The “We aren’t going to Florida again for a long time!” Trip - Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party

We had a lazy start with breakfast and coffee on the patio.

We then went to Disney Springs for lunch at The Boathouse. They brought some bread to start which was very tasty.

I asked if I could get the Duck cocktail made without alcohol but apparently it wasn’t possible 

Rob ordered steak (medium), and the filet mignon sliders (well done) for me.

They arrived and were the wrong way round, our server and the manager came and offered to redo them but we didn’t want to waste the food.

I gave Rob one of my sliders and he cut me off some of his steak so that fixed it 🤣 

We ordered chocolate layer cake for 2 for dessert which came with vanilla ice cream.

It was absolutely giant and we took over half away with us.

They discounted dessert so with a generous tip (our server was so apologetic) we paid $85.

We did a little bit of shopping (I managed to get a small duck in the shop) then back to room to rest.

Tonight we were headed to the Magic Kingdom for the Halloween party, I totally forgot that Carousel of Progress and the railroad closed at 1700 so missed them  

We did try and get there once I realised but we were just too late 🤦

We collected our bags and first treats via the bypass then rode Peoplemover and the Speedway both of which had short waits.

Rob got us boarding group 160 in the 6pm Tron drop and they were already at 130 so we knew we would get called quickly.

It had started to lightly rain so we got a quick drink in Cosmic Rays to cool off and miss the drizzle.

I picked up my Halloween pin and then our Tron group was called, it took us at least 20 mins not like yesterday morning.

We then rode Buzz Lightyear (Rob won again!) before a massive rainstorm. 

We sheltered in Monsters Inc (as that was the closest indoor space when it started) which was a treat trail. 

We both filled our bags as we went through repeatedly to avoid the rain; were there for probably 30 mins and a friendly cast member found it hilarious.

The rain slowed and so we headed to Frontierland and the Emporium looking for a particular pin (didn’t find it).

We decided to watch the first parade from Frontierland (in case of more rain which might delay or cancel the 2nd one) before getting a drink from the shop next to pirates.

We went to find a spot for the fireworks and managed to find a space in the garden in front of Casey’s.

We did a little more trick or treating to avoid the departing crowds and then our final ride was It’s a Small World.

We walked out at 2350, and got a boat home - although there were other people on board this time!

Our candy - the little rucksack also contains candy 🤣

The “We aren’t going to Florida again for a long time!” Trip Day 4

We had an alarm set for 0650 so that we could try for a Tron virtual queue. 

Somehow I got group 5 which wasn’t expected so we thought we had better get ready. We had not planned to go to the MK quite as early as we were moving to the Polynesian today.

We bought genie+ today as well because last MK day we felt it gave us a better experience, this cost £40.

We had a quick breakfast in the room:

We walked to MK and rode Tron at 0910 - we literally didn’t stop walking until the lockers. We also got a LL for Space Mountain so had done both rides before 0930. 

We headed back to BLT to finish our packing and cool off as it was already quite warm.

We checked out and moved to Poly where we checked in and dropped off our bags.

We got an early lunch at Captain Cooks (I had a kids meal which was again plenty of food for me) before a quick look around. I had been booking LL for later.

We went back to MK via monorail to ride Big Thunder Mountain which was down when we got there. We then attempted Pirates which was also down 

So we decided to do the tiki room as it was inside and cooler and we managed to pick up a LL for Jungle Cruise immediately after.

We then had a little ice cream break, I went for Strawberry while Rob had the orange cream 😁

By now Pirates and Big Thunder were back open so we used our lightning lanes from when they were closed.

We made a quick visit to the Christmas shop before another classic - Philharmagic.

We had one more lightning lane for The Haunted Mansion before taking our own boat to the resort (ok it wasn’t actually ours but there were no other passengers).

We got our bags brought across and unpacked - there is much less storage here compared to BLT, which seems odd when you can sleep 5 people in the room. 

We just about managed but had to put all our clothes in 1 drawer 🤷

We got ready and went back to the Magic Kingdom, we were offered a lift on a golf cart to the main building.

Once in the park we made our way to Skippers canteen and checked in for our dinner.

We had a good meal despite annoying people allowing their kids to run around the restaurant. I lost count of the times one child ran past our table and almost knocked our drinks off.

While in the restaurant it had started to rain but we had a LL for Peter Pan so we did that and then tried to leave. We got very wet along the way.

It did eventually stop raining and I watched fireworks from the room 😁

The “We aren’t going to Florida again for a long time!” Trip Day 3

This morning we were awake at about 0800, we did some laundry and got some breakfast in our room.

Once we had all that sorted we headed to the outlets for some shopping.

We got a few new items including the new ‘lazy’ sketchers (which were really comfortable) and Rob was very excited to get Teremana tequila.

We went back to our room to prep for Moonlight Magic and pack for our move the next day, I wanted to make sure we don’t have too much to do in the morning.

We had a sandwich and crisps in our room for dinner.

We arrived at Hollywood Studios at around 7pm and it only took a few minutes to get our bands and snack vouchers.

We wanted to see how many rides we could get done tonight and decided to head towards Galaxy’s edge.

Toy Story Midway Mania had a short line so we headed there in the way and Rob got a highest score (as always).

Next up was Smugglers Run which claimed to have a 20 min wait but we walked all the way to the pre show without stopping. We rode with a mother and her daughter and we forced Rob to be pilot with the daughter while we were gunners 🤣

We stopped in Docking bay 7 to get a drink with our vouchers. I had the Moof juice and Rob had a sprite. 

The park at this point was just about to close to day guests.

Next we decided to try Rise of the Resistance which posted a 35 min wait but again we walked straight to the pre show.

We thought we would complete the Star Wars theme with Star Tours which was literally empty.

On our way around we picked up a free Mickey bar which was great in the heat.

Next up was Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway where we actually waited a few minutes for the pre show 😮

We decided to visit the Tower of Terror next as the wait was 13 mins which as we all know is a walk on 😁

As we were in the area we hopped on Rock n Rollercoaster where we got the front row.

We had one ride left (I planned to skip the saucers) so headed back towards Toy Story Land. On the way a lady gave us 4 extra coupons (we started with 6, had used 2 and now had 8!)

Slinky Dog said it had a 35 min wait but it was maybe 10.

I decided to use coupons to try a pretzel and a churro as I’d never had either before! We also got a drink.

I preferred the churro but couldn’t eat all of either of them 🤣

I finished off the night meeting Donald and Daisy which was brilliant (but the longest I waited for anything).

Donald spotted my bum bag while I was hugging Daisy (I had turned it behind me so it wasn’t in the photo) and he decided he wanted one! Daisy gestured that he could maybe get one so he was very 😃 

While I was meeting them Rob got 5 drinks with our remaining coupons to take back to our room and we made it back at 0050.