I'm a Wilderness Explorer!!

Well we headed out to Animal Kingdom on Friday morning. We were a little more leisurely than planned getting out so missed our first fast pass. We did get there in time for our safari but on our way to Africa I signed up as a Wilderness Explorer just like Russell, not my Daddy the one from the film Up!  I now need to collect all the badges as I go around Animal Kingdom.

Also as we entered Africa there was some African Drummers performing. I enjoyed standing and watching them and dancing a little. I decided that I needed to dance like a chicken - like I told Mummy and Daddy earlier in the week I get a drunk head sometimes and it makes me a little crazy!!! I also wanted to have a go at African druming and when looking in my wilderness explorers handbook I saw I could earn a badge just around the corner. I played a cool rhythm and found out the name of an African xylophone is Balafon and earned my Badge.

It was then time to head off on our Safari but not before I brought some binoculars!! I got to see lots of Animals on Safari in my safari truck Simba 1. Some rare and some I can see at Paignton zoo although they aren't behind glass here. Mummy got really excited to see Hippo's out of the water. Apparently wherever she has been where they are, they have been hiding under water! I did get to see a baby gorilla though and learnt lots of facts.

Going on Safari makes a princess like me (well that is what they keep calling me here!) really hungry and Mummy and Daddy are not going to go to Animal Kingdom without having BBQ food so off we went to track it down. I had a BBQ chicken leg and it was delicious. Mummy and Daddy shared a ribs and chicken combo with cornbread and they were happy too.

It was then off to Dinoland where I flew on Hester and Chester's ride and then went to the boneyard to play around the dinosaur bones that had been excavated. I saw a t-rex (it tried to eat me!!!), brachiosaurus a valoceraptor and got to ride a pachycephalosaurus. Then I went to excavate some bones which was fun and earnt another badge.

We then headed back to have some Dinner at Contempo Cafe again. I wanted to head into MK to go on Goofy's Barnstormer as I was not about to let the fact I was exhausted stop me going on one of my favourite rides at night!! We were delayed a little as the Monorail in front of us was having technical difficulties - so it had broken down basically holding us all up!! It seemed like we were sat there forever. Mummy and Daddy tried to pursuade me that we could get off and have an early night but sleep is for wusses in my opinion!!

When we finally arrived at MK I spotted Aurora and had to meet her. I was the last guest she was greeting as apparently she likes to get to bed early (Mummy said so would she - there are 2 more wusses!!). 

I actually went on Barnstormer twice in a row - I just think it is an amazing ride! then it was time for Dumbo before heading back out as even I had to admit I was tired!

Well my next adventure involves golf and shopping!!!! I am quite excited by this too.

Chat soon

Love Amelia x

Meeska Moushka Mickey Mouse!!

Hi Again

I think I am keeping up relatively well with my blog for a change - always a day behind but it is easier to write at breakfast rather than when I am tired at the end of the day.  I think this could be a long post as we had a full fun packed day on Thursday.

The fun started at 7.00 when we went to Chef Mickey's for Breakfast. For those of you who don't realise this time we are staying in one of the best (I actually think it is the best as it has a Monorail going through it and views of the Park - what could be better than this!?!) hotel complex's on Disney Property. We are in the DVC complex but the main Contemporary Hotel also contains some of the best restaurants on property (if not the world on a couple of cases) and therefore they are some of the most costly!! Chef Mickey's is a restaurant when Mickey Mouse and the rest of the Fab Five do the cooking - yes really! Mummy and Daddy said that as we were staying here they would take me there for breakfast and this is what we did this morning. I got to meet all the characters in their chef's outfits. They all seem pleased to see me and Pluto licked my head - silly dog! Of course I wasn't going to stop eating my Mickey Waffles for anyone and so I had my Photo with Goofy with my waffle still in my hand.

After breakfast we headed on a Disney bus to Disney Hollywood Studios. I got chatting to a family on the bus and the little girl had done a lot of the same things as me so far and liked the same bits but I had been braver going on Goofy's Barnstormer :)

Once we had got into the park (bag checks were very thorough and slow today!) I noticed that the giant Sorcerer Mickey Hat was half gone. Mummy and Daddy say that it is being removed :( I am a little sad but apparently it was only supposed to be there for a few months but it remained there for years!!

We headed straight to Playhouse Disney just in time for our fast pass and as I scanned my magic band (they really are cool) a cast member said "Do you watch Disney Junior?" Hello does he not know me of course I do I live in a disney obsessed house. Of course I politely and quietly said yes and he asked if wanted to be the 1st person of the day and open the doors of the Disney Junior Live Building. They asked me lots of questions about the Disney Junior shows and I was able to answer them all and more. They looked at Mummy and Daddy and said I was impressive!! I had to say Meeshka Moushka Mickey Mouse and the doors opened. I was taken in at got to sit right at the front in the centre had the room to myself until they started letting people in. Mummy and I sang the Sharky and Bones song from Jake and the Neverland Pirates with all the actions along with a cast member. Mummy needs to work there she was better than the cast member and got a High Five (she is sooo embarrassing!!). I got a certificate confirming that we were the first family for the Day there and I got Gold dabloons from Jake and the streamers from Minnie's Party. On they way out I found the cast member to say thank you for the experience and he gave me some stickers to take away.


It was raining when we came out and luckily I could go and meet Sofia the first next as she was undercover and we could keep dry (well apart from our shoes where Mummy walked us through a giant puddle - she is a total nightmare to be with sometimes). Sofia commented that we had the same coloured hair and she thought I was cute!

We headed over to Toy Story Mania where we had our next fast pass booked. We were a bit early so strolled to Pixar Place. There were 2 Toy Soldier's from Toy Story walking around and I played Peek a boo with 1 of them who was hiding behind a tree then peeking round and waving at me. The nice thing about this time of the year is that the crowds a relower and the cast members can be more interactive in different ways. I am not so keen on the full on character experiences but love interacting in this kind of way it is good fun.

We stopped for lunch before the surprise fast pass time came. Mummy wouldn't tell me what it was but we passed Muppets along the way and so went in there to see their show. I like this show but sometimes I jump at the 3D effects.

I then found out the surprise fast pass was to watch A Frozen Celebration Sing-a-long (Daddy was not quite as excited as me!!) - It was sooooo amazing (I am saying that a lot while I am here!) and I sang all the way through. The Arandale Historians are very funny and we got to see Kristoff as well as Elsa and Anna. Anna had a different voice than when I met her last time so I am not exactly sure what is wrong with her!?!

We stopped off for a refreshment break (including a cupcake for Mummy!!) and then headed out of the park and onto a Friendship boat that took us to Epcot. It was busy and Mummy and I couldn't sit with Daddy initially. We sat with a couple who were from South Carolina and I talked to them nearly the whole way!! They liked my accent and thought I was cute too (Mummy and Daddy are hoping this cuteness will travel back with us to the UK and that it isn't just some disney magic effect).

I said thank you to the Sailorman on our boat (Daddy pointed out he was a captain not just a sailorman - whoops) and he gave me a friendship boat card. It definately pays to be polite and cute in Disney you never know what you will get.

We walked around the world while at Epcot. I'm not sure I quite understood the concept of this I wanted to see Duffy bear not walk around the world, it sounded like a long trip to me. In the end it wasn't too long before we reached Duffy bear who's heart I stole and I think he wanted to take me on his travels with him.

We headed into the Land to eat in the Season's restaurant where I had the most normal meal of my Adventure so far - Chicken leg and mash. I am not keen on trying all this other food and try to stick to Chicken Nuggets but this Season's meal was good and I will have that again. Mummy and Daddy enjoyed the Pork Chop and Mash too.

I then went on a boat journey to learn about living with the land and see how disney grow food to serve in Disney World. It was cool and they had baby alligators in there too!!

It was then time to head back home as it was getting late and I had been walking all day thank goodness for the monorail going to the resort as I didn't have to wait in the cold (yes it is also cold here) for a bus.

Well there that was a long post and a long day - hopefully not too long for you.

Friday holds another adventure this time in the Serengeti as we head to Animal Kingdom but I hope that we will be back in time to head into MK for another ride on Barnstormer.

Chat soon

Love Amelia xx

Zip a dee do dah day

Howdy folks

That's how they talk in Frontierland where we started our day today.

We had a fastpass
booked for Splash Mountain 1st thing. This was the first time I have been able to go on this ride (or any ride of this kind) as I have been too small previously. I was a little nervous about this ride but Mummy and Daddy said the worst thing that can happen is that we would get wet - Wet?!? - We... got... SOAKED!!!! The picture is taken as you come down the big splash and you can see Mummy is already wet so you can just imagine how wet I got - well actually not as wet as Mummy and Daddy as they seemed to shelter me from most of the water hahaha. Mummy and my faces in the picture is soooo funny.

We spotted that Chip n Dale had a small queue to meet them so I had some pictures and got their autographs. They both gave me a hug and then I got squished in a Chip n Dale sandwich!!! I couldn't see anything but chipmunk arms - they are just soooooo silly.

Next I asked to go on Pirates of the Caribbean because I have not done that since I was tiny and I couldn't remember it. I was really nervous and a little scared but I was brave and held Mummy's Hand. Then I decided that I just as well get all the scarey bits out the way so asked to go on the Haunted Mansion. I really didnt need to be scared and will do them both again.

Of course after any scarey ride you should have your lunch and we went to Peco Bill's. Mummy and Daddy say they do the best burgers because you can add lots of topping from the topping bar. I don't do burgers so I had a grilled cheese sandwich in the shape of a fish!?! it was a little odd if I am honest but ate 3/4 of it then had some of Mummy's chips. Daddy had hot cheese sauce with his chips but I wasn't convinced that was a good idea and stuck to good old ketchup!!

Daddy is so pIeased that I have got Mummy's addiction to it's a small world! I just had to go on that on the way to meet Belle for her enchanted story. This is where last time I was a reluctant Chip Pots. This time I was a plate and quite happy with that (although I would like to point out I made a far better chip when I did it than the one yesterday!!!).

It was then back to the room for a rest but the Dapper Dan's were singing in Main street so I had to stop and listen to them along the way. I was really excited - I listen/watch them on you tube and Love to try and be like then with my hat on singing at home!

After a rest for Daddy and me (I got Daddy up at 4.30 again!! apparently if I do it again I will be put straight back to bed so must work on this) and then we headed out for dinner at contempo cafe again then back into Magic Kingdom (MK as we now call it). I like going in after Dinner as we get to do lots of rides quickly so I did Buzz Lightyear, Tomorrowland Speedway, Dumbo, Winnie the Pooh, Peter pan and my first rollercoaster - Goofy's Barnstormer. Mummy said I should try it to see if I would like Big Thunder Mountain and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. I screamed a lot but I loved it!!!!!

It was then back for bed - I am having Breadkfast with Mickey in the Morning so need my beauty sleep.

Here's to more adventures tomorrow.

Love Amelia xx

Annary Sister

Hi again

Our first full day here was full of frozen fun in more ways than 1! Today's task was to meet Elsa and Anna.

Many of you will know that "the only" reason for coming to Disney in my mind was to meet the Arandale Royalty who are also staying here in WDW. Now they are soooo popular we were unable to get fast passes to meet them and the queues are always quite long (you have to remember Mummy and Daddy NEVER queue more than 30-45 mins for anything when here!!) so Operation meet Elsa and Anna from Frozen started at 8.30 (would have been earlier but we couldn't open the safe to put our passports etc in so had to wait for a Fix it person!).

The temperature here is a little cooler than hoped so jumpers are required. A lot of the cast members are dressed in winter coats which seems strange to see!!

We used our magic bands to enter the park - it is really cool and a lot easier and quicker than with tickets and we walked straight to Princess Fairytale Hall. The Man at the entrance told Mummy there was a 130 minute wait!!!!! Once in the queue Daddy then reminded Mummy we hadn't got an autograph book or pen yet so Mummy had to jump out of the queue and into the shop quickly!! (well there was plenty of time really when the queue is 130 mins). I really enjoyed people watching and updating my blog in the queue and then we were at the front (Daddy said it was only a 60 min wait) but it was totally worth every minute! 

I met Anna first and she was very chatty and took my hand and led me in. She has an A embroidered on the back of each boot and says they are for Arendale but that now 1 is for Anna and 1 for Amelia and said I was an Annary Sister (she asked Mummy and Daddy if they got the joke - they said she needed to take a job on the Jungle Cruise with jokes like that!!). This is what she is telling me in this pic.

I then got to meet Elsa - she was much more regal but I guess she is the Queen of Arandale! 

I got both of their autograph's in my book and the whole experience was "totally amazing".

After a stop over in Rapunzle's kingdom (RaRa sorry none of us can remember what her kingdom is called you will have to remind us!!!) we went and rode it's a small world and I sang all the way around.

After lunch we went to watch Mickey's Philharmagic I was a little scared then I brought my Anna dress (I love it and it has plenty of growing room!) and then we headed back to our room for a sleep as it had been a really long day getting here and I was up at 4.30am Florida time. After a few hours Mummy woke me and we went off to have some Dinner in Contempo cafe in the Hotel. After we had eaten we got onto the monorail and headed into the Magic Kingdom for a couple of hours. 

My Mummy and Daddy know all the tricks and within an hour we rode on Dumbo, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan and the Carosel as well as seeing some of Wishes (the fireworks show I had watch from the room last night). All of these rides normally have a minimum queue wait of 45 mins through the day and we just walked onto all of them!!

After getting a Tinkerbell light up spinny thing (yes Mamar I got one this time :)) we walked home (we can do that as our Hotel is right next to Magic Kingdom - I can't get over how cool that is!!) this evening it wasn't quite as cold as when we arrived which was good.

I have had and Amazing first day here and look forward to telling you more of my adventures tomorrow.

Love Amelia xx

Planes, trains and automobiles

Well yeaterday I travelled in a taxi minibus, plane, train and a coach just to get to disney!

We had a nice room at the holiday inn which is where we left Grandad's car for it's own little vacation.

We headed over to the airport after a leisurely time getting ready to go and we arrived just in time for a McDonalds breakfast yummy!

We had a look around the shops and Mummy said as i was going on a long adventure I could have a magazine ( Mummy's so cruel and wont buy them at home so I was quite surprised!!) we also picked up Uno junior which was fun to play on the plane.

When we got the details of our boarding gate it all went quite fast!  We walked a short distance and saw the plane we were flying on. It was soooooo big. Mummy told me the plane was called Hot Lips. We showed our passports and Mummy and Daddy were really surprised that we walked straight onto our plane.

We were all set to take off v early but there was a medical situation and someone had to leave the plane for further medical attention so we were then late!! Oh well mummy says better before we leave than mid flight!

I enjoyed watching boxtrolls also using the pencil for colouring and looking at where's wally which came in my virgin bag I was given.

Luckily because we were sat closer to the front of the plane, the customs line was shorter than last time and our bags were quick. We then had to get on a train to head to where the Magical express was waiting to take us to the Hotel.

I slept on the bus so cant tell you about that journey at all!!

As you saw from my mini post last night our hotel room is just Amazing and the views are AWESOME!!! I'm looking forward to nightly fireworks.

I was very excited that we picked up our Magic bands when we checked in and it is really easy to get around using them and for mummy and daddy to pay for things quickly. Mine is pink and it says our names on the back they are Cool.

This morning i have seen nearly every monorail colour at our hotel and Mummy says we can see the Orlando Eye from our balcony so we can see a long long way.

Im writing this while queuing to meet elsa and anna. The queue is very long but Im am quite happy if I get to meet them at the end.

Catch you later

Love Amelia x

Wow!!!!!

Wow is all we have said since arriving in our room 45 mins ago!!! It is just amazing!

Not only do we have thevlake view we requested but we can see the castle in the magic kingdom and watch the fireworks every night from our giant window or the balcony and we did just that in the 1st 15mins of being in our room. They were the most amazing firework.

I will do a better updat on our trip here tomorrow but we are finally here safe and very happy xx

Hello and we are off!!!!

We have just arrived at our hotel near Gatwick and i write this while eating cold pizza in my onesie at 8.30pm!!

I think we have had a long journey today mummy says it was nice and uneventful. Mummy and Daddy say I am a star as I behaved so well on the journey.

Mummy got excited about passing the Queen's castle at Windsor and the low flying planes - I however wasnt quite so impressed!!

When we finally got to Gatwick to do Twilight check-in there was a loooong queue. Mummy and Daddy said how well I behaved unlike the old people behind us who left the queue in a strop!!! I don't think they made a good choice! Mummy said that this queuing was good practice for when I go to meet Elsa and Ana at Disney!!

In the queue I liked to watch the electronic advert board as there was a funny dashund dog. It kept doing funny things. It must be exhausted by now as it was still going when we left! On the way out he was running along different signs following us hahaha. I did laugh!

Well I must sign off now - it is way past my bedtume and I need to rescue Daddy who has just fallen off the bed (yes mummy and I are laughing!!)

Next time I write we will be in Disney - I'm very excited!!

Chat to you all soon

Love Amelia.