After 15 years of Magic, we finally get to leave our kids at home! My trip report. Updated 11/16 - Page 2 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Well, we have it on pretty good authority that sleeping in is for SUCKERS; at least when you're in Disney, so we were up bright and early on Thursday! Epcot opened at 9am and we wanted to be there When we arrived, there were quite a few people already lined up so we hopped in line and before we knew it, we were IN! I always get a good laugh at the people who RACE throught the turnstyles and then RUN....uhhhh, you're just going to have to stop anyway We took our time and still had plenty of time to see the Family of the Day pull up in the Test Track car and give a few characters high fives, then we were off to The Land for a trip to California. Soarin is my favorite ride so i got in line while DH got fastpasses. In my opinion; the only thing that would make Soarin more perfect would be if they added the smell of Main St., USA...wouldn't that be awesome if you could smell the fresh popcorn, cotton candy and cookies as you flew over Disneyland??? After a trip over the Golden State we made our way to Test Track, then made a trip into the Food and Wine Festival Center. It was pretty empty so we poked around a bit, i got a pin and we purchased our gift card. After that, we made our way to Soarin for another flight and more fastpasses for later (i told you it was my favorite ride...my license plate actually reads "SOARIN"). It was pretty close to 11am so we decided to make our way to World Showcase and start our own little festival of FOOD! We started on the Canadian side of the showcase, eating and enjoying the sights along the way. A nice couple offered to take our picture for us, we were thankful and returned the favor and took their photo too. We only made it half way through World Showcase before we were too full to eat another bite but we did continue our circle around. By this point i was showing the beginning of a migraine so we decided to just head back to POR for a rest before MNSSHP. I popped a Treximet on the way and it began to take effect pretty fast...the headache was all but gone within an hour, thank goodness! While we were out enjoying the Food and Wine Festival, the "surprise fairy" came to our room again...this time they left a little goodie for DH Halloween is our favorite Holiday so i had the Disney Florist whip up a little something for my sweetie.
I think he liked his goodies...he wore his ghost necklace all night.... we were off to MNSSHP!!!! It was our first time so we were pretty darn excited! We had done the Pirate and Princess Party in 2008 so we figured it would be kind of like that. We changed into our MNSSHP t-shirts and hit the road! WHOO HOOO!
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You are off to a great start! I've got my 10th anniversary coming up next year, and I'd love to go to WDW with my DH. It would be so fun! Sounds like you had a great first couple of days. That cake looks so nice too!
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Hey Wendy!
Great report so far!
Sorry you didn't make it out to the PP meet! It was great and lots of people were there...I was worried because I didn't hear from you that you wouldn't be there, but I'm glad everything was ok!
Can't wait for more TR!!
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We took our time and still had plenty of time to see the Family of the Day pull up in the Test Track car and give a few characters high fives, then we were off to The Land for a trip to California. Soarin is my favorite ride so i got in line while DH got fastpasses. In my opinion; the only thing that would make Soarin more perfect would be if they added the smell of Main St., USA...wouldn't that be awesome if you could smell the fresh popcorn, cotton candy and cookies as you flew over Disneyland??? After a trip over the Golden State we made our way to Test Track, then made a trip into the Food and Wine Festival Center. It was pretty empty so we poked around a bit, i got a pin and we purchased our gift card.
We started on the Canadian side of the showcase, eating and enjoying the sights along the way. A nice couple offered to take our picture for us, we were thankful and returned the favor and took their photo too.
Halloween is our favorite Holiday so i had the Disney Florist whip up a little something for my sweetie. 
Sounds like a great time at Epcot for the F&WF! 
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