The Mousekecouple's December '09 Trip Report: A Love Story

Mousekedude · Post by **Mousekedude** » Dec Wed 30, 2009 11:38 am

Oh, sure, sweetie, take credit for all the great pictures! Granted, most of the ones in the last couple posts were the ones you took, but my favorites of the ones I took are yet to come. Some are already posted, in fact, on the thread about Disney Night photos.

Boy, I'm starting to sound petty here, aren't I? Sorry. Okay, sweetie, you take great pictures too..... sometimes...

(kidding around, of course)

Again, folks, stand by for Part 2 of Day 5... coming up soon....

Future Guy · Post by **Future Guy** » Dec Wed 30, 2009 2:48 pm

Nice pictures! I'm sorry you were pickpocketed; I'll have to be conscious of that when we're there next week.

MmeLeota · Post by **MmeLeota** » Dec Wed 30, 2009 3:16 pm

Again, folks, stand by for Part 2 of Day 5... coming up soon....

Had to get up and stretch those hind-parts, eh?

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Dec Wed 30, 2009 3:26 pm

...or maybe he needs to revise it to give his DW some credit for the pictures?

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Dec Wed 30, 2009 8:11 pm

Since it was your idea mind, maybe you could do the booking of customers while M-dude comes up with arrangements?! Just a thought!

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Dec Wed 30, 2009 8:40 pm

Sorry, b-babe, but I'm not famous for my "organizational skills"...

withspirit · Post by **withspirit** » Dec Thu 31, 2009 9:44 am

I've just caught up on this trip-report/love-story. M-dude, you take the award for most amazing anniversary gift ever (bowing to the master).

The pickpocket incident is scary

. I guess I never thought it could happen at WDW (which may be why it has become a target). I guess I will wear my wallet around my neck from now on.

Looking forward to the rest of your report!

Mousekedude · Post by **Mousekedude** » Jan Sat 02, 2010 4:59 pm

withspirit wrote:I've just caught up on this trip-report/love-story. M-dude, you take the award for most amazing anniversary gift ever (bowing to the master).

Thank you very much, withspirit. I appreciate that. Here's the next installment in the series:

Day 5, Saturday December 12, 2009 (part two)

Narrative by Mousekedude (â€¦.the saga continues!)

â€¦ so we were just coming off an adventure with a pick-pocket at Animal Kingdom, and it had been a long day already, but the eveningâ€™s fun and frivolity were just beginning! We caught the bus to The Contemporary for our ADR at California Grill, and arrived just in time. We had really been looking forward to this dinner because we had scheduled it so that we would be finishing up our dinner just in time to go out on the balcony to watch the Wishes fireworks show. Well, as if our troubles of the day werenâ€™t enough, it turns out that Disney had rescheduled Wishes for later that night, so we werenâ€™t going to be able to see it! (grumble, grumbleâ€¦.). We could have just hung out for a few hours if we had wanted to, but Amber and I had already booked a special event at DHS with the Dis-Unplugged Podcast gang (more on that in a minute) that we just couldnâ€™t miss, so we just had our dinner and then rushed out. We did take some nice pictures of the Castle, though, because the view from the California grill is so beautiful. Hereâ€™s one of them:

The dinner itself was amazing. The highlight for me was being able to have a glass of Chateau Montelena Chardonnay, which is very hard to find, and very expensive. Amber and I are sort-of amateur wine connoisseurs, so we like it when we find something special. Hereâ€™s a little background on Chateau Montelena wines: back in 1976, some British wine snob who had a wine school in France came to California to check out the wines because he had heard about how the California wineries were trying to make a name for themselves on the world wine scene. Well, at that time, the French were considered to be the best wine makers in the world, and this guy intended to â€œput the California wineries in their placeâ€

mindflipper · Post by **mindflipper** » Jan Sat 02, 2010 7:36 pm

I love the photos of DHS at night without the crowds! They look great! Good shots, M-dude and Mouseoholic! Looked like a cool party at TSMM at DHS. Look forward to reading Day 6!

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Jan Sun 03, 2010 12:58 pm

LOVE the pics. of DHS at night also from Cal Grill! DH and I still need to eat there, I didn't realize the views were so spectacular! How's the food???

Keep the report coming!

Mousekedude · Post by **Mousekedude** » Jan Sun 03, 2010 3:00 pm

The food at C.G. is awesome. It's one of our favorite restaurants.

Amber is on her way back from out of town even as I write this, and she called to say, "Stop the presses!" Apparently her mom finally uploaded the pictures she took with her camera, and Amber got to see them. She says we're going to have to go back and add some of them to our other posts, or add new posts referring back to previous events, or something like that.

So anyway, stay tuned... there's more cool stuff coming soon!

Morningsky · Post by **Morningsky** » Jan Sun 03, 2010 9:50 pm

ok, I can only think of one thing to say regarding this whole trip: AWWWWWW!

MmeLeota · Post by **MmeLeota** » Jan Wed 06, 2010 2:02 am

Wow! What an amazing event! So how badly were your arms hurting after riding TSM several times? (when we went twice in a row, our arms were exhausted!)

Those pics are so awesome! Keep it coming! I'm hooked....

Mousekedude · Post by **Mousekedude** » Jan Thu 07, 2010 8:59 am

MmeLeota wrote:Wow! What an amazing event! So how badly were your arms hurting after riding TSM several times? (when we went twice in a row, our arms were exhausted!)

Oh yeah, my arms were tired!

I have to apolgize to everyone for this thing taking so long to finish up. We have been very busy lately because my brother-in-law is in town staying with us for a while and we're trying to help him with some stuff. Also, we got our CD from the professional photographer, and there are literally hundreds of pictures to sort through, not to mention all the other pictures from our two cameras and Amber's mom's camera.... so we need some time to get it together so we can continue with our report.

Please be patient with us; I promise more fun and mayhem will ensue very soon....

boilerbabe · Post by **boilerbabe** » Jan Thu 07, 2010 10:55 am

No problem M-dude, patiently waiting!

I know it will be worth the wait!!!