Our original plans for this day started out to be Epcot and
then park hop. Our plans slightly changed. We had reservations at Akershus at 8:30 so we
arrived before rope drop. It’s a long
hike to Norway from the entrance first thing in the morning, but we made it. We waited a few minutes to check in, but not
too long. Then, Sarah again got to meet
her favorite princess. Belle was signing
autographs and getting pictures. This
one photo session would’ve made the memory maker completely worth it on its on.
We got some of the best pictures of my baby and Belle.
After Belle, we were sat down and could see princesses
around us. Sarah said Ariel needed to
come see her. The first princess we met
was Cinderella. She was super nice and
much more outgoing than the Cinderella we’d met at Magic Kingdom. After Cinderella came Snow White. This was our least favorite princess of the
meal. Since I already had Ariel and
Cinderella’s autograph in Sarah’s book, we only needed Snow White and
Aurora. I’d marked them both in the book
but didn’t know which would come first.
Snow White came up to the table and just picked up the book. I started to help her know where her page was
to sign and she quickly let me know she had it.
She felt very rushed and to me, her niceness seemed very fake.
Next was Aurora. Now,
I’m not sure if I’ve ever watched Sleeping Beauty but I knew who she was. She was awesome. She took time with the kids and really
interacted well with them. I was very
impressed with Aurora.
Last was Ariel. She,
too, was great. She was very interactive
with the kids, talking about our “gray” school of fish since we were wearing
gray shirts.
Breakfast at Akershus was delicious. I’d most most definitely prefer to come back
here than to return to Hollywood & Vine.
After breakfast, our plans had been to meet Anna and Elsa
next door, but the line was quite a bit of a wait. We had fast passes for later in the morning
for Frozen so we took this time to let Dakota go back to ride Test Track. He and Jon went first and used the rider swap
from earlier in the week. Once they were
through, Dakota and I rode through the single rider line. We ended up in the same car, just different
rows, which was perfect. I can’t really
tell if I like this newer version better than the older one. I’m not sure it’s enough different to tell.
After Test Track, we had enough time to do Mission Space –
we thought. The app said the line was 15
minutes. I decided to try orange with
Dakota. He and I got in the line and
grabbed a rider switch. Right after we
got in line, the wait time changed to 25 minutes. Ok – frustrating, but we can do that. Then, once we finally got on the ride,
apparently someone had gotten sick in another car and that had to be cleaned
up. So we sat, buckled in, and
waited…and waited…and waited. We had a
nice couple in the car with us to talk to but I was getting stressed over that
Frozen fastpass. The ride finally got
going and I survived without passing out or throwing up and we got off. I told
the guys they’d have to do the rider switch later. I had to make a quick
restroom stop and then we headed straight for Frozen – just in time to be told
it was shut down. Sure, they granted us
FPP for later in the day, but we weren’t going to be there much longer. Jon wanted to go back to Japan so Sarah and I
sat on a bench while he went back to his favorite store. Afterwards, we caught the boat from Germany
back to Mexico. Frozen still wasn’t
reopened so we headed back to Future World.
I found a seat outside Mouse Gears while the guys went to use the Rider
Swap pass from Mission: Space. Sarah and
I shopped a little in Mouse Gears and then we headed out of the park, back to
the resort to rest for a couple of hours.
We didn’t have long to rest because we had dinner
reservations at ‘Ohana at 5:20pm. We
again decided to drive to dinner. The
Polynesian is beautiful. We headed to
check-in and met an awesome cast member named Jordan who talked to us both in
line and again while we were waiting. We
were finally called to our table and had a window table with a beautiful view
of Cinderella’s castle. We’d eaten at ‘Ohana
several years ago and I didn’t remember it being this good. It was delicious. We ate until we were full and then they
brought the bread pudding out – wow, that was wonderful. We were completely stuffed, but Dakota had
one final request – he wanted another Dole Whip before we left. So we ventured down to the Pineapple stand
and purchased him one last Dole Whip.
We then sadly headed back towards the resort. We were planning to leave bright and early the
next morning. I was so sad to leave
Disney and begged Jon to not wait 5 years to bring us back!
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