Toetoe, we're not in Anaheim anymore! A fully completed TR - links on pg.1

[Ltl Mermaid]

From one So.Cal local (and prior cast member at DLR)...GREAT TR!

 

[ktnlxismom]

Back at the resort (after DH freaked OUT again driving back because he thought he was lost, but he actually wasn’t), we decided that the kids weren’t going to sleep on the pull out couch together. There was barely room for DS, whose feet hung over the end most nights. Fortunately, DD is still small enough that she slept on the loveseat without any problems and this is the arrangement we took up for the rest of the week. After the kids literally dropped into sleep, DH started a bath in the Jacuzzi tub and we took turns getting relaxed and refreshed. Then he turned on a movie and I got caught up in that and stayed awake until about 12:30 a.m. Everyone else had been asleep for a couple of hours by the time I finally closed my eyes and fell asleep myself.

Next up: Day 2 – A Magic Kingdom morning and a brief evening foray into Epcot

Great Trip Report Cyn - can't wait to read the rest of it!!!

I'm SOOOO glad we aren't the only ones this happens to - I swear last summer we must have driven around the Richard Petty Driving Experience 10 times trying to find WL!!!!!! Somehow DH seems to think I should know where everything is, even if I haven't been there before! But we found it eventually, and hopefully next time should be easier...

...back to reading!

 

[ktnlxismom]

And neither of youse noticed the really really really funny picture!

OK Disunc - enlighten us please???????

 

[cynderella]

Before I talk about WHY on EARTH I would even think of waking up at 5:45 a.m. on vacation, let me digress a moment to tell you some things about my daughter. Her entrance into the world was something of a surprise to us, especially after nine years of our having only one child (we were going to have another kid someday, really we were ….eventually …I guess the powers that be decided nine years was enough of a stretch between kids and I’d better get to it before menopause??) My son was, relatively speaking, a pretty easy kid and I was used to raising a boy and, well, I was a girl so had some experience with that, you know, so…I was really hoping for another boy. At the ultrasound, when the tech said, “Oh yes, this is a girl for sure!” I screamed (loud enough to have my mother, who is a nurse at the hospital, come running down the hall: “WHAT!? What!” It’s a girl. “OH! Hahaha! <insert hysterical laughter here> That’s PERFECT!”) I vowed then that if I was going to have to have a girl child, there would be none of this pink ‘n lace business…no girly girl foo foo babydoll stuff. We were going to raise the little woman with primary colors and gender neutral toys and there would be very little of this girl business going on around my house! My mother smirked a lot and gave me many looks of smug satisfaction as my daughter practically came out of the womb saying, “Pink!” which was her #1 fav color for 6.5 years. All things pink and lacey, girly and princess-y were dearly loved by my daughter, and after about 5 years I gave up and finally accepted that girly was just her way (with a lot of little nudges from Grandma Sue, I might add).

So, when we made our plans to be at WDW during the week of her birthday, I jumped head first into planning all the princess-y Disney things I had read about and heard about here on the DIS. When I got an 8:20 ADR for CRT, I was thrilled! I started planning for perhaps a princess outfit to be worn (I’d heard that some girls were very disappointed that they’d worn their own clothes to breakfast and many other girls had on princess outfits…mustn’t scar the little darlings for life) and maybe bringing one of her tiaras…my head was filled with ideas about how to make her b-day the most princess day ever. Until one day around the beginning of May when she said to me: “Mom, I don’t want to wear that outfit. Pink isn’t my favorite color anymore.” Huh?

A couple of weeks later as I was putting up a poster of the Disney Princesses that she’d gotten for Xmas, but we’d forgotten about, she (who is really into interior design, for some reason) says, “We can leave that up for awhile, mom, but we have to take it down when I re-do my room. I’m not really all that into princesses anymore.”

All I could think was: Here I am, finally getting what I’ve always wanted! …but…I’ve already paid for breakfast at CRT! Can’t you just love princesses for a couple more months and then quit!?

It turns out this is one of “those phases” where she waivers daily between liking the little girl princess stuff and yearning for the big girl teen stuff (she is SEVEN! Do you think I might be in a wee bit of trouble in about 5-7 years?) So, anyway, I kept the ADR and figured at the very least it would be a nice thing she and I could do alone on her b-day without the guys and on top of all that, the castle is COOL! The guys decidedly did not want to actually spend money to have a princess breakfast and also were not interested in more than that first ½ day at MK, so they stayed at the villa and we went to MK for the first half of DD's b-day. Ok, so: 8:20 CRT ADR means waking up at 5:45 so as not to be late. Hey, two chicks…it takes some time to get ready (and I need 30 minutes with my coffee so no one gets hurt), and we also were taking the bus, so had to leave that time cushion, right? Unfortunately, we still missed the first bus we wanted to catch. Though we did have to rush, it turned out to be ok, since we finally got to the park JUST in time to beat the regular crowd – we entered the park at 7:46 – and RAN down main street (yes, with my toe!):

as we heard the hoards counting down: “FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE! WELCOME TO THE MAGIC KINGDOM!” Well, as I wanted a picture of DD all alone in front of the castle before park opening, I was a bit worried, but as you can see, we still got what we wanted.

After I got a couple of pictures taken, we rushed over to CRT and walked in 20 minutes early for our seating. Thinking back to Boma, I was sure we’d be cooling our heels for a good half hour, but they took us right in and we got our

picture with Cinderella REALLY quickly (“Hi, Princess! Say cheese! Have a magical day! NEXT!”…and what a god-awful picture – no, I will not scan it – I look horrendous, and even Cinderella looks bad. Ack!). We were seated by the window at a table for two overlooking Fantasyland. Actually, DD could see the carousel from her seat and I could see the castle wall and the backs of some buildings:

Our server, Kier, was lovely and brought DD a “Magical Moment” certificate for her birthday signed by Cinderella, and eventually signed by the other princesses who visited our table, Belle, Aurora, Snow White, and the Fairy Godmother. Here’s what that looks like, DISUNC:

We also got one with all our first names on it at check-in over at OKW that said it was for “First Visit!” and was awarded by “Chardonnay.” That was name of the phone CM I actually talked to twice while making and adjusting room ressies. She was very sweet, but I assume they do that for all first time visitors as well?

We ate a nice breakfast (which, like everyone always says, was stone cold because you can’t eat and talk to a succession of princesses at the same time). Here are the wenches who chilled my scrambled eggs:

Since there were two other little girls near us celebrating birthdays also, everyone sang to them and Meredith at once. Then there was a wishing ceremony with the light-up wishing star that was given to each child:

We quickly finished our meal and left to ride whatever DD wanted at MK. First it was Peter Pan’s Flight (again!) where I LOST the Cinderella breakfast picture!!!, then we tried It’s a Small World (which is somewhat different, but no less charming than the one at DL), then we recovered the Cinderella picture from the Peter Pan’s Flight cast members (which was both good and bad – I had just gotten used to the idea of losing all that money so I’d never have to see that awful picture again). Once those things were done, we headed to City Hall to get DD a birthday button, where she also got a phone call from Goofy in which he sang Happy Birthday to her. From there, we got on the train and headed to Adventureland, where DD wanted to ride Aladdin’s Magic Carpets (Dumbo morphed into a carpet). As we were riding, we could see the Agraba Bazaar across the way, and since I need to buy postcards to send to Virginia-bear’s and Teresa’s kids, I suggested we look there. Well, we did shop there, but alas, no postcards. However, DD did see a Jasmine doll she liked and a Test Track pin for her trading set. I asked the clerk if they had any postcards and she said no in what I thought was a rather unfriendly tone. Hmm. I looked left to see what appeared to be an inside portion to the bazaar. “May we bring these items (Jasmine and the TT pin) inside?” I asked. “Inside?” she said, puzzled. I saw, as we walked around the “bazaar” that there was no inside, so I just asked her to ring up our items. As we got to talking, though, she turned out to be rather friendly after all. We discussed the fact that DH is a cast member at Disneyland and that it was DD’s birthday. She wished DD a happy birthday and asked: “Are you a good girl?” DD was shy, but I said: “Oh, she is such a good girl, yes.” And the clerk went to the pin rack and picked out a Happy Birthday trading pin to give to her for free! What a nice dose of pixie dust! She was very excited. We had our purchases (including the pictures I was terrified to lose again) sent back to our resort, and after our fun shopping spree, DD wanted to go on Aladdin’s Magic Dumbo Carpets again. We did that and then took the train to Toontown, where we met Mickey Mouse:

and rode Goofy’s Barnstormer. If you have ever been on this ride, you know why the look on my DD’s face in this picture is so funny (she’s saying to me as I take the picture, “You’re not coming with me!?”):

Has anyone ever timed this ride? I bet it lasts, at most, 30 seconds. DD and I were both astounded when it ended as abruptly as it began and so we decided we needed some real roller coaster action and headed (via Disney train) back to Frontierland where we could ride Thunder Mountain Railroad, which had only a 15 minute wait (at 11:25 a.m.!). We did have fun, and DD enjoyed it, but I somehow feel as if this ride at WDW is not quite as thrilling as the version at Disneyland, though I can’t put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because we rode EE early in the trip. Still, it was a good way to end our visit to the Magic Kingdom and we got back on the Disney train where we got off at the Main Street station to leave the park and take the monorail over to GF for the Wonderland Tea Party.

Next up: Part II of DD’s Disney Birthday

 

[cynderella]

One of my personal fav's. Didja sit upstairs over the path from FL to LS?

No!! I didn't know about that! I guess that will have to be Thing #4 That I Will Do Differently Next Time

NO TTA? NO COP???? NO BUZZ???

I remember TTA from when they had it at DL years ago...my kids don't know it, so it would have been fun to go on (COP, too, since we don't have that, either) but there were fires to be extinguished!! My DH had no tolerance whatsoever for MK, so we raced through it.

BTW...Your Kids are quite the lookers!

Why, thank you (to all who have said so). The pictures are actually pretty terrible of all of us. Hard to look purty in FL humidity in August!

Can I interject this TR for a moment? Why didn't You ?

Well, a couple of reasons. 1) we didn't add me on as second driver (not sure if we'd have had to pay extra for that) but mostly, 2) I didn't want to! I wanted to ride the bus!!!

 

[cynderella]

I'm SOOOO glad we aren't the only ones this happens to - I swear last summer we must have driven around the Richard Petty Driving Experience 10 times trying to find WL!!!!!! Somehow DH seems to think I should know where everything is, even if I haven't been there before! But we found it eventually, and hopefully next time should be easier...

Exactly! He didn't know where he was going, but I was supposed to know the area like the back of my hand! But I had never been there, either! I guess with the success of all my other meticulous plans, I was supposed to have the FL road maps memorized as well.

 

[lauren_elizabeth]

Ha, your daughter's face in that Goofy's Barnstormer picture is priceless!

 

[Va-bear]

Oh my gosh, I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out, and then I laughed so hard I got tears in my eyes. Hee hee. I knew there was a reason that picture was funnier than it should have been!

You and me both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing so hard tears come is BAD when your eyes are all bleh with pink eye - but worth it!!!! REALLY good one!!!!

When do we get to hear more Cyn?!!!!

 

[Va-bear]

She is so cute - and this picture should win some award!!!! (and another plus, you can tease her with it for years to come!) Great pics Cyn!

 

[cynderella]

When I called in early May to make the ADR for WTP, the CM I spoke with tried to talk me out of it! She saw that we had CRT ressies and said “I don’t know! That’s a really big breakfast. Are you SURE you want to do both of these in one day??” Does WDW know this woman is discouraging their guests from spending money!? Whoa! With this in mind, I’m sure glad I didn’t listen to her suggestion. We ate relatively little enough at breakfast that by 1:00, DD was already hungry and also ready to get back into an environment with sustained air-conditioning. We meant to get headed over to the GF by about 12:45 to be there by the suggested time of 1:15. WTP was to start promptly at 1:30 p.m. Well, my cell phone rang about 12:00:

“Hey! We’re at the GF right now, waiting for you.”

“Why are you doing that? It’s only noon.”

“Well, I didn’t know where I was going, so we left a little early.”

A bit inconvenienced (as we could have done something else before leaving MK), we finished up with Thunder Mt. and headed out to the park exit. Then we hopped on the monorail instead of the boat (we had planned on the boat, but it was just too hot by this time to be out any longer in the real air!) The coolest part about the monorail ride over to the GF was that DD and I got to ride up front with the pilot! (The bad thing is that I got no pictures and there was bird poop on the windshield.) Once we got to the GF, we met up in the lobby with DH and DS who had been waiting for us for almost an hour by that time (Reason #356524 not to rent a car: DH left an HOUR early for a place that was 5 minutes away because he hadn’t been there before. Oooookay.)

We showed up outside 1900 Park Fare about 30 minutes early (thanks, hon!):

After a considerable wait, DD was ready to go into the tea party and she made friends with a sweet and friendly little girl named Melissa from New York with whom she sat at the tea party table.

At this tea party, no parents are allowed, so DH, DS, and I went over to Gasparilla Grill and Games for a quick lunch. It was actually pretty darn good. I had a Jerk Chicken Wrap and the guys had burgers. The resort was gorgeous, even if we did decide it wasn’t quite our style. Some man in Gasparilla had his SCREAMING toddler with him and this kid absolutely screamed non-stop for like 15 full minutes while the dad waited for some food. As relaxed as I was, I would have cheerfully killed them both for some peace and quiet, but finally dad dragged the little one (still screaming) off over the lawn, presumably to their room where they would torture the ears of some other hapless souls.

By the time we finished eating lunch, DD had 10 minutes left in her tea party, so we waited in the cool of the GF lobby for her to emerge. Have I mentioned how HOT and MUGGY it was? I must have, yes. But since we had to sit outside the Gasparilla Grill to eat our lunch, we were extra hot – this after DD and I spent all morning at MK in what turned out to be 98 degree heat with something like 70% humidity. HOThothot! Once we picked up DD, spent 20 minutes socializing with Melissa’s charming parents, and got to the rental car, which was parked, what, a mile away, we were ready for a serious break. At this moment, we doubly appreciated our lovely air-conditioned villa and couldn’t wait to get back there. On the way, we stopped very quickly at the OKW gift shop to pick up our complimentary trading pin ----

Digression here. I got a certificate for a free trading pin when I signed up for DME. Well, we got the dang car instead, but I still had the certificate. I was thinking, based on the list of places you could pick up your complimentary pin, that it would be a pin representing that particular place. So, I specifically went to the OKW store thinking I’d get an OKW pin. I wanted one really, really badly! But, no. This pin is a DME bus, and it is cute (and I for darn sure didn’t turn it down – it was free!) but I wanted an OKW pin! But they were out! OMG, if OKW is out of OKW pins, that must mean there aren’t anymore in all the rest of the World, either. I’m thinking back to the OKW pin I saw on eBay…someone wants $10.95 plus $5.50 shipping for it. I don’t want to pay that!!!

Ok, so we got the DME pin and crossed to the lobby to get the OKW pressed pennies for DD’s collection, and back to the villa we went. DD had wanted to go for a swim right away, but we talked her out of that because a) the small pool near our villa is HOT (like 80 degrees!) and b) we didn’t have the energy. So, instead, I filled the Jacuzzi tub for her and she took a one hour bath to relax! After she dried off, she put on PJs to lounge in and ended up taking a 2 hour nap (along with DS, who “wasn’t tired”):

Once DD woke up, we realized we were pretty wiped out and that maybe trying to make that Sci-Fi Dine In ADR wasn’t going to be such a good idea after all. DD sure didn't care about it, so I told her that since it was her birthday, she could decide what we did the rest of the evening. We all agreed to skip the dinner ressies and try to regain our strength and energy for the next day instead of continuing on as exhausted as we were. We didn’t want to sit around the villa all night, though, when there was so much to do, so DD voted that we should head over to the main pool, eat dinner from Goods to Go, and have a swim and some watersliding before turning in for the night. Dinner was OK (it was just hot dogs and burgers), but the Sultry Seahorse I had from the Gurgling Suitcase was awesome. We had so much fun that we swam and slid longer than planned and didn’t get back to the villa and into bed until about 11:00 p.m.

Next up: Epcot!

 

[Va-bear]

but the Sultry Seahorse I had from the Gurgling Suitcase was awesome.

Great addition Cyn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sometimes wish i could go to one of these "girly" tea parites...oh well....glad DD got to go!!!

Sultry Seahorse!!!! (Is that anything like a Provacative Pig?!)

 

[dwheatl]

This is such a great TR. Love the pics, too.

 

[LizzySwan1022]

Other than that....Fabolous report thus far! i feel like i should update my own..what's this? three chapters in two days? i'm lazy! you're making me look bad!

Yeah! Quit Makin us look bad!

 

[eeyore45]

CYN - Thanks so much for directing me over here to your TR!!

Of course now that our Sept trip is paid for (all but the minor detail of tickets!!) I'm much more excited than I've been recently

I wish I started reading sooner, now I feel I have so much to say!! me, with something to say Anyway I too at the pic with the hats - we live in the midwest, ducks arent the problem - its the Canadian (protected wildlife) GEESE - their poop is EVERYWHERE!! I live 3 blocks from a park, but in a HUGE suburban neighborhood -it still strikes me as odd having a couple of geese poop in your yard - there aint no water - git outta here geese!! ( yes, we run them off) and at schools (again, no water around mind you, just goose poop) when the kids play outside, they track in that green goose poop...

Anyway. Second item... Great looking kids indeed!! I loved your story of your dd!! I have two ds (now 21 and 18 mind you) and I too "get boys" real well (in our family my cousin and aunt all of us around 2 years in age apart have 9 boys between us - they kept trying for a girl I loved my boys!!) anyway... we were "done" too - then as dh scheduled his v-day appt... I went in to get my thyroid checked - "Mrs. M, you're thyroids fine, you're pregnant" nine and 12 years difference, and my boys are hockey players - imagine the shock of a girl!! NO PINK, they were determined to raise a hockey girl Well, they got half their wish - she is a BLUEfavorite color girl (no pink!) but she is all girly girl, and definately a HUGE DRAMA QUEEN

Hmmm I think I hijacked your thread, it became all about me!!

Now I must head over to this.... secret green club place, it sounds like a lot of fun people around...

 

[Mary Anne]

I must tell you I as so enjoying your trip report. My favorite part so far is in the beginning you've stated: This will be our once in a lifetime trip.... and then you go on and on talking about what you'll do different next time

I love seeing your pictures of the OkWest what a great choice you made. We're DVC and OKWest is our very favorite of the DVC homes. They are all wonderful, but we love the room space in OKWest.

Please continue to write more.

 

[DISUNC]

“Mom, I don’t want to wear that outfit. Pink isn’t my favorite color anymore.” .....“We can leave that up for awhile, mom, but we have to take it down when I re-do my room. I’m not really all that into princesses anymore.”

Do you think I might be in a wee bit of trouble in about 5-7 years?

The guys decidedly did not want to actually spend money to have a princess breakfast and also were not interested in more than that first ½ day at MK, so they stayed at the villa and we went to MK for the first half of DD's b-day.

POOPAS!

we entered the park at 7:46 – and RAN down main street (yes, with my toe!):.

OUCH!

Well, as I wanted a picture of DD all alone in front of the castle before park opening, I was a bit worried, but as you can see, we still got what we wanted.

!)

Not a EZ task! Congrats!

and what a god-awful picture – no, I will not scan it – I look horrendous, and even Cinderella looks bad. Ack!).

I have one with Mrs Incredible. You would swear that he just beat the heck outta me, and turned me into a wet dirty dish rag!!!!!

Here’s what that looks like, DISUNC:

]!)

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My Dnef got one of them on the Behind the seeds tour. He fed the fish!!!!

We also got one with all our first names on it at check-in over at OKW that said it was for “First Visit!” and was awarded by “Chardonnay.” That was name of the phone CM I actually talked to twice while making and adjusting room ressies. She was very sweet, but I assume they do that for all first time visitors as well?

Nope they don't do that for everyone! You're Special!

(which was both good and bad – I had just gotten used to the idea of losing all that money so I’d never have to see that awful picture again).

Between the infamous Baggalinni and "deliver to you resort" service....Could it be that you subconsciensly(sp?) WANTED to loose it???

(We discussed the fact that DH is a cast member at Disneyland

Namedropper

(We had our purchases (including the pictures I was terrified to lose again) sent back to our resort

'TERRIFIED" 'Bout time you sent it to the resort!

(If you have ever been on this ride, you know why the look on my DD’s face in this picture is so funny (she’s saying to me as I take the picture, “You’re not coming with me!?”):

PRICELESS!

(take the monorail over to GF for the Wonderland Tea Party.

TWO in ONE day??????

What a nice DD Birthday morning!!!!!

 

[cynderella]

Friday morning is when I, personally, finally hit the wall. Though the rest of the family seemed to have been getting almost sufficient sleep, I had not – I’m the mom; I always get shorted, right? I’d never really caught up from the lack of sleep in the first part of the trip, so I felt lethargic and slightly ill as we got ready to head over to Epcot that day. Part of this may also have been from that Sultry Seahorse the night before. Wowie. Anyway! As I said before, our villa looked out over Peninsular Rd. right in front of the South Point bus stop, so it was easy to spot the bus we needed, jump out the door, down the steps, and over to the bus stop in exactly the time it took for the bus to make the turnaround. I was rushing to get ready in spite of not feeling that well, but DH and DS kept hassling me to move more quickly. Every time any bus would come up the road toward the bus stop, they’d yell “Epcot!” At first I gave them a bad time for crying wolf, but then it got to be funny. Once the real Epcot bus came along, they had to tell me in panicked tones that they weren’t kidding this time! We had to go! “Epcot!” became our mantra for the rest of the trip (and even after we’ve come home) any time someone wants someone else in the family to hurry up. Example: As we were getting ready for my folks to pick us up this morning for breakfast and school shopping, I had my son looking out the front window for their car. When they finally pulled up, he yelled “Epcot!” and this made perfect sense to us.

A couple of digressions:

(D 1) I haven’t mentioned much more about my toe and that’s probably because, although a source of great discomfort to me at almost all times, it didn’t turn out to be much of a hindrance to our fun around the parks. I had about 5 good hours a day with that toe and then I had to go back to the resort and put it up. This was an OK arrangement since we were all hot and tired by that time anyway. I was taping it and soaking it, but it needs to be said that there were moments when even the large amounts of Advil I was ingesting weren’t enough. This day I was a little tender, which was unfortunate in that this was to be our longest day at any park in the whole vacation. We didn’t really pre-plan it that way, but it just takes so doggone long to get around the World Showcase!

(D 2) Recall that DH said this was going to be a once in a lifetime trip. On the morning after we got to WDW (our family MK morning) DH was saying, “We can come back to WDW when DD is about 20 or so.” Ok, fine. I told my DS, who had been conspiring with me since we first laid eyes on OKW, not to say much, let the trip sink into dad’s head, and we’d bring up a future trip in a month or two when he’s had a chance to miss it. By Thursday, after we’d been to the GF and the resort pool, he was saying “It wouldn’t be so bad to come back here….someday.” By the time we’d spent half a day in Epcot – realizing we were loving it but could never see it all in the single week we had – he was saying, “All right. Next year is Hawaii or something for our anniversary, but I suppose we can plan a trip for 2008.” Woot! DS and me:

Yeah! Wow, I was thinking we’d definitely be able to talk him into it after awhile, but three days into the trip! As Crush would say: “DUDE!” This marked the commencement of the “Next Time We Come” phase, in which 60% of all conversation was directed toward what we’re going to do “next time we come.”


Ok, so. We got to Epcot about 9:20 (still workin’ that just-off-the-target-time thing). My is draggin’ (shamelessly stolen from dwheatl…I usually use this guy

, but is so much funnier) …it’s draggin’ but I’m a trooper and try to keep up without complaining. But, it’s hard. I really don’t feel all that good and my energy level is like , and the sugary

we had for breakfast aren’t doing it for me. DD wanted to do Spaceship Earth right away again, but DH had already set off in pursuit of a fire at Test Track. We got TT Fastpasses for later and then rode it immediately because it only had a 15 min wait (DD critiqued it in saying she liked it better at night time).

Then we headed over to The Living Seas and walked around in there for an hour or so. I enjoyed it, and so did the kids, but watching fish swim is, in general, a pretty sleep-inducing activity

and we can always go to Sea World, so let’s move along.

Before this trip, I had heard a lot of people tell me (and specifically my FIL) that DD looks very much like me. I haven’t really been able to see resemblance to me nearly as much as to her dad’s side of the family. But when DH had the camera and kept taking stupid pictures of us on this trip, we both always had exactly the same expression. Here is how we, very tolerantly, started out:

There’s a theme here, stick with me.

After browsing the fish tanks, we got in line just in time to walk in to the Turtle Talk w/ Crush show, which we loved. It made me think of Va-bear because Crush talked like a total So Cal surf dude, bro. He told all the kids to say “Dude” the rest of the day because their parents would “totally love it.” LOL I also thought about Va-bear any time DH called someone “Chief” or “Boss”. You can take the boy out of California, but you can’t take the…yeah, you see my point.

Having had our ocean fix, we wandered over to Journey into the Imagination w/ Figment (I don’t have a picture of this, but getting on, DD’s face looked exactly like in the other previous two pre-ride photos. This reaction for the Figment ride. ). We all enjoyed this ride…it was fun and it’s so nice and cool in there.

I wanted to do some of the stuff they have after the ride, and also look around more in Innoventions, but DH was on duty. Fires to extinguish, etc.

Btw, Innoventions at Epcot is HUGE compared to the one at DL, which is housed in the old America Sings revolving ride. It’s kind of cute at DL with Tom Morrow, since it’s technically in Tomorrowland, but Epcot’s version totally kicks its butt. Not that I would know in any satisfying detail, as DH was hustling us out of there so we could do “bigger things.”

We spent some time looking around, reading the map, browsing the pin carts. Over at MK on Wednesday, DD traded some CM a POC pin for a DCL bus pin. DH and I had to really contain ourselves on that one – I mean, they’re her pins, but….a bus?? Hey, I already have a DME bus pin, kid! We’ve never even been on a Disney cruise! So, having thought it over more carefully, today she was looking for a place to dump it. The CM at the pin trading kiosk didn’t have anything she was interested in, though, so we went on.

We realized it was already about 11:45 and the sugary donuts had almost completely worn off. It was now that I casually mentioned that I had made a 12:30 ADR for LeCellier.

“What’s LeCellier?”

“It’s in Canada; it’s a steakhouse.”

(hubby)

“Sweet!”

Yes, yes…thank you. I must admit,

.

One problem: we never made it back around to The Land, and DD and I were uncomfortable with just completely bypassing an entire section of the park. But DH didn‘t want to walk back all that way for “shrubs and trees.”

“What do you mean, shrubs and trees?”

“Well, isn’t that all it is?”

“The Nestle Junior chef and Soarin are over there, it can’t just be shrubs and trees.”

“Soarin’ - we can do that at DCA. Right now we need to eat. Maybe we’ll come back.”

I knew we never would never make it back there that day, but there wasn’t much else to do at that point besides move ahead with the lunch plan, as by now I, too, was famished.


Next up: Around the World in about 4 hours

 

[dwheatl]

You made me laugh out loud three times. The high-five smiley, the totally inappropriate use of Eeyore ( ) and the "chief" references. Keep up the great work.

 

[cynderella]

Sultry Seahorse!!!! (Is that anything like a Provacative Pig?!)

Maybe we need to have a drink name list...then we can open our own bar!

 

[cynderella]

Hi, eeyore45! Glad to see you over here.

CYN - Thanks so much for directing me over here to your TR!!

Of course now that our Sept trip is paid for (all but the minor detail of tickets!!) I'm much more excited than I've been recently

I wish I started reading sooner, now I feel I have so much to say!! me, with something to say Anyway I too at the pic with the hats - we live in the midwest, ducks arent the problem - its the Canadian (protected wildlife) GEESE - their poop is EVERYWHERE!! I live 3 blocks from a park, but in a HUGE suburban neighborhood -it still strikes me as odd having a couple of geese poop in your yard - there aint no water - git outta here geese!! ( yes, we run them off) and at schools (again, no water around mind you, just goose poop) when the kids play outside, they track in that green goose poop...

Anyway. Second item... Great looking kids indeed!! I loved your story of your dd!! I have two ds (now 21 and 18 mind you) and I too "get boys" real well (in our family my cousin and aunt all of us around 2 years in age apart have 9 boys between us - they kept trying for a girl I loved my boys!!) anyway... we were "done" too - then as dh scheduled his v-day appt... I went in to get my thyroid checked - "Mrs. M, you're thyroids fine, you're pregnant" nine and 12 years difference, and my boys are hockey players - imagine the shock of a girl!! NO PINK, they were determined to raise a hockey girl Well, they got half their wish - she is a BLUEfavorite color girl (no pink!) but she is all girly girl, and definately a HUGE DRAMA QUEEN

Hmmm I think I hijacked your thread, it became all about me!!

Now I must head over to this.... secret green club place, it sounds like a lot of fun people around...