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Thank you! I was kind of pleased with them. I took them on the iphone 7 which caught some surprisingly crisp shots of the fireworks. I've never had much luck with fireworks on my point and shoot cameras in the past, always blurry.

It was a really fun way to end the trip. It was even more fun because it was something we hadn't originally planned to do when we first started putting the trip together:).

I didn't take a lot of parade pictures because I wanted to enjoy watching but here are the rest of them. As a reward to all of us for making it through the whole party, we decided that we had to get a Halloween themed treat before we left. Maddie's vote was for candy corn soft serve so we...

Once the stage show was done we just had to wait another 15-20 minutes for the last parade to start. It was after 11pm by now. We were really pushing it with the late night. The latest we'd been out the entire vacation. Was Xander fussing? Actually no, he was holding strong:). It was...

We only had to wait 15-20 minutes for the Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular show to start after the fireworks. James and Xander hadn't had a chance to see this on our last trip and Maddie and I didn't have a very good view that night so we were excited to see it up close. Maddie has also seen...

James was very excited about the spot he'd found for us. Right behind the fence of the planter directly in front of the castle! I complemented him on his excellent scouting. This was also a really good spot to see the stage show after the fireworks so we decided to stay put to watch both...

We were feeling thirsty and decided to try Lefou's brews from Gaston's Tavern nearby. For some reason I've never made it into Gaston's tavern before. We enjoyed the brews but agreed that they were slightly inferior to butter beers. We sat by the Gaston fountain for a couple of minutes after...

We made a decision to skip the first Boo to You parade of the party and hold out for the second parade. This gave us about two and a half hours to just enjoy the rides and party atmosphere instead of scrambling for a good parade viewing spot and waiting there for a long time. This is what we'd...

Maddie wanted to do some trick or treating but the lines in Tomorrowland were crazy long. We decided to brave smokers alley again and try our luck in Fantasyland. There were several people puffing away back there with kids in strollers right next to them:(. Maddie has really gotten the...

Once we were done journeying on the People Mover MNSSHP had officially started which meant ride wait times dropped significantly. Maddie wanted another ride on Space Mountain and Xander wanted any roller coaster available. We were right there and the wait time was down to 10 minutes so James...

After the ride on the Mine Train we had about 25 minutes before official party start time. What we wanted to do next was take a circle tour on the Railroad since we'd been so busy the other days at MK that we hadn't done this yet! Unfortunately when we got to the Fantasyland station we were...

Wow, I've officially been working on this trip report for two months! Yesterday was the real Halloween and I'm in the middle of writing about our last night at the MNSSHP way back at the end of August:eek:. I have to say I've had this weird feeling of deja vu this past month, like didn't...

The late afternoon parade was finishing up when we went outside so we stopped to watch then got some castle pictures in our costumes. Xander kept scrunching up his face so these are the best two we got.

The day that had been so fun and relaxing up until we got to MK had taken on a bit of an ominous tone with three not so great incidents in a row. I'm happy to report that our meal at the Plaza Inn turned out to be just what we needed to turn things around:). Xander had calmed down but was...

The rest of the evening was much more magical, thank goodness!

I would have been crying too! What an amazing moment for Hope! She was a very cute picture frame:happy:. Whenever I see Xander doing something that has been difficult for him I start tearing up, even if it's just staying nicely in a line of kids at school with his aide 20 ft away instead of...

Our entrance to the MNSSHP was a little more stressful than I would have liked. We had arrived at a really good time and there wasn't a very large crowd of people waiting in front of us so we got to one of the cast members handing out party wristbands quickly. Unfortunately we got an older...

After wrapping up our family swimming pool time we went back to the room to clean up. We were under some pressure now to finish organizing and re packing the luggage for our flight home the next day since we'd be out really late on this night and didn't want to leave it all for the morning...

Tuesday August 29, MNSSHP day! We had used up our four day park hoppers and now the only way into MK was our MNSSHP tickets which meant we had to wait until 4 to enter the park. The original plan for the early part of the day was to go to Disney Springs. We had an ADR at T Rex for lunch. As...

I could not agree more. I can't stand nuts with ice cream!