Day Two, Friday:
I was up early by 6am and virtuously headed to the Shades of Green fitness center. I knew how I would indulge today and wanted to get in a workout occasionally! Their gym is pretty nice. I did the bike and then some ab work for about an hour. Left there and checked out the AAFES store. Finally, I decided to get a coffee and Daddy found me at the Java bar. They have very good Starbucks coffee at Shades of Green!
Pretty soon, we were all ready to face the day! We packed up my boxes which included things like our guest books, personalized napkins and M & M custom favors. Daddy drove us over to Franck’s studio and a very nice assistant there took my loot and promised it would be delivered safely to the reception.
We also explored the grounds for a few minutes and even got to peek in on a rehearsal at the wedding pavilion:
We couldn’t wait to get to Magic Kingdom today. All three of us dream about the frozen lattes and cinnamon rolls at Main Street Bakery and we planned to head directly there to get our fix, yum!!! We took the bus from Shades to the Ticket and Transportation Center and then rode the ferry over to MK. We went to get our bags inspected and that is where our plan broke down
Security inspected Daddy’s utility pack. He was okay with Dad’s mobile ham radio but he happened to notice that Daddy had what looked like a large pen hooked onto his shorts pocket! Lo and behold, Daddy was carrying in a small penknife!
Had he just dropped it inside his pocket, it would have attracted no attention. Instead, he was directed to get a small locker to store it while we were visiting the park. Dad was irritated right off, partly because he wished he had noticed it earlier and put it into his pocket instead of hooking it and also because it was so obviously not meant as a weapon. The fiasco worsened as the security “people” first had Daddy get the change from us (Mom actually flagged down another guest to try to get change for her dollar) to buy the mini-locker and then the locker was broken. Then Daddy had them cough up more change for a second locker and it wouldn’t open either!!
Finally, after some heated discussion and then some calming conversation, one of the lead security people told my father to just put the little penknife in his pocket and leave it there during our visit. What a “not so fun” way to start our Magic Kingdom day as all this drama took about 40 minutes! Thank goodness it all worked out though!
Belatedly, we made our way to Main Street Bakery and assuaged our tension with the yummy carbs in our frozen lattes and and cinnamon rolls. After such a delicious meal, we calmed down and were ready to take on the park!
Daddy usually prefers to ride shady park benches but today, we managed to convince him to try Laugh Floor for the first time. I caught him laughing at the corny jokes several times and Mom and I loved watching him enjoy it!
As we were walking out of Laugh Floor, we noticed this darling boy running between his mom and maybe an aunt. We always notice cute babies and kids and the mom allowed me to take his picture
Tomorrowland Transit Authority is always a fave for my parents so we did that too.
The black line in front of my dad happens to be the antenna on his mobile ham radio. You can see it in the pics coming up too, lol! We then wandered over to enjoy all the kids driving their race cars at the Tomorrowland Speedway. Then, we rode the train from Toonland back to the front of Magic Kingdom.
It started raining quite a bit at this point and we ducked into the shop next to Tony’s Town Square. To our good luck, they had Pluto, Chip, and Dale entertaining the kids and adults inside here until the rain stopped and the parade could begin. We scoped out a bench to watch the characters interact. Soon, however, we became part of the show!
Dale outdid himself thrilling my parents and embarrassing me. Daddy felt Dale’s arm and told him he could definitely tell he was a macho chipmunk. Dale agreed heartily and upon hearing of the impending vows began to flirt with me!! Here is the evidence of our great fun!!
Finally the rain stopped and we caught the parade and started back down Main Street. We had an ADR at Plaza Restaurant, so we headed there. They were busy turning people away and I could tell they thought we were hoping to get in without a ressie! She was surprised to have someone walk up with an ADR, lol. We were seated within minutes and we enjoyed the ambiance and sitting right by the front window too. I had the Cheese Steak sandwich and while I enjoyed the flavor, it could have been juicier. I had fries with my sandwich and enjoyed them. We had planned on getting dessert here as well but we wanted a better choice of ice cream flavors so we opted to go next door to the Main Street Ice Cream Parlor
We picked our ice cream and ducked back into the Main Street Bakery to eat it.
Daddy then humored us for a time while we wandered through the Emporium. Mom found the cutest Mickey wristlet purse in yellow. I ended up buying a different color in the same style and here it is:
At this point we headed out of the park and back to Shades of Green to settle in for the night. This was a great day overall notwithstanding our difficult arrival at MK. Be careful what you carry to the parks!
Day Three: Celebration and the Quest for Stickers!
I am a real slow-poke!!!
Even though, it was hard on poor hubby to be left behind for a couple of days (he could not leave early and one son had important girlfriend stuff going on), it turned out to be such a blessing! I’ll explain later…
I settled into the back seat of their 4Runner and sort of set up shop. One of the main jobs still undone was to pack my welcome party favor bags. We all gossiped about what fun we would have on our trip to Disney while I packed our wedding music MP3 discs, personalized chocolates, gum and candy in party favor treat bags which I will picture again here for something to look at, lol!!
Here is the entrance picture – Daddy even pulled off the road so I could get a better picture, LOL! 
We couldn’t believe it. He was attracting a little crowd too with everyone just watching him watching us. Finally, we tore ourselves away and continued on to our yummy dinner. At the Poly, we saw more wildlife but this time just a cute little rabbit: 
I think my dad got a salmon dish (he adores that) and mom and I shared the teriyaki steak and potatoes entrée. That really is an excellent piece of beef 
We all ordered our own dessert. I was still attempting to be good and ordered the fruit and chocolate fondue which was delicious!
So excited to see your first day. I can only imagine what the assembly line of you putting together the bags in the car had to look like; I know how messed up our hotel room was when we put ours together. 
I am going to keep plugging away at this and get it done!! 
And I was really glad when I got it done!! 
Twiu told great stories with Mikkel too about being cast members and we heard all about their exciting wedding plans. Sunsh1ne was a great source of information to us all because she was the only Disbride that was already married at Disney and a veteran Fairy Tale Bride 
