Mardi Gras Family Fun Weekends at Disneyland

The Mardi Gras Family Family Fun Weekends started today at Disneyland, but instead of finding it at the Festival Arena like the past couple of weekends, it's now located in New Orleans Square. 

 Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy are dressed for Mardi Gras, and they led a cavalcade starting in the Court of Angels, with the help of the Jambalaya Jazz Band around New Orleans Square several times throughout the day.

 Goofy, Donald, and Pluto stay behind after the cavalcade to dance along with the band, pose for pictures, and sign autographs.

Mickey and Minnie head back to the Court of Angels for a meet and greet.

They also take turns sharing the Court of Angels with Chip and Dale.

 Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen has a cart with beignet kits for sale, and there is another cart across the way for face painting. 

Our favorite part about the Mardi Gras weekends besides the character meet and greets, is Princess Tiana's Mardi Gras Celebration.

 We really missed this show, when the Princess and the Frog came out. It's not the entire show like before, but it still has many of the catchy tunes we all love from the movie. 

I couldn't help but sing:

"You got to dig a little deeper

Find out who you are

You got to dig a little deeper

It really ain't that far"

...the whole rest of the day. Yep it's stuck in my head again. ;) 

Mardi Gras Family Fun Weekends in New Orleans Square continues through this Sunday 10:30am - 5pm,
and again the next two weekends February 25-27 and March 4-6.

My Magical Blogorail Red Intro

Welcome to those of you joining me from My Dreams of Disney.  I am the last stop on our Magical Blogorail.

King Arthur Carrousel age 3 on Jingles.

I have always loved Disney. I have early memories of watching the Disney Channel before school. I remember waking up early to Mousercise and having dreams of being on the show. 

Age 3 Silhouette 

I have lived my whole life just a few miles away from Disneyland. 

When I was really little we didn't go that often, just once in a while. 

When I was in Junior High, my parents would drop my sister and I off for the whole day. When I think back to those days I think of staying until midnight and driving the Autopia cars over and over again. When you don't have a drivers license, that's the next best thing right? 

Early teens.

By High School my Mom got us annual passes. We would go quite a lot each month. I found one of my old passports from 1992, which means I have been a passholder for 19 years! 

My 1992 "picture passport".

My Mom would take my sister and I after school, and we would sit on the curbs of Main Street doing our homework while waiting for Aladdin's Royal Caravan and The Lion King Celebration Parade. We had a deal, if we finished our homework, then we would go on rides after. Of course we wanted to play, so we always did our homework.

During my senior year of High School, I went to Disneyland every single day from January 21 through March 2, 1995 to collect my 40th anniversary collector card. Everyday Disney handed out a different card to represent an event or attraction for each year. That is 41 days in a row. 

Fast forward to today. Now I'm in my thirties, married with a soon to be two year old son. Not much has changed in 19 years. I still go at least once a week, but now I am creating new memories with my son. One thing I like to do is collect as many character photos with my son as possible. I don't have too many pictures of myself as kid, so I hope to create a big picture book for him to look back at someday.

I started Magical Days with the Mouse (formerly known as Motherhood Magic) as a way to share the magic I love. I'm a visual person. I like pictures. I always bring my camera with me, and one day I thought others may have the same love that I do for Disneyland. I don't claim to know everything about the history of Disneyland, but I do know what I like to do at the park and that is to have fun. 

Magical Days with the Mouse is a place for me to share new shows or events happening at Disneyland, new food and treats, new merchandise that catches my eye, photos around the park, and the adventures my son's Mickey plush has around the park in a series called Adventures with the Mouse. 

A bonus I have gotten from starting this blog is all of the friendships I have been forming through this site and over at my Twitter account. 

You can also find me on Facebook, where I will post pictures LIVE from the park. 

I love getting comments, so if you like something I posted, please let me know. 

Here is the map of our Magical Blogorail should you happen to have to make a stop along the way and want to reboard:

1^st Stop ~ A World View

2^nd Stop ~MousekeFoodie

3^rd Stop ~ WDW Backstage

4^th Stop ~ Makin’ Memories

5^th Stop ~ My Dreams of Disney

Final Stop  ~ Magical Days with the Mouse

Thank you for joining us this month.  We will be back March 18th with an all new theme, though feel free to keep checking in with our blogs in between loops to keep up to date with our Disney info, photos and stories

Adventures with the Mouse #2

It's another week, and Mickey has joined us once again at Disneyland. 

This week we played on Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island. The little one was spinning a wheel round and round, when Mickey spotted a skeleton rising from the water under a pirate chest. That pirate skeleton did not want to let go of that chest!

Mickey got caught in a ball full of skeletons. Good thing he had us to rescue him. 

Next he tried to steal some gold left behind on the island. 

As the saying goes "Dead men tell no tales", so we grabbed him and left the island while we still could. 

Both the little one and Mickey tried to pull the sword out with no such luck. 

We decided to hop on the Monorail for a round trip ride around the park. That Mickey was caught goofing off on the sign.

He then sat down to wave a hello by the sign before sitting by the window to look out at the park.

As we were heading out for the day, Mickey waved at us from behind a cast member gate. He did say that after all he is the boss. 

Wordless Wednesday -Random Photos Around Disneyland

Wordless Wednesday - The Cell Phone Series

Which one is your favorite? 

Snow White Wishing Well and Fountain

In honor of Valentine's Day today, I thought I'd share one of the romantic spots inside Disneyland, and a place that has held many magical moments with our family... The Snow White Wishing Well and Fountain.

Off to the right of the castle (if you are standing on Main Street), there is a small path with a heart lined bridge that leads you to the wishing well and fountain. 

You are instantly greeted once you cross the bridge with a beautiful waterfall fountain of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. 

Every 60 seconds bells will ring, and Snow White will start to sing. It is during the song that three water spitting fish will surface and float in a circle. Once the song is over, the fish go back underwater. 

Right next to the fountain is the famous wishing well. 

Look how beautiful the scroll work is inside the well. Make a wish, and perhaps you will find Snow White waiting for you. 

Snow White, Aurora, and Ariel all hang out near the wishing well.
 Next time you pass through the castle, consider taking the pathway on the right instead. You never know when you'll have a magical moment with a princess, or have your dreams come true from a wish in the wishing well.
Happy Valentine's Day.

Adventures with the Mouse

Welcome to our new series of posts... Adventures with the Mouse. 

We invite you to join us with our pal Mickey, as we have fun around the Disneyland Resort. 

Come along won't you? 

 We have this sick little addiction... you might have heard of it, it's called Vinylmation. Mickey eagerly watch over our shoulders to see which Toy Story Vinylmation we pulled. 

 Aha! It's Lotso!

 Nothing beats relaxing on the front porch on Main Street.  Just ask Mickey!

 We all worked up an appetite and headed over to Carnation Cafe for a bite to eat.

 Water for Mickey and macaroni and cheese too. 

 Later we all took a ride through Monstropolis and posed for pictures outside too.

 Mickey spotted his dear old teddy, Duffy. They got caught up on all their latest adventures.

 Mickey said "See ya pal" and tried to catch a ride on the train.

 He waved us all goodbye, but realized he wasn't getting very far.

 So back he joined us for some more exploring around the park. 

 As it turns out, he was lucky to still be with us. Max shared some of his gingerbread cookie with him. Such a treat. 

As we finished our day through Downtown Disney, Mickey waved goodbye until another day.


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