The Year of Disney Trips: ***Update!!!! 8/20/08****

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,

Where are you:confused3

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OMG I am sooooo late to this party! Forgive me! :hug:

I did spend the last 2 hours reading and getting myself up to date. OMG, you're EE photo was soooo funny!

I have to tell you when DH and I went over to SSR to drop off a croc, the first thing he said about it was "This place needs to be 'browned' up a bit" :rotfl2:

Ok, so I'm ready for the next installment. Please. Thank you. :surfweb:
 
Oh my goodness guys!

I am so sorry on not having updated lately. :guilty:
Life has been crazy and I just haven't had any DIS time, plus work has limited my DIS time too. I will try and update soon though! :goodvibes
 
You got some beautiful pictures of SpectroMagic!! :thumbsup2

Great SpectroMagic pics! You certainly can't say you were bored on this trip! The guys sure kept you on your toes!!

I know and I wasn't even trying! LOL I actually wasn't going to take pics, since I had some from April, plus video, but my Mom asked me to take pics for my cousin since her camera died on her.

Ok I am FINALLY all up to date! Sounds like and interesting and fun trip! I wish I had ridden EE 3 time in a row! Can't wait to read more!

Welcome back! I will get to your TR soon, can't wait to see all the fun you had on your Disneymoon. :)

I have been enjoying reading your trip report. It sounds like you certainly had your hands full! Keep the updates coming!

:welcome: I am so glad your enjoying! An update will be coming soon!

popcorn:: More trip report please popcorn::

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,

Where are you:confused3
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I know I'm so sorry I've been MIA. :guilty: Updates coming soon. popcorn::

OMG I am sooooo late to this party! Forgive me! :hug:

I did spend the last 2 hours reading and getting myself up to date. OMG, you're EE photo was soooo funny!

I have to tell you when DH and I went over to SSR to drop off a croc, the first thing he said about it was "This place needs to be 'browned' up a bit" :rotfl2:

Ok, so I'm ready for the next installment. Please. Thank you. :surfweb:

:welcome: T! Don't worry you're not too late, there's many trips left LOL.
Yes SSR definately need some brown people, you should remind him of that to convince him to buy DVC. :rolleyes1
I just finished readig your TR (although I have to go back and see pics, since work blocks flickr). I can't believe V got you the Monchichi! I had one in my hand and I was going to get you one too, but then I thought it might be weird if I sent it since I didn't even know you in 'real' life and you might think I'm a weirdo, plus I'd have to find a way to get your addy and all that weird stalker-ish stuff. Anyhoo, I'm so glad you got it!
 

Thursday June 14, 2007

Flashback: The night before on our stroll out of MK, Mom and I decided that everyone would be too exhausted to do parks the next day as I had planned. So I suggested that we could take Thursday off and do the parks on Friday but we’d have to drive back at the end of the day because we only had the room until Friday morning and I had to work on Saturday. So it was said and done. End Flashback.

So the next morning we got to sleep in!:woohoo:

I woke up around 9 am and felt like sneaking :tiptoe: off to one of the parks, but Mom woke up and said that we should go to the gym. I laughed :lmao: at her and said she could go to the gym and I’ll go to the pool. She agreed, so we got dressed and readied to go to the SSR pool and gym. Mom tried to wake Bre up, but their door was locked and they were all sound asleep. So we drove on over to Artist Palette to have some breakfast. But first the lovely High Rock Springs (again);
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I had the flatbread again, which was delicious and Mom got some oatmeal and coffee.

After breakfast we went in search of the gym, which is where the spa is. I told Mom she should get a spa treatment instead of using the gym, but she did not want to splurge any more than we had. Ok, suit yourself.:confused3 We asked the lovely CMs at the front desk what we had to do to use the gym and they said they needed our room key and gave us the details of the gym and proper attire. Mom was in her/mine flip-flop Crocs, so we ended up driving back to the room so she could get properly dressed. Bre and the kids still weren’t up either.

So while Mom got her gym groove on I staked out a chair at High Rock Springs pool and sun bathed :beach: whilst reading a book. It was a fabulous day to be at the pool, the sun :sunny: was shining not a cloud in the sky and there was only 1 family who had decided to spend their day at this lovely oasis this fine morning.

Around 11 am I get a call from Ivan and he asks where we are and I tell him we’re at the pool and if he wanted to join us. Of course he says yes and I ask him who else is up and he said Joey and Bre. I ask him if he wants me to go get them and he says no that he’ll walk. :thumbsup2 About half an hour later Ivan and Daniel show up, apparently Bre and Joey were still in the room eating breakfast and they would join us later. Around this time Mom finished her workout and came over and joined me. The Minions were off in the pool and everything was good. Awhile later Bre and Joey arrived and she joined us, whilst the Minions frolicked in the pool.

We talked about what we were going to do for the day, I suggested we could go to the Boardwalk and eat CS somewhere there or possibly go to Downtown Disney and eat CS somewhere there. Everyone was all iffy on what to do and I basically whatever’d them because I was tired of making choices for people. :smooth: Mom and Bre hit up the bar while I hit the pool to cool off and play with the Minions. By this time the pool was getting pretty crowded, but not horribly so and then CMs from SSR set up some music and activities and raffles for the kids to enjoy. It was a great pool day and we were all very happy to have a day to relax.
Here’s the only pic of the day I got:
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Whilst at the bar, Mom and Bre decided it would be a good idea to cook food in the room and eat there then head off to the Boardwalk. I said that’s fine. So Mom and I decided to go back to the room to head into the city and hit up a grocery store to buy the food needed whilst Bre and the Minions stayed at the pool. So Mom and I left and got cleaned up and headed on out to the city, we had gone into the city earlier in the week for something, I don’t quite remember what so we knew where there was a grocery store nearby. As we’re in the grocery store Mom and I had a fight because she wanted to buy a turkey sized chicken for us and I told her she didn’t need that one, that a regular sized chicken would do. Then she got mad at me and then got mad at me because I didn’t know exactly what the SSR kitchen had so she was doubtful that it even had pots and pans for her to properly cook. It was very frustrating :mad: and I told her if she didn’t want to cook we could easily get some food in DTD or the Boardwalk, but she refused to answer me. Ugh I hate when she does that too. :mad:

We got back to SSR, stopped at the pool to pick up Bre and boys and went back to cook. Well Mom and Bre cooked (and yes the kitchen had all the necessary supplies Mom needed to cook), I checked in on the DIS and then decided to take a nap. I woke up and everyone had just finished eating and I ate and it was absolutely delicious and made me kinda miss being at home and eating Mom’s cooking. It was a nice treat to have that at Disney. It was too late to go to the Boardwalk or DTD so we just enjoyed our room and ended up seeing Illuminations from our balcony.

Oh and this was the night that Daniel decided to practice his career in stripping. I have photographic evidence to blackmail him with too!! Bwahahahahaha. Sorry can’t share on the DIS though.
Here’s one pic of proof though, that was his outfit pre show:

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Here are the Minions bonding too (Joey had fallen asleep right after he ate, poor little guy was pooped from his swimming).

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Look how red their cheeks got from the pool day.

An uneventful day, but a great relaxing, family bonding day with a magical ending. :goodvibes

Up next, what are we going to do with the Minions with no tickets? popcorn::


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Friday June 15, 2007

Today was our last day in the World and we were going to conquer 2 parks in 1 day. How many of us would be conquering them was still up in the air.:confused3

We woke up bright and early to pack and clean up all our stuff. It’s so easy to get comfortable and spread out in such a short time. Not much souvenir shopping was done so it was pretty easy to fit everything back where it needed to be, except the food. We somehow ended up with more food leaving than coming, mainly due to all the desserts we couldn’t fit and had taken back to the room.

I got the dreaded door hangy thing from outside and opened it up to make sure we weren’t being charged for stuff we didn’t pay for. And of course what do I see, unknown charges. No! :eek: :headache: :mad:

Apparently Minion #1 decided to use the hotel phone to call long distance to Puerto Rico…twice! A lovely $74 in unnecessary charges since there were 3 cell phones with long distance capabilities for FREE! Then I see an arcade charge of $10. Remember when we asked Minion #1 how he got the arcade card? He supposedly paid for it with his own money. Uh wrong! :mad:

Also, remember when Ivan wanted to get a candy bar with a snack credit in AK on our park hopping day and the lady told him I needed to be there and then later on she was able to give him the candy bar? Yup, charged it instead of using the snack credit! But that one I don’t blame on Ivan, I blame it on the cashier he didn’t ring it up right. :headache:

So there was about $86 extra in charges that shouldn’t have been there. I know that’s not much, but it’s the fact that that’s money that didn’t need to be spent. I was so mad and ranting and raving.:furious: Bre felt bad and told Mom she would pay for Daniels charges and then she went and had a lovely “conversation” with him and he ended up apologizing too.

What a great way to start the day…..

We quickly loaded all our stuff into the van and made it over to Artist’s Palette to get some breakfast and use up some of our CS that we still had left since we didn’t use them the day before.

After breakfast I asked Mom what Bre had decided to do with Daniel and Ivan since they used up 1 of their park ticket days with their excursion to MGM for 2 hours. She told me she was going to buy them tickets for today. Ok, her money not mine. Really there was nothing else she could’ve done except drop them off with their relatives, but that would’ve been an imposition for them and for us ‘cause we would’ve wasted valuable park time driving into the city and back to WDW. So we went to the Carriage House to check out and Bre went to buy the Minions their tickets.

We decided to leave the car at SSR for the day and take the buses to the parks. It took forever for an AK bus to arrive, but if eventually did and we were off to our first park!

We got to AK, not before it opened though, so once again I missed another rope drop. Oh well.

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Our main ride plan was to ride EE so I sent Minions #1 & 2 to get us some FPs. They returned and we headed over to ITTBAB. As we were walking in Joey started walking ahead of all of us, so I told everyone to stay back. :tiptoe:

Why? Well before we had gone to MK we told Joey that he needed to not wander off, since he had a tendency of doing that, because MK is a big place with lots of people and he could get lost or stolen or whatever. During our MK visit he ended up wandering a few times and we kept telling him he needed to stay with us and not do that, but it went in one ear and out the other. Then yesterday I had another conversation with him about this very thing and now he was once again wandering off, so it was time to teach him a lesson.:teacher:

So since the queue for ITTAB has many twists and turns we all stopped and stayed behind one of the turns as Joey proceeded to walk away from us. About a minute later he comes back all freaked and asking us what happened to us? :confused: Of course we all played innocent :rolleyes:

Me: “Us? We were looking for you! We couldn’t find you so we were searching for you. You wandered off again didn’t you?”

Joey looking sheepish and still scared.

Me: “What did I tell you yesterday about wandering off?”
Joey: “To not do it.”
Me: “And what just happened?”
Joey: “I wandered off.”
Mom: “You need to stay with us, because this place is very big and there are a lot of people and you could get lost very easily or someone can take you and then we’d all be sad.”
Joey: “OK.”

He didn’t wander the rest of the day either, guess the scare tactic helped.pirate:

We continued the rest of the way in to ITTAB and enjoyed it very much.

We hit up Dinoland and braved Primevel Whirl. I’m glad to report that none of us got sick:sick:, didn’t almost lose a show and did not have smelly bars.;) I actually enjoyed it and would definitely do it again.

Whilst we were on PW, Mom and Bre decided to play some of the carnival games and when we found them, the Minions all wanted to play too. So we played a few games and Minion #3 really wanted to win something, but nobody was winning, so I decided to join them in the Dino Race Skee ball thingy. Now I’m an expert at this game because Mom loves this game and every time we would go to a carnival or fair or amusement park that had this type of game we would always play. So I was pretty confident that I would win, especially since my competition was mostly kids and 1 other adult, but I knew I could take that adult. Hahahaha! :stir: Suckers! The races started and I immediately pulled ahead. My skee balls were all going where I wanted them to go and soon my dino had left everyone else in the dust and I was crowned winner. :cheer2: I asked Joey which Dinosaur he wanted and he ended up picking a big blue brontosaurus. He was so happy and I was glad I could make his day.:goodvibes Unfortunately we now had a big blue dino to carry around. D'oh!:headache:

It was super hot and we decided to take a break and use up some SC and buy some delicious refreshing ice cream as we planned what to do next.

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:woohoo: :woohoo: Congrats! :cheer2: :cheer2:

But in all honesty, I thought you had updated your TR. :lmao:

:thanks:
:lmao: Sorry, didn't mean to deceive you before!

What a nice relaxing day and as a bonus the minions didn't get up to any trouble!:banana:

::yes:: It was a much needed break and the fact that they didn't get in trouble was a bonus!

Hey, you're back!!! Thanks for the update! :)


Thanks for sticking around and glad to be back. You're Welcome!
 
Bre felt bad and told Mom she would pay for Daniels charges
I would hope so

She told me she was going to buy them tickets for today.
I hope she didn't pay for full price day tickets and just had them add onto their magic your way tickets.
 
great update.

one question, would u ever go back with tthe minions? I would place very strict rules if I did.
 
WHAT?!?! No stinky arm bars?? What's up with that? Am I the only one who smells those arm bars? :confused3

Wow, the minions were a handful, no? :rolleyes: I would have made them sit outside the entrance and wait - no new tickets for you! Bwahahaha!!! :stir:

WTG on the BIG BLUE DINO!!! :woohoo:
 
Unknown charges from the Minions!!!:scared1: :sad2: ohhh.... I'd have been spitting fire!! At least Bre paid for them.

You won at one of those games!!! :woohoo: I won one once. Since then I've been trying to beat my brother with no luck! :sad2: Some things never change. You'd think we were little kids! :rotfl:
 
Ohhh, I would have been hopping mad if I had found those extra charges. I'm glad Bree did the right think and paid for them. I hope she made the minions pay here back for those charges and the park tickets she had to buy.
 
Relaxing by the pool sounds like my kind of day :thumbsup2

(much better than going to the gym :eek: ) :rotfl2:


I'd have been upset about the charges too :headache:
 
Sorry Z I missed the pool day sounded nice though and why on earth would anyone want to go to the gym on vacation? :rotfl:

OMG those boys are a handful, good job their mum did pay those charges, maybe they should of had to :rolleyes1 And what a softie for buying them more tickets!!!!

Well done on the win, how much do those games cost?
 











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