I am SO sorry it has taken so long for me to update! With school back in full swing it is so hard to find time. Whenever I do have time I find myself just wanting to hang out (and ultimately fall asleep) on the couch. Last weekend I chaperoned a camping trip with 3 adults and 30 teenagers! I was exhausted. It is one of my favorite weekends of the year though.
To be honest I think I'm also delaying the inevitable which is the fact that my TR will come to an end very soon. I've enjoyed writing this so much. It's really helped with those post-Disney blues. But alas, I must get on with the story and begin to wrap up our trip.
When we last left off, Jackson has a wonderful time dancing with Mrs. Incredible after he rode Buzz again and Brody and I got a dose of whiplash on Tomorrowland Speedway. All of our FPs were gone and I'm sure we could've gotten some more but the crowds weren't bad at all (thank you rain) so we decided to let the boys tell us what they wanted to do and had a play-it-by-ear evening. There was only one thing left to do that we had to complete and that was to meet the talking Mickey. That will come a little later though.
The boys first decided that they wanted to ride Dumbo again. I was excited to take a ride on it at night. I just love riding outdoor rides in the evening. I especially love the Astro Orbiter at night with the castle lit up but it was closed so I figured Dumbo was a good second. We trekked on over and the boys had a blast riding again. We switched partners this time so I rode with Jackson and Brody rode with DH.
After Dumbo, we decided to head up to the front of the park to meet Mickey. He was to be out until 30 minutes before park closing which would mean 10:30 this night. It was about 9:45 and as we were walking by Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor, the wait was only 10 minutes. I thought for sure that we'd have enough time to watch it and head back to Mickey before he was done so we decided to hop in and boy am I glad we did!!!
I didn't have enough time to text in one of my sister's famous corny jokes like I usually do because we were let into the room too fast but it didn't matter because we were still involved in the show.
We took our seats and waited patiently for the show to begin. I took a couple shots of the boys.
You can see the fatigue setting in but they were both being SO good! It was like magic!
Once the show started, both boys were enthralled, especially because DH was chosen to be "THAT GUY!!!" I was so excited! I always wanted to be with someone that was "that guy." It was so funny and the boys loved it. As you may of noticed, Jackson was sitting next to me at the beginning but by the end of the show he was in Daddy's lap so that he could see himself on screen!
DH was given the cutest sticker to wear that said "I'm that guy!" As we were walking out there was a kid that was starring at him and his mom told DH that he thought he was famous because he was on the screen. It was too cute.
As we left the show we could hear the fireworks going off which meant it was past 10:00. In fact, it was about 10:15 which meant we had 15 minutes to make it to Mickey before he was done for the evening. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't be a difficult trek to make in 15 minutes but as I'm sure many of you are aware Main St. is quite crowded during the fireworks and trying to move against the grain while everyone is staring at the castle is not easy. It is especially difficult when I'm trying to do it because even though we were hauling down to Mickey I also kept turning around to look at the fireworks myself because I love them so much and knew I wouldn't see them again. We finally made it to Mickey with 5 minutes to spare!!!
The boys LOVED meeting him again so much. Brody was especially excited that he talked!!
After meeting Mickey, the boys were still behaving so well and we were all having so much fun that we didn't want to leave yet. It was 10:30 and the MK closed at 11 so we knew we had time for one more ride. Once again we were walking against the grain as multitudes of people were filing out of the MK. We asked the boys what they wanted to do and ultimately we somehow decided on riding Winnie the Pooh because Brody had missed out on it earlier in the evening.
The castle show was on for it's second showing so we stopped on our way so I could take a few pics. I love the show so much!
Now, a little note about the last picture. I do enjoy Frozen but I'm not super obsessed with it like so many others tend to be. I will say though that it was awesome when they were playing "Let it Go" during the show and you could hear everyone singing a long and screaming "the cold never bothered me anyway." I'm getting chills thinking about it now. It was a pretty awesome moment to hear everyone enjoying their time together.
We made our way back to it and it was closed down already because of a ride malfunction. So we had a few minutes to choose a different ride. We decided to give the Haunted Mansion a go. I figured if Brody can make it through Dinosaur they can handle fake ghosts. We talked it up to be a bunch of funny, non-scary ghosts and Brody seemed interested in it. We did need to hurry though because it was now about 10:40ish. I did need to take one quick pic of my boys behind the castle though. As you can see they were really starting to become very tired. (Sorry the picture is so dark. Iphones are great a night.
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We made our way to the Haunted Mansion and walked right on. None of the pictures came out at all because it was so dark. Alas, this would be our last ride of our trip.
As we exited the ride it was exactly 11:00 and I was hoping we could get over to Sleepy Hollow before they closed and get an ice cream sandwich because I love them so much but they were closed by the time we made it over there. Oh well.
And so began our long walk out of the park. That time when I walk as slow as humanly possible because I know that it is all about to be over. That time when my tears fall faster that I'm walking. It both the happiest and saddest walk at the same time. Given the popularity of them though, I reigned my tears back in for a couple selfies before we finally left. And a couple more castle shots as well. You can never have enough pictures of the castle in my opinion.
I took a deep breath and told the castle good-bye. (In my head of course, I didn't want to look like a complete crazy person!) There was only one more picture to take on my way out which summed up the entire day...
Even though that is the end of the time in the parks, we still had some fun the next morning so the TR isn't quite done yet.
Overall we had such a productive evening though. In total we did:
Big Thunder Mountain
Seven Drawfs Mine Train
Winnie the Pooh
Tomorrowland Speedway
Buzz
Dumbo
Monster's Inc.
Met Mickey
Haunted Mansion
It was definitely one of the best last nights I've ever had. The rain really helped us out that night. It was so MAGICAL from beginning to end!
UP NEXT: Mickey Waffles please!
His dad doesn't dance...ever!
