Eight Days a Week - The Bakelin Invasion **Updated 7/8 - COMPLETE** About This Page:

[Cam22]

Sounds like a fun morning at DHS! Congrats to Andy on TSMM!

[Colexis Mom]

Great update Melissa!!

[Meggera]

What great scores at Insania! I need to learn those tricks, too. I'm looking forward to reading about the candy around the world! Great update!

[Starla4436]

Great update! I always try to get Ben to try out for AI because he does this funny Mariah Carey hand movement thing when he sings ...anyway...great update!

[mickeycrazy]

That is a great score for TSM! Where did you get your scoring tips again? I might have to sneak a peek and then whoop up on my DH for our next trip!

Enjoying your report!

[OhToodles!]

Finally caught up after like 4 updates and I was laughing at all of them, but this just now:

I pictured Ralphie beating up Scut Farkus as we talked about it "Did you hear what he said" .....that's one of my favorite lines of the movie.....

HA HA HA !!! LOL!!!! Love it!!!! I do love me some Christmas Story!!

[llgmommy]

Great update....want to hear about the candy around the world.....Sounds yum yum yummy!!!

[Kenny]

I hope the "candy around the world" isn't anything like the "bathrooms around the world"!!!

[mcc0313]

Well it is great to finally know what comes after the cat - on the score. Glad you did not give up at the animation studio - we actually did a different angeled Donald back in December and I was just totally lost, DD8 shocked me though and was quite the artist.

Can't wait to hear all about some candy around the world....

[materstater]

Epcot-- Eating Plenty Candy On (our) Trip Okay I cheated and added an o

[mestitch]

I forgot to add that during our morning at DHS we did some shopping I spotted an Animal tshirt that I had to have. After some debate I went back and got it I Animal since he's supposedly based off of Keith Moon. I did a little research and while I guess it can't be proven (maybe it can, who knows) just look at the similarities And we all know that I The Who and wish Keith had stuck around longer.

ANYHOO, I wore the shirt that night as you'll see
So we took the bus to Epcot and of course first thing we did was ride SSE

I had to take a pic of my cute jacket safely secured onto Andy's bag

Our stupid SSE pics....

Andy said he had a surfboard on his head...

We decided that we needed a challenge, so we opted for candy around the World! We started in Mexico with this spicy fruit candy thing........

Andy wasn't too hot (ba dum ching) over the spicy fruity candy. It was gummy and fruity and, well, spicy. I liked it but if I ate the whole pack I'd been touring the WS bathrooms!

We grabbed a beer in Norway and then found some Norwegian candy. We found a packet of these individually wrapped chocolate candies that were hollow and filled with different coffee flavored liquids. Very tasty!

(like the Animal? )

After Norway we hit up China, but we didn't find BOO in China. We couldn't find anything individually wrapped (we were trying to not do CS stands). So we skipped on over to Germany.

We found some chocolate in the candy store there (Germany and Italy are the easiest places to find chocolate ) And with Germany being Germany, we had another beer We shared the Norway beer by the way.
Anyway, me and my German heart.


A pic while we enjoyed our candy...


Next up was Italy. We had to get some Baci since we were introduced to it by the Bakers. They have a cat named Baci


We relaxed for a bit here in Italy. It was like high school band week or something so all these marching bands were coming around tonight. We watched one go by and then headed towards Japan before we got stuck by another band.

Japan proved to be full of choices, none of which we knew what we were getting..... I opted for these chocolate things that were dipped in something pink and had a strawberry flavor....weird...but good....

We chilled in Japan a bit while we ate our candy. We saved the rest of the box for later and stuck it in the backpack. We had saved some of the chocolate coffee things from Norway as well, so don't worry, no overeating

Next up was Morocco. We broke down and did the CS here but went to the back and got some baklava


For some reason we never got anything from the UK or Canada....... we ate dinner from France....... I don't know..... I guess we got distracted.

We headed on into the UK and caught the 7pm BI show. After the show we went back to France and got dinner from Boulangerie Patisserie. Ham and cheese croissant and a pastry LOVE IT! We took it back over to the UK and ate during the 8pm BI show

After the show we meandered around a bit and then grabbed a spot for Illuminations up in Canada. We haven't watched from there and it was actually really nice. We were right up the steps to the right of the steps beside the totem pole...
A few pics...

That second one is crap but I liked how I got the rockets all around the lagoon.....see them?

Brandi and Pom called and were meeting us in the parking lot at Epcot. They took us back to ASMo and spent the night. Now before I get lectured on breaking any sort of WDW rule....there were 4 of us in the room, totally okay.... and it was one flipping night, our last night.... The reason we did it was because we all had a breakfast ADR at Tusker House the next morning and if we had any hope of getting there on time (POM) we had to talk them into staying. Brandi was all for it but Pom needing convincing. But he finally gave in
We played Beatles Monopoly and stupid Andy Loflin won....
Brandi has some pics I think....I don't know why I don't.....I thought I did.....

Anyway....good times with the Bakers of course
Coming up: Breakfast with Donald!

[Colexis Mom]

Another great update!!

[pamcarey]

Candy around the world! What a cool idea! I'll have to try that one. On our last family trip, my son fell in love with the rice candy in Japan. It was interesting... you actually EAT the wrapper.

[bethf]

Another great update! the photo of Andy with your jacket. Can't wait to hear about the last day, breakfast with Donald is definitely one of our favorites!

[Brit_Invader]

Our sleepover was off the hook! lol Brandi, don't post the picture, you know...or I might have to tell a little story about you ;-) Make something up, or not...who knows., I do.