Trip Report You and me, we're in a club now! *COMPLETE*

Hello Everyone!

Now that we are less than a week away (and we've just finished our last trip report oops!). It's time for Our pre-trip report for our next holiday. This next ones a big one so hopefully it should be even more fun!

Who?
We are Natasha (Tasha) and Adam, we're from the East coast of the UK and we love disney world! If you have caught our last couple of trip reports you know that we love a semi relaxed approach to our holidays in disney and we like to see where the fun takes us. We both like to take it in turns writing the trip report together (so that we prolong the fun) and will refer to each other as N or A.

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We are also going to be joined this trip by 13 of our nearest and dearest. We range in age from 63 to 2 years old, first timer's to seasoned disney veterans. I imagine they will all make their appearance in the trip report one way or another. Trying to plan a trip for this many people has been one headache I don't want to repeat for some time.

Where?
This visit we are lucky enough to be staying on property for 2 weeks! We are initially spending 4 nights just the two of us at POFQ and then we are joining my family at OKW resort for the rest of the trip. Everyone else is staying at a mix of coronado springs, wilderness lodge, all star sports and the hilton at disney springs.

When?
September 7th-September 21st. There will be 15 of us for the first week and then 7 of us for the second week.

Why?
This is the big one. We are getting Married!!! We initially were supposed to be married this May but unfortunately due to a vendor bankruptcy we had to scrap our plans a week before xmas. After that there was much panic and scrambling to get together a plan B. We had already booked our holiday for this September so decided why not get married at the happiest place on earth?? It was a big change going from a wedding of 120+ people down to just 15 people but we are lucky that everyone has been very supportive with our wishes.

What are our plans?
We have been steadily planning through the year with Disney Fairy Tail Wedding's for the big day on September the 9th. We will have a couple of days to get our body clocks aligned before the big day. The details of the day we'll keep quiet for now as I don't want any family members accidentally catching on as we have a few surprises in store for them all 😜. The rest of our time we are planning to show the first timers the joy of disney, hopefully catch some time at galaxys edge, make the most of all the extra magic hours. We have park shoots planned at both MK and epcot in our wedding attire. My parents are DVC members and we were lucky to get tickets for the moonlight magic in the second week of the stay. We are annual pass holders to both disney and universal right now so we will also be heading to the dark side with the hopes of catching a ride on Hagrid's motorbike adventure. We are big lovers of halloween and cant wait to experience this years HHN. As it is the first part of our honeymoon adventure we have treated ourselves to the rush of fear pass with express. This means hopefully we should get to experience all the houses several times!

We cant wait to share the upcoming adventure with you all!
 

Tashifer90

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Day 3 - September 9th 2019

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After a change of shirt for me and Tasha had, had her fill of air conditioning we needed to get to Epcot for our evening reception! We decided to order a Minivan to Epcot just to get their quicker, Although after our experience of getting the bus back after park closing we kinda wished we had got the bus there as well! haha! (More on this later)

Our mini van driver was awesome, she help Tasha push all of her wedding dress inside the cab. (Definitely a two person job)

Security was the most easiest experience we will ever likely have, Tasha could obviously not be patted down so she got through super easy. One of the security guards joked that he was going to send me through the scanner and then let me go. 😂

Immediately as we walked in again, we had people shouting congratulations to us, people taking selfies with us etc, we really didn't know what to say!

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Unfortunately on our arrival my brother called me and apparently Elijah and Kayleigh had taken a turn for the worse after lunch and they were both feeling very ill. My brother was going to stay with them and look after them but after some persuasion from Kayleigh he came by himself but unfortunately didn't get to take 'the walk' with us.

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This is a photo Katie took of us just after setting off with our guide to take us to vikings landing. It's definitely one of my favorite photos of the evening!

We even had chance to stop and take a quick pose in front of spaceship earth!
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So after this... it. got. CRAZY! Like... hundreds of people cheering, clapping, whooping. It did not stop the whole time we were walking to vikings landing.

Just to give you a brief idea of what it was like...



...See what i mean? It was like that the WHOLE WAY ROUND! It was incredible! You just wouldn't get that kind of experience at ANY wedding back home.

Got a few more pics on the way as well!

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Feeling super happy!!

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With the mother in laws!

Then we got to vikings landing! (We were actually kinda sad that we were here, we honestly could have just walked round all night with people cheering at us 😂 )

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It was a really lovely set out!

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This was the Nacho station. Hot cheese ready to ladle all over our chips! Along with mole pork, a tonne of soured cream, jalapenos, salsa and black olives! (I was so happy with the black olives, i love them on everything!)

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This was the lemonade stand, you could add some of the tasty syrups to the lemonade which was super awesome (I completely sugar overdosed) there was a bucket full of ice with sodas chucked inside. The popcorn stand was next door which was awesome to eat whilst watching the fireworks. Next door to all of this was a big freezer full of ice cream bars which Tashas nieces loved (I think ruby told me later that she ate around 7 or 8 ice creams 😂:eek: )
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A bit blurry but you can see the freezer just there.

To be continued...
 

Tashifer90

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Day 3 - September 9th 2019

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Now it was time for us to stuff our faces before the fireworks!

And we did just that!

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Woah mama!!

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I am 100% addicted to ice cream sandwiches.

Everyone was tucking into the nachos too!
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Despite the mother in laws face she did really enjoy them.. 😂

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Mixing pomegranate with watermelon in the lemonade was amazing!

Then we took a few more photos with everyone before the fireworks!

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I attempted to photobomb this one 😂

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Ice cream bars for all!!


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We were all thoroughly warm by this point!

To be continued...
 

Tashifer90

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Day 3 - September 9th 2019

Continued...

A few more photos!

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No idea what face the wife is pulling here... 😂

Then the big group photo!
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After we were full of popcorn, ice cream, nachos and everything else. It was time for the fireworks, they really were great. Tasha and me went over to the side to enjoy the fireworks by ourselves and let our families enjoy it together.

We didn't know Steph was sneaking pictures of us though whilst we were watching though! She got a good one!

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After the fireworks were done, everyone was getting ready to leave. But we had one more surprise up our sleeve!

Tasha said 'So guys, hope you've all had fun, but we've got one more surprise for you... Who wants to go on test track?'

Tashas family again erupted into a cheer, Amelia started crying etc, etc... My family? 'Adam? whats that? Is it a scary one?' 😂

We began walking over to Test track again and was super excited to get the whole ride to ourselves!

Got a quick photo outside before we all went in too!


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Also... when you get the whole ride to yourselves, you get an amazing amount of time to design your own vehicle!


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Look at that beast!

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Tashas was a little more realistic haha!

Then... it was time to ride!!

to be continued...
 

Tashifer90

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Day 3 - September 9th 2019

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It's what you've been waiting for! Ride Mix- in photos!!

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Even the cast members were getting in on the fun!


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and finally us!

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'Just married!' 😍

Then it was time to leave the park! 😭

We managed to get a quick selfie in front of the space ship earth though!

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We headed out the park and had to say a quick goodbye to everyone cause our bus was getting ready to leave! We ran as fast as we could (Whilst Tasha was holding her dress) the bus driver waited for us luckily. It turns out the bus was only supposed to be heading to POR noooo. The very kind bus driver offered to give us a lift anyway!!! The moment we got on the bus we were greeted by cheers again. Everyone was congratulating us and laughing and joking with us (This is why we thought we should have got the bus there too!) the driver of the bus even did a Disney quiz with us whilst we drove back to the hotel!!

When we pulled up to the hotel we were the only ones getting off since the bus wasnt supposed to be going to POFQ in the first place. Everyone cheered us goodbye and i'm pretty sure i heard one guy shout at the back of the bus 'Go get her son!!' which i thought was a very movie moment even if it was a little seedy haha!!

We had a lovely walk through the hotel and back to our hotel room.

Of course we got a quick selfie...
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I think we held up quite well in the heat and humidity!

Back in the room our feet were thoroughly sore from the day! sketchers dont do wedding shoes unfortunately 😂 We were so glad that tomorrow was going to be a waterpark day!

It was a magical day we were never going to forget. Night night from the newly Weds! 😍
 

fizzieee

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What a day!!! You guys must have been exhausted after a full day like that. Congratulations again, it looked like a blast.
 

Tashifer90

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Day 4 - September 10th 2019

We woke up around 8 or 9 (I can't really remember) but today was going to be a relaxing day at typhoon lagoon after our loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong day yesterday!

We got up showered and dressed then we went to have our first breakfast as Husband and Wife. What a better breakfast to start the day with than mickey waffles!!!
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We also got a side of the breakfast potatoes as well!

The wife looking very happy with breakfast!
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Tasha also didn't pick out the correct utensils... 😂

Then a quick dash back to the room and we we're off!

We did really well to find a good spot at typhoon lagoon as well!
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We found a nice little cove looking right over the wave pool!

We hit the wave pool whilst we waited for everyone, Katie and Louise were first to arrive and we all enjoyed getting thrown about by the waves for a time, then Tashas family arrived shortly followed by mine. Schoey was taking a day off from the pool and decided to explore Disney springs :)

After that it was time to do the brides favorite activity... being lazy!! in the lazy river.

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And of course Tasha got herself perfectly aligned for the cold spray!

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I finally had chance to get my parents on their first water ride!

Allow to to present to you... 'Water rides... a first timers reaction'

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I mean... 😂

After this we relaxed in the wave pool for a bit (Or at least as relaxed as you can get when waves are smashing you in the face!)

Then we were heading off to hollywood studios for Fantasmic!

To be continued...
 

Tashifer90

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Day 4 - September 10th 2019

Continued...

We got to hollywood studios!
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and guess who got selected for screening again...
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We had a fastpass for toy story midway mania but we were running a little late! Tashas family headed in and I waited for my family so they wouldn't get lost!

Got to see our first look at star wars land as well! We couldn't believe how lucky we were to be here after it had just opened just a couple of weeks before we arrived!

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When we got to TSMWM Mark, Kayleigh and Elijah waited out this one, i think they were uncomfortable with the idea of being spun around? I explained it would be fine but they decided to give it a miss.

I thought tasha and her family had already gone into the fastpass queue even though we were a about 15 mins late so missed that grace period, so I got there and did the same thing. My fastpass did not work but the lovely cast member saw my badge for 'happily ever after' and said oh you guys can just go right on through! Awesome!

Or it would have been...

Tasha did not go into the fastpass queue... they were in standby!

We felt so bad!... as we waved when we walked right past them onto the ride... 😂

My penance was to be photographer for the girls after the ride hehe!

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After this it was time for our fastpasses at Slinky Dog, although as mentioned before my dad didn't get himself a fastpass for this, so as they were only with us a week i gave him my magic band she he could get on and enjoy himself. I opted to wait near the bottom and capture the memories!

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Tasha showing her 'i know where the camera is' skill 🤩

After this me and Tasha got some fajitas from Fairfax fare to keep us going and then we headed into fantasmic!



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Our seats for the show!

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It was a tad warm!!

To be continued...
 

Tashifer90

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Day 4 - September 10th 2019

Continued...

We were all getting excited for the show!

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Even though we were all still a bit weary from the day before!
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We didn't get any pictures of the show, i usually just like to sit and enjoy it, it always bothers me how people will watch the entire show through their phones and restrict the view for others. 🤬

We then headed back to Port Orleans, although in very sad times this was going to be our last night there before we switched over to old key west! Even worse than that i still hadn't had any Beignets yet!!!

So tonight I was gonna try them for the first time! (Sidenote: we later tried these in New Orleans and they're not all that different! The ones in New Orleans are a lot bigger though!)

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mmmmmm!

And now... another presentation! 'First time beignets!'

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'That's a lot of powered sugar!'

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'and it just makes them better!'

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I went for the chicory ganache and caramel dipping sauces. They were amazing!!

I was so thankful not to be worrying about fitting in a suit anymore! haha!

After that we sugar crashed and fell asleep 😂
 

Darstarr

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Day 4 - September 10th 2019

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We were all getting excited for the show!

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Even though we were all still a bit weary from the day before!
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We didn't get any pictures of the show, i usually just like to sit and enjoy it, it always bothers me how people will watch the entire show through their phones and restrict the view for others. 🤬

We then headed back to Port Orleans, although in very sad times this was going to be our last night there before we switched over to old key west! Even worse than that i still hadn't had any Beignets yet!!!

So tonight I was gonna try them for the first time! (Sidenote: we later tried these in New Orleans and they're not all that different! The ones in New Orleans are a lot bigger though!)

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mmmmmm!

And now... another presentation! 'First time beignets!'

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'That's a lot of powered sugar!'

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'and it just makes them better!'

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I went for the chicory ganache and caramel dipping sauces. They were amazing!!

I was so thankful not to be worrying about fitting in a suit anymore! haha!

After that we sugar crashed and fell asleep 😂
Nothing like rolling in powdered sugar while you sleep! Your face is priceless!!!
 

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