Road Trip!
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jackskellingtonsgirl
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HOLY COW! More trip report! 
We like Tusker House for breakfast, too. If we could ever hit AK in decent weather I might like it. In torrential rain or broiling heat it isn't so much fun.
We like Tusker House for breakfast, too. If we could ever hit AK in decent weather I might like it. In torrential rain or broiling heat it isn't so much fun.
OrlandoMike
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Max was working, I had things to do "backstage"! 
Jenn, it was a pleasure to meet both of you!
Jenn, it was a pleasure to meet both of you!
rpmdfw
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Max was working, I had things to do "backstage"!
Jenn, it was a pleasure to meet both of you!
Max was NOT working that night! I checked!
OrlandoMike
<font color=red>all I can say is beer hurts when i
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Max was NOT working that night! I checked!
Oh he was working all right! Just cuz he didn't come on stage doesn't mean he wasn't "working"!
jenn&nelsonrego
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Friday, July 3, 2009
We were checking out of SSR on Friday and heading over to POFQ for a brief two night stay.
We have never stayed at Port Orleans before...
This was awaiting us...
It was o.k. I loved the theme of the resort, but I have become so spoiled by the DVC rooms that I was glad it was only 2 nights. I am a Disney Resort Snob.
I admit it.
We were both a little hungry, so we headed down to Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory.
Breakfast had just finished, so we were "stuck" with lunch. Nelson and I both ordered the steak sandwich...
This was my sandwich.... his looked exactly the same with the exception of his having onions and peppers on it... yuck!
Dessert was yummy:
We went back to our room and did very little unpacking. Not worth unpacking for only two nights.
Then off to the Magic Kingdom!
I honestly dont know what we did in MK that day... I think we went on the Haunted Mansion and walked around enjoying just being THERE
Around 3p.m., we were both feeling a little hungry and knowing that we had 8p.m. dinner reservations decided to get "lunch"...
We went here:
I love this place! We had never ever even knew it existed until we went there last year for lunch during our Keys to the Kingdom tour. There is always a table available and if you grab a window seat upstairs... AWESOME people watching spot!
We both ordered one of these:
The Anchors Aweigh Tuna sandwich... I am not the biggest tuna salad fan because I usually find it too mayonais-ey, but this is as close to perfect as it is gonna get!
I think we sat there for an hour just eating slowly (DDP stomach overload was setting in) and watching people out the window.
We decided to head in the direction of the exit and just see where our feet took us.
They took us to the Hall of Presidents!
I tried to get some pictures of the inside but there are random heads in all of them....
I know I wasn't supposed to (and Nelson the straight arrow got mad at me for it) but I did take a picture of this:
I didn't use my flash, so dont get on my case about it...
I wanted to head back to the room to change. I know there is not a dress code at Coral Reef in Epcot but I wanted to look halfway decent...
So at 8:35, we were here:
We were seated at the tables immediately on the side of the aquarium glass.
The sad thing was that I was not hungry at all...
As much as I planned our ADR's and such, we didnt make very good use of the DDP in that we paid for some meals OOP thinking that they were a waste of credits, then were stuck with these counter credits at the end... better planning is needed next time...
I ordered this:
Grilled New York Strip Steak with Roasted potatos and various green things.
I cannot order fish while their cousins are swimming on the side of me. The two bites of it that I ate were very yummy.
Nelson had this:
Grilled Mahi Mahi... poor Flipper....
I found out from the waitress at Coral Reef that the non alcoholic drinks listed at the beginning of the drink menu are included in the DDP (just no refills)... I am glad they told me on my last night of DDP...
Anywhooo... I had this:
It was tres yummy!
I didn't get to see the Sea Turtle and was majorly bummed... but these two guys scared the *insert word of choice here* out of me:
I was not paying attention to the aquarium then just happened to look quickly and said kinda loudly "HOLY CRAP", when I realized how loud I was I just started giggling uncontrollably.... I am lucky holy crap is what came out of my mouth...
Up next: Independence Day!
We were checking out of SSR on Friday and heading over to POFQ for a brief two night stay.
We have never stayed at Port Orleans before...
This was awaiting us...
It was o.k. I loved the theme of the resort, but I have become so spoiled by the DVC rooms that I was glad it was only 2 nights. I am a Disney Resort Snob.
I admit it.We were both a little hungry, so we headed down to Sassagoula Floatworks and Food Factory.
Breakfast had just finished, so we were "stuck" with lunch. Nelson and I both ordered the steak sandwich...
This was my sandwich.... his looked exactly the same with the exception of his having onions and peppers on it... yuck!
Dessert was yummy:
We went back to our room and did very little unpacking. Not worth unpacking for only two nights.
Then off to the Magic Kingdom!
I honestly dont know what we did in MK that day... I think we went on the Haunted Mansion and walked around enjoying just being THERE
Around 3p.m., we were both feeling a little hungry and knowing that we had 8p.m. dinner reservations decided to get "lunch"...
We went here:
I love this place! We had never ever even knew it existed until we went there last year for lunch during our Keys to the Kingdom tour. There is always a table available and if you grab a window seat upstairs... AWESOME people watching spot!
We both ordered one of these:
The Anchors Aweigh Tuna sandwich... I am not the biggest tuna salad fan because I usually find it too mayonais-ey, but this is as close to perfect as it is gonna get!
I think we sat there for an hour just eating slowly (DDP stomach overload was setting in) and watching people out the window.
We decided to head in the direction of the exit and just see where our feet took us.
They took us to the Hall of Presidents!
I tried to get some pictures of the inside but there are random heads in all of them....
I know I wasn't supposed to (and Nelson the straight arrow got mad at me for it) but I did take a picture of this:
I didn't use my flash, so dont get on my case about it...
I wanted to head back to the room to change. I know there is not a dress code at Coral Reef in Epcot but I wanted to look halfway decent...
So at 8:35, we were here:
We were seated at the tables immediately on the side of the aquarium glass.
The sad thing was that I was not hungry at all...
As much as I planned our ADR's and such, we didnt make very good use of the DDP in that we paid for some meals OOP thinking that they were a waste of credits, then were stuck with these counter credits at the end... better planning is needed next time...I ordered this:
Grilled New York Strip Steak with Roasted potatos and various green things.
I cannot order fish while their cousins are swimming on the side of me. The two bites of it that I ate were very yummy.
Nelson had this:
Grilled Mahi Mahi...
poor Flipper....I found out from the waitress at Coral Reef that the non alcoholic drinks listed at the beginning of the drink menu are included in the DDP (just no refills)... I am glad they told me on my last night of DDP...
Anywhooo... I had this:
It was tres yummy!
I didn't get to see the Sea Turtle and was majorly bummed... but these two guys scared the *insert word of choice here* out of me:
I was not paying attention to the aquarium then just happened to look quickly and said kinda loudly "HOLY CRAP", when I realized how loud I was I just started giggling uncontrollably.... I am lucky holy crap is what came out of my mouth...
Up next: Independence Day!
jenn&nelsonrego
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Happy Independence Day!
We had some croissants in our room because we had some snack credits from our SSR stay that we needed to use the day before... we snacked on those (we had an ADR at Chef Mickeys at 11 a.m.) and walked around the resort... It was going to be a hot day, but it wasnt so bad yet... We checked out the pool then the Sassagoula river....
Then headed to the Contemporary for:
I love this place and was soooooo looking forward to the pb&j pizza. It was the reason I booked this ADR. I wanted that pizza!
We took this while waiting to be called:
We then took the picture in front of the plate... The woman taking the pictures was not very nice (and actually quite rude), so I refused to smile... I knew I wasn't going to buy it anyway...
Anyway, back to that PB&J pizza... When I didnt see it on my first pass through the bufett line, I asked the waitress who proceeded to tell me it was discontinued!
I was/ am so upset....
Anyway, I drowned my sorrows in a big plate of breakfast food and awaited the characters.
At this point Nelson decided he didnt want to take any more pictures... so I took pics with Donald, Pluto, and Goofy all by my lonesome...
Although, Goofy was able to drag Nelson out of his seat... don't know how he did it...
We left the restaurant and there was nobody (and no photographer) in front of the plate, so we took our own pictures... I think they came out very nice...
Here is the one of me.... (I though I uploaded the one of Nelson and I but I must not have...)
We checked out the stores in the Contemporary, talked to the DVC guy there and then we headed out of the parks because I felt a sniffle coming on and wanted to go get some Tylenol Cold....
We came back and I promptly took my Tylenol Cold and took a nap...
We had dinner rservations at the Turf Club and I was not missing them!
We headed over to the Turf Club...
Some really nice guy (not mentioning any names) had suggested we have Max as a waiter ~ When we arrived, we were disappointed to find out that Max was working on the patio. There was no way I was going to be able to handle eating outside in that heat. So... we unfortunately were not able to have Max as our waiter...
We started with the calamari, it was just so good the first time around...
I have no clue why I can never manage to get the picture before we devour it....
Nelson ordered the Grilled Tuna
and I, still being stuffed from breakfast (and not feeling marvelous) ordered a cheeseburger...
I know, I know...
Nelson was thrilled with his tuna and my burger was good...
We then headed over to the MK for the fireworks... we were originally going to watch from the GF dock or Poly beach but decided to head on over and see what we could see....
We scored a great spot in front of the castle, along with 74,999 of our closest friends (or so I am told... there were 75,000 ppl in MK that night
)
I am going to post the pictures from the fireworks in another post.... dont want to overload this one...
Happy Independence Day!
We had some croissants in our room because we had some snack credits from our SSR stay that we needed to use the day before... we snacked on those (we had an ADR at Chef Mickeys at 11 a.m.) and walked around the resort... It was going to be a hot day, but it wasnt so bad yet... We checked out the pool then the Sassagoula river....
Then headed to the Contemporary for:
I love this place and was soooooo looking forward to the pb&j pizza. It was the reason I booked this ADR. I wanted that pizza!
We took this while waiting to be called:
We then took the picture in front of the plate... The woman taking the pictures was not very nice (and actually quite rude), so I refused to smile... I knew I wasn't going to buy it anyway...
Anyway, back to that PB&J pizza... When I didnt see it on my first pass through the bufett line, I asked the waitress who proceeded to tell me it was discontinued!
I was/ am so upset....Anyway, I drowned my sorrows in a big plate of breakfast food and awaited the characters.
At this point Nelson decided he didnt want to take any more pictures... so I took pics with Donald, Pluto, and Goofy all by my lonesome...
Although, Goofy was able to drag Nelson out of his seat... don't know how he did it...
We left the restaurant and there was nobody (and no photographer) in front of the plate, so we took our own pictures... I think they came out very nice...
Here is the one of me.... (I though I uploaded the one of Nelson and I but I must not have...)
We checked out the stores in the Contemporary, talked to the DVC guy there and then we headed out of the parks because I felt a sniffle coming on and wanted to go get some Tylenol Cold....
We came back and I promptly took my Tylenol Cold and took a nap...
We had dinner rservations at the Turf Club and I was not missing them!
We headed over to the Turf Club...
Some really nice guy (not mentioning any names) had suggested we have Max as a waiter ~ When we arrived, we were disappointed to find out that Max was working on the patio. There was no way I was going to be able to handle eating outside in that heat. So... we unfortunately were not able to have Max as our waiter...
We started with the calamari, it was just so good the first time around...
I have no clue why I can never manage to get the picture before we devour it....
Nelson ordered the Grilled Tuna
and I, still being stuffed from breakfast (and not feeling marvelous) ordered a cheeseburger...
I know, I know...
Nelson was thrilled with his tuna and my burger was good...
We then headed over to the MK for the fireworks... we were originally going to watch from the GF dock or Poly beach but decided to head on over and see what we could see....
We scored a great spot in front of the castle, along with 74,999 of our closest friends (or so I am told... there were 75,000 ppl in MK that night
)I am going to post the pictures from the fireworks in another post.... dont want to overload this one...
jenn&nelsonrego
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Waiting with 74,999 of our closest friends:
4th of July fireworks at the Magic Kingdom:
The castle after the fireworks. It looked beautiful with the stars and stripes...
On the way back to the car we caught this in the Seven Seas Lagoon:
The next day my step mother and sister were flying in (and we were checking out of POFQ and checking into BCV).... This was going to get interesting...
4th of July fireworks at the Magic Kingdom:
The castle after the fireworks. It looked beautiful with the stars and stripes...
On the way back to the car we caught this in the Seven Seas Lagoon:
The next day my step mother and sister were flying in (and we were checking out of POFQ and checking into BCV).... This was going to get interesting...
rosiep
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Jen - You got some great snaps lady!
I like your photos too.
Her snaps beat my snaps hands down.....(I like hands on.....)
OrlandoMike
<font color=red>all I can say is beer hurts when i
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2005
I was just gettting ready to yell at you for not keeping you TR up to date, and you smack us with a double post! Great Job! You guys are too cute having breakfast with Mr. Mouse!
jackskellingtonsgirl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 14, 2004
Now THIS is the sort of trip report I was hoping for! Good job! Love all the pics!
Good job! Love all the pics!
jenn&nelsonrego
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How on earth did I miss this????
I am loving your tip report( It is giving me some good ideas for fall!) and the banter inbetween, hilarious.
Just what I needed on another cold rainy summer day in Pa....
Glad it is helping you get through the weather in PA. We had some rain while down there, but it never really affected our vacation at all. I am not so sweet that I melt so as long as I wasn't wearing a white t-shirt - I was perfectly happy prancing through the rain and jumping in puddles.
You are going to have sooo much fun. I cannot wait to read your TR.
Jen - You got some great snaps lady!
I like your photos too.
You two are nuts!
I was just gettting ready to yell at you for not keeping you TR up to date, and you smack us with a double post! Great Job! You guys are too cute having breakfast with Mr. Mouse!
Hoping to get a triple post in today. There are lots of pictures coming... watch out!
Now THIS is the sort of trip report I was hoping for!
I aim to please!
Hey, you know... my life revolves around the DIS and my TR.
O.K. photos are uploading into photobucket as we speak... The upload of the photos from 7/5 is 35% complete. As long as the church treasurer (or anyone else) doesn't get here soon - I will get it up there!
OrlandoMike
<font color=red>all I can say is beer hurts when i
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jenn&nelsonrego
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
So... A little backstory... During pretty much the whole drive down from MA to FL, my little sister (Katie) was texting me... It went like this:
Katie: Where are you?
Jenn: Maryland
Katie: I should be in Maryland.
Katie: Where are you now?
Jenn: North Carolina
Katie: I should be in North Carolina
Katie: Where are you?
Jenn: Georgia, should be in FL in 10 minutes
Katie (10 minutes later) I should be in FL
Get the drift.... I had told here before we even left that she could come with us if she wanted. All she needed to do was get mom and dads permission and we would be happy to take her with us... We had the 1 bedroom villas so there would not have been any issues.... (so, nelson and I would have to buy pajamas... there is a first time for everything in a marriage right?)
Anyway... back to Katie (where she insists everything belongs - she is soo my sister)...
The Sunday afternoon that we arrived, I get the following text message:
Katie: Were you serious about me coming to Floridaaaaaaaaaaa?
Jenn: Yes Katherine, tell mom to put you on a plane with some money...
So, the back and forth lasted four days...
Katie was coming.
Katie was coming with my step-mother.
The whole family was coming.
Just Katie was coming.
My stepmother, Katie and my littlest brother Nick were coming.
The whole family was coming.
Katie was coming alone....
Then I finally get my step mother on the phone... She doesnt want to put my 15 year old sister on a plane alone...
I think she was just looking for an excuse to come down herself...
I tell her that we can easily accomodate the both of them in our room starting Sunday at BCV... She says she is going to look more into it and call me back... I get a phone call about an hour later. Katie and she will be arriving Sunday at 9:30, they are staying at POR...
What the? I though they were staying with us...
I THOUGHT MY LITTLE SISTER WAS COMING ALONE!!!!
Anywho....
Back to Sunday, July 5...
They arrive at MCO at around 9:30... We were just about to check into BCV... They were taking the Magical Express. I tell Katie to text me when they see the gates to WDW so I have a headsup... She does... The fun begins...
First, our room at BCV (which is now my absolute favorite resort in WDW)
DANG IT! The tresurer has just showed up... guess the rest of this saga will have to wait. UGH! I hate her!
So... A little backstory... During pretty much the whole drive down from MA to FL, my little sister (Katie) was texting me... It went like this:
Katie: Where are you?
Jenn: Maryland
Katie: I should be in Maryland.
Katie: Where are you now?
Jenn: North Carolina
Katie: I should be in North Carolina
Katie: Where are you?
Jenn: Georgia, should be in FL in 10 minutes
Katie (10 minutes later) I should be in FL
Get the drift.... I had told here before we even left that she could come with us if she wanted. All she needed to do was get mom and dads permission and we would be happy to take her with us... We had the 1 bedroom villas so there would not have been any issues.... (so, nelson and I would have to buy pajamas... there is a first time for everything in a marriage right?)
Anyway... back to Katie (where she insists everything belongs - she is soo my sister)...
The Sunday afternoon that we arrived, I get the following text message:
Katie: Were you serious about me coming to Floridaaaaaaaaaaa?
Jenn: Yes Katherine, tell mom to put you on a plane with some money...
So, the back and forth lasted four days...
Katie was coming.
Katie was coming with my step-mother.
The whole family was coming.
Just Katie was coming.
My stepmother, Katie and my littlest brother Nick were coming.
The whole family was coming.
Katie was coming alone....
Then I finally get my step mother on the phone... She doesnt want to put my 15 year old sister on a plane alone...
I think she was just looking for an excuse to come down herself...
I tell her that we can easily accomodate the both of them in our room starting Sunday at BCV... She says she is going to look more into it and call me back... I get a phone call about an hour later. Katie and she will be arriving Sunday at 9:30, they are staying at POR...
What the? I though they were staying with us...I THOUGHT MY LITTLE SISTER WAS COMING ALONE!!!!
Anywho....
Back to Sunday, July 5...
They arrive at MCO at around 9:30... We were just about to check into BCV... They were taking the Magical Express. I tell Katie to text me when they see the gates to WDW so I have a headsup... She does... The fun begins...
First, our room at BCV (which is now my absolute favorite resort in WDW)
DANG IT! The tresurer has just showed up... guess the rest of this saga will have to wait. UGH! I hate her!
OrlandoMike
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jenn&nelsonrego
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Lizzie Bordon took an axe..
Gave the tresurer 40 whacks!
I have told you that Lizzie Borden was a member of this church right?
Maybe I can sneak some pictures in (or an ax) when her back is turned...
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