Disney Day 6: EPCOT

Our day at EPCOT started with breakfast in Norway with the Princesses!

Belle greets you upon arrival!
A little blurry (thanks photopass photographer) but the 5 of us with Belle
Cinderella with Cara
Ariel with Cara
and Aurora with Cara
This international Christmas tree was beautiful
These Minnie and Mickey Christmas topiaries were really neat
My parents have a Disney rewards Visa so they had a special photo op for those cardholders so we waited 45 minutes to see Minnie and Goofy ?! Kind of disappointed but they wouldn't tell you which characters were in there!
Mr and Mrs Claus were in "America". While Daddy waited in line for us to see the Candlelight Processional we waited in line to see them.
The candlelight processional was beautiful! A large orchestra with a 200+ choir , narrated by a celebrity (on this night it was Corbin Bernsen). They read the story of Jesus' birth and sing songs and it was beautiful.
I am sure the later it is the more stunning the candlelight choir is, but we chose to go to an earlier showing hoping it would not be as crowded
Then we went to "Italy" to meet Befana, the Christmas witch. She fills stockings on Jan 6th. Aunt Cyndi sent Cara a book about Befana so we can learn about the traditions on Italy.
We bought Gingerbread cookies!
"oops, I bit his head off"! This was the yummiest gingerbread I have ever tasted!

Day 5 cont. Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party

We got tickets to go to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party! Since we have been to the Not-So-Scary halloween party before we wanted to see how the Christmas party was!

Pluto and Goofy were in Cosmic Ray's Cafe for a dance party
A bored Cara waiting on a bench
Standing in front of Mickey's Mouses Christmas tree at his house
Minnie and Cara were so cute together, Minnie made such a fuss of her shoes and outfit (so cute).

Minnie and Mickey were dressed in their Christmas clothes for the event
It was a chilly evening so we were cuddling on a bench waiting for the fireworks show
They were amazing!
The Once Upon a Christmas parade was good too!

The Nutcracker soldiers were playing real instruments
After the parade we hurried back to the Princess tent because we heard the Princes were there with the Princesses. So first we met Aurora and Prince Philip
And Cinderella with Prince Charming

And on our way out we saw Pooh and Piglet just hanging out with no line so we waved hi and they waved us over for a picture! What a fun Christmas party with unlimited hot cocoa (much needed on this chilly night) and sugar cookies (not really needed but tasted yummy)!

Disney Day 5: Grand Floridian Breakfast

We started this day with a trip to the Grand Floridian for breakfast with Alice, Mary Poppins and friends!

Waiting in the lobby for our breakfast reservation
This amazing gingerbread house was so cool, they even have a shop inside it to buy gingerbread goodies!
It was such a treat meeting Alice! She wanted Cara to twirl with her!
so they twirled and twirled, almost till they hit another table :)

When the Mad Hatter got to the table we realized Alice never signed Cara's autograph book so he yelled all the way across the restaurant for Alice to come back, it was so awesome!
Mary Poppins and Cara
Tigger with Cara
Grandma and Grandpa with Tigger
Then we went to Downtown Disney for some shopping after breakfast
and as we were leaving the World of Disney store they invited Cara to be in the Princess parade over to the carousel with some Princesses from the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique

Parading through downtown disney
Their final destination was the carousel which they got to ride not once but twice!

Disney Day 4: Magic Kingdom

Daddy was supposed to arrive by 9pm on Tuesday evening (hopefully early enough to catch us swimming) but his plane was delayed almost 6 hours in Indy and he got in at a rough 3am!

But Cara was a daddy's girl all day which made up for it!

Daddy and Cara in Minnie's house


Minnie and Mickey with Cara
it's a small world, one of our favorite rides
Hi Venice and Italy!

Cara picked out some new sunglasses which were simply adorable...
...opened or closed
The castle at night, stunning with icicle lights all over
We stayed for the Electrical Parade that evening
Beautiful as always!