3rd Times a Charm! Mar. 8-14..lots of pics

[ZeroToHero]

Pfft, I was 32 when I did this! Ok, we didn't have the dress but we did do the hair - I even had that hair (diva). It was fun. They told me they'd had a 92 year old princess the week before! Go do it, have fun, you get to be a princess in Disney no matter what! And I'm certain short hair is ok - I read about someone with short hair having it done.

Haha, I did see that on your TR! I'm considering it... it could be DBF's present to me, for all my hard work planning our trip.

Sorry about the jenseib!

 

[jenseib]

I think this parade is called “Celebrate your Dreams come True”
I took several pictures.

Here is one character I don’t think I’ve EVER seen before. It’s Snow White and her “Prince”. For the life of me I don’t remember his name or even if he has one.

Skip loved watching this guy and told me to take a bunch of pictures of him. He thinks he looks like this guy we know. He SORT OF does, but not a lot. I had to print it out though so DH can show his friends. He says this guy now has a side job at Disney. He’ such a dork at times. LOL!

And Claire’s favorite….BELLE!
Belle waved and blew kisses to Claire. I think she recognized that Claire was wearing a “Belle” dress.

And her other Favorite! Ariel!
We had a hard time getting a picture of her. She was doping motions and most have her hands in front of her face.

 

[jenseib]

Haha, I did see that on your TR! I'm considering it... it could be DBF's present to me, for all my hard work planning our trip.

Sorry about the jenseib!

No problem!

 

[seobaina]

Haha, I did see that on your TR! I'm considering it... it could be DBF's present to me, for all my hard work planning our trip.

Sorry about the jenseib!

Sounds like a great idea to me!

 

[PrincessCaitlin]

Loving the report

Belle is my favorite too

about Snow White's prince's name I looked it up and it says he doesn't have a name just prince

I always thought her prince's name was Prince Charming

 

[seobaina]

Great parade photos. And nope...the prince is just called the prince. No name!

 

[jenseib]

Loving the report

Belle is my favorite too

about Snow White's prince's name I looked it up and it says he doesn't have a name just prince

I always thought her prince's name was Prince Charming

Cindrella's Prince is "Prince Charming" but I always kind of referred to this guy as prince charming too. LOL!

 

[Stephanie VanMeter]

No, Whether paying out of pocket or using the dining plan, you won't have to tip unless you buy a specialty drink that isn't included in the price. It does use 2 TS credits though when using the plan.

Thanks!

 

[jenseib]

A few final ones from the parade.

It was close to 4 when the parade was over. Claire was still bugging us about swimming, so we told her after dinner she could go back and swim. Since dinner was at 4:40, we figured we wouldn’t be able to do any rides before hand and decided to head out the front of MK and go to the boat dock to catch the boat over to the Grand Floridian. We of course just missed the boat, so we had to wait for another one.
GF from the boat dock

Claire was getting a little bit of an attitude while we waited. I knew she was a bit tired, and it was very hot. And she loves to swim, so that was all that was on her mind at the moment. The boat finally came and she relaxed a bit more and enjoyed the ride over. We then kind of dragged our heels as we made our way towards 1900 Park Fare. We had time, so we were in no hurry.

We walked in the back and DH decided to go potty, so Claire took a seat and I tried to get a picture of her. Not much luck of getting a nice one. She was fidgety and kept putting her wand in her face.

After DH came out we then headed off to 1900 Park Fare and checked in.

We had a little while yet, so we went and parked our stroller and saw this really cute topiary. Of course the sun wouldn’t allow me to take a nice picture.

 

[TxRabbit]

I'm lovin your TR!!

I'm so bummed for you about your camera woes. Have you tried to do the diy fix yet? I can totally see the difference in quality in your pics between your point and shoot and the other one. The one has such nice crisp pics. I hear you about not wanting to lug around a bigger camera all the time though.

Totally looking forward to more...

 

[that's nice]

I'm still here too.

Just stopping by to read your updates and to say

Great job.

Tim

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

The prince is called Prince Ferdinand or something of that sort

Great parade photos.

 

[jenseib]

Thanks again everyone.

I haven't tried the fixit on the camera yet. I need to find one of those eyeglass screwdrivers and just haven't been out. I did look at Target one day, but they had a thick thing that would never fit in to fix it. I should've checked Rite Ade the other day when I was there ,but it slipped my mind.

 

[Disneychix]

Great pics! We saw that same parade that day but we were over by the Barbershop on Main St. So close yet so far away!

 

[kaysmommie]

That parade looks very cute, great pics too. It always seems like the kids would rather be at the pool then in the parks . Mine are usually asking about pool by noon, Claire made it to 4 PM . Love the GF pics too. Looking forward to hearing about 1900 Park Fare Dinner.

 

[lizet313]

Great pics

 

[jenseib]

After dropping off the stroller,we went out front and had a seat for a few minutes.

We saw all these neat old cars/buggies so I took some pictures of them.

And the ashtrays were so cool. LOL! I went to take a picture of one, and Claire saw it and thought it was just sand and smashed her hands it. (ICK) So I took one of this one, which wasn't as perfect or clean as the other.

So after that, Claire and I went in to wash up, and DH lagged behind. It was just after 4:30 now. I had told DH to come right in because they opened at 4:30 and most likely we would be seated early. I went in to check and sure enough they were ready to seat us and DH wasn’t in site. GRRR! One of the things that irritate me is when he goes off on his own and wanders. So I beeped him on the Nextel and told him to get his butt in there because we couldn’t be seated till he got there. And yes, I was in one of those “no reason to be” panicing states. LOL! I just have way to much adrenaline running through me when I am there.

We got seated and got our drink orders and were told where the characters would be coming out at, and the “flow” they would go in.

I also forgot to mention that I had ordered a white chocolate glass slipper. We were supposed to remind them we had it ordered when we checked in, but they were on top of things and mentioned it before I could even say anything. I kind of ordered it as a special b-day treat for me (since this was supposed to be celebrating my 40th) but I had them write Princess Claire on it since it was her BBB day.

We reminded our server about the slipper too when we sat down. Our server was just OK. Not super attentive.
She did bring out a special placemat for me with signatures of several characters on it. Claire was jealous, once she realized it was there half way through the meal, and I then put it over at her spot for her to use. LOL!
I didn’t get any shots of it really, but here is one with food plates on top of it. LOL!

Claire anxiously watched the door for the characters to come out. Food wasn’t on her mind too much, but she did eat a little bit. Mostly a roll! LOL! And some watermelon and pizza.

Prince Charming came out first, and then a little later Cinderella came out. Prince Charming went to greet her. And they swirled a bit and then went back to meeting people.

Skip swore this was the same Cinderella from the night before at the castle. I wasn’t too sure. They looked similar, but I didn’t think so.

Finally it was Claire’s turn to meet Mr. Handsome. I really didn’t think he was that handsome. The one last year was much better looking. LOL! The one last year also was more friendly and interacted with Claire more. But Claire was very happy with this guy. Claire has a thing for Prince Charming. LOL!
Look at this blushing face she has when he approaches our table.

 

[Misslandsquirrel]

LOVE the parade pics!

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

That photo of Claire and charming is SO precious.

 

[MyMuse]

Omgosh! How precious.

I loved your parade pics; I'm not into the parades but I loved seeing the pictures of it! LOL!

I'm enjoying reading about 1900 Park Fare. I may consider that for the next next trip.

I am going back in May, which was a totally unscheduled trip!, to celebrate my niece's 15th birthday. I don't think she is interested in characters, since she won't tell me.

I don't think I can get much ADRs anyway since I booked the trip only last week when the Spring room discounts came out. Though, she did say she wanted to do Cinderella's Royal Table. That's probably not going to happen! LOL!

Looking forward to more!