Had another couple of long days:
Yesterday I headed for magic kingdom and got the just as rope drop was finishing. I'd done most of the rides at that point so decided to go character hunting. Within the first hour I managed to see rapunzel and snow white, Merida, did all the guys in the big top (goofy, Donald, daisy and Minnie), and saw gaston. If you really want to see the characters I highly recommend doing two rope drops at MK, one for the big rides, and one for the characters.
After that it was time for some rides, so rode haunted mansion (never get tired of this ride, for one I love the song!), then got the raft over to tom sawyer island. Don't think I've ever done this before, and to be honest I didn't really see the point to it. Never really watched whatever film it goes with, and just didnt really get it..... Got the raft back over then rode splash mountain in an attempt to cool down, which didn't work as was sat at the back so stayed dry.
I was meeting a friend at 12.30 and was hungry and hot at 11.45 so headed to gastons tavern for a pork shank, but also to sit in the air con for a bit (yea it's been that hot the last few days).
Met my friend then went looking for more characters and rides, met pooh and tigger, but a lot of the rides were getting long queues at this point, so wandered around for a bit then ended up on pirates.
Watched the castle show and the parade, then headed back to the hotel for a swim as was really suffering with the heat at this point.....
After a couple of hours back at the hotel and in the pool I headed out in the evening, and went to HS, with the intention of watching fantasmic. Rode tower of terror and rock n roller, and did a good session of pin trading (managed to trade 19 in an hour and got some really good ones too). It started raining just after 7, and the sky looked really dark. I thought I heard thunder at some point too,so decided to give up on fantasmic as didn't fancy getting stuck in an open air theatre if it did rain so headed back to the hotel, got dinner in the food court then sat in the room watching tv