disneyAndi14
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Enjoying your report, we are just back from Disney and we loved the Poly!
and I got myself a Daisy selfie
OMG where did you both get this dress?? Too cute!Check out CS's dress:
I'm just warning you all now I have the same food dress that I'm going to be wearing at Food and Wine! So you probably shouldn't meet me while hungry. Actually I get hungry looking at this picture. Where's my Mickey pretzel!?!
Sorry I don't have pictures of our plates of food. I was distracted and just started eating. Everyone really enjoyed the food. I think they were surprised by the selection of more exotic offerings than your usual buffet.
AWWWWW my heart just melted...and I'm BACK to COOL AUNT status again!!
Here's some pictures of Pandora at night. It was actually not as brightly lit as I thought it would be. It just kinda has a glow. It was hard to see walking around. I mostly saw the UV paint on the ground.
We browsed the gift shop a bit and saw the banshees that people were lining up to buy. No thank you, I'd rather save my 69 dollars for something else.
Oh, no! I hope you survived today at workSo we're gonna get home around 3am and I'm technically supposed to be at work tomorrow.
Nice! Can't wait to read all about it!We managed to hit Epcot, DHS, and MK over 2 days.
Ahh they do have it at dinner we canceled a dinner there last trip because I wasn't sure
You should get a sign for your house that says this
Awe!!! This is so sweet. She'll always remember this trip for sure!
People do you know how many Mickey bars you could buy with that?
I'm finally here. Can't wait for another awesome TR. What a great looking group. Those kids are adorbs.
Maybe your next career should be a TA.
I love pics and yours are always so cute.
I love this, I chuckle thinking of the Mcallisters in Home Alone.
Again another pic of you two that is awesome.
Of course not the big flirt, but Steve doesn't look like he minds. Maybe if big D would show her little more attention.
Love both dresses so far can't wait to see the rest of her outfits. I hope your telling her how much we're all enjoying her outfits.
Awe made me misty eyed. Yay cool aunt
Best. Picture. Ever!
You're NEVER a hot mess!
I want to raid her closet!
You ALWAYS look great in your selfies! I always look awful and confused
Too funny. Casey is totally on to how fast it can go, but what she is not onto is me putting my knee against the spinner so she can't turn it very fast. She just thinks there is something wrong with the cup
I don't think we've ever gotten the back so I had no idea it swung more back there. Casey would love it. Opposite side of the spectrum, I think your sisters look more terrified than your niece
What a great idea. I'm been thinking about getting Casey pins to trade so she doesn't bug us incessantly to go shopping, but the pennies may work too. Especially with the fancy holder!
Oh you poor things. Kelly especially looks soaked. Glad she and the kiddos were troopers though.
Dying over chunky boat!
This dress is everything!!!! Gonna have to check that shop out!
What a great picture! I had no idea the ground was like that. Can't wait to see it in November!
Looks like you have a wonderful family and everyone had a great time! thanks for sharing
I am following along! I jumped into your last report pretty late! GOing to TRY and keep up with this one, but we leave for the World a week from today!
I'm really enjoying your family trip report. The group photos are awesome! The two character meals at the beginning of the trip must have been so much fun for the kids! We have a birthday celebration at wdw in about two weeks, our group is 17 people. Multiple families, multi generation, very interested in seeing how you managed everything. Always love your trip reports
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Seems like a great trip so far, can't wait to hear more!
I love love love Mickey and the gang in their safari clothes. It is soooo cute. Daisy looks especially precious. Also, your sister's dress makes me hungry too!
I really shouldn't read about Disney food and look at Disney food when it's lunch time. . .
So I'm officially caught up. Thanks for taking a break over Labor Day weekend so I could catch up!
Luckily my house guest left today, while I believe you are still at WDW, so I had the afternoon to catch up as I recovered from my whirlwind weekend!
What a cute photo of you whole family filling up an entire boat!
Nice, glad you were still the cool aunt!
Sounds like a very full day with a lot accomplished! Thanks for showing me pictures of the Tusker House buffet, there looks like there will be stuff on it that Fran will eat, so we should be good. We're doing it for the RoL package (again she was scared off by Tiffin's menu), so we shouldn't go hungry.
A fun day in the books!
Ha I'm glad you weren't offended, it just fit so well
We waited for our table last month also, about 20 minutes. The sitting area outside was packed with people waiting, I guess they routinely run behind.........
lol this was like, my 2nd favorite dessert there! I had 2. It's definitely sweet but I love strawberry cake, it reminded me of the Betty Crocker strawberry cake mix
I LOVE that food dress! Actually I love pretty much all the dresses you wear down there and CS's dresses I've seen so far. Definitely checking out that Etsy seller!
I love your Trip Reports!!! They are absolutely the best. I was at DW from August 25th-31st with my three boys and you are so right about the heat and the rain. Just wow. Animal Kingdom is so tough when it is hot. I also bought the O2 fans...I was only able to get two shipped to Toronto before we left so if we head down next August I am absolutely getting one each for the five of us. Thank you for the tip about the towel too.
I also wanted to ask about where you buy your necklaces? I saw you wear one with the castle and I can't remember if I saw it in your TR or on your instagram but you have one of mickey in silver. They sit off to the side...I love them!!! Looking forward to reading more.
Enjoying your report, we are just back from Disney and we loved the Poly!
Three hour delay I feel for you guys. Glad you had such a great trip though! Yes Irma is causing panic among many clients heading down over the next few days, it's not going to be pretty.
Good luck getting through work today lol, hope you can go home straight after and rest!
Sorry you were delayed, but at least you're getting out of there before Irma wreaks havoc.
It sounds you had a great little getaway! I'm jealous of the time spent at WWOHP.
I love all of your character selfies! Mine never turn out (short arm probs).
OMG where did you both get this dress?? Too cute!
You may have convinced me to add Tusker House to one of my upcoming trips...
That's one thing we didn't get to see on this recent trip that I'm bummed about. Our only 'night' time in Pandora was when the sky was still light enough that none of the effects were really visible.
Guurrrl I am with you on that.
Great meal at Tusker House! Pretty sure we were in that same room in May, and it was great. So much selection, and I could have eaten way more of that bread pudding
Glad that you seem to be successfully getting everyone everywhere at the same time That's usually half the battle.
Pandora at night looks cool, but it seems like it would be kind of annoying if it's not super bright. Drinks look great, though!
And I love that food dress - I am so excited for F&W and I hope your trip is going great! I'm Instagram stalking as usual
Oh, no! I hope you survived today at work
Oh, no! I hope you survived today at work
Nice! Can't wait to read all about it!
When I'm in Disney I usually have an internal alarm that gets me up early, not like race-day early but usually around 7am.
Caylee and Bryan absolutely LOVED to wake us all up when they woke up.
It is actually really cute to be woken up by your niece and nephew who think your room is a new playground
We found out that Sienna's crib wasn't delivered until 2am which is when she finally went to sleep, and I'm assuming when everyone else in that room did too.
I also remembered to leave a mousekeeping envelope.
Amazingly we were all at the entrance to the monorail by 9:35am. Not too shabby. This was after I sent a couple of "Where is everyone" texts at 9:25am.
Of course everyone wants to sit next to me. Cos I'm the cool aunt.
You'll notice that Caylee is not in these pictures because she refused take any. She did NOT like characters. She'd tolerate princesses but that's it.
I love this picture of the realities of traveling with small kids...
Oh yeah, you want to know what a sweat blanket feels like? Go to Disney in August. Good times.
Sienna had a bunch of disposable bibs which were Mickey themed! So cute.
Guess who got suckered into doing the tea cups, the one ride she hates, but because she wants to maintain Cool Aunt status, she goes along with it...
HELP ME
I said 7DMT was not a scary roller coaster at all, and that it was more fun than scary.
UNLESS
You are in the back of the train.
Which we were.
I totally forgot.
So I think from this picture, you can tell I may have lost my Cool Aunt status.
Who needs Mine Train when you have Mickey ice cream bars?
Oh CS found the pressed penny machines and taught Sophie and Mimi all about pressed pennies.
I asked Sophie and Mimi to show me their new pressed penny books and they gladly obliged:
I luckily had a small microfiber towel in my bag, which came in very handy over the week, let me tell you. It could wipe up anything: sweat, rainwater, splashes, wet seats, spills. I would wash it every night and it dried overnight quickly. Just something to note if you don't like to get wet (which is me).
This pictures is from Kelly and it shows all of us on IASW!
Sorry I don't have pictures of the room as it was the last thing I was thinking of when we arrived at 1am
We had a 6:50pm dinner at Tusker so at 5:40pm I had to rally everyone up to head to the bus stop, which of course took 15 minutes before we were all there, which made us right on schedule! I was beginning to get the hang of this!
It was a bit annoying we had to wait so long for a table when we had an ADR but I think we waited close to 20 minutes,
This is where I also happened to have my first DISMeet of the trip!
The incredible @soniam!!!
I look like I have a mohawk from the lamp behind me!
There was also a carving station with salmon and I think a pork roast...I can't remember, but the salmon was good.
Me: Eva what's was your favorite thing you rode today
Eva (I kid you not): The roller coaster!
Me (bewildered): Really?
Eva: Yes (pauses for a bit)
Eva: Auntie Su-Lynn, I'm having a really great time.
Me (bewildered again): Really?
Eva: Yes!
I'm BACK to COOL AUNT status again!!
Kelly and I got the blood orange margaritas
We browsed the gift shop a bit and saw the banshees that people were lining up to buy. No thank you, I'd rather save my 69 dollars for something else.
Disney Magic! I'm going to miss GMR so muchWe ran over to the line for TGMR. They had created an external line with ropes and the posted wait time was 55 minutes, but at least it seemed to be moving. Oh well, this would probably be the shortest time all day. I got in line with Steve and Sophie. Kelly and Honyee took Mimi to ride Toy Story instead as she'd probably not last the hour long wait and she had no particular attachment to this ride. She probably rode it once a few years ago and doesn't remember it. While in line I sent Steve to fill up my popcorn bucket and get us some waters as we braced ourselves for a long wait. What we DID NOT expect was we ended up waiting only 25 minutes until we were seated for the last time in the large ride vehicles:
Caylee is kind of smiling in the Cinderella picture
So jealous that you were able to ride it again! Great pics!! Thanks for sharing!!Goodbye forever The Great Movie Ride, you will be missed!
Jealous of this too. We had planned on using this, but no...we had to deal with going through security every time we park hopped...There, we all purchased Express Bus for the week. Unfortunately we heard that day that it was to be the last week of Express Bus. So sad!
So cute!!Love these of Eva!
I love this picture!they ended with a fun little group picture:
It was the last day for The Great Movie Ride before it closed
We ran over to the line for TGMR. They had created an external line with ropes and the posted wait time was 55 minutes
Kelly and Honyee took Mimi to ride Toy Story instead as she'd probably not last the hour long wait
What we DID NOT expect was we ended up waiting only 25 minutes
We got Gangster as usual. I think I've only gotten Cowboy once!
Kelly and Honyee agreed that it was the best way to park hop!
Chunkysis Disney-bounded as Snow White. Yes it was 95 degrees that day. She did take off the sweater when not in pictures though.