The Mighty Morphing Birthday Trip - Thread 2 - COMPLETE!! - UPDATED 12/1 About This Page:

[Colexis Mom]

Sorry it was so crowded at MGM Melissa Can't wait to hear about breakfast

[DrDolphin]

Sorry to hear about the lines at TOT and RNR....can't wait to read more!

[Grammy Grumpy]

So sorry it was busy at the Studios. You can have all my rides on ToT and RRC anytime!!!

[chezp]

Great updates Melissa - I love your birthday dinner and that dessert looked What a shame that MGM was so busy that evening.

[mattnkatsmum]

Sounds like a fabulous time at the WCC. Must remember to try a Sunrise Sunset Froo Frooey thing.

Shame about the crowds at MGM.

[lauren-roxy]

Great updates Melissa!!

[WHMom]

Great to see you're updating again! Your dessert at WCC looked sooooo good! What was it??

Sorry the lines at MGM EMH were so long. We had that same experience in February.

Looking forward to more!

[PrincessSharon]

Yay! Glad to see another update, Melissa. Your dinner at WCC sounded great. Sorry about the crowds at MGM for evening EMH. Been there, done that. Can't wait to hear about breakfast.

[mestitch]

My Birthday Day

Today was finally "the" day "But Melissa" you say "you've had a couple birthday meals already this trip... how many birthdays are you celebrating in one year?" Well my friend, I consider the days before my bday as days building up to my bday and they're worth celebrating as well

Today's plan was to get to 'Ohana for a birthday breakfast with my favorite disconfigured dog Also, I was going to be able to celebrate with my Disney Twinkie, Maureen!

Andy and I got up and ready and caught a cab to the Poly. I have a hard time getting up in the morning and I don't like to rely on WDW transportation when it comes to getting to a morning ADR. We were there lickity split but got a call from Maureen that she was running behind. I think her alarm didn't go off and she'd gotten up like 15 minutes before the ADR time So she must have done some nascar type moves on the highway b/c she made it and she was only a few minutes late.

We were seated when she arrived, we got our leis and birthday card, and then it was time feast feast feast! Bring on the pineapple bread!!! But first, bring on the characters! Lilo visited first....


Then came the head honcho himself...


I have to say, sitting there waiting for my certain specific character to come around makes me feel like the biggest dork ever......b/c on the inside I'm feeling like such a kid! I get all nervous and excited and I just have to keep an eye out and see where he is in the restaurant...(I think a certain self proclaimed Minnie stalker can understand where I'm coming from here....)
Finally he made it over to see us.....

Who the heck knows what I said here.... I never remember...it's always a blur

But apparently Andy told Stitch to strike a pose for this one......

Hey Stitch, VOGUE!
Then came Pluto. Pluto always makes for a fun time. He's always very hyper.... I think he almost pulled me over in this next one...

And a more civilized photo....

Then came a surprise... You gotta love my man (I do ).... out comes a flippin' birthday cake!!! Birthday cake for breakfast!! WHOOOHOOO!!!! He had it decorated so that it had happy birthday to me and Maureen both on it...awwwww

Then we all exchanged some presents.... Maureen had a cute little handmade teacher bucket for me And I had given her a glass with Stitch on one side (coconut drink in hand) and her name on the back (I have the same glass, but it doesn't say Maureen on the back.....it says Melissa .... It's my numero uno fav drinking glass around the house! -Hey Stitch is drinking on the glass...I think it's perfect- )
Andy went waaaay overboard and gave me the pair of Coach sunglasses I had said I wished I could have.... but instead I had bought myself a cheap pair that looked similar. I could have beat him for spending so much on something like that, but I was too excited about my gift

We were stuffed from breakfast and cake, and man there was a lot of cake left (speaking of...I wish I could have a piece of that cake right now ) Maureen told us that Kevan had surprised her with a night at the CR and she was going to go see if she could check in early. We forced her to take the cake with her so she could stick it in the fridge and share it with her family. I was glad she did b/c I can't stand to see good cake go to waste (if you remember my last birthday TR I was forcing slices of cake onto unsuspecting patrons in Le Cellier)

So we said our goodbyes in hopes to run into each other later that night. Maureen headed to the CR and we caught a bus to the AK.

Coming up: Tree hugger!

[MontiMouse]

What a great Birthday breakfast - that cake looks yummo!!!! Glad you got to share it with Maureen and got some good birthday goodies. Can't wait to hear more about your day!

[mestitch]

When we got to the AK we ran right into Wes Palm. He was standing around all by his lonesome so we decided to get a photo. As I walked up to him he started ragging me about my lei. He asked me if I knew I was blooming. I asked him if I could get a picture with him and he told me to get closer to him and put my hands around his trunk SO when I did he yelled out at Andy "Hey did you know your girlfriend was a tree hugger?" I got a good laugh out of that one. That Wes Palm, he's quite the comedian....


I have a ton of pictures from this day, mostly from EE. So I'm going to just post the pictures b/c I can't remember much else.....










I can't remember if I've already told this story b/c the Dinousaur experiences have run together in my head, but Andy took upon himself to sit in the "sucker seat" and do a stupid ride photo. Of course, the suggestion was all mine. I said it would be hilarious if you were wearing long sleeves and pulled your hand up in your sleeve and make it look like the Carnotaurus had ripped it right off. Well even though Andy had on short sleeves, he decided that was the way to go.... so our ride photo was HILARIOUS!! Andy has video of it, so you might be seeing it soon. The only stupid thing was he was holding the camera during the ride in the hand closest to the dino so he pulled in his left arm which sort of took away from the purpose

We also walked through the Maharajah Jungle Trek....

We had just talked smack about this fellow and he must never move b/c he is always there in that position on that rock.....and then he did this...

("How good is his hearing?")
More pics from the trek...




And of course Andy has turned into quite the ham for photos..


On our way out of the park we stopped to see if we could find the sea otters, but none were about....


But we did just happen to catch this guy...


And this fellow was being very hammy for the camera, too....


After that we made our way back to the WL... We had lunch and then went for a swim... I have some funny cute pictures of that coming up...

[DrDolphin]

Great updates!!! Your birthday breakfast looked fab!!!

[WHMom]

Thanks for the double update! Glad you got to see your favorite blue guy.

[Jillybean]

I'm loving that you got started again! I love me some good Melissa and Andy stories!

I think that Thom had that same sunset fru fru drink at WCC - - poor guy could only finish one though.

What a wonderful birthday that you are having (and I fully believe in stretching those birthdays out as far as they will go ). You and Maureen are such cute birthday Twinkies!

Jill

[Colexis Mom]

What a great birthday breakfast Melissa And what a cake WTG Andy Glad you were able to meet up with Maureen Great pictures in AK!! More please