Ms Poppins
I'm sure I'm very affected by all this Disney talk
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2009
The Cast:
Me - Julie (40)
DH - John (44)
DD - Abbey (18)
DS2 - Lewis (11)
PTR
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Tuesday 6 October
Alarm went off at 7.30 and I took a deep breath and opened the curtains.....it was still raining, very heavily. I decided against EMH and didn't wake the others just yet. I love EMH but part of it is to take photos of the park when it's quiet and I didn't think we'd make the best of that today. I got myself ready and realised I'd had a really good sleep, thank goodness. Slowly woke everyone up and we got ready for breakfast.
Socks for today:
View this morning:
As many of you know, the choice of T.V channels is limited and apart from the Disney channel we ended up with 10 things to do at Disney on loop.....anyway, it's been updated and the Jedi Academy is now featured which Lewis had been watching. He still wasn't sure but decided to put on his Jedi t-shirt just in case
Ponchos and brolly in our bag we headed to breakfast, again in the Manhattan for 9am. The pancakes in here are delicious...
Off now into the rain and through the village. By the time we reached the park, the rain had stopped
Town square was busy with lots of people at 9.30 and I took some pictures as this had been our first real look at things:
The sun was coming out too
The band getting ready to start up:
I think this is my first castle photo..
We walked through the castle to see the new version of the bramble - now a dragon. I think I like this better than last year, much more defined. I did see some photos of kids climbing on this a week ago and I'm pleased to say that there were CM's around this every time we passed and if a kid even looked like they were going near it they were asked to stand back
We looked around and as we passed Peter Pan it was showing just 10 minutes so went on. Lewis spotted that Nana was missing from the first scene and that the Jolly Roger was also missing - I wonder why?
Made our way now to Discoveryland so we could try for a spot in the Jedi Academy.
The new decorations on the castle stage are really nice - love all the purple, burgandy colours which are my favourite
It was just before 10am and as we passed the entrance to the hub Abbey smelled popcorn and she and DH went off to get some. Lewis and I headed over to the Jedi Academy and I said to DH 'I'll meet you at the side of Videopolis, beside Star Tours'......
We were 3rd in the queue and picked the 11.45 show, which was the first of the day. Lewis gave his name, age, and agreed he could follow instructions and was then given a card with confirmation of the slot time. We were told to be back at 11:10.
We were in and out in a few minutes. DH and Abbey were no-where to be seen. We stayed a while and then walked back up to the front of Videopolis. My phone wouldn't pick up the signal for some reason so I had no way of contacting them. After about 15 minutes we went right round to the popocorn stand, still not there. Then I twigged and thought they might be INSIDE Videopolis....yes they were
Next up was Autopia which Lewis really likes. It showed a 10 minute wait, but was actually much, much longer. They only had one lane open until we reached the front and thankfully opened the second lane. Lewis and Abbey went together with us in the other lane.
It was now 11am and I was getting a tad nervous about time.....as we drew level with the kids we could see that a car in front had broken down but thankfully it was moved just in time and Lewis and I raced over to the Jedi Academy.
DH and Abbey were going to go in separately but I soon realised that if they were with us then they'd get preferred seating at the front of the stage. They had gone off to do Buzz but were done so quickly that they soon phoned me to see where to go. (DH had given me his phone so we wouldn't get lost again ) They came round to where we were and were waved through to the seating area. I noticed that whilst we were waiting some people came and registered for later shows - not sure if that will happen on busier days but there did seem to be plenty of space today. Lewis and I were shown into what used to be the arcade where the kids were shown the basic moves and given their costumes to put on.
The show was really well done, with all the kids getting chance to be at the front of the stage fighting Darth Vader.
After all his fretting he really enjoyed it and was given a certificate at the end.
Me - Julie (40)
DH - John (44)
DD - Abbey (18)
DS2 - Lewis (11)
PTR
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Tuesday 6 October
Alarm went off at 7.30 and I took a deep breath and opened the curtains.....it was still raining, very heavily. I decided against EMH and didn't wake the others just yet. I love EMH but part of it is to take photos of the park when it's quiet and I didn't think we'd make the best of that today. I got myself ready and realised I'd had a really good sleep, thank goodness. Slowly woke everyone up and we got ready for breakfast.
Socks for today:
View this morning:
As many of you know, the choice of T.V channels is limited and apart from the Disney channel we ended up with 10 things to do at Disney on loop.....anyway, it's been updated and the Jedi Academy is now featured which Lewis had been watching. He still wasn't sure but decided to put on his Jedi t-shirt just in case
Ponchos and brolly in our bag we headed to breakfast, again in the Manhattan for 9am. The pancakes in here are delicious...
Off now into the rain and through the village. By the time we reached the park, the rain had stopped
Town square was busy with lots of people at 9.30 and I took some pictures as this had been our first real look at things:
The sun was coming out too
The band getting ready to start up:
I think this is my first castle photo..
We walked through the castle to see the new version of the bramble - now a dragon. I think I like this better than last year, much more defined. I did see some photos of kids climbing on this a week ago and I'm pleased to say that there were CM's around this every time we passed and if a kid even looked like they were going near it they were asked to stand back
We looked around and as we passed Peter Pan it was showing just 10 minutes so went on. Lewis spotted that Nana was missing from the first scene and that the Jolly Roger was also missing - I wonder why?
Made our way now to Discoveryland so we could try for a spot in the Jedi Academy.
The new decorations on the castle stage are really nice - love all the purple, burgandy colours which are my favourite
It was just before 10am and as we passed the entrance to the hub Abbey smelled popcorn and she and DH went off to get some. Lewis and I headed over to the Jedi Academy and I said to DH 'I'll meet you at the side of Videopolis, beside Star Tours'......
We were 3rd in the queue and picked the 11.45 show, which was the first of the day. Lewis gave his name, age, and agreed he could follow instructions and was then given a card with confirmation of the slot time. We were told to be back at 11:10.
We were in and out in a few minutes. DH and Abbey were no-where to be seen. We stayed a while and then walked back up to the front of Videopolis. My phone wouldn't pick up the signal for some reason so I had no way of contacting them. After about 15 minutes we went right round to the popocorn stand, still not there. Then I twigged and thought they might be INSIDE Videopolis....yes they were
Next up was Autopia which Lewis really likes. It showed a 10 minute wait, but was actually much, much longer. They only had one lane open until we reached the front and thankfully opened the second lane. Lewis and Abbey went together with us in the other lane.
It was now 11am and I was getting a tad nervous about time.....as we drew level with the kids we could see that a car in front had broken down but thankfully it was moved just in time and Lewis and I raced over to the Jedi Academy.
DH and Abbey were going to go in separately but I soon realised that if they were with us then they'd get preferred seating at the front of the stage. They had gone off to do Buzz but were done so quickly that they soon phoned me to see where to go. (DH had given me his phone so we wouldn't get lost again ) They came round to where we were and were waved through to the seating area. I noticed that whilst we were waiting some people came and registered for later shows - not sure if that will happen on busier days but there did seem to be plenty of space today. Lewis and I were shown into what used to be the arcade where the kids were shown the basic moves and given their costumes to put on.
The show was really well done, with all the kids getting chance to be at the front of the stage fighting Darth Vader.
After all his fretting he really enjoyed it and was given a certificate at the end.