Boo! A Parade of Regrets
I left off describing some of the things Mark and I were doing prior to the start of Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party.
I’m going to back it up a bit and give a little more info about what brought us here and now.
This was our first time at Disney in the fall and spending part of the trip celebrating Halloween was an important part. You see, I was born on October 31, so Halloween has always been a pretty special holiday for me. That explains a lot, eh?
Parties that week were on Sunday night (our arrival day), Tuesday and Thursday. We got our tickets for Tuesday night. “Coincidentally” my friends Nannette, Janet and ~Ninja and Missy & Franklin all had plans to go to the party that night, too.
Nannette and I texted back and forth all night hoping to meet up.
7:14 N: Hey hey hey where you be?!?
7:16 D: Headed to jaunted.
7:17 D: Haunted. Red shirts.
7:18 N: We are directly in front of the castle. On the back side of the partner statue.
7:21 D: OK
Gutter Gals:
Jezebel:
Side note: ~Ninja aka Jezebel really tried to get Mark and me to get matching bowling shirts. I could barely get Mark to wear a matching t-shirt. Was NOT going to happen!
We were around Pirates when the party started at 7 and we thought visiting Haunted Mansion was an appropriate thing to do. We headed there through Frontierland
We hit our first candy stop right around here. The candy stops are marked by these large inflatable candy-corn colored tubes.
Mark and I had so much fun Trick or Treating! It is great to be a kid again!
We made it to Haunted Mansion, went in and then as we were leaving decided to stay to have pictures taken.
7:40 In line for haunted photo, not too long. Will look for you when done.
7:43 Ok
7:44 Done
7:47 Ok we are right where the parade will pass in front of the castle.
We headed that way and tried to find our friends, but it was crowded with people watching the Villains show at the castle.
8:02 I don’t think we can get there. We tried but mass of humanity. We don’t want to be d****.
8:03 We are at Emporium in Frontierland.
I am super disappointed that we did not meet up with my friends. They had an incredible spot for the parade and for the Villains show. Missy and Franklin also met up with them there to watch the parade.
But Mark and I are just two high-strung and we didn’t want to make any waves trying to cut through the crowds to get to where our friends were waiting. Although as Nannette suggested, if we had waited until show was over, the crowds disbursed and we probably would have found them. But by then we were in our spot and the parade was about to start.
Our vantage point was lousy! I am short and we were behind a lot of people. I stood up on this curb-thing, which gave me a little height to take pictures, but it was really uncomfortable.
We didn’t see any of the ground-level stuff like the grave diggers.
Here’s what we did see:
^^^ Headless Horseman. Sad!
Mark was pretty disappointed in the parade. Boo!
I honestly think it was because of our spot.
I am so sad that we did not watch it with our friends.
When the parade was over, we decided to get a snack. Mark had been obsessing about the French fries he saw at Casey’s when we visited the MK on our first afternoon, so we headed there.
We passed by the castle and saw the parade passing by
Finally! French Fries!
After fueling up, we were ready for more party time!
Would we find tricks? Or treats?
Next up: Villains Show