I'm Never Asking for Ketchup Again!

[JoyFaithGrace]

So, we left off with me giving the poor CM telling me that Peter Pan was down the death stare. Seriously, I felt bad, but I wanted to go on Peter Pan!

Next on the plan was to Meet Cinderella and Rapunzel, so off to FairyTale Hall we went, I was scooting along with DH, Mom and DD trailing behind, we got to Fairytale hall and Mom was all "We are not standing in that line!" And was I all, you're right we're not! That's for Anna & Elsa - I don't pay this much to stand in lines.

We found the entrance for C/R and I began to navigate the line on my EVC - I'm a bad driver, but we made it.

According to my notes (aka the timestamp on my pictures) we were in and out of Meeting 2 Princesses by 8:15 am. Then we headed over to the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, I parked the scooter and we walked through all the cool line stuff...
"Yes Mom it's very cool...keep moving" (I'm really Bossy! We had one day in the Magic Kingdom - 1 DAY!!!! I was a woman on am mission!)
After leaving Pooh and His Pals we made our wait quickly (DD was told that we would shop later) through the dump store, and we were back on our way.

More pictures while driving...
We were off to meet Ariel...

(not a great picture of me but that's ok - I was at Disney and so yea)

DD was having some trouble interacting the the characters, she was very business like (no idea where she gets that from, I swear ). She was all - Please sign my autograph book. She got better as we went, but still a little stiff. I was more "OMG it's ARIEL than she was" - I was totally fan-girling for all things Disney.

 

[JoyFaithGrace]

After meeting Ariel, we journeyed Under the Sea - DD and I shared a Clam shell, leaving my DH and Mom to share (i never asked if that was awkward for them...).

Clam Shell Selfie

Poor Ariel's looking a hammered here....

After resurfacing, (ha) we headed to Dumbo, a total walk on! From my time stamp it was 8:53 am so we were making good time. 3 Princesses and 3 rides in under an hour. Mom sat out Dumbo. She was going to take pictures, so she sat and waited for us to load into the Dumbo on the right, we were on the left. And no amount of yelling or flailing about would catch her attention.

We were supposed to ride Barnstormer next, but DD wasn't having it. She is not a fan of heights, or roller coasters.
We came down from the highest heights, and made our way over to Pete's Silly SideShow to meet Daisy and Minnie.

I know that we met Donald and Goofy next but the pictures aren't in my photobucket, so I will add them later.

We made our way to Haunted Mansion and then DH's least favorite ride - It's a Small World.
We successfully got the song stuck in our heads and headed to see if Fairy Godmother was meeting, she was but was about to go which means! The Tramaines! One of my favorite movies is Cinderella, and I've read that they have great meets. I told DD to tell them that had just been to see Cinderella and she said that they had to wear shoe boxes because they couldn't get shoes big enough. (or something like that) Well they delivered and we had a great meet.
By now it was 10:20 am so we were moving through our plan which was great!

 

[mercydisney]

Great Update

 

[Loves The Mouse]

Beautiful pictures of you and your DD with Ariel and Minnie! Also The one with DD and Daisy. Can't wait to hear more.

 

[JoyFaithGrace]

When I left off we had just visited with the Tramaine's.

We headed over to see how the line for Merida was, long. It was long. So, I looked at the MDE App and saw that Mary Poppins was still meeting and she is my hero. We were going to head to see Tinker Belle anyway so I took off in hopes of getting in her line before it was cut off. My family followed behind at a normal pace, while I channeled my inner Mario Andretti, weaving in and out of people and trying not to get the ECV wheel caught in the tracks on Main Street.

I got there, found the end of her line and there is a CM, the line is closed. Crushed. I was crushed. She wasn't going to be back until 1:20 and we were going to be resting then so sadness.

I caught up with my family (rather they caught up with me) and the wait for Tinker Bell was like 5 minutes so we went to meet her.

When we re-emerged it was 11:20, and Mickey had a 40 minute wait, and I don't pay that much to stand in long lines. So we decided to head back to the resort for lunch and a break.

Now, we had missed Peter Pan first thing that morning, after EVERY RIDE. Every single ride or meet Mom asked if we were going to go back to Peter Pan now...It went like this...
Mom: So, are we going back to Peter Pan now? I'm sure it's up.
Me: Nope, lines to long
Mom: Oh, are you sure?
Me: Yep, its going to be extra long since it was closed earlier this morning.

(after the next ride)
Mom: So, are we going back to Peter Pan now? I'm sure it's up.
Me: Nope, lines to long
Mom: Oh, are you sure?
Me: Yep, the crowd calendar predicted a 45 minute wait with normal operations and with it being closed this morning, it will be longer.
Mom: Oh ok.

Rinse and repeat.
Finally while in line for the Tremaines I showed her the wonders of the MDE App, and the wait was 75 minutes. She stopped asking finally....Or did she...

 

[JoyFaithGrace]

To recap before break we:
8am: Cinderella/Rapunzel
815: Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
830: Meet Ariel
840: Under the Sea
853: Dumbo
9am: Donald/Goofy
910: Daisy/Minnie
930: Haunted Mansion
950: It’s A Small World
1020: Meet the Tramaine’s
1105: Meet Tink
Break

So we had a very busy morning. We had great bus karma for most of the trip, hopped a bus back to Pop and had lunch there. Then it was time for some swimming and rest. We had a 5pm ADR at Crystal Palace so we headed back to MK around 4 pm.
When we got back to MK we stopped for some photopass pictures.

Checked in and waited. And waited. And finally, about 30 minutes later, were seated. I don't remember which order the characters came by, but we had some fun meets.

DH was Disney Bounding as Pooh and Pooh was very excited about this!

DH had been wearing this yellow shirt all day. When we were in line at rope drop he got chocolate protein shake on his shirt, so he wore it backwards all day. Since then that shirt is like a magnet for stains. He seriously can not wear that shirt without getting something on it.

(We used a spiral bound set of 3x5 cards for DDs autograph book, it worked really well)

This is one of my favorite pictures of my Mom from the trip, she was seated closest to the window, and so did not expect to be in any pictures...She'd kill me if she knew I posted this.

After dinner we had one of my must-do's - Enchanted Tales with Belle, with a FP+

 

[JoyFaithGrace]

I'm going through and making the pictures smaller as they are huge. I was going to leave them because I'm lazy but decided that no one needs to see my pores!

RL Updates:
We've decided to go to WDW in January the 2-10th I think, that includes travel days. We will drive down and spend most of our time at MK and Epcot I think. Then in February DD and I are going to do the Princess 1/2 Marathon 5K and hopefully the 10K as well.

DH just started a new job and has an interview for another job this week, which may throw a wrench in the Jan trip but I'm hoping not. And DD is homeschooled so that makes our time flexible which is great.

I should have more updates in a few days, and if anyone can tell me how to do the links so I can do the table of contents thing that'd be great...