I have over 200 items on this list of mine. A list that I have been curating for nearly 15 years. Longer if you count how young I was when I wanted to do item number one on my list (one day it will be crossed off). However, There are very few items on this list that will be a surprise to me. Like I can't crate my own surprise birthday party, or run into an old friend by surprise. Other than that everything on my list really needs some sort of planning on my part in order for it to happen.
So, have four items crossed off in one day, without much planning on part at all, is something I would have never have dreamed off.
It all happened in less than 24 hours.
The lest few years I have gone to Youth Convention in Nashville as a chaperone for my church. This year was not different. The plan was to get to Nashville right before the start of service on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, and then stay for the few days leaving very early in the morning the day of Thanksgiving. You sprinkle in the fact that Pastor Ronnie is awesome and always has fun things for all of us to do while we are there, you usually always leave with a smile. Then you have Thanksgiving, where you stuff you face and then take a much needed nap. All of that pretty much happened that week as planned.
That is until I got unexpected call from Nikki Day.
Nikki Day never calls.
So, I answer the phone, half panicked, and her casually asking me what I was doing this weekend. I told her that I did have stuff going on and the plans were pretty solid. Then she asked the one question I have waiting for someone to ask my whole life.
"Do you want to go to Disney World?"
#6: Go to Disney World
How in the world do you say no?!
You don't...
Long story short. Nikki's family has annual passed. Nikki's nephews didn't want to go, after the begged to go, and they asked me if I wasn't to go instead. The hotel and gas would already be paid for, I would just have to foot the bill for the park ticket and food. They were only able to go into the parks on Sunday, so it was only one day at Disney. After being racked with guilt of having to call out of work on Monday, it didn't last long don't worry, I said yes!
My chill Thanksgiving turned into a mad house. After coming back home I had to repack a bag, shower, and run out the door. Went to my parents house for dinner, a nap, and was off to meet Nikki Day at her job at 3pm to drive to her house and then 6 hours to our first hotel. Got up on Friday and drove the rest of the way to Florida, and went to Disney Springs.
We shopped and spent some time looking around there for a few hours and then went to hotel number 2 and chilled out. The Saturday was walking all around Disney Springs, and meeting Santa, and taking a lot of pictures. We went to our new hotel for the rest of our stay, Bay Lake Tower, and got to watch the Magic Kingdom fireworks from the balcony of our room. I was then asked like 3000 questions of what I wanted to do at Disney. I told them a few things that were on my bucket list, but seeing that I didn't plan the trip just being at Disney World was going to be great for me.
Little did I know what I was about to get myself into.
We were awake at 6am for out day to begin. We got the park at 7 am to be let in, so we can head to rope drop. When Tiffany, Chris, and Nikki were all shocked at how not busy it was! Apparently, going on the day that we did was a slow day cause everyone was going home and it was the start of a new week!
When the rope dropped, I was whisked away to go to the Snow Write ride, Peter Pan, Haunted Mansion, and It's a Small World and did it all in under an hour. Then we got to meet some Disney Princesses! I got to meet my all time favorite Rapunzel!
#60 Meet Belle at Disney World
Some of the things that I have wanted to do during my time at Disney were not a feasible as I wanted them to be when I first wrote them down. Belle doesn't do normal meet and greets like some of the other do. She does have her own story time attraction that you can meet here at. I got a video of her talking with me but that we really it. The video it too long to put on here but I did get it crossed off of my list.
The other two were something I didn't think was ever going to happen.
So, I told Tiff that one of the things I have wanted to do, since it was announce that it was coming, was eat at Beast's Castle. That was not on the official list but it lead to the other two things being crossed off.
#133 and #136
Tiff somehow was able to last minute reservations for Nikki and I to eat at Beast Castle the day before! So, we went and at our delicious meal! The best part was ever so often they start playing "Be Our Guest" and the Beast comes out and greets everyone!
133 was to have dinner served to me while the song was playing and 136 was to meet Beast at Disney and have a picture of me dancing with her. Now, no one was allowed to go and talk to the Beast, there are many people there, but this is as close as I got and I am very happy with it!
The meal that Nikki and I had was so good! We both tried some new stuff and we had a great time.
After dinner I was finally able to try the new ride they have called Tron. The coaster was awesome and I want to ride it again so much!
The only problem that we had the whole time were were at Magic Kingdom was the Belle Storytime broke down and the Tron ride broke down. We had to move some stuff around but we were able to get it all done and do it all in enough time to run a meet Mickey Mouse before it was all over!
