A Very, Merry November Girls only trip to Disney - the trip Report update: 4/29

[joy13]

One good thing about going slow, is that I only have one day to catch up on with my Photopass

So here are Maddie and I arriving at DHS on Thursday morning:

Meeting with Phineas and Ferb:

Mom had to get in one too:

On to Cars:

More pictures by the Hat after a gift store purchase:

Maddie's favorite of the trip - Sorcerer Mickey:

When we came back for the evenings we got a couple with Mom and a little girl photobombed it

So that's it for DHS, from now on I'll use the Photopass pictures within each update.

 

[jenseib]

Loving the photopass pictures. I am really missing Disney lately. Ohio is boring this time of year. Well pretty much any time of year.

 

[joy13]

Loving the photopass pictures. I am really missing Disney lately. Ohio is boring this time of year. Well pretty much any time of year.

I hear ya! January/February is always rough - blech! I'm glad I've strung my report out this long, gives me something to do.

 

[Caretames1]

Nice PP photos!

We have a photo bombed pic that I really liked until I saw the women's butt right next to my shoulder!

Kadence likes Maddie's Phinneas. Did she get Ferb too?

 

[FosterA]

Cute pics of you girls! yep, we were there that same day and it was great. Checking to see if we photo bombed any of your photos.

 

[joy13]

oK, so I have NOT forgotten about this report. I thought I better respond to it before they think it's abandoned and lock it!! I really do intend to come back and finish it!

 

[jenseib]

 

[FosterA]

Still here

looking forward to hearing more!

 

[kaileighbug]

What a great start to your trip. We can't wait to meet Phineas and Ferb.

 

[joy13]

Nice PP photos!

We have a photo bombed pic that I really liked until I saw the women's butt right next to my shoulder!

Kadence likes Maddie's Phinneas. Did she get Ferb too?

She wanted Ferb, but they didn't have him - only Phineas!!!

Cute pics of you girls! yep, we were there that same day and it was great. Checking to see if we photo bombed any of your photos.

I have looked to, never saw you - bummer!

 

[joy13]

Still here

looking forward to hearing more!

What a great start to your trip. We can't wait to meet Phineas and Ferb.

Thanks for sticking with me, I really should just crank out my reports within a few weeks of getting back, I'm good for a month or two then I forget about it.

 

[joy13]

So 3 months ago when I last posted an update, I got us caught up with Photopass pictures. Our next day was a long one, we went to Magic Kingdom for opening and then also went to MVMCP that evening (we did go back to the hotel and attempt to rest).

11-18-11 (Friday)

We headed out to Magic Kingdom with the intent to be there for rope drop. I think we got there shortly after opening. We looked to see how the wait was for Mickey or the Princesses, but it was longer than Maddie wanted to wait. We did take some photopass pics at the front of the park:

I made a mistake in planning, because at this point we ate breakfast at Main St. Bakery. The breakfast was good, we got chocolate croissants and drinks, but we could have had those things at Everything Pop. There was quite a line at the bakery, so we ended up being there for at least 45 minutes. We then headed to Fantasyland. We stopped to take some pictures on the way:

Once we got to Fantasyland, Dumbo already had a pretty long line, so we skipped it. We never did get back to it, which makes me a bit sad since it's now in a different place. We got fastpasses for Peter Pan and then rode It's a Small World. We headed to the Haunted Mansion but Maddie refused to ride it So I sent Mom in to ride it by herself. My hope was that it wouldn't take too long and then I would go ride it. While Mom was riding HM, I talked Maddie into going on Pirates of the Carribean (she didn't want to do that either -ugh! She can be so stubborn and picky when she wants to be) She wasn't being difficult just for the sake of being difficult, she is genuinly scared to ride HM and she didn't love Pirates last time, but it's still frustrating. Anyway, when Mom was done with HM, I decided we better just head over to Pirates while Maddie was willing So we rode Pirates and it was fun as always, but Maddie's still not a huge fan After the ride we met up with Pirate Goofy:

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[joy13]

After meeting up with Goofy, Maddie's one attempt at dressing up for the trip was upon us. When we were preparing for the trip we were reading
mom2rtk's trip report and Maddie saw her fabulous hand sewn dress she made for her daughter when she met with Tiana from "The Princess and the Frog". She made her daughter a replica of the blue evening gown she is wearing when she first meets Naveen (in frog form). Maddie told me at that time she'd love to do that. Well, I don't sew and they don't sell Tiana's blue dress anywhere. I took a chance at looking on Ebay and I found a dress that is very similar to Tiana's blue dress, in Maddie's size and only $40 It seemed meant to be! Maddie loved the dress when it came, but by the time the trip came, she wasn't sure she wanted to wear it. Sigh.... I told her she didn't have to, but if I packed it I would prefer she wear it. She had me pack it. Then that morning came and she still was waffleling on whether she was going to wear it. I said, I didn't care, but if I hauled it to the park, she was wearing it to meet Tiana. She decided I should bring it. I had it and some gloves, a tiara and nicer sandles, in a backpack. So after Pirates we stopped in the restroom to change. She put the dress and gloves on, but didn't want me to fix her hair or change her shoes. So we headed over to meet Tiana. She had started meeting at 11:45 and it was about 11:55. We get to the line and it was closed off already The attendant says, she meets again at 1:15, the problem with this is that we had ADR's for Cinderella's Royal Table so we couldn't come back. After that we were heading back to Pop to rest for the party, so this was our only chance. This attendant wasn't feeling in a very magical mood, because she wasn't budging. Normally I'm pretty understanding about this sort of thing, but she had only been meeting for 10 minutes at the most and there weren't that many people in line at all - maybe 10 minutes worth. I would think they normally meet for 1/2 an hr. It didn't even occur to me that it would be closed off already! So we headed back towards Fantasyland and I got this picture of Maddie. We weren't in the most magical mood at this point either because I was trying to talk Maddie into keeping the dress on for our CRT lunch, but she was having none of it and wanted the dress of ASAP because she felt like people were staring at her. So I think my quote at this point was "smile like you are having fun!" I'm sure anyone around us probably thought "who is this crabby lady" it really only lasted 5 minutes though and then we were fine.

So then Maddie changed out of the dress and we used our fastpasses for Peter Pan. After that we rode the teacups twice

After the teacups we headed to the Carosel:

Up next - Cinderella's Royal Table:

 

[jenseib]

Darn kids! That blue dress is really pretty. A perfect Tiana dress too.

It's good to see you posting again.

I hope we can get some nice christmas photopass shots this year.

 

[mom2rtk]

Tell her she looks gorgeous in her blue gown! The photo by Cinderella's fountain is perfect.

And I can't believe they wouldn't make an exception and let you stay in line. That totally stinks!

What a shame she wouldn't leave it on for CRT. She would have been the prettiest princess there.

 

[FosterA]

Glad you're back with an update

beautiful pictures!
too bad Maddie doesn't like Haunted mansion. MY FAVORITE!
You guys are looking like you are a having a great girly girl trip

 

[mistybroussard]

I am enjoying your trip report. We are going about the same time this year. Anxious to see how bad the crowds will be and wait times for rides as we are going with DD5 and DD3.