What a day! The weather was beautiful and there was a nice breeze to help with the heat.
We arrived at Magic Kingdom and parked just a few rows from the entrance. We headed over to the first gift shop and picked up some more pins for trading and a couple Mickey hats with ears.
We took the ferry boat from the main gate over to Magic Kingdom. We got there at a good time and had hardly any wait for the ferry. Everything ran very efficiently. Timothy talked to the captain and even got his autograph. From there we went through the main gates and started the day…
We started walking down Main Street USA. The buildings are beautiful. As we entered we saw our first characters – Pluto and Daisy Duck! Timothy got his first autograph. While we were waiting there was a manager who stopped to talk to us and said that the character greeting with Mickey in the theatre was a short wait so we headed right over. Turned out that Minnie was there too!
We then caught the train and got off in Frontierland. We practiced shooting, saw some neat buildings and had lunch at Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Cafe.
Smallworld was next. Dot and Fred had been there before over thirty years ago and wanted to see it again. We enjoyed the ride and the sights. Fred and Dot went to the Haunted House and Kim, Brent and Timothy went to Mickey’s Philharmagic Show. Other things we took in included Tomorrowland Speedway (Brent and Timothy had car #49), Mad Tea Cups, Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin (Timothy got over 461,000 points!), and The Astro Orbiter.
We had supper at Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe and headed back over to the Hall of Presidents. Brent and Timothy went on Space Mountain! This was Timothy’s first big roller coaster and although scared at first he enjoyed it. We watched the show and then headed around the castle to Main Street to get ready to watch the fireworks. The show was amazing!
It was impressive how fast and smoothly leaving the park was. The fireworks had started at 8pm and by 9pm we were back in the van heading back to the condo – all pretty tired out from a great day.