Some of our Best Friends are Princesses. A Brent and the kids Trip Report, starring Cinderella and Ariel. COMPLETE 4/7! About This Page:

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Welcome aboard! You are about to embark on a wonderful, magical, fun-filled journey with Brent, his daughter Jordan, and his son Brendan. In it we will experience many princess encounters, many wonderful meals, surprises, family fun and memories that are certain to last a lifetime. We also celebrate the kids birthdays as they are both in March. A bit of introduction is in order.

Brendan: will be 14 at the end of March. Objective for trip was to go to Disneyquest as many times as possible and avoid as many princess meets as possible. He did a pretty good job.

Jordan: Will be 16 early March. Wants to meet Ariel as many times as possible and eat so many Dole whips she wouldn't even want one again until she can make it back. She did a pretty good job of that too.

Last but not least myself, the Cinderella man himself, Brent!

Cinderella's biggest fan. She is very special to me and my relationship with Liz (Smile chaser) Many of you know me from my previous Disney adventures with Liz. I proposed to her at Disney with Cinderella's help years ago. Liz and I have taken many trips to Disney together and with our kids. This year we decided to go separately with just our kids. Liz took her daughters on trips in November and January, so now it's our turn. My objectives were to meet my beloved white glove clad princess as many times as possible and enjoy some family fun with my kids. They aren't getting any younger yknow. . At their ages you just don't know if this was the last chance we get to do something like this all together.
Here's the details:

Dates: Friday Feb 22 - Sunday Mar 3.
Where: Art of Animation. Little Mermaid section. A new resort to explore!
Ten day tickets with water park option and hoppers.
Places we plan to patronize for meals include Akershus Banquet Hall, Chef Mickey's, 50's Prime, 1900 Park Faire, Tony's Town square, Be Our Guest (!) Coral Reef, Crystal Palace and Cinderella's Royal Table.

For more background our PTR can be found here:
http://www.passporterboards.com/foru...birthdays.html

And now without further adieu, our trip actually began on Thurs the 21st. We drove to Detroit metro airport and spent the night at the Baymont DTW hotel with a park fly package. Good thing too as the next morning found a Winter storm closing in. It didn't look too bad as we headed for the airport shuttle at 6:30 am to catch our 9:00 am flight. We checked our one bag and proceeded through security. By the time we did that we were getting texts from friends and family that schools were closing and bad weather was coming. Sure enough we looked outside and the snow was flying. We were undeterred though as we changed into our shorts in the bathroom and anxiously awaited our plane to start boarding. They de-iced our plane which caused a bit of a delay. I've never been through plane de-icing before. It's definitely something I don't need to experience again either. Here's what our wing looked like:

We were airborne about 40 minutes behind schedule. We made up some time in the air, landed, got our rental car and headed home! We were a bit lucky as I reserved the cheapest smallest car I could. They were out of that class so they upgraded us to a Jeep for the same price. We'll take it! I was told they were out because of Daytona 500 weekend. I never realized Daytona is only an hour away. We were now happily headed to our resort. . We parked in the main lot and walked along the sidewalk to the main building. Halfway there a snake crawled out of the bushes in front of us. Darn thing was 5 ft long if it was an inch! Our room was ready so we drove around to the little mermaid section, unloaded and began dragging our luggage up to the fourth floor. We opened our door (love the RFID locks) and my almost 16 year old daughter squealed in delight at what we found. The room was gorgeous! A few pictures:











Here's a picture of our Jeep:


As you can see Jordan was thrilled. We had a quick lunch at the food court then decided to take advantage of the we warm weather and go for a swim. We tried out the flipping your fins pool. We then headed to Epcot as we had dinner at Akershus. Brendan headed into Epcot, but Jordan and I headed to hop the monorail to the magic kingdom as we had some princesses to see. We would hook back up for dinner. We did this quite a lot this trip as the kids are now old enough to branch out on their own a bit. Jordan and I arrived at the MK and took our first photo pass pictures of the trip:


We then walked around a bit and got a pre-dinner Dole whip so Jordan could get started on one of her trip objectives. . We then saw some princesses! Here's what our first meeting with them looked like.















As you can see my Cinderella slippers made their first appearance too. The photo books I made for Jordan and myself also made their first appearance. I think the princesses approved. Many of the princesses ask us if they may look at them and spend a minute or two just thumbing through them.
We decided to not see fantasy land. We would save it for when we had more time. Thus we headed for Epcot. The ferry was there so we took that. Check out the sunset.


We met Brendan at spaceship earth and grabbed another photopass picture.



We then rode spaceship earth then strolled around a bit then headed to Norway for dinner. Always a pleasure to dine with princesses. ....










We caught a little of illuminations when we were done eating. It had been a long day so we headed back to our Jeep and our resort.

Tomorrow: Chef Mickey, our first visit with Tinkerbell and Animal Kingdom after dark. And. Gangnam style?????? Huh?

Stay Tuned! . . . .