Thursday was our day for early morning EMHs at Magic Kingdom. I love going early because we can do so many rides with little crowds, so I was hoping for the same success today. We went to OPR at 6:45am to find some breakfast. There was only 1 counter service open, the others would open at 7am. I wanted pancakes for the boys, but that counter was not open yet, and they said they didnt start making pancakes until 8am (made no sense to me!!). So, the boys had to get French toast and I got a breakfast platter with scrambled eggs. Not great, but just fine for a quickie breakfast.
We zipped off to TTC and took the monorail into MK. We arrived about 7:30am for the 8am opening. I was SHOCKED at how many people were already there!! Today we were heading straight to FantasyLand, maybe EMHs in summer would be more crowded. At rope drop, we hit Dumbo first since that one is so slow loading. Then did Peter Pan which already had a 15 minute wait, then went on Pooh ride which also had a 15 minute wait. Last we did Snow White. FantasyLand was pretty crowded so early in the morning.
We went into Tomorrowland and saw that Buzz Lightyear was out, so we got our picture with him before riding the Buzz ride and then got a FastPass for later. MJ and I took our picture in front of the castle, AJ didnt want to participate again.
We watched the 9:35am Dream Along With Mickey show at the castle. Last trip, MJ really wanted to see this show, but we only saw little portions of it. So today, I made sure we could watch the entire show. Its really cute. Not very crowded around the castle either.
We got in line for Big Thunder Mountain. The line for this was only 10 minutes, shorter than Peter Pan during EMHs how weird is that!!! So we are at the bottom of the loading area, next to get on the train cars and AJ says I need to go potty!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I cant believe this is happening again!!!! Given our recent experience peeing his pants waiting in line for Minnie at DHS, I knew we had to leave. MJ was so upset that his brother made us leave the ride. So we have to fight our way against all the people waiting to load, then ask the ride operator how to get out to the bathroom. Luckily, he gave us a fastpass to get back inside. So, off we run to the bathrooms near Splash Mountain. Then back into line again. My my, the things we have to do for our children!! The boys love BTM, and that made us all forget about AJ's pee-pee adventure.
On our way to AdventureLand, we saw Goofy. Id never seen him in these clothes before.
We tried to ride POTC but they said it was broken. So instead we did the Enchanted Tiki Room. The bird show is pretty funny. We watched the end of the Jack Sparrow Pirate Tutorial. MJ got picked at the end when they ask for extra volunteers to pledge to become pirates. He got a pirate certificate which he was thrilled to receive.
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