Are You Ever Coming Home?...No! I am playing with Wizards,Farkles & Sparkling Friends

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We spotted this bird and I stalked him to get some pictures. LOL.

 

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The tour groups were out in full force again today.

 

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Not much of a wait for Everest and soon we were loading.

 

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And of course we had a lot of fun once again. We just love this ride.

 

We then started making our way towards the front of the park.

 

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We exited the park and headed towards the bus to Magic Kingdom.

 

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It wasn’t too long before the bus arrived and I think only 2 other people got on as well. I thought we might be the only ones switching parks this early in the day, but I was wrong!

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We were having lunch at Be Our Guest today and I had never done the pre-order prior to the trip. I decided while riding we should do that. It makes the line faster if you do so, so I gave Claire her choices and we made an order and were all set for lunch then.

 

 

We arrived at the Magic Kingdom and headed towards the entrance.

 

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We had a fastpass we needed to get to soon…but we did have a little time yet.

 

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Wait! I sure could use a snack since we haven’t had breakfast. Let’s try some corndog nuggets. Would you believe I have NEVER had these before?

 

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We shared them and they were really good. We need to get these again!

 

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Time to head to new Fantasyland.

 

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Our first fastpass was the Seven Dwarves Mine Train.

 

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Soon we were rocking and rolling around the crazy track. I know not everyone likes this ride, but we love it. It is way too short, but we find it great fun.

 

Claire was still hungry and I had promised her another pretzel today, so we stopped off for that.

 

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After that tasty treat, we decided to ride the Little Mermaid.

 

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And then a quick trip on Barnstormer.

 

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And then off to Dumbo. They actually waved us over to the fastpass side and we didn’t have too long to wait.

 

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Our view from high in the sky.

 

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Hi Claire!

 

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I got a smile!!!

 

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It was now time to make our way over to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad for our next fastpass.

 

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We had a little bit of time before it opened, so we decided to cool off in the gift shop. We found these soaps and chapstick and just started laughing….and of course had to take pictures of them.

 

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Our time arrived then and we headed back out into the sweltering heat to ride BTMR.

 

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And we had a blast as always! It is the wildest ride in the west!!!

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Now it was time to head back over for our late lunch. Look how hot it is today!

 

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To me the “feels like” temp should have said….baking in an oven!

 

 

We headed back towards Be Our Guest for lunch and checked in.

 

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Because we had preordered lunch we could bypass the line and went right in to pay. They confirmed what we wanted and then we found a table.

 

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We have been to Be Our Guest several times for dinner, but this was our first time to visit it as a quick service. We were a bit confused on what to do and found out after asking that we could go to the drink stations and get our cups and drinks. I went around and took a few pictures as well, but it is so dark in there that many are not good.

 

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After a bit, our food arrived. Claire is picky, but she got grilled cheese and soup and was happy with that.

 

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I also ordered 3 cupcakes to share as we like so many of them and decided why not.

 

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I think I got the turkey sandwich.

 

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It was all really good and we did our best to eat as much as possible, but priority was the cupcakes. LOL.

 

When we were finished we headed out, but not before getting a picture of the pantless prince.

 

 

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They had a water station outside for those who waited.

 

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We then moved on and took some pictures.

 

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We saw this service dog and he was wearing slippers….probably to protect his feet from the hot pavement.

 

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It was time for our last scheduled fastpass, Space Mountain.

 

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We had a lot of fun, but we always laugh a lot as it is so rough on your body.

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After Space Mountain, we decided to do something we never have before, Stitch’s Great Escape. I have been on this attraction way back when it was Alien Encounter, and that was the scariest thing I have ever done. I told Claire I wasn’t sure how this compared, but I knew it wasn’t as scary. We also knew it was on the chopping block and right now only running seasonally. We figured we should do it now before it was gone forever….which it is now.

 

We got in line and were standing next to a couple and the guy smelt as if he hadn’t showered in DAYS! I know it’s 100+ degrees and none of us were smelling too pleasant, but seriously, this guy’s smell just radiated off of him. This was Claire’s reaction.

 

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We actually put hand sanitizer under our noses to mask the smell. Of course he was like a magnet and when we went inside he stood right next to us again. When we finally went into our room to get our seats I made Claire walk the other way around the circle so we would have som edistance from him.

 

The attraction started and though it has some similar effects, it is very different than when it was Alien Encounter. It was not scary at all….and kind of dumb. We are glad we did do it now since it has since closed, but even if it was still open we probably would never go back.

 

We then headed off to Laugh Floor, one of Claire’s favorites.

 

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We had a real good show. There was a tour group in there and one of the monsters was talking to one of the kids in it. He said they were from Puerto Rico. The monster then made up this song about him and he said how Miguel came to visit but brought all of Puerto Rico with him. I can’t remember the exact words anymore but we were roaring with laughter.

 

We moved on then. I can’t remember exactly what we did next, but I know I kept checking the app for fastpasses available and used that. We may have rode Buzz Lightyear.

 

At some point we passed the Fairy Godmother.

 

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We got a fastpass for Pirates and headed that way.

 

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They now take your picture on Pirates….obviously by the look on my face I did not know that.

 

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And I had to take a picture of the Redhead since they are threatening to remove her from the ride.

 

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And this is Dave the pirate, who I try to get a picture of each ride. He says “here Kitty kitty kitty” and is drinking rum. My brother inlaw, Dave, is a big cat fan and he used to drink a lot of rum, so we named this pirate Dave, in his honor, several years ago.

 

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The pirate tutorial was going on when we exited and I grabbed a few pictures.

 

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Our next fastpass we could get was for the jungle cruise. It’s actually been quite a while since I rode this in the daylight. We almost always do it in the dark.

 

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I accidently took a flash picture in the cave. Oops! I hate when people do that. I hardly ever use a flash anyways, but my camera keeps turning the auto flash back on when I change settings and I totally forgot to look and turn it off.

 

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It was a fun ride and definitely the most pictures I have taken on that ride in a long time.

 

While on the ride, I made our next fastpass for the Magic Carpets. They had an issue where one didn’t lock right, so they had to have everyone get off and run a cycle and then let them all back on.

 

 

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Our turn.

 

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Hey Claire….let me take your picture.

 

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No smiles this time. LOL.

 

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After we got off, we stopped and got a Dole Whip Float! MMMM!

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We went through the app looking for our next fastpass, but right now there wasn’t much showing up and we decided to lock in Haunted Mansion for about 7:05 tonight. We could then head to the dessert party after. We had quite a bit of time though before then, so we decided to head over to Splash Mountain and just wait it out. It had a long wait posted, but it was either wait, or do nothing.

 

We found a jamboree going on, so we stopped and watched.

 

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That was fun to watch! We made our way over to the mountains.

 

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We made a bathroom stop and I pulled out my deodorant….it had melted in the heat! Whoa!

 

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We got in line for Splash Mountain. The line was something like an hour long, but anything we wanted to do was going to have a long wait, so we decided this was our only chance to ride this. We have waited for this ride this long before, but it seemed much slower today. It barely moved and it was hot. It started to turn dusk and the bugs were out and I could feel my ankles being bit.

 

While we were waiting, Jeanne messaged me and said they had just entered the park and did we want to meet up? Sure! I told her to try and get a Haunted Mansion Fastpass for about the same time as us. I think she ended up getting one for 15 minutes later. I told her that would work and we could meet up and ride together. She knew that we had the dessert party and wondered if that would make us late. I told her as long as we got right on we should be fine. The next text she tells me is that she booked the dessert party for her and Nick and they would be joining us. Yay! The girls didn’t want to eat desserts and she said she was not paying for them to come if they weren’t going to eat.

 

I asked her if she knew where the bug spray stations were since we were getting eaten up. She said she thought a lot had been taken out but possibly Tomorrowland. We also asked a CM while waiting in line and she said guest services on Main Street or Tomorrowland as well. Jeanne went to guest services and she was told they were all gone now and you have to go to first aid now to get wipes. We told her that is where we would go after we got off of Splash.

 

We finally got closer to the ride.

 

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And then finally boarded!

 

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Claire was in an extra good mood on this ride as she was going to get to see Emily and Kelsey again.

 

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Here comes the big drop!

 

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Wooohooooo!!!!

 

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After the ride, we headed over to First Aid and went inside and you have to sign in and state what you want. It wasn’t too long and we were handed wipes and we wiped ourselves down and hoped those pesky bugs would now stay away.

 

We came out and found Jeanne and she said the kids were in the bathroom…and then Emily appeared and Claire was so excited!

 

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We all headed to Haunted Mansion and they let Jeannes family in a little early to ride with us and soon we were rolling through in our Doom Buggies.

 

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After the ride, we made our way over to the Dessert party and Emily and Kelsey were going to find a spot to watch the fireworks.

 

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We got checked in and we told them we wanted to sit together so they gave us a pick of a table. The bad thing is the tables are really close together and it’s hard to walk around when you have a big booty. I felt like I was constantly bumping into people.

 

 

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We went up and got a couple of plates. I let Claire know that this was supper. LOL. Yes, I fed my kid cap for dinner today!

 

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I also took a few pictures of what was offered throughout the night.

 

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These flutes were top heavy. I brought some back to the table and promptly knocked one over right onto Jeannes iPhone! UGH! I quickly grabbed napkins and we sent the kids to get more and I was swabbing it up and grabbed her phone and cleaned it with my shirt. I felt so bad. We got it all cleaned up and no damage to the phone, but I was in total panick mode at that point.

 

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We really enjoyed the treats and went up for more. They didn’t refill too much after our first round and you basically got what was left at this point. This is something you want to be prompt too or you are going to not have a good selection of goodies. Many of our favorites were gone fast.

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Nick mentioned that there was a dispenser of milk and it was yellowish, so we had to go see it.

 

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We put a little bit in a cup and it was white and it tasted fine, but it was not appetizing at all in that dispenser. We had fun making jokes about it.

 

 

We had our fill and Jeanne actually filled a cup up with macaroons to take to the girls. We were led to our fireworks viewing area and sat down. We noticed then the grass is not real..it’s FAKE! I was shocked that it was not real. I guess real grass may be hard to keep alive with people here trampling around every night, plus in the day too when people often come to rest. It wasn’t really soft fake grass though either.

 

We sat and chatted and the girls sent us a shot of where they were sitting. I think they had a better view than us. LOL. Tonight was much less busy than the night we tried to watch them before the cruise, so they lucked out and found an excellent spot.

 

The sun started to set.

 

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From where we sat, this was our view.

 

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Now I had been told that people pretty much sit from these areas and watch. (in the old days it used to be done that way too). I was hoping that those standing in front of us would eventually sit down.

 

The sunset was so beautiful and we kept taking pictures of it.

 

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Someone took a picture of us while we waited.

 

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As it got darker there seemed to be more people getting in our way.

 

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We gave up as once the show started everyone else stood up too to watch. It would be so nice if everyone would just sit.

 

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I took video of some of the show with one hand and shot with my point and shoot with the other. Of course a few minutes in, my point and shoot battery died so I tried to change it one handed and I think I ended up handing my phone to Claire after I was having troubles changing it.

 

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