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Just getting all caught up!
I am so glad you loved Soarin! It is my favorite ride! I just it!
Actually, I am so very jealous that you got to ride it so many times in just one day!
So sorry about the Mission Space adventure. I have been on that ride once - and never again for me : I am way too claustrophobic!
Your day at MK sounds like so much fun. I love all of the great pictures.
Great update!
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Just catching up!! Great updates! I'm loving all the self-shots!!
Glad you were able to get the resizing. Since you have XP, you might like this program from Microsoft: Power Toys - Image Resizer It's free and a great time saver. What I like the most about it, is that you can resize multiple photos at once - just don't rotate the photos until after you've resized. Bill (LizardCop) gives an excellent explanation of the program here: Resizing Photos in Windows XP using Picture Resizer
Just read your tr in one sitting....OMG, congrats on the proposal! I'm all verklempt! So romantic!
Sounds like you are having a wonderful trip. Even with those girls at SW...I hope they didn't do that to the wrong person...not a smart move!
I just found your TR and read through to here. First of all Congrats on your engagement!! What a great place for a proposal, and the following days sounded awesome. You are really getting lucky with most of your wait times or should I say mostly no wait times for rides! Did you use a certain planning guide or was luck on your side? Just curious.
Looking forward to hearing more about the rest of your trip, thanks for sharing!
Another great update! I love the pictures of the two of you by the castle! Were they putting the Christmas lights on the castle with the crane?? Hurry back
You know I never thought of that! They very well could have, although I was thinking it might be a bit early, but then again I saw how many lights were on the Castle and I'm sure it takes several days/weeks to make sure everything's perfect.
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awesome update!
Thanks!
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Glad you had a great day at MK!! More please
Thanks! I'm working on the rest
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Great day and great pics. Hurry back with more.
Will do
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This is awesome Karyn! You guys are absolutely the cutest couple ever I love all the great pics and can't wait to read more!
Thanks so much!
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Just getting all caught up!
I am so glad you loved Soarin! It is my favorite ride! I just it!
Actually, I am so very jealous that you got to ride it so many times in just one day!
So sorry about the Mission Space adventure. I have been on that ride once - and never again for me : I am way too claustrophobic!
Your day at MK sounds like so much fun. I love all of the great pictures.
Great update!
I couldn't get over Soarin'! I wish they had a ride like that in Boston, I would be there practically every day! Mission Space on the other hand..... - hahaha
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What a great day at MK...glad you got to hit so many rides especially the mountains in the morning before the crowds hit....
It was awesome! We usually hit crowds no matter what time of day....going in the off-season is something we'll try to do from now on that's for sure!
Glad you were able to have a great meal at LTT for your birthdays and to enjoy the fireworks again...
It really was great! I've been trying to find if we can get a video of Wishes, but I haven't found one yet....
Just catching up!! Great updates! I'm loving all the self-shots!!
Glad you were able to get the resizing. Since you have XP, you might like this program from Microsoft: Power Toys - Image Resizer It's free and a great time saver. What I like the most about it, is that you can resize multiple photos at once - just don't rotate the photos until after you've resized. Bill (LizardCop) gives an excellent explanation of the program here: Resizing Photos in Windows XP using Picture Resizer
Hope this helps!!
Looking forward to more
Thanks Dyan! I'll definitely check it out! I'm always looking to save time
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Just read your tr in one sitting....OMG, congrats on the proposal! I'm all verklempt! So romantic!
Sounds like you are having a wonderful trip. Even with those girls at SW...I hope they didn't do that to the wrong person...not a smart move!
More please!
It really was incredibly romantic! It's so much fun when boys really shock you with their ideas....he did good You are absolutely right with those girls.....honestly had I found out that probably would have been my lecture (I was an RA and had to talk to MANY freshman girls who ended up in awful positions by doing something just like that)....hopefully someone will have a nice chat with them
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Hi Karyn
I just found your TR and read through to here. First of all Congrats on your engagement!! What a great place for a proposal, and the following days sounded awesome. You are really getting lucky with most of your wait times or should I say mostly no wait times for rides! Did you use a certain planning guide or was luck on your side? Just curious.
Looking forward to hearing more about the rest of your trip, thanks for sharing!
Thanks! You know we didn't use any of the touring guides online or in a book.....although we did look at some plans and took away some helpful hints (like starting in the back of the MK - or heading to Soarin' asap). I think what really helped us was the lack of schedule. Because it was just Craig and I, we didn't have to worry about others' opinions and could skip a ride if the wait was too long and come back when the line was much shorter. The only time this really backfired was for us was Toy Story Mania - which we were only able to ride once.
We certainly used fast passes to our advantage, and found many people didn't understand how to use them correctly. I can't tell you how many times we heard people say they couldn't get another fastpass because they already had a fastpass issued for a different ride that hadn't expired yet. No one bothered to see the fine print stating when they could grab another pass....toward the end of the vaca I started to feel bad for those families so we told them about the system. At one point we had 3 fastpasses for different rides at one time. Certainly saved time....I wish I could give you a more concrete tour guide.....but for us flexibility was super important and certainly helped with the wait times!
I just got caught up on your TR. Congrats!! I got proposed to in Disney World also and it's a trip you'll never forget. Can't wait to read more about your trip! Good luck w/ school and happy wedding planning!
I just found your TR! Congrats on the proposal! That was my dream but we were 19 when Rob popped the question so that did not happen! I just told him to give me a ring for our Ann witch is comming up but to hold on to it till we go! LOL Glad you have been having an amazing vacation so far!
What a great TR!! CONGRATULATIONS on the engagement!! It sounds like you had such a wonderful time. And, I love how you didn't let little set backs interfere with your fun. Looking forward to more...
I just got caught up on your TR. Congrats!! I got proposed to in Disney World also and it's a trip you'll never forget. Can't wait to read more about your trip! Good luck w/ school and happy wedding planning!
Thanks for the luck! This week has been brutal (so I'm procrastinating at the moment!) - you're absolutely right, I certainly will never forget that trip as I'm sure you wont forget yours!
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I just found your TR! Congrats on the proposal! That was my dream but we were 19 when Rob popped the question so that did not happen! I just told him to give me a ring for our Ann witch is comming up but to hold on to it till we go! LOL Glad you have been having an amazing vacation so far!
You have to tell us all about your trip and how you get your ring! No pressure ...I'm sure it will be magical
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What a great TR!! CONGRATULATIONS on the engagement!! It sounds like you had such a wonderful time. And, I love how you didn't let little set backs interfere with your fun. Looking forward to more...
Thanks! Craig and I were just talking about that today actually. In my mind, the trip we had was perfect, yet there were several setbacks, some of which I didn't get to yet, but I'm glad we just let them roll off our shoulders! Makes a trip so much more enjoyable
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Karyn, i just caught up on your TR. Congratulations to you and you Fiance on your engagement!!! Very exciting! Can't wait to read more.
Great updates. Glad you loved Soarin so much. Isn't it great? Great day at MK also. How did you like Liberty Tree Tavern? I've never been and I'm sad that I won't get to go before the characters are gone forever. More please. BTW great photopass pics also.
Off to Islands of Adventure! I was so apprehensive about going, on a previous trip we went to the original Universal Studios (IOA wasn't even built yet) and had an awful time! All I remembered from the trip was the incredibly long lines and the rides really weren't great (probably because everyone was so bored/sick from waiting in the line for 3 hours - in fact I got sun poisoning the last time we were here...)....so my expectations were extremely low. The first part of the day was the part that worried me the most: the Mears bus! Don, don donnnnn...I heard from people on PP and through google searches that the Mears bus was a hit or miss as far as reliability goes. I'll tell you we had a WONDERFUL experience with Mears, something I wasn't expecting at all . They were on time to the second and the drivers were great. So great start!
As soon as we got into the park we were hounded by "photopass" photographers, I'm not sure what they call them at IOA - we didn't get any of the pictures, in fact we didn't even see them because you had to get them at the end of the day rather than ordering them when you get home. But that was fun, I think we held Woody Woodpecker a few dozen times. Our first stop was the Hulk! I was so excited to ride the Hulk - and we waited in line to be in the first row! We only waited a total of 15 minutes or so and we were on! I was nervous....my engagement ring was a good one size too large, so I was making the biggest fist I possibly could! As we took off I remembered why I love coasters! What a great ride! Although an interesting thing happened, on the first "kidney" loop as soon as you get out of the tunnel my eyes had tunnel vision and eventually I only saw black - it only lasted for a few seconds, but I thought that was super strange. So when I got off the ride I told DFia who, as a pharmacy student, worried more than I did. But we attributed it to not having breakfast. So we stopped to grab some food! After we had a bite to eat, we headed to Ripsaw Falls - wow were we soaked! IOA must have a note in their mission statement that they will go above and beyond to get people wet! This worked for us since we were ridiculously hot (it is August!) - but wow, I've never been so wet in a park before....after we left Ripsaw Falls we took a few pictures of the Hulk, Dueling Dragons, and the new Harry Potter park!
The Harry Potter Land is behind me in that picture....looks like it's going to be a ton of fun!
Proof that they love to get people soaked:
DFia wringing out his shirt....hahaha I love it! And us airing out our feet!
We headed to Jurassic Park (I really wish I took more pictures of the rides) it was great . Unfortunately some of the great Dino's were under construction, but wow that was a great ride. Then on over to Poseidon's Fury (which I coined Poseidon's Walking Adventure - I'm not sure he would be happy with that) but this was fun too. The room with the circling water was great - it reminded me of a show at Ceasar's Palace in Vegas - brought back some great memories. Outside the ride we took this picture (it was completely random - when I made the shirt it was just a joke but it turned out to be very appropriate!)
We ended up riding every ride multiple times - including the Hulk again where the same eye incident happened, so I guess my body just doesn't like the Hulk ....we were done around 4 (DFia had been to IOA so many times and was shocked by the lack of people in the park....the longest wait we had was for the front row of the Hulk, other than that it we literally walked right on to every ride) - we called Mears at 2 and they were right on time at 4:15 (when they said they would be there) and took us home. Once back at POFQ we did something I have never done at Disney before.....swim in the pool ! Whenever we were at Disney it was non-stop fun and non-stop parks. Playing in the pool was great and so relaxing. The hot tub became my best friend. I didn't realize how sore my muscles were until I sat in that heavenly tub! We met a nice family and chatted with them for a bit and then decided to head over to Epcot - sans all sorts of bags! So freeing not to carry around anything! We went on Soarin' again, of course, we also did SE and TT. And finally headed home after a long day. What a fun day it was! Having such low expectations at the beginning of the day, I think, made the day so much better! IOA will definitely be on my list for a must visit park (although next time we might go over to Sea World, since we didn't have time this trip). So much fun!
Up next: Breakfast at Boma and a day at the AK
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What a great place for a proposal, and the following days sounded awesome. You are really getting lucky with most of your wait times or should I say mostly no wait times for rides! Did you use a certain planning guide or was luck on your side? Just curious.
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It sounds like you had such a wonderful time. And, I love how you didn't let little set backs interfere with your fun. Looking forward to more... 
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! Whenever we were at Disney it was non-stop fun and non-stop parks. Playing in the pool was great and so relaxing. The hot tub became my best friend. I didn't realize how sore my muscles were until I sat in that heavenly tub! We met a nice family and chatted with them for a bit and then decided to head over to Epcot - sans all sorts of bags! So freeing not to carry around anything! We went on Soarin' again, of course, we also did SE and TT. And finally headed home after a long day. What a fun day it was! Having such low expectations at the beginning of the day, I think, made the day so much better! IOA will definitely be on my list for a must visit park (although next time we might go over to Sea World, since we didn't have time this trip). So much fun!
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