Christmas Goodies and Dancing with the Tremaine Sisters

Oh what fun we have had this week! We absolutely love Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and we would love to hear about your trips to it as well. You can post your story in the comments section of this post (or any of the posts this week) on the Discussion board or email me at amanda@mousebeat.com. If you would like we will share your stories and photos next week here on Mouse Beat in the meantime let me fill your head with sugar and dancing…



Only during the Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party will you see the above sign. When you see this sign you know that you are near some of the best Christmas Cookies and Coco in the Magic Kingdom, take a look…





Yum! And all night long you can have cookies and coco and walk around Main Street and watch the snow (not to mention all the other cool stuff we talked about this week). Norwood and I ate so many cookies and had so much coco both nights that we had to go over to a dance party and shake off some of those calories. There were two dance parties around the park, one in Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café (which we talked about on Monday) with Goofy and Pluto and one in Fantasyland with the Tremaine sisters…



I was on the side of the dance floor snapping a few shots when all of a sudden Lady Tremaine looked over at me and pointed at me. They were playing Stayin Alive so I decided why not and began to do the famous John Travolta dance. Lady Tremaine then proceeded to do the same dance and so did the others on the dance floor. It was so great! If anyone has photos or video of me dancing please tell email me. I have no shots of me busting a move.

Well we have come to the end of a week long celebration of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. I had as much fun telling you about it as I had at the parties! Have a magical weekend everyone!



There is more information available about Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and there is a Christmas at Disney Slideshow running. Check them out!

Holiday Wishes and Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade

There is nothing more classic Disney than see a fireworks show that you can see nowhere else and watching a Parade full of all your Disney favorites. Well we were waiting for the festivities to begin at Mickey’s Verry Merry Christmas Party (they will let you in as early as 4pm with your ticket) one evening I heard a couple debating whether or not they wanted to go to the Party that night. The husband said “Well really it is only an extra fireworks show and a parade… how special could that be?” When I heard him say that I wanted to tell him that there was so much more but just as I was about to turn and say hello a cast member came up to them and told them all the events that would happen that night and that the Fireworks and Parade were something you would not see anywhere or anytime else. When I first heard about both parties I too questioned how they could really make it worth the extra ticket. The Halloween fireworks and parade were amazing and well of course it just got better with the Christmas Party Parade and Fireworks.

The Fireworks show is called “Holiday Wishes Celebrate the Spirit of the Season” and you can see it from anywhere in the park (although of course standing right in the middle of Main Street facing Cinderella’s Castle is the favorite place of many). Like all Disney Fireworks they were amazing. What was special about this show was that at one point they use the fireworks to make a Christmas tree over Cinderella’s Castle and the play the nutcracker while happy faces and toys explode in the sky. Here is one of my favorite shots of the fireworks show…




Besides the wonderful fireworks there is also the special parade called “Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade.” All the favorite characters come out in the holiday dress and sing Merry Christmas to the audience. The costumes are amazing in this parade and I love the holiday songs and all the toys! Here is one of my favorite shots of the evening…



Oh there is so much to do at Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party! We have almost covered it all this week. Tomorrow I want to tell you a little more about the special treats, and another fun dance party.

There is more information available about Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and there is a Christmas at Disney Slideshow running. Check them out!

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party Stage Shows

If you like the stage shows at Magic Kingdom then you will love going to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party because there are three! We talked yesterday about Mickey’s Twas the Night Before Christmas which is a fantastic show and you do not want to miss it, but it is not the only one you can see during Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party. There are two more, “Celebrate the Season” and “Belle’s Enchanted Christmas.” Celebrate the Season is the main show that plays on the Castle Forecourt Stage (7:45, 10:05 and 11:20). Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Chip and Dale and Pluto join Christmas carolers on stage for songs and dance…



It is absolutely a wonderful show and my favorite part of the show is when Pluto plays Rudolph and is not allowed to play any reindeer games. He actually barks along to the tune… it is so cute.

The other show to see during Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party is Belle’s Enchanted Christmas. If you were here on Monday you will remember that I mentioned that we did not have the chance to see Belle tell a story in her Enchanted Garden well… we went back for a second night so we could see our favorites again and catch the things we missed before and Belle’s Encanted Christmas was one of them. In this show Belle with the help of her helpers and the audience tells the story of the first Christmas she spent with the Beast. It is really charming and the little kids had a great time…



There is more information available about Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and there is a Christmas at Disney Slideshow running. Check them out!

Mickey’s Twas the Night Before Christmas

What could be more classic Christmas then a telling of “Twas the Night Before Christmas”!? Mickey and his friends put on a great show. At first the hosts come out and introduce the story that Mickey will tell with the help of his friends. From the dancing and singing to the costumes this is the best stage show I have seen at Magic Kingdom. There were a couple of moments of the show that were just fantastic…



When Mickey and Minnie are “all snug in their beds” the Sugar Plum Fairy comes out with the Hippos from Fantasia. The three delight the crowd with not only lovely dancing but funny moments when the hippos bounced into each other and the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Another favorite moment of the show was when the Rockin Reindeer came out on stage and played Jingle Bell Rock…



And perhaps the cutest of all the evening was when Minnie sang “Santa Baby” to Goofy…



When Minnie sings that she wants a ring Mickey who was sitting on the bed puts his hands on his eyes and rolls around on the bed. It was so funny. Although I only covered a few of my favorite moments of the 15 minute show the whole show was fantastic and if you are heading over to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party this year make sure that you see this one in the Galaxy Palace Theater in Tomorrowland.

There is more information available about Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and there is a Christmas at Disney Slideshow running. Check them out!

Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party

Remember back in October when I spent two days talking about how great the Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party was? Well all this week I want to tell you about Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party! We went to the party on the second day hoping that since it was still November the crowds might not be as large as they were for the Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party… ah no. The crowds were large but some others we ran into during the party said that last year same time, there were even more people! What was really fantastic about the night (besides all the special events that I will tell you about) is that everyone was in the Christmas spirit already. It was hard not to be with snow falling, Christmas carols, Christmas cookies and hot coco.
We loved Mickey’s Not so Scary Halloween Party but Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas was even better. There was more to do at the Christmas Party than the Halloween Party. Here is a list of all the special things there are to do at the Very Merry Christmas (and it is also a list of everything we will be talking about this week)…

•Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmastime Parade (8:15 and 10:30)
•Holiday Wishes Celebrate the Spirit of the Season (9:30)
•Mickey’s Twas the Night Before Christmas (7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:15)
•Celebrate the Season Stage Show (7:45, 10:05, 11:20)
•Belle’s Enchanted Christmas (7:15, 8:10, 10:00, 11:15)
•Character Dance Parties

With careful planning and jazzed up on Christmas cookies and coco Norwood and I were able to do everything on the list except one thing… Belle’s Enchanted Christmas. We wanted to catch the last show of the evening but at the last minute decided to go back to Mickey’s Twas the Night Before Christmas. Although we missed Belle’s Christmas storytelling we did catch the Character Dance Party at the Starlight Café which we missed when we went to the Halloween Party.



At the Character Dance Party they play classic dance music and the hosts on the stage direct you in some dance moves (at one point there was a restaurant wide conga line) and to add to the fun various characters come in and out of the party. Two dancers we saw a lot of were Goofy dressed as Santa and Pluto (he could really boogie). When we got tired of dancing ourselves we headed over to see the two stage shows that evening, Mickey’s Twas the Night Before Christmas and Celebrate the Season. I will tell you more about Mickey’s Twas the Night Before Christmas tomorrow…

There is more information available about Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and there is a Christmas at Disney Slideshow running. Check them out!