Moira222
Can't get enough of the Magic & Pixie Dust!
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2008
Hello friends, and thanks for sticking around, or at least popping in occasionally to see if I’ve actually made an update. I have been so distracted by other things that I’ve not been on the DISboards nearly as much as I’d like to. There is only so much downtime for me, and I confess to having gotten completely addicted to the Game of Thrones books as well as the Divergent series, not to mention a few other really good books in between.
I think I will be more photos as I am challenged to remember our trip. October seems so long ago. But there are only 75 more days till we are back as a family, so I’d better get to writing!
Monday, 10/14 AAARRRGH YA READY TO PARTY MATEYS?
Monday was a day we were all looking forward to – PARTY DAY! Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party to be exact! But I am getting ahead of myself.
Joe and I woke up pretty early & headed off to the gym. No photos – it’s a gym, and I didn’t bring my phone over with me. Sorry.
After getting our work out in, we headed back to the room to shower & dress. Katie and Nina were still sleeping. We sat out on the balcony, chatting, enjoying breakfast, taking in the scenery, looking at the photos we’d taken. Okay, we were there for quite a while. And finally we were done relaxing. I mean COME ON! Its vacation! You can only relax so much! With the girls still sleeping, we decided to take a ferry over to Downtown Disney by ourselves. It was 11 am already!!!
è I failed to mention that when Katie and I returned to our room Sunday in the wee hours, there was a big box with my name on it, sitting on the kitchen counter. OOH GOODY I love presents!
Want to guess what my sweet hubby bought for me? Here’s a clue….its a page from Cynthia’s book. J
Yup, got me a new Mickey Mug. I love this mug – could not wait to use it with my morning coffee, which could explain how we were able to linger for so long on the balcony. Who would not want to enjoy their coffee out of this mug?
Mean mom that I am, I left a note for Katie to do a page of homework when she woke up.
The ferry ride over was so pretty and it was bright and sunny (of course it was nearly noon!!!)
No particular destination in mind, we wandered around, taking in some stores we’d never seen before.
The Candy Cauldron, Blink, D Street, Hoypoloi Gallery – we just enjoyed walking around, looking at everything, making those mental wish lists of what we would purchase if money were no object (and someone else had to dust all that stuff!). Joe and I have always been window shoppers. Before Katie would come along, we would go to farmers markets, flea markets, “knick knack” stores, galleries, outlets, etc just browsing through, commenting, making up stories, whatever. We don’t get to do it that a lot any more because I have a great fear of having to spend $300 on a broken doo dad because Katie has to touch everything. So we like to browse and meander through shops.
There was a very pretty fall display, of course we had to take a few photos
We wandered down into the main DTD area and had to stop at Pollo Compero. I am SO SAD that they are closing this already. I picked up a small side of fried plaintains, and Joe opted for a liquid treat…..Bailey’s Banana Foster shake. Mmm so yummy.
About 12:30 or so we called over and found that indeed Katie and Nina were up and about. I felt guilty because apparently Katie was giving Nina a hard time about doing a sheet of homework, and Nina had to put on her bi&ch hat (all moms get one!). We made our way back to the ferry & headed over. Joe was going to meet Nina for lunch at Artist’s Point while I took the Bi7ch hat from Nina to ensure said homework was done.
After homework, Katie and I met up with Joe and Nina at the pool for a while. I think we might have gone back to the Community Room for another craft. Yes, we did. We made really cool fabric banners. I didn’t take a photo then and don’t know where Katie’s is, but mine is hanging by the front door, so here it is. (well here it will be when the photo uploads for me!)
If you are staying at a DVC resort, I recommend visiting the community center at least once. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there. And, for inquiring minds, the banner was free. We also made magnets and post cards, which were also free. We only paid for the ceramics that we did the day before.
We all enjoyed the pool for a while, especially the hot tub! There were games going on in the pool area again, and Katie enjoys playing those. There was a trivia game going on…we got there after it had started so didn’t officially play. Too bad, we would have kicked butt…but we used our Disney trivia to help out a family who looked like they were struggling. Its all in fun anyway!
I think I will be more photos as I am challenged to remember our trip. October seems so long ago. But there are only 75 more days till we are back as a family, so I’d better get to writing!
Monday, 10/14 AAARRRGH YA READY TO PARTY MATEYS?
Monday was a day we were all looking forward to – PARTY DAY! Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party to be exact! But I am getting ahead of myself.
Joe and I woke up pretty early & headed off to the gym. No photos – it’s a gym, and I didn’t bring my phone over with me. Sorry.
After getting our work out in, we headed back to the room to shower & dress. Katie and Nina were still sleeping. We sat out on the balcony, chatting, enjoying breakfast, taking in the scenery, looking at the photos we’d taken. Okay, we were there for quite a while. And finally we were done relaxing. I mean COME ON! Its vacation! You can only relax so much! With the girls still sleeping, we decided to take a ferry over to Downtown Disney by ourselves. It was 11 am already!!!
è I failed to mention that when Katie and I returned to our room Sunday in the wee hours, there was a big box with my name on it, sitting on the kitchen counter. OOH GOODY I love presents!
Want to guess what my sweet hubby bought for me? Here’s a clue….its a page from Cynthia’s book. J
Yup, got me a new Mickey Mug. I love this mug – could not wait to use it with my morning coffee, which could explain how we were able to linger for so long on the balcony. Who would not want to enjoy their coffee out of this mug?
Mean mom that I am, I left a note for Katie to do a page of homework when she woke up.
The ferry ride over was so pretty and it was bright and sunny (of course it was nearly noon!!!)
No particular destination in mind, we wandered around, taking in some stores we’d never seen before.
The Candy Cauldron, Blink, D Street, Hoypoloi Gallery – we just enjoyed walking around, looking at everything, making those mental wish lists of what we would purchase if money were no object (and someone else had to dust all that stuff!). Joe and I have always been window shoppers. Before Katie would come along, we would go to farmers markets, flea markets, “knick knack” stores, galleries, outlets, etc just browsing through, commenting, making up stories, whatever. We don’t get to do it that a lot any more because I have a great fear of having to spend $300 on a broken doo dad because Katie has to touch everything. So we like to browse and meander through shops.
There was a very pretty fall display, of course we had to take a few photos
We wandered down into the main DTD area and had to stop at Pollo Compero. I am SO SAD that they are closing this already. I picked up a small side of fried plaintains, and Joe opted for a liquid treat…..Bailey’s Banana Foster shake. Mmm so yummy.
About 12:30 or so we called over and found that indeed Katie and Nina were up and about. I felt guilty because apparently Katie was giving Nina a hard time about doing a sheet of homework, and Nina had to put on her bi&ch hat (all moms get one!). We made our way back to the ferry & headed over. Joe was going to meet Nina for lunch at Artist’s Point while I took the Bi7ch hat from Nina to ensure said homework was done.
After homework, Katie and I met up with Joe and Nina at the pool for a while. I think we might have gone back to the Community Room for another craft. Yes, we did. We made really cool fabric banners. I didn’t take a photo then and don’t know where Katie’s is, but mine is hanging by the front door, so here it is. (well here it will be when the photo uploads for me!)
If you are staying at a DVC resort, I recommend visiting the community center at least once. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves there. And, for inquiring minds, the banner was free. We also made magnets and post cards, which were also free. We only paid for the ceramics that we did the day before.
We all enjoyed the pool for a while, especially the hot tub! There were games going on in the pool area again, and Katie enjoys playing those. There was a trivia game going on…we got there after it had started so didn’t officially play. Too bad, we would have kicked butt…but we used our Disney trivia to help out a family who looked like they were struggling. Its all in fun anyway!
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but we had fun! and we practiced pirate speak for weeks before. so silly!
I better start working on that now.
Hi Cuz!!!
I have all the t's & tanks ready to tie dye, as soon as yours comes in the mail. And of course I keep tweaking our fast passes. I'm trying to plan all early ones for the most part so that we can get more later in the parks. 
