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12/14/2004 Archived Entry: "Holiday, Disney style"

We had such a great time yesterday. The weather was just right at 73º and the park, though fairly crowded, never felt overwhelmingly so. Our first stop was the decorating cookies station. Tabitha chose Mickey with Santa Hat to decorate. She managed to get plenty of frosting on her as well as the cookie. Next we decided to wait in line for Santa. It was a loooong line so first Tabitha and I went and got her holiday pressed nickels, then she and Chris went for a walk (read: to buy a Christmas gift for me). We got to the front of the line and Santa had to go feed his reindeer so we waited another few minutes for our turn. He was so wonderful. I loved how he took Tabitha up on his lap immediately and told her how big she was getting this year. I don’t know that Tabitha honestly thinks he’s Santa because of a comment she made earlier, but she loved getting to see him, nonetheless. I took a pic of just her and then we had the family pic taken as well. Tabitha wanted her picture taken by the gigantic Christmas tree so she did a few poses before we headed of to the rest of Disneyland. On the way down Main Street we saw the Dapper Dans which is an a capella singing group with chimes. They weren’t singing at the moment, nor did they have a crowd so they were just kind of chatting with us and I asked if they did Christmas songs. They chose a form of Jingle Bells and gave Tabitha bells to accompany them. Next we started to head to Haunted Mansion Holiday, but Tabitha wanted to go on Jungle Cruise first. Considering I had my fill of that ride when I had to work it, I decided to pass. While she and Chris rode, I went in search of Alice because Tabitha had mentioned wanting to visit her today. I found out she would be by “it’s a small world” so I went to wait for her and she came out with the Mad Hatter after a few minutes. I called Chris to tell him to head over and they arrived as Alice and the Mad Hatter were playing hide-and-go-seek. It was girls against boys and it was the girls turn to count when Tabitha showed up so she counted with Alice and the other girls. After Mad Hatter was found, it was suggested they do something else so they decided a ride on the tea cups was in order. I decided to ride with Alice and Tabitha and we had a grand time spinning about. After our ride we said good-bye to Alice and headed to “it’s a small world” Holiday. It’s such a beautiful transformation of the attraction and definitely a favorite. We then went into Mickey’s Toon Town so Tabitha could visit with Santa Goofy and I could sit and rest for awhile. A snack was definitely in order by this time so we had pretzels with hot cheese and honey mustard sauce. Then we hopped the train to finally go on Haunted Mansion Holiday which had been our destination 2 hours previous. We walked right on and enjoyed it as much as always and then rode Pirates of the Caribbean. We went back to Main Street to ride the fire truck back to the main entrance and then did a little bit of shopping. I let Tabitha pick out a holiday themed pin for her pin collection and as we were leaving we saw Mickey come out and he gestured for Tabitha to come on over so we went to see him and say good-bye for the day.
Once home and after dinner, we settled in to watch Snowed in at the House of Mouse on our bed which was a great ending to a wonderful day.

Posted by Mel @ 12/16/2004 06:23 PM PST

Zandra, what an awesome Christmasey day you had at Disney! I love all the pictures. Tabitha is so lucky to have all these great experiences.

Posted by Suzanne @ 12/14/2004 12:02 PM PST