What took you so long to get here?! A Dec TR - update 1/28 MVMCP!

[Lidian]

I have to tell you a funny story. So I was perusing the Dis and my husband wandered into the room.
"Whatcha doin?" says he
"Disney stuff" says me
He gives me a really funny look. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I looked back at the screen and see this:

"Um. That doesn't look like it belongs at Disney" says he.
rofl.

 

[tinkbell13]

It snowed here last night! And we are enjoying a nice relaxing day snowed in at my house until we venture out for dinner plans later on this evening.

My dad had to bust out our snow blower...and I was frolicking around outside with Sebastian! (did I mention how much I love him?)

Here we are being precious.....in my car window. You know you love my hat! I sure do!!

So for the rest of the day Pat and I will be playing Wii....because that is what we do best! And with the release of the sequel approaching soon, I need to finish my first play through of....

Luigi's Mansion! Anyone else play this game? I'm enjoying it big time so far...it reminds me of the Haunted Mansion, kind of!

Anyone else enjoying a snow day?

Love the pictures! I have owned Canon cameras for several years now and think they give one of the best pictures ever! My FIL swore by Nikon cameras when he had film cameras. He finally made the switch to digital a few years ago and was totally unhappy with his Nikon pictures compared to mine. So he now has a Canon and it looking to move up to a DSLR but can't make up his mind which one he wants. I can't wait to play with it when he does get it!

As I sit here in the land of the Great White North where we are due to hit a high of 9C, or 48F for those south of the border, it is currently pouring rain and melting the little snow we had. Of course, it is supposed to dip below freezing tonight, thereby making all roads and sidewalks like a skating rink. And then it is supposed to snow, so it will be really nice and slippery for those that have to drive to work tomorrow morning. It's times like that where I am glad we work out of the house!

We have been having a really strange winter here. It gets cold and we get about 2-4" of snow. That sticks around for a couple of days and then it gets warm and melts. Then it happens all again. There are so many people that are sick because of the see-sawing temperatures. I just want it to get cold and snow now so it doesn't do it when we are about to leave for WDW. That and I hate having to constantly clean the water and mud off our dog (and walls and floor) when she comes in from outside!

My DS just walked by and noticed all the Wii games. "Look mom, someone else likes Lego Harry Potter like me". He Lego games. We have Harry Potter, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Carribean for either the Wii or XBox. He also noticed Disney Universe and wants the new Disneyland one for the Kinect because "it looks cool". Haven't seen Luigi's Mansion before.

 

[poisonapple_PRINCESS]

CP for breakfast looks like lots of fun. And the food does look good.
We did DTD but I didn't realize that Stitch spit! Kinda glad I didn't notice that. Also, we didn't see the tourist family made of legos. Pretty cool.
I spy Epic Mickey in your Wii stack. We loaned ours out, but I think I want to get it back and play again - maybe the villain side.

I LOOOOVE EPIC MICKEY! It was such a fun game! I need to play through again...and I was thinking of doing the villain side too...I might need to start that....

I had to ROFL at your snowblower picture... DH just splurged this summer and got a rider mower with a snowblower attachment - wouldn't you know it, Jan is almost over and he has yet to get to use it... (ROFL - Figures...) So, it snowed about 2" the other day, and he busted out that new blower - and I took pictures too. LOL I should post them in my PTR...

Any ways... How did you know that I loved your hat??? Now I think you need one for Seb!

The girls and I are Mario Kart addicts... We have all these other awesome games and we never touch them because we love MK so much. Speaking of which... Hmmm... I just finished my latest project and I have no plans for this evening...

Thanks for the IRL update.

D~

I'm guessing our snowblower is old then?? I wouldnt even know!

Oh Sebastian so needs a hat! They have cute little lens "buddies"....for when you're taking photos of kids! But I could just get him one right?

Ohhh I LOVE Mario Kart! It is so addicting! I love my Yoshi! Yosh and I kick some MK butt!

I have to tell you a funny story. So I was perusing the Dis and my husband wandered into the room.
"Whatcha doin?" says he
"Disney stuff" says me
He gives me a really funny look. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I looked back at the screen and see this:



"Um. That doesn't look like it belongs at Disney" says he.
rofl.

If only it was at Disney.

Love the pictures! I have owned Canon cameras for several years now and think they give one of the best pictures ever! My FIL swore by Nikon cameras when he had film cameras. He finally made the switch to digital a few years ago and was totally unhappy with his Nikon pictures compared to mine. So he now has a Canon and it looking to move up to a DSLR but can't make up his mind which one he wants. I can't wait to play with it when he does get it!

As I sit here in the land of the Great White North where we are due to hit a high of 9C, or 48F for those south of the border, it is currently pouring rain and melting the little snow we had. Of course, it is supposed to dip below freezing tonight, thereby making all roads and sidewalks like a skating rink. And then it is supposed to snow, so it will be really nice and slippery for those that have to drive to work tomorrow morning. It's times like that where I am glad we work out of the house!

We have been having a really strange winter here. It gets cold and we get about 2-4" of snow. That sticks around for a couple of days and then it gets warm and melts. Then it happens all again. There are so many people that are sick because of the see-sawing temperatures. I just want it to get cold and snow now so it doesn't do it when we are about to leave for WDW. That and I hate having to constantly clean the water and mud off our dog (and walls and floor) when she comes in from outside!

My DS just walked by and noticed all the Wii games. "Look mom, someone else likes Lego Harry Potter like me". He Lego games. We have Harry Potter, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Pirates of the Carribean for either the Wii or XBox. He also noticed Disney Universe and wants the new Disneyland one for the Kinect because "it looks cool". Haven't seen Luigi's Mansion before.

Oh I love my canon camera! Sebastian is fabulous!

We are having weirdo winter weather too. Its freezing somedays and not that bad the next!

OHH I LOVE Lego Harry Potter. I have both of them. They're fabulous. I personally like the first one better though. I havent started Disney Universe yet...need to finish other games first. And Luigi's Mansion is an old game for the game cube.

 

[poisonapple_PRINCESS]

December 16th: Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!

So after our shopping excursion in DTD, where we purchased matching shirts, we headed towards the MONORAIL! (Pat loves the monorail.) We headed to the bathrooms to change into our new Christmassy shirts and then it was off to find the monorail.

Those are the only photo's from the first monorail experience. Disappointing, I know.

Party tickets in hand we headed into Magic Kingdom! I COULD NOT WAIT FOR THIS PARTY! IT WAS FINALLY PARTY TIME!

I had one thing on the brain and one thing only. My only goal of this party was TO GET A PHOTO WITH THE SEVEN DWARFS!

With map in hand we headed towards the Dwarfs photo spot....Pat headed for big thunder mountain FP while I searched for the photo spot. He ended up asking where they were and we headed in that direction. We found Woody and Jessie where the dwarfs were going to be. We were talking to the CM working that line and another lady came up and said she was going to be the first in line for the dwarfs! WE WERE THEN 2ND IN LINE!!! SOOOOOO EXCITED!

We really wanted a photo with Woody but we didnt wan to lose our spot. The nice lady in front of us said she would save our spot! YAY!

At this point it was 5:30 pm and the dwarfs werent coming out until 7pm. We waited and waited and FINALLY they came...AND WE WERE 2nd IN LINE! I was so happy to get my photo taken with the dwarfs...THE ONLY PHOTO I WOULD HAVE NEEDED THE WHOLE TRIP!

I had my camera ready. My PP card ready to go! And I went to hand the card to the lady...she didnt take it just told us to get in the photo. There was no photo pass person yet! I was very upset by this. I waited in line for that long and there was no PHOTOPASS PHOTOGRAPHER!?! But we did get the photo on my camera...

Wasnt their set cute?!

To drown my sorrows of not having a bunch of dwarf photo's on my PP card..I spotted something I would not be leaving without...

Is it just me or does Disney Popcorn just taste better than any other popcorn?

We enjoyed short wait times for some rides and enjoyed just walking around. We headed towards the Haunted Mansion and stopped for some complimentary cookies and cocoa.

The cookies were SOOOO good. And what was even better was they were FREE! They were snickerdoodle cookies....AAAMAAZING!

Pats cookie description: Right between too crunchy and too chewy. Perfect consistency of a cookie. Perfect home on a snowy night cookie.

The cocoa was perfect as well. So chocolatey and delicious!

Pats cocoa description: Very chocolatey, very delicious.

After some rides and tons of cookies and hot chocolate, we headed to plop down for the Christmas parade!

Up next: My really horrible parade photo's!
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[Lidian]

I'm glad you got pics of Woody and the Seven Dwarfs! Sorry there was no PP guy there.

You mention the popcorn ... I've only had it once, back in 2009, and I thought it was super salty and hardly edible. We've not attempted to waste money or snack credits on it since. But I'm glad you enjoyed it!!!!

 

[disneydreamingdebby]

My girls haven't been able to have popcorn since last August when they had braces put on. I can't wait to be able to buy them popcorn at Disney! The one is having her braces off in February. Hoping the other will have hers off by April...

I am sorry that they didn't have a photographer there. Totally stinks!! A fellow diser slipped a dwarf a beautiful ring to give his wife for Christmas. It was diamonds from the Dwarfs Mine... Just an idea for Pat if he's reading and/ or you two are going in that direction...

We had a couple of inches of snow, but now we are headed back to temps in 40s and 50s. It hasn't even been a cold winter, and I am very ready for the warmer weather again!

 

[Donald Duck888]

Great trip report, love the snowblower pick. Don't know about down your way but up around here snowblowers have had the winter pretty much off lol.

Just wanted to chime in and say good choice on the Canon. I have had a Canon DSLR for a few years now and it is a great camera.

Also I want to second what some others on here said and suggest checking out the photography threads on here. I learned so much from those on there when i was learning about my camera.

Lastly I have to say I chuckled on seeing the pic of the pressed penny machine. When we were last in Disney last Aug my 4 yr old daughter fell in love with getting pressed pennies at all the machines we saw. We even ended up getting her the book to put them in.

We actually just surprised her with news this morning that we will be taking her back this May and after she stopped jumping up and down lol, her first question was about finishing filling her penny book.

 

[poisonapple_PRINCESS]

I'm glad you got pics of Woody and the Seven Dwarfs! Sorry there was no PP guy there.

You mention the popcorn ... I've only had it once, back in 2009, and I thought it was super salty and hardly edible. We've not attempted to waste money or snack credits on it since. But I'm glad you enjoyed it!!!!

OHHH MY GOSH. I LOVED IT! Every time I smelled it somewhere in the park I was drawn to the popcorn stand! mmmm....it's so weird that I loved it so incredibly much and you didnt. I thought everyone would think it was as good as I did!

My girls haven't been able to have popcorn since last August when they had braces put on. I can't wait to be able to buy them popcorn at Disney! The one is having her braces off in February. Hoping the other will have hers off by April...

I am sorry that they didn't have a photographer there. Totally stinks!! A fellow diser slipped a dwarf a beautiful ring to give his wife for Christmas. It was diamonds from the Dwarfs Mine... Just an idea for Pat if he's reading and/ or you two are going in that direction...

We had a couple of inches of snow, but now we are headed back to temps in 40s and 50s. It hasn't even been a cold winter, and I am very ready for the warmer weather again!

Oh that stinks! I never had braces...but Pat did....just from what he's told me about them I hope they can get them off ASAP! And then go get Disney popcorn!

Ohhh that is PRECIOUS! Is that in a TR somewhere??? I'll have to go TR hunting.

We had all that snow and now it's been raining and pretty warm. It's so back and forth. At this point I'm ready for spring and then flip flops and shorts.

Great trip report, love the snowblower pick. Don't know about down your way but up around here snowblowers have had the winter pretty much off lol.

Just wanted to chime in and say good choice on the Canon. I have had a Canon DSLR for a few years now and it is a great camera.

Also I want to second what some others on here said and suggest checking out the photography threads on here. I learned so much from those on there when i was learning about my camera.

Lastly I have to say I chuckled on seeing the pic of the pressed penny machine. When we were last in Disney last Aug my 4 yr old daughter fell in love with getting pressed pennies at all the machines we saw. We even ended up getting her the book to put them in.

We actually just surprised her with news this morning that we will be taking her back this May and after she stopped jumping up and down lol, her first question was about finishing filling her penny book.

Oh I love my Canon. I'm very happy with my choice! I've also been checking out the photography boards regularly. I love looking at everyone's photo's on there!

I only ended up getting 2 pressed pennies...but they were so fun. I didnt realize they had a book till the end of our trip (or I probably would have bought one!) And HOW CUTE! She must love her pressed pennies book...Hope you all have fun filling it! And also how exciting to be going in May! That is when epcot has the flower festival or something along those lines right? Jealous. That would be so fun to see!

 

[danimaroo]

You'll get a kick out of this. I literally just caught up on your entire TR while sitting on my flight back to Seattle from from Disney World! Our flight has in-flight wifi so of course to help make me feel better about leaving the most magical place on Earth, I'm catching up with all of the TRs and PTRs that I fell behind on for the past 11 days.

That is such a cute photo of you guys and the dwarfs! Sorry about a lack of PP photographers for that though! We had no PP photographers for our character meets, except for Mickey and Minnie... But we made it work!

Can't wait to read more updates. Oh! And I love that you have so many awesome Wii games. We were playing our 3DSes when we relaxed at night in the room; Super Mario 3d land is so fun!

Anyway, hope everything's going well. Can't wait to read more, and can't wait to start my own TR to help combat the post-Disney blues.

 

[poisonapple_PRINCESS]

You'll get a kick out of this. I literally just caught up on your entire TR while sitting on my flight back to Seattle from from Disney World! Our flight has in-flight wifi so of course to help make me feel better about leaving the most magical place on Earth, I'm catching up with all of the TRs and PTRs that I fell behind on for the past 11 days.

That is such a cute photo of you guys and the dwarfs! Sorry about a lack of PP photographers for that though! We had no PP photographers for our character meets, except for Mickey and Minnie... But we made it work!

Can't wait to read more updates. Oh! And I love that you have so many awesome Wii games. We were playing our 3DSes when we relaxed at night in the room; Super Mario 3d land is so fun!

Anyway, hope everything's going well. Can't wait to read more, and can't wait to start my own TR to help combat the post-Disney blues.

YOU HAVE A 3DS TOO??? YAY! I LOVE MINE! I'm thinking about getting Pat one for V-day...he's jealous of mine! I want Super Mario 3D land! IT LOOKS SO FUN! But I am not allowing myself to buy anymore games until I finish all the others I've started!

I'm glad you could catch up on TR's on the flight. I sat on the flight bored and super tired! Cant wait till you start YOUR TR!

 

[danimaroo]

YOU HAVE A 3DS TOO??? YAY! I LOVE MINE! I'm thinking about getting Pat one for V-day...he's jealous of mine! I want Super Mario 3D land! IT LOOKS SO FUN! But I am not allowing myself to buy anymore games until I finish all the others I've started!

I'm glad you could catch up on TR's on the flight. I sat on the flight bored and super tired! Cant wait till you start YOUR TR!

Heck yes I do! And I love it! You should totally get him one. For Christmas I got both Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3Dland! They are both AMAZING. I'm a totally video game nerd, sooooo yeah. Between Matt and me, we ended up getting 11 new video games for all of our different systems.

And I hear you on the finishing games thing! I'm trying to get myself to finish the latest Professor Layton (PLEASE tell me you've tried the Professor Layton games out; if you haven't you MUST, because they're amazing and my favorite!), then try out another new game I got for Christmas. It's hard to find the time though!

Yeah, that wifi was super worth it for a 6 hour flight. Made it go by so much faster. Otherwise I just sit there and keep looking at the time and get antsy!

 

[teekathepony]

December 16th: Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!
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I saw this and said "Wendy don't cry." lmao, MAN I loved the Christmas party!

So very exciting that you were second to meet the Dwarfs! I can't believe that they wouldn't have a PP Photog there the dwarfs are the most popular characters I think! But the photo from your camera is really nice!
I loved the cocoa, so very wintery and Christmassy. Great start to the party!!

 

[sammielynn]

Stephanie! Where are you................

 

[Lidian]

Stephanie! Where are you................

I'm right here!

Oh ... wrong Stephanie.

 

[sammielynn]

i'm right here!

Oh ... Wrong stephanie.

lol

 

[Lidian]

lol

So we'll just hijack her thread until she comes back ... Where in TN are you? I'm outside of Knoxville.

 

[sammielynn]

So we'll just hijack her thread until she comes back ... Where in TN are you? I'm outside of Knoxville.

Harriman, about 35 miles from Knoxville.

 

[Lidian]

Harriman, about 35 miles from Knoxville.

Oh, we aren't far from each other at all! I'm a bit South in Maryville.

 

[poisonapple_PRINCESS]

Hi everyone! I'm sorry for being gone for so long...but I have some news. Neither bad nor good. Just news. Patrick and I broke up.

But please dont be sorry or upset for me because I am so happy with life right now.

NOW for the bad news...I dont think I'll be doing any more to the TR

Even though the breakup does not really upset me, I just dont feel like reliving this vacation more than necessary.

But I have returned to creep on all of my friends on here that I've missed. And I felt so bad for just disappearing like that, but it was a much needed little break. PLEASE forgive me for leaving you hanging for so long...if anyone is still even notices I've been gone!

 

[mommytominnie]

I am so sorry about your break up. I really loved your TR but i do understand your reasoning not to continue. Hope you will be able to go back to Disney and make new memories. Hugs to you!