My 4 Disney Days

emperisse · 02-01-2006

This is my first trip report... not sure of the formatting, but here goes nothing! I actually just went last week, but you know, it already feels like years ago, and I sure do miss it!

Day 1, January 21: Waking up at 4:45AM was not my idea of a grand Saturday morning, but the thought of being in Epcot in less than 6 hours provided plenty of motivation. Despite a no-show car service, my boyfriend and I made it to Newark-Liberty on time, and landed at Orlando International a lil after 9AM. Within minutes, we were on line for the Magical Express bus, and I was surrounded by mouse ears and mouse hands.

While waiting for our ME bus (which arrived in less than 10 minutes), I was scoping out the crowds, trying to size up my would-be competitors for the next 4 days. I was NOT going to let any kid, no matter how cute, get in front of me for rides. No sir. That first seat at SM was mine.

But the ME bus whisked us away to All Stars Movies, and I really could not ask for nicer and warmer people to greet us at the hotel lobby. The check-in desk and concierge CMs were all smiles and so nice! (Perhaps I’m just so used to being abused in New York City.) And did I mention that we went from a finger-numbing 40 degrees in NY to a warm, balmy, and oh-so-welcoming 81 degrees in Orlando? As soon as we reached our room, which was located in Mighty Ducks 1, I did a quick Clark Kent – Superman change and was in capris, a Winnie the Pooh t-shirt, and sandals, complete w/touristy camera and drawstring bag in tow. Next stop: Epcot.

As I climbed into the Disney Transport bus for Epcot, I could hardly contain myself, and was reduced to giggling like Chip n Dale from the excitement. My poor boyfriend had officially lost his 26 year old girlfriend and was going to be stuck with a 5 year old Disney fanatic for the next 4 days.

Big round golf ball!!! Epcot!!! Yay!!! (I will yell out “Yay!!!” quite a few times, so you might as well desensitize yourself now.) Being that it was Saturday, I didn’t expect Epcot to be full, and we were indeed rewarded with sparse crowds and little to no lines. The only place where we did encounter a line/group/crowd/mob was at Akershus at the Norway Pavilion. It was around 11AM when we headed towards Akershus for lunch, but because I didn’t call for Priority Seating, the place was completely full and booked when we arrived. Big shock to me, considering we walked right onto Maelstrom and the other outside eating areas were completely empty. This will be the one and only time in my entire trip that we are denied seating or turned away. We settled on eating at the counter service area for Norway, and each had a big savory lox n scrambled eggs sandwich, ending it with a scrumptious sweet lefses. If you leave the Norway Pavilion without a lefses, shame on you! It’s a crepe smothered in butter and cinnamon sugar, and really now, who can turn down the sweet inviting warm smell of cinnamon sugar?? And butter! Mmmmmmm…buuuuuttttterrrrr…..

Throughout the World Showcase, we ate, shopped, oooh’ed and ahh’ed. We especially loved shopping at Mitsukoshi at the Japan Pavilion, the ride Maelstrom at Norway, and loved the ambiance and structures of Morocco. And while we were at Morocco (around 2PM), we made a dinner reservation for 7:30PM at Marrakesh. This time, we were not denied, and left happy and looking forward to some couscous and belly-dancing later in the evening.

We continued on with the rest of the World Showcase Pavilions, and decided to head down to Soarin’ and Future Land to complete our rounds at Epcot.

At Soarin’, we joined our first real crowd and line of people. This indeed unsettled us a bit, since we were so darn spoiled with no other lines the whole day. But ohmagawd, Soarin’ really was worth the wait. Plus, I got to feel so smart (and dumb) answering some of those nature quiz questions that they had along the queue line. But what I really loved was the smells and breezes that grazed your face and hair on the ride. Nevermind that I shrieked and yelped

every time the camera swept over the edge of a mountain. -- (I now owe my boyfriend a hearing aid.) I still had a wonderful time, and I highly recommend it and consider it a must to anyone heading down to Epcot. Total wait time: 30 minutes.

Test Track was closed (BOOOOOooooooo), and so was Wonders of Life (BOOOOOoooo some more).

But we quickly raced around Innoventions and also rode Living with the Land (how cool was that Mickey punkin???), and got to enjoy Nemo booths over at The Seas. I didn’t get to chat w/Crush, but there’s always next time. It was now time to have din-din over at Marrakesh.

We arrived at Marrakesh and was seated in less than 5 minutes. Before I go on to tell you the neat yummy food we had there, I have to say, and I will reiterate time and time again that I have NEVER, EVER had such fast service and experienced such SHORT lines (if you even wanna call that a line) at Disney. My boyfriend and I are now forever spoiled by the nonexistence of lines in late January. Glorious. Absolutely Glorious. Okay, back to the victuals…

We ordered the Combination Appetizer for Two, and I ordered the “Night in Casablanca”, while my boyfriend ordered the “Roast Lamb w/Grilled Veggie Couscous”. MMMMMMM-yeah. While my boyfriend didn’t seem to enjoy his roast lamb so much, he did enjoy the flaky filo dough appetizers and chicken skewer that came with my main entrée. I loved the lamb because the meat simply fell off the bone and meshed beautifully with the tomato sauce. It made my rice seem infinitely buttery and creamy when I had it with the lamb, followed by a nice cool glass of fragrant mint tea. Lord. I was fuuuuuullll. Forget TacoBell man, I am NOW full.

During our dinner, we got to listen to a Moroccan band, and a beautiful, beguiling, and quite charming lady came out to do some belly-dancing. Can I tell you how fast every guy in the room flicked their heads over towards her direction when she unveiled her tummy and bejeweled corset?

Oh yeah. Like whiplash. NEways… she was indeed quite booty-ful, and unfortunately, my quickdraw camera hand did not move fast enough to take a picture of her near my boyfriend. I DID however, manage to capture some pics of her doing her thang though, and that made me happy enough.

And as if the day wasn’t perfect enough, we ended it with the compulsory Disney fireworks. After that though, we were absolutely pooped, and headed on back to All Stars Movies to rest. I no longer felt my legs when I climbed into bed that night, but I knew they’d magically become well-defined and muscular legs (a la Hercules) the next morning with the amount of walking we did. (I will later dub this muscle-toning program, ‘The Mouse Crunch”.) But even having Herculean legs was all so worth it. And I already knew I’d be doing all over again the next day at Magic Kingdom. So ended Day 1.

**dhoughton** · 02-01-2006

Sounds like a fun first day! Yay!!

Looking forward to hearing about the rest of the trip. Mouse Crunch--I love it! Any pictures??? Hmmm?

Maria · 02-01-2006

Great first day!

lovemysons · 02-01-2006

Great start! Welcome aboard! Your personality really comes through in your trip report. You sound like you will fit in just perfectly here!

Andrea · 02-01-2006

I'm definitely enjoying your writing style. Okay, time for more!

DayDreamer · 02-01-2006

Great report so far, I can't wait to hear about Day 2.

angell1975 · 02-01-2006

You're doing great with your TR! Sounds like a very fun first day. Can't wait to read more!

**Dopey** · 02-01-2006

Welcome to DC.

I love this report!!!!! My favorite thing to eat at Kringla is the salmon and cold scrambled egg sandwich too. YUMMMMMMMY..
Keep going, everyone is waiting for more of your fun report.

Princess Tessa · 02-02-2006

Hey, Welcome to Disney Central!!! I

your writing style, it's so great!
Awesome first day, can't wait to hear more

and I LOVE the Mouse-Crunch! That is awesome!

tiggerlover1971 · 02-02-2006

sounds like you had a great time cant wait to hear more

mickaholic4077 · 02-02-2006

This is a great trip report so far!!! Welcome to Disney Central.

Willbegone · 02-02-2006

I NEED MORE!!! Awesome report and welcome to DC. I can't wait to read more!

ssn · 02-02-2006

love your narrations!! It's so fun to read...keep it coming!!!

ingamba · 02-02-2006

I love your TR so far. I arrived the same day as you did and did Epcot on arrival day too. We may have crossed paths.

And I couldn't agree more with you about the lefses. Pure, sweet delight!

gingita · 02-02-2006

Fabulous report so far! I can't wait to hear the rest--it's very fun to read!

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emperisse Senior Mouseketeer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bergen County, NJ Posts: 111	My 4 Disney Days This is my first trip report... not sure of the formatting, but here goes nothing! I actually just went last week, but you know, it already feels like years ago, and I sure do miss it! Day 1, January 21: Waking up at 4:45AM was not my idea of a grand Saturday morning, but the thought of being in Epcot in less than 6 hours provided plenty of motivation. Despite a no-show car service, my boyfriend and I made it to Newark-Liberty on time, and landed at Orlando International a lil after 9AM. Within minutes, we were on line for the Magical Express bus, and I was surrounded by mouse ears and mouse hands. While waiting for our ME bus (which arrived in less than 10 minutes), I was scoping out the crowds, trying to size up my would-be competitors for the next 4 days. I was NOT going to let any kid, no matter how cute, get in front of me for rides. No sir. That first seat at SM was mine. But the ME bus whisked us away to All Stars Movies, and I really could not ask for nicer and warmer people to greet us at the hotel lobby. The check-in desk and concierge CMs were all smiles and so nice! (Perhaps I’m just so used to being abused in New York City.) And did I mention that we went from a finger-numbing 40 degrees in NY to a warm, balmy, and oh-so-welcoming 81 degrees in Orlando? As soon as we reached our room, which was located in Mighty Ducks 1, I did a quick Clark Kent – Superman change and was in capris, a Winnie the Pooh t-shirt, and sandals, complete w/touristy camera and drawstring bag in tow. Next stop: Epcot. As I climbed into the Disney Transport bus for Epcot, I could hardly contain myself, and was reduced to giggling like Chip n Dale from the excitement. My poor boyfriend had officially lost his 26 year old girlfriend and was going to be stuck with a 5 year old Disney fanatic for the next 4 days. Big round golf ball!!! Epcot!!! Yay!!! (I will yell out “Yay!!!” quite a few times, so you might as well desensitize yourself now.) Being that it was Saturday, I didn’t expect Epcot to be full, and we were indeed rewarded with sparse crowds and little to no lines. The only place where we did encounter a line/group/crowd/mob was at Akershus at the Norway Pavilion. It was around 11AM when we headed towards Akershus for lunch, but because I didn’t call for Priority Seating, the place was completely full and booked when we arrived. Big shock to me, considering we walked right onto Maelstrom and the other outside eating areas were completely empty. This will be the one and only time in my entire trip that we are denied seating or turned away. We settled on eating at the counter service area for Norway, and each had a big savory lox n scrambled eggs sandwich, ending it with a scrumptious sweet lefses. If you leave the Norway Pavilion without a lefses, shame on you! It’s a crepe smothered in butter and cinnamon sugar, and really now, who can turn down the sweet inviting warm smell of cinnamon sugar?? And butter! Mmmmmmm…buuuuuttttterrrrr….. Throughout the World Showcase, we ate, shopped, oooh’ed and ahh’ed. We especially loved shopping at Mitsukoshi at the Japan Pavilion, the ride Maelstrom at Norway, and loved the ambiance and structures of Morocco. And while we were at Morocco (around 2PM), we made a dinner reservation for 7:30PM at Marrakesh. This time, we were not denied, and left happy and looking forward to some couscous and belly-dancing later in the evening. We continued on with the rest of the World Showcase Pavilions, and decided to head down to Soarin’ and Future Land to complete our rounds at Epcot. At Soarin’, we joined our first real crowd and line of people. This indeed unsettled us a bit, since we were so darn spoiled with no other lines the whole day. But ohmagawd, Soarin’ really was worth the wait. Plus, I got to feel so smart (and dumb) answering some of those nature quiz questions that they had along the queue line. But what I really loved was the smells and breezes that grazed your face and hair on the ride. Nevermind that I shrieked and yelped every time the camera swept over the edge of a mountain. -- (I now owe my boyfriend a hearing aid.) I still had a wonderful time, and I highly recommend it and consider it a must to anyone heading down to Epcot. Total wait time: 30 minutes. Test Track was closed (BOOOOOooooooo), and so was Wonders of Life (BOOOOOoooo some more). But we quickly raced around Innoventions and also rode Living with the Land (how cool was that Mickey punkin???), and got to enjoy Nemo booths over at The Seas. I didn’t get to chat w/Crush, but there’s always next time. It was now time to have din-din over at Marrakesh. We arrived at Marrakesh and was seated in less than 5 minutes. Before I go on to tell you the neat yummy food we had there, I have to say, and I will reiterate time and time again that I have NEVER, EVER had such fast service and experienced such SHORT lines (if you even wanna call that a line) at Disney. My boyfriend and I are now forever spoiled by the nonexistence of lines in late January. Glorious. Absolutely Glorious. Okay, back to the victuals… We ordered the Combination Appetizer for Two, and I ordered the “Night in Casablanca”, while my boyfriend ordered the “Roast Lamb w/Grilled Veggie Couscous”. MMMMMMM-yeah. While my boyfriend didn’t seem to enjoy his roast lamb so much, he did enjoy the flaky filo dough appetizers and chicken skewer that came with my main entrée. I loved the lamb because the meat simply fell off the bone and meshed beautifully with the tomato sauce. It made my rice seem infinitely buttery and creamy when I had it with the lamb, followed by a nice cool glass of fragrant mint tea. Lord. I was fuuuuuullll. Forget TacoBell man, I am NOW full. During our dinner, we got to listen to a Moroccan band, and a beautiful, beguiling, and quite charming lady came out to do some belly-dancing. Can I tell you how fast every guy in the room flicked their heads over towards her direction when she unveiled her tummy and bejeweled corset? Oh yeah. Like whiplash. NEways… she was indeed quite booty-ful, and unfortunately, my quickdraw camera hand did not move fast enough to take a picture of her near my boyfriend. I DID however, manage to capture some pics of her doing her thang though, and that made me happy enough. And as if the day wasn’t perfect enough, we ended it with the compulsory Disney fireworks. After that though, we were absolutely pooped, and headed on back to All Stars Movies to rest. I no longer felt my legs when I climbed into bed that night, but I knew they’d magically become well-defined and muscular legs (a la Hercules) the next morning with the amount of walking we did. (I will later dub this muscle-toning program, ‘The Mouse Crunch”.) But even having Herculean legs was all so worth it. And I already knew I’d be doing all over again the next day at Magic Kingdom. So ended Day 1.

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dhoughton 11.2010 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: A few miles SE of M22... Posts: 2,926	Re: My 4 Disney Days Sounds like a fun first day! Yay!! Looking forward to hearing about the rest of the trip. Mouse Crunch--I love it! Any pictures??? Hmmm? __________________ Doughnut Disney Pinologist President of the Bad Kitty Club Cult eleventwentyten My Disney Countdown Counting down to: Heh heh heh!!! 349 days 4 hours 8 minutes

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Maria Mouse Meister Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,269	Re: My 4 Disney Days Great first day! __________________ Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away April/May 2008~ASMO * May 2006 WDW~ASMO * May 2005 WDW~ASMO * April/May 2004 WDW~AKL * April 1989 WDW~Poly * July 1979 DL off site

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lovemysons Less than 30 to go! Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In my house Posts: 7,712	Re: My 4 Disney Days Great start! Welcome aboard! Your personality really comes through in your trip report. You sound like you will fit in just perfectly here! __________________ Dopey is the boss of us. Missing the madness. Peppy is still my partner in crime. Is that you, Pu? Fabulous avatar, courtesy of the fabulous Mr. R2Go! ´¨) x¸.•´ ¸.•´¨)xxxx¸.•¨) (¸.•´xxxxxx(¸.•`xxx´¨)Make just one person happy. ´¨) My Disney Countdown Counting down to: Holidays full of magic 9 days 8 hours 38 minutes

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DayDreamer The Executive Gentleman Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,246	Re: My 4 Disney Days Great report so far, I can't wait to hear about Day 2. __________________ Imaaaaaaginaaaation, imaaaaaginaaaation A dream can be a dream come true, With just that spark in me and you. 2008 - Polynesian & Vacation Village 2006 - Contemporary & Sheraton Vistana 2005 - Orange Lake 1996 - Offsite 1993 - Honeymoon Offsite 1986 - Offsite 1982 - Great Aunt's House 1980 - Great Aunt's House 1977 - Disneyland - Aunt's House

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angell1975 Big Cheese Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: O-H-I-O Go Buckeyes!! Posts: 642	Re: My 4 Disney Days You're doing great with your TR! Sounds like a very fun first day. Can't wait to read more! __________________ Proud user of R2G avatars---Thank you! My Disney Countdown Counting down to: May not be a Disney trip, but a baby is just as exciting! 42 days 21 hours 8 minutes

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Dopey eleventwentyten Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In the middle of the madness Posts: 11,468	Re: My 4 Disney Days Welcome to DC. I love this report!!!!! My favorite thing to eat at Kringla is the salmon and cold scrambled egg sandwich too. YUMMMMMMMY.. Keep going, everyone is waiting for more of your fun report. __________________ WDW Theme Parks Moderator - moderating with a twist x´¨) x¸.•´ ¸.•´¨)xxxx¸.•¨) (¸.•´ Adventures of an Innkeeper ´¨) Limser was my first MB friend ~ Pepperstink is my cheesy friend Doughnut, HB and Limser are my Michigan Martini Madness cohorts MissDisney is the better cookie baker Pu is back eleventwentyten Every morning is the dawn of a new error My Disney Countdown Counting down to: Going to meet Mickey and Friends

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Princess Tessa Starting over Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada Posts: 1,989	Re: My 4 Disney Days Hey, Welcome to Disney Central!!! I your writing style, it's so great! Awesome first day, can't wait to hear more and I LOVE the Mouse-Crunch! That is awesome! __________________ Disneyland Trips 1989, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2004 (yes, twice, I'm obsessed okay?!) 2005, 2007 (I'm missing three trips but I don't remember what years) WDW Canadian Cast Member 2006 - 2007

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tiggerlover1971 Official bouncer of DC Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: 100 acre woods Posts: 4,068	Re: My 4 Disney Days sounds like you had a great time cant wait to hear more __________________ Cheryl ^i^ * Postcard Pixie * ^i^ ~ Sharing the Disney magic ~ woohoo only 20 more pounds to go to goal weight

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mickaholic4077 Currently in Timeout! Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: 90 miles from The Mick!!!!! Posts: 6,181	Re: My 4 Disney Days This is a great trip report so far!!! Welcome to Disney Central.

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Willbegone Southern Princess Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Too far from WDW! Posts: 2,658	Re: My 4 Disney Days I NEED MORE!!! Awesome report and welcome to DC. I can't wait to read more!

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ssn Mouse Meister Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,222	Re: My 4 Disney Days love your narrations!! It's so fun to read...keep it coming!!! __________________ 2010 1st Disneyland Trip 2009 Boardwalk Inn 2008 POP/Polynesian August 2007 AS Movies & Cinderella's Castle Suite!! April 2007 Contemporary/Beach Club 2005 Wilderness Lodge/Disney Wonder Cruise 2004 Port Orleans FQ/Vero Beach (10th Anniver.) 2003 Polynesian (DH's 40th bday)(DD's 1st WDW trip) 2001 Port Orleans Riverside 1999 Caribbean Beach 1994 Grand Floridian (honeymoon) 1981 Polynesian 1973 1st WDW trip - off property My Disney Countdown Counting down to: 1st Disneyland trip! 138 days 0 hours 9 minutes

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ingamba Disneyland Dreaming! Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Providence, RI Posts: 2,176	Re: My 4 Disney Days I love your TR so far. I arrived the same day as you did and did Epcot on arrival day too. We may have crossed paths. And I couldn't agree more with you about the lefses. Pure, sweet delight! __________________ Andrew Avatar: A magical night at the Happiest Place on Earth! OCT-JFK DEC-SEA DEC-ORD JAN-PVD FEB-SNA

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