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Momma to a Princess and a little Prince!
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- Nov 4, 2005
Saturday Dec 5 - part 2, EPCOT
So without our stroller, we hop in the car and head over to Epcot.
we were suprised at how close we got to the front...it was no more than a 5 minute walk from teh car to the gate....but Melissa didn't want to walk it. UGH!!
Why wait for the damn tram to fill up when you can walk and be there before the tram even leaves?!?!?! Whatever, so we wait for the trap.
WE SEE THE BALL!
We're in!! And the 1st thing we do is RUN to Sunshine seasons for food! It's not Joe's favourite place, in fact, he kinda hates it. But Electric Umbrella is just burgers and i didn't want to head all the way into World Showcase to eat. Joey was already throwing a fit.
Before we get to food, let me tell you about my BFF Melissa. Melissa and I met in 7th grade when we were in band, then on the yearbook staff. We've been best friends since. Our high school marching band went to Disney Music Days our Freshman and Senior years.....that's the only time she's ever been. We were seniors in 1994.....all we saw was MK and Epcot. I thought she was paying attenition to what i was saying the past 18 months about the trip, but i guess she wasn't. either that or you just really have to KNOW what's going on to be able to understand. Joe has always said that he's just along for the ride when we go to Disney, he hardly knows where we stay. Amyway, i think i explained the DDP to her at every meal. And Sunshine Seasons was NOT the best place to start. UGH! We walk from the bakery section and head all the way down, checking out the choices. Jackie got the kids chicken and mashed potatoes meal. I knew i was getting the roasted chicked and potatoes. Very filling and i could share with the kids if I needed to. Joe had the Mongolian beef, and Melissa had the Cashew Chicken. I only got 1 kids meal, knowing neither of them would eat a full one, and i wanted to try and save a few credits. i was right, as Joey started his MAJOR hissy fit! OMG he was screaming and kicking and he came really damn close tothrowing a tray of food on the floor. It was totally our fault, we should have just stopped at a McDonalds on the freeway before we got to WDW. He was tired and hungry and was now surrounded by 35000 other tired hungry people. I was a bad mom......i allowed him to be calmed down by eating a chocolate chip brownie.
I know....super bad......but it calmed him down and i was totally OK with buying him a hotdog or pretzel or whatever as soon as we walked out of Sunshine Seasons, just if he would shut up and stop crying. 4 meals at Sunshine seasons for lunch came to $49.76! YIKES I love the DDP!
Even thought he had stopped crying, Joey was still not cooperating with anything. He didn't want to go on the boat ride at Living With the Land. So we left the Land and headed over to Living Seas to do Nemo that i knew he would enjoy. He was fine until had to wait....and it really wasn't even waiting! All we did was slowly walk thru the queue. But he just wanted to be carried. He was fine as soon as we got on the ride and actually relaxed and enjoyed himself! YAY It's gonna be a good day!!
Head off Nemo and go to walk around the Seas and look in the aquariums. Then we went in to Turtle Talk w Crush. i LOVE this attraction! I can't figure out how it's done! and the kids LOVE crush....DUDE he's totally awesome!
Knowing that we were going to be back in a few days for Dinner at Coral Reef, we didnt' linger. And we have an early ADR at Akershus too, so we'll be doing FW later in the week too, so we headed out to World Showcase. But 1st, we had to get a stroller......Joey was demanding to be carried. I couldn't blame him...he'd been awake about 12hrs and was in no mood for walking. So i had to run back to the front of the park and spend $31 friggin dollars to rent a double stroller! I was so pissed off!!
We decided to start at Canada and begin our Drink Around the World foray!! Pull out my list and see what we can find in Canada....ummm......a beer cart. yeah, no one wasnt't any canadian beer, so we continued on to UK. On the way, this guy just totally slams into Joe!
He looks at him and says "We have to stop meeting like this!" I'm like OH **** some drunk *** fool is going to ruin my 1st day of Vacation!! then Joe starts laughing! I finally look up and about DIED!! Standing in front of us is a guy the Joe used to work with when we 1st got married!! HOW WEIRD!! Now the freaky part.......When we were here in December 2005 before Joey was born....we ran into this exact same guy!! At Festival of the Lion King!! It was kinda funny...we chatted for a few minutes then hurried on. The weather was....eh....not great but not horrible. It definately wasn't sunny, but we weren't getting rained on either. But it was rather chilly, we all had our sweatshirts still on. So no drinks in Canada....I knew we'd find something in UK! 1st we came to the beer cart, but i can't stand beer. it's gross. I knew that i wanted to try the Welsh Dragon i'd read about and would have to go into the Rose and Crown pub to get it. So off i go........looking at the menu i decided against the welsh dragon and instead got the Magical Star that comes with the glow cube. 
Oh it was YUMMY!! Melissa got an English Rose, and we got Joe the Stella Aromis....a semi-dark english beer. We were all good to go now!!
After drinks we see Mary Poppins, our 1st character of the trip. Jackie pops out of the stroller so fast she almost tipped it over.
She grabs her autograph book and runs to wait in line. (i've discovered why we can never get as much done in parks as other people....we spend 1/2 the damn day waiting for autogrpahs!)
So without our stroller, we hop in the car and head over to Epcot.
we were suprised at how close we got to the front...it was no more than a 5 minute walk from teh car to the gate....but Melissa didn't want to walk it. UGH!!
Why wait for the damn tram to fill up when you can walk and be there before the tram even leaves?!?!?! Whatever, so we wait for the trap.
WE SEE THE BALL!
We're in!! And the 1st thing we do is RUN to Sunshine seasons for food! It's not Joe's favourite place, in fact, he kinda hates it. But Electric Umbrella is just burgers and i didn't want to head all the way into World Showcase to eat. Joey was already throwing a fit.
Before we get to food, let me tell you about my BFF Melissa. Melissa and I met in 7th grade when we were in band, then on the yearbook staff. We've been best friends since. Our high school marching band went to Disney Music Days our Freshman and Senior years.....that's the only time she's ever been. We were seniors in 1994.....all we saw was MK and Epcot. I thought she was paying attenition to what i was saying the past 18 months about the trip, but i guess she wasn't. either that or you just really have to KNOW what's going on to be able to understand. Joe has always said that he's just along for the ride when we go to Disney, he hardly knows where we stay. Amyway, i think i explained the DDP to her at every meal. And Sunshine Seasons was NOT the best place to start. UGH! We walk from the bakery section and head all the way down, checking out the choices. Jackie got the kids chicken and mashed potatoes meal. I knew i was getting the roasted chicked and potatoes. Very filling and i could share with the kids if I needed to. Joe had the Mongolian beef, and Melissa had the Cashew Chicken. I only got 1 kids meal, knowing neither of them would eat a full one, and i wanted to try and save a few credits. i was right, as Joey started his MAJOR hissy fit! OMG he was screaming and kicking and he came really damn close tothrowing a tray of food on the floor. It was totally our fault, we should have just stopped at a McDonalds on the freeway before we got to WDW. He was tired and hungry and was now surrounded by 35000 other tired hungry people. I was a bad mom......i allowed him to be calmed down by eating a chocolate chip brownie.
I know....super bad......but it calmed him down and i was totally OK with buying him a hotdog or pretzel or whatever as soon as we walked out of Sunshine Seasons, just if he would shut up and stop crying. 4 meals at Sunshine seasons for lunch came to $49.76! YIKES I love the DDP!Even thought he had stopped crying, Joey was still not cooperating with anything. He didn't want to go on the boat ride at Living With the Land. So we left the Land and headed over to Living Seas to do Nemo that i knew he would enjoy. He was fine until had to wait....and it really wasn't even waiting! All we did was slowly walk thru the queue. But he just wanted to be carried. He was fine as soon as we got on the ride and actually relaxed and enjoyed himself! YAY It's gonna be a good day!!
Head off Nemo and go to walk around the Seas and look in the aquariums. Then we went in to Turtle Talk w Crush. i LOVE this attraction! I can't figure out how it's done! and the kids LOVE crush....DUDE he's totally awesome!
Knowing that we were going to be back in a few days for Dinner at Coral Reef, we didnt' linger. And we have an early ADR at Akershus too, so we'll be doing FW later in the week too, so we headed out to World Showcase. But 1st, we had to get a stroller......Joey was demanding to be carried. I couldn't blame him...he'd been awake about 12hrs and was in no mood for walking. So i had to run back to the front of the park and spend $31 friggin dollars to rent a double stroller! I was so pissed off!!
We decided to start at Canada and begin our Drink Around the World foray!! Pull out my list and see what we can find in Canada....ummm......a beer cart. yeah, no one wasnt't any canadian beer, so we continued on to UK. On the way, this guy just totally slams into Joe!
He looks at him and says "We have to stop meeting like this!" I'm like OH **** some drunk *** fool is going to ruin my 1st day of Vacation!! then Joe starts laughing! I finally look up and about DIED!! Standing in front of us is a guy the Joe used to work with when we 1st got married!! HOW WEIRD!! Now the freaky part.......When we were here in December 2005 before Joey was born....we ran into this exact same guy!! At Festival of the Lion King!! It was kinda funny...we chatted for a few minutes then hurried on. The weather was....eh....not great but not horrible. It definately wasn't sunny, but we weren't getting rained on either. But it was rather chilly, we all had our sweatshirts still on. So no drinks in Canada....I knew we'd find something in UK! 1st we came to the beer cart, but i can't stand beer. it's gross. I knew that i wanted to try the Welsh Dragon i'd read about and would have to go into the Rose and Crown pub to get it. So off i go........looking at the menu i decided against the welsh dragon and instead got the Magical Star that comes with the glow cube. Oh it was YUMMY!! Melissa got an English Rose, and we got Joe the Stella Aromis....a semi-dark english beer. We were all good to go now!!After drinks we see Mary Poppins, our 1st character of the trip. Jackie pops out of the stroller so fast she almost tipped it over.
She grabs her autograph book and runs to wait in line. (i've discovered why we can never get as much done in parks as other people....we spend 1/2 the damn day waiting for autogrpahs!)
it only took me 1 drink....I so could never make it all the way around! 
moving on.
for the whole TR .
FW!
and we could have had a quick meet at least. Anyway sorry you were not thrilled with 
All I knew was that the Jonas Bros were supposed to be there, and of course, about a million extra screaming girls and cheerleaders! So i casually say to him, "Hey, you wanna see the Jonas Bros?" 
Yeah, he wasn't impressed. 
ixiedust: DANG! No autograph page for her! 
