3 Days, 2 "Adults", 1 Christmas Trip to Make DBF a Believer! (Update 10/11!-The End!)

[JessM]

Rounding Out Our Time at the Animal Kingdom!​

So I left off we were heading over to tackle Everest one last time.

We survived… AGAIN!

Afterwards we stopped for a picture in front of our favorite mountain

I honestly can’t imagine the AK now without that ride, its just so perfect. The theming and the ride are incredible.

We managed to pull ourselves away from Everest and hit up Kali River Rapids, it was 72 degrees out, it made perfect sense…

I had packed ponchos and we put those on but we still got really wet. It was also overcast by this point so in retrospect I wish we had skipped Kali, but we still had a fun ride and a good time looking over the quene. I honestly think that’s the best part of the whole attraction.

We headed out of Asia and back towards the Tree of Life, there were a couple friends I was hoping were still out for their last meet and greet of the day!

Russell and Doug from Up!

These guys were great. Doug licked my face and then Russell tried to steal me from Spencer. He kept holding my hand and leading me away, it was adorable! I love fur characters who still have a ton of personality even though they don’t say anything aloud.

Next we headed over to its Tough to be a Bug!

The completely necessary bug eye shot.

This show definitely creeps me out a little bit but I still love it. It was fun watching Spencer see it for the first time because he wasn’t ready for some of the “surprises” Over all we really enjoyed it and we were glad we fit it into our day! I do wish the AK had something more kid friendly involving Bugs or A Bugs Life, I think the park could use a small section devoted to those types of critters.

Next we headed to Camp Minnie Mickey, or is it Mickey Minnie? We were off to see the FOTLK AKA the Best show on Disney Property!

But first we stopped to say hi to some furry friends!

I love this photo

This was a great meet and greet, they were so full of energy! They were just adorable. I’m a huge Chip and Dale fan and grew up obsessed with the Rescue Rangers, I really enjoyed meeting them in their Christmas gear!

Next we hopped in line to see some characters from one of my favorite Disney movies, the Jungle Book!

This was another great meet and greet because I had a Jungle Book shirt on. Baloo was so excited! Then King Louise saw that he was not on the shirt and he got all sad.

I tried to cheer him up but he seemed to decide to only like Spencer from then on.

It was really fun meeting them!

Next it was time for the FOTLK! We headed into the theater with 5 mins til showtime and we got some good seats, love those December crowds!

The show was great per usual.

I love the FOTLK the music, the performers, the costumes, its just fabulous. Spencer really enjoyed the show as well!

After the show we ran over to see Donald.

He loved my Donald Pin I had on. He was great! He and the character handler works well together because she insisted he wasn’t really #1 as his pin stated, but of course Donald is adamant that he is! Too funny.

After our meet and greet with Donald we wandered around Camp Mickey Minnie checking out the character trees. I think these are so creative and great! I love them all and would love to have one in my house.

Donald’s Tree!

Goofy!

Mickey!

Pluto!

Chip and Dale!

By this time is was around 2:30pm. We wanted to stay for the parade but it wasn’t until 3:30 or 4 if I remember correctly and there really wasn’t anything else we wanted to do in the AK that day, we had pretty much done it all! So we headed out of the park.

We did stop for a picture in front of the Park Christmas Tree

Our one and only magic shot, too funny.

We jumped in the car and headed back to AoA, we were going to take a little break, explore the resort and then head out for some more park fun later that night.

Stay Tuned!​

 

[DisneyKid4Life]

Ahh I'm am so bummed I missed out on Russel and Dug. I saw them in April and planned to get back, but it just didn't happen.

I so love Tough to be a Bug with a newbie. OMG it's fun.

Interesting thought about Bugs Life and more kid friendly. In DL (or more accurately California Adventure), the entire Bug's Life area is kid centred. They really should do the same in AK.

Hahaha, that's a great Magic Shot.

Ahhhh you are making me want to get back this December SO BAD!!

 

[cheekypoppins]

OMG AHHHHHHH where'd you ever find that Jungle book shirt????

 

[JessM]

Ahh I'm am so bummed I missed out on Russel and Dug. I saw them in April and planned to get back, but it just didn't happen.

I so love Tough to be a Bug with a newbie. OMG it's fun.

Interesting thought about Bugs Life and more kid friendly. In DL (or more accurately California Adventure), the entire Bug's Life area is kid centred. They really should do the same in AK.

Hahaha, that's a great Magic Shot.

Ahhhh you are making me want to get back this December SO BAD!!

Haha you know you want to, December at Disney is the best!

 

[JessM]

Photo Tour of AoA and Heading to MK!

We headed back to AoA, we got back to our room and changed/freshened up. I promised Spencer a nap but I was afraid if I laid down I wouldn’t want to get back up. Plus there’s no sleeping in Disney!

I let Spencer lay down for half and hour and then I hurried him up and out of the room! We weren’t quite ready to head off the MK yet (it was parade taping there and we didn’t want to get there before that was all cleaned up) so we decided to walk around our resort! We hadn’t taken a bus yet and we had driven back and forth to Animation Hall so we were really overdue for a resort walk thru!

I know everyone’s trip reports who have stayed at AoA for the past year have a ton of pics so I’ll just share a few of my favorites!

Ursula!

Our room was on the back side of this building. I really loved our view out to Hourglass Lake, it was perfect! And we weren’t quite as far away as the Ariel Building was from Animation Hall.

Looking towards the LM Section

I really loved the landscaping in this section, you can tell Disney was trying to make it look like the bottom of the sea. I think once the plants fill out a little more this section will be perfect!

On to the Lion King Section!

On the way to the Lion King Section

Dorky Vacation Photo

Scar!

Pride Rock

Be that Statue?

The Lion King Section is the least appealing to me, compared to the other sections it’s a little boring. Its still really well done but if I was staying in a suite I’d pick Nemo or Cars!

On to Finding Nemo!

Crush! My favorite Dude!

Mr. Ray!

The Finding Nemo pool looked like a ton of fun. Unfortunately we never got in it : (

Off to Cars!

The Cars Section in my opinion was the best section. The theming was fabulous, I can only imagine how awesome real Cars land must be at California Adventure!

The Cozy Cone!

The pool are was so cute with the Cone Cabanas. So Clever Disney!

Mater : )

My Turn

Luigis! This section is sooooooo well done, I loved it!

Stud

I love miss Sally!

After our tour of the resort we headed to Animation Hall and looked around the gift shop. I also pin traded in the lobby and tried to figure what to do about our reservation that night since it looked like my parents and Aunt wouldn’t be joining us.

We had a reservation for the dessert party at MK and we had pre-paid for it. Luckily, Spencer and I had a separate reservation than my folks because they had booked their trip so late. I had been thrilled they were able to get in with us after a few days of reservation stalking. So I waited in line at the Concierge to ask if I could still cancel for them and get them a refund based on what happened earlier in the day. The Concierge said it should be no problem but my Dad would have to call since the reservation was in his name. I passed that information along to my folks in a text message and we headed out to the bus stop. MK here we come!!

It wasn’t long before we were seeing this beautiful site!

We entered the park and made our way up Main Street, it was busy but not unmanageable. We stopped for a photopass picture even though the Castle hadn’t been lit yet.

The photopass photographer was like “you know the lights will be on in 15 mins right?” but we didn’t care we weren’t going to watch the lightening ceremony but it seemed just wrong to go up Main Street without a picture!

We hurried over to SM and pulled a FP with a return time that was only out around an hour, NOT bad!

We decided to grab some dinner at Cosmic Rays while we waited. We both had the chicken nuggets, SO good. Sorry for the lack of pictures…

After dinner we had a bit of time before our FPs were good so we hit up the Laugh Floor!

I love all the little details, so cute! I’m pretty sure Spencer thought I was a freak for grabbing a picture of this but I didn’t care!

We grabbed FPs for Buzz after we left the Laugh Floor and headed over to use our SM FPs!

I don’t care that SM is jerky its still one of my favorites <3

So when we got off the ride and went over to look at the ride photos, the little girl who was behind us in the car was right infront of us viewing the ride photos:

She said. “hey Mom look it’s me! That ride was great! Oh look at that guy in front of me!” And then she laughed because Spencer was cowering in the picture!

She looked behind and saw Spencer standing there, got a really embarrassed look on her face and then ran off hahahaha. I thought she was hilarious because in truth Spencer was screaming like a bit of a baby ; )

I laughed the entire way out of SM, it was a great ride!
We took a spin on the people mover, none of my pictures came out : (
And we were off to save the Galaxy from the Evil Emperor Zurg.

We made our way quickly through the line with our FPs

I really want to get a good picture of Buzz someday!

Spencer annihilated me, I always knew I hated this ride haha!
We were done for now in Tomorrowland so we headed off to explore more the MK.

Stay Tuned!!​

 

[DisneyKid4Life]

Great mini tour of AoA Jess. It really is a spectacular resort.

Really glad Disney was (I assume) able to cancel the 'rents reservation.

Bahaha, great SM ride photo story especially when the girl ran off. OMG too funny.

 

[JessM]

Great mini tour of AoA Jess. It really is a spectacular resort.

Really glad Disney was (I assume) able to cancel the 'rents reservation.

Bahaha, great SM ride photo story especially when the girl ran off. OMG too funny.

I love AoA, not enough to pay more when POP is across the lake but I'm glad we tried it once!

They were, Disney is so accommodating.

I love it, I think I'm going to get Photopass+ next time so we can have actual copies of all of these, Spencer's face is pretty much always priceless lol

 

[JessM]

A Magical Evening!​

After we finished up in Tomorrowland we headed over towards Adventureland.

We stopped for a couple pics

Those Castle Dream Lights are amazing!

We still had some time to kill before we checked into the Dessert Party!
We headed over and stopped and walked through the Swiss Family Robison Treehouse.

It was just as boring as I remember it but it was kinda fun.

The view was nice from the top at least!

Next we headed over to the Jungle Cruise. I love the punny jokes on this ride. I had never done the ride at night. I know some people love it at night but I have to say I wasn’t a huge fan of it in the dark. It just wasn’t the same, and it seemed really eerie instead of fun and light hearted like its supposed to be. Our skipper wasn’t the best either. She was trying really hard but you couldn’t really understand or hear her so it was just meh.

We headed to Pirates next.

Spencer and I both really enjoyed this ride! Its one of my Dad’s favorites and it was actually really sad not riding with him : ( I think it might have been my first Dad free Pirates ride ever… I so wished they weren’t stuck at the hospital and they were with us having fun!

After Pirates, we figured we should go get in the line for the Dessert party, and we were starting to drag a bit so we were looking forward to sitting down!

So we went over and got in what I thought was the line. Two years before the line went one way and this year it went the opposite way. So I thought we were at the back of the line and that we were behind this family. Apparently we were really waiting by the entrance and they didn’t even bother to tell us! I really wasn’t trying to be a jerk but jeez I wish they had said something! We were there for like 10mins!

Anyways, we finally figured it out without help from the front of the line family and went to the back of the line.

Meanwhile…

My parents had been with my Aunt at the hospital all day. They had cancelled their Dessert Party Reservation and were planning on sticking around the hospital at least until the doctor came back. Finally, the Doctor came around at like 6:30 and said they hadn’t found anything but they were going to keep my Aunt overnight. My Uncle decided he wanted to stay the night so my parents left solo.

They got back to POP and decided to head over to the MK. My Mom wasn't taking the whole last of vacation thing well so they headed out immediately. My Mom texted me while we were on our way over to the Dessert Party to tell me they were on their way. When they arrived they were bummed that they had just cancelled their reservation (around 6ish) because they didn’t think they would make it because the doctor took forever coming around. The line had just started moving to be let into the party. Everything had gone exactly right to get them there on time, which never happens!

I offered to give them Spencer and I’s table since they had had a less than magical day but they weren’t hearing any of it. My Dad decided to go ahead and ask the manager if there was any way they could get their reservation back.

We waited in line and by the time we got to the podium the CMs had it all worked out! They gave us back the table of 4 my parents had originally reserved! SO LUCKY! And so nice of them to give us that table, they had been telling people randomly asking they were full. SO much pixie dust!
We headed over to our table and hit the dessert buffet hard! My Mom and I are both dessert fans, we ate so much!

I love the Dessert Party and I think its so worth it, but that’s just me : ) The desserts are tasty and I like the view without fighting several hundred of my closest friends.

They even had a photopass photographer!

This one is so foolish

We watched Celebrate the Magic First (sorry none of my pictures came out). I absolutely love this show, especially the Tangled lantern part. I was almost crying.

Spencer also loved it! I was so amazed and happy how much he genuinely enjoyed everything this trip! I almost started crying just because he said he loved it too. Just a sap!

Wishes was next and it was magical, emotional and amazing as usual. The little girls voice literally melts my heart. I will see Wishes more than once on my next trip!

After the fireworks, we decided to go and try to hit up a couple of my Mom’s favorite rides since she hadn’t gotten to ride much this trip! My Dad was taking this whole trip derailment much better than my Mom was so we went to do her favorites first!

Main Street was crazy packed, they even had the back stage exit going. It was nuts. Good thing Spencer is great at evasive maneuvers so we followed him across Main Street and into the sanctuary that was Adventureland.

First we hit up BTMRR

A ride that is quite fabulous in the dark!

The ride was great per usual and my Mom looked so much happier after we got off, its her favorite ride!

We walked along the boardwalk by the Rivers of America laughing and just generally being happy to finally all be at the MK!

We hurried along so we could make it to the HM before the parade!
We took at spin with the happiest of haunts, my Mom’s other favorite ride!
When we came out the parade was just about to start! We grabbed seats right on the curb and watched

Parade Spam!

I honestly love this parade. I remember Spectromagic but I think they are both spectacular. The only thing I really miss from Spectro is chip and dale on their piano, so cute!

Cindy is so pretty

Peter Pan my Favorite!

Dopey is so cute

Also, Spencer LOVED the parade. I’ve caught him listening to the music at home, its true I really have!

I was so happy, the night just seemed so magical. In Disney with my family, my BF it was perfect! The weather was great, the MK night time entertainment was great and we had ridden so many great rides!

And our magical night wasn’t over yet!

Does anyone find it hard to believe a Disney freak managed to go to MK and not beeline straight to New Fantasyland?

Well I was pretty impressed with myself haha. I had purposely not walked by NFL yet because I feared it would be super busy and I would just be disappointed I couldn’t experience anything there yet because of the waits.
But after the parade seemed like a perfect time! NFL time!

First we hit up the Little Mermaid ride.

I thought the quene was really cute!

I really enjoyed the ride, especially the under the sea room. I just loved all the bright colors.

I know its not super thrilling but its in Fantasyland its not supposed to be.

We also went over and did Enchanted Tales with Belle. I was getting tired at this point so no pictures sorry.

Overall I really enjoyed the attraction. I loved Belle’s cottage that was fabulous. I thought the CM did a good job trying to get people into it while in Maurice’s workshop and waiting for the mirror portal but it just seemed a little too scripted and no one was really interested. Maybe they could shorten that wait or something.

The mirror effect was incredible! I want to do the attraction again just to watch that again. It was amazing.

The show was cute too, none of us got picked for a part but it was cute.
I wouldn’t wait a long time for it but it was a cool experience.
We made our way out of the park after that. It had been a magical evening but it was late and it had been a jam packed day!

A few photos on the way out.

I was actually pleasantly surprised how into photopass my parents got. We usually don't take any pictures at Disney so it was nice to get a few this trip. Next trip I'm going for the plus to get the ride photos too! It is nice to share the cost with my folks!

Highs of the Day: Honestly too many to list but here’s a few of my favorites:

• Everest!
• Awesome little girl making fun of Spencer after SM
• Celebrate the Magic, Wishes and MSEP!
• Mom and Dad getting into the Dessert Party!


Lows of the Day:
• My Aunt going to the hospital : (

Food of the Day:
• Everything at the Dessert Party
• Disney Nuggets

Disney Christmas Experiences:
• Castle Dream Lights
• Holiday Version of Celebrate the Magic!
• Donald, Chip and Dale in Christmas Grab!
• Camp Minnie Mickey Character Christmas Trees
• Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom Christmas Décor

Missed Disney Christmas Experiences for Next Trip:
• Minnie, Mickey, Pluto and Goofy and their Christmas best!
• MVMCP ​

 

[_addicted2disney]

Can't wait to read more!

 

[DisneyKid4Life]

Ahh I can't wait to see the castle dream lights again. Just stunning.

Bahaha, too funny on the treehouse. Definitely some nice views though.

Oh wow, I actually quite love the Jungle Cruise at night. It is VERY different to be sure. For some reason the animals just look more real to me. I think that's why I like it.

OMG, that is so wonderful that your parents made it to the Dessert Party AND were able to get the ressie back. Pixie dust indeed!

So glad the day ended so wonderfully for you despite the sadness of your aunt's situation. And super glad to hear that Spencer is a complete convert. That's Disney Magic for ya.

 

[JessM]

Can't wait to read more!

Thanks for following along : )

Ahh I can't wait to see the castle dream lights again. Just stunning.

Bahaha, too funny on the treehouse. Definitely some nice views though.

Oh wow, I actually quite love the Jungle Cruise at night. It is VERY different to be sure. For some reason the animals just look more real to me. I think that's why I like it.

OMG, that is so wonderful that your parents made it to the Dessert Party AND were able to get the ressie back. Pixie dust indeed!

So glad the day ended so wonderfully for you despite the sadness of your aunt's situation. And super glad to hear that Spencer is a complete convert. That's Disney Magic for ya.

I was looking through pictures from our trip in Dec 07 the other day and its hard to imagine they didn't have the Castle lights back then! It wouldn't be Christmas without them now!

Disney magic was completely alive that night between Spencer and my parents getting their reservation back. Disney really is just the BEST!

 

[JessM]

Celebrating Friendship Day!

I woke up early Sunday morning and it was our last day in Disney : (

Any Disney nut will never be ok with going home but this trip my Disney depression over leaving was terrible. It had been such a short trip and my poor parents hadn’t had a very good trip at all. This was also my first trip in 2 years, a REALLY long time for me.

The trip had been so magical even though it was so short, I wasn’t ready to go home! But I pulled myself together we still had a solid 8 hours in the MK waiting for us!

We got up and got everything packed up and loaded into the car. We decided to drive over to the TTC so we could just go straight to the airport from there. We parked and headed towards the monorail. Only the resort monorail was running so we had to stop, wait for traffic to clear yadda, yadda, yadda. Normally I love the monorail but we were running a little late and we were both super hungry, we should have taken the Ferry over, next time!

We finally arrived at MK and quickly headed over to the gate where they let the people with early breakfast reservations in. I felt so VIP : ) I had never done an early breakfast reservation before this trip and even though the wake ups were killer I really enjoyed them!

We quickly made our way down Main Street

Oh hey Whoopi!

Seeing as Whoopi wasn’t a great CP narrator I was a little disappointed she was blocking me getting a picture towards the train station. I still forgive her though because she was great in Sister Act.

We made our way far quicker than I would have liked down Main Street because Spencer was starving but I did make him stop for a few pics.

I think he almost killed me when I made him wait behind one of family to get these ones by the partner statue, but he was good and humored me.

What a guy!

Finally, and by finally I mean 30 seconds later, we headed off to our breakfast destination.

We were heading too….

The Crystal Palace!

I took a couple more Castle Pics while we were waiting, it was such a gorgeous morning! Spencer was less than impressed with all my picture taking.

Poor Spencer was starving he just wanted food!

Mental note for next time or to anyone else with a young adult male in their party who gets cranky from not eating, pack granola bars or something to give them to eat on the way to breakfast. Spencer was getting grumpy from being hungry and we were both getting short with each other. This was not our finest moment on the trip but we recovered quickly!

We were seated and our waiter came right over to take our drink order. I wish I remembered his name he was great! He even offered us to go cups of everything we were drinking at the end of the meal, so nice!

We had enough time to grab food before the characters started coming around.

Piglet was up first!

Piglet was so adorable, he was acting all shy but he loved my pink shirt. He even gave me a kiss on his way out!

Next up was Tigger

Tigger is one of my favorites I was really excited to see him.

By the way the handlers here were great about taking pics for us!

Pooh bear was next!

I’m not sure what’s going on in this picture.

Pooh was adorable!

We decided not to wait for Eeyore, he was on the other side of the restaurant. We settled the bill and headed out!

Oh by the way, we both thought the food was great, especially Pooh’s puffed toast. Everything was great, we are going back in December.

I had to get pics of these topiaries on the way out.

So cute with their Christmas hats!

We left breakfast around 9:15am. Our reservation was for 8:25am and we definitely didn’t rush at all. When we got out the crowds didn’t look too bad at all!

We grabbed FPs for PP and then headed over to SM!

I’m pretty sure we rode twice before we decided our bodies needed a break haha.

I love this ride pic! I think I’m going to get the PP+ for our December trip, I want to get the ride photos.

After blasting through space we left Tomorrowland, we had already done everything we wanted to do there the night before. We headed over to Fantasyland and hit up Pooh before using our PP fps. Sorry I guess Disney depression took over and I have no pics : (

We decided to head over to Storybook Circus next because I hadn’t been over there yet.

I loved the area it was so cute!

We decided, well I decided, to go meet some characters since their lines were so short!

The poor ladies had no one over on their side.

Daisy was up first

I’m not sure how I feel about the characters new sets and outfits. They were cute and I get how they fit in with the circus theme but I almost think I like their regular outfits better. Minnie and Goofy looked cute but Daisy and Donald looked kinda weird. I don’t know maybe they will grow on me haha!

Minnie was up next but her photopass photographer wasn’t out, this was the best shot we got… Another reason why I will probably invest in Photopass again, my phone and camera both take terrible inside pics!

The boys are up next stay tuned!​

 

[DisneyKid4Life]

WOW, even though you couldn't get a train station photo, that's still pretty cool with the mice and Cindy's carriage... and Whoopi!

You got some GREAT castle photos. Not another soul in 'em. It had to be done!!

Yeah, next time maybe bring some snacks though.

I so want a picture with Piglet. I have all the others.

 

[JessM]

WOW, even though you couldn't get a train station photo, that's still pretty cool with the mice and Cindy's carriage... and Whoopi!

You got some GREAT castle photos. Not another soul in 'em. It had to be done!!

Yeah, next time maybe bring some snacks though.

I so want a picture with Piglet. I have all the others.

I'll admit it was cool seeing Whoopi on Main Street, that was my second ever celeb sighting in DW!

I love the early morning breakfasts at MK, its definitely becoming a tradition. I have one booked for both my Dec and Feb trips!

Piglets such a nugget, I hope you find him on your next trip!

 

[JessM]

A relaxing morning in the MK!

We jumped in the boys very short line after seeing the ladies.

Goofy was up first!

And then Donald

I have to say the snake set up isn’t my favorite. But we met the #1 Duck so it was all good in my book

We looked around the Big Top and then headed out towards Frontierland.

We hit up BTMRR first

We had a great ride as usual! I love that ride its just so fun!

We also hit up splash mountain, sorry no pics : ( next time!

After riding Splash Mountain there wasn’t anything else on our must do list. We had gotten lucky and had gotten to ride a lot of things the night before.

We decided to head out and walk around Main Street since I normally breeze thru there. We grabbed a FP for the Princesses first and then explored around Main Street til our FP time.

We started in the Bakery

Look at those noms!

I ended up getting a chocolate covered mickey rice crispy treat, I LOVE those things. Someday I’ll smarten up and bring like 100 back in my suitcase so I can eat them at home. They are so good.

We walked around Main Street and looked at all the window displays. This Mickey’s Christmas Carol one was one of my favorites, I love that Christmas Special! Mostly because it has that giant from Mickey and the Beanstalk, he cracks me up!

We decided to go meet Mickey before the Princesses, we hadn’t met him yet this trip and Spencer never had. You can’t go to Disney and not meet the Mouse himself!

Poor Mickey had literally no one waiting in his line so we walked right in to meet the Main Mouse himself.

Spencer the wanna be politician shaking Mickey’s hand.

Mickey was great! He kept putting Spencer and I’s hands together and he was just so happy we there together haha.

Next up was the Princesses!

I was actually really excited to meet them because I never had before. Crazy I know, but when I was a child I don’t remember them being as popular or something. Maybe there lines were just too long and my parents told me they didn't meet in the parks but I had never bothered to stop and see them before. I was also super excited to meet my girl Rapunzel because Tangled has become one of my favorite Disney flicks!

We waited for about 10mins even with our FPs but soon enough it was our turn.

Cindy was up first

Awkward photo haha!

Cindy wasn’t overally talkative. I don’t even remember what we talked about. She didn’t make much of an impression though. Even with the families with little kids she was usually done with them pretty quickly.

All well on to Aurora!

Aurora was SUPER talkative. I felt like I couldn’t get a word in edgewise . She was going on and on about her woodland forest friends. She asked if we had any and we said no and she proceeded to talk about all the trouble they cause. It was too funny.

See he even liked visiting the Princesses look at that smile!

I looked silly in this picture but something was funny!

Next up was my FAV Rapunzel!

Spencer was nice enough to let me got up on my own for her.
I told her I loved her hair and she showed me all the flowers she had in it. She also asked if Spencer was my prince and I told her yes he was. She then asked if I ever need to use a frying pan on him because if so she had one I could borrow. I told her I’d let her know but so far we was staying in line haha.

She was such a pretty Rapunzel!

Group pic!

After saying our goodbyes to Rapunzel we headed back out to Main Street. I was on cloud 9 and I’m pretty sure Spencer thought I was nuts, its ok I can take it.

We wandered around some more wondering what to do next. It was around 1:00pm and our hours were getting short… : (

Amazingly we were hungry again and I knew where I wanted to get lunch! We had the time so we decided to check out Be Our Guest!
Stay Tuned!​

 

[DisneyKid4Life]

You know, I really need to spend more time exploring Main Street. Like every little nook that exists. There, I just put that on my mental list for December.

I don't know. I just find it so sad that Mickey no longer has a wait. I undersdtand the appeal of the Princesses and the Fairies, but c'mon people, It Was All Started By A Mouse!!

Glad you FINALLY got to meet the princesses though.

 

[JessM]

You know, I really need to spend more time exploring Main Street. Like every little nook that exists. There, I just put that on my mental list for December.

I don't know. I just find it so sad that Mickey no longer has a wait. I undersdtand the appeal of the Princesses and the Fairies, but c'mon people, It Was All Started By A Mouse!!

Glad you FINALLY got to meet the princesses though.

I'm planning on spending more time on Main Street too. I want to actually stop and look at all the amazing window displays!

I think its very sad Mickey never has a wait anymore, but its just not the same when you don't get to poke around through his house before you meet him. I love NFL but I miss Mickey's house.

It started a princess obsession, Spencer's in trouble

 

[JessM]

Be Our Guest! And Heading Home : (​

We headed over to Be Our Guest and saw that the line was almost across the bridge. We almost walked away but Spencer was like lets ask how long the wait would be. The CM said around 30mins to get your food from this point, I’m so glad we asked because that sounded good to us!

We actually waited around 25min from when we stepped in line to when the food got to our table, not too shabby if you ask me!

Picture of the Castle from the line

The entrance, I just love all the details. Especially the stained glass. Disney really outdid themselves. I’m so impressed with this area!

Being let inside!

There was so much to look at I didn’t even mind the wait.

Knight Picture!

Mine is definitely not as cool.

Once we got to the ordering kiosks everything was a piece of cake. They gave us a rose and put our order in (we were paying with cash so the CM did it for us) and then we were on our way. It was so simple and I really like the system!

The Ballroom!

We looked around for a table and we quickly found one in the back of the ballroom by the windows that snow. We got up and grabbed our drinks and we were only seated a few minutes before our food came. Talk about service.

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I honestly couldn’t get over how beautiful it was in there. I really felt like I had been transported to the movie, it was incredible. Beauty and the Beast was the first movie I ever saw in theater so it will always have a special place in my heart.

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The chandeliers blew me away!

This is where we ended up sitting, it was prefect, I loved the snow!

The only downside is the lighting for pics in there, its hard to get a good one!
Our food came and it was delicious. I got the turkey sandwich and Spencer got the ham, they were both really good!

Panorama shot.

We both couldn’t even focus on eating, we were both just looking around amazed. We loved it!

Looking towards the beautiful snow windows!

I keep thinking how magical it would be to be able to dance in there. Just like Belle and the Beast did in the movie. They should open it with music at one of the parties or something. I just want to do it lol!

After we finished eating we looked around the rest of the restaurant.

The West Wing.

I tried to get a picture of the rose but there were too many people around it. I liked the West Wing but I wouldn’t want to eat in there it was way too dark.

The Rose Gallery

I really enjoyed the rose gallery, it was beautiful and I loved the music box!
On our way out we stopped for a photo by the Stained Glass Window

After lunch we were running short on time : ( We had time to do a couple more things so we decided to each pick one more attraction.

Spencer wanted to see the Hall of Presidents, I know that was his last attraction pick at Disney, I thought he was nuts too. But he had been so good going with the flow and doing whatever I wanted for the whole trip that I agreed and we went to see the next show. I was bummed because I wanted to see the parade but I knew we probably wouldn’t have time if we caught the show after the parade so to the Hall of Presidents we went.

It actually wasn’t as bad as I remembered it. I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. My Mom loves the Hall of Presidents and my Dad and I normally steer her by it so next trip I’ll have to stop in again with her. It was well done and I enjoyed it a lot.

My last ride pick was the HM, I love that ride. We had a great ride with the 999 happy haunts and then it was time to leave the park.

Spencer was more concerned about making our flight so he was pushing me to get moving but I just kept walking slower and slower haha.

I stopped to buy a souviner popcorn bucket because I thought it was adorable. Then I stopped to pin trade and finally made us stop for one more photopass picture.

By this time I think Spencer was about to explode so I was good and left the park without a scene, maybe a tear though : (

It was such a magical trip I didn’t want it to end!

We headed back to the TTC to grab our car without incident. Our flight was scheduled to get into Boston around 10pm and then we had bus tickets to get us back home. We called Airtran to see how much it would be to change our flight to our home airport and they said $1000 bucks, umm no thanks.
We asked the lady at the Airtran desk at the airport and it came down to $800, umm still no thanks.

Security at MCO was crazy, it was actually good we left a little earlier than I was planning. But we made our flight and we were on our way to Baltimore on time at 6:30pm.

When we got to Baltimore our flight to Boston was right next to the flight to our home airport. We begged and pleaded with the guy while the flight was boarding to let us on so we could just go home and not have to take a bus. He ended up letting us do it for $50 bucks a piece. SOLD!

I got a great deal on the flights to Boston, that’s the only reason why I got them in the first place but I’d much rather just fly out of our home airport. From now on I’m just going to pay the extra $50 bucks to fly from home, its worth it to me.

We got on the plane and it was empty! Like really Airtran why did you have to make it so difficult to change flights when this plane is empty. DUMB

We got and entire row to ourselves and we were home and in bed by 11pm.

A successful but tiring Disney trip was in the books!

Highs of the Day:
• Hitting all 3 Mountains at MK!
• Be Our Guest!
• Meeting the Princesses


Lows of the Day:
• Going Home

Food of the Day:
• Crystal Palace Breakfast-Poohs Puffed Toast!
• Be Our Guest

Disney Christmas Experiences:
• None today : (

Missed Disney Christmas Experiences for Next Trip:
• Fort Wilderness Campground Decorations
• Decorations at Grand Floridian and Wilderness Lodge next trip!

Thank you everyone who followed along and read my first trip report!

It was such a magical trip and I’m glad Spencer loved Disney as much as he did. It will make our relationship that much better haha!

Even though the rest of my family had a rough trip, I’m glad Spencer and I were able to salvage ours. I’m also extremely excited to head back with my parents in less 2 months! We haven’t been all together for a trip in 3 YEARS! I used to exclusively travel with just my parents while I was in College and with them and a friend in HS. We are definitely overdue and I’m extremely excited to go with them again!

I started a PTR for my December trip, please read along over here

I’m also going to start a PTR for my February Glass Slipper Challenge/Princess Half Marathon trip soon as well.

I’ll definitely be writing up a Trip Report from my December trip with more details and more food pictures haha!

Thanks again for reading everyone and have a magical day!

See ya real soon!
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[DisneyKid4Life]

Ah, I still have not set foot in Be Our Guest. It's so funny to look at how elegant it is while everyone is dressed beach casual.

Jess, those panorama shots are fabulous. It honesty almost looks like a painting. Beautiful.

Hall of Presidents is definitely a, shall we say, unusual choice. But good on you for doing it for Spencer.

Haunted Mansion I can get behind.

I'm totally with you in how hard it is to leave for the last time.

OMG, that's so awesome that you were able to change the flight. A final little bit of pixie dust.

Great first TR Jess. Despite the hardships with your aunt, I'm glad you were both able to enjoy it, and create a new convert in the process.

I'm gonna get over to your PTR soon to see how your plans are shaping up.

 

[JessM]

Ah, I still have not set foot in Be Our Guest. It's so funny to look at how elegant it is while everyone is dressed beach casual.

Jess, those panorama shots are fabulous. It honesty almost looks like a painting. Beautiful.

Hall of Presidents is definitely a, shall we say, unusual choice. But good on you for doing it for Spencer.

Haunted Mansion I can get behind.

I'm totally with you in how hard it is to leave for the last time.

OMG, that's so awesome that you were able to change the flight. A final little bit of pixie dust.

Great first TR Jess. Despite the hardships with your aunt, I'm glad you were both able to enjoy it, and create a new convert in the process.

I'm gonna get over to your PTR soon to see how your plans are shaping up.

You will definitely have to make time for BOG during your Dec trip, its beautiful in there!

I actually took those panoramas with my iphone, I'm surprised they actually came out!

I guess you can call the Hall of President's a Classic so I guess it works lol, I was much happier on the HM though.

Its was so hard to leave but changing our flights made it slightly better. I can't wait to go back! And I excited to finish planning the next trip!

Thanks again for following along with my 1st trip report! Hopefully its the first of many!