Sunday evening, after a nice nap and dinner at the hotel, we headed back to Magic Kingdom for Mickey's Christmas Party. This is a special event after the park closes and only a number of tickets are sold. So basically we had the entire park to ourselves with no wait times on any of the rides!
The castle looked AMAZING with Christmas lights!
These two girls were so happy and running from ride to ride, eating popcorn, and having a blast!
My favorite part of the evening was the Christmas parade. We attended the later one at 10:30pm since we were too busy riding rides to watch the 8:30pm one. My brother (having been to Disney several times before) knew where the parade started, so we got amazing seats and watched the parade and had the back part of the park to ourselves as the rest of the people watched the parade! It was very cold, so we bundled up and watched all the Christmas fun!
My favorite part of the parade were these toy soldiers!!!
Here was Brinley's favorite part! Cinderella in her coach! It was beautiful!
Mickey and Minnie starting the parade off!
The main man who ended the parade!
I was so impressed with how well the kids held up and lasted until the park closed at midnight! They were cold, but still going strong!! Their bodies were running on pure "magic"!!!! As we were leaving the park, we noticed Santa had ended the parade and sat down at the end of main street! I figured we better give it a try and see if the kids would sit on his lap (that way I wouldn't have to take them to the mall!!) My favorite picture is at the top of the blog, but here is another one! Not too shabby considering it was taken at midnight!!!!
We got back to the hotel around 1am and everyone passed out!!! We were slow moving the next morning so we ate breakfast in our room while the kids watched classic Disney cartoons (the ones Jason and I grew up on!) and I attempted to pack! I don't know how I did it, but I managed to make 2 big suitcases full of clothes and make them fit into one. The other suitcase turned into the souvenir suitcase! It is a good thing we flew Elite status and had a 70lb bag limit because both bags weighed 65 lbs!!!
The castle looked AMAZING with Christmas lights!
The Christmas spirit was definitely in the air with Christmas music playing, hot chocolate with sugar cookies, all the characters were dressed in their Christmas attire, fire works and a Christmas parade!
We got a fantastic professional shot of our family right in front of the castle without me wearing a silly hat, but we haven't gotten our CD yet!
These two girls were so happy and running from ride to ride, eating popcorn, and having a blast!
My favorite part of the evening was the Christmas parade. We attended the later one at 10:30pm since we were too busy riding rides to watch the 8:30pm one. My brother (having been to Disney several times before) knew where the parade started, so we got amazing seats and watched the parade and had the back part of the park to ourselves as the rest of the people watched the parade! It was very cold, so we bundled up and watched all the Christmas fun!
These guys were too cute!
My favorite part of the parade were these toy soldiers!!!
Here was Brinley's favorite part! Cinderella in her coach! It was beautiful!
Mickey and Minnie starting the parade off!
The main man who ended the parade!
I was so impressed with how well the kids held up and lasted until the park closed at midnight! They were cold, but still going strong!! Their bodies were running on pure "magic"!!!! As we were leaving the park, we noticed Santa had ended the parade and sat down at the end of main street! I figured we better give it a try and see if the kids would sit on his lap (that way I wouldn't have to take them to the mall!!) My favorite picture is at the top of the blog, but here is another one! Not too shabby considering it was taken at midnight!!!!
We got back to the hotel around 1am and everyone passed out!!! We were slow moving the next morning so we ate breakfast in our room while the kids watched classic Disney cartoons (the ones Jason and I grew up on!) and I attempted to pack! I don't know how I did it, but I managed to make 2 big suitcases full of clothes and make them fit into one. The other suitcase turned into the souvenir suitcase! It is a good thing we flew Elite status and had a 70lb bag limit because both bags weighed 65 lbs!!! The flight home was less than desirable! Clayton screamed bloody murder for 2 hours (he finally fell asleep the last 30 minutes). He was DONE!!! We were all in bed by 8 pm that night!!! It was great to be back in our own beds and off our feet!
Since then we have been trying to catch up on rest, but that has been hard! We have had Christmas parties, Clayton's birthday and getting ready for Christmas! I am ready for January 1st!!!
Thank you mamaw and pops for such an AMAZING trip!!! It was wonderful to see the magic in my kids eyes! It was hard not to feel magical myself, Disney really knows how to do it!
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