3rd Times a Charm! Mar. 8-14..lots of pics

[jenseib]

I am so jealous of you both. I wish we were going right now. Well i wish that about every day though. LOL!
where are you guys staying?

[jenseib]

On to Test Track!!!
I think it took a good 15 minutes to get on the ride. I was worried if it took any longer that we wouldn’t be on time for our ADR, and we still had to change Claire’s clothes. But we did just fine.

The last time I rode this was 10 years ago, and it had just opened. That line was EXTREMELY long! LOL! Skip has rode it the last 2 years though.

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There are those fingers in the mouth again!

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I was talking to Claire the whole ride, telling her what was going on and saying weee, and this picture has my mouth wide open looking really dumb! LOL!

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When we got off, Claire said she had to potty. And she was holding herself, which meant we’d better hurry. LOL! So we ran through the stupid show room and gift shop you have to go through to get out of there. I swear this kid has eagle eyes. As we are running she starts crying that she wants this test track toy we went by. I told her we would come back, but right now the potty was more important. I have no clue how she saw it that fast, but she was describing everything in it on the way to the bathroom. LOL!
So we made it to the bathroom and got her changed into her Jasmine outfit. We came out and immediately she was ready to head back to get that toy. LOL! And she was right, it had all the stuff she described in it. It was really a good price though, so I didn’t feel to bad getting it, and again, she had a lot of spending money.

[jenseib]

After the purchase of the Test Track toy, which did look really cool, we headed over to Norway for dinner.

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We then got checked in and took some more shots.

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Here she is proudly showing off her Test Track toy.

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We then got called. Or so I thought. In Norway they pronounce W’s like V’s and we have a W in our name. So it sounded similar to our name, but I wasn’t sure. I went and check and sure enough it was us!
We went in and then got in line for Belle.

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[jenseib]

Here is Claire anxiously waiting to see Belle in her “marrying” dress, as Claire calls it.

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We got up to the photographer and she was kind of rude. She told me only 2 pictures and did we want a family shot. I said no, but I wish I would’ve said yes, and made her take more. Her pictures weren’t very good either. They came out fuzzy. Oh well, next time I will open my big mouth and have more taken and ask for the fuzzy ones to be retaken.

Here’s what I took.

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Here’s what the photographer took.

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We were then taken to our table and seated right next to the cold bar.

[MyDisneyworld]

I am so jealous of you both. I wish we were going right now. Well i wish that about every day though. LOL!
where are you guys staying?

I'm staying at the Treehouse Villas in SSR. Can't wait! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get our room request and have the villa that is right on the water so the girls can watch the boats to DTD go by.

My DH and I went to Akershaus just the 2 of us before we had kids. We're going to 1900 park fare this trip. We will have to do CRT and Akershaus next time. My 4 year old has been Ariel since she could say her name. And my 2 year old teeters between Belle and Tinkerbell... however, she always carries her Belle doll and tinkerbell has to "sleep" in bed all day long.

keep the report coming! I'm going to be posting my reports too. Hopefully, I'll keep everyone as entertained as you!

[Kathy Jetson]

I am so jealous of you both. I wish we were going right now. Well i wish that about every day though. LOL!
where are you guys staying?

We are staying at All Star Movies per ds's request. Thats so funny how Claire saw the Test Track toy as your running past it that sounds like my son and I'm sure when he sees that test track toy he will want it to lol

[Kathy Jetson]

WE'RE LEAVING IN 9 DAYS TOO!!!! But, we're driving and won't arrive until the 18th.

"See" you there!

Jenseib -
This is a great thread... Love the pictures... We have a 2 and 4 year old and I've always wondered about the Tea Party and BBB. We won't be doing it this year but, our next trip when my youngest will be potty trained will open these options up! Funny that Claire's fav's are my daughters fav's too!

See you there!

[Jennifer_and_Chris]

I'm staying at the Treehouse Villas in SSR. Can't wait! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get our room request and have the villa that is right on the water so the girls can watch the boats to DTD go by.

My DH and I went to Akershaus just the 2 of us before we had kids. We're going to 1900 park fare this trip. We will have to do CRT and Akershaus next time. My 4 year old has been Ariel since she could say her name. And my 2 year old teeters between Belle and Tinkerbell... however, she always carries her Belle doll and tinkerbell has to "sleep" in bed all day long.

keep the report coming! I'm going to be posting my reports too. Hopefully, I'll keep everyone as entertained as you!

I was on my home computer last night when I posted this and didn't realize my DH was logged it. So, I posted my response with his ID. haahaahaa.. oh well, he has the disclaimer in his siggie that says he's my DH.

I'm getting my pre trip report ready to post to day.... each one of these little steps and every thread I read makes these last days EXCRUCIATING. I'm getting more and more distant at work but, closer and closer to Disney!!!

[jenseib]

I'm staying at the Treehouse Villas in SSR. Can't wait! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get our room request and have the villa that is right on the water so the girls can watch the boats to DTD go by.

keep the report coming! I'm going to be posting my reports too. Hopefully, I'll keep everyone as entertained as you!

Oooh! That will be so cool.I heard they are great.

We are staying at All Star Movies per ds's request. Thats so funny how Claire saw the Test Track toy as your running past it that sounds like my son and I'm sure when he sees that test track toy he will want it to lol

I've never been to the All Stars. I did stop in once to take a quick look. (2008) I think I stipped at Movies, but as soon as I got off the bus, DH called and was ready for me to get back and help Claire get ready for the day, so I just walked out, looked at the pool and grabbed another bus. LOL!

[coneygoil]

Some times the photopass photographers need encouragement. When me and my family was at WDW last week, we came across a photographer that radiated "I'm not happy being here". We talked to him for like 15 minutes, and all that time his attitude started to change. By the time we were about to leave, he grabbed a random person and asked her to take a picture of us with him! It was so funny. But the photographer was happy after that

[jenseib]

By the way, we did bring Test Track in with us. I was afraid to let it sit out in the stroller and it was a bit too big to hide under stuff.
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Since we had the early seating, the Princesses weren’t out yet. Our waiter, who was wonderful, told us they probably wouldn’t be to our table till dessert.

Claire ordered the Hotdog (imagine that. LOL) with corn and also got a lot of the cold cuts from the cold bar. She was very impressed with the cold bar. LOL!
I tried several things off the cold bar. It was pretty good. DH said you could just make a meal off of that.
He ordered the Salmon, which I asked “Do you like Salmon?” and he said I don’t know, so our waiter told him if he didn’t like it he could order something else.
I got the Kjottkake. It was 2 meatballs that tasted a lot like Kielbasa.
Very good.

Claire nibbled at her food, but she really wanted to see the princesses. I kept walking around the corner as they came out to see who was there.

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They brought out our picture pretty early on. Here it is.



Alice was the first one out. So this would be our 3rd meeting with Alice this trip. I don’t think we ever even saw her except for parades the last 2 trips. LOL!

She arrived shortly after dessert was served.

It was the same one from the afternoon too.



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Claire has a really skinny belly, but for some reason she kept puffing out in this outfit. Not super attractive. LOL!

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Next was Jasmine, but none of her pictures are working on imageshack, so I will tryo to reload them to photobucket later today. We have dance class in an hour!

[jenseib]

Next was Jasmine. This was one we had hoped for, since Claire was wearing the “matching” outfit. All the other princess referred to her as Jasmine’s sister when they visited.

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The puffed belly again! LOL!

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[jenseib]

Next to the table was Ariel! Our second meeting with her this trip, but this time with legs! We had hoped she would be here.

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We told Ariel how Claire wants to change her name to ArielBelle, and she thought that was a lovely name.

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The bill came and we paid, and Skip decided to walk outside and wait for us since we still had one more princess to wait for.

Claire was having a hard time waiting. LOL!

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Here she comes!

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It was Cinderella, again! This was our 3rd meeting with Cinderella this trip.
Claire was happy to see her again though.

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[jenseib]

After we visited with Cinderella, Claire and I grabbed our stuff and headed out to get the stroller and find Skip. I got to the stroller and picked up my drink I had sitting in it from earlier and went to take drink. I realized the straw was gone, so I threw it away. Who the heck would take someone’s straw? I didn’t want to take any chances that someone messed with it, so I pitched it.

We found Skip and decided top go back to Germany and see if Snow White was out since we didn’t get to see her at dinner.
We got there and only Dopey was out, but the CM said a new line was forming for Snow White and she should be out in 15 minutes. So Skip and I took turns standing in line with Claire.
Finally she came out and the CM said that Dopey and Snow White would be out together for a short while, then Dopey was going in. No Problem for us. I didn’t really care if we saw him or not.
As we got closer the CM again announced that Dopey was going in soon.
Then it came to the people in front of us to have a turn! And the little girl was scared to death of Dopey, so they let us go ahead, and they just waited till Dopey left, which I think was 2 families after us.

Here is what I took…and I took a lot! LOL!

[jenseib]

These are the photopass ones.

[faline]

Another wonderful dinner and great interaction with the characters!

I'm going to close this thread as it's getting much too long. Please start another one as I know there are many who want to continue to follow Claire as she enjoys her Disney adventures and character meetings!