Hi everyone! A bit later than I planned but here's an update and that's what's important!
Disneyland Day Part 1
Our phone alarms woke us bright and early at 7:30 - 'Son of Man' and 'Remains of the Day' were our wake up calls! We hit the shower and you know, the rest of that getting ready stuff that girls do. When we got down to breakfast Stuart was there looking pretty grumpy; apparently breakfast had actually started much earlier and now there wasn't much left. Abi had toast and an orange and I ate cereal and two pain au chocolats. Yummy. After that it was only a 15/20 minute drive to Disney and soon enough we were seeing this!:
Walking into the park was amazing! It was the most Halloweeny sight I had ever seen!
I love how all the ghosts were themed to the building they were haunting! And then of course, there was the main attraction!
Now the plan was to head straight to Frontierland to grab fastpasses for Big Thunder Mountain (e.g. the best ride ever), however we were distracted by this:
It was Maleficent and her villainous pals welcoming us to the park and informing us that they had taken over Halloween! They were all so in character, especially Dr Familiar; he winked at Abi and said "Nice hair. Halloween Costume?" which she loved, of course. Once they had passed by we really did go into Frontierland and once again got side-tracked by the fantastic decorations. And the music! I adore 'The Haunted Mansion' and 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' and they were playing the scores and songs from both.
As you can probably tell, Abi was Disneybounding as Alice! Shortly after taking those pictures we spotted the king and queen of Halloween and just had to get in line. I have say I cannot speak highly enough of Jack and Sally; they were just fantastic. They got the whole queue to sing happy birthday to a little girl and to 'scare' the people on the Molly Brown which sails right past the greeting point. Soon enough it was out turn and as soon as I walked up they clocked my ears.
Sally: "Look, that side is me and that side is you and in the middle there's a bat!"
Jack: "Those are amazing!"
After admiring the ears for a while they told me to pull a scary face, which I did and then told me to hold it. Jack then took Sally's hand and said "Right, see you in about an hour". They went round into the little house set up and leaned out of the window for this photo:
Before coming back round for a "nice one".
Jack then shook my hand and told me that it was nice to meet me and then it was Abi's turn! Sally loved how blue she was and they soon twigged that she was Alice in Wonderland.
We bounced out of that meet and greet on such a Disney high! With the Phantom Manor right next door and only a 15 minute wait it would have been rude not to ride!
In the stretching room we had a CM with the most high pitched voice I had ever heard. We weren't sure if she was putting it on or not so we had to stifle our laughter. The ride was as spooky as ever, but we broke down twice! Once facing the wall between Leota's room and the ballroom scene and the other in the ballroom scene. I'm just glad we didn't stop in the graveyard - that demon Chihuahua gives me the creeps!
After making it out, resisting the urge to join the 999 happy haunts - there's room for one more you know! - we finally got the fastpasses. They were for between 2:35 and 3:05 and the queue was 90 minute already! You could definitely tell it was the holidays! We trekked back through to Fantasyland where we walked straight into a villainous gathering. Hook, The Queen of Hearts, Maleficent, The Hag and Cruella were being mobbed around the thorns.
I did manage to get a photo of Abi with the Queen once she noticed her mode of dress:
After that there was only one place that it was appropriate to visit. But first there was one crucial purchase Abi had to make...
COMING UP: Disneyland Day Part 2: Lets get lost in the Labyrinth!
Reading along Neeny 
I think I'm up to my picture limit so see you in the next post!
