HayGan said:
Thanks! We would really like to see CP but I'm not sure our boys (5 & 3) will really sit thru it. So if we make it great; if not then we will try and catch it next year
Thanks again
I am also going to attempt to "see it all" at Epcot (Wed 11/30) - or at least try to as long as DS (20 months) lasts (though I'm
trying not to have too high of expectations)! Ray Sharpton posted earlier in this thread about going to the tree lighting and then taking a friendship boat across the lagoon and trying to get in for the 6:45 CP. He didn't have young kids though!
We have late lunch ressies at Nine Dragons (3:45) - to serve as an early dinner. Then we'll go to the Character Tree Lighting, as I'm pretty sure DS will like that. Then we'll try the boat across and try to make it in the standby line for the Candlelight Processional (a lot of people seemed to be avoiding the Phil Donahue shows, so maybe it won't be super crowded). If we don't get in, it's no big deal.
*Questions: I read that you hear the earlier show while standing in line for the later shows. If we don't get into the theater, can you hear it from anywhere around the area or just really close? I thought if we can't get a seat, we could maybe get a bite to eat and sit near the American pavilion and at least listen to it. Does that sound doable?
The big IF is
IF DS is hanging in there, and we make it through the CP (in or out of the theater), I'd kind of like to try to see Illuminations, but that's not till 9:30. If he doesn't make it, and we get out of Epcot early enough, I thought maybe we could take the monorail to MK and try to catch Wishes. It's one of only 2 probable nights that it will be early at 8:00. I know it's off-original-topic, but...
*Questions: When entering MK by monorail, where do you show your tickets for admission to MK? Can you get off the monorail there but not enter the park (we will have hopper passes, so it's not that huge of a deal, but wondering)? Would you be able to hear the music for Wishes there? If the park is scheduled to close at 8:00 and Wishes is at 8:00, how late will they let you enter? Is it likely to be mobbed just inside the park entrance - can you see well from there?
If we don't get to see/hear CP and/or see Illuminations and Wishes, it's not the end of the world, I'd just really like to see them if possible - otherwise I guess there's always next time (if there is a next time during a Christmas season). I'm hoping DS will make it till the 9:15 Christmas Wishes when we do the
MVMCP. I have one more afternoon/evening as a possible Epcot day, and we could try to make the 5:00 CP then if we want to.
Thanks for any advice and answers (and for reading my long-winded post)! The DIS boards have been SOOOO helpful - both for info and for an outlet for my Disney excitement!!!
(I made my ADR's last night, and finally got DH to listen to my current tentative outline schedule! He's just not as into it!)
Dec 22-27 still shows as "OPEN". Who's it going to be? Should we start a *wish* list? 
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