We woke up Wednesday morning, excited to get the day started. We were on our way to check in for our stay at Disney World!!!
I would suspect a modicum of excitement.
Our mission was to be in front of the MK train station when the welcome show began!
Your mission, if you chose to accept it...
we were early enough that we got a very close parking spot at the TTC. I think they’re charging something like $99.99 per hour for those spots now. 
That would actually be pretty much in line with their prices.
We had to wait for about 20 minutes for the welcome show to start, and it really wasn’t very crowded at all.
And yet... there were waits for rides you thought would be walk ons.
Interesting.
We parked the stroller at the parking area near the carousel and headed into the new PP queue for the first time ever. I thought they did a great job with it!
That queue's the greatest.
I wouldn't want to wait in line either, but if you
had to,
that's not a bad way to spend the time.
Definitely on a mission...
Nice pic of you guys.
We’ve done the Pan to Pooh dash after park opening several times in the past with little to no wait for either attraction. This morning, we ended up waiting about 10 minutes for Pooh. Not bad, but we kind of expected a walk on.
I've never waited in line for that ride.
And unless something drastically happens, I never will.
What the heck is she doing sitting like that! You have to steer!
Once we got out of the car and I made sure my neck wasn’t broken
Oh? Was she stomping on the brakes?
DW wasn’t really feeling up for riding anything that spins
Smart.
We ended up riding Barnstormer twice, back to back!
Never been on it.
Should I? (without kids)
we decided to try to ride Under the Sea. Thankfully the line was a walk on so we were able to ride.
I think Disney grossly over estimated that place's attraction.
And if anyone ever tries to tell you a 2 year old doesn’t remember anything when they go to Disney World, I’ve got something else to tell you. As we passed by the grotto where Ariel meets visitors, DD knew what it was. She remembered it from over a year ago
Huh. That's pretty impressive, actually.
On another side note, you might notice that I haven’t mentioned the stroller since we got into the park. Well, in order to save time, we just left it by the carousel. Everything we were going to be doing for the first few hours was within a short walk. DD could walk or ride on my shoulders and it was just quicker and easier than getting the stroller after every ride.
Hadn't noticed since I figured you just weren't mentioning it.
DD wasn’t too crazy about it, but she did ok on it
That's good. My DDs wouldn't go on it at that age.
Aww... cute pic!
We got on and DD picked her horse. I got her situated and strapped in. She asked me to ride the horse next to her. I was literally half way on the horse… one foot on the peg on one side and my other leg crossing the top when some old guy put a little girl (presumably his granddaughter) on the horse basically right under me. I just looked at him incredulously and said excuse me. He just stood there basically 6 inches away from me and wouldn’t even look at me or acknowledge my existence.
What a jerk.
Plus... if you hadn't seen them, you could've sat right on his kid.
In case you’re wondering, my notes say “Carousel: some old a hole pissed me off.”
Oh, no! She's doing duck face already?!?!?
It definitely wasn’t my finest moment. I was being a little bit immature about it, but the situation really just ticked me off.
We've all been there.
It wasn’t long before we were checked in and being led into Be Our Guest.
Such a great place for lunch.
QS meal but feels like TS.
We didn’t pre-order. I don’t like the idea of doing that because you just never know what you’ll be in the mood for when you get there, but I think we might just do it in the future in order to cut some of the wait time out.
I've been twice and pre-ordered both times.
I love just walking in, sitting down and your food is brought to you.
Feels like royalty.
basically stalked a family that was getting ready to leave near the music box.
Better let him have the table folks.
He's still raging. Who knows what he'll do.
"Andy is about to sit down when the guy from the carousel plops his DD down in Andy's chair."
The food has always been excellent. But this time… not so much, sadly.
Darn. That's too bad. I've enjoyed the food there.
Mind you I've only had the braised pork.
When we got our food, it was just kind of lukewarm. Almost like it had been sitting out for a few minutes before they brought it to us. And the bread on our sandwiches was tough. It definitely wasn’t the best meal of the trip, but BoG is still just an awesome place. I’ll write it off to being an uncharacteristic off day by the restaurant this time and I’m sure it will still be a priority to try to have lunch there and let them redeem themselves on the next trip.
I'd do the same.
Any place that makes hundreds (thousands?) of meals a day is going to have a few below par ones. If it happens again, then you've got a trend. Unfortunately, with the plethora of restaurants to try and the limited time you have, you really want to try to get that "great" meal every time.
I was going to use my band to ride BTMRR, meet back up with DD and DW after they finish eating and then use DW’s band to ride 7DMT with DD.
Smart. Now I know why you brought them with you.
Advantage over solo touring right there.
I speed walked through Liberty Square and Frontierland and I was quickly on BTMRR. The line was actually pretty long… 45 minutes maybe? I was glad to have the FP for it
I've stood in that line once. That was enough.
I'll either rope drop it, EMH it or FP it.
Looks like you were bored though. Yawning away.
Philharmagic just has those iconic songs from the movies that I grew up watching in the 90’s and it always gives me goosebumps and leaves me feeling excited about everything Disney.
That's so weird. I hardly remember the music. I'm busy watching the 3D. I'm sure that at the time I'm listening, but...
DD, on the other hand, refused to wear her glasses and was quickly getting restless during the show. Oh well, one of these days she’ll get it.
Too bad. One of my favourite memories is when youngest DD was 4 and she was trying to grab the jewels out of the air.
We got out of there and DD and I headed over to ride 7DMT. This was the first time she’d ridden anything bigger than Goofy’s Barnstormer. I’m not sure if she enjoyed it, so I’ll let you try to decide based on the pictures.
Bored. Yawning.
I realized the check in time wasn’t until 3, but I prioritized early check-in over any other requests for a specific room location. Usually, this works out for us, but it was after 1 and we still hadn’t received a text.
I never get there except late in the day or even night.
What time (in your experience) are the rooms usually available?
That’s 15 attractions by just a little bit after one,
Pretty good! Especially with a little one in tow (mostly.)
When we went to pay, in the Emporium I learned that there definitely was an issue with my online check in. I tried to put it on the Magic Band and they said there wasn’t a credit card attached to my account.
Crap. That's one of the biggest perks (for me) is not having to carry any thing else with me.
So my CC would've been safely tucked away in the room.
Then again, maybe if you'd checked in already, you would've been the same?
She also had some money given to her before the trip and she picked out a Tink doll that she wanted. We told her that we’d be back and we can get it later if she really wants it, but we’d look and see what else there was.
That's exactly how we handled our DDs.
They had their own money and we told them two things.
1. "Don't buy on impulse. If you're sure you want to get something, we will 100% for sure go back to get it."
2. Once your money is gone, it's gone. So spend wisely.
Spoiler: She actually had enough money for 2 dolls and we ended up bringing home Tink and Ariel.
Oh that's just great! You had to just blurt it out! you couldn't even use the
button?
This whole TR is ruined!!!
I’ve never been one to resist the call of a Mickey Ice Cream bar, so we grabbed a few snacks for the road.
Had one of those for the first time last trip.
Sure hits the spot on a hot day.
It was time to go check in to Port Orleans… we hoped…
Queue ominous music.
As for the contest...
1. By the time you get your MB sorted out at the resort... yes.
2. I'll go with the crowd and guess DHS.
3. I'll pick Frozen, Little Mermaid, Muppets
4. A small kid wading in a fountain. This was quickly put to rest when the Disney police attached an UP amount of balloons to him and he floated away. Oddly enough, his parents seemed more relieved than upset.
5. Aerosmith. Probably Walk This Way.
6. Disneybounding
7. Yep.
8. Pretzel
Wow, that is a great morning, especially with a little one along.
And all is right with the world.
