The One With All The Birthdays - Day 10, HS, Tea & MNSSHP

[RobynPrincess]

Day 10

I've found today hard to write, I don't want to go into it in too much detail however suffice to say the day didn't really go too smoothly.

I was up at 7am after being in bed for 6 & ½ hours, now this might be enough sleep for some people however its totally not enough for me. So why was I up so early I hear you ask? My husband's snoring. I wrote in my notes 'Sy's sleeping on the sofa tonight ahhhhhhhh!!' We all got ready and had breakfast in the room. Most of us were ready so we headed out to HS, with Anne and Cliff getting the bus once they were ready.

Unfortunately we had missed our first fastpass so we used the DAS card to get a return time on Great Movie Ride and made our way over to our second fastpass of the day, Frozen Singalong! Yaaaaaaaay!





My mum isn't much of a movie watcher so she still hadn't seen Frozen but she loved the show never the less. I thought it was fabulous, I so wanted to watch it again before we came home but we couldn't make it happen, but there's always next trip

Half way through the show my mum felt a bit ill and went out to the bathroom (she didn't actually tell us she felt ill, just said she needed the bathroom), one of the CM's helped her and told her to come back to him and he would let her back in so she could watch the rest of the show. He was just really kind and helpful, my mum was so touched she took his name (Corey) and we went to find his manager after the show to give him some recognition. Mum felt fine again after the show thankfully

Once the show was over we headed back over to GMR, stopping on the way to watch a bit of Mulch, Sweat and Shears whom I love <3 <3.



Then it was time for Great Movie Ride! I *love* this ride, I know its old but its a totally classic to me and HS wouldn't be the same without it, I can't tell you what it is I love exactly, it just feels like old school Disney at its best. The tram guide can totally make or break your show though - a bit like Jungle Cruise - ain't nobody got time for a crap guide Luckily though ours was a goodun'











Anne and Cliff arrived while we were on the ride and we met outside after and then headed over to TSM.

Scary Flash!!









Sy won, booo! Nothing new there though, he always wins.





After we had to head to the Grand Floridian for afternoon tea at the Garden View Tea Room. This usually is one of my favourite things to do in Disney. We valet parked and headed inside, I knew my friend Tabitha was getting married here today so I was super pleased to see her out the front getting pictures!! I snapped a pic of her and a selfie of us both (I won't share the pic though as I haven't asked, she looked awesome though, trust me!).

 

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We headed inside and checked in for our tea, it was actually really busy inside the tea room so we had a little wait in the hotel lobby but that was okay as it meant we could listen to the pianist We didn't have long to wait though before we were taken inside. Our server was Rachael and she was amazeballs! She was so attentive and chatty, she even swapped out my jam tart for another scone and gave us more cream and jam





Mango Oolong tea (I am totally in love with this tea, and I can't get it ANYWHERE!)



My standard sandwich selection lol



Normal sandwiches



The guys went for a different tea which they liked.



Strawberries and Cream (LUSH!)



Cake selection (no longer a choice of cakes which I think is a real shame, half the fun was seeing the cake tray and choosing)



Sy being the awesome hubby that he is had a little something arranged for me to celebrate my birthday. (I may have dropped a hint or 2 when I was researching cake ideas )



I totally couldn't manage to eat it all after all that cake so everyone helped me out. It was so scrummy though. I hope I get to have another at some point (you reading this Sy?!)

After we paid up and handed Rachael a load extra tip on top of the 18% on TiW card cause she was so awesome. We then headed back to the hotel.

Sy decided to have a half hour nap but the fire alarm went off in our room, I went outside to the hallway and it wasn't going off anywhere else. It was LOUD and we all jumped out of our skin! No idea what caused it (well no idea at the point, we find out after a few more alarms going off, including one at 3am), but after that he wasn't getting a nap.

Tonight we were off to MNSSHP! The party I've been planning and waiting for, the costumes I had spent hours and hours making were finally getting their outing Anne and Cliff didn't sort out outfits before they came away and we hadn't been able to find them any (we did try stopping at a few fancy dress shops but didn't find anything), so they were undecided if they were coming tonight. They did finally sort outfits out that afternoon though, Cliff made an outfit out of a Hawaiian shirt he bought in Key West and shorts and I lent Anne my Minnie Mouse dress. We were all ready and waiting in the room so we took some pics.





I'm **sooooooo** happy with how our outfits came out! I thought Sy looked amazing, he actually looked like a little boy!!





Car selfie of make up



Eventually everyone was ready so we headed over to the Poly to pick up a Lei for Cliff to complete his outfit. We tried to buy one in the shop but they didn't have any however we were told to ask at the front desk as they may have one, they did and it was a gift from them to Cliff - how sweet! I have to admit, had I been staying at the Poly I would have been SO annoyed at the state of the lobby, work has to happen to make it better, I get that, but boy that lobby was a mess.

We made our way over to MK via monorail (we had valet parked at the Poly), we were there much later than we wanted, all of the shops along main street were closed as they were trying to hurry non party guests out of the park. We found our party bands were checked loads more than we have noticed the past couple of years, which is only a good thing - I don't want guests who haven't paid hanging around when I've paid loads on top of our tickets to be here!

 

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Lots of selfies tonight





Anne wanted to get some Minnie ears to complete her outfit so she and Cliff walked back to the front while we waiting on main street and took yet more pictures lol







You can spot my dad in that last one on my scooter, he has had 2 new knees lately and his legs were playing up so I insisted he take my scooter for the evening as I was feeling ok and he wasn't. Standing for long periods really hurt his knees and knowing we would be spending the evening standing for parades/shows/fireworks I wanted to make sure he wouldn't be in too much pain.

First stop was the Villain's show, we have never managed to catch this show in all of the parties we have previously been to so we wanted to make sure we saw it today. We got a spot right up near the front so mum would be able to see on her scooter without people standing in front of her. The show was ok, it seemed to be over really quickly, I mean I did enjoy it but it just could have gone on for a bit longer. I'd love to watch it from a little further back as we were so close we couldn't see it all but couldn't do that with mum as people would undoubtedly stand in front.





Next up was the only non-Halloween thing I wanted to do, Monsters Inc. Having done this in other parties I knew how funny it was so wanted to make sure we headed there.

I have tried everything I can to turn this pic up the right way but it keeps going back to upside down



The show was really funny and made better by Sy being picked on to be 'That Guy'

We then went to find a spot for the fireworks. We set up my parents with the scooter beside the Plaza and took their trick or treat bags over to get some treats from Tomorrowland terrace, there was no queue so we kinda just went round and round and round and round... you get the picture we got a lot of sweets

Sadly there was no music for the fireworks where we were but we could kinda hear it on the breeze, it was still good



Afterwards we headed through Tomorrowland for yet more sweets and to find Lotso.

 

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It was getting near the time we had to find a spot for the parade so we went through to Liberty Square to find the disabled area and watched the parade. Pics didn't come out that well cause of the lighting being right opposite

Selfie on the way, as you do





After the parade had finished we went to find some more characters however most of them had finished already, there was still an hour to the party! I was a bit annoyed I gotta admit. Got pics by the Haunted Mansion though











One of my fav pics of the holiday from Cliff, love it cause it totally wasn't posed or anything he was just messing around and the photographer happened to catch it at the right moment.





We got yet more sweets before making our way out of the park. Sy and his mum had words on the way out and Anne got the bus back to the hotel on her own :-/ Not gonna lie, it was awkward. I was staying well out of it though lol. We were hungry as we hadn't really eaten anything but sweets all evening so we headed to Wendy's for take out on the way home. Anne was there when we got back so I went to hide in the bedroom and avoid any confrontation :O I'm a wimp lol

Obligatory sweet picture from the evening...

In bed by 1:30am, it had been another long day!

 

[1andrea]

Love all of the party pictures :0)

 

[LifeTheDisneyWay14]

I'm so glad I've discovered your trip reports, they're so lovely! The shimmery blue eye shadow is amazing. I know it's for a costume, but you're gorgeous and totally pull it off I love some of the really bright, colorful costumes in the parades and wish it was acceptable to wear those in real day-to-day life! I just want to be a princess