High Five Life

Photo by Mice Chat Well, The Disney Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser, closed. I never did get to go to the experience. It was just too much cost. Things in my life changed and I couldn’t justify the expense. Instead, I watched YouTube videos and read blogs about others experience at the Star Cruiser. I think I would have loved it, but I was able to see what others experienced, while saving myself $6000. I am including a link to a Mice Chat Blog about the closing. They did attend and have some great photos.  I was actually a little bit surprised by the news of the closure. Disney spent so much money and time on its creation and construction. Initially they said they had no plans to do anything with the building or experience. However, they have since said they may do a smaller, less intense version. I will keep an ear out about the future of the Halcyon.  I would like to go back to Disney at some point. They again raised prices and I feel like there may be one more b...

Crystal Palace from a post card in my memorabilia Recently, my favorite Disney Podcast, the Dis Unplugged, did a show about their first Disney Dining experiences .  I really enjoyed hearing their stories.  As I started thinking about my own first Disney Dining experience, I was sent down memory lane and into full nostalgia mode. My grandparents moved to Sebastian, Florida in the mid 1970’s. All of my summers following their move involved a trip to visit them. Most times with my mom, but on a few occasions, I was sent on a bus or plane and spent the majority of the summer with them.   We always went to The Magic Kingdom for a day during my visits. I always looked forward to that day with great anticipation!   It took about 2 hours to get to the Magic Kingdom from their house.   We only stayed on property once and it was at the Fort Wilderness Campground. I don’t remember much about it except that I was terrified of the dark water at River Country a...

Day 7 – Checkout, Downtown Disney, Drive to St. Augustine Today was the day we checked out of Art of Animation.   We were bummed because no one ever wants their Disney vacation to end.   We packed up all of our stuff and loaded the car then headed to check out.   We still had two counter service meals each and something like five snack credits each. Our parking pass and dinning credits were good until midnight today, verified with a cast member, so we ate breakfast at Landscape of Flavors one last time and then caught the bus to Downtown Disney Marketplace. We shopped for several hours with highlights being the Christmas Store, Goofy’s Candy Company, Once upon a Toy, World of Disney and the Lego Store.   We had so much fun shopping, even thought we didn’t spend much.   We did manage to spend all of our snack credits on various goodies we could take with us. The construction had begun for the Disney Springs remodel but was in the very early stages of putting...

Day 6 – EPCOT, Magic Kingdom, Today was our last full day at the parks.   We decided to sleep in a little later today and then go to EPCOT and spend some time at world showcase.   Our only ADR for the day was schedule for Via Napoli in the Italian pavilion at 4:30pm.   Our fast passes were scheduled for Magic Kingdom in the evening for Space Mountain at 6:25pm, Big Thunder Mountain RR at 7:25pm and Splash Mountain at 8:25pm.    So thirsty! Daughter decided to give homage to the Villains and Disney’s dark side by wearing a black asymmetrical skirt dress, sash and tiara with the black knee high chucks.   Say it with me, adorable!   She wanted to get photos in the Little Mermaid courtyard so we spent a little bit of time taking funny photos of her. We caught the bus to EPCOT and I wanted to stop at the restroom near the entrance.   When I came out daughter was sitting on her dad "noming", as in nom nom nom, on his face.   She...