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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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minnielaw

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Oh John, I am embarrassed at how excited I was to see this TR....shameful, really. I've been waiting, what, two years for the follow-up to the last great TR.

My husband I both were so moved by your beautiful prose and witty turn of phrase that we named our TR in honor of our favorite phrase used as a caption for one of your SSE photos..."For real son!" Seriously, my husband went around saying "for real son" like every five minutes for a year.

Anyhoo...I have already laughed out loud way too many times and my secretary kept coming in my office to check on me because I started wheezing from laughing so hard. This time, I have a feeling the catch-phrase is gonna be "chisel my butt". Keep it coming and I cannot wait for the second day!
 

Foolish Mortal

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Dude I so hope out trips cross paths again. Love your reports. Look forward to more. Can't believe how long Colleens hair has gotten ! When I met you guys it wasn't even shoulder length. I'm curios as to how many times you did Le Cellier.
 

blackthidot

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Dude I so hope out trips cross paths again. Love your reports. Look forward to more. Can't believe how long Colleens hair has gotten ! When I met you guys it wasn't even shoulder length. I'm curios as to how many times you did Le Cellier.

She always let's her hair grow 32 feet long and then cuts it all off. She was supposed to cut it before the trip but then she didn't.

Dude...next year I am almost 100% certain I'm arriving September 16th. Not sure if it's for 10 or 15 days though. If it that date I'll be leaving Aug 27th.

The plus of leaving Aug...I'll get to save a Vaca day with the Sept holiday. The plus of the Sept date...lower crowds missing the holiday weekend!

PM me we can try and figure something out.
 

blackthidot

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In the Parks
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Oh John, I am embarrassed at how excited I was to see this TR....shameful, really. I've been waiting, what, two years for the follow-up to the last great TR.

My husband I both were so moved by your beautiful prose and witty turn of phrase that we named our TR in honor of our favorite phrase used as a caption for one of your SSE photos..."For real son!" Seriously, my husband went around saying "for real son" like every five minutes for a year.

Anyhoo...I have already laughed out loud way too many times and my secretary kept coming in my office to check on me because I started wheezing from laughing so hard. This time, I have a feeling the catch-phrase is gonna be "chisel my butt". Keep it coming and I cannot wait for the second day!

See...people like you two are the reason I love doing this. Some folks "get" me and some don't and you guys get it! I knew when I thought of butt chiseling that you would love it!

Hopefully the rest lives up to the hype for you guys!
 

sweetpee_1993

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Oh how Tracey would giggle if I told him, "chisel my butt like THIS", and showed him the pic. Seriously, that guy looks highly suspect.

Love the shout out w/the Cabbage Patch pic! I love that I was there in spirit at least momentarily. Its been so long since I've hauled any part of my collection out for any other purpose besides selling them. :jawdrop:

Colleen's chocolate crack dessert at CG. I've tried that! @Howe had it when we were there post cruise and let me try a bite. That stuff is flippin' awesome. I could roll in it. Soooo luscious! Toe curling incredible. I think its the nearest thing to THE perfect dessert.

Bad tattoos. I know nothing about this. :bored:

Very glad the fates brought you back to Pop for another try. Major soft spot for Pop here. That place is like family to us. Many good memories there. So glad your 2nd go around was an improvement over the last.

Loving the report, John. As per your usual, you deliver an honest and entertaining perspective. Keep it rolling.
 

blackthidot

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In the Parks
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Oh how Tracey would giggle if I told him, "chisel my butt like THIS", and showed him the pic. Seriously, that guy looks highly suspect.

Love the shout out w/the Cabbage Patch pic! I love that I was there in spirit at least momentarily. Its been so long since I've hauled any part of my collection out for any other purpose besides selling them. :jawdrop:

Colleen's chocolate crack dessert at CG. I've tried that! @Howe had it when we were there post cruise and let me try a bite. That stuff is flippin' awesome. I could roll in it. Soooo luscious! Toe curling incredible. I think its the nearest thing to THE perfect dessert.

Bad tattoos. I know nothing about this. :bored:

Very glad the fates brought you back to Pop for another try. Major soft spot for Pop here. That place is like family to us. Many good memories there. So glad your 2nd go around was an improvement over the last.

Loving the report, John. As per your usual, you deliver an honest and entertaining perspective. Keep it rolling.

Well show him...see how he feels. I got another amazing "add on" for Splash Mountain too!

Man you describing that cake...you need a towel?

Pop was cool. I would stay there again, maybe. I just really like Sports. With the cafe refurb I may not stay elsewhere.
 

blackthidot

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In the Parks
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Yep, that chocolate pudding cake is the best dessert I've had at Disney! Out of control good!

Great report so far! Glad you're back, I need the laughs!


Yeah I would probably put it number 2 for me. No chance it is lower than 3.
 

Dads 2 Boys

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Rather than make you wait till the end of this thing...god knows when that will be...

We really really enjoyed Pop this time around.

Everything we hated about it was completely different this time. It sort of looks like you had all the same problems we did. I guess it is just a hit or miss resort. You do hear quite a bit outside your doors but we RARELY (Unless it was SCREAMING kids) heard anything through the walls.

I can't start a thread for those people who are "different". It is already mean enough that I post them in my own private little report...I don't want to even try and start something like that. If you want to do it I will contribute...but I aint starting it! Hahaha

Different......doesn't even begin to describe those people though. My buddy and I were debating on writing a book about "different WDW people". Care to join? ha ha
 

Dads 2 Boys

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See...people like you two are the reason I love doing this. Some folks "get" me and some don't and you guys get it! I knew when I thought of butt chiseling that you would love it!

Hopefully the rest lives up to the hype for you guys!

The only thing better than your TR would be to be able to listen to a monologue of you walking through MK on a random day with a running commentary.

We're arriving next Sept on the 20th.
 

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