You can take the girl out of Disney, BUT

[petals]

I did the pirate dinner show twice with the dancers. It's prob not worth the money. I think our fundraising paid for it though or something like that.

 

[Caretames1]

Kadence thinks she's clean after swimming too!


I would have kicked Skip right in his butt! John can get like that, then I give my idea and he has to "think" about it. UGH

I asked him about ADR's and then did what I wanted except for one!:


Hoop de Do, I can't wait to see what you thought, I want to do it.

 

[jenseib]

YAY on a nice nap followed by some pool time. What a great picture of Claire in her towel. It just screams "contentment" to me.

Oh, I know that "Where are we going to eat?" fight! We had that one night at City Walk. We were all starving, Mark said "Anyplace is fine" so Ben wanted takeout Chinese, ordered a meal and Mark said "I didn't come to Florida to eat here". Fortunately, Bubba Gumps saved that evening.

I guess that is the beauty of Disney. You have to solve the "Where are we going to eat?" question 6 months in advance!

I remember that in your TR. ...Must be a man thing.
Claire is happy when she gets to swim!

I did the pirate dinner show twice with the dancers. It's prob not worth the money. I think our fundraising paid for it though or something like that.

Good to know...thanks. I don't think I would go off property to see it, but for a trip like this, I was game.

Kadence thinks she's clean after swimming too!


I would have kicked Skip right in his butt! John can get like that, then I give my idea and he has to "think" about it. UGH

I asked him about ADR's and then did what I wanted except for one!:


Hoop de Do, I can't wait to see what you thought, I want to do it.

It was getting close to butt kicking time.
This was our third time to Hoop Dee Doo, so I guess we kind of like it.

In 2009 I did ask Skip if had a choice of a place to eat..and he wanted Hoop Dee Doo. I do think it is a pretty good use of 2 dining credits too.

 

[annmarieda]

What a weird drive through experience!

The photo bomb guy pic cracks me up.

I also am sorry... but was laughing at your dh sitting in and watching tv while you were trying to come up with a plan for the evening. I have been there with my own dh... oh, how frustrating!!!!

Glad you got it worked out though. Can't wait to hear how dinner went.

 

[jenseib]

What a weird drive through experience!

The photo bomb guy pic cracks me up.

I also am sorry... but was laughing at your dh sitting in and watching tv while you were trying to come up with a plan for the evening. I have been there with my own dh... oh, how frustrating!!!!

Glad you got it worked out though. Can't wait to hear how dinner went.

It was weird...and very irritating.

I think it's a man thing. My Dad always did that too. ....go on vacation, arrive at room, locate remote and lay on bed and do nothing while the family gets annoyed.

 

[stephielela]

Can't wait to hear about Hoop Dee Doo! That BK girl sounds a little nuts! I hate it when people are so indecisive! If you have a preference, then make a decision! My sister is like that, it drives me insane!

 

[Beth D]

He He! Sorry to say, but my DH is a photobomber too! He's 6'6", and just by virtue of being so tall, happens to see others taking photos, and just is so outgoing that he has to join in, either by grinning cheesily like the guy in yours, or by doing the "bunny ears" peace sign thing over someone!

Our biggest fights (can't really call them fights, but more bickering) are about what to eat for supper!

It's been quite a few years since weve been to US, last couple trips have been to IOA, maybe once HP opens over there.... I've heard the Hogwarts Express is going to connect the two parks, sounds way cool!

I bought a chocolate frog last year. I thought it was many little ones, perfect for that chocolate urge, nope, it was one giant one, and difficult to eat. I opened it, and forgot about it until I threw it out much later.

Love the puffball!

 

[petals]

Good to know...thanks. I don't think I would go off property to see it, but for a trip like this, I was game.

We always went because the dance teach would try have one or two meals during the trip where the whole school were together. Did you get to it at all? I can tell you more about it if you want the info for your TA work

 

[jenseib]

Can't wait to hear about Hoop Dee Doo! That BK girl sounds a little nuts! I hate it when people are so indecisive! If you have a preference, then make a decision! My sister is like that, it drives me insane!

Ill be working on those pictures this weekend. I took quite a few.

He He! Sorry to say, but my DH is a photobomber too! He's 6'6", and just by virtue of being so tall, happens to see others taking photos, and just is so outgoing that he has to join in, either by grinning cheesily like the guy in yours, or by doing the "bunny ears" peace sign thing over someone!

Our biggest fights (can't really call them fights, but more bickering) are about what to eat for supper!

It's been quite a few years since weve been to US, last couple trips have been to IOA, maybe once HP opens over there.... I've heard the Hogwarts Express is going to connect the two parks, sounds way cool!

I bought a chocolate frog last year. I thought it was many little ones, perfect for that chocolate urge, nope, it was one giant one, and difficult to eat. I opened it, and forgot about it until I threw it out much later.

Love the puffball!

I photobomb too...with s smile. If I'm gonna be in it then I should look good

We always went because the dance teach would try have one or two meals during the trip where the whole school were together. Did you get to it at all? I can tell you more about it if you want the info for your TA work

We did not get there. Love yo hear about it

 

[jenseib]

After getting checked in we still had quite a bit of time to waste. Skip and Claire started walking, so I went on my own and tried to get a few pictures. Being that it was so dark, it really was hard to get anything good….that didn’t stop me from trying though.

I spotted the Trading Post, something I really hadn’t paid much attention to in the past.

I decided to mosey on over there and take a look. I also was hoping to spot what the 2012 zip up sweatshirt looks like. If you have followed me in the past, you know I have an obsession with sweatshirts, and I try to get one with the year on it each year.

I didn’t find a sweatshirt, but there was quite a few other cute items.

I had only been in the store for about a minute and guess who found me? …. Claire. She said she saw me walk in and Skip said she could join me, and she ran! LOL! She was worried I would be buying something without her probably. I was just browsing though.

We looked at the Mickey Gnomes. Claire likes gnomes right now because she recently learned about the Travelocity gnome. How he came about….. because originally someone had stolen someone’s gnome out of their yard and took him on travels all over. I think they had him for a year or 2, but anyways, they returned the gnome after his travels with all the photos of where he had been.
I can remember when this story was on the today show and I thought it was hilarious. I’m sure Travelocity paid someone good money to have the rights to using the Gnome…..Anyways, Claire didn’t know much about gnomes till one day she asked about the commercial and I told her the story. And being that I had taken Phineas and Ferb along for my August trip and taken photos of them, she really liked that story quite a bit.

Back out to the porch we went.

I then sent this picture to facebook for the where am I game. I was getting some guesses, some were right, but then people would second guess themselves. I believe my friend Mindy was really working hard to figure it out and eventually she did.

We headed over by the boat dock.

And took a seat.

Another picture for the where are we game.

Which threw people for a loop a bit.

Skip talked on the phone and Claire took her shoes off and played in the sand. It was a nice evening. One of those nights where you would need a sweatshirt, but at times it was warm enough to take it off, so we did a lot of putting it on and taking it off.

While sitting there, I tried to get a picture of the life jacket bins.

We pulled out Perry for a couple of shots.

He needed to check his facebook messages too.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Oh I can't STAND regular Coke! I find it almost undrinkably disgusting! I would've been mad if my diet came our regular too.

That's cool that you got to go to Hoop De Doo and have a little taste of Disney. I fee like 9:30 is so late to have dinner though! (This coming from the girl who was in bed at 8:30 last night....)

 

[mom2rtk]

OK, I'm catching up.

Why do I find myself wanting to raid the freezer and have ice cream for breakfast! We're gonna have to get there one day.....

And I'm LITERALLY laughing out loud at Skip's comment about you staying at the Yacht Club. Shame on you for sneaking in something he didn't know about. Don't you know telling him 10 times isn't enough? You have to tell him ELEVEN times!

So why was it so much less busy going into the park the second day? I'm taking notes because with all the changes my husband proposes, we could easily still end up there!

My memories are a little fuzzy since we rode Spiderman in 04, but I do recall thinking it was the best ride I had ever done in a theme park. I really would look forward to doing that again if we added US to our list.

And YEAH! more castle pics! LOL! I would have taken just as many!

I love that Spiderman pretended to be part of the scenery. Did he also do typical M&G photos? I remember him doing those in 04, but none of the fun messing around. And there was almost nobody in the park when we were there. Nobody else waiting to meet him.

LOL on the Man in the Yellow Hat appearing in person! Who knew? I'd probably be asking where to go after the show for a photo with him and George. Man, we loved Curiuos George books. Sigh...... We even saw the movie when it came out. I made Katie and McKenna Curious George dresses to wear that day. Sigh.......

Oh man...... sneaking that photo of the churro in was dirty pull. I passed on ice cream for breakfast........ and now that. I hear costco has churros. Maybe I'll go join today........

What an odd experience at BK. I probably would have gone back for a different drink. I'm REALLY picky about my drinks too. Diet coke, lots of ice. I can't STAND the real stuff. Makes my tongue feel furry. They get it wrong so often I then make myself try it quickly before leaving the window...... and it's always right.......... until the first time I DON'T try it!

I'm so out of touch..... I didn't know you did Hoop De Doo. I can't wait to hear about it first hand! If we stay at WL for a couple nights, I want to know about all the options available.

Good for you getting a decision out of Skip. I've totally been there don't you know!

And with that........ I'm officially caught back up!........ on this report at least. Gotta get some work done then catch up on your PTR!

 

[MEK]

I love that you made such a spontaneous decision to go to HDDR. Claire looks thrilled to be there. It looks like a lovely evening.

I remember the "Hey mom watch this days". I sort of miss them now. sniff sniff.

 

[petals]

We did not get there. Love yo hear about it

Okies
Well you go in a big waiting area with souvenior shop and a bar for the adults. There's also disco music and face paints for the kids. Everyone is given a coloured card to represent the seating area you will be in. We always got red and green. Red for our dance school and Green for Ireland. I'm pretty sure our dance teacher requested these colours every year. But anyways when it's time for the meal everyone is seating around a big ship in another room and there's water all around the ship... see my old trip report for pic Clickie I remember chicken, pork and apple crumble and ice-cream food wise but I'm not sure if that was pirates or the wild west show in Paris Anyways the show itself there's like 6 or 8 pirates and their pretty maids doing acrobat tricks and games and the idea is who wins and rescues pretty maid or something of the sort but it's one of those shows that you're meant to cheer for the pirate that is same colour as your bandana.. oh and the bandana you get is only made out of crep paper. (In the wild west show in paris the give you straw hat but I guess that's the difference between Disney and non Disney dinner shows.) I know at one point the invite some of the kids up on the ship for games as well because there's pics of some of the kids from our dance school on the ship. It's a good show. Prob not worth the money but it's different like. There was also fortune tellers there and after the dinner show you can stay for disco and drinks if you want. Also during the meal the servers bring all the food to you and it is all done very quickly and the refill drinks constantly so that's all good. The food is nice as well only thing is it's kind of dark on the stalls so hard to see what you're eating.

 

[Wicket's Mom]

Jen, I was wondering, did the Harry Potter outfit ever show up?

 

[jenseib]

Oh I can't STAND regular Coke! I find it almost undrinkably disgusting! I would've been mad if my diet came our regular too.

That's cool that you got to go to Hoop De Doo and have a little taste of Disney. I fee like 9:30 is so late to have dinner though! (This coming from the girl who was in bed at 8:30 last night....)

We normally eat late a lot of times anyways. Skip always eats late, after milking the cows.

OK, I'm catching up.

Why do I find myself wanting to raid the freezer and have ice cream for breakfast! We're gonna have to get there one day.....

And I'm LITERALLY laughing out loud at Skip's comment about you staying at the Yacht Club. Shame on you for sneaking in something he didn't know about. Don't you know telling him 10 times isn't enough? You have to tell him ELEVEN times!

So why was it so much less busy going into the park the second day? I'm taking notes because with all the changes my husband proposes, we could easily still end up there!

My memories are a little fuzzy since we rode Spiderman in 04, but I do recall thinking it was the best ride I had ever done in a theme park. I really would look forward to doing that again if we added US to our list.

And YEAH! more castle pics! LOL! I would have taken just as many!

I love that Spiderman pretended to be part of the scenery. Did he also do typical M&G photos? I remember him doing those in 04, but none of the fun messing around. And there was almost nobody in the park when we were there. Nobody else waiting to meet him.

LOL on the Man in the Yellow Hat appearing in person! Who knew? I'd probably be asking where to go after the show for a photo with him and George. Man, we loved Curiuos George books. Sigh...... We even saw the movie when it came out. I made Katie and McKenna Curious George dresses to wear that day. Sigh.......

Oh man...... sneaking that photo of the churro in was dirty pull. I passed on ice cream for breakfast........ and now that. I hear costco has churros. Maybe I'll go join today........

What an odd experience at BK. I probably would have gone back for a different drink. I'm REALLY picky about my drinks too. Diet coke, lots of ice. I can't STAND the real stuff. Makes my tongue feel furry. They get it wrong so often I then make myself try it quickly before leaving the window...... and it's always right.......... until the first time I DON'T try it!

I'm so out of touch..... I didn't know you did Hoop De Doo. I can't wait to hear about it first hand! If we stay at WL for a couple nights, I want to know about all the options available.

Good for you getting a decision out of Skip. I've totally been there don't you know!

And with that........ I'm officially caught back up!........ on this report at least. Gotta get some work done then catch up on your PTR!

As you know, Skip is famous for not listening..or turning what I told him into something else.

I think only people who followed on facebook knew about Hoop Dee Doo. We do like that show a lot, so it was nice to go see it again.

I think the man in the yellow hat did do some meet and greats after the little show, but we headed off to ET. I don't even think I knew there was a curious george movie.

As for the diet coke, with Skip driving and he being so tired, I just let it go, but if I was driving..I would've been back.

I love that you made such a spontaneous decision to go to HDDR. Claire looks thrilled to be there. It looks like a lovely evening.

I remember the "Hey mom watch this days". I sort of miss them now. sniff sniff.

Skip is Mr Spontanious. When I was pregnant for Claire, we had a weekend trip planned to go up to Michigan to a few different spots. We were just going to get a hotel in what ever area we were in that day on the fly. He called about 2hours before we were to leave (fro mthe barn) and said lets go to Niagra Falls instead...which was fine with me, so thats where we went. Funny thing is Michael never realized that we changed plans and wanted to know where the ferry to Macinaw (Sp?) island was. Of coures Paige had to yell at him because we had been talking about the Falls the whole way there.

Okies
Well you go in a big waiting area with souvenior shop and a bar for the adults. There's also disco music and face paints for the kids. Everyone is given a coloured card to represent the seating area you will be in. We always got red and green. Red for our dance school and Green for Ireland. I'm pretty sure our dance teacher requested these colours every year. But anyways when it's time for the meal everyone is seating around a big ship in another room and there's water all around the ship... see my old trip report for pic Clickie I remember chicken, pork and apple crumble and ice-cream food wise but I'm not sure if that was pirates or the wild west show in Paris Anyways the show itself there's like 6 or 8 pirates and their pretty maids doing acrobat tricks and games and the idea is who wins and rescues pretty maid or something of the sort but it's one of those shows that you're meant to cheer for the pirate that is same colour as your bandana.. oh and the bandana you get is only made out of crep paper. (In the wild west show in paris the give you straw hat but I guess that's the difference between Disney and non Disney dinner shows.) I know at one point the invite some of the kids up on the ship for games as well because there's pics of some of the kids from our dance school on the ship. It's a good show. Prob not worth the money but it's different like. There was also fortune tellers there and after the dinner show you can stay for disco and drinks if you want. Also during the meal the servers bring all the food to you and it is all done very quickly and the refill drinks constantly so that's all good. The food is nice as well only thing is it's kind of dark on the stalls so hard to see what you're eating.

That kind of sounds fun. I bet we would like it.
Funny about the disco, because we did hear music pumping out of there each night and wondered what was going on.

Jen, I was wondering, did the Harry Potter outfit ever show up?

No, it never arrived and she never got it back either. We just hope someone got it who will appreciate it. It still makes me mad though.

 

[petals]

That kind of sounds fun. I bet we would like it.
Funny about the disco, because we did hear music pumping out of there each night and wondered what was going on.

I think it is fun to do once. For us it was great fun because of the whole dance school going together. I think the second year we went there was 125 people in the party between dancers and their families and dance teacher always requested that we're all together.
Only reason I remember the disco is from pics of the younger dancers dancing before we went in and the Mammies and Daddies dancing afterwards

 

[jenseib]

I think it is fun to do once. For us it was great fun because of the whole dance school going together. I think the second year we went there was 125 people in the party between dancers and their families and dance teacher always requested that we're all together.
Only reason I remember the disco is from pics of the younger dancers dancing before we went in and the Mammies and Daddies dancing afterwards

That would be fun with a big group of people

 

[petals]

That would be fun with a big group of people

Yeah it was like I said we'd already gone to Paris twice and did the Wild West Dinner show there as a group which was fun. Again we were sitting in the red and green sections which makes me believe the dance teacher purposely requested those sections but anyways I remember at that there was a game where you had to pass a ball around the section and whichever section did it quickest was the winner and our dance schools section won both times

 

[jenseib]

Yeah it was like I said we'd already gone to Paris twice and did the Wild West Dinner show there as a group which was fun. Again we were sitting in the red and green sections which makes me believe the dance teacher purposely requested those sections but anyways I remember at that there was a game where you had to pass a ball around the section and whichever section did it quickest was the winner and our dance schools section won both times