The Tale of the Grow Walk ….Hunh? DCL Magic and WDW Review

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See Luke in this next picture? He was fascinated with Claire’s autograph book and kept grabbing it and at one point he “autographed” it for her as well. LOL

 

 

 

 

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Stitch was pretty entertaining!

 

 

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Our next visitor was Pluto.

 

 

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I love this next picture.

 

 

 

 

Luke was really curious about Pluto.

 

 

With breakfast done, we all agreed it was a very good meal and we were now stuffed. The bills came out and once again, Dad makes some comment about not being with Katie and he is not on the dining plan. Now he has lived with women his whole life…and you would think if we told him this was how it was, he would just shut up and do it…nope he has to ask questions. Luckily the waitress wasn’t paying attention to him.

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We all said our goodbyes and Claire and I grabbed the monorail to Magic Kingdom. I think Mom and Dad were using the bathroom and then heading over too. Katie was going back to check on Thad.

 

 

And we scan our bands to get in and the CM asks if I had tickets left because it shows them all used. Um yes, just picked up my ticket yesterday…I have 4 days left. So he says he will reset it and I am good to go.

 

Yep…. It was crowded here today too.

 

 

 

Lovely cranes all during our trip.

 

 

So we are walking down the sidewalk and this bozo in a scooter starts honking and he is driving like a mad man and runs into us and several other people. I say in my not so nice voice “EXCUSE YOU”. I mean if I could go faster, don’t you think I would? And just turns and glares at me…sorry buddy…I can win awards for glaring and you don’t intimidate me at all.

So we watch him honk all the way down the side walk and still not making much more headway than us.

 

 

Lovely walls up all over the place here. We had to weave in and out of people to get down Main Street and these walls seem to make people walk slower.

 

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There goes Scooter guy! Yeah look how far ahead he got by ramming into people….JERK!

 

 

We kept moving and of course there wasn’t much of a line for the dole whips, right when we are too full to get one.

 

 

Shuffle, shuffle.

 

 

I believe we were heading towards Pirates, but the line was just too long…but take a look at the upper left of this next picture.

 

 

Not sure what is up there, but people were coming out.

 

 

Even this new adventure had long lines for sign up and we never did try it.

 

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Claire has a one track mind and Splash Mountain was all she was thinking about.

 

 

We got in line, and I don’t remember the exact wait time, but I think it was 30-45 minutes.

 

 

We got in line just in time as it grew quite longer after us.

 

We talked with the people in front of us…who were from Ohio as well, who were staying offsite and didn’t understand the whole FP+. I tried to explain a bit of it. They weren’t impressed with it and I can see why since they couldn’t get any till they got to the parks….and let’s just say those kiosks lines were MEGA long.

 

The line moved fairly fast, but I think we still waited at least whatever the posted wait time was.

 

 

Time to board.

 

 

As we pass these guys coming down the hill I pray we miss the splash from them and I just BARELY did….thank goodness. I am not a fan of getting wet….Claire on the other hand loves it and I know she was hoping I would get splashed.

 

 

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Is this a camera? Or a spotlight?

 

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Continuing on with more Splash pictures.

 

 

 

 

Oh no!!!!!!

 

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One of our favorite parts of the ride.

 

 

 

 

 

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We survived!!!

 

 

And I didn’t get too wet, which is always a bonus for me.

 

 

 

And our picture…I actually stayed upright…I usually tend to bend way over to avoid getting wet. This picture cracks me up, because Claire looks scared out of her wits….but she loves this ride and would ride it over and over if I let her, so not sure why she has the scared face.

 

 

After our splashdown we moved on and look what I found.

 

 

This was the first time we were able to see the Rapunzel tower….and I just loved it. And you will see several more pictures of it throughout the trip.

 

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Here’s another one….I think this is so pretty…..such a fancy bathroom area.

 

 

 

 

I am pretty sure we used the bathrooms there to check them out and then moved on.

 

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Is this a camera? Or a spotlight?

 

 

That's a camera. The ring around the lens are for nighttime. I like to look behind me on a lot of rides - there are a lot more cameras you can't normally see.

 

Enjoying your trip report! Looking forward to more!

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That's a camera. The ring around the lens are for nighttime. I like to look behind me on a lot of rides - there are a lot more cameras you can't normally see.

 

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I thought it looked like a lens too.

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We had some time before our first FP+ of the day so we wandered through Old Fantasyland.

 

 

And Claire does love It’s a Small World, so we had to make a stop there.

 

 

The line was long…and was not very fast moving either.

 

 

 

Finally we made it onto our boat.

 

 

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I love when I get shots like this next one.

 

 

 

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And continuing with more Small World pics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My favorite room has always been the white and blue room…even as a kid.

 

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And now Claire was happy and we went back out to the crowded park.

 

 

I was sure excited to see this…..The only time I had seen the new Fantasyland was back in 2012 for previews during the Halloween and Christmas parties…so this was my first time seeing it in the daylight.

 

 

And there she is! The Mine Train….which at this time was still not up and running. I had really hoped they would be doing soft openings for our trip and many rumor boards had predicted they might….but as it came closer to the trip, I lost hope. My Dad did see them run an empty car a time or two, but I never did.

 

 

 

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We were now on our way to our first FP+ of the day.

 

 

Warning…I took a lot of pictures of the Mermaid area over the week.

 

 

 

I was just so excited to see this in daylight. So different looking in daylight compared to the night shots I got 1 1/2 years ago.

 

 

We got in the queue and it moved fairly fast, though if I remember right, we did pause for a bit.

 

 

 

The FP+ line does miss all the neat things in the queue though….and for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out where the standby line merged with the FP+ line.