anniebabymu
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2013
Whew
Im back guys! Sorry about that little hiatus. Ive been insanely busy since the 4th of July working, working, working. Since Im part-time, I normally work 24 hours a week and this past week I worked 44 hours! And on top of working 44 hours
I did 2 nights without having a baby-sitter the next day to watch the kids. Brutal. Enough of my whining and on with the show! Ive got a few days off now, so Im hoping to get quite a few updates done!
May 25th: Day 4, Part 3
When I left you we had just gotten back to Pop Century to take naps. We all laid down and had a wonderful nap. My FIL usually isnt a napper, but he got pretty used to our mid-day siestas that he was turned into a nap believer! Ha ha!
We got up and got ready, met my in laws outside our doors and headed to the buses to meet our friends. We planned to meet up at 4:30 and all of us were there right at 4:30. C didnt have any issues napping today I think I was successfully wearing him out!
Once again, the kiddos enjoyed loving on each other on the way back to Epcot!
We got there and got in with relatively no issues. My FIL was still having problems scanning his finger hadnt quite figured out that he was putting too much pressure on it quite yet.
We took our time walking in and were pushing it to get to our first FP+, Nemo and Friends from 4:30-5:30. Not that we really needed a FP+, although the wait was 15 minutes or so. We got there and parked our strollers just in time! We headed in at 5:28. Whew!
We thought that if Addie rode with Sean, Chelsea and C that maybe he would be okay with the dark parts of the ride. Nope. Not even Addie could make him not cry during those parts. Poor guy!
After we hopped off the ride we went to go see if we could see the dolphin and manatee. After we watched then for a bit we thought about heading to Turtle Talk with Crush, but they had just changed the wait to 20 minutes because they had just closed the doors on the show that was getting ready to start. We knew we wouldnt have enough time to do our next FP+ before dinner if we did that, so we decided to scratch that and just head over to The Land.
On our way over the kids found some baby ducks and were having fun watching them!
Our next FP+ was for Living with the Land from 5:30-6:30. I dont know what it is about this ride, but I really enjoy it! We got into the Pavilion and realized that we had two small children in diapers that were stinky, so we took a slight detour to the bathrooms before the ride so we didnt stink up the ride!
We got to the ride at 6:10 and the stand-by wait was 20 minutes thank you FP+. There was NEVER wait pre-FP+. Luckily we hopped right on with out FP+ and had a great ride! I was really happy to get this FP+ right before dinner. Why, you ask? Because we were headed a flight of steps up to dinner
The Garden Grill!
I was really looking forward to this dinner because I had heard so many good things about it! At first our friends just planned on eating dinner with us at Be Our Guest, but then when she saw the menu Chelsea couldnt resist this dinner too! We checked in at 6:20 (for a 6:30 ADR), got our buzzer and went to sit down and it went off within minutes of checking in! Woohoo!! I was hungry and ready to eat some, what I hoped we be, delicious food!
I had heard a few days before we got to Disney that the rotating part of the restaurant was broken and I was hoping that it would be fixed for our dinner. Upon checking in, we found out that it was not fixed yet. And when we got seated we were in a part that was facing the front of the restaurant instead of one of the scenes so that was a bummer. But fortunately, that was the only thing that stunk about this dinner!
When we got to our table, we were immediately greeted by our first friend Dale! This was a WONDERFUL interaction. Dale was so funny! He loved the girls Anna and Elsa Mickey Head shirts I made and when pointing to Addisons Elsa shirt he started making the arm movements that Elsa makes when singing, Let it go, let it go! Cant hold it back anymore!. It was hilarious!!
And here he is singing Let it Go! Ha ha!
What a great meet!
As soon as Dale was gone, we were able to sit down but barely! Chip was right on his tail!
Chip was another great character meet! Not as entertaining as Dale, but we still had a great time with him!
And youll be happy to hear that C was MUCH better with these characters at dinner than he was at the Character Spot earlier in the day! He really was loving giving them kisses and fist bumps. Love it!
Love meeting Chip and Dale here! It was the first time we had met them too great times! And this wasnt the only time wed be seeing them tonight. The characters were by our table too many times to count! It was awesome seeing them just walking around enjoying themselves. They didnt have a particular handler with them like some do at other character meals it was like they were just free to meet whoever they wanted to. Love it!
Our server came over, explained how dinner worked with the family style serving and took our drink orders. He was GREAT! Between sitting down and getting our first course, Chelsea took this picture and I had to steal it from her!
May 25th: Day 4, Part 3
When I left you we had just gotten back to Pop Century to take naps. We all laid down and had a wonderful nap. My FIL usually isnt a napper, but he got pretty used to our mid-day siestas that he was turned into a nap believer! Ha ha!
We got up and got ready, met my in laws outside our doors and headed to the buses to meet our friends. We planned to meet up at 4:30 and all of us were there right at 4:30. C didnt have any issues napping today I think I was successfully wearing him out!
Once again, the kiddos enjoyed loving on each other on the way back to Epcot!
We got there and got in with relatively no issues. My FIL was still having problems scanning his finger hadnt quite figured out that he was putting too much pressure on it quite yet.
We took our time walking in and were pushing it to get to our first FP+, Nemo and Friends from 4:30-5:30. Not that we really needed a FP+, although the wait was 15 minutes or so. We got there and parked our strollers just in time! We headed in at 5:28. Whew!
We thought that if Addie rode with Sean, Chelsea and C that maybe he would be okay with the dark parts of the ride. Nope. Not even Addie could make him not cry during those parts. Poor guy!
After we hopped off the ride we went to go see if we could see the dolphin and manatee. After we watched then for a bit we thought about heading to Turtle Talk with Crush, but they had just changed the wait to 20 minutes because they had just closed the doors on the show that was getting ready to start. We knew we wouldnt have enough time to do our next FP+ before dinner if we did that, so we decided to scratch that and just head over to The Land.
On our way over the kids found some baby ducks and were having fun watching them!
Our next FP+ was for Living with the Land from 5:30-6:30. I dont know what it is about this ride, but I really enjoy it! We got into the Pavilion and realized that we had two small children in diapers that were stinky, so we took a slight detour to the bathrooms before the ride so we didnt stink up the ride!
We got to the ride at 6:10 and the stand-by wait was 20 minutes thank you FP+. There was NEVER wait pre-FP+. Luckily we hopped right on with out FP+ and had a great ride! I was really happy to get this FP+ right before dinner. Why, you ask? Because we were headed a flight of steps up to dinner
The Garden Grill!
I was really looking forward to this dinner because I had heard so many good things about it! At first our friends just planned on eating dinner with us at Be Our Guest, but then when she saw the menu Chelsea couldnt resist this dinner too! We checked in at 6:20 (for a 6:30 ADR), got our buzzer and went to sit down and it went off within minutes of checking in! Woohoo!! I was hungry and ready to eat some, what I hoped we be, delicious food!
I had heard a few days before we got to Disney that the rotating part of the restaurant was broken and I was hoping that it would be fixed for our dinner. Upon checking in, we found out that it was not fixed yet. And when we got seated we were in a part that was facing the front of the restaurant instead of one of the scenes so that was a bummer. But fortunately, that was the only thing that stunk about this dinner!
When we got to our table, we were immediately greeted by our first friend Dale! This was a WONDERFUL interaction. Dale was so funny! He loved the girls Anna and Elsa Mickey Head shirts I made and when pointing to Addisons Elsa shirt he started making the arm movements that Elsa makes when singing, Let it go, let it go! Cant hold it back anymore!. It was hilarious!!
And here he is singing Let it Go! Ha ha!
What a great meet!
As soon as Dale was gone, we were able to sit down but barely! Chip was right on his tail!
Chip was another great character meet! Not as entertaining as Dale, but we still had a great time with him!
And youll be happy to hear that C was MUCH better with these characters at dinner than he was at the Character Spot earlier in the day! He really was loving giving them kisses and fist bumps. Love it!
Love meeting Chip and Dale here! It was the first time we had met them too great times! And this wasnt the only time wed be seeing them tonight. The characters were by our table too many times to count! It was awesome seeing them just walking around enjoying themselves. They didnt have a particular handler with them like some do at other character meals it was like they were just free to meet whoever they wanted to. Love it!
Our server came over, explained how dinner worked with the family style serving and took our drink orders. He was GREAT! Between sitting down and getting our first course, Chelsea took this picture and I had to steal it from her!