Happy Saturday Everyone!!! It is to be fairly nice today, so hopefully we will get out of the house and do something outside! Of course I hate when it does this, as it will be 73 today and then 48 on Monday! YUCK!
Day Two: Magic Kingdom - Part One
Today we were headed to Magic Kingdom. We try to make it our first stop of the trip, or at least the first full day!
Day Two MK Plan
California Grill was going to be new to us, I was excited about it but the rest of the family didn't know what to expect. And we really wanted to meet Phineas and Ferb, which I thought was to be our on Saturdays.
Would we meet Phinease and Ferb?
Would we try the Mint Julep?
How would we like dinner?
This was our "plan" for the day. I wanted to make sure we had time to come back and swim, so I said we should try and get there for rope drop. We woke up around 7:00 and slowly got moving. Although Morgan had tried to get up at 5:30AM! I made her go back to sleep!
Tinkerbell Gifts_Day Two
Tink always seems to leave a bunch of stuff on the first day! The water bottles I bought last summer when Target had the big Disney line. And I think I had the mad libs leftover from a road trip or something.
The girls got up and checked out there goodies and we got ready to go. I tried using the app to find out the bus time, but we couldn't get out in time for the one bus, but we headed out to grab the next one. And of course we waited quit a bit for the next one to arrive.
Morgan used the time to start writing in her journal while we waited.
A bus did come eventually, and we were off! Bag Check wasn't too bad this morning, our last trip we had a few days with just a sea of people. But of course, I managed to get behind this man with a backpack that I swear had a million pockets. It took FOREVER!!! Even Gwen said something after about how many pockets he had! Ha!
It was 9:00 on the dot, so there wasn't too many people at the tapstiles. So, we went straight in!
Tinkerbell Gifts_Day Two
My time stamps says 9:00 on the dot that I took this picture. So, not too bad, I guess.
Morgan & Gwen
I made the girls pose, but there was lots of people taking picutres and not photo pass person. So, not really centered....
Morgan, Gwen & Andy
And proof that Andy is on the trip as well! Ha.
We quickly headed in and down Main Street.
Castle
The good thing about coming now, was that all the folks waiting were already heading in, so it wasn't too crowded as we walked.
We stopped for a Castle photo, as there was a guy with no line.
Magic Kingdom_Balloon Castle_01
Magic Kingdom_Balloon Castle_01
I remembered this CM, we had our picture taken with him before. He had tried to get a cute picture of the girls with the stuffed animals that they had and they were AWFUL!!!!
Thankfully, these were ok-ish...
Magic Kingdom_Balloon Castle_01
But there was this one where we were to make funny faces... We might need to work on that...
Magic Kingdom_Balloon Castle_01
And Think photo bombed us... or well Andy specifically...
We decided to head to Adventureland first this time.
Adventureland
We hopped onto the Magic Carpets, as this is a ride we would never get a fast pass for or wait in line for really.
Camel Butt
This was our view while waiting for the ride to get started... hmmm.. Camel butt.
We got right on and the girls picked the carpet.
Carpets - Mo&G
Carpets - Mo & G
We were ready to go!
Magic Carpets
Do you see Gwen's just got married button? It's her favorite one...
Agraba
Look how nice and empty it was! (It didn't stay that way for sure)
Our carpet wasn't working on the tilting but that was fine. At least the girls got to make it go up and down. I don't think they camel was spitting at the ride just yet.
Camels Spit
So, Gwen got her fill after... (Also, note, that Morgan had no interest in getting wet this early. Add it to the She is becoming a teen column.)
We headed to Jungle Cruise next. There was a little bit of a line, but it looked like it was going straight out, not wrapping. But it also wasn't moving. Then we heard that there was a CM training in a boat and they had to complete the loop before they would let another boat go. Which probably wasn't going to be too long, but we decided to go ride Pirates next instead.
Pirates of Caribbean
Pirates said a 5 mintues wait, but really that was just the time to walk to the load area.
Gwen is not a fan of this ride. And we always drag her on, as I allow the girls to veto (1) ride per trip. And as much as Gwen doesn't like this ride, she has one she hates more.
Skeliton
This first scene might be the whole reason she doesn't like the ride.
Magic Kingdom_Pirates_Feb 23rd_01
But as you can see in this beauty of a ride photo. Gwen has taken to just closing her eyes for the 1 couple scenes.... And then she is fine. I guess I didn't tell Andy about the ride photo. Oops!
Red head
Once we get past that one section, Gwen is totally fine with the ride. And this time, I think she might have actually enjoyed it. And I know there are lots of people who don't like the changed scene.
But take it for this. Unprompted, Gwen said the following statements:
- First, she said that this is different than it used to be right?
- Then, she said, I like that the Red Head Lady gets to be in Charge.
So, I agree that it didn't need to change. But the change is being noticed by little girls! So, take it for that! Gwen has girl power!
After our ride, we tried to go get the breakfast of champions, Dole Whips! But they weren't open till 10:00. Boo.
So, we headed over to Jungle Cruise, a line had built a little by then, but I figured by the time we were done, we could get those Dole Whips!
I do like his way of thinking!
They aren't as soft and often taste......more....burnt, maybe just well done? More like an authentic bavarian pretzel but not like the Mickey pretzels 
I've read a few of your past trip reports and was excited to see this one, especially with the girls' notes added! I didn't do a trip report for our trip last April (I meant to...but other things got in the way 
) - if I had, I would have mentioned that one of our favorite experiences was riding the double decker bus down Main Street before MK officially opened - something I never would have thought of if I hadn't seen it in one of your reports!! (I would love to find a picture of it to share but I think we might only have video?) Anyway, I just wanted to say hi, and thank you so much for sharing!
JG Shack 
Jungle Cruise Skipper 
Jungle Cruise Family 
Jungle Cruise Boats 
Back Side of Water 
JG Elephants 
Elephant Butt
Dole Whips 
Dole Whips The cute new mickey and Minnie cups had just come out. 
Morgan Dole Whip 
Gwen Dole Whip Float 
Secret Location
Gwen 
Gwen 
Morgan & Gwen 
I'm really enjoying their contribution to the report. You're starting them early. I'm going to try to keep up and look forward to more.
