Guest Conductor

       In many children's heart they love trains!  

What would be better than to be a  Disney guest conductor?

So many children have their own train sets at home and play with them for hours on end what would be better than the chance to be a guest conductor at the Walt Disney World Park?

It can and does happen all the time. It's a well known fact, it's quite simple to achieve for your child or child at heart. Venture to the last car of the train, and talk to the Conductor of the train about being a guest conductor. Activities of being the guest conductor include yelling "All Aboard" and Very rarely I have seen these cards given out to guest conductors. What a really Magical souvenir to add to anyone's trip! Good luck in this adventure and may you become a guest conductor!

Disney's 1900 Park Fa re Grand Floridian

The Grand Floridian's 1900 Park Fare is on of Disney's Resorts Restaurant.  It offers the Supercalifragilstic Breakfast, with Mary Poppins Theme The Mad Hatter's Tea Party and Ciinderella's Happily Ever After Dinner. Let me start of by saying get a reservation. This is not a place you will just walk into, without a reservation very often. The popularity of Park Fare is very high during peek season the weight could be well over hour.
Park Fare is a Character Breakfast not to miss, with the theme's of with Mary Poppins, The Mad Hatter, and Cinderella, the eclectic grouping of character is a great way for your children as well as yoursleves to meet Characters from different stories at the same place. This Breakfast is all you can eat made to order to "Your specifations" omelets, fresh made Mickey waffels with all the toppings, there are breads of all sorts, cereal, French toast, Vegtables, Yogurts, Breakfast Pizza's, Ham, Sausage, Bacon, Biscuts, gravy, grits, and their stawberry soup. I honestly can say if you can think of it you will more than likely find it on this buffet. 
I am excited about taking my girls to 1900 Park Fare, and just a head's up there will be another post on this resturant when we return. 
If you have teenagers, this is a "Must do" in my opinion" For the wonderful food, atmosphere and overall experience.

Disney's Kiss Good Night

Have you ever heard of Disney's Magic Kingdom's Kiss Good Night?  It is a magical tribute to your day's end at the park. It has been missed many times by guest, The Kiss Good Night is a brief sound and light show which is around 3 to 4 minutes on the Cinderella Castle encouraging all the guest to leave.  During this show Roy Disney dedication speech is played all over the park with Classic Disney as the soundtrack, while vibrant colors are changing on Cinderella's Castle.

The Kiss Good Night Takes Place around 20 minutes after the Magic Kingdom Closes.   The amount of  Good Night Kisses shows vary from time of year. My understanding is the park will also begin a show before park closing  during high season as well.  This is a must see, I had been to MK over 20 times before I had ever seen the Good Night Kiss and it is something I will make sure to do before leaving every trip from now on..

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Cast Member Appreciation Cards

This is a link to download and personalize the cards to fit your family.u With your own name Home town and when you came. Our family even personalize our messages. It's a wonderful way to say thank your to a Cast Member who went out of their way to make your Disney Vacation Over the top!
There are Mickey, Minnie,Donald, Lighting McQueen,  Most All of the Princess's, Timone, Tinkerbell and so many more!
http://www.tagrel.com/APP/CMCards.shtml

DIY Disney Autograph Books

Here is my version of my our Disney Autograph Book. It was so easy to do. We bought black books and painted half the books black then glued white buttons on to make them look like Mikey's pants. Be sure to grab a large pen for the large hands the Characters have.  My girls are looking forward to trying these out.

RunDisney

RunDisney has many choices when it comes to their Marathon Weekends. We have chosen to go in February to the Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend. They promote it as the weekend with Princesses, Magical event's and definitely the finisher's medal!   Every encounter with the RunDisney department in Orlando has been very easy in this process. We are also working with St. Jude, raising money in memory of a sweet and wonderful light name Darby who lost her fight with Leukemia in October 2013. More on that in an upcoming entry!
My daughters are both Cross Country runners so we have been to many races~meets over the years and this is our first large event. Working with RunDisney & St. Jude has made all of our planning very easy, of course there are always questions and we have even changed our plans from our original thought of what this trip would be like. However, it seems it will all be for the better in the End.
Choosing your race weekend maybe a hard choice, but once you have done that there will be many more choices to make, Fun and exciting ones but be prepared for a great deal of information.
Will you stay on or off Property?
How many days will you be at Disney?
Are you considering the Disney Meal Plan? Is it free while you are there?
What day is your race?    1/2 Marathon, Challenge Race for that Event Weekend, 10k, 5k, Kids Races?  There truly is something for everyone!
Will you attend the Pasta in the Park? Some have breakfast, concerts/parties, each race weekend offers it's own special way to celebrate the weekend. These do have additional costs.
The RunDisney site is quite helpful on giving you information on when and where to pick up your packet's where to be for race times and dinners, parties all of it. I am looking forward to seeing it all in motion and more than that to finish my 5k in memory of Darby.
My hope as I blog, is I begin to bring you more information on Disney and the different aspects of the park, as we are planning and experiencing them. As always, enjoy your JOURNEY in this life, for it is short and you do not know where it will take you next.
Be back soon!
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