Day 8 - Monday October 9th 2006

Woke up this morning after a good night sleep feeling much better then yesterday. I think I was even caught skipping as we entered Disneyland today, which is a marked improvement over yesterday. The plan today is to try and get as many autographs for Toni as possible and see as many of the shows across the 2 parks as we could. We got down the park a little before 10 and headed across the park to an event that had only been going for a couple of days, The Princess Fare. Basically this is a theatre that they have converted into a permanent area to interact with some of the Disney Princess. The event was suppose to start at 10am but they were running late and they didn't let us in for another 20 mins or so. The girls then got to stand in line for about 45mins to wait to meet and have photos with the princess while I left them to pick up some items, grab some fastpasses and bring back water and coffee.
They have 3 princesses out at a time and they rotate them with different ones every 30 mins. While waiting in line there the princesses out were (excuse spelling here) Cinderrella, Jasmane and Belle. By the time the girls got to the front they had been replaced by Snow White, Mulan and some other bird Toni didn't know the name of. The girls were able to get autographs and photos with them in a very nice setting and then they were off to the royal court to learn how to dance and other such princess like endeavours.
First they learnt how to courtesy and then the royal dance. They were then joined by Cinderrella, Jasmine and Belle and they all danced together. Toni had absoutly no idea but they both had a great time.
One of the biggest selling lines at Disneyland is full costumes of the princess for little girls to wear. It is amazing to see how many kids get around disneyland fully kitted out in gloves, shoes etc. It actually adds a lot to the character of the park and seeing all these dressed up girls (and Kaylee and Toni) in all the royal splendid was pretty cool. Not as cool as the Jedi Acadamy though...
After spending almost 2 hours here we ventured off to Woody's Halloween Roundup where the girls did the chicken dance and got to meet Woody and Jesse from Toy Story. We went to Minnie's again for lunch and once again ate far too much and then went and saw the 3-D show, Honey I Shrunk the Audience. We were then able to finally get the old girl onto Space Mountain which she absoutly loved and then had another run through Buzz Lightyear.
It was pretty busy in Disneyland today with the public holiday, probably not quite as busy as Saturday and certainly not the horror show that was yesterday. It also helped that we all had a good rest and were all feeling a lot better.
We headed over to DCA and watched a show over there which is pretty ordinary. At 4:30 we promptly arrived at Ariel's Grotto to have a character dinner with the princesses (can you tell that today is Toni's day?). Unfortuntley the only time we could get at late notice was 4:30 and after our big lunch we really weren't hungry, so we tried to delay ordering food for as long as possible. Finally we had to order and the idea was you paid $20 and you got to pick from a menu an entree, main and dessert. Just what we needed, yet another big feed.
At about 5pm the princesses starting coming out and making their way around the room to meet and greet every table. Firstly Ariel arrived in her human form.

She was followed by Cinderella, Mulan, Snow White and Belle

The girls had a great time and it was very well done. For $20 a head for all that including free drinks we felt it was great value and we were there for a bit over an hour and Toni was able to get 3 more autographs that she didn't have.
We then watched the DCA parade which was very short and a little underwhelming and then we headed back to Downtown Disney so the girls could build their bears.

We were back at the hotel by about 8pm after a great day. Its sad to think we are only here for one more day and that its off to NY.