Anz n Andy Revisit Mickey - Day 9 Part 2

[MsPennieLane]

continued....Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party!

As we were in Liberty Square, we decided to go on Haunted Mansion, I mean how could you not go on this ride during a Halloween Party it just wouldn’t be right!

We walked through the gates and one of the CMs came towards me, I smiled and not once did his character slip, he stared at me and I couldn’t help but start giggling. I said to Andy that he was scaring me now and his character was too good. The CM followed me and handed me one of those cards which says to hand it to the CM inside the ride for some sort of study. The CM within the ride as you’re walking through also never fell out of character, they’re so good. We had a great ride, I think this ride is really well done and we both love it when we pick up the hitchhiker at the end.

As we walked out of Haunted Mansion, there was a Trick or Treat stop so we picked up some sweets.

dontcha just love these cute trick or treat stops

I’m not very up on American sweets but we happily took them. I did recognise the sherbet straws though. Unfortunately they broke in my Mickey bag so it was covered in yummy sherbet. We were trying to decide what to do next and I wanted to see Mickey’s PhilharMagic and ride Pooh so off to Fantasyland we went. First we came across Peter Pan’s Flight and had to go on. There was no queue and only 4 people in front of us. Result!

Now it was time for PhilharMagic. Or not quite. We’d just missed one so we headed back outside so Andy could have a cigarette. I remembered there was a smoking area near to Tinkerbell’s Treasures so I left him there and went into the shop. All the CMs in there had crazy wigs on. I found a lovely pair of Lilo dangle earrings and a set of 3 pairs of earrings - one was Lilo, one Stitch and the 3rd pair was red flowers. Andy came in just as I was paying. Then it was time for PhilharMagic hurrah!!

I love this show so much and always have to watch it a few times. As usual, I welled up a little during the Peter Pan segment. From here it was on to Snow White’s Scary Adventures - again no queue. It’s a cute ride but quite scary for some of the little kids I imagine, what with those scary shaped trees!

Anyway, from here we had to ride Winnie the Pooh. This is another favourite of mine, I love bouncing round with Tigger. This was the only queue we experienced and it wasn’t that long, maybe about 10 people in front of us if that. I had a little look in the shop. I was really thirsty and wanted to take some tablets for my knee so we stopped at Mrs Pott’s Cupboard for a diet coke.

taking a well-earned rest!

Andy decided he wanted to go on Space Mountain so it was back to Tomorrowland. Andy went on Space Mountain whilst I went on the TTA. I had a whole car to myself and took some photos.

Once my ride was over, I walked to where Andy and I were supposed to meet and he wasn’t there. I noticed Buzz Lightyear was a walk on so I had a go on my own. I managed 69,500. By the time the ride was over, Andy was waiting for me. He picked up some more candy at one of the Trick or Treat stops.

my fave Trick or Treat stop

It was almost time for the fireworks so we went to try and find somewhere to view. We walked into the rose garden in front of the castle and managed to find a nice spot where I was able to sit on the ground and Andy was able to film it.

The fireworks started about 5 minutes late but they were well worth the wait. About halfway through the fireworks we heard a witch’s voice and then she took Tinkerbell’s flight out from the castle and into Tomorrowland, we got such a great view of that. The end of the display was a bit confusing. Nobody was sure whether it had actually finished or not. It was still great though and I couldn’t wait for the parade a bit later.

We still had half an hour to the parade but we wanted a good view so we walked to Main Street and found a nice spot on the pavement. Andy went to get us a bottle of drink while I waited. There were CMs walking past on both sides of the street handing out more candy so I had a few more added to my bag. I tried a tootsie roll which was ok and had some more sherbet.

Andy came back with the drink and as we were chatting, another CM came over handing out more candy. He looked in Andy’s bag and said sir, you don’t seem to have enough candy in your bag. Andy pointed to his t-shirt and said read this. The CM read the shirt, nodded his head and piled the candy into Andy’s bag, it was so funny but I think you had to be there. Andy passed me a sweet called a Lemon Head and my god, it nearly blew my head off it was soooo sour. He had a good laugh at my expense as the same thing had happened when he’d had one but he’d kept quiet.

The parade started with the Headless Horseman riding by, that was so cool.

5 minutes later, the parade reached us and Andy filmed it while I took some photos.

the start of the parade

Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore

Tigger!!!

Rabbit

Peter Pan

Wendy

some Disney villains

Cruella

some real life Dalmatians!

Hades and the muses

ghoulish dancers

more photos in the next post

Anz

 

[MsPennieLane]

more photos from the parade:

the Haunted Mansion float

the dancing gravediggers

the Home on the Range float

Woody and Donald - Jessie was sat next to Woody but I couldn't see her

Snow White

my favourite float - Mike and Sulley

the Mad Hatter - Alice was with him but I just missed her

Goofy and Stitch

the head honcho himself!

the end

We were then eager for more rides and Andy couldn’t decide what he wanted to do as we only had about 45 minutes left. Instead of doing Splash Mountain or Pirates of the Caribbean, he opted to come back to Tomorrowland with me for more Buzz and TTA action. On the way, I stopped into Mousegear as I wanted the official Halloween Party pin. I also bought a Halloween Goofy beanie which had Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party stamped on his back.

We rode the TTA and Buzz then headed for a last dash of Mickey’s PhilharMagic. We just made the last one woohoo. The time was 11.50 and Andy was getting peckish. He hadn’t yet had a hotdog from Casey’s Corner so guess where we went?

Casey's Corner
We both had a hotdog with onions and shared a drink and we got in there just in time before the huge queue formed. The food was yummy as always. There was a CM talking to the table next to us and then I heard the woman say to the CM “those people next to us are dressed up really good too” and next second, the CM was next to us. He thanked us for making a real effort to dress up and join in the fun, he thought our outfits were great and that we “almost looked like adults, but not quite” which made us laugh. He then handed us more sweets and thanked us again, which I thought was a really nice touch.

We took a slow walk down Main Street USA.

We had a wonderful evening and would love to attend another Halloween Party. There wasn’t too much of a queue for the Pop Century bus as we’d just missed one. We had a 10 minute wait, by which time the queue was humungous. We got on the bus no problem and headed back to Pop Century. It was really full to the brim of people. It was incredible to see how many people had made the effort to dress up.

The food court was shut by the time we got back so we bought a cold bottle from the machine on the way back to our room. We were still buzzing at this time so stayed up til 3am, Andy drinking beer and watching telly and me typing up more report and cropping some photos.

coming up: a sad day

Anz

 

[KayleeUK]

Sounds like a wonderful day Lovely pictures too.

 

[wils]

I have just read all your trip reports (so far!) in one sitting - they are great. I love the photos too.

THANK YOU!

Jo

 

[SusanEllen]

I'm afraid we know what's coming next, so want to say before things take a sad turn that you have produced another delightful series of Fun with Anz n Andy reports. Thanks.

 

[maureen4200040]

Trip report and pictures wonderful as usual

Keep up the good work


Maureen4200040

 

[Miffy2003]

Fantastic photos Anz