Paparazzimama
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Day 1 - Part 1 - Magic Kingdom
Okay, so if you go to bed after midnight, after an already long and tiring day with a 6:30a.m. wake-up call . . . does it mean you're old if you're awake before the call even comes???? OF COURSE NOT!!! It just means that you are in the happiest place on earth on the first day of a trip you've been planning for months!!!!! Phew . . . I'm tired just typing that!
So, here we are. Our first park day! Brandon and I were both awake a good half hour before our wake-up call. I went ahead and started getting myself ready - I know this is cheesy, but I was really looking forward to only having 1 person to get ready every morning during our trip! I took my time primping (as you'll soon see I take A LOT of pictures of myself!!!) for all of the fun photo-ops I was hoping for during the day. B and I were dressed and ready with time to spare and surprisingly so were David and Kim!
Their room was next to ours so we knocked on their door on our way out to find them both ready to go!
Here's Kim and I outside of our rooms. (We both love to see ourselves in pictures, so there are tons of pics of the 2 of us - I've eliminated some of them from the report just because it's really quite obnoxious
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The weather was a little cool this morning, but we knew that it would soon warm up. It was about 7a.m. as we walked past the Hippy Dippy Pool toward the food court
Kyle and Christy soon joined us as we were nibbling on a bite to eat. By the time we all sat down at a table, it was already 7:15 so we told Jason and Katie to go ahead to MK without us and we would be along shortly. Katie had never seen the rope drop ceremony so she wanted to be sure and catch it since this was our only MK day. The rest of us finished our breakfast and walked out to the bus stop. I was quite surprised to find the line empty since MK was having EMH this morning - was this a good sign of crowd expectations for the day????? Hmmmm . . . I'd bet you'd love to know, right? Our bus ride was full of chatter. Everyone was so excited to be heading to the "Princess Towers". (That's what our little 4 year old cousin calls the Magic Kingdom) Here are some pics from the ride over.
We arrived at MK with about 10 minutes until rope drop and quickly found Jason and Katie. Wow, what do we do with 10 minutes to kill??? I know!!! Let's take pictures of each other!!!
The response we got when we asked the guys to get together for a picture
Here's my DH doing his "rope drop dance"
OMG it's time!!!!
Kim LOVED the show!
We enterred through the tunnel on the right and followed the herd up Main Street
Continued . . . .
Okay, so if you go to bed after midnight, after an already long and tiring day with a 6:30a.m. wake-up call . . . does it mean you're old if you're awake before the call even comes???? OF COURSE NOT!!! It just means that you are in the happiest place on earth on the first day of a trip you've been planning for months!!!!! Phew . . . I'm tired just typing that!
So, here we are. Our first park day! Brandon and I were both awake a good half hour before our wake-up call. I went ahead and started getting myself ready - I know this is cheesy, but I was really looking forward to only having 1 person to get ready every morning during our trip! I took my time primping (as you'll soon see I take A LOT of pictures of myself!!!) for all of the fun photo-ops I was hoping for during the day. B and I were dressed and ready with time to spare and surprisingly so were David and Kim!
Their room was next to ours so we knocked on their door on our way out to find them both ready to go!
Here's Kim and I outside of our rooms. (We both love to see ourselves in pictures, so there are tons of pics of the 2 of us - I've eliminated some of them from the report just because it's really quite obnoxious
)
The weather was a little cool this morning, but we knew that it would soon warm up. It was about 7a.m. as we walked past the Hippy Dippy Pool toward the food court
Kyle and Christy soon joined us as we were nibbling on a bite to eat. By the time we all sat down at a table, it was already 7:15 so we told Jason and Katie to go ahead to MK without us and we would be along shortly. Katie had never seen the rope drop ceremony so she wanted to be sure and catch it since this was our only MK day. The rest of us finished our breakfast and walked out to the bus stop. I was quite surprised to find the line empty since MK was having EMH this morning - was this a good sign of crowd expectations for the day????? Hmmmm . . . I'd bet you'd love to know, right?
Our bus ride was full of chatter. Everyone was so excited to be heading to the "Princess Towers". (That's what our little 4 year old cousin calls the Magic Kingdom) Here are some pics from the ride over.
We arrived at MK with about 10 minutes until rope drop and quickly found Jason and Katie. Wow, what do we do with 10 minutes to kill??? I know!!! Let's take pictures of each other!!!
The response we got when we asked the guys to get together for a picture
Here's my DH doing his "rope drop dance"
OMG it's time!!!!
Kim LOVED the show!
We enterred through the tunnel on the right and followed the herd up Main Street
Continued . . . .
There was still a few minutes before the rope drop, so we took a quick potty break while we waited. (Okay, so why wouldn't Adventureland open for a.m. EMH???? Am I the only one that found that strange???) 
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I guess without stopping for all of the smaller rides, you just kinda breeze right through it. Oh well, it was just about noon and we had already done everything we had planned to do in MK and were on our way to Epcot - Woohoo!!! Stay tuned to find out if the mob of people NOT at MK were waiting for us at Epcot - would we even get to ride Soarin'? Any fastpasses left for Test Track???? You'll find out next time . . .
)
Glad to have you reading! Stay tuned - more to come soon! 
The ride was as awesome as usual - everyone loved it! As soon as we got out of our hand-glider, we headed off in the direction of Test Track - oh, but with a short layover at Club Cool. Christy had made the comment that she was VERY thirsty, so Brandon and Jason thought this would be a good time to coherse someone into trying the Beverly. Their plan didn't work! Geez, I don't know why Christy, Kyle, Kim and David would be suspicious of Brandon and Jason trying to convince them to "just try it, it's so good" when everyone around us is making bitter faces. 
They weren't buying it! 
Kyle has a condition called gout, and when it's flared-up it causes him immense pain when he's on his feet a lot. 
He and Christy chose to find a shady spot to sit and chillax for a little while. The rest of us headed over to Test Track and told them that we would meet up with them afterward to head into the countries and find something to eat. We were sad to leave them behind, but knew that the last thing Kyle needed was to push on at this point if he was going to last the rest of the night. When we got to Test Track, the posted wait was 30 minutes also, but we could tell from the spot that the line stopped inside that it wouldn't be nearly that long. We got in line and did what we do in most every line - take some pictures!!! LOL!!!
