Oh the Places We Go, The People We See ...Dream Trip Report

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We got in line to see if our room was ready and if so, so we could get our number.

Lo and behold! It WAS ready and of course we never got that promised text!

We headed off and they told us our bags would be on their way.

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Claire immediately liked the place.

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We started the trek to the Little Mermaid section then.

You have to go through the Lion King Area and it’s bigger than I expected.

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Finally!!! The Little Mermaid section.

We had to stop for a few photo ops.

I can’t remember our room number at the moment, but we were on the left hand side of the pool, first floor like we request. Just a little ways down from King Triton.

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We were excited to see out room!

OK, let’s fix the camera settings, so everyone can see the room……

We had a King bed.

We did not request this, but it didn’t matter to us one way or the other.

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Claire was very happy with the room.

I thought the walls of the shower were really neat, but it did make the room a bit too dark.

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I liked this headboard light.

We decided to go get our new mugs with this current dining plan and bring drinks back to the room.

A lot of the plant life had brown edges. I am not sure if they were being over watered, not enough water, or what the deal was, but they weren’t taking off like they should.

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As we headed back to the food court we saw a guy with a cart and our luggage was on it. I asked if we needed to be in the room, and he told me no and we kept going then.

We picked out our new mugs and then I used a counter service credit to pick up a sandwich with chips and a bottled beverage as well.

We were not hungry at all, but I wanted to use up the credits. I think we got the Buffalo-style Turkey Sandwich - sliced turkey, blue cheese, arugula, and buffalo sauce-mayonnaise on a multigrain bread served with house make chips.

Let’s just say I will never order it again. It was NOT tasty at all. The chips were good though.

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We headed back to the room and we did nibble on the chips. Those were pretty decent. I took a bite of the sandwich, and was not impressed and we put it all in our fridge then.

Claire then begged to play with Legos, so I let her open one set and she set to work at building it. I straighten up the room and organized our clothes.

I caught up with the outside world on my kindle for a bit then I insisted it was time for a nap. Claire thought that it would be OK if I took one and she continued to play, but I told her no, the nap was for her too.

We finally settled down and I set the alarm on my phone for about 40 minutes. I figured it would take us a few minutes to fall asleep and then we could get at least a 30 minute nap.

All too soon that alarm went off. It didn’t even feel like we had been sleeping long, but in reality, we did fall asleep immediately.

Claire, who said she was not tired at all was snoring away right next to me. I had to work at waking her up, but finally she did. I told her we needed to get ready to head out. Tonight we were going to see the Osborne Lights. She felt we should just skip it and stay in the room and play with Legos. UM…NO! One of the main reasons of going during the Holiday season was to see this. I have no clue if or when I will get to again and this was one thing I refused to miss.

She grumbled, but got ready and soon we were on our way to the bus stop.

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We made a quick wander through the store.

And then waited for a bus. Again, we didn’t have the best bus mojo, but it was better than it had been at the BC.

Soon we arrived at DHS!

Isn’t this just beautiful?

We entered and searched for a photopass photographer.

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Here’s one!

I forgot to mention earlier in the morning before leaving we did do some shopping in the Beach Club gift shop. Claire and I each got a Beach Club tee and she also bought some Mickey and Minnie plushies ….. The ones that sort of look black and white and old school.

I was now wearing my new tee!

We headed back towards the lights.

Mulch, Sweat, and Shears were playing and getting the crowd in the mood. Well everyone but Claire who was mad that we came. She wanted to just go back and play Legos.

Snow has started!!!!

So we stand and wait, and Claire is griping away about being here, and I get my camera ready and I keep telling her it will be worth it…and then it happened. The lights turned on! Claire was in mid-sentence and just GASP! I did too and I think I teared up a bit. This was STUNNING! I am a fan of gaudy Christmas lights and this was right up my alley. Pictures do not do this justice. You have to see it yourself.

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I took a quick and not so great video.

More pictures of the lights!

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And we got in line for a photopass picture. He took several with my camera and I mentioned the flash wasn’t going off and he said they were fine. NOT. This was the best of the 3 and I had to work to lighten it up. They all were terrible.

At least the professional ones were good.

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There will be picture overload as I just was obsessed with the lights.

We walked down to the other end of the street too to take a look.

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I think I either had a huge smile plastered on my face, or I had my mouth wide open as we walked around.

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And more lights!

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And another crappy video.

 

 

 

 

We saw Santa Goofy, but the line was long and Claire didn’t want to wait, so we just took a few pictures of him from afar.

 

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We REALLY enjoyed the lights, but it came time to move on. We then talked about what to do next. The MK was open fairly late tonight so I suggested we head over there. Claire wanted to check out TSM first though and ride that. I decided we would see what the wait time was and decide then.

Now I don’t remember the exact waiting time stated, but it wasn’t too bad. I am thinking it said 40 minutes. We hopped in line.

 

 

 

 

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The line moved fairly fast till we got to Mr. Potato Head.

 

 

 

And then we waited and waited and waited. I grumbled a bit as did people around us. Claire did NOT want to leave the line though and was very patient. I believe it was over an hour wait. There were a few announcements made, but no one could understand a darn thing they said. It was muffled sounding and very loud in line. You would think people would stop talking when an announcement was being made, but that wasn’t the case.

 

We did have a great time, but I was not happy with how long we had to wait.

 

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We have a Rainforest Cafe in Auburn Hills MI but I wish it was their sister T-Rex instead. I love T-Rex! The food and asmosphere is so much better. I agree we took our son to Disney for his 6th birthday/Christmas and the Osborn lights were amazing, so beautiful!

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We have a Rainforest Cafe in Auburn Hills MI but I wish it was their sister T-Rex instead. I love T-Rex! The food and asmosphere is so much better. I agree we took our son to Disney for his 6th birthday/Christmas and the Osborn lights were amazing, so beautiful!

 

We really did have a good time at T-rex. I havone only been to rainforest once and it was good too, but I liked t-rex better

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We then headed towards the front of the park to leave after our long wait but fun ride on TSM. Of course I had sore arms then too. I need some sort of better technique for shooting because I kill my arms every time.