Hi Ho Hi Ho its off to the World I go! Trip Report Aug 1-8th

[foreverbelle]

I just returned from a wonderful week down at the happiest place on Earth. So let it begin.

Who we are:
Andy-My DH 31 yr old. Graphic Artist. Hated Disney with a passion until our honeymoon and now is just much of a Disney freak as myself.
Aleisha-Me. 29 yr old. Staffing Assistant. Been a Disney freak for most of my life. I am also allergic to Beef, pork and dairy which means a lot of my food reports will be totally different.

We live in the DC area, about 25 minutes outside of it to be in fact, and head down to the world at least once a year.

There is another player in here, we have a six month old son, Logan. We originally planned on taking him, but my mom and dad offered to watch him while we were down.


Day 1:

August. 1. 2009

We were at Dulles International airport at five in the morning, for our originally scheduled 7:40 am flight. Grabbed a bagel and a soda and sat there waiting. Now let me say, when we booked the flight, we were thinking great, we can get down there early, enough our day and not have to worry about anything. But after sitting on the plane for an hour after we were supposed to take off we were seriously doubting the whole thing. Apparently they had some issues with the plane and couldn't decide if they were going to need a new plane. Lucky for us, it all turned out well and we were on our way an hour later than usual.

Hit up the ME and for the first time, was able to sit right up front so that I could watch as we passed through the Golden Sign we all love. Let me tell you, I don't know who was more excited. Myself or the five year old across from us.



We got to Old Key West and checked in, using online check in. What an easy process, dif. reccomend it if you get a chance. We found that our room wasn't ready yet so we went down to DTD while we waited. Did some minor shopping knowing that we would be there for the entire week. When we got the text, that our room was ready we headed back to check out the room, before hitting up Poly for dinner that night.


We had reservations for 'OHannas that evening. Once again, we love this place. Plenty for us to eat, though there were a few mixups with my allergies but it was quickly fixed. While we were eating, there was a family beside us that let their kid watch a portable DVD player the entire time they were eating, which we thought was sort of strange. We think he may have had Autisim or something but weren't sure.

Some food sample:


Noodles.


My husbands Hawaiian Bread.

On to Magic Kingdom where we road Haunted Mansion and Big Thunder Mountain. The last time we were in Disney, I was pregnant and Big Thunder had been down so it was a double pleaure for both my husband and I to actually be riding it once again. While I enjoyed being pregnant down in the world, it made riding the rides that much more enjoyable this go around. You forget how much you love them until you can't ride them.

By this point it was late, and we had been up since four in the morning, and while wanted to do a lot more, exhaustion ruled out and we headed back to OKW to take a much needed sleep before we hit the parks hard the following day.

Day two to come...

[WDWmazprty]

Great so far, can't wait to see more!

[foreverbelle]

Day two-

August 2, 2009

This was a long day!

We decided to take our time in the morning to enjoy our resort....





We headed to Hollywood Studios at 9:30am..where we hit up Toy Story Mania right away thinking we were going to have to fastpass it. We were quite surprised by the 40 minute wait, not bad for a popular ride we thought. Once again Andy and I played against one another, as usual. But it was still a good time. After we headed out of the ride, we ran into a couple of characters and I was able to jump in line for a quick photo.





We then made our way over to RNRC, decided to fastpass it. We grabbed some lunch and tried to stay out of the heat which was incredibly hot.

We watched the Indiana Show while our fast passes for RNRC time came up....



After RNRC, we headed to EPCOT. We had dinner ressie's in Canada and it is my husbands favorite park so we wanted to spend the majority of the day.

Epcot was busy, since some of the cast from Deadliest Catch was there, we weren't lucky enough to get in line, my husband was a bit sad but we were able to jump on Melstrom (sp?) and at the end of the ride, we were able to caught glimpses of the cast members. Which made up for the not standing in line. Soarin' was packed, and the fast passes had already been distributed for the day so we decided to skip it enjoying the Countries, Mexico, Norway and hitting up Nemo.

We had always wanted to eat at LeCellier and were finally able to this trip. I was skeptical to begin with. Everyone hyped up this place to the point I was afraid I would be dissapointed. Let me say. I wasn't it lived up to everything the people said, if not more. It was fabulous.

Andy's meal:

Filet Mignon and the Chocholate Mousse:






Mine:

Roasted Chicken and Veggies. Minus sauces, butter and etc. With Coconut Sorbet





It was the best meal we had ever had at Disney...by far!

And since Magic Kingdom had EMH for the evening, we followed Epcot by MK for the evening hit up BTMR again, and caught the tail end of SpectroMagic at the back of the park before we decided to call it a night. We took our time heading for the front, along with everyone else. Because of this we did not return to our resort til well after one in the morning....

Day 3 to follow...

[luvlifeinfl]

Aliesha,

You guys looked great and love the report! You know for some of us that still have days to go before our trip gets here, we hang on every word of detail you provide, hoping to get a fix through the postings.

[Beccone]

I'm enjoying your trip report, looking forward to reading more!

[foreverbelle]

Day 3

August 3. 2009

Because yesterday was a long long day, we chose to take today at a much slower pace. We had an appointment with our DVC rep in the morning before having them drop us off at Animal Kingdom. We went straight to Everest where we grabbed a fast pass, and were shocked to see a short line and hoped on immediately. Yeti report, from all I could see it was working the eyes lite, he moved etc. Which apparently he didn't do last year when my husband and sister rode it.

Interesting enough, after Everest we rode Dinosaur, which wasn't working like it normally did. Even still, the ride scared the daylights out of me but was still fun. The picture was classic.

After Dinosaur, we hit up the Flame Tree BBQ for lunch, and ended up getting a free meal out of it. The server was very rude and didn't understand what we were asking. We ended up with several lemonades we didn't order and all. The manager quickly came out, and apologized refunding us for the lunch.

We had gotten passes for the Safari and where waiting for our time slot when the skies opened up and it down poured....The rain cooled things off briefly, and when the skies were once again shinning we were surprised to find a hidden Mickey in a most unusual spot:



Who knew Disney had that kind of Magic!

Finally our time for the safari was up and we hoped on board for our safari!

After the safari we jumped a bus to check out the AKL, a resort we had never before checked out. Though its not our style, it was beautiful!





It began to rain again!

After checking out the resort, we headed for DTD Where we had dinner reservations at Capt Jacks

Again, we had heard some pretty iffy things regarding the food here. So we were pretty unsure of what to expect. But overall it was enjoyable. And ok so maybe the view that we had helped a lot...




Andy's meal.






Aleisha's meal.


Our view of the gorgeous sunset!



After dinner, we strolled along the Downtown Area. I have to say after the hustle and bustle of the previous day, Day 3, was actually quite relaxing and very nice.

[HollyBelle]

Great report! I love the "hidden mickey" cloud!!

[mouselvrmom]

I second the great hidden mickey cloud! I'm loving your pictures!

[blackthidot]

Awesome stuff! Rock the red eh? Ummmmm yeah we did! j/k

I love AO, and AS!

[foreverbelle]

Originally Posted by blackthidot

Awesome stuff! Rock the red eh? Ummmmm yeah we did! j/k

I love AO, and AS!

Funny thing being, I was sitting there saying, you know someone is going to say something about this shirt....

Can't help it, my husband works for the Caps! Love the game, the team and the sport...

And it was an incredible series.

[disneygirl1]

YAY!!! Loving the report Aleisha!!! How nice of your parents to watch the little one!! Are you bringing him in Feb? My DS was 16 months the first time we brought him and boy it was such a joy!!! Can't wait for the next installment!

[foreverbelle]

Originally Posted by disneygirl1

YAY!!! Loving the report Aleisha!!! How nice of your parents to watch the little one!! Are you bringing him in Feb? My DS was 16 months the first time we brought him and boy it was such a joy!!! Can't wait for the next installment!

Yes he is dif. coming in February....We are celebrating his 1st b-day down there!

[disneygirl1]

Originally Posted by foreverbelle

Yes he is dif. coming in February....We are celebrating his 1st b-day down there!

Aw!!! What a way to celebate his 1st Birthday!!! Starting him young, I like that!! My DS always wants to go on his birthday, but he is a New Years baby and there is no way I want to deal with those crowds! So last year I took him in the beginning of Dec to celebrate!

[TxNewsies]

Loving the report! I REALLY REALLY REALLY love the cloud picture! I love clouds and since it looks like Mickey, it's even better! That is totally awesome! Oh, I love the food pictures! I was telling my DH last night we should have taken more food pictures. It never really crossed our minds. Now it does and we want to do that next year. The food looks awesome! We had lunch in Canada and was disappointed but I think it was because we had a sandwich. I think if we had gotten a steak it would have been much better. I love steak! I love prime rib!

I can't wait to read more!

[TinkerChelli]

Hey thanks for sharing your trip report LOVED IT!!!!!!!
You've just reminded me to contact Disney about my Dining reservations make sure they make em vegetarian for me.
You guys look liked you had a wonderful time.