Our goal for today is to get to MK before the opening so we can get to tinkerbells shop as it opens so the kids can wake her. Well that sounds simple enough, we just didn't think far enough ahead. We go down to the boat thinking that will be the best way. No boats yet. We wait about 10 mins before I say lets forget this way(we'd need another 10 min before they start running). So we head to the other side to the buses, of course no buses coming. So now we're stuck at the buses for 15 mins, yes if we had just waited we would have been there.
All's not lost as we get to the park just as the train is pulling in. There's about 20 people ahead of us on the line to scan the tickets and the area between the tickets and the train station is full. The show finishes and the fload gates open and we begin to zoom down main street, well as much as someone can zoom trying to weave through the crowds while pushing a double stroller. Wife is in front trying to clear the way but it doesn't work that well.
We get to the castle and it's still open to pass through so now I've got to push up the bug hill, sweat is now already pouring off of me and we havn't even started the say.
We run into the store, wife grabs the 1st person she sees and asks if anyone has woken Tinkerbell yet. "Why would you like to?" was the reply. I felt like say, " No I just wanted to get all sweatly just to prove I can be the 1st one here"
She gives the kids the wand and they get up on the chair, tap the book and there goes tinkerbell, very cool. Kids are running around trying to find where she went. The CM shows tinkerbells hiding place, somewhere that we'll come back to about 10 more times to see how she's doing. The kids also got nice certificates and some stickers which my wife loves since she scrapbooks everything.
Now we are all starving since we came right to the park so we head back down main st to the bakery. Wife really wants the french toast but decided on the eggs instead. Well she finishes that and has to have the french toast also so she heads back for that. I'm actually not feeling all that well, I learned my lesson about not enough sun tan lotion as I'm all red on my back.
While wife is eating the toast I'm putting a whole bottle of lotion on so I make sure I don't burn.
We get back to the castle as the show is starting so we watch that, then get some autographs from characters in the show.
We decide to head over to the treehouse 1st so we can get that out of the way before we're too tired to climb the stairs. It's an ok ride, not one that I'd make sure I came back to though.
At this point we work our way over to toon land, picks up a pooh fast pass on the way. We hit mickey and minnie house. As we leave from seeing Mickey there's about 9 characters back behind the tent. A great spot to see them as there's very few people back here. Only problem is that it's out in the sun with no cover so kids lose interest after about 5 or 6 of them.
We let them run around a bit on the playground before heading back to pooh. My daugter is totally freeking out as the ride starts, again the dark and the "scary characters". Yes I know in Pooh, but that's her. Well we get off the ride and the 1st thing she says is lets go again.
We've got to get to the castle for lunch though so we head over. Cinderella is waiting downstairs in "My Castle" as my daugter says. She goes nuts as Cinderella spends a solid 10 mins with her. We head upstairs for a very good lunch. Little girl just wants noodles and of course eats none of them, son gobbles down the mini hot dogs in about 2 sec flat. My wife decides to get the glass with the smoothie in it so we can take the glass, the glass is very cool and I think it's only $8 for the drink, but she said the drink was terrible, it was more a mixed drink mix than an actual smoothie.
At this point we decide to just head back to the WL and hit the pool. My daugter falls asleep so we walk to the Cont because we didn't realize the big boat comes to the MK, while the small one goes to the Cont. Oh well, she winds up waking up anyway when we get to the boat so it doesn't matter.
We hit the pool and spend a good 2 hrs there. My daugter hasn't been taking swim lessons so for the 1st 10 mins she's holding on like crazy. She then switches to just holding fingers, and finally realizes she can do it herself and that's teh last holding that we need to do.
We hear to the forks for some dinner and actually get the kids down a bit after 8.
Tomorrow it's MGM for the 1st time with the kids as the last time down we never did it.
All's not lost as we get to the park just as the train is pulling in. There's about 20 people ahead of us on the line to scan the tickets and the area between the tickets and the train station is full. The show finishes and the fload gates open and we begin to zoom down main street, well as much as someone can zoom trying to weave through the crowds while pushing a double stroller. Wife is in front trying to clear the way but it doesn't work that well.
We get to the castle and it's still open to pass through so now I've got to push up the bug hill, sweat is now already pouring off of me and we havn't even started the say.
We run into the store, wife grabs the 1st person she sees and asks if anyone has woken Tinkerbell yet. "Why would you like to?" was the reply. I felt like say, " No I just wanted to get all sweatly just to prove I can be the 1st one here"
She gives the kids the wand and they get up on the chair, tap the book and there goes tinkerbell, very cool. Kids are running around trying to find where she went. The CM shows tinkerbells hiding place, somewhere that we'll come back to about 10 more times to see how she's doing. The kids also got nice certificates and some stickers which my wife loves since she scrapbooks everything.
Now we are all starving since we came right to the park so we head back down main st to the bakery. Wife really wants the french toast but decided on the eggs instead. Well she finishes that and has to have the french toast also so she heads back for that. I'm actually not feeling all that well, I learned my lesson about not enough sun tan lotion as I'm all red on my back.
While wife is eating the toast I'm putting a whole bottle of lotion on so I make sure I don't burn.
We get back to the castle as the show is starting so we watch that, then get some autographs from characters in the show.
We decide to head over to the treehouse 1st so we can get that out of the way before we're too tired to climb the stairs. It's an ok ride, not one that I'd make sure I came back to though.
At this point we work our way over to toon land, picks up a pooh fast pass on the way. We hit mickey and minnie house. As we leave from seeing Mickey there's about 9 characters back behind the tent. A great spot to see them as there's very few people back here. Only problem is that it's out in the sun with no cover so kids lose interest after about 5 or 6 of them.
We let them run around a bit on the playground before heading back to pooh. My daugter is totally freeking out as the ride starts, again the dark and the "scary characters". Yes I know in Pooh, but that's her. Well we get off the ride and the 1st thing she says is lets go again.
We've got to get to the castle for lunch though so we head over. Cinderella is waiting downstairs in "My Castle" as my daugter says. She goes nuts as Cinderella spends a solid 10 mins with her. We head upstairs for a very good lunch. Little girl just wants noodles and of course eats none of them, son gobbles down the mini hot dogs in about 2 sec flat. My wife decides to get the glass with the smoothie in it so we can take the glass, the glass is very cool and I think it's only $8 for the drink, but she said the drink was terrible, it was more a mixed drink mix than an actual smoothie.
At this point we decide to just head back to the WL and hit the pool. My daugter falls asleep so we walk to the Cont because we didn't realize the big boat comes to the MK, while the small one goes to the Cont. Oh well, she winds up waking up anyway when we get to the boat so it doesn't matter.
We hit the pool and spend a good 2 hrs there. My daugter hasn't been taking swim lessons so for the 1st 10 mins she's holding on like crazy. She then switches to just holding fingers, and finally realizes she can do it herself and that's teh last holding that we need to do.
We hear to the forks for some dinner and actually get the kids down a bit after 8.
Tomorrow it's MGM for the 1st time with the kids as the last time down we never did it.
