Trip Report: Day 2

Saturday, January 15th 2010. 0730. WDW, FL.

Alarm went off. I hopped in the shower and Joey was up and at 'em. Then we remembered our two guests asleep in the other room... "Um... if you want to go to Rope Drop then you better get moving! We need to leave at 8:15!" That caused some mild panic. While we missed Rope Drop (no Disney park can simply "open", there has to be a big production!) we did make it into MK by 9:05AM. And we basically had the park to ourselves. We stopped first to take some pictures in front of the castle avec crane. A Love is going to help edit this thing out. SRSLY WDW?!

Crastle

Then we went on a gazillion rides. Ok 12 rides. By 2pm. In Disney World, that is AMAZING. And we stopped several times for lunch , bathroom breaks, photo ops, etc.

Here's a list of the rides we did in Magic Kingdom!

It's a Small World
Tea Cups
Space Mountain
Buzz Lightyear
Peter Pan's Flight
Haunted Mansion
Pirates of the Caribbean
Tom Sawyer Island
Philharmagic
Whinnie the Pooh
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Carousel of Progress

A Love and Joey on the Tea Cups!

Around 2:30, we headed down Main Street through the shops. We took our time, shopped a bit, took some more pics, and I mailed a post card to a family from my message boards. ("Dear Zach and Emma, We cannot wait to see you at the end of February for Zach's 10th birthday trip! Love, Mickey, Minnie and the gang!") Totally going to make their day. It's called being a "Fairy God-Mailer". Judge me if you must...

Ball and Chain joke. Funny.

Then we hopped the monorail to the Polynesian resort for an afternoon break. We posted up at the lounge area of Ohana's bar, and got some interesting tropical drinks to kick back and relax with. By this time, we had each missed a call from our friend Peyton, who was trying to "surprise" us by showing up in Florida... except we know him too well ;)

This is called a Lapu Lapu

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Enter Peyton and Casey.

Peyton: 25, Going to Baghdad in a few weeks for civilian contract work, likes beer, cooking, and often threatens to put Doc in the microwave.

Casey: 22, USMC, Likes running, trying on thrift store wedding dresses, and hates Mexico.

We headed over to the Kona Café sushi bar to eat some delicious dinner. There was an incident with wasabi. A huge chunk of it. It's on video, don't worry. We enjoyed our dinner and the four of us headed off to MK for the parade and P/C went back to their hotel to put on some warmer clothes. The weather was nice, (MUCH nicer than it was in DC) but it wasn't exactly "warm" either.

Purple Castle- Can't see the crane at night!

We posted up at a nice spot to the right of the castle on the circle under a light post for the parade/fireworks. Joey and I were extremely disappointed that the parade was no longer "Spectromagic" and now, "Disney's Magical Light Parade" or something equally lame. The song sounded like the worst video game theme music ever and we were sooo mad. Luckily Wishes didn't disappoint, and we all linked arms and A Love cried, and it was very magical indeed. Then we sang the song for the rest of the trip.

We boarded the bus back to Saratoga Springs. What a long day.

...But it wasn't over. We decided we were going to meet some friends at Downtown Disney later. The College Cheer/Dance National Championship also happened to be that weekend at WDW, and I had lots of Masonette alumni friends in town to help cheer the team to victory! We got home and brewed a pot of coffee. Somehow we got on the subject of Mandy Moore's song, "Candy"...and the rest was history. There was a bottle of Jack, a dance party, a run through the sprinklers, and a Mickey Jackson montage. We were ready to go!

Mickey Jackson...

We arrived at House of Blues and got a table outside and some huge beers. Peyton and Casey met us there and there were some shots taken as well. We moved inside to order some snacks and that's when the rest of the crew arrived!! There was crazy dancing, singing, eating, drinking, and all around fun. On our way home that evening there MAY have been a photo shoot on the putting green...



House of Blues



Late Night Photo Shoot...

We finally made it home and collapsed into bed. WHAT. A. DAY.