Magic kingdom day 2: (5 days in)
We were keeping an exhausting pace and we managed to get out of bed with the help fo the coffee maker and donuts- which we finished off today for breakfast.
We made it by 7 am to the bus, but again we were the last people to make the bus - lucky- the line formed quickly behind us at the hour to opening mark.
We saw some characters welcoming us in, but we had a ride to catch.
As it was 7:45ish ( around 30 minutes to get from the hotel to here) it was too late for 7 Dwarfs whose line was already an hour long.
We made a right instead.
We literally walked on SM. That was probably the one and only time that will ever happen for us!
By the time we were done we decided we should hit up the short lines in Fantasyland. We started with Peter pan and then did SW.
The potty had to be visited, so my husband and daughter headed for the carousel while the other three of us used to facilities. We rejoined them right as they excited the ride and then went to Winnie the Pooh which we had yet to ride.
But look no line at popcorn!

Daddy got some only to eat a handful before having to close it while we waited the ten minutes in line. The line was cute, but it was Pooh. The kids didn’t even try to look at the options in the store. They are too cool for Pooh now.
We hadn’t done the teacups yet either so the kids asked and we had to oblige. You can see who sat it out in the background...Babies!
There was a lull in the 7 Dwarfs’ line that meant we decided to get in line. So the kids didn’t have to wait as long, and my son missed the carousel before, my mom took them over to ride the carousel. Of course it broke down on them and they had to come running over, meeting us just in time to enter the main part where they were checking for the entire party.
My husband and I waited in line and because we were going past the popcorn (which daddy had eaten while the kids and I rode teacups) got a popcorn refill. My husband said his favorite part of the trip was getting the popcorn refills as in DL you have to be an AP (well when they had APs...) and be there the day they went on sale before 10am or you couldn’t get a popcorn bucket you could refill (for a limited time) People collect the buckets so you can’t even get a “regular” bucket to refill in DL which is the vein of my husband’s existence and one of the reasons we let our passes expire for a few months in 2019, before he was lured back with SW land.
While waiting for 7, we all realized we were getting hungry and nearing 9am and we were trying to decide what to eat as we had a dinner reservation for 7pm today that was too far away to just eat snacks. We checked the app and found a reservation for noon at the GF cafe, which was doing brunch. I had peaked my husband’s interest the other day when I mentioned it, so we settled on that as we could make our way over on the monorail with time to spare and not rush.
As we rode 7 this time in the light we debated the merits of the ride in the day and night. Also, we rode the back last time and this time in the front. The consensus was they were all great for different reasons so I recommend multiple rides to see which you prefer.
We headed for the front exit and made it to the restrooms! We caught one of the parades, but as it was one we had already seen the cameras didn’t even come out. I wish I would have taken a pic of the little girl in the home made matching dress costume as the parade characters. I had seen her fluffy polka dot dress and thought that is cute, but not Disney. Haha excuse my ignorance!
While waiting for varied family members we spotted the sorcerer’s sign. What is this? We were intrigued. They explained it to us and we decided it was something we needed to do- after we got back from brunch- more on that later.
Time for a little different ride.
No line for the monorail at this time.

wait! The monorail goes INSIDE?! They were almost asleep until this cool thing happened.
