Brent and Liz's Valentine's day/Anniversary TR: Slippers, Satchels, Special Cinderellas, Surprises, Friends...and Ducks? - UPDATED 3/24 COMPLETE! About This Page:

[smilechaser]

So, for those of you unfamiliar with our TR’s, we use the tag team approach. Brent gives his rendition and then I correct it, the ‘more correct’ version, or as I like to call it PROOF READING!

This is my response to the first post by Brent in the TR. I am a little behind as I worked alot this week.

First off.....THANK YOU so much for all the comments about the weight loss. While I still have a ways to go I must say I feel incredible!! I wasn't abnormally tired at the end of the day, I didn't "not do" anything because my stamina was low. My feet survived the trip much better than usual, except the broken sandle....Hmmmm, wonder if that is anything like Cinderella's shoe incident, just thought of that!

I have to agree with Brent on one thing….this was by far out most amazing trip. So many special moments and Disney magic. Every time we go, we say “now, we can’t possibly be disappointed but there is absolutely no way we are going to be able to top the previous trip. This time, we out did them all!!

Brent’s intros were pretty good. I consider him more of a Cinderella FREAK than a fan…..but who is mincing words here. I suppose it’s a healthy obsession……of course, not as understandable as my fascination with my endearing Tink. He is usually a pretty down to business type guy but tends to cut loose for vacation and I love it. I teased him after we returned and told him he is soooo the guy that Diamond Rio talks about in that song ‘Bubba Hyde’. “It even refers to the guy driving a baby blue vehicle!! (baby blue=Cinderella)….Hasn’t missed a day of work in 13 years….(line in song).” The guy in the song just breaks lose on the weekend......Check out the lyrics to that song……you tube it! You will get much better insight into Brent on vacation! The way he introduced me…..I wish I was a young silver of a wife…..thanks doll! I have recently become more involved with being healthy. Love everything Disney, especially Tink and Snow White. I am a mother and a nurse, I work psych……which helps me relate to my darling Hubby! Just Kidding! Love my job but even more, love my vacation time and I try to spend every possible moment of it at Disney World with my favorite prince!

Yes, the plane ride was a rough one, I’m a nervous flyer anyway. Of course Brent doesn’t encourage that fear at all……like the remark that comes to mind when I was nervous one time, he looks right at me and says “do you know there are only 4 bolts holding the wing on!!” The dr gave me medication before to fly to help with nerves. I think I would have benefited more by giving it to him so he would nap! LOL. Like he said I had a sinus infection going in, the ear popped and once I hit “dizzy” I then escalated to “nauseas” in about 2 minutes. I didn’t want to let Brent know I wasn’t feeling well. I didn’t want to ruin his first night on vacation but I was feeling very bad. I tried to put on a happy face and thought if I struggled thru dinner I would get a good night’s sleep and be ok. I don’t remember much about the eve except the spiral of dizziness and nausea but I do remember hitting Chef Mickey’s and smelling food, that was a significant turning point…….and it wasn’t a good one! We went up to that area where they take your pictures and I must have been showing some wear, the photographer said “do I need to call first aid?”, I turned to Brent and said “if they don’t hurry and snap the picture they are going to need to call housekeeping”. We made it through the picture and I abandoned Brent with the little pager to sit on the bathroom floor for quite awhile. I realized at this point when I couldn’t tell floor from wall that the dizziness wasn’t going away. So I made the call to cancel dinner, I was so sad that I disappointed Brent but just couldn’t do it. My wonderful Prince got me safely back to the hotel and tucked my before going after some dinner. What a wonderful guy…..seriously, I was so thankful he was there to take care of me and not be angry about it.

The next morning ……I was feeling good, sans voice!! What?!?! I can't be on Disney vacation with no voice! Brent really had a real vacation....at Disney and a wife who can't talk. Every mans dream, I'm sure. LOL Brent covered all that pretty well. Well, except for the incident with the pretty blond parking attendant in the parking lot. LOL. So, we get to the parking lot earlier than most people, park right up front. We get out of the car and Brent starts walking toward the trolley area. The pretty little attendant says to him “I’m sorry Sir, there is no trolley in this area”, he looks baffled and says “Why?”, she nicely points to the walkway out to the TTC area and says “well, it is closer to walk than to walk to the trolleys” Brent turned around and realized that he had parked directly in front of the entrance to TTC! Yet he was walking AWAY from it to get a trolley to take him there! LOL. Guess that curbed his blonde jokes for the day…..ha ha!!

I was soooo excited with my necklace that my darling prince gave me!! It matched my ring perfectly and I just loved it! It is perfect! Jewelery is always a hit and TinkerBell ......well, you just can't go wrong with Tink! He is just amazing! I am very lucky! Tink liked it too, although I think she still likes to give Brent a little bit of a hard time. And I fully enoucrage that as it leads to much of my vacation pleasure!

[cubfancolleen]

Very cute jerseys!! And how each time you run into "your" Cinderella! Can't wait to see what she has in store for you at tomorrow night's dinner!

[cindybelle]

Love your tag teaming. And now that I've met you both, I can assure everyone that Brent doesn't stand a chance -- Liz is more than a match for him. (Of course, it may have helped that Sheri and I assisted in giving Brent a hard time!) You are a great couple, that's for sure.

Looking forward to more. you both!

[Colexis Mom]

What a great day you had! Characters everywhere! Love the pictures!

[disneyfreeeak]

Great update! I'm so glad that your little bout of sickness didnt last long, liz!! Can't wait to hear more

[B.M.]

Just catching up with this TR..... Too bad Liz was so sick that first night; but glad she made a quick recovery and the first full day sounded great!

Liz, the first thing I said when I seen that first pic of you, is wow!; she has lost even more weight.... You really look great; and seeing your results, motivates me to want to get on board with some much needed weight loss on my part...

Looking forward to more...

[tdhc]

Another great TR. Just caught and look forward to reading more.

[Pinkyt177]

Originally Posted by Disdadnmi

Monday Feb 6 Akershus, Super Bowl Parades and a hungry Goofy!

Even though we pretty well closed the Magic Kingdom down last night for EMH, we were still up and around for an 8:15 breakfast at Akershus. I am a natural early riser so I was all set. Liz was doing much better with her sinus infection, but now her voice had definitely taken on a ‘Mickey Mouse’ type tonal quality. I assure you I did NOT take advantage of the situation by poking any fun at her because of this. So we got up and around and drove our trusty blue rented Yaris to Epcot and got in well before the general public. It is really cool walking into the parks with noone else around. MK is the best for this, but Epcot is also pretty surreal. We arrived at Norway well ahead of schedule and got in line to check in. Now for a bit of “Funny things heard at Disney”. A gentlemen in line started talking to us remarking. “It sure is great walking in the parks before it opens, isn’t it?” I enthusiastically replied yes!, Thinking I had met someone who shared my same joy of rising early and enjoying the parks with noone else around. This well meaning gentlemen promptly dashed my hopes when he replied “Yea. We did it yesterday too! We got in the Magic Kingdom early and had breakfast at Hollywoood and Vine!”. Ummmmm, ok. I didn’t know they opened up a Hollywood and Vine at the Magic Kingdom as well as at the Studios! Must be a popular place. Oh well, on to Breakfast and Bell awaits!


We had a nice meeting with her and were promptly seated. It should be noted Liz has a football Jersey on. Her gift to me on this trip was these football jerseys as we were going to be here during the MVP parade the day after the Superbowl. You know the one, when the MVP says “I’m going to Disney World!” We are going to see this at the MK later today, Liz has her Jersey on already, I will have mine on later and you’ll get a better look at them then. You’ll love em! First up at the table was Aurora. Very nice young lady, a bit friendly bordering on flirty. She gave us a knowing glance, perhaps she’s heard of us?




I should also say we are having these Princesses sign the wall hangings I made before we left home:



Next was Snow White, very gracious and beautiful.





I love this picture of Liz and her.


Snow has become Liz’s favorite. While I have warmed up to Snow more and more (get it? Warm up to snow? Ha!), Cinderella will always be my one and only favorite. Next was Mulan. She gave us a familiar glance too. Good to see her again!





Last up was Ariel. She came up to our table with a decidedly agitated demeanor, and looked at my shirt. She said something about “My friend Princess Aurora told me about you!” But then smiled and said “I see your girl’s not here today!”



Then I babbled something about my daughter because her favorite is Ariel, then Ariel said No No! I’m talking about the girl on your shirt!. Then it all made sense! She was talking about Cinderella and she wasn’t here for breakfast today! Those of you who have followed us from trips past know we have encountered a Princess Aurora here on occasion that is a bit playfully jealous of my adoration of Cinderella. On one occasion she even tried to win me over to her side. Hmmm this Ariel and Aurora must have talked quite closely! She was a great Ariel and even commented on Liz’s voice. “It seems like you met up with Ursula too, she’s trying to take your voice and put in a shell.” I picked right up on it and commented, don’t worry, I think she can get her Prince to ‘kiss girl’ her and break the spell. It was just a fantastic meeting. Then we made fish faces:






Well, breakfast was over and we headed out to take in a few future world attractions then made our way over to hop the Monorail to MK for the Super Bowl parade with Eli Manning! (I was hoping to see Tom Brady, but Liz is a Manning girl and I was happy she got to see one of her boys, it’s all good.) We left our vehicle at Epcot because we would be returning there late for dinner. We did arrive at the Magic Kingdom in time to see the Princesses though. And we had a big surprise. Those of us who followed our TR from last August know we encountered a Cinderella at Akershus that remembered us from a previous trip and called us by name. We encountered that same Cinderella at 1900 Park Faire a few more times that trip and she just made us feel very special each time. She is actually in one of my signature picture. That’s her and I holding hands.



Well, we went into the room and it was her! She recognized us immediately and called us by name. It was totally unreal. She was happy to see us, asked us how we had been and asked us when we were going to have dinner at 1900 Park Faire. We told her tomorrow night. She looked at us and smiled “Is that a for sure thing?” I replied “yes” and she said “I’ll see you tomorrow night, then” She loved our Jerseys. The back of mine says Cinderella and the back of Liz’ s says Tinker Bell. She posed with us:









We were ecstatic at meeting our Special Cindy, but there were more Princesses to meet:




And more fairies to meet! Love this picture with Rosetta:



Tink loved our Jerseys:



Then it was on to see Eli in the parade. We were right there in the front row and got a good couple of pictures as he went by. I thought it was great to see this parade. It was a pretty unique opportunity.









We followed it all the way up Main Street, then headed for the bus stops to go back to the resort for a quick pool break, lunch, and rest. Then we hopped the bus back to Epcot and made our way back to World Showcase to walk to the Swan and Garden Grove for dinner. This was a new place to eat for both of us. I also had never made this walk through the boardwalk to the Swan. It is a very nice path. We arrived at the Garden Grove right on time and helped ourselves to the buffet. Pluto came up to see us and was his usual Pluto self:






Then Goofy came by, and looked longingly at my plate full of tasty food. He then promptly pulled up a chair and joined us:



Well, he actually helped himself to MY plate.







I guess I could always go get more. He smeared ribs on his mouth and everything. It was great. Pluto came back later on tried to play a joke on the waiter. My back was to him and it was a few tables away, but I heard the waiter yell out “Son of a. . . .. “ and then I heard a big crash, then turned around just in time to see Pluto running away with arms wildly flailing. Liz and I looked at each other and decided it was time to go.



We made our way back to Epcot via the boat, and had a chance for a nighttime meeting with Princess Aurora:



And Snow White:



Then we got a few drinks, strolled around the world, rode Maelstrom, and Spaceship Earth, then headed out home for a good night’s sleep. Liz found a new boyfriend at Maelstrom:



Think I've got competition??

Tomorrow: We search for our ‘Someday home’ (we WILL move here someday) and have a very special dinner at 1900 Park Faire. Will we see our Special Cindy there? And later. When do Satchels, slippers, and ducks start to come into play? After all they are in the title! Rest assured they are coming up!

Brent

Someday home? What, that was my surprise, it looks as if Pat may be losing his state cushy job (our idiot governor is forcing a move to Chicago, so I said, I'd rather go to Orlando. . . Mom and I are going to look for a place in March, lol. PS> Then, we'd for sure get to meet someday!

[Pinkyt177]

Love the update, my fave pic is the one of Liz at the restaurant in red, she looks soooooooooooo, skinny in that one! I also like the one of you two together in Norway, in the gift shop. . .

[chezp]

What a fun time with all the characters, especially the princesses!

[materstater]

More more more more more more....please!

[smilechaser]

Originally Posted by Pinkyt177

Someday home? What, that was my surprise, it looks as if Pat may be losing his state cushy job (our idiot governor is forcing a move to Chicago, so I said, I'd rather go to Orlando. . . Mom and I are going to look for a place in March, lol. PS> Then, we'd for sure get to meet someday!

What?1?! Seriously!!! Omg....I'm soooooo jealous! When?

[lazanya]

What a fun day! Loved the jerseys!

[Laurast]

I love your jerseys....so cute! Does Brent wear his back home?

[Disdadnmi]

Originally Posted by kingfamily1129

what great encounters!!! And now you can add your Cindy jersey to your Cinderella Survival Kit Loving your TR! Can't wait to read more...

I do have quite the Cinderella survival kit, don't I?

Originally Posted by cindybelle

Love your tag teaming. And now that I've met you both, I can assure everyone that Brent doesn't stand a chance -- Liz is more than a match for him. (Of course, it may have helped that Sheri and I assisted in giving Brent a hard time!) You are a great couple, that's for sure.

Looking forward to more. you both!

Thanks, Cindy! Loved our time spent with you and can't wait til our paths cross again. The bright side is you still have lots of our trip to relive with us in this report!

Originally Posted by Pinkyt177

Love the update, my fave pic is the one of Liz at the restaurant in red, she looks soooooooooooo, skinny in that one! I also like the one of you two together in Norway, in the gift shop. . .

Ha Ha, Pinky, Ha Ha!

Originally Posted by Laurast

I love your jerseys....so cute! Does Brent wear his back home?

Actually I plan to wear it as kind of a coverup at the pool in our backyard. You know for when our teenage girls have their boyfriends over? Once they see me in a mesh football jersey with Cinderellas name on the back and see that it's been signed by the white gloved one herself, they'll know I'm just not quite right. It's good that your teenage daughter's gentlemen caller's think you're not quite right,

Working on the next update. Hope time permits me to post it soon!

Brent