My First Run Disney Princess Weekend: #PrincessTweetup, Course Maps & Costume Sneak Peek
/I am loving and hating that Princess weekend is mere days away.
How could I be hating this amazing news as Boston is up to 85 inches of snow in the past three weeks?
Well it means my vacations and Run Disney races will already be over for 2015. :P
The wife and I traveled to Disneyland for the first time in January for the inaugural Star Wars race weekend. It was a BLAST!
This would be stop 1 on our first Coast 2 Coast adventure.
Now we head to Disney on Thursday (!!!!!) for the Princess weekend.
I will be completing all three races (shocking I know) - 5k, 10k and Half - while the wife will be going for the #GlassSlipperChallenge (10k and Half).
So on Sunday I will be able to take a pic with all 9 of my Run Disney medals from 2015! Hollah! Boy I cannot wait for that Castle pic. :)
But I am getting ahead of myself.
For those that don't know the Princess race weekend will be our 4th Run Disney weekend. I know - many folks feel like I have done dozens of them, but I guess that means I just talk about them a lot? ;)
I did Disney Half 2013, Dopey Challenge 2014, Star Wars 2015 and now Princess 2015. I think we have our eyes set on Star Wars and Wine and Dine for 2016. Again getting ahead of myself.
We will be heading to Disney from February 19-24. It was actually cheaper for us to stay at Disney an extra night than try and take a flight home after the half (Sunday) or on Monday. Cheaper meaning hotel + park ticket + dogs in the Pooch hotel additional night < Flying home Sunday or Monday. Crazy! So yes spending the extra time in the warmth at Disney was a no-brainer. :)
Am I right?
We have our hotel (Saratoga Springs), magic bands, park hopper passes, dining reservations and Fastpasses locked and loaded!
Dining Reservations (for dinner unless noted otherwise):
Thursday - Raglan Road Irish Pub (Downtown Disney) Friday - Hollywood Brown Derby (Hollywood Studios) Saturday - Sci-Fi Dine-In Theatre (Hollywood Studios) Sunday - Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano (Hollywood Studios) Monday - 'Ohana (character breakfast - Polynesian Resort) & Coral Reef (Epcot)
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EXPO
Pending flights we plan on hitting up the Expo on Thursday! I don't have any "must-haves" this time around besides a Glass Slipper Challenge magnet for my fridge. I would love the jacket, but if Star Wars Expo was any indiction - it will be long gone by the time I get there.
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#PrincessTweetup
Now in addition to checking out the parks and running 22.4 magical miles, I will also be co-hosting a meetup/tweetup. Complete with prizes.
My good friend Kat from KatrinaElle.com lives in the area and while she isn't running she was more than happy to team up and share some hugs, high-fives and laughs with me anyway! Oh and everyone that attends as well. ;)
So be sure to join us Saturday, Feb 21 from 1-3 at the carousel at Downtown Disney.
Make sure you are there... or you won't be there and you won't be having as much fun! :P
Oh oh oh and you don't HAVE to have twitter or be running the races to attend. This is an opportunity for all social media friends to meet in person.
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Course Maps
While I am not one to normally look at course maps ahead of time (why take the surprise out of it ;)) I do like to check out what parks the races will go through.
5k/10k
Half
I am looking forward to seeing which characters they bring out for Princess. I know during Marathon weekend there was a whole variety of Disney characters, while Star Wars was solely Star Wars characters.
I've searched the web and stalked friends' photos and it looks like they have princesses and villians, as well as staple Disney characters (Mickey, Minnie, etc) dressed up to match the theme.
Ahhhh yay!! Character stops are one of my favorite pars of the Disney races.
I am very excited to once again be in Corral A for all 3 races so I am once again charging myself with stopping at every character stop no matter the line. :)
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Costume Sneak Peak
I think this is the portion everyone has been waiting for. We know my wife brings it when it comes to costume making. Now we are a tad behind on construction due to those pesky blizzards, but I have some sneak peeks for you all.
You know I love you guys.
Now I won't say what the costumes are, but will let you leave comments with your guesses. :)
5k
10k
Half
Anyone have any guesses???? :)
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Ahh okay typing this all up has made me even MORE excited! I am thrilled to check out another Run Disney weekend.
Will you be at Run Disney Princess Weekend? Have you done it before? What can you share with this newbie Princess?
