Birthday Shopping!

Hi Y'all, Ashleigh giving the latest update on purchases from Disney. As this weekend of posts will reflect, Anna's birthday is coming up (July 9th) so it only seemed appropriate to make a secret trip to Disney to go shopping. Now this trip's ride over proved it would be interesting. For those native Floridians, you know how terrible I-4 can get and well as usual an accident was slowing us down.

We had a time crunch to meet back with Anna later in the night so we did our best to re-route. Well the outcome was going through Windermere which was a very nice drive and brought us into Disney a different and unique way. We got a little behind the scenes toward of the Disney employee world by passing by shuttle buses taking employees around, the energy facility and all the way to a special gate. Despite Shannon and I wanted adventure, Neil steered away from the gate and went around the park essentially to go into the regular entrance. (Shannon and I are still determined to go back to the gate and see if we can go in that way).

Typical Florida summer, we had overcast skies and a light rain was going to begin. However, that didn't slow us down. We had some ideas of what to get Anna and made our way to the Emporium, which carries just about anything. Without giving away Shannon and Neil's gifts, I'll describe the gifts I got her.

Of course, we had to check out the vinylmations which have now released the beauty and the beast series. I decided that was a good choice and luckily for me, Anna got Belle from the mystery box! In addition, the were carrying the Star Wars vinylmations (series 2) so I got Shannon one in hopes of Darth Vader. However, Shannon got the alien from the cantina (I'm sorry Shannon I don't remember his name). Our search for Vader will continue. We moved on hoping to find something different and unique for Anna.

We made our way to the princess store (as we call it but it's Mickey's something), to see if there were any new princess shirts. They had some awesome new ones that any girl should check out! Moving on we went to the "Belle store" as I've named it. It's near Gaston's restaurant to see the unique beauty and the beast themed gear. Shannon and I were hoping to go in together to get the wine glasses but however, it seems Disney has removed that product.

Not finding much, we made our way back to Main Street...checking the jewelry and crystal products but still not finding the right gift. Finally, bringing our trip full circle and back to the Emporium I picked up a stainless steel Mickey Mouse wine cork (since are drinking more wine these days). With that and Shannon and Neil finding gifts, we made our way home. (Oh and don't forget, of course Shannon got more cards since we were there). It was a very good shopping trip, and nice to see Disney always coming out with more and more Disney gear and gifts to buy. Happy early birthday Anna :)