DW & I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary and went for a quick two day trip for the first time without the kids. Quick shout out to my BIL who graciously came down with his son to spend a three night three day weekend with three teenage boys, I owe you!
Drove from Wilmington, NC after I got off work on Thursday Nov 12th and drove to a friends house who lives in Savannah, GA for the night. Got back on the road at 5:30 am and headed to DHS. Since DW & I have never been during this time of the year we were excited about seeing the Osborne lights and the parks decorated for Christmas & boy did they not disappoint! We walked up to the ticket booth at 10:30 and walked into the park around 10:45. Camera in hand and ready to enjoy the day.
First destination for us was to slowly walk down Hollywood Blvd and check out the shops and decorations. Have I mentioned how much easier this is without two teenage boys?
We first made our way to the back of the park to check out the Streets of America during the day and try and find some of the hidden gems and scout out a spot we would try and watch the ceremony from. Then we made it over for our first character meet, why not Santa Goofy! Very short wait, like 5 minutes from there we walked down by Toy Story Mania that was already at a 70 min wait (this ride is crazy!) and got our picture taken with Sorcerer Mickey. From there we decided to hit some shops and grab some lunch before the 1pm LMA show. First time ever grabbing a QS meal at Pizza Planet and I must say I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I had the meats and DW the veggie pizza and both the Caesar salad and thought it was quite tasty.
LMA was fantastic as always, sad to see this go but I know whats coming will be worth it in the end....... if I can be patient and wait that long! Since we weren't planning on riding much we used a FP to make sure that we got in to see the show.
Finally we decided it was time to go ride something and use our FP's so off to ToT and RRC and they were amazing as always.
Once finished we decided to take in some of the Citizens of Hollywood performances, with the boys we don't get to see this in their entirety and boy have we been missing out on some fun!
Next, off to claim our spot and watch the Osborne Lights ceremony! I will add pictures and video in a later post on this.
After the lights we had a 7:45 ADR at the Minnie's Holiday Dine @ H&V. Characters in attendance were: Goofy, Daisy, Donald, Mickey and Minnie. They were very attentive and gave many cute attention to DW and I who were there on our anniversary dinner. The food, the food was absolutely magnificent. Holy smokes way too much to eat as I felt I needed to sample everything.
Afterwards we had a nice leisurely stroll out of the park and back to the hotel to get rested up for tomorrow at MK!
Drove from Wilmington, NC after I got off work on Thursday Nov 12th and drove to a friends house who lives in Savannah, GA for the night. Got back on the road at 5:30 am and headed to DHS. Since DW & I have never been during this time of the year we were excited about seeing the Osborne lights and the parks decorated for Christmas & boy did they not disappoint! We walked up to the ticket booth at 10:30 and walked into the park around 10:45. Camera in hand and ready to enjoy the day.
First destination for us was to slowly walk down Hollywood Blvd and check out the shops and decorations. Have I mentioned how much easier this is without two teenage boys?
We first made our way to the back of the park to check out the Streets of America during the day and try and find some of the hidden gems and scout out a spot we would try and watch the ceremony from. Then we made it over for our first character meet, why not Santa Goofy! Very short wait, like 5 minutes from there we walked down by Toy Story Mania that was already at a 70 min wait (this ride is crazy!) and got our picture taken with Sorcerer Mickey. From there we decided to hit some shops and grab some lunch before the 1pm LMA show. First time ever grabbing a QS meal at Pizza Planet and I must say I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I had the meats and DW the veggie pizza and both the Caesar salad and thought it was quite tasty.
LMA was fantastic as always, sad to see this go but I know whats coming will be worth it in the end....... if I can be patient and wait that long! Since we weren't planning on riding much we used a FP to make sure that we got in to see the show.
Finally we decided it was time to go ride something and use our FP's so off to ToT and RRC and they were amazing as always.
Once finished we decided to take in some of the Citizens of Hollywood performances, with the boys we don't get to see this in their entirety and boy have we been missing out on some fun!
Next, off to claim our spot and watch the Osborne Lights ceremony! I will add pictures and video in a later post on this.
After the lights we had a 7:45 ADR at the Minnie's Holiday Dine @ H&V. Characters in attendance were: Goofy, Daisy, Donald, Mickey and Minnie. They were very attentive and gave many cute attention to DW and I who were there on our anniversary dinner. The food, the food was absolutely magnificent. Holy smokes way too much to eat as I felt I needed to sample everything.
Afterwards we had a nice leisurely stroll out of the park and back to the hotel to get rested up for tomorrow at MK!
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