Vacation: Part III

Day 4: The Magic Kingdom! We got up bright and early to make park opening. We also wanted to check out the Disney parking lot for more states on our license plate game. After the gates opened we took the boat over to the park. We started to see the advantage of staying in a room on Disney property. No fooling with the parking lot, just take the monorail or a boat over to the park.

Once we were in we went direct to Fantasyland. We wanted to go for the rides with slow moving lines before the park filled up. Our first choice was the teacups. Joanna liked it at first and wanted to go faster. Then it got a little too fast and she wasn't so sure.

She really wanted to go to Toontown but it opened an hour later than the rest of the park.

Our next choice was the carousel. (Yes, I do know the difference between a Merry-go-round and a carousel.)

I sat a couple horses over because the ones that had stopped in the up position seemed a little daunting for my stubby legs. Of coarse the nice low horse I got onto ended the ride in a full up position.

I had Joanna's camera so Rick and I played dueling cameras.

Joanna just enjoyed the ride.

We went through the whole series of kid rides. Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Snow White.

Joanna liked this guy.

Of course we had to go on Small World. Now you know what time we went.

Joanna spent the whole time pointing out things for us to look at and waving at the dolls.

We also went to see Mickey's PhilharMagic. I highly recommend it and not just for sitting down in an air conditioned room. It was very well done and it was a lot of fun watching Joanna reach out to try and touch the 3D effects.

When we were done with Fantasyland, we went to Toontown. The characters have their "houses" there. We went to visit Minnie's house.

We found Pluto out in the back.

Most of the characters hold court in the Toontown Hall of Fame. The lines for the popular characters can be really long. One was almost 2 hours! Fortunately Joanna wanted to see Minnie and she was in one of the shorter lines.

Daisy was in the same area with Minnie.

After all this Joanna was getting tired and it was hard to keep cool.

We left the park for lunch and went back to the room for a nap. Once she fell asleep Joanna slept until 6:00pm. After that we had soon dinner and went back to the park. It was a whole lot cooler when we returned and if you didn't mind missing the parade, the lines were shorter.

We went to Adventureland. Pirates of the Caribbean had a very short line so we went there. If you rode this ride before the movies came out you will notice a few changes. Joanna wanted her picture taken inn front of the ride.

Then she wanted to take our picture with her camera.



Joanna also enjoyed the Jungle Cruise and the Magic Carpets of Aladdin. Joanna really liked the spitting camel that would occasionally get you. We also went to the Enchanted Tiki Room which is now under new management, Iago from Aladdin and Zazu from The Lion King. We couldn't help but imagine Iago uttering Gilbert Gottfried's signature phrase.

After Adventureland we went off to Tomorrowland. We saw Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor which was very well done. We also rode Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin and the TTA. The Tomorrowland Speedway usually has really long lines but as we neared park closing it wasn't bad at all. Joanna really liked "driving" her own car.

We had a few minuted left before the midnight closing time we we headed for Dumbo. Since it is another low churn ride it usually has a really long line but there were not a whole lot of kids left in the park near closing. Even so we did have to wait a little.

Since it was a two seater, Rick decided to stand outside and be the photographer.

We got one last picture in the display elephant.

As the park closed the three of us were pretty tired. We took the monorail to the parking lot and again thought about the benefits of staying on property.