You can take the Girl out of Disney, BUT.........

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We met a few “characters” on the way too.

We got in line and it looked long…but hey, this is the Fast pass line and it will move quickly…right…and not nearly as long as the stand-by looked.

We were given one of these too. .

And soon after we got in line we realized that Skip had the backsack with the pillowcase for signatures. There was no way we were about to go back and get that, and Claire said she was Ok without autographs since she has seen the princesses before

And then we waited …and waited…and waited. We didn’t move much at all. But at least we did move, while the stand by line…was pretty much at a complete halt.

I’m not sure what the problem was, but this seemed to take forever. And part of the feeling was from the people behind us…yes again, the pushy people that like to get behind me.

This family didn’t speak much English from what I could tell. The kids were antsy, I can understand that, but they kept bumping into people all around. Every time we did move, the mom would shout something in her language and the kids would take off up ahead of several people….every time. I don’t know if she was trying to get them to cut or what, but then they would come back after people would kind of send them back or no one would let the parents by to catch up with them. It was just kind of strange.

I think we waited over 20 minutes in the line before we got to make it to the next room to wait. It seemed longer than that. Even Skip had called and asked what was taking so long.

We were the last family to go in the room. The pushy people behind us didn’t make the cut. So we had a breather from them for at least a few minutes. Claire kept commenting to me how bratty the kids were. LOL….like she is a perfect angel all the time.

I took some practice shots while we waited.

 

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I don’t know what Aurora was doing, but she looks like a posed mannequin here.

It was kind of fun waiting in here and watching some of the kids. Some were just so excited to see the Princesses for the first time.
Here is one thing I want to tell parents of preteens…..tell your kids to brush there hair. LOL..Now I know the days are long and your hair won’t stay pretty all day, but I was amazed at some of the preteen aged girls with nicely groomed parents, with major bed head. Yes a family ahead of us a ways had 2 pretty DD’s, and both looked like they hadn’t brushed their hair all week. I noticed this throughout our whole vacation too. I know girls can be picky about how they look, while others at that age don’t care one bit…but brush your hair at least. LOL!

So back to waiting…and we noticed after the next group came in after us that our pushy family wasn’t in that group……nor the next one. Claire and I had theories on that. Our guess is that they didn’t even have a fast pass and somehow had jumped over to that line and then when they got to the front they were told they couldn’t go in. Who knows what really happened, but it was weird that they never showed up.

Finally it was our turn.

I did not buy the photopass CD for this trip. I had no clue how many pictures I would get and I just didn’t think it would be worth it. I did however snip the redneck versions off the website for trip report purposes.

 

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Aurora was impressed with her dress and Claire told her that Mrs. Claus had made it and also one for her doll at home too. Thanks Mrs. Claus…AKA mom2rtk on Dis….(Janet).

 

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Next was Belle.

I’m not sure what they were talking about, but Claire looked very serious about the whole conversation.

 

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A few more with Belle.

Claire did tell me that Belle, too, was impressed with her dress and asked all about it.

On to Cinderella!

 

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Claire told me that Cinderella also commented on her dress. She was on a Princess high when we left. She felt so special that all the Princesses wanted a dress just like hers.

We left through the gift shop.

And I spotted this! If have followed me over the years, you know we have a slight obsession over this dress. I had to get a photo…and it’s not a good one…sadly.

 

[jenseib]

A side update.....I booked myself and a friend on the Disney Magic for Sept. 22. I can't wait. We also have a big trip planned for Nov. with family and we will be on the Dream and some time at WDW as well. I got a lot of work to get done before those dates roll around though.

 

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After the Princess meet, we needed to find Skip once again. I took a few shots on our way up Main Street.

Look who we ran into. Yes, we had been talking on the phone to each other and he was “pretending” her couldn’t see us. He thinks he is so funny when he does this.

I’m gonna admit right here, that my memory for parts of this day are foggy, so I am going by the order of pictures….which tells me the Move it Shake Parade was coming through. So we stopped and watched it go by.

We were next to these little statues, so I took a couple of pictures while Skip and Claire watched the parade.

I think Chip might be calling me a loser?

 

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Time to head out and make our way towards pirates….um yeah…that ride I wanted to do first thing…remember?

We headed back towards Fantasyland along the side of the castle. . My guess is that Skip wanted to stop for another smoke.

Claire wanted to try her luck at pulling out the sword. We had to wait for a few families. A couple tried to jump right in, but we all put a stop to that. Finally the family in front of us went and people kept walking in front of her. It was so obvious she was taking pictures…but people just don’t look sometimes. I understand it happens, but people were pushing through that area to get through, and it was almost like they were knocking into her to get through, couldn’t they see her holding a camera…and couldn’t they go around her backside? We laughed about it and she made some comments, like “I guess me and this camera are invisible”. That is stuff I would do…or my famous line is “Excuse YOU!”

Claire gave it a try too.

Dad came in to help.

Seriously Dad….that’s all the harder you are going to try?

 

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I can do better than that!

This is how you do it!

Sadly we weren’t lucky and it did not pull out.

We headed off and I think Skip stopped to get a drink and I took a picture of the treats and made a mental note to be sure to get a Mickey bar later.

I think this is when we rode Peter Pan. I didn’t take a picture of our FP’s and can’t remember our return time, but I can’t imagine where we fit it in later…If I remember, I’ll correct it.

OK…we are NOW going to ride pirates if it is the last thing we do!

But of course I have to take pictures on the way.

 

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Hey…I’m over here! LOL…… Look how crowded it is.

 

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Onward towards pirates….I was on a mission.

Wait time says 35 minutes…..YUCK! It’s never that long…the queue was wrapped around outside…you know that outside area you usually walk right through…we had to wait and zigzag through all of that.

It became clear that the wait was going to be longer very soon, but we did keep moving.
When we got close to the inside entrance we were standing against the building and there were doors there. The 2 boys behind me wondered where they went. We guessed that maybe it was a CM entrance, or went into some back room…..they thought they would be funny and knocked on the doors…and to our surprise we got a knock back. We all laughed about it. It totally shocked us.

Once we got in and queued around inside the building we came across those same doors. They just entered into the queue area….so of course I encouraged them to knock again and scare some people on the outside.

I took a few pictures while in line….but I didn’t have the good lens for dark pictures with me, so they are just blah pictures.

 

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I think it took about 45 minutes before we actually got to board our boat

At one point in the ride there is a drunk pirate leaning off to the side with a bottle of rum and says “here kitty kitty kitty.” We just love that. Skips brother is a big rum drinker (way to much actually) and he has this fascination with cats. I kid you not when I say we have 70- 100 barn cats running around the place. Dave has a couple of favorites…usually the most disgusting ones…and he just loves them up and I swear he would sleep with them if his wife let him. So we wanted to get a picture of that guy, but I couldn’t. It was too dark and I couldn’t get a focus on it. But we laughed so hard…and Skip said it probably needed the audio anyways to make it better.

 

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I just love this ride. It’s my all-time favorite. I feel like a little kid with big eyes going through it. I get that special Disney feeling when I ride it. I think it just always brings back my first trip to WDW when I was about 4 and it’s one of the few rides I remember riding.

We headed out through the gift shop looking at a few things as we went and saw Pirate Goofy signing, but Claire had no interest to wait in his line.

 

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A side update.....I booked myself and a friend on the Disney Magic for Sept. 22. I can't wait. We also have a big trip planned for Nov. with family and we will be on the Dream and some time at WDW as well. I got a lot of work to get done before those dates roll around though.

Jealous!

 

[jenseib]

Jealous!

LOL...I am very excited...but it makes things more busy for me at home. Lots to get done before I head out.

 

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So sorry for the lack of updates. With all the fun coming up next month, I have been concentrating on getting as much work as I can done ahead of time, plus doing some planning. I know a few of the girls sailing on the same date, and we are so excited to have a chance to get together once again.

 

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We decided to see how long the line for Splash Mountain was.

It was 110 minutes…we’ll pass for now.



I took a shot of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad as it was getting refurbed.

And then we got a treat.

And I made the decision to go over to Tom Sawyers Island. Something I hadn’t done since Michael and Paige were little and I thought it would be nice to take Claire over to check it out.



We boarded our raft and it was hot..and we were jammed packed on that little thing…and then we had to wait for the boat to go around before we could cross.

It was just so hot and sweaty and Claire’s ice-cream was melting fast. I think Skip finished it up. And we had a young couple who were all over each other. The girl was hanging on the guy like her life depended on it. It just really bugged me. She was just stroking his back with her fingernails and it was like a suggestive way…hard to describe…but it was more than I wanted to see and I couldn’t understand how they weren’t about to pass out from the heat. Probably because I was so hot and standing right up next to them is why it bothered me…any other time I might not have even noticed it.



We made it to the island…and I think it got 20 degrees hotter over there.

We just kind of wandered a bit.

Claire found a cave with some jewels.