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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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So I finished reading this. I figured I'd put it off long enough so I might as well!

Sucks the parks were so busy! They were soooo dead when we went in Sept! A walk on for Splash Mountain at noon? I'll take it! Especially since it was rather warm that day! Your pics outside HM are cool. I'm not smart enough to come up with a cool scenario like that. The ToT pics were cool too. Except that Collen booted you out of the picture! haha

We haven't been to LC for lunch in a few trips. Don't see us going back there for awhile. Too many places we want to try out, especially at Epcot!


LC was still great, it just did not have that WOW factor that we got so used to. Maybe we ate there too much or something? That is VERY possible. Still gonna hit it up once a trip though. Cali Grill is king for now.

Colleen is the only person I know who would want a picture of herself with herself. Haha
 

TinkandCrew

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I couldn't get enough of your trip report. You had me cracking up and my hubby kept asking me what I was laughing at. I'm upset that I'm done reading now. I guess you will have to turn around and go right back! :joyfull:

Great pics, great info and great entertainment....thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. Go Flyers...wooohoooooooooooooo. I'm a Philly girl!!!!!!!!!
 

SeaweedCupcake

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I know I'm a little late for this trip report but it was awesome! Made my night shift at the hospital go so much faster. I feel the exact same way you do about an ECV and I witnessed some ridiculous stuff on our last trip to the world last summer. We were waiting for a bus at MK after closing in a huge line. Saw a man try to park his ECV had a ton of trouble while we all watched. He of course hopped out like nothing and after we got to Riverside I saw him and his wife get off the bus but I guess this time was the wife's turn to ride the ECV while the man walked just fine. Only time I've ever seen a couple share an ECV
 

blackthidot

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I couldn't get enough of your trip report. You had me cracking up and my hubby kept asking me what I was laughing at. I'm upset that I'm done reading now. I guess you will have to turn around and go right back! :joyfull:

Great pics, great info and great entertainment....thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. Go Flyers...wooohoooooooooooooo. I'm a Philly girl!!!!!!!!!


Wish I could just go right back. 156 days though...I will go back. I promise!

Boooooo Philly.
 

blackthidot

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I know I'm a little late for this trip report but it was awesome! Made my night shift at the hospital go so much faster. I feel the exact same way you do about an ECV and I witnessed some ridiculous stuff on our last trip to the world last summer. We were waiting for a bus at MK after closing in a huge line. Saw a man try to park his ECV had a ton of trouble while we all watched. He of course hopped out like nothing and after we got to Riverside I saw him and his wife get off the bus but I guess this time was the wife's turn to ride the ECV while the man walked just fine. Only time I've ever seen a couple share an ECV


I can't stress enough that yes, people need these things but they mostly do not. Especially the people who ate their way into them. So annoying.
 

photoflight

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I can't stress enough that yes, people need these things but they mostly do not. Especially the people who ate their way into them. So annoying.

There have been times when I've had to limp around for one reason or another, so I've tried to keep an open mind about the things. What I can't excuse is some of the near-reckless habits people have riding them! There have been way too many zigzagging around people like they're kids on a Ninja on I4.

So let's get this straight - you have a disability (maybe), therefore you have an ECV, and therefore everyone that doesn't is just a hindrance to you. Ok sure. Got it.

They need governors on 'em I say. Slightly faster than a casual walk is enough.

Go Bruins!
 

blackthidot

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There have been times when I've had to limp around for one reason or another, so I've tried to keep an open mind about the things. What I can't excuse is some of the near-reckless habits people have riding them! There have been way too many zigzagging around people like they're kids on a Ninja on I4.

So let's get this straight - you have a disability (maybe), therefore you have an ECV, and therefore everyone that doesn't is just a hindrance to you. Ok sure. Got it.

They need governors on 'em I say. Slightly faster than a casual walk is enough.

Go Bruins!

I got no problem with people who need them bud. But let's be honest if there are 100 people in them...you KNOW at least 60 of them ate their way into them.
 

Rach&Eric

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Ummmm??? I'm going to take a guess....the chick underneath the blue POP sign (wearing the maroony shirt) looks like she doesn't have any pants on...maybe that's why you took the pic.

Great TR, your pics are awesome!
 

blackthidot

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Ummmm??? I'm going to take a guess....the chick underneath the blue POP sign (wearing the maroony shirt) looks like she doesn't have any pants on...maybe that's why you took the pic.

Great TR, your pics are awesome!


Haha actually on this one I was just taking pictures and screwing with settings. I never noticed the butt out lady. Good eye!
 

Rach&Eric

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LOL, it didn't take me that long to spot it either. I'm debating if that's a good thing or not. Your food pics made me hungry and since strawberry shortcake is my absolute favorite dessert I'll have to give it a try. Unfortunately that won't be until October 2015 :cry:
 

cosmicray

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Wow--Just read this entire TR in one sitting.....Great Trip Report, loved the pictures and commentary, had me laughing out loud many times....Can't wait for the next one! :)
 

blackthidot

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LOL, it didn't take me that long to spot it either. I'm debating if that's a good thing or not. Your food pics made me hungry and since strawberry shortcake is my absolute favorite dessert I'll have to give it a try. Unfortunately that won't be until October 2015 :cry:

Well you apparently scanned over the photo WAY more than I did because I sure as heck did not see it and I edited the thing! Haha
 

RobnRachal

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So I ended up with an entirely free morning and got through your whole report. Thoroughly enjoyed it...thanks for sharing, and I apologize for all the "likes" in your alerts :D
 

blackthidot

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So I ended up with an entirely free morning and got through your whole report. Thoroughly enjoyed it...thanks for sharing, and I apologize for all the "likes" in your alerts :D

The "likes" are cool. I enjoy them.

I am glad you were able to get through the whole thing in one sitting (That's what he said). That had to have been tough.
 

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