HO HO HO, we are LIVE from WDW and the WILDERNESS LODGE 12/19-12/26!!!

[TigrLvsPooh]

I love the Gingerbread castle

 

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And I love Dopey

 

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I love Olaf!!!

 

[elaine1109]

Hi Erika, Have a wonderful trip and so excited to be following along!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

Just had a wonderful lunch at Rose & Crown!!!! Super delicious!!!!!!

 

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For instant updates here's my photobucket: http://s59.photobucket.com/user/ekmurphy12/library/Disney December 2014

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

We are back! Nothing like coming back from a long day in the parks to a delicious spread of desserts! Apple cobbler, smores, lemon bars, cookies, all kinds of good things. I think I must be getting old because I feel exhausted and it's only 8:30! Part of that is due to going to bed last night after 2:00 AM though. Tonight is going to be early bedtime for this bunch I think.

The Studios felt dead today! I guess everyone must be at MK, the longest wait I saw was 50 minutes for Toy Story. We used our FPs for Star Tours, Frozen Sing Along, and Toy Story, then went over to see Baymax. He's so cute!! After that we hit the Osborne Lights for the grand finale. I took tons of pictures. Of course

Before I share pictures from today I want to back track a bit to last night's MVMCP. It was a bit of a debacle for us from the get go due to transportation. After having some appetizers in the lounge around 5:00 we headed down to the boat launch. It was about 5:45 PM. We ended up waiting ONE HOUR for the first boat to show up. I don't know what the problem was, but by the time the boat finally came the line of people stretched all the way back to the POOL!!!

Due to that issue we didn't arrive at the party until about 7:20. The boat had to go to Fort Wilderness first, which added even more time. When we arrived we headed straight towards the castle to attempt to find a spot to see Celebrate the Season and a Frozen Holiday Wish. It was pretty much a mob scene and the first thing I noticed was the lack of wrist bands. I don't understand why Disney doesn't completely close the park and empty it out, then let the party visitors in. I swear I am not exaggerating when I say about 75% of the people standing around us had no visible wristbands and I never saw any castmembers checking the crowd, only checking at the top of Main Street. To make things even worst people were shoving and being quite rude, it just felt too crowded and hostile to really enjoy the show. Not to mention almost every Dad had a child on his shoulders. Which resulted in ZERO view for everyone else. What little we could see of the two shows were both GREAT, I really wish we could have seen more than just a tiny sliver of the stage.

Despite the negatives it was still an awesome night!!!!

Kids on the shoulders time!

 

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OLAF!!!!!!

Here's how close we were for the parade once the crowds cleared!

Sorry these are all so lopsided, this crazy lady kept ramming me with her camera and basically stood on top of me.

 

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Holiday Wishes

 

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Up next was the Jingle Cruise The non-wristband folks can't rain on this parade!

 

[lala3291]

Looks like you all are having a great time so far. I love your pictures so far, and can't wait for more! Hope you all sleep good tonight!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

The weather was so gorgeous today, so warm!

This gingerbread cupcake was deeeeeelicious!

The Frozen Sing Along was awesome!

We've been covered in Elsa's SNOW!

Baymax was so cute, and he even blinked!

 

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And our Osborne Lights finale tonight!

 

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We are full of dessert and settled down watching a movie now. The kids picked The Haunted Mansion from the club level movie collection.

Tomorrow we are back to Epcot! Test Track and Teppen Edo, Nic's two most favorites.

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

Oops! Almost forgot to mention, since we had a sitdown lunch at Rose & Crown we decided to eat dinner downstairs at Roaring Forks. We had flatbread pizzas and they were great! Santa Goofy and Christmas Pluto were in the lobby posing for pictures. If we could have mustered up the energy to stand in line we would have taken pics with them.

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

Looks like you all are having a great time so far. I love your pictures so far, and can't wait for more! Hope you all sleep good tonight!

We are having a great time for sure! Lots more fun in store!

 

[jwwi]

Have a great time.

Such a beautiful resort to stay at for Christmas!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

Good morning!
We had breakfast in the lounge, walked down to the bus stop, and the Epcot bus was right there waiting for us!!!!!!! Perfect timing!!!!

High forecast today is 81 degrees!!!!!

 

[xlsm]

Love your live reports! I followed along with the last one and now I'm hooked

Wilderness Lodge is our second home and i LOVE seeing her all dressed up for Christmas

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

Another beautiful day here today! The weather couldn't be more perfect! We had breakfast in the lounge and then hit Epcot. Our fastpasses were set for Test Track, Mission Space, and Spaceship Earth. As soon as we got to the park I knew it was going to be busy, a 60 minute wait for Spaceship Earth with both sides of the line full. But I have to say it didn't feel bad walking around, and our lunch at Sunshine Seasons was easy and quick.
Here are some pics

Walking back to the resort after Epcot I took some pics of the decorations

Afternoon snacks in the club lounge:

We are heading back to Epcot tonight to check out the holidays around the world showcase and dinner at Teppen Edo.

Thanks for following along and for all the well wishes, I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday.