After our early night, we got up at 6.30 and were waiting for the bus to Magic Kingdom at 8am. Just after 8.30 we met up with mum and dad, and we watched the opening ceremony with them - they had never seen this before, so they really enjoyed it!
Mum had mentioned that she really wanted to ride the Tomorrowland speedway, so we decided this would be the day we rode some of the more unusual rides that none of us had before. As we were in the area, we had to pick up FPs for Buzz, as it is one of Carl's favourites, then we got in line for the speedway, where we were taken through the disabled entrance. It wasn't easy for mum to get in the car as it is quite low down, but she did manage it - luckily it was still very quiet at that point! Mum rode with Carl and I rode with Dad. I have to say, driving those little cars was a lot more difficult than I had imagined
When we got off the ride, mum and I were awarded our Tomorrowland driving licenses
Next we went back to Buzz but there was no queue so we walked straight through the standby line. We were taken to the exit to make it easier for mum to get on, which meant we had to wait a short while. I didn't get a very good score at all, and mum decided that she prefers TSMM - no surprise there!
Our second 'new' ride of today was the Astro Orbiters. When we got up onto the platform it became clear that mum would never be able to climb into the vehicle but instead she stayed on the platform and watched the 3 of us ride. It was surprising how high it went - you get a really good view from up there
By the time we got off the ride it was 9.50, and time for us to go to our Ohana reservation. On the way down Main Street some of the characters were out and about, and we were accosted by Miss Inge, who thought we were wonderful and started parading us around and announcing to everyone that we were "The Brownsvilles, the newlyweds." SHe then asked us to help her find Miss Hildegarde, but we hadn't seen her since the opening ceremony. She also got Carl to explain to a young girl how he had wooed me, and commented that she needed to find a man just like him!! Eventualy we had to excuse ourselves (after about 10 minutes!) as we had to get to breakfast.
We took the monorail to the Polynesian and were greeted really well. We were given leis and talked through the tradition of putting them on each other in order to have good luck etc.
During the actual meal Stitch was great fun, as were Lilo, Mickey and Pluto. The quality of the food was also very good but unfortunately we had the worst server we've ever had at DIsney. He was very rushed and barely spoke to us. Until we asked for one, he didn't bring us our fruit, and we were afraid to ask for more of anything else. After we'd only been there 30 minutes the bill was sitting on our table when we'd still only seen Stitch out of all the characters! My mum went and spoke to someone about the quality of the service, and we didn't leave any additional tip - unfortunately we had 18% added automatically from Tables in Wonderland, although we wouldn't have given that much through choice.
After breakfast Carl and I went back to the Magic Kingdom and used our FPs for Buzz - this time we both got much better scores! Although it was now nearly midday we thought we would go to Toontown and check the queue for the Fairies, but it was over an hour as we suspected it might be, and we decided to try on a day when we were there before 10am. We looked through the County Bounty store briefly and Carl had fun pretending to be Stitch!
While in the area, we checked the Teardrop and waited for about ten minutes to see if any characters appeared, but none did, so we got the train back to Main Street. We sat at the back and had a lovely chat with the conductor. Once back in Main Street we went into the Emporium so that he could buy a couple of bits of golf merchandise that he had had his eye on. He also bought the watch which was on special offer (I think it was $10 if you spend over $30 or something similar).
We headed out of the park, and saw the POFQ bus at the stop so ran the last distance - the driver was very sweet, and said there was no way she would leave without the newlyweds! Once back at the resort, we chilled in our room for an hour before we decided to head over to our next stop - one night at AKL!!
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We loved our photos from Randy so much we want to do a resort photo shoot with him at Christmas 
