Kayla’s Character Greetings

Starting on March 29, Kayla began her meet & greets of the Disney characters and her first visit to Walt Disney World…After a half day of rain and waiting to go in to Magic Kingdom, Kayla got to see part of a parade, go to a show and ride on the Transit People Mover (I don’t remember the real name of the ride)…Then after we got off of the Transit ride, we spotted Buzz Lightyear and Stitch…

Kayla’s first visit to Epcot was very productive…After entering through the gates of Epcot, we passed the Princess & Prince flower garden and who should we see….Daisy Duck…she was in a spot where we the line started for photos and autographs…Kayla and I stood in line to await the picture and for Kayla to hand her the autograph book… Poppy was waiting patiently on the side to take a lot of pictures of Kayla with Daisy…She had a whole list of characters she wanted to meet & greet and get their autographs and photos with…Unfortunately, Daisy’s best bud & boyfriend, Donald Duck, wasn’t around…So disappointing…but maybe later we can find Donald Duck…

After getting Daisy’s autograph and photos, we headed towards ‘The Land’ to get our Fast Passes for the ride Soarin’…While Kayla and I waited for her Poppy to come back with our passes, we decided to head in to Character Greeting where Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Minnie Mouse and Goofy was awaiting all of the children to come up to them and get pictures and autographs…It took us about 30 minutes to move around the line & ropes to get to the beginning point of meeting the characters…At first Kayla was shy and didn’t want to go up to Mickey Mouse…It took a lot of prodding and saying that “yes, I will go up with you”…but after a while, Kayla finally was able to go up to the characters and get their autographs and pictures…As you can see, Kayla didn’t get over her shyness that easily…So either her Poppy or I had to get in to picture or 2 to make her happy…At some point in time, we would just “step out” of the pictures so that Kayla and the character were the only ones in our pictures…but look who we found at the Character Greeting area…It is Daisy’s best bud, Donald Duck…As one can see, Kayla is all dressed up in her Jasmine outfit and during our visit to Epcot today, we are heading over to Morocco (in World Showcase) to see if Jasmine, Aladdin and Genie will be visiting their favorite spot for autographs and photographs…Kayla was very happy to meet some of her favorite characters…and Poppy and I had a blast waiting in line with her to get her pictures…Kayla’s cousins, Kevin Kelli, Bayne, Shyler & Lil’ Kevin and her Aunt Cindy & Uncle Doug also waited in line with us to get pictures and autographs…It was so much fun…Later on we did find Morocco but Jasmine, Aladdin & Genie didn’t make it….Maybe another day…Kayla will be at Disney for about 3 weeks so we will be able to find most of the characters at any of the four parks, Magic Kingdom – Epcot – Hollywood Studios & Animal Kingdom…By the time that her vacation to Disney is up, she will have everyone’s autographs & photos that she wanted except for Snow White cause on the day that we went back to Epcot, Germany in World Showcase, Snow White decided to go over to Magic Kingdom and meet other folks…but to make it all special, the last time that we went in to Magic Kingdom with our Friends, Mechelle, Doug, Justin, Rachael, Noah & Gabrielle, we got to see the 10pm parade and who should stop right in front of Kayla and touch her hand, No other than SNOW WHITE…what a way to end the evening and her visit…

Another visit to Magic Kingdom hoping to get some more autographs…We weren’t sure we would see so we just took our time walking around, seeing some shows and getting on some rides…One of the rides Kayla, Poppy and I got on was Aladdin’s Magic Carpet ride…Kayla, Poppy and I waited in line for a little while until it was our turn to get on our magic carpet…There is a control knob that makes the carpet go up and down & Kayla had so much fun controlling the magic carpet…After the ride was over, who did we spot…Aladdin…He was outside a Moroccan shop and Kayla decided she wanted his autograph and a picture taken with him..but by the time we got to the front of the line, she had turned very shy…Aladdin was very nice and tried to talk to her…Aladdin signed her book and I finally got her to get her picture taken by Poppy…After Aladdin, we gave up on finding characters for the day…That’s how shy she had become…So much so, that a call to her mom was needed…

About a week later, Kayla wanted to meet Tinkerbell and her friends, who are Silvermist, Fawn, Iridessa & Rosetta…So to meet them, we headed to Magic Kingdom via Wilderness Lodge’s boat transportation to the Magic Kingdom…Poppy told her that we knew that Tinkerbell would be in Pixie Hollow but we didn’t know what other 2 fairies were going to be with Tinkerbell…Kayla was all dressed as Snow White…Pixie Hollow is back in a part of Magic Kingdom called Toon Town…The line for Pixie Hollow wasn’t very long but it was a good wait because Tinkerbell & her friends take their time visiting with their little fairy friends who come in to get their autographs and photos…After about an hour or even less, we were entering Pixie Hollow…Kayla was so excited…but as she entered the area where 3 of the 5 Fairies lived, she began to get shy…Iridessa was our first stop…Iridessa had some fun with Kayla and talked to her…The time with Iridessa was up and time to move over to visit with Tinkerbell…Kayla was having fun now…Tinkerbell talked to her, asked her questions, and signed her book…Kayla spent about 5 minutes or so with Tinker and moved on to see Silvermist…A little time with Silvermist, an autograph and talking was coming to an end…Photos were taken with all 3 Fairies…Kayla had so much to talk about…and Pixie Hollow was so neat…We left Pixie Hollow and stood in line to see the Princesses…The line wasn’t that long so it didn’t take us very long to get inside where the Princesses were waiting for their “subjects”…The Princesses there were Princess Aurora, Princess Cinderella and Princess Belle…The Princesses were gorgeous in the beautiful ballgowns…Each princess took their time to talk to Kayla, then signed her autograph book and was very happy to have their picture taken with Kayla…Kayla was so excited…She couldn’t believe her eyes…She did ask where Princess Ariel was so after visiting the Princesses, we headed over to Princess Ariel’s residence in Ariel’s Grotto…The line was long but like good grandparents, we stood in the line until we could get to the front of the line…Ariel wasn’t dressed in her ball gown but as if she was under the sea…Ariel had her mermaid legs…The Grotto was decorated with shells and stuff…

The following day after seeing the Fairies at Magic Kingdom, Poppy and I decided to head to Epcot again…There were still more characters to try and find to meet & greet…Most of the characters are back in World Showcase, which encases the following countries:  Mexico, Denmark, China, Outpost Africa, Germany, Italy, Americana, Morocco, Japan, France, Great Britain & Canada…I had just missed Snow White from Germany but did manage to catch Mulan in China…Kayla just caught Pool and Eeyore in Great Britain along with Mary Poppins…We had missed Belle in France…found out she was somewhere else that day along with Snow White…What a great day for everything…I tried some strawberry icee and a mango icee and some orange juice that was very good…In China we got to see dancers who were acrobats of sorts doing all sorts of bending and twisting and twirlng…Very interesting…Kayla did manage to make a mask on a stick full of stickers and stamps from each country…We even got 2 more for each of the girls, Brianna and Elizabeth…

Well I was trying to add some pictures but it seems that my laptop is out of memory so when it does have more memory, I will add more pictures..at this point I will post this blog for everyone to read…It’s been long coming…*S*