Trip Favorites

 The trip may be over but here are a list of our family favorites from this trip!

My favorites:

favorite ride: Peter Pan has been my favorite for years and this year I think I added 7 Dwarves Mine Train. I just had so much fun on that ride.
favorite show: Elsa lighting the castle
favorite park: Magic Kingdom
favorite meal: Dinner at Be our Guest followed closely by lunch at Be Our Guest and dinner at 'Ohana.
favorite treat: Masters cupcake at Be our Guest followed by jalepeno pretzel at Animal Kingdom
favorite character: my favorite character is Belle but my favorite interactions this trip were the talking Mickey, the stepsisters, Pooh Bear, and Duffy Bear.
Favorite memories: Meeting talking Mickey, Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique/ Maddy's birthday, being silly in the rain, and Belle's village.
souvenir: Lumiere followed closely by my Chip mug.

Doug's favorites:
 
ride: Toy Story Mania
show: Impressions de France and Indiana Jones
park: Magic Kingdom
meal: Dinner at Be Our Guest
treat: Masters cupcake or ice cream Mickey bar
Character: the stepsisters
memory: discussing rides in Liberty Tree Tavern 
 souvenir: a Family Crest
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 Abigail's favorites: 
 
favorite ride: Expedition Everest followed by Splash Mountain
show: Disney Jr. Live on Stage
park: Animal Kingdom (because of EE)
dinner: anywhere she had chicken nuggets and fries
treat: popcorn
character: Duffy Bear
memory: meeting Duffy Bear
souvenir: Duffy bear- yes... a pattern is developing here.

 Madeline's favorites:

favorite ride: Winnie the Pooh, followed by Spaceship Earth, Figment, and Peter Pan
show: Nemo the musical
park: Magic Kingdom
meal: dinner at T-Rex
treat: popcorn
character: Winnie the Pooh
memory: meeting Winnie the Pooh, her birthday
souvenir: Ariel music set

Grandma's favorites: 

ride: Expedition Everest
show:Finding Nemo the musical
park: Magic Kingdom, especially Fantasy land
meal: Be our Guest dinner
snack: carrot cake
character: stepmother and step sisters
memory: when the stepsisters were interacting with Abi at dinner ,Abi helping her to be brave and going on EE twice together, and Maddy's birthday

Grandpa's favorites: 

Favorite ride: Soarin'
show: Lion King and Fantasmic
park: Hollywood Studios
meal: Be Our Guest lunch
snack: soda
characters: stepmother and stepsisters
memory:  the stepsisters and Maddy' birthday 

I hope you enjoyed reading about our trip!

Disney World: After the trip

The actual trip is over. 

But there are still a few things to document. 

Our souvenirs! 

We got quite a few things this trip. 

Abi's favorite thing is her Duffy bear. 

She also got the panda, the mermaid polly pockets, and a pencil. 

Maddy got the little baby Winnie the Pooh and the panda. 

 

Maddy also got this Little Mermaid music set and the Jake and the Neverland pirates set. 

From my parents for her birthday she got the Cinderella tea set, the Winnie the pooh toys, a Hello kitty play set, and the Hello Kitty plush toy. 

These are the stuffies that they picked out at Build A Dino.

These are my souvenirs. 

I got a big Disney World puzzle for the whole family. 

Then I picked out a Beauty and the Beast puzzle, some Disney sprinkles, a Mickey mouse head candy or ice cube mold, a plate and cup for Santa with Mickey and Minnie on it, and my two favorite things. 

Those are my light up Lumiere and my Chip mug. 

I love them so much!

As usual, we got our new Christmas ornaments. 

Maddy picked out the Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. 

Abi got a Tinkerbell. 

I picked out the Mickey and Minnie for the family ornament but then had to get the Beauty and the Beast one too.

And these are all the pins we came home with...

The girls' favorite ones:

And the one Doug picked out. 

We also brought home some signed birthday cards for Maddy, her birthday pin, and bookmarks from Enchanted Tales with Belle.

These are the things we got at Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. 

Bags, sashes, make-up, face stickers, tiaras, Mickey pins, and nail polish. 

Our lei's from the Polynesian, wands from Cinderella's Royal Table, wishing stars, Olaf snowflakes, and the souvenir popcorn buckets (which we use ALL the time- not just at the holidays).

And we got a bunch of these pictures from restaurants. 

From Akershus:

Cinderella's Royal Table:

The souvenir Epcot passports we got for each girl.

I could not find all of the pressed pennies we had done but here was one of them.

Our three pearl carriage necklaces.

And Doug's souvenir. 

He ordered this from the UK shop and it was delivered a few months later. 

It is amazing. 

We definitely came home with lots of stuff! 

It is so much fun to look at our things and remember our trip.

Disney World: Day 11, part 6- Leaving Disney, heading home

When we arrived back at Pop Century Doug took the girls to get our carry on luggage from where they were holding it for us. 

I went into the gift shop to use up our last 4 snack credits. I used three of them for rice krispie treats and one for a Chip and Dale snack mix. 

I also bought a box of coconut treats. 

I traded two pins for the girls with some really sweet cast members while I was in there too since I had the girls lanyards and pins in my bag. 

Then I went out to join them at the bus stop. 

 

It seemed so surreal to be saying goodbye already (even though we had been there for quite a while!)

It wasn't long before the Magical Express bus pulled up and we were getting on. 

Abi sat with Doug and Maddy sat with me and soon fell asleep. 

Goodbye Pop!

When we got to the airport we made our way to our area. 

We were all exhausted and at this point, since we knew we were headed home, ready to be there. 

I bought some water and a smoothie to snack on while we waited for our flight to load. 

Abi after a drink from the smoothie:

Soon we were on the plane and in the air. 

Maddy worked in sticker workbooks. 

Abi finished up her homework packet.

It was a really long flight and not a very fun one. I wasn't feeling well and my ankles got really swollen by the time we landed. It made me nervous at first but I think it was just related to walking around all day and then sitting still for so long along with my thyroid condition and not getting enough water. 

My brother picked us up, we dropped him off at his house and we were on our way home where we promptly went to sleep!

Disney World: Day 11, part 5- Our last moments at Magic Kingdom

After lunch Melinda needed to meet back up with the rest of her family and Abi really wanted to ride Splash Mountain one more time before we had to leave. We walked toward Splash.

 

On our way we noticed that Chip and Dale were out meeting. We had missed meeting them since we had cancelled our reservation at Garden Grill.

The line wasn't too bad so we jumped in. 

The girls were pretty excited to meet them. 

I LOVE these pictures...

Maddy and Melinda

We got to Splash and met up with the boys.

Alex

We tried to get a cousin picture.

Abi, Maddy, Lizzie, Ian, and Alex

Everyone was trying to figure out who was going to use some fast passes they had for the ride and what Lizzie would do while they were on, etc.

We had a fast pass coming up for Winnie the Pooh and I was afraid we would miss it if Maddy and I waited for Doug and Abi to go on Splash. 

So we split up and I took Lizzie with us (using Abi's magic band for her)

Here are their ride photos from Splash....

And me and the little girls took a nice stroll back to Fantasyland.

They were so excited to ride Winnie the Pooh!

We loved using our Magic Bands. 

After we rode Winnie the Pooh we went out by the Mad Tea Party to wait for our family to meet back up with us. 

As soon as Melinda got back to pick up Lizzie we said goodbye to them. 

So sad. 

We got right in line for the tea cups as soon as they got back. 

Abi was grumpy because she saw that the White Rabbit was out and wanted to meet him but we had to get in line for the tea cups  because the line was really long and it was going to be our last ride before we had to leave. 

All four of us got in the same teacup this time. 

I was in for it. 

I do not like spinning because it gets me really dizzy. 

And when Abi is in control you are going to spin A LOT.

They loved it. 

I think I stayed dizzy for about a day. 

I was so sick. 

When we got off the tea cups we were going to head straight to the front of the park but we noticed the White Rabbit was about to meet again. 

The line was really short still so we jumped in. 

Abi was so happy!

Off we went to the front of the park. 

We sadly said goodbye to the castle. 

We walked down Main Street for the last time on this trip.

Said goodbye to the Magic Kingdom.

And walked to the bus stop. 

We had a really long wait for the bus. But the girls entertained themselves while we waited.