VWL Lovers & Groupies Thread: Meese-ka, Mice-ka MOOSE-kateers

[MiaSRN62]

Hi Groupies!

Just got here at BWV last night and all settled in. Having a cup of coffee and enjoying a nice leisurely first morning at WDW. The decorations here look great, and I can't wait to see them at WL/VWL again.

Have a WONDERFUL time Granny ! Wish I could be there !!!

And Kathy/Twokats.....sounds like you are also having a great time !

 

[MiaSRN62]

ok....had to go back to page 1. There are SO MANY Groupies playing in WDW this week ! I am envious of you all ! Looking forward to seeing photos and reading trip reports. Going to try and live vicariously through you all..........

tea pot 2-4 AKV / followed by 4-9 VWL
Disney Loving Iowan 2-8 VLW/WL followed by Portofino Bay 9-11
stopher1 4 VB followed by 5-6 OKW followed by 6-8 AKV followed by Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas cruise to the Bahamas(WOW!!!)
Granny 3-9 BWV
twokats 4-10 SSR
brenbrady 5-10 BLT
Inkmahm/Dynaguy 5-13 VWL

 

[I Book He Pays]

Hi There:

Granny ~ Thanks so much for the pictures! I love the Christmas trees at VWL along with the decorations. Gorgeous! Nice shot of the outside. What kind of camera are you using?

Muuskha ~ HI

Inkmahm ~ Have a safe trip and have a great vacation!

Twinklebug ~ Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day!!!

horselover ~ I have the zebra Mickey ornament on the tree! It looks awesome! Thanks again for everything!!!


And we must not forget....

Thanks for the reminder MiaSRN62!


Have a great day everyone!

 

[twokats]

Have a wonderful trip! Give Kati a BIG hug from us

Jimmy, Kati had a big grin when she saw your message. You made her day!!!

twokats ~ Grandstand is a great section, especially being the first bus stop. We tried getting in there in May but ended up in Congress Park. I hope you get in that section and are located close to the bus stop. Thanks for saying Hi to Mickey from me. I wish I was there... I can't even imagine how beautiful it is there now. Have fun!

Well, we did not get Grandstand again, we got Carosel. Still good since it is the 2nd bus stop and still has plenty of room for the wheelchair. We have covered a lot of ground in the six days we have been here. According to my DH (who is still at home) we have had quite a bit of rain and are expecting some snow possibly. I heard from another friend from home tonight and she told me there had been a facebook post of snow in Campbell (our town) tonight. When we were here in '09 I missed Texas' first snow storm, looks like my luck is holding up.

Happy Birthday Twinklebug!!!

Ditto. Hope it was a very happy day!

Kathy/Twokats.....sounds like you are also having a great time !

We are. We got to meet an Imagineer friend of ours today for a few minutes. He is working on the Fantasyland expansion. Spent the bulk of today at MK and ended it with dinner with Mickey and the gang at Chef Mickey's.

I Book He Pays: Got you a special picture of Mickey at dinner tonight. Will post soon.

So far I have only take 900+ pictures in 6 days.
Hope everyone has a good week.

 

[Inkmahm]

Got a great villa. It is a one bedroom dedicated. Didn't know there was such a thing. We are on the 5th floor, the first room when you head left out of the elevator. 5517. We have the vaulted ceilings and the porch with the little roof over it, separate porches for the bedroom and the living room. It is a solid wood wall though, no slates on the porch railing. Still, I love it!

Tomorrow we volunteer at Give Kids the World. Not sure what we are doing later in the afternoon yet. It's fun just to have NOTHING scheduled to do, too!

 

[tea pot]

Tomorrow we volunteer at Give Kids the World. Not sure what we are doing later in the afternoon yet. It's fun just to have NOTHING scheduled to do, too!

Wow give Kids the World
I can't wait to hear all about it.
I've been checking out their web site, what a wonderful place.

Enjoy the Magic

2 more Days

 

[Inkmahm]

Wow give Kids the World
I can't wait to hear all about it.
I've been checking out their web site, what a wonderful place.

Enjoy the Magic

2 more Days

I'm actually excited! This is our first trip there so I"m up early to make sure I know exactly how to get to GKTW and to make sure we are on time. We are running the train that transports families inside the village. We didn't need any special drivers license status for it so I can't imagine it is too difficult to do. I guess we'll see soon!

It is supposed to be a beautiful day here in sunny Florida.

 

[Muushka]

What is a dedicated 1 BR Ink?

Have fun with the project, can't wait to hear what it's all about.

 

[Granny]

Granny ~ Thanks so much for the pictures! I love the Christmas trees at VWL along with the decorations. Gorgeous! Nice shot of the outside. What kind of camera are you using?

Thanks! It's just a point and shoot Sony Cybershot. I'm struggling with the various settings. Usually I just try to get the subject somewhere in the picture and then fix it up with Photoshop Elements software. But I don't have that on my laptop so you guys will just have to take them "raw".

 

[Granny]

A few more pix from the World...

Thought you might enjoy the BWV decorations even though this is a VWL thread.

Lobby decorations...

As Bobbi and I agreed on, BWV does a great job in decorating for the holidays!

 

[Granny]

And we hit the Candlelight Processional last night. I took a few bad pictures, but the show itself was incredible and moving...

And the narrator was Edward James Olmos, who was excellent and emotional. He also repeated part of the narration in Spanish, which sounded great in his wonderful voice...

Afterwards we watched Illuminations. The additional Holiday part at the end was great, with the song "Let There Be Peace On Earth" playing amidst bursts of fireworks.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Stitch's bakery is an addition! Now we know what he does with what he cooks! Can't wait to visit BWV, that's our NYE destination. This Friday, we arrive at VWL!

I love your comments and your pictures, Granny! DH and I will be at the CP on Friday! It's a must do for us, ever since we found out about it! That was in 2001.

Bobbi

 

[eliza61]

Granny, thanks for the wonderful pictures. perfect way to get me in the Christmas mood.

 

[horselover]

Granny - more wonderful pictures! Thank you!!

Trish - glad you're enjoying your ornament. I haven't been able to find an ornament holder yet so mine is still not out.

Just placed an order for a 2nd owners locker. I think it is aptly named. Stuff I Can't Cram Into My 1st Locker. And it's so true!

2 wks from today!

Hope everyone that is there now is having a blast!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

Got a great villa. It is a one bedroom dedicated. Didn't know there was such a thing. We are on the 5th floor, the first room when you head left out of the elevator. 5717. We have the vaulted ceilings and the porch with the little roof over it, separate porches for the bedroom and the living room. It is a solid wood wall though, no slates on the porch railing. Still, I love it!
!

I love those Ded 1Br's up there too! We had 5524 in Nov so we got off the elevator, went left and then the first hallway right and were right there. It was definitely a different feel to the room (in a very good way) with the vaulted ceilings and we too had balconies off of both the living and bedroom areas unlike the last 1BR we stayed in at VWL. Solid railings too but those don't both me as long as there's enough room on them.

And we hit the Candlelight Processional last night. I took a few bad pictures, but the show itself was incredible and moving...

And the narrator was Edward James Olmos, who was excellent and emotional. He also repeated part of the narration in Spanish, which sounded great in his wonderful voice...

Afterwards we watched Illuminations. The additional Holiday part at the end was great, with the song "Let There Be Peace On Earth" playing amidst bursts of fireworks.

Love all the great pictures Granny!! Once again I'm so wishing we were down there now. We saw CP with Edward James Olmos in 2007 or 2008. I read it was the first time he started adding sections in Spanish. It was a nice touch and he remains one of the favorite narrators we have had the joy to listen to.

Just placed an order for a 2nd owners locker. I think it is aptly named. Stuff I Can't Cram Into My 1st Locker. And it's so true!

Love it!!

Everytime I sit on ours to close it I wonder if we need a "Can't cram anymore in" locker!!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

What is a dedicated 1 BR Ink?

Have fun with the project, can't wait to hear what it's all about.

Dedicated just means no connecting studio which is nice b/c you don't have to deal with the door and it may be a little quieter. We never heard a peep from the rooms around us. There are 27 or 28 of them on various floors at VWL.

Here's a couple of pics from our 5th floor room:

From the bedroom balcony looking towards the living room balcony and the balcony next door which is a lock-off studio that connects to the 1Br on the other side of it.

Some of the work being done on the walkway while we were there:

And a couple of Christmas ones to top it off:

 

[horselover]

Beautiful pictures as always Kathy. Thank you! Those 5th floor rooms look really nice except for the balconies. I don't think I'd like that wall.

 

[Muushka]

Ah Kat4, once again, your photography leaves me breathless! Thank you for posting them.
I felt like I could reach out and touch Santa!

 

[debbieandroo]

Ah Kat4, once again, your photography leaves me breathless! Thank you for posting them.
I felt like I could reach out and touch Santa!

As someone who has a dreadful time taking pictures of the parades, especially the ones at night, I am truly in awe . Now I really really want to be there!

And thank you for the pictures of the one bedroom - I've never seen them to that kind of detail.

 

[I Book He Pays]

Hi Everyone:

twokats ~ Oh I can't wait to see the photo of Mickey! Thank you!!! Only 900pictureses in six days? Your like me when I'm on vacation! Keep taking those photos! I'm so sorry that you didn't get into the Grandstand section... how disappointing... but glad you got in the Carousel. Did you get any snow at home?

Granny ~ Great photos and thanks so much for sharing your vacation with us! I'm in the process of researching for a new digital camera and I'm looking at a Sony. Enjoy your vacation and keep those pictures coming!

KAT4DISNEY ~ I love your night pictures and of course of the 1BR villa you had. Nice to get that visual. BTW... I remember you mentioning a while back that you have two Sony digital cameras. I've been researching for quite some time and interested in the A55 or A65. Could I PM you and get your opinion of the A55 if you don't mind?

Inkmahm ~ Welcome home! Have a great time!!! Please let us know about GKTW.

horselover ~ I hope you find a holder soon for the zebra Mickey ornament. I didn't think I had room on the tree but I made room. It was the first ornament on the tree! It looks beautiful with my other zebra ornaments, Disney ornaments and those I collected over the years. I love what you named the second locker!

Have a great night everyone!