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Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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SPOILER ALERT - DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU DON’T WANT TO READ ABOUT THE TOUR
At 10, our tour started and we were told that Snow White had a ball and somehow Grumpy’s invitation got lost (I think Dopey was to blame). He was so grumpy about it, he took the things that made other Disney characters happy to make them feel the way he did. After Snow White told him he had been invited, Grumpy felt really bad about what he did but by then, he couldn’t remember what he did with the items. Mickey Mouse had been able to find most of the items but he wasn’t able to finish looking for them himself because of meeting all his fans at the Town Theater. That’s where we came in - we had to finish finding the items for him. We were given clues to each of the remaining items we had to find and with a little bit of "Mickey dust" thrown in the air to give us strength, courage, and to help make us smarter, we were on our way to finding everything.
The first clue lead us to Bolt’s toy carrot in the Barber Shop. From there, we had to find "hidden" pay phones - and boy were they. If you go down the alley on the right side of Main Street and all the way to the back, there are 3 pay phones (I didn’t think they existed anymore - and they even included the phone books). Here the kids found a puzzle that lead them to the Grape Soda badge that Carl gave Russell.
Next we had to go to the bridge that led us to Liberty Square where we had to find Rapunzel’s frying pan. After we had that (and ideas of "good" ways for her to use it instead of hitting people) we had to go to Adventureland to find Remy’s wooden spoon. Everyone was then given a pretend horse to get to Frontierland with except for Lenny - he had brought his horse with him (aka his scooter).
We left our horses at the shortcut between Adventureland and Frontierland and made our way on foot to the tavern where we smelled old cod fish to find Hook’s hook (LTT - and the doors were open and they must have been blowing the smell outside). At that point in time, instead of finding the hook, we found a note from Peter Pan who thought we were playing a game.
His note did lead us to the next spot - Sir Mickey’s - to find a set of keys for Tiana. Someone not even in our tour group actually found the keys for us. Our next clue had us looking for Lightning McQueen’s race flag which for some reason was around Pooh’s ride. The last clue for this portion of the tour lead us right to the Cheshire Cafe (across from Cosmic Rays) and into a CM only area that we’ve walked right by tons of times. Megan let us into this little area and there was a treasure chest there with bean bags plus the hook, but the kids had to get all the bean bags in the treasure chest before they could have it. Each kid took a turn (or two) and while they were doing that, Wendy showed up. That was a really nice surprise. She tossed a couple of bean bags with the kids, read the next clue with them and spent time talking with them and taking pictures.
After we got the hook and had the pictures taken, everyone was allowed a 10 minute break to hit the bathroom and get something cold to drink if we wanted from the Cheshire Cafe. We did both.
Tigger and Pooh must have needed the bathrooms too
When we resumed our game, we had to find a space ship that would lead us to Duffy. The Space Ship was at the DVC kiosk in Tomorrowland. After we found Duffy, we then went to the FP distribution for Buzz and found a bag of coins from the lost boys.
These coins had words on them which then prompted us to have a game of Follow the Leader back to Main Street. Everyone got a turn - kids AND adults - to lead the group for their word. Abby was the leader to be a snake. I got a ghost, Lenny got a Robot. Other pictures were penguins, seagulls, ice skaters, crocodiles and a few more I don’t remember.
Once follow the leader was done, we found Belle’s book over by the information board and then we had to find the last item in the candy store - the thing Lilo made Stitch with the french fry hair.
Once we had found all the items, we had to return them to Mickey Mouse at the Town Theater. We all got to go in at the same time and there they had time with Mickey as a group and then they did family pictures. At the end, the kids could have their pictures taken with the items we found and soon after, the tour was over.
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