Mickeys Christmas Party

Thursday morning was spent lazing about, and generally recharging the batteries, as we have had a few long days this week. On Thursday afternoon, we returned to the Magic Kingdom for Mickeys Very Merry Christmas Party

After going through the frankly ridiculous "security checks" on the way in (they insist on looking in all bags, but the bags can be stuffed full of packages, boxes, things wrapped in tin foil..... and non are investigated any further.... they are likely to contain sandwiches, but could equally be stuffed with other items not so benign in nature...OK..rant over)
When you enter, you are given a wrist band (to show that you are entitled to be there) and then you have access to all the attractions in the park.



We arrived about 5pm (the party starts at 7) and started wandering round... at 7pm there was an announcement that if you didn't have a wrist band it was time to leave...I didn't think they would be able to empty all the other people out, but was amazed at how well they cleared out the stragglers... even clearing out the toilets to make sure no one was hiding in there!



Once the park had been cleared of those not invited to the party, it gave us a great opportunity to go on the rides that are normally very busy (they run the rides at full capacity, so there are almost no queues)... we went on Emma's favourite ride "Big Thunder Mountain" 3 times in quick succession



There was a whole raft of extra attractions going on mainly focusing on special parades, shows outside the castle, and a wonderful firework display.





And we even saw Santa







There was also an "all you can eat and drink" supply of cookies and hot chocolate...so we thought it rude not to partake!



Emma got a hug off Stitch





All in all, a very pleasant evening with Mickey and his friends, and on the ferry back to the car park at about 12:30 in the morning, Emma managed to imitate Kate Winslet ;-)





All the photos I took while were there can be seen here