The "Unexpected Excuse for a Holiday Trip" Trip - Thread 1 About This Page:

[PrincessSharon]

Excellent update, Marnie! I admire your willpower! I spent $16 in Goofy's Kitchen and I didn't have any kids with me! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] Hurry back with more, please!

[Jillybean]

Okay, it's obvious we haven't spent enough time at DTD! I've never even heard of Goofy's Kitchen and now I must go there! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

More please!

Jill

[DrDolphin]

Great update marnie!! And great photos too!

[Grammy Grumpy]

Finally caught up Marnie. Your TR is awesome! I spoke with a CM at MGM about the "Christmas Tree Lot Guys" and was told they were trying something new this year. They wanted to see if they could solve the crowding problem from last year by allowing people to move about within the area unrestrained and therefore they didn't want to clog the flow with streetscape. I missed it not being there. We were with family that saw my video from last year and wanted to partake of the fun and they were disappointed too!

Keep it coming!!

[bsblady01]

more please sounds like you had fun at down town disney

[BabieeMelly]

Great update! I love Alexa's face-painting, too cute [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]

[ariel14]

Alexa's face looks amazing! Great update!

Cindy

[Mickeysgal]

Another great update! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img] I don't think I would have had as much will power to pass up a chocolate covered oreo! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Hurry back with another update.

[disneyfan4994]

Great update Marnie! More please. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[lindawdw]

What a great update Marnie! Your pics are wonderful and your kids look so cute. Alexa's face painting came out beautiful. Can't wait for more.

[MAria R]

Great updates [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]

[LLaffinPlace]

Loving the TR, Marnie!

Thanks for the pics of the AKL (and the rest, too)!

[angiek1024]

Just caught up with your trip report Marnie!! Loving it! It sounds like a wonderful trip and the pictures are great! It is making me yearn for Disney!

[Colexis Mom]

Day 3 Part 2........Did we find our Power Rangers??

Since we had the car, we just drove over, and had the opportunity to take the tram for the first time! Colin enjoyed that! We were greeted by their wonderful tree [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/love.gif[/img]



We stopped in front of the big hat to get our picture taken with Photopass. I didn’t take one with our own camera [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img] I promptly took a picture of the back of the Photopass card incase we lost it. At least we’d still have the numbers.

We were in search of Power Rangers, so we kept moving on. They were still out from their 12:30 stint, but we only had time to meet the Pink Ranger.



We went off in search of food, since we were getting hungry and it was approaching one o’clock. We walked into Mickey’s greeting area, to which there was no one waiting [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/woot.gif[/img] and he wasn’t moving. The CM said “sorry Mickey couldn’t be here to greet you today, so he sent a statue as well”. Well, I bought it [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] Then he moved, and I freaked [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Colin wanted nothing to do with that.



We walked around in a big circle (I got disoriented [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif[/img] ) and decided to just eat at Pizza Planet. It wasn’t too crowded at all, and it was a nice day to eat outside. We order 2 cheese pizzas, and one pepperoni along with drinks ($23.28). I must say, Pizza Planet has definitely increased the taste of their pizzas, and I’d give them a thumbs up now! Before it was just like eating one of those cardboard pizzas, but there were quite a few more spices added, and a new crust. Check it out [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] It was getting close to 1:30 and the next time the Power Rangers were due to appear, so we finished up the pizza and headed to the back of the park again. I wish they’d just set up the meets and greet in one big line so that you can get pictures with all of them, instead of having to wait in 5 different lines. I’d think it would make things move quicker. Oh well. We got all the Rangers we’d missed earlier (no green Ranger today [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zcry.gif[/img] ) and said goodbye to them!



After they went bye bye, we headed over to Lights, Motor, Action to see what time the next show was. Not until 4:30. And they weren’t giving out Fastpasses (it wasn’t crowded anyway). I asked the CM if he knew what time Mulch, Sweat, and Shears came out, because they are our favorite attraction at MGM (well, at least me and Matt’s)! He didn’t know, so I guess we’d just have to hang around the area and see if they pop out!



We made a quick stop into the Studio Prop Shop, as they were the only store around that we could find that had Power Ranger stuff. And not that much of it [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] I got Colin a t-shirt, and that was it! We decided to let the kids play in the “Honey I Shrunk the Kids Playground”. This was another first for us. It was closed on one of our trips, and it’s really tucked away there in the back, so if you’re not looking for it, you won’t find it. Unfortunately for me, the kids spotted it this time [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] They had a good time in there, playing around. Thankfully for us, it wasn’t too crowded, because I can see this easily becoming an nightmare trying to follow the kids. As it was, we lost Colin once, and went running around trying to find him [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]



Continued in next post..........

[MAria R]

YEAH, Power Rangers Antonio has followed them for the last 4 or 5 years. He liked looking at your pictures trying to identify which series they were from, and like Colin his favorite color is green (he said he must have been sick that day, you know they are only people in costumes!) Oh where did my baby go!!