WOW, we got a great night's sleep last night. Opening at MK is 9:00 today which means :excited: no EMH's to wake up for. I was up around 7:00 and girls up by 7:30. Everyone showered, bags packed.....we're OFF! Another beautiful sunny day on the horizon.....although there is chatter about a tropical depression to the West of the state that has the potential to bring several inches of rain. Not today though
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Have the girls grab a pop tart and water bottle (breakfast of champions
) before leaving the room. Drive again so Angelina can ride her beloved tram. Was hoping to make rope drop and see the opening ceremony.
Am a pro at making my way to the MK now. No more u-turns on this trip. Park at the parking lot in the Pluto section and hop on the tram. Girls and I decided since we rode the monorail last time that we would ride the:
Threw our trash:
The girls had an alterior motive to riding the ferry also. They are collecting the transportation trading cards (that are free). Last year they got the monorail set and that was all they could find. Gabriella musters up some courage (by having Angelina tag along) and asks one of the ferry CMs if they have any cards. Turns out they did
. One more set down - busses to go. We have tried and tried to get bus cards but the drivers are always out. Either way.....what a great start to the day!
Looking on the horizion we know we're almost there:
Grab our gear and pile off the bus straining to see if we've made it for the opening ceremony. We just missed it, the gates are open and people are flooding in. Gabriella apologizes to me for us missing it because, 'I know how much you like the singing'....isn't she sweet
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No worries we're going to race over to Astro Orbiter and beat the line. That is one of G's favorite rides. On the way down Main St. we see:
Who tells me he 'lost his phone number can he have mine,'
he's one funny guy.
Quickly cut through Tomorrowland Noodle Station (because you get to be in some outside a/c AND becaues more people go all the way to the castle to hang a right to TL). Snap off a few pics:
I don't think you can ever have too many pictures of the castle.
OK - so get to AO...by now Gabriella is skipping and doing a little jig. Basically no line. The first time we rode this was last summer. Gabriella has always had to ride alone because Angelina is terrified of going all the way up. We made a compromise and all 3 squeezed in:
and rode it together so we could take the rocket all the way up so that Angelina wouldn't be afraid to ride it alone and I could ride with G for the first time. When I say we squeezed in, BOTH girls had to help me get out because I was so crammed in with camera bag and carry along bags, etc.
Anyway - rode it, was a great success. Elevator down.....back in line....wait 3 minutes....elevator right back up. This time I got to ride with Gabriella and Angelina rode alone:
One more from up high:
Off A.O. and worked our way back to:
Rode Stitch again and did BL as well:
Coming off BL saw this bit of magic for the tiny ones going on:
Now the girls are getting a bit hungry so, after reading rave reviews about the Main St. Bakery we head that way. There are two little cafe tables out front. About 30 seconds after we got in line, a family that was sitting at one of the tables was leaving. I turn to G and tell her to beat feet to that table so we can sit outside!!!! She hauls the mail and makes it. Had a lady behind me laughing at me because I was so determined to get that table. Sent Angelina outside a few minutes later and let them call daddy while we have a few down minutes. Use our snack credits and get:
A cinnamon roll and a blueberry muffin. Was going to get each girl a cinnamon roll until I saw that they were bigger than my head. Decided they could split it and save a snack credit.
Sat outside and snapped one more quick photo because the sky was looking like a fairie tale again:
It was so awesome to lounge on Main St knowing we had already successfully completed TL while there were people still doing that power Disney walk to get to their first ride.
All done with breakfast, we give our table up to another family of 5 so they could enjoy the view for a bit. Girls wanted to go to the HM and have another whirl on the doom buggy and catch a hitch-hiker.
While cutting through in front of CP, my sunglasses broke. Angelina had fun wearing them saying she was a
While we were cutting through, I asked a CM if we were close to the Christmas store. Wanted to pick up our ornament of the year. Turns out we were standing right next to it....how embarassing.
So we went in to shop.........
Coming up - I photograph almost every inch of the Christmas shoppe and finally have some success photographing inside the HM.
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Nothing like knowing many anxious readers are awaiting the next installment to keep you motivated to process all of those photos! 
. I think she thought it was pretty cool.
