Five Little Ones Take the Adults - 15 nights SSR Sept 2013 - Day 2 AK P2 - Page 6 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Great villa! I'm so glad you were able to get the location that you wanted. And no frogs! The girls were so well behaved. If my children were up 5 hours past bedtime they would NOT have been fun to be around!
Great villa! I'm so glad you were able to get the location that you wanted. And no frogs! The girls were so well behaved. If my children were up 5 hours past bedtime they would NOT have been fun to be around!
We were so happy. And it was great and big enough for us to share.
I could not have coped with frogs!
The girls were great. They don't have many great nights but tend to do well when they do.
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Me Lisa 32, DH Phil 32, DD Madison 5 and DD Kaley 2
Five Little Ones Take the Adults Trip Report is HERE
Isn’t jet-lag wonderful?! Madison woke at 12.30am which is 5.30am UK time! She came into our bed and went back to sleep. Kaley then woke at 2.30am so I went into bed with her and she went back to sleep. I then woke at 5am and Phil and the girls were up not long after.
The girls got a present from Mickey
These were autograph books that I had made for all five of the girls.
We had showers and dressed. Madison found an invitation that had been ‘delivered’ inviting them to breakfast at Tusker House
Madison and Kaley had some cereal then Dan and Marie took them down to the other villa so that Phil and I could set up my Grand Welcome. (The full story of this will follow.)
We got all of the boxes and bags in place, Dan and Marie came back and between us we put up the bunting I had made. Our living area now looked like this:
(There will be more photos when I post the second part of this day.) I was very happy with how the room looked and was so excited to come back later with the girls.
We left our first mousekeeping envelope
(Madison and I had made these at home)
We left just after 7am to get the girls. Michelle’s family left with us and we went to the bus stop. The others were driving so didn’t yet need to leave.
We were the first people at the bus stop at 7.15am but it was 7.35am before we saw a bus.
A CM had arrived at the bus stop a few minutes after us and he was in contact with the buses. He asked us how long we had been there and what bus we were waiting for. I think it was down to him that the first bus was for Animal Kingdom.
One major good point about being in the Grandstand area is that this is the first pick up and drop off point for the buses but that did mean that we had to go around the whole resort before we were on our way. We were on our way to Animal Kingdom and arrived at 8.15am, the same time as our ADR, oops!
We thought we had allowed enough time for the bus journey but hadn’t counted on how late it would be before the first bus arrived.
Mum and Dad were waiting for us at the entrance and the others had gone ahead to check in.
We had a few PP photos on the way
And got to Tusker House and cheked in by 8.27am.
Dan had not been able to check us in as we had two separate reservations and their name was called almost as soon as we got there. We had to wait about 10 minutes and then we were called.
Kaley loved her first charcter interaction with Donald; she was so excited.
We were seated in the smaller room to the left of the entrance. The others were seated in the big room to the right of the entrance. We all got some breakfast and glasses of the delicious Jungle Juice. I really enjoyed the carved ham.
We saw Daisy
Then Goofy came around
And finally Mickey
Madison, Kaley and Sydney loved the characters. Kori wasn’t too sure of them and didn’t want to get too close.
Breakfast was $29.99 per adult and $15.99 for Madison plus $4.94 tax however we used three table service credits. The tip was $14.
I was able to exchange my Photopass+ voucher here for the lanyard and was given the photo we had taken with Donald.
More to follow soon.
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Me Lisa 32, DH Phil 32, DD Madison 5 and DD Kaley 2
Five Little Ones Take the Adults Trip Report is HERE
Great update!!!! Uuuuggh - that jet lag woke you all so early! But at least you were able to get a lot done!!! The room looks amazing!!! Can't wait to hear all about it!!
TH is our favorite character meal!!!
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I had a feeling the time change would get you this morning! Great photos of the girls with the characters. They put those autograph books to use right away!
Love the interaction with the characters at Tusker House. I am looking forward to our breakfast there! Sorry that you all had some jet lag but sounds like it did not put a damper in your morning!
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What a great breakfast you had though - I bet you were all needing that, after the early start! 
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