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Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2007
I said I was going to update this thing during my 5 days off. Sorry!! I'm at a loss of things to really talk about with our upcoming trip, so I thought I'd go down memory lane to the last trip to WDW.
**Insert Wayne's World dream sequence sounds and motions here**
I take you back to June 1999. My grandparents were taking the family on a trip to the World as an 8th grade grad trip for one of my cousins and I who just finished middle school. Yay us!! Well, it ended up just being an awesome vacation as, like I said, they offered to take the entire party. My parents ended up not going for whatever reason they came up with. I think it was something like my dad wasn't going to be able to get the time off and mom offered to stay home with him. Fine by me, I was 13 and felt I didn't need my parents anyways. Just like every other teenage girl, right? Along with me was my grandparents of course (mom's parents), my Uncle (mom's brother aka Goofster57 on the dis), Aunt, and their two daughters (my cousins or is that a duh statement?)
I pulled out an old calendar and after studying the dates, I believe I'm correct on them. I know we left the Thurs after my last day of school. So June 24th 1999. It was later in June, we were home the end of June, so that has to be it. I think. We stayed 7 or 8 days. This I can't remember. So we'll just see what I do remember of it and see how many days worth of stuff I come up with.
So day 1. We had to be at my grandparents at the buttcrack of dawn. I don't honestly remember the flight, I think Jess was feeling sick? I sat next to my grandma. I think. A lot of I thinks. I should just call my cousin and ask her. Oh well, this will be fun. We got to Orlando late-ish. So we must have had a layover considering it was the middle of the night when we left. At least that is what it felt like. I don't remember the Welcome to Disney sign. But I do remember the Wilderness Lodge one. It made me feel like I was heading towards Yosemite or something. I also remember walking into the lobby and being awestruck. Keep in mind, Disneyland had nothing like the resorts at Disney World at this time. This was absolutely amazing!! We didn't get bunk beds in the room though they'd been requested. I was very disappointed with this. I'm totally over it now. Stupid bunk beds.
After we all got checked in, we took the boat launch to MK. We went towards some restaurant that told us there was no table large enough for us all (again, we were a party of 7, not that big) Or maybe it was a long wait. I'm pretty sure they said they couldn't seat us all. Whichever. Isn't this just the best 10 years later TR ever?! So we went somewhere else for food, I know we also rode Space at some point. Maybe another ride? It also rained. Gotta love Florida rain. Did we see the parade or fireworks? I don't remember. I was just excited to be there. And exhausted since I'd been up since before the chickens. Not that we had chickens. But... Nevermind. We went back to the room soon after and off to sleep. Well, I couldn't sleep. I know that. I had a few problems falling asleep that trip. I'm sure it'll be the same this trip too.
Day two was EPCOT. I stayed in a room with my grandparents, and the other four had their own room. I know that basically every morning the three of use would be standing outside my cousins door waiting for them to come out. We ate food somewhere. No clue where. I believe Test Track was our first attraction. So much fun!! We ate at the TS restaurant in the Mexico pavilion. Nothing to write home about. I think we may have ridden other attractions. Again, it's been 10 years!! I know we went back to the resort and ended up going back to MK that evening. Though my uncle and grandpa stayed at the resort. This is where we discovered Coke/Rootbeer floats. These were big things to us girls. We rode Pirates, Pooh, and probably some other things. Then back to the room for some sleep.
Day three was MK. I'm surprised at what I remember. I think it's because I've been reliving that trip in my head the last 7 months or so. We rode speedway. That's all I remember from MK. That may have been all we did. That afternoon/evening we ended up at EPCOT again. My cousins and I did the EPCOT passport things. Those were so much fun!! I want to do them again this year. Well, technically next year. In 37 more days. No, EPCOT is in 41 days. So in 41 days. I'm doing the passport thing again. Alyssa learned how to order Coke in Italian. Or German. Or English. Some language. This was the evening we ended up eating at the McDonalds in DTD. It was dark and pouring rain and took a year to find a place to sit inside. But it was food, and it was dry. That's all I remember from DTD. Boo.
Day four was MGM. Back when it was MGM. We rode the bus to the park, and I remember seeing TOT come into view. So Jess and I made a plan to head their first. And we were the only two wanting to do this ride. I could have done it over and over and over. You have no clue how excited I was when they brought this attraction to DCA. When we had cast preview days for it, you could go on your lunch in costume to ride it. So, of course, that's what we did. This is before you really had to clock in and out for lunch, and I was working on the freight team. So we divided into two, and spent the next hour and a half (yea, we took some extra time) riding this thing over and over and over. Anyways, back to Florida... We also rode GMR, the Backlot Tour, and that's it. I don't really think there was much else to ride/see then.
We had lunch at 50's Prime Time that day. This was by far the best meal in my opinion that day. Whomever our waitress was, she was great. My uncle got in trouble at some point, so I think she may have been mom. He did draw her a picture on his place mat to get back on her good side, and she pinned it on the wall above our table. Ok, so maybe you had to be there, but I spent lunch laughing. I think it rained again. What we did after this, I don't know. I have no clue what was done for dinner. So it must not have been memorable. So don't eat at the place I can't remember because it isn't worth it.
Next day was Animal Kingdom. I loved the Safari, the storyline was boring to me though. Dinosaur was awesome too, and I'll admit that stupid thing that jumps out at you (you know, when they take your pic) scared the **insert word of choice here** out of me. We ate lunch at Flame Tree I think. I remember it was something barbecue. Oh, we also did the Animal Kingdom passport things too. Though, I believe we didn't finish them?? We saw TTBAB. I wanted to ride Kali. But as I remember, I was the only one. We went to MGM that night for dinner and Fantasmic. We had Priority Seating for SciFi. Can I just say I'm glad they got rid of priority seating!! We checked in at our check in time and sat around for a decade to be seated. For those who don't know, Priority Seating really just meant that you told them when you wanted to eat, they told you to come back and check in then, and when you check in, all they do is put you in front of the people who didn't do Priority Seating. It's not an actual reservation. So, you basically still had to wait till they had an open car/table/whatever to get seated. After dinner we watch VOTLM and then Fantasmic. Jess and I were going to go try to ride TOT again, but for some reason didn't. I really don't know what happened there.
Day whatever I'm on. I don't know what I did that morning. Jess, Alyssa and Shivahn went to Typhoon Lagoon. Maybe I just watched TV. We ended up going to MK again that night. We did Carousel of Progress, People Mover (or TTA for you who want to call it that), Splash and Thunder too I believe. We watched the parade. Watched the show they had in the Diamond Horseshoe Revue and had coke floats. When they asked everyone in there where they were from, of course we had to say Disneyland. This must have been like EMH night or whatever it was called then. I remember we were out major late. So maybe we rode all those rides later. We also did Buzz Lightyear and my grandpa and I did the Alien Encounter thing.
Day seven. EPCOT again. And a major storm. Well, major for me. Let's just say there was Mexican food all over the ground at one point. I don't remember details, but I remember they lost their food the wind was so strong. I know at one point everyone in the parks were trying to hide under all the covered walkways. I remember getting stuck by Innoventions. It let up at some point. I'm sure we rode something. Played around in WS again. I know after we got back to the resort that night, our grandma asked us to write down our top 5 things to do the next day (our last day).
Day eight. Alyssa, Uncle Keith and I went to Typhoon lagoon. The only thing I really remember was swimming with the sharks. We did some of the slides I'm sure, and I have a vague memory of the river thingy. After this we met with everyone else at DTD and went to Disney Quest. A five story arcade? Yes please! I love love loved the create your own roller coaster thing. That night we did WCC for dinner. We went there some other day too, but I don't remember what day or what meal.
Want an embarrassing story? Well, at some point Alyssa had to go to the restroom. Well, Jess and I at some point went to check on where she was. We also wanted to get away from our server who enjoyed his/her job a little too much. Well, we walked in as Alyssa was walking out, so we walked back to the table together. We get back, and the server starts questioning our whereabouts. We told him/her we went to the restroom to try and find Alyssa, and he/she asks what color the soap is. Jess and I had no clue as we hadn't actually washed our hands as we'd done nothing but walk in the door. Alyssa just started at the guy/lady. So he/she starts announcing to the entire restaurant that we'd gone to the bathroom and not washed our hands. The three of us went running from the table to find out what color the soap was. Jess and I then started screaming at Alyssa for not saying because she had washed her hands and should have known. We got back to the table, after making sure to scrub our hands thoroughly just in case and announced the color and texture of the soap. I believe it was a white powder substance that turned into suds. I could be wrong. Yea, for a long time after that, every time I had to go to the restroom at a restaurant, I made sure to know what kind of soap they had in case I was ever asked again. My point? Make sure you know what you wash your hands with in the bathrooms!! You never know!!
Getting back on track, after dinner, we packed. We were leaving the next day. Early the next day. Like, with time change and all, this was the buttcrack of the buttcrack of dawn. On the flight home, certain members of the family were talking about going to Disneyland that evening so they could say they'd been to Disney World and Disneyland in the same day. They did too. I went home and recanted the entire trip to my parents. Then slept. And slept some more.
**Insert Wayne's World dream sequence sounds and motions here**
I take you back to June 1999. My grandparents were taking the family on a trip to the World as an 8th grade grad trip for one of my cousins and I who just finished middle school. Yay us!! Well, it ended up just being an awesome vacation as, like I said, they offered to take the entire party. My parents ended up not going for whatever reason they came up with. I think it was something like my dad wasn't going to be able to get the time off and mom offered to stay home with him. Fine by me, I was 13 and felt I didn't need my parents anyways. Just like every other teenage girl, right? Along with me was my grandparents of course (mom's parents), my Uncle (mom's brother aka Goofster57 on the dis), Aunt, and their two daughters (my cousins or is that a duh statement?)
I pulled out an old calendar and after studying the dates, I believe I'm correct on them. I know we left the Thurs after my last day of school. So June 24th 1999. It was later in June, we were home the end of June, so that has to be it. I think. We stayed 7 or 8 days. This I can't remember. So we'll just see what I do remember of it and see how many days worth of stuff I come up with.
So day 1. We had to be at my grandparents at the buttcrack of dawn. I don't honestly remember the flight, I think Jess was feeling sick? I sat next to my grandma. I think. A lot of I thinks. I should just call my cousin and ask her. Oh well, this will be fun. We got to Orlando late-ish. So we must have had a layover considering it was the middle of the night when we left. At least that is what it felt like. I don't remember the Welcome to Disney sign. But I do remember the Wilderness Lodge one. It made me feel like I was heading towards Yosemite or something. I also remember walking into the lobby and being awestruck. Keep in mind, Disneyland had nothing like the resorts at Disney World at this time. This was absolutely amazing!! We didn't get bunk beds in the room though they'd been requested. I was very disappointed with this. I'm totally over it now. Stupid bunk beds.
After we all got checked in, we took the boat launch to MK. We went towards some restaurant that told us there was no table large enough for us all (again, we were a party of 7, not that big) Or maybe it was a long wait. I'm pretty sure they said they couldn't seat us all. Whichever. Isn't this just the best 10 years later TR ever?! So we went somewhere else for food, I know we also rode Space at some point. Maybe another ride? It also rained. Gotta love Florida rain. Did we see the parade or fireworks? I don't remember. I was just excited to be there. And exhausted since I'd been up since before the chickens. Not that we had chickens. But... Nevermind. We went back to the room soon after and off to sleep. Well, I couldn't sleep. I know that. I had a few problems falling asleep that trip. I'm sure it'll be the same this trip too.
Day two was EPCOT. I stayed in a room with my grandparents, and the other four had their own room. I know that basically every morning the three of use would be standing outside my cousins door waiting for them to come out. We ate food somewhere. No clue where. I believe Test Track was our first attraction. So much fun!! We ate at the TS restaurant in the Mexico pavilion. Nothing to write home about. I think we may have ridden other attractions. Again, it's been 10 years!! I know we went back to the resort and ended up going back to MK that evening. Though my uncle and grandpa stayed at the resort. This is where we discovered Coke/Rootbeer floats. These were big things to us girls. We rode Pirates, Pooh, and probably some other things. Then back to the room for some sleep.
Day three was MK. I'm surprised at what I remember. I think it's because I've been reliving that trip in my head the last 7 months or so. We rode speedway. That's all I remember from MK. That may have been all we did. That afternoon/evening we ended up at EPCOT again. My cousins and I did the EPCOT passport things. Those were so much fun!! I want to do them again this year. Well, technically next year. In 37 more days. No, EPCOT is in 41 days. So in 41 days. I'm doing the passport thing again. Alyssa learned how to order Coke in Italian. Or German. Or English. Some language. This was the evening we ended up eating at the McDonalds in DTD. It was dark and pouring rain and took a year to find a place to sit inside. But it was food, and it was dry. That's all I remember from DTD. Boo.
Day four was MGM. Back when it was MGM. We rode the bus to the park, and I remember seeing TOT come into view. So Jess and I made a plan to head their first. And we were the only two wanting to do this ride. I could have done it over and over and over. You have no clue how excited I was when they brought this attraction to DCA. When we had cast preview days for it, you could go on your lunch in costume to ride it. So, of course, that's what we did. This is before you really had to clock in and out for lunch, and I was working on the freight team. So we divided into two, and spent the next hour and a half (yea, we took some extra time) riding this thing over and over and over. Anyways, back to Florida... We also rode GMR, the Backlot Tour, and that's it. I don't really think there was much else to ride/see then.
We had lunch at 50's Prime Time that day. This was by far the best meal in my opinion that day. Whomever our waitress was, she was great. My uncle got in trouble at some point, so I think she may have been mom. He did draw her a picture on his place mat to get back on her good side, and she pinned it on the wall above our table. Ok, so maybe you had to be there, but I spent lunch laughing. I think it rained again. What we did after this, I don't know. I have no clue what was done for dinner. So it must not have been memorable. So don't eat at the place I can't remember because it isn't worth it.
Next day was Animal Kingdom. I loved the Safari, the storyline was boring to me though. Dinosaur was awesome too, and I'll admit that stupid thing that jumps out at you (you know, when they take your pic) scared the **insert word of choice here** out of me. We ate lunch at Flame Tree I think. I remember it was something barbecue. Oh, we also did the Animal Kingdom passport things too. Though, I believe we didn't finish them?? We saw TTBAB. I wanted to ride Kali. But as I remember, I was the only one. We went to MGM that night for dinner and Fantasmic. We had Priority Seating for SciFi. Can I just say I'm glad they got rid of priority seating!! We checked in at our check in time and sat around for a decade to be seated. For those who don't know, Priority Seating really just meant that you told them when you wanted to eat, they told you to come back and check in then, and when you check in, all they do is put you in front of the people who didn't do Priority Seating. It's not an actual reservation. So, you basically still had to wait till they had an open car/table/whatever to get seated. After dinner we watch VOTLM and then Fantasmic. Jess and I were going to go try to ride TOT again, but for some reason didn't. I really don't know what happened there.
Day whatever I'm on. I don't know what I did that morning. Jess, Alyssa and Shivahn went to Typhoon Lagoon. Maybe I just watched TV. We ended up going to MK again that night. We did Carousel of Progress, People Mover (or TTA for you who want to call it that), Splash and Thunder too I believe. We watched the parade. Watched the show they had in the Diamond Horseshoe Revue and had coke floats. When they asked everyone in there where they were from, of course we had to say Disneyland. This must have been like EMH night or whatever it was called then. I remember we were out major late. So maybe we rode all those rides later. We also did Buzz Lightyear and my grandpa and I did the Alien Encounter thing.
Day seven. EPCOT again. And a major storm. Well, major for me. Let's just say there was Mexican food all over the ground at one point. I don't remember details, but I remember they lost their food the wind was so strong. I know at one point everyone in the parks were trying to hide under all the covered walkways. I remember getting stuck by Innoventions. It let up at some point. I'm sure we rode something. Played around in WS again. I know after we got back to the resort that night, our grandma asked us to write down our top 5 things to do the next day (our last day).
Day eight. Alyssa, Uncle Keith and I went to Typhoon lagoon. The only thing I really remember was swimming with the sharks. We did some of the slides I'm sure, and I have a vague memory of the river thingy. After this we met with everyone else at DTD and went to Disney Quest. A five story arcade? Yes please! I love love loved the create your own roller coaster thing. That night we did WCC for dinner. We went there some other day too, but I don't remember what day or what meal.
Want an embarrassing story? Well, at some point Alyssa had to go to the restroom. Well, Jess and I at some point went to check on where she was. We also wanted to get away from our server who enjoyed his/her job a little too much. Well, we walked in as Alyssa was walking out, so we walked back to the table together. We get back, and the server starts questioning our whereabouts. We told him/her we went to the restroom to try and find Alyssa, and he/she asks what color the soap is. Jess and I had no clue as we hadn't actually washed our hands as we'd done nothing but walk in the door. Alyssa just started at the guy/lady. So he/she starts announcing to the entire restaurant that we'd gone to the bathroom and not washed our hands. The three of us went running from the table to find out what color the soap was. Jess and I then started screaming at Alyssa for not saying because she had washed her hands and should have known. We got back to the table, after making sure to scrub our hands thoroughly just in case and announced the color and texture of the soap. I believe it was a white powder substance that turned into suds. I could be wrong. Yea, for a long time after that, every time I had to go to the restroom at a restaurant, I made sure to know what kind of soap they had in case I was ever asked again. My point? Make sure you know what you wash your hands with in the bathrooms!! You never know!!
Getting back on track, after dinner, we packed. We were leaving the next day. Early the next day. Like, with time change and all, this was the buttcrack of the buttcrack of dawn. On the flight home, certain members of the family were talking about going to Disneyland that evening so they could say they'd been to Disney World and Disneyland in the same day. They did too. I went home and recanted the entire trip to my parents. Then slept. And slept some more.
I'll post a pic at some point so people know what to look for.
Yea. At least I still have my Princess breakfast. 
