Karli and Mark's Disneymoon Trip Report ***Cruise Part 1 posted!***

Here are some pics I took with the iPhone the first few days of the trip starting with the drive down!

Feb 5th: The days are just rollin' on....

I woke up this morning to a beautiful mist rolling off the lake. I tried to capture it with my camera... But my pictures just don't do what I saw justice... The sunrise was a nice bright pink... And it was so early there wasn't a person in site...

We were headed for MK for Rope Drop. It looked crowded when we got there, but once our bags were searched and our tickets were scanned... We realized that there was plenty of room to stand and watch. I had been singing the "good mornin'" portion of the song for months, so this was pretty exciting for me!

When we walked towards the castle, the park looked virtually empty... I have never seen the castle with so few people surrounding it. It was wonderful. We also had the benefit of EMHs that morning until 9am.

We headed straight for Peter Pan... And i'm glad that we did, because for the rest of our trip, the wait was usually over an hour long.

..And then to Winnie the Pooh

We walked straight on to most of the rides this day... It was a wonderful thing! We were hungry early this day and were in desperate need of some snacks... So we stopped at Pecos Bills for some nutritious chili cheese fries and onion rings... And then to Aloha Isle for Dole Whips! I don't remember the birds being so friendly last time we were there...

After our Dole whip, it was time for our first "task". We opened our envelope and it was a task from Miss Mikki for me to touch Cinderella's slipper. So that was exactly what we did!

Afterwards it was time for more classic rides!

I was disappointed that I couldn't find the engagement ring after haunted mansion... As i've been able to find it on previous visits... :/.. Maybe next time..

We wanted to visit the New Fantasyland but we weren't planning on doing anything there this day... We strictly wanted to look around. It is really great, they did a great job... And I can't wait for the new mine train coaster... It's really looking awesome!

It was time to meet some character's so we got in line for Minnie and Daisy!

After roaming around for a while, I wanted to get some shots of the castle without the crane in view... So we stopped just outside of Tomorrowland and snapped a few.

Then I took Mark to listen to the Ragtime piano player, who was wonderful!

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We then decided it was time for another task... This was a joint task from Miss Mikki. We were to pick out post cards for each other and mail them to our home address! How fun!

It was around 3pm when we decided to head back to the resort. We had dinner reservations at 7 at Paradiso 37... But I forgot to take pictures of the food... It was good though! . We left MK... But not before saying hello to this guy...

After dinner... We went over to Character's in Flight to make our trip above "the world". I was so excited to do this... It was a bit windy and cold... As the balloon started going up... My dear wonderful loving husband said "omg, look how far up we're going!".. And I stupidly looked down... I freaked. Not out loud... But in my head... I was near tears up there... Everyone kept walking to the same side and the thing was tipping back and forth... I did not like it... I couldn't even move... All I could do was hold on to the hand rails and pray that I would get down from there eventually... And obviously I did.... But.... NEVER AGAIN!

We did snap some cool pix before the fear set in though!

Obviously once we were down we ran to Raglan Road and had a drink. My nerves were shot. Phew. I'm still feeling nervous about it.

What we learned this day:
*Rope Drop: Yes, do it, it's amazing!
*There is an awful lot of construction going on at MK. Lots of tarps covering up the buildings... The crane over the castle... the new roller coaster... splash mountain... the riverboat... fake walls up all over the place... Although this didn't ruin the magic for me.... I can't wait until they are done with all of that.
*Character's in Flight: NEVER AGAIN.

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Thanks everyone! I am glad you are all enjoying it! And I am glad those of you who followed on Facebook enjoyed that as well! I had so much fun.. Every now and then we would have to stop because I would say.. Hold on I HAVE to share this with my friends!!

Feb 6th:

This morning we were going to Animal Kingdom. We decided to drive since this park was the furthest away from us and we wanted to be there early for Kilimanjaro Safari... I had heard you so a lot more animals in the morning... It was also EMH's from 8-9... So again the park was virtually empty by the time we got in... They didn't really have a rope drop other than blasting Circle of Life... Which I really enjoyed listening/singing to!

We headed straight for the safari and walked right on. Here are some of the animals that we saw...

After the Safari we walked around and looked at some more beauties!

Mark's favorite ride at AK is DINOSAUR so we went there next, and then hung out and did some of the other rides... Including Primeval Whirl... Which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be... It was pretty fun! I have a video on my iphone... But the video's will come later...

We ate lunch this day at Flame Tree BBQ.. And the food was REALLY good. I got the chicken and ribs and Mark got the pulled pork sammy and helped me eat my huge plate of food... I wasn't feeling too great this day... And it progressively got worse... We walked around the park a bit longer but after a little while, I felt like I needed to lay down and we went back to the resort for some rest.

OH - before I forget... We stopped at Dawa bar earlier in the day and each had a Pina Colada... I got the raspberry one and Mark got one with a dark rum shot on top of it.. The bar tender made a snide comment to me about how Mark had gotten the better of the two... Like that's what I should have ordered... It really rubbed me the wrong way.... Like he was mad because I didn't order the more expensive of the two drinks... Needless to say... We unfortunately never returned to Dawa bar... And it was a shame... Because I had a great experience their last time.

After resting for a while at the resort... I was feeling much better and we decided that we would go to MK for the rest of the evening. Before leaving I snapped some pictures of the DVC lobby at WL.

We took the boat to MK that night and I snapped some shots along the way. Things were looking quite beautiful.

I told Mark that I thought this was one of the most beautiful times I had ever been to WDW. The flowers were so pretty and the weather was perfect. We arrived at MK and headed to Adventureland.

We did the Tiki Room which I had never done before. I thought it was cute .

We stopped in Frontierland to listen to the band play for a bit...

The kids were having a great time dancing!

Well.... I forgot to tell you all about something that had happened on the 5th!! Shame on me!! We were on the People Mover and it got stuck... We waited about 45 minutes before a CM had come over to walk us off the ride. Everyone was safely taken off the ride and given a fast pass for whatever ride we wanted, whenever we wanted... And this is what we used it on!

The ride was really cute! We both enjoyed it very much.

For dinner this night, we figured we would try our luck getting a table at The Plaza... And boy did we get a table! They sat us at a two seater right in front of the window! The view of the castle was perfect!

I ordered the chicken and strawberry salad. The dressing was so unbelievably good. Mark ordered a rueben... It was ok... The meat was kind of tough... We split everything.

After dinner we each bought a treat to eat while waiting for wishes to start. Mark got a cookie which was so-so... And I got a heart shaped crispy treat for Valentine's day!

We spent the rest of the night together watching Wishes in the rose garden. It was very romantic and wish I was back there right now!

What we learned this day:
*As we were walking into AK that morning a CM walked in with us and talked to us a bit about where we were from. She said that by our 5 year anniversary the Avatar section of Animal Kingdom would be done!
*The animals are pretty plentiful early in the morning at AK!
*The light show on the castle before wishes is amazing!!! We didn't even know about it until it started happening. What a pleasant surprise! I didn't get any pictures though... Like I said... It was Karli and Mark time

Random Picture Time!!!

Until next time!