Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Tuesday 4/17 - Day #2 - Magic Kingdom

We slept in until about 8:30am since we all needed a good night's sleep. Jim went down and got us breakfast from the Roarin Fork snack area and we ate in our room while we continued to get ready.

We hopped the boat from the Wilderness Lodge over to the Magic Kingdom. It was so magical to go around the bend from the Contemporary and finally see Space Mountain and Cinderella's Castle. The boys decided we needed to go to Tomorrowland first, so we headed up Main Street and hung a right. We got right on the Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin ride and then tried out the Tomorrowland Transit Authority ride, which we surprisingly enjoyed. The boys loved that it went right into and past the Space Mountain ride and the Buzz ride. We then saw the Monsters Inc Comedy Club Show for the first time and thought it was pretty funny stuff. It's very similar to Turtle Talk in how the characters on the screen can interact with audience members. We also were able to get right on the Stitch Ride, which is a highlight for the boys.

We headed off to ToonTown and went right on Goofy's Barnstormer. It's such a short ride, but we all think it's such a hoot. We walked thru Mickey's House, but bypassed meeting him due to an extremely long line. BUT after we went out the exit, we found Stitch down a side area and the boys got to meet him. We hopped the train over to Frontierland and grabbed some fastpasses for Splash Mountain. We were walking thru frontierland and saw "Woody's Cowboy Camp" for the first time. It was a fun show and the boys enjoyed doing the Hokey Pokey in the street. You can't meet and greet with them (Woody, Jessie, Bullseye) any more, though.

We cut through to Adventureland (my favorite land) and saw the Tiki Bird Show. We loved being able to sit and be out of the sun. Next came a biggie for us.... going on the Pirates ride after the refurbishment (it was closed last March when we were there). It was really cool to see Captain Jack added to the ride (in 3 places!). Captain Barbosa and Davey Jones were also added. Really cool! We then climbed the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House and the boys got ice cream bars.

We cut back into Frontierland and saw the Country Bear Jamboree Show with a minimum wait. I have always liked that attraction, but found it hard to hear it this time for some reason (am I getting old? lol). After that show, we were able to use our FastPasses on Splash Mountain. Matthew & I sat in the front and got decently wet, but not soaked. I think the water that splashes in the front from the small dips is worse than the big splash after the big drop. We had to walk back through Frontierland to go to dinner and ran into Brer Fox. He noticed the Lamisil Pen the boys had for autographs and pointed to his foot. Too funny! I said their dad worked for the company that made that product. Brer Fox kept pointing to his foot and the castmember who accompanies him said "You don't have foot fungus, you have fleas". Hee Hee! In the pictures I took, he was still pointing to his toes.

It was time for our character meal at the Liberty Tree Tavern. We really enjoy this dinner and had fun meeting Minnie, Chip, Dale, Pluto and Goofy. Goofy was very entertaining and it's always great to have the characters come right up to your table. Jim had to get his picture taken with Pluto since he's his favorite character. I think the best part of the meal was the apple cobbler for dessert. Super yummy!

After dinner we were able to get right on the Haunted Mansion, It's a Small World and then right into Mickey's Philharmagic 3D show. Woo Hoo! Jim then decided he was done and wanted to leave the park. He went back to the hotel and I stayed with the boys. They got right on the Carousel after saying goodbye to their dad. We then walked back to Toon Town to try and meet Mickey. The line was much shorter and we got in within 15 minutes, but the PhotoPass guy's PDA wsn't working and they couldn't get our pictures on our photopass. Bummer, but I was able to take pictures with my camera. We didn't do any other Character Meetings, though, because the lines were 60 minutes, plus. The boys had fun playing with the Mr. Potato Head stuff in the Toontown Hall of Fame instead. We also walked through Minnie's House and found more Hidden Mickeys. On our way out of the park (my goal was to be out before the mob scene for the fireworks & parade), we went on the Buzz Lightyear ride again and I got 458,400 points! I have no clue how I racked up such a great score, though. lol. The boys & I also had our pictures taken at night, near the castle.

Back to the hotel by 9:30pm, the boys & I did our journaling again and we were all sound asleep again by 11pm. It was entertaining to see the boys lie down and practically pass out within minutes. Andrew would whack into the sides of the top bunk a lot, though! Noisy boy.


From Andrew's Journal - Favorite rides are the Tomorrowland Transit Authority and Splash Mountain. Favorite Land is Adventureland. Favorite Show is Mickey's Philharmagic. Characters he met this day = Stitch, Goofy, Chip & Dale, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Woody's Gang and Brer Fox.

From Matthew's Journal - Favorite ride is Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Favorite Land is Tomorrowland. Favorite Character is Stitch. Favorite show is Mickey's Philharmagic. He met the same characters as Andrew.

1 comment:

Cindy aka HappyStamper aka Sealion said...

Funny how your family's favorites are totally different from ours!