Trip Report A Christmas in November, Food & Wine, Girls Trip!

samantha788 · Nov 28, 2015

With my new magicband I headed back over to Main Street to get a place to watch Celebrate the Magic and Wishes!

Untitled by Sam Wnek, on Flickr

Untitled by Sam Wnek, on Flickr

After Wishes, there was another A Frozen Holiday Wish coming up, so again I moved in towards the castle stage as everyone was leaving after wishes

This time I had a great spot and view of the show!

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samantha788 · Nov 28, 2015

These are some of my favorites!

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Untitled by Sam Wnek, on Flickr

After a whirlwind long day, plus a jam packed few hours in Magic Kingdom, it was time to head out of so I could get the rental car, run a few errands for snacks and drinks and then meet Alyssa and Michelle at the airport!

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Up next...our cousin day at Hollywood Studios + The Osborne Lights!

ajrwdwgirl · Nov 28, 2015

Nice pictures of the Frozen castle light up. My pictures didn't turn out so well, but then again we were back pretty far.

samantha788 · Nov 28, 2015

ajrwdwgirl said:
Nice pictures of the Frozen castle light up. My pictures didn't turn out so well, but then again we were back pretty far.

Thank you! It's a fun show.

disneypearl · Nov 28, 2015

Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos! They are so fun to look at! Looking forward to following along.

Beckett · Nov 28, 2015

Wow! Your pictures are amazing!

samantha788 · Nov 29, 2015

disneypearl said:
Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos! They are so fun to look at! Looking forward to following along.

Thank you SO much!! Glad you are following along

Beckett said:
Wow! Your pictures are amazing!

Thank you!!

myhappyplace · Nov 29, 2015

Oooh, love your castle lights show pics!! I think I remember reading your May trip. Love your friend's Penn State shirt, that's where I'm originally from!!

My husband and I are doing a cruise on Dec 5th in 2016, and I am looking forward to visiting the parks around that time to see all of the decor!!

samantha788 · Nov 29, 2015

myhappyplace said:
Oooh, love your castle lights show pics!! I think I remember reading your May trip. Love your friend's Penn State shirt, that's where I'm originally from!!

My husband and I are doing a cruise on Dec 5th in 2016, and I am looking forward to visiting the parks around that time to see all of the decor!!

Thank you so much!!
Emily and I are both Penn State alums! It's where we met

You'll love all the holiday decorations! I think that's when everything looks the prettiest

samantha788 · Nov 29, 2015

FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 6th

Beautiful view outside of our room!

Untitled by Sam Wnek, on Flickr

Untitled by Sam Wnek, on Flickr

We were off to Hollywood Studios!! Emily wasn’t getting in until late tonight, so we had all day at Hollywood studios, The Osborne Lights and a late dinner at Chef Mickey’s!

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Untitled by Sam Wnek, on Flickr

Our first stop of the morning was at the favorite for Alyssa and myself…Tower of Terror!!!! Michelle went along with us despite being scared, it was funny and she was a good sport!

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Next was Beauty and the Beast!! I LOVE this and never ever get tired of watching it.

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Untitled by Sam Wnek, on Flickr

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samantha788 · Nov 29, 2015

After Beauty and the Beast, we walked over to Rock’n Roller Coaster for our FP

It was down earlier during our return time so we were glad it was up and running again after Beauty and the Beast!
Alyssa and Michelle love this one.

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It was around noon and we were hungry, we walked all over looking at menus trying to figure out what we wanted for lunch.

GMA! my favorite sign (it's where i work

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Daytime Osborne Lights

We decided to pop into Mama Melrose’s to see if they’d seat us without a reservation, sure enough- they did with no problem!
We split appetizers, flatbreads and sangria. It was all SO GOOD too. It was our first time here and I would definitely make a point to go back.
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samantha788 · Nov 29, 2015

After lunch we were so full but excited for our next FP at the Frozen Sing-along. I love this so much, and always find it funny

Alyssa and I love Frozen, i'm always singing the songs. Michelle has a 5 year old daughter and they missed the sing-along on their last trip, I was so excited for Michelle to see it...i knew she would love it!

A hole in Elsa's dress!

samantha788 · Dec 1, 2015

After the Frozen sing-along, we went to one of Michelle’s favorite – The Little Mermaid.

Some pictures along the way...

i think we were imitating how my sister and I take pictures hah

Now to The Little Mermaid!

We’ve all seen this more times than we can count, but this one will forever stick in our heads. During “Part of your World” Ariel just seemed a little off…we all looked at each other giggling. There were a lot of great moments, but there were a lot of not great moments…and the movements were unlike ANY of the choreography we’ve seen when watching this before! It was entertaining.

Alyssa wanted to see Lights! Motors! Action! So we went there next. I’m not the biggest fan, I’ve seen it before and that was good enough for me, I just feel like it’s so long with lots of down time.
For the last several trips we always split up, I go watch Beauty and The Beast and she chooses to watch Lights! Motors! Action!

The rest is when the meteorologist in me comes out...everyone around us is all excited over LIGHTNING! There were storms in the area so i'm looking ALL over watching for lightning, I ask my sister where and she's like "Lightning McQueen"... haha oops

Then while everyone is all WOW about the show, I’m looking around observing the storm clouds and looking for the rainbow, which I spotted when it was very faint and then the colors ended up SO bright!

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I do like the show, but when there's weather to observe around us...i'm easily distracted

Coming up next...Osborne Lights and Chef Mickey's!

ginadee · Dec 2, 2015

These pics are great! Can't wait to see more.

samantha788 · Dec 2, 2015

ginadee said:
These pics are great! Can't wait to see more.

Thank you so much!!

Tuvalu · Dec 2, 2015

Gorgeous rainbow pics!

samantha788 · Dec 2, 2015

After Lights! Motors! Action!, we headed out of Hollywood Studios to relax at the hotel for a little before coming back to see the Osborne Lights! That morning we waited a LONG time for a hollywood studios bus, then tonight we waited even longer. We saw buses come for everywhere else, more than once, before a DHS bus. This began the trend of travel issues this night...

When Alyssa and I were in Disney a year ago, we saw the Osborne Lights for the first time and were SO blown away. It was overwhelming and so much fun, we spent a lot of time (much more than we expected) on our last trip just hanging out on the streets of America and trying to find all the hidden mickey’s! We had been trying to make everything come together for this trip when they announced this would be the last year for the lights, so we tried even harder to make the trip happen!

Michelle torturing Alyssa by making her stop for photos along the way...Alyssa was so anxious to get to the lights! hah

Our cousin hadn’t seen them before, and Alyssa and I couldn’t wait to see her reaction when she saw them for the first time. She loved them as much as we did

This next picture....HAH i wouldn't typically post such an unflattering photo, but we asked a gentleman to take our photo, and he wasn't sure how to use my camera so the person he was with (that had a camera like mine) simply showed him what button to hit. Then the man got down on the ground pointing straight up at us to take this photo, as his buddy is laughing, and we're all thinking "this isn't going to be good" hah.

Then the gentleman wanted to take another picture of us, so he stood up and put the camera so close to our faces, I don't know how he even managed to get all of us in it! You can see in all of our faces our "what is going on" look. Thank you sir for taking our picture, of course we appreciate it...in the end, I couldn't delete the photos- they are too funny and have too good of a story to go with them!!

Back to more Osborne lights!

samantha788 · Dec 2, 2015

Tuvalu said:
Gorgeous rainbow pics!

Thank you! It was beautiful and vibrant and hung around for such a long time!

samantha788 · Dec 2, 2015

We spent a bit of time wandering around before heading out to go over to Chef Mickey’s. Since it was just before closing time at Hollywood Studios the lines for all the buses were INSANE. The bus line that went to the Contemporary also went to Wilderness Lodge and I think the Poly and was SO far out of the queue. Then we thought we could go to MK and walk, that bus line was crazy long too. Epcot’s line was right next to MK’s and wasn’t full and a bus pulled right up so we hopped on that and figured we’d take the monorail from Epcot to TTC to the Contemporary. This worked but we still ended up to Chef Mickey’s 45 minutes late. They took us without a problem, but our own problem with being late and waiting for a table was that I had to get to the airport to pick up my friend, Emily.

Unfortunately we had to rush through dinner, but despite some of the reviews I’ve read, we all really enjoyed Chef Mickey’s!
There was a huge variety - we all went back for the sushi and lobster mac and cheese

It also was not crowded at all since it was so late, and they came around several times to ask if we’d gotten to see all the characters.
The character interactions were a lot of fun too!

We LOVE Goofy! He wanted a shirt to match ours too

Funny story about Pluto too...when we were being seated, they told us several times if we want to see Pluto, go over to where he was meeting by the entrance because he is done for the night. We decided not to since we really needed to sit and start eating. Then when we sat, our waitress told us about Pluto too and we said that's okay. Then several character attendants came around asking if we had seen Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy--which we had. Then all of a sudden - PLUTO walks into the room we were seated in to meet everyone haha. He walked up to our table and I said - Pluto, I thought you were already in bed! He shook his head no and seemed as confused to hear that question as we were to see him thinking he was long gone haha.

After dinner, we were going to walk back to MK to take a bus back to Coronado Springs but MK was at closing time and I couldn’t imagine the bus lines there after dealing with Hollywood Studios. Instead we took an uber which I wish I thought of before for the trip between Hollywood Studios to Chef Mickey’s. The uber worked out perfect and we were back to the contemporary in no time. Despite it being around park closing, our uber arrived in less than 5 minutes and the ride cost about $10. Totally worth it for the time we saved!
Alyssa and Michelle were exhausted so went to bed while I went to pick up Emily!

We don’t get to see each other that often since we live a few hours away from each other, so when we do it’s like we’re little kids staying up late talking and laughing. Since Alyssa and Michelle were sleeping, we took our snacks and drinks outside and sat on a bench for hours!

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