What Do You Do With a Nine Pound Lemon?? LINK TO NEW TR!

[jenseib]

I don't have a widescreen and can see them just fine. Have you tried looking into your user control panel Jenseib to see if you can view things differently?

Hmmm, no, what would I look at there? I looked at my display and there is no way to change it to make it wider.

 

[anjalee6]

Our trip down was delayed two times because of thunderstorms in the area so we didn't get in until after 10. We were supposed to get in at 8:00. Ugh! We were so annoyed. Our flight was a little bumpy too. Love the amount of gift cards you got. That is what I need to start doing. I want tons of gift cards too!

 

[kate_wdw]

Oh definitely!! We LOVE to ship home!
Thanks! We just bought it this summer...our first DSLR. It's a Nikon D3000.

Thanks!

I'm psyched that your TR has begun!

 

[stephielela]

Woo Hoo! Sounds like you were off to a great start! I love paying with gift cards, I have 4 for our trip so far, and I am hoping to get at least 1 more before we go, just not sure if I will have time! I like having everything prepaid as much as possible.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Your friend Jill is awesome! We're driving to Disney next month and I may just have to make our car like the ME! Picture size seems fine to me Can't wait to read more!

She's the best! It was a great way to get the trip started!

Don't worry Nikki. A lot of people load them this size and I am used to it. If I use my laptop, I'm fine....but that is getting fixed right now.
I think thre is a way to set your upload size to photobucket...but I have no clue how. LOL

Okay, thanks....don't want to be a pain with pictures since I LOVE pictures so much!

Hi Nikki! Yay you've started! Looked like a good travel day.. I bet your day at work went soo slowly! ... loved the idea of the slide show that your friend made for you in the car, great to have someone you know who 'gets it' about WDW hehe


Looking forward to more!

Emma x

Hey Emma! She totally "gets it." It's rare to find a true disney-loving friend!

I'm subbing.

I can't wait to hear more about your trip.

Awesome amount of gift cards!

Cool about February. We will be there at the same time.

Oh cool! Maybe our paths will cross....

Our trip down was delayed two times because of thunderstorms in the area so we didn't get in until after 10. We were supposed to get in at 8:00. Ugh! We were so annoyed. Our flight was a little bumpy too. Love the amount of gift cards you got. That is what I need to start doing. I want tons of gift cards too!

Oh that stinks!! I would've been annoyed too.

Thanks!

I'm psyched that your TR has begun!

Thanks!! It's exciting, isn't it?!

Woo Hoo! Sounds like you were off to a great start! I love paying with gift cards, I have 4 for our trip so far, and I am hoping to get at least 1 more before we go, just not sure if I will have time! I like having everything prepaid as much as possible.

Luckily, my mom gets me disney gift cards for EVERY occasion and since it had been over a year since our last trip, they really started to add up. Plus I got a few from my students, one from a credit card reward, etc. I really had SO many!

 

[Tracy161]

Yay!!! You've started!!! Cannot wait to read more!

*and no, I don't think your pictures are too large at all!

 

[knewton64]

.


Can't wait 2 hear more.



T.T.F.N.

 

[anjalee6]

Nikki,
You need to let me know how you drop hints to your students about Disney gift cards because I need to take lessons from you. I would love to get Disney gift cards from my students.

 

[Stefy]

All caught up and not too far behind

First off congrats on your Feb trip, so exciting that you have your next trip booked already

The sign wasn't lit when we arrived which was such a bummer, as our driver said it normally is lit and I bet it looks really cool too

Looking forward to reading more

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Yay!!! You've started!!! Cannot wait to read more!

*and no, I don't think your pictures are too large at all!

Great!!

.


Can't wait 2 hear more.



T.T.F.N.

Hey!! Welcome!

Nikki,
You need to let me know how you drop hints to your students about Disney gift cards because I need to take lessons from you. I would love to get Disney gift cards from my students.

Hahaha! Well, last year I just got a few American Express or bank gift cards from some students plus a class card with $100. I save all gift cards for DIsney, not just the DIsney ones but the problem is, if there isn't enough to cover the full amount, it won't just subtract what's left like it CAN do on Disney gift cards. That was kind of annoying! But my students/parents know how much I love Disney so in the past, I've definitely gotten Disney gift cards.

All caught up and not too far behind

First off congrats on your Feb trip, so exciting that you have your next trip booked already

The sign wasn't lit when we arrived which was such a bummer, as our driver said it normally is lit and I bet it looks really cool too

Looking forward to reading more

Isn't it exciting?! So soon! I'm really bummed about it not being lit still!

 

[Erin♥sDisney]

Wow! How awesome is Jill? She is THE best! That was too cool.

 

[ronnmel]

Hmmm, no, what would I look at there? I looked at my display and there is no way to change it to make it wider.

I looked and the only thing I found that *might* work is when you are reading a thread at the top there is "Thread Tools" (where you can subscribe for example), maybe you could try the printer friendly version?

Otherwise I don't know, It's weird how everything looks fine on my laptop (about 15in), but not on your computer? I know what you are talking about, because I've seen it happen to me, but that was a long time ago.

Or maybe there'd be something in your internet options?

Sorry to hijack your thread Nikki!

 

[PopArtGal]

omg!! I want the wallet!

 

[PopArtGal]

Did you try Bridesmaid at home? I'm sad that you didn't like it. I loved it. Ok, it's gross in some places and I rarely like that. But it worked for this movie.

Maybe you were texting me?

 

[jenseib]

omg!! I want the wallet!

I do too!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Wow! How awesome is Jill? She is THE best! That was too cool.

She's awesome!

I looked and the only thing I found that *might* work is when you are reading a thread at the top there is "Thread Tools" (where you can subscribe for example), maybe you could try the printer friendly version?

Otherwise I don't know, It's weird how everything looks fine on my laptop (about 15in), but not on your computer? I know what you are talking about, because I've seen it happen to me, but that was a long time ago.

Or maybe there'd be something in your internet options?

Sorry to hijack your thread Nikki!

Oh no problem!

omg!! I want the wallet!

Haha!

Did you try Bridesmaid at home? I'm sad that you didn't like it. I loved it. Ok, it's gross in some places and I rarely like that. But it worked for this movie.

Maybe you were texting me?

I just didnt' think it was funny AT ALL. I gave it a good try and by the time they were at the engagement party and Kristen Wigg and the other girl kept trying to one-up each other with their speeches, I just couldn't take it anymore. I just thought it was so stupid and I couldn't stand to see them go at it the whole movie.

I do too!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Day 2 - Thursday September 29, 2011

This morning, we were heading to DHS. We were not concerned with making rope drop so the plan was to meet outside at 8:30 and head to the bus. I set a wake-up call the night before for 7:30. When the phone rang, I quickly took a shower and woke Tom up. I feel like we have the same routine every single morning of our Disney trips, now that I think about it. I wake up, take a shower, get my stuff together, wake up Tom and tell him I'm going to get him coffee as incentive for him to wake up and take a shower while I'm gone! Haha! It seems to work for us!

I took some pictures of the resort on my way....

Food Court!

Oak Manor - I hadn't been in the mansion section in a LONG time. I always thought I would rather AB but it was nice.

I took a few more pictures of this fountain, practicing playing with the shutter speed on my awesome, new camera!

Pretty soon, it was 8:30 and everyone was ready to go!

We LOVED having connecting rooms! Can you tell?!

Off to the bus stop!

To say I was excited, is quite an understatement!!

After going through the gates with our 1-day base tickets left over from the AWESOME "buy 4 nights, get 4 free" deal we had on our honeymoon, we headed directly to Guest Services to upgrade to Annual Passes!!!

The woman who was helping us was SOOOO nice! It took a little bit of time because, again, I paid with gift cards. This time I was only allowed 3 forms of payment so I had to use my BIG gift cards that I ordered just for this purpose!! Then there was a little error because the tickets were from July 2009 and when she printed the APs they automatically used THAT date so they expired July 2010! She made it like it was no big deal and got it fixed right away. LOVED her! And then, as if she wasn't great enough, she dug her hand into a drawer and pulled out for us FIVE FPs that can be used at most any ride throughout the day! Super exciting right?? Except there was one problem. Look closely....do you see it?

It's not that it excludes Toy Story or the shows because frankly, I've done TSM once and I have no desire to do it again. I mean I would, but I' would much rather use my ticket for FPs on things like TOT and RNRC.

Since we prepaid for the photopass CD, we had to stop at EVERY one (haha!) so we stopped for our first professional pic. Erin had the BRILLIANT idea to put the photopass card right in our plastic lanyard card holder so that the card can be scanned RIGHT through the plastic without even taking it out! It was SOOOOOOO easy every time we stopped for a pic!

(continued in next post...)

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

After stopping for a few pics, I'm got only one thing on my mind...the butterfinger cupcake!! If you remember from my PTR, this was a BIG part of the plan for this morning. I've been planning on having it for breakfast for months! But Tom is a really really big Star Wars fan and it was necessary that we headed STRAIGHT to Star Tours! Everyone was reeeally excited about, especially Tom! We only managed to snap one pic of the queue.

It was really fun and we all enjoyed the updated version.

After that, I'm still thinking about that cupcake but time was ticking and we wanted to hit up the big 2 before the lines got too long. So again, I will wait....

On our way, Conor said he wanted popcorn and since it's vacation, why not?

Then Erin and I stopped to use the bathroom and I took my first picture on my OTHER camera!!

(I felt the need to mention this because doing this trip report is SOOOOO difficult! When I try to put the pics all together on photobucket, they aren't in order and I HAVE to have order so I have an album for the good camera, my small camera, Erin's pictures and photopass! It's not easy going back and forth between them all......)

Gary, Erin and I wanted to ride RNRC but Tom was all for skipping it so he stayed out with Conor while we went on.

I love the view of TOT from the RNRC line!

Erin was a little apprehensive, especially when you see the "limos" shoot out while waiting in line. But I was getting pumped!! Erin predicted what her ride photo face would look like and it was pretty accurate to her description!

When we got off the ride, we found Tom and Conor waiting. Apparently they were filming some promos because they had families shouting, "WE LOVE WALT DISNEY WORLD!"

After trying to watch for a while, we headed to TOT! I was really pushy about Erin's riding this. She wasn't sure but I pretty much told her she's doing it! And in all honesty, she didn't put up TOO much of a fight!

So even thought the line said only 20-30 minutes, we decided now was as good a time as any to use those special, super-duper fast passes we got! We felt really proud and important as we walked up with FPs that no one else had. So we very excitedly hand them to the CM collecting the FPs and she looks for a minute before telling us we can't use them. Did you guess why??

Here is is again.....

It was for the wrong day!!!! I'm sure she did it by accident, but the FPs were for the following day and we certainly weren't going back. Oh well.....we got in the standby line with the rest of the unimportant losers!

Pride!!

(Wow, I can't believe it's not even noon yet and I've used 2 posts just for one morning. Really we took so many pictures so I'm pretty much showing you the WHOLE day! I'll try to post more later. Like when will I get that cupcake!?!)

 

[NMW]

Subscribing

 

[disneybarbie]

what a great morning so far Nikki!

Your photos are fantastic btw - the colours are so clear in them
I agree about photobucket.. I have photopass/Steve's DSLR/Steve's point & shoot and my point & shoot all in one 'album' which means lots of going back & forth through the pages to find the right pictures! hehe

That is odd about the fast passes.. I read it as 'use by 30th September' .. not that they're for the 30th only?
Great that the CM at guest relations gave them to you though, she could obviously tell you were all so excited to be there!


Can't wait for more,


Emma x