Day 5 Continued: Wednesday October 24th
After a fun breakfast with Pooh & Friends at Crystal Palace, we had just met up with DH outside the restaurant (after he had gone on a FP run for Peter Pan) and were deciding what we wanted to do. We thought about going to Fantasyland, the obvious choice, but then remembered DS was finally tall enough to ride something with a height restriction. So his first attraction as a 2 year old was...
I know, so exciting, right? But we had fun trying to get him to stand up straight to be measured for the first time, and figured we might as well ride it while it was still early before the line got too long. Nonni & Poppi wanted to sit out, so they went up to the stands while we went to get measured. After confirming DS was tall enough to ride, the CM gave DS a driver's license!
My mom tried unsuccessfully to get a picture of the three of us before we took off, so I was a little annoyed about that, but didn't let it get to me too much. DH was driving, DS was excited, and I was taking pictures of the scenery we passed.
DS seemed to really like it! I think he would be more into it now that he is crazy about race cars. When we are sitting at red lights, he will yell out, "Two...one...GO!"
Managed to take an arm-out photo of the three of us, even though you can't see the car!
After that thrilling "race" we headed to the Mad Tea Party since it's right there, but I convinced DH to stop for Alice & the White Rabbit first! He didn't want to since they didn't have a page in the book, but we had a generic page at the back that I didn't want to leave empty. And the line was not long, so we waited patiently.
Quickly enough, it was our turn!
Talking to Alice and showing her his shirt!
"Are you two?"
"Do you know today is my unbirthday?"
White Rabbit must have thought the whole generic page was for him because he signed his name HUGE! lol
Photopass caught this, not sure what he was doing but I thought it was funny!
He really loved meeting Alice & the White Rabbit, and luckily no meltdown over the book! We were off to a much better start now. We stopped right there for a diaper change, then decided we'd rather head over to Winnie the Pooh for a ride and save the Mad Tea Party for later.
Somehow, DS ended up with Nonni's sunglasses on and was having a blast running around playing in the queue for Winnie the Pooh. It just all seemed 10x funnier with those glasses on his face!
Checking to see if Piglet was home
He saw the vegetables and said, "Apple!" as he tried to pick one up!
We took a couple of videos of him playing as well if you are interested. He was really having a blast!
When we went to join up with DH and Poppi in the line, the little boy behind us proclaimed that we had cut the line! lol His mom explained we had been playing in the play area, then looked at my mom and said, "Preschool rules!" It was pretty funny, and no one was mad.
We sat down in our honeypot, and that's when I noticed the smell. Uhhh, DS, we were not being literal when talking about Pooh! So we "enjoyed" a very smelly ride on Winnie the Pooh.
Continued in next post...
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I definitely don't mind it though, we have had 2 great breakfasts at Crystal Palace the last couple of trips! The food & character interactions have been wonderful, and you just can't beat that time in MK before it gets crowded for the day. 
) we will end up taking on a CP breakfast again. We've only done breakfast once, in 2009. I'm not a big fan of TS breakfasts as (1) least efficient use of DDP (2) loss of prime park time and (3) I fell more ripped off at paying Disney prices for bacon and eggs than most lunch/dinner choices. That said, We may try it anyways.
I always love some good french toast, so I've got to try it sometime. 
