Tinkerbell_Girl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 16, 2005
I love your HEA pictures!
Thank you so much!! And yay on another trip!Joining in! Congrats on DVC! We are planning on going back next year as well!
Thank you!I love your HEA pictures!
Thanks for joining in!I'm really enjoying you report! It seems like your MK day was great and you got to do a lot of fun rides.
I think that's what Ryan, the server told me. I did not remember that! Hopefully I will now! Thanks for reading!Ok, the only way I can remember the difference between Chip and Dale...Chip has the black nose (as in chocolate chip)! See...just give me a food item and I can remember, lol!
Enjoying your report!
I think that we had at least one other character come by before we ever got any food...and I was fairly hungry at this point. For the life of me, no matter how many times I get it explained to me, I do not know how to tell Chip and Dale apart, but here is one of them:
I can never tell them apart either!For the life of me, no matter how many times I get it explained to me, I do not know how to tell Chip and Dale apart, but here is one of them:
Yay Ryan for redeeming himself!We closed down the restaurant, as far as breakfast hours are concerned, and Ryan gave us a Turtle Talk with Crush FP that was good to use until the end of June. We wouldn't be using it that day but we would use it on Thursday and because I actually scheduled one for Turtle Talk, I was able to switch that one to something else.
We had split our TT and Soarin FPs because Will is too short to ride, so we knew we could get Child Swap passes for those and we were coming back on Thursday to do Frozen.
Pluto! And the boys really enjoyed the visit, as is obvious from their expressions, I think!
For the life of me, no matter how many times I get it explained to me, I do not know how to tell Chip and Dale apart, but here is one of them:
But boy, those characters were coming fast and furious:
it. I wonder if that messed up the timing with the food at all, as maybe that's an "appetizer" that is brought out before or with the fruit, and then the hot plate comes later? Just a theory...
Ryan gave us a Turtle Talk with Crush FP that was good to use until the end of June.
I got up and got the coffee going and got myself started on the getting ready process.
So basically, we did not get in as early as I wanted, but I won't complain because if you read last years' report, this year was so much better than last!
And once we got in, we headed to the ever popular...wait for it...Imagination Pavilion.
After this we headed out quickly, so as to keep the boys from wanting to play
Anyway, I'm fairly certain that we had a character visit before the waiter even arrived:
If it isn't obvious, these boys love themselves some Mickey!
But all in all, the GG food was very good. I had fruit, and bacon (very good), and sausage (just okay), and tator tots.
Because of being in that row, I didn't see a lot of the distortion that people complain about and I really enjoyed the ride.
Regardless, the ride is kind of blah,
For the life of me, no matter how many times I get it explained to me, I do not know how to tell Chip and Dale apart, but here is one of them:
So, like I mentioned, it was during the eating that our last character stopped by:
Okay, I am going to go back and respond individually but first, while AJ and I are watching Moana AGAIN...lol...he wants to add some emojis to my trip report. Please bare with me:
AJ is 5! (yes he typed this)
Now he has had his fun. HAHA.
So, I need to resize my photos for our next day, which I am going to try to do tonight, then I will work on an update tomorrow night. But I wanted to tell you all that I could probably just take the *think* part out of my title...DH has fallen hook, line, and sinker for Disney! We have been talking about all the new stuff that was announced at D23 - I mean, so exciting, right??? - and he's been talking about DVC and our next trip with some of his co-workers who are frequent WDW visitors. He said, "I'm really excited about all this!" HAHA. He even said he wouldn't be surprised if I ended up getting us 2 day park tickets for next June. Believe me, if it made sense, I would. I just think it is too expensive to do two days and in 4 nights, we should have plenty to keep us busy. He also already started talking about buying more points. Now, he hasn't gone completely crazy...we are talking years down the line, like maybe 10, but he is talking about it. Yep, full-fledged Disney fan we have here. I am one happy lady!
Alright, going to back to reply to all your posts now!
just remembering all your morning arrivals at the parks last year, which we can laugh at now although you weren't laughing at the time!but I won't complain because if you read last years' report, this year was so much better than last!
Love this picture!Pluto! And the boys really enjoyed the visit, as is obvious from their expressions, I think!
I was going to say Mmmm until I read it had no taste. That stinks.I got Raspberry Mimosa
I won't explain again since everyone else did, but it took me years to finally remember this lol! I'm glad you guys enjoyed breakfast there. It's not that we didn't, the food was great the first time and pretty good the second. We just can't seem to get good character flow when we're there although when we do actually get them to stop at our table the interaction is fineFor the life of me, no matter how many times I get it explained to me, I do not know how to tell Chip and Dale apart
Glad to see you all made it to the pavilion without being trampled by the stampedend once we got in, we headed to the ever popular...wait for it...Imagination Pavilion. B
What a great picture!!!! Their excitement is undeniable.
Pluto! And the boys really enjoyed the visit, as is obvious from their expressions, I think!
Well here is clearly when Chad became a lifelong disney fan. A good bloody mary before noon will turn even the most cynical amongst us
Oh and you can also see we got some POG (pineapple, orange, guava) juice, as well. Yum! Maybe I should've just asked for some vodka with my POG! As it was, Chad was the clear winner here. My Raspberry Mimosa was pretty to look at but didn't really have much flavor. Oh and it was more expensive! Lesson learned!
You got it exactly right. They bring the sticky bun with the fruit first and then the rest of the meal later.**ETA: I forgot they give you the huge sticky bun here. But none of us like sticky buns/cinnamon rolls, so we told him not to even bring it. I wonder if that messed up the timing with the food at all, as maybe that's an "appetizer" that is brought out before or with the fruit, and then the hot plate comes later? Just a theory...
So basically, we did not get in as early as I wanted, but I won't complain because if you read last years' report, this year was so much better than last!
I'm thinking it was probably 9:15-9:20 maybe once we finally got through everything and into the park. And once we got in, we headed to the ever popular...wait for it...Imagination Pavilion. Basically, we didn't really need to do any running of the bulls because we were able to get FPs for all the Tier 1's we wanted. We had split our TT and Soarin FPs because Will is too short to ride, so we knew we could get Child Swap passes for those and we were coming back on Thursday to do Frozen.
Anyway, we got to the pavilion in a somewhat timely manner and headed in to ride Journey Into Imagination. Before I go any further I will tell you that DH says Figment is one of his favorite characters - I may be repeating myself from the intros, so I apologize if I am. The last time he was at Disney, was right after Epcot opened so he says he thinks he just latched onto Figment as his favorite character because maybe they were really promoting him. Regardless, the ride is kind of blah, but I think we all enjoyed it somewhat and (all three of) the boys probably really liked it.
After this we headed out quickly, so as to keep the boys from wanting to play - I had built in time to do that but then the security lines fiasco happened so I had to make up ground somewhere! We headed to the Land Pavilion, where AJ and Chad used their FP for Soarin' and Will and I waited for them. Touring Plans had predicted not too long of a wait with a FP, but I was leery of that because Dad, AJ, and I waited quite a long time in the FP line last year.
Not that I think LwtL is a bad ride, but I do not have to ride it every trip...lol.
Okay, so up to GG we went. We waited a few minutes and everyone took a bathroom break. Then we got called. We got sat on the outer edge of the circle so we were able to see that we were circling around. I'm not that familiar with the restaurant, so I'm not certain if all the seats are on the outer circle or not.
Anyway, I'm fairly certain that we had a character visit before the waiter even arrived:
View attachment 254668
Pluto! And the boys really enjoyed the visit, as is obvious from their expressions, I think!
We ordered some drinks; I got Raspberry Mimosa and Chad got a Bloody Mary:
View attachment 254669
View attachment 254670
Oh and you can also see we got some POG (pineapple, orange, guava) juice, as well. Yum!
Maybe I should've just asked for some vodka with my POG! As it was, Chad was the clear winner here. My Raspberry Mimosa was pretty to look at but didn't really have much flavor. Oh and it was more expensive! Lesson learned!
**ETA: I forgot they give you the huge sticky bun here. But none of us like sticky buns/cinnamon
rolls, so we told him not to even bring it. I wonder if that messed up the timing with the food at all, as maybe that's an "appetizer" that is brought out before or with the fruit, and then the hot plate comes later? Just a theory...
After this, Chad took the boys on LwtL and I headed to Soarin' to use my RS pass. I did ask for Row B1 and, at first, because I was by myself, she wasn't sure she could put me there but then there was another single rider and she had two open seats, so I was able to get that row. Because of being in that row, I didn't see a lot of the distortion that people complain about and I really enjoyed the ride.
With that, I think I will stop here. It is late and I am having trouble remembering our order of stuff next. I have my receipts and they are semi-confusing, so I am going to do my best to recollect what actually happened so I will be ready with the next update in a few days. Thanks, in advance, for reading.