Zombie Apocalypse and Pixie Dust - A 2 week Disneymoon (PTR link 11/14)

[Where'sPiglet?]

I'm glad you're closer to making a decision! (Well, at least it appears you are...)

I'm a teacher and am in daily contact with several hundred students. There is a big risk that one of those students at school could have a contagious disease harmful (and possibly deadly) to the fetus. So the second I learn I'm pregnant I have to stay home and take a blood test to see if I'm immune to those diseases. I'm currently at home waiting for the results, which could take anywhere between 2 weeks and a month. If I'm immune I go back to work, if not I stay on preventive leave until a month before my due date, when my maternity leave kicks in.

If later I get a second child and already know I'm immune, then no need to go through it again. If I was not immune the first time I still need to do the test though as I could have become immune in the meantime (it has happened to a friend).

I do remember you posting that you are a teacher. We were talking about it on another thread. Apparently, this is one of those areas where Canada and the USA are very different. I also am a teacher. My friend got pregnant last year and kept it a secret for quite a while. Then she worked all the way up to the last day of school. She delivered the baby the day after school let out. The only time she missed any work was when she had appointments and/or was sick.

I cannot wrap my head around that policy you have up there! It sounds beneficial in terms of health, but it blows my mind since it's so different than what we have here. And as for maternity leave here, they'll let you take the time, but they won't pay you for it aside from the typical amount of leave hours we get.

 

[inkedupmomma]

Option 1, the blue one with you guys looking at the castle! so cute!

 

[ronnmel]

I'm glad you're closer to making a decision! (Well, at least it appears you are...)



I do remember you posting that you are a teacher. We were talking about it on another thread. Apparently, this is one of those areas where Canada and the USA are very different. I also am a teacher. My friend got pregnant last year and kept it a secret for quite a while. Then she worked all the way up to the last day of school. She delivered the baby the day after school let out. The only time she missed any work was when she had appointments and/or was sick.

I cannot wrap my head around that policy you have up there! It sounds beneficial in terms of health, but it blows my mind since it's so different than what we have here. And as for maternity leave here, they'll let you take the time, but they won't pay you for it aside from the typical amount of leave hours we get.

I guess we really are lucky up here for that. The preventive leave is paid by a government controlled group that takes care of security and health in the work environment. I am very glad we have that as some of the diseases children often have can cause miscarriage of malformation. Maternity leave is paid partly mostly by the government. I believe the only other job where that happens is those working in a daycare environment. And maybe Children's Hospitals? Really not sure about that one, it's just a guess. I think I prefer having higher taxes, but these kinds of benefits.

Some teachers do work until very late in the pregnancy. If you are not on preventive leave, then it is your choice to work as late as you want in your pregnancy.

Option 1, the blue one with you guys looking at the castle! so cute!

Option 1 seems to be the front runner right now. Plus, since I won't be restricted by picture orientation on my first page, I'll be able to use another picture we have with the "Let the memories begin" banner that has less people in it.

 

[PhoenixStrength]

I vote Option 1 as well. I like that you can see your faces on Option 2, but the extra people are distracting and make Option 1 better in my opinion.

 

[ronnmel]

I vote Option 1 as well. I like that you can see your faces on Option 2, but the extra people are distracting and make Option 1 better in my opinion.

Well it's official. I've just finished the cover and page one of my photobook. I used option 1 for the cover, and this picture for the first page, with a well placed Mickey sticker to hide the two guys next to us.

 

[LisaKeys]

Since the 2nd photo has the caption: Let the memories begin" I think it's a great way to start the album by having it on the cover. I read someone else felt the 1st one would be a great way to end the book, and I agree since it's a back pose of you both.

Loved your last installment! Looking forward to reading more.

 

[NMW]

Subscribing

 

[crymson77]

cool

 

[ronnmel]

Since the 2nd photo has the caption: Let the memories begin" I think it's a great way to start the album by having it on the cover. I read someone else felt the 1st one would be a great way to end the book, and I agree since it's a back pose of you both.

Loved your last installment! Looking forward to reading more.

Thanks for the vote. I really like the idea of having the memories banner on the over of the book, but it just bugs me too much to have random people on the cover of our book. In the book I can add "stickers" of the characters to hide such stuff, but not on the cover unfortunately. So I'm going with option 1, with a "memories" picture on the first page with a little blurb about our trip and ending with "Let the memories begin!"

I should be able to put up a new update later today.

Subscribing

Hope you enjoy the read!

cool

to you too!

 

[ronnmel]

Day 4 part 3 - Do the Hustle
August 14th, 2011

Ok, back to our regular programming. So far on our first morning at MK we had done part of Tomorrowland and Fantasyland. We were now going back to Tomorrowland.

First we got a second set of Space Mountain FP. Why? Because we can! Then we had a very important place to go. The Merchant of Venus store so I can get my fill of Stitch.

What I really wanted was to get a toutou (French for plush toy) of Angel, Stitch's girlfriend. I got this idea because of our wedding cake topper. I already had a Stitch toutou and wanted to complete the couple. Unfortunately, they only had one size for Angel, which was about half the size of my Stitch toutou. Oh well, I bought it anyway! I've been sleeping with both ever since. Yes, I'm a grown woman sleeping with toutous.

After I got my very precious toutou we took a ride on the People Mover. I was getting hungry, but I had something other than lunch on my mind. A sweet cream cheese pretzel! YUMMY!!

While I ate Ron went across the park to get a FP. I told him to surprise me. He came back with one for Big Thunder. Then we went on the Carousel of Progress. We liked it a lot, especially Ron. He loves how relaxing it is. And of course the song got stuck in our head. "There's a great big beautiful tomorrow..."

We were pretty much done with Tomorrowland for the day, so we decided to go across the park. First we stopped by a photopass person near the entrance to Tomorrowland.

Then we stumbled upon the "Move it" Shake it" street party. It was cute, but at this point it was just past noon, the sun was shining with barely any clouds and the heat was getting to me. So as soon as we could we moved on. We got FPs for Jungle Cruise partly because the wait was too long for our taste, but mostly because I really wanted to ride at night.

We stopped by Pecos Bill to eat lunch. I forgot to take a picture of the food, but we basically just shared a burger. I did take pictures of the surroundings. There were no tables available inside so we went outside to a little nook between Frontierland and Adventureland.

Once we were done eating Ron went to get FPs for Splash. I was way too hot to move, so I stayed there and took more pictures. These guys were hanging around.

And so was this little dude. It was very sad because he had this huge disgusting wound on one side. Poor little squirrel! I actually took a picture, but it's kinda gross so I won't post it. Here's his "good" side.

By that time the heat was becoming way too much and making both of us kinda grumpy. I had planned for a break that afternoon and we desperately needed one. So back to POP we went, and got there around 2pm.

We tried taking a nap, but we had a hard time falling asleep. So after a while we just decided to go to the pool instead. I wanted to go in the Hippy Dippy Pool, but Ron preferred the quietness of the Bowling pool so that's where we went. We stayed a long time, and I even did a little tanning. Guess we were too hot to take pictures. The only one I have is the view from our room.

We went back to the room to watch tv and rest some more. At 6pm we decided to go get some food for dinner. I had forgotten about it, but 6pm is when some CM dance the Hustle in the POP lobby. I kinda wanted to join in, but ultimately was too shy to do it. So we just watched for a while.

We got our food and came back to the room to eat. I had Nachos Supreme and an Oreo Cupcake (which I kept for later). Ron got the Pan Seared Fish and some watermelon.

Oh, and for those who don't want to go back and count how many sets of FPs we had accumulated so far, it was 7!!! Here's a picture to prove it:

Did we get to use them all? We'll see, as it was now time to head back to MK for the evening!


Up Next, What time is Witches?

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[thekeeper]

Just join in, loving it so far! You guys look like you had a blast there! It is making even more exited for my upcoming honeymoon in WDW next summer

 

[ronnmel]

Just join in, loving it so far! You guys look like you had a blast there! It is making even more exited for my upcoming honeymoon in WDW next summer

and congratulations on your upcoming wedding! Disney is the perfect place to honeymoon in our opinion.

 

[discnewbie]

Great post!!

I was thinking of having the nachos supreme when we go, it looks great! Do you think it is big enough to share with another adult? And do you get to add the sour cream etc. yourself or do they put it on? My kids love nachos but hate sour cream, so if I ended up sharing with them I'd want it on the side

I'm not a pretzel fan but yours looks REALLY good!!

 

[justakrazymom]

Ok i am all caught back up!!

 

[disneybarbie]

Great update

Btw I'm really impressed you were wearing your bride ears with sunglasses.. I barely wore my ears because I couldn't work out how to wear them with glasses at the same time!

'Angel' is quite popular in Disneyland Paris I believe - DH's niece has a plush of her from a trip there



Emma x

 

[inkedupmomma]

I kinda want to punch you for the food porn right now... we are on a lifestyle change and have been eating so healthy, which I LOVE, but man, I would punch a baby for those nachos and that cupcake...even just a taste!!

Great FP plan.. think i'll use that plan next time we go! although, they may be cracking down on when you can use them

 

[ronnmel]

Great post!!

I was thinking of having the nachos supreme when we go, it looks great! Do you think it is big enough to share with another adult? And do you get to add the sour cream etc. yourself or do they put it on? My kids love nachos but hate sour cream, so if I ended up sharing with them I'd want it on the side

I'm not a pretzel fan but yours looks REALLY good!!

It is totally big enough to share! I did NOT finish it. And it did taste great, though I'm not so used to the melted cheese. Here it's almost always real cheese that they put on nachos. That melted cheese is nowhere to be found in our fast food places either.

You choose all the things you want on them, but they add it. I'm not 100% sure, but I think they have little cups if you want something "on the side". I'm pretty sure I remember a guy asking for that while I was in line.

I'm not a huge pretzel fan either, but I LOVE cream cheese. It was good.

Ok i am all caught back up!!

Yay!

Great update

Btw I'm really impressed you were wearing your bride ears with sunglasses.. I barely wore my ears because I couldn't work out how to wear them with glasses at the same time!

'Angel' is quite popular in Disneyland Paris I believe - DH's niece has a plush of her from a trip there



Emma x

I wear regular glasses 99.9% of the time and those sunglasses were just clip-on. My wedding and that day at TL and Fulton's was almost the only time I wore contacts this year. It never caused a problem with the ears. Maybe it's easier with regular glasses than big sunglasses?

I'm pretty sure Angel is popular in Tokyo as Stitch as a show on tv there, but I had no clue about Paris. Thanks!

I kinda want to punch you for the food porn right now... we are on a lifestyle change and have been eating so healthy, which I LOVE, but man, I would punch a baby for those nachos and that cupcake...even just a taste!!

Great FP plan.. think i'll use that plan next time we go! although, they may be cracking down on when you can use them

You always crack me up with your expression of punching a baby. Sorry if I'm making your life harder. I do NOT eat healthy. I know I should change that, especially with the Peanut in my stomach... So from now on just look at Ron's food, okay? But seriously, good job on the lifestyle change! I know it takes courage to go through with it.

Oh man, if (when) they start enforcing the return time on those FP it will seriously change our way of touring. But for now, go for it! It's a GREAT way to see lots of attractions with minimal wait time.

 

[Fantasyland Mom]

You know what? We had already decided that we're staying somewhere different next trip, but this update makes me want to go back to Pop. I miss it already . I love the food, the Hustle, the bedspreads...sigh...

 

[ronnmel]

You know what? We had already decided that we're staying somewhere different next trip, but this update makes me want to go back to Pop. I miss it already . I love the food, the Hustle, the bedspreads...sigh...

Oh, well, then wait until I do the update when I went around the whole resort and took lots of pictures. It was about mid-trip.

But seriously, I understand the feeling. So many of the Disney resort look amazing and I want to stay there someday. Even if we win the lottery and can afford the deluxe, I still want to try all the moderates. But at the same time, POP was so perfect that we really want to go back there... It's a very hard decision.

 

[discnewbie]

It is totally big enough to share! I did NOT finish it. And it did taste great, though I'm not so used to the melted cheese. Here it's almost always real cheese that they put on nachos. That melted cheese is nowhere to be found in our fast food places either.

You choose all the things you want on them, but they add it. I'm not 100% sure, but I think they have little cups if you want something "on the side". I'm pretty sure I remember a guy asking for that while I was in line.

Thanks! I'm used to the real cheese too, it didn't register that it wasn't. Maybe the grated cheese on chips is a Canadian thing?

Love your trip report and all of the pictures!