Day 4, Part 2: Mickey & Minnie, I KNOW THEM!
Meeting Mickey & Minnie in their celebration outfits was highly anticipated for the group. Well and meeting Mickey & Minnie together in general for the boys, since this was their first time!
We had a great experience with
Ellie from Spanish Fork, UT at Mickey’s. She was so much fun, she had the same birthday as Logan and we had a lot fun chat about birthdays with her.
We were the first ones to head into the room, 11 is a big group after all! And we had plenty of time to take all different photo variations.
After Mickey & Minnie, there wasn’t too much to do. We had to head out of the park soon for a reservation and the lines were all so long. We went to Guest Relations so Jill could fix her Magicband. She had purchased a custom Magicband back in April and had trouble linking it. She went to the front desk the night before but then her band didn’t work this morning and she had to wait in line Guest Relations outside the park and get a card pass so she could enter the park.
Julie from St. Louis, MO at Guest Relations was an angel. She helped fix Jill’s bad. She also called over to the restaurant we were having lunch at to inform them Sydney was a vegetarian, she helped add Dad and Sydney to our Fastpasses for the rest of the day. And she help give us advice for our breakfast reservation the next morning. We had a reservation for 10 people, not knowing that Sydney would be joining and hadn’t been able to update it to 11 people. Chris was just going to sit it out so Sydney could go, but Julie said that she felt strongly that they’d be able to accommodate it, just to get there early and be willing to wait in case they need to rearrange things. She was seriously
theee best.
We loved Julie.
We stopped in the Emporium to kill some time and did some window shopping. Kelly wanted an Ariel Alex and Ani and I was still keeping my eyes peeled in case I saw something I wanted.
The kids picked out some things, Nathan picked some toys that we had sent back to the hotel, and Logan had a meltdown surrounding a lightsaber that lasted the rest of the afternoon. I purchased some mystery pin packs and then we headed out of the park and over to the boat! We were off to Hoop De Doo. It was about 2:30 at this point and we were going to the 4:00pm dinner. In the past we’d run into lines at the boat and we wanted to be early. Well.. I wanted to be early. And we were definitely much earlier than necessary. OOPS!
We had tried to pick up our Hoop De Doo tickets this morning at the front desk, but they couldn’t print them out same day. So that was another reason we were headed there early.
We got off the boat around 2:45. Nathan and Logan and I headed into the playground while everyone else went to the porch in the shade.
We were very early. We couldn’t pick up the tickets or check in, so I went in the gift shop with the kids to see if we could do any pin trading. It was a bust, and Logan’s melt down from the Emporium ensued again. We headed back to the group and hung out in the shade.
Mom and I went over to the ticket area when it got closer to 3:30pm. We chatted with the girl behind us in line, she was from Turkey and had been doing the ICP and she was leaving in 2 days! Her program had only been 2 months long, which was crazy to me! She was so sweet and lovely to chat with. There was also a group there we chatted with who came every year on this day (August 17th) to commemorate their friend who pass away. Aug 17th was his birthday and Hoop was his favorite.
We finally got checked in and headed into the theater right before 4.
GIMME THE CORN BREAD! I was starving.
We were in category 3, I didn’t love this, but I wasn’t complaining either. It was just different having your back to the stage and turning, but definitely better than having to stand or lean to see over people. Just happy to be there and enjoy the food and the show.
Everyone loved the show and the food! The kids were so into the show and it was so much fun. Six Bits came up to us for the birthday celebration and we told him it was Jessica and Logan’s twelfth birthday, but that they weren’t twins. And when it was his turn to announce he said “Now I have Jessica and Logan here and they are turning twelve. BUT they’re
NOT TWINS! Don’t you dare for one second go thinking they are twins!
BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT!” And it was so funny.
They also came over to our table for the “coming from all over” bit, and Jim Handy had a good line about Massachusetts. There were a lot of other people from MA in the theater, too.
After the show, it took a while to regroup and for everyone to use the restrooms. Jessica and I went over to the little outdoor shop and did some pin trading. The cast member there had new Hidden Mickey pins on her board and lanyard that we hadn’t seen before. There was a figment set that Jessica became determined she needed all of them.
When we had been waiting in line for the boat to come to Fort Wilderness I had been opening some mystery pin packs I purchased in the park. For those of you who might not be as pin addicted, mystery packs are sealed very well and hard to open without scissors, for obvious reasons. So it started here that we were all trying to open it when my mom pulled out a pen and the pen was miraculously able to open it and was deemed “the magic pen”. And throughout the rest of the trip when we need to open a pin pack it was “Mimi, I need the
magic pen.”
Two of the mystery packs I opened were identical packs to ones I had opened earlier in the week. Bummer!
After pin trading, we headed back to Magic Kingdom. We had more fastpasses for the afternoon and were planning on watching the fireworks later on as well.
On the boat ride back, the majority of the group opted to sit out on the front of the boat while a few of us stay inside the covered area. A little girl came over and asked Nathan if she could trade a pin with him.
The boat ride back was uneventful. The sky over MK was looking a little crazy, but in a fun eerie gray kind of way. It looked good with all the halloween decorations.
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