Hey everyone! I guess it’s time to continue the report.
The next morning we woke up and decided to take it easy. Our first day as a married couple felt…exactly the same as our last day as an unmarried couple.
Crown_Princess’s brother and sister in-law were leaving this day, and we had plans for two at Chef Mickeys. So we went down to breakfast (I love me a breakfast buffet!) and asked if we could change our ADRs from two to four. Unfortunately, the hostess (we’ll call her Miss. Snobby Snippypants) insisted that it wasn’t possible, and if we wanted four, we’d have to essentially give up our ADR and waiting in line like everyone else. We decided that we’d take our table, and hopefully the waitress wouldn’t mind that an additional two people would arrive.
Since we were at the Contemporary already, we took our table and went in with Miss Snobby Snippypants. They, of course, seated us at a four seat table (rolleyes) so we called Crown_Princess’s brother and wife and they came and joined us. We enjoyed our breakfast pizza, Mickey waffles, etc., and posed for some pictures with the Disney crew.
Our waittress announced we got married, so everyone waved their towels for us
It’s Goofy!
Crown_Princess and her sis-in-law with Pluto
Pinching Donald’s bum!
Mickey and Minnie!
We personally found Minnie a lot more inviting. Maybe Mickey was having an off day or something.
After eating, we went back to our room and finished packing our things. It was time to say good bye to the Contemporary
. We loved it here, from the wonderful view we had, to the convenience of the monorail, everything was fantastic. Alas, it was time to move on over to the Wilderness Lodge for the next few nights. We gave our things to the bell hop, who would transfer everything over for us, and headed out the door.
By this point, we hadn’t had a lot of time to spend with my parents, so we decided to join them at AK for some fun. It was the first time we were able to relax and go have some fun, so we were looking forward to it! We like AKL, but we find that sometime’s it’s limiting and you’re done fairly early.
We got there, and the banners were very appropriate.
Had to get a shot with the tree
It’s me!
And my wife!
After a few phone calls of “Where are you? Where? Oh. Where are you again?” between myself and my parents, we finally found them near Kilimanjaro Safari. Unfortunately, the Safari had a huge wait at this point (booo!), and my parents had already gone, so we decided to skip it. On the plus side, I had what was probably the most delicious snack I’ve ever had: a Jalapeno cheese soft pretzel. I tried hunting around for one at other places in WDW later, and even here in Downtown Disney in Anaheim, and I still haven’t found another place that makes it. That random pretzel cart in the middle of Animal Kingdom is the only place I’ve found that has it. Therefore, I conclude that I must return to get another one. Or a box of them, if they let me.
Everyone taking a snack break!
My friend Matt was still hanging around a few days after the wedding, so I called him up to join us and my parents as well. We rode the train to Raficki’s planet watch, since we’d never done it before. We probably won’t do it again, as I found planet watch to be a little boring. However, we did stumble upon a CM who had brought out a baby alligator for everyone to pet. Crown_Princess got super excited and lined up right away.
Here she is in line. Notice how she’s the only adult
It’s almost her turn, look at the excitement!
Hooray! She did it!
If you notice, she’s wearing her “just married” pin. The CM actually asked her if she actually got married, or if she just enjoyed wearing it around the parks. This bewildered her (for obvious reasons), and she pointed at me and said no, we just got married yesterday!
As we left Raficki’s, I glanced at the wall and just found this amusing.
At this point, my parents wanted to wander a bit and Crown_Princess, myself, and our friend Matt wanted to brave Expedition Everest. So we split off, agreeing to meet at the Finding Nemo show in a couple hours.
EE was packed (as usual) and the wait was about 90 minutes, but the three of us decided to go to the Single Rider line. 15 minutes later, we were all on. Booyah!
It’s calling us in the distance
The storm clouds came, just as people escaped the Yeti’s grasp!
We headed over to Nemo, and took a seat in the nice, cool theater. It had just started to rain a little, so we were glad we had some cover.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, I have to admit, it’s a pretty neat show. Costumes and effects were well done, although it’s weird having a 90 minute movie condensed into about 25 minutes. “Nemo on Speed” is probably a more accurate description.
It’s the school of fish!
We were getting pretty tired, and the park was closing in a few hours, so decided to head out. My parents were staying at a condo off-site, and had a car, so we drove out of the World (gasp!) and went to Bahama Breeze for dinner.
Crown_Princess riding the parking lot tram.
Up next: We move into the Wilderness Lodge, and we visit Hollywood! Well, the fake, clean, and family-friendly Hollywood. The real Hollywood by us is kind of seedy.
I love the pictures from your reception, that is such a wonderful venue. The shots of the monorail are awesome! That is so cool that Randy was willing to take the extra time at the GF plus the monorail shots are so Disney! Out of curiosity if you don't mind sharing, did Disney charge very much for the projector?
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He picked his tux - did a great job. 
