626s Corner: Magical Christmas memories

Florida 2011, Day 13, part 2

After lunch we had a quick look around Everything POP:

Then headed back towards our room me snapping all the way:

We freshened up and got changed for park time in the room before heading back to the bus stops and then we were off to the Magic Kingdom for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party.

When we went around the corner this day first thing we see they put up a giant Christmas tree:

Going up Main Street these guys passed us:

We went straight to Fantasyland since we had left our favourite area of the park until now. First thing I noticed:

Beast’s castle. The first ride we went on was Winnie the pooh:

After that we headed towards Splash Mountain to queue for the Seven Dwarves who would come out when it was time for Mickey’s very Merry Christmas party to start.

We got there at 5.30 and would have been first except the CM didn’t see us waiting and when he started the line he put one family ahead of us. Obviously when we were queuing from 5.30 as well that could have gotten very boring but the time passed quickly because first Woody and Jessie were there to watch. The CM told Jessie why the new queue was forming and Jessie made the mental sign because we were all queuing so early for the dwarves. Then when they left the CM’s were going around just talking and joking with people. Some of them had pin lanyards so I did some pin trading. The guests in line also talked away to each other. We got talking to two older women from somewhere in America who were down to check out all the story-tellers. At about 6.30 the CM's started to bring out trees and stools for the dwarves to sit on and a CM told us that the queue was back to the Splash Mountain bridge and that people would have an hours wait from there AT 6.30?!!! Moral of the story arrive early for dwarves then! Then at ten to seven the dwarves arrived out and CM made a comment that Grumpy was already Grumpy:

We were done with the dwarves by five past seven and so headed towards the Magic Carpets to find Abu:

I was very happy to find Abu was out with Aladdin

They were a funny pair to meet as well Aladdin was commenting on Christmas ribbons I had in my hair and my pigtails and said my hair was like the tassles on carpet. He said Abu tried to do his hair like that one time so he could fly like carpet but fell over but said he’s used to falling off carpet. Once I got pictures with Abu and Aladdin we went off in search of the free treats. Cookies and hot chocolate:

Next we went to the Diamond horse shoe to see if we could find Bullseye but he wasn’t out only Woody and Jessie:

As we were going around the park there was a lot of CM’s checking for wristbands to the point they had some areas blocked and wouldn’t let you pass unless you had a wristband like between Adventureland back into Frontierland. Well I went into the trading post in Frontierland and saw why. There was loads of cheerleaders around and apparently some were refusing point blank to leave the Parks one Mother was like I have paid to get into this park today and I AM NOT LEAVING UNTIL MY CHILD SEES EVERYTHING SHE WANTS! To which the CM went to take her by the arm and escort her out of the park. She shrugged him off and he followed her around the store which she was none to happy with. I’m not to happy either like that the park closes early on some nights and I have to plan my park days around it’s closing hours but like rules are rules and people do pay 65 dollars or more to get into the parties so you just shut up and follow the rules I really don’t get why people abuse the CM’s so much just because they’re doing their jobs like. Anyways onto the pictures. I brought my trip mascot to the party with me mainly and he made a great hat display:

I went to look at the pins as well and get my exclusive party pin:

Next we headed back down Main Street towards the Town Hall.

Going into Town Hall one of the CM’s asked me if my trip mascot was Duffy’s cousin, I said yeah he’s his Irish cousin that’s why he’s so pale lol! I went to meet Mickey and Minnie in their Christmas outfits: