A trip of 1sts for this Disneyland noob! *Oct 2014 PTR & TR*COMPLETED!!

I love your photo shoot pictures! We've actually booked an anniversary photo shoot while we're there as well, as we'll be celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary. I've been trying to find pics of Disneyland photo shoots so yours are great to add to my list of shots I want to get lol. I especially like the ones in toontown, they are so fun!
 
I love your photo shoot pictures! We've actually booked an anniversary photo shoot while we're there as well, as we'll be celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary. I've been trying to find pics of Disneyland photo shoots so yours are great to add to my list of shots I want to get lol. I especially like the ones in toontown, they are so fun!

Sorry about the HUGE delay in responding. I am thinking you have already or are about to take your anniversary trip. Hope you have or had a great time. :)
 
Oh my...so sorry about the HUGE delay. I kind of went AWOL for a while there but I am back and ready to continue on...almost done with the trip report that took forever to complete ;)

Day 6 - Monday Oct 27th- park hopping & our 2nd MHP!

Woke up and grabbed a quick breakfast at Captain Kidds then headed straight to DL so Kierra could grab space mountain fastpasses. The girl is addicted lol. The return time didn't work for us so we just did standby and it was max 15 min wait.


Next we hopped over to DCA because Kierra wanted to do more animation academy. We were a bit early for the next group so we checked out the sorcerers workshop but didn't care too much for it. We went and figured out which character we were most like.. Kierra got Lilo (go figure lol) and I got Alice. We did the Ursula steals your voice thing, or I did as Kierra all of a sudden was too shy. Then we went back to AA and sketched Donald and decided to stay for another round as it was Jack Skellington next so we sketched him too. FUN!!


Creeped past the Chase visa meet and greet to watch stitch (this is the only Stitch meet and greet in park and sadly we are not Chase card holders) and then headed to Aladdin the musical. It was amazing. We both loved it.


The only thing we both wanted to do next was the Grizzly river run.

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I got VERY wet, Kierra got a little wet and the poor boy who's family was leaving for the airport right afterwards got SOAKED lol

on our way out of the park we got to see a famous Disney Kitty. It was beautiful and so friendly and Kierra could have sat there all day with it but we had to go eat our lunch and get Minion'd up for the party
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Once we were rested and in our minion attire we headed back to DL. we rode Autotopia which was hilarious as Kierra drove and if it's any indication of the future I am SCARED!! ;)

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After that we headed over to the big thunder ranch for the Halloween - pre party fun. This was the only trick or treating Kierra was allowed to do as we had already collected a lifetime supply on our first party day.

We were in the mood for haunted mansion and of course the ride broke while we were in line. The CM came and gave people the option to wait or he would exit them out with no idea when the ride would resume or IF it would resume. Kierra wanted to leave and a huge crowd of people left but i insisted we wait it out. seriously, the minute all the people left the ride started up again. We went from a HUGE wait to 10 min in total to ride. Loved it so much, my favourite ride or at least it is when its the holiday version.


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Next we headed to the carnation cafe for supper then snagged a rockstar spot right in front of the castle for the Halloween Screams fireworks. WOW!! They were amazing, best fireworks ever. I am so all about Halloween and these were just awesome! We are not photographers so our photos suck but i found these two online that really shows the awesomeness of it all lol (credit to owner/s)



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After the fireworks we headed to the villain showcase and were lucky enough to meet:

lady tremaine & the step sisters


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as well as the Queen of hearts.
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A perfect end to a perfect day was snagging some photos of stitch in the parade.

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So close to being done.....

Day 7 - Tues October 28th - Magic Morning & Happiest Haunts tour

Grabbed some breakfast to go as we didn't want to show up for our DL Magic Morning too late. Got there and there were already long lineups :( Lucky for us people don't realize that each entrance gate has two sides so we walked right up to the front of a gate to wait.


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Funny thing, nobody came and stood behind us for quite a while then this "brave" family from farther back in another line scooted over behind us. Then they all came. Awesome for us as we ended up standing right at the rope for rope drop.



While waiting we discussed what we wanted to do, Kierra of course wanted to head to Space mountain lol. At rope drop we headed to SM only to find it was down :( She decided to wait it out and we ended up waiting in line for 20 min before it opened up. Not exactly the way I wanted to spend our MM but I just went with it lol. We did get on right away as there was only one other group in front of us, we requested to wait to be in front as that is by far the best way to do Ghost Galaxy. We ended up walking off and getting back on with a 15 min wait.


Next we headed to Pirates of the Caribbean, and then over to big thunder ranch to conjure some villains. We conjured Cruella who was in prime form and was not in the mood to share the spotlight. I love this pic where Kierra and I foiled her plans of hiding our faces lol


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and then finally got cute pics with chip & Dale. Sadly they were not doing photos together.


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We left to go grab fastpasses (while waiting for a new villain to come) for Splash mountain but had trouble as it said our tickets weren't connected or something. We were told we would have to go to City Hall to fix it but the lovely CM gave us a fancy anytime Fastpass which was so sweet of her.

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We zipped over to city hall then we headed back to the ranch to conjure another villain. This time we got Captain hook & Kierra had remembered her autograph book so we got his autograph this time.

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Then we headed to Spash mountain to use our fancy pass.

We both got soaked, Kierra got super soaked as she was in the front. She was supper mad at me for that as i may or may not of told her it wasn't that bad. I got the silent treatment for a bit lol so we headed out of the park to grab a meal and take a rest at hotel.


Now that we were rested, fed and dry we headed back to park to do a bit of shopping then went to meet up with our Halloween Haunts tour group.
We loved the little button with our name and the souvenir pin we got.

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Our guide led us down main street telling us interesting facts along the way. We stopped for delicious pumpkin treats that were oh so yummy and made only for the tour.

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We headed to the Haunted Mansion but upon arrival were told it was down :( we took a little potty break and hoped it would be back up before the break ended. It wasn't :( Master Gracy then joined our group and was delightfully entertaining. He has a fabulously eerie sense of humour and really took a liking to Kierra, reminding her there was always room for her at the mansion. She declined but thought he was hilarious.

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As a group we headed over to Big thunder mountain, then made our way to Snow White and finally Space mountain. lucky Kierra lol.
The whole tour was so much fun. Our guide and Master Gracy had a wonderfully playful repertoire and their company was so much fun. Next we started heading back towards main street. We made a stop for some pumpkin spiced latte or cold hot chocolate and the most delicious pumpkin cookie to end the tour.

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Our guide knew we really wanted to ride Haunted mansion so she checked to see if it was up. it was. she said if we walked super fast we could be escorted on but we only had 5 minutes to get there. most of the group declined but the few of us that did booked it with our guide following with the slower two. We got there right at park close and were escorted right to the front and got to ride instantly. YAY!!! Perfect end to our day.
We headed to Downtown Disney to buy the remainder of our souvenirs and shopping, grabbed some pizza then headed back to the hotel to eat, pack and sleep!
 
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Day 8 - Wed Oct 29th - Surf's Up Breakfast & Good Bye Disney!


With everything packed up the night before we got up nice and early and headed over to the Paradise Pier hotel for our breakfast with Stitch.

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Yes, i know it's breakfast with Mickey and friends but let's be honest, we were there for STITCH! It was so sad to realize that the only way people can meet and interact with stitch is at the breakfast or the chase visa private meet. We LOVE Stitch, he should be in regular rotation. One point to WDW for their Stitch appreciation ;)
Anyway, we were the first in the restaurant so we got our picture with mickey

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and Daisy almost beat us to our table lol.
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Stitch came over next,
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then Minnie
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We had so much fun as the restaurant was rather dead so we had loads of character interactions.
The food was ok, my tummy was a bit upset so i didn't really try anything other than the usual... mickey waffles, fruit and some pastries.

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After one last visit with stitch

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we slowly walked through Downtown Disney,
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headed back to hotel to check out and hop on our shuttle to LAX. Our flight was delayed on the runway for 1/2 hr but we made it to Denver with loads of time to spare to meet up with our connecting flight home. We has so much fun on our trip of firsts. Memories were made that will last a lifetime!!!

Bye Bye Disneyland...until we meet again!!
 
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Great job with the TR! Sounds like tons of great memories :thumbsup2

Now I really can't wait to ride SM with the overlay next month!

That is a great picture you got with Cruella

The tour sound reply fun and so cool to interact with Master Gracey like that!

Thanks again!
 
Great report! In 12 days DH and I will be there for our first DL trip! Loved seeing your pictures and reading about all the fun you and your beautiful daughter had! Thanks for sharing!
 


Great job with the TR! Sounds like tons of great memories :thumbsup2

Now I really can't wait to ride SM with the overlay next month!

That is a great picture you got with Cruella

The tour sound reply fun and so cool to interact with Master Gracey like that!

Thanks again!
Thanks. It took me forever so it feels good to finally finish it and I hope it can bring excitement to anyone about to take a similar adventure. OMG Ghost galaxy is AMAZING!! When we went to DL in may riding SM was just not as exciting. As you read, GG was Kierra's obsession but regular SM, she wasn't impressed. She liked it, rode it twice and then was over it. One of my favourite parts of the trip was interacting with the villains.. captain hook was loads of fun. We asked him where Smee was and he went on and on. When we were dressed up as lilo and stitch Cruella was quite put off at what an ugly and weird dog stitch was, Maleficent did not like me because Kierra bowed to her before walking up and I didn't so she dismissed me..so much fun. The tour was lots of fun and i am really glad we did it. Hope you have a blast when you go. Definitely want to go again during halloween time... someday!

Great report! In 12 days DH and I will be there for our first DL trip! Loved seeing your pictures and reading about all the fun you and your beautiful daughter had! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks. Hope you have an amazing first trip!!!!
 
Loved the TR, looks like you and your daughter had a blast! I'm headed to my first Halloween-time trip in 3 weeks and your photos of all the decorations and characters in costume are a perfect warm up! :D
 
Loved the TR, looks like you and your daughter had a blast! I'm headed to my first Halloween-time trip in 3 weeks and your photos of all the decorations and characters in costume are a perfect warm up! :D

Thanks. I was blown abay by just how awesome the decorations are. I LOVE Halloween so i was in heaven!! You will have so much fun, it's a truly amazing time!
 
Just read through and enjoying it a lot! :) I never thought I'd like to go to Disney (as much as other times) in October but it looks like a lot of fun with older kids. (Mine are 8-and-under).
 
Just read through and enjoying it a lot! :) I never thought I'd like to go to Disney (as much as other times) in October but it looks like a lot of fun with older kids. (Mine are 8-and-under).

Thanks, I Think halloween time is amazing!!! next goal - disney at christmas :)
 
Just found this report. Enjoyed watching and hearing how much fun you and your daughter had together.
Don't you just hate rude people. If someone was to treat them the same way they would be angry.
I so understand the need for Pepsi!! Diet for me.
 
Just found this report. Enjoyed watching and hearing how much fun you and your daughter had together.
Don't you just hate rude people. If someone was to treat them the same way they would be angry.
I so understand the need for Pepsi!! Diet for me.

Thanks for reading, took me forever to actually add it but glad i stuck to it and finished it lol I am a diet pepsi max girl and so thankful that there were stores walking distance so i could stock up :)
 
Fabulous! I am hoping to get to go to the Halloween party when we are there but they haven't announced the dates yet. Loved your report! pirate:
 

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