11.12.13

Disney Day 3

We saved all meet and greets of the princesses for this day.  It worked out really well for us doing it this way. The FastPass for the Fairytale Hall (where you can meet Snow White, Rapunzel, Cinderella and Aurora) was broken!  So we had to wait in line for a WHILE!  And of course, it never failed...we were finally at the front of the line and guess who had to go potty!  Luckily, they were very sweet and let us go to the bathroom and then come right back to our spot.  Fairytale Hall is divided into 2 lines.  One line was for Cinderella and Aurora from Sleeping Beauty.  The other line was for Snow White and Rapunzel.  We just did the Cinderella line....Piper thought Aurora was Rapunzel anyways...score!  Piper had A LOT to say these ladies.  She just sat and talked to them for like 10 minutes.  We kinda started to feel bad b/c there were so many people behind us waiting but no one was doing anything about it and Cinderella just kept talking to her.....we weren't sure if we should do anything.  I think we finally scooted her along but I was so pleasantly surprised how they allowed her to just enjoy the experience and didn't rush her.  We have some really cute videos ...I attempted to upload them...but I almost lost my marbles trying to do it.  I finally just uploaded one to YouTube and attached a  link.

*update* The first Vimeo video attached below is much better...but if it isn't working then click on the YouTube link

Here is a little video.....this took me forever..someone please watch it!!!

Cinderella YouTube Video

She was convinced Aurora was Rapunzel....Aurora kept telling her that she wasn't, but Piper said "No, Sorry, your Rapunzel"  

And the Cinderella video was just too much of a pain to upload....the "Rapunzel" one was shorter...and really funny :)  

Enchanted Tales with Belle was so sweet.  I liked that this one was something more than just meeting a princess and taking a picture.  With a small group of people you get to go into library of Beasts' castle and reinact a story with Belle....a few kids are picked to help act it out.  It's great...and then they each get to take a picture with her and a hug if that's their thing ;)

HAHA...worst pictures ever!  It was so bright!  But the castle turned out so pretty!

And then Ariels' Grotto.....just waited in line forever to say hi and take a picture :)

Then we hopped over to Hollywood Studios for the Disney Junior live show.  Its really cute but my major beef with this one is that they shove a boat load of people and adults into this room and make you all sit crammed together indian style criss crossed apple sauced. The puppets are up on the stage but not at a level that you can see them very well.  And then periodically they say to get up and dance...yeah..that didn't happen.  But overall is was a cute show and Piper loved seeing her favorite...Doc McStuffins.  That's all we did there...b/c it was blazing hot and we were tired.  We decided to head back for some showers and naps before our big night at the Magic Kingdom for a special dinner at the Crystal Palace and the fireworks show!  Our dinner was late, so it worked out perfect that we finished and walked right out side the door and had a perfect view of the fireworks.

*Anyone else get the vacation face bloat?!*

After all these pics with characters....she got her pose down!

Actually wearing the Minnie ears I made her ;)

And that's all folks :)

11.12.13

I had to make a post today just so I could write the date 11.12.13.  

Moving on for the Disney Vacation to day 2.  Animal Kingdom...and a little Epcot!

I'm not sure why exactly, but I was a little disappointed by Animal Kingdom.  I felt like we spent a good portion of the day wasting time or waiting.  The park opens at 9 but there were a few things that didn't open until 10. I also felt like there were obnoxious amounts of food carts, restaurants, gift shops and souvenir carts.  More of those than actual things to do.  First thing we did, was to go see Mickey and Minnie....b/c...everything else we were wanting to do didn't open till 10.  Mickey and Minnie aren't located at Camp Mickey anymore FYI....so you can go see them first since that opens at 10.  We also stopped to see Pooh and Tigger on our way to Camp Mickey....which is where we were wanting to go see Chip and Dale.  Piper was sooo excited to see them.  Our good friend Becky, let us borrow these great little video.  It's a video of all the Disney characters going all through the Disney park....she got a chance to see what the Magic Kingdom park looked like and what rides there were....and to see all the fun characters.  So she had been asking and asking....and asking to see Chip and Dale.  Then we went and saw the Nemo show....b/c Piper is obsessed with Nemo!  I think it is safe to say that is her favorite Disney movie she has seen yet.  The shows at Animal Kingdom are AMAZING!!!  I was expecting something fun for kids.  But it is an awesome production.  Like something you would see on Broadway!! Also, the Lion King show was equally as amazing!!  Other than that, I think we found 1 ride that Piper was able to ride.  We ate lunch and then we did the Kilimanjaro Safari, which was neat b/c you got to see a lot of really cool animals!  It sort of reminded me of Lion Country Safari (except I haven't been there in like 20 years...haha)  I think Piper would have liked the parade....or the petting zoo there, but it was so late at that point, we decided to leave and head over to Epcot. (There are lots of other things to do....but more for kids who are older than Piper or adults.....she wasn't big enough for a lot of the things)

the girl can't contain her excitement!

Photos from the safari

They have a Nemo ride in the Ocean exhibit at Epcot.  It was cute and fun :)

We stayed in there for a while!  It was also the Food and Wine Festival at Epcot...so we just grabbed some dinner and walked around the big loop.  It was dark at that point and Epcot is soo pretty at night!  

These birds are from the Nemo movie....they do this annoying sound when you walk by....Piper kept wanting to see them....and she wanted a picture.