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MVMCP-Part 1!
Friday December 6, 2013


It was finally time to head out to MVMCP! I think we headed out around 3ish.

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A little post party selfie of my party outfit.

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Has anyone else noticed this awesome golf cart at POP before? I wanted to ride it in so bad haha!

On our way to the bus stop we stopped into Everything POP because I had forgotten to bring down a permanent marker to get my vinylmation signed. We looked everywhere with no luck : (

My Dad asked one of the CMs where we could get one and I showed her my vinylmation. She said wait here I can get you one of those. She returned with the perfect tipped permanent marker and gave it to us for free! I was SO happy and thanked her profusely. She made my night!!

We had to wait quite a while for a bus. It was the only long wait we had all trip. We waited a good 30mins. The poor little boy behind us was SO bored. Busses kept coming for every other park, multiples but no MK. At one point there were two Epcot busses there with no one in line. Its like one of you switch and go to MK PLEASE!

Anyways, we passed the time talking to a lady in front of us. She had recently become a snowbird and my parents wanted to hear all about it! I think I’m going to lose them for the winters soon.

Eventually a bus did come and we were on our way to MK!

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Crappy picture but we were finally here!

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It’s official! MVMCP here we come!

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We were finally home! Making MK the 3rd park of the trip just seemed wrong in SO many ways.

We headed over to Frontierland first because we had FP+ for Splash and BTMRR. Unfortunately Splash was down so we decided to grab some dinner while we waited for our BTMRR window to open.

Splash was ALWAYS down it seemed during this trip, we only got on it once
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*As a side note: we could have used our FP+ at another attraction. Disney sends out an email letting you know which attractions you are eligible at. It happened to us two other times, one time with Splash again and once with RNRC and we went to other attractions and we scanned through just fine! Or you could come back when it was up and running later in the day. I did notice that the attraction choices to replace normally didn’t include character greets or attractions you already had booked that day.*

We ended up not even using that FP+ because we were just goofing off before the party.

Anyways! We had dinner at Pecos Bills.

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I loved the Christmas Cups!

I had the pulled pork, sorry no picture, it wasn’t bad but the bun was SUPER dry.

After dinner we back tracked and took a ride on Pirates. Sorry I apparently didn’t take any pictures.

Then we headed over to BTMRR because our FP+ window had opened!

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*Another note: We entered MK with our MVMCP tickets but our FP+ selections still worked*

BTMRR is my Mother’s favorite ride of all time. She giggled like a little kid the entire time, its adorable.

After BTMRR it was around 6pm so we started to head towards Fantasyland.
We stopped an finally saw the Tangled bathrooms on our way over!

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They were so beautiful!

My parent’s had been making fun of me all trip because I was so excited to see them. Every time I stopped to go to the bathroom in Epcot or HS they asked me if I wanted to take a bus to MK so I could use Rapunzel’s toilets instead.

That being said, they loved the area too. My Dad was actually jealous, he said the women’s room looked a lot more interesting than the men’s room haha. He was jealous of the paintings by our door and the shear size of our door.

Anyways, by this time it was getting close to 6:20pm so I went to get in line for Rapunzel and Flynn! My folks went in search for Christmas Minnie ears for me cause they are awesome.

The guy working out front didn’t have a line going yet but Rapunzel’s line was so short he told me to go thru and then wait. I went inside and the line took way longer than what was posted so the woman at the front of the line just let me stay inside so I could be first in line for when the princes came out!

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I took some photos while I was waiting, it was so pretty in there!

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I personally wasn’t a huge Snow White’s Scary Adventures fan so I actually really like that they changed the space to house a permanent Princess meet and greet.

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My main girl!

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I was excited to start getting this puppy signed!

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The CMs in here were a ton of fun. A few of them had worked a few parties before and one girl had not. She did not believe them when they told her how long the character lines were going to get. I think she really thought no one would come to the parties or something haha.

They all seemed pretty surprised how many MVMCP had sold out that year. The party we went to was sold out and so was the night before.

Anyways eventually it was time to meet the royal couples!

Rapunzel and Flynn were pretty good. They were both excited to be first signing my vinylmation. They signed the ears and were very excited to get that place of prominence.

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Rapunzel asked about the ribbon in my skirt and asked if I could replace it with flowers. I said I was sure I could. She also asked if I had seen pascal and I told here to check over by her tower I had spotted him over there!
I also asked Flynn what was in his satchel. He did have the crown, so cool! I told Rapunzel she should wear it more often but she wasn’t having any of that.

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Next up was Snow White and her Prince

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Snow White was actually quite talkative. She pointed out the holly in her hair and said that certain dwarves weren’t happy about being dressed up tonight. I asked her if she meant Grumpy and she said how did you guess??
After visiting Snow White I met up with my parents and we decided to hit up Cinderella and Aurora since their line wasn’t too bad yet.

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I also love Mulan!

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My Mom decided to get in on the picture action with Cindy. I honestly didn’t take any notes at how they were. I do remember the Prince being the more talkative one here. He was quite confused by my vinylmation statue haha.
Next up was Aurora and Philip

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I’m pretty sure this was the same friend of Aurora that I met last year. I really enjoyed her. She is so bubbly and talkative. She was so happy it was the Christmas season and everytime she would say something she would also say isn’t that right honey. And Philip would reply oh yes dear. They were too funny!

After seeing all the Princesses we went outside to re-group and decide what to do next. I had just done 3 things I wanted to do so it was parent’s turn!
We did stop by and take a peak at the dwarves

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Their line was only 25mins but we decided to come back later.

We went down to the Donald, Daisy and Scoorge meet and greet but the line was super long so we skipped it. We headed over to catch the 7:30 Tomorrowland Christmas show instead

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The show was super hokey with Haley Comet but so cute! I really enjoyed it until it cut out halfway thru. Like what the heck?! It’s a show and you are having technical difficulties, weird.

But anyways, we ventured onward!
 
MVMCP-Part 2!
Friday December 6, 2013


We wandered back thru Fantasyland and my Dad decided he really wanted to meet the Dwarves. I was shocked they were willing to wait that long but I was down so we hopped in line!

We got in line at 8pm and waited 30mins. On a sold out party night!! No need to get in line hours in advance I guess.

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Here’s our terrible picture haha. I never want to go without Photopass again.
My Dad had the BEST time! Sneezy blew his nose right into his shirt. He thought it was hilarious!

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Next we walked around Fantasyland looking for Peter Pan and Wendy but I didn’t see them anywhere : (

So we headed over to ride the HM. Why not right?

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The ride was great as always!

It was nearing 9pm so we decided to head to the hub for CTM and Wishes!
We got a pretty good stop just offset from the castle. Even though it was a sold out party there was still lots of room to move around where we were. It really wasn’t that bad.

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Finally it was time for my favorite show. Celebrate the Magic!

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Celebrate a world filled with magic

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Wish upon a start that shines so bright

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Enter a world of make believe

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Let your dreams come true tonight

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The Tangled sequence is my FAVORITE. So perfect

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The holiday editions were cold too!

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From all of us to all of you Happy Holidays

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I didn’t get any good pictures of it, but I love the Frozen part too. It made me want to see the movie SO BAD. And it started my love affair with the song “Let it Go”

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Next up was Holiday Wishes!

I didn’t take any photos because I wanted to focus on enjoying the show. But man, the show blew me away. I LOVED it.

The finale especially was spectacular. Totally worth the extra money to go see!

Next we stayed right in the hub because the next Celebrate the Season show was at 10:05.

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We all thought the show was really cute. A little hooky but worth the time to sit and watch.

Once the show was over we scurried over to Liberty Square to see the parade!

I made friends with a lovely family and they let me sit with them right by the rope! My parents stood back on the steps of the Liberty Inn, I think?? They loved their view.

Now onto the parade pictures!

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Christopher Robin!

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Disney’s favorite power couple!

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These two were just two adorable

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These two having a snowball fight was too cute!

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The start of the royal couples

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I LOVED Cinderella with her horses. So beautiful!
 
MVMCP-Part 3!
Friday December 6, 2013


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Belle in her Christmas dress! I wish she and the Beast were out for meet and greets.

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Goofy!

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Toys!

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My favorite part, the toy soldiers : )

I didn’t get any good pictures but I couldn’t get over the fact that they were actually playing the instruments. Disney magic right there.

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The big man himself!

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Such a wonderful parade!

I was really happy my parents both loved it too. I think my Dad has been sold on the idea of parties. He wasn’t too thrilled to be spending the extra money on MVMCP but he admitted it was totally worth it!

We had time for one more character meet and greet so we decided to check out the Aladdin gang on our way out. Aladdin and Abu were out, I was hoping for Jasmine and Genie but that’s ok!

There were these adorable girls, they were probably college aged, in front of us. You would have thought they were meeting a superstar or something. They were freaking out, dreams were definitely coming true!

We waited 15mins to meet these two but they were totally worth it!

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Aladdin was totally being shown up by Abu and he wasn’t super thrilled about that but it was funny.

Abu took my Minnie ears off my head and put them on his. He looked at Aladdin and Aladdin told him he looked ridiculous because of the bow.

Abu turned them around and tried again. It was so cute. I LOVED them!

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Aladdin was pretty dreamy too!

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It was around 11:40 at this point so we decided, well my parents decided, they were tired and ready to go back. We never officially put my Mom on my room, so unless I gave her my band she wouldn’t be able to go home without me giving her my band. And then I’d have to wake her up to get in so it was just easier to stick together. I totally would have waited for Jasmine and Genie’s last set if I was solo!

Anyways, we started to head out and took some time to enjoy Main Street on our way out. We’d been avoiding it all night to get away from the crowds

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So magical!

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I just love the snow!

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Bye Magic Kingdom! See ya real soon!

Overall we really enjoyed MVMCP. It was crowded in spots but not unreasonable. Overall it was a wonderful experience and I wouldn’t hesitate doing another one again! I especially can’t wait to do a Halloween party at some point.
 
Wow! Thanks for sharing. DH and I have always dreamed of going during Christmas. Hopefully one day we will make it. So glad you had a great time. I have never seen the dwarfs. I am jealous. I would love to see them!
 
Wow what a lovely time you had at the Christmas party! I went during the Christmas time but didn't go to the party, wish I had now!
I love all of the character meet and greets you did, such a variety! :thumbsup2
Love how sneezy was wiping his nose on your dad!!!:laughing:
I love your outfit so cute, especially the Minnie ears!
 
Your Christmas party outfit is so cute, Jess!!

I definitely want to find that golf cart when I stay at Pop, it's so adorable!

We did MK all day of the Christmas party so I didn't get to see the cute signs at the entrance. I love them.

I love the new character greet so much, much more than Snow White's Scary Adventures. I just think it's so regal and beautiful!

I cannot tell you how much I want to meet Belle in her red dress. Like, I would sell vital organs.
 
Ah what a great party outfit Jess.

Once again CM's to the rescue! How wonderful to give you a pen. It might not sound like much but this is the Disney difference.

I was at Magic Kingdom all day, so I always miss seeing the great signs they put up. :sad2:

Haha, yup Splash was down for me too. And I have to laugh at your mother giggling on Big Thunder. I took my mother on in 2009 and well, she wasn't giggling, lol.

Wow, so awesome you knocked out all the pince/princess meets right away.

OMG, I totally remember that show being cut for "technical difficulties" so I was definitely near there at that time.

The dwarfs in 30 minutes???? WOW!!!

AHH me too. It was the Frozen sequence in CTM that I first heard Let It Go and just fell in love with it.

If you loved MVMCP, then you would go CRAZY for MNSSHP. I swear it's even better. But I agree, for a sold out party, it wasn't bad to deal with at all.
 
Jess I wish you all the best as you countdown the days until the Glass Slipper Challenge! What a great plan. I'm certainly impressed. I may one day do a 10K but I'd never do both the 10K and a 1/2 back-to-back. I'm too old! :laughing: What fun that will be.

Your MVMCP outfit is adorable. What a great night with the characters (I didn't hop in the dwarfs line but I did snap their photo as they came back from a break), the parade, fireworks, and SNOW! I get so excited over the snow since it's so full of Disney magic!

I wish that Jasmine and Aladdin had posed together but I was happy to see Abu and Genie out.

Sounds like a fun night!
 
I love your outfit!!

How cool that you were first in line for the greet.Snow White's prince looks very similar to a friend of Flynn Ryder's that I met at MNSSHP :) YAY for meeting the dwarves, they look so cute in their scarves! And awesome that you only had to wait 30 mins! Love all the CTM and parade pics, AND your pics with Aladdin & Abu!

I'm glad you guys had a great time at MVMCP and that your Dad admitted it was worth the money :)
 
Your party outfit was adorable!!

I'm amazed at how much y'all were able to get done on a sold out party night. :thumbsup2 Princess Fairytale Hall is just amazing! They did an incredible job for just a dedicated meet & greet space. We have only recently started meeting face characters, and have really enjoyed it, but meeting the princesses with their princes at the Halloween party was really SO much fun! And only waiting 30 minutes for the Dwarfs?? You must have hit the line at just the right time!!
 
Wow! Thanks for sharing. DH and I have always dreamed of going during Christmas. Hopefully one day we will make it. So glad you had a great time. I have never seen the dwarfs. I am jealous. I would love to see them!

I hope you get the chance to go at Christmas someday! It truly is a wonderful time of year to go!

The 7 Dwarves were very fun! I loved meeting them even though it was quick, they kept the line pretty entertained too, they were too funny!

Wow what a lovely time you had at the Christmas party! I went during the Christmas time but didn't go to the party, wish I had now!
I love all of the character meet and greets you did, such a variety! :thumbsup2
Love how sneezy was wiping his nose on your dad!!!:laughing:
I love your outfit so cute, especially the Minnie ears!

Oh it was the absolute best! I would highly recommend spending the extra money on the party, it was great! :santa:

The character meet and greets were a ton of fun and definitely a good reason to attend the party. There were quite a few out and about I wish we had more time to meet them all!

My Dad is still talking about that, he thought it was hilarious.

Thank you! It was nice to be a little "dressed" up, felt so festive!

Your Christmas party outfit is so cute, Jess!!

I definitely want to find that golf cart when I stay at Pop, it's so adorable!

We did MK all day of the Christmas party so I didn't get to see the cute signs at the entrance. I love them.

I love the new character greet so much, much more than Snow White's Scary Adventures. I just think it's so regal and beautiful!

I cannot tell you how much I want to meet Belle in her red dress. Like, I would sell vital organs.

Thank you! It was fun to go semi dressed up and festive!

It was right out by luggage services, it was there our whole trip. I wanted to see someone in it driving around!

The signs were so cute! They also had snowman mickey balloons at the MK entrance gates but I couldn't snap a picture, they were super cute too!

I agree, the new meet and greet area is fabulous. Such a great place to meet your favorite Royals!

Hopefully someday they will bring her in her red dress back. That would be such an awesome meet in greet outside or inside BOG! Like so PERFECT!

Ah what a great party outfit Jess.

Once again CM's to the rescue! How wonderful to give you a pen. It might not sound like much but this is the Disney difference.

I was at Magic Kingdom all day, so I always miss seeing the great signs they put up. :sad2:

Haha, yup Splash was down for me too. And I have to laugh at your mother giggling on Big Thunder. I took my mother on in 2009 and well, she wasn't giggling, lol.

Wow, so awesome you knocked out all the pince/princess meets right away.

OMG, I totally remember that show being cut for "technical difficulties" so I was definitely near there at that time.

The dwarfs in 30 minutes???? WOW!!!

AHH me too. It was the Frozen sequence in CTM that I first heard Let It Go and just fell in love with it.

If you loved MVMCP, then you would go CRAZY for MNSSHP. I swear it's even better. But I agree, for a sold out party, it wasn't bad to deal with at all.

Thank you! It was fun to be all festive for the party!

She made my night! I was so happy she was willing to give me one from POPs office stash, definitely the Disney difference!

They were fabulous decorations, I loved them they really set the mood and excitement level.

Splash was down a couple more times during our trip, it was sad :sad1:

Haha, BTMRR is the only rollercoaster my mom enjoys. She will put up with others but only once. She's too much fun to ride with she just loves it so much.

I was so happy to get to meet all 4! I thought for sure Cindy's line would be too long for my liking after meeting Rapunzel.

It was too weird that they just shut down. Too bad I didn't bump into that night as well!

I was shocked their line was so short, so was the CM manning the entrance. She seemed pretty pumped about it, shorter line = happier guests for her to deal with I guess.

Me too! I fell in love with Let it Go during CTM. I've been listening to the soundtrack since, I hope that part is still there in Feb!

MNSSHP needs to happen for me soon. Hopefully this year while I still have my AP!
 
Great pics! :)

Thank you! :)

Jess I wish you all the best as you countdown the days until the Glass Slipper Challenge! What a great plan. I'm certainly impressed. I may one day do a 10K but I'd never do both the 10K and a 1/2 back-to-back. I'm too old! :laughing: What fun that will be.

Your MVMCP outfit is adorable. What a great night with the characters (I didn't hop in the dwarfs line but I did snap their photo as they came back from a break), the parade, fireworks, and SNOW! I get so excited over the snow since it's so full of Disney magic!

I wish that Jasmine and Aladdin had posed together but I was happy to see Abu and Genie out.

Sounds like a fun night!

Aww thank you Brenda! You could definitely do it! Once you run a 10k easily a half is a piece of cake!

Thank you! I got a lot of compliments on it from the characters, it was a fun outfit to have on for the night. And I agree the party was great and so magical. That snow on Main Street was just breathtaking.

I wish all 4 of the Aladdin characters could be out together, but now I'm just being greedy haha. I was surprised Abu stole the show at that meet and greet, I was so happy to meet him!

I love your outfit!!

How cool that you were first in line for the greet.Snow White's prince looks very similar to a friend of Flynn Ryder's that I met at MNSSHP :) YAY for meeting the dwarves, they look so cute in their scarves! And awesome that you only had to wait 30 mins! Love all the CTM and parade pics, AND your pics with Aladdin & Abu!

I'm glad you guys had a great time at MVMCP and that your Dad admitted it was worth the money :)

Thank you!

Haha what a small world of character friends :)

They were hilarious, I loved them, so much fun! They were having a lot of fun with the character attendants and photopass photographers.

Thank you! I always say I'm just going to enjoy the show but I want those pictures haha.

Me too. My Dad can be tight with a buck so its always a relief when my suggestion ends up being a good one :rotfl:
 
Your party outfit was adorable!!

I'm amazed at how much y'all were able to get done on a sold out party night. :thumbsup2 Princess Fairytale Hall is just amazing! They did an incredible job for just a dedicated meet & greet space. We have only recently started meeting face characters, and have really enjoyed it, but meeting the princesses with their princes at the Halloween party was really SO much fun! And only waiting 30 minutes for the Dwarfs?? You must have hit the line at just the right time!!

Thank you!

I was too, for being sold out I didn't think the crowds or lines were too bad.

I love Fairytale Hall, its so beautiful and was desperately needed. Town Hall wasn't regal enough for our royals haha.

Meeting the Princes with the Princesses was so fun. Much more fun than just meeting one character alone, it was fun to watch them play off each other!

It was a great time to hit them apparently. Plus there's a cookie stand by them now, it wasn't a bad wait at all haha!
 
Really enjoying your report. You guys killed it at the Christmas party!
 
A Most Magical Day!-Part 1
Saturday December 7, 2013


Even though it was a late night the night before my Mom was still up at 6:30 or something crazy like that without even setting an alarm.

No sleeping in Disney!

In all seriousness the only thing that would make my parent’s better travel companions would be if they could stay up one extra hour at night and sleep in an extra hour in the morning haha. They are always up SO early!
We got up and had breakfast and quickly grabbed a bus to the parks.

Today our first park was Epcot!

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I haven’t been at Epcot for rope drop for a few years so I was excited! And it was another beautiful day!

My Dad didn’t get a chance to ride Soarin our first night so that was our number 1 priority.

We headed straight over at RD and grabbed some legacy fps (for 9:45-10:45am!). Then we hopped in the non-existence stand by line

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I was able to snap a semi decent picture of my love.

We sat in row 2 and had a great flight per usual.

Once our flight returned to the terminal, we headed towards Innoventions. We were off to do a first – Sum of all Thrills!

Anyone find it annoying that the outside Innoventions signs do not indicate if you are entering Innoventions East or West? Eventually we did find our way to the correct side of Innoventions and we were greeted with a delightfully short line for Sum of all Thrills!

Mom sat this one out so Dad and I got in line.

We ended up riding twice.

The first time we designed a fairly simple coaster because we were a little worried how we would feel in those contraptions. The second ride we added some more loops. Both rides were a ton of fun!

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My Dad and I are both geeky engineers so we had a ton of fun with this. I loved how easy the interactive screens made it to design your own roller coaster. I wish I had gotten more pictures but you have a limited time to complete your design and we were normally racing the clock to finish up on time.

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I haven’t gotten a chance to go check it out yet but they load your coaster design onto a card so you can check them out again on your computer at home.

After riding Sum of All Thrills we headed back to the Land to use our Soarin FPs!

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Someday I will capture him taking off the mickey ears, its my favorite part of the whole pre-show!

We sat in Row 1 this time… SCORE!

We had another fantastic ride Soarin over California, and then decided to ride Living with the Land. I hadn’t been on this ride in YEARS.

AND there was actually a line. I know, we were shocked too but Epcot was actually pretty busy.

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We only waited about 10 mins to get on. Once we got up to the front we realized why there was a line in the first place. They weren’t sending full boats. The poor CMS at the beginning of the line could NOT get people to focus. Like at all.

People weren’t focused when they were being asked their party size, people weren’t getting boats when they arrived at the loading platform even though they were lined up, people were just staring off into space not moving.

It was crazy.

I felt so bad for the CMs, people are SO oblivious. I couldn’t help but laugh, it was just too funny. Like how did all these oblivious people get in one line at the same time, and how do they function in real life let alone at Disney World.

Anyways, we finally got on, another not full boat because the family behind us couldn’t decide how was riding with who

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I had forgotten how much I like this ride. It’s so peaceful

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This little sand snowman cracked me up!

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I like that they added some holiday touches to this ride



After getting off Living with the Land we headed out of the land

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Bye beautiful!

We headed over to the Living Seas because how doesn’t love looking at fish?

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We entered the Living Seas, the coolest way…

On the Nemo Ride!

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We actually waited for this ride too…

25 minutes!

Craziness. But in all fairness everywhere is pretty busy on a Saturday in Disney World.

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The queue isn’t too bad though so we didn’t mind.

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I actually really enjoy this ride. I vaguely remember the old ride the was in here from going to Disney as a kid and I’m really glad that they added a ride back to the building.

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I think it’s really cool how they project the characters into the tanks.

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After we disembarked from our clamshells we headed in to check out the tanks!

First up were the manatees

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Such cute little sea cows.

We looked through the big aquarium and watched the dolphins play for a bit before heading out. None of my pictures came out very good

We headed over to the imagination pavilion next.

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I actually like the ride that’s over here. It’s cute. The only thing I remember about the old ride was it scaring the crap out of me when the screen dropped to show Dreamfinder on his flying thing haha.

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I DO miss the upstairs play area though. I wish they would open that back up. Does anyone remember how cool those big “nail” tables were? The ones that you could make hand prints in my pushing the nails up?

Ahh bring me back to the 90’s haha!

Some of my earliest memories of DW involve the Imagination Building top floor play area and the Imagination jumping water fountains outside.

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After saying goodbye to Figment we on a search for some lunch.

Stay Tuned!

 
You know, I don't know that I've ever done stand by on Soarin'. I probably could have, I just haven't. I guess I've always been grab a FP and come back later type. Total habit.

Only ever ridden Sum once. For some reason I guess simulators just don't do much for me. But I did really enjoy the little video screens that let you see the other rider. I hope they aren't recording, lol.

Haha, that's quite the Living with the Land story. My goodness people... WAKE UP!!!
And wow, there's more holiday decorations on that than there was on the Jingle Cruise.

Honestly I would love them to do just SOMETHING with the Imagination pavilion. Such a waste right now.
 
Great Epcot update! Any time you get to ride Soarin twice sounds like a good day to me :) I like Sum of All Thrills! We didn't do it on this past trip but I had fun riding it with DBF on my trip prior. What a cute sand snowman! :lmao:
 
That is great about the half marathons you ran. I am thinking next year I am doing the half. Doing couch to 5k now for training.
Nice pics with the Princesses and their Princes.
25 minutes for dwarves sounds good. I had a 45.
Love “Frozen”. Just saw it 3 days ago and it is fantastic. The song is really good too.
Nice pics of the parade.
Walking down Main Street with snow was fun.
Brave girl doing “Sum of all Fears”. LOL. I could not unless I did a baby coater.
Woo-hoo for row 1 on Soarin’.
Living With the Land is on eof the best. So relaxing. You should try the tour someday. Not expensive and fun going behind the scenes.
Great updates and pics.
 

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