Pete M
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2016
so my father's health isn't improving quite as fast as we'd hoped from the pneumonia (still improving though, which is the important part!) and so I had to keep scaling back our long planned Halloween Disney trip from camping in our trailer for a week and a half, to staying in a hotel for a week, to then just 4 days, to eventually canceling and refunding the whole thing. well, almost everything. as y'all know, unlike most Disney stuff, special event party tickets like the Halloween party at Magic Kingdom are not refundable or transferable. BUT I found out they are re-assignable.
so I concocted a plan to double down on the Halloween party's cost with flights/busses/food to take my niece and nephew for a 24hr whirlwind trip to make use of those party tickets.
so with less than 2 weeks to go I reserved the various transportations and then on the day of the party we got up super duper early to drive across Atlanta to start forging some core memories with their first plane ride, first ever Disney experience, first ever driving a car, first ever roller coaster, first ever singing robots, second ever roller coaster, first ever Disney parade (loved it so much they wanted to see the second one too), first ever ibis trying to steal their lunch, first/second/third ride on Pirates, first ever fireworks show, and oh so much more.
best lemonade ever.
tiring though... so very tiring... but worth it.
so without further delay, I give you my entry for the worlds shortest fly-in Disney vacation. lol
my family always takes a pic here with heavy metal mickey each trip so this was a must-do and with only a single day, it had to happen first.
then for a monorail trip to arrive at MK in style!
but as it turned out the monorails were constantly packed with day guests
so we eventually abandoned that plan and just hoofed it back to MK. I mean, there's no bad way to arrive, so walking works too. 
yup, that's the castle.
I wanted to make sure that Sonny was their first audioanimatronic because unlike the Pirates, you can stand there in awe and wonder if he can see you. (and yes, I was asked. lol. )
She's been talking about this non-stop since I told them we were going so I had to make her very first time driving a car the very first ride of the day. this picture hangs on my wall right next to the one of me on my first solo drive many decades ago.
second time around (the little guy went with me the first time)
people mover time!
enjoying their first Dole whip
so with less than 2 weeks to go I reserved the various transportations and then on the day of the party we got up super duper early to drive across Atlanta to start forging some core memories with their first plane ride, first ever Disney experience, first ever driving a car, first ever roller coaster, first ever singing robots, second ever roller coaster, first ever Disney parade (loved it so much they wanted to see the second one too), first ever ibis trying to steal their lunch, first/second/third ride on Pirates, first ever fireworks show, and oh so much more.
best lemonade ever.
tiring though... so very tiring... but worth it.
so without further delay, I give you my entry for the worlds shortest fly-in Disney vacation. lol
my family always takes a pic here with heavy metal mickey each trip so this was a must-do and with only a single day, it had to happen first.
then for a monorail trip to arrive at MK in style!
but as it turned out the monorails were constantly packed with day guests
so we eventually abandoned that plan and just hoofed it back to MK. I mean, there's no bad way to arrive, so walking works too. yup, that's the castle.
I wanted to make sure that Sonny was their first audioanimatronic because unlike the Pirates, you can stand there in awe and wonder if he can see you. (and yes, I was asked. lol. )
She's been talking about this non-stop since I told them we were going so I had to make her very first time driving a car the very first ride of the day.
this picture hangs on my wall right next to the one of me on my first solo drive many decades ago.second time around (the little guy went with me the first time)
people mover time!
enjoying their first Dole whip
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