A Thanksgiving Trip Full of Magical Moments

[Wreckless Abrandon]

I love the Santa Moment! It's magical, especially for the kids to hear that Santa said hello by their own name at Disneyland!

[WhiteMagick]

Totally awesome TR!!! Your family is absolutely adorable. Thank you so much for sharing your fun with us!

[WheresMickey]

Great report! Very cute experience your kids had!

[DisneyIPresume]

Awesome TR!

[SingingAngel7242]

*raises hand* I want a name tag!!! hahaha, that's toooo fun!

[Alice's Wonderland]

Those shirts are awesome! And how special that Santa said their names! You know they'll remember that forever.

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

I'll get back to the rest of the TR soon, but since so many of you are mentioning the shirts (and since they were so important to our trip), I thought I'd show the other graphics I used.

We wore the Thanksgiving tag in my first post on Thursday.

On Friday we wore this:


On Saturday:


If anyone wants these customized so they can make their own iron ons, just PM or click the link in my signature for other contact info and other tags.

[Coheteboy]

This is one of the most adorable trip reports ever! I can't stop smiling looking at these fun moments. Lovin it!

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

PART 6:

After the parade, we headed back to DCA for a few more rides before dinner, including a chance to improve our scores on TSMM and DS’s first ride on Mulholland Madness.

Then we headed over to Mimi’s for a quiet dinner. We should have had Thanksgiving dinner there.

After dinner, MIL & SIL headed back to the motel and the rest of us headed back to DCA for one more chance at TSMM before they closed. We got in line with about 10 minutes to spare. I rode alone and got my best score of the day. The others claim that one of the screens was blank and that affected their scores. Suuuuuuure.


Saturday morning was a virtual repeat of Friday, except this time MIL joined us while the other 3 dragged their feet and instead of the Omnibus, we took the Fire Truck down Main Street.

We headed through the castle and were getting ready to go IN the castle when some guests came through the tunnel on the Frontierland side sporting brand new Dream Fast Passes. We retraced their steps and luckily the Dream Squad was still there, but unfortunately only had 2 Dream Fast Passes left.

We headed back down to City Hall, and were able to get them for the rest of us (and later when the sleepyheads arrived they were able to get them too). MAGICAL MOMENT #7,045(I lost count)

Then finally back to the castle and did the walkthrough.

A couple of Fantasyland rides later, the sleepyheads arrived and we headed toward the Reindeer Roundup for pictures with the sleigh and pictures with Santa.


By then, we were itching to use some of our Fast Passes, so we headed to Roger Rabbit, stopping at Small World Holiday along the way.

Lunch was at Tomorrowland Terrace (with some pizza from Pizza Port on the side). We sat right next to the stage. While we were eating, the Jedi Training started. The boys didn’t want to participate, but wanted to watch. Kinda. Nephew was in the stroller, and DS was on top. At one point in the training, Darth Vader came around to our side of the stage and got in DS’s face. He nearly fell of the stroller. Lol. We had to get him a lightsabre later….for protection.

DS had been talking all trip about wanted to go on GRR (because he was tall enough now). We wanted to make that the last ride of the day, but we headed over to DCA anyway to use some of our Fast Passes.


After a few rides, including a very wet GRR, we had to head out.

We stopped at the Character Warehouse and then stopped for dinner at Po’ Folks in Buena Park. We took a couple of potty breaks and got back home around 1:30am. Zzzzzz

We had so many Magical Moments this trip, I’m sure I missed some. Some were major, like the Santa incident. Some were minor, like getting co-pilot stickers on the Golden Zephyr. Some just happened, and some we actively pursued (and some were because of those dang shirts).

We had our share of arguments and issues (that happens when 7 people are thrown together for 3 days straight), but when we think back on this trip, that’s not what we’ll remember. We’ll remember the magic.

random pics to follow

[ImTooExcitedToSleep]

Sorry, but that last paragraph was really cheesey. I knew that while I was typing it, but the sad thing is....it gave me cold chills anyway. How sad is that. lol

Here are a few random pics to end with:

[Coheteboy]

Those kids are funny! And yes, the shirts DO help but that's all part of the fun. People who put more in should get more out... and I'm glad you have plenty of magical memories. That may be more memories that most of us get all year! (i still haven't won a ding dang thing yet).

[Maleficent Fan]

What a wonderful report!

Thanks for sharing and brightening up my day!

Sincerely,

[All4dISNEY]

Fantastic Report!! LOVED every minute of it!

[Armadillo4]

This is a brilliant trip report!!! Thanks for sharing all of those magical memories with us. I'm so glad your family had a wonderful time during your Thanksgiving Trip!!!

[WheresMickey]

Great report! Glad your family had a great time!