Woohoo!!! I'm finally taking him to Disney World!!

[tinkgurl]

Did you know that in Test Track when you nearly collide with the tractor trailer, the "driver" of the trailer is a cardboard cutout of Lyndon B Johnson? He is wearing sunglasses and a hat but if you look carefully when the lights turn on you can see him.

Test Track vehicles have three onboard computers that have more processing power than the space shuttle.

I didn't know this! I will have to try and look next time.

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

I didn't know this! I will have to try and look next time.

It's really hard to see. It took me a few times to actually make sure this was real. It's a little bit easier to see it when you go on the side of the truck, cause then the lights don't blind you.

 

[tinkgurl]

It's really hard to see. It took me a few times to actually make sure this was real. It's a little bit easier to see it when you go on the side of the truck, cause then the lights don't blind you.

Okay, I will try to remember that!

 

[shordiebecka]

haha! what interesting trivia about test track!!!

i am craving pretzel bread right now, i've had it other places before, though i'm sure its not quite as good as le cellier!!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

congrats on le cellier!!! that's awesome news!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

haha! what interesting trivia about test track!!!

i am craving pretzel bread right now, i've had it other places before, though i'm sure its not quite as good as le cellier!!

I know, I so want some right now!

congrats on le cellier!!! that's awesome news!

Thanks!!!

Disney Trivia of the Day

Soarin'

In soarin' there are two hidden mickeys (mickey on the golf ball and mickey during the fireworks part) and also two mickeys during the pre show (not including the mickey mouse hat and these are easy to spot) when the boy puts on his seat belt he is wearing a disneyland top with mickey on and trousers with mickey on them.
well the trousers one is kinda hard to see, it is on the top right of the trousers.


That's all I have for you guys today, I don't have a lot of time. My pinning is today!!!!! I'm so excited and I just know I'm going to cry! Oh well it's tonight at 6 so I gotta go and get ready! (My hair takes forever to straighten!) Hope you guys like the trivia and I'll let you all know how my pinning went (maybe some pictures too!) See ya later!!!

 

[kaos928]

That's all I have for you guys today, I don't have a lot of time. My pinning is today!!!!! I'm so excited and I just know I'm going to cry! Oh well it's tonight at 6 so I gotta go and get ready! (My hair takes forever to straighten!) Hope you guys like the trivia and I'll let you all know how my pinning went (maybe some pictures too!) See ya later!!!

Oooh...

Congratulations!!

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[Beka]

You're pinned! YEAH!!!!!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Ok so I'll give you a little report on my pinning.

Here is the stage.

It started out with us all walking into the gym, all of us in our white scrubs. Here's a picture of me walking in (I'm the one with the longer hair, the second one in the picture)

After we sat down they started off with some speakers. First was the Chancellor of the school. Next we had a welcom by our SNA president and one of our former instructors wrote a speech that was read. Finally we got to the pinning. We didn't actually get "pinned" they put the pins on ribbons to put around our necks because it's too hard to pin all of those people. I liked it that way. Here is a picture of me getting pinned. The lady whose pinning me is in charge of the nursing department.

Here is a picture of the pin on the ribbon. That's my kitty's head in the background!

Here's a close up of the pin.

Of course while I was going up my brother had to be the loudest person in the room! While we were walking up to the stage they read thank yous that we wrote. So they read a thank you I wrote to my family. It was really sweet. Two of my classmates were a mother and daughter. So the mother got pinned first and then pinned her daughter (only RNs can pin you). It was so sweet, I started to cry! Two more of my classmates were sisters and again the one got pinned first and then pinned the other. Oh my gosh did I cry! And of course these two people were right before and right after me so I'm sure I looked aweful with my eyes all red and teary. After we all got pinned we all lite candles and recited the nursing pledge and then two girls from the chorus (I think) sang Hallelujah from Shrek. It was very pretty. So after all of the bawling we had a picture presentation. A slideshow of a bunch of pictures from the past two years was presented. Some of them were so funny!!! They gave us each a copy of the slideshow which I thought was just great! Next a former classmate came and spoke. This amazing girl was our SNA president during our first year. She had cancer but was in remission for a while, well she relapsed and had to take a leave of absence. I cried when she spoke because she is just a wonderful girl and so strong. She is amazing. The pinning was now over and we walked out. Here's a picture of me walking out.

It was a great ceremony and very touching. It's so sad that I'm not going to see everyone in class anymore. It was def. bittersweet. After the ceremony we took some pictures. Here is one of me, my mom and dad, my brother, my grandmother, and my uncle.

My friends from high school and me

Me and my good friend from nursing

Me and my Uncle

My Grandmother and me

My mom, dad, brother, and me

Here are the flowers my dad gave me (I'm a daddy's girl and he always gets me flowers for things, it's something special that he does for me)

And my mom gave me an angel statue, it's the Angel of Nurses. On the little tag it says "Nurses are angels on earth that heal the hearts of others." I cried when I got it because she gave me a note inside that said "A long time from now when I'm not here, may this angel protect you and guide you as you help heal others. Love Mom." I'm tearing up now as I write this. My mom has been my inspiration my whole life. She is a wonderful woman and I cannot say enough to thank her. Here is a picture of the statue.

So after that we went out to dinner. Later I met up with some of my fellow nurses (I can say that now!!!!) and we went out for a little celebration of our own!! The night was great. The weather was wonderful, the ceremony was beautiful, and we had a lot of fun afterwards!


Today I went out to find a dress for my graduation. It's tomorrow and I realized today that I didn't have anything to wear under my gown. So I went out with my mom to find a dress and I did. Here's a picture of it. (Please excuse the clothes behind it)

I also got shoes to go with it.

So that's it for now. I had a very good day yesterday and tomorrow looks to be a good one as well. Tomorrow's my graduation so there should be a report on that this weekend!


Oh my gosh I almost forgot...I finished my paying off my trip! We are all payed up! I'm so excited!

 

[Vallie]

heyyy! i'm heree!!

loving ur ptr so far!!!!
and i love that your dbf is 2 years younger then u tooo! (mine too! hehe)
you guys are going just before us! and staying at POP too! woo!
im definitly looking forward to following your ptr and tr!!

I hope both our dbfs fall madly in love with disney!!!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

heyyy! i'm heree!!

loving ur ptr so far!!!!
and i love that your dbf is 2 years younger then u tooo! (mine too! hehe)
you guys are going just before us! and staying at POP too! woo!
im definitly looking forward to following your ptr and tr!!

I hope both our dbfs fall madly in love with disney!!!

Welcome!! Thanks for coming on over. Have you every stayed at Pop? It's our first time there. I def. hope that they fall in love with Disney (or should I say they better or else they'll be tortured for many years by many trips to disney! hehe ) Oh and if you read through my report there are quite a few of us that are trying to get our DBF to love disney so if you have any ideas please let us know!!! We can all help each other!

 

[Vallie]

Welcome!! Thanks for coming on over. Have you every stayed at Pop? It's our first time there. I def. hope that they fall in love with Disney (or should I say they better or else they'll be tortured for many years by many trips to disney! hehe ) Oh and if you read through my report there are quite a few of us that are trying to get our DBF to love disney so if you have any ideas please let us know!!! We can all help each other!

I have never stayed onsite!! so this is a big first for mee! PoP looks really fun though!! Theres no way these boys wont love it!! how could you not?!

Two things my dbf is excited for is Islands of Adventure/Universal and also Hoop De Doo Dinner show because of the all you can drink beer! ahah
I'm also gunna see if theres a concert in the area of one of the bands we like! maybe surprise him with some tickets!

In my planning binder I'm putting lists of all the must rides and little tips and tricks to make the trip run smoothly! I figure the smoother it is the more he'll love it! hehe but I can see hes really getting super excited for it because the other night he actually asked me if we could watch the planning video!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

I have never stayed onsite!! so this is a big first for mee! PoP looks really fun though!! Theres no way these boys wont love it!! how could you not?!

Two things my dbf is excited for is Islands of Adventure/Universal and also Hoop De Doo Dinner show because of the all you can drink beer! ahah
I'm also gunna see if theres a concert in the area of one of the bands we like! maybe surprise him with some tickets!

In my planning binder I'm putting lists of all the must rides and little tips and tricks to make the trip run smoothly! I figure the smoother it is the more he'll love it! hehe but I can see hes really getting super excited for it because the other night he actually asked me if we could watch the planning video!

Oooo that's so great. You'll love staying onsite! Hoop De Doo is so much fun. We went a few years ago and they picked my dad to be in it. I don't want to ruin it for you if you haven't seen it before but let's just say that it wasn't a very masculine part and we have pictures to prove it! How long are you staying, sorry I can't remember. Yeah that's what I'm trying to do, plan as much as I can so everything goes perfectly. Course I'm an obsessive planner so it's not like it's hard for me Ooo I wish mine would ask to watch it. We haven't watched it yet and I'm debating whether or not to wait until a few days before we go or watch it now. He did want to look at pictures of disney the other day so I guess that counts for something and he did agree to go shopping with me for clothes for disney and he hates shopping so I guess I'm getting through to him. I think he'll end up really liking it I can't believe he won't!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Ok so one quick post before I have to go get ready for my graduation. I'll have pictures and a report about it possibly tomorrow!

Disney Trivia of the Day

Canada

The "Hotel du Canada" is the towering landmark that leads guests into the Canada pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase. The distinctive building is modeled after the French Gothic design of the 19th-Century "Chateau Laurier," located in Canada 's capital city of Ottowa . It is another example of "forced perspective," in that although it looks six stories high, it is actually only three. The building was designed to represent the entire nation of Canada , as the top portion of the building represents French Canada, while the lower half is patterned after the hotels built around the turn of the century by the Canadian railroad as it pushed west toward the Rockies . The building is home to "La Boutique Des Provinces," a small shop with handcrafted items from Canadian artists, as well as pewter and decoupage (The art of cutting out pictures and pasting them on furniture or home accessories to simulate painting). The entire Canada pavilion in World Showcase features architecture and landscaping found throughout the nation.

 

[tink774]

Yay for graduating!!!

I don't think I already posted this, but I'm so glad that you got the Le Cellier ADR!! Can't wait to hear all about the meal! Are you guys going to try the cheddar cheese soup? I've heard so many good things about it, and will hopefully get to try it myself one day!

Now I need to stop being awful and update my TR soon!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Yay for graduating!!!

I don't think I already posted this, but I'm so glad that you got the Le Cellier ADR!! Can't wait to hear all about the meal! Are you guys going to try the cheddar cheese soup? I've heard so many good things about it, and will hopefully get to try it myself one day!

Now I need to stop being awful and update my TR soon!

Thanks!!! I'm def. thinking about trying it. I'm not a big soup person but I do like soups that have cheese in them so I def. think I should try this one plus I've heard good things about it too. I'll let you guys know how it is once I get back! I wanted to update you guys on my graduation but unfortunately all the pictures are on my mom's camera and I'm at dbf's apartment and won't be able to get them until Sunday or Monday so I'll post that then. Oh and I think dbf is getting more into disney, he was sitting next to me as I was looking at some other posts and there was a picture of someone getting married with Cinderella's carriage behind them and he noticed it. I told him I wanted that at my wedding and he said sure. I was a little confused and he asked do you want to get married at Disney? And of course I said yes so he said "Then we'll get married at Disney" OMG!!!!!! He said we could get married at Disney!!! I'm so excited, of course that won't be for quite a while but the idea is there! I think he's becoming excited about our trip!!! hey if he said we could get married there then of course he's going to like it!!!!


Disney Trivia of the Day

China

When you enter the main building in the pavilion, look for the 9 stones embedded into the floor - this exact number of stones was placed here, as the Chinese consider 9 to be a lucky number.

If you look at the number of columns surrounding the outer room, you should count twelve. This number represents the number of months in a year and the number of years in a full cycle of the Chinese calendar.

The pair of banners that hang at the entrance to the pavilion offer you good wishes, in the hopes that: "May good fortune follow you on your path through life" and "May virtue be your neighbor."

 

[tink774]

Thanks!!! I'm def. thinking about trying it. I'm not a big soup person but I do like soups that have cheese in them so I def. think I should try this one plus I've heard good things about it too. I'll let you guys know how it is once I get back! I wanted to update you guys on my graduation but unfortunately all the pictures are on my mom's camera and I'm at dbf's apartment and won't be able to get them until Sunday or Monday so I'll post that then. Oh and I think dbf is getting more into disney, he was sitting next to me as I was looking at some other posts and there was a picture of someone getting married with Cinderella's carriage behind them and he noticed it. I told him I wanted that at my wedding and he said sure. I was a little confused and he asked do you want to get married at Disney? And of course I said yes so he said "Then we'll get married at Disney" OMG!!!!!! He said we could get married at Disney!!! I'm so excited, of course that won't be for quite a while but the idea is there! I think he's becoming excited about our trip!!! hey if he said we could get married there then of course he's going to like it!!!!

And you were worried!

And I totally agree with you on the soups. I don't eat many soups either, and I prefer them to be more brothy. New England clam chowder is usually the most texture variety that I like in soup. But if it's a soup made from cheese, count me in!!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Hey guys, I'm gonna try and get the pictures up from my graduation and let you guys know how it goes. I'm just really exhausted right now. I didn't sleep well last night, didn't get to sleep until 2 and then kept tossing and turning until I had to get up at 6:45, so I got like 3 hours of sleep total and it wasn't all at once so I'm quite tired. I def. don't function well on 3 hours of sleep! After I got up I had to go to an NCLEX review (NCLEX is the exam to get my actual license to be an RN and I'm completely scared I'm going to fail it!) from 8 until 4:30 and let me tell you for just sitting there it was exhausting! My brain hurts!! And I get to do it again for the next 3 days. I'm gonna try and get the graduation stuff up later tonight but I may fall asleep. But I hope everyone is doing well! Here's a little disney trivia for now!

Disney Trivia of the Day

Germany

In Germany, the stores are designed to be architecturally different rooms in a house. Each room is themed according to the merchandise sold inside. Wine sold in the "wine cellar," food is sold in the wood-floored "kitchen," works of art are sold out of the "attic," and Christmas decorations can be purchased in the warm and comfortable "living room."

Perched atop a fountain in the center of the St. George's Platz (plaza) in the Germany pavilion is St. George. Riding his steed, he is immortalized slaying a dragon. St. George is known as the patron saint of soldiers, chivalry and Germany , and monuments to him are common throughout Bavaria .

At the courtyard in Germany if you look up towards the back there is a clock. If you are there around the hour, it will ring and a German boy and girl will come out ( they are made our of wood, they are not real) and twirl around. Sometimes the clock is a little off on the time and you have to wait a few minutes.

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Ok so I managed to stay up so far so I figured I'd give a little mini report on my graduation. So here goes.

Let me just say it was incredibly hot! I got there early and took some pictures in front of the lion (for those of you who don't know penn state the lion is the mascot and my mom is big on taking pictures in front of it) It was hot and stupid me didn't eat anything all day so I was a little bit grumpy but we did get our pictures done. My dbf was there, he was able to take the night off of work!!! I was excited, he wasn't able to make it to my pinning so I was glad he came to my graduation. Here are some pictures in front of the lion!

Just a picture of the lion alone

Here's my crazy brother riding the lion

My brother and me

My mom, dad, brother, and me

The four of us and my grandma

My grandmother and me

Ian (DBF) and me

Just me

So after the billions of pictures we headed down to the gym where the graduation was. Well of course I was ridiculously early and I met up with one of my friends. Well those graduation gowns are hot too so we were waiting for them to line up and we were just searching for shade. I don't mean to complain about the heat, it's much better than it being cold and rainy, it was just really hot! I'm ok with heat, I think I was just grumpy from not eating. So finally it was time to line up to walk in and we got all of our instructions on what to do. Yay time to walk for graduation!!! As we're walking in their playing the traditional graduation song, ya know pomp and circumstance. We get to our seats and graduation starts. They had the first class that graduated at my campus come back for this graduation because it was the 40th anniversary of the campus. I thought that was so nice and special for us. They first started out with a welcome by the chancellor of the school and then they introduced the main speaker. To be honest I have no idea who he was (isn't that so bad but the way the campus is set up the nursing students are tucked away in their own building and I really don't know a whole lot of the faculty) So the address was given by the guy who I think was in charge of the library. He had been working there since like the first year the campus opened. So that was kinda cool. I don't want to be horrible but it was so not as exciting and emotional as my pinning. I think because my pinning was with people who I've been with for the the past 2 years and have gotten really close and this time it was more distant. It was still fun and of course I loved going! The nursing students were almost at the end of the list and finally it was our turn to line up to actually get called up to get our diplomas. It was really great to finally feel like I graduated. So we got our diplomas and the chorus sang a song and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was. So finally after a few more shorter speeches we walked out. I graduated!!!!! I was finally a college graduate! Here are some pictures from the graduation.

A picture of some of the nursing students, I'm in there somewhere, can you find me?

A picture of us lining up to get called up on stage to get our diplomas

Ok so this is actually a picture of me walking across the stage but my lovely mom only got the back of my head, oh well, the lady in the picture is in charge of the nursing department

Ok so I'm really not sure what's going on here the only thing I can attribute this too is that my mom loves taking back pictures, ya know pictures of people turned around, she loves it! I'm in there again but I don't think I even know which one I am!!!

This is me walking out. I love this picture of me and I don't usually like pics of me so this one must be good! It's really funny cause I was walking out after the graduation was over and my mom said my name and I just turned and she kinda surprised me with that picture but I guess I was just so happy that it ended up being a really good picture

So graduation was over and I couldn't find my family. There were absolutely like the last ones out of the gym! Oh well they made it! I was now pinned and graduated. What to do now, well of course take more pictures! So here's one of me with my diploma.

Another of my brother and me. He surprised me with this one, he came up to me and wanted a picture, it was cute.

Here's one of me and my friends, Jill and Cecelia

And finally the pictures ended. So by this time I was starving! (Remember haven't eaten all day). So we went out for a quick bit to eat and I got cards from my parents, grandmother, and brother. My brother's was so sweet. He said some really nice things in the card and it was to his little big sister. I don't know if I mentioned but I call my brother my big little brother because he is younger to me but about 6ft tall and I'm older than he is but about 5ft2. It was really cute. Well after we ate my family and I departed and I went out to celebrate with my friends again. Well for some reason we weren't really feeling the whole bar thing that night so we ended up only going to a few and not really drinking. At about 2:30 in the morning we decided to go to Perkins because we wanted breakefast. So we had our breakfast and my friend Cecelia was driving us back to our cars and we were going to drop my friend Jill off and ended talking until 5:00 in the morning!! It was getting light out by the time we parted ways. When Jill opened the door I yelled out "It smells like morning!" Now I figured they would look at me like I was crazy and just laugh but they got out of the car and said "Oh my god it does, I love it!" OMG, people who are crazy like me! Well we parted ways, it was sad because we wouldn't be in class with each other any more and Jill lives a little ways away so we wouldn't see her as often anymore. (It turns out we'll see her on thurs. this week but that's besides the point! ) I finally got to Ian's apt and it was about 5:40. I was exhausted but I had such a fun night. So overall I had a great amazing graduation day/night!

Oh I just had to tell you guys. Cecelia was telling me later that when she got home her diploma was mounted in a frame that she wanted. Now her dad works at penn state and actually gave her her diploma which was so sweet. But she couldn't figure out how he had gotten her diploma in there because as far as she knew she was still holding her diploma. Well her dad had made a photocopy of the diploma (shhh you're not supposed to do that) and put that in the envelope that was actually presented to us and took the actualy diploma and had it all ready in the frame! Isn't that just the sweetest thing. It almost made me cry! Another thing that made me cry was after our graduation and we were standing outside taking pictures and just relaxing after the ceremony Cecelia came up to Jill and me and gave us a gift, inside was a really cute photo album and a little box. Inside the box was a pin that was engraved: Sara Pedley, RN. Oh my god! I def. started to tear up, it was so thoughtful! So that's my graduation adventure. I don't have anything else big coming up but I'll let you guys know if anything exciting happens and of course I'll be continuing my disney trivia and updating with anything disney!

 

[Beka]

Sara Pedley, RN

I like the sound of that!

Uh, gotta go to lab now & learn how to do an IV stick.