Not a good start, I had a terrible nights sleep - I had a horrible earache and sore throat and was up for about 4 hours in the night trying to find something in my huge 'medicine bag' that would stop it all hurting. L laughed at me when I first unpacked my stash of medicine (there's no pharmacy / dr at DLP) but I was extremely grateful for it all during this week!
I must have dozed off at some point because the next thing I knew it was 9am! We missed breakfast and got ready to head into the park - I was in a bit of a dazed stupor from the lack of sleep and medicines but we made it into the main park just after 10am and queued to meet Winnie the Pooh at his usual spot near Casey's Corner counter service restaurant. Whilst we were waiting we saw Tigger and Eeyore outside the Plaza Gardens restaurant on the opposite side of Main Street doing a M&G so we headed over there straight after meeting Winnie - this was a fabulous spot! It was a stunningly beautiful morning and the characters stood so that the castle was in the background of photo's - the Cast Member's very kindly took a photo of the three of us with both characters and it's one that I will treasure forever; just really sums up Disney and our trip to me in that shot!
We took L to Sleeping Beauty's and went upstairs to view the stained glass windows - we've never been outside on the balcony before as it's always been closed on our trips so it was a novelty and we had a lovely view out over Fantasyland. We then decided to have a look round Mickey's shop in Fantasyland (by the carousel - I can never remember what it's called!) but still there were no Frozen cuddly toys . As we left the shop we saw Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum opposite the entrance to Alice's Curious Labyrinth so ran over for more photo's and autographs. E thought they were absolutely hilarious because they pretended to pick their noses and flick bogies at him - boys are revolting, even at this age!!!
It was then time for another ride on IASW as E was having withdrawal symptoms hehe, we saw Rabbit and Piglet doing a M&G but their queue line was closed so the Cast Member told us to come back at 12:15, which was only about 20 minutes away. We had a lovely ride round IASW in a quiet boat but I realised when we got off that I must have dropped my hat in the boat - it's a good job that it wasn't too cold that day! We waited for about ten minutes for Piglet and Rabbit but there was no sign of them so we gave up and wandered back the way we'd come - Dee & Dum had gone but Alice was there instead - yay! We queued and got her autograph, she was really lovely chatting with E and thought it amusing that their names were very similar - I got some great photo's of them together. As we were so close to the maze, E insisted that we had another go round and we had a fantastic view from the balcony as it was such a beautiful day.
We wanted to try and see if Peter and Wendy were out again today so headed towards Adventureland but stopped at the loos for L - whilst we waited for her Hook and Smee walked past and Smee rubbed E on the top of his head to say hello, I had one very very happy boy even though they were obviously the last ones out at the photo location because there was no Peter and Wendy sadly. E was desperate for more Baloo cuddles (I think we have a new favourite in this family now haha) so back round we went and he was there - yippee!
By this point I was really flagging - everything was catching up with me so we just wandered around taking in the atmosphere and did some 'people watching' for a bit. After an hour or so we walked back to the Hotel Santa Fe and rested for a while. We had a sandwich in the bar at the hotel before heading back to our room.
Very frustrating day as I so wanted to do more, especially on a glorious winters day but it just wasn't meant to be - very early night instead!
AFUK x
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