Chris9ty
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 16, 2015
Tuesday- October 6th, Disneyland Day!
I set my alarm for 6:15 and met my parent, brother and SIL to walk Disneyland together for our Magic Morning. It took at least 10 min to get through bag check - and we use the DCA side, and then the park lines were all the way halfway down the esplanade- we didn't get in until 7:30am- Glad I didn't make the kids get up early- My husband got them ready for the day.
We don't know the park very well, but headed towards Matterhorn and ended up by Space Mountain (which was closed for the morning) so we walked around to Matterhorn anyhow. We rode it about 8am. Then I walked up to see if the Lilly Belle was running today, and it wasn't due to having no extra staff today. We met at Indiana Jones (got a FP, but ended up not using it due to breakfast pixie dusted them to a group walking that way) I had to buy a cold bottle of water and my brother got a muffin. It was already getting hot out. We enjoyed Indiana Jones- A long walk, but neat ride! Then we met my husband and the kids at The Enchanted Tiki Room, we enjoyed the pre-show area outside (although Dole Whips weren't available yet) and loved the show- just as we remember it at WDW.
Then it was about 9:40 so we headed over towards Plaza Inn for our Minnie and Friends Breakfast reservation at 10 am, they immdediately took us in for pics/paying and seated us outside. I was worried we may not see many characters out here, but I saw Peter Pan leaving, and then before we had a chance to get food Rafiki was there. We took turns getting food and seeing the characters- loved the Mickey waffles with caramel and bananas! Fresh fruit and scrambled eggs- even Nesquik chocolate milk my fav! We saw 10 characters! Pooh, Captain Hook, Tigger, Eyeore, Chip and Dale, Max, Minnie (we had to ask to see her as we exited) and the Fairy Godmother- she was the best- talked to us about our names and teased my Dad and brother about what his mother would call him when he was in trouble- This was great because it wasn't like they were really interested in the other characters, but at least had some personal attention from someone. She memorized all of our names and was very interested in our matching shirts.
We stopped at the bathroom, ( I ran to get Space Mountain and Buzz FP) and then rode the Monorail around the park. We hoped to ride it more often but the heat kept it from running. Then we rode Autopia at 12:20. Nice ride- my sons enjoyed steering! Then we went on Buzz again- what fun! and at 1:30 we rode Astro Orbiter- it was fun to fly in the air- but I wouldn't do it again- it was on an incline to get in and out and squashed our legs sitting in it. My youngest was asleep and missed it anyhow. We went right to Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy (wished we could have done the regular one since I don't remember it that well from WDW) we rode it twice with the rider swap and FP. We walked over to the Train to take a break (I realized there are not really any indoor scheduled shows we wanted to see in DL) We rode to NOS and wanted to wait to get a FP for HM. We had popcorn in a souvenir buckets and water. Then we split up- my parents to BTMRR and us to Mark Twain- we just missed a boat, so we ate our popcorn from the dock and watched the band outside the Golden Horseshoe. We saw Princess Tiana get off the boat in front of us and enjoyed a nice ride and pic taking opportunity of the trip.
Then we grabbed a 6pm FP for HM and headed back to the hotel- stopping in a few shops and to see the enchanted windows along the way.
We hopped in the pool at the Hotel- very refreshing! and didn't head back to the park until 6:45. We grabbed another FP for HM and headed back to Hungry Bear to eat- I had the chicken Caesar wrap and the kids had chicken nuggets- love the apples/carrots the kids get! Then we had dessert- apple pie funnel cake and strawberry funnel cake- they were delicious and fun to share. Then we made it back to ride Winnie the Pooh- cute ride- the boys had their room done in Winnie the Pooh as babies. And that was my oldest first movie theater experience. Then we caught PtN from the back near Jolly HOliday- could really only see the high stuff, and it was crowded so we went back for our HM ride- it stopped just as we got in the stretching room. Loved seeing the NBC, but my kids dont' really know the movie, so I would have preferred the original- it is impressive anyhow- and we'll probably never see this done up again! we were done for the night and stopped in the shops on our way out. The crowds really got to us, and I didn't like walking and feeling like my kids could get lost at any moment. Our feet were exhausted and we had a busy memorable day and another coming up at Universal tomorrow!
I set my alarm for 6:15 and met my parent, brother and SIL to walk Disneyland together for our Magic Morning. It took at least 10 min to get through bag check - and we use the DCA side, and then the park lines were all the way halfway down the esplanade- we didn't get in until 7:30am- Glad I didn't make the kids get up early- My husband got them ready for the day.
We don't know the park very well, but headed towards Matterhorn and ended up by Space Mountain (which was closed for the morning) so we walked around to Matterhorn anyhow. We rode it about 8am. Then I walked up to see if the Lilly Belle was running today, and it wasn't due to having no extra staff today. We met at Indiana Jones (got a FP, but ended up not using it due to breakfast pixie dusted them to a group walking that way) I had to buy a cold bottle of water and my brother got a muffin. It was already getting hot out. We enjoyed Indiana Jones- A long walk, but neat ride! Then we met my husband and the kids at The Enchanted Tiki Room, we enjoyed the pre-show area outside (although Dole Whips weren't available yet) and loved the show- just as we remember it at WDW.
Then it was about 9:40 so we headed over towards Plaza Inn for our Minnie and Friends Breakfast reservation at 10 am, they immdediately took us in for pics/paying and seated us outside. I was worried we may not see many characters out here, but I saw Peter Pan leaving, and then before we had a chance to get food Rafiki was there. We took turns getting food and seeing the characters- loved the Mickey waffles with caramel and bananas! Fresh fruit and scrambled eggs- even Nesquik chocolate milk my fav! We saw 10 characters! Pooh, Captain Hook, Tigger, Eyeore, Chip and Dale, Max, Minnie (we had to ask to see her as we exited) and the Fairy Godmother- she was the best- talked to us about our names and teased my Dad and brother about what his mother would call him when he was in trouble- This was great because it wasn't like they were really interested in the other characters, but at least had some personal attention from someone. She memorized all of our names and was very interested in our matching shirts.
We stopped at the bathroom, ( I ran to get Space Mountain and Buzz FP) and then rode the Monorail around the park. We hoped to ride it more often but the heat kept it from running. Then we rode Autopia at 12:20. Nice ride- my sons enjoyed steering! Then we went on Buzz again- what fun! and at 1:30 we rode Astro Orbiter- it was fun to fly in the air- but I wouldn't do it again- it was on an incline to get in and out and squashed our legs sitting in it. My youngest was asleep and missed it anyhow. We went right to Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy (wished we could have done the regular one since I don't remember it that well from WDW) we rode it twice with the rider swap and FP. We walked over to the Train to take a break (I realized there are not really any indoor scheduled shows we wanted to see in DL) We rode to NOS and wanted to wait to get a FP for HM. We had popcorn in a souvenir buckets and water. Then we split up- my parents to BTMRR and us to Mark Twain- we just missed a boat, so we ate our popcorn from the dock and watched the band outside the Golden Horseshoe. We saw Princess Tiana get off the boat in front of us and enjoyed a nice ride and pic taking opportunity of the trip.
Then we grabbed a 6pm FP for HM and headed back to the hotel- stopping in a few shops and to see the enchanted windows along the way.
We hopped in the pool at the Hotel- very refreshing! and didn't head back to the park until 6:45. We grabbed another FP for HM and headed back to Hungry Bear to eat- I had the chicken Caesar wrap and the kids had chicken nuggets- love the apples/carrots the kids get! Then we had dessert- apple pie funnel cake and strawberry funnel cake- they were delicious and fun to share. Then we made it back to ride Winnie the Pooh- cute ride- the boys had their room done in Winnie the Pooh as babies. And that was my oldest first movie theater experience. Then we caught PtN from the back near Jolly HOliday- could really only see the high stuff, and it was crowded so we went back for our HM ride- it stopped just as we got in the stretching room. Loved seeing the NBC, but my kids dont' really know the movie, so I would have preferred the original- it is impressive anyhow- and we'll probably never see this done up again! we were done for the night and stopped in the shops on our way out. The crowds really got to us, and I didn't like walking and feeling like my kids could get lost at any moment. Our feet were exhausted and we had a busy memorable day and another coming up at Universal tomorrow!
. So we hopped on the train and rode to Toon town. We went on It's a Small World at about 11:40 am- my kids loved it, My 2 yr old who wasn't talking, did his own 'singing' in there!
