Mom and Dad come to visit!

So I guess now 3 weeks ago my parents came to visit. They were supposed to be arriving at the hotel around 11:00pm so I took our cast member buses over the Animal Kingdom Lodge and waited for them. This was the resort we had stayed at 4 years ago after I graduated from high school and walking through the front doors really brought back memories from that trip.

I checked them in and then we headed to the room where there was a Mickey made out of towels on the bed. A little bit of Disney magic to keep reminding me how great Disney really is. The magic really hasn't been lost for me yet.

The next morning we headed straight to the Magic Kingdom and decided to stop in the bakery for breakfast because I really wanted my mom to try the chocolate croissants, one of her favorite things. Then we took in a ton of rides and honestly I don't really remember that much about that day in the Magic Kingdom. One thing we did was the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor. None of us had done it before so we decided to check it out! It was ended up being so much fun! It was an audience participation little comedy show. They would talk to people in the audience and before the show you can text jokes to this number and then some of them get read during the show. It was really cute and the inside looked like a Monsters Inc. comedy club. It was a lot of fun!

The next day we went to Epcot because of the Food and Wine Festival. It was really busy over there the day we went, but we still got some good tastes of some yummy food. I didn't eat much since I am a vegetarian, but I did have some great drinks. In a effort to turn me into a wine person, I tried a Riesling and that was pretty good actually. It is like juice, but eventually they think I will like wine. I doubt it!

I also loved this orange liqueur drink we got from France that was delicious. I also had this Cosmo slush, which was like a cosmopolitan in a slushy form and it was the best thing I have had at the food and wine so far. My parents liked pretty much everything they tried. They shared little plates and tried lots of different things that I cannot even remember.We also bought a hidden mickey book while were there. there are hidden Mickey's all over the park. It usually just the 3 circles and they are really hard to find. Mom got the pictures and they were really cool. We found a couple in Canada that were really cool and discovered the one in Peter Pan. It is really fun to try to find them and really hard at some times. A guy that had already found the Mickey's in Canada gave us extra hints to help us find them. It makes for something more interesting when you have been to Disney many times before!

That night I had to work glow, so we headed back to the hotel and then back to apartment to make it easier for the next day when I had to work again. I took the cast member bus back to my apartment and then got a ride with Sarah to work. I was pretty exhausted after doing the parks the day before and the day of work. Afterwards, I just stayed at my apartment because we were working until 12:45 and it would have been considerably later going back to the Animal Kingdom Lodge.  This night they actually came and visited me at work which was nice. It was weird to see them while I was working. I am not used to seeing familiar faces while I am working!

The next morning I met them at Animal Kingdom and we did the safari, which you always have to do first and at the beginning of the day. We got to see park open which is really cute over there because Mickey and Minnie drive by in a little safari car and welcome people to the park. We also saw Finding Nemo the Musical, which my mom really wanted to see. It is a pretty cool show where they puppeteer and act at the same time. It is similar to The Lion King Broadway show, but they don't have masks on. Mom loved the show and thought it was great. Then we decided to eat at this Yak and Yeti Restaurant in Asia that we had never heard of/been to before. It was amazing! Some of the best food I have had in Disney. It is, obviously, Asian food and it was delicious. We all loved our food and ended our meal with wontons which were melt in your mouth good. Our waiter was also a really cool guy which is nice because sometimes when they find out you are a cast member they shut off and waste their energy on non cast members. I am glad that he was good for my parents still!

Then I said good bye and went back to work again.

It was a really nice weekend. I was pretty exhausted with all the working and playing, but I had a lot of fun and it was good to see my parents.