So it was time to head back to the room...took me 20 minutes to find the girls and pack up our stuff. We took showers and dressed for our day at....
....Magic Kingdom
We had lunch planned for Be Our Guest and our window was between 1:30 and 2 pm. We also picked out our meals ahead of time.
Our three fast passes were for BTMR, Spl M and SDMT. Would our bands which were working so nicely opening our room door, work at the MK turnstiles? At the attractions?
I dunno, but we were about to find out.
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The bus stop was just behind our building and when we walked up a Magic Kingdom bus was just opening its door.
Yep...first pixie dust!
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With all of this picture taking, I am surprised we even made it onto the bus!
But here we are....first ride and we didnt even go around the stops at POR.
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So they added another whole line of bus depot stops at MK....and we got off at one of them. We walked a while before reaching the bag check. Got through that and then came the moment of truth. Would our bands work???
We got the white mickey head spinning, put our index finger in and...it turned GREEN!!
We celebrated with a photopass pic. Yes, I ordered the Memory Maker ahead of time. So, kids, we are going to use it so get ready!
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Can you tell it was hot....not unbearable...but hot....and that's when Devon's eye hurt...her right eye/eyebrow was stinging. So we did what we always do at MK, head in and go right to the bathrooms.
Happens every time. Devon put cold water on it but it didnt help. The Move It Shake It Parade was in full swing (blocking the streets) so we decided to go through the stores (Emporium) to first aid.
I had never been there but they were really nice. They had Devon wash the area with soap and cold water. I think it was sunscreen causing it but the soap really helped and she was right as rain in a few minutes. Crisis abated.
I let her use my sunglasses for a while cause they are mom's magical glasses which also help. So it was time to enjoy the top of Main Street minus the parade. We had about 5-10 min to stroll our way to BOG. Time for more pictures!
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So, about a month prior, I had finally given up trying to get ressies at BOG for dinner and figured we would all enjoy Columbia Harbor House for lunch and Plaza Restaurant for dinner. Then I remembered Kathy Werling (dis podcast) talking about getting lunch fastpasses for BOG. Here is how it works. You go to the website and select fast entry or pre-plan your meal. And I did not want to wait in line on the bridge at 1:30 pm in the summer. (hence CHH choice) however with this fastpass entry I could skip the line. How cool is that?!!!
Best part is...it didn't take up my three fast passes at MK since it was a separate system. Once I selected fast entry, it then allowed us to pick our meals too. Yaa! So we walked up to the cast member who showed us the check in podium. We were on the list! We then walked past everyone waiting on the bridge in the darn heat and sun (Disney provides water which is sweet but they are going to have to do something about providing shade). We went to the CM at the door and we were escorted inside right away to the left of the line inside. We then were escorted to the kiosk where you select and pay. She reviewed our selections we had already made and I paid. We were given our "rose" locator and off we went. I let the girls pick where we would sit. We sat in the main ball room once so they picked the West Wing!!
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Then Devon wanted to explore so she took off with the camera to take some pics....Not enough room on this post so I am moving on to the next one. Keep going.....