Trip Report Me, Mickey and Medicare!!

Welp, the time has come. You know how the decades are the big birthdays? There is one I have found that seems important to celebrate at the half decade. Yep, 65! I decided if I was going to have to start carrying around a Medicare card that I was going to have a go big or go home party. And I did in one of my favorite places ever, Disney!
As one family member rudely said when I told them of my plans, see my jaw not on the floor.

Whatever. With fairly short notice, maybe a month or less I decided that I was going to go visit Seth. I moved to Sacramento this year and to say it was stressful is the understatement of the century. My daughter and family were going to Texas for Thanksgiving and with my birthday only a few days before I decided to treat myself. I asked Seth if he minded hanging out with me if he could get off of work and he said sure and was able to get the days.

So, the particulars were-dates, Nov. 20-Nov. 25.
For the first time ever I stayed off site at the Tuscany Hilton as I am saving our DVC points to use in March because the whole family will be going again and staying at the new Poly Towers. (And that takes a whole bunch of points.)
It was just Seth and me.
When I was trying to think of a name for this TR I asked Seth his opinion and he said he didn't mind if only I was in the title as long as he was in the report!

I was going to start the report with travel day but it seems all of the pictures that I thought I downloaded have disappeared!
So I will have to use the only photo I can find for this first post, a fairly blurry photopass pic, to start the report off and I will be back as soon as I find the gazillion lost pics!

 

[MickeyCB]

It isn‘t too bad. I do NOT like heights and I was very nervous about it. But I made it across and if given the opportunity, I would definitely do the trek again.

Totally agree, it's been several years as I said above but would do it again in a heart beat. I think at this point we will have to wait till the grand babies get old enough. They get big mad when they are left out of things!

 

[MickeyCB]

AK day continues-

We went back to Yak and Yeti after Everest to see if we could be seated by the grouch muffin.
Seth was able to get my membership card loaded on my phone.
The guy must have gone to the break room and ingested something or did some yoga because he was nice as pie when we went back.
We were seated probably within 10 minutes.

I've never eaten here before and loved the theming inside.

We were seated promptly and had a wonderful waiter.
Seth ordered the Beyond Burger and said it was really good. It is served with sweet potato fries.

I think I ordered Honey Chicken, honestly not sure, cause you know... tastes like chicken!
But I do remember that it was delicious.

After our late lunch we headed over for what we thought would be our last ride on Dinosaur.
Stopped for some pics, Seth loved the birds.

Last dino ride? Maybe, maybe not. I genuinely don't have feelings for this ride one way or the other, but definitely liked Indiana Jones at DL.
My only gripe is, Disney could you please start adding instead of replacing attractions?

After that we headed to Pandora for another favorite.

Another aside, Gary adored FoP and when we were at Aulani 2 years ago Seth got this tattoo. He did it secretly on his own for his dad.
It's significance is apparently every time Seth and Gary would exit the ride they would fist bump and Gary would say, "Sivako!" I didn't know that story till the tattoo.

So, we as they say, rode in his honor.

After, we wandered around taking in the awesome sights.

And 10 points for anyone who knows where these little cuties were!

 

[erstwo]

AK day continues-

We went back to Yak and Yeti after Everest to see if we could be seated by the grouch muffin.
Seth was able to get my membership card loaded on my phone.
The guy must have gone to the break room and ingested something or did some yoga because he was nice as pie when we went back.
We were seated probably within 10 minutes.



Another aside, Gary adored FoP and when we were at Aulani 2 years ago Seth got this tattoo. He did it secretly on his own for his dad.
It's significance is apparently every time Seth and Gary would exit the ride they would fist bump and Gary would say, "Sivako!" I didn't know that story till the tattoo.
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So, we as they say, rode in his honor

to the first part (the grouch)

And - so sweet - to the second (the tattoo and the story behind it)

 

[MickeyCB]

And - so sweet - to the second (the tattoo and the story behind it)

It is a neat story, and a lovely memory for Seth.

 

[MickeyCB]

Happy New Year to all who have had the clock strike 12!!
Still a few hours to go here on the West coast!

 

[Swissmiss]

Happy New Year to all who have had the clock strike 12!!
Still a few hours to go here on the West coast!

Happy New Year to you!

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Happy New Year to all who have had the clock strike 12!!
Still a few hours to go here on the West coast!

Happy New Year!

 

[MickeyCB]

AK day continues-

After visiting Pandora we started to head out of the park.
I saw this fun item at a popcorn stand that I NEEDED to add to my collection!
I figure I now have a nice mix of big, medium and small Mickey pumpkins to display next year.

On our way out we wandered through the stores but didn't find any thing we wanted. We saw the Merry Menagerie yet again.
I was thinking for this puppet how you would really have to get along or you could really mess your partner up!
"Go right, no I don't want to go that way!" "Watch out for that little kid, I saw him!"

We headed out and decided to go to Disney Springs (miss calling it Downtown Disney sooo much!) I loved sitting on the busses at night going there and the announcement of the mans voice, "sit back relax, you're on your way to Downtown Disney!"

Anyway, as Seth was driving we were looking for parking not a bus stop.
Check these photos out!

But Seth used to work down here and he said no way they are all filled and headed into one, I don't remember which, and sure enough there were some spots. Go Seth!

I thought this was a beautiful view.

We wandered around a little. I bought Seth some clothes at Uniqlo that he was supposed to put aside for Christmas but now that I think about it, he was supposed to take a pic of them under the tree to prove that and I don't recall getting one!
We went into World of Disney and it was truly a zoo! Disney Springs the weekend before Thanksgiving. What were we thinking?!

Seth wanted to fill his popcorn bucket, and no lie, so did half of the population of NY.
There were apparently only 2 popcorn carts in all of Disney Springs, and as he approached the front of the line they ran out of popcorn.
Keep in mind, as the popcorn lowered more and more in the little popper, no one apparently thought it might be a good idea to start making more.
It was, I do not lie again, 20 minutes and he was the first in line for the new batch. Of plain ole popcorn. There were 15 people after him that I know weren't going to get some because...you guessed it. They guy didn't start to make more as it went low again.

I felt like it was time to abandon ship so we mobile ordered from Deluxe Burger, but once again I forgot to push we are here, and it was a solid 30 minute wait there.
We decided to just do take out and get out of Dodge.

As we were exiting the garage, all of the floors had this sign up!

Seth took me back to the hotel and once again, I ate takeout in my dining room. It was very nice to sit quietly and have dinner after a pretty long day.

Tomorrow is our last park day and we are headed to HS!

 

[Tiki Traveler]

That's one of my favorite photos that you shared here. The garden is holiday festive, and yet restful, at the same time.

@MinnieM123 Definitely! My first thoughts of MickeyCB’s Living with the Land pictures were let me sit in there with a cup of tea and wander at will. It would be delightful!

Thanks again for posting MickeyCB!

 

[MickeyCB]

HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS DAY-NOV 24!

Last park day, boo.

Oh well, I think we made the best of it.
Seth, my private uber, picked me up again around 10 and we saw this cute sign outside of the park around 10:20.

And in no time were inside the park.

I love love these dancing Minnies, but what happened to the candy cane ones?!

Loved these!

Another aside-I get that things have to change but why does Disney have to continually remove some beautiful, and striking decorations. Anyone remember this? Loved it so much and it made such an impact.
Memory lane.
Hard to believe that second one is 12 years ago already and the first one probably 15 or 16?!

Any way, back to Nov. of 2025.

We made our way into the studios and as we had a little time till our dining reservation we decided to go see the Muppets. In all of my years going I can't remember seeing the show before (though I do have some vague memory of it), so I decided I should before I no longer had the opportunity.

It was cute and I am glad to say I saw it.

As we wandered around we came to the snowman by Mama Melrose's (may she rest in future peace).
I again had a vague memory of taking a pic of the kids here and asked a very reluctant Seth to strike this pose.

And sure enough when I got home I found this one from 2011! Oh baby, time goes fast!

Sorry for all of the throw back pics, but as we did a lot of our trips in Nov./Dec. this one triggered a lot of memories.
After this, lets head to lunch!