Okay, my apologies, I have NO IDEA how I missed this all the way up to page 7.
Especially considering I knew it existed, since you tagged me early on and I remember looking at it and I THOUGHT I "watched" it, but I guess not.
Oops. So, anyway, just read the whole thing tonight.
From that moment on, DH said I was now a “minor Internet celebrity” and that nickname stuck, especially since it wasn’t the last time I was recognized this trip!!
I love this! I have read several reports now where people have had others approach them in the parks and know who they are. That's awesome!
Just too adorable. Seriously, she is just precious!
This time, DS made it! And he loved it!
Yay!
But we also found out our room was ready! We were on the 5th floor with a view of the pool.
Lovely room! I don't think I've ever seen a 1-bedroom at AKV before. Looks great!
It seemed to be a pretty random assortment of characters, including Launchpad McQuack from DuckTales & Darkwing Duck!
Wow, I had no idea those characters existed on property, much less at AKL. How cool.
We got to the room with the jawa walking around, and he/she/it was looking at DD with interest, but when I said she wasn’t available for trade, the jawa walked off. Lol
She must have been just shiny enough to catch their eye.
Stitch’s Great Escape! Boy, am I disappointed I missed this one. Lol
Of course, I did hear they might be closing it down (maybe? not sure if that was a rumor or more?) and that makes me feel like maybe I should give it one more shot, just to make sure it's as bad as I remember from the ONE time I've ever ridden it (2009, I think).
I just can't say enough how much I LOVE this parade! I think at first DH was a little disappointed at being so close up to the floats and not being able to get full length pictures of the floats, but after seeing it several times that way and having lots and lots of pictures, I have to say I really loved these. So many details I haven't even noticed in person before! It gave a really different and interesting perspective. I love how these photos came out!
Beautiful pictures - love all the details!
Unfortunately, this is where our night went into kind of a tailspin of disasters.
Ugh, this night turns me into an anxious mess just reading about it!
Glad you ended up enjoying the show, despite everything else. It's still on our list of things to do someday at WDW. I've heard a lot of good things!
The photographer was, let’s say, interesting. He was asking the usual questions to DS… “Are you having a good time?” “Is this your little sister?” etc. But then he told DS he had some advice for him. “Make sure you’re nice to her. Do you know why? One day, when you grow up, you’ll need her help to move an apartment!” Uhhh…not quite where I thought he was going with that, but…thanks?? It gave DH and I a good laugh!
I have to think he was projecting and probably had just needed his sister to help him move. And maybe she said no because he wasn't nice enough to her as a kid.
They had changed this just prior to our trip that they no longer give you a free 5x7 print of a photo from this meet.
Oh, I didn't know this! Good to know they stopped the prints!
Our drive over to the TTC was uneventful, and we were the first car in the parking lot!
Impressive!
I love this one!
Now instead of giving us a pager, they took my cell phone number and sent me a text less than 5 minutes later that our table was ready!
Oh, didn't know that had changed either. Makes sense, though.
What did DS think of his first time on this? Check out his face!
Aw, that's great that he loved it!
He LOVED it! Hopefully it was a nice segue between Barnstormer and getting him on Big Thunder Mountain, but I guess we’ll see in October if we can finally get him on that one for the first time.
Hope you can! Izzy and I had a discussion about roller coasters today (she's been on the Barnstormer and the little
Disneyland one in Toontown, but will finally be 40" on our December trip). Turns out that she considers herself quite the daredevil and cannot WAIT to go on SUPER FAST roller coasters.
She said she's not going to be scared, but she's going to have so much fun and roar like a lion.
It will be interesting to see if she's all talk or if she really is this fearless (I think it may be the latter, as this conversation took place on the playground while she insisted on me pushing her swing as fast and high as I possibly could).
I had NO IDEA these were included, super cool. Will need to check this out next trip huh
@Dugette
Yes!! I had no idea either! I think we should throw Aria and Izzy into one and see what we get.
. We were pretty much trapped indoors for 4 straight days as it rained on us relentlessly, so we were all a bit stir crazy and our internet decided it was the best time to go out! Thankfully, our house remained intact. We met some of our neighbors who got stranded in our driveway during the worst of the flooding in our neighborhood, and had to come seek refuge inside for awhile until it cleared up a little. Some neighborhoods just minutes from ours were not so lucky, and they lost everything. It has been a bit of a disaster zone around here lately, as you may or may not have seen on the news. DS started his first day of Kindergarten last week on Wednesday but only half of the class went, then the second half went on Thursday, and they were all supposed to go on Friday but school was cancelled that day because of the storm, and they ended up cancelling this entire week as well. So he has had exactly one day of school since last Wednesday! And in the midst of all that, we got to play the fun game of, "Who is going to watch the kids while their schools are closed and we have to work?" Things finally seem to be getting back to normal for us this weekend, but our hearts are still heavy for those who were not as fortunate and who are still picking up the pieces. Please keep south Louisiana in your thoughts & prayers! I'm going to get another update posted while DD is napping and DS is occupied, then hopefully have time to come back and get to the replies. So what better way to kick off this update than by jumping into Mardi Gras day?!
