On Wednesday morning we were ready to head back to the Magic Kingdom for a full day of pixie dust. Because of the popularity of this Disney park over the other three for families with young kids, namely the rides in Fantasyland (the rides, like Dumbo, that Emma had been dreaming about), this was where our pre-planning would come into play...big time! But, once again, TGM did not fail us!
A quick stop to pose in front of Cinderella Castle
We entered the gates and confidently strode to Fantasyland. The kids and I immediately got in line for Dumbo, while Geoff ran to get a Fastpass for Thunder Mountain Railroad. We were able to ride on the very first Dumbo "spin" of the day...what a thrill! (For Emma, at least...Micah had a few choice words about why the Dumbo ride is named what it is). Believe it or not, within an hour, we were able to ride everything in Fantasyland...walking onto all the rides, including the Carousel, Small World, Snow White, Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and so on. And, that was perfect timing, because after an hour, Toon Town was opening, and we could head over to ride Goofy's Barnstormer and then ride the train around to Frontierland, getting a nice railway tour of the park.
Whee...We're on Dumbo!
Taking a spin in the teacups...
The kids loved Thunder Mountain Railroad and Splash Mountain in Frontierland. While in that area, we also took a ride through the Haunted Mansion. Both kids seemed up for it, until the ride got stuck! We were trapped in that spooky place a couple of times for 5 minutes without moving. It was a bit freaky, but Micah and I (who were sharing a car), just got out my iPhone and played a game or two on it while waiting...That kind of took our minds off the fact that there were spooky things all around us! :-0
Here's a shot of Emma the way she likes to ride roller coasters...
Arms up!
Heading up Thunder Mountain...Yay!
Emma sporting my sunglasses to keep her eyes
from getting water in them on Splash Mountain!
After lunch we spent quite a bit of time in Tomorrowland...Riding pretty much everything except for Space Mountain, which Micah wanted to wait until Saturday to ride (our last day). On our way out of Tomorrowland for supper, we stopped at the
Monsters Inc. "Laugh Floor." During the comedy show, the cameras zoom in on people in the audience for the monsters to heckle and crack jokes about. Well, out of the couple of hundred people in the auditorium,
WHO gets picked out? Micah, of course! Man, that boy is becoming a star here...First
Turtle Talk and now
Monsters. After this, Micah decided that he had enough of being in the spotlight, and determined that the reason he kept getting picked on was because of his mouse ears. After that we started to call them his "lucky ears." At this point, he opted to give them to Emma to wear, since we was just dying to "get picked!"
So, we headed out of the park to the Grand Floridian for supper at 1900 Park Faire, a character meal with Cinderella, Prince "Charmin" (as Emma calls him), and Cinderella's stepmother and sisters. As our meals went, this one wasn't at the top of our list...We felt a bit rushed between trying to get up and serve ourselves from the buffet and get back to our table in time to meet the next character, but for Emma, it was a dream come true to get a hug from Cinderella!
After our meal, we took the boat back across to the Magic Kingdom for their evening fireworks show, "Wishes." It was actually the only night show that we stayed up for the entire week, so that made it special. After the show, we high-tailed it to the shuttle bus station, and actually got on the first bus out! As we were driving back to our resort, Geoff commented, "The first bus in and the first bus out." Yep, we had a full day of Disney magic!
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