Can you believe I am still going on about our second day?
We all cram back into the vehicles, more skin-to-skin contact and head back over to POR. Let me just tell you here, POR is a great place, the rooms are a comfortable size for a family of 5, but for the sake of the other resort guests, I think the next time I will get two rooms at the All-Stars. I love the idea of two bathrooms with all these girls too. My crew is just too animated for "normal" people.
Brother & his wife are having another problem, but we are skipping that stuff, remember?
Brother ran ahead of us to throw Em's (6) surprise in our room. We got to the door, slid the card a bunch of times, (It's me, NOT the door) and she went in first. On the bed was a gift box from Tinkerbell.
Princess Em needed proper clothes to wear to the party. Tink must of stopped by while we were out.
Now, I have three older kids. DS Airman(19), Commando Nikki (17) & Beatlebum (14). Could someone explain to me how I could buy a wand for a small child and NOT realize that it is, in fact, a weapon? Stay out of Em's way, she now has a stick and is headed back to the parks. DS had gone to his car and came back wearing a jesters hat. "Chick magnet" He told me. I took notes on this because I felt it was important information for the DIS.
We get over to the monorail, and Em has decided that THIS is the greatest ride ever. She would just stay on it and ride around for hours, if we let her. Even tho there were a few times during our trip I thought this wouldn't be a bad idea, Disney is funny about you taking all your kids with you when you leave the monorail.
We head over to the castle because I had dinner reservations. I made them months ago and hadn't planned on the MGM meltdown and the 50's (Yeah Uncle Dave!).
DH had a fit. "Why are we eating again? We don't eat this much at home!"
That's true. But I tell him we could go in for some dessert and give the kids a chance to see the castle from the inside. I'm in big trouble, he's joining forces with Commando Nikki. He's not a happy camper, so I threaten him with some skin-to-skin contact. He agrees to go in, but it had better be fast.
"No problem," I say, "quick dessert and we are heading for Buzz Lightyear, I promise."
Good thing I didn't pinky-promise, because Brother's crew decided to have big meal.
Well, my crew couldn't sit still any longer and left me there. I was waiting for the bill. I was thinking I would just go over to the exit of Buzz Lightyear and find them as soon as they got off the ride. I paid our bill ($70 for 5 desserts) and went out the back side of the castle. There they all were. Just standing there. Apparently, they really can't function without me. I had the warm fuzzies knowing they didn't really want to leave me behind.
The MNSSHP was just great. When you first enter the turnstiles they hand you a plastic bag for your goodies. There are several candy stands set up throughout the park. They also had parades, fireworks, picture spots (photo for each ticket, we got 5!) and dance spots with hula-hoops.
Say it with me: Fun for all!
Brother (poor Brother) and his wife were still at it (how do people get mad at Disney??), and we took their kid (18) with us. This was the beginning of his "Where's Waldo?" title. There are a lot of those family photo spots and he is in our family photos. He is also in our splash mountain photos, Rock ‘n Roll rollercoaster photos, you name the photo, and Waldo is in it. This is only the second time we had met him, but he is a very sweet guy and we didn't mind one bit. It was fun having another "newbie" in our group.
I bought Commando Nikki and Beatlebum some silly hats to wear. Nothing as cool as DS's "chick magnet" jesters hat, but they were pleased.
MNSSHP goes from 7-12. We were there at 5:00 and received wristbands when we entered the park. At 10:00 my cell rings and it is Brother. I told him we were going down splash mountain for the fourth time in a row, come on over. My phone works on splash mountain, IN THE RIDE, but not in our hotel room. I wonder if sprint can somehow work that into their commercials. No signal in the rooms. Can't hear you now. Nope.
Brother shows up, and we are all happy because he's going to come play with us. But Brother isn't going to play at all, he's going back to the room.
**Skipping this part, skipping this part, skipping this part**
I tried to explain that the park hours were shorter this time of year, and when the MK is open, you need to be there. There were two whole hours left! I also attempted to point out that Disney is giving away candy. Again, Disney is giving away candy. One more time, Disney is giving away candy. When Disney is G-I-V-I-N-G something/anything away, most especially candy, this is the place to be.
Didn't work Brother's in deep and has to go.
After two hours, we headed for the buses to head back. Em was ticked that we weren't taking the monorail back and took it out on DS (19) by beating him with her wand, chanting "monorail" with each swing. Commando Nikki & Beatlebum were teasing him because he was just ducking her swings. "Oh big trained killer, big military hot-shot, a little girl is attacking you, go on save yourself."
He stops cold and says "Okay" grabs them both by the arms, and pushes them in front of the angry, Tinkerbell costume-wearing, wand swinging, monorail screaming, six year old.
Ah, my children are so well behaved.