Today was our Magic Kingdom day, yay!!
Based on the crowd calendars, the "best" day for MK had
finally arrived. We love MK, so by this point we really were excited to get there!
However, since this was Day #5 of our trip, I think all the excitement and walking was starting to get to us, and we were pretty tired.
So, we planned on (hopefully) taking it at a slightly slower pace today! Ha!
We had just two basic goals for Magic Kingdom this year:
1- Ride Rides.
2- See New Fantasyland.
3- Get Citrus Swirls and/or Dole Whips.
(not necessarily in that order!)
We grabbed a quick on-the-go breakfast at Captain Cooks, and headed out.. On the way to the dock, we passed by the volcano pool.. so pretty!
It was supposed to be pretty nice today (high of 68), but we were wishing it was a tiny bit warmer for swimming!
At this point so early in the morning, it was pretty darn chilly!! brr. Come on sunshine...
We probably should've ridden the Monorail over to MK, but we really enjoy the boat ride over, so we chose it instead. I guess we'll just sacrifice freezing for scenery!
About half-way through our journey, we realize that maybe this wasn't the best decision ever........ brr!!!!
But soon enough, we are approaching the MK dock, yay!!
Look , there's the warm Monorail !
We get inside the park, onto Main Street, spot the Photopass photographer..... and...... REALIZE WE DON'T HAVE OUR PP+ LANYARD!!!!!!!!!! OMG !!!!!
It's back in our hotel room. arghhhhhh.
After we take turns blaming each other for whose fault this was
, we decide that ALL of us will be going back to get it. We don't want our money to go to waste, and of course we're sure there will be lots of photos we will want to have taken today.... arghhhhhhh. DBF decides DS cannot be "in charge" of the lanyard anymore after the Everest incident, and now this.... So that puts DS into silent pout-mode. Oh great! I hope it's not going to be THIS kind of day!
Sooo, out the gates we go. Do we pick the warm Monorail this time? Heck no! The boat is at the dock ready and waiting, so we chose it again.
Look on the bright side --- we get the WHOLE boat to ourselves!!
(Naturally there are exactly ZERO people
LEAVING the park at 9:00am!)
Going back to our room...
Hey, at least it's a scenic walk, right guys..? Hello..? Guys???
umm, I'll just wait for you guys right over here.....
So, the lanyard was retrieved, and NOW we go back to the boat dock.
We get the same boat captain (who makes fun of us), and we set sail yet again..
Goodbye Poly, I mean it this time!
This boat ride was actually kind of fun.. Since we were the ONLY ones on the boat again, the captain started telling us all sorts of old trivia about the Electric Water Parade and then showed us the remains of the old "wave machine" that used to run back when WDW was new. That was a really interesting bit of trivia that we really enjoyed hearing about!
And here we are back in the park again..... phew!
Not exactly the best way to start our morning!!!!!
We got a lot of rides accomplished pretty quickly... Luckily, the crowds were pretty nice so far!
We love to compare rides between WDW and DL..
Here's a few we came up with:
Space, small world, Pirates, Teacups - better in DL
Jungle, Haunted Mansion - better in WDW
Lunch today was here:
We don't eat burgers all that often , but we couldn't pass up coming back to this place again, because the fixin's bar is definitely the place to be! The sauteed mushrooms and onions....... yummy!
Oh, and don't forget "a couple" tubs of yummy warm "plastic cheese"....
DS had the pork sandwich again. On our last trip, he declared this sandwich to be "life-changing" (his words.. he cracks us up!) However, for some reason this time, he said it didn't change his life. What?! Say it isn't so!!
DBF said he was
thoroughly disappointed in DS's excitement level about this sandwich compared to last time, and if he didn't start getting more excited about things, we were going to ship him home right away!
Frontierland shooting gallery = Tradition
We decided to go check out Tom Sawyer Island. We've done it before at DL, but never at WDW. It actually surprised us with how fun it was over there!!
We really enjoyed exploring all the caves, forts, bridges, etc.
Way better than DL. We were so glad we went over there!
(continued in part two.........)