Before I start on our Magic Kingdom morning, I need to finish telling about Boma! I forgot to finish my story about the waiter bringing all the wrong drinks. Well, we never did get water, despite asking for it THREE times. Jason never did get a regular coke. But Beth and I got about 4 sprites for each of us. I have no idea what was going on with that waiter, but I am VERY thankful that we didnt have to depend on him for our meal! Boma was still a delightful experience despite the service!
Back to the TR!
This morning, our wakeup call came at 6:00 a.m. because we had Extra Magic Hours at Magic Kingdom this morning. Again, Sarah and I hopped out of bed to check for the animals on the Savannah. Unfortunately, however, it was still dark out and not even the animals were crazy enough to get up at that hour! We got ready pretty quickly (as evidenced by how disgusting I look in all the pics of me from today), and then headed down to Mara.
Yep, it was dark!
I got some oatmeal and O.J.
Sarah got one of the big breakfast platters and a cup of coffee. As would become her tradition, she put ice her in first cup of coffee, then chugged it. Then she refilled her coffee and brought that one with in the car. I have no idea how she did that! It made me sick just to watch!
I almost fell on the floor when Beth, Jason, and Blaize were actually in the lobby of AKL at 7:15 as planned! I need to reiterate that Beth is late to every single thing in her whole life. Yes, even her wedding and Blaizes birth! Anyways, I was SERIOUSLY impressed.
We brought a pumpkin with us, being Halloween time and all!
After parking the car, taking the tram to the monorail, and taking the monorail, we finally walked through the turnstyles at about 8:05 and headed to Fantasyland for Little Ones Extra Magic Hours.
Beth got a picture of me seeing all the fall decorations for the first time. I had NO idea this pic existed until right now when I was uploading the pics to photobucket.
The main objective was to get pics of Blaize with characters and maybe take him on a few rides.
A pumpkin and a pumpkin:
The characters started to appear from all directions. Captain Hook, Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, and even the big guy himself, Mickey Mouse!
It was SO cute when Mickey Mouse came out
there was a little girl, probably 4 years old, who saw him and shouted Mickey! Mickey! Over here! And then she started jumping and screaming. It was so cute. Did I already say that?
Well, little did we know, the characters werent there to take pictures
they were there to actually PLAY with the kids. They were playing duck, duck, goose and some other games. So Beth and Blaize tried to sneak in next to some characters while I took pictures. We were admonished by the characters bouncers or bodyguards or whatever every time! But we did it anyway. Yep. Thats how we roll!
Some (not so) sneaky pics:
Then we headed over to Its a Small World. I really dont like this ride one bit. I know, I know, its a Disney classic. But it FREAKS me out. To me, it looks like the perfect setting for a horror movie. And thats all I can think about when Im on my boat there.
But you know who loved it?!? Blaize! He was enthralled with all of the dolls and he seemed to love the music. It was very cool to watch him enjoying it so much.
After Its a Small World, Sarah and I headed over to wait at the entrance to Tomorrowland for the 9 a.m. opening. There were a lot of people waiting there, but Sarah and I were two of the closest people to the front! And the cast members were doing an excellent job of keeping everyone behind the imaginary line.
Promptly at 9:06 on my watch, they let us start walking! This may sound crazy, but this was such an adrenaline rush for me. I loved it.
Of course there were some rule-breakers running to get there first and I thought they were butt heads. However, as we got closer to Space Mountain and the adrenaline was flowing freely, Sarah and I may have started running just a teeny bit. So we became the butt heads. Oh well! Thats how we roll.
We made it to Space Mountain and decided not to get a FP because we wanted to get a FP for BTMRR after we were finished in Tomorrowland. So we did the stand-by line and walked right up to our little space shuttle (is that what they are?) and took off for our adventure. I always forget just how much I love this ride. I love not being able to tell where youre going. And I love feeling like my head is going to get chopped off by the roller coaster tracks! It all adds to the excitement! I seriously laugh the whole time I am on this ride. So much that my abs are a little sore when I get off. What a work out!
After Space Mountain, we did Buzz Lightyear. My gun MUST have been broken cuz I got 34,000 or something like that. Sarah got 75,000. Darn broken guns.
After Buzz, we headed over to Frontierland and called Beth and Jason on the way. We met up with them, and saw that they were hanging out with the Fairy Godmother. She was SO cute with Blaize. She played with him for a long time. I think she liked him even more because he was a pumpkin.
Sarah and I took their park passes, and obtained FPs for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. We then all met up at Haunted Mansion. The sun was starting to come out and it was looking like we were going to have our first sunny day at Disney! The stand-by line for Haunted Mansion was only 5 minutes. We headed into the room with our Ghost Host and stood under the lady with the umbrella. I LOVED the new parts of Haunted Mansion. That whole bride thing is so cool!
Oh, Blaize found a new friend:
After Haunted Mansion , we used our FPs for BTMRR. Have they changed this ride? It is so much better than I remember it! I had a blast! Sarah and I went first and then I got to hold my little buddy while Beth and Jason went on.
While they waited, Beth put her Minnie ears on Jason. He loved it!
We then got FPs for Splash Mountain. And we decided it was time for a little treat.
Can anyone guess what we all had for the first time and is now my favorite treat in all of Disney World?!?
