This was Magic Kingdom day and I get all teary eyed just thinking about it. Like most people, MK is my my favorite park. I really believe if I visited that park a million times in my life, I would still get that same overwhelming sense of happiness I get every time I enter Main Street. That probably sounds cheesy, but I just love that place! Sadly, I don't have a lot of pictures from this day because I had to recharge the batteries in my camera for most of the day.
Mom stayed at FW while the kids and I headed over. There were just a few of us on the boat, so the kids got to sit up front.
We would normally head straight to Space Mountain, as that is Gretchen's favorite ride, but since it was closed, we went to Buzz Lighyear's Space Ranger Spin. We shared some icecream and walked through Tomorrowland, Toontown Fair, and Fantasyland. Ther were some great opportunities for pics, but had no camera with me!
We then rode The Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain and looked through some shops. I HAD to get a Dole Whip (or whatever they're called) because I've heard so many good things about this treat and they are closed when we visit in the winter. But since it had not been too long since we had icecream, we decided to hit Big Thunder Mountain Railroad first. That ride had the longest wait time of any other ride we had ridden so far, but it was just 20 minutes, so we waited. Sure enough in 20 minutes we were "on". We're going along just fine when we get to the very tip top of the mountain and it stops. We joked that several of the rides that we had been on had momentarily stopped and we were beginning to wonder if it was us? We also joked of all times for me NOT to have my camera. (I even thought I might could show TCD up with some pics from where we were!) It was fun for a few minutes, but the angle we were in was not a great position. After what seemed like forever, though I'm sure it was less than 10-15 minutes, a CM climbed up to us and announced that the ride had closed and we were going to be escorted off. He was very nice until he sternly told us NO CAMERAS OR VIDEOS!
Immediately some kids took out their cameras and began taking pictures. He very sternly told them that he would take their cameras away! (I don't know why, but for some reason, I was reminded of TCD again.
) The trek was not overly interesting other than being able to say that we got to see behind, around, over, and under the attraction.
By then, I really needed that Dole thingy so that was our next stop. Well, good time of day, we could have shared one because of it's size and the fact that we had just had some icecream, but I wanted my own! It was great, but the sugar overload had made me nauseous. It was lunch time anyway, so we headed back to the camper for lunch and to pick up Grammy. I don't think I have mentioned yet that one of the reasons my Mom did not go with us to the parks in the morning is because she is addicted to the Young and the Restless. So while my schedule had revolved around ADR's the last 3 trips, this year, it revolved aound Y&R!
I'll be back for a continuation of this day. It involves the funniest moment of the trip, though it's one of those "you had to be there" to get the full effect...or is it affect. I always get confused with those two words.
and your do'n very well on your report.
you did say you had 300 pictures , right ? 
. Thanks.
I'll be 36 in a couple of weeks and one thing I know for sure about my Mama, I ain't gonna change her...ever. We all have to take the bad with the good. I knew going into this trip that our schedule would revolve around her or I wouldn't have invited her. She loves to camp, but has always been very negative about WDW. In fact, she didn't want to go to the parks, but the kids begged her relentlessly. We went back and forth over how many days to get on her tickets and finally decided that if she just went and "scootered" through each park and came back to the camper, she could at least say that she went. She has a long list of ailments with RA being her biggest problem, so we never know from one day to the next what her physical state will be. Going for a few hours in the afternoon must have worked well for her because she did way better than I expected her to! And to boot, she loved it! She wants to go back and stay 2 weeks next time. Her plan of action is to go to each park 2 days in a row and rest 1 day in between.
I'll be on that trip too!
All of us have quirks that may not bother us, but drive others crazy!!
