During October break I had the opportunity to go to Disneyworld with my cousin Emilie and her little family, and her brother Blaine and his wife Carly. It was kind of an interesting group that I went with, but it was tons of fun. Emilie had her 7 week old baby and 18 month old daughter, so I was kind of the nanny at times and helped with them. Then with Blaine and Carly it was their "honeymoon" and I was the tour guide. We all stayed in the same condo and had our own rooms so it was all good. I was also the designated driver and chauffeured them in the soccer mom van around town. We had a great time and would do it again. It was my first time in like 5 years having to buy a ticket to get into the parks and that hurt my bank account, not used to paying so much for a little piece of paper!
We went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party (Thanks Brad for helping us get the discount tickets!). I love going to the extra parties and seeing all the fun extras they bring out. I was finally able to get my picture with Tarzan and Jane. My camera did something funky and it didn't turn out very well :( Irving happened to get one with their camera and then tragically during Halloween weekend it got lost, and she hasn't found it yet, I hope she can find it! Such is life and we move on.
The Haunted Mansion looked really cool during the party, they kind of go all out. The cast members working at the Mansion during the party get their hair and make up done to look creepy. Outside they have Madame Leota talking with the guests and just adding to the funness of the night.
I love, love, love Mickey's Boo to You Parade. It starts off with the Headless Horseman riding down the parade route, that is a really neat site to see. Most of the characters have Halloween costumes on and it is super cute. One of my favorite parts of the parade is the Haunted Mansion section. They have the guy with the lantern and the dog and then some gravediggers. The gravediggers do the coolest thing, they take their shovels and scrape the ground in a circle so they spark, it is so cool.
They have a bunch of trick or treat trails so you make out with lots of candy. The quality of the candy is so much better this year than it has been in the past. Brisa had fun trick or treating after she learned what you do. She thought it was the coolest thing to be able to hold out a bag, say trick or treat and then have people put candy in your bag. We got the best candy when we left, Werther's Mousse candies. If you thought Werther's Originals were good, wait till you try this. A think chocolate shell with caramel mousse inside. They are delectable, we went to all the people who were passing those out so we could get quite a few.
This year I actually spent some time and money and enjoyed Epcot's International Food and Wine festival. I had never tried any of the samples. I don't know why I never did because they were so good! I tried baklava for the first time, delicious! Food is good and even better when you sample different countries.
Another super cool thing in Epcot is in the Germany Pavilion they just opened the most divine shop ever, Karamel Kuche (Caramel Kitchen) It is partnered with Werther's and oh my goodness, so good and bad for you! I won't even begin to mention the delicious goodies inside so as not to torture anyone!
Blaine got to be one of the volunteers during the Backlot tour. He had fun getting tons of water dumped on him, check out the video to see his acting debut. Hollywood Studios is so much fun because of its 3 best attractions, Rockin Rollercoaster, Tower of Terror and Toy Story Mania. The fast passes for TSM run out super fast and you basically have to be in the park within the hour it opens to get one, that never happened since we were park hopping. TSM is a must and so we had time and sucked it up to stand in the 80 minute line. It is so worth the wait, so make sure you plan time to ride it. We walked into the line and as we were another group was leaving and the lady looked at Carly and said "The line is really long!" Really you think the line is long? It only says when you walk in that it's an 80 minute wait. Didn't you read that as you walked in? People are so silly when they are on vacation at Disneyworld.
We had a great time and like everything good, it must come to an end. Getting home was quite the adventure! We flew standby because Irving works for USAirways and we could fly cheaper. We left for the airport at 5am to try and make the 7am nonstop back home. Emilie and Irving barely made that flight and the rest of us would had a family (Carly and I now curse their name j/k) not barely made it through security and ran to the gate, grrr. Oh well we got on to the next flight to Charlotte to connect to a flight to phx sometime that day. As we waited the hour for our flight we met this guy. He was a very happy newsstand dude. Every time someone bought something he sang them this awesome song or some variation of it.
I love the guy's reaction to the dude singing to him, it was like, did that really just happen? Thanks to Carly for sneakily recording that on her phone as it would be much needed the rest of the day.
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