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A Taste of Christmas: Disneyland Afternoon Tea Review

“Sipping on Christmas tea is like savoring the essence of the season, with each sip bringing joy and tranquility.” – Unknown

The last time the Disneyland Resort hosted Afternoon Tea was in 2019 with the Haunted Mansion Tea. Sadly, Steakhouse 55 (where the Resort hosted all of their themed Afternoon Tea) closed in 2021 after the COVID pandemic. My friends and I got a tiny taste of Afternoon Tea during Princess Nite in March 2023. That limited time offering was pretty decent, considering it was an extremely limited 2-night experience and you could only go if you had a ticket to the event. So, I was absolutely foaming at the mouth when the Resort announced Holiday Tea with Santa and Mrs. Claus.

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The Palace of Holyroodhouse

Our last day in Scotland was a bit of a morning blur. Half of our day was spent exploring The Palace of Holyroodhouse and the other half was traveling to Dublin, Ireland; the traveling part of adventuring is exhausting but exciting and then you end up in a new spot you’ve never visited before.

Like before, anything in italics are current thoughts and musings on what I decided to write in the moment. If you would like to read past entries, click on the following links: Part 1: Departure, Part 2: Arrival, Part 3: Exploring Edinburgh and Part 4: Craigmillar Castle.

Onward!

Part 5: Our Last Day in Scotland and traveling to Dublin, Ireland

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Craigmillar Castle

The fourth travel journal entry finds Kate and I adventuring slightly out of the city of Edinburgh to Craigmillar Castle, then back to the city for some pints and dinner.

This entry doesn’t have a lot of detail but we did spend the whole day exploring the castle so I got a lot of photos and a few shaky iPhone videos. And I also got the informational booklet to help me remember the tiny details of the Castle.

As stated before, anything in italics are current thoughts and musings on what I decided to write in the moment. If you would like to read past entries, click on the following links: Part 1: Departure, Part 2: Arrival and Part 3: Exploring Edinburgh.

For now let’s dive in:

Part 4: Day 2 in Edinburgh

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Exploring Edinburgh

The third entry of my adventures in Edinburgh makes up the first full day of my trip to Scotland, including touristy things such as the Edinburgh Castle, lunch and a Whiskey Experience, a visit to the Tartan Weaving Hall, a stop at the Elephant House and wandering around the city to find Greyfriars Bobby and St. Gary’s Cathedral.

Edinburgh is a truly wondrous city with lots of history and culture, and I definitely would not mind visiting again.

In reading through my travel journal, Kate and I definitely did a lot on our first day!

As stated before, anything in italics are current thoughts and musings on what I decided to write in the moment. If you would like to start the beginning of this journey, which is mostly routine details about planning and traveling, Part 1: Departure and Part 2: Arrival can be found here and here.

Without further ado, here is:

Part 3: Day 1 in Edinburgh

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Arrival in Edinburgh

This second entry of my adventures begins in Edinburgh and is a mixture of complaining about travel, and my first foray into Scottish food. My first post was written back in Summer 2016, when I actually took the trip; I misplaced and then thankfully found my travel journal so I can continue sharing my adventures.

Looking back, I will remember how exhausted I was yet brimming with excitement at being in a new city in a new country with my best friend. I wasn’t nervous anymore; in fact my nervousness had all but evaporated and my curiosity at being in a new place was taking over, which is something that I have happily found to becoming a more common reaction whenever I am traveling to a new undiscovered place.

As stated before, anything in italics are current thoughts and musings on what I decided to write in the moment.

Without further ado, here is:

Part 2: Arrival

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A Beginner’s Guide to Adventuring

Adventure is worthwhile. –Aristotle

At the beginning of this year, I made a personal resolution to myself to start blogging again. While I took some time here and there to change how my blog looked, including creating and totally scrapping 4 different layouts, color schemes and font setups,  2016 slipped away from me and when December rolled around, I realized that I hadn’t made a single new blog post.

Then January came and went.

February popped in for a hot second.

I blinked and March was over.

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Megan & Kate’s UK Adventure

My lovely readers,

I have been bit by the travel bug.

I’ve recently returned from a trip to Scotland and Ireland with Kate. She has been traveling around these past few months (and you should check out her travel blog); this whole trip actually came up from her basically telling me to come to Scotland because she would be there and we would have more fun adventures together.

Who would turn down an opportunity like that?

(Hint: Not Me.)

I booked my flights way back in May and then kept a close eye on my spending to save up for the activities we would undoubtedly be doing on the trip. I packed a duffel bag so it would be easier to carry around and got a good travel day backpack from REI. I made sure that my passport was valid (and it is until 2022 which has me planning all sorts of adventures in my head now) and triple-checked my essentials before I left.

I brought a journal with me to chronicle every little details. Having a journal is a nice way to look back on my travels and see how my thoughts have changed or to have those words bring back those memories for me. (It also is convenient because I basically have several blogs posts already written out for me).

Therefore, most of these upcoming blog posts are going to be taken straight from my journal, with historical background additions and tons and tons and tons of pictures. (I took like 500.) Anything in italics are current thoughts and musings on what I decided to write in the moment.

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The Lakehouse

My first vacation of Summer 2016 consisted of a week at Lake Norman with my family.

Like my whole family.

My Uncle Bud, Aunt Monica and cousins Buddy and Katelyn all live in North Carolina. My parents and my Teah-Teah flew out first. They were joined by my Uncle Mike, Aunt Megan and cousins Lauren and Gillian, who were visited Washington D.C beforehand. Then my brother and I flew out a few days later. We were joined by Buddy’s fiance Meghan and Katelyn’s boyfriend Dallas sporadically throughout the week.

That’s 15 people in 1 house.

It was one of the best vacations I have had in a very long time.

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An Afternoon Tea Party at Disneyland

Back in January, the Disney Parks Blog announced that the Disneyland Hotel was going to start hosting Afternoon Tea on weekends. Naturally, as a Disney fanatics and newly dubbed tea party connoisseurs, Shelby, Jen and I were dying to try it out.

I decided that an afternoon tea at Disneyland was how I wanted to spend my birthday this year. Jen booked a 12:25 reservation and soon the anticipation set in.

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Tea for Three

Another birthday. Another tea party adventure.

Last year for Shelby’s birthday, we went for tea at Madeline Garden Bistro and Venue in Pasadena. We had such a fun time (seriously, who wouldn’t want to dress up cute and have a tea party??) that we decided to do it again this year.

This time, our destination was the Mission Inn Hotel and Spa in Riverside.

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