Halloween Weekend with our Favorite Disney CM...new PTR LINK p. 16

[Pinkocto]

That D & B is too cute! I also got a bit motion sick on the new Star Tours, it was quite disappointing because we would have kept going on to see the different scenarios. Tower of Terror is one of my absolute favorites but since I was sick from Star Tours we didn't get on it that day, and weren't able to get back that trip. I'll make sure to get a ride in next trip.

 

[wdwgirl03]

I love the bag!!!! You've never done Mission Space?! The easy side is fine but you still spin a little but not as much as the other side. If you don't like enclosed dark spaces that is going to be a problem lol.

No, I've always been to scared to do Mission Space. I don't think the small space would bother me, it's more the spinning.

Thanks for the video! It was cute and Kadence loved it!

Awww, we love DHS! It has become a very close 2nd to MK. I bet you felt pretty important going in the CM entrance! TSM is ride to get to first, maybe when Kadence is older she lose her fear of TOT and RnR.

I agreew with you, TOT has some of the best theming! It's just to drop that gets me

Love your new D&B purse!

Glad you both liked the video! I love the Jedi Training.

haha, yes I did feel pretty special going in the CM entrance. It was nice that it had a much shorter line too.

Aww, the drop is the best part!

Thank you...I love it too! Thank goodness Emma had her CM discount because Mom told me if she didn't I wouldn't have gotten it. LOL.

Wow, I can't believe that you've never done Star Tours before, even the original! I do have to say though, simulator rides are their own thing. So I can understand the hesitance, because you can get motion sickness from that more easily. You read my February TR. Some things are just a motion sickness cocktail!

I love getting good CM's at ToT. It just makes the ride so much more fun, especially when they're creepy.

I know, it sort of stinks I never did it but oh well. Atleast I can say I finally did the newer version!

I'm playing catch up a little, but that's so cool that yall were able to get those free fastpasses! Also, Oscar sounds like a hoot. I definitely appreciate seeing CMs that you can tell genuinely love their jobs.

I LOVE your Disney Christmas gifts! That calendar looks like it would be awesome, and THE DISNEY DOONEY IS SO CUTE! I did get a Disney gift too... nothing like THAT! But I got a stuffed Dumbo. It's seriously the cutest thing.

Moving on... Tower of Terror and RNRC are just so much fun. I love how close they are, too. It's just a little corner of thrills on Sunset Boulevard hahah. I totally agree, the Jedi Training Academy is so cute! I think it's really creative too. STAR TOURS IS AWESOME. It just feels so real!

Yup, it was another nice perk of having a CM sister. I can't believe she's almost done. I agree about the really good CMs, but it sort of makes me want to work at WDW myself!

Thank you! The calendar has some really cute pictures from the movies. I love it. Aww, a stuffed Dumbo sounds adorable!

I agree, it is nice that they're so close. Before TSM Dad always joked about how the park would "tilt" because everyone went to those 2 attractions right away!

I love your Disney Dooney, that's a great bag for the parks! And the calendar is adorable! I usually get the official WDW calendar, but it's sold our everywhere this year, so I got the Thomas Kinkade Disney calendar instead, it's really pretty!

Glad you liked Star Tours! I actually think Mission Space is a little smoother than Star Tours, so I think you can definitely handle the green side! I don't ever get motion sickness, but I went on Star Tours on this past trip and felt a little nauseous, which is really strange for me!

Yeah, the only bad thing is that I have sort of a big camera that won't fit in there. Guess I'll just have to use it at home instead. Emma was looking for that calendar too and said she waited too long to get it-she couldn't find it anywhere. Too funny that you got the Thomas Kinkade one because Claire got that one!

We will have to see come April if I'm brave enough to try M:S.

That D & B is too cute! I also got a bit motion sick on the new Star Tours, it was quite disappointing because we would have kept going on to see the different scenarios. Tower of Terror is one of my absolute favorites but since I was sick from Star Tours we didn't get on it that day, and weren't able to get back that trip. I'll make sure to get a ride in next trip.

Isn't it adorable?

That stinks that you got motion sickness on Star Tours. All the more reason to go back!

 

[Merida]

Ah! I'm so late on things!

#130

I actually went inside the Poly for the first time on our recent trip and it was really nice! I liked it much better than the Wilderness Lodge. It's so serene and vacation-y.

The Visa picture spot was always really full in Epcot, I wonder if more people are getting cards or more people are hearing about the picture? It looked like fun, Donald kept teasing people outside because there was a huge hold up right before him (Pluto, maybe?).

#139
Mmm, lava cake. My favorite kind of cake! It was pretty much the only reason I would ever go to Chili's, but it's now $6 so I'm on the lookout for a new favorite lava cake

Belgian waffles are also really delicious and that pin is really cute. I love the colors. Mission: Space isn't that bad, I've never noticed a lot of spinning. But I've never gotten motion sick so I might have just never paid close attention!

I love the Land pavilion so much. This was the first trip I've ever spent any real time in there and it was super nice.

#146
It seems like the CP goes by so quickly! I would think the transition between working at Disney and going to school would be difficult, it's hard enough coming back after a short vacation.

Wow! DHS is empty! We got there before 8:30 on our DHS day and it was many times fuller. It's neat to see how crowds change with different seasons. Lucky you with the extra fastpasses.

I do love the themeing in DHS, even the hat. It's just so fun.

#154
Congrats on your bag! I've never seen a purple one (I've pretty much only seen white), it looks really cute.

Tower of Terror is different than I thought (I just went on it for my first time). For reason I'd gotten the impression is was similar to the movie, but it didn't really have anything to do with that? I still have to get over both my ToT and Rockin' Roller Coaster fears to really appreciate them, haha.

 

[wdwgirl03]

Ah! I'm so late on things!

#130

I actually went inside the Poly for the first time on our recent trip and it was really nice! I liked it much better than the Wilderness Lodge. It's so serene and vacation-y.

The Visa picture spot was always really full in Epcot, I wonder if more people are getting cards or more people are hearing about the picture? It looked like fun, Donald kept teasing people outside because there was a huge hold up right before him (Pluto, maybe?).

#139
Mmm, lava cake. My favorite kind of cake! It was pretty much the only reason I would ever go to Chili's, but it's now $6 so I'm on the lookout for a new favorite lava cake

Belgian waffles are also really delicious and that pin is really cute. I love the colors. Mission: Space isn't that bad, I've never noticed a lot of spinning. But I've never gotten motion sick so I might have just never paid close attention!

I love the Land pavilion so much. This was the first trip I've ever spent any real time in there and it was super nice.

#146
It seems like the CP goes by so quickly! I would think the transition between working at Disney and going to school would be difficult, it's hard enough coming back after a short vacation.

Wow! DHS is empty! We got there before 8:30 on our DHS day and it was many times fuller. It's neat to see how crowds change with different seasons. Lucky you with the extra fastpasses.

I do love the themeing in DHS, even the hat. It's just so fun.

#154
Congrats on your bag! I've never seen a purple one (I've pretty much only seen white), it looks really cute.

Tower of Terror is different than I thought (I just went on it for my first time). For reason I'd gotten the impression is was similar to the movie, but it didn't really have anything to do with that? I still have to get over both my ToT and Rockin' Roller Coaster fears to really appreciate them, haha.

That's OK...glad you found me.

We all love the Polynesian so much since it's the first resort we stayed at. Some day I'm hoping to stay there again, but in the mean time I'll have to settle with visiting.

Yeah, I don't know about the Visa spot. Maybe word is getting out.

Part of my fear is that I will talk myself into getting sick because I'll be so nervous. I keep saying it but one of these days I'll have to suck it up and try.

Man, it wasn't even me doing the CP and it sure seemed to fly by! This time next week Emma will be home.

I was so happy they were able to find the purple bag for me. I would've been happy with any but unwrapping the purple one was very exciting. They do carry them in a few other colors too.

LOL, that's exactly how I was with TOT and RNRC. So trust me, if you ride them enough, you'll learn to love 'em.

 

[wdwgirl03]

Hi everyone!!

I thought I would make one more post on here to wrap up 2011. I really can't believe that the year has come to an end (am I the only one who gets a little sad when the year is over? ). It sure seemed to fly by. Speaking of which, Emma is down to her final week in Disney. Who knows, maybe by the end of this week she'll be ready to come home. I'm sure you've all seen how the parks have been closing because they've reached capacity. She's had a pretty busy week with some long shifts-including a 14-hour one today. Crazy.

Anyway...I hope everyone has a good start to 2012 and that it's a Disney-filled year. Less than 100 days now till our Easter trip! Woo hoo.

I saw this image floating around on facebook so I thought I'd share. I don't know who created it, but isn't it cute?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'll hopefully have another TR update tomorrow since it's my last day of winter break. (Boo.)

 

[PlutosRHM55]

I'm all caught up! And just in time... Too bad, this will be my first Disney-less year as a DISer, unless all goes well for me :/ Anyways. I hope you have a very...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!​

 

[wdwgirl03]

I'm all caught up! And just in time... Too bad, this will be my first Disney-less year as a DISer, unless all goes well for me :/ Anyways. I hope you have a very...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!​

Thanks Timmy. Hopefully everything will work out and you'll get in a trip to Disney.

 

[wdwgirl03]

Sunday, October 30, 2011 cont'd (part 3)

After my first flight on Star Tours, we made our way back toward the Streets of America. The Osborne Lights were almost all, if not already completely, up.

OK, so it's not as impressive when they're not lit up. I may be crazy, especially after hearing how busy it was this past week but I am still hoping to get to see the Christmas decorations this year. We'll see.

While we were walking around we spotted the Cars meet and greet area so Emma and I ended up getting our picture with Lightning McQueen and Mater.

A little chalk drawing near the line entrance. Kachow!

After getting our picture taken I got a pressed penny of the 2 characters to add to my collection. Gotta love cheap souvenirs. Just as a side note, the Phineas and Ferb meet and greet area was right near the Cars one. Only that one had a much longer line. It would've been cool to meet them but then again I've never really seen the show. Maybe in April I'll wait for them just because. haha

By that time we were all just about ready for lunch but first we stopped in the little Christmas store that's near Pizza Planet. I love Christmas decorations so it was fun looking at all the cute ornaments and such. I had seen the little green alien one at the Christmas store at DTD so I showed it to Emma. We didn't get it there, but each year Mom always buys us a new ornament and that one became Emma's. You'll have to wait until a later update to see which one I got.

Christmas Duffy!

We may or may not have brought one of those guys home too.

Then it was time for lunch at one of our favorite QS restaurants, Pizza Planet!

We ended up splitting a couple pizzas, salads, and a meatball sub. If you haven't tried the meatball sub, it's actually pretty good! Since it was such a nice day we ate our lunch outside.

When we were done, Emma pointed out the "backstage" area where she goes in/out when she works. If only she could have taken us back there. I wonder what it's like...

Random shot of the ABC Commissary...

Our next stop was the Animation building so we could do the Animation Academy. When we got there, the next session was already full so in the mean time we decided to go meet Winnie the Pooh. I still think it's sort of sad that they already took Lotso out, especially since it's not like you can't meet Pooh anywhere else. Oh well. As we were walking toward the line entrance, there were these adorable little twins dressed as Pooh and Tigger getting their picture with Pooh. I wish I had a picture because it was almost too cute for words.

The queue area had snippets from Pooh stories.

We didn't have to wait too long until it was our turn to meet that silly old Bear.

And some random shot from inside the building.

After getting our picture we went back to wait for the Animation Academy. I was hoping our instructor would be Brian. We've had him a couple different times and he's great. Well, we didn't get Brian but the instructor we did have was just as good. And strangely enough, I found out from another TR that this guy's name is Ryan.

We started off our session trying to determine which character to draw. Ryan asked if anyone had ever done the class before and about half of the people raised their hands. He then said that he was hoping we could find a character that nobody had ever done before, so he then started rattling off different characters and had us raise our hands if we drew that particular character before. He was hoping to get a list of 3 possible characters we could do. As you can imagine, this turned out to be quite difficult. One of the options that most people hadn't done was Buzz Lightyear, and a lot of people were pretty excited about that one. The thing is, back in March (or one of our trips, I can't even keep them straight anymore) we sort of drew Buzz. I say "sort of" because the main character we drew was Woody, but since we still had a couple minutes left afterward, we got to do a really quick version of Buzz Lightyear. When I shared this, Ryan must've thought I was insane because he didn't get it at all and was wondering how we could have "sort of" drawn a character. Whoops! But, he still decided to add him to our list of possible characters. Another one that he suggested was Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas, to which pretty much everyone shouted out, "NO!" In the end, we finally decided on a character and it was Eeyore! Ryan did a great job explaining how to draw the different lines/shapes and in the end, I was pretty happy with how my Eeyore turned out!

I really do enjoy this class and would recommend it if you haven't done it before.

We then decided to go use some of Emma's fastpasses to go ride Toy Story Mania again. While we were waiting in line I noticed this door for CMs. Isn't it clever how they even theme the sign to the attraction?

Dad and I rode together again for a rematch. We both ended up with lower scores than our first ride, and the outcome was the same as it was in the morning.

We also used the fastpasses for one more ride on Rock 'n Roller Coaster.

When we got off, we spotted Mom talking to Emma's friend, who was working at the kid's activity station in the RNRC courtyard. We chatted for a bit and then headed out. After all, we wanted to have a little bit of a break before going to the Magic Kingdom for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party!

Good-bye, Hollywood Studios!

 

[marDgreen88]

Happy New Year!!!
The Osborne lights look so funny during the day. No it isn't crazy to go in December! The week of Christmas and New Years, yeah, that's a little crazy, but I have been in early December and mid December and the crowds were not bad at all!
I know a lot of people think Duffy is pointless but I think he is adorable!
Your Eeyore is so cute!
Excited to hear about MNSSHP!

 

[TinkerbellLuvr7]

Great update!!! Backstage haha. Nothing too thrilling I have Xmas Duffy too!!

 

[Pinkocto]

Great update! Happy New Year!

 

[jwwi]

I love your Eeyore picture, I have not been able to draw him yet. It is hard sometimes for the instructor to pick a character that no one has drawn. But always fun to do the drawing.
Hope you have enjoyed your time off, Happy New Year.

 

[onelilspark]

I had to laugh at the ornament part. My Mom always gets an ornament with the year on it when we go in February each year. Doesn't matter that they now live within an hour of WDW, she still gets it in February. Except this year she forgot to get it! So she's waiting until early January (so like this week) to head into the park and hopefully get it on clearance

 

[Nermel9]

Happy New Year!

I have issues with the Osborne Lights when they are not lit up. It just doesn't look right!

Aww, the Pooh queue is adorable! I love Pooh, but at the same time, there are so many other places to meet him, I wish they would put a more random character there, like when they had Lotso. Like maybe, I don't know, the Cheshire Cat!

That was nice of your instructor to ask what character you guys wanted to draw! I would have been the one person to say yes to drawing Jack Skellington, I love him! Your Eeyore is really cute!

 

[PlutosRHM55]

Awwww... the sad, sad Osborne lights not lit up. It really does look depressing and not very appealing. I wish they could really cover it up like they do with the Castle Dream Lights, but I guess not :/

Awww... that little hopscotch by the M&G area for Mater and Lightning is so cute! I really want to meet those guys. I've been kicking myself about not meeting them the first time I was in Disney because I discovered we had walked right by it, but in our dismay of not being able to go on the Muppets, we had missed it Always next time, right?

Oh wow... I didn't even know there was a Christmas shop in DHS... I really need to get around more over there lol The ornaments are so cute though! I really need more Disney ornaments for my sad little tree in my room. I'm crossing my fingers that with my new little tactic in place I will be going there soon Love the little Duffys btw!

I would love to go into those backstage areas at Disney. I remember how many a time I would end up leaning against the door of one of them and a CM would just walk right on by and need to get through. Maybe it's just destiny... Anyways... those little twins sound so cute, I wish I could've seen a picture, though I think you guys with the REAL Pooh suffices

Wow, that must've been one interesting Animation Academy. I've never done it, so I would've felt really left out while there. LOL @ your little explanation to Mr. Ryan about only half-drawing Buzz Lightyear. I was confused reading it, though I remember what you meant by that, I think it still counts though... maybe you should've asked what Buzz would've looked like as a final product if you did, if you were so interested? Though your Eeyore came out great

Sorry to hear you didn't have such a great round on TSM again. That ride is always on my mind now especially when I won, but didn't get best in car the last time I played. With my competitive spirit, I'm going to get above the 200,000 and I WILL do it. And that's so cool you noticed the CM door... I probably walked right by it, just never got a picture of it, but I just love what they write on those doors in Disney, so creative they are.

Can't wait to read about your MNSSHP adventure!

 

[Merida]

I liked December. The first few days of our trip were at a really nice crowd level and it helped to have hoppers if a park did get too crowded. There was never a day when all of the parks were swamped.

The Wall-e ornament is adorable (and the Little Green Man one as well)! I wish we would've stopped in there and picked one up.

I wish they at least had different Pooh characters in all the parks (like the different versions of the Fab Five) because there really is only so many times a person can meet Winnie-the-Pooh! Maybe it alleviates lines in individual parks because there's so many opportunities?

I love all the euphemisms for 'cast members' at Disney. I think it would be neat to do a 'Hidden Mickey search'-style trip for all the CM labels.

 

[Caretames1]

Nice update! I really want to eat at Pizza Planet, we got to walk through in Sept, but it wasn;t open for food yet.

Love your Eyore! You did a great job I'm really going to have to get my Stitch up on my TR so you can see how awful it is

I bet your sister is going to be so sad to be done with her CP.


Christmas decor is my favorite shopping!

 

[xoktenox]

Gotta love 2 rides on TSM in on trip to DHS

We love Pizza Planet too! Plus, eating with the Little Green Men is pretty cool too

Don't you wish you could just see all the backstage areas? I loved that on the KTTK tour...is your sister home now?

 

[wdwgirl03]

Happy New Year!!!
The Osborne lights look so funny during the day. No it isn't crazy to go in December! The week of Christmas and New Years, yeah, that's a little crazy, but I have been in early December and mid December and the crowds were not bad at all!
I know a lot of people think Duffy is pointless but I think he is adorable!
Your Eeyore is so cute!
Excited to hear about MNSSHP!

Oh, we've been there during the madness that is Christmas. Hearing all the stories lately makes me wonder if it's gotten more chaotic the past couple years.

I agree about Duffy! And Emma fell in love with him during her CP. She got one of the Halloween Duffys for $5 at one of the Cast Member stores!

Great update!!! Backstage haha. Nothing too thrilling I have Xmas Duffy too!!

Don't you have a bunch of Duffys?

Great update! Happy New Year!

Thanks...hope 2012 has been good for you so far.

I love your Eeyore picture, I have not been able to draw him yet. It is hard sometimes for the instructor to pick a character that no one has drawn. But always fun to do the drawing.
Hope you have enjoyed your time off, Happy New Year.

It is hard but I'm surprised the instructor even asked. I thought that was really cool.

I had to laugh at the ornament part. My Mom always gets an ornament with the year on it when we go in February each year. Doesn't matter that they now live within an hour of WDW, she still gets it in February. Except this year she forgot to get it! So she's waiting until early January (so like this week) to head into the park and hopefully get it on clearance

haha, I hope your mom is able to find her ornament!

Happy New Year!

I have issues with the Osborne Lights when they are not lit up. It just doesn't look right!

Aww, the Pooh queue is adorable! I love Pooh, but at the same time, there are so many other places to meet him, I wish they would put a more random character there, like when they had Lotso. Like maybe, I don't know, the Cheshire Cat!

That was nice of your instructor to ask what character you guys wanted to draw! I would have been the one person to say yes to drawing Jack Skellington, I love him! Your Eeyore is really cute!

haha, the Cheshire Cat would be funny.

I know I mentioned how I don't care for The Nightmare Before Christmas. Luckily nobody really wanted to draw him (or Grumpy, which I thought could've been cool).

Awwww... the sad, sad Osborne lights not lit up. It really does look depressing and not very appealing. I wish they could really cover it up like they do with the Castle Dream Lights, but I guess not :/

Awww... that little hopscotch by the M&G area for Mater and Lightning is so cute! I really want to meet those guys. I've been kicking myself about not meeting them the first time I was in Disney because I discovered we had walked right by it, but in our dismay of not being able to go on the Muppets, we had missed it Always next time, right?

Oh wow... I didn't even know there was a Christmas shop in DHS... I really need to get around more over there lol The ornaments are so cute though! I really need more Disney ornaments for my sad little tree in my room. I'm crossing my fingers that with my new little tactic in place I will be going there soon Love the little Duffys btw!

I would love to go into those backstage areas at Disney. I remember how many a time I would end up leaning against the door of one of them and a CM would just walk right on by and need to get through. Maybe it's just destiny... Anyways... those little twins sound so cute, I wish I could've seen a picture, though I think you guys with the REAL Pooh suffices

Wow, that must've been one interesting Animation Academy. I've never done it, so I would've felt really left out while there. LOL @ your little explanation to Mr. Ryan about only half-drawing Buzz Lightyear. I was confused reading it, though I remember what you meant by that, I think it still counts though... maybe you should've asked what Buzz would've looked like as a final product if you did, if you were so interested? Though your Eeyore came out great

Sorry to hear you didn't have such a great round on TSM again. That ride is always on my mind now especially when I won, but didn't get best in car the last time I played. With my competitive spirit, I'm going to get above the 200,000 and I WILL do it. And that's so cool you noticed the CM door... I probably walked right by it, just never got a picture of it, but I just love what they write on those doors in Disney, so creative they are.

Can't wait to read about your MNSSHP adventure!

They do look like an eyesore when they're not lit but when they do go on it is quite an amazing sight.

That's right, you can always meet them next time. More reason to plan a trip.

The Christmas store is kind of tucked away in a little corner so I can see how you missed it. But it's worth a stop next time you go!

It was an interesting Animation Academy but still fun. Love that class!

I liked December. The first few days of our trip were at a really nice crowd level and it helped to have hoppers if a park did get too crowded. There was never a day when all of the parks were swamped.

The Wall-e ornament is adorable (and the Little Green Man one as well)! I wish we would've stopped in there and picked one up.

I wish they at least had different Pooh characters in all the parks (like the different versions of the Fab Five) because there really is only so many times a person can meet Winnie-the-Pooh! Maybe it alleviates lines in individual parks because there's so many opportunities?

I love all the euphemisms for 'cast members' at Disney. I think it would be neat to do a 'Hidden Mickey search'-style trip for all the CM labels.

If you go early-mid December it is a great time to go. We went in 2008 in the middle of the month and the crowds were pretty much nonexistent, atleast by our standards. Our last day was the 21st or something and you could really tell the Christmas crowds were arriving. The MK was swamped on our last night!

They had so many cute ornaments. It was hard to choose just one. And I'm sort of jealous Emma ended up with the alien, but I like the one I got too.

Who knows about Pooh, I really wonder if Lotso just wasn't that popular because he was a villain in the movie.

Oh, I think that would be cool too! When we ate dinner at Casey's they had one there that said "home team only." haha!

Nice update! I really want to eat at Pizza Planet, we got to walk through in Sept, but it wasn;t open for food yet.

Love your Eyore! You did a great job I'm really going to have to get my Stitch up on my TR so you can see how awful it is

I bet your sister is going to be so sad to be done with her CP.


Christmas decor is my favorite shopping!

I love Pizza Planet!

Thank you! I think it really helps when you have a good instructor who explains everything. I've been pretty surprised with most of my drawings.

Yeah, I think she's got mixed emotions. I don't think she's going to miss her job all that much-it's her friends/people she worked with who she's going to miss.

Gotta love 2 rides on TSM in on trip to DHS

We love Pizza Planet too! Plus, eating with the Little Green Men is pretty cool too

Don't you wish you could just see all the backstage areas? I loved that on the KTTK tour...is your sister home now?

I think it would be interesting to see the backstage areas. It was really cool when we went on the Backstage Safari tour. Maybe we'll get to see more if we do the KTTK tour in April!

No, she is down to her final days as a Floridian. Her last day of work was yesterday. Dad went down today to help her move out (she's got to be out of her apartment tomorrow morning) and then they come home on Saturday. I really can't believe her stint is up!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Hi everyone!

Well, I can no longer say I have a Cast Member sister. Emma made it home safely yesterday, so her CP stint is over. I've said it before but I really can't believe how fast those few months flew by. When she and dad got home we exchanged our Christmas gifts (since we obviously couldn't do it on Christmas!) and went out to dinner. Of course, Emma gave us all Disney gifts! Here's what I got:

A Disneyland Paris Space Mountain vinylmation, a Slytherin pin (ok, so that's not exactly Disney), and a keychain. Here's a better look...S for Sarah.

If you're wondering about the pin, when I got my Pottermore account, I was sorted into Slytherin. LOL! Still think that's sort of funny. But anyway, even though I'm sure she misses Florida (we all know how much it stinks leaving WDW) it's nice that she's home again.

Now back to the trip report...

Sunday, October 30, 2011 cont'd (part 4)

After a busy morning at Hollywood Studios, it was time for a break. We didn't want to be too tired for the Halloween Party that night so we headed back to Saratoga Springs for a little bit. Emma came back with us instead of going to her apartment, and it was actually pretty funny because she fell asleep on the couch for a little bit. I guess we tired her out. I also had to put on my Aaron Rodgers jersey so I atleast had some sort of "costume." Hey, it's better than nothing, right? I made the mistake of not dressing up for the Halloween activities at school and felt left out. I was not going to feel left out again!

We wanted to get to the Magic Kingdom early so we could so some things before the start of the party. I think we got there shortly after 4:00 or so. It was my first Halloween party since 2006 (the only other time we've ever gone) so I was pretty excited!

They had all of the party guests entering on the right side so we got our wristbands and treat bags. And of course as we went through the tunnel to Main Street I had to grab one of the Halloween party maps.

Dad wanted to get our boarding passes for the next day so we stopped in Guest Relations quickly. I decided to take a couple more pictures instead since it wasn't raining.

Then it was time for some rides! What a view looking down Main Street. So pretty! And I just noticed the little boys in the picture both have on Harry Potter robes. I was so looking forward to seeing all of the costumes, and it sure seemed like wizard costumes were a popular choice, especially for the kids. I don't remember when it was, but since I mentioned wizards, there was one father and son who were dressed like Harry and Snape. Awesome.

So where did we end up going first? Since we missed the Jungle Cruise on Saturday due to that huge tour group, we headed toward Adventureland first. On the way I got another shot of the castle:

As we were walking toward the Jungle Cruise, we heard first comments about our "costumes." Emma and I both had on Aaron Rodgers jerseys and Dad had on a Packers t-shirt, so I heard one guy say something like, "Hey, they're dressed as Packer fans!" It was pretty amusing how many comments/reactions we got for that. Anyway...when we got to the Jungle Cruise, the line was much more manageable. I'd say we waited 10 minutes at most before we were on our boat.

The ride was corny as always . Here's a few pictures I got from our cruise:

8th wonder of the world?

"Don't worry, they're all wearing their trunks."

The most dangerous part of the cruise...

While we were on the ride, Emma had gotten a text from one of her roommates. She is friends with Mickey Mouse , and it turned out she was at the Exposition Hall. So, we went over there hoping to meet her. The line wasn't too long, maybe 15 minutes. While we were waiting there were a couple people in Brewers shirts so of course we had to comment on each other's costumes. Yay Wisconsin.

When we got to the front of the line, Emma told the CM about her roommate and asked if we could go to the room where she was working. Well, for some reason the CM wouldn't let us and said something about how you're not supposed to ask. I think Emma felt sort of bad then and I don't understand why she wouldn't let us. It's not like there was anybody else around when she asked but this CM wasn't going to crack. Atleast we still got to meet Mickey Mouse. I thought we had a picture from one of our cameras but I can't find it. Good thing I ordered the photopass one!

After meeting Mickey Emma and I stopped for a picture. I just love the Halloween decorations!

We then went to get some dinner at Casey's Corner before some more party fun!