I am probably one of the biggest fans of Disney that I know. I have several Disney movies memorized, I know random Disney trivia, and I work at the Disney Store because- well, I just love Disney stuff! So when Andy suggested we honeymoon at Disney- it only further assured me that God had made this wonderful man especially for me because he, too, has a soft spot for Disney (and he knows how much I love Disney and strives to make me as happy as possible... he's so wonderful isn't he?? :D)
So Saturday the 15th (which was 90 days til our wedding! :D) we set out for a full day of Disney awesomeness. Since we had done the 4 day dream pass (special offer Disney did for Florida residents through May 25), we were able to use the money we spent on those to upgrade to an annual pass. We were unsure of doing it at first, but when we looked at the price for a 5 day park hopper ticket, and how much it would cost us to upgrade our 4DDP- it only ended up being about $40 extra to upgrade to come back all year... needless to say, we are now Disney annual passholders. :D
We spent most of our day at Disney's Hollywood Studios or as Andy and I still call it- MGM. We were a little upset because Aerosmith Rock 'n' Rollercoaster was down for refurbishment, but we did get to enjoy classics like the Great Movie Ride, Star Tours, and a new favorite, Toy Story Mania- which is an awesome 3D shooter game. I lost....miserably. :/ But we also got to see some really cool stuff on the Studio Backlot Tour and in the One Man's Dream exhibit chronicling the life and work of Walter Elias Disney. I'll post those pictures to my Facebook, because this is the wedding blog- so I need to get to the two real reasons for this post.
In honor of being Annual Passholders- we decided to go ahead and park hop. We left MGM and went ahead and parked at Magic Kingdom then took the monorail over to Epcot instead (MK was open the latest so we figured we'd park there to save time when we were tired). We went there with really only two intentions- 1) to ride Figment because that's one of my very favorite Disney rides and 2) to go over to the World Showcase to pick up something for the wedding. We went to a small pavillion in Germany called the Glaskunst. We had passed by it on our last trip to Disney and saw something we knew we had to come back for: toasting glasses. We went back and forth between two sets, but finally decided that one set was just better suited for us. So we got these:
Yeah- totally rockin' right?! That's what we thought anyway.
After we had completed both of our Epcot missions, we got on the monorail again- and then made an impromptu decision that instead of going straight over to Magic Kingdom, we were going to browse one of the resorts we had in mind for our honeymoon. So we hopped on the resort monorail rather than the Express one to the Magic Kingdom and hit up the Contemporary. Let me just tell you all- wow. We had seen the pictures online, but nothing compared to actually seeing the inside, we were AMAZED! It was so pretty and the view was impeccable. When we decide to book too, we will get an amazing discount due to the fact that we're annual passholders (better than my cast member discount- and no we can't do both...blah). But after we hopped back on the monorail to go to the Ticketing & Transport Center for MK (I always take the ferry over... I'm really weird like that), we were even more excited for the next 90 days to just fly by!
We ended our day at the Magic Kingdom. We didn't get to do a whole lot since the park closed at 11pm, and most of the rides had wait times that went right up to when the park closed, so we just soaked in the scenery- did the Monsters Inc. Laugh Factory, got turkey legs, and did the Buzz Lightyear shooty game for a rematch to Toy Story Mania(lost again. worse than the first time...ugh).
Overall though, it was a pretty successful day in wedding planning. Oh- and I got great ideas for the Disney Guest Room, but that's another blog for another day. :)
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