We ride IASW and then head over to Tomorrowland to ride Buzz Lightyear. We ride twice and both times I beat Jerry ... even the one time I had Elizabeth on my lap!! I scored 200K+ and 380K+.
Then we ride the Wedway/People Mover/TTA. I nurse Elizabeth and then Rachel wants to ride it again, so we just stay on. This is a great ride to just relax on. Here is a cute pic of Elizabeth on it.
We go back and do Buzz LIghtyear again.
In Sept 07, Rachel got a photo with Zurg
In May 08, she was too scared.
Now, in Nov 09, she was ok with doing it again.
More crazy hats
You can see that MK is not really crowded in November!
It's almost 3pm so we stake out a spot over by Country Bears to watch the parade. Rachel and Elizabeth were big hits with the characters. Almost every one of them came by and shook their hands! Rachel was in heaven.
Here are some shots that I like of the parade. This was the first time for all of us to see this parade. Goal #3 was met.
(Other goals were Tom Sawyer Island and Big Thunder).
There's something about this photo that I just liked.
We decide to head over to Toontown to ride Goofy's Barnstormer and see the characters. Along the way we met a street artist/maintenance worker who was making this and he let Rachel help him. She really liked it!
It's time for Elizabeth to have solids so Jerry and Rachel ride Barnstormer and I find a place to feed her. I had this great spot, no one around, a bench all to myself down by the train station. Then I realize that I'm next to the smoker's area and someone is smoking and the wind is blowing all the smoke right to us. ARGH! No wonder it was an empty bench.
I find a spot on the sidewalk right outside the big tent and feed Elie. Jerry joins and we switch off. Rachel and I go to the playground, through Mickey/Minnie's houses
I ask Rachel what she'd like to do next ... more rides or go back to the room to rest. She chooses go back to the room.
What 4 yo says that?!?
Oh well, we can use a rest and can come back for EMH tonight. However, as we start to leave, Rachel says what about Belle's Storytime. If you recall, this was one of the goals Rachel had for MK. So we check the schedule and a show is starting in 3 minutes. We race over to the show...there is SRO in the back so Jerry and Rachel go in and Elie and I watch from the side. Rachel wants to meet Belle afterwards but the line is long so ...
we go to Toontown to get in line to meet the princesses. The line was 20 minutes. The line for the faires was 45 minutes so Jerry's goal of meeting the fairies was not met.
Well you aren't allowed strollers inside and Elizabeth fell asleep on me. But I still wanted her to "meet" Cinderella.
Next was Snow White. I like the "moment" shot here.
and the posed one
Next up is Aurora. They share a laugh.
And the posed picture
Finally, I had to let Sleeping Beauty meet Sleeping Beauty:
Aurora asked if she could give Elie a kiss. I said sure! Look closely at her forehead:
By now it's dinnertime so we eat at Cosmic Rays. Then we go back to see if the line for the Fairies is less...nope, still 45 minutes, so Jerry takes Elie to change her diaper and I take Rachel to go ride Peter Pan. But the line is 30 minutes. However, Winnie the Pooh is only 5 minutes, so we ride that instead.
Jerry calls and says Elie had a 'blow out' and needs a new outfit. Jerry cleans her up and puts her in the spare outfit and meets Rachel and I at the playground. Jerry picks Elie out of the stroller and Elie spits up all over his shorts, sneaker and her spare outfit.
So I quickly run into the WtP shop to find a 2nd spare outfit, without Winnie the Pooh on it, of course. Thankfully, it's only $9!! She immediately falls asleep.
Rachel is enjoying the playground .. there is only 1 or 2 other kids in it. Then the fireworks start so we go over and ride Dumbo (only had to wait for one turn) and watch the fireworks. Then Jerry and Rachel go on Cinderella's Carousel.
By this time, it's really getting cool. I'm cold, the girls are cold and of course in the 3 hours we had to prepare this morning, I forgot to grab the jackets.
We head toward the castle and it's all lit up for Christmas -- just gorgeous!! Here are some photos.
I just really love looking at the castle with the Christmas lights. So you guys get a bunch of photos of this.
The girls had fallen asleep by now. Extra Magic Hours has begun and the park is soooo empty!! I so want to stay and we would have, since the girls were asleep anyway, but darn, I forgot those jackets!!
Here is Rachel keeping Elizabeth warm with her skirt.
We walk back down Main Street ... folks are coming into the park but it's not crowded at all. Oh, what a great time to ride the rides -- too bad we are going in the wrong direction.
I stop to get some candy from the Candy place. We walk back to BLT, I nurse Elie and Jerry puts Rachel to bed.
Night time is just somehow rougher when you are sick. Elizabeth starts to get a deep, phlemy cough and is up 2x during the night.
At one point, her head feels hot, she has a slight fever of 100-101, so we give her infant tylenol. She is fussy so we prop up some pillows (BLT actually had a bunch of pillows for the bed) and let her sleep with us. We figure she'll sleep better if she is propped up so she doesn't get as much drainage settling into her lungs.
Today was a good day overall (with a couple of big bumps in the road). I'm worried about Elizabeth's cough. I'm sad that this trip is not going as well as it could. I'm not sure what to do tomorrow. We were supposed to go to DHS but if Elie gets worse we shouldn't go. I'm feeling like we haven't done that much.
Hmmm, what happens tomorrow??
That looks like a really cool stroller that you guys got from the swap. And Jerry did a great job getting those night shots. Especially the one of Space Mountain. Very smokey and spooky and cool
it! It was a great brunch combination. Rachel really enjoyed it too.
