You just lost 80 pounds! What are you Going to do next? Ending TR

[DisneyMountainWoman]

Just started reading your trip report over lunch today.

Congrats on all the weight you lost, you look fabulous. I am also trying to lose some weight, my goal is to lose 30 pounds. I have lost so far 10 pounds, yeah!

Cannot wait to read the rest of you report.

 

[Millie12591]

Just started reading your trip report over lunch today.

Congrats on all the weight you lost, you look fabulous. I am also trying to lose some weight, my goal is to lose 30 pounds. I have lost so far 10 pounds, yeah!

Cannot wait to read the rest of you report.

So glad to have you here!! Way to go on your 10 lbs., keep up the great job!!

I have a PTR that has a lot of my back story and a lot more about us and who we are. There are several pages at the start of the PTR if you'd like to read more. Some of it's inspiring and some of it's just plain fun Disney memories!!

Oh, and thank you for your kind words.

 

[Millie12591]

Day 2 continued....

Ooookay! Since I last left you we were heading out of the Swolphin having had a good time and being awed by the hotel's beauty and the spa's relaxing atmosphere, not to mention a few laughs over Mackie's inquiry into the haul she seemed to have found in the ladies dressing room. Most of which she had not a clue about, hence the inquiry. <laughing and shaking head> Silly girl.

We made our way slowly through the hotel to find a bus to take us to DTD, but of course we made a few picture stops along the way and we were on the hunt to find the gift shop where Mackie mentioned seeing a cute little cross body bag she thought she might like.

We finally found the store in the other hotel and decided to go in for a bit, now I know everyone thinks all the pricing is the same all over property, but I swear this place was a bit more expensive than what I had been seeing already. We looked around and Mackie found a shirt she thought she had to have of Aurora. I'm sure you've seen them around property but to my budding artist, this was the shirt.

I noticed a lot of edgier/artistic renditions of the princesses on different items through the parks and Mackenzie was in hog heaven over them. She became very occupied looking for all the different shirts that belonged to the series, poor Jill can attest to this since we dragged her into Trend-D looking for them....more on that later. The only one Mackenzie didn't find was Ariel, it seems they didn't have it on anything but iphone cases, which seemed kinda silly since she's probably one of the if not the most popular princesses and is almost impossible to find on adult sized shirts. Oh well, I digress.

Here's the first shirt Mackie found up close....


Not the greatest picture but you get the idea.

We made our purchase and decide we better get out of there and find our way to DTD. We finally make our way out of the hotel to the bus stops and stood in as much indirect sun as possible. I'm tellin you, it was down right chilly in the shade, at least with the breeze going. luvthattink said it was hotter than blazes just a few days before but a nice cold front had blown in the night before we got there and I have to say I felt like that was a beautiful, big ol' kiss straight from the big guy above!
I've never been to WDW when it wasn't 75% humidity and hotter than 2 dollar pistol, not to mention the fact I had lost almost half my body weight in the last two years so experiencing this weather and not having all that extra weight on....I was down right chilly almost every where I went!! It's why you'll see pics of Mackie wearing a jacket in a lot of the pictures at the start and the end of the trip.

We stood for what seemed like the better part of 15-20 mins. for a bus and then one finally showed up, my mind is a bit hazy to all the details, but what I do remember is us loving the new sights there at the hotel, and we were certainly excited to get to DTD to meet Jill and have a good lunch!

I'm sure I text her as we were about to get on a bus so she wouldn't be too far behind by the time we got there. In fact she was rather on the ball about it if I remember correctly, it could be that I text her long before the bus got there and she had plenty of time to get there and park before we finally made our way over there. Either way, it was so awesome to see her come around the carousel as we made our way round the Christmas shop to get to WGPE. We gave one another big excited hugs, she was so kind to tell me I looked great (due to weight loss) and that she liked my new hair (since I remarked in the PTR I had gotten it done a certain way), despite the fact it had been slept on and blown to smithereens.

After we hugged I told her I needed to find a ladies room to wash up and Mackie of course rolls her eyes and says "What's new?!?" Yes, I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of ice, what can I say. Keeps you healthy and your skin clear, not to mention it's one of the ways you'll shed pounds.

We found our way into WGPE and chatted a bit as we made our order, we got our orders in and decided to sit outside while we still could. You never know when the weather is going to change and I wasn't about to waste being out in the beautiful Florida weather while it was still cool enough to appreciate it.
Jill and I chatted away about what all we had done so far and who knows what else. All I know is that Jill is a delight to be around, she's very laid back to my uptight, we balanced one another out well, or maybe it was that she just balanced me out.

Our food came and we all had pretty good meals. I had the turkey cobb salad <which has shrunk A LOT since the last I had one>, Jill had a turkey sandwich of some kind and I can honestly not tell you what in the world Mackie had. I just know what ever it was, she inhaled it, the crème brulee and half of Jill's sandwich since Mackie said she was still hungry. Thank you again, Jill.
I did manage to have a small bite or two of the crème brulee before it was properly snarfed down by my daughter.

Jill was so great with Mackie, she treated her like she was one of the adults and had a pleasant conversation with her, I can tell Jill makes a pretty great aunt for her nieces and nephews.

We had a pleasant lunch, everyone's tummy's were full and happy and we managed to dodge the sun as much as possible by moving the chairs as needed under the umbrella we were sitting under. I may like being out in the beautiful weather but I don't like being beat down on and burnt by the sun. Actually I try and avoid it like the plague, not an easy task while in WDW.

We decided to walk around DTD to see the sights and to try and find an item or two I wanted to find for someone special. Mackie was in hog heaven when she spotted the Tren-D store.

borrowed from the internet

borrowed from the internet




found the cutest Harvey bags, but they are just too heavy!!


It's funny how a couple of years can change everything, the last time we were in DTD Mackenzie wanted nothing to do with being in that store, this time I felt I had to drag her out of there before Jill got an over load of too much girlie stuff. As beautiful as our Jill is, she's not a girlie girl clothes shopping kind of gal, and I certainly didn't want to burden her with shopping for things that didn't interest all of us, especially when I knew we'd be back in a few days to shop until our hearts were content. Jill was more than gracious to tell us to keep looking as long as we wanted, but I tried to hightail Mackie out of there as fast as I could.

We made our way around to World of Disney store where we had a good time looking all over for the items we had in mind.


borrowed from the internet

I had a gift idea for a special someone, and Mackie had the princess shirts on her mind, or at least Ariel, we hadn't figured out they didn't have them yet. Jill helped us look for our items as we walked around the store looking, I love that store, almost as much as I love Mouse Gears, nothing beats Mouse Gears.

Mackie ended up finding a bracelet she loved and Jill was kind enough to allow us to use her discount from her AP, which was so sweet of her.

Now that memory serves I think we hit the Basin store next, or it may have been the other way around.... either way, we ended up in there for a while.




Poor Jill, I knew she had already been in there and had done her shopping there that day, I felt bad we were dragging her around all the same spots she had already hit. Remember my uptight to her laaaaid back? She gave me assurance it was all good. Mmm hmm, she balances me well.
I should have known better since we Dis'ers are pretty happy to be anywhere close to the vicinity of our Mutha land.
We all had fun in the store sniffing until our sniffers were all sniffed out, I want to say Mackie bought something but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

We finally made our way out of there and then started on a journey to see parts of DTD I had never seen before. Yes folks, you read that right, I had never been any further than the World of Disney Store.

Jill was our tour guide to show us parts of the old DTD that use to be Pleasure Island, and all the other parts I had never seen before other than in pictures. We finally found our way to Ragland Road. I think. I'm sure Jill remembers better than I do and for some reason I totally sucked at taking pictures while we were with Jill. Why I do these things irks the snot out of me, I like to chalk it up to being so happy to be meeting someone and then forgetting to take pics.

We were looking for a place to get a drink and to sit for a bit, I knew of the yummy drink Ms. Kat gets when she's in DTD and I thought we should try and find it. Jill and I perused over the menu at the outside bar and found what we thought sounded pretty darn close to Ms. Kat's drink and what frankly sounded yummy!
I had purposely saved the calories I could have spent on eating the crème brulee just for this drink. Although, the way Mackie thought she was starving I'd probably lost an arm trying to get anything more than a bite or two.

We had left Mackie with a table that we snagged while we went over to the bar to look for our drinks, and just as we were about to head back to the table Mackie got up to walk over to us and a bunch of people got our table before we could say anything.

I of course went all Mama on her and poor Jill who I'm sure was just as peeved as I was, (who of course handled it much better than I did) told her she just lost our table, of course there wasn't another one to be found so we decided to walk further into the rest of DTD to see if we could find somewhere else to sit. This was when Jill actually showed us the last bits of Pleasure island and the rest of DTD, which will be changing very soon from what I'm hearing about DTD. Sounds exciting!!

I FINALLY had Mackie take a picture of us together to prove we actually met you know the saying on here.....if you didn't take a picture it didn't happen...



Well, it happened!! And I couldn't have been happier about it. Could you see our yummy drinks in the background?
I was so glad we got some time to meet while we were both there. We did some more walking/touring of DTD, and then we finally found a place to sit and enjoy our drinks together while Mackie got an ice cream cone, just outside Hagen Daz.
After we chatted for a bit and let Mackie eat her ice cream we finally decided we all needed to get back to our rooms for the evening, I believe Jill had a beautiful dinner with friends to get ready for, and Mackie and I needed to get some rest for our big day the next day!!

We were finally going to MK!!

Jill was so kind to offer a ride back to our resort and we were glad for it, taking the bus to DTD and to the Swolphin and back had burned us out on buses for the day.
It was sooo nice being in a car on property!! Who knew?!? Holy smokes you can become spoiled really fast with a car.
We made it to Art of Animation lickety split, said our goodbye's and said we'd hope to see one another again while we were there.
Unfortunately that didn't happen. I think we were going to try and meet up for drinks over at Epcot when Jill and Poolrat-Pat were going to meet, but for some reason that never came together, at least not with me involved, I sure hope it happened for the two of them.

That's where I'll have to leave it folks.
Next up!! A tour of AoA at night and our first day at MK!!!

 

[kaoden39]

Hi there!

I love those purses and really want one. Maybe I will get one in January if I can find one that is.

 

[zanzibar138]

Still keeping an eye on your report - looks like you had a great time

Just had to pipe up and say I bought that same Sleeping Beauty t-shirt in Hong Kong

 

[eandesmom]

Fun shopping trip and the tee is cute! Is that the Bailey's thing that Kathy gets?

I can only shop like that when the boys are NOT there. LOL! Sounds like a lovely meal and DISmeet.

 

[MEK]

I love Mackie's t shirt - its adorable.

Yup - girls grow up and then they want to shop - a lot!

Yay for a nice meal and a DIS meet with Jill. And a ride back. Yes - a car will spoil you. Probably why we always get one. As convenient as the buses are, you can get burned out.

Love the shopping pictures.

Bring on the MK!

 

[mickeystoontown]

What a cute shirt Mackie picked out! Ahhh, I'd love to be sniffing those wonderful scents in Basin right now. I could stay in there forever.

Yay for a Dis meet!

 

[LMN]

Camille,

So excited to finally be checking out your TR!! Congrats to you on your 80lb weight loss! I am so inspired by you! I have 100lbs to lose myself; have lost 7, so am at the very beginning of my journey. And after the tough week I just went thru, I am reminded that it is definitely a JOURNEY and unfortunately is not something that happens quickly!

I love your inspiration board- I need to figure out where I can do something similar.

Looking forward to reading more of your TR- as you know, I and my family are HUGE Disney fans as well.

One of my secret dreams is to do one of the Disney Half Marathons one day. I just started running for minutes at a time on the treadmill at the gym, so it will be years before I can do it, but I'm putting it out there as a possibility!

Congratulations again on your weight loss! So proud of you!

Thanks-Liesel

 

[MAGICFOR2]

Did y'all stay at the LM rooms while you were there? For some reason I thought you stayed there??

The Swalphin was such a beautiful place, can't wait to go back and explore a bit more and have some more treatments.

No. it wasn't us who stayed there. Looks fun for a girl's trip!

 

[MAGICFOR2]

You girls really got your shopping on! The Aurora T is very cute - too bad there was no Ariel. I so wanted to check out TendD but with all the rain and all the kiddos, it never happened. I love those Minnie seat belt bags! I saw them at DLR last fall and fell in love! Oh, did I say I love them yet?

Mmmm, the drink looks delicious! What was it?

 

[wigdoutdismom]

Hi there, Millie!
So glad that I stumbled across your trip report! Congratulations on the weight loss, I know it's quite an undertaking. For me it started on November 14, last year. Now I'm at the 70 lb mark.

It looks like your trip has started out very nicely with a fun Dis-meet. It's always exciting to share those times with people that share the love! Jen and I have been over to the Mandera Spa twice and loved it both times!!!

Sorry about the passing of your grandfather. It's never easy to go through those situations...


Oh and by the way, we were through your part of the world this weekend. Marc and I decided that the Vera Bradley outlet in San Marcos needed me to come shopping. Yep, it was a bit of a drive for some purses and backpacks. And the store was like this.

 

[scottny]

great update and pics.

Dismeets are always so much fun

 

[Millie12591]

Hi there!

I love those purses and really want one. Maybe I will get one in January if I can find one that is.

Michele!! So happy you found time to be over here!! How is the house coming?!? I've thought a lot about you and how it's coming along. Praying all comes out well, let me know if you need anything.

The purses are super cute, but very heavy for a purse. January?!? Yeaaaaaaaaah!!! This makes me soooo happy!!

Still keeping an eye on your report - looks like you had a great time

Just had to pipe up and say I bought that same Sleeping Beauty t-shirt in Hong Kong

Lana!! I'm so honored you came over to read!! Hope all is well in your world. WE did have a good time!! I'm starting to get the itch to plan another trip for Oct. 2014, solo trip, or at least without any of my family, I'd be happy to have any of my Dis family members along!!

The shirt you Mackie both picked out is really pretty. I think it's my favorite out of all the shirts she picked, although she did find a pretty Ariel one.

Fun shopping trip and the tee is cute! Is that the Bailey's thing that Kathy gets?

I can only shop like that when the boys are NOT there. LOL! Sounds like a lovely meal and DISmeet.

Thank you, Cynthia!! It is a cute shirt. And yes, I believe that is the same drink Ms. Kat gets when she's in DTD. It's yummy, but REALLY sweet.


The meet was a great way to start our first day there. I was thrilled to have met someone so sweet and laid back.

 

[Alysa]

Love the shopping updates!

 

[zanzibar138]

Lana!! I'm so honored you came over to read!! Hope all is well in your world. WE did have a good time!! I'm starting to get the itch to plan another trip for Oct. 2014, solo trip, or at least without any of my family, I'd be happy to have any of my Dis family members along!!

The shirt you Mackie both picked out is really pretty. I think it's my favorite out of all the shirts she picked, although she did find a pretty Ariel one.

Yep, still lurking around over here

All is well in my world, but very busy!

For a moment I was a bit upset that I would miss you in October (my trip for next year is early September), but then I realised we would be on opposite coasts anyway

 

[Cira]

Liesel, best of luck. Here's hoping that both you and I will have as successful a result as Camille so that we may BOTH meet up at Disney with our 100# losses. Best of luck to you and congrats on the 7 you have lost. That is a success already on this journey of ours.

Camille,

So excited to finally be checking out your TR!! Congrats to you on your 80lb weight loss! I am so inspired by you! I have 100lbs to lose myself; have lost 7, so am at the very beginning of my journey. And after the tough week I just went thru, I am reminded that it is definitely a JOURNEY and unfortunately is not something that happens quickly!

I love your inspiration board- I need to figure out where I can do something similar.

Looking forward to reading more of your TR- as you know, I and my family are HUGE Disney fans as well.

One of my secret dreams is to do one of the Disney Half Marathons one day. I just started running for minutes at a time on the treadmill at the gym, so it will be years before I can do it, but I'm putting it out there as a possibility!

Congratulations again on your weight loss! So proud of you!

Thanks-Liesel

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

Y'all crack me up, out of all the things I shared that's the only things that stand out to y'all. Hopefully my next post will be better for you guys.

Right, so the next chapter is full of shopping and Princess t-shirts.



Just giving you a hard time. Glad you enjoyed WGPE. I still haven't tried that one, but given all the raves around here, I guess I should.

 

[Millie12591]

Right, so the next chapter is full of shopping and Princess t-shirts.



Just giving you a hard time. Glad you enjoyed WGPE. I still haven't tried that one, but given all the raves around here, I guess I should.

I know this response is out of order, but after I saw this last post I had to comment.....





Sorry, Mark. Couldn't resist.

Yes, you should try WGPE when you get a chance. Although, I will warn you.....they do not have burgers. Yes, I went there.

 

[Millie12591]

I love Mackie's t shirt - its adorable.

I thought so too, it's out of the norm for what you usually find at Disney.

Yup - girls grow up and then they want to shop - a lot!

That's the funny thing, Mackenzie is not typically a shopper. I usually have to coax her into going shopping with me, but not when we're at Disney. That girl can get her serious shop on in Disney World!!


Yay for a nice meal and a DIS meet with Jill. And a ride back. Yes - a car will spoil you. Probably why we always get one. As convenient as the buses are, you can get burned out.

Love the shopping pictures.

Bring on the MK!

It was a great meet, and the ride was a serious extra bonus to our day. I'm thinking about getting a car for our/my next trip, although I'm not sure if I'll have to pay for parking if I'm staying on property?? I know with an AP you don't, but I don't know how that works otherwise. Hmmmm...

What a cute shirt Mackie picked out! Ahhh, I'd love to be sniffing those wonderful scents in Basin right now. I could stay in there forever.

Yay for a Dis meet!

Thank you, Lisa!! She did pick out a cute shirt, and a couple of other one's too, or at least one other one, I forget now. The other one she found she actually wore to school the other day. Sniffing in Basin is fun, although I tend to get a headache if I'm not careful.

Serious Yay for the Dis meet!!

Camille,

So excited to finally be checking out your TR!! Congrats to you on your 80lb weight loss! I am so inspired by you! I have 100lbs to lose myself; have lost 7, so am at the very beginning of my journey. And after the tough week I just went thru, I am reminded that it is definitely a JOURNEY and unfortunately is not something that happens quickly!

I love your inspiration board- I need to figure out where I can do something similar.

Looking forward to reading more of your TR- as you know, I and my family are HUGE Disney fans as well.

One of my secret dreams is to do one of the Disney Half Marathons one day. I just started running for minutes at a time on the treadmill at the gym, so it will be years before I can do it, but I'm putting it out there as a possibility!

Congratulations again on your weight loss! So proud of you!

Thanks-Liesel

Liesel!!!! You finally got a chance to come over!!1



I'm so proud of your 7 lbs.!! Keep it up girl, and if you ever want someone to workout with or go for walks, just give me a ring!!