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Look out Cinderella and Tink, Brent and Liz are coming to Celebrate their 2nd Anniversary!
I’ve really been getting excited the past couple days for our trip to Disney world at the end of January so I thought it was probably time I sat down and started our Pre Trip report. My lovely wife Liz and I are going from Jan 26th through Jan 31, 2011 to celebrate our 2nd anniversary and we are staying at Pop Century. For those of you who don’t know us , a little background: I am Brent; Disney fanatic and Cinderella lover.
Cinderella is obviously my favorite Disney character. I will quickly share a few of those reasons. Reason #1 She is blond and beautiful. Ok, really that’s got nothing to do with it, but Liz and I met through Disney (met on Passporter actually!) Liz was very ummm independent and had absolutely no use at all for some mousey little blond girl sitting around waiting for NO man to come around. (Forgive me, Liz!) What Liz saw in me that made her give me a chance with her I’ll never know, but she did. We vacationed together and spent weekends together and over time her hard attitude toward men (well at least, me!) softened and we became more than friends, and eventually married. It seemed Cinderella was there for every single one of the major milestones in our relationship and she even helped me propose. I still can’t watch Cinderella the movie without crying and I’ve seen it a gazillion times. We even saw Middle School age kids put on a play of the Cinderella story and I got all misty eyed on that too. Guess I have to give up a few punches on my man card for all this but I don’t care. I just love Cinderella and her story and I get butterflies in my stomach on each of our trips when I see her. Which is why we must go and see her several times during each of our trips! I also make T-shirts of my past meetings with Cinderella and the other Princesses and wear them in the parks. They certainly seem to get me a lot of attention. Last trip my affection for Cinderella just seemed to pop up everywhere! That’s a little bit about me, now for Liz. What’s there to say? I’ll let her give you good people her own introduction because she usually chimes in here with her ‘version’ of what happened after I post an installment of my trip report. She loves Tinkerbell almost as much as I love Cinderella.
I certainly don’t seem to have that much luck with Tinkerbell. She gives me a pretty good smack down on each trip.
I’ve referred to our past trips a couple times. For those of you who are new to us, here’s a couple links to our last few trip reports if you want some more background:
http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...rture-day.html
As I mentioned, these last couple days I’ve really been getting excited about our trip. I bought a couple things for our trip today and actually framed the pillowcase I had all the Princesses sign last January:
I bought the iron on transfers for our shirts and a new package of socks today. I always buy a new pack of socks to wear to Disney. Guess I’m just funny that way. Anyone else have any eccentricities like that? So anyway here we go!
On the evening of Tuesday, January 25th we will travel to a nice hotel with a pool right by the airport. We are booked on a park n fly package because we have an early flight and it’s easier to stay the night there, plus with them letting us park our car there, we save on parking and it actually comes out about even. Plus the hotel has an indoor pool and it just seems like you get to start your vacation a little sooner. Our flight on Delta Airlines leaves at 8:00 am on Wednesday Jan 26th. If all goes well with the unpredictable Winter weather we will arrive in Sunny and hopefully warm Orlando around 11:00. After we get the rental car, drive to Pop and check in it should be around noon. We will then head to the Hollywood Studios. Hopefully the crowds won’t be too severe and we’ll have time to hit our favorites at that park: Tower of Terror. Rock n Roller Coaster. Voyage of the Little Mermaid. (This one makes me teary eyed as well). Would also like to see The Beauty and the Beast show, I saw it for the first time in it’s entirety on our last trip and I was blown away. It was awesome! Also want to hit the Movie Ride and walk through Walt’s one Man’s dream attraction. I’m thinking that’s probably all we’ll have time for before they close but I think we’re hitting the best this park has to offer. We’re off to Chef Mickeys from here. Almost wish we were eating at 50’s Prime Time again on the off chance we would get my favorite waitress, Sarah. I was her favorite at our table last trip and I enjoyed her so much I had to have a picture:
So that’s our arrival day! Stay tuned for details about our second day: Magic Kingdom and my first meeting with Cinderella, hopefully!! (And to a lesser extent, Tink)
Can't wait to hear more! I love you and smilechaser's TR's! Although, I'm sorry Brent but I have to say .... I LOVE TINKERBELL!!! hehe but Cinderella is my favorite of the princesses!
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I can't tell you all how 'over the edge' excited I am about this trip too! I love Disney, I love the time alone as adults, I love our play with Cindy and Tink, and I love my darling hubby! I can't believe its been 2 years!! Wow!
Yeah....everything Brent said about me and my Independence is probably pretty close to fact. Just felt it was easier to do it without the interference of a ...."man", been married once before, did that, been there, got the sticker, no reason to repeat a bad thing, right? WRONG! Marrying Brent was the best move I ever made. What he said about ME giving HIM a chance is really not how it is. I was lucky he gave me a chance. Guess we both came with significant baggage.....but we are here now and that is all that matters. My soul mate, my love, the reason I wake up in the morning.....well afternoon cuz I work midnights but that is totally beside the point!
Brent said I would do my character description.....well I AM indeed quite a character....lol. Ok, I love love love Tinkerbell, she is Saassssssyyyyy!!! Good woman she is! She may take 5 times as long to acomplish something but she is going to do it her way. Don't try to get in her way.......! Two words....Determination and Sassy! And most of all she almost always leaves my man speechless and picking up his little bit of arrogance that he accumulates each year off of the floor. Hee hee! She soooooo whips that boy into shape. Yes....like I said, fine woman she is! Of course I love Cinderella too, especially for the significance she has played in our relationship. I love that Brent is so enamored by her! I think it is absolutely the most incredible thing when he gets teary during the movie or at the play. I just think that is so cool.
Brent sock thing....I think that is sooooo weird because I always had to have a package of new socks before my disney trips too. When he told me he does it also I was kinda like "really....?" hhmmmmmmmm One other thing is I am obsessively, positively, demandingly, in control of the hotel windows. Always have been, always will be. I was always used to planning my own vacations...from ADR's to park visits, that was hard to give up but Brent enjoys it and is good at it so he took over most of that and I threw myself even more into the window decor. Its nothing earth shattering, I realize, but its mine.
The hotel before vacation....yep, thats something I always like to do too. Saved money on parking and it just gives you that night to unwind and start on vacation mode. And honestly the security you get from not having to worry about a flat tire the morning that you have to be at the airport or here in Michigan, the bad roads.
Also looking fwd to our first day at DHS, I love the Beauty and the Beast play. This was always a must for us. I like the mermaid show too, mostly because its cool in there.
I wasn't going to tell Brent this but I made a 1:25 lunch ADR at 50's incase we wanted to do it and we arrived in time. Chef Mickeys isn't til late that night. I know we have our dining credits already planned but I figure we could pay OOP for lunch there, the menu is entirely affordable. Kinda hope we can squeeze it in but its totally contingent on alot of things.
Brent......did you really said "and to a lesser extent......Tink"?!?!?!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!?!??!?! There is no lesser of anything that is Tink involving....She WILL hear about this young man!
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I woke up because I had a headache and what was waiting for me? Oh I'm so excited. But, I have to tell you this first. . .I bought a pack of new socks today for my trip. . .I do this every trip too.
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I woke up because I had a headache and what was waiting for me? Oh I'm so excited. But, I have to tell you this first. . .I bought a pack of new socks today for my trip. . .I do this every trip too.
Pinky, as weird as the sock thing is.....and it is weird, I also woke up for work yesterday afternoon (still at work now) and had a headache. I haven't been able to shake it all shift! I hope you have better luck with your headache! Just weird........lol
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I woke up because I had a headache and what was waiting for me? Oh I'm so excited. But, I have to tell you this first. . .I bought a pack of new socks today for my trip. . .I do this every trip too.
I woke up because I had a headache and what was waiting for me? Oh I'm so excited. But, I have to tell you this first. . .I bought a pack of new socks today for my trip. . .I do this every trip too.
Welcome to the sock club, my dear Pink-inclined friend!
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No worries though. It will take more than that to hide her beauty.
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And so it begins....so excited to see the start of another Trent and Liz PTR . Can't believe it has been two years already (time really does fly), I still remember you announcing your engagement. First day plans sound great and I love the idea of starting the vacation the night before....and I think there is definitely a trend, I buy me and the two girls packages of new socked before every trip.
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Ok, I love love love Tinkerbell, she is Saassssssyyyyy!!! Good woman she is! She may take 5 times as long to acomplish something but she is going to do it her way. Don't try to get in her way.......! Two words....Determination and Sassy! And most of all she almost always leaves my man speechless and picking up his little bit of arrogance that he accumulates each year off of the floor. Hee hee! She soooooo whips that boy into shape. Yes....like I said, fine woman she is! Of course I love Cinderella too, especially for the significance she has played in our relationship. I love that Brent is so enamored by her! I think it is absolutely the most incredible thing when he gets teary during the movie or at the play. I just think that is so cool.
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