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[Becky2005]

July 12

It’s here, it’s here…the real day of vacation. The day that everyone plans – going into MK for the first time! You know, you’re supposed to go gazing up to the castle and get to stand in Awe of it – right? Isn’t that the commercials you always see, the vision you imagine….and then reality comes crashing down for our family!

Again, silly me, I think OK, I have more time to really look at the alarm clock since we were tired arrival day and I just thought I turned it on. This time I’m really going to have it set correctly. We have an 8:00 PS for Crystal Palace, we don’t want to be late for that, we want plenty of time to see the castle, take it all in, etc…

WHAT? What do you mean this stupid thing didn’t go off again and we wake up again at almost 7:30! WHAT? We are supposed to BE there in 30 minutes! The good news is that I did have everyone’s outfit’s labeled in Ziplock bags, so that helps speed things up but there is no way the family of 6 can be up & ready to go and over to MK in 30 minutes, just is NOT going to happen. Luckily, the meal is breakfast so at least I know we will be getting food.

We get ready to go and DH refuses to walk over to MK, he insists that we take the Monorail – forget the fact that I TELL him that MK will be the last stop and it will take longer, etc… I just don’t feel like arguing with him, I’m already stressed since we are late as it is. We hop on the Monorail to get to breakfast.

We get through the gates around 8:30 and I’m walking fast to make a beeline to Crystal Palace. Ahh…there’s the castle, isn’t it pretty, yeah, there are not many people, no we can’t take pictures, we are 30 minutes late to breakfast – what if they won’t seat us? (I didn’t know what would happen if we were too late to a PS – do they just cancel it on you at that point and give it to a walk-up or what?) – We can’t miss Pooh bear, that’s DD’s favorite and one thing she has been looking forward to the entire time we have planned vacation!

Yeah, DD remembers to grab a time’s guide today so we don’t have the same issue as MGM (we forgot to get one and had no clue what was going on when!).

We get seated and are one of the first tables the characters come to! Get our drink orders and we can go get food anytime….except that the characters are coming out RIGHT NOW. Tigger, Pooh & Eyeore were rotating, Piglet was standing in the middle so we could go see him whenever. We didn’t go get our food for about 30 minutes because everytime we thought we would get a chance a character was right there.

Now, I wasn’t sure how DS-1 was going to react to characters, it could have gone either way. He absolutely LOVED them. He wasn’t too fond of Tigger but he loved Pooh bear and Eyeore (I think he liked long ears because he got more excited with the characters with long ears – besides Mickey – he loved Mickey!).

The food was average but we rushed through the meal because A. we had been late to start with B. The characters came by so fast that by the time we got food we had already been there for a while. Just felt a bit rushed in general (probably because in my head, I kept thinking about all these other things we needed to get to that we are off schedule for now!).

We finish breakfast and head out into the park! We see the ending of Cinderellabration – another for whatever reason we never get to the beginning of this. Now, at least at this point, I am not a psycho mom and rush everyone around. We had a great viewing of it from where the stroller and stuff was, so we stopped and watched it until it was over.

Next up – the rest of the morning in MK and we get to meet PUSH!

DD's day is made - she meets Pooh bear!


Ahhh...my favorite - Eyeore with the little guy


I just loved this picture, it was unplanned and DH snapped it. They were waiting for me.

[RobDVC]

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My kids have to see every bathroom ever built!! !!

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Ours too!

Great Report, Becky. Sorry to hear DD got scared on TOT.

[Colexis Mom]

Another great update Becky Great pictures

[DrDolphin]

Great update!!!! More please.

[Grammy Grumpy]

Great start. Can't wait to hear about your encounter with PUSH. We saw him too!

[lauren-roxy]

Another wonderful update Becky!! Glad you got to eat at Crystal Palace!! Can't wait for more!!

[disneymom9092]

Great job Becky! I hope you get that alarm clock fixed

[Cinderbrella]

Great trip report and pictures so far, Becky. It' s amazing how plans can change at the drop of a hat, or alarm clock! That's definitely an alternative to coffee for a quick adrenaline rush! Hope you're able to relax more as your trip continues.

[Becky2005]

July 12

We finished watching Cinderellabration and DD asks if we can see the beginning – I tell her we will try, I look on the time’s guide, it’s there a lot, we can somehow manage to do that – or so I thought. Unfortunately, we never DO manage to get to the beginning of the show, we almost did another day but it was after a rain and they cancelled that showing.

Our goal is to get to Buzz Lightyear since that is DS-5’s “must do” of the trip. As we are heading that way at the Teacups, the kids spot White Rabbit, Tweedle-Dee & Tweedle-Dum. They want the autographs. I tell DH to take the kids to get the autographs and I will go get FP for Buzz.

I take Luke and we head off to Buzz….after I grab the FP, we start heading back to where DH is and who should I come upon but a talking trash can talking to some other kids. Now, I was so excited because I knew it was PUSH and so I stopped and watched for a while and pointed him out to DS-1. I figured after a few minutes, DH would get mad at me for taking too long (that tended to be a thing for him to grumble about), and Luke doesn’t seem all that interested anyway. As I go to leave, PUSH says “Bye Luke” – I was so tickled pink by that!

I meet back up with DH and we go on Peter Pan’s ride, I think, I know we got it in there somewhere – you know that may have been before we went to Buzz – it’s all kind of a blur at this point. Of course, Peter Pan’s ride stops right as we are almost at the end. LOL! I don’t know if they were loading someone who was handicapped or it just got stuck. I think it might have been that it just got stuck because I saw one of the CM get on the phone (we were close to the exit, DH & the 2 older ones were stuck next to Captain Hook! That tended to be one of DS-8’s favorite parts! When asked he recalls getting stuck next to Captain Hook on the Alligator!).

We did Winnie the Pooh and went and did Buzz! Everyone LOVED Buzz so I grabbed a couple more FP after we got off the ride but then something bizarre happened with the FP – when they came out they didn’t have any “your next time” to get another FP, so I did a “Hmmm…I wonder if….”, DS-8 really, really, really, really wanted to go on Stitch. I warned and warned and warned him about it. DD wasn’t so sure but I told her I was going to get FP so she needed to make a decision so I knew how many to get. She decided to go on it, so right after I got the Buzz FP, I went straight to Stitch to see if it would work, sure enough it let me get FP for Stitch too! Bonus!

I noticed Carousel of Progress was opened! I wanted to go on that since I knew that wasn’t something that is always open now. It was cute, DS-1 liked the dog! Except he was getting cranky and he didn’t like sitting, hope it didn’t damper too many people’s enjoyment of it. As soon as the music would come on to go to the next scene, he loved it and would quiet right down but really there was nowhere for me to go with him (he wasn’t screaming or anything, just slightly fussy and kind of loud). DS-8 thought the oven scene was funny!

At some point we were back in Tomorrowland and DS-8 had a run-in with PUSH! He was so excited to tell me about it! I came back from wherever I was (probably restroom break, we had LOTS of those the entire vacation!) and was telling me how PUSH was asking Aaron to open a door! He was telling me how PUSH went “Hey Aaron can you open this door for me?” and he had a whole conversation about it. It just made Aaron’s day! He thought that was awesome! DD hadn’t seen him yet and was bummed since she didn’t know what we were talking about and I just told Aaron he just had a “Magical Moment” :P

And THEN it happened…We rode Stitch, it was the demise or at least DS-8’s demise. I asked him several times are you positively, absolutely sure you want to do this? Told him what was going to happen, he still insisted on going, told him that the reviews are it’s not that good (basically I could have not gone and not been any worse for the wear). He STILL wanted to go, so off we go. He hated it and was freaking out on me, at least he wasn’t screaming but I was talking him through most of it. He got off and basically the rest of the vacation wouldn’t go near anything that was remotely dark, possibility of water spraying on you (it was mostly the water issue), etc…

We also went to meet Buzz and Stitch happened to be in the same place! Kyle refused to have his picture taken with Stitch or have Stitch sign his book and so Stitch buzzed at him! ROFL!!!!!

Back to the room for break! Dinner at Liberty Tree Tavern up next.

Stitch


Who is this? DD had no idea but she was just excited it was a character!

[Colexis Mom]

Another great update Becky (except for the Stitch ride incident )! Can't wait to hear about LTT

[bradk]

nice report that's friar tuck by the way, from robin hood

[Becky2005]

July 12
Magic Moment alert – When we went to leave for our afternoon break there was no one at the monorail station when we got there. I asked the cast member if we could sit up front. She said if it was OK with the driver and to ask when it came in. So, we went toward the front and just patiently waited at a gate for boarding. Here is what comes into play the funny part! A guy jumped the line before the gates even opened to get on the Monorail and was making a beeline for the front! The cast member told him to get back behind the gate and he said something about sitting in the front of the cab, he was told someone had already asked – she was going up to ask if it was open. We got to ride in the front, me and the 3 older kids rode. True it was a short stint from MK to the Contemporary but I had figured I would give it a shot and see what would happen. I told the kids that it was a very special deal to be able to ride up there and that it may not happen again the entire vacation. We got our co-pilot licenses when we got off at the Contemporary. They thought it was cool!

Time for us to get ready to go back to Liberty Tree Tavern – we were late to our PS AGAIN and this time I have no idea why we were late! LOL! I’m trying to think but there was nothing that stands out in my mind as to what made us late this time. I think that just became our theme, no matter how hard we tried, we just didn’t get to the meals on time.

The meal here was good, the character interaction was good…we had Minnie, Chip, Dale, Pluto & Goofy. I thought the food here was good. I had a little of everything, except the salad, none of us are salad eaters. The characters came around several times. Minnie scared me half to death at one point because she was behind me, I think saying “hi” to Luke. Carolyn says “Hi Minnie”, I don’t think much of it, I turn to go give Luke some more food on his plate and Minnie is literally right there next to me. I did an “AAAH” and jumped type thing because it surprised me. DD thought it was hilarious and told me “I said Hi Minnie”. The bathroom was small here.

At some point DH & DD went on the Haunted Mansion, while I waited with the boys. I can’t remember if they did that before dinner (hence why we were late) or if it was after dinner! We then went to see Hall of Presidents for their last showing. After that we watched Spectromagic – DS-8 & I got slightly separated from the rest of our family because he had to use the restroom right before the parade was going to start, so of course, we couldn’t get back to our spot since the parade had started by the time we got back. Luckily, he was able to stand on the cement ledge by a tree and got to see it. I could see through the shoulders of the adults. I was able to spot DH & the other kids but no way to get up to them so after the parade, I weaved my way up to them, so we didn’t really get “lost”.

We then went on It’s a Small World, when we got out, the fireworks were going on, we got trapped in the area while they made sure it was cleared of firework debris. Then we did the mob scene of leaving with everyone else after the fireworks, DH was grumpy and just wanted to leave and I mean NOW – we walked back to the Contemporary.

Time for bed when we got back – we were tired! And forget that alarm clock, from now on it’s wake-up calls! Tomorrow is our “rest day” anyway so I set the call for 9:00 AM, just to be on the safe side so they aren’t late for fishing!

And the Downtown Disney fiasco of I lost my family but Disney Security is good!

Minnie


Pluto


Goofy

[Colexis Mom]

Another great night Becky Great pictures

[Happymommy]

Great Trip Report!!! Can't wait to read more!!

[lauren-roxy]

Great updates Becky!! I love the food at Liberty Tree Tavern too!! Great pictures!! Can't wait for more!!