasia asked her if lucifer got to go with her to the castle, and she said "no, bruno and lucifer do not get along." She was the nicest of all the princesses!

Then belle came by and she was sweet and asked where her outfit was!
here is nicholas stealing Anastasia's food!

Nicholas thought Sleeping Beauty was pretty!

the food was great. It was an amazing change to the food. More expensive than before, but really lovely!

We get out of ariels and realize the Play Parade is starting. there was an empty spot and we took it!
Scott hates parades and we love them. But at the end he realized he loved it!

Nicholas adored the parade, Dancing, Water, Bubbles! It is all fun!

We go to TOT, but it was down AGAIN! but Nicholas found wall-e again!

We head over to DL.

Ride some Fantasyland rides and Star Tours, and space Mountain!
Nicholas in line!

We then head over to Splash Mountain , Scott goes up with the girls and the person at the front grabbed my husband arm and told him no. He says, you must choose only one child to go with you not both. WHAT! Now we were at Disneyland for New Years eve week and in april for 4 days and Disneyworld last summer. This is how we did it. He told him that on busy days they only allow just 1 parent and 1 child. We told the gentleman that this is how we do it, he told us to “read the pass and read it correctly”. Excuse me there is no reason to talk down to us. My husband took my 4 year old on which made my 7 year old unhappy. When my husband went I asked the guy what exactly he meant and let him know that is not how we understood the pass and that is how we have done it on trips in the past. He let me know that we were cheaters and that is not how the pass was meant to be used. I walked away and I felt horrible to be treated that way. We were always using it that way and a couple times we asked that it said 2 but we have 2 little ones and the Person in the front always said it was ok.
So we Scott goes with jojo and then a light bulb went off for anastasia.. she says, I can do single rider!! yep she can!
here are there pics from Splash... They are pics of the screens, so not the greatest!

Let me say that this was the straw that broke the camels back! The Park was packed people were annoying us and things just not going well. That guy put a bad tast in our mouth. We tried all day to let things go and make a great day out of bad situations. We decided at this poing to leave and call it a day.
I made the kdis take pics in the front as we were leaving. People kept walking behind when the PhotoPass guy has them posed and everything. people were being rude!

 

[jham]

Great update! I love all the customs. They looked great! I think I (meaning Lily) need those orange polka dot shoes! What is with people and NBC? We could barely walk without getting stopped as well. That outfit and Lily's Nemo outfit at Epcot were the most attention I'd ever received for customs. Sorry about the pinkeye! We have the same issue with the rider swap passes. Most CMs are nice and let us take both older kids back on again, but some are pretty vigilant about not letting us. We tend to have a lot of fights over that so we've had to resort to saying "next ride it will be your turn." That is great about the Dream Team person! She was probably giving away annual passes I could've used that! I did not know they had changed the menu at Ariel's Grotto, we might've gone had we known. I had ressies for breakfast at Plaza Inn but we slept through them

 

[Tasscrapper]

Can you tell me where Wall E is? My son just loves him.

 

[eeyore3847]

Can you tell me where Wall E is? My son just loves him.

He is in the Hollywood backlot by the bathrooms. My son just loved that little guy everytime we saw him!
Lori

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Great updates. Sorry about the pink eye and the less than magical CM. Can anyone explain to me why a restaurant would make a 10:50 ADR and clean up the buffet at 11am!!!

 

[eeyore3847]

Great updates. Sorry about the pink eye and the less than magical CM. Can anyone explain to me why a restaurant would make a 10:50 ADR and clean up the buffet at 11am!!!

that is what I do not get either... I think that is rediculous and now know for the future when making an ADR

 

[gate_pourri]

You're trip report is bringing me back to my childhood... Growing up in Cali we went to Disneyland all the time. Had my HS grad night in California adventure. Can't wait for your update. Hope that the next day was better than the last.

 

[eeyore3847]

ok, This is Last day in the park.... I think MY TR is completly boring so I will make it quick to finish!
We had a reservation at 7:30 at Storytellers Cafe. It is scotts Favorite Restaurant in Disney. It is in the Grand Calif. ...
It was not busy and the food was awesome!!

Nichoals loved his Mickey Pancake!!

The ranger had dance time in the center of the Restaurant!

Nicholas posed nicely for me for a quick picture!!

Then we were off to the park!!!
I wish this picture would have been a little wider, it would have been a cute walking shot!

and of course it is the Carousel again!

We rode a bunch of rides and then went over to the Character meet , I wanted those pics with chip and dale together. They were actually going on break, but the CM had them stay for us... It was really nice of them!

Then TOT was closed again!! ugghhh, so The girls wanted to ride splash and a few others so we headed back to disney...

Time for a clothing change.....

 

[MouseTriper]

Awww the kids all looked so adorable in their Chip & Dale outfits!!! You did an amazing job with all the customs!!!