We’re up bright and early to hit Magic Kingdom today! When they first changed park hours to begin
at 8AM, I was a little disappointed, because I’d already planned out my
day. With a little tweaking of my plan,
I realized that extra hour was actually wonderful! We arrived before rope drop and immediately
headed for Peter Pan’s Flight. I like
this ride, but its not worth the normal wait time to me, nor is it worthy of
using one of my three fast passes. So, I
knew it we didn’t get it early, we probably wouldn’t do it all. Arriving at rope drop, we maybe waited 5-10
minutes to board.
After Peter Pan, we immediately headed across the way to
It’s a Small World. I feel like this is
a Disney classic that shouldn’t be missed.
Sarah absolutely LOVED It’s a Small World. She would point to different things she
saw. It was her favorite ride of the
trip. After we finished It’s a Small
World, we headed for Princess Hall to meet Cinderella, Elena, Tiana, and Rapunzel. Sarah still wasn’t too comfortable with
characters so I had to go with her. She liked some of them but wouldn’t get too
close.
After meeting the princesses, we headed to
Adventureland. Dakota, Sarah and I rode
Aladdin’s Magic Carpets. Dakota tried
his best to get us to the right height for the camel to spit on us, but I think
we only got wet once. It was hot enough
that I was more than willing to get spit on by a camel.
We then headed to Jungle Cruise. This was more fun than I remembered, as well. The jokes are so bad, they’re good, if that
makes sense. You just can’t help but
laugh. From the Jungle Cruise, we headed
to Pirates of the Caribbean. It was
maybe a 15 minute wait at this point.
Sarah was a little scared of the drop and I had to keep pointing out the
“non-scary” stuff to keep her from getting scared. Our picture didn’t turn out great because
none of us were expecting the picture to be taken at that moment.
Once we got off Pirates, it was pretty close to time
for our Big Thunder Mountain fast pass. Dakota and Jon rode first, getting a
rider swap pass. Once they were
finished, Dakota and I rode. It’s still
a fun ride. I am still disappointed that
it’s neighbor, Splash, was closed. That
is one of my favorite rides.
We then headed to Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café for
lunch. I had the fajitas, Jon had the nachos, and Dakota had the tacos. This meal was delicious. We really enjoyed our lunch and that there
was somewhere cool to eat and relax for a bit.
We decided not to do Country Bears and our Fast Pass to the Haunted
Mansion didn’t start until 11:45am so we took our time eating lunch and
enjoying our time together.
Dakota was a little scared of the Haunted Mansion. I actually think Sarah did better on it than
Dakota. This is one of Jon’s favorite
rides, so we had to do it. It was fun,
just not the excitement level of some of the bigger rides. After Haunted
Mansion, we headed to Mickey’s PhilharMagic.
Every time I see this show, I think its so cute. The kids enjoyed it as well, I think so it
was well worth the 15 minutes or so spent.
We still had a few minutes until time for our 7 Dwarfs fast
pass, so we let the kids ride the Carrousel.
Now, let’s pause for a minute.
Remember me briefly mentioning in a previous day that I was using a
cane? I have pretty severe arthritis in
my hip and it prevents me from being able to do a lot of things that “normal”
34 year olds could do. My feet were also
hurting and I’d discovered that standing still hurt worse than walking most of
the time, so I decided I’d try to pick a horse that wasn’t too high and
actually sit on it with Sarah.
Successful – we found one that was very low to the ground and I was able
to get up on it pretty easily and sit with Sarah. She LOVED the “horsey” and asked about going
on it again later in the week. Once the
ride stopped, it was time to get down.
The “horsey” that had been so easy to get on was now up about as high as
it could go. In addition to not bending
very well, I’m 5’1” on a good day, so a ‘high horse’ isn’t a good situation for
me. It took me a bit to figure out how I
was going to get off the horse. I
finally put one foot on the top level of the horse next to me and one on our
horse. Then, stepped down to the
next. Now, my problems was that I’m so
short, I can reach the bottom with my foot.
So finally, I put my knees on the bottom step and THEN was able to reach
the floor. It took way too long to get
off the horse on the carrousel.
Now, it was time for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. Sarah isn’t quite tall enough for this one
either, so again, we did rider swap.
Dakota and I rode it first. I
enjoyed this ride – it wasn’t too rough or wild, but was enjoyable and not too
boring either. Jon and Dakota rode next
and their picture from this ride was my favorite of all ride pictures we
had. They look like they are having the
best time ever on this ride.
Once we were done with Seven Dwarfs, we decided to start
heading out of the park, but I had one request – I wanted to stop and let Sarah
meet Tinkerbell on the way out. This
line was very deceiving. It looked like
a 15 minute line and I believe the time posted was something like 20-25
minutes. It felt like we were in that
line for 45 minutes and it moved SO SLOW! It was horrible. Some of us finally sat down on the ground
waiting. We finally entered into Pixie
Hollow and met Tink herself. She was
awesome. She was a much better character
than the princesses we’d met earlier in the day. Sarah was still a little scared and just kind
of stared at her. She did give her five
and as we were leaving, she wanted a Tinkerbell Barbie doll, which she got.
After Tinkerbell, we headed back to the room for a quick
rest. We had dinner reservations later that
night. The bus wait felt SO long. We were the first in line and I’m pretty sure
we waited over 30 minutes for a bus. As
I believe I mentioned before, standing still hurts my feet worse than walking
so this wait was no fun. We quickly
decided we would be driving more often than we’d originally planned. We finally got back to the room, rested, and
then got ready for dinner.
Our original plans were to take the bus to Magic Kingdom and
then the boat to Wilderness Lodge for dinner at Whispering Canyon Café. After
our bus adventure that afternoon, we’d decided instead of taking Disney
transportation, we’d drive to the Wilderness Lodge. We enjoyed the drive and learning our way
around the property a little better. Jon
described the Wilderness Lodge as looking like Lincoln Logs and he kind of had
a point. We arrived a little early and
had a bit of a wait but their sitting area in the lobby was so comfortable, we
didn’t mind the wait at all.
I cannot say enough good things about Whispering Canyon
Café. It was absolutely wonderful. We ordered the All You Can Eat Platter and it
was delicious. We ate so much that we
all decided to take our dessert back to the room with us for later. If you go, make sure to ask for ketchup. Sarah is still yelling “I NEED KETCHUP!”
After dinner, it was time to head back to the resort to
prepare for ANOTHER early morning on Tuesday.
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