"The best kind of love is the kind that awakens the soul, makes us reach for more, plants a fire in our hearts, and brings peace to our minds." --From "The Notebook"

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Day 3 & 4--Back at Magic Kingdom

Monday & Tuesday, April 13th & 14th--Monday, we walked over to the right side of the park wehre there is Tomorrow Land and Toon Town. There was plenty to do in Tomorrow Land so we spend most of the day there. Nate got Fast Pass tickets for Space Mountain, the kids were stoked! And while they were on another make-my-stomach-sick ride, I ventured over to the shops. We rode on the Buzz Lightyear ride and went to a fun interactive show involving some of the characters from Monsters, Inc. (I discovered I can do a dead-on impression of Roz! he he) We pretty much did everything there is to do in Tomorrow Land and then headed over to Toon Town. It was way too crowded so we got on the train that goes around the entire park and got off at Main Street to watch a parade. While we waited for the parade to start, some of the cast members were playing jump rope and Elise stood in line to do that. She didn't do too well, only did 4 turns but she thinks it was because of her clumpy shoes. After the parade we went back over to Liberty Square, Frontier Land and Adventure Land. And finally, we went to a buffet dinner with Winnie the Pooh and friends.





















Tuesday morning we woke up to find, outside, it was quite cloudy and looked like it was going to rain. We were all tired enough that we slept in and that was a really good thing. Usually we would have left an hour earlier, had we done so we would have been caught in a massive downpour of rain. Instead we were in our room all nice and dry. We got to Magic Kingdom and it was still sprinkling a little. Off and on, most of the day, it rained and drizzled. Luckily, I packed jackets and we kept warm. Even with the rain, I enjoyed the cooler temps. It was a nice break from the heat! As we walked into Magic Kingdom it was quite a site! Everywhere you looked, people had rain ponchos on with a big Mickey Mouse head on the back. Disney makes a killing on these rain ponchos, they know everyone will buy them at $8.00 each (yeah we had to buy one to cover the stroller!). We spent the day hitting various areas that we liked the two days before. We went back to Tomorrow Land for a few rides and then over to Fantasy Land, Frontier Land, Adventure Land and Liberty Square. We went into the Tiki Room show. It's been quite altered from the original show, which is still seen at Disneyland. Someone said the new show would make Walt Disney roll over in his grave......I agree. From there we walked over to Haunted Mansion (a family fav!) and went on it a few times. Finally, we took a raft over to Tom Sawyer's Island. It was pretty cool, we walked through a long rock tunnel and then over a bridge made of wobbly barrels. We ended the day early to head back to the hotel for dinner. We had promised the kids they could go swimming but it was too cold. We ordered pizza via room service and I did two loads of laundry. We thought hotel pizza would be nothing special but it ended up being delicious! The kids watched movies on our DVD player and then we all hit the sack early.

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