"I'll Never Surrender!" A Thanksgiving Trip Report!

Please stand clear of the moving doors! Por favor mantengase alejado de last puertas!

Alright, Guys! Looks like we're getting ready to head out. Please keep your hands, arms, feet, and legs in the vehicle at all times. Thank you!

Jambo everybody! My name's Emily and I'm going to be tour guide as I relive one of the most amazing trips of my life.
What made this trip so amazing, you ask?

You're just going to have to wait and see!!

Let's get this party started with introductions!
I'm Emily and I'm 17 and a junior in high school. After I graduate, I want to go to the University of Central Florida and work part-time for my boy, Mickey. Disney is my life and I've been going there since before I was born. Disney will always hold a special place in my heart. My favorite characters are Peter Pan and Gaston. I promise you, he's really nice once you get to know him, like I did. I'm a firm believer in Peter's philosophy of never growing up.

Prom pose!

Stacy is my idol! She blessed this trip on Twitter, which is why I think it was amazing.
I'm also a galactic hero, in case you were interested.

Next, we have my little sister, Amy.
Amy is 14 and a freshman. She loves Disney, but not as much as me. She is super smart and works really hard in school. She is my partner in crime in Disney and even kept up with my crazy-ness while sick! That's commitment, right there.

Some pics of the both of us!

Let's get to the parental units.
They started my addiction by taking me for the first time when they found out I was on the way and then when I was 5 weeks old as soon as the Christmas crowds were gone. (We used to live in Orlando!) They are huge Disney fans, but don't always show it when they decide to sleep in some days. Sleep in at Disney? What is that nonsense about?!

Our dates were November 21-26 and we stayed at the Dolphin. We're FL residents and live 3 hours away. We celebrated Thanksgiving, New Fantasyland, which is amazing, and my birthday, which was about a week before.

I believe that there's never enough hours in a day at Disney. I go completely commando at Disney and I think I wear my family out.
You be the judge. This was early afternoon on our first full day.

It's like going to Africa, but without all the Malaria shots.

You'll experience the kind of fantasy that will live with you for ever, ever after.

Top 7? That was like 107!

 

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I hope you will read and comment! I'm sorry I never finished my last TR, but I promise to finish this one. The first semester of school was crazy busy for me!! Thank you for your understanding!!

 

[Zipadeelady]

Liking your report and your dad too. Good taste in sweatshirts!!

 

[sam_disney]

I love your writing looking forward to reading more! x

 

[Disney<333]

Liking your report and your dad too. Good taste in sweatshirts!!

Thank you! Good eye! My dad is a HUGE "deadhead"

 

[Disney<333]

I love your writing looking forward to reading more! x

Thank you! I hope to have more soon! I'm really excited to share this trip, but I have to write 15 essays for AP Lang!

 

[Zipadeelady]

Thank you! Good eye! My dad is a HUGE "deadhead"

Tell your dad to "Keep on trucking"

 

[Disney<333]

Tell your dad to "Keep on trucking"

I did and he asked me where I got it from!

 

[Disney<333]

Im so excited to get this TR started!

The trip started off with some drama. Surprise!

The weather predictions were estimating really cold weather. I've lived in Florida my whole life and am a complete wimp when it comes to cold weather. If its below 65, I don't like it. So Mother had to go running to the mall the night before to buy some new clothes, so I couldnt pack everything that I needed. She and Amy needed a few things, too. I couldn't go with her because I had too much hw, so I texted her pics of what I liked.

The original plan for D-day was to skip school and leave after breakfast, but my A.P Psych teacher had other plans. He made the unit exam 7th period the day before Thanksgiving. Who does that? And why are we in school the day before, anyway? Normally, I wouldn't mind making up a test, but for AP classes the makeup is all essay vs. all multiple choice. No thanks! After talking to his department head, he told me I could come before school and take the multiple choice version. I was so busy the day before that I didn't have time to study, so I woke up at 4 AM to study. I got to school at around 7 and was done with plenty of time to spare and I ended up getting an A. Yay!

Time to go to Disney. Or so I thought. I was walking to first period and I saw Amy going to her class. What are you doing here? We're leaving. Turns out Dad had a problem come up with work that he had to take care of, so Mom dropped Amy off at school. We went from leaving school at 8 to leaving at 10.

The day went by pretty quickly. We weren't doing anything in any of my classes, so I went to the library to type up an assignment that was due right when I got back.

Dad called at 10 and so I went to the bathroom to answer and then I got dismissed as soon as I came back. It probably seemed suspicious, but who cares its Disney time!!
Just kidding. We had to get gas and Dad stopped in the convenient store to buy the winning lottery ticket. He always asks for the winning ticket when there's a big jackpot and the CM has yet to give him one.

We came home and Mom was packing up the last minute things. We were all really excited, but we were all just talking and taking our sweet old time, even me as if we didn't have anything to do. I think we forgot that Mickey was waiting for us. I finally decided to throw about 2 dozen dinosaur chicken nuggets in the micro, we ate them, and were on the road at about 11:45. Our latest departure ever!

I read some of Anthem for school. It was pretty bad, not going to lie. Amy, being the good student that she is, took my phone and logged on to her AP Human textbook to study once she noticed me reading.
About three hours later, we began seeing signs with an ugly Oger encouraging us to be courageous! No thanks!

Ahh! Much better! We probably should have washed the car before we left. Whoops!

Dad got off the wrong exit, despite me telling him not to miss it for a good 10 minutes, so we went in through the DTD entrance.

DFSOBFKBF! Disney!!!! I was so happy to be back with purple road signs and pretty Disney buses. I looked at each one to see where it was going. I always do that in Disney, for some reason! I couldn't care less where the few buses my city has are going.

We pulled up to the Dolphin, I quickly hopped out of the car, possibly slipped a quick "I'm going to Daisy's Garden", but I think my fam knows by now, took a few pictures as I was walking, and went off to Daisy's Garden.

I used a little more effort for this picture, as I got on the ground to take it.

Stupid me forgot to put on my ears, so I had to make a little pit stop to put them on.

I almost bought this adorable pair of sequin ears a few times, but put it back every time! Next trip!

I died and went to heaven. After a while, I went to go join my fam at check-in. Amy received a baseball cap for getting straight As and could use it to get ice cream whenever she wanted.

We went up the room and I wasted no time putting on Stacy! I started freaking out when the New FL part came up and almost went to go catch the next bus to the MK, but I had plans for this day and would be at MK the next morning, so I managed to refrain.
Our view:
Straight out:

To the right:

We were right next to the triangle!

 

[everestnut]

Off to a great start. Can't wait to read more.

 

[Disney<333]

Off to a great start. Can't wait to read more.

Thanks! I hope to be able to update soon!

 

[Disney<333]

Where I last left off we were checking out our room.

I unpacked and changed into shorts. I thought it was hot enough, but I didn't bother to turn on the Weather Channel because my pal, Stacy was on.

Once I touched the window, I realized it was about 50-60 degrees out and quickly changed back into my pants.

If I put my face on the window, I could see the Epcot ball. My camera doesn't have the same stretching abilities as me, so this was the best I got, but I promise you it was there.

We could see the tops of the buildings in the World Showcase!

It was too late to go to a themepark before dinner because we only had an hour until our ADR, but I wasn't just going to sit in the room. This is Disney World. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Mom and Dad got out new home organized and Amy and I went over to one of my favorite resorts, the Beach Club.

We thought it would be fun to jump across the water to save time versus walking to the left, so we did.




Kidding!

It was cold!!! I only had on a thin sweater and it was in the low 60s or upper 50s. Not ok for this Florida girl. I did my usuall jumping jacks to warm up. Haters gonna hate.

For some reason, I didn't get a picture of the outside of the Beach Club? Don't worry I got plenty on my morning walk a few days later!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! I go back to December all the time. (Taylor Swift reference! I'm obsesses!!)

I promise you're not just seeing things and going crazy! People were actually swimmimg.

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The carousel never gets old! So amazing!

I might be listening to Christmas Wishes! Judge me!

We looked around in the Marketplace and then left to get to our ADR at the Swan. I saw a boat at the dock that was going to DHS and I knew the next stop was the Swolphin, so we hopped on.

Frienship boats are so perfect!

Oh wait! I almost forgot to share a blonde moment of mine. Story time!
I was sitting backwards, but forgot, so when the boat was backing up, I said "Darn! We accidently got on the Epcot boat."

We got to the Swan a few minutes early, so we had some time to explore.

I modeled some Christmas merchandise. Your welcome.

We were eating at Garden Grove! We were called in and brought to our table. We noticed Pluto was only a few tables away, so we decided to say hello before going to rustle up some grub.
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There weren't too many people around yet, so Mother insisted on getting every combination possible. I apologize in advance.

Mine! I like my corndog nuggets and mac and cheese! The CNs tasted just like Casey's! Yum! I want some now!

I only got three out of four. I think Mom got back after me and by then I was already stuffing my face.

Goofy came over, but we sent him away and asked him to come back because we were too busy stuffing our faces.

Amy and I went up for seconds, but noticed they were changing the deserts, so we decided to grab what we wanted for when we were ready.

I told my little prodigy that she needed to try the corndog nuggets, but she put them on the same plate as her deserts.
Nice try, Kid.

Are we even related?!

Mine!

I wasn't really in a sweets mood tonight, so that made more room for mac and cheese and corn dog nuggets. I was officially on vacation.

I went to the bathroom and when I came back, I had a surprise waiting for me!

 

[Disney<333]

Goofy came over to say hello! He was really precious!




I don't even know!



Mom sent me to the bathroom to wash up and when I came back into the restaurant, Goofy grabbed my hand and escorted me to my table where I had a surprise waiting for me! It was so sweet and really made my day!





We then paid and walked back over to the Dolphin! Oh my gosh! It was SO cold and all I had on was a little sweater. So, what did I do, you ask? I BOOKED it over to the Dolphin and I am not exactly what you would call a runner. 

I got back to the room fast and put on more layers before the rest of the gang came up!
Come on, it’s time to go to Hollywood Studios!! I had been in Disney for 4 hours and hadn’t stepped foot in a park yet! Something is seriously wrong with that! 

But of course, they moved SO slow!! I was about to leave without them for Fantasmic AKA THE GREATEST SHOW EVER!!!! 

They all had to use the bathroom, when they just passed by public bathrooms downstairs and then change their clothes, all in a snail’s pace, I must add. 

Then Dad decided he wanted to go to bed! At 7:30 in Disney? O.k, whatever moves your monorail. 


We finally walked out the door at 7:34 when Fantasmic started at 8. 

When we got down to the dock, the DHS boat was pulling away! Ugh, I was so mad!!

We waited a few minutes and then I was about to say we should go to Epcot instead, but then I saw the light coming from the direction of the Yacht and Beach, which means it was going to DHS! Yay! The boat arrived with 19 minutes to spare! I was so happy! 

We pulled up to the dock and I booked it into the park! T minus 4 minutes! I walked with passion over to the theater and I got there with a minute to spare! Yay! Fantasmic! How I love they. 

It was more amazing than I even remembered and the ending gave me goosebumps!
Sorry for the terrible quality of the pics! I got a bridge DSLR since this trip, so now I need to go back to Fantamic, right?






We then did some browsing while the park cleared out a little and also I needed some time to recover before the next amazing thing!



I'm really behind on this show, but it's one of my faves! I recommend it to anyone who loves Disney.

The Osbourne lights! Oh my gosh! These are just the greatest! We spent half an hour in just looking at them in awe! They’re so magical!




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[Disney<333]

Then Mom and Amy decided they wanted to go back, I was going to stay, but Mom made me go back bc she didn't want me get sick! I had been up since 4 without a nap!! The magic of Disney at its finest.
We shopped and slowly made our way out of the park and I traded for a Wilderness Lodge pin because I knew I'd be there the next day!
I was just in awe over Disney! I felt so happy to be back and I was in amazement that such a wonderful place could really exist!
Coming up: Thanksgiving!

 

[Disney<333]

Thanksgiving!!!
My internal alarm clock woke my up at 5:30 and I could not fall back asleep! I was so excited!! I had been looking forward to this day for years. I was finally getting to see New Fantasyland. I played on my phone until 6:30 when I decided it would be appropriate to start getting ready. I woke everyone else up and I told them I wanted to leave at 7:20 when really 7:30 would suffice. Ya gotta do what ya gotta to do to make rope drop. I had a double chocolate chip muffin for breakfast from Sam's. It was delish and such a treat since I usually just have a boring banana or yogurt for breakfast.
We walked out at 7:30! Yay! MK EMH here we come!! In the elevator, a family asked us where we're from since we had on heavy coats. It was around 40! So cold!! I later joked to Mom that we should tell everybody who asks that we're from North Dakota.
We waited a few minutes for a bus to the MK! I can't even explain how much I love Disney buses. I would drive one to school if I could. I would definitely have the coolest car.
I tweeted about how happy I was to be on a Disney bus, but before it even went through, Bus Guy spoke and it was the new one. I quickly changed me tweet.
We got to MK right as the train was pulling up. It was my first time seeing the show in person. I've seen it dozens of times on YouTube. We usually get to MK right as the show is ending. It was so cute!
The park officially opened for EMH and we made our way down Main Street! Dad and Amy decided that they wanted to go on Space Mountain.
O.k. You have fun! I'm going to NEW FANTASYLAND!!
I was walking way too fast and Mom couldn't keep up! Move it or lose it!
We marveled at the castle and walked right through it!




There are two new castles! Two! (Stacy reference)




I knew that we should do Enchanted Tales with Belle first, but I NEEDED to go on the Little Mermaid right then! I just couldn't wait an extra twenty minutes. We walked right through the amazing queue and were soon instructed to swim into our clam shell and pull down on our sand bar! Disney is so cute with their lingo!
The whole ride just blew me away! It was so amazing and is now one of my favorites! Maybe because Ariel is my favorite princess.

We then went over to Enchanted and the line was twenty minutes.
Maurice's cottage is too cute!

I too way too many pictures in line! I just love the feel of New Fantasyland!

I mean look at these light fixtures!

 

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I loved Madame Wardrobe!


She gave out all the roles, but I didn't get one! Luckily, she had extras for anyone who wanted a part! I got to be a salt shaker! I'm 5!!





Overall, I thought it was cute, but not something I need to do every trip!
We saw a crowd at Be Our Guest, so we went to go investigate! Turns out they were letting people inside to explore! Yay! We weren’t allowed in the dining rooms, but I was amazed at what I saw and couldn’t wait to eat there.


Looks like it might be time for a pedicure! (Stacy reference)

We came out and saw the Steps gamboling around.


Dad called to see where we were and Mom told him we were in New Fantasyland! No big deal or anything! We reunited and I picked up some FPs for Pooh.

 

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I need to pee in the Tangled Toilets!!

I love how Disney keeps Walt's legacy alive! I hope they will always do that!

We decided to go on the Haunted Mansion!



We got stuck a few times! I'm not sure if it was for a wheelchair or not, but it was minutes at a time, so I think it was technical issues. It was kind of nice to get to have more time to see everything, but getting stuck going backwards down a slope is not comfortable!

It was soon time for our Pooh Fps!
Let's play find Mom and Amy!

I thought it was so funny that they couldn't see us!

Christopher Robin is so sentimental to me! I hope Disney never gets rid of this ride!



We then decided we should make our way of the MK for our 10:45 ADR. I decided to make a brunch ADR because last summer Dad commented that it was too bad Disney doesn't have any table service breakfasts because he likes having nice breakfasts. Um, why didn't you say anything?



I'll give you a clue as to where we're going for brunch!