"Where's my boarding pass?!" The many adventures of 4 20-somes in the Magical World!

[katt789]

After Emily & Victoria finished with Flight of the Hippogriff, which they loved, (and honestly, I should have done it...but that's ok!) Nick decided that some food might settle his stomach (remember the time I had told everyone to eat? turned out a bowl of rice krispies with a banana doesnt hold you over too long) So we chose to check out the 3 Broomsticks. Before walking into the actual resturant, we went in through the Hogs Head to check it out before getting some food.
All the beverages they had:

That managed to be the only picture of the inside of the 3 Broomsticks that I got. Since it was still before noon, they were only serving breakfast, so the other girls decided to get real food later, and Nick opted for the breakfast combo with the meat & potatos, and I opted for the fruit filled one with a pumpkin juice!

It was delicious, the Pumpkin Juice was a little too sweet for my taste (I dont really do processed sugars anymore, I cut them out & my sweet tooth is really only for Ice cream now, and even then, it's in very small doses) but it was good!!
VB had made some purchases already, and was playing around with them.

After breakfast, VB & Em got in line to go on the Dueling Dragons coaster, and Nick & I wandered the shops.
In total, I bought 2 wands (Snape for me, Voldemort for my cousin. I was sad they didn't have Bellatrix's haha, it's the one I wanted), a set of Hogwarts house cups, a Snitch for my mom, and a key chain for a friend.

That last one's me being scared of Sirius Black...convincing hey?
After they were done the coaster we were done with HP land, and I quote: Nick: "You're right, we are done by noon!" I don't know why they didn't just believe me! Haha! Overall, WWOHP is fantastic! However, I say, give it 5 or so years to really expand and become a whole park of itself, right now, it's 3 rides (1 if you don't do coasters), and some shopping. It's a fantastic experience, but if you're hopes are too high, I can see you being dissapointed, I'm excited to see where it goes in the next couple of years.
One thing I forgot! Nick & I each got a Butterbeer, 1 frozen & 1 normal, and shared them. They were both really really delicious, I liked the frozen better, he liked the unfrozen better, VB decided she liked her own creation of Malibu & Rootbeer better haha.

We left Hogwarts and because of the LOVE of Jurassic Park between Nick Em & VB, you can figure where we went next.

I of course, sat this one out (someone had to hold the bags!)

Emily before:

Emily after:

The reason she was so wet:

Is Nick pulling Vb out of the dinasour's mouth, or feeding her to it? You make your own decision!
We were all pretty done at this point, it was day 3 of the vacation, everyone was on different wavelength, so we realized it was time to get out of the parks & head back for a nap at the hotel before starting another Disney Park for the evening.

 

[katt789]

We had just managed to escape the rain, get a cab back to Disney property, and jump back into bed for a nap that we all strongly needed. However, there was still some bad feelings between some of us.

Haha, just kidding! However, the caption of this photo is most definitely one of "MOOOOOMMMMM!!! HE'S TOUCHING MEEEE!!!"
We of course were on a Disney bus, heading over to Epcot to start exploring World Showcase as I had heard that this park could take 2 days to finish, and we had half a day to kill.
We started out heading toward Canada, and laughing along the way (as we are all Canadians, we had a good laugh at what Canada meant to Epcot, as we're sure a lot of people from various countries do!)

Take this picture for example, and the excitement on Victoria's face. "Yaaaaaayyy...we're in Canada" (Read that in the "Hi...I'm in Delaware..." from Waynes World voice)

Yup. They bought Jurassic Park t-shirts...they're that cool! Haha.
We finished Canada, and continued into UK, where we realized we could go for some food (specifically Emily wanted fish & chips), so we walked up to Rose & Crown & actually got in!! We did have to wait a half hour, but anywhere on a Friday night for dinner is that long of a wait, so we waited while wandering around the UK. As it turned out, they didn't charge our buzzer, and it didn't go off when the table was ready, so it probably wasn't as long of a wait as we actually waited.
Now, Rose & Crown was really good, the food was great & for a reasonable price. Nick & Emily had some specialty beers, while VB & I stuck with water. I can't say our server was overly enthusiastic, I can't imagine it being easy to work at a Disney resturant, but I still wasn't too impressed with her (and being a server myself, I can be a bit too judgemental sometimes haha)

That meal was mine, delicious, but deadly (and here comes my freakout of the trip). This was the scariest moment of my life!! I took too big a bite of the roast beef, felt it going down my throat, thought to myself "That was too big of a bite...I really should learn how to chew...wait...I can't breathe." Straight up, terrifying!! I couldn't breathe at all, couldn't cough, couldn't speak, nothing. It also feels like you're going to throw up, which is why I had the urge to go to the bathroom (which is of course what you're not supposed to do!) I got Vb's attention & tried to get her to follow me, meanwhile, Em & Nick had no clue what was going on, Victoria asked "Does anyone know the heimlich?" I managed to make it though the little swinging door into the bar side of the resturant before it came up & I spat it out into the napkin I had, but I honestly thought I was going to die. At least I was at Disney, right? haha.
SO: Will I eat roast beef at Rose & Crown again? Probably not, but not because it wasn't good. Do I make sure I chew my food properly now? Heck. Yes!.

So, after a minor incident, I calmed myself down, and we headed out for some meet & greets (these pictures are a bit out of order, but that's ok.) Originally, the group was very "What do you want to do?" As I wasn't in the greatest mood after lunch, and I wanted to go meet Tinkberbell & the fairies. So we had headed over there first, however their line was FAR too long, so we settled with other characters.

That was while Vb & I were getting pics with Snow White, you can tell how much Nick & Emily love each other. Also, with Snow White, you can tell how Canadian we are...Day 3 of being in Florida in May, and we're paler than Snow White put together! BAH!

After this we were really just wandering around the World Showcase, taking in the sites & loving the fact that we were at Disney. Spending some time not talking as to do our best not to get sick of each other.

I ADORE Lady & the Tramp, earlier today I was even thinking "HOW DO I NOT OWN THIS?!" It needs to come out of the vault again. It's even a Disney movie with a sequel that was AWESOME (also, lion king 2) I was never one for Princess movies when I was younger, I tried re-watching Sleeping Beauty before this trip..laaaaammmeee. I love animal movies I guess, if I ever get a cocker spaniel I am naming it Lady, hands down (yes, even if it's a boy haha)

We thought that dude's shirt was awesome, so VB took a picture of it, I do throughly enjoy it. This next picture, many of you may recognize as GREY GOOSE SLUSHIES (We all ended up choosing the Orange Grand Marnier ones though) I knew about them, and saw a lady in a shop with one and had to ask where she got it, and not even 2 seconds later, Nick asked, and we headed of to the cart to get some! SOOOO GOOODDD. We went back numerous times for more, and loved them so much, that the bar that Nick works at now has them! Fantastic!

We then continued through World Showcase to finish up some character hunting, and here is where a HILARIOUS picture/story comes up. Em & Nick had wandered ahead of us, and VB & I were walking past the Aladdin meet & greet (Jasmine wasn't there that day), of course, young women, in our short shorts, holding our alcoholic beverages which declares us to be legal age. Well, we stopped alongside the meet & greet to grab a picture of Aladdin, as the line was too long, and this is what I got:

"Heeeellllooo ladies..." HA! I just managed to catch the absolute best moment that I could! Hilarious! This would have been the point that my Prince of choice shifted from Eric, to a tie with Aladdin.
Later, Em & I got in line to meet him while VB & Nick met Belle & the Beast.

You can notice Emily checking him out in this one. Aladdin was great, he schtuck (schticking, the interaction, its what we call it in dinner theatre) fantastically, while still being flirty haha It was fantastic.
We then decided we had been in the parks long enough for the day, and headed out, back to the hotel. It wasn't a suuuper eventful day to tell stories about, but we got a lot done, and met a bunch of characters, so overall, it was awesome. Then again, a day in Disney can be nothing but!!

 

[jane2073]

My daughter's the same way about Disney movies. She likes the princesses but she is more into the animal movies. And Mickey.
And she loves Canada! She has never beed there but she thinks it is so great!

I loved your relaxed style of touring. You see and do a lot but it doesn't look like you are rushing from one thing to another.

 

[Bounce_Tigger]

I'm really enjoying your TR.

Also, yes, you can take a cab to the rehearsal facility - I've taken a cab to DAK costuming before and they're in the same lot. However, the cabbie didn't know what I meant when I directed him so I finally just said "take me to the YMCA family center" (its a little bit past the costuming lot).
Its on Sherberth road, FYI. If you take a cab from DAK its only like 5 bucks

 

[Princess.Rachel]

Loving the trip report Can't wait to hear more!

 

[katt789]

I'm really enjoying your TR.

Also, yes, you can take a cab to the rehearsal facility - I've taken a cab to DAK costuming before and they're in the same lot. However, the cabbie didn't know what I meant when I directed him so I finally just said "take me to the YMCA family center" (its a little bit past the costuming lot).
Its on Sherberth road, FYI. If you take a cab from DAK its only like 5 bucks

Awesome!! Thanks!! This is a good piece of info to know!!

 

[katt789]

After a day off of our early breakfast reservations, we were back at the game! We were up at back at Epcot by 9:00 for our reservation at Akershus. Today, Nick had his birthday button on, and honestly, we think he was the most excited about our Princess breakfast!
Something that I had originally planned for this day, was to end up taking it slow, and spending it in World Showcase, (whoops, did that yesterday) so that we could dress up a little while in prescence of Princesses, my plan was for everyone to wear dresses & I bought tiaras for everyone too (Nick definitely vetoed out of that one). However, in the Orlando heat, Em & I ended up vetoing out of the dresses too, but still attempted to look good haha.

We took a couple of shots while heading our way over to Norway.

I think it that last one, VB was more-so trying to get a picture of that girl's dress, as it was absolutely amazing!! We decided that it must have been a homemade one, as the quality was just tooooo good to be store bought (so, if that's you're daughter, props to ya!!)
We headed in with not long of a wait to take a picture with Belle & then head into our table to eat. The table we got seemed to be the reject table, it was off in the back little circular room, we deemed it the reject table as at first there was only us there, then 1 small other family. However, it seemed to be a blessing as it gave us more private-ish schticking time with the Princesses later.
Akershus was ok. And I stand by that firmly. The fact that I had to put a deposit on it when we booked, and the fact that it was more expensive than the rest of the breakfasts, I expected more. The food was standard, with maybe a couple of more options than any other breakfast buffett. And the Princesses were really just ok haha, I can imagine it would be fantastic for famlies, & little princesses, but maybe just because we are adults, the princesses just weren't too into it. Snow White in particular, came by the table, took a picture, spewed off some rambling as fast as she could, and left. You will find out the only reason I didn't give it a dissappointing, in one bit.
Also, Nick got his bday cupcake...and decorated it....

Here comes the reason that my frown turned upside down (haha). As we came in, I looked around the room and saw all of the above Princesses & said to myself "Ariel's not here..ok..that sucks, but ok". Ariel, hands down, favorite princess, and because I was in DL in 97, there was no way I had met her, and we missed her in MK in Adventureland. I accepted the fact that I wouldn't get to meet her & moved on. As we were eating breakfast, Emily looked up, pointed, and simply said 'Ariel!" To which, I nearly had a heart attack! (I do believe Emily said "I thought you were choking again!") I cannot rave about Ariel enough! She was incredible, so much in character & accepting of adults being there & loving princesses, she was amazing & it definitely made my day!

After we wrapped up breakfast, we paid, and made our way out of the World Showcase (we thought it was probably a taaaad to early to get some French slushies...haha) and wandered over to Future World to check out some of the attractions there (and along the way, check out Tink's line..nope..still not happening)
We started with Test Track!

Cold room? I don't think so, more like...oh..yup...theres the air conditioning!

It was awesome, although we dubbed it "Sharra's Wild Ride" as it reminded us on how one of our friends drives...but not really haha. With that over with, we wandered over to the Seas (it was apparent that this was our 2nd day in Epcot, and everyone was tired & a lil grumpy, as we really only hit 2 attractions in Future World, and didn't care for the rest, or even to look for them). The Finding Nemo ride was, well, as it appears all Finding Nemo things at WDW are to us, lame. It was better than the show, but not by much (in our opinions).

On our way out though, we ran into some very playful chipmunks! And here's where another Epcot adventure comes in for me, but you'll have to wait! As its time for me to take off to work (boo)

 

[katt789]

As we left off, we had just ridden Finding Nemo, and were in need of some excitement, as for us, it hadn't been too great. Luckily, as we were headed out of the Seas, we saw Chip & Dale doing a meet & greet, so we jumped in line for them! They are amazing! There was so much schtick w/all 4 of us, they fought over who was going to sign their name first, we did a bunch of different poses with them, and they paid a bunch of attention to us, it was awesome!!

And here's where the little adventure begins, once we were finished with all the pictures, Dale (I'm pretty sure) grabbed my hand, and starts to lead/pull me away from the meet & greet away & down the path Haha, at first, I thought that their handler was just going along with it for a point, but she honestly hadn't noticed, to which, I wondered "How far is this going to go?" Cause honestly, that can only go so far before you get blocked Haha, but she did noticed, and told them to get back over there, and Chip pulled Dale back by the nose, it was quite cute!

After this, we were done with Future World, honestly I wish we had explored it more, I'm definitely going to (at least sort of) set a touring plan for next time so we can actually get some stuff done. However, we did have a destination in mind, France, it's 5 o'clock somewhere, right?! So we begun the walk around World Showcase once again in search of some Grand Marnier slushies!

We stopped for a couple of characters along the way

Oh deliciousness!!

Now, is the point in the trip that everyone was hangry (hungry/angry) and tired, and hot. It also appeared, that on this trip, we all had to get food from the same place and eat all together, yeah, not in my mind, it wouldve been ok for everyone to get sushi and me grab a sandwich later. However, we searched for counter service, walked all the way back to Future World to check the place out & find out it was burgers & fries, so we opted out of it, which made Emily cranky as she didn't want to be the only one eating, and didn't want to walk across World Showcase again, however, off we went, back all the way around until Morocco, where we finally decided that it was ok to eat. After these shenanigans, we headed out of the park, for our own sakes, plus, we were done with everything.

After a quick nap/shower/pool break, we decided to get dolled up and head over to the Boardwalk to check it out & possibly have a few drinks. We instead, got dinner reservations at a place, wandered the Boardwalk, attempted to watch the hockey game over at ESPN (even though the audio was for basketball, let me tell you! Trying to find hockey in the states is incredibly difficult). Once we were done eating, we all decided we were too tired to even think of going out, and headed back to Pop to start packing up our stuff, and get some sleep before our last full day in Disney World.

This is another one of those "trip summary" pics, "Mom & Dad made us hold hands & pretend we like each other..."

 

[katt789]

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Just wanted to pop in & say:
NICK & I ARE OFFICIALLY GOING BACK!!!!
We are bringing 2 new people to share the magic with
Sept 13-19th at Pop Century
We managed to book in, in time for free dining, and find cheap flights, everything all together worked out to $883 each.
HECK YES!!
This time we've got park hoppers (obviously quick service dining plan, and tickets to MNSSHP! It's gonna be a BLAST!!

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[katt789]

It was our last full day at Disney, we were sad to know that it was, but also SOOOO greatful to be sleeping in!! (Although, that was only until about 9:30 haha). We grabbed a quick breakfast in the foodcourt at Pop, and jumped on a bus over to DHS.
Knowing that it was already late, we were slowly but surely making our first stop Pixar land to pick of FP's for Toy Story Mania, but made a few stops along the way, it was still early, we'd be ok? Right?

After having my love for Ariel shine through the previous day, it was obvious where our first stop was going to be:

It was apparent that the shows we saw were going to keep getting better! We all liked the Voyage of the Little Mermaid, it wasn't as great as it could be, Me on the other hand, was impressed that they got her dress right! (The slinky blue one at the end of the movie was actually what she was wearing! Versus the blue one she wears in the parks that she never actually wears in either movie!) Overall, good experience!
We took off to get our FP's next, then onto the Studio Backlot tour!

After finishing that ride, we hopped off & wandered down the street that it let us off at, and saw that Sulley was out for meet & greets! We got in line, and then noticed that Sulley was leaving! He left through a side door, only to come back with Mike!! It was a good find, not a long line either! Not to mention the cute signs around the place

Thanks to Nick's love to Belle & my love of Beauty & the Beast (and Gaston, not going to lie) We checked the show times schedule to find that there was a show about to start, so we headed back over to that direction to check out the show (that was later dubbed the.best.show.ever.) And this is going to need its own post, SO MANY PICTURES!!

 

[katt789]

We ran in to get seats & then I ducked back out of the theatre to grab a water & Mickey bar and we all decided that we hoped this show was awesome, Nick also said "They better play the Celine Dion version of Beauty & the Beast in the credits!!" (knowing there aren't credits, yes haha). And soon enough, the show began!!

OH.MY.GOODNESS. The show was SOOOOO good, it is a DO NOT MISS!! For anyone & everyone. And for the record, yes, as the show ended, the Celine Dion version was playing as we left the theatre. The talent was amazing! Belle sounded just like Belle, Gaston was fantastic!! (I would have LOVED to meet him) And honestly, the thing that blew me away the most (this is where its clear I've been working in theatre) is the quick changes! I give SUCH big props to the costume changers for this show! I've spent many a nights doing quick changes, but none as quick and elaborate as the ones in this show, props to everyone!!

Beauty & the Beast show: A not miss! So much talent, so much awesome!!

 

[snowwhitefairest]

I am enjoying reading your report! Sounds like a fun and adventurous time. My husband and I will actually be there in September when you are going! Maybe we'll see you in France!

 

[katt789]

I am enjoying reading your report! Sounds like a fun and adventurous time. My husband and I will actually be there in September when you are going! Maybe we'll see you in France!

Yay!!! We will possibly have a slushie together!!

 

[OThopeful35]

**********
Just wanted to pop in & say:
NICK & I ARE OFFICIALLY GOING BACK!!!!
We are bringing 2 new people to share the magic with
Sept 13-19th at Pop Century
We managed to book in, in time for free dining, and find cheap flights, everything all together worked out to $883 each.
HECK YES!!
This time we've got park hoppers (obviously quick service dining plan, and tickets to MNSSHP! It's gonna be a BLAST!!

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That is definitely awesome! I want to go during MNSSHP so bad but i have school

 

[katt789]

Alright, so, the Beauty & the Beast show had finished, Nick was tearing up, and we were FINALLY reaching what had actually been our destination on this side of the park,Tower of Terror!! Emily had ridden before, and didn't want to again, and I wimped out, so Nick & VB took the adventure into their hands! (Imma do it next time!!) They found it errie that the wait time was 13 minutes!

Then the coaster lovers (Em & Vb) took off to the Rock n Rollercoaster while Nick & I grabbed a quick snack. I had a frozen lemonade, which was a bit too sweet for me, and he had a turkey leg. In my opinion, this picture looks like the zombie apocolypse has hit and Nick's eating a human leg...gross...

Now, at this point we were all getting a little hungry, Nick & VB were determined to eat at Pizza Planet, so we slowly but surely made our way over in that direction to grab a bite to eat, but we definitely made some stops along the way that gave the two of them plenty of time to nerd out over star wars.

We finally got to Pizza Planet, where another hangry, end of the week moment came up for us. You also have to understand that it was SCORCHING outside, which just added to everything else. We got inside Pizza Planet, I attempted to take out cash, and my debit card decided to not work, so I had to take cash out from my visa card, ugh, then, Em & I, who are both mild lactose intolerant, looked at the menu & decided to get food somewhere else, after the other two finished eating, we looked on the map for somewhere to get sandwiches, saw a place that said "specialty sandwiches", and tried to head over there, got stuck behind the parade, slowly inched behind it until we found the place, it wasn't what we thought AT ALL. So we trapsed all the way back to the counter service beside the Honey I shrunk the kids playground (which, for the record, we were all upset that we weren't under 10. It looked awesome!!) and the food there....wasn't too great either. Now! For the pictures of all of that!!

As you can tell, I kinda picked apart my sandwich, I thought it was going to be a grilled turkey sandwich (and I saw a lady eating one on the way out, clearly I ordered the wrong thing!) but instead it was more "panini" like, and I was not a fan!
Next we checked our show schedule, and popped over the the Lights Motor Action Show to watch some extreme stunts in the extreme heat while we were all extremely tired. (If there's one thing that needs to be sold on Disney property...it's energry drinks!)

 

[katt789]

Okay! So we left off after FINALLY filling our stomachs & getting over the angryness with each other & as we were right next to the Lights! Motars! Action! Show, we decided to pop over there next. I liked the show, it's pretty cool when the pull the volunteer up to drive the "remote" care, I liked this show, although I was SOOOO tired, nearly falling asleep during it haha.

After we finished up, it was just coming up to 4:45pm, and, as many of you know, 4:45pm in Disney's Hollywood Studios, it's time for CHARACTER PALOOOOOOOOZA!!!! Nick, (Nick, c'mon, I know you're lurking, you should really just get an account & post, put in your own opinons!!) seemed to be very impressed about the amount of characters (as was I) and the short lines! It's INCREDIBLE! It's apparent that not a lot of people know that it's there, and not many people wander into the Animation Bld for kicks haha.
Now, the rest of this will probably just be pictures!

And I lied! As there were actually some funny moments with these guys! Captain Hook held out his hand to shake Nick's hand, and Nick handed him his empty coke bottle, Captain Hook shook his head & threw the bottle back at him! These guys were great! The next pics are the ones that were on the wall/down in the drawing room that we thought were cute!

Pooh bear had no one in line to see him, so he was off playing the video game things! Adorable!!

In the next pic, I'm not too sure what VB is doing, but I am clearly scared, as we are in line to meet Jafar! EEK! Haha. Now, to understand Nick's photo, you might have to be a Family Guy fan, and get the reference "Aladdin 4! Jafar may or may not need glasses! Number 1, Number 2? number 1? Number 2? Uhhh...about the same. Ok. Number 3? Number 4? Haha! Good times, so Nick is holding up his sun glasses as Jafar may need them!

Then we met the big cheese himself!!

We couldn't actually get a picture w/Minnie & Pluto as they were just about to leave, so we jumped in for one with our friends the chipmunks right after!

 

[katt789]

Next, we met the Evil Queen from Snow White, holy cow! She was actually kind of scary, intimidating, it was different to have a villian who could talk, creepy. Although, she did agree that her, Vb & I were all fairer than Snow White (which, in skin tones, is true, thanks to us being Canadian hah)

The penguins from Mary Poppins were out, so we hopped over to see them, and they were awesome!! They kept playing around and getting us to turn in circles, they were super fun!

(In case anyone was wondering, Emily chose to sit these ones out, she was tired, and not a fan of mascots. The Incredibles & Frozone were both out as well, but we didn't bother meeting them) Character Palooza was fantastic! The lines were never longer than a few minutes long & they've got so much entertainment around for everyone that it's SO worth it, I'm glad it's kind of an undercover thing too, so it's not too busy.

We still had fast passes for Toy Story Mania (we got them around 11, and they returned for 6:45!) so we walked back over to Pixar land to use them. I enjoyed the ride, I don't really understand why it's SUCH a big thing, Nick also claims the Wii game is the exact same thing haha. Em & I rode together, she beat me, but my accuracy was apparently better!

We like to make faces....

We still wanted to see the Indiana Jones show, so we checked the show schedule & had just enough time to run over there & catch the last one of the day. With this show, there were a lot of "flashbacks" for me at least, and probably VB. The dinner theatre we work at does spoofs of stuff all the time, and the one that had JUST finished before we left was "Tom Jones & the Temple of Doom", good times! haha

We took this last picture so close up, as we were laughing at the "appropriateness" or "Disney-ness" of the planes, as we all know, the symbol isn't right (& thats ok), but we just thought it looked funny that Indiana Jones was apparently fighting the red cross! haha

 

[katt789]

We left the Indiana Jones stunt spectacular and discovered that it was EMH (yup, thats right, I had managed to not realize it!) so we decided to stay as late as we could, and Muppets was next on our list. As a group I think we all decided that we actually liked the video in the waiting room more than we liked the 3D show itself haha.

We had passed by the Singin In the Rain umbrella earlier, and I wanted to circle back & get pictures with it. We also got some photopass pictures while we were stopped in New York, the photographer got us to take some jumping ones, and had us all leave our bags under his tri-pod, so we joked that he was really just using it as an excuse to mug us, making us go "WE GOT MUGGED IN NEW YORK! THIS IS SO AUTHENTIC & REALISTIC!" Yup, we're just that cool. Now, back to the Umbrella, while Vb was posing for her photo, Emily just had to chime in "It's called Singing in the rain, not STRIPPING in the rain Victoria!" And this appeared to be a theme for the trip as well.

We were eventually heading back over to TOT, but we stopped at the great movie ride on the way back!

On our way back over to ToT, we had stopped to peak in at the Sci Fi diner to see if they had any openings, they told us to just walk up when we wanted to be seated, so we asked if we could have a look inside, we took one glance and went "I WANNA EAT HERE!" Can you tell that we're all 6 year olds inside? Heck Yes. I really liked the place, they have entertainment to keep everyone occupied, the vanilla/cherry cokes were awesome too! I couldn't find anything I wanted on the menu, so I asked if I could have a grilled cheese (no place says no to that, you have bread? you have cheese? perfect) and a salad, and it was DELICIOUS, a great last meal in Disney. Not to mention they servered it to me on a Mickey Plate!!

We took our time strolling out of the park, looking through all the gift shops & I found this shirt, and thought it was hilarious! Clearly an inside joke with the employees, but obviously something they get asked A LOT haha. I thoughouly enjoyed it!

We said goodbye to the parks, and headed back to the hotel to pack up our stuff, and Nick took this time to surprise each of us! (such a gentleman he is) he had bought each of us something during the trip. Emily had really wanted the baby simba, but hadn't had the money for it, so he got her that, he got me a laptop case (the 40th anniversary one).He said I was the hardest to buy for, as everything I showed heavy interest in, I ended up buying! (I didn't buy a lot, I just only showed the interest when it was really worth it). For Victoria though, he bought a "mean" ish gify. Victoria was talking all week about how EVIL Lotso is, and if your child has seen the movie, and still wants to own a murderous bear, they are clearly going to grow up into a serial killer or something of the sort. So, he bought her a stuffed Lotso (I loved that it smelled like strawberries!) We took this time to pose him in some interesting pictures!

"Oh no! Look who stalked us back to the hotel!!"

"Oh my goodness! He's ARMED!!"

Aaaannnnddd VB's dead....

Yup. That just happened.

We finished off our night like this! I had called down to make sure the Magical Express was all booked up & ready to go for tmr, booked a wake up call so that we wouldn't miss our breakfast ressies! And we climbed into bed for our last sleep at Pop!

 

[windjacka$$]

It's me! It's Nick!

So Katt keeps bugging me, and she did such a good job with the trip report, I felt obligated to join. This place should give me enough to do until we go back in September.

I'd like to take this time to mention that the CM's outfits on the Tower of Terror are the most expensive CM costumes on the entire resort (I'm talking multiple thousand $$'s here), so the fact that that one guy in the ToT costume let VB put on his hat for a picture is major points for her.

 

[katt789]

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Just wanted to jump in and update everyone a bit on the next trip we're taking, which seems to have been dubbed "DISNEY 2.0". We're all very excited!!

We're going Sept 13-19th, flying with DELTA (no more AA, YAYAYAYYAA)

Tues Sept 13: Arrive around 5pm, head to DTD, hang out, etc.

Wed Sept 14: Magic Kingdom!! (and just for Nick, we'll ride the hall of presidents 5 times!!)

Thurs 15: Epcot (as well as numerous France Slushies!) (make sure to spend time in future world this time!)

Fri 16: Animal Kingdom (starting with Safari breakfast w/Donald!) and then fro 7pm onward, we are at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party!!
(Which I still need costume ideas for! I want to look good & be disney related, but not so good that they ask me to change! )

Sat 17: Disney;s Hollywood Studios

Sun 18: Start off at Epcot to finish everything up in World Showcase, then hop over to Magic Kingdom for their evening EMH (And a dinner @ Crystal Palace!)

Then we take off on the 19th at aronud 4:00pm(?) I believe.

WHOOP WHOOP!!