The Lovenerds' EPIC DISNEYMOON! BWV, Disney DREAM, and WLV!!!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 10, 2012

Day 1: August 13, 2012
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We woke up around 5, packed up again, and wheeled our stuff downstairs and checked in.
We checked our suitcases and waved goodbye to them, as we wouldn't be seeing them again until they MAGICALLY appeared in our room later that day. (Yay for the Magical Express!)
We went to get in line for security, which stretched waaaaay back into the hallway. After we got through security we hopped on the airport tram and went to our gate.

Since it was Airtran (no assigned seats) we had to wait next to our boarding number for our boarding number. We were in the second group, and thankfully we were able to sit together.
The flight was uneventful, but flying over PA was cool because I could see the fog lying in the valleys.

Chris had bought Invisible ink to play with! I was pumped, my mom used to buy me invisible ink when I was little and I hadn't seen it in years!

We got to Florida and immediately booked it to the mini-monorail.

I didn’t even stop in the Disney store, which is strange, but I did have to get a picture of Snow White and I in my bride hat.

It was only about 9:30 AM. When we got down to the Magical Express, I stupidly stalled and had to take a picture of the sign, so we weren’t able to get on the bus that was loading, but we were first in line for the next one.

lovenerds2012 · Nov 10, 2012

Day 1 Part 2:
We only waited for around 20 minutes when another bus came. I was afraid we were going to get a crappy Mears bus, but not only did we get a ME bus, we got a BRAND NEW one. We sat down and I was so excited, all of my tiredness melted away.

The Yeti is ready to get to Disney World!

The ride there was fun as always, and we enjoyed watching the video and Mickey cartoons. Our bus to the Boardwalk stopped first at POR, which was nice because I had never seen it before. We let off a number of passengers, then got on the road again.

The moment had arrived, one I had waited for for MONTHS! We finally pulled up to The Boardwalk, and for me it was the stuff of dreams. It was GORGEOUS. We were the only people getting off the bus, and we scrambled out as quickly as possible.

We were warmly greeted at the door by a CM who asked if we were checking in and if we had ever been there before. We answered that Chris had, but I had not, assuming the CM meant if we had been to the Boardwalk before, but he really meant whether we had been to WDW before….so I ended up with a 1st Visit button. I didn’t mind though! We also got our Happily Ever After buttons.

and the CM congratulated us and gave us our KTTW cards. My card had my maiden name on it and he asked if I wanted to have it in my new name. I of course said "Yes!"- I was thrilled. The CM said that while my new name wasn't government official yet, it was at Disney World! When he came back, he announced that our room was ready! We made our way back the LOOOOOOOONG hallway...

meggo819 · Nov 10, 2012

Great report so far! Go Steelers!!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 11, 2012

meggo819 said:
Great report so far! Go Steelers!!

Thank you! Go Steelers n'at!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 11, 2012

Day 1 Part 3:
We were in room 2005, and we found ourselves walking pretty far, winding around hallways and rooms and yet another small lobby-type area.

When we reached our room, we had a look around, and I was so happy. It was beautiful.

I loved the colors and the hidden Mickeys and the furniture. Then I understood why we were given a room so far away. I opened the curtain and this was our view......

MAGNIFIQUE! We had a lovely little balcony, right near the DVC model room.

The only thing I didn’t love about it was that the bathroom light was pretty dim. It made baths and showers rather dark. Oh well. We were there, LET THE HONEYMOON BEGIN!!!!!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 11, 2012

Day 1 Part 4
As we were checking out the room, and after I had attempted (poorly) to sign the back of my KTTW card in my new name, we had a knock at the door. PIXIE DUST! We opened it to find two of the CM’s from the lobby with huge grins on their faces who immediately said “CONGRATULATIONS!!” They had brought beautiful roses for us. I was so touched! I figured that this was not normal and there must have been a wedding that had used these flowers as a bouquet, but I was just so touched that they thought of us! It even had a cute little Mickey crystal in it, which I kept as a souvenir. I wished we were staying at the Boardwalk longer so that I could enjoy them longer, and now I wish I had brought them on the ship with me, because I probably could have. I hope they passed them on to someone else after us!

Then soon after that MORE PIXIE DUST!!!! Our bags showed up. I was SO impressed with how fast they came! On our last trip our room wasn't ready until the afternoon so we had left our carry-on bags at the desk and went out for most of the day, so I have no idea what time our bags came then.
By this point we were starving, so we got changed and headed down towards the lobby to get on the bus to DTD, but we made some pit stops to look around and take pictures. Here are the wonderful CM’s at the Boardwalk! The two on the left were the sweethearts that showed up at our door with flowers: Josh and Joseph.

We also stopped to take pictures of the Belle Vue Lounge, which became my favorite area of the Boardwalk...it was also where we were to meet the Disney Cruise Line CM's to take us to our bus to head to the port 2 days later.

I also loved all of the paintings and other furniture that lined the hallways.

We finally hopped onto a bus to DTD. We were so sleepy and hungry we were feeling slightly out of sorts, but after a delicious lunch at Earl of Sandwich we were feeling better! YUM!

We planned to go back to the room to have a nap, but we wanted to stop at the Photopass station because we had purchased a Photopass plus. We had purchased it in advance online, which ended up saving us 30 bucks instead of buying it on property. It was expensive, yes, but I think for our honeymoon it was a really good idea because of the quality of the photos we received-they were gorgeous. We got ALL of our character photos, all photos taken by a Photopass CM, plus all photos of us on rides. I don't think we would do it again, but since it was such a special occasion we were really glad that we did it.
We then went to the World of Disney Store, since we were on a mission to purchase a bride and groom Minnie and Mickey!
Mouseketeer Yoda NEARLY came home with us...

But we finally found our prizes and booked it back to the Boardwalk for that coveted nap.

Next up, getting refreshed and Disney's Hollywood Studios!

sweetpee_1993 · Nov 11, 2012

Lovenerds! I love it! And you're nappers, too! Perfect!!!!

Y'all are adorable. Truly. Congrats on the marriage and super-killer honeymoon. Can't wait to hear about the cruise part...

lovenerds2012 · Nov 11, 2012

Day 1 Part 5
We decided to hop off the bus from DTD at the Swan and Dolphin so that we could walk through it. I was glad we did, it was beautiful! I really enjoyed walking the back way to the Boardwalk, it almost ended up being faster to hop off at S&D instead of riding the whole way to BW. I'm sure it would have been faster but it started to pour, so we used the opportunity to look around.

The part of the Boardwalk we stayed in. Our room was on the second floor, fourth window from the left, underneath the "O" of Crest O' the Wave.

When we got back to the room, we had a message on the phone-it was Mickey and Minnie wishing us congratulations!
We had a lovely 2-hour nap and woke up refreshed. We then got on one of the friendship boats and headed to DHS, where we had an ADR at Sci-Fi Drive in.

I loved this place! The movies they play are so cheesy. My DH and I watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 and by RiffTrax, so this experience was pretty fun for us. We also love the Movie “Ed Wood” with Johnny Depp, so we find B-Movies pretty entertaining. I particularly liked the "Cat-Women from the Moon" one.

My appetite the first few days after the wedding was pretty limited because of all the excitement, so I only had a kids cheeseburger and fries (but that was remedied quickly!)The Yeti really seemed to like Sci-Fi...

I did too!

Then it was time for rides!
What is the best ride to go on just after dinner when you are still feeling jittery from the most exciting day of your life? Why Tower of Terror of course!!! For some reason I can't find the picture from ToT that was put on our photo pass. Oh well, I think it was really bad anyway. So I took other pictures.

I love that magical spiral thing!
Next we wanted to go on Star Tours, it was our first time on after the refurb. Actually it was my first time on since I was 11 years old! We absolutely LOVED it! We and intended on going on again later on the trip, but never made it. We of course then had to stop in Tatooine Traders and Chris picked out a lovely apron:

but I pointed out that he doesn't really cook. (*I don't really cook FOR him either because he has Crohn's Disease and just eats very little in general, and what he does eat is limited. Basically cheese, bread, potatoes, most fruits and some veggies. He has NO problem with sweets though! You'll see later how this pans out for him when we go to the meals on the ship.*)
I almost bought this shirt for my brother but it was only available in a 2X

After that, we made our way over to the Great Movie Ride. We love this one, we're so cheesy.

We started to get hungry for a snack, and what is really better in life than a Mickey ice cream bar???

Those were our "It's the first day of our honeymoon and we are eating Mickey ice cream in Disney World" faces.

sweetpee_1993 · Nov 12, 2012

^^^
I totally have that striped Dumbo shirt from Tar-zhaaaaay!!! One of my favorites!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 12, 2012

Day 1 Part 6
We had planned on seeing Fantasmic but I think we decided to go back to our room because we were still pretty tired, and the humidity was getting to us. We went back to the boat and had to wait in line for awhile to get on. I got three mosquito bites on my ankle.OW! We waited for around a half hour for the boat to come and we started getting concerned and the line was getting pretty long, but fortunately we weren’t too far back in it. I felt bad for the people that were much further back in the line. A boat came eventually, and I didn’t get all of my blood sucked out by tiny vampires. Another boat came immediately after too, so it looked like everyone got home safe and sound.
I decided to take some night pictures.
*My next TR will have MUCH better photos because we took all the Target gift cards we got from the wedding to purchase a Canon SX40- one step down from a DSLR but I figured if I want one of those I have to learn to use the SX40 first. Plus I'm not too keen yet on carrying around all those lenses. And the SX40 does a BEAUTIFUL job!*

I killed Chris. Oops.

Next up: Day 3, where we eat a ginormous cupcake, take a swim with a giant clown, we venture to Epcot, ride Mission:Space without barfing, dine at Rose and Crown, chase a cockroach, and try on a Fez. Fezzes are cool! And stay tuned for Day 4, when we board the DISNEY DREAM!!!!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 12, 2012

sweetpee_1993 said:
^^^
I totally have that striped Dumbo shirt from Tar-zhaaaaay!!! One of my favorites!

LOL I almost had to buy ALL of them! I love that shirt, it's so soft!
And thanks for your other comments! I will have to read your TR about your DREAM cruise!!!! Ours was certainly amazing, I am looking forward to writing about it

lovenerds2012 · Nov 12, 2012

Day 2: August 14, 2012
We woke up feeling refreshed, and I had finally slept through most of the night. The jitters finally started to go away, but not completely as we were going to board a ship the next day, and I was so excited about that I didn't know what to do with myself. Anywho, we took our time waking up, and we went down to the Boardwalk Bakery to have breakfast.
I sampled the huge couch in the entryway.

At the Bakery...

I had the Egg and Cheese Croissant and we split an AMAZING strawberry cupcake! Seriously, best cupcake I have ever had. Not too sweet, just perfect.

This is Chris's "I have a cupcake" face:

We sat there outside for awhile just relaxing and making various sound effects for all the funny little maintenance vehicles that kept going by (like the Jetsons spaceship noise), then we wandered around the resort and around the shops. I wanted to get a zip cover for my ipad but didn't find one I liked. We took some pictures.

We also checked out the (much smaller) model of the ship we would be boarding in a mere 24 hours:

I wanted to take the model home but figured they'd probably frown on that.
We went back to the room and got changed because we had every intention on spending the afternoon in the pool, and that's exactly what we did! I didn't take my camera to the pool for obvious reasons. We spent a few hours laying on the lounge chairs and going in and out of the water. I even went on the freaky clown slide!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 12, 2012

Day 2 Part 2
After a great time in the pool, we rested for a little while, and headed out again for Epcot!
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO OF DAY 2
We took some pictures on our walk there:
My cute husband

ME!

We set the camera on a table to take this one:

I sooooo want to stay here again sometime.

I loved being able to walk from our resort right into a park.
I forgot to mention that the previous day we had used our Annual Passes for the first time, so we were even more stoked about it.
We first made our way to Future World, and hopped on Imagination. I love Figment! I remember this ride from when I was little, and I wish they hadn't changed it.

We were hungry again, so we decided to go into The Land for a small lunch. (We had 7:30 ADR's at Rose and Crown so we didn't eat TOO much).

Chris and his PBJ:

We both got kids' meals, then we rode The Land ride. I love this one, I love all the cool plants and fish. I always wish I was a better gardener than I am.
The skies weren't looking too friendly, and it started raining pretty hard, so we made our way towards Spaceship Earth, and ducked into the little photo store. I looked around and Chris called his family to tell them what we were up to. In front of the shop,there was a small remote controlled car zooming around people’s feet, with a small Perry the Platypus toy driving it, and he was holding a sign that said “Please take a sticker” while he had a roll of stickers dragging behind him. I saw a CM standing close with his hand in his pocket, obviously with the remote. There were kids chasing Perry around with delight….So Disney. I called my parents too, then we rode Spaceship Earth, one of my favorites.
Not our best picture.

We then went to ride Mission:Space. We both tend to get motion sick on anything that spins around, so we hoped we would be okay on the wuss-version of the ride. We did great! We actually really liked it! I totally enjoyed the queue.

"Hey, who turned out the lights?"

IT'S LIEUTENANT DAAAAAAANNNNN!!!

Anything run by Lieutenant Dan is pretty cool in my book.

lovenerds2012 · Nov 12, 2012

Day 2 Part 3
After Mission Space we went to Innoventions to get our free character photo for having a Disney Visa.

It turned out totally cute!
Next we went over to Club Cool and I tried the Beverly for the first time. At first I thought everyone was nuts because it didn't taste that bad. But then the taste got to me. AWFUL!
The rain really had cooled things off, so we both had on light jackets...it was pretty weird to be wearing them in August!
It was getting to be evening, so we then worked our way around to the World Showcase and explored the UK for a bit, since we had 7:35 ADR’s at Rose and Crown.

We watched a really fun band called British Revolution. They were really good. The highlight was when they played “Crazy Train” and one was headbanging and screamed “YEAAAH, we’re playing Ozzie in Disney World!!”

The time came for our reservations and we picked up our buzzer and sat on a bench and did some people watching.
We were seated about 20 minutes later, and we got some pretty good seats for the fireworks, although I was behind a pole, and there was a fan blowing directly on me so I was a little chilly. Our dinner was wonderful. I ordered the beef and Chris had potatoes and Sticky Toffee Pudding. I even had an Irish Coffee afterwards...GO ME!

When it was time for Illuminations I stood behind Chris to watch. It was great so close up! My favorite part was when they blasted the rockets that were right next to us. After dinner, we walked around and ended up near France. We were frustrated because we hadn’t seen a Photopass person and we had spent money to get Photopass plus..we finally ran into one at France. Since we got engaged in the REAL Paris beneath the real Eiffel Tower we wanted apicture of us on our honeymoon in front of the smaller version. Oddly enough, these were the only pictures that didn’t end up on our photopass. I was bummed. We walked around France, taking in the yummy smells.

I love this, it looks just like restaurants in the real France. Makes me miss living there! The detail is so good in France of Epcot, down to the shape of the posts and the benches.

We were still too full from dinner to have anything yummy, but we decided to walk around in the shops. If you’ve ever been to Paris, France you know that hordes of illegal immigrants run around the tourist attractions trying to sell you cheesy souvenirs, like Eiffel tower keychains. They jingle them to get your attention and yell “One Euro, One Euro!” Hence this picture.

This is why Chris didn’t make me stand up and him get down on one knee when he popped the question, we surely would have been mobbed. We then walked over to Morocco.

Being huge Doctor Who fans (a nerdy British sci-fi series), we had to try on a Fez:

We actually ran into another couple taking pictures, and the man was holding a pack of Jammie Dodgers. Squee! Chris was so excited he decided to call his sister and tell her about it, since she is also a Whovian.
As he was on the phone I saw a humongous cockroach. I tried to take a picture of it but it ran away. Then we headed towards the other side, towards Mexico because we love that silly boat ride with the Three Caballeros.

NO DANCING!

After that we went on Maelstrom, one of my favorites. By that time, it was nearly midnight so we headed back to the hotel and crashed. We also had to get our things packed up because we had to leave our luggage inside the door to be picked up at 8AM by the CM’s so they could take it to the ship. Next up- THE DISNEY DREAM!!!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 12, 2012

Day 3: August 15, 2012
CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO OF DAY 3
Chris woke up early enough to hand off our luggage to the CM's that came to send it off to the ship. He went out for a little while and texted me and asked if I wanted to have breakfast at Kouzzina...I said of course!
The Yeti was really going to miss The Boardwalk.

We had a really nice breakfast, and Chris even saw Cat Cora coming in.
I went back to the room to make sure I had all my carry-on luggage together, but Chris wanted to check out the ESPN store, so I headed back. I had a great idea and texted him to come take a picture of me on our balcony.
Can you find me?

Romeo...sorry about the fog on the lens, it was really humid.

Chris came back up and we said goodbye to our lovely room. We then walked around the resort for awhile, and ended up in the Belle Vue Lounge, where we were to meet the CM's from Disney Cruise Line so they could direct us to the bus to the port!

There were lots of families there waiting, including the family that had been our neighbors the past two days. When the CM's arrived, they directed us all outside towards the conference center, and before long a beautiful bus pulled up!!

We were instructed to wait, but a few minutes later a second one pulled up and we were instructed to show our passports and board the second bus.

YAY WE WERE REALLY GOING!!!

lovenerds2012 · Nov 13, 2012

Day 3 Part 2
We got onboard the bus and found a seat and we were off! The driver was really nice, his name was Wally! Like Wall-E! We stopped first at Art of Animation Resort to pick up more passengers and a CM came onto the bus and told us that the ride would take about an hour and 14 minutes. The ride to the port was nice and relaxing, there was a video playing similar to the one the ME plays on the way to WDW to talk about what to expect- it of course included Mickey, Minnie, and the whole gang. It also explained what check-in and security would be like, and said that once onboard, make sure to check the Personal Navigator so we'd always know what was going on. Then there were some cartoons, and last there were clips from America's funniest home videos. I tracked where we were on my phone:

Soon we went over a HUGE bridge.

We could start to see the ship when we crested the hill, but it was too tiny still to get a picture of. I took more pictures as we got closer. I couldn't believe I was actually seeing it in real life!

We parked and another CM came onboard and told us where to go next. We weren't allowed to take pictures going through security, so we went through the scanners and up the escalator and took in the terminal:

I think if we did this again, and came to the terminal from WDW we would get a taxi and arrive earlier, because the terminal was NUTS. We had to wait in line for a pretty long time. What we thought was one line was actually the END of the main line to get to the check-in desks. Oh well, we were relaxed and chatted with other people in line with us and we were to the desk soon enough. We were originally supposed to be in stateroom #8662, which was a little cheaper because it had a smaller verandah with a partially obstructed view (we didn't care about this), but we ended up getting an UPGRADE to a room with a full-size verandah! We were now in stateroom #9640. We got our key cards, showed our passports and paperwork, and we were off!

We went through the mouse ears,

then got in another line, this one was to get a picture in front of the 2012 sign.

It was finally time to board! We walked into the tunnel and ONTO THE SHIP!

The CM's at the door welcomed us and asked for our name, and introduced us with my married name

We stepped inside, and....BREATHTAKING.

We were floored, it was so beautiful. The CM had told us our room was ready, so we made our way up. It took awhile since the elevators were pretty crowded.

Some luggage being loaded.

The terminal

emcclay · Nov 13, 2012

OMG! Congrats on your marriage! Looking forward to reading more of your adventures

lovenerds2012 · Nov 13, 2012

emcclay said:
OMG! Congrats on your marriage! Looking forward to reading more of your adventures

Thank you so much! I am having a blast writing it!

kimberlymautz · Nov 14, 2012

I can't wait to see the rest! It looks like you had a great time!
Congratulations on your marriage.

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