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Day 3 - Tuesday May 15th - MAGIC KINGDOM
As I said before, my family is not one to open and close a park on the same day. So knowing that I wanted to be at MK at opening and at closing, we set out to do it in 2 days. Day 1 - Opening, Day 2 - Closing. We chose Tuesday and Wednesday because they weren't EMH days at MK. The only downfall to this is that they weren't doing Spectromagic these days. I was hoping this was a wise choice to avoid the crowds. And I was right!!! We hardly had any waits both days. And now Spectromagic is added to my list for the next trip!
On Monday we had used the alarm in our room and it worked just fine. Not so much on Tuesday! Had it set for 6:00, or so I thought. I woke at 6:40 and it had never gone off!
After a moment of freaking out we all managed to get ready and be out the door by 7:05. How we did this I still am not sure! And then the bus to MK came right away!! Great, we may still make our 8:00 ADR at the Crystal Palace after all!!
Got to MK in plenty of time. Lined up in the ADR line and they let us in around 7:45. Got some great pictures of Main Street pretty much empty and then made our way to the Crystal Palace.
Checked in and waited about 5 minutes and we were called and seated. The characters weren't out yet so we made our way to the buffet. Great food and excellent choices. The characters started to make their rounds.
First Pooh, then Tigger, later Piglet, and Eeyore got a late start. It was nearing 9:00 and we were done eating and wanted to get out into the park by 9:00, so we decided not to wait on Eeyore to get to our table.
We were headed to Fantasyland. Not sure why, but this is what we had done first on the last trip so we thought it was tradition to do it again I guess! First up was Peter Pan's Fight, then Small World, Philharmagic
, and Snow White. All with NO WAIT!!!
By now the line for Dumbo is huge, of course. We promise the kids we will do it later, or tomorrow. It's not quite 10:00 and Toontown isn't open yet, so we head onto Tomorrowland. DH & Ds 5 1/2 head to Buzlightyear and Ds 8 and I head to Space Mtn., expecting the lines to be huge by now. To our surprise, SMtn. says 20 minutes. Great! Even greater is we walk all the way through an EMPTY line and there is actually no wait!! We even stop for pictures.
Then we all meet up and ride Buzzlightyear together, with no wait! Now we are off to try out the new Monster's Inc. Comedy Club.
Very cute. The kids absolutely love it! We knew we'd be back to do this one again. Now we make our way back to Mickey's ToontownFair. We ride the Barnstormer with very little wait. Then the kids play in the sprinklers at Donald's Boat for a few minutes. We are on a mission to meet Minnie on this trip so we head to the Judge's Tent. The line for Minnie says 15 minutes, so we get in it. After waiting over 30 minutes and barely moving, we decide to leave. We promise DS 5 1/2 we will see her later in the week. We hop the train and are headed to Frontierland!
more later. . .
As I said before, my family is not one to open and close a park on the same day. So knowing that I wanted to be at MK at opening and at closing, we set out to do it in 2 days. Day 1 - Opening, Day 2 - Closing. We chose Tuesday and Wednesday because they weren't EMH days at MK. The only downfall to this is that they weren't doing Spectromagic these days. I was hoping this was a wise choice to avoid the crowds. And I was right!!! We hardly had any waits both days. And now Spectromagic is added to my list for the next trip!
On Monday we had used the alarm in our room and it worked just fine. Not so much on Tuesday! Had it set for 6:00, or so I thought. I woke at 6:40 and it had never gone off!
After a moment of freaking out we all managed to get ready and be out the door by 7:05. How we did this I still am not sure! And then the bus to MK came right away!! Great, we may still make our 8:00 ADR at the Crystal Palace after all!! Got to MK in plenty of time. Lined up in the ADR line and they let us in around 7:45. Got some great pictures of Main Street pretty much empty and then made our way to the Crystal Palace.
Checked in and waited about 5 minutes and we were called and seated. The characters weren't out yet so we made our way to the buffet. Great food and excellent choices. The characters started to make their rounds.
First Pooh, then Tigger, later Piglet, and Eeyore got a late start. It was nearing 9:00 and we were done eating and wanted to get out into the park by 9:00, so we decided not to wait on Eeyore to get to our table.
We were headed to Fantasyland. Not sure why, but this is what we had done first on the last trip so we thought it was tradition to do it again I guess! First up was Peter Pan's Fight, then Small World, Philharmagic
, and Snow White. All with NO WAIT!!!
By now the line for Dumbo is huge, of course. We promise the kids we will do it later, or tomorrow. It's not quite 10:00 and Toontown isn't open yet, so we head onto Tomorrowland. DH & Ds 5 1/2 head to Buzlightyear and Ds 8 and I head to Space Mtn., expecting the lines to be huge by now. To our surprise, SMtn. says 20 minutes. Great! Even greater is we walk all the way through an EMPTY line and there is actually no wait!! We even stop for pictures.
Then we all meet up and ride Buzzlightyear together, with no wait! Now we are off to try out the new Monster's Inc. Comedy Club.
Very cute. The kids absolutely love it! We knew we'd be back to do this one again. Now we make our way back to Mickey's ToontownFair. We ride the Barnstormer with very little wait. Then the kids play in the sprinklers at Donald's Boat for a few minutes. We are on a mission to meet Minnie on this trip so we head to the Judge's Tent. The line for Minnie says 15 minutes, so we get in it. After waiting over 30 minutes and barely moving, we decide to leave. We promise DS 5 1/2 we will see her later in the week. We hop the train and are headed to Frontierland!more later. . .
to my TR Nessz79 !!
Thanks for writting! Very entertaining so far!!! 
Awful! Nothing like our pleasant day on Monday. We made our way through the crowds and to the Land. Sunshine Seasons was packed! We finally got our food and waited in line to pay and searched and searched for a table. Finally found one! The food there was okay, nothing really great. Glanced over at Soarin and the wait time was 50 minutes! We ate our lunch and got out of there! 
Luckily it was because of the parade!! So the wait time for Big Thunder Mtn. RR was 40 minutes at this point. We got a fastpass and moved on! Went and saw the Country Bear Jamboree show. Very cute! Came outside and it was nearing 4:00 - time for Woody's Cowboy Camp!! 
Hilarious!!
Remember the promise we made yesterday??? Yes, we had to make good on it! We waited nearly an hour to ride Dumbo! The longest wait we had all week! 
Just then a bus pulls up!! We load up and are on our way back to the resort by 9:22PM! 
this park so much. This place is so awesome!! 
Wait time 15 minutes!!! A sign of another wonderful short wait time day!!! So we held onto those free fastpasses incase we would happen to need them later. Star Tours was pretty fun. Of course the kids loved it! Now the plan was to get to Rock n Roller Coaster w/Aerosmith! But we happened to be walking by the Indiana Jones Stunt Show when it said 10 minutes until show time. Okay, let's give it a try! The kids were a little whiney because they didn't want to sit there and wait and it was hot in there, but then the show started. They loved it! They still talk about it today!! 
I rode this one all by myself on the last trip because DS's weren't tall enough and DH isn't much of a coaster type of guy! We knew that DS 8 was just 48 inches in his new shoes and were praying he would get on this time! Got there and wait time said 40 minutes. Was expecting that! Actually thought it might be worse. But not to fear, we had free fastpasses!! 
I am SO excited!! So DH takes DS 5 1/2 to the gift shop that you exit into after RNRC and DS 8 and I run through the empty line! No one ever did check his height. We watch the preshow and I am getting more and more excited!! I was a teenager in the late 80's & early 90's, so of course I love Aerosmith! And I love coasters! DS 8 is getting a little nervous. I tell him he will be fine. And he was! He loved it as much as I did! Great ride, very fast!
