funatdisney
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I am a little late on posting about my trip last week. We got home on the 29th and was super busy until this morning!
We arrived on the 26th at 11:30am at the VGC and attended MHP the same night. We all (DH, DD(15), DD(12) and me) had a great time at MHP. We were able to get into the park at 4pm. I was hoping our room would be ready in enough time for all of us to get into the park by 3pm, but it was not ready at 2:30 (which is not really that unusual for a Villa - I was just hoping) I called the house phone at 2:45 and explained to the CM that we were waiting for our room and had tickets for MHP. They called my cell at 3pm and told me that the room would be ready by 3:30. I was so happy that they took into account that we had tickets and were able to do what they could to help us out. DH went to the room to wait for our luggage and the girls and I went into the park.
We got so much candy! DD(15) was in pain because she fell off her horse the day before, but that didn't stop her. She managed to visit every treat station 3 times! DH and I got at least 6 pounds of candy each and DD(12) had a lot less since she didn't really want that much candy to begin with. The candy station experience was such a trip. Nearly all the stations were handing out fistfuls of candy. It was like they couldn't get rid of it fast enough! After having my bag 1/2 full (we used the WoC bags we got from the picnic meal with FP for WoC), I wanted to get more raisins and craisins, which the CM never really gave them out unless you asked for them. So the next station where they had raisins, I asked for some raisins. The CM looked a little shocked and gave me one small box and about 10 pieces of candy! The next station that had craisins, the CM gave me one craisins pouch and a few chocolate candies. It was basically the same with the apples, carrots and the apple crisp pieces. It was so funny how I had to practically beg and plead for more of the healthy stuff. Since we had a refrigerator in the room, I thought the carrots and apples would be nice for snacking. It was refreshing to eat some carrots after all the candy we were munching on during the event.
We never made it to the Cavalcade and saw the the fireworks from IASM. I really wanted to see the fireworks from the Castle, but the kids and hubby wanted to keep riding the rides and get more candy, so I couldn't get to the Castle early enough to get a spot right in front of the Castle. The nice thing about seeing the fireworks from IASM was there were very little people there, and we got to see the villian characters, Malificent, Hades, the evil Step-mother, Drillsilla, Anastasia, and Jafar walk past us on their way to and from the greeting area while the fireworks were on. DH got some cool pics of the girls with the fireworks going off in the backround. I will try to post them later, since I haven't had the time to down load them onto Photobucket yet. Next year I plan on getting in the fireworks in front of the Castle and see the Cavalcade, too.
One other thing I want to mention about our trip which was cool, but didn't have much to do with Halloween. Our room faced DCA and we were able to see the WoC from our balcony and front living room window. We got back to our room form MHP at 11:07. The WoC lights and water fountains were on. They were playing with a Tron presentation. It was quite spectacular to watch them play with different effects to see what would work and what can be done with all the elements from the WoC to give the best show for the Tron piece. They were trying to see if they could beam laser lights to hit the very top of Screamin' to give the effect of a short laser line moving smoothly over the tracks. We sat in the living room until 12:30am, watching them work through the Tron piece. They must have been practicing and playing with it all night. My DD(12) woke up at 4am and saw them still playing with the effects. They continued with this every night we were there. At times there were blue lights streaming into our room, and we knew that wasn't suppose to happen. Finally on the last night night (Thursday), they had the Tron section done, and were practicing on how to seam it into the WoC. They would start with a short piece from the WoC and seam in the Tron section and seam back into WoC. The whole time they played the music and had it piped into the TV. Not that we needed the TV. The music is quite loud and we were able to hear it without a problem. It turned out to be a good piece, even if we could only see it from an angle that faced more of the back side and right of the WoC. I wonder if they have added it onto the WoC or if it was for a special presentation.
We arrived on the 26th at 11:30am at the VGC and attended MHP the same night. We all (DH, DD(15), DD(12) and me) had a great time at MHP. We were able to get into the park at 4pm. I was hoping our room would be ready in enough time for all of us to get into the park by 3pm, but it was not ready at 2:30 (which is not really that unusual for a Villa - I was just hoping) I called the house phone at 2:45 and explained to the CM that we were waiting for our room and had tickets for MHP. They called my cell at 3pm and told me that the room would be ready by 3:30. I was so happy that they took into account that we had tickets and were able to do what they could to help us out. DH went to the room to wait for our luggage and the girls and I went into the park.
We got so much candy! DD(15) was in pain because she fell off her horse the day before, but that didn't stop her. She managed to visit every treat station 3 times! DH and I got at least 6 pounds of candy each and DD(12) had a lot less since she didn't really want that much candy to begin with. The candy station experience was such a trip. Nearly all the stations were handing out fistfuls of candy. It was like they couldn't get rid of it fast enough! After having my bag 1/2 full (we used the WoC bags we got from the picnic meal with FP for WoC), I wanted to get more raisins and craisins, which the CM never really gave them out unless you asked for them. So the next station where they had raisins, I asked for some raisins. The CM looked a little shocked and gave me one small box and about 10 pieces of candy! The next station that had craisins, the CM gave me one craisins pouch and a few chocolate candies. It was basically the same with the apples, carrots and the apple crisp pieces. It was so funny how I had to practically beg and plead for more of the healthy stuff. Since we had a refrigerator in the room, I thought the carrots and apples would be nice for snacking. It was refreshing to eat some carrots after all the candy we were munching on during the event.
We never made it to the Cavalcade and saw the the fireworks from IASM. I really wanted to see the fireworks from the Castle, but the kids and hubby wanted to keep riding the rides and get more candy, so I couldn't get to the Castle early enough to get a spot right in front of the Castle. The nice thing about seeing the fireworks from IASM was there were very little people there, and we got to see the villian characters, Malificent, Hades, the evil Step-mother, Drillsilla, Anastasia, and Jafar walk past us on their way to and from the greeting area while the fireworks were on. DH got some cool pics of the girls with the fireworks going off in the backround. I will try to post them later, since I haven't had the time to down load them onto Photobucket yet. Next year I plan on getting in the fireworks in front of the Castle and see the Cavalcade, too.
One other thing I want to mention about our trip which was cool, but didn't have much to do with Halloween. Our room faced DCA and we were able to see the WoC from our balcony and front living room window. We got back to our room form MHP at 11:07. The WoC lights and water fountains were on. They were playing with a Tron presentation. It was quite spectacular to watch them play with different effects to see what would work and what can be done with all the elements from the WoC to give the best show for the Tron piece. They were trying to see if they could beam laser lights to hit the very top of Screamin' to give the effect of a short laser line moving smoothly over the tracks. We sat in the living room until 12:30am, watching them work through the Tron piece. They must have been practicing and playing with it all night. My DD(12) woke up at 4am and saw them still playing with the effects. They continued with this every night we were there. At times there were blue lights streaming into our room, and we knew that wasn't suppose to happen. Finally on the last night night (Thursday), they had the Tron section done, and were practicing on how to seam it into the WoC. They would start with a short piece from the WoC and seam in the Tron section and seam back into WoC. The whole time they played the music and had it piped into the TV. Not that we needed the TV. The music is quite loud and we were able to hear it without a problem. It turned out to be a good piece, even if we could only see it from an angle that faced more of the back side and right of the WoC. I wonder if they have added it onto the WoC or if it was for a special presentation.
We didn't take many during the party. Didn't see many PP photogs out there.
