So we head on over to Minnie's House, I was looking forward to this as I heard that she had some interactive appliances that I could mess with. Her house was pink, need I expect any less?
Steven wanted to get a few pictures outside and my mom, well she spent a long time waiting to get pictures, I think she was actually trying to wait and see if she could get a clear shot.
Inside it was very pink, cute and fluffy, very girly. My mom and I got pictures taken over beside the fireplace:
I loved all the detailing, I mean you could spend a long time here and not notice all the little things. I guess that's what makes Disney so special, they care about all these things.
We entered the kitchen and saw a kid playing with the microwave, if I remember correctly it has Popcorn in it, I think I remember hearing pooping sounds. I so wanted to play with it, yeah I know, a grown woman like me, but I wanted to use it all the same. There was a huge crowd of kids waiting in the wings so I thought I better leave them to it:
We walked on but there wasn't as much to see in Minnie's house. I was kinda disappointed, there was more to Mickey's house, maybe cause he's the main man!
However we walked outside and noticed Pluto was in the Gazebo posing for some pics, the queue only had 4 people in it so I dragged Steven over for a picture:
Mom was really happy to have seen Pluto, Steven took a picture with her own camera and I got one quickly with my own, it's sorta cute that you can't see her much cause of Pluto!
After seeing the houses thre wasn't much else to do in Toon Town so we moved on to Tommorowland. THere were certainly a few things there that I thought Mom would enjoy.
On the way I stopped in front of Pirate Mickey and Princess Minnie. I thought it was very fitting seeing I still had intentions of going to The Pirate and Princess Party somehow:
The first ride that caught my eye was Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, the stand-by queue was only quoting 5 minutes so we rushed over to join it. Again this was a fast moving queue so we barely waited 3 minutes to get on. Mom went in front of us and I explained the rules to her. I'm pretty competitive so I wanted to be beside Steven, mainly so I could kick his butt!
We were off but funnily enough it took us a few minutes to realize that you could spin yourself, I assumed that the 'spin' part was done automatically. We when we did realize our points started shooting up. Although Steven decided to take control of the spinner, which meant that he had better targets to shoot. Just as I was about to line my shot up, Steven would spin us around so that he could get a better shot! It was a brilliant attraction and very addictive. I somehow knew this wouldn't be our last go on this ride.
If I remember correctly Steven scored about 600,000 and I scored 602,000, there wasn't much between us, except I had found some 'hidden' areas to shoot!
My mom really enjoyed the ride too, except her score was about 100,000, she was more interested in the visuals than anything else.
When we exited we saw Buzz himself but the queue was way, way too long. So we got a picture of him from the side:
Our next stop was Stitch's Great Escape. Now I had high hopes for this, from what I had read it sounded like it would be a surround sound, dark, kinda freaky ride. We waited about 15 minutes in the queue and then streamed in to what looked like a space age room. My god, this attraction must have cost a fortune, I really was expecting a lot! We all sat down in our chairs and my mom started asking if I was sure this wasn't some sort of spinning ride. I said it wasn't but to be honest, I wasn't that sure. Our overhead constraints came down and I started to wonder what this ride was all about. I couldn't remember reading about that? So we sat and waited for everyone to be seated and one guy put his hand up before it started as his constraints wouldn't remain down, it took a little while for them to secure it, but eventually it was working.
The attraction started, it was quite dark and there was some commotion from Stitch up front. I started to feel air blasting on my hair and the restraints started to go up and down to resemble Stitch jumping on your shoulders. There were speakers in the chairs so it was good sound effects but I thought the attraction was pretty lame. It could have been so much better and the reviews I had read previously had raved about it, maybe I just didn't get it?
My mom thought it was really good but Steven agreed with me, there just wasn't enough happening. For a new ride I thought it was disappointing, I mean I could see it must have cost a lot of money but it seemed to go on the visual rather than anything else.
At this point Steven wasn't up for going to The Laugh Factory as he was too worried he would get picked. I looked at the time and notice it was close to 4.30pm. I didn't want to have to rush to get to Jiko as I was really looking forward to this meal. We all agreed it was best if we headed back to the resort.
Mom waved goodbye to MK:
and so did we until another day:
We had rushed around MK but we covered the majority of areas and saw most of the attractions that mom would have wanted to see. She said she had a wonderful day and I could tell that Magic Kingdom was by far her favourite park. At least she could tell all her friends she had visited the main park now.
We were lucky, the bus was waiting at our stop, so we hopped on and relaxed. We were 'home' in no time. We agreed to meet back at mom's room at 6pm and head over to Jiko, this was something we were all looking forward to immensely...
Coming up...
Our meal at Jiko, walking around AKL and mom and I fall out...
The audio anamatronics are really good though, it's a shame this "ride" disappoints so many people. I have to say I wasn't overly impressed. It's the sort of attraction I only do now if the line is going in straight away, or towards the end of a fortnights holiday when you are going back to do the things you missed.
). Just in case you don't get back ... I hope you and Steven have a very Merry Christmas!
Something about Mickey that makes it the best! Hope the falling out with Mom isn't too bad and you worked it out. Travelling with someone other than your spouse can be difficult. Been there, Done That!!! 
I look forward to your new installments but in the meantime - Happy New Year!!!! 
