disney trip report

Below you’ll find my "recap" posts about our various trips to Disney parks (mostly Walt Disney World).

  • help i’m still at the restaurant
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    help i’m still at the restaurant

    Ew my wordpress updated and the layout is all ugly! Well here is another Disney trip report. Surprise! We went back to Disney this past weekend. The January trip weather was SO BAD that about halfway through the week, we basically stopped spending money and set it aside to come back another time. We booked a bounceback deal as soon…

  • it’s the disney trip report
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    it’s the disney trip report

    HI. We are back from Disney and I want a do-over, LOL. The weather was actually worse than I anticipated. Forecast was showing us a few days where the upper temps in the afternoon were high 50s/60s, so I thought that’s shorts weather for the boys, I’ll be fine in the warmer stuff I brought with me. Nope. Weather was…

  • ~the cruise report~
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    ~the cruise report~

    Yall I had over 1500 photos to go through when we got home. So it’s taken me a hot minute to get everything lightened (every iphone photo inside had to be lightened…), uploaded, culled, etc. So let’s dig in! Thursday 2/15 we got up bright and early and hit the road. I felt SO BAD the entire time leading up…

  • it’s a world of tears
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    it’s a world of tears

    Well hi I’m back from Disney World. The trip was great, but also weird. It felt rushed. How does a week+ trip feel rushed? I’ve no idea. Luna knew something was up and was saaaaad Wednesday night I went and picked up Kevin. I got to do the surprise I’ve been planning for months. “Hey Kevin are you ready to…

  • disney trip report part 2
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    disney trip report part 2

    Ok this isn’t really trip report but I uploaded Chase’s pics and the pics off the camera last night so here’s some selections from those. Black Widow Grand Flo selfie View from narcoossee’s. Chase takes much better iphone pics than I do. See? Like here’s his photo of his meal at Narcoossee’s. mine looks amateur in comparison LOL View from…

  • im alive… kinda
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    disney trip report part 1

    Well HI (said like the viral cat video) We are obviously back from Disney and I’m still recovering. I had WANTED to post about the trip on Monday (before I forgot everything…) but I was lazy over the weekend and didn’t download our pics. I got my iphone pics downloaded Monday and then had to struggle through individually downloading photopass…

  • Snap back to reality
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    Snap back to reality

    UGH We’re home. Don’t really want to be LOL Because Disney World was fantastic as always. Even though by day 7 we were EXHAUSTED and ready to be home, I still would rather be there of course LMAO. SO! Let’s start at the beginning. Chase and I both took half days off work Friday. I got home and got the…

  • beautiful pain
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    beautiful pain

    Sooooooooo I hinted at it here and there but didn’t out right tell anybody I was going to Disney World the week before Christmas. Part of it was because it was kind of a sudden decision, and part of it was because I wanted to keep it Ash’s trip! Last week was Ash’s birthday and we celebrated it in the…

  • Trip Photos – Round 2
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    Trip Photos – Round 2

    So I wrote the whole trip report out yesterday but of course I only had iphone photos. Today I have our photopass and Chase’s pics uploaded! So here’s a few. Kevin hadn’t met Mr and Mrs Easter Bunny, and we were able to pretty much walk right up and get a photo with them the first day. Honestly I probably…

  • Home again
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    Home again

    We’re home! And I’m sick with a sinus infection AGAIN. I think I’ve come home with a sinus infection from at least 4 of our Orlando trips in the last year. This one is a real bear, it came on Friday night so all day Saturday and Sunday my face HURT. But I’ll get to that later. Let’s start at…

  • The Photopass post
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    The Photopass post

    It’s the traditional post-Disney photopass picture post! In front of the Christmas Tree at Magic Kingdom! The photographer told us to throw our hands up and look like we owned the place LOL We like catching photographers in places we hadn’t seen them before – like this one right outside of Big Thunder Mountain. This one cracks me up. Kevin…

  • One more Disney Trip Report
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    One more Disney Trip Report

    So this trips concludes our #MouseEarsforaYear… our last trip as Annual Passholders (for now — maybe again in a few years??). It’s been really great but honestly I’m so exhausted after this trip (and having 2 so close together) that I’m ready for a few months off LOL CAUTION… there’s some puke in this post so if you don’t like…

  • Photopass Photos, plus some website thoughts
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    Photopass Photos, plus some website thoughts

    Uploaded my photo pass photos last night! Meeting Jack and Sally: Kevin’s face!! LOL Rose made this which Kevin was in stitches over: Kevin and I in front of Pirates, being Captain Hook Me in front of Haunted Mansion, with a ghost friend! End of the night… Kevin and I about to ride our fav! Chase won’t ride it with…

  • Disney, Again
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    Disney, Again

    So we finally got to go on our rescheduled October Disney trip! Thursday we left directly after work, drove to Atlanta to spend the night. Our usual overnight hotel in Columbus was booked solid, so we had them move us to one in Atlanta… and it was not great. (When I said “Oh then just move us to one in…

  • Disney Trip Pics, Part 2, & Restaurant Thoughts
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    Disney Trip Pics, Part 2, & Restaurant Thoughts

    Chase gave me his photos last night! I also wanted to talk a little more about the food, because it is one of my favourite things to talk about. Eating way too much food at ‘Ohana: ‘Ohana thoughts… The food at ‘Ohana was a little bit of a disappointment to me honestly. I mean it was perfectly fine, I guess…

  • Disney World Trip Report/Photos Part 1
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    Disney World Trip Report/Photos Part 1

    To continue from my previous Dragon Con post — we got up Sunday morning at 6 AM and started the drive down into Orlando! YAY! This post consists of my iphone photos and our photopass pics – I haven’t gotten Chase’s photos yet so that will be part 2. SUNDAY! We finished up our audiobook of Deathly Hallows that morning…

  • Disney Photopass photos!
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    Disney Photopass photos!

    Got all of our photopass photos downloaded last night! The Joy & Sadness meet and greet was fun and worth the 40 minute wait. Gotta do one castle shot of course… We met Lilo at Typhoon Lagoon! So exciting! I’d never met Lilo before. They had a photographer stationed at the end of the Crush N’ Gusher who gave us…

  • Back from Disney (Again!)
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    Back from Disney (Again!)

    We had a super short 4th of July trip to Disney over the weekend! I didn’t take a ton of photos on my phone — we forget the power brick for recharging, so I was trying to save power, especially on Monday when we were at Magic Kingdom all day from 8am to midnight! And Sunday when we did Typhoon…

  • Last round of Photos!
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    Last round of Photos!

    I’ve gotten my portfolio updated — I added Disneybound Leia and Edith! And I got Chase’s photos uploaded! Brainfreeze: Me & Kev Me and Kev Part 2 Walking thru Hollywood Studios Oddly enough, this is now the 2nd photo we have of Kevin being menaced by a blow-up Stay Puft Marshmellow Man. This Guardian of the Galaxy group was one…

  • Disney and Megacon Photos – Part 3!
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    Disney and Megacon Photos – Part 3!

    I downloaded our Photopass pictures last night! We used it a lot more this trip than last trip, got a lot of good stuff. On Main Street the first night there… Mine Train… Meeting Cinderella… and Rapunzel… Anna… And Elsa… Also I forgot to say I bought this shirt, I’m wearing it today! Hollywood Studios! Mike! Meeting Olaf… Heading to…