Grey started his streak of sleepless nights on Thursday night after our day at Epcot. So after much bouncing and feeding throughout the night, I finally gave in and left to go walk him around our resort at about 5 am on Friday morning. Here, he looks about how I felt...
We went straight to the lobby so I could take our refillable mug to get some Coke to wake me up...
So I took my empty cup and tired baby, and we headed back out for a tour of the Pop Century grounds...
The new resort, Art of Animation, is right across this man made lake. You can see the lights of it in the background...
Goofy...
Around 6am, we headed back to the room so I could get in the shower. Because we were up so early, we made it to Magic Kingdom plenty early that morning. Hunter was not thrilled that we had to wait to get in, but I reminded him of how long we had to wait for Soarin' the day before and assured him there would be no long waits for rides this morning because we were there so early. As you can see, we had plenty of company!...
Finally, the welcome show started at 8:45...
And then, the gates opened! We headed straight for the Buzz ride. James and Hunter got to ride the first day, but this was my and Charlotte's first ride this trip (and Grey's first ride ever!)...
Charlotte aiming at the Z's...
My sweet boys...
Zurg!
After defeating Zurg, we headed to Astro Orbiter...
Another walk on!
Great views of the park on this ride...
Then we had to split up again because Grey was too little for the Speedway, and neither of the bigs were tall enough to ride alone. So James and Hunter rode the Indy Speedway cars...
while Charlotte, Grey, and I rode The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I thought this would be a great ride for Grey, but had forgotten that it's got some really bumpy parts. I think he liked the bright colors, but wasn't so sure about our honey pot car (or whatever it is) bouncing around so much!
The boys finally finished, so we went to meet them at the Barnstormer, but it was broken down, so we rode Dumbo instead...
Then all the boys went to the Casey Jr Splash area, while us girls went to meet Minnie and Daisy in Pete's Silly Sideshow...
There was a 6 year old boy in line ALONE behind us just chatting us up. I finally asked who he was there with, and he said his grandma who was on the other side with his little sister. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but that seemed a little crazy to let your six your old child get in line alone....even if you were on the other side of the tent. Stranger danger, people!
Since I felt like the teacups were a little intense for baby Grey, he and I went to look for a card we had lost at dinner on Wednesday night while James took Hunter and Charlotte to ride them. Then we met at It's a Small World...
We had a quick, yummy lunch at Columbia Harbour House (one of our favorite quick services), and then headed back to our resort for nap time.
It was a short nap because of course Grey didn't want to sleep, and Charlotte had to get to her appointment at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique!
Waiting...
The boys left the resort a little while after us, but stopped by as soon as they got to Magic Kingdom to see Charlotte for a second before going to ride Buzz again. Charlotte loved BBB, and we both loved her Fairy Godmother in training...
All of the staff make such a fuss over all of the little girls there. They have these 2 older adults dressed up that walk through the boutique and loudly talk with each of the girls about what princesses they are. We LOVED it!
While we were waiting to get called back, I showed Charlotte all of the different looks you could get. She told me she wanted the fairy tale princess and that she thought the Disney diva looked silly, but when we got her back in the chair she changed her mind and said the diva wasn't silly after all. Diva isn't the look I loved, but it wasn't my day at the boutique, so we went with it...
Don't you love the two toned hair?
Such a diva!
Pixie dust!
So pretty!
After BBB we had some time to kill before our reservation, so we went to ride the carousel while Grey and James watched...
Then we got to go eat at Cinderella's Royal Table IN THE CASTLE! Charlotte has been talking about eating in the castle since our last trip to Disney World, so we were thrilled!
Character meals were kind of stressful during this trip because everything moves so quickly, and we had to deal with getting out Grey's food and feeding him, ordering for us and the kids, and getting the camera, pen and autograph books out for the 2 bigs. It seemed like the first character would get to us before we got most of these things settled, so we always felt really rushed. The food at Cinderella's Royal Table was great, though, and we got to meet tons of princesses, and we were IN THE CASTLE, PEOPLE!, so it was worth it.
First we met Aurora...
Then Snow White...
Hunter doesn't love the princesses, but Snow White asked him to take a picture with her, so he reluctantly got up...
Ariel was so outgoing. She was really excited that Charlotte's Ariel pen had bubbles. She started blowing them at the table and yelled out to the other princesses around her that we had an Ariel bubble pen!
Charlotte was glad to meet Jasmine because we had tried twice the day before at Epcot and kept missing her...
You meet Cinderella downstairs before dinner and get a picture with her that they print out for you. I didn't ask for them to take one with my camera, so I don't have that one here...we did meet her, too, though.
After dinner, we went to pick up my and Charlotte's party tickets because they weren't handing them out yet when we got there for BBB. Then we headed to the Barnstormer, and it was fixed and open, but both Charlotte and Hunter needed an adult to ride with them and Grey was too young, so we went to ride Journey of the Little Mermaid again...
This time we got stuck and sat for about 5-10 minutes, which made us really rushed for the Villain Mix n Mingle show. We raced to the castle stage and made it just as the show was starting. Hunter and I walked up to watch it close to the stage, but Charlotte was scared, so James stayed a little further back with her and Grey. You can get in line to meet the villains after the show, but H and C weren't interested, so we just went to ride more rides.
We rode several things, and eventually split up so Hunter could ride Splash Mountain with James. Charlotte, Grey, and I went to Mickey's Philharmagic, and things started to unravel a little. Charlotte was scared of the 3Dness of it, and Grey started crying when the water splashed him. This is a show, so it really stressed me out that both kids were being kind of loud in a dark theater setting. When it was over, we met back up with James and Hunter, and I told James that we couldn't split up anymore because I felt like I was about to have an anxiety attack...the lack of sleep was already starting to get to me;)
We took the kids on several trick or treat trails, rode some more stuff and then found a spot to sit and watch Celebrate the Magic on the castle and HalloWishes (the Halloween fireworks show). Charlotte freaked out before the fireworks started because she was so scared (and then the next day tried to tell me it was her favorite thing...ha!). They were really loud, but it was a good fireworks show.
After we calmed Charlotte down, we went to ride Pirates of the Caribbean and maybe something else? and headed back to watch the second parade of the night. Hunter fell asleep in the stroller (sitting up!) before it even started. It was a great parade, so I was bummed he didn't see it.
It was 11:00 by the time the parade was over, so even though there was still an hour left of the party, we headed back to the resort because we were all exhausted.
Favorites of the day...
JAMES - Mickey's "Boo to You" Halloween parade
CAROLE - Disney Villains Dance Mix and Mingle
HUNTER - Splash Mountain
CHARLOTTE - Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique
GREY - Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid
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