So I hope everyone got my Carousel of Progress reference in the title of this update, but if you didn't you're forgiven. You were probably asleep by that point in the show anyway...
When I last left off we were heading over to the Storybook Circus:
The Storybook Circus, I thought, was very nice. The new Dumbo looks great and all throughout our trip there was never really a long wait for Dumbo. I think the two Dumbo idea is really working out well!
We looked around the circus area and then my parents decided that they would ride Goofy's Barnstormer while my sister and I went over to Tomorrowland to use our Space Mountain fastpasses!
A picture of the Barnstormer on the way over to Tomorrowland!
We went over to Tomorrowland and were just in time to use our fastpasses. The wait was really fast because the standby time was only around 20 minutes! Last time we were there in the summer by 11 o'clock the wait was already up to an hour! I don't think we saw an hour wait for Space Mountain all trip.
We rode once with our fastpasses and then decided to wait for the rest of our party before we rode again or got anymore fastpasses.
When we got out of Space Mountain it was raining!! The chance of rain was only 10% that day. What in the world? haha, but it wasn't really raining that hard so we "ran" over to the nearest awning to wait for everyone to come from the Barnstormer.
It really wasn't too crowded at all today!!
Well, it turns out that after the Barnstormer everyone went on Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin so we went over there to wait for them.
I took this picture of my sister while we were waiting.
Finally they came off of Buzz Lightyear and we were told that
MLinDisney and
KimPup had just arrived and were in Magic Kingdom. We soon found them and we decided that me, my sister, and John would all ride Space Mountain together!
The wait was still only around twenty minutes! And since we had 5 people we had our very own spaceship!
After we got back from space we decided it was time for lunch!! We separated from
MLinDisney and
KimPup and headed over to Columbia Harbor House for lunch!
It had stopped raining and was started to get sunny by this time!
We made it over to Columbia Harbor House and I then learned why the parks were so empty...everyone was at Columbia Harbor House!! The line was wrapped around like a queue for a ride. But the line did move rather quickly and we did find a table.
I got the half fish, half chicken meal.
My mom got a salad.
And my sister got a lobster roll.
I'm not really sure what everyone else got because I only have pictures of those three meals.
Some pictures from our lunch:
Right after we ate we decided we were going to ride Haunted Mansion since it was right across the street from Columbia Harbor House. This is such a great ride! I didn't even attempt to take pictures this time because they never come out anyway.
After that, we headed over to Adventureland to ride some rides over there. Our first stop was Pirates of the Caribbean!
After the ride we were looking around the shop and I noticed this. An un-culled plant! Come on Disney, I didn't travel all this way to see a plant that is not culled! And for those of you who don't know what culling is because I didn't before I started working, it's when you pick off all of the dead parts of plants. If I left a plant looking like this at work, my supervisor would have a heart attack.
Anyway, then we went on to the Jungle Cruise!!
A picture of my sister and I waiting.
And a picture of our boat, Congo Connie!
After our adventure in Adventureland (haha) it was starting to get a little warm so we decided that it was time for some ice cream! We originally went over to Aloha Isle but the line was way too long so we went over to Sleepy Hollow.
While we were waiting on line, my dad and John sat down at a table.
I'm glad we decided to go to Sleepy Hollow because they have more of a selection, I think. I got an Iced Coffee float! It was so good!
My sister got an ice cream cookie sandwich and my mom and Cathy got root beer floats, but I don't really remember what everyone else got, though.
After our ice cream break Cathy, John, and I went over to see the Country Bear Jamboree (one of my favorites!!) while my parents and my sister waited by Sleepy Hollow.
We sat in the very first row!!
I love this show!
When we exited, the parade was just about to begin! So we were stuck behind the ropes and had to watch. I never actually stopped to watch this parade because it's usually so hot out!
I went a little picture crazy (but who doesn't during a parade?!) so here you go! The afternoon parade in pictures!
Continued in the next post
Thanks for reading!!
But seriously that is surprising for Disney.
It's one of our favorites, too, and I totally agree about the noodles!
for reading everyone!!!
Those castle lights will never stop being absolutely BEAUTIFUL. 
