Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts

Monday, March 17, 2008

Disneyland Updates

Ok, so I haven't put up anything from Disneyland yet... I know, I know... I'm working on it! Literally...

It took forever to get things back to normal at work, man those guys rely on me ALOT! So because I was working double time at work and a hours each night, I never really got a chance to do anything last week. And this weekend, we cleaned up everything and went through all of our Disney bags.

Most of the bags were from Disneyland, some of that stuff was in the photo in the previous post. Also included were gifts for everyone, sorry, no photos... you will just need to be surprised.

I have downloaded all of our photos, some 1300+ in total. I have also gone through all of them and selected the best one, still a large number of 350, but worth it. I am now going through all of those, organizing them, and getting them ready to post. I plan on doing two different types of posts.... photo posts and review posts (which will include a few photos). I hope to start these soon....

For those of you who are family, I will be bringing all of our photos with me when we come home this coming weekend.

Videos are a different story... The videos are still on the original tapes, I haven't even had time to move them from the tapes to my computer. Let alone the fact that I haven't had time to learn how to create videos/DVDs from them. I also don't even know how well they came out. I may bring the camera and tapes with us, so we can play them back for everyone... who knows.... So the videos may be a bit longer....

Until next time, I will leave you with the following photo. This is us, Kali, and Brittany onboard the Lilly Belle Parlour Car. This was Walt's private railroad car and was (until recently) used only for VIPs (such as Presidents, royalty, executives, etc...).


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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Man, A Ton of Stuff

Despite what I will say in the future, we did come back with a ton of stuff from DL!

Friday, March 7, 2008

Yes, we are home

After an hour or so delay in Houston and one aborted landing attempt, we are finally home! The cat is loving all over Charlotte and I'm checking the computer. I will doing several posts over the weekend, to chronical everything that we did, our opinions, etc.....

So stay tuned!

We are on the ground!

Bad Weather In Orlando

They are talking about really bad weather in Orlando. They are discussing options right now... So at this time we have no idea when we are going to make it. We will update when we can.

Finally made Houston

Took about 30 mins longer than expected, at least we don't have to change planes. Will update when we get to Orlando.

More VIVA LAS VEGAS!

Ooooo.. Pretty Lights

VIVA LAS VEGAS!

Bye Bye Disneyland


After a wonderful meal last night, we are finally leaving. Already checked out and just waiting for the bus to the airport. BTW our room is the one in the center with the windows open and lights on

I checked the wether this morning, it doesn't look good right now. But hopefully it wil be gone and over by time we come in. I just hope everyone in the path of the storms are safe until they pass.

So, until Las Vegas... Chat with you later!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Last Night

Well, we finalized all of our shopping, packed our bags, and heading out soon for our last dinner. We are having a special dinner at Hook's Point here in the Disneyland Hotel.

I have checked on our flights, looks like everything is still ontime and nothing cancelled yet. I know they are talking about some bad thunderstorms in Orlando late tomorrow night, I will need to check the weather in the morning.

We will be leaving here around 9:20am and head to Las Vegas. From there, we will transfer to our next plane, that will take us into Orlando (after a quick stop in Houston I believe).

As before, I will be posting quick updates to let everyone know that we are doing good. We are expected in Orlando at approx 8:30pm tomorrow night. We probably won't call anyone tomorrow night, since we will have been up since 5-6am your time. I will make a post when we land, have our bags, and are on our way home that night.

We will probably make the calls Saturday, probably from Disney World if I know someone. She is missing her parks really bad, especially Fantasmic since it wasn't playing while we were here. Of course, the Epcot Entrance Loop playing in the World of Disney here didn't help things. You know your a true Disney park fan if you just spent a week at Disneyland and the first thing we want to do is go to Disney World!

Talk to y'all later!

Almost done!

Got in another viewing of the Tiki Room and the 50th Movie. I don't know why so many people hate on that movie, I thought it was good. Just had some Ice Cream on Main Street and getting ready to ride the monorail. That will be our final attraction here...

We have a little more shopping to do, some packing for tomorrow, and dinner at the resort. Disneyland is a nice place to visit, but our home is the WORLD!

Nemo Sub Ride

So the Nemo sub ride was pretty good. Don't know if it something I would wait in line for again (at least not until next visit). Noticed a lot of the animation was the same from the Nemo Seas ride at Epcot.

More on that later.. Time for lunch!

Bruce Minnick Jr

Insane Mornings


So the mornings here are insane! Each morning, it seems that the parks were openned at different times. Some mornings for EMH, when it wasn't advertised. Just really weird...

And of course everyone runs to a specific ride... Nemo Subs. This ride has the worst capacity and people flow issues I have ever seen! The queue is just one continuous switch back and can normally take 2 hours. There is no themeing to the queue, so there is nothing to keep your mind off the wait. If this was RCT the peeps would be royally ticked off....

I really hope this ride is worth wasting our morning. At least it was fun watching people complain about us eating our breaksast in line. HEH :)

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

One more day!

Well, as we sit down for tonights parade, we realized that we only have one more day. Which is fine, we are ready to come home.

There are some things here that are better than at WDW, but there are other things that are better at WDW than here. And there are some things that would be better with a mixture of both!

Well, we just spent a boatload on gifts for the family. No we aren't going to say what, your just going to have to come down and see us!

I may do another post tonight, but no guarantees :)

Not Fair

So they have the same Siemens games as we have over at Epcot. They even use the same name. And what is worse, no mention of Epcot at all....

So not fair....

Can't we have something to ourselves?

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Aladdin was awesome!

So Aladdin was awesome... I hope the videos come out good! Heading over to tomorrow land to see what the times are and to get something to eat....

Aladdin Show

Rode Monsters twice, great ride! Sitting and waiting for the Aladdin show. Char is really excited about this one!

Bruce Minnick Jr

Slacking Some More...

Sorry about yesterday, but my phone didn't charge the night before and I ran out od juice. The Indy photo was done about midday, but didn't go out until this morning...

Things are all better this morning and we will be heading to DCA this morning. We have already done a few things in Hollywood, going back to do them a few more times. We walked through the rest of DCA and we were not that impressed.

We spent yesterday redoing Fantasyland and a few other rides (including several rides on Indy). All we really have left is to get some photos from Tomorrowland and Main Street, we probably will reride a few more. Maybe even finally ride the Submarine ride. The park wasn't eve open 15 mins yesterday and the wait was already up to 2 hours.... And no fast pass... INSANE!

Stopping by the Rainforest Café for breakfast... Chat with you later..