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[purplegal]

You sure accomplished a lot. We really enjoyed our lunch at BOG, the line really does move quickly. Looking forward to more great updates.

[phoebec]

How great that Abby tried some new things!!! It's always such a great moment when my oldest tries something that was always a "no way" before. I love the picture of Abby and Lenny!!!! Can't wait to hear more!!!!

[Thomhazel]

I am truly shamed by how much the three of you achieved in a day. I think what you were doing in a day took us about 3 days. When we made rope drop we were back in the room exhausted by lunchtime. I was blaming the heat/humidity but maybe I'll blame jet lag. It certainly wasn't late nights as I think I only saw 10pm twice in 15 nights.

[HiddenMickey]

Just coming in now. Great reporting again, Darlene. Looking forward to more of your adventures.

[DMA]

Wow, you certainly packed a lot into the day!
I have a question about enchanted tales with belle. You said the FP line was not open. Was that one of the ones you'd chosen ahead of time? Just wondering because we've got that as one of our FP+ choices for MK next week.

[KMB733]

Wow! You certainly had a packed day at MK! Looks like Abby enjoyed exploring the new Fantasyland!

[OneLittleSpark]

You sure did get a lot done! Glad you liked BoG. Abby has grown not only in looks, but also in other ways too. So glad she wanted to try something new. That is always fun.

I like the picture of Lenny and Abby, but my favorite is the one of Abby with the Prince. She is looking away shy...it is so cute!

[Roxie2006]

You know I heard if you wanted to get into BOG to get in line early, if you don't have any ressie and you can still get in. Is that true, Darlene? I would like to try the Roast Beef sandwich that sounds great!!

It looks like you had a great day at MK. Looking forward to exploring Fantasyland. Thanks again for the tour!!!! Sorry to read Lenny knee started bothering him. It's hard to enjoy anything when you are in pain!

[CinderAbby]

Originally Posted by omd

Wow! I'm tired just reading about your day. You certainly covered lots of ground. I love all of your pictures as usual, but the one of Abby with Lenny is awesome. I hope the next time I get back to WDW that the train ride is open. I do love the new Fantasyland and especially the Under the Sea ride.
Looking forward to the next installment.

Thanks Olive. I'm glad you like the pictures again and sorry I made you tired . Abby has already made comments that we have to go back next year for the mine train. As much as I wish I could tell her yes, I know it won't be happening at least for a few years. Oh well. It hasn't stopped us from talking about "the next time" though

Originally Posted by kingfamily1129

wow! what a busy day! it seems like Lenny was in a better mood today which probably made for a fun day. I think it's wonderful that Abby wanted to do things she had never done before. Good for her I haven't had lunch at BoG yet so now I'll have to try it.

Lenny was in a much better mood. Friday - our arrival day - was the worst day for him. I too like the fact Abby was willing to try something new. Of course with her, she could be looking forward to the day she can really drive - which is coming up far too quickly (3 years, but the first 13 are gone already )

Originally Posted by lauriep

What a great day at MK! You did a lot and it looks like everyone had a lot of fun. Sorry that Lenny's knee got a workout, but he seemed to still have a good time.

Thanks Laurie, we did have a lot of fun. Thankfully Lenny did have a good time but once he actually admitted his knee hurt him that much (sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't) it made it easier for me to make it easy on him, KWIM?

Originally Posted by dutchdisneyfamily

Your second day at Sea World sounded great! You sure packed a lot in your MK day. Lots of fun!

Day two at SW was great - it was short (only 6 hours compared to the almost 10 of the day before) but we did what we wanted and were happy with it. I don't know about packing alot in. I just asked Abby and Lenny if that seemed like a lot and they agreed - to us it doesn't seem like we got that much done. I don't know, I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder.

Originally Posted by mcc0313

What a great day at the MK. We loved Enchanted Tales with Belle, we loved the mirror and the show. Glad you were able to run back and grab your pictures from Splash Mountain, we loved being able to get all the ride photos.

We went to 1900 PF as well, our Cinderella was...well she should have been a step-sister, very catty for Cinderella but as always we loved the interaction with Lady Tremaine and the Step-Sisters.

Glad Abby enjoyed the parade....I am sure everyone was ready to hit the pillow with such a fun and busy day.

We were ready to hit the pillow every night on vacation - but who isn't when at Disney? We liked being able to get the ride photos too but we didn't get as many as I wanted. You'll see why as the TR goes on. I'm sorry you didn't have the best Cinderella when at 1900 PF. Lenny and I commented on more than one occasion this trip that alot of the "face" characters seemed awful younng/green for whom they represented.

Originally Posted by patclairesmom

Great update, you did so much. Abby seems like she's showing her independence.

Yes, Abby does seem to like her independance - when it suits her. Riding by herself suits her. Doing chores at home doesn't suit her and she tries to ask for help. Unfortunately for her it doesn't work

Originally Posted by purplegal

You sure accomplished a lot. We really enjoyed our lunch at BOG, the line really does move quickly. Looking forward to more great updates.

While I would have preferred Lenny's sandwich, we did enjoy the overall experience at BoG and even thought of returning later in the week. That never did happen though. I'll be updating again tonight so stay tuned.

[buzzspal2]

What a great Magic Kingdom day. What happens next?

[CinderAbby]

Originally Posted by phoebec

How great that Abby tried some new things!!! It's always such a great moment when my oldest tries something that was always a "no way" before. I love the picture of Abby and Lenny!!!! Can't wait to hear more!!!!

Thanks Phoebe. It is nice when Abby is willing to do something new. It happened another time on vacation as well but that's all I"m saying about it for now. I'll be posting more later so stay tuned.

Originally Posted by Thomhazel

I am truly shamed by how much the three of you achieved in a day. I think what you were doing in a day took us about 3 days. When we made rope drop we were back in the room exhausted by lunchtime. I was blaming the heat/humidity but maybe I'll blame jet lag. It certainly wasn't late nights as I think I only saw 10pm twice in 15 nights.

From your post in another thread, you mentioned how you like to have resort time. We don't really do the resort so in a way, it's a trade off. We do lots in the park and next to nothing at the resort while you probably know your resort in and out which leaves things undone at the parks. It's all in what you like to do - we're not resort people at this time so we don't spend a lot of time there.

Originally Posted by HiddenMickey

Just coming in now. Great reporting again, Darlene. Looking forward to more of your adventures.

Thanks. I'm glad you're still enjoying my TR's. I'll post more in a bit so check back frequently as my TR seems to be getting posted quickly this year.

Originally Posted by DMA

Wow, you certainly packed a lot into the day!
I have a question about enchanted tales with belle. You said the FP line was not open. Was that one of the ones you'd chosen ahead of time? Just wondering because we've got that as one of our FP+ choices for MK next week.

We didn't take part in the FP+ testing - we had a GAC that depending upon the attraction will send us through the FP line. For us, it could have been it wasn't open due to being so early in the morning (it was around 9:30 or so when we got there). I'm sure if you're part of the testing and Belle was included as a choice, the line will be open at that time for you.

Originally Posted by KMB733

Wow! You certainly had a packed day at MK! Looks like Abby enjoyed exploring the new Fantasyland!

We all liked exploring the new Fantasyland, but as you probably remember from previous TR's, that's where we typically spent a lot of our time anyway, even before the new parts.

Originally Posted by OneLittleSpark

You sure did get a lot done! Glad you liked BoG. Abby has grown not only in looks, but also in other ways too. So glad she wanted to try something new. That is always fun.

I like the picture of Lenny and Abby, but my favorite is the one of Abby with the Prince. She is looking away shy...it is so cute!

Abby has grown up in a lot of ways. Other ways she's still a little kid so I never actually know what "kid" is going to come out - the grown up one or the one that still likes Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Sometimes I like when the little kid comes out - especially at Disney - it makes it easier for me to be a little kid too.

Originally Posted by Roxie2006

You know I heard if you wanted to get into BOG to get in line early, if you don't have any ressie and you can still get in. Is that true, Darlene? I would like to try the Roast Beef sandwich that sounds great!!

It looks like you had a great day at MK. Looking forward to exploring Fantasyland. Thanks again for the tour!!!! Sorry to read Lenny knee started bothering him. It's hard to enjoy anything when you are in pain!

If you're talking about ADR's, I'm not really sure as those are only needed for dinner. Lunch is a CS option so all you have to do is get in line like you would at Cosmic Ray's or any other CS location (except this line extends outside as it's so popular). It might take a few minutes to get inside but if you're in line, you should be able to get in for lunch.

As for Lenny, yeah, I felt bad about his knee. I never expected it to act up like it did but we tried to make sure it didn't get any worse by getting him wheelchairs when he couldn't use the scooter or keeping his walking to a minimum.

[CinderAbby]

Originally Posted by buzzspal2

What a great Magic Kingdom day. What happens next?

What happens next? I post another update and you read all about it . I'll post it in a little while so I won't keep you in suspense too long.

[CinderAbby]

Tuesday morning, I was up at 5 again to do laundry and dishes . Lenny was up at 6 and Abby at 6:30. Today we were starting the day with breakfast at Norway and I kept telling Lenny to hurry up, we needed to get to Epcot. He got ready but made the comment "I want to look my best for the Princesses. You never know, they may want to make you jealous." My answer to that was "they’re welcome to have you." We made it to Epcot in time but when we went to go through the turnstiles, the CM couldn’t find our name on his list. He asked if I was sure we had an ADR that day and I said yes, I was positive we had an ADR that day. It turns out I was half right. For some reason, I kept telling Lenny and Abby our ADR was at 8:30. It turns out our meal was at 8:15 oops. We were still there in time for it but I don’t know why I had it in my mind about 8:30. With it being earlier than I thought, it simply meant we couldn’t stop for any photopass pictures first.

We got to Akershus, checked in, had our picture taken with Belle, then shown to our table. Lenny did complain to me that the table could have been closer to the buffet because I has asked for wheelchair seating but I told him most everything got delivered to the table and if I saw anything on the buffet he wanted, I would get it for him. He had no other comments to make and we enjoyed the meal . This was our first time eating breakfast here but I would certainly repeat it. Everything was good and filling and there was quite a variety on the cold buffet - meats, cheeses, fish, fruit, pastries, etc. If you walk away hungry from this meal, you certainly have no one to blame but yourself. During the meal, we saw Aurora, Snow White, Cinderella and Ariel. I know some people have never seen Ariel here but we seem to be lucky, every time we’ve eaten here, we have. The characters were good as always and it was really a good way to start our day. We finished up and were leaving there about 9:05, which was nice. I hadn’t expected to be out of there until almost 10 so we had an "extra" hour to play that morning.

This chair was supposedly in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. Truth or fiction, I don’t really know

ToT in Morocco? It certainly looks that way.

　
We started Future World with the new TT. In the past, we weren’t thrilled with the ride but this time, we did actually like it.

The new themeing was much better according to LennyIt went much faster inside than it had before and it certainly wasn’t as jerky with starts and stops. Partway through, Lenny noticed there were screens that compared our design vehicle to the one designed by the people in the seats behind us. Sometimes their car came out ahead for performance, other times it was ours. I didn’t dare take out my camera for any of this so I don’t have any pictures other than the one Disney took. On the way out, we took a couple of photos and Lenny drooled over all the cars.

He even commented for one he wanted to ask the CM to pop the hood. He refrained and we hit the gift shop where we got the new pennies and a new penny book (our first one was already filled).

It was strange seeing this with no water in it. Later in the week it did have water again.

　

[CinderAbby]

Nemo and Friends was our next destination after hitting both Innoventions for new pennies and where the line at TT was huge (I didn’t notice the time), the line here was nonexistent. It was literally a walk on. I didn’t lose anything this time around riding it. Then we went to Turtle Talk with Crush.

The details in the ligths while waiting for Crush

Abby kept thinking of what she would ask him if she was picked and she decided on "how has being a movie star changed you." She even told the CM about it who thought it was a good question. We went in, the theater filled up and the show started. When it got to the kids asking questions, Abby did actually get picked to ask her question, only she didn’t ask it. She asked instead "how old are you?" I kind of had to shake my head as she did have a good question but she must have lost her nerve at the last minute. It’s okay though as she got picked. That alone is something special, not the question that got asked. As we walked out, we jokingly gave Abby a hard time for her question. Instead of sticking around to explore more of the pavilion though, Abby wanted to head to the Land instead.

According to my pictures, we did check out Bruce after Crush but nothing else.

We went downstairs and rode Living with the Land first and it was good. I go between liking this ride and not liking this ride and I don’t know why. This year, I liked the ride and took a few pictures.

After seeing how food grows in the Land, we went to ride Soarin’. We still really enjoy this ride but this time, Lenny looked down for some reason and made a comment along the lines of "wow, we’re really up here, aren’t we." I told him to shut up, I didn’t want to hear it . I have problems with heights but I feel safe on Soarin’ so I don’t think of the height aspect. If it gets put in my head how high I actually am, then that would ruin the ride for me and I don’t want that to happen. Once we "landed" we were actually hungry for lunch so we tried Sunshine Seasons (new to us). We all got the rotisseries chicken and we were all able to finish them. I’m thinking it’s because at Epcot, you basically spend all day inside in AC. When you’re out in the heat, that’s when you don’t get hungry (at least we don’t).

We finished off Future World with Imagination and the gift store.

I have to say, I was very disappointed in the lack of Figment merchandise - there was very little of it to be found - and nothing of interest to us. It was still hot out so after leaving Imagination, we left Epcot and went to BB. The park was open and letting people in but the parking lot was packed. Luckily we had planned on Lenny using the scooter because there were no handicapped spots open for him to be closer to the entrance. It took a while to finally find a spot and by the time we parked, got the scooter assembled and were over by the entrance, I noticed a handicapped spot had finally opened. Since my feet were starting to bother me so early in the trip, I didn’t look forward to walking the distance back to the car at the end of the day so I made Abby and Lenny stay in the spot that opened up and I went and got the car then. After I parked in the new spot, we headed into BB where we stopped for you guessed it, a couple of pennies. Lenny wore his swim trunks that day for shorts so he waited while Abby and I changed and it wasn’t long before we were finally in the water .

We started with the lazy river and this year, instead of only having tubes, there were also square noodles available for use. Lenny grabbed one of those and enjoyed it while Abby and I switched back and fourth from tubes to noodles. It was fun and we went around twice.

Ignore the dates in the corners - Lenny didn't realize it was on September, not August

　

[CinderAbby]

On our second time, I noticed a lady with a photopass card and I asked her where she got it. She pointed behind her and said he’s back there. I turned around and coming up behind us, in his own tube, was a photopass photographer. He took a couple of photos of me and Abby, then included Lenny when he finally caught up to us (I’m not sure how he fell behind). When we made it back to the scooter, we decided to get out of the river for a while and go to the wave pool.

When we got there, there were no waves going so it was nice to go in, but then the waves started. I don’t know if my memory is faulty of if they changed it but I don’t remember the waves being that rough. They were nothing like TL obviously but they were rougher then I remember them being. I made my way out to where it was shallow and a couple of minutes later Lenny and Abby followed. As soon I stood up though to go to our next thing, I saw Abby start to run back into the wave pool. I stopped her and asked her what she was doing. She told me going back in the wave pool and I told her no she wasn’t , not without me or her father. Abby was not happy about that at all but I’m her mother and in that instance, I told her no and there was no negotiation about it. Abby got over it somewhat quickly though and said she wanted to do Teamboat Springs (the family raft ride) . With Lenny’s knee acting up so much, we took the ski lift up to the top of the Mount Gushmore (him and Abby in the wheelchair gondola, me following behind). Once we got up there, I pointed out the lines for the slides Abby said she wanted to do and I forget what she said but I think she said she’d think about doing them. We went on the family raft ride - which actually had no line at all - and when we were done, we had more pictures taken. In the past, it was cute when they had us hold 3 tubes to make a Mickey head but I liked this years set up much better. From there, we took our time getting back to Lenny’s scooter. For him, it was a haul but he leaned on me and sat when he needed.

One of the times he sat, it was near one of the food vendors and since we’ve been hearing so much about things in pretzels (hot dogs, hamburgers, etc), I decided to get a couple of pretzel dogs with cheese and a refillable mug. All I can say is we enjoyed the mug more than the pretzel dogs. Mine was awful salty and all the cheese was down at one end. We wouldn’t get them again as we just didn’t enjoy it. We finally got back to Lenny’s scooter and when I asked Abby if she wanted to go back up to do the slides, she said no, she wanted to do the lazy river again. I was good with that but I did give her one more opportunity to say yes as I was willing to do the slides with her. She again said she didn’t want the slides, she wanted the lazy river so that’s where we went. We went around two more times, got some more pictures, a couple with the magic shot of Sebastian, and then called it quits. I was so tired I was starting to nod off in the middle of the river and the only thing waking me up was when we feet dropped and hit the bottom (I was in the tube, not on the tube). We were even too tired to change back into our clothes so Abby and I walked out of the park wrapped in our towels. We did put them down long enough for one last Photopass Picture though.

It’s not Photopass but it was too cute to pass up

On the way back to ASMu, we discussed what we wanted for dinner and we decided to give AS Movies a try. By that time, I had gotten my second wind so we changed and then went next door (in our building, we were very close to AS Movies).

Lenny and I got the carved London Broil with mashed potatoes and Abby got the adult baked chicken. Dinner was good and it disappared. The one thing we didn’t like about the food court is how bright it is. There were lights everywhere - the regular lights for the food court, marquee lights above each station, those same marquee lights reflecting back at us from the windows. What was reflected in the windows was doubled though so we were surrounded by lights. I can’t explain it right but Lenny said "say it reflected like a prism" That still doesn’t explain it IMO but hopefully someone will get it. I don’t mind the food courts being big or loud, but I do have a problem when they’re bright like that . I like to relax while I eat and you can’t do it when it’s that bright . At this food court, we once again used our mugs and didn’t have any problems with them. If we did, it would have been the same problem we had all week at AS Music - the ice and the orange soda running out. After dinner we went back to our rooms and I think we watched TV. I don’t have anything written down other than being in bed early at 10:30 so whatever we did, it wasn’t noteworthy.