The wee man came too Trip Report Day 3

emanlu

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Lucy’s birthday
I was up early again and got Lucy’s birthday presents and cards set out for her along with her balloon. She was the first up and was all delighted with her balloon and her presents. Got everyone else up and the children and I headed on down for breakfast. Mum and Philip again joined us later and then we headed of for the bus arranging to meet them as we had done yesterday. Today was to be Studios day after EMH. We did the usual Buzz, Teacups, Carousel and Dumbo and managed to meet up with Mum and Philip easily.
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The girls were delighted to find that the Labyrinth opened early today so off we went to that – Adam refused to go in so him and I sat in the sunshine and waved to the others when they got to the top of the castle.
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The girls all went on IASW (Adam refused so Philip and him sat it out) and then just as we were heading to go to the studios we had a major meet and greet outside Belle Notte – the girls were delighted to meet Snow White & Dopey who made a real fuss of Lucy as it was her birthday and they had spotted her birthday girl badge we also met Ariel who also made a fuss of her after seeing the badge – both girls were English and my two were delighted.

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There were a lot of characters about here and from memory there was Snow White, Dopey, Aladdin and Jasmine, Woody and Jessie, Mickey and Minnie, Lilo , Donald and Daisy and Ariel.
We wandered back up main street and caught Minnies Party Train and the Mary Poppins show on our way out.

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Into the studios and it was much busier than it has been any other time we have been,
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(I think Lucy and Adam were scared of losing each other on the way in)

We went to Flying Carpets and although the board said a 5 minute wait the CM at the entrance advised it was more like 40 minutes. We walked on round and Cars was showing 50 mins but mum said she didn’t mind taking Adam to wait for this, Philip decided to sit in the sun and the girls and I headed back round to get our spot for HSM. We got lollies and drinks on the way and staked our spot nice and early. It was very warm by this stage and we were glad of the rest. The space around us soon started to fill up and there was much shoving from behind and people trying to shove their kids in – get there earlier if you want to be at the front – grr. The girls loved this and Anna was chosen to go up in both bits were the audience participate - she was so pleased.

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Mum, brother and DS all reappeared after this and we decided to go and see Stich Live as an English show was about to start – we watched the number of seats tick down as we walked across and they were all gone before we got there so we decided to do Playhouse Disney instead – Mum sat this one out – the kids all enjoyed it but the patch of floor where I was sat was wet and I came out with a wet bum! When we came out Stars n Cars was on doing the show at the stage and we managed to get a space as someone left and the kids squeezed in we were sideways on at the stage so could see in front and behind – I realised that a lot of the characters were the ones we had seen earlier at Belle Notte.

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We left the studios after this – and headed back to the village where we went on Panoramagic – mum and DS sat this one out but the rest of us really enjoyed it – I think because it was a fantastic day and it was quiet up there!

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part 2

Back to the hotel where we met Tigger wandering about
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I managed to get the girls to have a bath while Mum and brother headed to the garage at Santa Fe. The girls then decided they were going to Cafe Mickey as cheerleaders and Lucy had to take her balloon with her.
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Our last experience at Cafe Mickey wasn’t great so I was apprehensive about going again but it was for Lucy’s birthday and brothers 21st as well so off we went, when we got in we were sent upstairs for our table but had a bit of drama before we got sat down as I realised Adam hadn’t come up the stairs with us – mum and I headed back down to look for him but I managed to fall and bumped down a couple of steps – ended up with a fearsome bruise on my leg and knee - the waiter was horrified at my fall but obviously didn’t realised why we were panicking- mum went into the downstairs bit and I headed out into the village but once I got out there were so many people I knew I really didn’t have a chance of finding him so was turning to go back in when mum shouted out she had found him downstairs - she was able to spot him as he had his Mickey hat on! After all that drama we discovered we were the first people to be sat upstairs and we had a lovely table at the corner by the window – it wasn’t long before the Chip n Dale appeared and we had some great interaction with them, they were followed by Pinocchio and then Mickey himself – Adam wasn’t sure of Mickey and the more Mickey tried to interact the further he backed away – Adam ended up on the floor under my chair and Mickey was down on the floor as well trying to get Adam to come out – poor child was probably terrified and all we could do was laugh.

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We got our food after this and the kids were appalled I had ordered the Simba burger as our dog is called Simba and were then visited by Pluto, Goofy and Eeyore. Mickey came back again and Adam was a bit more forthcoming this time and offered Mickey his ice cream!

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Then the highlight of the night Mickey and Pinocchio came with the birthday cake!
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We were all stuffed so we had a small piece each and took the cake with us. I took the girls and we went back into the park as it was still only 8.30pm.

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We managed to go on Buzz, The Teacups and the Carousel and browsed our way back to the hotel via the shops – Lucy got a large Minnie and we got a Toy Story Alien for Adam which we popped into bed beside him as a surprise for the morning. We were all in bed and asleep fairly quickly.
 
Another great day. Glad Lucy enjoyed her birthday. Hope you recovered from your fall. Glad Adam was found quickly though.
 
What a wonderful birthday! :goodvibes

You must have been so worried when you lost Adam - glad it was only very briefly! I lost Dd for about 20 seconds in the Disney Store and I could hardly breathe! :eek:
 















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