But when you are around that many people, I guess it shouldn't be too surprising. So I wont really do a long blow by blow play by play. We were there from Sunday the 12th till Sunday the 19th. Unfortunately that means that we were there on President's Day, and at the MK. I had said that it was a bad idea, but I was overruled. I only stayed with our group. There were four of us. Jon was the leader, my husband and I, and the 4th was a semi local friend from Melbourne.
Overall it was a really fun trip. I do have some regrets. My first one was that I actually didn't get to Fantasyland to see all the construction and take pictures. The other regret was that I didn't get to see the MSEP. I got to do pretty much everything else that I wanted to. Oh yeah, and I still haven't seen Obama at the Hall of Presidents yet.
Some of the highlights:
I got a Dole Whip... twice.
Once orange swirl (OMG Dreamsicle) and one pineapple swirl. Got to ride Journey. (But I was VERY DISAPPOINTED at the lack of new Figment stuff, that is the first time I have EVER gone in there and not bought anything.)
I got to sit for the whole Cosmic Ray's Sonny Eclipse show. Love it.
Two of the seven days we were there, two friends of mine from Jacksonville joined us. Thanks to them, I now TOTALLY have the pin trading bug. Before I would just buy (mostly Figment) pins, but now I see how fun it is to actually trade Of course I will mostly trade for Figment stuff, but there were other pins I was interested in as well. So what I did was I got a lot of 25 pins from Ebay (yes a reputable dealer) I found a couple I wanna keep (there is a cool orange monorail one and a pirate flag) but I have at least 20 pins for next year. There were *SO* many Figment pins that I couldn't trade for cause I had nothing to trade... not next year!
Oh man, I forgot how yummy Liberty Tree Tavern is. We haven't eaten there the last couple of years. That is one of the best "all you can eat" options in the MK.
About that that last paragraph, I have a PSA.... THE DINING OPTION IS AWESOME. As I mentioned before, we go every year, and we arrange the trip through a friend who is a travel agent. This is the first year that we did the dining option. I can tell you right now that it saved us HUNDREDS of dollars, and was not much of a price increase from last year.
I understand that there are some that it wont work for, people going solo, people with specific food issues (though I think Disney is supposed to be REALLY good about helping with that) But I am telling you that the choices are so much better than they were when it first started, and I was *NEVER* hungry. (An FYI if you dont know, you get one counter service, one sit down and one full meal) We didn't have any full meals left cause we did some character meals and most of those count as two meals. But we had a couple of sit downs and a few counter services left. And even with that, it was still so very worth it.
So, I guess that's about it. I kinda hate that I was using my friend Jon's Eye-Fi memory card. I have no pics of my own, he has them all, though in theory I can get them from his website, they should have all been automatically updated there.
Cant wait to her what you guys have to say.. questions, comments for or again the dining option or pin trading, etc.
I hope you liked the kinda brief trip report! If you guys want more info I can certainly post more specifically what we did (mmmm O'Hana at the Polynesian. Yummy.)
