florida trip- part 4. (magic kingdom daytime)
Here’s the first half of the 14 and a 1/2 hour day at Disney. Yes, really. Fourteen and a half hours. In one day. You gotta love Disney. It can kill you, but you gotta love it! At least we got our moneys worth out of the park tickets.
I was able to snag last second reservations for the Crystal Palace breakfast at 8:10am on Saturday morning (when I originally tried getting them, they were all booked but the concierge told me to come back just before 10pm the night before when people get back from the park all exhausted and cancel for the early reservations they had. He was right, and it all worked out).
So the Beyrer family was up at 7am, out the door of the All Star Sports resort by about 7:30am and parked, thru the gates and into the Magic Kingdom by 8:07am, to make our 8:10 reservations for breakfast with Pooh & friends. Please let me just point out that I am NEVER up by 7am, only under the most dire of circumstances. And if I am up at that ungodly hour, then I am the crabbiest you know what that rhymes with witch. But at Disney, I’m up and ready to go! Something in the air there…
The thing about getting that very (very) early breakfast reservation is that they only let the people with reservations in- the park is closed. You can’t go into any of the lands, or thru the castle. But you can still get those empty park shots that I just love! And seeing the castle for the first time each visit—well, I’m home!!! (and after winning the castle suite stay in 2007, I really CAN say that I’m home!)
It was pretty cold out in the morning -around 45 degrees, but was supposed to warm up into the lower 60’s. Good park weather and I think the cold keeps a lot of people away til later.
So we had breakfast and jumped in full force to a LONG day in the Magic Kingdom. Went to Tommorrowland first where we all went on Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin (do I even need to say who’s favorite ride this is?). The park was empty and we just walked on. Then I took the big boys over to Space Mountain at their request (man, they’ve come a long way!) where we also just walked right on while Daddy took Timmy on Buzz 3 more times. Headed over to the Tommorrowland Speedway where we also walked right on (all of this walking on is really unheard of on a Saturday during February break and I was wondering hoping if it would be like this all day). Timmy rode with me while Jack and Patrick took their own cars. Jack’s driving and you can just make out the top of Patrick’s head in the car behind.
Left Tommorrowland (returning later in the day) and zipped over to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Timmy bravely said he would go, but he was like 1/2 and inch too short. He was very dissapointed as were we, but Jack, Patrick and I pressed on and only waited about 2 minutes in line. We even lucked out and got the last car on the “train”. The last one is the best as it’s the fastest and bumpiest. We were having a blast. And let me tell you that it is NOT easy taking pictures while on a rollercoaster. I bashed myself in the face numerous times with the giant camera. But it was so worth it!
Next onto Pirates of the Carribean (or carribeada per Timmy last year) where we only waited 5 minutes. But that was the last of that. The locusts invaded the park around 11:30am or so, and then it was packed the rest of the day. Packed.
We rode everything we wanted to though (Jungle Cruise, Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, it’s a small world, the “people mover” in Tommorrowland, The Carousel of Progress where John snored away, the Teacups, The Laugh Floor) except for Alladin’s Magic Carpets, the carousel and Dumbo). Timmy even rode his very first rollercoaster- Goofy’s barnstormer and LOVED it! We took a second ride on the Speedway and Timmy drove, hysterically laughing the whole time.
No trip to Disney would be complete without seeing the Mouse.
We saw Push the talking Garbage can and he said he remembered us from last year. We love Push. Who woulda thought you could have a whole conversation with a garbage (or “gwabage” in Timmyspeak) can?!
Had lunch at the Harbor House- yum. And just loved being in Disney. I started feeling sick to my stomach during the afternoon (hence the shortage of pictures) but felt better toward the end of the day. Sucked it up though, cause we were at Disney and it was only for one day! Sucked it up hard enough to even go on the Teacups. Without puking!
We stopped by City Hall to see if we could find Daniel or Jeff- our tour guides from when we stayed in the Castle suite. Jeff wasn’t working, but Daniel was going to be there, but not inside the park. Last year we went to visit them and they were so nice, giving us tons of “free” fastpasses to use at anytime anywhere that day in the MK. I told them how hard it was going back to being a regular “schlub” in the park, waiting on lines, after staying in the castle and getting to skip all the lines and ride rides as many times in a row as we’d like. So this year (even though they weren’t there) I asked one of the other guys (who I didn’t know and didn’t know me) if he happened to have a few free fastpasses lying around. He gave us 10!! See, never hurts to ask. And that is just another reason I will never, ever stop going to Disney. Can’t beat that kind of service.
Tommorrow, be on the lookout for the nighttime/fireworks pictures. They’re good.
