dreamingofdisney07
Earning My Ears
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- Jul 9, 2007
Thank you for the compliment DisneyDad99! That was very nice of you.
I LOVE your photos! What a great trip into downtown Chicago! You guys are adorable and I love that your wife was carrying the Disney bag around with her showing her Disney spirit! LOL
Why does time seem to be standing still at this point????
Loving your pre-trip so far - you guys are so cute together! I feel your pain on leaving the puppy behind...we have 2 labs that we miss so much on our trips, but they are VERY well taken care of at my in-laws house. They also have 2 labs now, so it is a little crazy when they all get together to say the least!
Love the zoo pics - we just went to the Cleveland Zoo last weekend - it was a good practice run for all the walking we'll be doing soon!
Loving your pre-trip so far - you guys are so cute together! I feel your pain on leaving the puppy behind...we have 2 labs that we miss so much on our trips, but they are VERY well taken care of at my in-laws house. They also have 2 labs now, so it is a little crazy when they all get together to say the least!
Love the zoo pics - we just went to the Cleveland Zoo last weekend - it was a good practice run for all the walking we'll be doing soon!
About the drinks around the "World" - we like to do this a couple times on our trips when we visit Epcot. But, I am definitely a lightweight, so we tend to just do a couple countries at a time...I couldn't walk if I got a drink in EVERY country in one evening. Sometimes we start with a beer in the UK, a drink in Morrocco & Japan. The next time we might start with a margarita in Mexico, then move on to China & Germany.
Being there during the F&W Festival was awesome last year, we wish we could go back for it this year, but our AP's are only good thru 9/23 this year. There were a lot of different stands with different beers & wines to try. They had a wine flight in the US that I tried - it was 4 very small samples of different wines. Hubby's favorite was the huge Samuel Adams stand in the US - you could get your beer in a souvenir F&W Fest mug & they had like 10 different Sam Adams beers including one specially made for the F&W Fest. If you don't like dark beers, I highly recommend Stella Artois in the UK!
Weren't we promised pictures of the stuff you bought???
I LOVE your photos! What a great trip into downtown Chicago! You guys are adorable and I love that your wife was carrying the Disney bag around with her showing her Disney spirit! LOL
Why does time seem to be standing still at this point????
We'll be there from the 15th to the 23rd (18 month anniversary at the Cali grill!)
Love love love the pictures of CBR - but what is a queen room? I thought the only choices were a king or two doubles? Do you have to pay the preferred rate for it?
Dan- I'm lovin' your report!!!! The pictures from Chicago were great (Disneydad is right, dw is pretty!)and I'm excited about the CBR pics!
We are glad to have you back, and that your title one. That is the one that I was hoping and kinda knew that would win. These next three weeks are gonna fly, we are so busy and the trip is going to be on our minds 24/7...It's been a while since I first posted here....so glad you chose my fav for your TR title....I can't believe you're down to only 3 weeks!!
You are just too cute for words...so in love with your bride!!
Isn't it funny how in vogue it is now to post pix of our clothes, shoes, and other various WDW "stuff" on our pre-trip reports?? It's fun though. My DD(11) made such fun of me the other day when I was photographing my new Crocs; she couldn't get over the fact that there might be someone out there who might even give a hoot about what I was wearing to WDW!!
I did enjoy seeing your DW's shirt that said, "I love cranky guys!" I have the same one for my "grumpy" guy!
And a big to your grandma; how awesome is she?
I love feeling your excitement about your soon-to-be-upcoming trip and am looking forward to future updates.
Kathy
I am really enjoying your pre trip report.....
you and your DW make a great couple...........
The drinks that DH was talking about from CBR are kinda like frozen non alcoholic beverages. My favorite is the Pina Colada! Mmmmm.... They come in little plastic cups that have the castle on them, we washed them out and took them home with us.
Thank you for the compliment DisneyDad99! That was very nice of you.
Chapter 6. What have we bought to take down to WDW with us?
Sorry Chapter 6 was not up last night, we didnt think we would stay at the fair that late. We had to stay and watch the robinson racing pigs. Does anyone else have the these at there fair?
Anyway, I left off with the notion that I was going to show you pictures of what we are taking with us to the world. Well.....After a few other pictures that is what you are going to get.
Even though our wedding wasn't in Disney, we were going there for our honeymoon and wanted to bring a little Mickey and Minnie magic to our reception. So we looked all over and found this to use as our cake topper for our wedding.
Here is a quick picture of our spare bedroom and its occupants. DW and I have collected these over the years and we got each other some for Christmas last year. It is not all of them just a few. This is also the room that we are going to turn into a Disney room when we have babies. Good start so far.
This is up in our office, it was made by my 84 year old grandma last year for our wedding. She started painting again 2 years ago after not doing it for at least 20. She paints pictures for all the kids and grandchildren for birthdays and special events. Our whole family loves them and is always making a request for her, the list of rules to live by was from her mother when they were growing up. If you can't read it, it says:
1. Never give up
2. Be nice to one another
3. Think good thoughts
4. Try to do better
5. Say "Please" and "Thank you"
6. Let God by your guide
Great Grandma said if you follow these everything else would fall into place. Older people are so wise.
Grandma also added her own little phrase as you can see. It says "When you wish upon a star...Your dreams come true." I wonder where she got that one from.
Here is what was left in our room the first day after we got from dinner. It had balloons tied to it, and was stitting on our table. It was great that it did not just say congrats, but actually had our names on it. We have it framed and up in our spare room.
Okay now we are finally getting to the clothes that we recently bought and are taking with us. Of course the shirts that we have on in some of our other disney pics from last year are going with again this year, so I am not posting those, just the new ones that we have not worn yet and have recentely purchased. First off I will show you mine.
I have two polos, one Mickey and one Donald. A new mickey and donald looking mad at each other that we got at the Disney store for 4.99. Our matching color Disney shirts from the Disneyshopping website, and a very cool Mickey hawaiian shirt that I will wear to the Ohana dinner our first night. It even has donald on it which makes it that much more awesome. From last year I also have a donald shirt, and a shirt from CBR. I am hoping to get a neat one from AS Sports this year. And maybe one other 2007 shirt.
This is DW collection of new shirts this year, I forget what she had last year, but I know that there was a Minnie polo, not sure what else. This years haul includes a matching tanktop and skirt that she is going to wear to Ohana, it is also hawaiian, a Mickey and Minnie lovey dovy shirt. Lady and the tramp, Her matching mickey and friends blue shirt, and of course the best one that she has. THE I LOVE CRANKY BOYS shirt. Donald is going to flip out over this one, I am going to have her wear it when we go to the MK and see him in the tents.
That about covers the shirts. With this years and last, we will have enough for the 9 nights we are there.
Ohh we also went to walmart and got some little 3 oz containers that you can put shampoo in. This way we dont have to take the big ones and can reuse them each year.
Does anyone else take the shampoos and soaps that disney leaves in the rooms or do you guys use them there? I dont know if I should post the picture of the ones that we took last year, I might incriminate myself if the Disney police come after us for the shampoos that we took each day. I have to say it is not just disney I do this at all hotels, then we let people use them when they come and stay at our house, makes it feel like a hotel for them, or they feel like they are giants holding little bottles of shampoo.
I think we will give some highlights and great memories from last years trips.
UP Next Chapter 7. Highlights from last years trip.
That sounds really cool *making a note in trip-planning spreadsheet* Going to have to check that out.
You're getting close to the day!! I can't wait to start all my living vicariously through you!
Yes - flowers earn extra points. My BF doesn't believe in them because he says they just die in a few days
You are very Welcome...& he did marry up....But so did I!!!!!!
I love the Painting from your Grandma!!!!!
& the Framed print....what a surprise!!!
I noticed you got the same shirt as I did....did you get the Dress for your Bride!!!!
you are doing a great job on your Report........
even if you did not pick My Thread Name !!!!!
I am all caught up on your trip report and am subscribing now. I followed you over here from Disnedad's Pre-TR. Good job so far ya'll are just too cute. I wish I could get my DH to join me on the threads but he already thinks I'm crazy for spending too much time on here.
My DH and I had a Disneymoon as well. We loved it but haven't been back every year for our anniv since our anniv is in May. I guess we'd rather go for our birthday's since they're both in sept (only 3 days appart).
Oh! About your dog. So cute!! What breed? I have a Maltese/Papillon puppy and she looks a lot like your puppy. My puppy also licks the air, but not from the air vent in the car, she does it whenever we blow in her face. It's so adorable and sounds so funny.
Anyways, keep up the good work.
I'm so jealous that your trip is so much closer than mine.
and thanks for coming over, glad you are enjoying it so far. Good thing I am posting on Disneydads report, I think we are getting alot of people coming over and checking us out because of his. Thanks for making your report so popular DisneyDad.
Thanks for the compliment, and we are having a good time writing this. Thats fun that you get to celebrate your birthdays so close and take one trip to cover them both.
Our dog is a Maltese and Poodle mix, he also does the licking the air thing when we blow in his face, we did it all the time when he was a puppy it drove him crazy.
If anyone has a picture of there puppies they can post there pics on here, it will be something fun until the next report gets up.
Yours will be here in no time.