Day 2- Part 1 - December 18th, 2009
I had originally planned to sleep in today since we have tickets to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas party tonight, but then I went and added in a breakfast reservation so we didn’t get to sleep in too late this morning. Our alarm went off promptly at 9 a.m. It was wonderful to wake up on our 10th anniversary in my favorite place in the world. We had disneymooned here 10 years ago and it was nice to be back at Disney for our 10th anniversary.
Before going to bed the night before, I had taken out the kids clothes for today and packed our backpacks to help ease the morning routine a bit. The kids finally jumped out of bed and headed to their stack of clothes where they found new pins from Tinkerbell and letters inviting them to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. We all finished getting dressed and headed to the bus stop.
We only had a short wait before a bus to Magic Kingdom arrived. We arrived at Magic Kingdom quickly and then we went searching for the water taxi to the Grand Floridian resort. The boat was just leaving so we had a little wait before we got on. The boat ride was nice, a little chilly, but we really enjoyed it. Here are some pictures from our boat ride back.
James and Ashley
Haley
Christopher
The Grand Floridian was the first stop and we got off to go search for 1900 Park Fare restaurant. We had breakfast reservations with Alice and the kids were besides themselves with excitement. We checked in at the podium and got in line for a picture by the Christmas tree. It turned out cute, but we didn’t purchase it. We were quickly seated. Our reservation was for 11 a.m. and we were seated right on time. We all enjoyed the breakfast food here, especially the large fresh strawberries!
Tigger came by first to sign autograph books and take pictures, followed closely by Pooh. They were friendly and spent a lot of time with us. Alice came by next. The kids simply love the movie Alice in Wonderland so they were excited to see her. She was so nice and talkative. She tried so hard to engage the kids, but they were very quiet. She told Christopher that he was a quiet as a dormouse. Next my girls spied Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins is the kids favorite movie right now so to say they were excited to see her here was a true understatement.
She finally made her way to our table and the kids just melted. She was so nice, friendly, and pretty. She gave out hugs and the girls told her how much Christopher loves her. She is tied with Ariel for his all-time favorite character so she knelt down to him and gave him a kiss on his cheek. He loved it! All day long people kept asking him if Snow White had given him the kiss and when he said Mary Poppins they told him he was very lucky because she doesn’t give them out very often. He was on
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The last character we met at breakfast was The Mad Hatter. He was very funny, but didn’t get to spend much time with us since they were calling him to take a group picture by the Christmas tree out front. I really liked the character interactions at this breakfast. It also was a hit because it has two of my children’s favorite characters here. I am sure we will eat here again. And the 11 a.m. seating time was great because the dining room was clearing out, the food was still fresh, and most of the characters made it around to our table more than once.
After breakfast, we went to check out the Gingerbread house I had heard so much about. It is so impressive. We took some pictures in front of the house and headed back to the boat dock. It would have been faster to take the monorail back to Magic Kingdom, but we had really enjoyed the boat ride over so we decided to take it back. On the return trip it stops at the Polynesian resort before heading back to Magic Kingdom, but the ride was still fairly quick.
Walking through the gates of Magic Kingdom with my family I was extremely happy. This is my favorite park. I love that feeling that comes over me when I see the castle for the first time in a trip. We stopped on Main Street to take some photo pass pictures.
We headed towards Fantasyland. I sent the kids with my mom and James to go ride the carousel while I went to get fast passes for Peter Pan. While I was doing that I got a text from my cousin’s wife asking if we had arrived yet. I told them we had and asked where they were. They were waiting behind the castle so I met up with them and took Desi over to show her the fast pass machines and get them fast passes for Peter Pan to ride later. On the way back I stopped at the carousel to find my family and then we went to meet up with them. It was already 1 p.m. and we had reservations at 1:30 p.m. for Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. We checked in and they sent her girls to the back to get dressed while we waited in the front for the dressing rooms to open up.
And…. You will have to wait for my next update to see how the makeovers went. Hopefully, I will get another update done tomorrow. I’ve got to run now to get Christopher his H1N1 booster shot. Have a great day!
Stephanie
I guess that'll be a good reason to go back soon!
