Day 8 Continued: Saturday October 27th
When I left off, we had spent the morning at Animal Kingdom and had returned to Bonnet Creek for a nap. DS woke up around 4, a little later than we had typically been letting him nap because we were planning to stay out at the park a little later too and wanted him to be well rested.
We parked around 4:30 and took the monorail over. There were some Photopass photographers out by the train station, so we stopped for a quick picture before entering the park.
Our first stop was to pick up more SotMK cards for DH at the old fire station.
As we were leaving with our new packs of cards, we stumbled upon the Flag Ceremony that happens at 5 pm. We had come in on the middle of it while in
Disneyland, but since we were catching it from the beginning this time, I wanted to stay and watch.
If you are in the park at this time, highly recommend you check this out! It's a really special moment that I don't think very many people know happens.
After the ceremony, we made our way to Adventureland. The park was pretty packed already because it was one of the only non-party nights so a lot of people were there with the same agenda as us, I assume, to see MSEP and Wishes. However, we figured Jungle Cruise or PotC might have a manageable wait. Wrong! JC was at 50 minutes and PotC was at 35! Had it been just myself and DH, we probably could have braved a 35 minute wait for Pirates, but not with DS. So we did the next best thing and let him play around the pirate goodies near the Pirate's League. He loved it!
Once we got him away from there, we decided to try and play a game of SotMK in Frontierland, but there were long lines at the portals there too, and DS was not being too patient with us for playing. We realized the riverboat was just about to leave, so we thought that might be a fun distraction...until we noticed a smell emanating from DS. He had gone #2 and been so nice as to leak out onto his jeans! We ran down just as they were closing the gates and begged them to let us off to take care of the diaper emergency, and luckily they did.
So now we were 3 for 3 on missing rides, so what to do? Have some dinner, I guess. We were in Frontierland, so the logical choice was Pecos Bill's! This is what Frontierland was looking like that time of day.
We tried getting DS a kids burger with fries and applesauce, but he wouldn't touch the burger and only ate the sides. DH and I both got burgers too, and took advantage of that toppings bar! Yum!
With still plenty of time before the nighttime happenings and obviously long lines all around, we were kind of at a loss for what to do. We decided to head over to Tomorrowland and hope we could at least go for a ride on the TTA! As we approached, we came across the dance party happening and stopped to see if we could get DS to dance any, but he mostly just enjoyed watching everyone else.
After a few minutes at the dance party, we turned to board the TTA (Peoplemover, whatever!) and actually had to wait in a line, albeit a short one. Still something we have never encountered on that attraction!
DS wasn't too crazy about some of the dark parts of the attraction, but otherwise he seemed to enjoy the relaxing ride around Tomorrowland as much as we did! DH took at least 100 pictures while we were on this ride (not kidding!) so I had to choose just a few to share.
Dance party!
When we passed this, DS pointed and yelled, "Rocket!" We didn't even know he knew that word!
Pretty Castle! But OMG look at all those people in the hub!!!
One of the best images of Progress City DH has managed yet!
He was just as excited to pass it up the second time!
His first "big boy" ride from up above
Can never get enough pictures of that beauty, right?
As we were exiting the TTA, DH and I started wondering out loud how DS would do through a showing of one of our favorite attractions, Carousel of Progress. It's kind of on the longer side, and there is really no escaping it once it starts without messing it up for other people inside. But with no real other options and the theater loading in less that 5 minutes, we decided to brave it.
We were both so impressed with how well DS did!! A couple of times he tried to wiggle down onto the floor, but other than that, he was awesome! I think he actually maybe enjoyed it like we do, so it must be in the blood! lol
After a few more minutes at the dance party, we took our last look around Tomorrowland and started making our way to Storybook Circus.
Continued in next post...
Paxton's version is cute.
One day -- maybe -- fingers crossed.
