When a First timer Falls in Love…with Disney ✨Updated 3/15

[piglet1979]

I can't wait to hear more.

 

[PAsFab5]

I can't wait to hear more.

I love that your here friend

 

[mnmrmustard]

Awesome work volunteering with a dog rescue, my wife is contemplating doing something similar. We just adopted our latest 4-legged family member from a shelter just last month.

That bites when the GPS takes you into traffic instead of avoiding it - glad you made your flight despite the whole door alarm thing.

That driver situation was crazy, glad he calmed down. We have used a car service for Disneyland trips but used a shuttle service and Lyft at WDW/US.

We are a POP Century family when we stay on property and always enjoy taking some time strolling thru AoA. For your next trip I do recommend POP, having that dedicated transportation is so nice.

And we are very much missing Splash ourselves, but time and rides march on! Looking forward to seeing more of your trip

 

[PAsFab5]

The day when we figured out nobody could fold the stroller….part 2

So when I left off we were enjoying our first snack of the trip. We finished up and headed over to our next LL, Pirates. This is DD’s favorite ride in MK and it’s 2nd on my list, right under my beloved Haunted Mansion.

Where would it fall on L1 and L2’s list of favorite rides? Low…very low…in fact, it probably ranks under the bus rides to/from the park. Well, L1 liked it but was unable to enjoy it because L2 was FLIPPING OUT! I would have NEVER booked this is I thought for a second she would be scared…we even watched Youtube videos of it before our trip, but that didn’t help at all. She screamed and cried the entire time, I felt so bad.


Even now when I mention it she says shes NOT EVER going on it again and NEITHER IS ANYONE ELSE IN OUR FAMILY!!!! She has like this fear that we won’t make it back out alive if we go on Pirates, bless her heart. One day this will be hilarious because I am sure she will love it as a teen!!

We shared a pineapple upside-down cake Dole Whip after this and DD got a soft serve. The Dole Whip and pineapple cake at MK is good but its not half as good as the Pineapple cake and vanilla ice cream at AK!

We headed over to Dumbo next and DD did some pin trading while the 3 of us rode Dumbo. Then we rode again…and again….we logged 3 rides on Dumbo on our first day!

Then we went over to grab a fireworks spot! Now, we were about 30 minutes before the start of fireworks, so by Disney standards we were late. But…this was MANIC. It was a non-party night and you could tell! It was SO SO SO SO SOpacked. We got a “spot” to the right of the castle, right in front but good gravy we were PACKED in like sardines!!!

Fireworks started, DD and I sang along and I felt all the magic being at my favorite place with my family on such a special trip. My sister turned around about 10 minutes in and had tears streaming down her face…she said WHY AM I CRYING?!?!?! I said- this is just what it is.

I knew at that point she was about half way to being a Disney addict.

After fireworks we were starving and headed to Cosmic rays, which was not busy so we ordered at the counter. L1 and I got…Grilled chicken sandwiches, DD got a cheeseburger and L2 got chicken fingers.

At this point it was 9:30 and we all agreed that our wall had been hit. We finished our dinner and headed out to the buses to begin our arm wrestle with the stroller.
Picture on Main Street on the way out



The AoA line was huge- absolutely huge. All other lines were empty…this was a theme for the entire trip. I never experienced this at any other values, so I was a little shocked. We waited forever for a bus and I knew by the size of the line we would never make it on the first bus…and I was right the line was actually three buses full of people long…they finally began sending one bus after another but it took well over 30 minutes.

I recall bedtime being hectic and some tears were shed and I was concerned about our neighbors suspecting some type of violence was taking place in our room…but nobody called and L2 eventually settled and fell asleep!

Thanks for reading along- up next we will be heading to the runDisney expo and another day at MK!!!

 

[PAsFab5]

Awesome work volunteering with a dog rescue, my wife is contemplating doing something similar. We just adopted our latest 4-legged family member from a shelter just last month.

That bites when the GPS takes you into traffic instead of avoiding it - glad you made your flight despite the whole door alarm thing.

That driver situation was crazy, glad he calmed down. We have used a car service for Disneyland trips but used a shuttle service and Lyft at WDW/US.

We are a POP Century family when we stay on property and always enjoy taking some time strolling thru AoA. For your next trip I do recommend POP, having that dedicated transportation is so nice.

And we are very much missing Splash ourselves, but time and rides march on! Looking forward to seeing more of your trip

Thank you for adopting!!! There are so many needs at animals shelters…from making dog snacks to cat cuddling to dog walking-there is definitely something for everyone! And it’s very rewarding!

We love Pop we are staying in two rooms in October!! We are trying to stay there next month but I cannot get a AP discount…but I am not giving up-I check all the time!!

Thanks for following along!