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Kyler loves Mickey Mouse (“mee mou” as he says). That statement shouldn’t surprise anyone considering his parents. During our last trip to Disneyland we made sure to introduce him to Mickey in person, which he loved. We learned that Kyler likes the characters that are shorter (Mickey, Dale, Chip) and loves it when they have big noses and let him kiss (or in one case, lick) their nose.
Hmmm… they clean those costumes regularly, right?
Anyway… we met Mickey at his house and, for the first time ever, used the Disney PhotoPass service where they take a picture of you and issue you a card where you can look at the photos on-line and then order them. One of the really cool things about Disney is that they will still take a picture with your camera if you want even though they staff a “professional” photographer for the purpose of trying to sell the photo.
I should have asked them for a photo on my camera. I didn’t because I figured their camera was nicer, it was a “pro” photographer and even the lighting in the room seemed to be rigged specifically. I figured that all this person has to do is take 700 photos each day with a pre-set camera in a room specifically designed to get great photos of your kids meeting Mickey.
I’ll let you judge the quality of those photos based on the thumbnails below. I’d try PhotoPass again, but now I’m not going to hesitate to ask them to use my camera as a “backup plan.” — Regardless, it was SOOOO cool to introduce Kyler to Mickey. He loved it and it was one of the highlights of the trip for me. Even if the pictures didn’t come out great, the memory did!
I have also posted some more pictures from the trip on Facebook and will post some here as well whenever I find time.
We just returned from a trip to Walt Disney World (big surprise, eh?) and had a great time! My entire family met up there for a bit over a week and it was great to hang out in warm weather and catch up with everyone. Johna and I had our hands full trying to figure out when to give Kyler a break to get some sleep (which was tough considering how much of a schedule-baby he is, and is natural aversion to sleeping in public), but we did the best we could and tried to get in as much time with the whole family as possible.
Kyler also learned several new words on this trip including: tram, monorail (nano-rail), bus, plane (he knew that one but used it MUCH more often) and, of course, Mickey (which most of the time was actually “Minnie”).
As a family that has a slight obsession with Dsney, the following clip should really come as no surprise to anyone.
We’re back.
We had a very fun time on this trip. It certainly was a different experience with a 4-month old (you’ll have to listen to upcoming episodes of my Netcot Podcast to hear more about that). Now that we’re home, Kyler has been doing some serious napping. Its almost like he knows he’s home and can relax and un-wind from a very busy couple of weeks.
The grand total of photos this year was 345 and about 2 DVDs worth video (that still needs to be edited together). I’ll spare you the balance of the 345 pictures that I haven’t posted yet (mostly because a lot just aren’t that interesting – or are very similar to what I have posted) and instead leave you with this final set below.
We took Kyler to meet Mickey today at Chef Mickey’s in the Contemporary Resort. He started breakfast by sleeping but woke up just in time to meet Minnie, Pluto and Mickey. We had to leave before we got a chance to meet Donald and Goofy, so we’ll have to meet up with those guys next time.
Kyler got to ride a horse today! Sort of. OK, it was more of a horse on a carousel. But he seemed to have a good time.
Updated (1/28/2008): The original post of this had the wrong link. The link on the image above will now open the movie.
Kyler had a big day today. He rode a horse (on a carousel) and met all of the biggest Disney characters (in the store; and in “stuffed” format). Regardless, he had fun.
Kyler slept from the moment we left the hotel this morning, through the car ride, through breakfast, through the car ride to Animal Kingdom, through the walk to the front gate of the park, through a phone call to my parents and through 1/2 of the Asia Jungle Trek. I guess he was tired!
We took a video of him waking up. His new favorite thing is the blanket in the photo. He loves how soft it is and often wraps his hands around the inside of it and then keeps the blanket close to him.
Today, we started the morning at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and had lunch at the new Yak & Yeti restaurant. The restaurant is an awesome design and really well themed. The food was pretty good, too. Our appetizers were excellent and the entrees were pretty good as well. The service was just OK. It was very un-Disney to see waiters consistently pass by napkins laying on the floor and never pick them up. I counted 6 different waiters (and one manager) who walked right over a napkin that had fallen in the middle of the isle.
The other disappointment was checking in for our reservations at the restaurant (which was obviously my FIRST impression). There were two stands within 1 foot of another and 4 people working them. I went to the first stand and was told by the woman there that I’d have to “find Scott.” Scott was carrying a clip board with the reservation list for the day. I tried to check-in with him, but he told me to stand in the second line for the other stand. I waited there only to hear the guy behind that one say “Scott, come here…” and then he asked Scott to check us off his list.
It was really quite ridiculous. Later, I saw Scott distracting another waiter as the two of them flirted. If you’re going to the Yak & Yeti restaurant any time soon, might I suggest avoiding Scott at all costs.
Enough of Scott, on to our pictures.
