UPDATE 1/20!! Bickering, Barfing, and Bug Bites

[Shannon84]

I am not sure I could wait an hour and a half for characters, but your picture came out sooooo cute! SO I guess it is worth that wait!! Sounds like you guys had lots of fun at the party!!

 

[KatMark]

Ali, sorry I've been missing. I wanted to finish up my TR and now I'm catching up on yours and everyone else's.

First, I am so sorry to hear about your grandma. You've had a rough couple of months. I will keep you all in my prayers.

Lumar found a few hats that Mark missed this trip and I love them all (especially the "Princess" one). You guys got great photos at the Halloween Party...I can't even pick a favorite.

 

[jenny105]

I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother


Love all your pictures from MNSSHP. I didn't know they did pictures with the HM ghosts. How cool

 

[Simba22]

I am not sure I could wait an hour and a half for characters, but your picture came out sooooo cute! SO I guess it is worth that wait!! Sounds like you guys had lots of fun at the party!!

This is the only character greet that I would wait that long for. Snow White used to come out with them, and it's something you can only do at the Halloween Party. Snow White no longer joins them, but it's one of those things you can't do at any other time. It was definitely worth it! It was the one character meet I really wanted to do.

Ali, sorry I've been missing. I wanted to finish up my TR and now I'm catching up on yours and everyone else's.

First, I am so sorry to hear about your grandma. You've had a rough couple of months. I will keep you all in my prayers.

Lumar found a few hats that Mark missed this trip and I love them all (especially the "Princess" one). You guys got great photos at the Halloween Party...I can't even pick a favorite.

I've been missing, too, so don't worry! It's been a while since I did an update with all that's been going on. Thank you for the prayers, they seem to be helping! We spent all day yesterday at my dad's house looking through pictures with him and I think it helped. He has no brothers or sisters and losing both parents in the same year has to be horrible, but even more so when you have no siblings to lean on. So my sister and I sat at the table with him and went through boxes of albums with him. For Christmas, I'm going to put together a collage frame for him of all pictures of him with his parents over the years. I think he'll appreciate being able to see his parents every day without having to pull out an album, you know?

That crown was actually a heavy iron-like prop decoration that he found in the Princess section at World of Disney. It wasn't meant to be worn but...you know....it's Lumar

 

[2princesses2princes]

Alli,
Sorry to hear about the loss of your grandma. I hope things get better for you going into the new year.

Thanks for the update too, I love reading them. And enjoying all of your pics. I'm kinda glad to hear I'm not the only one that get in funks or moods while on vacation.

 

[Simba22]

I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother

Love all your pictures from MNSSHP. I didn't know they did pictures with the HM ghosts. How cool

OK somehow, when I replied earlier, your post was not here. And now all the sudden it's here!

Thank you!

I didn't know about the Ghost pics either. Heather and Brad had already done it earlier in the week so we found out from them. It's right at the entrance to the riverboat.

Alli,
Sorry to hear about the loss of your grandma. I hope things get better for you going into the new year.

Thanks for the update too, I love reading them. And enjoying all of your pics. I'm kinda glad to hear I'm not the only one that get in funks or moods while on vacation.

Thank you! 2011 is better, too! Glad you are enjoying my updates! You are definitely not the only one who has mood swings! I would never really write about them in the past even though they were happening, and another DISer was so honest about things in her TR that I decided to follow in her footsteps. It makes for better writing, I think, when people can relate and they realize that everyone has meltdowns, even in WDW!

 

[jenny105]

OK somehow, when I replied earlier, your post was not here. And now all the sudden it's here!

Thank you!

I didn't know about the Ghost pics either. Heather and Brad had already done it earlier in the week so we found out from them. It's right at the entrance to the riverboat.

DIS works in mysterious ways

I don't remember them having the ghost pics at MNSSHP last year but I could be wrong. I hope they have that in a couple years. I want to go for my 30th in 2012 and definitely want to go to MNSSHP. I'll be on the lookout for it...if you remind me in 2 years

 

[Nermel9]

Great update! It's so cool that you got to hang out with Heather and Brad so much, it looks like you guys had a great time at their room and at the party!

The Halloween party looks awesome! Your last minute costumes are really cute! We waited a really long time to meet the dwarves too, at the Christmas party, they're really popular! I love all the special photopass pics you can take at the party, they're really adorable!

 

[Simba22]

DIS works in mysterious ways

I don't remember them having the ghost pics at MNSSHP last year but I could be wrong. I hope they have that in a couple years. I want to go for my 30th in 2012 and definitely want to go to MNSSHP. I'll be on the lookout for it...if you remind me in 2 years

I don't know when the Ghost pics were added. I don't remember them being there on previous trips but I really don't pay attention so it's entirely possible it's been there for a while

Great update! It's so cool that you got to hang out with Heather and Brad so much, it looks like you guys had a great time at their room and at the party!

The Halloween party looks awesome! Your last minute costumes are really cute! We waited a really long time to meet the dwarves too, at the Christmas party, they're really popular! I love all the special photopass pics you can take at the party, they're really adorable!

Thanks! We all definitely had a great time and we get to hang out with Dana again, too before the end of this trip!

I was not happy with the costumes, only because I knew what costume I wanted and Lumar gave me such a hard time about it before we left! I guess, for something that was thrown together a couple of days before they're not so bad but I was really frustrated! The PP pics are one of the best things about the party! So many things you can't do at any other time, and people always love them when they see them in the scrapbook! They make for great memories (when you had a PP Photog who actually knew what he/she was doing!)



Only 2 more updates!!!! Can you believe it!?

 

[loganpaulsmom]

First off let me say.. I am very sorry for you loss..

I have to tell you.. I have been very active on this board for the past couple of months (since I have booked my trip for May 2011) and have read many many trip reports.. and yours by far is the most.. I really feel like I am right there with you.. I can't wait to hear more!

 

[Simba22]

First off let me say.. I am very sorry for you loss..

I have to tell you.. I have been very active on this board for the past couple of months (since I have booked my trip for May 2011) and have read many many trip reports.. and yours by far is the most.. I really feel like I am right there with you.. I can't wait to hear more!

Thank you SO much! I'm so glad you are enjoying my report! I love writing about our adventures it makes me so happy to know that it's appreciated!

 

[jelloarms]

So I randomly stumbled onto your TR while doing a DIS Search for bed bugs. Somehow I ended up here even though I don't see anything about bed bugs. Oh well, I'm glad I did. I really enjoy reading childless TRs. Nothing against the kiddies...but the childless ones are more relatable to me. All of your food pictures are making me hungry!

 

[onescgirl]

Those potatoes look so good.

I LOVE all the ghost pictures & I think you looked great!

 

[Simba22]

So I randomly stumbled onto your TR while doing a DIS Search for bed bugs. Somehow I ended up here even though I don't see anything about bed bugs. Oh well, I'm glad I did. I really enjoy reading childless TRs. Nothing against the kiddies...but the childless ones are more relatable to me. All of your food pictures are making me hungry!

Well thank you for sticking around! I do actually talk about bed bugs I think in the last update because my legs were covered in bug bites and I started freaking out! Thanfully, we didn't find any!

I always get hungry going back and looking through food pics, too!

Those potatoes look so good.

I LOVE all the ghost pictures & I think you looked great!

Thank you! Every time I look at the pics from the Halloween Party I think "we didn't look too bad" but at the time, I was so upset. Lumar looked fine but I was beyond frustrated with my own get-up

And the potatoes were good!

 

[KatMark]

Merry Christmas to you two cuties.

 

[Simba22]

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday! I'll be back tomorrow with my 2nd to last update!

 

[PrincessInOz]

Merry Christmas to you too.

 

[Simba22]

I was woken up several times in the wee hours of the morning by Lumar bolting out of bed and running to the bathroom. When 7am rolled around and he was still feeling extremely sick, it was obvious that we weren't going to make it to our ADR at Tusker House which was for 9:25am.

Shortly after we agreed that breakfast was a no go, he goes running back into the bathroom and all I hear is a loud thud and metal clanging. When he comes back out, he says he broke the toilet paper holder. I asked him how the heck he managed that and I go in to take a look. Apparently, he got dizzy and fell over, reached out to the wall for support but came crashing back down so hard that he grabbed the arm of the TP holder and ripped it clean off the wall. Oops.

So since we clearly weren't going anywhere for a while, and I knew that more than likely we probably weren't going anywhere at all, I went back to sleep for a couple hours. I finally decided to get up and go do the laundry that I never got to yesterday.

I took these on my way to El Centro, where I was going to get laundry money and something to eat:

This was my brunch - a ham and cheese sandwich with juice. The juice was great, the sandwich.....eh.

Oh, and I found a Mickey on the desk lamp in our room:

Since Lumar was unconscious back in the room, I got to take my time and walk around the resort while I was waiting for the laundry to wash and dry. So here are more pics I took.

Continued in next post....

 

[Simba22]

I'm still walking around taking pics...

Finally, with the laundry washed and mostly dry (the dryers apparently can only handle 5 pieces of clothing at a time and I knew I should have let them go for another cycle but I was tired of waiting), I went back to the room to start packing. Tomorrow would be our last full day!

Here is Lumar, still unconscious, the poor guy:

Around 3:30pm, he woke up for a few minutes and told me he felt a little better but not by much. I called and canceled our dinner ADR that was supposed to be at Jiko at 5:35pm. Since I wasn't sure how he would be feeling the next day either, while I had the CM on the phone I also canceled our breakfast ADR for The Wave for the next morning.

So I did all of the packing except what we needed for the next two days, and I organized all of our receipts and the stuff we were going to ship home from the gift shop.

I know it was dark when Lumar finally woke up again but I don't know what time it was. All I knew is that I was starving. I managed to convince him to come down to the Pepper Market with me and to come to the pool with me after that.

El Centro at night:

This was in the gift shop:

And this was my dinner...a tuna sandwich. It was OK but kind of dry. I should have put some mayo on it and it would have been better.

We headed to The Dig Site and Lumar actually came swimming with me for a few minutes. Somehow, it helped him feel better so I'm glad. He told me that he was pretty sure it was the cheese sauce from Casey's the night before that made him sick. It was the only thing that made him feel ill every time he thought about it.

So we headed back to the room after about 20 minutes and passed these guys hanging out over someone's door:

When we got back to the room we made a crazy, ridiculous, absolutely insane plan for our last day.

But you'll have to wait for the next update to hear about it! MWA HA HA!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Poor Lumar I'm glad swimming helped him feel a little better, though. Maybe it was just the warmth of the water? I know that after I've been sick, if I take a hot shower, I feel better.

Anyway, CSR is gorgeous!