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Hello!

First off my thank you's to people will be held at the very end of my report. So if you feel like you should be thanked for something, or shown my appreciation for something...you're going to have to wait a while. Nobody cares about you anyway.

Secondly, I used the up-loader on this site for my pictures and it kind of did a number on them. Once I get everything situated with a photo hosting site this will continue. Thing that sucks is all those sites are blocked through my work computer so I am going to have to actually do this on my on time and not works time.

*Warning*

What you’re about to read are my thoughts and feelings from my most recent trip to Walt Disney World. A lot of sarcasm and pointing out the moronic things other humans do…along with their rudeness and pure oblivious behavior to others around them will be written here.

If you put kids on your shoulders to watch fireworks, leave messy food trays at tables or other places other than a trash can for someone else to clean, take flash pictures on or in “dark attractions”, stop in the middle of rows to sit down, talk during shows, pull that metal latch on the hotel door so it stops your door from closing and you continue to open your hotel door and let it slam shut 20 times in a row at 7am and other dumb inconsiderate things…you MIGHT not want to read this.

If you enjoy sarcasm, “decent” photography, food ography, side stories, pictures of people dressed “special”, and most of all ME!!! Then you are in the right place.

Swear words might be abbreviated. I may think that things YOU do are ignorant and inconsiderate to others around you. Please don’t be offended. LEARN from it. Don’t cry about it. I am not going to argue with you or justify why you should be beat with wet dish rags because you like to hang out and talk with other guests in your party in doorways leading to the entrance/exit of an attraction or the middle of stairs. There is just no hope for you.

This report is made to be funny. It is also made to be serious and informative as well. I don’t have ANY behind the scenes knowledge but I do feel like I have a pretty good grasp on how to have a pretty great time in Disney World and where you should eat delicious food.

I take a TON of photographs and I work rather hard to get good photographs not only for myself but for all of you to hopefully enjoy as well. I pride myself in taking awesome food photographs. I like to feel someone responsible for the big “boom” on this around here.

When I first started planning Disney Trips on my own I always wanted to see what the food looked like before I arrived. There was really NOWHERE to find it. So, I said to myself “Take pictures of EVERYTHING you eat and see and post them to help other people in the same boat as you.” I am a picky eater, which is why this was important to me. I hope along the way I have helped some people out. I hope this report does too. I took 3,444 photographs on just MY camera alone!

This trip is two years, well it WAS two years in the making.

The cast of this trip my fiancée Colleen and me.

Here I am...

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Here is Colleen, she is so hood.

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Also an "Artist"

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...and the much needed couple post...

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We knew we were going to, and when we were going to go but we booked it for real in April. That was the deadline so that we could do our 180+10 dining reservation thing.

We booked All Star Sports Resort arriving on October 9th and departing October 23rd! I missed the big turf field and being able to go out there and throw football after a long day of Typhoon Lagooning, Dining and Park Hopping. But that plan would soon crumble just like most of our plans this trip.

After calling and speaking to Disney World for what feels like 80 times checking for further discounts on the Cast Member plan never ever never once did they mention to me “Oh by the way, the food court at All Star Sports will be closed during your stay.” I had to accidentally find out about it on here.

So now we are faced with our first “White People Problems” of the trip.

Stay at All Star Sports and use Movies and or Music Food Courts?

Or…

Try for Art of Animation or Pop Century which we both hated on a previous trip?

We ended up at Pop because Art of Animation was booked solid. We figured we could walk across The Generation Gap Bridge and eat at AoA because that was really the only thing that appealed to us about staying at AoA in the first place. So here we are now at a hotel we both really did not want to stay at. We are 3 months out and we are already switching things around that we really did not want to switch at all. We almost considered spending more money and staying at Port Orleans or Caribbean Beach. It just did not make sense because we do not spend a lot of time at the resort, or so we thought…

About a month our from our arrival date I got an email asking if I wanted to participate in testing for Magic Bands. Umm, of course I do. You just made me feel really important by sending me this email. So we selected our colors and a day later we got these via UPS!

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A few days later our Magical Express packet came.

Now all that is left is our trip. No more ADR’s, no more waiting for things in the mail…the next big step is near.

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Day 1 10/9/2013

Finally…The day has come. Up at 3am, well alarm is set for 3am. We don’t have to leave until 4am. I think we dragged ourselves…yes we still had to drag ourselves out of bed knowing what was waiting for us a few short hours away. I think we left the house at like 4:15am for the 25-30 min right to Pittsburgh International Airport. Pretty weird that it’s 25 minutes from Pittsburgh though. Oh well.

We got to the airport checked our bags got through security all less than 10 minutes. Our gate for Air Tran was as far away as possible. I never have been that far back in the airport. The funniest thing I noticed at the airport is that it was 5:20am and Quaker Steak and Lube was about to open up. (Skip ahead 15 days) We passed it again when we returned home at 9:50pm and they were closed. That is pretty weird.

(Back to present time)

It is now time to board our flight. Our flight was pretty full. Normally our plane is half full but there were not too many seats open on our plane. AWESOME flight though. No bumps or dips at all. We arrived at MCO in about 1 hour and 50 minutes. 25 minutes earlier than posted. Sorry no airplane pictures. It was dark the whole time and then nothing but clouds. We came out of the clouds and landed 5 minutes after.

I know where I am going once we get off the “monorail” at MCO but it always strikes me as odd that they have pretty much zero signs saying where to go to check in for The Magical Express. Oh well…good thing I am not new at this. This is really all the help you get, but it is down on the bottom floor when you should pretty much already know where you are going!

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Then at the 2 mile point we saw this...

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To be continued...
 
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blackthidot

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Day 13 10/21/2013

We started our day at Typhoon Lagoon. I don't have pictures of such events because someone did not charge the battery in her camera.

I really really wanted to shoot Wishes and it was packed in MK so I decided I would go and do it from The Transportation and Ticket Center. It was really windy of course and it was shaking my camera. I had to break down my tripod so that it was as short as can be and placed it on a bench. The wind STILL had an effect on it. I got SOME good shots but in some of these (incuding what would have been my favorite one) you can see the blur). You can also see light "beams" going across the lake. Those were from boats and The Water Pageant.

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Colleen about 6 times...

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To be continued...
 

blackthidot

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Day 13 10/21/2013 Continued...

More Wishes...

Yep, this is the show I LOVE to try and get and the wind just HAD to be swirling during this time. Oh well in 225 days I will get more chances at it.

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After Wishes we got on the Monorail and headed back to MK.

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We then hit up Pecos Bills!!!

Here is my Bacon Burger with one sweet potato fry...

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Here is Colleens gross looking Veggie Burger...

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To be continued...
 

blackthidot

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Day 13 10/21/2013 Continued...

Inside the Mansion now...

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Back outside...

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Back inside...

Master Gracey...

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Soooooo pumped I was FINALLY able to catch the ghosts shadow playing the piano!

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Back outside again...

Okay so I really wanted to get a picture of us hitchhiking, as well as dancing like we were in the ballroom scene. So I figured sometime in the winter of 2011 to get this all in ONE shot. Yeah, so I had a year to sit and stew on this idea and here is what I got...

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It's not EXACTLY as good as I wanted it to be, but it is damned near it. Again...pressure from CM's standing around watching us but not really watching us played a role. I am very very happy with what I got here. Just a few SLIGHT things that I notice I want to fix next time.

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Leaving The Mansion area Colleen came up with this idea...

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Lastly...Musketeer Pluto...

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To be continued...
 

photoflight

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I had to break down my tripod so that it was as short as can be and placed it on a bench. The wind STILL had an effect on it.

FYI... next time try to find one of those plastic shopping bags (you know, the blue ones with DISNEY printed on it). Loop the handles around the top of the tripod, then fill it up with stuff: gifts, food, rocks, small children, whatever. It'll make a big difference. When I was doing work "in the field" with view cameras we'd use milk jugs filled with water, I think they make purpose-made water jugs for them now.

Need to read the rest now :)
 

blackthidot

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FYI... next time try to find one of those plastic shopping bags (you know, the blue ones with DISNEY printed on it). Loop the handles around the top of the tripod, then fill it up with stuff: gifts, food, rocks, small children, whatever. It'll make a big difference. When I was doing work "in the field" with view cameras we'd use milk jugs filled with water, I think they make purpose-made water jugs for them now.

Need to read the rest now :)


Damn thanks buddy.
 

blackthidot

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Those pictures you did post of Wishes were awesome! I love the first one where you can see the green yellow and pink (I think?) colors coming up and reflecting on the water.

And I for one think that your Haunted Mansion picture came out really awesome!!!


Thanks bud. How is training coming along?
 

PartOfYourWorld

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Thanks bud. How is training coming along?

Welcome! :)

Really good! Thanks for asking! Sucks training on the treadmill though since it's been too cold for me most of the time. Only two more weeks left! It's coming fast! I'll have my times post to my twitter while I'm running so you can follow me if you're up that early on the weekend :p. Have my sights set on the marathon next Jan. Would be my one & only.
 

blackthidot

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Welcome! :)

Really good! Thanks for asking! Sucks training on the treadmill though since it's been too cold for me most of the time. Only two more weeks left! It's coming fast! I'll have my times post to my twitter while I'm running so you can follow me if you're up that early on the weekend :p. Have my sights set on the marathon next Jan. Would be my one & only.

I will NOT be up that early but I will see it at some point. I don't follow a whole lot of people so I really never miss anything.
 

Wildflower

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Day 6 10/14/2013 Continued…


Now we have Toy Story Mania FP+. On the way over I saw probably the worst thing I have seen in Disney. Yes it was worse than the toe nail on the bus. Yes it was worse than the lady in her SpongeBob outfit in Epcot. Yes it was worse than the butt lady from this trip.

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Now I could care less that these two are holding hands. In fact kudos and mad respect to these two for being happy with who they are, how they were born and proud to be with each other. The world could use more folks who do not or feel like they have to hide who and what they are. HOWEVER…Uggs. C’mon son. Uggs. For real dude…UGGS??? It is 90 degrees and that is the fashion statement you’re gonna make here? Dude even looks like he is sweating. You got on shorts the same color as your shirt with some Uggs. Uggs are girls boots son and they look stupid enough on girls let alone your a$$ prancing around Disney World with them. Yes, I know they make them “for men”…F.O.H. Some people just go too far or try too hard. Retail reps, customer service reps, and sales reps should be able to say, without any backlash “You serious right now?” Dude had on Uggs with shorts on while it’s 90 degrees outside. Uggs…How terrible you think his feet were banging when he got back to their room? Uggs with shorts…

Now it’s time for Toy Story Mania. We have not done this since 2009. The lines are insane and the Fast Passes are always gone by the time we get to DHS. FP+ made it possible for us to get a few rides on it though. One of the only +’s to FP+.



To be continued…
Had to laugh....the fact it's a Toy Story tshirt too makes it just PERFECT! ;)
 

blackthidot

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might just think you're a jealous hater though and use it as a springboard for his new line on Etsy...

That is usually how things work. You have 687 people telling you, you suck but you only believe those 4 people who say "nooooo you're...you're alriiiight."
 
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blackthidot

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Day 14 10/22/2013

Today is Epcot day. It’s also our last full day in Disney World for this trip.

We started off at Spaceship Earth and it was FILTHY. Not the queue or the ride itself but onto of it on the outside. It was just horrible looking. It seriously looked like moss was growing from the top of it. Normally I really don’t pay things like that any mind but it was visible from when the bus pulled into the lot. At first I really had no clue what it was. So I asked one of the working CM’s and she had no clue what I was talking about so she asked another CM outside SSE and she was like “Yeah it is just dirt.” She was saying something about how when it rains that happens. It had not rained at all though. At least for 3-4 days so I have no clue what the heck she was talking about.

I really have NO clue how they would even clean that. Again I really did not care I was just curious as to what it was. I have been going to Disney since 2002 pretty much once a year and I have never seen that before. I took pictures but it did not come out right. Oh well…

From there we obviously rode SSE and once we finished that we said hello to an old favorite…

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After we ate we rode Living with the Land. Then we watched The Circle of Life. I have some story that I really can’t remember here but basically it just sums up the fact that people are complete idiots. After Circle of Life ended we decided to go check out Captain EO.

I hardly ever see ducks in these waters. I am guessing it’s the chlorine in the water but there are some ducks this time…

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Canada…population…..TWO.

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“I’m in The UK, I’mma see M.I.A. Super hero by night ra-ra-rapper by day.”

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Hello Alice…

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To be continued...
 
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