Disney World Day 2 - Magic Kingdom

I had to attend conference meetings all day on Thursday. I tried to talk Trey into hanging around the hotel all day, but he was determined to go to one of the parks. I didn't know if he could handle all 3 girls. My biggest concern was Brooke. I just knew she'd run off to look at something and Trey wouldn't be able to find her. She did great at Hollywood Studios on Wednesday night, though, so I felt a little better about Trey taking the girls on his own.

Now I'll let Trey give a recap of their day.

We got going as early as we could, and rode the ferry from the transportation terminal to the Magic Kingdom.  As soon as we got in, we saw that there were characters set up for meet and greets on Main Street.  We had our choice of Marie from the Aristocats, and Pluto.  To my surprise, Audrey and Brooke decided to go see the cat.   Brooke was ready to go see Cinderella's castle, but before we went, I decided to go over and get us fastpasses to see the Princesses at Town Square Theatre.  

We walked over, and as we went to get the passes, I noticed Mary Poppins was standing there, so we snapped a couple of photos with her.  Then it was off to the castle...sort of.

As we got closer, it was roped off for a show, so we had to go around thru Liberty Square to get to Fantasyland.   Rounding the corner, we passed by the Haunted Mansion, and Audrey asked if we could ride, so we did.   We rode, and the Haunted Mansion became Anna Grace's first ride ever at the Magic Kingdom.

We followed up with a carousel ride. Audrey was excited because she got to ride Cinderella's horse (look it up if you don't know how you can tell). Then it was off to ride the riverboat. We rode the riverboat because everything I have read on line said you can ALWAYS see characters on it. Don't believe everything you read on the internet. We saw none.

 

 

After that, it was back to fantasyland to ride the new Little Mermaid ride and eat lunch. We had packed PB&Js, and had a fun lunch in the shadow of the Beast's castle. It was fun. Then it was time to see princesses.  I will post a special blog at the end of our Disney recap with all the Disney princess pictures.

The Town Square Theatre featured 3 princesses: Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Aurora. Even with the fastpasses, we still had to wait 10-15 minutes, but it was well worth it. All of the princesses were great and talked to the girls as long as they wanted, and signed autographs. As we got to the last one, I asked the photographer if the princesses would be different later that night, or on Saturday. He said they were usually all the same, but that we could catch Snow White across the square by city hall.

So off we went to see Miss White. The girls got pictured with her, and we decided to call it a morning, return to the hotel, and take naps.

All in all, a successful trip to MK. I arrived at the park with 3 girls, and left with 3 girls.

Now back to Cheri's recap. My last session of the day was cancelled, so I was able to leave after the 3:30 break. We decided to get dinner before returning to MK. We had dinner at Steak-N-Shake.

We got to the park and rode the Peoplemover. After that, Trey and the big girls drove the cars in Tomorrowland Speedway. Trey let Brooke drive the car and she looked so cute.

We also rode the Pooh ride, Peter Pan, It's a Small World, and the new Ariel ride. We also saw Ariel and took pictures with her.

 



We then watched the Electric Parade. Anna Grace fell asleep in the stroller. We were going to try to stay for fireworks, but the girls were tired so we headed back to the car. Brooke fell asleep in the stroller on the way to the monorail. We actually got to see a few of the fireworks from the monorail.

Since both little girls were sleeping, we decided to walk to the car instead of riding the tram. It really wasn't a bad walk and we beat the tram.

Another late night. Everyone went straight to bed and slept well.