September 16th, 2010
Mema picked us up shortly after 6:30 and we arrived at GRR around 7:15 am to check in for our flight. I accidentally packed the disposable water camera in our checked bag and the not so nice TSA agent wouldn’t take the bag off the belt even though it wasn’t in the x-ray machine yet and just said well its ruined. Not the best start to the trip as that was a wasted $10 plus we would have to buy a new one on property at Disney since we aren’t renting a car. Emilia didn’t do the best on the flight as she didn’t want to stay in her seatbelt so that was a battle. Once we were up in the air and she was able to watch a movie so it made things a little easier.
We arrived at Orlando International Airport around 11:15 am. We took the tram to the main section of the airport made our way down to level 1 for Disney’s Magical Express. Our line moved slowly due to the cast member checking us in but soon we were waiting for the bus. We just missed the bus as the CM stopped the line in front of our family. It was a busy day for ME as we waited 30 minutes for the next bus and at least 20 of the minutes there were no busses out front to go to any of the resorts which seemed very odd to me. The first time we took Magical Express in January there were plenty of busses coming and going. Soon we were boarding the bus to make our way to Disney’s All Star Music Resort. After a quick stop at Coronado Springs to drop one person off and then the bus was on its way the All Star Resort.
I did online check-in so that sped things up for us greatly since all of our paperwork was pre-printed for us. We received a ground floor room as I requested in the Broadway 8 building. I also requested to be near transportation thinking maybe it would put us closer to the busses. Nope it put it near the parking lot though! My misunderstanding and will know for future reference. We grab some lunch in the food court and then it was back to the room to let Emilia take her nap as we have Chef Mickey reservations at 6:20 pm.
We left our room around 5 pm to head to the Contemporary Resort. We boarded the Magic Kingdom bus since there is no resort to resort bus transportation. Once we arrived at the MK we went to will call to pick up our Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party (MNSSHP) tickets for Saturday. Then we made the short walk to the Contemporary. After browsing the shops for a few minutes we checked into Chef Mickey’s at 6 pm and were seated at 6:20. First they took our picture with Chef Mickey instead of the statue that we had last time before sitting us down.
Goofy and Pluto were in our section and would be arriving at our table shortly. Herm went to the buffet quickly to get Emilia something to eat while we waited for these two characters. We were able to enjoy our dinner a little bit before Minnie and Donald made it into our section. Emilia wasn’t too interested in Donald as she was quickly saying “Bye Donald.” By the time Minnie made it to our table Emilia was done eating and wanted to be on our side of the table. Luckily Minnie squeezed into the booth with her. Minnie was her favorite character! Now that we had seen all of the characters it was time for dessert.
They bought Herm a free birthday cupcake as I put on our reservation that we were celebrating his birthday.After dinner we looked at the other gift shop in the Contemporary where Emilia was eyeing up the Cinderella’s Castle play set again. She did this last November at the Grand Floridian too.
We were now going to catch the bus to Downtown Disney from the Contemporary. Now I don’t understand why people complain about the All Stars having to share busses at certain times of the day because I think the bus sharing to DTD from the Contemporary and then to the Poly is way worse! The resorts are not as close as the All Stars are and with the money you are paying to stay there you would think that they would have their own busses.
First up at Downtown Disney is the Lego Store for Emilia to play on the playground there and for me to look for a birthday present for Xavier. No luck on that front as most of that stuff I can buy at home. Then we went to the World of Disney store in search of the Minnie Witch Halloween Costume. We found the costume but unfortunately they don’t make it in a toddler size. The smallest size that it comes in is a small which is a 5-6. So we are back to the drawing board on what to dress Emilia up for Halloween. Next up is the Once upon a Toy store to get more Mr. Potato Head pieces. Herm let me buy the big huge potato head as it was a better deal then buying 2 boxes of parts. I spent at least a half hour stuffing this potato with as many pieces as I could fit. I had fun doing it! Back to resort as we are doing rope drop at Animal Kingdom in the morning!
More of our trip to follow later!
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1 comment:
I'm so glad you guys had a good time! We would have loved to meet up with you, but I'm still iffy on dragging Sam out after he was so sick last week. I know you'll be back, though. :-)
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