Hi! I am here reading along, and am now all caught up! I am loving your TR so far!
However, the planning is at least half the fun for me so the longer I get to do it, the better!
I agree, planning a Disney trip is so much fun!
Great photo, such cute little girls!
*Note: although only on the 8th floor, we never heard noise from the monorail or Chef Mickey's (we were only other end from CM) but the Electrical Water Pageant on the Seven Seas Lagoon was loud enough to wake the dead. I mean it was LOUD. For that alone I would try staying theme park view or at least the top floor to get away from it.
That's ironic, you usually hear people complaining about noise from the monorail/CM but you her it from the water pageant. i have never heard of that before. I'll keep that in mind though! ANyways I love the Contemporary - and all the monorail resorts for that matter - so convenient!
A perfect first day photo at MK.
Poor Mickey and Minnie, their hot air balloon float deflated before they got to us and it just looked so pitiful.
Oh my. Never have I seen this happen - but I guess there can always be glitches...Mickey and Minnie still look so happy though!
Now, my DD instantly fell in love with "the doll ride".
SO CUTE! What a great nickname for the classic - it seems many kids love that ride.
Next was our FP+ for PPF and it was a lot of fun but I cannot see waiting 75+minutes for it. FP+ all the way!
Oh yes, PPF gets crazy later in the day. For that one without a FP, you need to do it at RD, or with evening EMH. The RD thing worked for my friends and I, and we also got to see the new queue! It was great - we only waited about 20 mins for it.
Pure happiness - I love it! Nothing better at WDW.
Great family photo!
Then upstairs we went to find our rooms, unpack and get some sleep. But WAIT! Tinkerbell has already come into our rooms and left Minnie Mouse plush dolls!
NO WAY! How fun is that? Those little sparks of magic can totally make it for a kid, or adult for that matter that go to Disney World!
You all lucked out with that view - its gorgeous!
Honestly we saw very few animals on the safari.
Yeah, that's one of those things about the safari, you can't force animals to be awake and active - which also makes the ride even more real, it's up to the animals if they want to show off themselves to the crowd that day!
However, regarding Tusker House for lunch---- the food was fantastic, just the right mix of familiar and exotic.
Good to know! I have always wanted to eat here - the characters look like so much fun here!
Pocahontas was absolutely stunning in person and very kind.
Gosh yeah she is beautiful! I met her years ago in WDW when I was a little girl but I'll have to go again.
I had a cute Frozen cupcake--
YUM! That is so cute, and it looks great too!
It’s a princess day, a magical day, a pixie dust day, a sparkling and shimmering day today!(It’s Magic Kingdom day 2)-Smirk~
And my daughter just wants to know when she can meet Baymax and Hiro…
You can't beat a marshmallow guy! He is one of the best! All kidding aside, I do love Baymax - a wonderful character addition to the Disney family. A great movie as well.
We sat in the ballroom, it was gorgeous.
Best room at the place! Truly magical! Did you step into the other two rooms as well to check them out? The theming in the whole place is just magnificent!
There were 5 of us at the table, we received 2 plates of pastries and they were all tasty. I really appreciated the self-serve refills and missed this option at dinner.
For breakfast I had the Croque Madame, it was very, very good. I would love to have this again!
Great to know! Something else I want to try! I have been to BOG for dinner and for lunch and loved both of them, and now I want to try breakfast one day!
Love this shot of the girls checking out Cinderella's Fountain on the way to BBB
Priceless, pure Disney magic.
My mother was treating the girls to not only this trip but to all the special extras little girls could ever want. We had initially intended to bring our own dresses but Gran wanted the girls to enjoy picking out their dresses and accessories in the castle itself so we went with it and really had fun watching them go through their options.
How special is that! Those girls will remember this trip forever.
I had to remind my mother that the Stepmother was “in character”.
I love them so much!
Drisella asked my DD what she wanted to be when she grew up, DD immediately answered, “A princess!” but then changed it to “a doctor!”. So Drisella said, “You want to be a doctor for princesses?” To which I replied, “Then she’ll clearly never be your doctor!” I wish I had a picture of her reaction, she was shocked and horrified and disgusted all at once--- we were in stitches!
The girls where whoosed through quickly, no time to visit with the princesses! I asked to take a selfie with Rapunzel for a co-worker and could tell this wasn’t very convenient although they let me. The lighting in Princess Fairytale Hall is very dark and photos don’t turn out great but they’ll do fine.
Hmmm, see that's the thing about some of these character meets, they can be very strct. hey I think anyone should be able to get a selfie with a character, they take what, 5 seconds? Good for you for getting one! ALso, too bad about the lighting, but thanks for the info, I'll keep that in mind as well.
I sprinted over to check in for CRT but was behind a party of 17 so it took them a little bit to get to me and they never knew I had been running late anyway!
A table of 17?!?!?!?!?!
Never have I heard of a party that big, especially for CRT! Wow!! But god thing they were there because then you didn't have to worry about being late!
That is a gorgeous cake!!! Did you use the Disney custom cake designs? And the girls look just like princesses after their transformation!
How sweet!
Then we caught the girls staring at the castle, how sweet is this?
SIgh.
We jumped into Mickey's Philharmagic and were really surprised by how much we enjoyed it!
I LOVE this attraction, one of my favorites ever!
This morning we have reservations for the 5 girls (Me, DD, SIL, Niece and my Mother) at the Perfectly Princess Tea Party hosted at the Grand Floridian Resort.
Oh my goodness! I have heard things about his but never heard any real info about it!
We even had time to snap some pictures on the grand staircase.
I love that staircase, may I say I have also gotten some photos on it, it's just great!
GETTING SPRINKLED WITH ROSE PETALS
Love that!
At each place there is her special Disney exclusive (to tea party guests only) Sleeping Beauty doll. This doll is exquisite and a real treasure for sure
That doll is gorgeous. So everyone, including the adults got a doll?
Rose Petal teaches the girls a dance and then how to sign (yes, sign language) a song for Aurora.
That's awesome! Sign language is such a great thing to learn!
The girls have plenty of time to talk to Aurora after they eat their finger sandwiches, drink “tea” (apple juice) and have their special cake.
All beautiful princesses!
My DD still talks about flying over California!
I love Soarin'. I can't wait to see what they will do for the expansion!
This made me laugh so hard, how cute?!?! They look like they are having such a great time on that dance floor!
It’s HollywoodMGMStudiosTBA.... or something!
What she'd been waiting for!!!!!
AHHH I love Baymax! SO cute! I did not actually get to meet him on my past trip, but seeing him was worth it. I really wanted to but I just didn't think he was THAT popular at the parks. The line was just too long... I know his character meets here just ended, but I heard he may be moved someplace else in the future, I really hope he is, I think he is a character that ids ca enjoy for generations to come. W can only hope though.
*NOTE: Some of the wait was due to a visitor that took up about 15 minutes of Baymax and Hiro’s time by showing them a homemade Big Hero 6 scrapbook she’d made along with drawings and sketches she’s done. 15 minutes, I’m not exaggerating. No CM ever suggested she move it along as people had been waiting forever. This was incredibly rude of the guest and inconsiderate of the CMs for not moving this line. Please don’t be that guest. You can show your drawings/book in 2-3 minutes, have a quick chat and take a photo.
This is horrible. The CMs should stop something like this. 15 mins is WAY too long!
So, 90 minutes to meet the marshmallow and we missed our FP+ for the Frozen Sing-Along.
When you gotta meet the marshmallow, you gotta meet the marshmallow!
Now the entire group went over to Muppets 3D, this was a very entertaining show!
Classic show - love it!
Lastly I really wanted DD to see the Cinderella carriage since she absolutely loved that movie. We had to stand in line about 15 minutes but we had some shade.
Great picture! Something else I really wanted to see but wasn't able too...not enough time.
As recommended here on the DIS and by my TA we chose Columbia Harbor House and also as recommended we grabbed a large table upstairs. The food was very good, my husband loved his iced tea/lemonade slush and is still talking about it, and it was easy to snag a table around 11:45am.
Yum that slush sounds good....I'll be thinking of that for the next time I'm in MK!
She asked Beast to dance and he immediately bowed low and offered his hand. He danced and spun her around and it was so blasted magical that I began to tear up!
How precious!!! That Beast...
Now the weather was starting to be really lovely (upper 70s) so let’s stop and take pictures with the castle! No one to wait on us and grumble, so refreshing!
Smaller groups can be very refreshing! You can do what you want without asking anyone else!
I was also so pleased to see Mulan in the lineup as we were planning on lining up for her M&G after lunch and this saved us the trouble. We had Mulan, Aurora, Snow White and Cinderella.
This is good to know, when I went to Akershus for dinner last summer, I hate Ariel, Snow White, Aurora, Cinderella and of course Belle at the beginning. Hm, maybe Mulan is there for lunch sometimes!
Merida was very personable and didn't seem rushed, she interacted with both girls together and separately and genuinely appeared to be having a good time. We loved Merida~
I have heard such great things about her character meet! I really want to meet her!!
We came out of that chute around 8:30pm and the sun was setting over the castle, it was glorious.
Gorgeous!