October 31st Hollywood Studios and Fantasmic

So while we are waiting for Monsters Inc to start i thought i would begin my report for yesterday. This was an early day for us. We had to be on the bus by 7 am because we had a 8:20 ressie for Crystal Palace. This was so nice. I really enjoyed getting into the park before it opened and I Loooved the potato casserole. The meal was wonderful and we where seated before our time and had our visitors at our table in no time. Alex got them to sign his cast and he was really happy with that. After Crystal Palace we headed into the park around 9:20. We started at Adventure land and worked our way around the magic kingdom. We hit all the rides and and had a great time. We needed to head to Dhs around 4 so we finished up and headed out by about 345. Ok. Shows staring more later. Love ya ladies. Talk to u soon

So we got to the bus right around the time we had planned and headed on our way to Disney's Hollywood Studios. According to the time guide b4 we left home it was a 730 close night with one showing on fanatasmic. Well when we got there we found out it was going to be a 9pm close with two showings. So we decided to hit some attractions. Get our dinner and do the 9pm show. Great choice in my opinion. We did the movie ride and midway mania. As well as the Narnia exhibit and then headed over to get dinner on Sunset at the quick service. The boys had ribs but I wasn't hungry so I just had their baked beans. After that we found the wheelchair entrance for Fantasmic and then waited til it was time. The cast member at the gate was great at keeping alex entertained and had him help her direct traffic leaving the first showing. Finally it was tine to take that Long Long walk up to the theatre. We
where seated in the top handicap seating. Best place in my opinion.

So like I said we where seated for our first time seeing Fantasmic . We skipped this last time because it was a bit more crowded than we would have liked to deal with. So this was a def this trip. Since it was Halloween night the numbers weren't too bad since most people wanted to go to MNSSHP on actual Halloween. The show was wonderful as we expected. Got lots of great photos and both guys enjoyed it as well. After the show was over we wait for the crowds to clear some before we headed out. Then we wandered some shops on the way to the exit. Got some Christmas gifts for Alex and then headed back to the hotel. Jason went to the room to get our mugs and I headed to the food court with the kid to finally get a steak and cheese wrap for my dinner. After that it was back to the room to get ready for the next day and go to sleep. Hollywood studios again tomorrow. More soon.

October 30th Epcot and Kona Cafe

So yesterday was Epcot day. Our first park day. We got up early so we could be there when it opened. soon as we did we went in road spaceship earth since it had no line yet. Then we got Alex's GAC. Headed over to nemo because i didnt get to ride that last time. When that was done we explored the sea then headed over to The Lqnd. Road Soarin and Living the Land. we really enjoy both. From there we headed to club cool cause Jason really wanted to go. Tried all but the beverly. lol. I really liked the china one which was watermelon. Yummy. Then we headed to test track. Had a blast.. literally. Afterwards we headed to the world showcase to take in some food and wine festival goodness. Rode the ride in mexico and had a yummy Empanada. Did some more walking in the world showcase to get to Japan. ( the kids goal) then road friendship 2 back to canada and headed back to the room to rest b4
dinner at Kona. More to come....


Time to finish up our epcot day report. Left off at going back to our room to rest before kona. So we rested in our rooms and set the alarm so we would have plenty of time to be ready for dinner. Unfortunatly for us the busses where very crowded as where the monorails so when all was said and done we ended up being 3 minutes late to Kona. It ended up being not a big deal and they had us seated in 2 mins. Our waiter was pretty nice and we ordered our drinks and Jason got his lapu lapu and i got a blue glowtini. Holy damn was mine strong. Jason drank both lofl.
Jason ended up having the teriyaki new york strip and alex and i had the rib eye. Both meals where great and dessert was wonderful. Jason had the kilauea torte alex had the one with cotton candy and I had bananna chocolate creme brulee. Holy yum. After that we had planned to go to Mk for xtra magic but where beat so we took our goodies(pineapple bread to go lol) and went back to pop and called it a night. Good day. Tired bodies.

Jason got a Lapu Lapu @ Kona. I got a blue glowtini

October 29th Downtown Disney and Mini Golf! No Park today

I would say today has been a pretty nice non park vacation day. We started off around 9 this morning. Showered and headed out. We planned to go check out Animal Kingdom Lodge but decided to do it later since alex really wanted to go to downtown disney. So off we went. We did some shopping. Mostly for alex. Got legos and a perry platypus and some nightmare before christmas silly bandz. We had lunch at Earl of Sandwich( we took pics) it was really nice. wandered around some more than decided to come back to the room to chill a bit. Hung here for a few hours then headed out to go play fantasia minigold. Now I a. not sure what disney was thinking with this one. The place is really nice but has no direct bus. so u have to get us bus to swan resort and wak. Worth the hassle but geesh. After that and a long trip back we ate dinner at pop. It was yummy. I had a steak wrap and the guys had
burgers. Now we are in for the night to rest and get ready for Epcot tomorrow. Night All

We are in the 80's building 9.. hell of a walk but alex loves the pac man and rubix cube. Heading to the contemporary now for Chef Mickey's. Stopped at the pop gift shop first and got stuffed jack and zero for alex. Gotta stop on the way back to get our refillable mugs.

Got our first souveniers so far. Halloween disney silly bands( on his cast lol) and a stuffed jack and zero.. total spent 30$

Arrived safely. Will update soon.

Arrived safely. Will update soon. Love you loopie ladies.

So fall folliage really looks diffrent from 32000 feet. Took off a few ago and are scheduled for an ontime landing possibly early. The flight is very full. Overbooked even and they asked for 6 volunteers to bump and recieve free roundtrip tickets. If it was just me and jason we would. I had already thought about it.. but the idea of an extra 3 hour wait made alex all freaked lol.. thankfully 6 single riders where willing to bump. So we are in the air and on the way. Jason is listening to his ipod. Alex is using my head sets to listen to radio disney on the free satelite radio. And I am i just wishing my nose wasn't so congested lol

Breakfast with some big birds. This is the view from our breakfast seats at tgifridays

Waiting at the airport with figity magoo. We had to get here earlier than we would have liked so we didnt get stuck in pittsburgh business rush. So now we can't check our bags for another 45 minutes

Always something to make the plans go crazy.

So the kids flag football season ended a week early due to injury. He fell ( got run over more like it) on the field on Thursday. He twisted his ankle and landed wrong on his wrist. The dr at the hospital thought it was broken but the xrays where clean. Just a nasty sprain. Its bruised now and hurting him but its up in a splint and bandange with a sling for support. Its annoying but its hurting him less in the sling than it was without it so thats a plus. Course he has to wear it until friday at least and we leave for Disney on thursday morning. He will be wearing it til then and then after if needed to protect it from the oeople at the parks who aren't always cautious with the bumping into small humans. lol

Well the good news is we finally won a flag football game today. 28-0. The kids did great. Bad news is I am still cold. We have been inside since 7pm and I swear everything is frozen still. Lol. The kid is happy so thats a plus. Tonight should have been the last game of the season but since we have had sooo many cancellations this season we still have 3 games left. Thursday of this week and then Monday and Wednesday of next week. Team pictures are friday also. At this point we don't plan to go to the games next week since we have to be ready to leave for our trip on Thursday and the kid needs to be complelty caught up on his school work before we leave.

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This time 9 days from

This time 9 days from today we will be eating at Chef Mickey's. Yum can't wait.

Sad Day

Dreading leaving the house in a few minutes. Today is the first of two days of viewings and a funeral for my aunt. She passed away on the 13th after an 8 month long battle with cancer. She was only 51 years old. It sucks and there is no better words to explain it. She had so much left to do in life and her children have so many more years left when they needed their mom to guide them threw lifes snares and cheer them at lifes triumphs. :(

Hmm. Will it let me send pictures to post via text?

So here is yet another attemp at mastering the art of the blog via text. These are the only two reasons I am worried about going on vacation. Our new kittens. One is 10 months old and one is 12 weeks old. We lost our other furrie friends Kovu and Tigger over the summer :(

So I am hoping to use this blog a bit more in the next few weeks to keep track of our Disney vacation. We will not have internet access so the ability to text message a blog post is appealing. So trying this out to see how it works. Fingers crossed. We leave in 12.5 days :)