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Well. I am finally starting this trip report. I can’t believe it has taken me this long!!! I decided to begin with our time at WDW. I will post about our adventures at Universal later.
We were picked up from the Fairfield Inn and Suites at around 10:30 am and were taken to our grocery stop at PUBLIX. We got some essentials and then were on our way to POP!!!!! When we arrived at POP, Murray was surprised how big the place actually was. He hadn’t looked at a single photo of the place when we booked so I think he was a little blown away. We checked in around 11:30 and our room was ready!!! Here are a few photos from our time at POP. I have about 100 but I thought I would just add a few.
Since we were celebrating our wedding anniversary, Disney gave us this beautiful card signed by Mickey and Minnie with a bunch of balloons. It was such a nice surprise!
We were in the 70’s building near the big wheel bike and the mickey phone. We were on the third level and I loved the location. We quickly went to Everything pop and bought our refill mug (so worth the money).
Ok…so after much talk about the famous cheesecake at Everything Pop I decided it was a must for me. It was absolutely delicious….until the next day. This maybe a little too much information but see the green layer, that what I saw the next morning when I went to the toilet!!!! For these reasons I only ate it once, but it was soooooo good!
A friend of mine from 2000 when I worked at Disney was coming to see us today and she took us to Reptile World Serpentarium (snake place). Ok….Please note-this was the only 3 hours that Murray was able to do his thing during our 2 week stay at WDW! (hahahhaha) We saw some great snakes and other animals.
We then did murray’s other activity which was to visit a HOME DEPOT…..Ok I hear you all saying who pays $6000 to fly to Orlando to visit home depot. We don’t have them in Australia and that is all he wanted to do.
Heather then took us back to POP and we got ready for a night at Downtown Disney.
Up next…..Our first night at DOWNTOWN DISNEY and dinner at Planet Hollywood.
Day 1 Part 2 2nd January 2008
After having showers and getting ready we headed to the bus stop. The bus came within 5 mins and it was a quick and easy trip to DTD. Tonight was a freak cold snap in Orlando I think it was around 20 degrees. I have never been so cold in my life. We explored the stores and I was so excited. I loved all the scrapbooking things, the Art of Disney was amazing and I wished I had money to spend!!!!!
I spent a while in the Christmas store and took about 100 photos. I didn’t make any purchases tonight because I figured I was there for 2 weeks I should wait until I have seen all there is to offer before I went crazy (don’t worry I still went completely crazy). I went to goofy’s Kitchen an had this thing made. I was surprised to find it was part of the DDP as a snack credit…. (I absolutely loved the DDP...but more on that later)
By now it was even colder. We walked around to Planet hollywood and we relieved to be ourt of the cold. We decided that since we had the discount voucher, we may aswell use it. I had read bad reviews on the boards about Planet holllywood, but we only have good things to say.
We had no reservation but were seated within 5 mins. The restaurant was very busy but our food came very quickly. I ordered the LA Lasange. It was amazing.
Murray got half a chicken with potatoes and veggies. He also enjoyed his meal.
We decided to get an early night as were were starting at AK early tomorrow.
Up next…. The coldest start to a Disney vacation ever…. Where are all the animals???
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JESS!!!!! I finally found your TR!!! I've been looking from time to time so I don't know how I missed it!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! on your pregnancy. Hope all goes well.
It was soo nice to meet you and Murray on the Wonder. Too bad we didn't have enough time to chat. So glad you had an amazing trip.
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I'm glad all is well and you are able to work on your TR!
I'm really glad I ate first! Those photos are REALLY big!
i know they are too big. Any suggestions on resizing? I did them inphotobucket. I resized them to the discussion board size but theyr are still so big!!!!
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Great start to your trip report. Looking forward to hearing more. Oh, by the way congratulations on your pregnancy.
thanks we are so excited....Any suggestions for names. My DH loves Jasmine. i am not so sure about the name but it is a disney name!!!
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Ooops! Let's try that again...
JESS!!!!! I finally found your TR!!! I've been looking from time to time so I don't know how I missed it!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! on your pregnancy. Hope all goes well.
It was soo nice to meet you and Murray on the Wonder. Too bad we didn't have enough time to chat. So glad you had an amazing trip.
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thanks for finding me!!! We are so excited about the baby. i wish we would have been able to catch up sooner on the wonder.. And just thimnk when we met i was already pregnant!!!!
Great updates - I'm so glad you're writing about your trip.
With the resizing of the photos, the only thing I can think of is that maybe Photobucket is still using the link to the original photos before you resized them? Maybe it's worth copying the links again now they're resized and seeing if that makes a difference?
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Looking forward to more! My DH spent a summer in Sydney several years ago. We actually just sent our friends the super bowl on DVD so they could watch the commercials! Enjoying your report so far!
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