Our last park day was off to a magical start with the addition of a happy, floating, pink Mickey balloon. Our tummies were pleasantly full of Mickey waffles, eggs, bacon, fruit and delicious juice. The next stop on our list? Epcot.
Of course we had to stop off for a few more PP pics. We had to get some pictures with the new balloon? I mean, it’s just so Disney!
However, as you can see, we had to hold the balloon off to the side a bit as it would have totally obscured my husband’s face.
Of course, wouldn’t you know it, but the weather was much warmer this day. On our last park day. When we leave the next day. Of course.
Then the photographer asked us big people to step aside so she could take a picture of just our little girl. Yeah, she’s the cute one anyways.
Sorry about the messy hair. Try as I might, this girl has flyaway hair. And apparently her haircut was just a trim because it’s still insanely long in the pics. I have since come to the realization that she looks way cuter with her hair shorter. For some reason, it seems to stay in the ponytails better that way too. Go figure.
Now as you have probably gathered from reading about our other park days, we don’t seem to hit a lot of the rides while we are in the parks. Today was no different. And despite the fact that she just saw Mickey and Pluto at breakfast, she caught sight of the Epcot Character Spot and any other plans were scrapped. My husband wanted to try to ride Test Track one last time so I said I would take her in to meet her friends while he went on the ride. The only catch? I needed a little something to occupy me in line…..
It’s never too early for a Mickey bar or a Mickey ice cream sandwich. You know my little girl agreed. Eating those yummy frozen treats was a fabulous way to help the wait in the line go by faster. I know I spied more than one envious look from other people waiting in line. Who can blame them? Frozen delicacies in the shape of a Mickey head are just divine.
Once we devoured every last morsel of the treats and I had wiped off the ring of chocolate around my little girl’s mouth, it was already time for us to meet Mickey. Get ready to see those crazy futuristic backgrounds again.
How did Mickey get over here so fast? And out of his Hawaiian shirt? He looks so formal here. I feel like he should be wearing a tee shirt, shorts and a camera slung around his neck with this background. Anyways, our little girl ran headlong into his arms. Seriously, not like we didn’t JUST see him.
She’s too happy just being with Mickey that she couldn’t be bothered to do a matching pose.
Maybe Mickey took a Segway over from the Polynesian.
I love Mickey too and had to make my way into the photo.
Oh, and remember some of those inappropriate hand placements of my daughter’s? Did you catch the one in that last photo? No, well, here’s a closer look just in case you missed it.
Sigh, she can’t help it if that’s where her hand happens to fall when she’s trying to hug him.
Next up was Mickey’s dog, Pluto. Remember how insanely happy she was to see Pluto twice at breakfast? Well, that feeling did not subside one bit. He got another huge hug.
Look at that face. You can just see the beams of happiness radiating from her face.
And Pluto must have gotten the memo that this little girl is an inappropriate poser and decided he was safer if he got down to her level.
She wasn’t ready to leave Pluto’s side just yet. She needed to show him some of her pins first. At that time, she still had a Pluto pin on her lanyard.
At this point, my husband had made it back from his ride on Test Track. So we pulled our little princess away from Pluto and headed over to say hi to Minnie Mouse. This is the background that I don’t get. It doesn’t look like a space that Minnie would be in.
Again, she was too busy hugging to strike her Minnie Mouse pose.
Same hand placement as earlier, but somehow nowhere near as inappropriate.
In this next picture, just ignore my crazy hair flip pose. I just wanted to show you how excited she was to see Donald. And seriously, for all those people that say you shouldn’t bring a kid under 5 years old or even a 3 year old….just look at the body language and the face on my little girl. I would not trade any of these Disney trips. Many priceless memories have been made.
Can’t you just picture the squeal of “DONALD!” coming out of her?
A little heart to heart talk.
Followed by a super cute photo.
Look how fluffy Donald is! He must have taken a bubble bath or something earlier.
Then it was time for Goofy’s hug. Although it kinda looks like he just ate her head.
Then she got a cute little moment with Goofy. He decided he wanted to dance a little with her. How sweet!
They danced and twirled their way over to the picture spot.
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We still bring one to places like that mall but it's a cheap and extremely uncomfortable looking no frills umbrella stroller....HELP!!!!
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This update had me cracking up! Ohana for breakfast looks so good and like so much fun! HOW CUTE that the little girl gave your daughter her balloon! That's so sweet. I love the photoshoot pics!
I hope Ryan is as good with the characters...although I highly doubt it. Hopefully he is alright with the princesses though - he does have a slight obsession with them 
