I almost don't even want to write this after the past two mishaps.....But I love you all and you have been so nice, so I will continue on!
Ok so this day was going to be awesome! This was our first time going to Chef Mickey's, first time going to BBB, first time dining at Ohana's and most IMPORTANTLY our very first MNNSHP!!!!! Today was also one of the only times that Kayla and I would get some one on one time, something I am going to make a point to do more of next September! Same for Jack as he will be older and hopefully more well behaved/potty trained/talking like he's never not talked lol.. ok ok I'm getting off topic!
Needless to say I was stoked for today.. beyond stoked actually. I was up much earlier than everyone else so I took this time to take a nice solo long hot shower and mini plan my day (ha! like that even works in Disney) After my awesome shower I woke the rest of the fam up. At this point it was still only about 7:30, but a girl can only hold her excitment in so long, ya know? By 8:10 we were out the door and in the mini-van (which still has no name). I was eager to get to the Contemporary as I was wondering if they really gave out 3 hour parking passes or not. Well, we get there and folks they DO only give out 3 hour parking passes. Some of you may not care about this, but I remember there being a lot of talk about this topic when researching my trip. We pull in and score a sweet parking spot! We walk into the ginormous Contemporary and instantly I don't get what the hype is about. I'm also confused and don't know which elevator goes where. I find a lovely Manager dude and ask him how the heck we get to Chef Mickey's. He says go this way then that then this way then that. I also noticed he was from Pennsylvania, Holla atcha boy! We take the elevator up to the 4th floor, we get up there and notice two lovely gift shops and the monorail inside the dang building! That was pretty cool! I look around expecting to see this huge restaurant and I see nada.. although I smell heaven!Finally I see a little tiny podium and a white wall with junky looking pics of mickey on them... I'm not impressed and kinda worried now about this ADR.
(not so fancy looking huh?)
I go up to the podium and give our name even though it is only 8:40 and our ADR"S aren't until 9:25. I get handed a buzzer and ticket to go get our picture taken. We walk over there, but pause to look at the pretty view of the Magic Kingdom . Finally I see the inside of the restaurant and I am instantly happy/excited/and impressed lol. We go to the not so friendly obviously over her boring picture taking job lady and get our pic. Just as that was done the buzzer went off, SCORE! I mean I called thios place for months trying to change my ADR time with no luck, and here I am strolling up 45 mons early and getting seated. Not to mention that there was not one other family waiting!! All that calling and they are just letting people walk up and eat whenever they want..hmmmph! So we get to our table (which is right by the buffett, score again lol) and I see this:
Yay, a cupcake for john's bday!! Our waitress then comes over and says she has another present for him!! It was a placemat signded by all the characters! She also informed me that we should get food while we could as the characters come around pretty quickly and once they are gone don't expect to see them for another hour. I hop up and run to the buffett with Kayla and plan to get her,my and Jack's food so we are prepared for all the characters! well we get up there and what a buffett! Everything looked awesome, I didn't know where to start! Neither did Kayla!! She was in love lol When I got back John's placemat was there and super cute!! Did I get a pic of it..nope! Although it is sitting on my table right now.. I'll have to get a pic of it at some point Anywho, all of a sudden we here someone announce "everybody, it's John's bday, here comes Mickey" and out comes mickey and the gang doing that Chef Mickey's napking twirling thing lol
Jack didn't really know what the hell to do
After this the characters came around to take pics and sign autographs. Jack loved Mickey, but did not want any part of the rest of the characters.. this was his first real close up with the characters so I'll cut him some slack!
Now for some pics of the kiddies and characters..but out of order as photobucket hated me and uploaded my pics crazy despite me trying 3x to do it right!