Were home...Here is our Report on EVERYTHING!!!

[SnowWhite607]

Looks like fun!! So nice to see an update! I love reading about other people's trips! I think we were there about the same time - June 15-25 for us?

 

[themudd4]

Looks like fun!! So nice to see an update! I love reading about other people's trips! I think we were there about the same time - June 15-25 for us?

Same time...we checked in on the 13th and checked out on the 21st. Had a great time. Hope your trip went well too!

 

[irky416]

Cute pictures! I always want to try Liberty Tree Tavern but haven't ever made it. I like Spectromagic of the parades the best too!

 

[Remmy]

I love all your pictures, it helps tell us about your adventures. I also like all the descriptions about the places you and your family had your meals. I too am interested in your Hollywood and Vine story. It is too bad about your House of Blues experience but thus far it looks like your good experiences have been more than the bad.

I am looking forward to more installments on your great trip report.

 

[jmskinner]

Great pics. We were there the same time also, the 13th thru 21st.

I liked how you let the boy determine when you would get up. If I allowed the kids to determine that, we would still be in the hotel room. They at least probably would have slept until after Noon, but we probably wouldn't have to deal with grumpy every morning.

Now I want to go check out the parade at MK. Actually, all of the parades. We have only see Spectromagic!

 

[bcbmom]

Great trip report!! I'm looking forward to hearing more...

 

[themudd4]

Cute pictures! I always want to try Liberty Tree Tavern but haven't ever made it. I like Spectromagic of the parades the best too!

We went years ago and enjoyed it, but after we had it this past October my kids insisted on it being in our ADR's again.

I love all your pictures, it helps tell us about your adventures. I also like all the descriptions about the places you and your family had your meals. I too am interested in your Hollywood and Vine story. It is too bad about your House of Blues experience but thus far it looks like your good experiences have been more than the bad.

I am looking forward to more installments on your great trip report.

H&V coming soon. lol...
House of Blues wasn't bad...We just had a bad waiter. As far as the food went it was fine and I can not really complain there. I would give it a shot again as long as I didn't have that same guy. lol!

Great pics. We were there the same time also, the 13th thru 21st.

I liked how you let the boy determine when you would get up. If I allowed the kids to determine that, we would still be in the hotel room. They at least probably would have slept until after Noon, but we probably wouldn't have to deal with grumpy every morning.

Now I want to go check out the parade at MK. Actually, all of the parades. We have only see Spectromagic!

We were worried about letting him sleep in to late too...he can sleep easily 12-14 hours. But I was prepared to let my DD & DH take off and me stay back in the room with him. I think he woke up around 9-9:30 or so. Wasn't to bad at all.

Great trip report!! I'm looking forward to hearing more...

Thank you so much.

 

[themudd4]

Your Not going to believe what I just did. As I finished up my Day 6 report I totally wasn't thinking and I hit the browser back botton . Everything lost! Sorry it will be delayed. I will try and work on day 6,7, & 8 to wrap it up this afternoon!

 

[themudd4]

I don't think I am going to have time to get to it today after all. My DD14 has her All Star STATE softball tourney starting tonight! I have alot to get done before we have to hit the road . I'll finish it soon... . Sorry to leave you all hangin!

 

[JulieNMM]

We started the day off with AM EMH @ MK.
We managed to see a sight we had never seen before...
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Sorry the picture is a lil blury. I took it with my cell phone and hard to get a get picture with the ride moving. It is Alice and the Mad Hatter on the tea cups. It was really neat and they really seem like they were having fun in the line and just being silly.

We were there on that day, too (I think it was Wed. 6/18?) and we saw Alice and the Mad Hatter on the tea cups. So we must have been in line at the same time as you!!! We didn't go to CP but my DS (also 8!) was acting majorly bad that whole day. He gets really fussy if he doesn't eat and he decided he didn't like anything that day and was starving and acting up. What is it with kids that day???

JULIE

 

[SnowWhite607]

I was there on Wed 6/18 but that was not the EMH day. Tour Guide Mike advised me to steer clear of those, and we did and had a great trip, FWIW! And I have never seen Alice riding the tea cups! PRETTY COOL!

 

[themudd4]

We were there on that day, too (I think it was Wed. 6/18?) and we saw Alice and the Mad Hatter on the tea cups. So we must have been in line at the same time as you!!! We didn't go to CP but my DS (also 8!) was acting majorly bad that whole day. He gets really fussy if he doesn't eat and he decided he didn't like anything that day and was starving and acting up. What is it with kids that day???

JULIE

I have it being the 17th. We weren't in MK on the 18th until later in the after noon.
Maybe they do this more often then we know...or done it back to back days.

I was there on Wed 6/18 but that was not the EMH day. Tour Guide Mike advised me to steer clear of those, and we did and had a great trip, FWIW! And I have never seen Alice riding the tea cups! PRETTY COOL!

I love AM EMH's. I think the are wonderful! But we likely leave the park by 11 am when it starts getting crowded. When we do we end up at a park that is NOT doing a PM EMH!

 

[themudd4]

First things first...My DD14's All Star team won their first game in the state softball tourney tonight. Won big too...19 to 4!

Ok, I am going to go through this kinda quickly as I already worte it all once before....lol. I had a blonde moment! lol.

We had NO Plans for day. No adr's, no thoughts for the day, just took it as it came.
Breakfast began our day...everyone all together now...at the foodcourt. LOL. Last time I promise. While it is fine with us I even was ready for a little more to choose from at this point. Or just maybe skip breakfast all together but not an option for my DH.
Next...lets go beat my DH at Toy Story Midway Manie AGAIN...lol. 2 more times. lol...I love it! I still am ragging on him about that.
For lunch my DS insisted on going to Sci fi. We had ressies for the next day but I was good either way. So off we went to Sci Fi...

DH had a burger again...yes he is going to start going Moo any time now.
DS had the pasta. DD had the chicken sandwich, and I had the club sandwich. Everything was good and our waitress was ok! Since we went off our ressie we lost eating in the car which was fine with me. I think it is a neat idea, but I dont like the lil bitty eating area they offer. We ended up with the flying saucer picnic table...DS was mad but then we reminded him it was him that wouldn't wait.
We were all kinda tired of the parks and just wanted to take a break so we headed back to the resort for a midday dip in the pool. This was much needed.
Next we headed over to DTD to finish our shopping and grab some dinner. We ended up at Planet Hollywood!

DH had the steak fajita's, I had the chicken pasta, DD had a pasta dish and DS pasta as well...Everything was GREAT. Prob the best meal we have had there...and our waitress was GREAT!

Just FYI...new DTD place opening this fall...T-REX!

My DS is going to LOVE this place!!!

We called it a day kinda early...but we were all BEAT!

 

[themudd4]

Our last full day at Disney.

We thought we would sleep in a lil...We were all feeling the affects of being on the go for a week now. Well, that was before their was a knock...or should I say a BANG on our door at 7 am. Scared me to death. I jumped straight up and opened the door without even looking out the peep hole. It was one of the guys from luggage. He looked shocked when he seen me standing their straight from the bed I am sure. He said, you called for luggage. I said NO. He said are you sure? Now, normally I would have had a witty lil comback for that but not at 7 am from a sound sleep. Then the woman next to use opened her door and said I think your looking for my room. Then he pulled out this lil piece of paper and sure enough he was at the wrong room. He felt bad so I wasn't going to press the issue. I just smiled shut the door and TRIED to go back to sleep.
Well, when we all got up and moving, we headed off to MK for the last time this trip. We grabbed breakfast as soon as we got there at Main street bakery. I learned something there too. If your on the DDP...you can combine 3 snack's and a drink and it counts as 1 cs meal. That may be common knowledge but I didn't know it. Sorry no pics...but there were cinn rolls, fruit, cherry turn over, and yogurt. I was a good girl!!
We ran around and had some fun then headed back to out must do each trip...CASEY"S. We all love it. I was a lil worried becasue we had heard that they had changed the buns but we all thought they were just fine. I love the topping bar.
After we wrapped up our day at MK we headed back over to DHS for our dinner H&V. We got there plenty early so we could take one more run around the park. I guess we felt like we had to say goodbye or something. Now keep in mind it is Friday and SWW. We didn't really do much with the crowds. We went and got our free photopass picture, and thought it looked like rain so we went ahead and headed over to check in for our ressie. Well the rain's didn't hold off...it unleased on us as we were getting there. Well the check in station is outside so there was no way of not getting wet. I sent my DH with the kids on up to the umbrellaed area to get out of the down poor. When I checked in the woman didn't have our ressie listed. So l pulled out my confirmation number. She tells me I am a day late. I showed her that I had the resort copy (Which I asked them for a print out because one of my copies I had got wet and I wanted another extra just in case) which matched my copy and it was for this day. Anyway she typed us in...so I thought no big deal. Well this is the storm that decided to not move on. We stood out in the weather and rain for 30 minutes and my DH went up and asked about how much longer they thought it would be. The woman never even looked and just said they will call your name as soon as it comes up. Totally didn't answer the question. Well during this time I am talking to all the people and were all getting a lil upset becasue there is no place to really get out of the weather. We all start comparing ressie times and we were the only ones that had been waiting this long, and we were checked in well before most of them. After another 15 minutes the people who had the same size party that had checked in after us and that had a ADR after ours were called up to be seated I went to ask what was going on...but the fact it was going on 45 minutes I was a lil moe forcefull then my DH. When she gave me a brief as soon as your table opens up they will seat you I said well it has been 45 minutes can you ask the manager to step out here. At first she didn't want to but she finally did. He came right out...I will give him that, but when he asked what was wrong I said well we have been waiting out here for 45 minutes and people are being seated that were checked in after us and had later adr's. He told me that I had no ressie and that they were squeezing me in. I said no sir, I had a ressie and he said yes, but that was yesterday and you did not show up so we were nice enough to allow you seating as we are booked. I looked at him in disbelief. I said no sir I had my ressie for tonight and I have my confirmation from the resort and you have brushed us and many others aside to stand out here in the weather. He then told me that when I cheked in I was told it would be a 25-30 minute wait....that did it. No one told me a single thing about having to wait that long but now were going on 50 minutes so even in that time frame your late. He finally said I will have your table ready soon but please know that were honoring our end of the deal and you will be seated in a few minutes. I was MAD. I felt as if he tried to make this out to be my fault. Not 1 of my other ressies were wrong...and the resort copy I had for the remainder of the week were all the same so I think the woman that looked it up simply looked at it wrong. Anyway, we were the next group to be seated.
The waitress came up and was very nice and asked if we had ever been there before and we said yes and my DH and I at the same time said but this will be our last. It was almost funny. She asked what was wrong and we told her but I assured her that it would not be taken out on her. And I will not take anything away from her...she was great. We were seated we were not being rained on and we were trying to get on with our night. Well we filled our plates can back to the table and well we ate...I am sure the fact I was mad played a factor but this was honestly the worst meal we had. The kids weren't even happy with their food and my DS is like Mikey and will eat anything. (did I just show my age?) I think that baked chicken was the best thing on the bar to eat. and the strawberry cheesecake was alright too...but that is like my favorite thing to endulge in so it would have had to been really bad for me not to have liked it. The manager came back over later and did check on us and ask how things were and we just said well we had have better, but our waitress is great. He said good and walked away. So that was our H&V experience. The service was good. That is the only positive thing about that entire meal. We all were so upset we gave our fantasmic seating ticket to another family of four and told them to enjoy it for us. Even my DS wanted to just go back to the room.
It all worked out...I had to start packing up for the next day anyway.

I just noticed I had no pics for today...Here are some random pics just to have something to look at from our trip.

 

[SnowWhite607]

Ew, so sorry about your bad experience at H and V. I have never eaten there myself. We checked in at the CP behind a woman and they were telling her she had her reservations for the wrong day too even though she INSISTED she didnt. I'm wondering if this is not a problem with Disney Dining when you call?

I think we got caught in that same rain storm (Thursday the 19th?) We were at AK in line for Kali RR. They said they would have to close the ride and we got out of line and started walking out. About halfway to the exit, the sky let loose! We had no ponchos, nothing. We headnt rented a stroller for DD that say (she and I went to tea at the GF and DH played golf so we didnt meet at AK till about 4pm) so even she got soaked. The water was up to my ankles!! The next day I had to put my comfy tennis shoes in the dryer at the lodge so I could wear them again. It was awful!

Did you see Fantasmic this trip? We missed it (again). I tell myself every year that I will see it this time and every year, we dont for some reason.

 

[jmskinner]

I am totally shocked about your experience at H&V. Haven't eaten there but can't believe you were treated that way.

We had ressies for Wolfgang Puck and got there 10 minutes before our scheduled time. They kept apologizing for not having our table ready, that they had tried to accomodate several tables to help people get out of the rain. They seated us only 10 minutes later than our scheduled time, and that whole time 2 different people spoke to us about 4 time each apologizing and saying not much longer. I just can't believe H&V was that awful. What a way to spend your last full day.

 

[irky416]

Congrats to your DD on the softball game!

Sorry to hear about your bad experience at H&V.

If the rain storm was indeed June 19th, we experienced it also!

 

[themudd4]

Congrats to your DD on the softball game!

Sorry to hear about your bad experience at H&V.

If the rain storm was indeed June 19th, we experienced it also!

Thank you...from me and my DD. Just an update: they won their game this morning 8-6, and lost their game this afternoon by 10-11. They now play tomorrow @ noon...if they win...they play again tomorrow night for the championship...if they lose...were done but will have finished 4th in the state regardless. I am so proud of these girls. If they end up 1st or 2rd place we will go on to the next level (I am thinking it's called regionals but dont hold me to it) and that will be in Green bay Wisconsin.

Yes, were done with H&V. DONE DONE DONE.

And the rain storm I am talking about was shortly after 5 PM on Friday 6/20/07.

Snowwhite607...sorry I didn't mean to skip you. No we skipped it and gave our reserved seats away to another family of 4. I hope they enjoyed them.
It could have been simply a mistake and I am not saying I didn't make it but the copy I had from my resort was the same as I had so I think that the woman either just over looked it or something silly...but just to be treated as if it were my fault I was in so much disbelief.

Anyway I will try and finsih my trip report tonight after the fireworks or sometime tomorrow.

I hope everyone has a fun and safe 4th of July!!!

 

[SnowWhite607]

Ah, the Friday storm as opposed to the Thursday storm! LOL! We were in line at Epcot to see the Sounds Like Summer concert that night at 5:15. We were in line about 4:45 or so and the weather was getting bad. The lady came by and told us that the show was cancelled due to the weather and we JUST made it to Italy (where we were having dinner) then it POURED! We were under the umbrella tables outside and we had till 630 to wait for dinner. Luckily, it slacked up about 530-545 or so and I went inside to check in and they were able to seat us early. We made the 2nd show since it had stopped pouring by then!

It was rare that we had a day where it *didnt* rain. I had been in June before so I knew what to expect but these rains seemed like they were harder and longer than in previous years.

Congrats to your DD. My DH is a high school softball coach but they have never made it to the state tournament. He keeps hoping though.....

 

[irky416]

Good luck to your DD tomorrow! Let us know how it goes.

Oh, the Friday rainstorm.... We were stuck at Animal Kingdom for that one.