We had an early start this day, as the park opened at 8, with an extra magic hour that morning allowing us to enter at 7. We of course were there at rope drop and rushed with the crowd to the mine train. Here's a picture of some holiday decor in front of the main gate.
7:00
With a very brief delay, we were still on the ride by 7:15, making Seven Dwarfs Mine Train attraction #1.
When we finished here, we hurried off to Peter Pan's Flight, attraction #2, which thankfully still had a short wait. By now, we were well overdue to meet some princesses, so we decided that it was time for a trip to Fairytale Princess Hall. We met Cinderella, character #1,
Elena, character #2
Rapunzel, character #3
and Tiana, character #4.
If you don't know, you actually meet 2 princesses at a time here, but as there was absolutely no lines we walked through both sides quickly. Littlecjc loved meeting everyone and showing off her new baby giraffe that she had acquired the day before. It was cute as almost all of the princesses tried to help her name it, but she claims to not like any of the names they suggested. To this day, I still don't think she has ever actually named this giraffe, but I think she can still tell me at least one of the suggestions.
After going through both sides of the hall, we took a little spin on the Carousel, attraction #3.
8:00
Our next stop was a visit with Ariel, character #5 since Littlecjc had to show off her dress.
We then decided to make a little stop in at Gaston's Tavern for one of those giant cinnamon rolls.
With bellies refueled, we made our way to Adventureland to ride Jingle Cruise, attraction #4.
9:00
We stayed in Adventureland and rode Pirates, attraction #5, knowing that it would be the final time that we would see the bride auction scene.
We had fastpasses for Big Thunder later in the day, but with the early park opening, lines were still short, so we decided to go through standby and change our later fastpass to something else. So, Big Thunder Mountain became attraction #6. Littlecjc loved that her new giraffe had his own seat here.
10:00
Littlecjc then suckered her daddy into an ice cream snack.
While here, we attempted to change our fastpass and realized that there really wasn't much left for us to grab or else we truly let Littlecjc pick since we ended up with a fastpass for tea cups. You know it's the end of your trip when we go with this choice during the middle of the day. By now, we were ready to use our first fastpass of the day on Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. However, on the way there, Littlecjc decided she really needed to ride It's A Small World, attraction #7. We of course obliged, and why wouldn't we? Look at that face and tell me it's not worth singing that song for the rest of the day.
With our happy cruise done, we were able to continue onto our fastpass destination Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, attraction #8.
11:00
While back in Fantasyland, we opted to take in Mickey's Philharmagic, attraction #9. As we were waiting for the show to start, a castmember told us there was a hidden mickey in the room. Do you see it?
When our show here finished, it was time for another fastpass. We headed back to Frontierland for Splash Mountain, attraction #10. Look at those arms way up!
When exiting the ride, there is a small play area which Littlecjc could not pass up. We let her play for a little bit while we decided what we wanted to do next. We had actually been continually trying to modify our final fastpass and this is when we actually decided to just stick with those tea cups. We also decided that we would take a little break as we were able to pick up a lunch dining reservation at the Skipper Canteen.
12:00
Our next hour was basically then spent eating lunch. When we did finish, we made it to the front of the castle in time for a 1:00 stage show.
1:00
After watching Mickey's Friendship show here at the castle, we decided to just go ahead and find a seat here in front of the castle for the upcoming parade.
Littlecjc ended up loving this. If you've ever sat down before a parade here, you know that they usually have some type of pre-parade entertainment. On this day it was a large group of cheerleaders that handed out pompoms before their arrival. Littlecjc was entertained as the cheerleaders passed, but she loved that pompom and it entertained her until the parade started and longer.
2:00
As you know, the parade steps off at the start time in Frontierland, so it was a little after 2 by time it reached the castle, meaning most of this hour was spent watching the Festival of Fantasy parade.
3:00
When the parade ended, we made our way into Fantasyland and took advantage of our fastpass at Mad Tea Party, attraction #11.
After scanning our bands, we decided to pick up one last fastpass for the Barnstormer. However, we also noticed that Pooh and Tigger were not out but that only one person was waiting for their queue to open. So, we checked the time of their arrival on the app and decided to wait and meet them. We've actually never stopped here before and I'm really glad it worked out this time. Littlecjc had a great time during our interactions with both Winnie the Pooh, character #6 and Tigger, character #7, since they both loved her new giraffe.
After our time here, we made our way to the circus and rode The Barnstormer, attraction #12 with our last fastpass. We had decided to make this our last ride of the day since we had evening plans with some local friends outside of the parks and we wanted to make sure we had plenty of time for transportation. However, before leaving the park today, we stopped on Main Street to take a picture.
This photo seemed a little random as we were leaving, but I ended up loving it since Littlecjc is showing off everything she accumulated on this trip.
This was originally our last day planned in the park, but being passholders it is super tempting to extend any trip when possible. Another reason for giving ourselves extra time today was so that Patrick could talk to the hotel staff and see if we could stay in our room an extra night. Fortunately, everything worked out and not needing to switch rooms or even hotels made it a no-brainer and we decided to stay another night. So, look out for Day 7, coming up.
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