WOO HOO another open to close park. Well almost open.
This morning starts out like every single morning on this trip. HOT sunny and HOT. Apparently were in the middle of some heat wave (figures) but we move on and head over to the Poly for breakfast.
The Kona Café I love this place. We received a table by the tram window which was great. Out of the sun and a wonderful view of the plants and monorail. Cassie ordered the Mickey pancakes (Patrick added the eyes and mouth), I had the Tonga Toast (TO DIE FOR) and Patrick had the Big Kona Breakfast and yes he finished everything. Sooooo good.
Before long we were walking through the gates at Magic Kingdom and this time Cassie stayed awake. The plan was to head straight over to ToonTown to see Tinkerbell and her friends but we got side tracked by the show going on at the castle. We had missed the beginning and I suggested that we not stay to see it but come back later when we could see the entire thing good thing Cassie said she wanted to stay because we never did get back to see it. Fireworks are much better at night but it was a good show.
When it was over we headed right over to Pixie Hallow. There really werent any signs (at least we couldnt see any) and had to ask where they were. (FYI they are in between Mickey and Minnies houses)
The line for Tinkerbelle, Silvermist and Fawn was 45 minutes while the Princess line was only 15 minutes. Its so cool how you get sprinkled with pixie dust and actually shrink to the size of the fairys to fit into their world. I have a really cute video of Cassie waving her arms like wings while she flies into Pixie Hollow. Silvermist was first up and she actually had to come and get Cassie. They had a lovely conversation before posing for pictures and Cassie being directed over to Tinkerbell. They all were wonderful with Cassie and Tinkerbelle even promised to frame one of Cassandras drawings if she sent it to her. (so cute)
After we left and grew to normal size (hummm I think they didnt give me enough pixie dust because I still feel shorter) we jumped over to the Princess line and walked right up to the front (I cant believe no one was in line). Yes weve already met them all, had breakfast and dinner with them but whats another meeting right? It was wonderful. Cassie was the only one in there so she had their undivided attention for over 5 minutes. I know a lot of people seem rushed but if you get lucky you can feel like youre a princess and if you ask Cassie shell say she spent the day with them which made me feel sooo warm and fuzzy LOL.
Minnie and Mickeys houses were next on our tour (makes sense since they were right beside us). I have to say I preferred Minnies house over Mickeys. Minnies was a playground for kids of all ages. Mickeys was a museum. The kids thought that too. Minnies house was packed Mickeys was empty. You couldnt touch anything and they had alarms that went off if you leaned too far over the rope to take a picture.
Cassandra was getting cranky so we figured a trip on the train would be good that is until she fell asleep and we had to go around twice before giving up and getting off in Adventure land. Boy its getting harder and harder to carry her around when she falls asleep.
During the nap, Patrick decided he wanted to go on Thunder Mountain. Fine by me since I dont ride roller coasters and since Cassie was sleeping there was no better time. This was followed by making our way to a good spot to watch the afternoon parade. The first and only parade we manage to get to.
While we were waiting for the parade to start (and Cassandra to wake up) I noticed something going on behind me. Someone was sitting in the chair that was for the artists painting or so I thought. I couldnt figure out what was going on until I glanced across the little walk way and spotted the artist quickly working away. Not painting or drawing but cutting. What on earth is this?
What it was is FANTASTIC.
This was done in ohhhhh about 5 minutes. Amazing. And it didnt cost that much either. $7 or $8 per person in the picture and $7 or $8 for the frame. AND I got 2 copies and just had to buy another frame. A great souvenir.
I also took a picture of my favourite view of the castle. I just love the reflection in the stream. So peacefull. Its this view that Im thinking of for a tattoo on my lower back.
I created a 2 minute montage of the parade. Enjoy.
Lunch at the Plaza Restaurant followed by Buzz Lightyear and the Country Bears. Neither of of these we had been to before.
Lunch was ok nothing special, even the service was just ok. Buzz Lightyear was so fun and
yup you guessed it, Cassie made us ride it twice. Country Bears was fun. Never seen it before. We all enjoyed it.
We headed over to Splash Mountain where the posted time was 20 minutes but we flew up the walk way. Dont think they updated the wait time because it was only about 5 minutes. We were split on this ride. Cassie and I at the back and Patrick 2 rows up.
This was the LONGEST ride of my life. Ive had flights to Europe that didnt last as long. Ok a little exaggeration but holy cow.
So we start the ride and are about half way through when we stop. For about 10 minutes, when we started again it wasnt for very long before we stopped again. Another 5 or 6 minutes go buy and were on our way. Only to stop again and again and again. Our longest stop was being the second boat at the bottom of the run up to the big drop. If I never see these damn birds again Ill be happy.
Strolled on over to Pirates of the Caribbean and with another walk through we were on the ride. Just about the time it ended I realized we didnt see Davy Jones and asked if that was just in the DL ride. Nope it was broken down so we didnt get to see it and didnt make it back another day to see if they fixed it.
oh well
Off to the Jungle Cruise followed by Wishes.
Up next Epcot