GIRLS ONLY Trip... Deluxe style! With MULTIPLE Character sightings!!* FINISHED*

[Tinkermom76]

After we visited with Tink the girls played some games with a cast member outside Pixie Hollow. Then I realized what time it was and we had reservations for the Wishes Dessert Party! I had actually never been to Tomorrowland so I was glad we had a map or I would have really been lost. Thanks to as couple of really nice CM’s we finally made it to check-in. we were taken to our assigned table and I couldn’t believe we were in the front row with a spectacular view of the castle. This was a great view of the fireworks and worth trying at least once, the food was pretty good too. I have such silly children.

After Holiday Wishes I figured we better go find a spot to watch the second parade so we headed over to Frontierland and found a perch. Next thing I know poor little Emma is sound asleep, oh well she can watch it on Christmas day and I will know to do the early parade next year. Eryka and I really enjoyed the parade and Chip and Dale threw snow at us. I am from Canada I see enough snow... I mean really those crazy chipmunks... lol
Since Emma was sleeping I figured we weren’t gonna do too much more so we headed to Ariel’s Grotto so Eryka could dance with the ugly step sisters and then we made our way to the front through the stores so we could buy some stuff, this is when Emma woke up, typical girl wakes up for shopping. We each got a couple of items then we headed back to our hotel via the walkway and went to bed. We could have used another party day but I had too many other things planned for the rest of our trip, plus then I had an excuse to book another trip in December.

It was after 11pm and it had been a long day and we had some pretty special appointments the next morning.

 

[coffeehousemom]

HI just found your TR. We are goin to Disney next year about that time. I was wondering how the crowds were? I am leaning towards that time frame. It is a little cheaper & the decorations are done by then. Also do you have anymore info on the special treats you guys did? I would love to do the cruise & parties.


Your girls are so cute!!! Makes me really miss mine being that young. But I do have DD11 talked into CRT! But to be honest its her little brothers idea.

 

[Tinkermom76]

HI just found your TR. We are goin to Disney next year about that time. I was wondering how the crowds were? I am leaning towards that time frame. It is a little cheaper & the decorations are done by then. Also do you have anymore info on the special treats you guys did? I would love to do the cruise & parties.


Your girls are so cute!!! Makes me really miss mine being that young. But I do have DD11 talked into CRT! But to be honest its her little brothers idea.

Welcome aboard and thanks for reading. I found the crowds were great, we got to ride everything we wanted with little or no wait at all (except Toy Story) everything is decorated beautifully. The Pirate cruise is soooo much fun and we are thinking about doing it again this year. If you do MVMCP try to stick to party stuff.. we lost a lot of time waiting to see the fairies, and don't miss the parade.

CRT is a great experience, who wouldn't want to eat in the castle. The girls get wands and the boys get swords and they do a cute wishing ceremony. I am glad we did it but I don't know if we will do it again, especially since they are adding so much great stuff to Fantasyland over the next few years that we will want to try.

Enjoy your christmas trip... I will be there Dec 4-11 as well

Stick around the TR we did a lot more fun stuff

 

[Tinkermom76]

Although we had a late night the day before, we were up bright and early on Wednesday morning and headed off to the MK. We had an 8:10am appointment at the BBB!!!!. The girls have never done this before and Emma grew out her hair for months just for this. I suggest to everyone to make at least one ressie in MK before it opens because nothing beats walking down Main St. without a crown and having the castle to your self

We checked in at BBB and the girls were each assigned a Fairy Godmother in Training (FGIT) Eryka had on her Cinderella dress and Emma was wearing her Tink dress. Te FGIT’s are great with the girls and they just loved being made over. When their transformations were complete we headed out of the castle and back on to Main St. where the photopass photographers were out and we got some cool pics. Then we headed off to our BBB photo session.

Continued in next post…..

 

[Tinkermom76]

After the photo session we made our way back to the castle because we had ressies at CRT. We checked in and then went in to get our pic with Cinderella herself. Cindy asked Eryka if she had been playing in her closet this morning and Eryka thought that was the funniest thing ever.
Inside the castle is just a beautiful as you think it is. We made our way up the winding staircase to the restaurant and were seated. The girls were given a magic wand and a wishing star for the wishing ceremony. To me the food was ok, I liked mine but the girls were not impressed, but lets be honest they wouldn’t have cared if they ate as long as the princesses came by. All the princesses make their way to the table to say hello to the girls and the wishing ceremony is cute. I’m glad we tried this but you see pretty much the same princesses at Akershus so I don’t know if we will go back, maybe in a few years, but it is definitely worth trying it once for the experience.

After breakfast we went to Toontown. I knew this was the last time we would see it this way since the changes would be starting in a few months so I wanted to spend some time here. We made our way through Minnie’s and Mickey’s houses and Donald’s boat. By this time the girls had had enough of the dresses and off they came. The girls really wanted to hit the rides so we made our way to fantasyland and rode the tea cups, carousel and Dumbo. I had promised Emma she could go back and see Tink since she had her Tink dress so we headed back over to the fairies.

Now we were all getting tired and cranky so we made our way back to the hotel and grabbed some lunch at the Contempo Café and then went back to the room where the girls watched tv for a a bit and mommy took a little nap

Coming next, back to MK

 

[RinkyTinkyTinky]

Great updates! Your girls look so happy in every picture. The BBB pics are just beautiful and the one in front of the castle with the fireworks going off! Just great. Can't wait for the rest!

 

[praisehisname]

I had fallen behind, but I'm all caught up now. Great updates! I love the Christmas outfits on the characters at Animal Kingdom!

 

[Tinkermom76]

I had fallen behind, but I'm all caught up now. Great updates! I love the Christmas outfits on the characters at Animal Kingdom!

I am falling behind too... busy week getting the kids back to school and I go back on Monday so hopefully I can get a lot done this weekend.

You don't realize how much work TR's are till you do one

Great updates! Your girls look so happy in every picture. The BBB pics are just beautiful and the one in front of the castle with the fireworks going off! Just great. Can't wait for the rest!

They were so happy the whole week. I am a very strict mom so they like when we go to Disney and I can have fun and not be mom

the one with the fireworks is one of my fav from the whole vacation, along with the one of the girls running in front of the castle with no one around

 

[Tinkermom76]

Sorry it's been so long since I added an update but it has been crazy around here.

So we left off taking a nap after a morning at MK. We had seen wishes from the water and from the dessert party so I wanted to make sure we saw it from the park like everyone else too so we were gonna head back to MK for the evening. Much to my dismay the girls decided they wanted to go as girls and not princesses, so those nice BBB makeovers were gone, hair out, make up off and no more pixie dust Oh well they tried it and now they will never get to do it again, but they would have a better night with it off so off it came

All week Emma had seen the Gold monorail but we never got to ride on it and Gold is her fav colour. As we made our way up to the platform pulling into the station is the Gold Monorail and Emma is soooo happy

we got back to MK and it was starting to get dark so we decided to ride as many rides as we could. We hit the Treehouse, Aladdins Carpets, POTC, the carousel, peter pans flight, winnie the Pooh and IASW.

I bought the girls some light up bubble blowers and they decided to go see Ariel. The line wasn't too long and when they got to the front they decided to share the bubbles with Ariel and she loved it and played along with them

After Ariel we went and got a hot dog at Rays and found a perch on the Bridge near there to watch wishes. The girls made some friends and then we watched the fireworks. We made our way through the shops and picked up some merch and headed back to the hotel to bed

Up next Hollywood....

 

[Tinkermom76]

Day 5 of our girls trip started off with an EARLY breakfast at Chef Mickey’s, but luckily it’s at our hotel and we didn’t have to go too far. Our next vacation I am not going to make such early ADR’s then maybe I can sleep in a few days!

After breakfast we made our way to Hollywood Studios. The last time we were here either there was no Toy Story Midway or I had not heard about it (which is very possible since my last trip was before I found the Dis Boards and I was very uninformed) so after looking at a map and still being very confused I found a CM and asked where I could find TSM and I finally got pointed in the proper direction. I found the fastpass line and luckily our return time was 11:40am. We saw the Ariel show and Muppets 3D then headed over to ride TSM. Of course we loved it and grabbed another fastpass as we exited, which was for 7pm. We went to Toy Story pizza for lunch which the kids really liked and then we saw Lightning and Mater and then off to meet Buzz and Woody. We stopped off for a few magic shots and to meet some Monsters.

Up next….. Girls can shop!!!!

 

[praisehisname]

I really wanted to do this shot, but we never found a photopass photographer that would do it.

Great update!

 

[Tinkermom76]

I really wanted to do this shot, but we never found a photopass photographer that would do it.

Great update!

we found this photographer on the Streets of America and she did these, the stitch coming out of the ground and the balloons. She was really nice

 

[IATink]

Just got all caught up today! Still loving your report and all the pictures! You have some great ones. We have never had any pictures with the Monsters Inc. characters. We'll have to look on our next trip!

 

[martinolichfamily]

Just found your TR today....so great! I sooooo want to go to WDW when the Christmas Decor is up....I LOVE Christmas time too!!

Great pics @ BBB....I made my DD3 a ressie for July when we go...do you think the hair and makeup will last for several hours?? (we have dinner @ 1900 park fare that night and though it would be cute to get her a cinderella dress to wear as well)

Looking forward to reading more!!

 

[Tinkermom76]

Just found your TR today....so great! I sooooo want to go to WDW when the Christmas Decor is up....I LOVE Christmas time too!!

Great pics @ BBB....I made my DD3 a ressie for July when we go...do you think the hair and makeup will last for several hours?? (we have dinner @ 1900 park fare that night and though it would be cute to get her a cinderella dress to wear as well)

Looking forward to reading more!!

It will last as long as she leaves it in. mine wanted it out right away which kinda ticked me off but oh well it's their heads

 

[Tinkermom76]

Sorry it's been so long, my grandmother passed away so I have been dealing with that.
I am actually sick right now so i thought it would be a good time to get some done

This was the day I wanted to head down to Downtown Disney and do some shopping and the girls were looking forward to eating at McDonalds
We checked out most of the shops and made our way through Goofy’s candy company but my girls are not big junk eaters so they didn’t want anything
I would say the best stop we made was at World Of Disney where I think we probably spent at least 2 hours checking things out and buying stuff we NEEDED hahahahaha. When we were finished and I felt I had more bags than I could carry we made our way to McDonalds for dinner

After we ate we decided it would be best to drop our stuff off at the hotel before making our way back to DHS. We got back to DHS around 5:30pm so we decided to check out fantasmic. We had never seen this and it was originally not going to be showing this day but it was added after I planned our days. I got out the map to find where it was and I realized there was a whole part of the park I didn’t know existed ( I wondered where RNRC and TOT were ) mental note to check out this area on our next trip. We got a seat in the back to the far right and I thought it was a pretty good show.
After the show we went and checked out the lights for a while and did some more shopping for Toy Story toys (Emma really wanted Slinky dog) then we made our way back to ride TSM again and we all loved it just as much this time.

Now it was time to head back to our hotel for the night.. tomorrow is our last full day here

 

[praisehisname]

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother.

Great update! I can't believe your trip is almost over.

Denise

 

[Tinkermom76]

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother.

Great update! I can't believe your trip is almost over.

Denise

Thanks it's been a rough week

I couldn't believe it either but I'm ok now knowing I will be nack again this Christmas!!!!

 

[RinkyTinkyTinky]

Going back to get caught up!

 

[Tinkermom76]

The last day....
I did not make an early ADR today like I had all week but I made it for 9:30am so we could watch the MK opening ceremony. This was our last full day, our last day at MK and it was also a day they were taping performances at the MK for the Christmas parade.

We woke up and looked out the window and saw.........





























RAIN!!!!!!


This made me so happy because I figured they would cancel the performances this morning.
We were kinda tired and lazy today so we just missed rope drop but as we entered the MK there were teenage girls screaming everywhere and so we turned around and who was in the train station?.... The Jonas Brothers. This was our cue to get the heck away from here and get over to Crystal Palace for breakfast. On our way we met up with some Main St Royalty

The food there was ok but I didn’t find it anything to rave over. We had already seen Tigger and Pooh at 1900 Park Fare so we were really interested to see Eeyore and Piglet.

After breakfast we stopped in the store and picked up some rain ponchos since the rain didn’t look like it was going to stop anytime soon
Now I know what we did this day but apparently I was too tired to pull out my camera because there are very few pics. Our goal today was rides……
We went to Adventureland and went in the Treehouse, Magic Carpets and POTC. In Frontierland the kids decided they wanted to see Jessie so we stopped in a store and asked where we could find them and we were sent to Exposition Hall. When we got there Pinocchio was outside and Jessie and Woody inside

Then we made our way to the Castle and saw the stage where the Jonas Brothers were supposed to perform if it hadn’t been raining Then we stopped by Liberty Square to meet the newest Princess and her Prince. They asked the kids where they were from and then Prince Naveen led them all in O Canada ( I was surprised they knew the words)

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