We're Going to Disney World!!---TR started 4/29!

[xoktenox]

I would say try for Chef Mickey's for dinner if you don't mind being tied down for one night. A night your planning on MK you could take the monorail over. It's so much fun! I've been thinking of adding it for breakfast to our grownups trip! Even without the little ones it would be a blast!!

Hmm that is definitely an idea, I'll keep it in mind!

You might want to try a really late breakfast that doubles as a lunch or a character lunch. This is how we fit in our character breakfasts. No breakfast that day and a late bf ressie that doubles as an early lunch.

Donald's Safari Breakfast at Tusker House in AK serves breakfast until 11:00am. We are going since Daisy is there, but they also have Donald, Minnie and Goofy.

Crystal Palace in MK does breakfast and lunch and has Pooh characters.

Chef Mickey's at Contemporary has the big guy and friends and you can do a late breakfast. Keep in mind that it is very noisy.

1900 Park Fare BF at the GF has Mary Poppins, Alice, Mad Hatter and Pooh characters. This one is good for adults.

Ohana BF at the Poly does Stitch, Lilo, Minnie, Pluto and Goofy in Hawaiian gear and is pretty laid back although pretty noisy.

Cape May BF at the Beach Club has Goofy, Minnie and a few others in "beachy" gear. You can get there from Epcot or DHS.

I hope that helps!

You are my lifesaver with this stuff, honestly lol Thats a really good idea to do the late breakfast/early lunch idea. We don't have any sit down meals planned for our AK day so I'm thinking Tusker House might be a good idea. It's a buffet right? I asked BF who his favorite character is and he did one of these and said "I dunno, I don't have one." So looks like I'm just gonna pick what one I want to do Thanks again!!

tusker house and ohana have Mickey, not Minnie. Minnie can be found at Chef Mickey's and Cape May

Thanks for the info!!

That's good to know about Ohana. Someone else posted that he isn't there anymore and Minnie is. When you make your ADR, they will read of the list of characters but will remind you that it is subject to change at any time.

Yeah, it's not too big of a deal for us thankfully.



Sorry that I've been slow with the update everyone. This past week has been crazy. Chris got stitches in his finger last Thursday night, he pulled a spaz move and tripped over a car bumper that he was painting for a friend and landed on the lawnmower. The lever thingy that adjusts the wheels on it sliced open his finger He'll live but he's playing up the whole "my injured hand" thing. Then Saturday Chris's parents were away all day and night so we had to watch his dogs all day. He has a big lovable German SHepard and a little mutt with terrible breath. They get really sad when his mom leaves so we had to watch them during the day and keep them company. I'll post some pictures of his dog and my dog soon because they're jsut so cute.

In other news, we were supposed to go to a Halloween party this Saturday at a hall. We paid $30 each a few weeks ago and that was supposed to cover our food and drinks for the whole night. Well, this past Saturday we were at my grandparents house celebrating my grandpa's 81st bday and we get a text message from the girl who invited us to the party saying the party was that night...in 10 minutes!! So we couldn't go because we weren't ready or even close to ready and we lost out on the party and our $30 each. Luckily we were invited to another party this Saturday so we get to wear our costumes. We're being Fred and Wilma Flintstone! I'm so excited There will be pictures of that to come too. And I promise to get pictures from old trips up asap. Thanks for reading!!

 

[TPCShauna]

Ouch and double ouch on the finger! That sounds awful! And boo on the party thing too. Did she get the date wrong initially? At least you'll still be able to use your costumes.

I'm so happy that I can be of help. Yes, Tusker House is a buffet and they have some "exotic" things plus tons of normal stuff so y'all should find plenty to eat there. And yes, the late BF/early lunch thing works VERY well because I HATE dragging myself out of bed early for breakfast. I'd totally rather sleep as late as possible and eat a banana and yogurt on the way to the park.

 

[AZMickeyfans]

I've heard both Tusker house and Cape May for breakfast are delicious! Can't go wrong with either one. Just ask for the latest seating possibly. Doubles as both meals!

 

[xoktenox]

Ouch and double ouch on the finger! That sounds awful! And boo on the party thing too. Did she get the date wrong initially? At least you'll still be able to use your costumes.

I'm so happy that I can be of help. Yes, Tusker House is a buffet and they have some "exotic" things plus tons of normal stuff so y'all should find plenty to eat there. And yes, the late BF/early lunch thing works VERY well because I HATE dragging myself out of bed early for breakfast. I'd totally rather sleep as late as possible and eat a banana and yogurt on the way to the park.

Yes, definitely ouch for BF's finger, he gets the stitches out tomorrow though so he can finally go back to work. He's getting bad cabin fever sitting at home all day for the past week. My friend did get the date wrong on the party initially. But even though I was mad about the money, I'm over it since we'll still get to the go to a party. I'm excited about TH! I definitely don't like getting up so early, especially to eat so the late breakfast/early lunch will be perfect for us!

I've heard both Tusker house and Cape May for breakfast are delicious! Can't go wrong with either one. Just ask for the latest seating possibly. Doubles as both meals!

I wish I was going there for like a month so I could try ALLLL the places to eat. I just keep telling myself its ok if we don't eat everywhere in one trip, we'll just go back again ASAP!

 

[julezdisney]

Happy Halloween! Keep safe & have fun!

 

[xoktenox]

...not the one I promised though. Ok, I keep promising an update with pictures from my previous trips. I even had Chris lug the huge totes off of one another and I fished through them all and found some old photo albums AND the pictures I'm going to put on here. I've yet to scan those pictures though...apparently me and the scanner don't get along too well So I keep procrastinating on scanning them...but I will do it soon, I promise. To hold everyone over (and to get some of my readers back) I have some good pictures from Halloween weekend.

Side note:: Friday during the day I went and met with the Dean of the School of Education at Dowling College. Long story short, I start there in January The program I'm right now is called the Master of Science Qualifying Program. Basically I want to go to be a Social Studies teacher but when I was an undergrad I was a Political Science major so I only have 3 credits of history. So the spring semester is me just taking some undergrad history classes and then starting next September I'll go right into getting my masters in adolescent education with a middle school extension in social studies. I'm really so excited but it's going to be a lot of work with classes and all the certification tests I need to take. Wish me luck!

Ok now to the good stuff. Friday we didn't do much as we knew we had a party on Saturday night to go to. However, my mom wanted to dress up my dog...little tidbit about my dog, she hates costumes. We got her a sweater for her to wear outside the winter when its snowing but when we put it on her all she does it just lay down and won't move. So, my mom got her a bandana Here she is, her name is Julie and even though shes a little nugget, shes 9.

Her bandada says "BOO!" on it and she isn't very good at posing because once the flash goes off she gets scared.

During the day I decided to make some Halloween cookies. They're peanut butter cookies with Hershey Kisses and they're supposed to be witches hats.

Then I went to Chris's where is sister and her boyfriend had brought over his niece. This little girl is the cutest baby I have ever seen and has the sweetest little personality. She poses for pictures and thinks shes a super model which she is definitely cute enough to be. Her name is Aubrey and shes 6 months old. She was a monkey.
She's moving in this one but you get the idea.

How cute is she?!?! Up close for the camera

Her side profile

Then she changed outfits. Chris and I bought her this one and it says Little Beauty Queen on it.

Now shes starting her posing and smiling

I can't even tell you how cute this baby is, the pictures don't do her justice.

So last night Chris and I went to a costume party. As I've said before we were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. My costume came with a cheesy wig that was not even really a wig but more of a foam cutout. I dont even know how it was supposed to stay on. So I got the "brilliant" idea to just buy orange hair spray color and spray my hair orange like Wilma. It turned out alright except the orange was like neon orange, not Wilma orange. Also I had a bit of a fiasco with fake eyelashes. A little info about me, I'm obsessed with my eyelashes. They're blonde so I always pound on the mascara or else I think I look like I have NO eyelashes. I also curl them for at least 5 minutes each because mine are pin straight. Needless to say they take up the majority of my time getting ready in the morning and I can do almost anything (including drive) while curling my eyelashes. Anyway, tonight I decided I was going to get fake eyelashes. I danced competitively for 13 years so I've put fake eyelashes on hundreds of times. Well, this time I had my lovely boyfriend pick up the eyelash glue for me. He got me some liquid stuff I've never used before...and never again will. I'm surprised I'm not blind today from how much of it got into my eyes. I was screaming because it burned so badly. So after like 45 minutes of screaming I ripped them off and went and got new ones with the right kind of glue. In these pictures, I have no fake eyelashes on and mine are NOT done to par. Oh well, here we are

Close up while Chris was talking

So there we are. The party was a lot of fun! Unfortunately I left my camera in the car and didn't take any pictures of the girls house. It was so cold outside and neither one of us wanted to run out in the 39º weather.

Ok so hopefully this is enough of a temporary update. I PROMISE to have the past trip pics up by the end of the week. Thanks for reading

 

[mickeysmyboy]

What great pictures!! Your dog is sooo cute!! So tiny, OMG! The little beauty queen is adorabe! I love the monkey costume! You and DBF look so cute as fred and Wilma!

I feel your pain about the blonde eyelashes! If I don't wear mascara I look deathly sick! It's terrible!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Do you know which history classes you will be taking yet?

Your puppy dog is too, too cute!

Your witch hat cookies look delicious!

Love Aubrey's monkey costume!

You and BF look great as Fred and Wilma -- so fun!

 

[xoktenox]

What great pictures!! Your dog is sooo cute!! So tiny, OMG! The little beauty queen is adorabe! I love the monkey costume! You and DBF look so cute as fred and Wilma!

I feel your pain about the blonde eyelashes! If I don't wear mascara I look deathly sick! It's terrible!

Thank you! I do have to agree with you that my dog is amazingly adorable lol So is Aubrey and thank you for the compliments on the costumes! The blonde eyelashes are so annoying! I say that mine are transparent along with my arm hair People without blonde eyelashes never know why it takes me so long to do them perfectly but someone feels my pain finally!

Do you know which history classes you will be taking yet?

Your puppy dog is too, too cute!

Your witch hat cookies look delicious!

Love Aubrey's monkey costume!

You and BF look great as Fred and Wilma -- so fun!

I am taking World History I, US History II, US from 1945-1968 and Europe since 1929. Basically I've taken all those classes, just the political science form of them, but I need to have strictly History classes before they would let me start the masters program for teaching Oh well, they should be easy A's and history is interesting for me. Thank you for all the compliments as well!!

 

[mickeysmyboy]

Thank you! I do have to agree with you that my dog is amazingly adorable lol So is Aubrey and thank you for the compliments on the costumes! The blonde eyelashes are so annoying! I say that mine are transparent along with my arm hair People without blonde eyelashes never know why it takes me so long to do them perfectly but someone feels my pain finally!

My arm is transparent too!! The only time you can see the hair on my arms is when I have a tan and then it looks white. My eyebrows where transparent when I was a kid! I truely looked I didn't have any!!

 

[julezdisney]

Aaaaaaaa! CUTE pix! Awesome costumes! Adorable doggy AND baby! LOL

As for character meal- the other idea I'd have for you is the latest char. meal possible so you can go after a day in the parks. Might be good for the AK day since that park usually closes the earliest?

 

[TPCShauna]

Goodness, your puppy is cute!!! The baby's pretty darling also. Love those eyes!

Y'all look cute in your costumes. Hopefully the party was fun!!!

 

[Lei]

Your dog is way too cute. Thanks for sharing the Halloween pics!

Oh, I know how making your eyelashes pretty can be a nightmare. I've always tried to avoid fake eyelashes for special occasions, but I couldn't! They're too pretty

Have you considered having a semi permanent fake eyelashes? (the ones which could last for a month at least). I don't know if you have it there, but it's currently a huge thing here.

Oh, and congrats on the enrollment and good luck for the ADRs!

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

I love your Halloween costumes! Such a good idea! The glue in the eye sounds PAINFUL...ouch!

I don't even think I would know how to use a scanner, so I totally understand the delays in putting the old photos up. I would love to see them though!

 

[xoktenox]

My arm is transparent too!! The only time you can see the hair on my arms is when I have a tan and then it looks white. My eyebrows where transparent when I was a kid! I truely looked I didn't have any!!

I feel your pain trust me! I have been a blonde all my life and not only do I have to deal with the jokes everytime I do something ditzy, but I have to deal with the lack of eyelash and arm hair pigmentation! Oh well, we shouldn't be complaining, we could be super hairy like some women

Aaaaaaaa! CUTE pix! Awesome costumes! Adorable doggy AND baby! LOL

As for character meal- the other idea I'd have for you is the latest char. meal possible so you can go after a day in the parks. Might be good for the AK day since that park usually closes the earliest?

Thank you, thank you And good idea with the character meal, apparently I have PLENTY of time to decide since it looks like I might never be able to make ADR's since they keep pushing back the date!

Goodness, your puppy is cute!!! The baby's pretty darling also. Love those eyes!

Y'all look cute in your costumes. Hopefully the party was fun!!!

Thank youuuu Aubrey has the biggest blue eyes, she's 6 months now so they'll probably stay! The party was a lot of fun too

Your dog is way too cute. Thanks for sharing the Halloween pics!

Oh, I know how making your eyelashes pretty can be a nightmare. I've always tried to avoid fake eyelashes for special occasions, but I couldn't! They're too pretty

Have you considered having a semi permanent fake eyelashes? (the ones which could last for a month at least). I don't know if you have it there, but it's currently a huge thing here.

Oh, and congrats on the enrollment and good luck for the ADRs!

Thank you! Yeah, I agree with the fake eyelashes thing, Halloween was the perfect opportunity to use them and I wasn't going to give that up! I have heard of the permanent lashes but I kind of thought there were only eyelash extensions which is not my problem, its just the color and the lack of curl. And from what I know, they're kind of expensive to keep up with (on a part time bank teller salary at least lol) Do you know anything more about them?

I love your Halloween costumes! Such a good idea! The glue in the eye sounds PAINFUL...ouch!

I don't even think I would know how to use a scanner, so I totally understand the delays in putting the old photos up. I would love to see them though!

Thanksssss The glue was painful definitely! I was yelling some not so nice words at my mom because she was trying to help but it was actually just making it worse Sorry mom! lol Scanners are completely annoying and I do find them hard to use so thank you for being patient with me

 

[daisyduck7]

Hellooooo to you. I would just love to make some comments about the restaurants. Up until last month, I didn't have a clue about all the different things that could be planned, booked, reserved, AND even have transportation to and from. I went with my DD, her DH, and 6,yep,count 'em 6 kids (9, 8, 8, 6, 5, 2) , and me,,Grandma Rho. She had planned everything, and got free dining thrown in for good measure. We ate at Planet Hollywood - DTD, Tusker House - AK, Biermeister - Epcot, Captain's Grille - Yacht Club, and Cindy's Royal Table - MK. We ate at Counter Service places - McD's(6 kids, remember?) - DTD, the Earl of Sandwich - DTD, the End Zone - AS Sports. All the food was really good.......but.......all the sit down/table service was really costly. The End Zone was a food court type, very affordable, and quite tasty. Tusker House and Biermiester were both buffet. The African dance show outside Tusker House every 45 minutes or so was fabulous. The "Festival of the Lion King" show was totally AWESOME! The entertainment at the German restaurant was really interesting and very good. We were supposed to have a meal at Coral Reef, but missed our time, and that is why we ate at the German restaurant. As far as transportation all around every place goes, we were in their van, but the last 3 days we were there, we used the resort buses. They run about every 15 minutes or so, the drivers were all very courteous, and they drop you almost at the entry gates, hence no trams from the parking lots, then you are dropped back at the front door of your resort. Hope this was of some help. We really enjoyed our trip, and I for one, am already trying to figure out how soon I can go again. So, keep in touch, and I'll check in from time to time, and your travel time will be here before you know it. Bye,now.

 

[xoktenox]

Ok I'm gonna need as much help on this one as I can get. With the newly released 4 days/3 days free promotion going on I'm at a loss. I feel as though I need to take advantage of it. Here's the problem...we booked room only with Disney and ordered our park tickets through AAA. So its not so easy. We can't stay any longer than the 7 days we're already staying. I sent in a request with Small World Vacations and the quote I got back from them for 7 nights, preferred room at ASMo with 7 day tickets with WP&M is $1117.80...for our room only at Pop standard room with a AAA discount we paid $721.99 and the tickets were $279.05 each with the AAA discount. That comes to $1280.09. So we would save $162.29 by booking the new ressie. For a struggling college student, $162.29 is a lot of money!! (Well maybe not alot but a decent amount anyway.) And if we book the package we have 3 extra days of tickets which we could add no expiration to at the end of our trip this time so we can use them whenever we plan to come back. (Which will hopefully be Christmas 09 ) Booking the package would require a few things...one, we would have to switch resorts. To me thats not really that big of a deal and we'd have a preferred room at ASMo which we don't have at Pop. The biggie here is really the tickets that we purchased separately. My idea is to sell them on ebay however, I don't want to go to jail for doing this! Is this legal!? I'm not going to jack up the price of the tickets I just want to get back what I paid for them. They're unused and totally legitimate tickets. The offer from Small World Vacations is on reserve for me until Nov. 13th so please people help me out! Thank you!!!

 

[xoktenox]

Hellooooo to you. I would just love to make some comments about the restaurants. Up until last month, I didn't have a clue about all the different things that could be planned, booked, reserved, AND even have transportation to and from. I went with my DD, her DH, and 6,yep,count 'em 6 kids (9, 8, 8, 6, 5, 2) , and me,,Grandma Rho. She had planned everything, and got free dining thrown in for good measure. We ate at Planet Hollywood - DTD, Tusker House - AK, Biermeister - Epcot, Captain's Grille - Yacht Club, and Cindy's Royal Table - MK. We ate at Counter Service places - McD's(6 kids, remember?) - DTD, the Earl of Sandwich - DTD, the End Zone - AS Sports. All the food was really good.......but.......all the sit down/table service was really costly. The End Zone was a food court type, very affordable, and quite tasty. Tusker House and Biermiester were both buffet. The African dance show outside Tusker House every 45 minutes or so was fabulous. The "Festival of the Lion King" show was totally AWESOME! The entertainment at the German restaurant was really interesting and very good. We were supposed to have a meal at Coral Reef, but missed our time, and that is why we ate at the German restaurant. As far as transportation all around every place goes, we were in their van, but the last 3 days we were there, we used the resort buses. They run about every 15 minutes or so, the drivers were all very courteous, and they drop you almost at the entry gates, hence no trams from the parking lots, then you are dropped back at the front door of your resort. Hope this was of some help. We really enjoyed our trip, and I for one, am already trying to figure out how soon I can go again. So, keep in touch, and I'll check in from time to time, and your travel time will be here before you know it. Bye,now.

Thanks for joining! Sounds like your trip was soooo much fun!! I absolutely can not wait until April, I talk about it non-stop! Hope you continue to read along and enjoy!!

 

[TPCShauna]

Ok I'm gonna need as much help on this one as I can get. With the newly released 4 days/3 days free promotion going on I'm at a loss. I feel as though I need to take advantage of it. Here's the problem...we booked room only with Disney and ordered our park tickets through AAA. So its not so easy. We can't stay any longer than the 7 days we're already staying. I sent in a request with Small World Vacations and the quote I got back from them for 7 nights, preferred room at ASMo with 7 day tickets with WP&M is $1117.80...for our room only at Pop standard room with a AAA discount we paid $721.99 and the tickets were $279.05 each with the AAA discount. That comes to $1280.09. So we would save $162.29 by booking the new ressie. For a struggling college student, $162.29 is a lot of money!! (Well maybe not alot but a decent amount anyway.) And if we book the package we have 3 extra days of tickets which we could add no expiration to at the end of our trip this time so we can use them whenever we plan to come back. (Which will hopefully be Christmas 09 ) Booking the package would require a few things...one, we would have to switch resorts. To me thats not really that big of a deal and we'd have a preferred room at ASMo which we don't have at Pop. The biggie here is really the tickets that we purchased separately. My idea is to sell them on ebay however, I don't want to go to jail for doing this! Is this legal!? I'm not going to jack up the price of the tickets I just want to get back what I paid for them. They're unused and totally legitimate tickets. The offer from Small World Vacations is on reserve for me until Nov. 13th so please people help me out! Thank you!!!

Well, I'm not what I would do in your shoes. Yes, the package is awesome and less expensive overall but you already have your tickets. So, you wouldn't actually be spending less unless you are able to sell your tickets for the amount you paid for them. At this point, yes, you will pay more if you stick with your room-only res., but that's a bit what-if.

No, it's not legal to sell tickets on eBay but people do it all the time. I can't tell you what to do in this case but I CAN tell you that I wouldn't go the ebay route. I just don't feel confident that I would get my money back. Most of the time, when people sell tickets on ebay, they do it at a loss. The good news is that your tickets were purchased at the AAA price so they are less than the regular price so you might get lucky.

I'm sure I was no help at all with all this rambling. Good luck with your decision.

 

[xoktenox]

Well, I'm not what I would do in your shoes. Yes, the package is awesome and less expensive overall but you already have your tickets. So, you wouldn't actually be spending less unless you are able to sell your tickets for the amount you paid for them. At this point, yes, you will pay more if you stick with your room-only res., but that's a bit what-if.

No, it's not legal to sell tickets on eBay but people do it all the time. I can't tell you what to do in this case but I CAN tell you that I wouldn't go the ebay route. I just don't feel confident that I would get my money back. Most of the time, when people sell tickets on ebay, they do it at a loss. The good news is that your tickets were purchased at the AAA price so they are less than the regular price so you might get lucky.

I'm sure I was no help at all with all this rambling. Good luck with your decision.

I didn't think it was legal idk what to do!! I could try putting the tickets on ebay just to see what happens but I'm really not into getting into legal troubles or anything...I'm stressing bad!!