Untitled Hannah, HSM and Dancing at DL trip report

[AZMickeyfans]

Ok here is where I will start my very first trip report. I am caving to intense pressure from my peers so I thought i would set up shop just to make myself commit.

I do not have time to do this justice right this second but in the coming days I plan to whip this baby out!

Here is the cast:

Me: My name is Shawna, I'm a 33 year old SAHM. I've been married 10 years to a wonderful man I met while working at WDW. We are huge Disney freaks! I'm also known as the official friendly nonviolent stalker of the Disneyland chat thread. Do not fear me!

Dh: Jeff. Was lucky enough to get my attention back in the good ole days. Came to WDW from KS and met the woman of his dreams (and nightmares!!!) He's nuts about anything Pirates of the Caribbean and could be on that attraction for hours on end if they would let him. oh I want to point out that I would never spread his ashes here so not to worry!

Dd: Morgan is 7 and is the reason for this particular trip! She takes dance several hours a week as well as cheer and gymnastics. This girl wants to do it all and unfortunately has a mom who only has 24 hours in the day! She is in 1st grade. She is a true princess and considers Sleeping Beauty her close, personal best friend. She is a Hannah Montana Mega Fan and loves anything geared towards "tween" girls which she still is a couple years away from! Try telling that to her though.

Ds: Jake is 4 and is a rogue pirate if there ever was one. He is a wild man with a good heart and a crazy sense of humor. Jake is in preschool and will be in kindergarten next year. He's very shy but is awnry once you get to know him. He puts up with all the girl stuff pretty well. We tried to balance all the pink, glitter and sparkles with some manly activities as best we could on this trip.

Ok there is my introduction. More to come!

 

[tinkermell]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great start!!

Who says peer pressure doesn't work??

 

[AZMickeyfans]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great start!!

Who says peer pressure doesn't work??

You OWE me!

 

[Alex2kMommy]

GEESH, it's been over 24 hours since the first post, and NOTHING ELSE yet???

Shawna, I LOOOOOVE your intro, girl! Can't wait for more. Pretty please!

 

[funnygarcia]

but but.. where's the rest of it ???

 

[disneegrl4eva]

and waiting and waiting......

 

[disneegrl4eva]

still waiting...

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Ladies and Gentlemen, the hyenas and their pressure!

Tonight ladies, tonight.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

OK, we've run into a shortage on the underlayment for the flooring we are installing so while Jeff runs to Home Depot I will continue.

The main reason for our DL trip was so that Morgan could finally dance with her studio at Disneyland. The first trip they had planned was Presidents Day, then spring break, then Labor Day, Columbus Day and finally Veterans Day was the last reschedule. To say these girls were anxious to get over there is an understatement. They've had signs up for about a year promising their chance to shine at Dl and now they finally got it.

Let's backtrack a second. Morgan's birthday was in August. I heard about 2 weeks before her birthday that Hannah Montana tickets were going on sale for her Nov. 9th Phoenix concert. PERFECT!!! She was having a Hannah Montana 7th birthday party complete with a stage and karaoke singing. Everything was geared toward being a pop star! This was the ultimate birthday gift for a 7 year old fan.

Here is Morgan in the pink top with her arm up at her rock star Hannah Montana birthday party!

I bit the bullet and purchased the fan club membership and held my breath the morning of the presale to see if I had a chance at good seats. I totally thought (stupid of me now!) that we would be within the first few rows. I mean I had the fan club card in my posession and the fan club presale was several days before the general public got a chance at tickets so I felt my odds were great at getting what I wanted. Boy was I wrong!

Ok 1 minute to the presale, I'm breaking out in cold sweats I'm so excited to see her face when I present her with......Row 4 section 227 TOP BACK CORNER OF JOBING.COM arena! OUCH! Ok that must be a mistake, let me try that again. Same tickets and not only that but I could only get 2 not the 4 that I wanted. It was clear my dream of having Morgan and 2 of her friends be up front like you see on Hannah's tv show were gone. No reaching up and giving a high 5 or being pulled up on stage to dance and sing like in the Bruce Springsteen video's! Ok well who cares we'll bring binoculars, right? I only got 2 tickets so it was just Morgan and mama. That would have to be fine.

Here birthday comes around and as soon as she realized what I gave her she almost fainted. I swear the girl fell on the ground and had this dumbfounded look until she got ahold of herself and started screaming hysterically, jumping up and down like a monkey around my living room. I was so excited for her. Truth be told I couldnt wait either. I actually like that show and I do like the Jonas Brothers music. Ok things were good at this point we were headed to Disneyland over Columbus Day and Nov. 9 was a month afterwards so things were going smooth. WRONG!!!

3 weeks before we were to head with her dance studio to Disneyland they changed it yet again to Nov. 10. I was so upset. Had to cancel hotel, PS's, rental car (my van is getting up there in miles!!) It was a pain. The night they changed it I bolted upright in bed scaring Jeff half out of his mind. OMG!!!!!! Morgan dances the day after the Hannah Concert. We were told we would have to check in at 10am in DL!!! How were we going to do this. There was only one other girl who had Hannah tickets at the studio and I figured that wasn't enough pull to have it changed back to the Oct. dates. YIKES!!!

Ok well, we'll figure something out. Everyone had suggestions from selling the concert tickets to skipping dancing at Disneyland. Ok, while I could have gotten a lot of money for the tickets (I hate that by the way but I wont get into that right now!) I couldn't do that. This was Morgan's birthday present. We were both looking forward to going. I didnt think that was fair and the DL thing could not be canceled as she had been told she was going for so long I just didnt want to take that away from her. Ok, so Jeff and I decided we needed to go to the concert, drive home, get an hour or so of sleep, wake up and drive to DL in the middle of the night.

Alright, now back to just before the trip. Its gonna be a huge weekend.

If you are familiar with Phoenix we live in SE Gilbert. Jobing.com area is in Glendale or Peoria (??? ) way over on the west side of town. We figured the most time effective way to do this trip was to drive over with the whole family and the boys would do something while we were in the concert and leave from there instead of losing 2 hours driving to the east valley and back again to head to CA. Make sense? yeah we kind of thought so.

The week leading up to the trip I had been frantically searching for my camera. I have no clue where it went to. We seriously looked everywhere and I didnt want to go without it so I figured we could slice our DL budget by a few hundred dollars and head to Costco to buy a camera my friend recommended. She has the Panasonic from there and the camera and the memory cards came to about $350. Not exactly what I wanted to spend hours before heading to DL. Oh well, wasn't going to think about that til I got back. This is the first huge chunk of money we throw down unexpectedly, there would be more.......

Ok so its Friday morning Nov. 9. We need to pack, get the rental car, print the Hannah Montana tickets, take my dog over to my moms house and well LEAVE!!!

I finished packing everyone while my son was in preschool. He got out at noon so we headed for Enterprise to pick our car up. We had reserved a full size car. Well, unfortunately they only had left a PT Cruiser which we thought would be fine. I had never ridden in one and I had heard they had tons of room in them. Again this is what I had heard!!! So it was fun and a little zippy driving it home to our house and I opened the hatch and almost fainted . Ok, that was a bit dramatic but this car had no room for luggage. Well, it had room for some luggage but not for OUR luggage. Why didnt I think of this at the car rental place??? So I have to rethink our packing, check weather.com and see its going to be in the mid 70's while we were there. That is COLD to us so I know we needed long pants and long t-shirt and everyone who has been to CA knows it gets downright freezing at night so we had to throw in sweatshirts as well. I figured we could buy hat and gloves at night if we needed them this time. Yes, everyone from up north can collectively laugh now.

Ok I'm out of smiley room so I must continue in another post

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I have to rethink our packing, check weather.com and see its going to be in the mid 70's while we were there. That is COLD to us so I know we needed long pants and long t-shirt and everyone who has been to CA knows it gets downright freezing at night so we had to throw in sweatshirts as well. I figured we could buy hat and gloves at night if we needed them this time. Yes, everyone from up north can collectively laugh now.

{snicker!}

Loving this so far!

 

[tinkermell]

I HAD NO IDEAL THIS WAS ALL GOING ON!!

NO WONDER WE DIDN'T HEAR FROM YOU FOR A WHILE!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Alright so we finally got everything we needed into the PT Cruiser. Jake kept calling it Herbie the Love Bug. We head out the door to get Morgan from school and we are on the road. Unfortunately there is a ton of traffic on I-10 because of some Nascar Race I think so it took 2 hours to get to the arena.

If anyone from Phoenix has not been to the Jobing.com area and shopping area its beautiful. It was such a neat area to walk around in. I cannot wait til Margaritaville is open. I think that would be worth the drive over. So here we are 2 girls being dropped off for the concert of the century. Ok the concert of 2007! We turn the corner around the building and look into the plaza. OMG!!! All we see are pink and sparkles. yep a sea of pink sparkles everywhere.

Here is what we first saw.

She freaked out at the huge MileyWorld bus parked out front. They had a large pink balloon and a purple tent. Ok we had to get a few pictures in front of that bus! So cute

We make our way around to the other side of the bus and learn that the mileyworld.com fan club members can be entered into a raffle if they get into a special line a mile and a half long. Sounds GREAT! So we get in this line and it takes us about an hour to get up to this sign.

When we were in line a vendor came over selling glow sticks and programs. Of course we HAD to buy these so there was our first concert purchase of the night. Wouldn't be the last.

They give you tickets for various things we never won but it was worth a try!

In front of the bus they were going karaoke and announcements and making video's for Miley of each city they were on tour in. Also, there was a cardboard cutout you could take your picture in front of. Then later a woman came out and it was Miley's Grandma and I guess you could take your picture in front of that as well.

So we head over to the merchandise tent outside. This line was nuts. Everyone was beating the after concert rush I think. We waited another 35 minutes to get up to the front. I had origionally planned for Morgan to get a Hannah Montana t-shirt. Ok so then I get caught up in the moment and I said she could get a Jonas Brothers t-shirt as well. I start acting like a teenager because I was just so excited for her. So we are almost up and she could not decide on the shirt to get for Miley. Ok, well I suggest the one with the cities listed on the back of it but she wants the pink one of course. No cities listen on that one. To me a concert T-shirt has to have all the cities listed on it. Ok I'm old school! So, then the girl in front of us gets the Best of Both Worlds tote bag. Darn but that thing is cute. I'm racking my brain thinking why do we need another tote bag. Hmm no obvious reason why we need it but no obvous reason why we DONT need it either! that's the way I think! So here is what I say when its our turn. "We'll have the pink Miley shirt, the White Miley shirt with the cities on the back, the pink Jonas Bros shirt and the tote bag please" Remember I was just going to get 1 t-shirt and possibly 1 Jonas Bros t-shirt that was not preplanned! Morgan looked at me with wide eyes and a little bit of doubt at what I had just done. I said "Dont worry about it sweetie this is your first concert". Now for the record, my first concert was to Michael Jackson. My dad had box seats and I clearly remember my mom dressing me up in a white sundress with a bright green frog on the front! I didnt get a t-shirt let alone 3 t-shirts, a tote bag a glow stick and a program. Does this look like a happy girl or what???

Alright we head inside and go up to the top of the world to our seats. Had a hard time finding section 227 as it was in the worst place in the building but it didnt matter we were there! Here she is waiting and our view before the concert.

Like our nice dinner of hot dogs???

Actually that picture was zoomed in quite a bit. I was experimenting with my new camera in most of these so if they aren't clear that is why. I kept changing the settings on it! I really have no clue how to use it!

Alright lights go out, music starts and holy moley was that place loud. Thousands of screaming little girls! Morgan was freaking out when the Jonas Brothers came down from the ceiling!

I could get pretty close with my new camera!

Ok a little dark but here she is with her glow stick during the Jonas Brothers!

They were great and kept the crowd entertained. I was impressed at how good of a show they put on. So the Jonas Brothers play for about a half an hour (I think?) and then there is a little break. One good thing that I loved about this is that it started on time. Most adult concerts I have gone to start like an hour later than they are supposed to. I guess when the crowd has to be in bed by a certain time you better or else you will be singing to a bunch of little snoozing girls!

Ok so here it is, the lights go down and the music starts playing "Rockstar" which is actually my favorite Hannah song. This was so cute the way she came out. She was in the huge light up box that descended down from the top of the stage. She looked like a go go dancer with her shadow in that box but it was tastefully done and very cute.

Morgan was about to That girl was so excited I thought she was gonna pee her pants. It was great. Sorry, but selling my tickets for $1500 would not have been worth this moment. Priceless. It was like the commercials.

picture room full again next post to come......

 

[AZMickeyfans]

So here is her first outfit

Ok here was me trying to get a picture of Morgan with the stage in the background but she doesnt show up. You can see how far away we were. She could see everything with the binoculars though

Everything was very cute with bright colors. You know I have to give her credit because she sounded really good. Sometimes concerts disappoint me because they dont sound anything like they do on the cd but Miley sounded very nice. Also, everything was very age appropriate, bright colors, decent dances. She seems like a great girl with her head on straight I just hope she stays that way.

The Jonas brothers came out with her and sang We got the Party and then while she switched to Miley Cyrus they sang Year 3000. That is such a fun song. The whole place was on their feet singing. Even the moms and some dads too! Morgan was happy because she thought they "forgot" to sing it when they were out. Here are some of her costume changes and the Jonas Bros again.

Ok this was really cute, this was how they brought out Miley Cyrus.

picture of the jumbo tron.

This was the only time Morgan made a comment about how far back we were because we could not get confetti. I said seriously that bothers you and she said yes she wanted some of Miley's confetti.

This is where she sang Best of Both Worlds. She said I'm gonna bring a friend out to sing wtih me and Hannah was on the jumbotron doing the same dance steps as Miley. This really confused Morgan as she understands its the same person but she said it was a Hannah song and Miley should not have been singing it. I said well they are singing it together, get it best of both worlds. That didnt register too well but she finally gave up trying to comprehend and enjoyed the song.

I thought this was silly.

She left after that and I had to explain to Morgan what an encore was because she said "hurry mom lets beat the traffic" and started to get up! She screamed and clapped as loud as she could for about 5 minutes before Miley came back and sang "I miss you"

jumbo tron again but I like this picture

And Morgan had me take a picture of the horse that was on the screen behind her.

It was a great concert and Morgan said she never wanted it to end it was the best night of her "WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE"

The concert let out at 9:30pm. I would totaly buy tickets again for this but I would try to bring my son along as well. There were some preteen boys in front of us and they really had a good time. I think they were there for the Jonas Brothers mostly but they were standing up and dancing just the same. Jake would have liked it too.

So we head out and stop once again at the merchandise booth (do you see a trend here???) to get Jake something. Even though it was a girls night he does like the Jonas Brothers and Hannah so we decide to get him a Jonas brother poster. After a quick change into her Jonas brother shirt and one last picture by the bus we are on our way to meet the boys.

Turns out they balanced all the pink outside the arena with a trip to Cabellas and spent a few hours in their shooting arcade and looking at manly stuff!

Ok a quick bite on Dysart road and we are off to Disneyland at 10pm!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

By the way I am NOT proofreading so spelling and grammar errors are left up for you to JUDGE ME BY!!!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Ok I totally forgot to mention before we left for the concert and DL dh smelled something terrible in the garage refrigerator. Well unfortunately it went out. We had a ton of meat in there that started dripping blood down the front of the unit and onto the floor. Well, we HAD to take care of that so we haul what we can into our kitchen freezer and have to take the rest over to moms house. Some of it was too warm to be saved. So now we need a new refrigerator on top of the camera oh yeah and other purchases......

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I LOVE that Morgan was confused by Miley and Hanna singing a song together! When that happens it's like a little reminder that, even though they seem so much older sometimes, they really are only 7yo! What a blast she had, and you really loved making it happen and sharing it with her!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

I LOVE that Morgan was confused by Miley and Hanna singing a song together! When that happens it's like a little reminder that, even though they seem so much older sometimes, they really are only 7yo! What a blast she had, and you really loved making it happen and sharing it with her!

Oh I know, she totally acts grown up, you know i've told you but this just keeps it all in check that she is still 7 even though half the time she acts 13!!!

 

[PrincessKell]

heheh well I have to say this is one of the most thrilling trip reports ever. Its like a mini soap! My dd wanted me to read the whole thing as sshe saw the pictures. hehe its great!

Oh and I love all the purchases, they are classic mom syndrome!

 

[tinkermell]

How fun you guys had!!!!!!!!!! Did you not mention, that in June the Jonas Bros were in line with you at Peter Pan?? My DD would have swooned to see them there, or at the concert.

I cracked up on how much you came home with. Did Jeff see all of your purchases?
Man I feel for you and the freezer thing. We've had that happen to us too. How unfortunate that it had to happen when you were trying to get away. How did you ever drive all the way to DL and not pass out?? Whew!!!!!!

More to come soon I hope!!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

heheh well I have to say this is one of the most thrilling trip reports ever. Its like a mini soap! My dd wanted me to read the whole thing as sshe saw the pictures. hehe its great!

Oh and I love all the purchases, they are classic mom syndrome!

Thanks! Oh and there are more purchases yet to come!

How fun you guys had!!!!!!!!!! Did you not mention, that in June the Silas Bros were in line with you at Peter Pan?? My DD would have swooned to see them there, or at the concert.

I cracked up on how much you came home with. Did Jeff see all of your purchases?
Man I feel for you and the freezer thing. We've had that happen to us too. How unfortunate that it had to happen when you were trying to get away. How did you ever drive all the way to DL and not pass out?? Whew!!!!!!

More to come soon I hope!!

Silas Bros??? Oh my Melody! Jonas Bros and Yes she was wondering if they would remember her. In June they were in line with us on Mr. Toads. Morgan almost passed out.