Part Three
After Lunch we headed back towards Main Street for our next FP of the day.
Can you guess where?
A was so excited he was jumping up and down. We had a minor meltdown - he wanted to wear his hat in the photos (it covers his face and E wanted a couple nice pictures where she could see his face) but he got distracted with Mickey talking to a little girl and it was easily forgotten about.
Ah, to be a toddler lol.
We had THE BEST photopass lady ever. We were also in there for a good 15 minutes, with A just playing around with Mickey and dancing. Ugh, it was just adorable.
We were supposed to split up after that - J and I would take L on The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh while E and T took A onto Peter Pan. But L had fallen asleep while we were in line for Mickey and once we got A back into his stroller he fell asleep as well. So instead we walked around the park a little bit.
We decided to just call the last FPs we had for the day a wash when it was obvious they were down for the count and we were going to be cutting it too close to the time we’d have to meet up with T’s parents for dinner anyway. Instead we ended up here:
And promptly split up. T went to get a table while E got herself a citrus swirl. J and I went further down.
And got ourselves this beauty:
We sat just inside the small overhang between the Aladdin meet and greet and the Bazaar area. L had woken up so she had a little bit of our ice creams. It was around this time that T’s phone (which had died as we left Mickey) had finally charged enough to turn it on. He had a call from his parents. He managed to get in touch with them while we were sitting there - since they hadn’t heard from us they had just entered the park and had gone onto the Peoplemover. We told them that we’d head for dinner and meet them ASAP.
After finishing our ice creams we headed out of the park and walked over to the Contemporary, where we were eating for Easter as well as the kids’ birthdays since A’s was the next week and L’s isn’t that much further off.
A woke up as we were walking into the Contemporary, so we spent some time looking at the Easter eggs that were set up in the foyer then sat down on the couches near reception to wait for T’s parents.
They weren’t that far behind us, and they took A and L to get changed into the outfit’s T’s mother had made for them specially for dinner.
A was a little excited.
Once the kids were ready we headed upstairs. We had reached Chef Mickey’s, where we were eating for the night. We got up there just in time to catch a few kids doing the opening ceremony for the restaurant, which was cute.
We took pictures with the Mickey statue in front of the restaurant then sat and waited for the buzzer to go off. We were brought in by a very friendly hostess who let us stop and look at the Easter eggs on display inside before we kept going because A saw one he liked and, well, I saw one I liked too.
We were seated in the back, next to the door to the kitchen and against the wall in the corner. It was a good table to be at, especially with two little ones - it gave them easy access to the characters. Our waiter wasn’t super happy, and didn’t bring a lot of refills after initially coming back once. But since it was a buffet, no worries for us!
We let E take A up with T’s parents first, then we went up afterwards.
I ended up only going up to get one plate for dinner and one for dessert because I got so wrapped up in the characters coming around. For my first (and only) plate of food I got: spinach salad, a perogi, beef, mac and cheese, polenta, macaroni salad, mashed potato, and salmon. Lots of carbs, my favorite! I also had pomegranate lemonade.
Then the characters started coming. Oh man guys, the character interactions were AMAZING for us! Also the interaction with the CMs and chefs. I don’t know what it was - if A is just adorable (I’m biased but he is), the fact that it was his and L’s birthday dinners, the characters were just amazing that night, the stars aligned perfectly, or what, but it was absolutely fabulous! Special props to Mickey, Pluto, and Minnie. Big, huge props go out to their handler for being an amazing woman and going above and beyond. Also for the pastry chef for just being a great person to chat with every time she came in and out of the kitchen. They all really made this little boy feel super special.
We were told to wait until Minnie came around again before we left, so that was around the time I decided to go get dessert:
That’d be a spoonful of bread pudding, two macarons, a s’mores tart, an Mickey oreo mousse, an eclair, and a berry tart. They were all yummy and that s’mores tart and oreo mousse haunt my dreams.
We left after Minnie came back with A’s chef hat signed by all the characters and the chefs. After a few more Minnie cuddles and a bunch of thank you’s to the character attendant we headed out, making sure we took down names of everyone we could so we could write a glowing review of them to drop off at guest services later.
Oh, before we headed out we had to stop by guest services anyway. We had had two weird encounters that day that had us second-guessing ourselves. The first was when we pulled up to the gate at HS. The Cm in the booth scanned T’s band and it popped up saying our hotel, which we weren’t checking into until the next day. Then, during dinner, E’s Waze app told her it was time to leave to make it to check-in. She hadn’t been able to find a hotel room for Easter, though she had tried numerous times, so she just wanted to check and make sure we WEREN’T actually supposed to check in on Sunday.
Once everything got straightened out (easily enough, just a blip!) T’s parents headed back to their house to set everything up for us for the night while we headed back to HS to get the car.
We had a half hour’s drive back to T’s parents, and once we got there we basically all crashed.
I'm going to look at my daily step-count just because I want to see for my own curiosity how differently I walk in Disney World versus
Disneyland this summer so I'll post the stats my watched picked up at the end of the day.
Today's step count: 12,363
Distance: 5.38
The Chef Mickey outfit is awesome! We loved our breakfast at 1900 Park Fare and we were all adults. The character interaction was great even for us big people!
