TinkyCheeks
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2007
Great start! I'm so glad the flight went well. And Pop always looks so bright and welcoming!!!
It sounds like you guys had an awesome start to your trip
I love the disney nails, wow I can't even imagine how much detail your nail tech must have put into those.
Can't wait to hear about epcot
I'm here and following along! Glad to see you began this TR, looking forward to hearing how all aspects of your trip went.
Very cute nails!
Pop is such a fun resort. How can you not have a smile on your face when you're walking around all those larger than life statues?
A DISmeet within a few hours of checking in....has to be a record!
yay! You're there!
How nice that your room was ready and that you had an unplanned DISmeet! I can't wait to hear what you girls did at Epcot that evening!
I love you. I don't know you, glorious internet person, but I have decided you are good and have a life outlook more should emulate. You just glossed over the little bits of the plan that weren't according to desired plan and stuck with how lovely your friend was and how nice it was to get your nails done and how lovely flying was because hey, enough time for coffee! I love the brightness that comes through in your posts! I like you!
Yay! You are off to a great start! Love the Disney nails. Too bad you got stuck circling before landing but you got there! So awesome you had the spontaneous Dismeet!
Jill in CO
Great start. Pop is our favourite value as well but the ground floor wouldn't have been well received.
Whoop whoop...another Queen TR!! A bit late to join but better late then never right?
Love the introduction pic and yay on celebrating two special birthdays on the trip! Sounds like you and Shannon had a lovely night with Frozen...hope you saw the girls from Frozen on your trip.
Glad the flight went without a hitch and there were no dramas...woohoo on a DIS meet so early on in the trip. I love Pop Century. Looking forward to reading more my friend
Sounds like preparations and arrival were a complete success! I love those Disney nails!!! SO CUTE!! Gives me inspiration for our May trip! How lucky of you to run into a friend while you were there! That happened for us on our trip last October. We were in AK, and ran into friends from our hometown. Then we ran into another group of friends from home at Pop. Then, in Epcot, we saw another family from our hometown! (Evidently, half of Franklin was there. Lol) Funny how those things happen! As big as WDW is, you really wouldn't think you'd see anyone you know! But it does happen!
Great start! I'm so glad the flight went well. And Pop always looks so bright and welcoming!!!
I don't know that we will ever change our pre-trip pamperingAwww so nice to see your pre-trip pampering tradition is still intact.
Oh no on the Orlando snag. It's so awful to be so close only to just fly around in circles for an hour. But thankfully you both landed safely which is all that realy matters.
I MISS POP!!!!!!!!
WOW. That may be the quickest DISmeet ever. Very cool.
Yay!!! Love your TR can't wait to read more
Can't wait to read more!!
Yay!
Looks like a great start to the trip!
Cute nails!!
How is Shanleigh doing at University? Is she still going for Criminal Justice? I was thinking about going into Criminal Justice, but am not sure. Keep changing my mind! LOL
Awww! Carrie's little girl is adorable! Does Shanleigh still work for Marshalls? They are dressed so nice to be working at the store! Tell her I love her shoes! A girl can never have too many cute shoes, right? LOL At least I never seem to have enough shoes... or clothes... or mascara...
Time to get this TR going!
We were originally supposed to leave for the World on Sunday the 10th, however, airfares were ridiculously high so when we snagged one for just over $400 on the Monday, we grabbed it and quickly changed our original hotel reservation.
My bff was at my house very early on Saturday morning to help me get last minute things done before our hair and nail appointments. She is beyond amazing, is a packing genius and just the best of the best when it comes to friends!
First time Shanleigh did the disney nails and she loved how they turned out...our nail girl is AMAZING!
Sophia and I reading Frozen...then we watched Frozen...and watched Frozen...you get the drift!
Sunday was a pretty relaxed day until we met my sister, her family and my dad for dinner! I literally had no groceries so we didn't have any other choice but to go out for our first meal of vacation
2am was going to come very earlier so we were in bed by 10pm.
We made it to the airport in no time flat, jumped out and Jeff went back home to bed!
Shanleigh and I checked in and hit the Tim Horton's for a bagel, coffee and chocolate milk!
We hit a little snag outside of Orlando when we ended up in a holding pattern for almost an hour due to weather...
Pop has become our favourite value resort and we couldn't be happier to see this gorgeous sight!
Oh well, hopefully no critters would find their way into our room
I don't think walking into your room on arrival day ever gets old!
We were walking along and all of a sudden I saw a very familiar face...a face I hadn't seen since 2008, one of my oldest and dearest Dis-friends!!!!
I knew we were overlapping this evening and they were heading home the next day!
Up next....EPCOT!
Wow, you snagged a great price on a flight! I'm struggling sometimes to find prices like that in Chicago!
Everyone loves a good mani/pedi.
Ooof, 2am comes early lady!
Pop is my favorite value resort too. Every time we've stayed there it's been great.
How cool to have an unplanned DISmeet! Those are pretty awesome.
I feel you on the 2 am wakeup. Our last trip we had a 6:30 am flight. We live a little over 2 hours from the airport. We had to be in the car by 2.
We love the Pop too! The food court always has awesome choices.
I just read a few of your past TRs and was thrilled to see you've started another!
Yeah!
$400??? Wow! How do you find such great deals?
Last I looked, the cheapest I could find was about twice that!
I have to give all the credit to my sister who is an amazing travel agent and snagged that one for us...within a couple of hours it was gone! When I looked at the exact flight we were on about 2 weeks before we left it was almost $1200
And she does the ironing???
Do not lose this woman.
Do not.
Right? She's been around for 26 years and I plan on keeping her for another 26 They are the ones that live very close to you!
Those nails do look pretty impressive.
She was extremely happy with them!
I was telling Shanleigh that nothing had changed since she was Sophia's age, the only thing different was the name of the movie
The Keg?
You bet!
I'm pretty sure if I had to be up at 2 that I probably wouldn't sleep at all.
You're lucky you got some zzzs.
Believe me...I contemplated it over and over and then decided even a quick cat nap was better than nothing!
You both not only look amazing... but you look amazing at 2am!
Awww thanks...that was pure adrenalin!
Smart boy!
Isn't he?
Who had coffee and who had the milk?
Coffee...moi.....milk...Shanners!
Nail biting time.
Weather hold for almost an hour? That's pushing the fuel limit.
Oh, not to run out of gas, but before they'd have to go to an alternate airport.
You can imagine how I was feeling! The first thought was the flight a few days earlier that week that was diverted to Sarasota ... right away I thought "there goes some of my shopping budget on a car" I believe in the end we landed 45 minutes late, but I'll check with the savant that I live with and she'll know the exact time!
Two cars racing to Disney?
Cool.
I thought you don't see that everyday so I thought I should share
How many of the values have you stayed at?
Just wondering what makes Pop your fave?
Music, Movies, and Pop...Pop is newer, closer to everything! I find Movies, Music and Sports quite a ways to everything except AK...but don't get me wrong, I would stay at them in a heartbeat if Pop wasn't available!
Well you did say that Jeff would be joining you later, so.... :
True enough....
Ya got that right!
Wow. What are the odds?
I know, I couldn't believe our luck!
Can't wait! Thanks for the update!
Don't you find that you run into the same people over and over again throughout the parks. There was a young couple on our flight down that we kept seeing the entire first week we were there...apparently the odds of running into people you know is pretty darn good
Absolutely! There was a couple sitting next to us at the Polynesian Luau that we kept running into. We actually ended up hanging out in the Magic Kingdom one night for EMH. Lol...
Great picture!
Well done on the slushie. Still a stop for us every time.
Ah, you can take care of the "business" stuff later. You just have to go right in.
That's a better way of looking at it...I'm going with that from now on
Do you remember if the Maple Leaf fence used to be see though as in a cut out as opposed to the solid red leaf? I swear it used to be that way.
That's a great question...I'm going to go back and look at past pics and see what I can find! I'll let you know!
FINALLY the real GGS!!!! And Finally "Legal around the World". Big moment for sure.
YAY!!! It was such a great moment...no cares in the world...just being in our favourite place together...what more could we ask for!
I too love the Morocco pavilion. So much stuff that most people miss.
I think back to the years when Shanleigh was younger and we never even ventured off the main track...now it's our favourite thing to do!
What a lovely evening to spend your first day. Just milling around World Showcase. I've just grown to love it more and more each visit.