Today, we got to the park about 10 minutes before the "rope drop". At the parks, they open the main street section about an hour before the official opening, so we could be up by the castle for the welcoming ceremony and in-line for a ride by 9:05.
We rushed over to the Peter Pan ride to hit it first. Fortunately, we had a short wait and got to take the ride. For some inexplicable reason, the wait-time for the Peter Pan ride was consistently 120 minutes every single day. After spending 25 minutes in-line and 2 minutes on the ride, I have absolutely no idea why anyone would wait that long for that ride, but there you are.
After the Peter Pan ride, Keith took the kids on the "It's a Small World" ride while I ran over to the Haunted Mansion ride, which had absolutely no line at 9:30am.
After that, we had a Fast Pass for the 7 Dwarfs Mine Train. The kids had decided it was too scary, and by this point Keith & I were tired of forcing the kids onto rides they didn't want to take, so we each went separately.
Then, it was time for the rides that the kids wanted.
Back to the tea cups!
We had a Fast Pass for the Jungle Cruise, thank goodness for the FastPass, saving us a 60+ minute wait.
After the ride, we had reservations at a nearby restaurant for lunch.
We spent the rest of the afternoon doing whatever the kids wanted, we rode Dumbo, Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride, and met a few princesses.
For dinner, we had reservations at a Colonial restaurant in Liberty Square. It was an all-you-can-eat Family style restaurant, and it was fantastic. We had salads, several styles of meats, and an assortment of desserts. It was such a great meal and a such a nice change from the pizza and burgers we'd been eating.
After dinner, Keith went to ride the Haunted Mansion while I took the kids to meet Rapunzel and Tiana and then took our second turn on the Small World ride.
The Small World ride was hands-down Cecily's favorite, she spent the whole time pointing out every single thing "Mama, look there, Mama look at that, look over there!"
After that, Parker & I went to the fireworks show. So, let's talk about fireworks... Cecily is terrified of fireworks; it turns out that the Magic Kingdom is not a great place to be if you're terrified of fireworks. They have fireworks at the end of nearly every single show, from the opening ceremony show, through to the 8 pm closing show. At the beginning of our trip, we'd talked about the fireworks and how Cecily could cuddle with Mama to watch the big firework show, but after 4 straight days of random fireworks going off at any given time all day, Cecily was completely shell-shocked and completely unable to deal with any fireworks. So, Parker & I went to see the show while Keith & Cecily tried to find a place to hide from the fireworks.
The fireworks were so amazing, I was holding Parker the whole time, so I don't have any photos, but you can get a slight idea from the photos we got from the park below. They used the castle as the screen to project a video onto the castle, changing the colors of the castle and showing movies. It was INCREDIBLE and I am super grateful to Keith for letting me see it, and super sorry that he had to miss out on it.
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