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Good installment Smilechaser, but you forgot to add how I 'fixed' your pictures of your adoroble young blond princess and Simba.
Sighhh However did you survive until I got there????
Kidding, hope you can post more today! Remember the next day in our trip it rained!!!!!
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OMG Liz!!! I can't believe the ordeal you have already gone through!! I can't wait to read more and just in case I didn't say it enough, I was so happy to have met you and your lovely girls! Post again soon!
It was also great to meet you!!! Did you see the pics I posted from our get together? Your little princess is absolutly adorable!!! And when she came up and hugged me goodbye.....aawwweee, what a sweetheart!!
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Good installment Smilechaser, but you forgot to add how I 'fixed' your pictures of your adoroble young blond princess and Simba.
Sighhh However did you survive until I got there????
Kidding, hope you can post more today! Remember the next day in our trip it rained!!!!!
Brent
Yes, Yes, Brent....for all of passporter to hear...."You da man"!!! Seriously that was a fix to a 2 year problem. Kudos! Not sure how I survived til you got there, I know one thing.........I WAS WET AND COLD!!!!!
Me, remember the rain? HHmmmm, let me think. Oh yeah, it almost slipped my mind! NOT! I also remember what you told me our last day there! Which I am sooooo going to include in the trip report. You are so busted man,........the rath of the passporters will be upon you! LOL
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Glad the sun finally came out.
DS wouldn't let the photopass photographer take his picture for the Simba picture. No amount of pleading and begging from me would change his mind either.
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DAY 6 Monday 8/25: I woke up on this day and thought to myself.....Hmmmm, do I see sunshine peeking in the window between the curtains? No, couldn't be, covered my head and tried to go back to sleep. Curiousity got the best of me.....I got up and, full of hope, went to the window, slowly pulling back the curtains......"OMG....Hippity Do Da Mickey!!!! Get up kids!!! Get up....Hurry.....I think the sun is out, unless its a mirage and I am dreaming." We all got up and went out on the balcony and enjoyed the warm warm sun.....ahhhhhh! Well, all of us except for my 17 year old DD, Ashleigh, who snarled something along the lines of "if I have to come out on that balcony at this hour you are going over it". ....I'm sure I must have heard the dear girl wrong. LOL
Sooooo, today, this gorgeous, sunny day we gathered up with Disdadnmi and the kidlettes and headed to Blizzard Beach. This is how excited I was about the sun! .....I had the first ever trip planned to LeCellier for lunch and canceled it that morning to take advantage of the true florida beauty. Well, that and Disdadnmi and the kids are super fun to hang out with in the water parks!!.... even when they are trying to push you down the stairs with an inner tube, I mean they accidently back up and realize that you are there. LOL So the first thing we did was head to the family raft ride! I think this is a fave for all of us! It was great! We were hoping for a photopass photographer at the bottom like last year but I think it was too early and they were still sleeping. Ya know, like til noon, like teenagers. LOL We had an awesome day!! Everytime I come home from Disney and I am looking back it seems as if some of my best times were had at the water parks.
We called it an early day there and headed back to POP to cool off, get some lunch and get ready to go to Epcot. We had dinner reservations at San Angel Inn. When we walked into Epcot it was still beautiful and sunny, we rode test track and a few small things, the kids always love that aquatic center, then hurried off to dinner. This was our first time here too, we are all huge mexican food fans and thought we would just love it. No one was overly impressed.--pic attached-- As a matter of fact we ate at the SA Cafe later in the week and all agreed that was much much better!
About mid way thru dinner the rain started to pound the roof, I mean it sounded like running elephants. We stalled around the gift shop for awhile and it seemed to slow down so we headed out the door. About the time we set foot on the walkway the sky became dark and it rained the like crazy!!!! We decided to call it a day and head back to the resort. "to the front of the park, girls!!!" About the time we hit Germany, and I could see thru the torential rain for the first time, I thought....."hhmmmmm Germany is NOT between the front of the park and Mexico".......OOooopppppsssss! As the man in Magical Express said earlier in the trip report....."ummm girls, this is kinda funny but....." Hint, it wasn't funny the first time we heard it and it was even less funny at this time!!! LOL I am not kidding you, we were running in water up past our ankles!! Everyone else was sporting their rain wear. Nope, not us. we forgot it, we didn't need it.......instead of stubborn I like to refer to it as 'strong willed'....LOL. Seriously some of the funniest things we talk about this trip was all the fun we had and how much water clothing can actually hold. We finally get to the front of the park.....via Germany of course, hop a bus back to the resort and who is standing there waiting for us.....LOL. Yep, Disdadnmi and the kids. They just looked at us and burst out laughing. Brent said something about 'are you ready to buy rain ponchos yet?'. Here is where my stubborn/stupidity kicks in. "no man is going to be right and tell me what to do, I won't buy ponchos now no matter what!" Yeah, I showed him alright! LOL Men, there is a valuable lesson here.....let HER think it is HER idea and things will go alot smoother! Remember this because it all becomes even funnier the last day of the trip. Well, funnier or evil depending on how you look at it! LOL
DAY 7 Tuesday 8/26: This was our morning to finally go to MK and see the castle. Ahhhhh, we waited way too long for this! My youngest 2 DD, Victoria and Cheyenne, and I had breakfast reservations at the castle with the beautiful and enchanted, Cinderella. We were so excited! We got up early, leaveing my 2 oldest DD, Ashleigh and Kimmie, behind to sleep in and catch up to us later. They didn't want to do the castle breakfast this year, instead they wanted some teen time to do other things.....hhmmmmpphh, go figure! So we arrived at the park before it officially opened, I was surprised that they didn't question us at the gate about reservation numbers or anything. But so be it, we headed to the castle, they actually got us in about 30 minutes early. So we were waiting in line to get our photos taken and there she was..... Cinderella!!!! Oh my baby, Cheyenne, was so excited. So was I actually but I hear if you take kids along people don't look at you so strange. LOL Ok, ok all kidding aside, I am jealous as heck of that lady. She is like....ummmm perfect! It was so cool to be standing there next to Cinderella though! She signed my DD's hat, who by the way she had signed by all the princesses while we were there.....how cool is that! It was great! Breakfast was just magical. Something about being in that castle is just special, I can't say what exactly it is, its magical, like maybe sometimes fairy tales do come true?? Leave your worries at the door?? I don't know, its pnenominal though! The wishing ceremony was gorgeous.--pic attached-- I even made a wish, even though I will never admit that to anyone who is: a) not a child, or b) not a passporter! The rest of the day was awsome! I mean remarkably awesome. We hit the triple mountain whammy, haunted mansion...all the good stuff.....heck its all good there! Seeing Ariel at the Grotto was way too cool for words!! --see attached pic-- We really played hard this day! The only thing we all regret not doing was the race track , I'm not sure how that got overlooked. We spent alot of time in toon town, which is just a wonderful place!!
Dinner was at Tonys Town Square. A must for us every trip! We sooo love that place. It was as good as ever! A great dinner to top off an exceptional day.
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What a great day at MK....hoping the sun stayed out for you most of the day. Love the signing of the hat idea....really cute and original. Glad you were able to get so much done...
The wishing ceremony was gorgeous.--pic attached-- I even made a wish, even though I will never admit that to anyone who is: a) not a child, or b) not a passporter!
This is the exact reason I LOVE this site! I would have been right next to you making a wish . I've never eaten at Tony's but next time we're there we'll give it a try! Can't wait to hear more!
Great updates!! Sounds like everything is much better! your photo of Donald Rock! We've never seen a lioness climb up there before!! That is really cool. Can't wait to hear more
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. Although it sounds like some more rain is headed your way! 
We all got up and went out on the balcony and enjoyed the warm warm sun.....ahhhhhh! Well, all of us except for my 17 year old DD, Ashleigh, who snarled something along the lines of "if I have to come out on that balcony at this hour you are going over it". 
....I'm sure I must have heard the dear girl wrong. LOL 
This is how excited I was about the sun! .....I had the first ever trip planned to LeCellier for lunch and canceled it that morning to take advantage of the true florida beauty. 
Well, that and Disdadnmi and the kids are super fun to hang out with in the water parks!!.... even when they are trying to push you down the stairs with an inner tube, I mean they accidently back up and realize that you are there. LOL So the first thing we did was head to the family raft ride! I think this is a fave for all of us! It was great! 
We were hoping for a photopass photographer at the bottom like last year but I think it was too early and they were still sleeping. Ya know, like til noon, like teenagers. LOL 
We had an awesome day!! Everytime I come home from Disney and I am looking back it seems as if some of my best times were had at the water parks. 
and get ready to go to Epcot. We had dinner reservations at San Angel Inn. When we walked into Epcot it was still beautiful and sunny, we rode test track and a few small things, the kids always love that aquatic center, then hurried off to dinner. This was our first time here too, we are all huge mexican food fans and thought we would just love it. No one was overly impressed.--pic attached-- As a matter of fact we ate at the SA Cafe later in the week and all agreed that was much much better! 
I mean it sounded like running elephants. We stalled around the gift shop for awhile and it seemed to slow down so we headed out the door. About the time we set foot on the walkway the sky became dark and it rained the like crazy!!!! We decided to call it a day and head back to the resort. "to the front of the park, girls!!!" About the time we hit Germany, and I could see thru the torential rain for the first time, I thought....."hhmmmmm Germany is NOT between the front of the park and Mexico".......OOooopppppsssss! As the man in Magical Express said earlier in the trip report....."ummm girls, this is kinda funny but....." Hint, it wasn't funny the first time we heard it and it was even less funny at this time!!! LOL I am not kidding you, we were running in water up past our ankles!! Everyone else was sporting their rain wear. Nope, not us. we forgot it, we didn't need it.......instead of stubborn I like to refer to it as 'strong willed'....LOL. Seriously some of the funniest things we talk about this trip was all the fun we had and how much water clothing can actually hold. We finally get to the front of the park.....via Germany of course, hop a bus back to the resort and who is standing there waiting for us.....LOL. Yep, Disdadnmi and the kids. They just looked at us and burst out laughing. 
We got up early
, leaveing my 2 oldest DD, Ashleigh and Kimmie, behind to sleep in 
and catch up to us later. They didn't want to do the castle breakfast this year, instead they wanted some teen time to do other things.....hhmmmmpphh, go figure! So we arrived at the park before it officially opened, I was surprised that they didn't question us at the gate about reservation numbers or anything. But so be it, we headed to the castle, they actually got us in about 30 minutes early. So we were waiting in line to get our photos taken and there she was.....
Cinderella!!!! Oh my baby, Cheyenne, was so excited. So was I actually but I hear if you take kids along people don't look at you so strange. LOL Ok, ok all kidding aside, I am jealous as heck of that lady. She is like....ummmm perfect! It was so cool to be standing there next to Cinderella though! She signed my DD's hat
, who by the way she had signed by all the princesses while we were there.....how cool is that! It was great! Breakfast was just magical. Something about being in that castle is just special, I can't say what exactly it is, its magical, like maybe sometimes fairy tales do come true?? Leave your worries at the door?? I don't know, its pnenominal though! The wishing ceremony was gorgeous.--pic attached-- I even made a wish, 
even though I will never admit that to anyone who is: a) not a child, or b) not a passporter! The rest of the day was awsome! I mean remarkably awesome. We hit the triple mountain whammy, haunted mansion...all the good stuff.....heck its all good there! Seeing Ariel at the Grotto was way too cool for words!! --see attached pic-- We really played hard this day! The only thing we all regret not doing was the race track 
, I'm not sure how that got overlooked. We spent alot of time in toon town, which is just a wonderful place!! 
. I've never eaten at Tony's but next time we're there we'll give it a try! Can't wait to hear more!
your photo of Donald Rock! We've never seen a lioness climb up there before!! That is really cool. Can't wait to hear more
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