Recent content by johndoh

So happy for your son and for your first DL/ DCA experience. DL is kind of our Disney homebase since it's much closer to where we live than WDW. You'll love the more "intimate" feeling of DL and can't wait to hear all about your trip plan and your TR after your trip.

Thanks! DW is a big time scrapbooker so pictures are a must in any of our family vacations and outings so Madelyn certainly is not shy around cameras. In the past, she had put together these massive Disney vacation scrapbooks working on them for weeks to months as well as making a Disney...

Illuminations really holds a special place in my heart. It was at our very first WDW trip back in the summer of 2001, we had walked over to EPCOT after having checked into the Yacht Club and had dinner and Illuminations was just about to start. We got lucky and grabbed a seat right in the...

We made it all the way to Japan before fatigue really started to settle in. The 90+ degree temperature certainly wears you down if you’re not setting aside adequate times for breaks and we had been going since 7:15 in the morning. Sun was starting to set so we took some more pictures as we...

For a quick snack break (and to cool down), we stopped at the France Pavilion’s Boulangerie Patisserie for some Napoleon and Toasted Ham & Cheese bread and an extra large lemonade. The Napoleon was probably one of the best pastries I had the entire trip! Pinky out...

After lunch with very full tummies, we explored the Canada Pavilion until our FPs for Soarin was up. The standby time for Soarin at 2pm. Are people actually waiting 2 ½ hours to ride one ride!? After Soarin, we headed back out to World Showcase continuing with United...

While we were waiting in line, I struck up an interesting conversation with Duffy’s “handler” and it turns out that she was there through the Disney’s college program till August. She was telling us how much fun she was having and what an incredible experience it was for her. They matched her...

Soon enough, we were in line to meet Duffy! Thankfully, the waiting line and Duffy was all under a shade as the temperature was in the upper 80s by 11am.

We had some time to kill before our ADR at LeCellier so we wondered through the Flower and Garden festival and made our way over to meet Duffy.

We walked onto Ellen’s Energy Adventure before making our way to grab FPs to Soarin. I remembered how busy Soarin was when we were having lunch at Sunshine Seasons on Day 1, so we decided to split up while I ran to get FPs to Soarin and the girls got in line to get pictures with Mickey and...

It’s been awhile since my last update as I’ve had a lot going on the past few weeks with Madelyn’s school, Kindergarten graduation, hosting family for visit, start of summer vacation and I got a new computer so I had to deal with all the setup and configuration and copying all my pictures and...

Glad I could add so much enjoyment ;) It was definitely one of the more touching and memorable moments of the trip by far! AK is kind of a tough park to experience in 1 day but I don't think it's really a "more than 1 day" park either, so you really have to power through it if you want to see...

Haha. I love it when the ride pictures turn out good, especially when everybody has great expressions which doesn’t happen very often. It was definitely a long day after having a couple of slower days. I’ve heard people say Animal Kingdom is not a full day park but we could have easily...