Will this trip ever get off the ground? - Jan 2012 PTR - TOMORROW - 1/5!!!

[KatMark]

Love the flashback photos -- you look the same.

Sorry the surprise didn't work out for the holiday, but I'm sure it will be great when it does happen.

 

[tankgirl427]

Love the flashback photos -- you look the same.

Sorry the surprise didn't work out for the holiday, but I'm sure it will be great when it does happen.

BF said the same thing about the photos when he saw them yesterday.

Its so weird looking at the photos. The only thing I remember from the trip is going on Dumbo. I thought it was the only thing we did. I guess not!

Notice the photo in front of the castle.... No Partners statue!

The photo with Mickey, Donald's hat is right behind him and Smee is in the background!

More interesting changes in the photos every day up to departure day! My dad took a lot of photos of our first trip there.

 

[swwake]

Oh I'm sorry to hear your cousin didn't make it and you couldn't do the reveal yet. Can't wait to hear how it goes this weekend.

I love all the pics, but my favorite is the 2nd to last one. I always love the holding-hands-walking-toward-the-castle ones. Maybe I'll get one of me and Chris on this trip!

....Oh! and my favorite comment while looking at these photos with my parents - My mom "I still have that jacket!" Me "Maybe its time to get rid of it then?"

This is too funny. I noticed that bright-colored jacket.

Funny story. When Katie was graduating and we were going through 18 years of photos and videos, Chris was often wearing the same sweatshirt, sometimes same pants. He would say "I still have that shirt" (etc.) and I would say "I'm going to take you shopping!"

 

[shocky5]

I remember the picture pages song!!!

What's super sad though... I was a teenager in 1986... and the styles... Good memories!!!

Sorry you didn't get to do the reveal yet! Can't wait to hear about it though!!!

 

[annmarieda]

I too remember the picture pages song!!

I love the pictures! You do look the same.

I am sad your cousin didn't make it for Thanksgiving, but I am excited to hear how it does this next weekend!!!

 

[tankgirl427]

Oh I'm sorry to hear your cousin didn't make it and you couldn't do the reveal yet. Can't wait to hear how it goes this weekend.

I love all the pics, but my favorite is the 2nd to last one. I always love the holding-hands-walking-toward-the-castle ones. Maybe I'll get one of me and Chris on this trip!

This is too funny. I noticed that bright-colored jacket.

Funny story. When Katie was graduating and we were going through 18 years of photos and videos, Chris was often wearing the same sweatshirt, sometimes same pants. He would say "I still have that shirt" (etc.) and I would say "I'm going to take you shopping!"

LOL! I have the hardest time trying to get my mom to donate something she bought like 20 years ago and never wears or it doesn't fit. Like she used to wear colored cords (like dusty pink and lilac, etc) with matching sweaters. Finally I got her to give those up! Now don't get me started on the holiday sweaters! Maybe you should "hide" Chris's old nasty clothes and make them disappear. I'm thinking about doing that with BF's jean shorts.

I remember the picture pages song!!!

What's super sad though... I was a teenager in 1986... and the styles... Good memories!!!

Sorry you didn't get to do the reveal yet! Can't wait to hear about it though!!!

I used to love watching that, Bill Cosby and the funny noises the pen made! I will have videos of the reveal!!! I told her I needed it to show my mom, which is true, I just left out all you lovely folks!

I too remember the picture pages song!!

I love the pictures! You do look the same.

I am sad your cousin didn't make it for Thanksgiving, but I am excited to hear how it does this next weekend!!!

Just need to make it to Saturday intact! Have to make a pile by the door of things to bring with me on Friday, and clean the house, and put up Christmas decorations, and work on packing for the trip, and a million other things. Did I mention that Thursday is work's Christmas party 5:30pm - 7:30pm. I made a doctor's appointment for 1pm, and I just scheduled having someone come out to the work site I"m moving to about the heat between 8am - 1pm. Talk about being overbooked!

 

[annmarieda]

You are overbooked! But...soon you will have another trip to have fun on (course, not sure that October's counted as fun ) and then January!!

 

[Stringbean&Wingnut]

Your flashback pictures are so cute!! I love seeing how things have changed so much!

That stinks that the surprise didn't work out as planned, but I'm sure it's going to be great when it does happen!

 

[tankgirl427]

You are overbooked! But...soon you will have another trip to have fun on (course, not sure that October's counted as fun ) and then January!!

Every day is like that including the weekends until after January's trip!

Your flashback pictures are so cute!! I love seeing how things have changed so much!

That stinks that the surprise didn't work out as planned, but I'm sure it's going to be great when it does happen!

Well, its not exactly how I planned for it go to down, but at least its still a surprise and she'll know on Saturday!

 

[tankgirl427]

As Ann told me yesterday, only one more Saturday, Sunday, and Monday until the trip!

Here's today's photos!

Can anyone tell me where along Main St. the first photo might have been taken? I'm hoping in January to recreate some of these photos.

 

[KatMark]

Great photos. That first photo is down one of those alcoves (alley if you prefer) when you cross the street between shops. I believe, if my memory is working at my age, that it is on the right hand side as you are walking towards the castle. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[tankgirl427]

Great photos. That first photo is down one of those alcoves (alley if you prefer) when you cross the street between shops. I believe, if my memory is working at my age, that it is on the right hand side as you are walking towards the castle. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Yeah I got as far as, one of the alleyways off Main St. But I can't figure out which side or anything. My favorite photos are scheduled for tomorrow!

 

[Stringbean&Wingnut]

Someone looks like they did NOT want to meet Brer Bear!

 

[tankgirl427]

Someone looks like they did NOT want to meet Brer Bear!

LOL That photo of my sister clutching to my mom's leg was my dad's favorite. Why/How do you get up so early!?! You must drink coffee.

 

[tankgirl427]

I got a 5:45am text from my December partner in crime stating today we are down to single digits!

Now that I'm somewhat awake, let the next installment of Back to the Future commence!

Does anyone know where on Main St. the last photo was taken? How strange does the castle look with those big trees and no Partners Statue? What about the old Winnie the Pooh costume? And my favorite..... check out the Fairy Godmother's face in the first photo!

 

[KatMark]

First: for Single Digits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love your pics yet again, especially the Pooh Bear one with the honey pot.

 

[shocky5]

WOW! Great flashback pics! Very memorable of my first trip to Disney World ('88).

AND as for the fairy godmother's face... so glad they have one without a plastic mask now... that's just disturbing and scary!

 

[annmarieda]

wow, those old pics sure are showing how WDW has improved. The faces??? FGM is odd looking like that. I wonder when they changed her over to a "real" person rather than costume like that.

 

[Stringbean&Wingnut]

Why/How do you get up so early!?! You must drink coffee.

No, no coffee! I've never liked it! DBF wakes up earlier than I do for work, and so I usually wake up then anyways to get some Dis in before I then go to work!

Yay for single digits!!!

 

[swwake]

I saw that Fairy Godmother too and was really freaked out - even by just an old picture.

Do you think they were dancing Thriller in that one photo?

I am not sure about the Main St location, but that looks like it might have been a shop that makes those silhouettes? I don't remember if there is still a shop for that - don't remember seeing one last year. But maybe if you or someone else has an older park map, you can figure it out?