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Day 2
Managed to sleep through till 4:30 when Sy's snoring woke me up, nothing a sharp dig to the ribs with the elbows couldn't fix though hehehe I then went back to sleep till 7am. I would have slept longer but Sy was stroking my face and gazing at me... half of me went awwwwww that is so sweet! the other half went WHY ON EARTH HAVE YOU WOKEN ME UP I MUST KILL YOU NOW!!!
I don't look too annoyed there, but then how could I be?! It was our first day in DISNEY!!!
We packed up what little we had unpacked and loaded up the car. This morning we had somewhere rather special to be... Animal kingdom lodge CLUB LEVEL!! Old key west was lovely don't get me wrong, but we wanted to check in as early as possible to take full advantage of the club lounge.
Our beast of a car.
Christmas decorations at OKW.
We made our way to akl and gave our name at the gate. I've seen people checking into club level before, they are greeted as they arrive and taken up there personally to check in. There was none of this. I must admit, I was a teensy bit gutted. We unloaded the bags with the help of the bellman and valet parked the car before heading inside. I stood for a moment looking around for someone to greet us and take us upstairs but there was no one
so off we went to the check in desk. We were called forward right away and I gave our names, well the lady asked me to wait there and before we knew it the manager came out to shake our hands and personally take us upstairs! He sat us at the desk with Andrea to check us in and insisted on getting us some drinks, Sy had a mimosa (or what they do like it as they don't technically do it anymore) and I went for a Diet Coke. I wrote in my notes how awesome the CM was (this was before I had caught her name) <3
While we were sat there a lady came to say hello to us, we had spoken on the Facebook group, they were checking out that day as we checked in. Her name was Claire but didn't get her hubby's name. Was nice to say hello!
Our room was of course not ready yet, sadly we had a pool view (I am not a fan of them in akl as they are noisy!). No one was checking out from the other side of the hotel today, we could have switched the next day but I said not to bother.
View from the lounge
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We grabbed some breakfast in the lounge and then made our way to the Magic Kingdom! It felt a little chilly still, I wasn't used to this in Florida.
Before getting into the parks we needed to pick up our annual passes, we bought them just before the change in prices but hadn't collected them - I was pleased to see we got the platinum pass which included the free memory maker! We also got a new tables in wonderland card and had our old water park non expiry passes changed to RFID cards. Took about an hour in total. Yikes.
First stop was of course a few photopass pictures on Main Street.
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We wandered about soaking up the atmosphere, we had a bit of time to kill before our Fastpass at splash mountain.
We got red carded at the first ride of the trip. Of course we had to take a picture lol
We got a bit wet... though this pic was the before lol
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We went to get some chicken waffle sandwiches and on the way we saw there was no wait at all to meet Tiana! So of course we had to go in. I loved all the little princess and the frog details inside.
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I will include the following pictures but I have to say, they are not my favourite!! Half wet hair is clearly not a good look for me.
Tiana was admiring our 'Its Orlando Time' badges.
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We then went to grab our chicken waffles. I wouldn't eat in the sleepy hollow dining area cause of the wasps so we walked towards Adventureland till we found some hidden benches with no one sat on them.
Just as we were finishing up I could hear the move it, shake it, parade coming so of course we stuffed the last of them down and ran to the hub area. We managed to get a spot before it got there. I did lots of dancing while Sy periscoped it for everyone to laugh at lol
It was getting really damn hot now and we were silly and hadn't put any sun cream on so we had to call time and head back to the resort.
We grabbed some more photopass pics on the way out.
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We stopped at the end of Main Street to watch the Dapper Dans, they looked super cute in their holiday outfits!
It was 2pm by the time we arrived back at the resort. the room wasn't quite ready yet so we grabbed some snacks and drinks and sat in the lounge. We spent more time chatting with Andrea, she even talked us into giving her a quick demo of the Viennese waltz. Only cause there was no one else there though!
We didn't have to wait long for the room to be ready, I got an email at 2:30 with the room number! Woohoo! We were literally the closest room possible to the lounge.
We called down for the baggage and mentioned that there should be some sort of parcel for us left behind from our friend Ali who left the week before. They found it! And OMG Ali had left us sooooo much stuff! Thank you Ali.
Managed to sleep through till 4:30 when Sy's snoring woke me up, nothing a sharp dig to the ribs with the elbows couldn't fix though hehehe I then went back to sleep till 7am. I would have slept longer but Sy was stroking my face and gazing at me... half of me went awwwwww that is so sweet! the other half went WHY ON EARTH HAVE YOU WOKEN ME UP I MUST KILL YOU NOW!!!
I don't look too annoyed there, but then how could I be?! It was our first day in DISNEY!!!
We packed up what little we had unpacked and loaded up the car. This morning we had somewhere rather special to be... Animal kingdom lodge CLUB LEVEL!! Old key west was lovely don't get me wrong, but we wanted to check in as early as possible to take full advantage of the club lounge.
Our beast of a car.
Christmas decorations at OKW.
We made our way to akl and gave our name at the gate. I've seen people checking into club level before, they are greeted as they arrive and taken up there personally to check in. There was none of this. I must admit, I was a teensy bit gutted. We unloaded the bags with the help of the bellman and valet parked the car before heading inside. I stood for a moment looking around for someone to greet us and take us upstairs but there was no one
so off we went to the check in desk. We were called forward right away and I gave our names, well the lady asked me to wait there and before we knew it the manager came out to shake our hands and personally take us upstairs! He sat us at the desk with Andrea to check us in and insisted on getting us some drinks, Sy had a mimosa (or what they do like it as they don't technically do it anymore) and I went for a Diet Coke. I wrote in my notes how awesome the CM was (this was before I had caught her name) <3While we were sat there a lady came to say hello to us, we had spoken on the Facebook group, they were checking out that day as we checked in. Her name was Claire but didn't get her hubby's name. Was nice to say hello!
Our room was of course not ready yet, sadly we had a pool view (I am not a fan of them in akl as they are noisy!). No one was checking out from the other side of the hotel today, we could have switched the next day but I said not to bother.
View from the lounge
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/watson_disney/media/Orlando%2015/AABCBC0E-432F-4D62-926E-A3F6D77D615A_zpsogsryd5r.jpg.html]
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We grabbed some breakfast in the lounge and then made our way to the Magic Kingdom! It felt a little chilly still, I wasn't used to this in Florida.
Before getting into the parks we needed to pick up our annual passes, we bought them just before the change in prices but hadn't collected them - I was pleased to see we got the platinum pass which included the free memory maker! We also got a new tables in wonderland card and had our old water park non expiry passes changed to RFID cards. Took about an hour in total. Yikes.
First stop was of course a few photopass pictures on Main Street.
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We wandered about soaking up the atmosphere, we had a bit of time to kill before our Fastpass at splash mountain.
We got red carded at the first ride of the trip. Of course we had to take a picture lol
We got a bit wet... though this pic was the before lol
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/watson_disney/media/Orlando%2015/80EBF119-3C0B-4C7C-B5A0-682EDAB7DCA2_zps7iticje3.jpg.html]
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We went to get some chicken waffle sandwiches and on the way we saw there was no wait at all to meet Tiana! So of course we had to go in. I loved all the little princess and the frog details inside.
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/watson_disney/media/Orlando%2015/5117212A-DCDA-4274-8F26-220CC19A9604_zpscl1yoqxi.jpg.html]
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I will include the following pictures but I have to say, they are not my favourite!! Half wet hair is clearly not a good look for me.
Tiana was admiring our 'Its Orlando Time' badges.
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/watson_disney/media/Orlando%2015/MK_HERITAGEHOUSECHAR_7524706409_zpsualpekc4.jpeg.html]
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We then went to grab our chicken waffles. I wouldn't eat in the sleepy hollow dining area cause of the wasps so we walked towards Adventureland till we found some hidden benches with no one sat on them.
Just as we were finishing up I could hear the move it, shake it, parade coming so of course we stuffed the last of them down and ran to the hub area. We managed to get a spot before it got there. I did lots of dancing while Sy periscoped it for everyone to laugh at lol
It was getting really damn hot now and we were silly and hadn't put any sun cream on so we had to call time and head back to the resort.
We grabbed some more photopass pics on the way out.
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/watson_disney/media/Orlando%2015/MK_PARTRIGHT_7524758121_zpsx2ootkkl.jpeg.html]
[/URL]We stopped at the end of Main Street to watch the Dapper Dans, they looked super cute in their holiday outfits!
It was 2pm by the time we arrived back at the resort. the room wasn't quite ready yet so we grabbed some snacks and drinks and sat in the lounge. We spent more time chatting with Andrea, she even talked us into giving her a quick demo of the Viennese waltz. Only cause there was no one else there though!
We didn't have to wait long for the room to be ready, I got an email at 2:30 with the room number! Woohoo! We were literally the closest room possible to the lounge.
We called down for the baggage and mentioned that there should be some sort of parcel for us left behind from our friend Ali who left the week before. They found it! And OMG Ali had left us sooooo much stuff! Thank you Ali.
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have you got another trip in the planning?
