Meri's Dream Come True - A Birthday Celebration! - A Somewhat Live TR! complete 02/20/2014 - Page 5 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Thanks!! I plan on an update tonight - I just uploaded all of my photos to Shutterfly today!!
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Originally Posted by mpwife153
Great start to the trip! Can't wait to see the pics & video.
I have to figure out how to do the video thing, but I'll definitely get that up for you all! It's pretty funny (at least *I* think so, but then again I'm the mom so..., lol)
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Originally Posted by scdisneyfan
OMG what a wonderful first day I"m getting the itch to do the Disney dream again after reading about your trip LOL I cannot wait to see that video of Meri's reaction!!! Oh my I cannot believe there were ummm issues...with a certain little lady.... I gotta hear about this That breakfast with Laurie sounded so nice and even down to eating dinner with someone familiar...so cool! I cannot imagine this bunk bed with all its contracptions on it LOL I probably wouldve done the same thing with pillows etc I can't wait to see all the pics but I agree with you about it being too short. I felt like we had just gotten on that boat and it was time to get off. I guess after taking a transatlantic it gets harder to take something for just three days am I right???!! at least that's how I feel
Oh yeah, once you take a TransAtlantic cruise, 3 days isn't really going to cut it...
I do think you should wait til, say, next Feb 6-11, and take a 5 night cruise on the Wonder with us... if we can get a great rate on mom's Perx website... I THINK we can get two cabins with her discount. Just sayin. I haven't tried to sell mom on that cruise, ha, because the basic rule of thumb is that I can't talk about another vacation for at least 6 months after we take one... or she'll get stressed out. But, you know I already have it worked out.
I'll keep you posted, and I'm SO going to try to sell you on it. :-P It has 2 at-sea days and then a day at Castaway and a day at Grand Cayman.
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And last but not least, a few straggler photos from the day that weren't in order on shutterfly so I forgot them in the last few posts, lol... sorry!
Meri "acting" surprised at the port...
Staying warm with Olaf
Ready to board!
Pluto!
My lunch in Enchanted Garden
Meri's lunch
Mom's lunch
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease can I go in the water?
Phew! Ok, now I think we're caught up. Tomorrow night I'll post the update from Friday!!! Can't wait! It was a fun day! I'll also work on getting video uploaded from the reveal.
Great photos! I love the pretend surprise photo at the port, so cute. And so great to see the photos from our breakfast. I'm so glad it worked out that we could do this! I'd never seen the hand-wash station in the kids club before. Very cool!
Oh wow - what a wonderful multitude of photos. Some great memories in there!
I have one question - I saw Heather was photographed with Belle at the end of Enchanted Tales with Belle, so did she have a role to play in it?
She did. She was the wardrobe.
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Originally Posted by lauriep
Great photos! I love the pretend surprise photo at the port, so cute. And so great to see the photos from our breakfast. I'm so glad it worked out that we could do this! I'd never seen the hand-wash station in the kids club before. Very cool!
The hand wash station was so neat. I wanted to play with it, I admit! I'm so glad we could do breakfast, too! It was a lot of fun!
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Originally Posted by lfredsbo
Great photos. Love that porthole - looks so real! And your cabin looks good size!
The cabin really wasn't a terrible size for the three of us. I don't know that it would have worked as well on a trip as long as the TransAtlantic, because the storage space was fairly limited, but it worked as far as a three night cruise.
We loved that porthole. I think I'd choose it over a regular outside cabin, honestly.
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