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Getting a crowd free Main Street castle picture is so worth getting up early to eat at CP. Glad you got so much done at MK this morning. Great pictures, too.
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I feel the same about CP. Those early morning ADR's are so awesome! But then we find ourselves eating faster and faster, and really wasting it, because you can just FEEL the park filling up. . It is such a great restauarant, though, and some of the best CM interaction we have ever had!
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We love CP also - and also LOVE to get there super early - but like you - always feel rushed to get into the park as close to opening as possible! But it's worth it!!! And that Eeyore hug is ADORABLE!!!!
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I'm so glad you guys got your DS on Haunted Mansion. I bet he liked it. Personally, I love it when that ride stops for a wheelchair transfer - more time on the ride. So thank you!
Good day so far, can't wait to see what the evening holds...
There are so many attractions that DS cannot ride, so when there is one that I can get him on, I'll do what I can to make it happen. We took him on Test Track on our last trip, but he's gotten too big to easily get him in and out of the ride vehicle. That's really a shame, because he that attraction!
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I'm with Tanya-- my favorite photo from this batch is the one of Eeyore enveloping your DD. Again, you accomplished a lot in the park while seeming to take it nice and easy!
Gotta love Eeyore!
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What fun you all had a MK< glad you were finally able to meet up with Merida, we tried to meet her this trip but the rain came and we did not get a chance to go back.
Glad everyone enjoyed Enchanted Tales with Belle.
I don't think I'll rush back to ETwB, but it was nice to see what all the fuss was about!
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Getting a crowd free Main Street castle picture is so worth getting up early to eat at CP. Glad you got so much done at MK this morning. Great pictures, too.
It certainly is!
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What a great day at MK! Love the pictures!
Thanks!
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Wow, you certainly packed a lot in at the Magic Kingdom!
Did you like DD's photo with Eeyore, Cheryl?
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We just loved Crystal Palace. My husband insists I book it next trip. Your day is looking great!
Any MK day is a good day!
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great MK morning/afternoon.
It was!
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I feel the same about CP. Those early morning ADR's are so awesome! But then we find ourselves eating faster and faster, and really wasting it, because you can just FEEL the park filling up. . It is such a great restauarant, though, and some of the best CM interaction we have ever had!
My daughter wants to eat there after we run the Princess, so she can get her photos with the characters while she is wearing her shiny new medal!
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We love CP also - and also LOVE to get there super early - but like you - always feel rushed to get into the park as close to opening as possible! But it's worth it!!! And that Eeyore hug is ADORABLE!!!!
We've always been for breakfast. I'm looking forward to trying it out for lunch in February!
It always seemed like we never got as much done in the evenings as we did during the daytime, but we always enjoyed ourselves! This evening, we were on the OKW bus at 6:30 and made it to MK a little after 7 pm. Our first order of business was to take the train for the first time this trip. DH grabbed a bucket of popcorn to share before we hopped on the train. I sat in the h/c accessible car with DS while DH sat with the girls. I usually take a picture of the four of them sitting together; not sure why I didn’t this time. They must have been too far behind me.
As we were riding, we spotted a real-life doe next to her imitation counterpart. I wonder how often that happens, and if the real ones know that the fake ones aren’t real??
We got off the train in Fantasyland and found a very interesting Hidden Mickey.
We decided that we wanted to go visit with Daisy and Minnie in their fancy carnival outfits. The line was probably the longest we’ve encountered so far, and it was made worse by the fact that the girls behind us had no concept of personal space and they were right on top of us the whole time! It was also raining a bit outside, so it was warm and humid inside the tent. It made for a less than ideal experience, but we knew that this was the only chance we’d have to get Daisy to sign our autograph book, so we stuck it out. For some reason, there was no PP photographer with Daisy, so after all that waiting, we only got a few crappy pictures out of the deal. We did get some cute ones of Minnie, though, so all was not lost.
It was after 8:30, and we hadn’t eaten dinner, so we did what one can only do on vacation at WDW: we went to Big Top Treats!
DD13 and I split this beauty:
It was so good, we came back for another a couple days later!
DH had Chocolate PB fudge and the younger girls had chocolate-covered marshmallows on a stick. I must have been too busy eating my delicious treat to take pictures of anyone else's! We sat in an outdoor eating area just down from the Mad Tea Party, taking it easy and enjoying our nutritious "dinner."
I probably checked the Lines app to help us decide what our next move would be. We ended up heading towards PotC, with a stop in Fantasyland for a nighttime picture of Rapunzel's lanterns.
I'm still mad that I never went INSIDE!
What happened next will not win me Mother of the Year. It was about time for the parade to start, and we were planning on seeing it the next night, so we decided to try to outrun it. We went through Liberty Square and Frontierland, and by this point, the people were lined up and the CMs were trying to get people out of the middle of the parade route. I’m not sure how it happened, but I was pushing DS in his chair, and ended up pushing him right into the rope that was stretched across the pathway. I didn’t even see it until I heard the entire crowd gasp as I barreled headlong towards Adventureland. When I heard the crowd, I realized what I’d done, and grabbed the rope before it caught poor DS in the neck! I was completely embarrassed, but know that it could have been much worse.
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Your nutritional dinner sounds perfectly ! I think it is very easy in MK after dark to run into stuff. I know my little family has done it several times.
Sounds like a relaxing MK evening. Soaking up the atmosphere - including a real deer! How cool is that?! I can just imagine how mortified you must have been regarding that rope and your DS! Total accident, but I bet you just wanted to melt into the ground at that point. Yikes!
A nice carb-loading dinner. You needed energy for the next day.
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. It is such a great restauarant, though, and some of the best CM interaction we have ever had! 
that attraction!
We sat in an outdoor eating area just down from the Mad Tea Party, taking it easy and enjoying our nutritious "dinner." 
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I think it is very easy in MK after dark to run into stuff. I know my little family has done it several times.
You needed energy for the next day.
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