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The First Thing you need is a Pumpkin, (and the right Princess!) Trip report. Jan26-31. - UPDATED 3/9 with more PhotoPass Pics!!
Our trip begins by introducing the players, we’ll start with my lovely wife Liz, or ‘Tinker Liz’ as she is affectionately known. I bet you can guess who she enjoys seeing most when we go to Disney World. Yes, that’s right! We line up at Toontown early in the morning to be one of the first ones in to see Tink and her friends. I am Brent, husband to Tinker Liz and you will not find a bigger Cinderella fan. She is my favorite fairytale princess and her story is my favorite fairy tale. Cinderella helped me propose to Liz years ago, (but that is another trip report!) so our princess interactions are always quite special to us. The purpose of this trip is to celebrate our second anniversary. We have left the kids at home!
So without further adieu, here goes: Our flight out of Detroit was scheduled to leave at 8 am Wednesday Jan 26th at 8:00 am, so we rented a hotel room the night before at the Best Western Int’l Gateway hotel where we could leave our car and take a shuttle. For those of you who fly out of Detroit, this is a very nice hotel with an indoor pool and we had a very good experience here. It was a chilly night but there was no snow and the weather window for our flight looked very promising. We got settled in our room and went down to the pool for a swim. We met some kids by the pool heading to Disney for a school science trip. Returned to our room hopeful for a good night’s sleep but we were like the people in that Disney commercial: “I can’t sleep, can you?” So after a night of little sleep we were up and heading down to catch the shuttle, bags in hand. Made it through security without incident , and were on to the gate. Plane was there and on time so we had some breakfast at McDonalds. Back to the gate and we were almost ready to board! Is it just me or does everyone seem nicer when you go to the airport and are headed out on vacation? The flight was uneventful, and we landed on time and got our rental car without any trouble. We really don’t need a car but if we find a good deal on one, we go ahead and get it. Liz selected a little white Hyundai, and off we went to Pop! A few toll booths later we arrived. Our room was overlooking the bowling pin pool on the 4th floor. Great location! Changed into shorts, and I changed into a Cinderella shirt and were on our way to the Studios for lunch at 50’s primetime. We were seated right away, and had a nice if quick lunch. I also received my first ‘shirt compliment’. This was a light blue shirt with a picture of me with Cinderella. After lunch we set off to ride some rides. First we got a fast pass for Rock n Roller Coaster then rode Tower of Terror. It had some scaffolding work going on:
Love this ride. The line was so short we got through in time to ride again before our fastpasses were good, so we did! We then rode Rock n Roller Coaster, and while we loved the ride we quickly realized we were getting older and could only really ride this one once. Had to do my traditional pose though:
Saw the Mermaid show, (always a tear jerker. love it!) Then rode the Great Movie Ride, and saw the Muppets. Strolled around a bit and browsed in some shops and found our first photopass photographer:
We then headed back to the hotel to relax a bit, unpack and get ready for our dinner at Chef Mickeys. Had a great time here. Minnie came to our table first and made a big deal out of our anniversary:
She kissed me on the cheek and I swear I heard a smooooochhh.
The other characters came by to ham it up too:
Donald Duck came up to our table, saw my Mickey hockey jersey, gave the thumbs down and strolled on by. But then he came back for a picture:
It was a great dinner and really got us in the ‘Disney mood’. We went back to the room after our dinner and found we had a delivery from the Disney florist! It was a floral arrangement with a bottle of wine in it from our dear friend Cassie. How thoughtful! We just loved it, and it capped off a fantastic arrival day. Thanks so much, Cassie! We were really touched by this gesture.
It was off to bed for an early start at the Magic Kingdom tomorrow morning and our first encounter with Tink, and the Princesses. Just a hint of things to come: We find out what Liz’s picture in the PTR means, and I have a very uncharacteristic ‘less than graceful’ moment with the princesses. However, the day ends on a high note with a little help from the glass-slippered princess. Sighhhh is there nothing she can’t do???
Tune in soon for our next installment!!
Brent
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Oh I am soooo excited! I just love doing our trip reports! At work but will update when I can. I am SURE I will have lots of valuable information to add about tomorrows encounter! Ya know......"the real version". LOL
Yes, what our friend, Cassie, did was amazing! Thanks again! It added so much to our visit!
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So, Brent was hoping I wouldn't tell you the toll booth story. Ya know? Every year, its tradition, Brent pulls up to the toll booth, gets a panicked look on his face, searches everywhere for change....finally finds it and then drops it in some unretrievable spot in the car. Every trip........same thing. Brent, the toll booth doesn't change......you WILL need exact change.....you WILL drop it.....and you WILL get all frazzled and act like its my fault. At this point I am only obligated to laugh at you! LOL
BUT.....I clearly told Brent that I have way too much new material to make fun of him over in this trip report so I didn't have to tell you guys that story. There ya go honey, aren't you glad I'm not spilling the beans about the toll booth?? Whew that was a close one!
STAY TUNED for more Brent antics!
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So, Brent was hoping I wouldn't tell you the toll booth story. Ya know? Every year, its tradition, Brent pulls up to the toll booth, gets a panicked look on his face, searches everywhere for change....finally finds it and then drops it in some unretrievable spot in the car. Every trip........same thing. Brent, the toll booth doesn't change......you WILL need exact change.....you WILL drop it.....and you WILL get all frazzled and act like its my fault. At this point I am only obligated to laugh at you! LOL
BUT.....I clearly told Brent that I have way too much new material to make fun of him over in this trip report so I didn't have to tell you guys that story. There ya go honey, aren't you glad I'm not spilling the beans about the toll booth?? Whew that was a close one!
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