Here is my review from last years trip...I loved that party!
I cant believe we have been here for 5 days so far. Seems like we just got here, yet the real world seems like it is so far away. WOOHOO!!!
Tonight is MNSSHP!!! We have been looking forward to this for what seems like forever. We have a built in calendar (DS Drew) that has been reminding us how long until the party. After coming off the rides or out of shows wed ask how the kids liked the show.
After The Lion king show: That was great how did you guys like it?
Sara: Good!
Anthony: That was great! I loved it when they
. (5 minutes later)
and the other thing too!
Drew skipping and twirling down a pathway: Cool, cool (giggle laugh)...3 more days until Halloween!!
and so it is finally the big day but, we have to wait until 5:00 to dress. We head off to MK to get a jump on some of the rides. We probably wont have a chance to hit them all tonight since we heard that the park was very busy and that the lines were long during the party.
As some may recall I had 3 extra adult tickets for the party. I tried to post them here but I forgot that you couldnt sell stuff on the DIS boards (oops). I went to guest services at the Poly and let them know that I had the tix and if another guest needed them they could call me. I let them know I wasnt trying to scalp them and would take a loss just to allow someone else to go (I was selling them for $25 a pc instead of the $27.?? I paid). The whole time I was talking to an older CM a younger one was giving me the evil eye. I figured that they couldnt offer to help sell the tix but every time I said If you can let others know I have them for sale they didnt say that there was a problem. After I get back to the room we get a phone call from a CM who says she would love to buy the tickets and that she would be working the day the party. Great Id see her then. Tickets sold!!
We drop off the tickets on our way to get coffee and on to MK!! We decided to hit the rides that we might not get to during the party. We rode: the Haunted Mansion, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, BTMR, Tom Sawyer Island, Country Bear Jamboree, OK, OK you get the idea. We hit just about every major ride in MK. Most were walk-ons some were a 10 minute wait.
We were determined that no matter what we had to get back to the Poly by 2:00 in order to hit the pool to cool off and relax before going to the party. Just as planned we made back by 4:00. So we hit the pool headed back to the room and got dressed. Please put on your visualization glasses on for the next sequence!
NEW CAST: DW transforms into Dr. Mom
DS Anthony is now Sully from the yet to be released (at that time) Monsters Inc.
DS Drew is Mushu from Moulon
DD Sara is, of course, Snow white
I am now dressed as Winnie the Pooh, its a homemade costume, yellow/brown sweat pants and shirt, red t-shirt and Pooh ears
. picture will be posted as soon as I get them back.
It just happens to be the hottest evening of our trip and we are all wishing that we had attended an earlier party when the temps were in the high 50s instead of the present 124 degrees it must have been. Here my DSs were wearing full-length fur coats and their dad wearing an outfit youd wear to the Hundred Acre Wood homecoming.
Leaving our room, well lets just say it was entertaining. Every person I passed on the way to the monorail would see the kids first then look at me and start to grin. I would just say: Please wait to laugh until I have passed
please give Pooh his dignity then they would giggle or laugh. I guess no one is used to Pooh saying aloha to him or her.
As we approached MK I noticed that it had taken on a different look for Halloween. With large pumpkin balloons in the air and some scary music in the background it was truly great looking. The Town Square had pumpkins and hay bales in the center with black and orange balloons floating everywhere it was quite the sight.
Even though we made it back to our room 2 hrs late we got to the LTT for our PSs (at 6:20) by 5:50. We were seated at 6:00 and were immediately greeted by Goofy. He loved the kids costumes and laughed his butt off when he saw me. We pretty much got the same reaction from all of the characters. Pluto, Minnie, Donald and Chip and dale were there as well. Great interaction with the characters!! It also seemed to me that because the kids were wearing Disney costumes they got a lot of attention from characters and CMs. I am not saying that others didnt get any it just seemed as my kids got a lot. Seems like the LTT was not too busy. I was thinking that they must have had quite a few cancellations. When we walked outside it looked like we had walked into a different world. It had gone dark between the time we entered and exited the LTT. The lighting had changed and more balloons and decorations had gone up. The huge pumpkin balloons were lit up and the Mickey head was now disguised as a ghost (oooh scary).
We had our complimentary picture taken and then started looking for candy!! Boy what could be better than being at WDW and going trick-or-treating? We went on some more rides, none of which had waits longer than 5 minutes, and generally did some sightseeing. One of the highlights of the evening was when I came across a gentleman wearing a homemade Tigger costume. I scream Tigger, he screams Pooh and a jog over to him, in the process I forget that I am pushing my DD in the stroller and let the stroller go. She starts rolling downhill (for only a few feet) and my DW catches her. The crowd (including my ever agile wife) thinks it is funny. Tigger asks if I have seen any other friends of ours and I think to myself this guy has lost it, he thinks Im one of his buddies. So I say who and Tigger says Eeyore or Piglet? I am such a schmutz. No I havent but Im still looking About 20 feet later I see another Tigger and Eeyore. I yell over and wave. They both look at me half wave and give me the look that says What a wacko. Oh well, some people are more fun than others. We then took in the parade. The ride of the headless horseman was very cool but we were so far down the Parade root that it barely seemed as though the Parade and the ride were connected. The parade was excellent!! And the kids loved it. The music before the parade was SCARY!! My 7 yr old son works himself up into an almost terrified state sometimes. If we had been closer to the beginning of the parade nothing would have bothered him.
The fireworks display was awesome. The fireworks encircled the entire park! That was a great change considering that some must get used to the fireworks after seeing some sort of display on every night of your stay.
Here is a brief summery of our day:
23 rides, many more than once
2 shows
2 parades
1 fireworks display
2 meals, LTT and Pecos Bill Café
Lots of candy!!
Only the Extraterrestrial had a wait longer than 10 minutes and that was because we got in line just after the show started, otherwise it was a walk on. Same for Bear Jamboree. Buzzs Spin was a walk on every time (299,800 top score for me). Every ride in Fantasyland was a 1 or 2-minute wait. Every other ride was less than 10 minutes.
