I've never done a trip report before because our trips are almost exclusively weekend only, one night/ two day trips, and I didn't think that was enough of a "trip" to do a trip report. But because I love reading other peoples trip reports and because it was our first time seeing the new FOF Parade at MK(and I can't wait to talk about it!) I thought I'd do my first trip report. In the words of Peter Pan "here...we....go."
We live about 2 1/2 hours from WDW so we planned on leaving Friday 3/14, as soon as my husband got off work. He works as an HVAC technician and there is no way to know when he's going to be done. But of course since it was a Disney day, I sat around like 
until about 2pm. At 5pm when I still didn't hear from him I was closer to 
Finally he got home and we were able to leave around 8:00pm, which meant we couldn't go to the parks tonight 
We stayed at the Rosen Shingle Creek hotel and we finally got checked in and to bed around midnight.
3/15-Day 1: Epcot Flower & Garden and HS
We are NOT morning people. Every time we go to Disney we go with the intention of getting up really early and getting to a park at rope drop. It has never happened. We've spent about 175 days at WDW and we've never made a rope drop. And today was no different. After a breakfast of cheese Danish and espresso in our hotel room, we started the day at Epcot around 10:30am. We were ending the day at HS and we had all our FP+ scheduled for HS so we decided just to stroll around and see the topiaries and wait for the world showcase to open. Before we got too far into the park, we stopped at the Cool Club to sample the free beverages. We've never done this before and I really just wanted to see my husband try Beverly. We both tried all the drinks, including the infamous Beverly and both of our reactions were a great big "YUCK" to all of them. But Beverly was definitely the biggest "YUCK" of the bunch.
It was time for the world showcase to open and my hubby decided we should start on the Mexico side. He denies it, but I know it was for the sole purpose of him getting a frozen Fiesta Margarita. He must have one now every time we go to Epcot. We took our time slowly walking around the world showcase and looking at the topiaries. They had a few new topiaries this year but for the most part, they were the same(albeit still amazing) as year's past, except put in different locations from previous years. Our favorite new topiary this year was Kermit and Ms. Piggy because we both love the Muppets.
By this time we were both hungry and talking about getting food. We don't do ADR's, we prefer to eat food we can walk around with and eat. My husband's first food choice was a Frankfurter with saurerkraut from Sommerfest. I chose a traditional German pretzel from the cart outside. Our next choice for a delicious treat was to split a school bread from Kringla Bakeri in Norway. It was delicious as always. Norway was especially busy today because everyone who is anyone wants to meet Elsa and Anna, from Frozen, in the Norway Pavillion. However, we passed on meeting them today and headed for Maelstrom instead. It was a 20 minute standby but only took 15minutes.
Now it's time for more food! We went to Les Halles Boulangerie & Patisserie in France, which is one of our favorite QS options in all of WDW. I got a Croissant Jambon Fromage and my DH got a Croque Monsieur and a Creme Brulee. We got a Duo au Chocoalt tart to split. Every bite was delicious.
After lunch, it was time for us to get to HS. Our first FP+ was for 4:05-5:05 ToT, which is my favorite ride so I was not going to miss it! We got to HS right before 4pm and got right on ToT. I love that ride so much I could ride it over and over again. Our record it 5 times in one day. Unfortunately, it was a long standby line and we had FP+ for the last showing of "Beauty and the Beast" at 5:30. We love all the shows at WDW and Beauty was enjoyable as always. Our last FP+ of the day was at 8pm for "Voyage of the Little Mermaid" so we had some time to kill in between. We went to see "Muppets 3D" and then to the "Great Movie ride." We didn't wait at all for Muppets and the GMR was a 10 minute standby.
We both LOVE the cream cheese stuffed pretzels they sell at the cart outside the GMR so we each grabbed one when we got off the GMR. DH gets the sweet cream cheese pretzel and I get the jalapeno cheese pretzel. YUMMY and big enough to tide us over until a late dinner after the park. After our pretzels, it was time for our VoTLM FP+. We like this show, but we normally wouldn't have used a FP+ for it. We just got access to the FP+ system on Thursday before our trip, so the selections were pretty limited for the weekend. After the show we checked the wait times for ToT and it was down to 20 minutes. We rode ToT one more time and decided to call it a night.
We had a gourmet meal of KFC back in our hotel room and went to bed early, determined to do rope drop at MK the next day. We both really wanted to do rope drop. We were determined. We were in bed early. We were motivated and excited. It WAS going to happen tomorrow. We WOULD be at rope drop at MK tomorrow morning. We just knew tomorrow was the day. Ah, the best laid plans....
Here is where I need to call it a night. I will update day 2 tomorrow, which is MK all day, and the FOF parade(which was AMAZING!)
After HM, DH and I(and possibly a hitchhiking ghost) walked to Frontier land to use our FP+ for BTMR. We love all the coasters and thrill rides at WDW, and BTMR was fun as usual. It was now almost 1pm and we strolled over to Adventure land because we had a FP+ date with some pirates. Before getting to PoTC, we got the Jungle Cruise written on my DAS card for after pirates. We got to pirates a little after 1pm and after only a few minutes we were in a boat. After pirates we took our "jungle boat ride."
Now it's time to start planning our April visit 
