Dec 9th (Sunday)
We woke up around 5:45-6am and got ready quickly to make it to the bus station no later then 7:15am. The bus arrived a bit early and took us to our first day in the parks: MK!!! DH and I were so excited. Finally, our vacation was starting. We had 8:20am ADR for CRT, and we were hungry. We entered the park without any issues. Whiling walking to the front gates of MK, DH and I noticed that 11th and the 18th for MVMCP were sold out!!! I didn't worry too much over it. I knew I studied and research this trip well so I knew we would tour the parks effecently. DH and I also noticed MK was a bit crowded (even for a Sunday). But, you have to take into mind that locals still arrive at MK but later during the early afternoon, but there also Mousefest going on as well. DH and I weren't going to partispate into any Mousefest activities, but if we happen to run into them we would say hello. I had to warn my DH about Mousefest and we'll be running into some people on the boards that I go to. So he was prepared. After taking a dozen pictures of MK, we waited in line to eat at CRT. We waited less then five minutes to check in, and waited probably about ten minutes to have our picture taken with Cinderella.
When we were seated we were seated at the Engagement Table (I believe.) I noticed our table was the only one with Cinderella confeddi and we had a wonderful view of FL. We received our food, which was delicious! And we met Aurora, Mary Poppins (not a princess but oh well), Belle (second favorite), and Snow White (my favorite). DH didn't care about the princesses, obviously. But he loved being in the castle.
We were the first people to leave the restaurant, and were able to take a few nice pictures of an empty FL, and even had a CM to take a picture of DH and myself alone in FL. Then we waited on the right side of the Castle near TL and FL. I met a very nice British man, who was telling us he had a horrible meal at Mama Melrose. He was planning to eat at CRT in a few days and I re assured him that breakfast at CRT was excellent. Since my DH has a bad knee and wanted to focus more on filming the parks and what it's like during opening, I was the official FP person. When the park official opened, I raced to SM to grab the first set of FP's. I was so fast that I was the first person to grab FP's.
We rode SM, of course. Afterwards we went over to FL and rode on the Mad Tea Party. DH gets sick on those rides, but we will always ride it
once--just to say that we did it. Plus, we knew that the MTP would be closed on the 15th. There was no wait for MTP. We rode Buzz Lightyear right afterwards with no waits. We took the "secret path" to Mickey's Toontown. We arrived early, and Mickey and Goofy came out. We were able to go to the Judge's tent and get our pictures taken with the Princesses. Then we past by FL and I had my DH wait in Liberty Square (in front of the HM), while I grabbed FP's for SpM. When grabbing FP's for SpM, I saw a huge Mousefest group trying to figure out if they wanted to ride BTMRR or SpM. After grabbing FP's for them, I trekked the way back to my DH and ran into a PassPorter Mousefest member. I forgot his name, but he's a huge Donald Duck fan--like me, and wore a pink shirt. He mentioned about hanging out with the pink ladies in the group. Afterwards we rode on HM and I love the refurbishment!!! We've been to the DL version two years ago when they had just finished the refurbishment and I can tell some differences on what scenes were better. The staircase scene was great! And the Bride...DH thought it was scary! We rode POTC next, and personally--we love the DLR version much better then MK. We thought Captain Jack Sparrow was great--but every time we rode it someone would use flash photography throughout the ride. I yelled at every person who was using flash during the attraction. I was extremely shocked on how the CMs wouldn't take any action on the photography issue. DL does NOT mess around when it comes to photography. CMs at DLR will go on the intercom and will tell people if they use the flash once more--they will be banned from the parks!!!
We rode BTMRR, rode SpM, and tracked back to TL to use our SM FP's. We decided to leave the park around 12pm--and that's when the park was getting crowded! We took the bus to the Boardwalk Resort--explored the resort briefly and headed towards the Yatch and Beach Club resort. DH thought the BW, BC, and YC were absolutely beautiful and would love to say at one of these resorts. All three of the resorts were absolutely breath taking, and there was few times when walking pass the pools and wanting to jump right in. We walked over to the Beaches and Cream shop where a CM told us it would be a 45 minute wait to eat there, but we only waited 5-10 minutes. Beaches and Cream is a very nice restaurant, but it's
so tiny. We sat at the counter and my DH ordered a chilli dog, while I had a cheeseburger. I had heard their burgers were great, but in actuality it was just okay. I had a small Mickey Mouse ice cream--which was good. We explored the resort briefly--and headed back to POP to relax and get ready for our ADRs for Raglan's Road.
When we arrived at POP, we took a nap and got ready to eat at Raglan's Road in DTD/PI. Our ADR was at 8pm. We checked into Raglan's Road around 7pm. DH and I had a great meal. DH ate shepard's pie and I had a filet minogn (sp?)
Afterwards, we checked out PI and went into the Comedy Warehouse, and AC and we ran into a huge group of PassPorter Mousefesters. AC was extremely crowded, but it was a lot of fun. I met Dave (one of the owners/book writers of PP), and he was very nice. He gave us PP pins, and we stayed at the AC for about an hour until DH couldn't take the crowds. We headed back to POP. The one thing we noticed throughout our vacation that the buses would take much longer at DTD/PI. It took one bus over 40 minutes to arrive!!! We were back at POP around 11pm and went to bed.
