*COMPLETE!!!!*THIS IS THE WILDERNESS!!! A Selfie-tastic April/May 2014 Teacake Adventure

[FancyNancy]

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[jediprincess23]

That Daisy Disneyland pin I adore it!

Love the wishing well pics! That is one of my sister's favorite spots in MK.

BAHAHAHA I love the story of that little girl. Too great. Use your magic wand to part the sea of people. Seems legit.

Me too! I have formed the obsession with Disneyland pins and pins that aren't hidden mickey pins! I'm not sure why but I guess because they are un-common
ANYWHO,
Yeah! I can see why she loves it so much! It's so quiet back there!
LOL I still laugh about that! That kid was so sure her wand wand was going to work for her!

Oooh gotta love Crystal Palace, it is one of my favourites, but unfortunately we didn't go on this trip!
I love your pin board, I will have to take a photo of mine to show you!!!
Your wishing well photos are such a cute idea, and the ones of you and Katherine is so funny, I wish I had got this photo when we were there!!

Can't wait to read more but then again I don't want it to end

Thanks! And I'd love to see yours!! And thanks! I always try to take more creative pictures than the same kind every trip!
Haha, I don't want this to end either!

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[jediprincess23]

The Great Crystal Palace Back Up...
We met back up with Kat's parents in front of Crystal Palace and checked in! We enjoyed some complementary lemon water and our name was called in about 5-10 minutes!!
We were seated on the right side right in front of the banner!

Kat's Mom told us that drinks are included in the lunch price so we all got soda's and lemonades! Then we were unleashed onto the buffet! I was so excited for some warm food and words can't describe how it felt to be in a dry place!! We were pretty shriveled up by this point!
I do regret it, but I only took food pictures of my food (We've been over this before, I feel bad asking people if I can take pictures of their food!)
My fist time up, I got some Asian style chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, white rice, apple slices, a garlic butter dinner roll, and some Caesar salad!

I enjoyed all of it apart from the noodles by the time I got around to them they were kinda cold!
By this time, none of the characters had come over to us so I headed back to the buffet and got a tomato basil chicken on top of rice.

That chicken was DELICIOUS!!! Oh my, it was so tender and flavorful <3
By this time, Eeyore was at our table, and there began the great Crystal Palace back up...
I was so impressed with this Eeyore he got our Disneybounds right off the bat! He even mistook Laura's Wendy for Eeyore but we just rolled with it!

We had shirts for autographs but this created a little bit of a hold up because we had 6 of them to sign!! We were having two or three of the characters at our table at once!

Everyone got their picture with Eeyore, he moved on and I took the opportunity to go grab dessert! I got a little Key Lime Pie square and a chocolate chip cookie!! Yumm Disney dessert!!

I also had to document this gigantic pile of metal on the table! And this was just mine and Katherine's pins!! Think we're addicted?

Next came Tigger!! Since Kat was Disneybouding him she got extra love!

Tigger wanted to know if we had any pins with him on it! Sadly, we couldn't find any but once he left of course, we found one!
Laura had drawn Tigger and Pooh faces on the back of Katherine's and Emily's shirts and the characters were loving them!

I just have to post this one because Pooh is totally creeping

Okay so after Tigger left, Pooh was right behind us! I think we qualified as hard-to-deal-with guests because, we overheard the CM's talking to one another and apparently, they had been forewarned about us... Woops
Pooh Bear is the most adorable thing.

He was all over Emily!
Apparently so was his handler
Before Pooh left, he lead us around the Crystal Palace in a parade!
When we made it back to our table, Piglet was there!!
I just can't get over how adorable Piglet is!!!!

Laura has a very special place in her heart for Piglet! On our very first trip she and my mom chased him across 3 parks!!

After getting special hugs and kisses, Piglet left and we finally all sat down and let out a sigh of relief! That was some serious character interaction!!
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[I_Luv_Stitch]

Oh what amazing character interaction you had! Crystal Palace always seems to have the best character interaction!!
Also that food looked so yummy, I am so jealous you went there hahaa
We didn't do any character meals, which I regret as we didn't see many characters either!

 

[FancyNancy]

I love Crystal Palace You all look like you had some fun character interaction and the pics came out great!

The picture of Pooh creeping is too funny!

 

[PrincePluto]

The Great Crystal Palace Back Up...

I think we qualified as hard-to-deal-with guests because, we overheard the CM's talking to one another and apparently, they had been forewarned about us... Woops​

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Do you think they were serious about being forewarned about you, or joking?

 

[courtneybelle]

Your food looks awesome!! Crystal Palace breakfast was my favorite meal of the trip so I don't see myself going there for any other meal than breakfast...but lunch still looks great.

So many pins! I love it.

Laura did an awesome job on the shirts! They seriously look professional.

Haha you troublemakers I'm sure you were fine!

 

[jediprincess23]

Oh what amazing character interaction you had! Crystal Palace always seems to have the best character interaction!!
Also that food looked so yummy, I am so jealous you went there hahaa
We didn't do any character meals, which I regret as we didn't see many characters either!

Aww! Character interactions are one of my favorite things! It's sad that you didn't get to do very many on your trip but it sounds like you had plenty of fun anyway!!

I love Crystal Palace You all look like you had some fun character interaction and the pics came out great!

The picture of Pooh creeping is too funny!

Thank you! I didn't notice that he was even doing that until I was writing the update! LOL

Do you think they were serious about being forewarned about you, or joking?

I hope they were kidding but they probably weren't! Haha! We had 6 T-shirts for the characters to sign, an autograph book and a photo matte to sign! They probably weren't too excited about that... ah well!

Your food looks awesome!! Crystal Palace breakfast was my favorite meal of the trip so I don't see myself going there for any other meal than breakfast...but lunch still looks great.

So many pins! I love it.

Laura did an awesome job on the shirts! They seriously look professional.

Haha you troublemakers I'm sure you were fine!

Jess and one of my friends always do Crystal Palace at breakfast and so I've always wanted to try it there (three words: stuffed french toast) but, it was still fun at lunch!

Yes!! The need for more pins is real.

Thanks! I always say she got hers and my creativity since I can't properly draw a stick person!!

Haha! I don't know! We can be pretty sketchy in our little British accents and copious amount of t-shirts to sign

 

[jediprincess23]

"SOMEONE CALL THE DISNEY POLICE, CALL THE SWAT TEAM, CALL THE MAIN CHEESE HIMSELF!!"

I had already finished my food but everyone else had barely touched theirs so they got to business!
I was just looking around and enjoying the ambiance when I saw the most horrific sight.. If you have little ones around you might want to send them out of the room.....
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...Are they gone?

Okay,
PIGLET HAD A BLONDE PONYTAIL
I was probably more bothered than a little kid would have been but, like I started having a panic attack! I turned to Katherine and I was like"PIGLET HAS A BLONDE PONYTAIL!!! AHSJDJDKDKDKJFKD SOMEONE CALL THE DISNEY POLICE!, CALL THE SWAT TEAM, CALL THE MAIN CHEESE HIMSELF! ITS AN IMPOSTOR!!!!" ....
Okay, maybe I wasn't THAT crazy but I did come very close to going up and telling a their handler.
Thankfully, a waitress told the CM who, promptly jerked piglet into the kitchen and got that fixed right up! PHEW! That was stressful! I also felt bad for piglet's friend because that was probably a little embarrassing!
After everyone had finished up their food, our waitress brought out Kat a birthday cake and a card signed by all the characters!

Sadly, I just couldn't eat any because I was soooo full
But, everyone else liked it a lot! I think it was a chocolate cake with chocolate icing and fudge!!
After that, Kat's Dad decided to head back to the room and all of us girls made a bathroom stop!! What fancy bathrooms Crystal Palace has!! (I feel like that is an only okay thing to say in Disney!) Haha!
After that, we headed to the front and got pictures with the plant versions of our favorite little characters!

Crystal Palace Review
Food: 8 out of 10
Everything was for the most part warm, very flavorful and yummy especially for buffet food!
Service: 10 out of 10
Fantastic waitress! She was very attentive and super sweet!
Atmosphere: 10 out of 10
The whole idea of a friendship celebration is so sweet! Plus Crystal Palace is so fancy! It reminds me of like a Victorian mansion minus the buffet of course!
After our bathroom break, we left Crystal Palace and decided to try our luck with Pirates of the Caribbean! Somehow Laura and I keep missing this one! On our first trip (in 2006), it was closed because they were adding to it because the movies had just came out, and then in February it was closed down! But, this day was our special day because the wait was only 10 Minutes!!!

When I walked into the que I was prepared to smell that "Disney water" smell that everyone loves but I was disappointing when it smelled like nothing! this same thing happened in February when I walked into the Land Pavilion!! I think I need my nose checked and put on to a Disney smell setting!!! Nevertheless, I really loved this ride!! It just screams classic Disney!! Of course Laura loved it more than any of us (I think she's got a thing for Captain Jack!!)

After that, we had FP+ for BTMR but it was closed!!
But the CM's said that if was open later tonight to come back and they would honor our FP!! They might have also said we could use the FP for anything in the American Adventure/Frontierland area instead.

We weren't too upset about this, we just hopped over to Haunted Mansion because it was a 15 minute standby!!!
I had completely forgot that HM had a interactive que! IT WAS SOO COOL!!!! Somehow I had never told Laura about this and she was so fascinated!! I hate to say it but I'm a minor germaphobe and refrained from touching most things...
I read that you can ask a HM CM for a death certificate and they willl have it waiting for you at the end of the ride! But I also read that they don't do this anymore! I still want to try it though!
We ended up getting stuck at the very end where Little Leota is like
Hurry back! Hurry back! Be sure to bring your death certificate, if you decide to join us. Make final arrangements now! We've been dying... to have you...
It was creepy!! She just kept saying over and over and then Kat and Emily to very creepily start sinding "Oooooooooooooooo"

Yeah, I'll be honest I was very happy when the ride started back up!
After being thoroughly haunted by some grim grinning ghosts, we made our way to Fantasyland!
We got the iconic picture with the sword in the stone! Notice how Emily only has one finger on it I just love her!

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[Credit Man]

Gee! With all the effort Emily put in, I am surprised that you guys could not pull out the sword!!!

 

[courtneybelle]

<- would be me if I saw Piglet in that state.

That birthday cake looks so good!

I don't really smell anything in The Land either but I LOVE the POTC smell.

 

[jediprincess23]

Gee! With all the effort Emily put in, I am surprised that you guys could not pull out the sword!!!

Haha! Yeah, really!

<- would be me if I saw Piglet in that state.

That birthday cake looks so good!

I don't really smell anything in The Land either but I LOVE the POTC smell.

Yes, it was quite a sight!!
Next trip I'll try again! Maybe I'm just not smelling enough!

 

[jediprincess23]

It's PhilharMagical!!!!!
Hello everybody! My apologies for the delay in updates but I am here now and I'm going to try and get this report finished up so I can focus on school!! So, sit back and enjoy!!
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After trying SO hard to pull out that sword, we decided what the hey! Let's go on Prince Charming's Carousel! I was so excited because this was a first for me!
Selfie Count: 32

Laura and Kat found their steeds and mounted!

Then there's little Emily!

And then yours truly!! My horse looks rather free spirited

I just loved that ride! It is so fancy!!! I'll definitely be hitting that one again!
Once we got off, the castle needed to be documented because LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS

Sometimes I just can't handle the beauty of the castle like, just look at it

After drooling over the Castle (You know you do it too )
we headed over to PhilharMagic!! This was another a first for me (and everyone else I'm pretty sure) I have been wanting to do this one ever since I about it in Jess' trip reports!

For some reason I only took one picture of the posters that were in the que but I loved all of them!!
Hercules is so underrated!! I can't get any of my friends to watch it!

While in line, Katherine and Emily actually convinced me to try out for a summer musical with them which, was going to be Beauty and the Beast but then got changed to Cinderella at last minute! I did end up going and auditioning! I didn't get a part but it's good practice for those Disney auditions!!
A picture with my Teacake/ladyfinger

Then we were let into the theater! We were rule breakers and didn't sit all the way to the end of our row but the theater wasn't even half full so I really didn't feel too bad..
There was this one unhappy lady who was trying to squeeze between this little girl beside me and in the most monotone voice she looks at the girl and goes "...Excuse me CHILD." LOL it was quite hilarious!
We all loved the show! We sang along to all the songs like 3 year olds and freaked out when they would spray the different scents! I definitely suggest hitting that attraction! It's perfect for any age!
Then we left PhilharMagic and went to It's a Small World! I hadn't noticed before but that there's a huge window in Pinocchio Village Haus that shows the boats!
Selfie Count:33

Don't mind the blur it adds flair
Selfie Count:34

It is now my life goal to learn IASM in every language that's on the ride!
After that, we headed to the Tangled bathrooms because why not?!

There's another flared photo!! Laura and Kat were dancing around as the song "Kingdom Dance" from Tangled and Emily and I were just sitting there watching
From there we headed back into Fantasyland where we took pictures. For some reason, we pretended to be Gaston and Belle
My apologies for our demonic eyes (Those, my friends do not add flair)

Then I took this picture! Later, I realized I was basically standing in the same spot where Dumbo used to be!!

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[jediprincess23]

The Space Mountain Obsession is real.
Then it was over to Tomorrowland!!

We decided to get onto the Carousel of progress!

The CM's were having the time of their lives and laughing so hard!
They let us in and we enjoyed our journey through the decades! Especially because there was like one other family in there with us!
I wasn't expecting to enjoy this ride but IT. IS. PERFECT.
Not only does it get the exact point across that was intended, it makes you think about how much life has changed throughout the years!
Emily was cracking us up because she kept being like "That dog should have died by now!" "Why haven't they gotten old yet?!"
As we walked out of the ride, we saw the incredible's dance party going on and had to join in!!
JAZZ HANDS

After that fun escapade, we stopped at this cart to pin trade with a CM. Laura, who apparently had seen a pile of roaches near this cart, walked up to the CM and was like "Did you know you have cockroaches?!" or as Kat says it: "DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE COCKROACHES???!!!!" LOL Good times!! The CM did seem surprised by this in case anyone was wondering
After that, we had to be reunited with SPACE MOUNTAIN
Our wait was pretty short especially since we had another Mickey Mouse sighting!! And on an amazing stoke of luck, HE AND HIS BROTHER WERE IN OUR SPACESHIPS!!!
We also decided he was Swedish because he obviously wasn't speaking English!

There he is!!
When we headed over to the counter to get our ride photo, we got this CM who was kinda a Mickey Mouse and we were talking and talking to him and he was just super nice! But, after we walked away, Kat decided he wanted his autograph! So, we went back up there and stood in line forever and then got out of line because I spotted this Duffy pin!

So then we got back in the line and finally made it back to this CM who had made this complete 180! Kat was like
"Hey, can we have your autograph?"
and I said "It's only for cool Cast Members!" (Yes, I know I'm a dork)
And he just made the most disgusted face and was like ".............Eh, okay. Let me get these other people first."
After we got his signature, we high talked it outta there because there was definitely awkward in the air!! But, once we got outside and over to the People Mover, we realized that he signed with a different name then was on his name tag!! By this point Katherine and I were dying!! We couldn't stop laughing!! We were getting to the point where a we were escalating up to the People Mover (behind ANOTHER Mickey Mouse mind you) we were doubled over with laughter
Gahh this night was so perfect! They really are pumping something into the air in Tomorrowland!!!
Once I had somewhat of my composure, I was very excited to show Kat and Emily why the People Mover is the greatest!!
Selfie Count:34

I think by this time Wishes were going on but for some reason we were under the impression that there were going to be 2 shows that night so, we headed to Stitch's Great Escape!!

But before we were even let inside, we decided to ask if there were going to 2 showings if Wishes and they said No. So, it was out of there and we hightailed it to Main Street! But by that time the show was over! We have go some strange luck!

We met up with Kat's Mom and she got our picture!

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[courtneybelle]

I am with ya, literally cannot handle how gorgeous the Castle is.

Philharmagic is so much fun!!!

I used to be able to sing Small World in Spanish! I'll see if I can remember the words haha.

AHHHH so glad you love Carousel of Progress!!!! It is one of my absolute favorites.

I'm really bummed I missed the #INCREDIBLESSUPERDANCEPARTY. Next time!

 

[Credit Man]

I think you guys were TOO wet for TOO long! What a day!!!

 

[jediprincess23]

I'm really bummed I missed the #INCREDIBLESSUPERDANCEPARTY. Next time!

It is so fun!! And that's coming from somebody who hates dancing!!

I think you guys were TOO wet for TOO long! What a day!!!

Haha for sure!! We were getting a little crazy!!

 

[jediprincess23]

Creeping On the Swedish Mickey Mouse
After taking pictures in front of the castle, we decided we should probably find a good spot for the Electrical Parade!! But we spotted the Swedish Mickey Mouse sitting on the corner of Main Street with what I assume was his family! Emily, Kat and I let Laura and Kat's Mom go on ahead and we proceeded to do probably the most hilarious thing on the trip: WE TOOK CREEPER PICTURES!! But here's the best part: we were pretending to take selfies The guy totally saw what we were doing though LOL
As you can see we failed at actually getting a good picture. I will still treasure it forever!

After that we headed back to our spots! The parade started shortly after!

Then, we rejoined Kat's Mom and Laura across from the Emporium and the parade soon started.

Everyone was wishing Kat a happy birthday!

The parade was a little shorter that night! I'm assuming that it was because of the rain but we followed after Pete on his Dragon and pretended we were in the parade waving to everyone on main Street

We kept trying to get other people to join us in the parade but only this ADORABLE little girl with her mom and her Dad joined us! She was so sweet and Kat got her autograph! Her parents were too cute helping her write her name! After we waved goodbye to them, we went shopping!
First, we headed into the bakery!! Katherine got some things for friends back home, and I got a mickey rice crispy treat and a box of Minnie Mouse cookies!!

I saved the rice crispy treat until I got home and it was still super fresh and SO yummy!! I am for sure getting another one of these next trip!!

Then, we went into the store that has all that jewelry and I fell in love with this bracelet!

I wish I actually wore bracelets because I would totally buy it!
Instead, I pin traded because that's free and free things make me happy

We got very excited when we spotted this one because all of us had been keeping an eye out for it all week! Kat is collecting them!!

I love this one! Especially because it's part of the Disneyland hidden mickey sets!

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[tigger17]

Really enjoying your trip report!! I'm from the UK so I am reading your trip report in my best British accent hahaha can't wait to here more xx

 

[Credit Man]

I can't believe with all the rain that day, there was even a short EP. The picture of you guys following the parade is the best!