DisneyKates
Earning My Ears
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Also, yay for teachers! That's one of the most important jobs on the planet. I hope the start of the year is treating you well!
Sunburns really sneak up on you!
We put on our spray sunscreen every day religiously, and I thought I was doing pretty good until we spent an afternoon in the poolYou really need real sunscreen for that, not just spray.
Plus, I realized that foundation just doesn't cut it when you're in the Florida heat for hours! Next time, I'm bringing face sunscreen so I don't look like a tomato in the later pictures...
I don't know if it's still there, but POR used to have this too, and it was easily my favorite food thing from our family trips to Disney! Glad to hear the create your own pasta is still awesome - I may have to try and find some on a future trip, especially since my husband keeps talking about visiting POR to see how it's changed![]()
I hate people who purposely cut in front of you! Ugh, so rude! But luckily the photo pass photographer was nice to you!
I hate people who cut in front of you. I've learned that its sometimes better to say something. It often doesn't make a difference, but sometimes it does - even if the people who went in front of you refuse to allow you to go first, sometimes the photographer will insist that you go first if its brought to their attention.
But overall ... people are not always so nice and that's frustrating.
Ouch, that sunburn looks painful![]()
Ouch - a blister and sunburn in the same day!
I'm sorry that group cut in front of you - how frustrating and rude!
Glad you got some rest for your early morning!
Oh man! What a sunburn! I have very fair skin and learned a few years ago that California Baby is the BEST sunblock. Crazy expensive, but it is totally worth it for us easily burned people. Because it's zinc based you really have to rub it in, but on our last Disney trip and Beach trip (June and August) no one in our family got burned. Hallelujah! My sister still insists on using Neutrogena 80+ because the spf claim is higher than Cali Baby's 30+ and its cheaper, but she gets burned every summer!
Also, yay for teachers! That's one of the most important jobs on the planet. I hope the start of the year is treating you well!
Congratulations on your first year as a full time teacher.
I am a teacher and my daughter just started teaching full time this year as well.
I'm really enjoying your report. Looking forward to more.![]()
What I like about your TR is that you're honest about what's good and NOT so good in a WDW trip. When I'm actually at Disney I sometimes find myself thinking that the thought of it is better than the real experience which almost always includes insane heat & torrential rain, aching feet, crowds that wouldn't be out of place during a Haj in Mecca, high prices - esp. for basic foodstuffs like water, rude/inconsiderate people, and far too much time standing in queues for attractions that are short or that you've seen dozens of times already. But you do it all because of the idea of Disney and the few magical moments that do occur. What days where you there in April that the place was so packed?
Really enjoying reading your TR. I am planning my first solo trip for Jan 2016, so I enjoy reading other solo's TR's. Too bad you were freezing, that is always my fear when I go to a hotel. sometimes the air conditioning is so cold and you can't sleep. hope the other days were better. Too bad there were so few places to eat late at night.
If you ever think about going on the Marceline to Magic Kingdom Tour, DO IT! I couldn’t recommend it enough! I loved it so much and learned so many things about Walt Disney. And it was only $27 ($30 without the Disney Visa discount). It was so worth it.
but while they were arranging themselves one of the women flashed me a smirk that told me she knew I had been waiting and they decided to purposefully cut me. Which just made me mad
Or as little miss just called it, "Look Mama! It's a Mickey Frog!"I traded for a very cute Pascal pin
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FOF can be brutal! DH and I have decided that we wouldn't make it a priority this trip for this reason. There just aren't many good shaded spots for it.While I was at dinner I realized just how badly I got sunburnt during FoF.
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Do you remember what channel its on? I meant to turn it on for Little Miss but never found the channel. Might be good to remember for our March Trip.I watched Duffy’s Bedtime Story
How cool!After that came my absolute favorite part of the entire tour. Megan took us underneath the Haunted Mansion and we got to see how the Ballroom Ghosts work. It was so amazingly cool to be standing right next to the ghosts and watching the ride vehicles go by from that perspective. I could have stood there for hours!
Neat!While we were waiting for everyone, a few of us talked to Megan about her history working with Disney. She told us that tour guides are given a huge handbook of history and stories about Walt Disney and the parks and they don’t have a hard and fast script of things to say during tours, just a basic guideline. So different tour guides give different storied based on their own interests. Which means you could go on the same tour more than once and hear different things each time.
Okay now I want to go ride and shine a flash light at them and see for myself! ( I won't though, unless I end up in a theater by myself. )Anyway, we went on Carousel of Progress with our own private theatre and Megan pointed out a lot of things throughout the attraction. During the part where they blow a fuse and the stage goes dark, Megan shone a flashlight around to show us that the animatronics still move around as they would after losing power. How cool is that?
YAY! I am so glad you liked this. We are gifting my sister and brother-in-law with the keys to the kingdom tour on our next trip, coming up in April. Their 10th wedding anniversary is in July, and we thought this would be a fun way for them to celebrate. They will totally love this! I'm so glad to read this review. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing all that info about the tour - it really sounds amazing!
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Or as little miss just called it, "Look Mama! It's a Mickey Frog!"
FOF can be brutal! DH and I have decided that we wouldn't make it a priority this trip for this reason. There just aren't many good shaded spots for it.
Do you remember what channel its on? I meant to turn it on for Little Miss but never found the channel. Might be good to remember for our March Trip.
Love your review of the tour!! It sounds really amazing! I want to do either Marceline or Keys to the Kingdom next October and I'm having a hard time deciding!
I'm here and have gotten all caught up. So far your trip sounds pretty great. I love art of animation and seeing your pictures takes me back there. Can't wait to read more!