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Ewwww, that milk looked disgusting in that dispenser! Other than that, the dessert party looked pretty good, although it kind of stinks that you have to get there early to get the best selection.
Good time in the MK with the rides, dessert party and so much more with the characters. Funny you mention bugs in the parks as it was never a problem for me on my recent trip, but may be the time of year. Never thought about this and never had any problem with this or any bugs as well as I can remember. Very view bugs if any as I recall.
Too bad with the hour wait for Splash MT. One hour is about my limit for any attraction no matter how good it is. So many other things you can do besides waiting. Not the Pandora rides nor 7DMT. They are great attractions (especially Pandora) but not worth the wait. Many better coasters in WDW than 7DMT, but still a good ride.
I have never noticed bugs before either, but I have heard this year many people have been complaining about them more than ever before.
I'm not sure what the difference is this year compared to others.
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Originally Posted by rhinohunter
Now that is a dinner i could go for. Well, everything except the alcohol (don't drink) and the yellow milk. I don't think i would have been brave enough to have even put some in a glass. You are correct, these dessert parties are really meant for the early arrivers(sp?). I have tried one at DHS with the same problem. All of the favorites went very fast.
It was delicious! It's sad they don't restock like they used to back when the parties were MUCH cheaper.
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Oh my goodness, they have macarons at the dessert party! Ok, now I'm seriously interested in that... Did you think it was worth it for the cost?
That jamboree looked really neat - is that something new? They seem to have some unusual characters in it.
For me it was worth it because we got a good spot with no worries. I liked the desserts too. We did the cheapest one offered and the price wasn't too horrible. But I miss the days when this was only like a $15 add on.
I haven't seen that jamboree before so it may be. I loved that we got to see different characters too.
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Ewwww, that milk looked disgusting in that dispenser! Other than that, the dessert party looked pretty good, although it kind of stinks that you have to get there early to get the best selection.
It looked so gross and we were making so many disgusting jokes about it.
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What a great day at MK. You got tons done. I don't think I would wait an hour for a ride, our family minute is 20 minutes
yeah, I am not patient so usually 20-30 is my max. But most things we wanted to ride had lines that long and we just bit the bullet. In this technical age at least we had phones to entertain us now.
We had our fill and Jeanne actually filled a cup up with macaroons to take to the girls. We were led to our fireworks viewing area and sat down. We noticed then the grass is not real..it’s FAKE! I was shocked that it was not real. I guess real grass may be hard to keep alive with people here trampling around every night, plus in the day too when people often come to rest. It wasn’t really soft fake grass though either.
We sat and chatted and the girls sent us a shot of where they were sitting. I think they had a better view than us. LOL. Tonight was much less busy than the night we tried to watch them before the cruise, so they lucked out and found an excellent spot.
Now I had been told that people pretty much sit from these areas and watch. (in the old days it used to be done that way too). I was hoping that those standing in front of us would eventually sit down.
The sunset was so beautiful and we kept taking pictures of it.
I took video of some of the show with one hand and shot with my point and shoot with the other. Of course a few minutes in, my point and shoot battery died so I tried to change it one handed and I think I ended up handing my phone to Claire after I was having troubles changing it.
I will admit, I wasn’t a huge Wishes fan. I liked it, but it was just not something we made an effort to see. Most times we watched it from afar or while on the go. This show, for me, was a zillion times better than Wishes. It totally blew my mind how great it was. For us, this is a must do now…and we will consider the dessert parties for sure in the future. In the past, I really had no desire to go to one of those parties, but we really enjoyed it and the location for seating for the fireworks.
After the show, Claire and I were supposed to head to Peter Pan. I had made a fastpass for it while on Haunted Mansion. It was no longer showing up in the app…that’s weird. Oh well, we decided to just head off with Jeanne and Nick and met up with Emily and Kelsey.
As we whizzed around I looked at my email. I had one from Disney telling me that Peter Pan had been down and I could use that fastpass for anything. UGH. I wish I had looked earilier. I KNEW I made one for it! LOL.
As we came up near Space Mountain, we saw the lights were on!
Great time at the MK with the HEA show. Looks even better than Wishes with more aerials. Some nice rides and cool seeing SM all lit up as you don't get to see that often.
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I’m so excited to see this show in a couple weeks! Looks like it’s pretty long, too?
We’ve gone thru SM with the lights on - so weird how it looks, isn’t it?
Great shots of Happily Ever After. I'm really looking forward to seeing this in January.
We've seen Space Mountain once many years ago with the lights on and it was just terrifying! I don't ride it anyway (bad experience when I was a kid), but that just reinforced for me why I don't ride it. Neat to see your photos - thanks for sharing those.
HEA looks amazing. I never really liked Wishes.
Space Mountain looks weird with the lights on. They were on last time I went on TTA.
The CM's were waving to us as we went through. I agree, though it is really dirty in there. I wish there would clean it up a little.
Liz
Happily Ever After looks so great! I can't wait to see it in December! I only have one night available to see it, so I hope nothing goes wrong. Maybe I should consider a dessert party, just so we have a guaranteed place to sit.
Great time at the MK with the HEA show. Looks even better than Wishes with more aerials. Some nice rides and cool seeing SM all lit up as you don't get to see that often.
I loved the show and that is saying something as I don't often watch the fireworks over and over.
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I’m so excited to see this show in a couple weeks! Looks like it’s pretty long, too?
We’ve gone thru SM with the lights on - so weird how it looks, isn’t it?
It's so good! It did seem long but probably like 15-20 minutes.
It was scary looking in there. So condensed
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You did a wonderful job with the phone and P&S camera and you are correct. I believe that HEA is the best fireworks at Disney. Love it!!!!
Thanks
That show is just so amazing.
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Great shots of Happily Ever After. I'm really looking forward to seeing this in January.
We've seen Space Mountain once many years ago with the lights on and it was just terrifying! I don't ride it anyway (bad experience when I was a kid), but that just reinforced for me why I don't ride it. Neat to see your photos - thanks for sharing those.
I just loved it. I thought they did a fabulous job with it.
SM can be scary in the dark, but I think it would be scarier in the daylight. LOL.
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Originally Posted by clio
HEA looks amazing. I never really liked Wishes.
Space Mountain looks weird with the lights on. They were on last time I went on TTA.
The CM's were waving to us as we went through. I agree, though it is really dirty in there. I wish there would clean it up a little.
Liz
I have seen parts of it before lit up but never as clearly as I did that night. We totally laughed at how dirty it was.
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Happily Ever After looks so great! I can't wait to see it in December! I only have one night available to see it, so I hope nothing goes wrong. Maybe I should consider a dessert party, just so we have a guaranteed place to sit.
I felt the party was worth it for us. I wanted to be sure to see it this time without arriving super early to find a random spot. I probably could have found one this time around, but after seeing how busy it was earlier in the trip, I wasn't going to chance it.
As we got close to the end, the girls yelled to us to ask if we could go around again so they could take video of Space Moutian. When we got there we didn’t even have to ask. The CM asked if we wanted to go around again!
That was fun! Sadly it was getting close to park closing time. I wish it had late hours tonight as we would have made use of them. We worked our way to the front.
We said our final goodbyes and went to our bus stops! Our trip is almost over. We were not homesick at all and could easily do another week, but unfortunately our wallets (and husband) didn’t agree with that.
We took the bus back to Music and headed back to the room. I played with the suitcases a bit to get them ready for to be checked in tomorrow. I kept moving things around to get the weight right but they seemed to be all under. Patty had told us the day before that her bags weighed over the 50lb limit when they checked theirs in with Southwest and she didn’t expect them to be. I wanted to be sure I had mine close but not over. And I was also trying to keep the carryons not overly heavy.
After playing with the cases I went to bed. Tomorrow we would be heading home.
Nice going with SM again and some great photos all lit up inside!
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Ok, now I'm seriously interested in that... 
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Funny you mention bugs in the parks as it was never a problem for me on my recent trip, but may be the time of year. Never thought about this and never had any problem with this or any bugs as well as I can remember. Very view bugs if any as I recall. 
So many other things you can do besides waiting. Not the Pandora rides nor 7DMT. They are great attractions (especially Pandora) but not worth the wait. 
Many better coasters in WDW than 7DMT, but still a good ride.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this in January. 
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