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

[LurrrvtheDuck]

just him

too tired to look for a hot one.

Well it's better than this guy
doesn't it look like a monkey.
At least it's not the Hoff....

I'm headin' over to catch up on your TR Scott.

 

[scottny]

Well it's better than this guy
doesn't it look like a monkey.
At least it's not the Hoff....

I'm headin' over to catch up on your TR Scott.

it looks like a flying monkey from Wizard of Oz.

please no more "Hoff" or "Strada".

 

[Sleeping*Beauty]

Sending you a little inspiration!!

 

[Enchanted]

Hey, Z!

I don't know if you remember me from waaaaaaaay back in the thread, but I just love your TR(s) and I've finally found my way back to you! Whoo-hoo! I've spent most of the evening catching up on what I've missed, and so far I've caught up to the ending of your trip with the minions. I have been laughing my butt off! What a trip! Your impression of Mrs. Barvloski or whatever her name is from South Park was cracking me UP! BWAH!

And oh my Lord, those kids were a handful to say the least! Still, it sounds like you all had a blast! And you covered SO much in such a short amount of time. And in JUNE. Go you! Could you plan my family's next vacation?

Can't wait to get started reading on your August trip!

P.S. I'm sad to hear about Joey's diagnosis of leukemia. I'm hoping by the time I get fully caught up, you will have given an update on his condition. Poor little guy. I'll be praying for him and sending him oodles of pixie dust.

EDIT: Okay, NOW I'm all caught up! Wheee! Okay, this could be a little long, but hey! I'm catching up! And I'm sure you love the comments, right? That's why you do this after all!

The OKW airhead made my blood boil. What a snooty little witch. Gah. People. My family has been seriously talking about renting points for an upcoming vacation and your story (ALL THOSE DISCONNECTED NUMBERS!!!!) has definitely helped me understand a few things about protecting myself when it comes to the person on the other end of the deal. You would think she would have thought to provide you with current contact information once she moved/quit her job/changed her cell phone or whatever. Anyway, hopefully you have a better experience checking in to your hotel during your other trips. This is getting to be a bit ridiculous for you! Poor thing!

WS is SO awesome. I love exploring all of its nooks and crannies. It's hard though, trying to get some of my family to stop and smell the roses. My brother nagged us endlessly to hurry up and get back to FW so he could ride Mission:Space for the umpteenth time. Literally.

I'm so jealous of the P&PP. We never get to go when they're having them. I've never gotten to meet Captain Jack! *sobs* Glad to see that you guys were having so much fun though! Lots of great pictures! Especially of the parade! I squealed out loud when I saw Tink!

And I can't BELIEVE that Aladdin is so blatantly ignoring you! I hope you finally track him down and give him a piece of your mind.... And maybe then he'll finally wake up and realize you're the one for him and dump Jasmine for you! What? I'm a hopeless romantic, okay?

Also, I just realized that the last time we spoke, we were both headed to the same MNSSHP. I THINK I might have seen you there, but I'm not sure. Were you over in Tomorrowland around dusk, per chance? My family was riding Astro Orbiter without me (I HATE that ride.... ) so I was all alone. I remember that the sun was almost fully set by then. I'd say it was around seven or so? Maybe? Possibly? Anyway, I saw someone who looked like you sitting on a bench nearby, but I never did work up the guts to go over to her. Was it you? I was about 75% sure it was you, but it was my first possible DIS meeting and I totally lost my nerve. Probably my biggest regret from that trip, I'd say. So if it was you, I'm really, really sorry that I didn't come up and say hi!

Can't wait to read more about your trips and hope you're finding some inspiration out in the vast lands of TRs!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Sending you a little inspiration!!

Thank you!

Hey, Z!

I don't know if you remember me from waaaaaaaay back in the thread, but I just love your TR(s) and I've finally found my way back to you! Whoo-hoo!

Of course I remember you!

I'm glad you're enjoying the TR(s) , I'm still working on the August trip, I haven't updated in a month Wow February just flew by.

Hopefully I'll get back into the TR writing mojo this month.

 

[PrincessAlways]

Hopefully I'll get back into the TR writing mojo this month.

We'll be waiting!

 

[Sleeping*Beauty]

Wow February just flew by.

It is only 29 days.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Hey Z! Get off of myspace and get over here and update this thing, would ya? It's growing cobwebs for Pete's sake!

Who loves ya, baby!

 

[blue_river]

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

I’m Baaaaaaaaaaack!!

Ok so when we last left off a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Naboo was under an attack…..

Wait, wrong story.

Ok to recap {Insert Wayne’s World flashback}:

Today we planned on hitting 2 parks in 1 day and our last day in the Disney Parks.
We started out the super hot, humid morning in AK and I ended up with a bum ankle that I to this day don’t know how I got.
We did a few rides at AK and are now on our way to MGM (it was still called MGM, ahhhh the memories….)

{Insert Wayne’s World Flashback end}

So we walk, well I hobble, out of AK after our PhotoPass session towards the buses to MGM and luckily didn’t have to wait long.

Apparently the heat had gotten to Yani’s BF because he passed out on the short bus ride over to MGM:

Hee hee! This became our new favorite pastime to get pics of him sleeping.


We entered MGM and it wasn’t too packed and Ooooh look!!! Photopass!
Yani was tired of Photopass, but I did drag Isis in a pic with me.

We continued our way down Sunset Blvd preparing to scream our heads off.

The RnR FPs were all gone by this time though and the wait time said 40 min. So we nixed that idea and headed over to ToT. The FPs were super late already and the wait time said 20 min. so we braved the stand by line towards our doom.

Here’s a horrible redneck pic of our ride pic. Sorry it looks really crappy, but last time we did this ride we kept missing our ride photo and it’s so high up it’s kinda hard to get a good pic of the pic.
We got front row though L-R James (Yani’s BF), Isis, Me in the green Focking the camera.

We checked out the wait time at RnR again and it was still 40 min. We look at each other and decide that it’s not going to get any shorter. We dump all our stuff with Yani as she goes off to the gift ship to wait for us and brave the stand by again with all of THEM. Lemme tell you, that wait was not 40 min. it was more and oh so slow moving. Eventually though we finally got on and as usual highly enjoyed it. I even got to give the Lime Look to the camera again, but when we got out to see our ride photo they never showed it. We waited and waited for ours and Yani had been looking for us before we got off but we never saw it. I wonder if they thought I was doing something illegal and that’s why they never showed it. Darn!

I don’t remember what time it was, but we had some time to kill before our 4:30 ADR at Mama Melrose so we wandered around awhile in the shops and their lovely A/C.

We decided to skip Beauty and the Beast & VOTLM (James would be bored) and Indiana Jones was on it’s last show that we missed and LMA was already in progress so we were gonna try to get the 5:30 last showing if we got out of dinner in time.

So we walked around some more and get caught in the HSM parade and who do my wandering eyes should appear? Why 2 Dream Team CMs just standing about.

See how hot it was? The Dream Team guy is sopping sweat off his forehead.
Oh, and if you look even more closely you’ll see the Photopass guy next to him doing the moves to HSM dance. It was hilarious and the Dream Team people joined in.

So I had my watchful eye on the DT people to see if they would head off towards a ride and I may just possibly earn a dream finally.

Unfortunately HSM ended and all the DT people did was give a little kid who went up to them some pins.

Not fair.

I would’ve settled for some free pins.

They only seemed to like trading with the kids though, so I was S.O.L.

Onward we moved and we decided to just head over to Mama Melrose and see if they would take us early.

So we wandered over, checked in, added James to the ressie, which they had no problem doing and waited in the air conditioning for our seat. Luckily they were able to seat us 15 min. after we arrived.

Our waitress looked like Ellen DeGeneres and I’m kicking myself for not taking a pic with her. She was really nice though and funny too. Maybe she was an Ellen clone?

Our food was ok, apparently we had inherited V’s second time around food mojo and I remember the food being much better the first time I was here back in April, but I think was hungry at the time that I didn’t care.

I had the Mozzarella w/ Tomatoes for an appy, the Oven baked chicken alla Parmigana (that was overcooked and dry) and some delicious refreshing Gelato for dessert. I have no idea what everyone else had. I love the atmosphere of MM, but I don’t think I’ll be dining here again any time soon.

We gave Ellen the KTTW card to pay for the food and she comes back saying there’s a problem with our credits. We only have 3 TS left.

So I once again channel Mrs. Broflofsky "What what what?!"

Oh no, how could that be?

So I ask her if there’s a way of pulling up a history of our used TS and she tells us she’s gonna go check. So off she goes and we’re left at the table trying to figure out where the missing TS may have been used.

We account for all our credits except for P&PP night and we ask James where he ate that night. He said he ate at the resort at the place by the pool. So I start thinking of the places by the pool and I know there was a little CS place/bar thingy and I ask him if it was there and he said no, that he sat down at a table and they gave him a menu and everything. Then he proceeded to tell us that the food wasn’t even that good and that the steak he ate there broke his tooth.

Bingo! There’s our missing TS.

Apparently Olivia’s is considered TS. Now, me still being fairly new to Disney dining did not know Olivia’s was considered a TS. I thought it was OKW’s equivalent to Artist Pallette that SSR has, which is basically their food court. I thought Olivia’s was OKW’s food court, but apparently it’s not; come to think of it I don’t think I ever saw a food court at OKW.

So when Ellen comes back she tells us our used TS history and she rambles off Olivia’s. We all pretended we hadn’t figured it out already and said, “Ohhhhh.” James then said that he would pay OOP for his meal. Well Ellen was super nice to us seeing that we had been super nice with her and laughing and having a good time and I guess she felt sorry for us because she decided to only charge James for the cheapest of the four meals and use our DDP credits on the more expensive meals.

We thanked her profusely and tipped her extra for being so awesome.

We said bye to Ellen and to Mama Melrose and went off in search of something to do.

Click Here for Next Installment

 

[Enchanted]

YOU UPDATED!!!!

I was just about to go to bed after catching up on MissCammie's TR when I saw that you had updated! So of course, I HAD to come check it out.

I love the pic of you and Isis in front of the Hollywood Tower sign. Too cute!

OMG, we talked to that Dream Team guy when we were there in October! He was really nice! I think my aunt traded pins with him or something. Too funny that they were all doing the HSM dance moves!

I wondered when James's mystery meal was going to come up again! At least "Ellen" let you guys use the dining credits for the more expensive meals. That was nice of her!

Looking forward to the next update, Z! Glad that you've finally got your TR mojo back!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

YOU UPDATED!!!!

Very funny I know I was totally slacking there my bad.

I was just about to go to bed after catching up on MissCammie's TR when I saw that you had updated! So of course, I HAD to come check it out.

And you're FIRST!

Looking forward to the next update, Z! Glad that you've finally got your TR mojo back!

Thank you for sticking around

 

[scottny]

an update and a good one.

it is hard keeping track of those credits.

the pics look great.

glad your back.

 

[PrincessV]

I’m Baaaaaaaaaaack!!

WOOO HOOO!!

Ooooh look!!! Photopass!

Great. You too?! Listen, I'm walking with anyone other than you and LL come August!

I don’t remember what time it was, but we had some time to kill before our 4:30 ADR at Mama Melrose so we wandered around awhile in the shops and their lovely A/C.

Funny how much more appealing the shops are when it's like 100 degrees outside, no?

So we walked around some more and get caught in the HSM parade and who do my wandering eyes should appear? Why 2 Dream Team CMs just standing about.

Ooo, pick me, pick me!

I would’ve settled for some free pins.

Would you have settled for a certificate? I can get you one cheap.

I love the atmosphere of MM, but I don’t think I’ll be dining here again any time soon.

it does have a great ambience, doesn't it? But they really need to step up the food quality.

come to think of it I don’t think I ever saw a food court at OKW.

Nope. There's a fast-food counter, but it's tiny and easy to overlook.

Well Ellen was super nice to us seeing that we had been super nice with her and laughing and having a good time and I guess she felt sorry for us because she decided to only charge James for the cheapest of the four meals and use our DDP credits on the more expensive meals.

Sweet!

 

[DisneyJo]

Wooohooo an update BTW is this still August?

I love the sleeping photo, bless him you obviously all wore him out

I always wonder about the focker signal as here in England putting your 2 fingers up is considered swearing

I can't believe he ate a sit down meal when he was on his own!!!! At least he paid up and how good of the server to charge for the cheapest meal

 

[Disneyolic]

An update? Get outta town! Love the ToT "screaming" pic!

 

[KatGarcia]

Someone was tired of PP??? WOW. LOL.

I had fears about MM and you concreted that I won't be going there!

 

[jcc0621]

I’m Baaaaaaaaaaack!!

We entered MGM and it wasn’t too packed and Ooooh look!!! Photopass!
Yani was tired of Photopass, but I did drag Isis in a pic with me.

Why 2 Dream Team CMs just standing about.

Not fair.

I think the DT has been told not to give us Fockers any dreams!

We said bye to Ellen and to Mama Melrose and went off in search of something to do.

Great. You too?! Listen, I'm walking with anyone other than you and LL come August!

You can walk with me V, I can never even seem to find the PP Photographers

Funny how much more appealing the shops are when it's like 100 degrees outside, no?

Would you have settled for a certificate? I can get you one cheap.

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

An UPDATE!!

Your waitress sounds great, what a sweet person to charge him for the cheapest meal.

 

[scottny]

An update? Get outta town! Love the ToT "screaming" pic!

don't say that. we might have to wait another month for another one and that one was really good that I want one now.