There's No Crying in Disney! ***Completed

[puggymom]

Great trip report, I followed your link from, oh carp, I can't remember what trip report.

Anywho, I found you. Sounds like a great bert-day, glad things got better after your Epcot day.

Who goes to a water park with the intention on NOT getting wet

You will be in the world on my b-day (8/15) feel free to borrow it and have a Lapu for me.

I hear OKW, is great, I plan on trying it one day.

Looking forward to more.

 

[luvfigment]

A fun and funny way to end your birthday...nothing like entertaining some dorky guys for some free drinks!

So we know where you are staying in 5 days but who are you going with?

Looking forward to your next update.

 

[Glendamax]

Hey! Looks like you guys had alot of fun! I have yet to hang out at Pleasure Islnad at night. By sundown, my feet and legs are so tired, that I cant see going to a club too! BUT! Hopefully one day, I'll be able to squeeze it in - seems like sooooo much fun!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Great trip report, I followed your link from, oh carp, I can't remember what trip report.

Anywho, I found you. Sounds like a great bert-day, glad things got better after your Epcot day.

Who goes to a water park with the intention on NOT getting wet

You will be in the world on my b-day (8/15) feel free to borrow it and have a Lapu for me.

I hear OKW, is great, I plan on trying it one day.

Looking forward to more.

Mo! Probably found me on one of the many Focker sites or TR's. I'm glad you're enjoying! I will remember to have a Lapu for you on your Bert-day and early!

A fun and funny way to end your birthday...nothing like entertaining some dorky guys for some free drinks!

So we know where you are staying in 5 days but who are you going with?

Looking forward to your next update.

Yes very fun! My friend Yani (who is in this TR) and another friend of mine named Isis will be joining me in the world. If I finish this one I'm going to post the shortes Pre TR in DIS history.

Hey! Looks like you guys had alot of fun! I have yet to hang out at Pleasure Islnad at night. By sundown, my feet and legs are so tired, that I cant see going to a club too! BUT! Hopefully one day, I'll be able to squeeze it in - seems like sooooo much fun!

Yeah, I don't think we would be able to do PI after a park day. This was our sorta relax day so we weren't too tired.

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Update very soon!!!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

We woke up bright and early because today was our big day. Today we're hitting…..

We had an 8:00am ADR and needed to get to the park ASAP. We get dressed, and I've decided my hair will be stay curly today and we're out the door in record time and are the first in line at the bus stops and luckily didn’t have to wait long for the MK bus to arrive. It wasn’t too packed but it was pretty full. So we made the 20min bus ride to MK and we’re finally here!

Here’s Monica & Collette at the entrance:

Now the only reason we had this very early ADR is because I was reading a thread on the DIS about empty park photos and someone mentioned that the best way to get those pics was to get early breakfast ADRs that allow you to enter the park before non-early breakfast eating people. So I was like and was very thankful for the DIS again.

We walk up to the turnstiles and tell one of the CMs that we have ressies for breakfast, so they direct us to a turnstile and in we go. Oh my goodness, it was so wonderful to walk into the park this early
Monica was so happy:

Me:

Collette (notice she has Lime Green on!):

I loved this picture with because see from L to R Yani, Me and DC all walking towards the castle awwwww (good thing my jacket was covering my ****!)

Then Yani caught this pic (look very closely):

Do you see the 2 little girls dressed as Aurora and Cinderella? That is just so perfect that they’re running right down the middle towards the castle! Love this pic!

We had some time to spare before our ADR (for once we were early!) so of course we had to take some pics in front of the castle with the Walt and Mickey statue:

Collette, Me, DC:

DC:

Me:

Yani somehow got these two great shots of the castle Alone:

I saw the cute little character statues around that area and I didn’t remember them from the last time I was here, so I went in search of my man. Here he is:

Then I made Yani pose with Goofy (which is her man):

It was now getting close to our ressie time so we headed on over here:

Breakfast with Pooh and Friends

 

[disney_fan_fam]

Great TR love all the pics!!!! Awesome pics of an empty MK!

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Great pictures! I just love having the park to myself. On my recent trip we also had 8:00 ADR's for the Crystal Palace so that we could have our photo ops. We were the first ones let into the park that day, it was great!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

I check us in with Crystal Palace CM and get my buzzer thingy. We wait and just enjoy being in the park this early! DC has already disappeared ; I have no clue where she went off to while I was checking in. Oh well, she knows where we are. We waited like 5 min. before our buzzer went off, DC miraculously appeared as soon as it did and we were seated by a lovely CM and informed that our waitress would be with us as soon as she arrived. Huh? Ooooh our seating CM was being snarky! Apparently our waitess CM was late arriving to work.

I took that time to get some pics of the cute Pooh characters decorating the front entrance (couldn’t find the others):

Here’s the big guy himself

Then Piglet and Eeyore

And of course, my favorite bouncy T I double G ER (who’s face I couldn’t get)

I went back to the table and our waitress had made it to work. Her name was Samy and she was very nice and sweet and funny and I personally think the other seating waitress was just jealous of Samy. Samy and Collette were talking and they just clicked. Collette was asking for tea (remember she’s half British) and told Samy that she was an only child and she just had to have things certain ways, or something or other. So Samy, told her that it was fine because she was a Princess. Then Samy goes on to tell us that we are all Princesses and that even she is a Princess. Lemme tell you, Samy really enjoys her job. So since Samy and Collette were getting along swimmingly Collette just HAD to get a picture with her, so here they are:

We’re given the character shpiel and Samy recommends some kind of breakfast lasagna thing from the buffet. I see Eeyore heading our way, but DC, Monica and Collette were off already to get their food so I stayed at our table with Yani and got a pic with Eeyore that nobody loves:

Everyone came back and I didn’t see any other characters coming our way anytime soon, so Yani and I went off to get our breakfast.

As we were coming back I see Piglet in our area and we take pics with him (Piglet’s a him right? Piglet’s like the Pat (from SNL) of the Pooh characters sometimes). Anyhoo, here’s Yani and Collette with Piglet:

All the characters seem to have gone to the other side of the restaurant so we were able to enjoy our breakfast without stopping. The food was good, the lasagna breakfast thing that Samy had recommended was blech , but the 1900 PF breakfast was better (for me) than this one. DC liked CP better though because they had chocolate chip pancakes.

Anyhoo so along comes…..

Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh
Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff
He’s Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh
Willy silly nilly old bear……

Even though we had pics with him already, we took them again because why not? Here’s Yani and Monica making Pooh blush:

We wait patiently for the last character to get to us and he’s the one I am looking forward to meeting…..again. So then he finally shows up! The wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful fun!

Me giving Tigger a kiss:

Check it out, giving mad props to the Tigger Man with my shirt:

Then the parade starts. But but none of the kids want to join in! Awww, so Collette who has completely turned into a child at this point (like we all have become at this point, honestly we were more excited meeting the characters than some of the kids….) decides she’s going to join in the parade. You don’t believe me, well here are the pics to prove it:

She looked so cute in the parade and actually got some kids to join in. It was hilarious! So after the parade and we had had our good laugh, we ask for the check, because I spot people starting to enter the park and we needs to get our ride on before They do!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

As we leave CP, we see everyone is heading towards Tomorrowland. Well I’ve decided to not go that way eek:, we’ve become THEM) because I have a revised touring schedule than everyone’s lover suggests.

So we take a left and head on into Adventureland! Which is completely empty and we have it all practically to ourselves. We decide to take the scenic route through The Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse.
Here’s Yani doing her thang on the runway, Supermodel:

We actually decide to freak DC, Collette and Monica out because the first bridge is a wobbly bridge so Yani and I start making it move and I hear Collette gasp and yell “Zorylee!!!” She never calls me Zorylee, it’s always just Li (said like Lee), so you know she was pissed. Still hilarious! Anyhoo we quickly walked through and headed onwards because Yani had a date with her lover. We score some FPs for Jungle Cruise and backtrack it to meet Yani’s lover and whaddya know! 10 min. wait!

It was probably less than a 10 min. wait because we walked all the way through the line queue and boarded our boat. Wooohooo!!

Ok so I didn’t know you weren’t allowed to take pics on this ride because, well I read UtahMama’s TR and she had pics, so I wanted to take pics too! (Donning flame suit)

So here’s Yani who’s as happy as a clam to be here finally:

And this is just so totally cool and loved it:

I won’t bore or spoil the ride with more pics though. We finally got to see Yani’s Lover Capt. Jack Sparrow and they did a freakishly good job getting his likeness down. We’re dumped into the POTC gift shop and Yani goes on a mini shopping spree. She was in POTC heaven and I had to control her and remind her not to spend too much money. While in the gift shop DC got arrested:

And Collette got in a swordfight:

I lost DC….again. While Yani was paying for her plethora of POTC paraphernalia (wow that was a lot of P words…), DC comes up to me and shows me a necklace. I told her it was really cute, but she said she wasn’t sure if she should get that one or another one she saw, so she dragged me over to the necklace stand thingy and showed me the choices and I helped her pick out a necklace. Then I grabbed myself a POTC wallet and we paid and had them send all our stuff to the resort. (I love staying onsite!)

Yani was eyeing more POTC stuff, so I told her “No more” and dragged her out of the store before she made her credit card people and Disney happier. As we we exit we see a huge line for Aladdin, so we nix that ride and the Tiki Room didn’t appear to be open yet, and our FPs for Jungle Cruise weren’t ready yet. We look around and see a huge group of people at the entrance to POTC and who do I spot? Well whaddya know! It’s Yani’s Lover in the flesh! I grab Yani and point to her and she lets out a little squeek and makes her way over to the Pirate tutorial that has begun. Then I spot Peter Pan and Wendy! So I grab DC and we head to the line (which is short) to get some pics and autographs.

Let me tell you, Wendy and Peter were so “on” as they intereacted with all the little kids and even us. DC was wearing a shirt that said “Neverland” so when they saw her shirt they started asking her where she got it. It was the best thing ever! Unfortunately DC did not know what to say to them so I basically answered all their questions on where she got the shirt and played along with them. It was quite fun. Here we are with Peter and Wendy:

While we were waiting in line for Peter & Wendy, Capt. Hook and Smee appeared across from us. So of course I dragged DC over to their line (which was also short). The CM wrangler for Hook & Smee was kinda weird in the she’s probably working for Disney too long, but she’s cool way. She reminded me of Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter books. When she saw DC’s shirt she gasped and said “Oh no. Hook is going to be mad.” DC just looked at her oddly and the CM points to her shirt and says whispering, “He doesn’t like Tink. He’s very mad with her.” And shakes her head at the shirt. I laughed and DC started to look scared. Then some kids get in line behind us and are talking about Peter that they just finished meeting. So the CM says to them, “Shhhh Don’t let Hook know where Peter is because he’s been looking for him.” The poor kid looked like he got scolded and the CM just kinda looked off into nothingness (like Luna Lovegood) and stayed quiet. Hook went on a “break”, but Smee was still around. As we got closer Hook returned. Wooohooo!! The little boy in front of us went up to get his pics and autographs but he had a sword. So Hook points to his sword and takes the little boy out to an open area and begins to have a sword fight with him. It was so cool that I took a pic (the mom didn’t, but I sure did ):

DC was next and Oh Lordy did she get in trouble with Hook……

Schmoozin' and Cruisin'

 

[Glendamax]

Wow! An early update! This September, I have an ADR for Crystal Palace @ 8am too! Like you, I did so because of the DIS! I hope I get some great shots on main street. I really looking forward to seeing it empty.

Wasn't Pirates nice?! It really looked like Johnny Depp was there! I even rode it twice!

Hope you have a nice day!

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Sounds like the day is off to a good start. Happy to see that you and the girls had a wonderful breakfast experience at the Crystal Palace. I love that Colette got up and participated in the parade!

 

[PrincessV]

What a night! Glad you were able to shake the Man and have a good time!

 

[siestakeys04]

I really have enjoyed your trip report

 

[Disneyolic]

I just read your PI update and what a bunch of hoochie mamas are you! You all looked very nice and I might have even hit on you, if I was that way, which I'm not.....not that there's anything wrong with it.... I guess I have to throw in my own Seinfeld episode!

 

[Disneyolic]

So much to read but I finally caught up. What do you mean that no one loves Eeyore? I find him the snuggliest!!!!

You all crack me up with your interaction. So different than a family with small children....or is it?

 

[DisneyJo]

Jo if I don't see you I'm gonna be bummed.

Me too, I'll be wearing my TFW lanyard and have LGMH's

How early did you post these young lady? Or was it very late?

Great updates and I agree with DM I Eeyore, so funny about Collette in the parade, much braver than me

 

[irishelysia]

heh just read most all of your trip report, quite enjoyable! We too had dinner at Akershus however we quite loved the food and the characters(though we had not eaten since 6am and it was 6pm by the time we got there, and we were late so we literally sprinted through the entirety of epcot to get to norway...so almost anything would have been good to starved us!) Oh & we also gasped at that $37k castle that was sold everywhere

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Great TR love all the pics!!!! Awesome pics of an empty MK!

Thanks! I love our empty MK pics!

Great pictures! I just love having the park to myself. On my recent trip we also had 8:00 ADR's for the Crystal Palace so that we could have our photo ops. We were the first ones let into the park that day, it was great!

Before park opening ADRs is so fun!

Wow! An early update! This September, I have an ADR for Crystal Palace @ 8am too! Like you, I did so because of the DIS! I hope I get some great shots on main street. I really looking forward to seeing it empty.

Wasn't Pirates nice?! It really looked like Johnny Depp was there! I even rode it twice!

Hope you have a nice day!

Yes I know, I'm a night owl. I liked POTC too, but I kinda miss the old school one. But Jack really is very impressive.

I love that Colette got up and participated in the parade!

It was absolutely hilarious

What a night! Glad you were able to shake the Man and have a good time!

Oh The Man! We still laugh about that to this day. I have to find out what that business card said.

I really have enjoyed your trip report

Thank you!

I just read your PI update and what a bunch of hoochie mamas are you! You all looked very nice and I might have even hit on you, if I was that way, which I'm not.....not that there's anything wrong with it.... I guess I have to throw in my own Seinfeld episode!

So much to read but I finally caught up. What do you mean that no one loves Eeyore? I find him the snuggliest!!!!

You all crack me up with your interaction. So different than a family with small children....or is it?

No I didn't mean no one loves Eeyore . You know how he's always saying "Nobody loves me." so that's why he's always sad (and the fact that he keeps losing his tail). That's what I meant. I Eeyore too.

Me too, I'll be wearing my TFW lanyard and have LGMH's

How early did you post these young lady? Or was it very late?

I'll be looking! Yes I know it was early/late. I'm a night owl and then Photobucket decided to go down so I had to wait and then the DIS goes down around 4:30am so I had to wait.

heh just read most all of your trip report, quite enjoyable! We too had dinner at Akershus however we quite loved the food and the characters(though we had not eaten since 6am and it was 6pm by the time we got there, and we were late so we literally sprinted through the entirety of epcot to get to norway...so almost anything would have been good to starved us!) Oh & we also gasped at that $37k castle that was sold everywhere

We really enjoyd the characters at Akershus, the food was just so so for us. We're not very adventurous eaters.


Ok so I had the next installments all nice and written up and saved on my flash drive to post because when the DIS went down last night I had nothing better to do and wrote it all out. Then my flash drive decided to act stupid and somehow my TR got corrupted and now it's all gone. I spent like an hour writing out installments and now it's all gone! So the next installments won't be up to later/early today. Sorry.

 

[DisneyJo]

Oh no so sorry about your lost TR's