Day 2 “Our princess gets together with her pals at the Castle!”

[yepod]

Thur Oct 24th
Cast of characters: DD-Emily, 3 ½ yo, ‘grouchy princess’
DW-Jody, 40, ‘the younger old dog’
Me-John, 50, ‘monkeys dad & older dog

Emily answered the Mickey wake up call at 6 AM (actually I picked up the receiver & put it to her ear, & boy did her eyes pop open!)

Got to the bus stop early (by 7:10, do you detect a pattern here?!?) for our Cindy’s RT princess breakfast. To our amazement, the character breakfast bus drove right by us! No sweat, as an early entry bus showed up just minutes later to whisk us away. I can’t thank Dreams Unlimited enough for making this PS a painless & stress free experience. They have a dedicated staff that all but ensures you will have one CRT PS per on property reservation that you make with DU!
We arrived just before the 8 AM EE & upon entry met with some characters in the town square/flag pole! Emily met with White Rabbit, Friar Tuck, Baloo & King Louie for pictures & autographs (from now on P&A)!
We had a great time with the princesses (sure the all you can eat breakfast is just so-so, but we pay the bucks for the atmosphere/princess experience)! We saw Cinderella, Aurora, Mary Poppins & Belle in the dining room & Snow White in the lobby for P&A (we saw Jasmine in passing in that she was originally in the lobby when we went up & heading up, when we left).
Then on to Fantasyland, Jody & Emily did Cindy’s Carousel with no wait! Emily met Bert for a P&A! Then onto Dumbo with little wait! Snow White was practically a walk on! Fantasyland had started to get busy by now. We got in the cue for Peter Pan with a 25-minute wait. I guess I didn’t vocalize enough about fast pass.

We were in line about an hour when we finally got on! Jody agreed to never skip fast pass again! In her words “It’s hard to teach an old dog a new trick, but that was one lesson not to be forgotten”!
I was definitely getting into the pin trading! Emily was not really into it yet (Jody was wearing a pink lanyard for her, as Emily only wanted to play with the pins until they fell off!) In Jody’s words (from now on IJW) “DH was pin trading with any UNSUSPECTING/UNFORTUNATE cast member with a lanyard! Got some good stuff too”! Well, I guess she DID approve after all!
We then headed for Haunted Mansion.

IJW “It went great! We got fast passes, waited 20 minutes & got right on! One Scooby snack for this old dog!” I hated to tell her she was being irreverent in the wrong park LOL!
Also IJW, “The heat & humidity was getting to the crew, so we rode POC which revitalized us!” We then headed to Tony’s for our 1 PM PS lunch.
The food was good (limited selections from their regular fare). Jody & I had sgetti & meatball & Emily had pizza. We saw the big Four from the Hundred Acre Woods for P&A! We were tired & headed out, with pin trading & a P&A with Clopin before we got on the POR bus!
IJW "Time for a rest for Emily & us old dogs, WRONG! Emily had wiggle monkey troubles big time!

First with Mom trying to get her to sleep for 30 minutes, then Dad got his 45 minutes worth of trying to get the squirmy wormy princess to sleep & none of us got any rest!"

We drove to DTD in the rain with grouchy Emily! IJW “Wonder why?!?”

A fast tour of WoD, a few pin trades, purchased T-shirts & oh yes, one chocolate sucker for the princess! Then we headed for the super Wal-Mart in Kissimee. This was a mistake because we were all in a bad mood.

We actually never went in! But we did get to see some of I drive & Erlo B Highway! Man what a light show! Then back to POR. By the way, the chocolate adjusted Emily’s attitude only a few degrees! She was much too tired for quick fixes! NOW she falls asleep!

DH went to the food court for our supper & soon to bed for us old dogs”!Day 3 If you dare!

 

[Poohshoney]

You went to Walmart but didn't go in? Was there some mutual adult strop throwing going on there I wonder..

The monkey wiggle's wonderful - fantastic smilies John!

 

[nutz4dzny]

I love all your little smileys! Especially the one with the angel turning into the naughty devil! LOLOLOL! These add a great touch to your trip reports!!!!!

 

[pumba]

night too......must be our old age creeping up on us......I would like to attend the castle breakfast.....but hubby is a princess gawker.....so he can stay out .....hahaha.......thanks so much for your report

 

[Marla Hellwig]

Too funny about driving to Wal Mart and not going in - thanks for posting!

 

[vald1977]

Got to say I love the little illustrations too! The Haunted Mansion one is my favorite -- how creative! I purposely remain clueless about the pin trading stuff to save my wallet from undue stress. DH is very grateful! Off to day 3.

 

[nativetxn]

Learning about using fast pass can be painful but you never forget

I'm surprised Emily didn't fall asleep as soon as you started the car and headed for DTD.

Dreams Unlimited helps take the sting out of getting those hard to find ps's, they are great.

I had fun reading about your day, thanks for posting.

Katholyn

 

[oldkicker]

Nice John!

My little ones were enthralled with the wake-up calls too!