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[PrincessSharon]

Okay, I'm rolling from Abby and her bucket list! And I have to say, if "High five a tumble monkey" is one of the entries on it, I'm really curious about what else is there. I'm thinking it's much more awesome than my list! Sounds like a fun day at DHS!

[alexsmommy0412]

Just got caught up again. Sounds like a great day at HS. My DH is the same way with rides like Star Tours, he rode the simpsons at US and we actually had to leave shortly after. I love all the different smilies (I think I spelled that right) you use, If you don't mind my asking where do you find them?

[ravensgirl76]

I'm so glad you had those 2 awesome days!!! sounds like Abby had a blast and i just bust out laughing here at work about her and her bucket list check mark, i can absolutely imagine it and i'm sure she looked to cute doing it

i agree with you about play areas, they make me a nervous wreck and fortunately/unfortunately i haven't been brave enough to let DD play in one (she's 4 so i'm still super paranoid) much to hubby's dislike, but oh well!

i went back and checked on the new smiley and LOVE him!!! and you're right it does represent what you were saying better

[truenancy]

awesome TR! It's clear you're having a fantastic time! Glad you held it together when Abby decided to hide, and you still had the patience to let her win! I love watching the kids when they don't know you're looking.

[Luvsun]

What a great day you had! I love eating breakfast at Cape May! I am so glad that the chef was able to make you some things to eat!
I can't believe how much you were able to see and do at the Studios! And riding TSM three times! Wow!!! That is great! I am glad that Abby won the last round!

[tinker_me_happy]

Love the new smiley on the first page! The one over looking the wall was cute, but I can actually picture the airport and your mom's face trying to peek around the partion! The new one is great!
I know they have a CM near the exit to HISTK but I've never actually seen a child trying to leave alone, so I'm not sure if they've ever had to stop one! Of course our ratios are usually better too... 3 or 4 adults to ONE not quite five year old!

Here are 2 of the 4 adults helping him wrestle an ant:

[lauriep]

What a great day at DHS and Cape May! Abby looks SO happy in the breakfast photos. I can't do Star Tours any more either. Seems like every year there's a new one to cross off the list. As you say, though, there's still no shortage of fun rides I can still handle.

[aprild]

I am finally all caught up on your TR!! And I have to say I'm absolutely LOVING it!!

I laughed so hard at Abby checking something off of her bucket list. How cute is she?

It sounds like y'all are having a fabulous time so far (despite some early bumps in the road) and I can't wait to read more!

[CinderAbby]

Originally Posted by Colexis Mom

Sounds like a great day! Great pictures!

Thanks Marnie. I'm glad you like the pictures and we did have a great day.

Originally Posted by shnewell

What a great day at DHS! I can't believe you rode TSMM so many times. How long were the lines? We've only ever managed to ride it once because we've never been there at rope drop to run for FPs and we refuse to wait in an 80+ minute standby line.

I love, love, love the first picture of Abby with Goofy at Cape May. You can just see the joy in her face!

The regular line was always outside so I'm thinking it was probably 90 plus minutes all day long, the FP line however was only outside once. But don't forget that Lenny uses his scooter and with Abby's Autism we get a GAC so those helped a lot. We still had to wait but we didn't have to wait the same time as the regular line. Abby does like her character meals and with leaving AK so early the night before, we were able to be in bed early (meaning a good night's sleep for her). Plus too, this was a new meal to us that she was really excited about.

Originally Posted by chezp

Great time at the Studios!

Thanks Cheryl. We did have a great time.

[saibot0001]

YAY for another great day (although your cliff hanger ending has be guessing about why it was a good thing you went back to the resort. I'm going to have to patiently wait...I know. LOL).
Glad you enjoyed your breakfast! I loved the pictures.
As for the Star Tours, my hubby can not watch a lot of the 3D movies anymore. He said they bother him a lot. He said the only one that does not seem to bother him is Mickey's Philamagic (or something like that. It's in MK). I hope this one does not bother him as I am excited for us all to get to try the new version. I'm also glad you mentioned there are different ones b/c I did not know that.
You are a nice mom....I'm so bad that I have tried to keep my kiddos from seeing the play areas (and so far I have been successful) at both MK and DHS for the exact reason you mention. There are so many people and unless I am constantly wandering through the play areas it is hard to keep up with the both of them b/c my poor husband has the mentality that they are at Disney and will be fine, but I'm paranoid mom who must be able to see her child at all times. The hiding game would have sent me into a PANIC. LOL Glad you found her safe and sound though!
I read your responses, so now I know, but I was amazed that you were able to ride TSM 3 times. Last year, we only rode it once and waited a LONG time even with the FP (which were all gone by 10am) and then the stand by line was way too long to even attempt it again (about 2 hrs). I'm so glad that you all were able to ride it that many times so that Abby could win a round too! And I agree, it is just as fun watching your kids have fun enjoying a ride at Disney!
Again, can't wait to read more. I'm curious to as to how CM will be. We enjoyed it our first 2 visits, but on our last one the food was just okay and the service was horrible that we opted to skip it this time and I never thought I would do that. Hope you have a good experience.
OHhh, and your smiley icon that you replaced is cute. I totally have a picture in my head of your mom peaking through the partions. LOL

[CinderAbby]

Originally Posted by PrincessSharon

Okay, I'm rolling from Abby and her bucket list! And I have to say, if "High five a tumble monkey" is one of the entries on it, I'm really curious about what else is there. I'm thinking it's much more awesome than my list! Sounds like a fun day at DHS!

Thanks Sharon, we did have a fun day. And as for Abby's bucket list, I'm not exactly sure what else she has on there. Probably her next one is to go to Disneyland and any more will probably be put on her bucket list after the fact (like the monkey's - I didn't know it was on her list - or that she even had a list - until after the fact )

Originally Posted by alexsmommy0412

Just got caught up again. Sounds like a great day at HS. My DH is the same way with rides like Star Tours, he rode the simpsons at US and we actually had to leave shortly after. I love all the different smilies (I think I spelled that right) you use, If you don't mind my asking where do you find them?

It was a great day - and what a shame you had to leave US because of the ride. All the smilies I just kind of do google searches for and I've hit on a couple of different websites that have them totally free. I copy and paste the links of ones I like into my photobucket account and that way I can find them easily when I want them. I do have a thread around here too that has some good tips too for finding them.

Originally Posted by ravensgirl76

I'm so glad you had those 2 awesome days!!! sounds like Abby had a blast and i just bust out laughing here at work about her and her bucket list check mark, i can absolutely imagine it and i'm sure she looked to cute doing it

i agree with you about play areas, they make me a nervous wreck and fortunately/unfortunately i haven't been brave enough to let DD play in one (she's 4 so i'm still super paranoid) much to hubby's dislike, but oh well!

i went back and checked on the new smiley and LOVE him!!! and you're right it does represent what you were saying better

We still laugh about Abby and her checking off her bucket list. She was totally cute doing it. I don't blame you for not going to the play area and if you're daughter doesn't know about it or isn't asking for it, then she's not missing anything. I'm glad you like the new smiley. I tried and tried looking for one like that from the beginning but I couldn't find anything and today I happen to stumble upon it in a smiley category I would never have thought to look in (it was under happy smilies )

Originally Posted by truenancy

awesome TR! It's clear you're having a fantastic time! Glad you held it together when Abby decided to hide, and you still had the patience to let her win! I love watching the kids when they don't know you're looking.

Thanks Nancy. You know how it is with kids - you think they're lost and you're so relieved when you find them you forget how you were feeling only a couple of minutes before. As for letting Abby win, with her Autism, it's just a fact of life that every so often I have to do things like that so it tends to be second nature. Not all the time but when I feel it will cause an issue, it's very easy to let her win without her knowing she is. Kids are great to watch when they don't know about it

Originally Posted by Luvsun

What a great day you had! I love eating breakfast at Cape May! I am so glad that the chef was able to make you some things to eat!
I can't believe how much you were able to see and do at the Studios! And riding TSM three times! Wow!!! That is great! I am glad that Abby won the last round!

Thanks. I think Cape May has become a new breakfast meal for us. I'd much rather go there than say, Ohana's , but who knows what our choices will be when we finally make it back. He wouldn't be too much of a chef if he couldn't make something but even if he couldn't have, at least there was the yogurt I could eat. With the granola, it was very filling. As to getting a lot of things done, I don't know if it was the day or what but other than TSM there weren't a lot of lines. There was none at all for Muppet Vision, VOLM, BLT and One Man's Dream. All of those we got in within 5 minutes. Star Tours we needed the Handicapped ramp and we could go right to that and we only had to wait for a few to actually board the vehicle. GMR we probably spent 10 minutes in line tops. We pretty much just stayed in that one area of the park and we skipped all the shows but it took us about 8 hours to do what we did.

Originally Posted by tinker_me_happy

Love the new smiley on the first page! The one over looking the wall was cute, but I can actually picture the airport and your mom's face trying to peek around the partion! The new one is great!
I know they have a CM near the exit to HISTK but I've never actually seen a child trying to leave alone, so I'm not sure if they've ever had to stop one! Of course our ratios are usually better too... 3 or 4 adults to ONE not quite five year old!

Here are 2 of the 4 adults helping him wrestle an ant:

Thanks - I thought the new smiley really conveyed what mom was doing - down to the smiley trying to say "yoo who" and just makes it so much better IMO. 3 or 4 adults to one kiddo - yeah much better ratios compared to mine. It's usually one adult (me) to one child and one pain in the butt who acts like a teenager at times (Lenny - but I think you knew that ). Is it any wonder why I'm getting gray hair . I love your picture too.

Originally Posted by lauriep

What a great day at DHS and Cape May! Abby looks SO happy in the breakfast photos. I can't do Star Tours any more either. Seems like every year there's a new one to cross off the list. As you say, though, there's still no shortage of fun rides I can still handle.

Thanks Laurie. That day was a great day - but I have yet to metion it before now but it's not done with yet - maybe I should go back and edit it to let you guys know that. Sorry to hear you're like me and have rides you can't do.

Originally Posted by aprild

I am finally all caught up on your TR!! And I have to say I'm absolutely LOVING it!!

I laughed so hard at Abby checking something off of her bucket list. How cute is she?

It sounds like y'all are having a fabulous time so far (despite some early bumps in the road) and I can't wait to read more!

I'm so glad you're loving my TR. Although I have to say, every time someone says that "I'm loving it" I think about McDonalds. Do they even have that logo anymore? I'm glad you're laughing too - that's why I put some of this stuff. Because I know you guys will see the humor in it and can see Abby doing this stuff. We had some bumps but yes, we really started to enjoy ourselves. You'll have to wait for more though. I won't do anymore until tomorrow.

[CinderAbby]

Originally Posted by saibot0001

YAY for another great day (although your cliff hanger ending has be guessing about why it was a good thing you went back to the resort. I'm going to have to patiently wait...I know. LOL).

Couldn't have said it better myself

Glad you enjoyed your breakfast! I loved the pictures.
As for the Star Tours, my hubby can not watch a lot of the 3D movies anymore. He said they bother him a lot. He said the only one that does not seem to bother him is Mickey's Philamagic (or something like that. It's in MK). I hope this one does not bother him as I am excited for us all to get to try the new version. I'm also glad you mentioned there are different ones b/c I did not know that.
You are a nice mom....I'm so bad that I have tried to keep my kiddos from seeing the play areas (and so far I have been successful) at both MK and DHS for the exact reason you mention. There are so many people and unless I am constantly wandering through the play areas it is hard to keep up with the both of them b/c my poor husband has the mentality that they are at Disney and will be fine, but I'm paranoid mom who must be able to see her child at all times. The hiding game would have sent me into a PANIC. LOL Glad you found her safe and sound though!
I read your responses, so now I know, but I was amazed that you were able to ride TSM 3 times. Last year, we only rode it once and waited a LONG time even with the FP (which were all gone by 10am) and then the stand by line was way too long to even attempt it again (about 2 hrs). I'm so glad that you all were able to ride it that many times so that Abby could win a round too! And I agree, it is just as fun watching your kids have fun enjoying a ride at Disney!
Again, can't wait to read more. I'm curious to as to how CM will be. We enjoyed it our first 2 visits, but on our last one the food was just okay and the service was horrible that we opted to skip it this time and I never thought I would do that. Hope you have a good experience.
OHhh, and your smiley icon that you replaced is cute. I totally have a picture in my head of your mom peaking through the partions. LOL

Thanks for all the comments. We did have a good breakfast. I too can watch Mickey's Philharmagic without a problem. but what a shame your hubby has problems with 3D. Do you think that might affect him on Star Tours because the new version is 3D. I didn't actually realize that until we were inside and had to take the glasses. And as for different versions, I wouldn't have known either if Lenny and Abby didn't ride a second time. I don't think you're a bad mom. Keeping them from seeing it is one thing, if they're begging and pleading to go in and you say no, that's something else entirely - but you're still mom and have a good reason for the things you do and don't do. And one of these days they'll realize it (and now I sound like my mom ). I know in all my TR's a lot of people are always amazed at how much we get done and more often than not, that's the reason. I just don't put it out there, KWIM? I'll mention that we get one when we arrive in Disney but I just don't point out if and when we use it. I think those that have gotten to know us well over the years know how we do what we do and for those who don't know us well enough that are left guessing, it depends upon who they are as to whether I "clue them in." And as you already guessed, yes you'll have to stay tuned to hear about our dinner at CM's.

And thank about the smiley. Mom peeking was what I originally wanted to convey but I didn't find that smiley until today - under the "happy smilies" group. I'm not sure why it was there but hey, I finally found what I wanted and it's accomplished what I was hoping.

[KMB733]

Sounds like a great time at DHS!!

[tinker_me_happy]

We were standing in line for TSMWM and a family came in the entrance you would use with a little girl in a wheelchair. When they got up to the CM at the Fast Pass/Regular line junction, she got out of her chair and walked. My sister started to say something about "why does she only need a wheel chair to cut the line" when I pointed out that there was MORE to the picture than meets the eye! After a better look she understood. I knew from the second I first saw her entering that she was autistic, but then again, I deal with pediatrics all the time! But the sad part was that poor family chose the handicapped side to enter on (I really think the little girl had a very hard time with people too close to her!) and they were STILL WAITING after we boarded our car!
It makes me crazy when people make assumptions! My sister usually never does, so I was a bit shocked, but she "pulled back" immediately when she saw the full situation and was embarrassed by her outburst (a quiet one, but an outburst non the less!). Walk a mile in someone else's shoes...

[saibot0001]

I am glad you all get to use GAC card, Darlene! We have a lot of friends who have autistic children ( all varying in degrees) and I'm glad Disney has that available for families. My nephew was recently diagnosed and he can be fine one moment and then a sound or touch of something can cause a melt down. I actually was hoping that when you said that you were able to ride it 3 times that the ride has calmed down since we were there last year b/c it was a crazy mad house! . As for my hubby, I hope the Star Tours does not bother him. He will try it one time like you did and if it does bother him, he will sit it out in the future. He doesn't even bother watching 3 D movies at the theater anymore b/c they are just blurry and weird for him to watch. Hoping you post something soon as I'm anxious to read more!