A Daily Dose of Disney Drama! 5/02/13 PG 53 THE END - Page 9 - The DIS Discussion Forums

dawnbu40 · 10-15-2012, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by rndmr2

Wow, I just found this today and it's already on page 8?!? I haven't been on the DIS much the last few days so I guess that's why I missed it. You guys had a great room and view at the YC!

Glad you found us

Great price on the car, too. I haven't had a rental car there in years, The times I have had a car was because I drove there. I loved my last 2 trips there where I didn't have to drive at all (especially with Magical Express!) I drive a lot for my job (I am a Home Care RN) and my DH doesn't drive (seizure disorder) and that means whenever we go out I have to do all the driving so I consider it part of my vacation that I can go a week and not have to drive at all! :-)

Can't wait to hear about the rest of your trip, hope the drama isn't too bad!

Dale is the same way! He commutes an hour each way so he likes to let someone else do the driving on vacation too. Thanks but it gets pretty bad, I'm afraid

dawnbu40 · 10-16-2012, 03:35 PM

When I left off, Dale had just woken up from his nap. It was just before 4pm and we debated should we stick around until the Club Lounge opened at 5pm and get food and then head over to the MK or just head on over. Since we had now been at WDW almost 6 hours and not entered a park...the park won

We changed into our MNSSHP "costumes" and headed down to the bus stop. We waited around 15 minutes, with some other party goers, and finally a bus arrived.

We arrived at the MK to find the park all decorated for Halloween....

I think this is common knowledge but in case you don't know...your party ticket allows you to get into the park after 4pm rather than waiting until 7pm when the party starts. We got there around 4:30 and they already had CMs giving out party wrist bands and treat bags. We got ours and headed into the park.

Our first stop was to see the princesses. We met Rapunzel, Belle and Cinderella. They were all lovely and charming. You will have to take my word on that as we have no pictures to share. We used the Photopass instead of our own camera and I somehow managed to come home without our PP card

I know you're supposed to take a pic of the number or text it or whatever and I failed to do that. Thank goodness I hadn't done a PP Share or purchase! what a waste of money that would have been!

After our visit with royalty we headed toward Fantasyland.

I was dismayed to see cranes at the castle again! In Feb they were there due to construction and this time they were there putting up the Christmas Lights. I look forward to going when there is no construction going on!

These cute statues are around the hub in front of the castle

When we got to the other side of the castle we spotted Prince Eric's castle. I can't not even tell you how bummed we were that there were no soft openings during our stay! There were some before and more almost immediately after we left! So disappointing. Now we'll have to wait until we go back in June.

Looking the other direction we could see Beast's castle. (Have you seen the video of the restaurant inside the castle? It's AMAZING!)

An artsy view

Some of the new castle wall, I guess you'd call it?

It was time for our first ride of our vacation! What did we pick? Well it's tradition for me to always start with a classic from my first visit in 1972. For this trip we chose.....

Yes! The always fun Haunted Mansion! We skipped the interactive queue and walked right in! Even though our host, our ghost host, had room for 1 more we didn't stick around. On the way out we passed the pet cemetary

I was getting a bit hungry and I knew exactly what I wanted!

A Mickey pretzel!!! Why is it that Mickey shaped food always tastes better?!
We shared the pretzel, a side of cheese dip and a Coke (gosh I drink a lot of Coke, don't I ) and then headed to another classic ride!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me! Again we walked right on

Once we returned to land we decided to set sail for another adventure

Our Jungle Cruise Director was not your usual young college kid. This time we had a more seasoned captain. His delivery was very dry and he was not very entertaining. Oh well, ya win some and ya lose some.

After our cruise it still wasn't party time so we headed over to Tomorrowland. We were able to walk right into the Monsters Laugh Factory.

We always find that show so cute! Caitlin is determined that one day Dale will be "that guy" but it wasn't this time. (of course she would have been really disappointed if he was chosen when she wasn't there so I guess it's all good!) We weren't part of the show but had fun nonetheless!

Finally it was almost party time!! Around 6:45 we decided to head over and get in line for the character we most wanted to meet. We were super excited to see that we would be the first in line to meet........

Hmmmm, who do you think was our #1 meet and greet? You'll have to wait until next time to find out, but let me know your guesses!

Thanks for reading!

wdwgirl03 · 10-16-2012, 04:15 PM

Yay for the Halloween party! So much fun.

Bummer about there not being any soft openings while you were there. I hear ya on having to wait until next year. I am so jealous of everyone going soon. But, on the bright side atleast when we go there will be lot of new and updated stuff.

Hmm, I wonder if your Jungle Cruise skipper was one guy we had a couple years ago. He was older and not very funny. Plus he sat there the whole time which I thought was weird. But like you said, you win some and lose some.

dawnbu40 · 10-16-2012, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by wdwgirl03

Yay for the Halloween party! So much fun.

Yes it is

Bummer about there not being any soft openings while you were there. I hear ya on having to wait until next year. I am so jealous of everyone going soon. But, on the bright side atleast when we go there will be lot of new and updated stuff.

Me too! And you're right by the time we're there everything will be open and it makes the next trip extra exciting!

Hmm, I wonder if your Jungle Cruise skipper was one guy we had a couple years ago. He was older and not very funny. Plus he sat there the whole time which I thought was weird. But like you said, you win some and lose some.

I think the best time for the narration is first thing in the morning before they get sick of saying it over and over

pkondz · 10-16-2012, 05:13 PM

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