Brent and Liz's: 'Cinderella's gonna love this!, and so will Tink!' PTR Aug 17 - 26 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Brent and Liz's: 'Cinderella's gonna love this!, and so will Tink!' PTR Aug 17 - 26
Brent and Liz: The ‘Cinderella’s gonna love this!, and so will Tink!’ Pre trip report.
Hello everyone! It’s me, Brent, and my trusted sidekick, Liz, back preparing for another trip to the world. We will be there Aug 17 - 26, so the time is just about right to start our pre trip report, and get the excitement going. Some of you have come along with us in our past journeys posted in these trip reports and know who we are. For those of you who are new to us, a brief introduction is in order. Also, if you are new to us and are interested in a little background here is a link to our latest adventure from last February: http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...-complete.html
I am Brent:
As you can probably tell from the pictures, there is no bigger fan of Cinderella than I. Cinderella is very special to me for a number of reasons that will be explained in due time to those of you who don’t already know. Also, our title implies we have prepared something special for the white gloved one this time around.
And my dearly beloved, me better half, the worlds best, greenest, Tinkerbell fan: Liz!
As you can see from the above pictures, she is quite the Tinkerbell Afficionado. I will let her explain that to you as she will most likely chime in here shortly.
We do have 6 kids between us, but once again we are going alone. Our kids are of the age they have jobs, sports teams to practice for and other parents to visit so It’s difficult to have a time when we can all go. That and they seem to have outgrown or even tired of the magic. They seem to be coming back around though and I imagine a trip with them is in the cards sometime in the future.
Liz and I are both working a half day on Friday the 17th, then hightailing it over to Detroit’s Metro airport, parking in the ramp they have and catching our 5:45 flight and hopefully arriving at MCO on time at 8:30. Should be enough time to get our rental car, get checked in at Pop and hit evening EMH at the Magic Kingdom. (That is if I may catch a nap on the plane.) If I didn’t mention it before, we are staying at Pop Century. We can’t wait to Mosey over and check out the new Art of Animation resort too!
I’ll go over our daily plans in a later installment, but here’s a quick overview:
We plan to go to Epcot and the Magic Kingdom several times, and Hollywood Studios once, as well as Animal Kingdom once. We LOOOOOVE character interaction ( I am partial to the Princesses!) so we have a few meals at Akershus Banquet Hall, and 1900 Park Faire (I proposed to Liz there back in 2009 with Cinderella’s help, so that place is pretty special to us.) We will also dine at Cape May, Chef Mickeys, Crystal Palace, 50’s Prime Time, La Hacienda San Angel (A new one for us this trip!) Le Cellier, Tony’s Town Sqaure, Ohana, and the Plaza restaurant in the Magic Kingdom. Also a new one for us!
Ok, so now here’s what I’ve done that we are sure Cinderella’s gonna just love. First of all, Cinderella is VERY special to me. She helped me propose, but her and her story have a special place in my heart. Her story helped Liz and myself learn how to love again, in a way. We both have had previous marriages that ended badly and left us quite bitter and doubting a good marriage would ever be possible for us again. A good marriage with a wonderful spouse was nothing but a dream to us for a lot of years, Well, the dream came true and Cinderella helped. So, to show my admiration and appreciation for the white gloved one, I got a tattoo!:
Now I realize these aren’t for everyone and I am 45 years old and this is my first. I thought long and hard and really wanted to do this. I look at it and it means Courage, Strength, and Perseverance to me. Courage - It takes courage to dream such a dream in the first place. Strength - To go out and get your dreams. Make your own dreams come true. Cinderella wasn’t waiting in the castle. She took matters into her own hands, went to the ball, found her Prince and made her dream come true. (With a little help from the Fairy Godmother and some animal friends) and Perseverance - She went through a lot of trials tribulations and hard times before she found her dream. I look at her on my leg and am reminded of all these things. So glad I did it and it should be healed up nicely before our trip.
Liz also got a tattoo to honor her favorite character, Tinkerbell:
I love it, it’s so pretty, and impressive what it means to her. I will let her chime in and tell you what it means to her as she would do a much better job than I could.
So what do you guys think? Are Cinderella and Tink gonna love these or what????
That’s all for now, but I will update this in the next few days with details of our daily schedules for our trip. Thanks for reading and welcome aboard! We love having you along for the ride!
Brent
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Last edited by Disdadnmi; 06-24-2012 at 08:33 PM..
So happy to be able to catch a new PTR....we will be heading down on Aug 26th.....so you never know if we might bump into each other. . Love the tattoo and what it means to you.
Yay, I love your tr's. And I love your tattoos, but I really love Liz's. I'm trying to find some new ink, and I am looking at something for the top of my foot. That is nearly perfect, but I'm looking for a saying along the lines of it is what it is, which is what my motto has been for years. I can't change that past and the future will be what it is, so perfect. Blah, listen to me blabbering on. Sorry. I'm so excited to have a new PTR to read. Can't wait for more details.
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We believe in fairies too... My youngest daughter just danced Tinkerbell on pointe in her company's spring ballet. Tink and the Princesses are favorites at our house too. Can't wait to hear more!
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