Two Bunnies Return to WDW

[jwhtewolfd]

The Disneyland rosebush exploded!

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...Days Left Until 2009 Walt Disney World Vacation!
153 - Epcot Center opened on October 1, 1982
152 - It took 650 Imagineers over five years to develop Mission: Space
151 - Spaceship Earth weighs 16,000,000 pounds

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

Okay that rosebush is just beautiful. I love the colors!

And are those Mickey crocs? I have the same ones!

 

[jwhtewolfd]

Okay that rosebush is just beautiful. I love the colors!

And are those Mickey crocs? I have the same ones!

Yep, good eye. I kept fussing at Tony to get out of my shot!

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

And you have that nice thick grass. What's it called? Augustine or something?

 

[kmores]

Look what finally came in!

Tony's:

and mine:

I probably won't wear them at WDW, but I needed something that I could slip on quickly for short outings. Z-coils are GREAT for all day at work, but they are a pita to strap on every time I want to step outside. Who has time to tie their shoes?!

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175 days left until our 2009 wdw vacation - Tinker Bell first flew from Cinderella's Castle on July 4, 1985

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Jezzie had her dental today. She did very well under anesthesia. Before she was knocked out...not so much. She turns into a little heathen when I bring her work. I did well at my dentist appointment yesterday too. No cavities, but he wants to extract all my wisdom teeth OUCH. Next cleaning is scheduled the week before we leave, so I'll have a nice, clean, shiny smile for pictures with Mickey.

girl I had a pair of those black ones I would have given u! bought them at WDW but were too big for me....

 

[jwhtewolfd]

And you have that nice thick grass. What's it called? Augustine or something?

Yeah, it's St. Augustine (or "St. Aug" as everyone here calls it). The crazy thing is that I decided NOT to dig up and re-sod the lawn (serious $$$). When I bought the house it was all weeds in the front and back, but we could see a few runners of St. Aug. It grows like crazy, so I just left it and started cutting the grass (well, nagging Tony to cut it ). This is only going into my second summer here and already it has taken over. There are still more weeds than my dad's lawn (he had the $ to re-sod), but the St. Aug is everywhere now and slowly pushing the weeds out. We must have good soil out here or something b/c after Katrina blew in, people were finding weird things growing in their yards. I heard of people finding tomatos, watermelons and my grandma even had THREE PAPAYA TREES growing on her front lawn! (She never planted any papaya trees.)

girl I had a pair of those black ones I would have given u! bought them at WDW but were too big for me....

Well, I have little feet, so I don't know. I range from 5 1/2 to 7, though 7 is usually too big in length, but sometimes I'll go up for the width. The Z-coils doc put me in a 7 for the width to help battle chronic ingrown toenails - OW! Though I've found that, with socks on, I can fit in Tony's (the black ones), "fit" meaning they won't fly off and I can go out in the garden (I wouldn't try to wear them away from the house), but he's only a men's 8 - 9 in crocs.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

Yeah, it's St. Augustine (or "St. Aug" as everyone here calls it). The crazy thing is that I decided NOT to dig up and re-sod the lawn (serious $$$). When I bought the house it was all weeds in the front and back, but we could see a few runners of St. Aug. It grows like crazy, so I just left it and started cutting the grass (well, nagging Tony to cut it ). This is only going into my second summer here and already it has taken over. There are still more weeds than my dad's lawn (he had the $ to re-sod), but the St. Aug is everywhere now and slowly pushing the weeds out. We must have good soil out here or something b/c after Katrina blew in, people were finding weird things growing in their yards. I heard of people finding tomatos, watermelons and my grandma even had THREE PAPAYA TREES growing on her front lawn! (She never planted any papaya trees.)

Okay...I love that kind of grass. My friend in Chalmette has it, and I don't remember ever seeing that kind of grass before. I had not seen grass so thick and green; I was jumping around in their yard in bare feet. (Can't really do that up here.) It's now a long-standing joke, but I have PICTURES of their grass and came back to NY and was like "OMG you will NOT BELIEVE this grass they have down there!"

Do you have any mystery gardens in your yard? That's some crazy stuff!

 

[jwhtewolfd]

Okay...I love that kind of grass. My friend in Chalmette has it, and I don't remember ever seeing that kind of grass before. I had not seen grass so thick and green; I was jumping around in their yard in bare feet. (Can't really do that up here.) It's now a long-standing joke, but I have PICTURES of their grass and came back to NY and was like "OMG you will NOT BELIEVE this grass they have down there!"

Do you have any mystery gardens in your yard? That's some crazy stuff!

That's so funny. I guess I take our grass for granted. We and everyone around us have always had it. I like the look of the delicate spring grass that pops up here and there.

By the time I started looking to buy, most people had already cleaned up the weird stuff. There was some ginger going nuts in the back yard, but it was on the other side of the property line. And a sizable crepe myrtle in the front yard that survived.

 

[jwhtewolfd]

Today on the drive home from work I saw a cloud shaped like the Tree of Life. ... ... ... I think I'm ready for my vacation.

My aunt e-mailed me today. They just decided they are going to Disney World. In five weeks. Yeah, JUNE. She wanted dining recomendations. I tried to keep the reply email under 20 pages. Hey, I TRIED.

...Days Left Until 2009 Walt Disney World Vacation
150 - Cinderella's Carousel was discovered in New Jersy in 1967
149 - Epcot's Eiffel Tower is 1/10 the size of the real tower in Paris
148 - Haunted Mansion has been open since Magic Kingdom opened in 1971
147 - The Jungle Cruise river is dyed brown to hide its depth of 3.5 feet
146 - Sleepy, Happy, Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezy, Bashful, Doc (this is sort of an inside joke - last year I made Tony learn the Seven Dwarves...he still doesn't have them quite down, but I quiz him randomly from time to time)
145 - Most of the Acacia trees in Animal Kingdom are modified oak trees
144 - Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor replaced Robin Williams and "The Timekeeper"
143 - Pirates of the Caribbean was the last attraction supervised by Walt
142 - There are 1,100 audio-animatronics figures in the Magic Kingdom
141 - At some point, Rock N Roller Coaster reaches 5 Gs
140 - Space Mountain opened in the Magic Kingdom January 15, 1975
139 - Cinderella's Castle is the most photographed building in the world
138 - Thunder Mount - 197 feet, Space Mount - 180 feet, Splash Mount - 87 feet
137 - The dragon in Fantasmic! has a fifty foot wingspan
136 - Space Mountain reaches a top speed of 28 miles per hour
135 - SpectroMagic debuted Oct 1 1991 for WDW's 20th anniversary
134 - The drop on Splash Mountain is 52.5 feet at a 45 degree angle
133 - The Haunted Mansion hitchhiking ghosts are Ezra, Phineas and Gus
132 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first full length animated film
131 - Wishes debuted October 9, 2003, replacing Fantasy in the Sky

 

[jwhtewolfd]

Now that we are in the 3 month-ish range, I feel ok taking out the "very pre" part of the pre-trip report title.

No more Disney-shaped cloud sightings, but I still can't wait for September hours to come out. I realize I should probably have some backup ADRs planned in case I can't get some of my first choices. Seems that those with longer stays are taking up all the seats with their "+10" privileges. We're only staying "+8" but hopefully I'll get a few good places and times. We don't mind eating late; I'm rarely home for dinner before 8pm anyway. Guess I'll be browsing menus again tonight...but not til AFTER dinner. I make that mistake too many times.

Here's the chain at 120 days!

Still fairly long, but definitely making progress. Though I will have to move it from its dining table shrine tomorrow. We'll need the table b/c we will be signing closing papers tomorrow at 10am for the refi on the house! 4.5% baby!

...Days left until 2009 Walt Disney World Vacation!
130 - Sleeping Beauty's name is Aurora and her father is King Stefan
129 - Big Thunder Mountain takes place in the town of Tumbleweed
128 - Tomorrowland Indy Speedway is an original opening day attraction
127 - Cinderella's stepmother is Lady Tramaine
126 - Less than 10,000 guests attended WDW on opening day
125 - The cobra in Fantasmic! is 100 feet long and 16 feet tall
124 - Building Thunder Mountain in 1979 cost as much as Disneyland in 1955
123 - Space Mountain's cone shaped peak is 183 feet above ground
122 - The Haunted Mansion can host 3,200 guests per hour
121 - The Liberty Bell replica was cast from the original Liberty Bell's mold

 

[jwhtewolfd]

June is upon us. The wait for September park hours is officially ON.
I think I might break the refresh button.

Our last day in the parks will be a Friday, which, if my guesstimated schedule serves me correctly, means the only nighttime spectacular that night will be Illuminations (MNNSHP @ MK = no Wishes, Fantasmic! =/= Friday). Can you really end a WDW trip without Wishes or Fantasmic!? Even Hallowishes, though excellent, wouldn't be the same. Not to mention I don't want to wait until our last day to do MNSSHP, just in case.

In all of this, I have to remember to take a step back and look at the big picture. I promised Tony I would not do what I did last year: 7:00am - midnight on both our first and second days. But how can you justify NOT being in a park when one is still open!?!?!

...Days Left Until 2009 Walk Disney World Vacation!
120 - Thunder Mountain's real antique mining equipment cost $300,000
119 - There are 109 audio-animatronics figures in the Haunted Mansion
118 - Splash Mountain can run 50 logs at a time when at full capacity
117 - Walt Disney originally wanted the Jungle Cruise to feature live animals
116 - It took $1.4 billion and three years to open Epcot

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

Any park hours updates?

 

[jwhtewolfd]

Any park hours updates?

Curse you!

 

[lovedonaldduck]

We will be at Bay Lake Tower 9/26-10/3. I am looking at September hours this way, while they will fill my need to plan the first 5 days of our vacation, I am still going to have to guess for the October dates so any September info prior to our ADR date is a bonus.

Hopefully that thought process will get me through until whenever they get around to posting September hours. I've only checked like 6 times so far today.

 

[jwhtewolfd]

We will be at Bay Lake Tower 9/26-10/3. I am looking at September hours this way, while they will fill my need to plan the first 5 days of our vacation, I am still going to have to guess for the October dates so any September info prior to our ADR date is a bonus.

Hopefully that thought process will get me through until whenever they get around to posting September hours. I've only checked like 6 times so far today.

Only SIX?! Wow, that's a lot of self-restraint. I think I had checked 6 times already by 2 am!

October 3rd is actually a travel date for us, so I really only have 2 days to guess at. Being that we KNOW there are MNSSHP both the 1st and the 2nd, we can rule out Wishes and Spectro. The only wrench will be EMHs and if Fantasmic! will show on that Thursday and/or Friday. I'm going to assume it will show on the 1st, since Thursday seems to be a fairly reliable Fantasmic! day. I had mapped out the standard EMH days a while back, but there's no telling what they will do with them with MNSSHP thrown in the mix.

For example, MK had been having AM EMH on Thursdays. But Oct. 1 is both a Thursday and a MNSSHP day. I wouldn't imagine they would keep that schedule, seeing as how not everyone has hoppers, but I see that it did happen a few times last year, so who knows.

As I speculated earlier, we'll probably end up in Epcot on our last night (Friday the 2nd), since Illuminations will be the only nighttime event happening. That is unless we decide to spring for another set of party tickets, but we are already planning on going on Tues the 29th. I haven't bought the tickets yet, just in case they throw something bizarre at us like Spectro or Fantasmic! only happening on that one day. I don't really anticipate that, but you just never know, you know?

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

Jamie, BREATHE!

 

[jwhtewolfd]

Jamie, BREATHE!

I'm trying....wait, no, turning blue again...that's not right, is it?...ok...

....in.....

....out....

..uh, what's next? oh, yeah! in....

it's ok, this is what i do. high anxiety = imagining every possible senario. once they release the hours, the number of possibilities decrease exponentially and becomes much more finite. as do my anxiety attacks.

 

[jwhtewolfd]

And in case you were wondering, the answer is yes, post # 35 is what it's like inside my head. But an inner monologue is only dangerous when it becomes an inner dialogue. Right?

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

And in case you were wondering, the answer is yes, post # 35 is what it's like inside my head. But an inner monologue is only dangerous when it becomes an inner dialogue. Right?

You really are a HOT MESS!

I do hope I get to meet you at some point...even though I'm not Chalmatian or Arabian.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Subbing! I'm going the same time as you are with my mom, can't wait! And I seriously have been trying to restrain myself from refreshing the calendar! I want park hours!!!!!