Trip Report *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 2 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 3 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 4 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 5 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 6 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 7 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 8 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 9 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 10 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 11 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 12 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 13 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 14 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report

Day 15 Update - *FINISHED* The "How did all these people get in here?" That's what she said Trip Report


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...

ALS_01.jpg



Here is Colleen, she is so hood.

ALS_03.jpg


Also an "Artist"

ALS_04.jpg


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

ALS_02.jpg


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!

ALS_1377.JPG


ALS_1379.JPG


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.

ALS_1380.jpg


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!

DSC_0022.JPG

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

DSC_0024.JPG


To be continued...
 
Last edited:

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Day 5 10/13/2013 Continued…

We decided we would head over and see what Pirates was looking like.

On the way over we saw...

DSC_1225.jpg

Yeah...no Halloween party tonight...

Moving on...

DSC_1226.jpg


DSC_1229.jpg

DSC_1228.jpg


Nice outfit Boo. That is really working for you…

DSC_1230.jpg


Seriously man? No mirrors? No friend to say “You look like a moron”???
DSC_1231.jpg

DSC_1232.jpg

DSC_1233.jpg

DSC_1236.jpg


Pirates was down so we just kinda started to wonder around at this point.

DSC_1239.jpg


To be continued…
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Day 5 10/13/2013 Continued…

Still wondering around…

DSC_1241.jpg


We eventually stopped inside The Country Bear Jamboree. It was just about to start and I was sick of just walking around and through the crowds.

After that we decided to check out The time for Haunted Mansion

DSC_1243.jpg


30 minutes? I’m cool…

Now we had to head back over to Frontierland for our FP+ for…

DSC_1248.jpg


Being on this board really pays off in a lot of ways. Most of us are all friends in some weird fantasy world where we will never meet each other. I have made COUNTLESS of acquaintances and friends here. Some I have met, some I have never met. I have had people send Christmas cards to us, send us gift boxes to our hotel, some people just recognize us and say hello, and plenty of people helping me with planning and photography questions. This time I got a message on my Disney World Food Page on Facebook from someone (if you don’t mind being named I will tag you) that a family member worked in MK and could get us special viewing for Wishes tonight. I said sure because I wanted to finally get some pictures of the show and it’s just been WAY too crowded to set up shop on Main Street with all those people around.

Here are the shots I got thanks to a good pal looking out…

DSC_1253.jpg

DSC_1257.jpg

DSC_1267.jpg

DSC_1270.jpg

DSC_1271.jpg


TINK!!!

DSC_1272.jpg

DSC_1273.jpg


To be continued…
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Day 5 10/13/2013 Continued…

It’s almost over…

DSC_1291.jpg

DSC_1292.jpg

After Wishes was over we hung around the area till the crowds cleared out and getting back into the heart of the park. Once it was “safe” we headed to Mickey’s PhilharMagic. From there we went on Splash Mountain and got soaked. Then we headed over to Pirates…
DSC_1293.jpg


DSC_1295.jpg


DSC_1298.jpg


DSC_1312.jpg


DSC_1318.jpg


DSC_1321.jpg


DSC_1345.jpg


DSC_1363.jpg


To be Continued...
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
After Pirates I decided I needed some Casey’s in my life.

DSC_1364.jpg


My meal may look a little plain. I do like ketchup, mustard and onions on my hotdogs. Not at Casey’s. To me, Casey’s is good enough to just eat plain. So that is how I roll.

One of my favorite things to do in Disney World is eat at Casey’s and sit on the bleachers and watch those old Goofy cartoons. I remember watching them when I was kid. Especially the hockey and baseball ones. I really hope they never change this. If they do I hope it’s just an expansion of some sorts where you can still sit and enjoy the cartoons.

DSC_1366.jpg


After we ate we headed to Space Mountain. We had Fast Passes and it was getting late so the crowds were really starting to thin out. FINALLY. It feels like September.

After Space we rode TTA. Then Buzz Lightyear two times in a row. Inside Buzz queue area there was hay straws EVERYWHERE. I have absolutely no idea where it came from but it was all over the place. There was another day later where it was in there again. I really did not care, not am I going to cry that there was a mess it was just confusing because there was NOWEHERE around that it could have came from.

Now we are going to Monsters INC. We sat in the back by the exit doors. Pretty much all by ourselves and Colleen was mad and said “We won’t get picked for anything.” My response was “We been jam packed with people all day, I just don’t want to be around anybody.” It got to the part of the show where the two headed monster comes out and asks people where they are from…They said “Oh the two people who are royalty with their own row…lets call on them” So they asked me..

Monsters - “What are your names?”

Us - “John & Colleen”

Monsters- “John & Colleen, where are you from?”

US – “Pittsburgh”

Monsters basically go into their normal spiel on what Pittsburgh is like by naming all of the things that Pittsburgh does not have and at the end they say “Does that describe Pittsburgh?”

Me – (with a “Are you kidding me?” look on my face) “Ummm yeah, exactly what it’s like there.”

Monsters just stood there with their jaws hanging open and everyone started laughing. They made some side comments about how they were scared they were right and how they should leave us alone. It was awesome to be a part of the show. I always sat there and said to myself “If they ask me that I am just going to say yes and get a different aspect of the show” and 3 years later they finally called on me! Haha great times. I love that show and that made it better. Everyone else was laughing as so the crowd seemed to enjoy it as well.

After Monsters we strolled through The Castle and saw Small World had no wait. We boarded a boat and were in the first row. They boarded another couple right behind us in the second row and we were off. This quickly turned into a situation where I could see Colleen ready to punch this girl in her mouth. The WHOLE entire ride this dumb a$$ did not shut up. EVERY SINGLE DOLL she had to say what country it was from or where she thought it was from. There was not more than 5 seconds she was not talking. I was annoyed. Her boyfriend HAD to have wanted to drown himself, Colleen was visibly annoyed. I just started pointing at things and naming them.

“WATER!!!!!!”

“CLOUDS!!!!!”

“VOLCANO!!!!”

“SOMEONE IN A BOAT WHO WON’T SHUT UP AND LET OTHER PEOPLE ENJOY THE RIDE!!!!!”

She did not get my hints. She just kept on yapping and guessing countries she was in. Now had this girl been like 5 years old. I could have understood. I could have even understood MORE how a 5 year old would have had a 25 year old boyfriend than I understood how someone who was at least 25-30 years old could, or even want to act like that. That was just a LONG ride and literally did not enjoy one second of it….and I actually enjoy Small World for some reason. We got off the boat and practically ran towards Haunted Mansion so that if their plans were the same they would not be anywhere around us.

So being that there were no more lines I got to take some pics at Haunted Mansion!

DSC_1368.jpg

DSC_1369.jpg

DSC_1371.jpg

DSC_1372.jpg

DSC_1373.jpg

DSC_1374.jpg

DSC_1377.jpg

DSC_1396.jpg


To be continued…
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Day 5 10/13/2013 Continued…

After Haunted Mansion we made our way over to Pirates again…

A dead mermaid…

DSC_1501.jpg


Some other dead people…

DSC_1502.jpg


Someone who seems a little too happy to be auctioned off…

DSC_1523.jpg


I think Jack is gonna get that key somehow…Listen to your dog bro.

DSC_1530.jpg


This dude is so greedy and dumb…

DSC_1538.jpg


This guy just LOVES him some pottery.

DSC_1541.jpg


I did not leave the dog cropped out because you can see they want the keys from him. He’s never going to give them up.

DSC_1544.jpg


Looks like he got that key.

DSC_1550.jpg

DSC_1553.jpg


We decided to try Space Mountain one last time while crowds were light. On the way over I put the fish eye back on and help it up to a Mickey Pumpkin…

DSC_1558.jpg


TOTALLY had no clue I would catch The Castle in that shot as well. Pretty lucky shot.

To be continued…
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Day 5 10/13/2013 Continued…

I stopped quickly for some pics on the way over to Space…

DSC_1563.jpg


Inside of Space Mountain…

DSC_1571.jpg

DSC_1572.jpg

DSC_1573.jpg


The tunnels…
DSC_1578.jpg

DSC_1581.jpg

DSC_1584.jpg

DSC_1586.jpg

DSC_1586_1.jpg


After Space Mountain I took some pictures before we left the park. It’s almost 3am at this point…

DSC_1592.jpg


To be continued…
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Day 5 10/13/2013 Continued…

Okay guys…get your LSD ready. I will inform you when to pop it…

DSC_1593.jpg

DSC_1597.jpg

DSC_1599.jpg


You guys got your LSD ready??? Okay take it…now wait…wait…okay look!

DSC_1600.jpg

DSC_1601.jpg


Some obligatory Castle pics with my boo and my reflective clothing so nobody runs us over..

DSC_1611.jpg

DSC_1613.jpg


See we even switched positions for everyone who teased me last TR because we were always in the same position!

The lonely castle without us…

DSC_1614.jpg


Partners…

DSC_1617.jpg

DSC_1620.jpg


After this we sat around and listen/watched “A Kiss Goodnight” and walked to the bus stop. There was a guy in an ECV there waiting…just like how the trip to MK started today. Except when this bus came and the ramp lowered he just got off of it, walked up the ramp onto the bus, pointed his thumb over his shoulder and the driver drive his ECV onto the bus. Siiiiigh

This concludes yet another day. On the next installment we…

Visit Hollywood Studios.

See The Spectacle of Lights!

See some MONSTER Bass!

The worst meal I ever had while in Disney World…

See a gay man with NO fashion sense at all…

To be continued…
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
I hear ya..it can be arduous.... Are you writing it elsewhere and then cut and paste or the old fashioned way?

Dude...Photobucket is blocked at work. So are all other hosting sites.

So I edit all my photos on my laptop on break. Then load them on my work computer. I then go through them broken down by days and with my trip notes. I write it based of photographic order and notes I have made on my phone through WORD. Then yes I copy and paste it over with photo numbers and then copy and paste the links in from photobucket.

You people better be enjoying the CHRIST out of this report...lol it's a HUGE effort to post it!
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
What lens did you use and what were your setting on the PoTC and HM pics?

If you don't mind me asking.

I use that Sigma 1.4 for 99.9% of my food pics and all dark rides.

The settings I change each time. You will REALLY start to notice that when I post Day 6 soon. Especially in Tower of Terror. It's a TOUGH lens to use inside those rides. I literally would set the focus before the ride and take all my pics with the same focus point. It is just next to impossible to manually focus on the fly while you're in a moving "vehicle".

Not really sure how the "pro's" do it but that is what I started doing this trip. I REALLY struggled with it the first few rides. Last trip (my first with that lens) I seemed to have so much better luck with it.

The best way to figure out the settings would be to click the actual pic on my photobucket page. The direct link to the album is here...

http://s863.photobucket.com/user/JCWDW2010/library/Disney World 2013
 

Billy6

Well-Known Member
Dude...Photobucket is blocked at work. So are all other hosting sites.

So I edit all my photos on my laptop on break. Then load them on my work computer. I then go through them broken down by days and with my trip notes. I write it based of photographic order and notes I have made on my phone through WORD. Then yes I copy and paste it over with photo numbers and then copy and paste the links in from photobucket.

You people better be enjoying the CHRIST out of this report...lol it's a HUGE effort to post it!
Yeah I saw your post about Photobucket at work... I did a TR about my honeymoon last year and I did it piece by piece and all from memory and a few notes. It wasn't a fun process... I'm enjoying it a ton.....
 

blackthidot

Well-Known Member
Original Poster
In the Parks
Yes
Yeah I saw your post about Photobucket at work... I did a TR about my honeymoon last year and I did it piece by piece and all from memory and a few notes. It wasn't a fun process... I'm enjoying it a ton.....

I am doing it a lot different too.

It's not really that bad though. I get caught up on a lot that I honestly forgot about so it's cool to go through and "relive" it.
 

Register on WDWMAGIC. This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.

Back
Top Bottom