Day 8 - January 30, 2010

We woke up around 9am this morning. It is funny that we get up later and later every day. It was cold this morning and looked like it could rain but hopefully it won’t. We have had a beautiful week. Kirk and I decided we were going to character hunt today and then later that night see Illuminations at Epcot. We have seen this show many times but it is still amazing.

Off to Magic Kingdom we go, our plan was to catch Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters since we had never seen them. The Fairy Godmother told us to head to story time with Belle and we would find them, so that is where we headed. We got in line and I do not think any characters are as funny as these three. I loved the way they interacted with the guests that came up to them. So funny. I told Kirk I could be one of these gals because they get paid to be funny and rude.




We heard from another character handler that Genie had been seen in Adventure land with Jasmine so we walked that direction and Jasmine was just going in for a break and the CM said that at 11:30am Genie would be coming out. We had some time to kill so we rode Pirates of the Caribbean ride again. Again, there was no Davy Jones mister in the beginning. When we got off the ride I asked the CM if they took it out and they said they were having trouble with the misters. We went back over to where Genie was going to come out and we waited for him. At one point, when no one was in line, Jasmine waved us over to her and we told her we were waiting for Genie. I had already gotten her picture but she still acted like she was hurt. That is the hard part about characters being out with other characters but that’s just how it works. Here we are with Genie & Jasmine.

We decided to brave the line for Tinkerbell and her friends. Every time we have seen her the line has always been long. We got in line and 45 minutes later we were finally in Pixie Hollow. We did not know who the other fairies would be but we knew Tink was back there. First fairy was Rosetta, which I had never met so it was a new signature for us:

Then Tinkerbell

And lastly Silvermist


It was lunch time so we decided to eat at Cosmic Rays in Tomorrowland and I think that is where everyone was eating lunch. It was hard to find a table. Kirk and I had burgers because they have the toppings bar and it was great, as usual. This is one of my favorite quick service.

My favorite show in Magic Kingdom is Mickey’s Philharmagic so we went to that again and on our way we seen Alice and the White Rabbit near the Teacups. I did not have White Rabbits signature so we hopped in line.

Then we headed to the Philharmagic…so love this. We decided to head off to Epcot for Illuminations. I wanted to find a very comfortable and good place to sit and take pictures. We walked through all the worlds looking for the perfect spot and finally found a spot in the UK down past the fish & chips place on some benches. It was great. After we sat down, Kirk said he was going to look for popcorn. He had to walk back to the America’s to find some. We settled in and I started clicking:











After the show we grabbed our bus and went back to Caribbean Beach. We got off at the Old Port Royal stop for dinner. We were having the best time ever. We just kept talking about our love for Disney and we are glad that we share it with each other. Although we miss our kids, we needed this adult time.