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  15. 42 hours in Florida

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    9 hours ago, h2odivers...Ray said:

    Great pix. 

    Were the cookies the only snack they provided for MVMCP?

    No, they had a few options but the lines were huge. Our dinner was litterally churros and 1/2 a sugar cookie 😂

    They had Snowman shaped  soft pretzels (being from our area we are a bit picky when it comes to soft pretzels so I won’t eat them unless they are from here) blue snow cones (it was cold that night), a few other cookie choices, hot chocolate, orange soda and I think one other thing. 

  16. 42 hours in Florida

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    9 minutes ago, Travisma said:

    A friend of ours on her first visit to FL and the Fort encountered a lizard in the ladies shower.  She told us she came out screaming there was a baby alligator 🐊 in with her.

    This lady was going nuts, it was hilarious (once I realized she wasn’t in danger) 😂. 

  18. 42 hours in Florida

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    We grabbed a picture on the way out

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    We didn't feel like dealing with the bus, so we walked to the Contemporary and got a Lyft. I know it's a waste of money considering the bus is free, but we were tired and didn't feel like dealing with buses. Who knows the bus may have been faster, or maybe not. According to my Lyft account, we got picked up at 12:11 and were at the hotel at 12:24.

    We realized when we got back to the hotel, that bell services closed so we were slightly worried until we got into our room and saw our bags. We had a preferred room so thankfully it was a short walk. I didn't take any pics but we had a remodeled room. The murphy bed makes a huge difference in space, the queen sized bed was nice to have too. When we checked in they offered a $10 gift card for skipping housekeeping, so we took it. The man next to us was skipping it for 12 nights and I'm pretty sure he didn't realize what he was agreeing to. We had 6 towels/wash rags so it was fine for us and worth the $10. 

    We went to bed asap and set our alarms for 5 am the following morning, we needed to get a ride from lyft at 5:30 so that we would have enough time to get to Big Toho Marina to meet our fishing guide. 

  19. 42 hours in Florida

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    People heading to MVMCP were being herded down the Main Street by pass, they probably had 5 or 6 different photopass photographers, so we stopped at a few. 

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    At the end they were giving wrapped Mickey Santa sugar cookies, we each got one and shared one. They weren't very good, they had a overwhelming taste of fake butter or something. I was saving mine to bring home to the son of the friend who brought us to the airport. Since we had no bags, it stayed in my jacket pocket all night. 

    Next we rode, Buzz, People mover, Space Mountain (that ride is awful, I never need to ride that again) Dumbo, Barnstormer, Little Mermaid, and then found this photopass. 

    Brian is a good sport for doing this stupid crap for me. 

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    next was SDMT, it said the wait was 40 mins, but I really like it so we wanted. It ended up being 35 mins from getting in line to being off the ride, so it wasn't too bad. Waiting in line was kind of fun watching people spin the barrels and everyone cheered when all the dwarfs showed up. However, being the germaphobe I am, there was no way I was touching any of it. 

    We wanted to watch the fireworks but didn't want to waste time saving a spot, we ended up in a crappy spot by the bridge over by cosmic rays but it was good enough.

    Funny story, I was using the bathroom and heard all this yelling and banging around and I honestly thought someone was being attacked, I was trying to get the heck outta there and this lady comes busting out of the stall holding the toilet seat paper cover, there was a lizard in the stall on the back on her door. She was killing herself trying to get the heck out, it was hilarious. 

    We saw philarmagic, once again, something we don't watch normally because my kids hate 3d. It's cute but I really think it needs an update, the video is looking pretty old. 

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    The parade was a huge must do for me, so we ended up grabbing a spot about 30 mins before. We got to watch a mother and father get into a huge fight, handful of kids getting yelled out for crying, a bunch of food and drinks get spilled and someone shoving her kids into every inch of space there was. Brian was tall enough to be able to see whatever show was going on in front of the castle, but I Was too short. 

    I didn't bother taking many photos, I just wanted to enjoy it. As always the toy soldiers are the best part. 

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    That's a video, but I don't know how to make it play?

  20. 42 hours in Florida

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    We missed the geyser going off, I was surprised to read it only went off once an hour (or at least that's what google told me). We walked down to where the little cabins are, they look really nice, and it was quiet but no way would I want to pay that much. From what we could tell, every one of them looked like people were staying there. 

    We took the boat to MK and got there around 3:50, the line to get in for the Christmas party was huge, but they started letting us in at 3:55 and by 4:03 we took this photo, it's a shame the castle can't really be seen.

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    We took the train to Frontierland, for some reason we haven't been able to ride the train the last few trips so I wanted to make sure we got to ride it.

    I managed to get 3 FP, but we only had to 4:20 to make it to POTC, we got there at 4:21 and were on the ride pretty quick, the stand by line said it was a 35 min wait. Our Jingle Cruise FP started at 4:25 so went there next. We had a great skipper, his name was Rami (which rhymes with salami) I actually have been meaning to email Disney about him because he was really funny. I had my birthday button on (my birthday was coming up) and he noticed it and said "oh, it's your birthday! I have one every year, you're not special 😂".  

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    Our next FP wasn't until 5:25 so we stopped for a 2 churros, a coke and $18 later we were moving along. Seriously Disney prices, yikes. Thankfully the churros were pretty amazing so that softened the blow a tiny bit. 

    We still had time before out fast pass so we rode the Haunted Mansion. We haven't been on that in years because my kids are chickens, so we really enjoyed it. Photopass was out doing hitch hiking ghosts photos but they had left by time we got out. We should have gotten out of line and did the picture but I wasn't thinking. oh well.

    We wanted to ride Splash Mountain because we never get to because of the kids but it was broken down and they were unloading people, Runaway train was a walk on. I love that ride. We normally never take the stand by line so it was neat to see the stuff they have in there. The line was fast so I didn't get to look to long at anything. 

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    Next up was our SP for Small World, to which Brian's response was "why are we riding this?" and I said because you're supposed to! 

    I wanted to go see Mickey Mouse and the app said 20 mins, so we went up there and found out it was a 40 min wait. I had no interest in waiting that long. 

    Here's the tree and the beginning of the chaos of people coming and leaving

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  21. 42 hours in Florida

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    Contemporary Gingerbread house

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    I thought the glass slipper was pretty cool

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    After looking around we decided to take the boat to the Wilderness Lodge, we still had some time before we could get in for MVMCP. Had to stop here and grab a photo on the way to the dock.

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  22. 42 hours in Florida

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    After seeing inside the wedding pavilion, we finished walking to the Poly. We saw a nice swinging bench on the beach (there was only 1?!?!) but there was a family sitting there and their kids were rolling in the sand in their bathing suites. At that point I was glad my kids were home 😁 the girls had long hair and It was all in the sand getting covered. Once we got over to the boat rentals place we were told that they weren't renting boats because it was too cold. Sounds like a BS excuse, it was almost 70 out, sounds like the bean counters felt it was time to save money and cut the small boat rentals. Yet, if you do a fireworks cruise, that's like $350 they are pretty much rain or shine... but whatever, saved us some money on renting the little sea racers or whatever they are called. The family had left the bench so we sat there a while and enjoyed the view (some how I have no pictures of it). 

    We took the monorail to the Contemporary so we could check out their gingerbread castle.

    and I'm having imgur issues so stand by 

  23. 42 hours in Florida

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    On ‎11‎/‎22‎/‎2018 at 11:47 PM, momof3kids-Yvonne said:

    Frontier just recently came to Huntsville. Steve and Drew flew on it to Denver when they went to the Nebraska football game last month. Like you said the seats are not comfortable and they nickel and dime you on the extras, but the base rate of the flight is super cheap. We went ahead and got Steve enrolled under their Den savings program. So of course I am constantly searching for trips for us to take to Orlando and/or Denver over the next year. 

     

    it gets the job done, and was cheap (but we didn't pay for any extras and were able to just bring a book bag with our clothes). I would use them if Brian and I go to Florida again (we want to go fishing again) but wouldn't use them when Adam is with us. 

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