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Sunday 07/29/2001
Okay, so after a lovely Drink Around the World, it is time for an early morning PS at Cindy's for Character Breakfast. We hopped on the bus and headed over to MK. Got there about 8/8:30 and the park was already open, but only Main Street was actually going, so we took the time to take some pics.
The moms thought it would be sweet to have a kid picture in front of the staute of Walt (by the Castle) so here is my pic of it. Let's see..from left to right...Cookie's DS, Pandy's DS Martin, Cookie's other DS, Pandy's other DS Ryan, and the rest are Glo's DDs. Aren't they precious when they're quiet?
Afterwards we made our way over here:
Ok..so we have a large group for breakfast. First group goes up, no problem (Glo + kids, Cookie + kids, Pandy + kids). Second group gets formed and goes up, no problem (poppins50 + DH + DD, ejigs + family, BT + son, and I forget who else). That leaves the final group which ends up being me (cause I am the tallest I get to watch for everyone), NancyIL, and.......no one else. SSB + family is supposed to join us. Hmmm..no SSB to be found. He's not that hard to miss, c'mon, he's almost as tall as I am!!! Crud. So we wait......and wait......and wait......and wait......and wait......and wait.......and wait. MEANWHILE, to ease my boredom, and since all of MK is open right now, I wander off really quickly and I snap this picture. A happy "way to go!" to whoever can identify where this picture was taken and what it is.
Also, I took a picture of this to prove a point. I took it on the bridge up to the Castle.
This totally ruined my vacation. It shows that the magic is gone because Disney just doesn't care about maintanance any more! Why, back when I was a kid, they used to strip down all the paint surfaces and re-coat them with a F*R*E*S*H coat of paint...every night!!! I can't believe they don't do this anymore...it's a total shock...Disney is going downhill...the magic is gone, and the whole experience is just.......RUINED!!
Ok, now do you see why posts like that are totally absurd, extremely funny, and utterly ridiculous?? I thought you would...let's move on, shall we?
Back to where I was before. I was getting aggravated with the whole waiting thing. We have nicknamed NancyIL "shep" because she was doing a great job herding everyone together..you know..like a sheep dog or something. Well, *SHE* wanted to keep waiting to see if anyone else would show up. So we waited some more. By this time, it was well past our PS time and I was ready to totally just go up there and leave Nancy down there by herself. I even told her, Nancy, if I didn't like you so much (on the boards you gossip-hounds!) I would have left you down here and gone up to eat with everyone else. FORTUNATLY as I was about to give up and totally forget about breakfast, guess who shows up! SSB + family!! Oh thank god, now we can have some breakfast!! As we are waiting for our table to get ready, the first PS group comes down and we tell them we are almost ready to go up there to eat. Glo gives us her cell phone # and Pandy agrees to call us in 45 minutes so we all can meet up. We get up the stairs and I run over to PS group #2 and fill them in on the details, also. Then our group gets seated and we proceed to have a WONDERFUL breakfast. It's all you can eat, and all I can eat was 3 plates full. It was very good and we met all the princesses and I even posed with Belle for a picture..she was a hottie! Oh, and here's SSB eating during daylight hours..I wouldn't believe it if I heard it myself so I snapped a picture to prove it to everyone.
We get done with breakfast and have a lovely chat with Fairy Godmother. Breakfast was great! We had a great time talking with SSB and his wife, who is a sweetheart. The phone rings and it's Pandy, who tells us they are over at Pooh so we book it over there. Everyone is in the fast pass line. Glo lies (yes, believe it!) and tells the guy that someone already checked her fastpasses and she threw them away when she REALLY gave them to us so we could ride. Well, I had to almost FORCE SSB's DW to take mine as I just wanted to have a cigarette. SSB and I go off on 2 missions..me for a smoke, him for a soda. We stop at Toontown Fair by the train station (bad choice for a smoking area) and I get my nicotine fix. We get back and everone is waiting on us...ack!! I felt bad. We get FPs for Peter Pan and then get in line for It's a Small World. I normally refuse to go on this ride but EVERYONE was doing it, so I took one for the team and went along.
Here's Donna (PandyPaws) outside of IASW trying to figure out where everyone else is.
Donna's DS Ryan...closeup.
NancyIL
..a shelf above a doorway underneath the train station. I never noticed this before so I thought I would take a picture of it. Hmmm..something different every time you go.
We didn't do many rides because it was rather crowded. We got onto Big Thunder Mountain. The wait for Splash Mtn was already at 50 minutes and the FP return times were for 5-6p (this was at 1-2 pm) We took the train back to Main Street and headed back to the hotel to simply....recover!!
Plus Drink Around the World happens tonight so it would be wise to prepare for that!
Okay, so after a lovely Drink Around the World, it is time for an early morning PS at Cindy's for Character Breakfast. We hopped on the bus and headed over to MK. Got there about 8/8:30 and the park was already open, but only Main Street was actually going, so we took the time to take some pics.
The moms thought it would be sweet to have a kid picture in front of the staute of Walt (by the Castle) so here is my pic of it. Let's see..from left to right...Cookie's DS, Pandy's DS Martin, Cookie's other DS, Pandy's other DS Ryan, and the rest are Glo's DDs. Aren't they precious when they're quiet?
Afterwards we made our way over here:
Ok..so we have a large group for breakfast. First group goes up, no problem (Glo + kids, Cookie + kids, Pandy + kids). Second group gets formed and goes up, no problem (poppins50 + DH + DD, ejigs + family, BT + son, and I forget who else). That leaves the final group which ends up being me (cause I am the tallest I get to watch for everyone), NancyIL, and.......no one else. SSB + family is supposed to join us. Hmmm..no SSB to be found. He's not that hard to miss, c'mon, he's almost as tall as I am!!! Crud. So we wait......and wait......and wait......and wait......and wait......and wait.......and wait. MEANWHILE, to ease my boredom, and since all of MK is open right now, I wander off really quickly and I snap this picture. A happy "way to go!" to whoever can identify where this picture was taken and what it is.
Also, I took a picture of this to prove a point. I took it on the bridge up to the Castle.
This totally ruined my vacation. It shows that the magic is gone because Disney just doesn't care about maintanance any more! Why, back when I was a kid, they used to strip down all the paint surfaces and re-coat them with a F*R*E*S*H coat of paint...every night!!! I can't believe they don't do this anymore...it's a total shock...Disney is going downhill...the magic is gone, and the whole experience is just.......RUINED!!
Ok, now do you see why posts like that are totally absurd, extremely funny, and utterly ridiculous?? I thought you would...let's move on, shall we?
Back to where I was before. I was getting aggravated with the whole waiting thing. We have nicknamed NancyIL "shep" because she was doing a great job herding everyone together..you know..like a sheep dog or something. Well, *SHE* wanted to keep waiting to see if anyone else would show up. So we waited some more. By this time, it was well past our PS time and I was ready to totally just go up there and leave Nancy down there by herself. I even told her, Nancy, if I didn't like you so much (on the boards you gossip-hounds!) I would have left you down here and gone up to eat with everyone else. FORTUNATLY as I was about to give up and totally forget about breakfast, guess who shows up! SSB + family!! Oh thank god, now we can have some breakfast!! As we are waiting for our table to get ready, the first PS group comes down and we tell them we are almost ready to go up there to eat. Glo gives us her cell phone # and Pandy agrees to call us in 45 minutes so we all can meet up. We get up the stairs and I run over to PS group #2 and fill them in on the details, also. Then our group gets seated and we proceed to have a WONDERFUL breakfast. It's all you can eat, and all I can eat was 3 plates full. It was very good and we met all the princesses and I even posed with Belle for a picture..she was a hottie! Oh, and here's SSB eating during daylight hours..I wouldn't believe it if I heard it myself so I snapped a picture to prove it to everyone.
We get done with breakfast and have a lovely chat with Fairy Godmother. Breakfast was great! We had a great time talking with SSB and his wife, who is a sweetheart. The phone rings and it's Pandy, who tells us they are over at Pooh so we book it over there. Everyone is in the fast pass line. Glo lies (yes, believe it!) and tells the guy that someone already checked her fastpasses and she threw them away when she REALLY gave them to us so we could ride. Well, I had to almost FORCE SSB's DW to take mine as I just wanted to have a cigarette. SSB and I go off on 2 missions..me for a smoke, him for a soda. We stop at Toontown Fair by the train station (bad choice for a smoking area) and I get my nicotine fix. We get back and everone is waiting on us...ack!! I felt bad. We get FPs for Peter Pan and then get in line for It's a Small World. I normally refuse to go on this ride but EVERYONE was doing it, so I took one for the team and went along.
Here's Donna (PandyPaws) outside of IASW trying to figure out where everyone else is.
Donna's DS Ryan...closeup.
NancyIL
..a shelf above a doorway underneath the train station. I never noticed this before so I thought I would take a picture of it. Hmmm..something different every time you go.
We didn't do many rides because it was rather crowded. We got onto Big Thunder Mountain. The wait for Splash Mtn was already at 50 minutes and the FP return times were for 5-6p (this was at 1-2 pm) We took the train back to Main Street and headed back to the hotel to simply....recover!!
Plus Drink Around the World happens tonight so it would be wise to prepare for that!