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Congratulations!! What an awesome story!!! I loved your previous trip reports and can't wait to hear the rest of this one. I did remember tissues today so I am prepared!
Congrats to you both! I remember reading the other TR too where you two met up. It was too funny. So I gotta ask, did you meet here on the Passporter boards??
Can't wait for more!
Could you post a link to the other TR people are referencing? I didn't catch it and would like to read it too. Thanks!
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I that Passporter has become like a mini eHarmony! And I absolutely adore your engagement story. Your words are exactly what every woman would want to hear. I think THIS trip report should be titled "Teaching Something to Prince Charming." Congratulations you two!
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You've certainly found a keeper! Hope you're having another magical day today!
Without a doubt. A keeper forever and ever!
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Awww! I'm all choked up here like a blithering idiot! How totally romantic and wonderful! Can't wait to see the pictures!
Congratulations!
Glad to hear someone else cried like me! I was sooooo emotional!
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I remember reading your two trip reports a few months ago. I didn't know you were engaged - I thought you were really good friends (well hopefully you are that too) having a great vacation together. What a great spur of the moment trip with a great surprise. Congrats and good luck.
Actually we were just friends then. Honestly that is part of the real beauty here. We are best friends, and what a better to base to have for a marriage than that!
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Yeah! I remember reading your TR's from a previous trip and thinking, why aren't these two together!! So glad to hear you are--it was soooo obvious you should be !
Thanks! What a wonerful thing for you to say! We do have a unique chemistry together! LOL. We really have alot of fun together.
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You should get a glass slipper engraved to commemorate the moment!!!
What a great idea.....Brent???
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You are too much and sound like a real prince charming--smilechaser is lucky!
I am for sure that! He is better than any Prince Charming!
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I that Passporter has become like a mini eHarmony! And I absolutely adore your engagement story. Your words are exactly what every woman would want to hear. I think THIS trip report should be titled "Teaching Something to Prince Charming." Congratulations you two!
He certainly is an overacheiver where Prince Charming is concerned....that is for sure!
I can't tell you all how lucky I am. Thanks for the well wishes. And thank you passporter, Jennifer and Dave.
Can't wait til you all hear about the next days events....and then Sunday night at wishes....WOW! What a great trip!!
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We landed at MCO just past midnight after leaving the cold blustery Detroit airport on our first long weekend getawy to Disney world Sans kids.
I was really nervous about leaving the kids behind but I think as a couple it is imperative that you have alone time. We did so many things as adults that you miss with kids, it was kinda neat. And WILL BE DONE AGAIN! LOL
Did some shopping then went to the Contemporary to buy some sunscreen. (Only thing I forgot!)
HHmmmm Brent, now, now, guess the whole rain poncho story is alot less useful to you now, huh?? LOL
We arrived right at 4:30 and there was a bride in the hotel getting photographed. Smilechaser thought she was bueautiful. Foreshadowing perhaps?
She was gorgeous, we just followed her for a while and watched......it was like a fairy tale! I had no idea my fairy tale would also begin soooo soon!
So we go up to the podium and explain that we have no reservation but this is a very special place to us and do you have an open table by any chance? We were seated immediately!
I am still rather intrigued how he pulled this off. I had been trying for 2 weeks to get ADRS!! LOL
Do I look nervous to you? Nahhhh!!! So I start telling her all about how she is my favorite princess, and I have always loved her story, her poise, charm and grace. Sighhhh. At this point Cinderella is probaby thinking I'm some kind of freak
What gave you that idea Brent?? The fact that she whispered to the lady at the next table "get security!" LOL
and Smilechaser is probably wondering how I am going to embarass myself in front of Cinderella THIS time. ( I do have a bit of history doing that!)
Trust me here...he does! And yes, I was.
Then I explain that she is a wonderful story book princess but we live in real life and in real life we have to find our own real life princess. So I really wanted to have my storybook princess present when I asked my real life princess to marry me.
Silly as this sounds I was still clueless right up til this point!!
Then I pulled out the ring, handed it to smilechaser and bedlam ensues! Smilechaser burst into tears, she's hugging Cinderella ( Who would have ever thought that would happen?!!)
She made Smilechaser put her hand on her tummy so people could see her ring in the picture. It was then we notice camera flashes were going off everywhere, and people where applauding and cheering us on.
We really had attracted much more attention than I realized.
, and the stepmother, errrr Lady Trumaine to me. (she corrected me!) She called her daughters over: "Girls!!! It's happened again! Now go off and find yourself a prince. Good job , you held out for the jewels"
That was fun! And no matter what Brent tells you.....he IS scared of the step mother! Terrified is a better word. LOL
More to come, including a visit with Smilechasers favorite fairy , Tinkerbell, and more encounters with Cinderella!
I can't wait til you all hear the rest!
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Congratulations to you both!!! Liz, we'll be in the World at the same time again in August! Hopefully I'll get to see you again! Much love to you both!
I am loving both the TRs....I just sat and read the other one...I am from Michigan as well. The capitol city..
I have an Ariel lover as well.....did you get the Ariel doll your DD is holding in WDW I know that would make my DDs day...like whole trip to have a doll like that.TIA
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I have an Ariel lover as well.....did you get the Ariel doll your DD is holding in WDW I know that would make my DDs day...like whole trip to have a doll like that.TIA
Congrats.....
Yes we did get her doll there. She carried it around the whole trip!
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that Passporter has become like a mini eHarmony! 
And I absolutely adore your engagement story. Your words are exactly what every woman would want to hear. I think THIS trip report should be titled "Teaching Something to Prince Charming." Congratulations you two! 
Hope you're having another magical day today! 
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