70 to Freezing in 7 hours. A Nov/Dec 2011 trip report. Updated 4/28

[petals]

I love Christmas time at Disney! Isn't it the best?

I wonder why they didn't have the big tree up at the front.

Can't wait to hear what all you did in MK!

I know everything was so pretty.

I have many pictures from Magic Kingdom. Waiting for my photopass to start my dvd and put the video on the computer. I can do first few updates but need pics from the video for one of them because something happened that distracted my picture taking but I caught the start of it on video.

I may be wrong, but I think the big wasn't there because they take it down for the parade taping the first weekend in December. Maybe the little tree was there as decor until then?


Nice decor photos! I can't wait until I can see it for myself. Good catch on the singers!

Ah you'll have to wait and see on the big Christmas tree

I found that I'd seen all the pictures of the castle etc in advance and they were wow and the videos made me cry but when you are standing there in front of it it's just out of this world!

I wanted to see those singers and didn't really expect them to be there I just heard the music and took off with Momma trailing behind I hoped!

That's right. The big tree goes up after they film the parade. We didn't get to see it either.

Great pictures. I always love that first moment when you arrive in the Magic Kingdom. Such a great feeling.

Thanks..

Again wait and see on the big Christmas tree! I was just expecting it to be there and was slightly deflated for about 2 seconds because it wasn't!

 

[lovethattink]

Wasn't there a tree near the castle? My memory is terrible. Guess I'm going to have to wait and see...

 

[petals]

Wasn't there a tree near the castle? My memory is terrible. Guess I'm going to have to wait and see...

Nope all that was near the castle was alot of Poinsetta's the castle stage had a few Christmas trees but no 45ft tree like the other parks!

 

[petals]

I've spent the day studying for what will be a third of my essay and my head hurts now so have an update

Day 3, Part 2:

This will be mainly pictures but I'm sure you won't mind.
Once we made our way to the hub and I amused myself with picture taking we decided to wait for the first Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it Street Party of the day before our next destination so it began and there was much shaking of tail feathers and picture taking:

I learned from other trip reports that if you stand in certain places you get pretty pictures with the castle in the background so I moved from one side of the street to the other and then took these:

All the while Momma's job was to watch the time so we would make it to our next destination on time. So she started saying we need to go as the street party started to leave. Uh huh just a few more pics and we'll go:

Next up Lunchtime with some friends

 

[lovethattink]

Great pics of Move it, shake it parade!

 

[amandaw]

Great pics! I'll have to remember that spot for parades to get the castle in the background. That's if my son will actually let me watch a parade.

 

[petals]

Great pics of Move it, shake it parade!

Thanking you

Great pics! I'll have to remember that spot for parades to get the castle in the background. That's if my son will actually let me watch a parade.

Thank you

We normally stood with our backs to the castle every other year until I saw the trip report pics. I dunno why but I never really copped if I turn around I could get the castle in the background of the parade pics

Move it Shake it parade should be fun for him though because he'll get to dance with the characters. Tell him Woody wants to dance with him

 

[amandaw]

Move it Shake it parade should be fun for him though because he'll get to dance with the characters. Tell him Woody wants to dance with him

I'll tell him that & see if he'll stay for the parade then. Normally, when he finds out a parade is about to happen he starts complaining that he just wants to do rides. Typical male.

 

[Caretames1]

Love all the pictures! We saw the Move it Shake it parade like 3 times in one day in Jan! And took photos everytime!

Where's lunch!!

 

[petals]

I'll tell him that & see if he'll stay for the parade then. Normally, when he finds out a parade is about to happen he starts complaining that he just wants to do rides. Typical male.

But parades are fun!

Love all the pictures! We saw the Move it Shake it parade like 3 times in one day in Jan! And took photos everytime!

Where's lunch!!

I think Move it, shake it and the dream along with mickey show is on so often everytime you cross the park via the hub you end up seeing one of them

I'll try do lunch update laters back to college tomorrow and won't be able to do another update until next weekend at least

 

[MEK]

I totally missed all those cute little christmas trees when I was at AK. I bummed. How cute. I just never made it to that part of the park.

Your story about the white bus is pretty funny! Glad you cleared that up for momma!

Lovely pictures of the MK. What a beautiful day. I am really enjoying all your pics!

 

[jenseib]

I love the parades. I could take pictures of them every day and never get tired of it.

 

[petals]

I totally missed all those cute little christmas trees when I was at AK. I bummed. How cute. I just never made it to that part of the park.

They were all at camp Minnie Mickey. I loved how there was so many themed to all the characters. I could imagine all the characters let loose to decorate their trees

Your story about the white bus is pretty funny! Glad you cleared that up for momma!

Yeah I thought that was funny. I have no idea what made her miss the colour of the bus in the morning. I'd say she was prob thinking of the bus we got from Epcot to Animal Kingdom. That was white ish with a bit of purple and red

Lovely pictures of the MK. What a beautiful day. I am really enjoying all your pics!

Thanks. I have loads more

I love the parades. I could take pictures of them every day and never get tired of it.

Me to and then I video as well and take more pictures off the video camera

 

[petals]

Okie I sorted the video pics for Magic Kingdom so all pics ready to have their story told for Day 3! Strange thing when I was looking at tapes from the holiday I know the first day I went under the arch I had the camera on and lens cover off and recording from the time we came round the corner until we got under the arch and yet on the tape there's a minute of blue screen and it starts at Safari. The arch is totally missing may get it next time Anyways one more update before I go back to college tomorrow:

Day 3, Part 3:

When we got to Magic Kingdom the main reason we didn't want to go to far away from the Hub was because we had an early lunch reservation here:

As the Move it, shake it parade moved off we had just enough time to cross the bridge to Crystal Palace and check in for lunch. We got our pager:

and then waited about ten more minutes before they started letting people in. Our lunch was at 11.35 so they were clearing the place after breakfast before they let anyone in. Result being when they called our name we were first into the section they were putting us sitting at. Our waitress was Cindy she brought drinks quickly and then largely stayed away which Momma was happy with She did come back once or twice to check everything was ok but didn't bug Momma like the guy in Tusker.
I had this t-shirt on today which proved to be a good interaction point as well:

Being first in as well we got our first visitor very quickly as Piglet came straight over and he loved the t-shirt as his best friend was on it:

and Eeyore followed close behind:

how cute is his tail hanging behind him:

After Eeyore there was no sight of Pooh bear or Tigger and Cindy confirmed they wouldn't be there for a while so we headed off to the buffet. My plate:

I think the mac and cheese and meatballs were from the kids section but they suited me better than the choice on the adult section at the time. I think when I went up some of the selection for adults wasn't out yet because Momma did get steak which I didn't see at all but she was behind me a good bit. Only negative I had about it though was the Broccoli was very spicy!
Anyway Momma's first plate:

and her second plate:

This meal was a major hit with Momma because it was "proper" food as she deems it potatoes and veg in other words and plenty of it.
The place was a bit slow at filling up and Piglet paid us a second visit. Momma refused to get into a picture with Piglet (busy eating) so Piglet kissed her head and made her pay attention to him. Eeyore came back to us as well. He seemed confused as to what tables he had already been at because he pointed to the autograph book to see if we wanted him to sign.
After a while we did get more visitors first Tigger:

Tigger did not like my T-shirt and was pointing to himself so I told him I would buy one of him later and this made him happier.
Our next visitor was the Tubbie little Cubbie himself and he loved my T-shirt of course:

I was watching as Tigger went around he kept stealing people's hats and putting them on for the pictures and I also took this pic which I thought was funny:

Looks like Winnie the Pooh decided to have some lunch with some guy. I guess maybe his friends were at the buffet. It looked funny though.
We did go for dessert at some stage as well. There wasn't much there that I wanted dessert wise but my plate:

Those little things with chocolate in the middle had a kind of chocolate hazelnut filling and were super yummy and i could have had many more.
Momma's dessert plate:

I know we had a bowl of ice-cream between us as well but there's no pic of that for some reason.
Momma's verdict on it was the lunch at Crystal Palace was worth the money but Tusker house breakfast wasn't but hey one win is good enough for me for now Crystal Palace didn't feel as rushed as our other character dining experiences either so major for Crystal Palace.
Before we left I went off to take pictures of the toparies as well. Those things are amazing they are totally made out of flowers (except the hats and scarves obv: )

Next up Time to dream along with the mouse!

 

[amandaw]

Sounds like it was a really great lunch with some great interaction! I've been wanting to try Crystal Palace & had been fixed on doing breakfast there. But, I think I would definitely consider it for lunch after reading your review!

 

[kaileighbug]

Great update....now I am hungry. Just found your trip report and enjoying it so far.

 

[afwdwfan]

I always enjoy Crystal Palace. The character experiences there are usually very good. I'm glad the server was more in line with your momma's desires than the one from Tusker House.

 

[petals]

Sounds like it was a really great lunch with some great interaction! I've been wanting to try Crystal Palace & had been fixed on doing breakfast there. But, I think I would definitely consider it for lunch after reading your review!

Lunch was good there. Lots of choice and definately more worth the price than the breakfast at tusker. Maybe I've a soft spot for the Tubbie little cubbie but i enjoyed the lunch there more than Tusker.

Great update....now I am hungry. Just found your trip report and enjoying it so far.

Welcome and thanks

I always enjoy Crystal Palace. The character experiences there are usually very good. I'm glad the server was more in line with your momma's desires than the one from Tusker House.

I love the Winnie the Pooh characters. Tigger and Eeyore are two of my fave characters.
Yeah the server pretty much left us alone for the meal which was good.

 

[momabaarjo]

Sorry I have been missing for so long....I am so loving your pictures and realizing there was a whole bunch that I meant to take and forgot!

Your poor momma...first the waiter at Tusker house and then that nasty fat bird!

I am sorry you did not get to see Lily...is seemed a lof the animals during our day at AK did not feel in the Christmas spirit and want to show themselves. I love you super cool disney food...be brought home a lot of those boxes trying to use up snack credits for presents for friends. I will have to live the parades through you because my family was never interested! I missed the trees at AK...by the time we got to Camp Minnie and Mickey the crowd level was so awful that I just gave up!

Hope things are starting off well with school!

 

[petals]

Sorry I have been missing for so long....I am so loving your pictures and realizing there was a whole bunch that I meant to take and forgot!

Your poor momma...first the waiter at Tusker house and then that nasty fat bird!

I am sorry you did not get to see Lily...is seemed a lof the animals during our day at AK did not feel in the Christmas spirit and want to show themselves. I love you super cool disney food...be brought home a lot of those boxes trying to use up snack credits for presents for friends. I will have to live the parades through you because my family was never interested! I missed the trees at AK...by the time we got to Camp Minnie and Mickey the crowd level was so awful that I just gave up!

Hope things are starting off well with school!

Momma had a bad morning in Animal Kingdom! I don't think she was to upset though in the end.

I was afraid of that happening crowd wise with Camp Minnie Mickey alot of people seemed to be heading that way after the parade but they must have gone to FOTLK because besides the mice the other lines were fairly short for characters.

I thought the boxes of sweets were cute. I wanted to seven dwarves one but when I went to buy them there was none

We actually started college in September but we had from 15th Dec until 9th Jan off. This week we're in television studio and we've about another month or so lectures then it's work experience and projects. There's two essays due up as well which as I posted before I have issue with. Our lecturer said we should start a webpage to show what we do though. I started messing with a blog. I don't know how much I want to share though lol. I'll prob blab about Disney a bit for something to fill it up for a while lol Clickie if you want a lookie