four parks, one day

Wednesday was my friend Lindsey's birthday and for her birthday she wanted to do all four parks in one day. We got the bus over to Polynesian at 10 and took the boat over to Magic Kingdom. Once at Magic Kingdom all we wanted to do was take pictures! We took castle pictures, pictures with the Mayor and the Dapper Dans. The Dapper Dans were awesome as always. They told us a story about Canada and it went a little like this:
"There were three men camping and they wanted to name the land they were camping on. They each decided they would take turns picking a letter. So the first guy said "C, eh" the next one said "N, eh" and the last one said "D, eh" and that's how they got Canada."
I thought it was pretty clever. They then sang us some songs including happy birthday and fanned us like princesses because it was so hot out. When we were done with Main Street we made our way to Fantasyland to make birthday wishes in Cinderella's Wishing Well. We met the Fairy Godmother and went to Gaston's Tavern to have Lefou's Brew! On our way out we made sure that Lindsey got pixie dusted to make sure her birthday wishes would come true.

From Magic Kingdom we took the bus to Animal Kingdom Lodge and took the bus to Animal Kingdom from there. Our friend Julia met us there but unfortunately she forgot her blue pass to get her into the park. So Lindsey, Kelly and I did Animal Kingdom and met Julia at Epcot. In Animal Kingdom we took our pictures infront of the tree and I got my first jalapeño stuffed pretzel while the girls got fried rice. It was disgustingly hot out so we ate our food in the shade and then headed to Dinoland. In Dinoland we wanted to play the carnival games to win Lindsey birthday prizes. I played whack-a-mole which I always win at! Kelly played a ball toss game and won! and Lindsey tried to play basketball but couldn't make a basket. The lady running the game was super nice and kept letting her try again and then when Kelly and I tried to get a basket we did. Which is how we were lucky enough to win Daffy the Dinosaur, Lindsey's new baby. Before we left Animal Kingdom Lindsey made sure she got Daffy a matching birthday button.

From Animal Kingdom we took the bus to Epcot where Julia could actually get in! We took our pictures infront of Spaceship Earth and went to Club Cool. I was so ready to get Julia to have a Beverley but they were completely out. So we made our way to the Canada Pavillon. On my bucket list is to eat at every pavillon and from Canada I got ketchup chips! I was going through serious withdrawal! We left Epcot and hung out at the Beach Club/Boardwalk for a little bit and then took the boat over to Hollywood Studios.

At Hollywood Studios we took our pictures infront of the hat and got some sweets. We got slushies and we all shared a Carrot Cake cookie which was absolutely delicious. Lindsey works on Sunset Blvd. so we walked up and down that and did the drawing academy. I see why Lindsey wanted to do that so badly because she is amazing at drawing and she wanted to make us feel bad. Once again might looked like an alien. Once we were done in there it was time for our reservation at 50's Prime Time. Our waiter was awesome he was this little Hawaiian man who was super nice and funny. He noticed that it was Lindsey's birthday and asked her how old she was turning and when she said 20 he looked so surprised. He said "well I guess I better go back to tell the guys because when I told them I had a table of 5 ladies today they were upset because you looked so young but let me go tell them your over 18." Later on he brought Anton over to our table who was too busy flirting with us when he should have been serving his table. He made the 7 year old at the table beside us his wingman and brought us all free cupcakes. It was a funny dinner and very memorable.

From Hollywood Studios it ended up just being Lindsey Kelly and I again and we rushed back to Magic Kingdom to see Wishes. We ended up catching the finale from the bus but we saw it and thats what matters. We got in there took nighttime castle pictures and got to see the castle show which was perfect. We rode our first ride of the day which was Haunted Mansion because Kelly works there. After Haunted Mansion we rode Cinderella's Golden Carousel because that is Lindsey's favorite princess so she wanted to ride Cinderella's horse and we did. We got some end of the night sweets and walked over to Contemporary to get the bus back. Normally we always give up our seats for people who have been working that day but by the time they got on the bus we were fast asleep in our seats.

and so we lived happily ever after.
the end.