12 days until our Thanksgiving in Disney trip!! In the last couple days I've:
1. ordered some Sparkle Skirts for the first time, waiting for them to come
2. ordered shirts from RedBubble for myself and the boys; Steve said nuh-uh (guess his 7DMT is enough)
3. filled my Disney Store cart up and just need to pull the trigger; if I'm going to do it I need to do it soon to get the stuff before we leave!
4. Booked HS EMM for us on the 21st I have great luck getting SDD FP's for my clients but could only get it for us on one day. I think the boys will really like it and otherwise we have no plans until about 3pm this day, so they can go back to the room and chill afterwards.
5. What I have NOT done is bought their Universal tickets or our Blue Man Group tickets, so I need to do that asap
I really cannot wait for this trip, it's even more needed than our adult only Sept. trip and while Ricky's been looking foward to it for awhile it appears Chris may even be looking forward to it now
Chocolate & Champagne Pixie dust, OH MY!
Day 2 part 4
When I last left off Steve and I had stopped by the lounge for some late afternoon offerings while waiting for Cathy and Brandon to come visit our little hotel room. We had plans to go to HS that night with an ***aucers FP for 6pm; as I said above, I have found it really easy, surprisingly, to get SDD for clients, but couldn't get it at all for us in Sept. and only have it once for this month. I wasn't overly excited to ride Swirling Saucers but figured it's new, might as well. So I wasn't planning on Cathy staying long and didn't know what they were doing that evening.
It was about 5 when they got there; we met them in the lobby, escorted them through the lounge where Brandon's eyes got HUGE, and brought them to the R.D. Suite where his eyes got even bigger. He immediately latched on to the tapestry/TV, plopped on to the couch and put on the Disney channel while I showed Cathy around. We were hangin' in the ridiculously large master bedroom when there was a knock on the door.....Steve walks in the bedroom with this huge *$@* eating grin on his face and says "hey Air can you come here for a minute? We have a delivery" and proceeds to squat down on the floor and almost roll over in hysterics.
I walk out to our foyer , see a CM in a butler uniform, and on the side table in the living room is this:
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AND now my pictures are small
If you can't read the card, it says "congratulations to the first time grandparents" your concierge team!
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That beautiful Mickey is white chocolate with little gold touches. The champagne was bubbly, the chocolate covered strawberries chilled and sweet
I'm too lazy to go back to the beginning of this report but when we were being checked in, the club CM noticed I'd put "Grams" and "Gramps" on our MB's. He commented on it and I told him about Hayden being our first, etc. He was a grandfather and yes, he set this up. We saw him later in the trip and thanked him profusely!
We were like holy crap, when will this
end??? as we popped the champagne
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Steve doesn't drink champagne but when the CM saw Cathy, he said that he'd bring a 3rd glass down as soon as he made his delivery to the "Walt Suite". I wonder if the occupants were paying guests or had been upgraded like us????
Brandon came to look and was enthralled by Mickey. He's allergic to strawberries, mildly, so I couldn't offer him those. He was looking at Mickey so longingly that I offered him a piece, and before too long Mickey was missing a couple apendages. I should have taken a picture but it looked so wrong lol! Plus we were sitting at my gigantor dining room table sipping bubbly, so I was too busy to get up again
However after Brandon took the above picture of us (Steve was on the deck on a work call) he did ask to take one in another part of the suite since "it's so big". I told him to choose the spot:
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Can't really say day drinking since it was after 5pm; so let's call it
#bathroomdrinking
#tubchugging
or whatever you like, I'm open to suggestions since I have some very clever smarty-pants friends
@pepperandchips and
@kastoney
We drank champagne (and danced all night, under electric candlelight...............) while Brandon joined Steve on our deck. It was so cute, Brandon was missing his dad so he kind of latched on to Steve. We were really enjoying our champagne and Brandon and Steve were enjoying their people watching, and before we knew it it was 6:15!
Brandon asked to accompany us to HS which was open until 8, so that's where we headed and soon I got my first glimpse of the new TSL:
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So awesome in the dark! We were just in time for the end of our Alien Saucers FP window and, to make a long story short, Brandon's adorableness got him and Cathy on with us rather than waiting in the 30 minute SB line It was.......ok. I don't need to ride again. As some of you know and some don't it's nowhere near as swirly and vomit inducing as the teacups but it did still make me a bit woozy. I don't think the boys will be impressed with it either, but they'll probably try it during EMM.
After that the line for SDD was still over an hour and we were parched. The best thing to do when you're woozy and parched? Try the Grown-Up's lemonade at Woody's Lunch Box!
Grown-Up's Lemonade
Three Olives Cherry Vodka, odwalla® All-Natural Lemonade and Black Cherry Purée
And to go with the picture of the drink, I give you your laugh for the day:
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I much prefer Brandon as a photographer over Steve! No idea why the face; we both liked the drink which was heavy on the vodka and on the black cherry puree making it rather sweet. I don't have a picture but Brandon tried the
Ice Cream Float with Barq's® Root Beer
made with Vanilla Soft Serve Ice Cream
Mom said no; Steve said yes. Brandon was happy.
Here's a better picture although I guess I have to admit the one above is more the norm for how I look:
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I also really REALLY love TSL at night! We chatted a bit and checked the wait time for SDD again. It was now 7:45, 15 minutes till closing, and the wait time was 40 minutes so we said what the heck! and jumped in line.
LOVE.IT. So much more than I expected it to be!! First of all the track is higher than I thought; Chris is going to be shocked and refuse to ride it at first lol. It's just so awesome, another reason I booked HS EMM!
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We waited right around 30 minutes which was not bad at all and I'm glad our first ride was at night, although I didn't get a good look into Galaxy's Edge. Not that I care much about SW you know, but still wanted to see inside!
The park was closed when we got off but I had one very special thing left to do! We said our good-bye's to Cathy and Brandon who were leaving the next day (Cathy said when they got back to their room he cried because he didn't want to leave us
) and hung out at the exit ramp of SDD. Eventually a special DIS friend rolled up and I had my 2nd ever meet with Billie
@Elevationist
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This was at the exit of HS where you return strollers and scooters, we chatted by SDD and then walked/scooted out together. Our first "meet" was this past May and our next "meet" will be next May along with lots of other fab DIS friends, and I can't wait because Billie is fabulous! Originally she was supposed to have another day or two in WDW and I really wanted her to see the suite, but then her "hurrication" vacation got cut short and it didn't happen. Maybe next time I stay there lol.
We timed it just perfectly and managed to leave HS with the whole Fantasmic! crowd, but luckily the GF bus wait wasn't bad. Which was good because the little lounge snacks had completely worn off and we were approaching hangry mode!
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