Thursday, June 21, 2012

Walt Disney World Vacation, Orlando, Florida - Jun 8 to Jun 17 - By Sarayu

Saturday 6/9/12:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious breakfast:

At grand Floridian Resort at Walt Disney World, we had breakfast buffet with Winnie the pooh, tigger, Mary Poppins, Alice, Mad Hatter. It was a thrilling experience to meet all these characters and take pictures with them. Buffet had Mickey waffles, pancakes, bagels, omelette, scrambled eggs, yummy pastries, fruits, juices, coffee..

I liked meeting characters more than eating :) While walking out of the resort, there was a lady walking behind us. sahana said real loud "Mommy someone is following us" and the lady goes "I am not following you. I am going to the same place as you. You are funny." :)

Disney Downtown:

Disney Quest with 5 floors of video games, arcade games and world of virtual fun! Played lots of arcade games. The best family rides were the paddle boat ride and shooting game from pirates of Caribbean. Daddy and I went on the magic carpet ride game from aladdin and shooting the villain game. We all got to draw Goofy in the Disney art Studio and I composed a song titled "When I rule the world...


"When I rule the world, I'll get straight A's and then...
I'll never have to cook or clean the house again
When I rule the world, I''l wake without a care
I'll gather all the money and never have to share
When I rule the world!


They'll all shout, "Hail to the Queen!!!"
The beautiful and brave
As I look own form Mount Everest to see the world I saved
They'll all shout ..
"Hail to the Queen!!!" and fall down to their knees
Happy to allow me to do anything I please
They'll clap and cheer, "The queen is here"
"Hail to the Queen!! Long Live the Queen!!"
When I rule the world!

When I run the show, the first thing I will do
Is make myself a movie star and win an Oscar too
When I rule the world, I will have my say...
I''ll build my house in Disney Land and party night and Day
When I rule the world!
They'll all shout...

"Hail to the Queen!! We're so glad that you're here!!"
I'll just think about it and money will appear
They'll all shout...
"Hail to the Queen, your wish is our command!"
you're the most talented woman in the land
They'll sing and cheer, "The Queen is here!"
"Hail to the Queen!! Long Live the Queen!!!""


After loads and loads of fun at Disney quest, we are all set to explore the downtown. Oh no !!! It's raining dogs and cats outside. What do we do now? Time to put on our PONCHOS, play in the rain and sing "Rain rain I love to play with you...." . The rain stopped and we continued to explore the downtown. Sahana and i shared a cupcake and mommy daddy had coffee. We entered the "World of Disney store" and got princess cap, autograph books and special goodies. We wrapped up with a delicious dinner at a chicken place.


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Sunday 6/10/12:

Sea world: 

"Turtle trek" was an awesome 3D journey getting very close to the sea turtles like we were inside the water along with the turtle and the fishes in the 360 dome theater. Our next ride was "journey to Atlantis" where Sahana was not allowed because she was not tall enough. So daddy and I went on this boat and I got soaking wet and I loved it. Sahana and I feed shrimps and little fishes to stingrays, sea lions, harbor seals and birds. We went on the sky tower and enjoyed a birds eye view of sea world.

We saw wonderful shows after lunch. "Clyde and Seamore take pirate island"  was a comedy entertainment by the sea lions, otters and the pirate gang. The memorable part was when the otter whispered in the guys ears like "arrrrrrrrrr" and the pirate said "But I hate that plan." and the crew member said "but i love that plan it's 50 50 0". the next show was "one ocean" where high energy Shamu splashed water on us. Then to "blue horizons" where dolphins, birds and spirited performers dressed up as butterflies and flew really. Then went to the seaport theater to see "pets ahoy" where dogs, cats, birds, rats and pig perform a series of amazing skits. Finally we saw "A'lure the call of ocean" where a mariners tale comes to life through acrobatic dance.
I went with my mom on the wild article ride, motion ride simulating a helicopter ride.
We then went to the play area and I went on all the rides and climbed all the net and mazes helping Sahana go on the slide first time after her elbow fracture.

Had dinner at an Indian restaurant and went back to our vacation rental and meet our friends Pritvi and Tanya.


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Monday 6/11/12:

Magic Kingdom: 


I saw the stunning princess castle while riding the monorail and couldn't wait to see the princesses there. There we are at the land where our dreams come true. We went straight to the fantasy land and took the dumbo, the flying elephant. My sister Sahana's new favorite Disney guy now, the dumbo !!!!! We watched "Mickeys PhilarMagic", cool 3D movie where Donald chases Mickey's hat and the other instruments in the orchestra follow. It was funny and awesome. Next we took "The many adventures of Winnie the Pooh" ride where we rolled, bounced and floated through one of Winnie's book. Carousel here we come. I got to rock in one of prince Charming's horse. Next we took the Peter pan' flight and then the boat voyage "It's a small world", a beautiful indoor musical voyage.

After lunch, we took a spot to view the "Celebrate a dream come true" parade. I was so happy to see all my favorite princesses including Rapunzel. Sahana was so thrilled and excited to see Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto in the parade. We headed to the adventure land after the lovely musical parade.

We watched a sing song audio animatronics show of the birds in the enchanted tikki room. We went on the magic carpets of Aladdin flying over the Agrabah. We took a jungle cruise and saw all animals on the slow boat. It was lots of fun to go on the Swiss Family Tree House climbing up and down. The pirates of Caribbean sail with captain jack sparrow was fun too. We went to liberty square and took the haunted mansion ride and saw ghosts. Real ghosts!

We caught up for the evening "Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it! Street Party"a dance parade. We then rushed back to catch the front row seat for the disney's best live dance show  "dream along with Mickey" at the castle forecourt stage where all the Disney characters dance to the beautiful music, followed by the night electric parade and spectacular nighttime fireworks and the "magic memories and you" visual treat of the castle. Truly a dream come true land with all the Disney characters.


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Tuesday 6/12/12:

Chef Mickey: 


We began the day with a breakfast buffet with Mickey and his pals. I ate Mickey shaped waffles. Yummy... I took my princess autograph book and got my first autograph from the funny Pluto...He put the autograph book on his nose to sign ... I found it very funny...Sahana had her Mickey autograph book. She refused to give her book to Pluto because she thought Pluto scribbled on mine. Silly Sahana:) After meeting Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto we were all set to go to Epcot.

Epcot: 


After the fun breakfast it was little late at Epcot and we went straight to "The seas with Nemo and his friends". We boarded a clamobile and joined the underwater pals on a quest to find Nemo. Next, we did a turtle talk with Crush, where the turtle spoke to us. Next we took a boat voyage through the amazing green houses in "Living with the land" After we got off the boat was a short film on Lion King. We stepped into the world of imagination with Figment and senses. There was a 3D film that follows captain EO (Michael Jackson) and his crew on a mission to rescue the planet through the gift of music, dance and light. It was so good.

After lunch, we meet Mickey and his pals in their own whimsical "toon" version of innoventions for photos, autographs, hugs and smiles. After meeting the characters, we went to the future world and did the spaceship earth exploring inside the parks amazing icon. Next was mission space with my mom as sahana slept in the stroller and my dad was with sahana. I was so scared being an astronaut as I blast into space.

We started to explore the world show case. It as Mexico where we took a boat ride called a gran fiesta tour starring Donald duck. The next country was Norway and there was a Viking boat voyage. After which we got a spot to view the spectacular nit time illuminations, reflections of earth, world showcase lagoon. It was so amazing.


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Wednesday: 6/13/12

Animal Kingdom: 


It seemed to me like I was going to a zoo as I am going to be seeing a lot of animals. My dad went to get a fast pass for the famous kilimanjaro safari. We explored the Pangani forest trails and the maharaja jungle trek. It was so much fun to walk straight to the ride without having to wait in line to the kilimanjaro safari and saw giraffes, elephants, rhinos and lions roam around freely.

I went on the Kali river rapids with my dad and got soaking wet after the whitewater rafting down the turbulent waters of chakranadi river. It was so much fun that I went second time. We then went to the Dino land and played in the  boneyard, triceratops spin, and a very scary dinosaur ride where we were taken back 65 million years back to save the last dinosaur on this thrilling and frightening journey through the past and dark.

While my mom and sahana got a best viewing spot for the Mickeys jamming jungle parade, me and my dad had a fast pass to expedition everest- legend of the forbidden mountain. It was the scariest ride that I ever went:(  After a fun filled parade, we saw a 3D show "It's tough to be a bug" it was such a good show and at the end a bug creeped and crawled under my seat. It tickled me:) We wrapped up our day with the 2 grand live shows "festival of Lion king" and "finding Nemo".


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Thursday: 6/14/12

Hollywood Studios: 


I was not very excited as i thought it was all toy story, incredibles stuff...The first thing we did was get a fast pass to toy story ride it was a 4D mid way style game. We got autographs with some of the Disney characters like Mickey, Minnie, Winnie, toy story characters , incredibles etc... There was a Disney junior show where Mickey clubhouse pals and little einsteins come into play.   There was 2 beautiful musical live shows "beauty and the beast" and "voyage of little mermaid" it was very good and I liked them. We then saw a muppet 3D show and then played in the "Honey I shrunk the kids movie set" playground. Then came the most scariest ride ever that I went with my mom "the twilight zone tower of terror. They took us on a elevator all the way up to 13 stories high and dropped us down and everyone screamed.. I was so so scared... We took a spot for the fantasmic show for 9:00 PM. It was a nighttime show with lasers, lights, dancing fountains special effects. It was so much fun to see princesses come in the boat and the magician Mickey on top of the hill. It was the best ever...


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Friday:6/15/12

Magic Kingdom: 


Our plan for today is to get autographs from all my favorite princesses. Hurray.... We meet Rapunzel first and I dressed up with my Rapunzel gown as well. We then saw princess aurora, belle, Cinderella, snow white, jasmine, mary poppins, tinker bell and terrence. We also meet Mickey and Minnie and daisy... We took lots of pictures and autographs. We then went to tomorrow land rides and attractions like monsters inc., buzz light years space ranger spin, astro orbit or, people mover, carousel of progress, and speedway cars.. We then went to the frontier land attractions splash mountain was my favorite. We also did a country bear jamboree and explored the Tom Sawyer Island. We then took the relaxing liberty square riverboat. We did the parades and the dance shows again.

Saturday: 6/16/12

Epcot: 


We did soaring the best ride ever. Felt the exhilarating rush of this free-flying hang gliding adventure. It was so good. Then we meet duffy the bear. I got passport and a duffy bear board that I got to color. There were 11 countries namely Mexico, Norway, china, America, Italy, Germany, Japan, morocco, France, united kingdom and Canada. I got stamp in my passport from all countries ..it was so much fun ...

Sunday: 6/17/12 

Happy Fathers day and we took the flight and came back home. This is my best vacation ever. I had lots of fun.
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By Sarayu