TheLittleKatie
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Day 6
Sunday 27th September 2015
Part 1 – Lunch at Magic Kingdom
Good morning!
After my late night last night, I allowed us to sleep in a little today
We got up and ready at around 9:45am.
We left the room at 11:15 and there was a boat waiting there to take us to Magic Kingdom!
Talk about Disney service!
Here’s our lovely longhouse, on a somewhat cloudy morning.
We had a lunch reservation at 12:35pm, but first we had a fastpass to pay Mickey a visit, so we headed straight to the theater!
The line went down really fast and we were in Mickey’s dressing room in no time.
Has anyone who’s visited Mickey at the theatre noticed this before?
These items on the shelves are meant to represent the four parks!
(Books = MK castle, crystal ball = Epcot, plant = Animal Kingdom, hat = Hollywood Studios)
I wonder if they’ll have to think of something new to replace the hat?
Soon it was time to meet Mickey!
And as a bonus, we got to meet TALKING MICKEY!
How cuuute!!
I always have to meet Mickey at least once per trip.
We said goodbye and headed into the park.
Of course Mickey, being the talented track star that he is, had run ahead of us to start the castle show!
DO NOT EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW THEY’VE JUST GOT RID OF DREAM ALONG WITH MICKEY.
Maybe I should stop listing my favourites things on the Dis, because at this point I’m sure Disney are keeping note of them and CANCELLING THEM FOR SPORT.
(Celebrate a Dream Come True, Move it Shake it CELEBRATE it, Wishes fastpass…)
But you know what, honestly,
I don’t even particularly care for the plot of the show.
But the two songs at the beginning and the end are an integral part of the Magic Kingdom to me!
Walking into the hub and not being able to hear,
“Join the party, a castle party! You’re all invited to come and join the fun!”
and,
“Share the magic in your heart, there’s nothing you can’t do! Oh anything is possible, so find the dream inside of you!”
..will be major sadness for me!
I think they’ll do a good job with the new show though.
I’m glad Princess and the Frog will be a part of it, I love that film and its soundtrack.
Anyway, RIP Dream Along With Mickey!
We’ll take the dream with us, wherever we may go!
Phew.
Who needs a shrink when I’ve got you guys?
I’ll reign myself back in.
We went to Memento Mori where Jamie bought his Ghost Host t-shirt for the Halloween party!
Then we used our fastpass at Buzz.
Who’d have thought?!
The line smelled really bad, I’m pretty sure someone had puked.
I was very glad we got to walk straight to the front.
We defended the galaxy against the evil Emperor Zurg.
Some of us better than others
We still had a little time before our lunch reservation, so we went on the PeopleMover.
As we sat down I experienced a momentary panic attack where I thought I had some kind of huge blood clot bruise on my leg…!!!!
Thankfully it rubbed straight off
I think it was the ink from the Disney Parks carrier bag!
I was tempted to send a picture of this to Mother bear and ask her what she thought of my new tribal tattoo, but I know better than that.
We had a real nice ride, it was really hot today (as evidenced by the melting carrier bag!), so it was nice to feel that PeopleMover breeze.
Then it was time for our lunch at Be Our Guest!
Today we did something unprecedented; we sat in the gallery!
I’m a die-hard ballroom fan, but the gallery was really nice!
It was very calm and quiet compared to the ballroom.
And I never realised how HUGE the portraits and tapestries are!
It’s a beautiful room.
I’ll sit in here again for sure.
We both got the turkey sandwich with green beans, as always.
Don’t ever underestimate our ability to be totally boring.
But we love this sandwich, so we have it every single time.
It’s probably the number one thing Jamie reminisces about back home
He was upset today though because I got three slabs of turkey in my sandwich, and he only got one.
I gave him one of mine because I know how much protein means to him. I know, I'm great.
We also split a strawberry cupcake!
Doesn’t it look perfect.
What a cute little cake.
This was our first time trying the strawberry, and although we both prefer the Master’s Cupcake, this was still really good!
But what is the deal with these wrappers?!
Unless we’re being totally dumb, they seem impossible to remove.
We made a bit of a mess trying to cut the cake in half still in the wrapper
Overall, another thumbs up from us for Be Our Guest lunch!
After lunch we headed to Liberty Square to use our final fastpass at the Haunted Mansion.
When we were in the stretching room, right after “of course, there’s always MY way…”, ie. the most intense moment in the preshow,
SOMEONE TOOK TWO FLASH PICTURES that lit up the room and totally ruined that momentary effect on the ceiling.
WT actual F.
And to make matters worse, one of the pictures was a selfie.
How obnoxious.
Anyway!
We had a fun ride, and the ghosts at the end swapped our heads over!
We managed to escape, and we got a nice photopass picture on the way out.
I spotted the Mr. Toad statue in the pet cemetery, here’s a terrible on-the-move photo of it as proof:
It was about 1:30pm now so we headed out of the park.
It was a quick lunchtime visit, but that’s fine because it was SO HOT!!!
On the way out we saw the piano player outside Casey’s.
He’s always worth stopping to watch, even in the heat.
Piano player goals:
We walked up Main Street and exited the park, and there was a boat right there.
Here’s our fancy longhouse entrance.
We grabbed some cookies and diet coke from the lounge and relaxed in our nice air-conditioned room for about an hour.
Then we decided to go resort hopping!
The hotels are probably what I obsess over the most out of everything at Walt Disney World.
I wanted to visit three brand new resorts that I’ve never been to before.
One value, one moderate, and one deluxe.
So we left the room at about 3pm and we headed out to the monorail so that we could get a resort bus from the Magic Kingdom.
As we walked through the upper floor of the lobby towards the monorail I realised it must be a Halloween party night because there were a few people walking around in costumes.
I noticed a family of four all dressed up as Russell from Up, gahh we loved them, they looked so perfect!
Then, as we were waiting to board the monorail, one of the Russells came up to me, and asked if I was Katie from the Disboards!!!
Turns out Mother Russell was actually Carol ( @pcbianchini ) who had been reading my 2014 trip report!
I was so excited because this was my first Dis-meet!!
And I told them we’d just been marvelling at their costumes, it’s crazy they actually noticed and recognised us too!
I asked for a picture, because if you get chatting to these guys, how can you not get a picture?!
We ended up riding the monorail together, and we chatted about the Halloween party, Food and Wine Festival, and the younger daughter showed me her pin collection!
I’m so glad I got to meet Carol and her awesome family!
Carol, thank you for saying hi, we both loved meeting you!
Jamie was really excited too, I don’t think he realised that some people actually read my Disney ramblings!
We arrived at the Magic Kingdom and said our goodbyes, and Jamie and I headed over to the bus stops.
Click for Day 6, Part 2!
Sunday 27th September 2015
Part 1 – Lunch at Magic Kingdom
Good morning!
After my late night last night, I allowed us to sleep in a little today
We got up and ready at around 9:45am.
We left the room at 11:15 and there was a boat waiting there to take us to Magic Kingdom!
Talk about Disney service!
Here’s our lovely longhouse, on a somewhat cloudy morning.
We had a lunch reservation at 12:35pm, but first we had a fastpass to pay Mickey a visit, so we headed straight to the theater!
The line went down really fast and we were in Mickey’s dressing room in no time.
Has anyone who’s visited Mickey at the theatre noticed this before?
These items on the shelves are meant to represent the four parks!
(Books = MK castle, crystal ball = Epcot, plant = Animal Kingdom, hat = Hollywood Studios)
I wonder if they’ll have to think of something new to replace the hat?
Soon it was time to meet Mickey!
And as a bonus, we got to meet TALKING MICKEY!
How cuuute!!
I always have to meet Mickey at least once per trip.
We said goodbye and headed into the park.
Of course Mickey, being the talented track star that he is, had run ahead of us to start the castle show!
DO NOT EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW THEY’VE JUST GOT RID OF DREAM ALONG WITH MICKEY.
Maybe I should stop listing my favourites things on the Dis, because at this point I’m sure Disney are keeping note of them and CANCELLING THEM FOR SPORT.
(Celebrate a Dream Come True, Move it Shake it CELEBRATE it, Wishes fastpass…)
But you know what, honestly,
I don’t even particularly care for the plot of the show.
But the two songs at the beginning and the end are an integral part of the Magic Kingdom to me!
Walking into the hub and not being able to hear,
“Join the party, a castle party! You’re all invited to come and join the fun!”
and,
“Share the magic in your heart, there’s nothing you can’t do! Oh anything is possible, so find the dream inside of you!”
..will be major sadness for me!
I think they’ll do a good job with the new show though.
I’m glad Princess and the Frog will be a part of it, I love that film and its soundtrack.
Anyway, RIP Dream Along With Mickey!
We’ll take the dream with us, wherever we may go!
Phew.
Who needs a shrink when I’ve got you guys?
I’ll reign myself back in.
We went to Memento Mori where Jamie bought his Ghost Host t-shirt for the Halloween party!
Then we used our fastpass at Buzz.
Who’d have thought?!
The line smelled really bad, I’m pretty sure someone had puked.
I was very glad we got to walk straight to the front.
We defended the galaxy against the evil Emperor Zurg.
Some of us better than others
We still had a little time before our lunch reservation, so we went on the PeopleMover.
As we sat down I experienced a momentary panic attack where I thought I had some kind of huge blood clot bruise on my leg…!!!!
Thankfully it rubbed straight off
I think it was the ink from the Disney Parks carrier bag!
I was tempted to send a picture of this to Mother bear and ask her what she thought of my new tribal tattoo, but I know better than that.
We had a real nice ride, it was really hot today (as evidenced by the melting carrier bag!), so it was nice to feel that PeopleMover breeze.
Then it was time for our lunch at Be Our Guest!
Today we did something unprecedented; we sat in the gallery!
I’m a die-hard ballroom fan, but the gallery was really nice!
It was very calm and quiet compared to the ballroom.
And I never realised how HUGE the portraits and tapestries are!
It’s a beautiful room.
I’ll sit in here again for sure.
We both got the turkey sandwich with green beans, as always.
Don’t ever underestimate our ability to be totally boring.
But we love this sandwich, so we have it every single time.
It’s probably the number one thing Jamie reminisces about back home
He was upset today though because I got three slabs of turkey in my sandwich, and he only got one.
I gave him one of mine because I know how much protein means to him. I know, I'm great.
We also split a strawberry cupcake!
Doesn’t it look perfect.
What a cute little cake.
This was our first time trying the strawberry, and although we both prefer the Master’s Cupcake, this was still really good!
But what is the deal with these wrappers?!
Unless we’re being totally dumb, they seem impossible to remove.
We made a bit of a mess trying to cut the cake in half still in the wrapper
Overall, another thumbs up from us for Be Our Guest lunch!
After lunch we headed to Liberty Square to use our final fastpass at the Haunted Mansion.
When we were in the stretching room, right after “of course, there’s always MY way…”, ie. the most intense moment in the preshow,
SOMEONE TOOK TWO FLASH PICTURES that lit up the room and totally ruined that momentary effect on the ceiling.
WT actual F.
And to make matters worse, one of the pictures was a selfie.
How obnoxious.
Anyway!
We had a fun ride, and the ghosts at the end swapped our heads over!
We managed to escape, and we got a nice photopass picture on the way out.
I spotted the Mr. Toad statue in the pet cemetery, here’s a terrible on-the-move photo of it as proof:
It was about 1:30pm now so we headed out of the park.
It was a quick lunchtime visit, but that’s fine because it was SO HOT!!!
On the way out we saw the piano player outside Casey’s.
He’s always worth stopping to watch, even in the heat.
Piano player goals:
We walked up Main Street and exited the park, and there was a boat right there.
Here’s our fancy longhouse entrance.
We grabbed some cookies and diet coke from the lounge and relaxed in our nice air-conditioned room for about an hour.
Then we decided to go resort hopping!
The hotels are probably what I obsess over the most out of everything at Walt Disney World.
I wanted to visit three brand new resorts that I’ve never been to before.
One value, one moderate, and one deluxe.
So we left the room at about 3pm and we headed out to the monorail so that we could get a resort bus from the Magic Kingdom.
As we walked through the upper floor of the lobby towards the monorail I realised it must be a Halloween party night because there were a few people walking around in costumes.
I noticed a family of four all dressed up as Russell from Up, gahh we loved them, they looked so perfect!
Then, as we were waiting to board the monorail, one of the Russells came up to me, and asked if I was Katie from the Disboards!!!
Turns out Mother Russell was actually Carol ( @pcbianchini ) who had been reading my 2014 trip report!
I was so excited because this was my first Dis-meet!!
And I told them we’d just been marvelling at their costumes, it’s crazy they actually noticed and recognised us too!
I asked for a picture, because if you get chatting to these guys, how can you not get a picture?!
We ended up riding the monorail together, and we chatted about the Halloween party, Food and Wine Festival, and the younger daughter showed me her pin collection!
I’m so glad I got to meet Carol and her awesome family!
Carol, thank you for saying hi, we both loved meeting you!
Jamie was really excited too, I don’t think he realised that some people actually read my Disney ramblings!
We arrived at the Magic Kingdom and said our goodbyes, and Jamie and I headed over to the bus stops.
Click for Day 6, Part 2!
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