[StaceyDarling!]

So, what with me only having 43 days until my NEXT WDW expedition, I'm getting extremely nostaglic about my last Disney Trip! And considering I was not yet knowledgable of the wonder that is MB, I didn't have the oppurtuinty to make last years trip report!

So I hope its alright with everyone if I write a little something about my last year's Dinsey trip!


But don't worry!!! I'm STILL doing one for this year tooo! :D



*Insert Peter Pan's voice here* HEREEEEE WE GOOOOOO!

[StaceyDarling!]

August 26th, 2007!-- First Day!

The first day was ofcourse EXCITING and wonderfully exhausting! Haha. I guess I should first begin with who I went with! My family and my best friend. READY! ITS A LOT!

DD- 51, then.
DM- 46
DB - 25 (Jeffy)
DSIL- 25 (Disney Sister In Law) (Jen Mac)
DNiece- 2 almost 3 (Riley)
DNiece- 1 almost 2 (Maddie)
DS- 24 (Jenn)
DB- Actually turned 18 in WDW (Scott)
ME!! 15 almost 16 (Stacey)
DBFFL- 17 (Amanda)


So the first day was basically just arriving at the hotel room at our favorite resort, POP! We checked in, we settled our stuff into the rooms, and then headed STRAIGHT to the EPCOT for a reservation at the Coral Reef! :]





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THEN! After our lunch reservation at CR, we went STRAIGHT to MK!! For most of the day and ofcourse EMH's. How wonderful!

[StaceyDarling!]

August 27th, 2007-- DAY 2!!

So this day the excitement was soo amplified, considering now we were all rested and freshened up, we walked around the resort a little on our way to the buses! And waited for the bus to MY favorite park-- HS!!! (It will ALWAYS be MGM to me... : )




We rode TGAMR first! Went to the Playhouse section, and did the voyage of the little mermaid and all those other great kiddie family things to do! Went through all the backlot movie sets and to the HISTK's garden playarea! Ate Pizza Planet and then ToT and RnR for the rest of the day! Then we took the lagoon friendship boat over to EPCOT!









After that we popped on over to EPCOT, caught the fireworkds, and grabbed an AMAZING dinner in Norway at Akershus, the Princess Storybook Dinner for my DNiece Riley's 3rd birthday celebration! It was a LATE dinner, so it was amazing to get to walk out in a practically EMPTY Epcot!

[StaceyDarling!]

August 28th, 2007!-- DAY 3!

Next we went to MK, which was absolutely spectular ofcourse! :] Where we got to eat at Tony's Town Square for my 16th birthday celebration! :D ALSO, where for the first time since I was a kid, I got to meet my favorite, PETER PANNNNN.


I was so nervous, I was blushing!


And I wasn't the only one! My niece was sooo shy when she meets the characters, AFTER ALL, they ARE here heroes! :]

We also stepped out of TTS just at the perfect time to check out the Main Street Parade! :]

[WishUponAStar]

Oh my gosh, Riley & Maddie are ADORABLE!!! That picture with Ariel is just one of the sweetest character pics I've ever seen! So pretty!

I love your pics & the fisheye on some of your dining pics. Very cool.

OK, but excuse my confusion... I am SO mixed up. You are the girl with the white sunglasses & Belle tiara on, right? Your best friend is the MBer with the username "AmandaO'Malley" and she's the girl with darker hair and glasses? All 4 of the other people in the pics are your siblings except for Mom & Dad, and the babies that are your nieces, right?

PHEW!! This is a big crew to keep up with! I was a little confused. haha.

[WishUponAStar]

OH, and I am glad you figured out how to post your pictures into a TR! Looks great! I can't wait to see your next one when you go real soon too.

[smee57]

Great start! Your pictures are amazing. Like Wish said, the one of your niece with Ariel is by far the BEST photo I've ever seen of a young child with a character. OMG, it's a framer and a contest entry!!! The one of her with Pinnochio is great, too.
I'm looking forward to more. And I don't care one bit that it's from last years trip!!!!!

[Daisee]

Great Character pics.. thanks for sharing.

[dac921]

Loving the TR - and the girls are so cute

[disneylovers5]

I Am Loving Your Pics They Are So Good!!! Youall Look Like You Are Haveing So Much Fun.

[StaceyDarling!]

Originally Posted by WishUponAStar

Oh my gosh, Riley & Maddie are ADORABLE!!! That picture with Ariel is just one of the sweetest character pics I've ever seen! So pretty!

I love your pics & the fisheye on some of your dining pics. Very cool.

OK, but excuse my confusion... I am SO mixed up. You are the girl with the white sunglasses & Belle tiara on, right? Your best friend is the MBer with the username "AmandaO'Malley" and she's the girl with darker hair and glasses? All 4 of the other people in the pics are your siblings except for Mom & Dad, and the babies that are your nieces, right?

PHEW!! This is a big crew to keep up with! I was a little confused. haha.

Haha, no, no, no. I am the one with the glasses, Amanda "O'Malley" is the one with the white sunglasses. Also, I have dark brown hair, Amanda has black. haha. Sorry for the confusion! I'm the photographer of the family, so I'm mostly BEHIND the camera! ^.^

The rest of the people in the pictures, aside of my parents and Amanda, are my brothers, my sister, and my sister in law. And the babies are my nieces, yes! haha.

The older boy with the bandana is my oldest brother Jeff, and other younger boy in my other older brother Scott, and then theres my sister Jenn who has blondish hair, who was pregnant while we were there! And then there's my brother Jeff's wife, Jen (Mac) who has black hair. We call her Jen Mac because MacMullen is her madien name, and we used it before they were married to disguish between my sister and her... and well, it just stuck! haha

And then the other little girl is my Niece Riley, and the younger little girl is my other niece Maddie, both Jen Mac and Jeff's children!

^.^

I know I have A LOT of family, and not to mention BOTH Jen Mac and my sister Jenn were pregnant while we were in Disney, so there will be TWO more additions this trip!

Hopefully that wasn't too confusing!

Also, my sisters husband, Nick will be coming with us, he didn't last year because he didn't want to miss that much of college, because it was his first week and a half of school! :]

[StaceyDarling!]

Originally Posted by smee57

Great start! Your pictures are amazing. Like Wish said, the one of your niece with Ariel is by far the BEST photo I've ever seen of a young child with a character. OMG, it's a framer and a contest entry!!! The one of her with Pinnochio is great, too.
I'm looking forward to more. And I don't care one bit that it's from last years trip!!!!!

Well thank you to you and Wish! Me and my family always joke that what makes the picture so wonderful is that my niece wasn't wearing here flip-flips and the way she's leaning on Ariel makes it look like she just washed up on the shore! Plus the humidity of the camera and dewy look gives it that extra under the sea feel!

[StaceyDarling!]

Considering the UNDERSTANDABLE confusion with my family, and who everybody is, I've decided to just insert names and pictures here before continuing the rest of my trip report! haha, just so no one's confused! :P

First of there's me! Stacey.



Then there's my parents!



Then my oldest brother Jeff and his wife Jen Mac.



Jeff and Jen Mac's children, Riley and Maddie.

Riley:



Maddie:



Then my sister, Jenn.



Then my 2 oldest brother, Scott.



Then my best friend, Amanda (O'Malley)





Hopefully, that makes it easier for everyone!
Excuse my big crew! lol.

[StaceyDarling!]

August 29th, 2007!-- Fourth Day!

Our AK day! Yayyy, always fun when I'm there, and never until I look back at pictures or am actually there do I remember how much fun it really is!

So riding over to the parks is always fun! (Doing anything with a family like mine is always fun! ) And right away when we got to AK we were greeted by Rafki and Meeko! (I used to LOVEE Meeko as a little girl... well a LITTLER girl! :P) And CHIP AND DALE!!! Mine and my mom's character staple WDW characters! So we grabbed pictures with them and headed into the park!











We first headed towards the things in the front, meandering through the little animals at the front, catching 'It's a Bugs Life', getting stabbed in the back by that DARN bee's stinger! And rided all the normal rides.



But one I found was especially funny is when we were on Dinosaur.... For any of you who have EVER had the pleasure/horro of riding Dinosaur this story will amuse you and probably bring back some similar situation from your experiences! haha. My oldest brother Jeff likes to act like he's NOT the huge softy that I really know he is. But he's very just nothing scares him, blah blah blah. OH MY GOD, these memories of him on Dinosaur are ones I will ALWAYS cherish. After tricking him to sit somewhere that he could, well... enjoy? the experience that is Dinosaur as the ride becomes more scary, just as the first really scary dinosaur comes out, Jeff starts whispering in my ear, "give me your hand, just give it to me. NOW!' hahaha. :D I had the biggest grin on my face the whole time. I was touched that my 26 year old, nothing scares me brother trusted me enough not to make fun of him for needing to hold my hand! (I was just as scared as him and I had been on it before many times!) hahah :] I wish the pic was on my computer, its GREAT!

Then went to Dino world, and grabbed a quick lunch at Donalds (Mickey D's). haha. I loveee their veggie burgers! I wishh ALL Mc's had them!





After that, we left AK when the park closed, after the park closed really haha. And went to the Poly for the Luau for my parent's dinner pick! :] But not before my niece Riley gave everyone leaving the park a little dance show -- Walking like an Eqyptian and singing 'Part of your world' for everyone! :]





Then at the Luau me and my niece Riley participated in the audience on stage portion of the show, along with Amanda! How fun! :] Then after that we went to relax a little in the Polynesian lobby and eventually straggled on over to the MK!

[mickeysgirlz]

Wow your pictures are beautiful! What kind of camera do you use?

The one with Ariel is wonderful . . . and the Ariel is really pretty too!

Can't wait to see more!