afwdwfan
DIS Dad #460
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2010
Breakfast with Character
We were finally seated for breakfast about 5 minutes later than our 11:20 ADR. We sat down and started scouting the character rotation to see when we could make a break for the buffet line. It looked like they were still a couple of sections away, so DW and I decided wed take turns getting food. Just as we were getting ready to head to the buffet line, the music started so that the characters could do their dance and all their guests could fling crumbs and globs of jelly on one another using their napkins as sling shots.
This was the turning point for DSs interest in the characters. Hes never really seemed to care much for Goofy, and as luck would have it, our first character interaction was a 7 tall dog running right by our table dancing and jumping around. His reaction looked something like this.
He never cried, but it was obvious much to my dismay, that he didnt have any love for Goofy. Coincidently, guess who the first character was to come to our table.
It really didnt go all that badly. While we were eating, Donald and Mickey were coming through the section next to ours, and he was standing up in his seat watching them and pointing them out.
We didnt get any good pictures with the characters during breakfast, but by the time Mickey came along, DS did decide to give the Chef his complements in the form of a high 5.
As for my comments on the breakfast, I love breakfast buffets, so I enjoyed the meal. Its obvious though that youre really paying more for the experience than the food when it comes to character meals. It wasnt worth the price of admission for us, because we didnt get to take full advantage of the character interactions. I think we will probably give it another try in the future, though, once DS decides hes ready to be more comfortable with the characters on a consistent basis.
Having enjoyed a nice breakfast, it was time to head to the Magic Kingdom. We headed up to the monorail platform and got there just in time to see the doors close on a departing train. We were first in line for the next and one of the CMs on the platform chatted with us a bit and gave DS a trading card.
We boarded the next monorail and rode around the loop to our destination.
I was nervous about bag check, because prior to this trip, I had never taken a bag into the parks. Turns out it wasnt so bad. We sailed through and soon we had this view.
Followed by this one.
We headed over to Adventureland, because youre always supposed to go left at Disney World. Actually it is just kind of tradition. For some reason we seem to ride Jungle Cruise first always have. Well, we got to stroller parking and when we started to get DS out of the stroller we found he was asleep. So much for worrying that thered be too much to see for him to sleep in the parks.
Where do you go when youre in Adventureland with a sleeping toddler? Aloha Isle, of course.
We grabbed a couple of Dole Whips and walked over to Tomorrowland to grab FPs for Buzz so that we could ride when DS woke up. I grabbed FPs and we found a bench in the shade to sit and formulate a plan for the afternoon. We have a friend who was there as a CM on the college program, so DW was trying to call her to let her know where we were and she told me I should go ahead and ride Space Mountain since we were right there. Im certainly not going to argue with that logic. I headed to the standby line with a 25 minute wait. Not too bad with the games they have in there now. Space was fun as always and I came back outside to see that the skies were turning grey and DS was still sound asleep. We were in our window for Buzz and our CM friend was on her way to meet us. I decided to run over to get FP for Winnie the Pooh while DW stayed to wait for our CM friend.
DS woke up by the time I got back, and our CM friend was there. The skies were getting darker and it was apparent rain would be upon us very soon. I suggested heading to Buzz, but DW wanted to do something a little less intense first to get DS fully awake. With that in mind, we rode what would turn out to be DSs first ride as well as the scariest, coldest and wettest ride of the entire trip
We were finally seated for breakfast about 5 minutes later than our 11:20 ADR. We sat down and started scouting the character rotation to see when we could make a break for the buffet line. It looked like they were still a couple of sections away, so DW and I decided wed take turns getting food. Just as we were getting ready to head to the buffet line, the music started so that the characters could do their dance and all their guests could fling crumbs and globs of jelly on one another using their napkins as sling shots.
This was the turning point for DSs interest in the characters. Hes never really seemed to care much for Goofy, and as luck would have it, our first character interaction was a 7 tall dog running right by our table dancing and jumping around. His reaction looked something like this.
He never cried, but it was obvious much to my dismay, that he didnt have any love for Goofy. Coincidently, guess who the first character was to come to our table.
It really didnt go all that badly. While we were eating, Donald and Mickey were coming through the section next to ours, and he was standing up in his seat watching them and pointing them out.
We didnt get any good pictures with the characters during breakfast, but by the time Mickey came along, DS did decide to give the Chef his complements in the form of a high 5.
As for my comments on the breakfast, I love breakfast buffets, so I enjoyed the meal. Its obvious though that youre really paying more for the experience than the food when it comes to character meals. It wasnt worth the price of admission for us, because we didnt get to take full advantage of the character interactions. I think we will probably give it another try in the future, though, once DS decides hes ready to be more comfortable with the characters on a consistent basis.
Having enjoyed a nice breakfast, it was time to head to the Magic Kingdom. We headed up to the monorail platform and got there just in time to see the doors close on a departing train. We were first in line for the next and one of the CMs on the platform chatted with us a bit and gave DS a trading card.
We boarded the next monorail and rode around the loop to our destination.
I was nervous about bag check, because prior to this trip, I had never taken a bag into the parks. Turns out it wasnt so bad. We sailed through and soon we had this view.
Followed by this one.
We headed over to Adventureland, because youre always supposed to go left at Disney World. Actually it is just kind of tradition. For some reason we seem to ride Jungle Cruise first always have. Well, we got to stroller parking and when we started to get DS out of the stroller we found he was asleep. So much for worrying that thered be too much to see for him to sleep in the parks.
Where do you go when youre in Adventureland with a sleeping toddler? Aloha Isle, of course.
We grabbed a couple of Dole Whips and walked over to Tomorrowland to grab FPs for Buzz so that we could ride when DS woke up. I grabbed FPs and we found a bench in the shade to sit and formulate a plan for the afternoon. We have a friend who was there as a CM on the college program, so DW was trying to call her to let her know where we were and she told me I should go ahead and ride Space Mountain since we were right there. Im certainly not going to argue with that logic. I headed to the standby line with a 25 minute wait. Not too bad with the games they have in there now. Space was fun as always and I came back outside to see that the skies were turning grey and DS was still sound asleep. We were in our window for Buzz and our CM friend was on her way to meet us. I decided to run over to get FP for Winnie the Pooh while DW stayed to wait for our CM friend.
DS woke up by the time I got back, and our CM friend was there. The skies were getting darker and it was apparent rain would be upon us very soon. I suggested heading to Buzz, but DW wanted to do something a little less intense first to get DS fully awake. With that in mind, we rode what would turn out to be DSs first ride as well as the scariest, coldest and wettest ride of the entire trip