Ok, ok. I'll try to do a recap. First of all I'd like to thank all of you here on the DL boards for all of your help leading up to this trip!
We drove up to Anaheim and arrived about 5pm. Checked into the Sheraton Park Hotel on SPG points and didn't have to pay for anything except for parking! A really great deal! And we really liked the hotel.
I really wanted to head off to a park, but we only had 1 day hoppers and were on Texas time (so it felt like 7pm to us) and my dd doesn't do well when she's tired at all!
So we swam in the pool and enjoyed the wonderful CA weather. We ate a pizza in the room for dinner and fell asleep around 8:30pm. At around 9:30pm I awoke to thunderous booms (very, very loud!) and opened the drapes to see all of the fireworks show! LOVE the smilie face fireworks! Fell right back to sleep and set my alarm for 5:30am (7:30 TX time).
Awoke at 5:30 very rested thanks to the heavenly beds.
GOOD TO KNOW. 
Got ready and we took our bags down to the car around 6:30am. The Sheraton allows you to park in their lot until 10pm on your checkout day so I had planned just to shuttle to the park.
We walked down to the shuttle and it had just left so I decided to walk to the park. VERY easy walk and we arrived at the gates at 6:50am. The lines were fairly long and I knew we didn't have MM passes so I just thought we'd wander around, take photos and soak in the atmosphere.
Not long after gates opened the Breakfast in the Park CM came up to me and we started chatting. I told her this was my dd's first time here and we were super early to the park because we didin't have MM passes and she gave my dd a "First Visit" button and some other fun buttons. We chatted awhile and she left. Then, a few minutes later she came up to me and said she had some "pixie dust" for us and she was going to let us in now! WOW! What a way to start the day! We got in the gates about 7:15am
THAT IS SO AWESOME....YOU BASICALLY WERE ABLE TO ENJOY ALL OF MM (W/O PP)
...and wandered down MS which seemed so much smaller in scale than WDW but so magical nonetheless.
I TRY TO TELL ALL WDW VETS TO IMAGINE THE SMALLEST CASTLE IN THE WORLD.....& THAT SB'S CASTLE IS SMALLER (so they don't have their mind's eye looking for Cindy's castle) 
.....but you're right...when you get right up to SB's Castle it IS magical & charming.
We really took our time soaking in the walk and I had my dd cover her eyes until I unveiled Sleeping Beauty Castle (her favorite character)! It was a great moment. First off we rode Buzz with no wait at all! I had a very poor score and couldn't get the feel of the laser compared to WDW. We then went towards Space, but it was down so walked on towards Matterhorn. My dd heard the growling and wouldn't ride so we went and had a 5 min wait for Alice.
Then we did Mr Toad's Wild Ride (I loved this ride!). We rode Pinocchio,
AREN'T ALICE, TOADY & PINOCCHIO CUTE? (yeah i know some say Pinocchio is TOO dark & scary, but i love the story AND the ride)....& none are at WDW 
...then Snow White. Then my dd was really wanting BTM so we headed that way and were at the rope drop to Frontierland at 8am.
We almost got ran over by the stampede of running (and I DO mean RUNNING) people to BTM, and we proceded to ride BTM 5 TIMES IN A ROW with no wait at all!
YOU RODE 4 RIDES IN FANTASYLAND AND 5 TIMES ON "THE WILDEST RIDE IN THE WILDERNESS" ALL BY 8:40am!! VERY, VERY COOL!
After 5 times on BTM it started to get somewhat of a line so we headed off to Fantasyland. Can you tell I completely tossed my intinerary and just went with the flow? The Ridemax plan just went totally unused!
BUT I BET THE FACT THAT YOU MAPPED OUT & PLANNED OUT GAVE YOU COMFORT & KNOWLEDGE EVEN AS YOU WERE DITCHING....PLUS YOU JUST RODE BTMRR 5 TIMES!!! EVERYTHING ELSE IS GRAVY 
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.... Anyway, we stopped to ride Casy Jr Train:
SHE'S A CUTIE PATOOTIE. 
Then went back to check out Splash. It was down (starting a trend for the day?) so we took the train to Toontown.
NO POOH BEAR ride? (or bakery items in the HUNY POT?)
Once in Toontown, we rode Roger Rabbit (ok I'm not really a fan of spinning rides!
) then rode Gadget's Go Coaster with a minimal wait. Toontown was basically deserted at this point and it was about 9:15am. I was waiting on a call from my mom, brother, SIL, and nephew who were driving up from San Diego and got the call about this time that they were arriving on the monorail in Tomorrowland so we headed that way. BTW my Brother paid $34 for parking at DD! Crazy!
It was my brother's birthday and he wanted to ride Nemo so we waited 30 mins for that ride
VERY GOOD TO KNOW. I'M A FIRM BELIEVER IN NOT WASTING 3/4ths OF MM ON NEMO....WHEN IT CAN BE RIDDEN AT OTHER TIMES WITH A 30 MIN. WAIT.
....just so my dd could fall apart once we were locked down in the sub. It was scary for her but she is very sensitive to dark loud confined places. BTW I didn't mention I had been picking up FP's all morning and had 4 BTM FP and 2 Buzz FP's in my pocket.
5 BTMRR + 4 MORE?? YOU'RE MORE OF A BTM JUNKIE THAN PADEWAN ALEC & ME. 
After Nemo, I had PS for Minnie & Friends Breakfast so we all headed over there. I have to say: Food-not so good Characters-excellent!
....owes us a little trip report. If nothing else a one page bullet point recap of what they rode & where they ate. 
....Great report & recap! 
