Festing with the Mouse . . . and a gaggle of other people, too. **Updated 1/29** - Page 4 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Glad the flight was ok and that you arrived to sun . Evan looks so adorable...glad that he enjoyed his first flight. Sounds like a very filling first day, but a very nice meal and great company to start the trip off....
Can't wait to hear more! You are a brave soul traveling with such a little one! I bet you got as many breaks as you needed from the PPer's willing to hold him!
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Read all about it in my TR, "Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!" Jill Phil. 4: 13
Just catching up! Great update, Sarah! So glad that your luggage made it to you and that you were able to get Evan and yourself settled. Looking forward to more
Sarah - It was so good to finally meet you that evening - and to get some holding time in with Evan. I really enjoyed Olivia's. It was a first for me and I'll definitely be going back.
The alarm went off at 6am . . . yes . . . 6am. On vacation. But that’s OK because we had an early breakfast date with Pooh and friends at CrystalPalace.
We got up shortly after the alarm but kind of took our time getting ready. We were finally ready and headed out to the car at 7:15am. We got into the parking lot at the TTC so early that there were not too many other cars there and we were parked right in the front row. We gathered up the stroller and all of the “stuff” and walked over to get in the line for the monorail. We were on our way pretty quick and we were walking down to the bag check lines right as the countdown to rope drop was starting. Once we got through bag check we walked over to Guest Services so that Terri could pick up her MVMCP ticket and I could get a sleeve for my AP then we headed through the turnstiles and down Main Street to CrystalPalace we went.
The sky does NOT look good.
Evan sees pork . . . er . . . meets his first Disney character!
“OMG Mom! WHAT the heck was THAT?!?!?!”
I’d be freaked out if I was that little and a giant Tigger came up to me too!
Pooh and friends put the fear of fuzzies into Mr. Evan, methinks.
Before we went into CrystalPalace, we put the stroller cover on the stroller since the skies were pretty gray . . . and was that ever a good decision. When we came out after eating, it was raining. Had I not covered that stroller, poor Evan would have had to lay in nothing but wetness. No fun.
Like any good Disney veterans, we didn’t let a little bit of rain ruin our day and we headed off on out merry little way. We took a few pictures in and around the Hub then headed off to Fantasyland for Evan’s first ever Disney ride!
Peter Pan just happened to have the shortest wait time (I know . . . when does THAT ever happen?! ) so we got in line and headed off on a trip over London and Neverland.
I took this one for remembering purposes . . . it’s dark, but you get the idea. lol
Of course, we headed right over to IASW right afterwards and got that song stuck in our heads . . . then, since we were riding baby friendly rides, it was off to Pooh and the TTA.
After a spin around on the TTA we decided to head over towards the HauntedMansion, hitting up a PhotoPass photog along the way. We passed near the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor and I sort of drooled over the fresh waffle cone smell that was wafting through the air. Had we not just had breakfast a short time before, I probably would have been in there eating ice cream right then.
Aaaaaanyways . . . we made our way over to HauntedMansion . . .
. . . and walked right in. Of course, we had a large group of annoying teenager-ish kids in the stretching room with us and Terri had to turn around at some point in the room and ask them to quiet down as they were SO loud it was ridiculous. (my saying “OH MY GOD SHUT UP!!!!” obviously did NOT work. ) As soon as the doors opened to go out to the loading area, I pretty much sped right out of there so that we didn’t get stuck near the group. They also screeched and screamed through the whole ride, but thankfully, they were about 3-4 doombuggies behind us.
My ghostly dinner friends got a bit blurry.
I do believe Bluebeard “followed us home” . . .
COMING UP NEXT: We swim to Columbia Harbour House then kickoff the festing!!!
What a great morning at MK depsite the rain...Even looks like he enjoyed his first visit with the Pooh gang. Hope he was enjoying his first rides...and PP is a great memory to have as his first ride too.
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. Evan looks so adorable...glad that he enjoyed his first flight. Sounds like a very filling first day, but a very nice meal and great company to start the trip off....
I really enjoyed Olivia's. It was a first for me and I'll definitely be going back. 
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It looks like Evan enjoyed meeting the characters. 
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