Day 1, Part 4: A Brand New Ride…for Dad!
We last left off checking out the gingerbread monuments inside the American pavilion.
We headed back outside after checking out the displays, and decided since we were getting hot and tired to make our way over to Remy’s where we had a DAS booked.
On the way we saw a photopass photographer in Morocco with no line, so of course stopped to get pictures!
We then made our way over to France, where we stopped for some more pictures.
I love the rat detail in the fence!
While heading back to the new area, we passed the little store cart, and this sweater with various cheese on it caught my eye!
This sweater is everything, and they only had two left, and one was in my size!!!!! 😊 Of course I bought it. (so glad I did since later that week they had a totally different sweater for sale there, seriously if you see something you love, buy it right then and there, it’s amazing how quickly things sell out!)
Finally it was time for our ride, and we joined the LL queue. The line was super long, but it moved quickly, and soon we on.
My dad absolutely loved this ride!
It was finally time to head out, we were so tired and needed some rest. On the way out we swung by the store at IG where I got the festival spirit jersey (omg this thing is sooooo comfy!) and the festival tumbler.
When we arrived back at the room we were surprised to find a note and some salt water taffy waiting for us in the room!
We had an amazing break in the suite, having all the space was so great to spread out and we each had our own area to decompress without being in each other’s way. We also had the Hey Disney in it, which we ended up using a lot for alarms, which we did this afternoon for our nap. I will admit, it took me a hot second to realize you have to actually turn it on with the button on top, I kept hitting all the buttons on the screen and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working. I’m starting to understand how my parents feel trying to use a smartphone!
Earlier in the day I had done a mobile order for Docking Bay 7 that evening for ~6:30, and I had also booked us a Genie+ for Slinky right when my plane landed with a return time of 7:40. During the day I also booked us a Genie+ for MMRR with a return time of 5:30, but we decided we wanted to hang out in the room a bit longer so I modified that to be 7:30.
We started to get hungry again around 4:30, so at 5 headed over to the lounge to see what apps were being served. The choices were pretty good this evening, they had a pulled pork, a beef with potatoes dish (I’m sure a fancier name than that), a chicken alfredo (really just chicken with macaroni), and then various sides. They also had self pour wine which was really nice.
We each got some of everything, and some wine too, then decided to take advantage of our amazing room/dining room so brought everything back to eat there.
The food was delicious, especially the beef and pork. It was just enough to hold us over until dinner later that evening.
Before heading out, I decided to pile up the presents I had gotten my parents in front of the tree.
I usually like to get a small gift for my mom each trip to surprise her, but I went a bit bigger for this trip and got both mom and dad some new festive shirts, and some new Disney flannel PJs.
Around 5:40 we decided to head out for our evening plans.
Our first stop was the lobby to check out the gingerbread display and get some more pictures of the lobby décor.
This was so cool!
I also swung by the little shop they had set up to get an ornament before heading outside.
We then made our way down to the boat dock to grab a boat to HS. The boat was packed so we couldn’t sit together until people got off at the Swan/Dolphin, but at least we got seats!
Next up: This is Why You Never Became a Pilot!
