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- Oct 25, 2013
The Job Offer
So my mom and I walked up to front desk to get our questions squared away. My mom asked the guy how much it would cost to upgrade our park hopper tickets a day, and he just shrugged and said, "$10 and some change".
So she looked and me with one of those classic mother "you better take care of me in my old age" looks and said, "okay, we'd like to upgrade both of our tickets".
It took like 5 minutes to get that squared away, and throughout the whole process I was just standing there like:
I couldn't believe it. I WAS OFF TO THE MAGIC KINGDOM ON MY FIRST NIGHT!
I've never gone to a park on the first night. Ever. I love to get to the Magic Kingdom bright and early my first morning and go from there. It's pure satisfaction to me. But this trip? This trip, our road to the vacation was bumpy and we had just finished up the longest week ever. It was time to return to my true home. Mom and I couldn't wait another 12 hours. We had to see the castle, and we had to see it now.
After that was squared away, we went off on the first boat to MK we could catch!
This was also my first trip on the Mermaid I!
And in no time at all, we had arrived!
So where did we head first? My mother's favorite ride, where grim, grinning ghosts come out to socialize!
The wait wasn't bad. It definitely wasn't 35 minutes. Although 5 minutes into it, a boy in front of us invited his family, a party of 8, to just cut everyone. And they were really loud. And took up a lot of space.
The ride itself was naturally perfect, as the HM tends to be we got a hitch-hiking ghost who made my head disappear. It was tons of fun and the perfect way to start our time at the parks.
When we got off the ride, it was around 8:30. Which meant in 15 minutes, a pair of royals would be meeting in Liberty Square who I'd been meaning to meet for a while...
Any guesses?
How about now?
Yes! Tiana and her beloved former frog prince, Naveen.
We did get to the meet and greet 15 minutes early, and then had to wait another 20 minutes since the line was considerably long already. So we were waiting for a pretty good time, but it still wasn't awful. Especially since the Heritage House had air conditioning.
I'm going to digress a little bit just to put in my two cents on the Heritage House being home to the M&G. I know it's only supposed to be temporary while construction is going on near their outdoor M&G, but I can definitely see it becoming a permanent place, considering the Heritage House currently isn't doing anything. However, it needs to be renovated. It's pretty obvious that it used to be a gift shop. Gut it, repaint it, and boom. One of MK's most popular meet and greets has an air-conditioned place to call home.
Anywho! These two greeted me by calling me princess and encouraging me to hop on over.
(obviously that's not me in this photo. Sorry! I just don't have many photos from this M&G!)
Firstly, I gushed over Tiana's dress. It's literally my favorite princess dress in the whole parks. It's so pretty. And I told them that I loved their movie. There was this awkward moment between us when Naveen was talking about when Tiana had all these warts when she was a frog in the movie and she gave him a sassy eye roll and I was just kinda standing there like "..." but then Naveen, in his cute little French accent which NEEDS to be heard in person to be fully appreciated, asked about my buttons. One was the Rapunzel Parkbound button that said "Best Day Ever!" and the other was my "I'm Celebrating!" button. As I went to show them to him, pop! The "I'm Celebrating!" one came right off. The pin was a little wonky, and I was afraid it was going to happen, but he picked it up right away... and then this happened.
We bought Memory Maker a few days in advance, so I had to buy this print. That's right, I spent an additional $15 on this photo- in ADDITION to the $169 the memory maker cost us- because I love it so damn much.
Seriously, I love those two. So then he asked me what I was celebrating, and I told him that I graduated high school. Tiana congratulated me, then Naveen asked me if I'd like a job at Tiana's Place. It was my first ever job offer and I can't wait to start working for them. You know, if they ever open up a New York City location
Alas, all good things come to an end, so we took some pictures after that iconic moment. They gave me some hugs and thanked me so much for coming to see them. It was a very fun time with them and I'm proud to call it my first character interaction of the trip.
Then we exited the building to our left to see where our next adventure would take us that evening!
(Click here to continue!)
So my mom and I walked up to front desk to get our questions squared away. My mom asked the guy how much it would cost to upgrade our park hopper tickets a day, and he just shrugged and said, "$10 and some change".
So she looked and me with one of those classic mother "you better take care of me in my old age" looks and said, "okay, we'd like to upgrade both of our tickets".
It took like 5 minutes to get that squared away, and throughout the whole process I was just standing there like:
I couldn't believe it. I WAS OFF TO THE MAGIC KINGDOM ON MY FIRST NIGHT!
I've never gone to a park on the first night. Ever. I love to get to the Magic Kingdom bright and early my first morning and go from there. It's pure satisfaction to me. But this trip? This trip, our road to the vacation was bumpy and we had just finished up the longest week ever. It was time to return to my true home. Mom and I couldn't wait another 12 hours. We had to see the castle, and we had to see it now.
After that was squared away, we went off on the first boat to MK we could catch!
This was also my first trip on the Mermaid I!
And in no time at all, we had arrived!
So where did we head first? My mother's favorite ride, where grim, grinning ghosts come out to socialize!
The wait wasn't bad. It definitely wasn't 35 minutes. Although 5 minutes into it, a boy in front of us invited his family, a party of 8, to just cut everyone. And they were really loud. And took up a lot of space.
The ride itself was naturally perfect, as the HM tends to be we got a hitch-hiking ghost who made my head disappear. It was tons of fun and the perfect way to start our time at the parks.
When we got off the ride, it was around 8:30. Which meant in 15 minutes, a pair of royals would be meeting in Liberty Square who I'd been meaning to meet for a while...
Any guesses?
How about now?
Yes! Tiana and her beloved former frog prince, Naveen.
We did get to the meet and greet 15 minutes early, and then had to wait another 20 minutes since the line was considerably long already. So we were waiting for a pretty good time, but it still wasn't awful. Especially since the Heritage House had air conditioning.
I'm going to digress a little bit just to put in my two cents on the Heritage House being home to the M&G. I know it's only supposed to be temporary while construction is going on near their outdoor M&G, but I can definitely see it becoming a permanent place, considering the Heritage House currently isn't doing anything. However, it needs to be renovated. It's pretty obvious that it used to be a gift shop. Gut it, repaint it, and boom. One of MK's most popular meet and greets has an air-conditioned place to call home.
Anywho! These two greeted me by calling me princess and encouraging me to hop on over.
(obviously that's not me in this photo. Sorry! I just don't have many photos from this M&G!)
Firstly, I gushed over Tiana's dress. It's literally my favorite princess dress in the whole parks. It's so pretty. And I told them that I loved their movie. There was this awkward moment between us when Naveen was talking about when Tiana had all these warts when she was a frog in the movie and she gave him a sassy eye roll and I was just kinda standing there like "..." but then Naveen, in his cute little French accent which NEEDS to be heard in person to be fully appreciated, asked about my buttons. One was the Rapunzel Parkbound button that said "Best Day Ever!" and the other was my "I'm Celebrating!" button. As I went to show them to him, pop! The "I'm Celebrating!" one came right off. The pin was a little wonky, and I was afraid it was going to happen, but he picked it up right away... and then this happened.
We bought Memory Maker a few days in advance, so I had to buy this print. That's right, I spent an additional $15 on this photo- in ADDITION to the $169 the memory maker cost us- because I love it so damn much.
Seriously, I love those two. So then he asked me what I was celebrating, and I told him that I graduated high school. Tiana congratulated me, then Naveen asked me if I'd like a job at Tiana's Place. It was my first ever job offer and I can't wait to start working for them. You know, if they ever open up a New York City location
Alas, all good things come to an end, so we took some pictures after that iconic moment. They gave me some hugs and thanked me so much for coming to see them. It was a very fun time with them and I'm proud to call it my first character interaction of the trip.
Then we exited the building to our left to see where our next adventure would take us that evening!
(Click here to continue!)
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