Miles from Main Street - Your Far from Disney Podcast

Planning the Perfect Disney Magic Kingdom Christmas Party

November 28, 2023 Bryan Lewis & Mykhailo Nahirniak
Miles from Main Street - Your Far from Disney Podcast
Planning the Perfect Disney Magic Kingdom Christmas Party
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Are you ready to immerse yourself in the festive spirit with an exciting rendezvous at the Magic Kingdom? We've got an engaging episode lined up that's brimming with anticipation and adventure. Join Bryan, Tammy, Mykhailo, and Kristin as we devise a game plan for an enchanting Christmas Party. We'll explore whether to stick together or venture individually and debate the thrilling prospects of attractions such as toy soldiers, angels on stilts, and even a spontaneous Taylor Swift dance meet-up!

Next, buckle up as we shift gears and embark on an exhilarating journey, planning for Mickey's Merry Christmas party. Unleash your holiday spirit as we share insider tips on experiencing attractions like the Jingle Cruise, Haunted Mansion and the special cranberry citrus swirl float. Marvel at our optimism as we yearn to catch the Christmas overlay on Space Mountain, with our collective hearts set on a memorable, festive evening. We'll also share practical advice on how to get the most out of your time at Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party.

Finally, we'll take you through our detailed plans for a holiday season visit to Disney's Magic Kingdom. Learn from our experiences as we lay out our strategies for navigating the park, prioritizing attractions like Space Mountain, and dealing with unpredictable weather. We'll share our thoughts on character meet and greets, and the potential for visiting Tomorrowland Speedway and Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor. But it's not all set in stone - hear about how we'll remain flexible and make on-the-spot decisions based on wait times and our desired attractions. Don't miss out as we wrap up with an invitation for you to join in the conversation, whether through social media or our website. So, plug in your headphones and let's get this party started!

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Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Today, on Miles from Main Street, we've got the gang all together again. We've got Bryan and Tammy and Mykhailo and Kristin and we are going to talk the Christmas party at Magic Kingdom.

Bryan Lewis:

We are. We had so much fun doing our day outside of the park to figure that out so we thought why not try it again? We got to figure out what we're going to do for the Christmas party. We're going to split up too much, but I think there might be a moment that we have to do that. But we'll see, we'll see. But before we get into it, please go out and share the show with a friend and leave us a review. Kristin and Mykhailo get there a couple of days before we do, and we're flying in the day of the party, so we land at one o'clock and so we're going to come meet you guys at the room and then we're going to hustle over to Magic Kingdom, I believe, and get in line around three o'clock, I believe. Is the plan. Is that right?

Tammy Lewis:

Yep.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yes, that is correct, and I think we, Kristin and I, had had debated whether or not we want to. So we're annual pass and we have park passes for that day. So if we get there and it's like like you guys would be at like the front of the line to get in, I think we had debated just kind of like chilling with you guys, because we do want to walk through that area. Like that's something that we didn't do during the Halloween party was like walk through the like that lane, like almost kind of like backstage.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, what do they call that? It's like a their secret entrance or something. Yeah, they only do it for parties. They'll open it up when it's really busy to get crowds out.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I actually think they, I actually think that they open it up for fireworks, because that's kind of how they like funnel people back. So it's like they'll you, they'll open that up and they'll funnel people back to like the front of Main Street to come back around. I know we've done that before.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I think they like tape off a little section and like people could like watch the fireworks from way back there.

Bryan Lewis:

Hmm, okay, yeah, but we're going to go through there because there's some soldiers toy soldiers that we get a picture with Toy soldiers.

Tammy Lewis:

There's a like there's snoap back there.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah.

Kristin Nahirniak:

The angels are on stilts or whatever.

Tammy Lewis:

Yeah, oh really, there's like a little DJ.

Bryan Lewis:

Huh yeah, and there's a DJ and everyone like there's this, like I don't want. I want to kind of call her a Barker, I guess she's got like. She's like calling out to people and talking to people as you're walking in and like I kind of feel bad for her, because everyone just kind of looks and walks on by right Like they're like, oh cool, and then they get their ornament and keep on moving and it's like I think we should stop and jam out to whatever songs are, like just to have a big old dance I'd be very okay with that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I think that'd be great.

Kristin Nahirniak:

You know, recently people have been commenting about, like getting together on Main Street and doing this little Taylor Swift dance, what we could post. Anyone going to the Christmas party? Meet us here. 4:05. We're going to dance.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Actually though? Is this like a real thing? Oh, I have not seen this at all.

Bryan Lewis:

You get it. I'm not learning a dance.

Kristin Nahirniak:

You have to.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Bryan, you probably know the dance already.

Tammy Lewis:

You learned to dance during COVID. We could break that back out.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

We just have to teach it to Mykhailo and Kristin. What dance did you guys learn to over COVID?

Tammy Lewis:

Paige made up a dance. To what song was it? Can't stop this feeling, can't stop the feeling yeah, timberlake, just a Timberlake. And we went and performed it out in my mom's yard for my mom and grandma, because we couldn't like I mean, that was like when COVID had just happened, so like we couldn't go in and see them. So she was bored and made up a dance routine, so we went and performed it in my mom's yard.

Bryan Lewis:

And it was ridiculous.

Tammy Lewis:

And the boys totally loved doing it.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Interesting.

Bryan Lewis:

Those are the types of things that happened during the shutdown, though.

Tammy Lewis:

Yeah, we said we're going to break it back out for Paige's wedding someday.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That's not like for sure coming up or anything.

Tammy Lewis:

No.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I have not, not for a while yet Okay, we're getting off topic, very off topic.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It did not take us very long to get off track, this train derailed very quickly.

Tammy Lewis:

I am very excited to see the Toy Soldiers. I think that looks like a really cool photo op. Yeah.

Bryan Lewis:

I do too.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Yeah, and like everything is Toy Soldier theme, like the ornament, the popcorn bucket. They have the like. They're in the parade.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

They've been in the parade for a while. They're kind of a staple in the parade.

Bryan Lewis:

Can I give you a fun history fact of why they're in the parade.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yes well too bad, I'm giving it to you anyway. You're gonna do it anyway, no matter what we say, it's happening.

Bryan Lewis:

So they are from the movie Babes in Toyland, if you weren't aware. And they had all these costumes left laying around, didn't know what to do with them, so they took them to Disneyland and Disneyland put them in their Christmas parade and they were a big hit and they have stayed in the parade ever since and Tammy knew this because Babes in Toyland is one of her favorite Christmas movies. Oh that's cool.

Tammy Lewis:

It's not my favorite Christmas movie but it is one of them, Emmett Otters' Drug Band. Christmas takes them all.

Bryan Lewis:

You have to go check that one out. You can see the strings hanging on the puppets.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That is pretty cool. I like that, anyways. Okay, where are we?

Tammy Lewis:

We are talking about our Mickey's Merry Christmas party.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Oh yeah. So yeah, Bryan' s Game plan.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So we want to jam out with the DJ and then See, it's all Taylor Swift's fault. In our matching outfits oh yeah, yes, we have matching outfits. That's going to be really awesome, and then we're going to do the dance on Main Street Taylor Swift dance on Main Street. But yeah, I think that's kind of what we're planning. We're hoping that when we get there, the lines aren't too crazy and that we it's a sold out party night. It is.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Most of them are sold out anyways. But yeah, we're hoping that we can get there pretty early and sit and wait in line with you guys, like we would just completely rage, quit on you guys and just get in ourselves. But that is a possibility.

Kristin Nahirniak:

We might be sick of them by that time. Already yeah that's right, they land they land they get?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Do we get to the room and we're just like, oh my God, you guys.

Tammy Lewis:

You again. We just talked to you twice in like the last week.

Bryan Lewis:

Isn't it time for you guys to go home?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Can you guys just get a different room?

Kristin Nahirniak:

Okay, so we've made it through the alleyway. What's next? Wow, we got far.

Bryan Lewis:

So, right like so, we're going to try to get in right at four. We'll go through the alleyway, as Kristin put it. My thought is to go left and head right for Jingle Cruise and pick up a cranberry I don't know, what are they calling it? I can't remember what they call it. It's the. Basically.

Kristin Nahirniak:

That's such a treaterous right.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, it's basically the tropical serenade type of float, but it's oh what. Yeah, it's a citrus swirl with cranberry sprite.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

How do I not know about this? Have you talked to me about this before?

Kristin Nahirniak:

No, it's not something that I want to try it's not no, you can try it though.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Bryan and I are trying it.

Tammy Lewis:

I also have been seeing that the popcorn stand on the left side has been a lot less busy, forgetting the whistle-ther popcorn bucket.

Kristin Nahirniak:

So there's the left side of the castle, the right side of the castle, or why am I blinking Like Liberty Square?

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, by the Liberty Bell. There's a spot that somebody said that no one knows, it's there Okay. So I think we could probably hit Jingle Cruise, get our floats, go to Jingle Cruise and then see what time it is, I guess.

Tammy Lewis:

Great, but I'm not missing out on the popcorn bucket.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Either is Kristin so.

Bryan Lewis:

I think you're safe. We had passed her on a spreadsheet that showed kind of a timeline or a list of things and a timeline of what we wanted to do. I had Jingle Cruise and then Haunted Mansion because I think we might have extra time in there to do that. It'd be nice to hit Big Thunder if we have the time but I'm not going to make it a priority. And then 630 Space Mountain, because that's when they turn on the Christmas overlay. How are you feeling about that?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I like that and I like kind of getting those types of things kind of knocked out. It would be great to be able to do the popcorn bucket pretty early and Jingle Cruise and then Space Mountain just like knocking those things out right away. I think it would be good. I can't remember how this worked at the Halloween party because I don't think we tried to rope drop any rides right away, did we? But they stopped letting people into the lines and then they start letting party guests into the lines. So theoretically, if we did that right away at 630, there shouldn't be a line not necessarily.

Bryan Lewis:

I mean the way the Magic Kingdom has been going on party days is that there's not a lot of people in the park and then they're running that 615 frozen like Castle Lighting show, whatever they're calling it. So there are plenty of us party people in the in the house at that point party people you know. But I did go watch Ron stream and he was going into Space Mountain right around 630 and it said a 30 minute wait and it was a 30 minute wait.

Bryan Lewis:

So so he would have rode that seven and it was Christmas, it was like all Christmas lights yeah, I think he got there before seven because when he came off of the ride they hadn't had everything out yet okay like the party wasn't going at the Tomorrowland stage yet. Huh, couple of this. I don't think the cookies were quite ready yet. So you know, the trick is. You know, 630 is when they flip the lights on.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So if we get in line at 615 and it's a 30 minute wait, we hit it right, you know yeah, I think that I think that works out well, especially because when, when we went to the Halloween party recently, there were certain things that were open like right away, like certain treats where we would like walk up and be like, hey, is this, is this out yet? And they'd be like, oh no, it doesn't come out until this time. But there were also certain treats were like it, like right on the dot, like right almost so some of them, I think it seemed like before the party was even out yet maybe there were a couple of those.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I don't think so but that it definitely seemed like there were certain ones that were like oh, this, this, this isn't out yet, or it's like right on the dot, like it's open remember.

Kristin Nahirniak:

So now I'm remembering what we did on the Halloween party a little bit, because we did ride Big Thunder yes yeah.

Bryan Lewis:

I have seen that people are knocking out a few rides before the six o'clock time period. So yeah, you know it'll be.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I think we should hurry along and and try to hit as many as we can in that time the other hack that we can do well and you guys could do like maybe while you're waiting at the airport, is will like plan our mobile orders like earlier in the day.

Bryan Lewis:

Oh, yeah, we were talking about that. Yeah, that was kind of next on the list. When we get done at Space Mountain I was thinking we can grab cookies, we can do some shopping at Star Traders and then I had put a mobile order time at like seven o'clock at Cosmic Rays to grab, grab those sandwiches that we wanted to try there and then out. The list kind of went on with some characters and fryer's nook sleepy hollow. I know that there was something at sleep sleepy hollow that you wanted, mikhailo oh yeah, that waffle looks insane.

Tammy Lewis:

That's the it's like a red velvet. Red velvet, yeah, they're the red velvet, yeah peppermint ice cream with red.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh my god, it looks so good. I may just get that myself. I need it okay.

Bryan Lewis:

Now that you're saying red velvet, I think it right. Yes, like, but I saw go ahead, sorry.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I saw videos of it and I was just like this looks, this looks so good.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I want to try the cookie, like cookie cup thing though they have. Oh oh some people have said that like it's. It's a weird texture, but well, people, because isn't it?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

because people think they can dip it, but it's like cookie cake.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I don't know yeah, I want to try it and that's that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That's at sleepy hello. Okay, yeah, definitely those two things, then at sleepy hello okay.

Bryan Lewis:

And then fryer's nook. We wanted to hit because there's a hand pie. I don't want that after over here and all the reviews of it, but I want the tots there yeah, there's like some Italian beef tot thing that looks oh yeah, those look really good yeah so that's one now, that's one spot that I think we need to split up, like you guys could go to sleepy hello and we can go to fryer's nook, and we'll meet in the middle and share that's actually genius.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

To kind of like try to like knock those like, so like we don't have to as a group go in, buy all these things and then try them. We can kind of divide and conquer.

Tammy Lewis:

I think that's a great idea yeah, and you don't have the place on your list that I want to go to the most.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I thought he has it later for pico spells no mobile it's not, it's not endless.

Tammy Lewis:

No way there. It is never mind.

Bryan Lewis:

I see it now can you keep tart from Casey's?

Tammy Lewis:

that was one thing I wanted to try, but the thing I want. The thing I want the most is from Pecos. It's a eggnog or india oh yeah, I wanted that too yeah yeah.

Bryan Lewis:

So, Kristin, you and I had talked a little bit about wanting to split all of the food that we get during the night, because it's gonna be a lot so we figured the four of us could share it, and it goes a little further right.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I think that's a great idea yeah, I mean we can do that with pretty much everywhere, if you guys, I mean we don't have to like share everything in California grow, but like whenever stuff like especially at EBCOT, for like like if we want to eat a whole bunch of stuff you're getting too far ahead of our plans here. I'm just saying globally, as as a trip, etiquette like that's, that's something that we can keep in mind. Yeah, except for the fact that I'm having that whole waffle myself.

Tammy Lewis:

I'll fight you for it, I think it's a great plan to divide and conquer and get all the stuff and share it, because it saves us all a little bit of money too, which is always nice very, very true money and stomach space so I put seven dwarfs in Santa Gufi with question marks.

Bryan Lewis:

They're not must-dos for me, but they're wood likes, I guess. So seven dwarfs are higher than Santa Gufi, but if the time is there, I'd like to do that. So, and that is before we would go to Fryer's Nook because I'm kind of planning like once we get Space Mountain Cosmic Raised on, we kind of make a loop through Phantasy Land and back around to Pecos Bills and then back to the hub and Main Street for the rest of the night. So yeah, like Fryer's Nook, sleepy Hollow, there's cookies in there, and this is kind of a fluid time for me because 830 is the first parade and I don't plan on that like I don't care.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah depending on the weather, I guess right, we do have to watch weather, because if there's if there is a plan for weather later in the night, then we need to watch the parade first time around because there's a chance I'll cancel it right, yeah, but if not, like, I plan to watch second parade because the wait times drop during that parade time. So you know, catching seven dwarfs during that time, or some of the princesses. Who needs to meet Belle in her Christmas dress.

Bryan Lewis:

I figured 90s baby, I did see that she's meeting in her house with with the Christmas dress, so that might be a cool meet that would be fun.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I mean I'm okay with it.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah yeah, so let's just keep that in mind and you didn't mention the Winnie the Pooh characters.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Is that a?

Bryan Lewis:

meter. Yeah, we it.

Tammy Lewis:

For me, it's like if we happen to be by there and there's a really short wait time or something, I'll probably jump in it, but I don't have to it's all four of them at one time.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I know, and are they?

Kristin Nahirniak:

they have like sweater.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I was gonna say are they like holiday scarfs. They're cozy they're cozy, well cozy, but ready for adventure since we're moving around the park in that fashion.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Then what about Tomorrowland Speedway?

Bryan Lewis:

I forget what we had messaged about with this that one is not something that I need to do, so I didn't wasn't really making it a priority for myself. What did you think?

Tammy Lewis:

it's kind of like, if it's a short wait time and we have the time, I'll do it like it looked pretty cool it just I feel like it's too much of a time suck there's that, and then the tea cups too.

Bryan Lewis:

Everything like all the rides are over there those two are just kind of two on my list that the monsters ink laugh floor.

Tammy Lewis:

Supposed to have like Christmas jokes or something too yeah.

Bryan Lewis:

So I don't know, what do you? How are you guys feeling about that?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I think with with stuff like this because it's like I mean I would be okay doing Tomorrowland Speedway Obviously it's not like at the top of my list, but kind of looking at what that looked like. It looked like it probably would have been pretty fun. And the same thing with Monsters Inc. Like if we walk by there and it's like a walk on, then like sure, but like I don't think I want to want to devote like 30 minutes like waiting in that line. So it may be kind of like a game time decision, like as we're walking through, like if we walk by Tomorrowland Speedway and it looks like a short wait, maybe we jump on it or something like that.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Or like okay, so we do Space Mountain, we start doing snacks, we meet a few characters, kind of see what our timeline is. Then maybe we could like circle back, Cause I mean it's not like it's gonna be that far from Main Street of like the fireworks and the parade and what else is there. Oh, the stage show will be at the end of the night.

Bryan Lewis:

Yes, yeah, and that's. You know that time period between seven and roughly 945 is all you know in flux, based on wait times and what we you know, we're gonna have our list of what we want to do and I think we've kind of compiled on this spreadsheet what we together want to do, am I right?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah, I think that was the idea.

Bryan Lewis:

Okay.

Tammy Lewis:

I've heard that acapella group is really good too, if we have time to see them.

Kristin Nahirniak:

What is that?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Like edge, edge or I don't know, oh, like the five, like the five people or no, that's the boy band.

Tammy Lewis:

That's the boy band in.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Tomorrowland it's is it like the Dapper Dan's, but like member for the Halloween party, it's like they're the like ghosts, Like they're the whole is that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Is that here's like the Dapper Dan dudes, or is it somebody else?

Tammy Lewis:

Somebody else.

Bryan Lewis:

I don't know that. I need to see collective five IV there.

Kristin Nahirniak:

No.

Bryan Lewis:

Okay, I saw them a little bit on video. They didn't sound good to me, yeah.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Kylo thought that the one guy was singing in the rest brawl.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I'm pretty sure one guy is singing to a track. There's only one guy actually singing the melody and everything else is a track. That's what it sounds like Really. Cause it sounds like two different. So it's like maybe the other guys are faking, like fake singing and just dancing, Like maybe they're just dancers and then everybody, like the one guy is an actual singer. That's what it sounded like to me.

Bryan Lewis:

That's interesting. I a lot of times when I'm watching things on a stream I'll give it a pass because mics and sound can get messed up coming across a screen. But that's interesting that you said it that way I could see that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, and it makes a lot of sense when you a lot of times, when I look at we'll get these things at Disney, I'm like how are they paying these people? So it's probably that they're paying these four dudes as dancers and then one guy as a vocalist and a dancer. So it's like they're paying them differently because they're not actually singing and performing. But yeah, it definitely like listening to the track it's and it, it sounded like the dude with the chorus was way over the other guys and the other guys sound like, like the backing vocals sounded pristine and the guy singing definitely sounded like he was dancing around.

Bryan Lewis:

So Okay, interesting.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I mean. Well, we're there, we can walk by and I can point it out to you.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, I don't even know that.

Tammy Lewis:

I want to give it that much time, but okay, they're called the edge effect.

Bryan Lewis:

I have not heard about the edge effect. Have you?

Tammy Lewis:

But maybe they're not there this year.

Bryan Lewis:

The edge effect.

Tammy Lewis:

Like the edge of a Christmas tree. They might not be there this year. Maybe that was just in the past. I'll have to do more research on that. So I did see today too that somebody said which I don't know if this is true and I don't know if you guys have heard it, but the free cookies, that there's like a hidden red Mickey shaped one on Main Street, not like not many people know it was there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Where's? Where is it hidden at?

Tammy Lewis:

In one of the shops on Main Street. It didn't specifically say so. That's why I don't know if it's true or not. Is there a?

Kristin Nahirniak:

pylon Like, because the pylons like didn't out like. Oh, this is like a cookie, stop, you know.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I don't know, yeah, or is it just straight up hidden? Like you have to like, go to the desk. It was like a secret it was.

Tammy Lewis:

I was looking at something that said like secret of Mickey's very, very Christmas party, but it didn't say where. Just had it to red Mickey sugar cookie and it's free and it's on Main Street I haven't heard of this. So I don't know if there's any truth to that or not.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Well, when you think about it, I think all of the cookie stops are associated with like a food place, right? I don't think there's anyone that's just kind of like out in the middle of nowhere, so like maybe at the creamery, whatever that place is called we never know.

Tammy Lewis:

Confectionary.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Confectionary like maybe there.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Yeah, I thought that was gonna be one of our stops Like before the parade. Okay, I'll just wait until we get to the parade.

Bryan Lewis:

Well, I mean, we can get to that point, like so we talked about doing a Picos bill and we should talk about what time we think we're gonna want to make those mobile orders for Picos bill, that, and for Casey's. I have that being at 9.45 because we can grab it as we find our spot for fireworks, and that's just. Timmy wants to get the candy cane tart, so we don't need to get it right then. It's just that it seemed like it was something that we could grab.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, with it being like right in that vicinity. I think that's smart.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, so it kept catch the fireworks and then I thought we could head down Main Street. I've heard wait times for Jack and Sally at that point have been pretty good.

Kristin Nahirniak:

That's when we had met Halloween. Jack and Sally was right before the second parade. I think it was like a posted 30 minute wait, but it took us maybe like 10, 15 minutes?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, maybe 10, 15 at the 15 through the whole thing, probably yeah.

Kristin Nahirniak:

So, but then when we came out, did we go do something else after that? Because I remember when we watched the parade, like we were behind a couple of people on Main Street because we had wanted to watch the parade on Main Street. I don't know where you guys want to watch the Christmas parade.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, we would definitely want to be in the snow parade.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Yeah, yeah, okay.

Bryan Lewis:

So yeah, my thought was that we do fireworks head down Main Street, try to do those meet and greets. Grab that popcorn mix at the confectionary they have that special holiday popcorn mix there and, depending on how timing is, because the parade's not going to get there until 20, after 25, after something, 11. So we're going to have a lot of time between fireworks and the parade, like a good hour. But yeah, I thought we could try to. I would really like to meet Jack and Sally. I saw the some pictures coming out of there where he's dressed as Sandy Claus and the set looks really cool. So I think it'd be fun to meet them. And I know you guys got to it Halloween, so I think, if you're up for it, I think that'd be kind of cool to get both of them for you guys.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

but I had been talking about bringing my eyes. I had down, mr Potato head eyeballs from and handing them to Jack again and just being like remember these.

Tammy Lewis:

So one thing that you didn't talk about on your list is the, the like photo apps, and like I don't have to do all of them, but there's a couple of them that I really want.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, I didn't include those. That kind of thought they'd be something we could just grab as we went by them.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, especially because I mean, if it's something that you want to do, tami, like I'm all cool with Whitting in line for stuff, but like, especially if it's like we walk by and there's like no line, it's like let's go do that.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Yeah, mm-hmm. So are there like certain locations though that you know, like, oh, they're doing like this, like Magic shot here, or is it like the like, the frame things?

Tammy Lewis:

No, it's like like the one with the Muppets I'd really like to get and, no, I don't know where they are. But I happen to have a cousin that's a photopaths photographer that If she might be working that night. Um, we're gonna. I'm gonna try to meet up with her, but I was gonna ask her where if she could tell me where they are, because she's usually working at Magic Kingdom so she should know.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Well. I think, that you should ask her if she's working that night.

Tammy Lewis:

Yes, she said to message her as it got closer, because she doesn't. They don't get their schedules that far out.

Bryan Lewis:

So and the I'm thinking of the melee Kaliki Maka frame that before. I think that's over. I would think that's over in like Adventureland or something.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I would imagine, yeah, To completely derail us again. This is a quick one. I've had that song stuck in my head all day and it's I don't know why, but I think it's because I'm right now I'm associating Christmas and the Polynesian because we've been trying to do this February, february trip with you guys. But it's been stuck in my head all day.

Bryan Lewis:

So Well, it is the Hawaiian way to say Merry Christmas to you.

Tammy Lewis:

It is.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I always thought that he said it's a fine way to say Merry Christmas to you.

Tammy Lewis:

And we're wearing Hawaiian shirts to the party.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So oh Boom, it's all coming together that was the mic dropping.

Bryan Lewis:

So I think finally, at the end of all of this, we watch the parade and we make our run back to the castle to watch the stage show at the end of the night so for the Party exclusive merch, when are we getting that? Good question.

Tammy Lewis:

Well, okay, because like is it gonna go fast? Because I want some.

Bryan Lewis:

Well, yes, so the sizes do sell out, they said, and I have heard that they do put them out at four o'clock.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Yeah, so we like, right after we go through the walkway we could like maybe loop through to the Emporium and the way they were doing that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I think we talked about this already once. But as long as you have, like your wristband and everything when you go through the Emporium, it's that like back area where all the the 50th stuff was, they put it all back there, so it's only only people who are shot there there for the party can go in there, and when we went and we got there early there really wasn't that many people like in their shopping, so I think that would that would work well so we go through the alley loop back down Main Street back to Emporium, or Will they let us go to the Emporium first and then go to the alley?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

No, they, they, they definitely push you through that alley because everything is, they have that trolley up and they'll probably have the sign of like Ricky's very merry and chrysalis party, and then they're, they're just pushing, because we tried to like get into that alleyway. We walked up and everything was like roped off. So you, so you can't just Like get in and then divert over to over to that.

Tammy Lewis:

But is the Emporium, the only place that they have it.

Bryan Lewis:

No, they have it at Star Traders, but I don't know if they're. Brecht, bring it out at four o'clock, okay, because they're. They can't control it like they're controlling.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah there was kind of everywhere.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I don't think that Star Traders had everything that the Emporium had well or has. From the streams that I've watched, Okay.

Bryan Lewis:

So I guess we can wait a little longer for Jingo and go get the merch. And well, I'd rather Look at the merch right away and get what we want to get in the sizes we want.

Tammy Lewis:

I'm just thinking we're probably gonna need to allow some time in there for getting a locker to.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah because we're probably not gonna want to carry those popcorn buckets all night and stuff honestly, while you guys are, Going to yeah, like while you guys are going, that could that could be like the first thing I do is you guys go to Emporium and I go set up a locker and then join you guys.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Dividing conquer.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I'm okay with that works for me.

Tammy Lewis:

Because I don't think my lounge flight and a popcorn bucket are gonna fit on space Mountain. I've tried to ride space mountain with a popcorn bucket and I vowed I was never going on space mountain again after that Well, I tried to.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

The one of the reasons that I tried to Downsize my backpack was because one time when I was on space mountain, I was like holding on to my backpack, like by dear life, like I thought, I thought it was gonna fall out of my hands like my whole backpack.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Well, last time I rode space mountain was Halloween and I had my wig and my hat.

Tammy Lewis:

So the whole time I was holding my head and you.

Kristin Nahirniak:

It was dark so I couldn't see what we were doing. I was getting jerked all over the place.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh yeah, so she couldn't brace herself.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Fun times. I'll probably carry the popcorn bucket around because I don't think I'm going to have a bag to carry. Are you going to bring the backpack?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I can bring the backpack. Yeah, I mean, I don't have to bring the backpack.

Kristin Nahirniak:

We need to put merch in a bag and I think it would make sense to bring the backpack.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Sure, yeah, I mean, I bring the backpack everywhere anyway.

Tammy Lewis:

If we're going to have a locker, I'm going to throw that popcorn bucket in the locker because I don't want it to get Well, and when we carried them around before they've ended up getting banged up and stuff. But I for sure want my lunch fly because I'm not planning on eating all of those cookies right away with the other food we're getting.

Kristin Nahirniak:

So I want something to put the cookies in.

Tammy Lewis:

Oh yeah, bring the bag for the cookies, and we'll be in big trouble if we don't bring some cookies back home.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

We'll be lucky if we bring cookies back to the hotel room.

Bryan Lewis:

So I did find out. They're Cheryl's cookies out of Ohio, I believe, and they are. They're pretty well known and expensive if you want to order them and ship them to your house. So getting kind of a good deal with some free cookies there.

Kristin Nahirniak:

What is going to be your favorite cookie? What is going to be, I mean, the one?

Bryan Lewis:

I'm looking forward to right now is the red velvet.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I was that. That's, that's also mine. I just, I just love red velvet, obviously, because I want that waffle.

Bryan Lewis:

The Snicker Doodle is also highly rated, so I'm looking forward to that one.

Kristin Nahirniak:

That will be my number one is the Snicker Doodle.

Tammy Lewis:

Mine will probably just be a straight up sugar cookie.

Bryan Lewis:

That does look yummy. It looks like the loft house ones that we get.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I mean, I love a good sugar cookie.

Tammy Lewis:

I would say gingerbread, but they said that they're kind of hard. I like the softer ones usually.

Kristin Nahirniak:

When we're going to Pecosville to get the tamale, I want to go to Golden Oak to get the gingerbread cake.

Tammy Lewis:

Yes, that's on my list as well because that looks amazing. It does. It just looks cute. I don't care if it doesn't taste good, I just want to take a picture of it.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Oh, my gosh, they the Halloween party. They had the best snack those sweet potato fries.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh yeah, those are so good Speaking of pictures.

Bryan Lewis:

that's a rule in my family and you guys are now bound by it because you'll be hanging with us. No eating of food until pictures are taken.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Wait, so like any food.

Bryan Lewis:

Any food. We take pictures of food, then we eat.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Okay this is what was happening in my brain just now, when you said that I was thinking like taking a picture in front of the castle or something, and it's like I thought you were saying, like if we have food, you need to take a picture somewhere before you eat the food that you have, Not like taking a picture of the food. That makes sense In my brain. That's not how I was thinking about it. I was like why do we have to do this magic shop before we eat any food?

Bryan Lewis:

But, cal, I'll hold your waffle for you while you go. Take a picture in front of the castle.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

No, my waffle.

Tammy Lewis:

That's not even what I thought you were going to say either. I thought you were going with that. We don't just like smile for pictures. We do different things.

Bryan Lewis:

We get tired of smiling for pictures, so we might just get nutty, for the pictures Do crazy stuff.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I'm pretty good at making faces. Kristin's getting better at making the faces.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I don't know what to do. I'm not an actor.

Bryan Lewis:

You just take so many pictures, though, that after a while, you're doing the same thing over and over and over again. You just have a different backdrop, exactly, mikello, the one where you're always putting your hand up in the air both hands, or whatever.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

This is why we need a video on the podcast, because I made a gesture and Bryan understood it right away. It's the thing that they always make you do when the picture is like oh, put one hand out.

Bryan Lewis:

We were at Disneyland and they kept making us do that. Then I kept seeing pictures now from Disney World where they're doing that too. There must be a memo. Have everyone stick their hands out. We'll have to ask your friend about that, your cousin. I think we've got a good plan of attack. What do you guys think? Did we miss anything?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I think it all makes sense In the big picture. It's making sure that we're ordering doing mobile orders at the right time and then filling all those other times with snacks and other things that we want. Then, really, as soon as all of the entertainment starts, it's just moving from one thing to the next. I think we're going to be able to attack it pretty well and, even if there are certain things that we need to roll with, I think it'll go well.

Bryan Lewis:

One thought I had when I was starting that spreadsheet list or whatever, was that we'll do a bunch of running around getting all the stuff that we're interested in Once the fireworks start. Now it's relaxed time. We're just going to watch fireworks, we'll go find a spot for the parade, we'll meet Jack and Sally or whatever. Just take our time at that point and enjoy the rest of the night.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's funny that's the complete opposite. That we did at our first Halloween party was as soon as we got there. We did some rides and waited in lines, but we thought we could do all of the food later in the night and that's really not what you can do. It's really like whatever is important to you, do that right away. I think, with what we're doing, that's going to work out well for us.

Tammy Lewis:

Are we doing the stage show at all?

Bryan Lewis:

That was the last thing of the night. Last thing of the night.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Hopefully it'll be the Halloween party where there's nobody there For the Halloween party, we could have gone straight up to the front and had a super front row view, but we didn't even want to do that. We watched Ron do that, so we just stood back and watched Ron videotape everything. There's usually not a lot of people there for the stage show at the end of the night.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I feel like I've been noticing. I don't know if it's like it gets darker earlier, but a lot of people seem like they leave after the fireworks, or maybe after the first parade, I don't know. A lot of people are just like peace and out, which is great for us.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I think it's definitely fireworks. I think it lightens up right around that time.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah, those littles, when you're bringing kids in for it, those littles get to 10 o'clock and it's done, lights out.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I'm hoping that Tron will pull a decent amount of people also. That, like other things, will be less busy.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That is one interesting thing that I've seen with some streamers is like oh, we got a, we got a tron, like we're gonna go do our tron Lightning lane and it's like that's cool, but like that's not, you I could, I can do tron on a regular party. You're on a regular day. So it's like why waste party daytime?

Kristin Nahirniak:

Although I feel like during the party they are pushing people through Much faster than on a normal day.

Bryan Lewis:

Well for the party, they're not contending with genie plus. You've just got a straight line. So they're gonna go. They're gonna go a little quicker.

Tammy Lewis:

So does the stage show take us right till the park closing.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Yeah, oh it's like 1155.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh, I thought it started at midnight. But well, I mean, yeah, it basically like that's like the stage show is gonna be happening after the park is closed.

Bryan Lewis:

Okay so that's why I'm at yeah, yeah, cuz then we're not wasting party time right. Did you have something you wanted to do?

Tammy Lewis:

No, I was just curious that, like if there would be a time to quick run, to like a ride before, like so that you're in line before no, that's what we're doing. Oh, for I guess that's my second jump in line. I just really want to get in that. Peter paying cue, I know.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Don't give Kristin any ideas.

Tammy Lewis:

I've never been in the queue. I really want to see the queue.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

You've never been in the like the regular queue have you always done lightning lane?

Tammy Lewis:

Always.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh.

Tammy Lewis:

Also, this is for for a video, if we do it, but I really, really also want to see Peter paying in Christopher Robbins room, cuz I've never been in there either. Oh, oh, you mean many the pool in Christopher Robbins. Yeah, what did I say? Oh, yeah, I Mean, I look and put some tights on, that's a good cross over.

Bryan Lewis:

Well, we'll definitely have to check the meet and greets when we're in that area.

Kristin Nahirniak:

We did meet poo when we were back in that area.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, that was actually, that was fun.

Kristin Nahirniak:

I like, I like that the only thing, they didn't have a photo pass person like you just oh yeah, you just show up and then, like, hand your phone to the people.

Bryan Lewis:

I wonder if that was just because they didn't have a. I didn't see that time. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, we'll have to check and see if that's there.

Tammy Lewis:

You also didn't put in your list that you have to get me a shaken Jamaican.

Bryan Lewis:

Oh, Definitely we'll get. We'll get you on the party day of those.

Tammy Lewis:

I don't know sometime maybe, maybe.

Bryan Lewis:

What we need to do is, when we get there at three o'clock to get in line, we send Mikhail on Kristin in to get all of us.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

We could just go actually, I mean, we could do that where we go in, get us something and then come back out in line and Bring it out to you guys.

Kristin Nahirniak:

Oh my gosh, we would get Trampled. People will be like they're cutting the line.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh, that's.

Tammy Lewis:

Probably We'll be getting a lot of hot chocolate and other stuff. Yeah, oh yeah.

Bryan Lewis:

So again, let us know if you're enjoying this format, how we're planning things out. We've got more trips coming and more things. We got a plan. So we want to know if you're enjoying this, this type of format, and we'll keep doing it. If you do, come on out to Facebook and Instagram. We are at miles from Main Street and, if you would rather, you can come out to our website, www dot miles from main st Com, and you can leave us a voicemail. We will play it on the show.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I think. I think we have two pretty regular guests, or maybe they're just joining the podcast with Tammy and Kristin at this point. But like we always say, Some live close but others don't so let's talk about it. We'll see you next time on miles from Main Street.

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