Oh the Places We Go, The People We See ...Dream Trip Report

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We picked the wrong time to leave. I “think” the park was closing now or at least close to closing time and we were walking with the masses.

We headed over to the bus to MK. Well this was the plan for many people and the line was just unreal.

So we headed over to the resort buses and figured we would catch a bus to a monorail resort. Those lines were long too, but not as bad. I don’t remember which line we got in, but it took forever for a bus to come. I know I did some complaining. Eventually our bus came and we got off at the Contemporary and walked over to MK. I think this is what 90% of the people on this bus did as we walked over with a huge crowd of people.

We finally made it over to the MK. It had taken close to an hour to get there.

We stopped for a photopass.

As you can see in the background of those pictures, it was still very crowded here tonight.

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We still had 3 counter service meals that needed to be used up before midnight. We were not really super hungry, but we decided to use them (or lose them) and get a bite to eat. We headed to Cosmic Rays. I think Claire wanted nuggets and that’s why we went there.

It was crowded in there too and we had people going slow in front of us. I think my patience were wearing thin too, so little things were irritating me, but we finally did get our food and sat down.

We also used the 3rd and final credit for a crustable to take back with us.

We actually took the cookies and applesauce with us too. It all did eventually get eaten, I think some for breakfasts some mornings and some on our final day on the plane if I remember right. I do know the cookies got smashed, but they still were edible.

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We then took off with no real plans.

The whole reason for coming here was just for the atmosphere of the castle and Christmas Décor.

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While roaming the park, we had to make another attempt at pulling out the sword.

Again we had no success.

We headed off to It’s a Small World then at Claire’s request.

I wish this was a better picture. I loved how the new castles walls are lit up.

And then at my request, we headed off to Pirates of the Caribbean.

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And the Jungle Boats had a very little line, so we got in line there. Claire loves to ride this at night….well I do too.

It was now about 11, closing time, so we had to make our way to the front once again.

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I know I have said it several times now, but I just really LOVE the Christmas décor!

The shops windows were just adorable too.

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Off to the bus stop then and they were doing a great job and getting buses in and out tonight. For as busy as the park was and the amount of people leaving, I think it only took us 30 minutes at the most to get back to AoA.

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We made it safely back to Art of Animation and of course I took a few pictures on the way back to the room.

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We made it back to our room. Let me tell you, after spending a full day, the walk back to the Little Mermaid section is long. I think it’s psychologically longer because it’s made outside instead of indoors.

Probably 7-10 minutes. Probably 5 if you walk fairly fast. But by the time we made it back there we were dead on our feet.

We quickly went to bed, though Claire did spend a few minutes with her Legos while I got ready for bed.

Soon we drifted off to dream land once again.

We had another full and wonderful day. I met up with Carey and Kadence once again and almost had another meet with Tim.

Oh the People We See.

We moved to yet another resort today and slept in the 6th bed of the trip.

Oh the Places We Go!

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Nov. 12, 2012, Monday, Day 12

I believe I actually slept in a little longer today than 6 AM. I guess I was getting worn down. I showered and got ready for the day and let Claire sleep. I think a bomb could’ve gone off in the room and she would’ve slept through it.

Since we had a poolside room, I decided to go out around 7:15 and take a few pictures of the area while Claire slept.

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I had to take a peak in the laundry room.

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After about 15-20 minutes of walking around the pool I went back into the room and finished getting ready. It was then time to wake sleeping beauty. Slowly but surely she did get up and ready to start another big day.

We then made our way to the bus stop.

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While waiting for the bus, the lady behind me asked if I was on the Nov. facebook group. I told her no….wait…yes I am. LOL! I don’t know what I was thinking when I said no. She told me her name, Jennifer, and I recognized it and we chatted a bit. She had recognized Claire’s top as I had posted it on the group back when I got it. I hadn’t been too active on it for a month or so prior to the trip though. I was busy writing my TR from the Sept cruise and honestly there were a couple of annoying people on there. Carey was on it was well and she can verify that we had a couple of whackos posting daily……like 70 times a day and with really dumb questions. Some people were changing ADRS EVERY SINGLE DAY, and adding in more just to have a snack and paying out of pocket to basically try as many restaurants as possible. And then there were other issues there too. And eventually there was a “fake” poster caught. Not sure what that was about ….why on earth would you make a fake name and pretend to be going to Disney?

Anyways, bus mojo was not with us this morning either. We had to wait quite a while for a AK bus to arrive. And we kept seeing buses that didn’t have park names on them. I think they were testing routes or drivers. Eventually I do believe we got on one of those buses because the wait was so long they directed one to take us over there.

 

 

We eventually made it over to AK.

 

 

We stopped for a few photopass pictures before we went in.

 

 

 

And I was sooooo excited to get this picture. It has been on my bucket list for quite some time.

 

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We then headed towards the entrance with a few pictures on the way.

Once we got into the park we stopped for another photopass picture.

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And on we went again.

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I think you have a pretty good idea where we were heading.

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Claire was very happy with the room.

 

 

I thought the walls of the shower were really neat, but it did make the room a bit too dark.

 

 

 

That's awesome. I have to figure out how to do that at my house.

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That's awesome. I have to figure out how to do that at my house.

 

I know Claire would love it if I did it to our house.

Her room is Little Mermaid themed as it is.

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Claire wanted to take another ride on EE.

The standby line wasn’t too long either and moved fairly fast.

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Soon it was our turn. I forgot to change the settings on the camera and took this picture. It was very weird looking and over exposed. But as I darkened it a bit it came out kind of neat looking.

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We had another fun and exciting ride.

We had a late breakfast ADR at Tusker house today, so we slowly made our way back over in that direction.

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We did a little bit of browsing.

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The line to check into Tusker House was SUPER long. It was unreal. So a little after 10 we got in line for our 10:30 ADR.

It took quite a while to get through. They had a couple people checking people in, but they seemed clueless. Let’s just say this process annoyed me so much that I doubt I’ll ever go back there.

Once we got checked in they told me to go back and wait for Donald. I told them I didn’t want to wait for Donald, we just wanted to eat, so they told me to take my ticket inside and give it to someone.

So that is what I did. Only the people inside told me I wasn’t called yet, I had to see Donald first to get another ticket. I don’t want to see Donald, we want to eat. By the Way Donald’s line was at least another 20 minute wait. We weren’t going to get the picture, so I wasn’t wasting the time and Claire didn’t want to wait in it either.

Finally someone points me to a podium and tells me to check with them. So I go there and tell them I am supposed to hand my ticket in so we can be on the list to be seated. They tell me, you need to see Donald first. UGH! I don’t want to see FREAKING Donald….we want to eat!

This guy was confused too but finally was able to make a ticket switch and get us on the list to get called in. Once that happened, it wasn’t too long. And as we went in, I saw the people who were in front of me in the original check in line….STILL in line for Donald and they had a ways to go.

We were taken to the back room.

We quickly went up to get some food as it was going to be a few minutes before any characters made their way to us.

We went for pretty normal items. The African food just wasn’t our thing and the few things I did end up trying I did not care for.

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A little bit of dancing around.

And then Daisy made her way to our table.