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We've been back from a completely magical spring break for a couple of weeks now. I've been both excited and overwhelmed at the thought of starting a trip report. We were away for a week and I took about 4,000 pictures! My first priority was getting the pictures edited and ordered for the scrapbooking projects. That has been accomplished. I'm still organizing those projects to tackle but I also want to get the trip report started before too much time passes.
We were a trio for this trip. I work at the school my little boy attends and we were on spring break for the week. We invited my mom (Nanny) to join us on this Disney adventure. Although my husband is supportive of my little guy and I getting away on this sort of trip it isn't his idea of a good time so he and our sweet pup, Woody, kept things at home in order.
Here are the three of us along with the wonderful Mickey! My mom (Nanny), my little boy (Reagan) and myself, Brenda....
Our plans went something like this:
Tuesday - Fly in and spend the evening at Downtown Disney / Check in to Pop Century (My mom drove in from TN / we flew in from PA)
Wednesday - Magic Kingdom
Thursday - Epcot / Flower Show
Friday - Drive to Port Canaveral and board the Disney Magic
Saturday - The ship docked in Nassau, Bahamas/ We enjoyed a day on the ship/ We also delivered our Fish Extender gifts this day
Sunday - Castaway Cay day
Monday - Disembark and head to Disney Hollywood Studios for the day / Check in at All Star Music
Tuesday - Animal Kingdom day and flight home that evening.
In between the day plans I did my best to explore the resorts we were staying in and the closest neighboring resorts as well. It was a full but fun trip! I'm looking forward to sharing it all here!
I'm going to save this spot for a...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pre Trip - Part 1 (below)
Pre Trip - Part 2
Flight and Downtown Disney - Part 1
Downtown Disney - Part 2
Everything Pop and Off to Magic Kingdom
Meeting Mickey
Entering New Fantasyland and some time with Belle
Under the Sea in New Fantasyland
Storybook Circus!
Dumbo and Daisy!
Minnie the Magnifique and her Pirouetting Parisian Poodles!
The Great Gofini and Donald the Snake Charmer
From Fantasyland to Frontierland
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - Reagan's First Time!
Festival of Fantasy Parade
Festival of Fantasy Parade- Part 2 and PotC
More Adventure(land)!
A Fairy Filled Visit!
Tomorrowland
Down the Rabbit Hole to Old Fantasyland
Main Street Electrical Parade
Celebrate the Magic, Wishes and Pooh!
Princess Overload!
Ariel's Grotto and the Happiest Cruise
Haunted Mansion and Saying Goodnight to Magic Kingdom
Art of Animation Resort - Part 1 - Little Mermaid, Lion King, and Nemo Sections
Art of Animation - Part 2 - Cars Section
Art of Animation Resort - Part 3
Epcot Morning!
Epcot is full of character!
The Land
The Butterfly Garden
Some fun for Reagan!
Mexico!
Duffy... Our favorite Disney Bear!
Norway!
China!
Africa!
More World Showcase Fun
Pick-a-Pearl in Japan
France and UK
Pooh and Friends!
Exploring Epcot!
Meeting Figment
Flower and Garden Playgrounds! and Fireworks!
Pop Century in Pictures - Part 1
Pop Century in Pictures - Part 2
From POP to DTD to DCL
Magic Time!
Andy's Room
Sail Away!
Luminere's
A Twice Charmed Evening
A Fish Extender Morning
So Many Princesses!
Poolside! part 1
Poolside! part 2
Quarter Masters and Pirates!
Captain Jack and Animator's Palate Part 1
Animator's Palate Part 2, Peter Pan and Villians Tonight!
Pirate Party!
Ship Tour part 1
Ship Tour part 2
Castaway Cay - Part 1
Castaway Cay - Part 2
Castaway Cay - Part 3
Castaway Cay - Part 4
Pin Trading Dreams
Sea You Real Soon
Hollywood Boulevard and then left
Cute Droids!
It's not easy being green...
Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!
Pit Stop and the Streets of America
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular
The Great Movie Ride
Mr. I, Frozo, Mickey and more
More Animation Building Fun, Dropping Anchor for a Snack and a Voyage
Toy Story Midway Mania!
Sci-Fi Dine In Theater
Meeting Minnie!
Fantasmic!
Hollywood Nights
One Man's Dream
All Star Music
All Star Music, Part 2 to All Star Movies
All Star Movies, Part 2
All Star Sports
Animal Kingdom Morning
Safari Time
Exploring Africa
Makin' Muziki with Rafiki!
Nemo the Musical
Real Life Halloween Update
Dinoland USA
Cuteness Overload! Minnie, Mickey, Dug and Russell!
Final Animal Kingdom Entry
I'll start by sharing some pre-trip preparations...
One of the projects I did pre-trip was make these covers for both my camera and my son's camera...
I found this fabric at JoAnn's and really liked it but wasn't sure what to use it for. Eventually I came up with this idea and then one other that I incorporated into the Fish Extender.
Here is the cover on my son's camera...
Some of our prep began as far back as December. Here's my sweet boy in his Mickey pjs in December....
I have a little garland of advent stockings and each day in December leading up to Christmas he received a Disney trading pin to bring along on the trip. This is the stocking garland...
This was one of the pins...
For spring break the year prior we made these lanyards as we first tried pin trading. We pulled them back out to add the pins from the advent stockings...
To prepare for the Fish Extender I also made this set of pockets to use on the cruise....
Here's the other project I used that fabric for. I made these for all the adult females in our Fish Extender group. I added the Mickey crystals to each pair of sunglasses and then made the sunglass cases....
I also made these for each stateroom...
With most cabins we included some trading pins. This was my teenager item in a lot of cases...
We made sure all had these for Pirate night....
These little barrels of Toy Story monkeys were one of the kiddie items we delivered...
For the teenage girls I made these little charm necklaces with Tinkerbell and pixie dust...
Here are some of the door decorations we got ready in advance. These were just printed on cardstock, cut out and then I added self adhesive magnets to the back....
These are the hats that can be placed around the porthole decoration on the door. I was able to find these on DIS boards and print them on cardstock. I again cut them out and used the self adhesive magnet. This one I also added glitter to the star and moon....
For pirate night...
Just because Minnie is a favorite!
Captain Mickey! Some of these we shared with other cabins in our Fish Extender group...
This was a printable we delivered to one of our Fish Extender cabins. We added magnets and then just left it on their stateroom door when we delivered their gifts...
We added this to the same door...
This was another fun idea we found on DIS boards. A countdown chain!...
One of the other items I came across in the months leading up to the trip was this fun Land's End tote bag that we used on the trip....
I'm going to stop here and continue with the pre-trip in the next entry. If you made it through all my pre-trip detail so far you deserve a Mickey bar!
We were a trio for this trip. I work at the school my little boy attends and we were on spring break for the week. We invited my mom (Nanny) to join us on this Disney adventure. Although my husband is supportive of my little guy and I getting away on this sort of trip it isn't his idea of a good time so he and our sweet pup, Woody, kept things at home in order.
Here are the three of us along with the wonderful Mickey! My mom (Nanny), my little boy (Reagan) and myself, Brenda....
Our plans went something like this:
Tuesday - Fly in and spend the evening at Downtown Disney / Check in to Pop Century (My mom drove in from TN / we flew in from PA)
Wednesday - Magic Kingdom
Thursday - Epcot / Flower Show
Friday - Drive to Port Canaveral and board the Disney Magic
Saturday - The ship docked in Nassau, Bahamas/ We enjoyed a day on the ship/ We also delivered our Fish Extender gifts this day
Sunday - Castaway Cay day
Monday - Disembark and head to Disney Hollywood Studios for the day / Check in at All Star Music
Tuesday - Animal Kingdom day and flight home that evening.
In between the day plans I did my best to explore the resorts we were staying in and the closest neighboring resorts as well. It was a full but fun trip! I'm looking forward to sharing it all here!
I'm going to save this spot for a...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pre Trip - Part 1 (below)
Pre Trip - Part 2
Flight and Downtown Disney - Part 1
Downtown Disney - Part 2
Everything Pop and Off to Magic Kingdom
Meeting Mickey
Entering New Fantasyland and some time with Belle
Under the Sea in New Fantasyland
Storybook Circus!
Dumbo and Daisy!
Minnie the Magnifique and her Pirouetting Parisian Poodles!
The Great Gofini and Donald the Snake Charmer
From Fantasyland to Frontierland
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad - Reagan's First Time!
Festival of Fantasy Parade
Festival of Fantasy Parade- Part 2 and PotC
More Adventure(land)!
A Fairy Filled Visit!
Tomorrowland
Down the Rabbit Hole to Old Fantasyland
Main Street Electrical Parade
Celebrate the Magic, Wishes and Pooh!
Princess Overload!
Ariel's Grotto and the Happiest Cruise
Haunted Mansion and Saying Goodnight to Magic Kingdom
Art of Animation Resort - Part 1 - Little Mermaid, Lion King, and Nemo Sections
Art of Animation - Part 2 - Cars Section
Art of Animation Resort - Part 3
Epcot Morning!
Epcot is full of character!
The Land
The Butterfly Garden
Some fun for Reagan!
Mexico!
Duffy... Our favorite Disney Bear!
Norway!
China!
Africa!
More World Showcase Fun
Pick-a-Pearl in Japan
France and UK
Pooh and Friends!
Exploring Epcot!
Meeting Figment
Flower and Garden Playgrounds! and Fireworks!
Pop Century in Pictures - Part 1
Pop Century in Pictures - Part 2
From POP to DTD to DCL
Magic Time!
Andy's Room
Sail Away!
Luminere's
A Twice Charmed Evening
A Fish Extender Morning
So Many Princesses!
Poolside! part 1
Poolside! part 2
Quarter Masters and Pirates!
Captain Jack and Animator's Palate Part 1
Animator's Palate Part 2, Peter Pan and Villians Tonight!
Pirate Party!
Ship Tour part 1
Ship Tour part 2
Castaway Cay - Part 1
Castaway Cay - Part 2
Castaway Cay - Part 3
Castaway Cay - Part 4
Pin Trading Dreams
Sea You Real Soon
Hollywood Boulevard and then left
Cute Droids!
It's not easy being green...
Mom! Phineas and Ferb are making a title sequence!
Pit Stop and the Streets of America
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular
The Great Movie Ride
Mr. I, Frozo, Mickey and more
More Animation Building Fun, Dropping Anchor for a Snack and a Voyage
Toy Story Midway Mania!
Sci-Fi Dine In Theater
Meeting Minnie!
Fantasmic!
Hollywood Nights
One Man's Dream
All Star Music
All Star Music, Part 2 to All Star Movies
All Star Movies, Part 2
All Star Sports
Animal Kingdom Morning
Safari Time
Exploring Africa
Makin' Muziki with Rafiki!
Nemo the Musical
Real Life Halloween Update
Dinoland USA
Cuteness Overload! Minnie, Mickey, Dug and Russell!
Final Animal Kingdom Entry
I'll start by sharing some pre-trip preparations...
One of the projects I did pre-trip was make these covers for both my camera and my son's camera...
I found this fabric at JoAnn's and really liked it but wasn't sure what to use it for. Eventually I came up with this idea and then one other that I incorporated into the Fish Extender.
Here is the cover on my son's camera...
Some of our prep began as far back as December. Here's my sweet boy in his Mickey pjs in December....
I have a little garland of advent stockings and each day in December leading up to Christmas he received a Disney trading pin to bring along on the trip. This is the stocking garland...
This was one of the pins...
For spring break the year prior we made these lanyards as we first tried pin trading. We pulled them back out to add the pins from the advent stockings...
To prepare for the Fish Extender I also made this set of pockets to use on the cruise....
Here's the other project I used that fabric for. I made these for all the adult females in our Fish Extender group. I added the Mickey crystals to each pair of sunglasses and then made the sunglass cases....
I also made these for each stateroom...
With most cabins we included some trading pins. This was my teenager item in a lot of cases...
We made sure all had these for Pirate night....
These little barrels of Toy Story monkeys were one of the kiddie items we delivered...
For the teenage girls I made these little charm necklaces with Tinkerbell and pixie dust...
Here are some of the door decorations we got ready in advance. These were just printed on cardstock, cut out and then I added self adhesive magnets to the back....
These are the hats that can be placed around the porthole decoration on the door. I was able to find these on DIS boards and print them on cardstock. I again cut them out and used the self adhesive magnet. This one I also added glitter to the star and moon....
For pirate night...
Just because Minnie is a favorite!
Captain Mickey! Some of these we shared with other cabins in our Fish Extender group...
This was a printable we delivered to one of our Fish Extender cabins. We added magnets and then just left it on their stateroom door when we delivered their gifts...
We added this to the same door...
This was another fun idea we found on DIS boards. A countdown chain!...
One of the other items I came across in the months leading up to the trip was this fun Land's End tote bag that we used on the trip....
I'm going to stop here and continue with the pre-trip in the next entry. If you made it through all my pre-trip detail so far you deserve a Mickey bar!