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- May 22, 2013
May 20--Cinderella's Royal Table
My alarm went off at the too early—yet would turn out not early enough—hour of 6:45. The goal was to meet in the lobby at 7:45am to walk over to MK for our first full park day and ADR at Cinderella’s Royal Table. This did not happen. We left the hotel closer to 8am for our 8:25 ADR. Needless to say, I was stressing and in a big hurry. On a bright side, Eliza made a precious little Cinderella and debuted the first dress I made for her!
The walk from BLT to MK took a little under 10 minutes, and we made it right through bag check and got into the line for pre-park opening ADRs. It was short and we were up at the turnstiles to use our Magic Bands for the first time for tickets. Mickey-to-Mickey and a finger scan and we were off! It felt so great to be back in Magic Kingdom again!
As we started down Main Street I was so excited to see how Eliza would react. She was in her stroller and ended up having quite a subdued reaction. I think she was in a bit of awe, but definitely didn’t have an over-the-top-excited reaction!
We didn’t stop for any photopass pictures (which was one of the main points of making a pre-opening ADR!), so we could check in almost on time. I think it was about 8:30, a little before, when we did get checked in. However, two of our party got held up at the ticket gate and we couldn’t officially check in until they made it to the castle.
In the meantime, we walked as far into Fantasyland as we could, where there was no one around, and Eliza had a little meltdown over Prince Charming’s Carousel. She wanted to ride it so badly!
Soon enough, we were all together and being led into CRT. I did a dining review of our breakfast and won’t repeat the same information here, but you can read THE REVIEW HERE.
Here are some more pictures from our first greeting with Cinderella:
Short review shorter: we loved our experience. Solid service, yummy food, some pixie dust, and a little girl who loves princesses! Since the dining review did not include pictures of all the princesses, I will include those here! The visits were spread out, but not in an annoying way. Eliza didn’t really interact with them due to shyness, so we didn’t have that in depth of visits, but that’s ok. She was still in heaven.
And, our sleeping Prince Charming (I made his outfit from a men's shirt):
Continued in next post.