ChosenBelle
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Hello!
I have decided to write a Trip Report for our most recent vacation to Walt Disney World! I am reminiscing about our wonderful trip and it is probably best to spare my Facebook friends anymore vacation photos and stories 
. 300+ pictures is probably enough, for them anyway 
Let’s get this party started!!!!Who: Me
, my husband 
& our 6 yr old daughter 
When: November 4th-11th 2017
Where: Disney's BoardWalk Villas
This trip was all about our daughter
. We usually go in August. We live in the south and are used to the hot, humid weather. My husband and I have August birthdays that are 3 days apart so we always choose our birthday week. My daughter wanted to travel for her birthday and since she is kindergarten, we knew this was the last year it would be acceptable for her to miss a week of school. Visiting Walt Disney World around the Christmas holidays has always been a dream of ours. We scheduled our vacation 2 weeks after her actual birthday and our dream became a reality! At first she did not want to wear her 'I'm Celebrating!' birthday button until she heard Cast Members wishing others happy birthday and not her. She put it on the second day and was loving it!
Day 1: Travel Day
I usually dedicate travel days to just traveling. We take a late flight and relax. Last trip we braved the Magic Kingdom the first evening and it was the best decision. We crossed almost every must do off our list so it took some pressure off our other Magic Kingdom days. Since our daughter, I will call her C but her name is all over her clothes
, is older and I wanted to maximize every moment I booked the 6AM flight which put us in Orlando at 1:15PM. We ended up in our room by 2:30PM. I just about cried when I walked on the balcony and saw our amazing view! We previously stayed at the Contemporary with a Theme Park View but that breathtaking view of Cinderella Castle was expected, and paid for 
, this view was a complete surprise! 
Of course our luggage was not even close to being delivered and I had scheduled our Garden Grocery order to be delivered between 4-9PM, so it was just us in our room. My husband wanted to take a nap but come on, we are at Walt Disney World! We picked up the stroller we rented for the week and began to wonder around the resort. We spent the day around the resort and Disney Springs. We had a really satisfying dinner at The Polite Pig!
I was so tempted to walk over to Epcot
but resisted. The trip was off to a magical start. 
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, this was at the top of C’s to do list) 
This was one of them. It was loud and crazy and crowded but all of that faded in the background when she climbed in that chair. It was magical!
and my head swiveled. I had not seen these and as it turns out not many of the Cast Members had either. 
This was the start of the hunt for the Pluto Christmas popcorn bucket and an hour later our mission was successful! 
We squeezed in lots of fun for her as well but rib-eye tacos and margaritas were not at the top of her to do list. 
When we got back to the room C was eating a snack and I hear her say her mouth was bleeding. Yep, my newly turned 6 year old lost her 5th tooth! 
First was getting her signed up for Jedi training. 
She wanted to fight Darth Vader so bad so she and her daddy woke up early and went to Hollywood Studios before breakfast to get her signed up. At first she was going to stay with me but I read online that she must attend as well. 
They needed to ask her questions and make sure she not only wanted to do this but was old enough and not scared. I’m not going to lie, my husband was not happy about the wait. I have been planning this vacation for us for almost a year, waking up early to secure dining reservations and fastpasses, booking plane tickets, etc and I LOVE it! I considered this paying his Disney planning dues. 
2 hours later they made it back just in the nick of time for our reservation for the Bon Voyage breakfast @ Trattoria al Forno. It was really fun, with great character interaction and the food was really good!
At some point during the ride our Pluto popcorn bucket started 'floating' away. We caught him! 
& have them printed, of each vacation, etc. Each one is about 200 pages and contains every detail of our vacations. My daughter & I love looking back on them and reminiscing! 
(even though we had just about found them all, we needed the map). Then a new little land named Pandora - World of Avitar opened and my adventurous little girl started getting excited about big rides. This was after our scheduled time to book our fastpass+ so I looked on a whim and found a fastpass+ for Flight of Passage in the afternoon. 
(that’s my girl!) but would you believe it had a 40 min wait, at 10PM?! 
No thank you. So we rode it first thing this morning. 
). Each little Remy had a different food that corresponded with the stickers provided. We thought he was only in the countries so it turns out we had not found them all.
I ran back to Mexico to buy another map and casually mentioned my daughter had lost the stickers. The cast member opened the map took out the stickers and handed them to me. 
Disney magic is the little things y’all. We found all the Remy’s and completed the map for a keychain.
and the cast member noticed C’s birthday button. She told her this scoop was on Mickey! 
That made her day! I noticed these little framed pictures. 
for the sole purpose of seeing Pandora-World of Avatar and using our Flight of Passage fastpass+. Normally, we spend a morning and early afternoon at Animal Kingdom but we could not do both Pandora-World of Avitar attractions using fastpass+ on the same day. Our Animal Kingdom day would be later on in this vacation. We arrived and took the obligatory Tree of Life photos. 
It was absolutely breathtaking! C had been saving her birthday & tooth fairy money and HAD TO adopt/buy a banshee. Here she is with Starfire Martha after we got back to the room later. 
Boo. So we took some pictures. 
and were escorted to the plaza garden to watch Happily Ever After. Honestly, this is what we paid for, the desserts were just a bonus. We wanted to be able to walk up last minute, have good seats and some space. 
We got just that! We took a picture in front the castle, parked the stroller & found a spot to sit down and wait. 
We had seen the show from inside the castle and out in front of the castle and the next night we would be watching Holiday Wishes. We love our Disney fireworks!
We were really excited! The party tickets were another one of C’s birthday presents. 
We planned to spend the day at Magic Kingdom before the party to finish off some must do’s. We wanted the Christmas party to be fun and for us to be able to run around and do whatever had a short wait, etc. First thing was to pack a change of clothes for the party. We didn’t want to sweat all day in our Christmas shirts. Well actually my husband didn’t & C’s shirt was 3/4 sleeves & he was carrying them so I didn’t care! The lines for photos in Magic Kingdom were rather long when we passed at night and I knew it would be a nightmare for the party we took all of the pictures we wanted first thing! 
We we finished we stopped and watched the the show with Jack Sparrow. It was really cute and C loved it! 
She was BEYOND excited and she rocked it! After she told me the cast member said the cape was the real Beast’s cape, they had shrunk it down to her size! 
The line wasn’t too bad, maybe 45 min. My husband did leave us in line to go ride Space Mountain and still made it back in time for the meet. 
