The Magic Kingdom - Part 1

Well, the rashes are gone! The kids perked right up after the 3rd dose of antibiotics.

We have some potential buyers for our house who have said they are planning
on making an offer this week.

But no offer yet.

So I'm still searching through a gazillion houses online using realtor.com and zillow.com. Does anyone else have any favorite house hunting site you use?

Back to Disney World!

We had a great time. But I do have a couple tips. We had planned to walk into the entrance of the park the minute it opened at 9:00, so we left our hotel around 8:15 thinking that would give us plenty of time to park and make it for the opening.

TIP #1 Don't rely on your GPS to take you to the park. Ours took us there. Only it thought we must be employees because that is the entrance it took us to. Which is a LONG way from the visitor entrance. It took us about 30 minutes to get back around to the correct entrance once we figured out where we were.

TIP #2 The Magic Kingdom Parking Lot is not right in front of the Magic Kingdom. We pulled in about 8:55 and had to board a tram which then took us to another transport area where you could choose between a boat or a train thing (I'm sure there is a correct term, but I have a headache and can't recall what that would be) to take you to the actual entrance.

So we chose the Boat ride on the way over. I think the train thing would have been faster but the boat was really fun.

We ended up being a little late for the opening ceremony dance production with all the Disney Characters.

TIP #3 I would have tried to get there earlier if possible so we could be up front for the show at the castle. There is one that starts first thing and a lot of adults feel it is more important that they stand up on the walls so they can see and block out the views of little children standing right behind them. But I'm not bitter or anything....

Okay, so the show had started and as we walked up the magic started.. My little girl said excitedly, "Mommy, mommy, mommy!!!... there are ALL MY FRIENDS!!!!" And she waved and waved and waved. She even waved with both hands for a while! She was SO excited. The boys were excited too. The 2nd one waved for a while.

But the oldest really struggled with whether an
almost 7 year old should be waving at dancing Disney Characters.
So he didn't, just to be on the safe side.

Ahh.. here they are.. all her friends!

The first ride we chose were the spinning teacups.
I remember riding these when I was a kid!

I think we could have gotten all 5 of us in one teacup
but we thought we'd spread out a little for this one.


Both working together to spin as fast as possible.

Sitting back and letting little sister spin it around a time or two.

TIP#4 The thing to remember when you get off is that you will most likely be a little discombobulated so double check to make sure you didn't leave your sunglasses in the teacup.

Because the lady who works the teacups is very distracted trying to keep everyone ordered and moving into and out of the teacups in an orderly fashion and it's really hard to get her attention to see if anyone has found some glasses.

I'm just sayin...

Next up... DUMBO!!!!

We really were able to get an adult and 2 kids into most rides. So I'm just blowing the top off the theory that one must have an even number of children just in case one ever goes to Disney World and wants to ride rides and not leave anyone out.

And dad is smiling because he ended up in the Dumbo with
the cautious one while I ended up in the Dumbo with the high flyer.

That's right.

The second things started she took that flying elephant up as high as it would go.

And she loved every minute of it!

TIP #5 We brought our own PB&J sandwiches for lunch and our own bottled water. They let you take food into the park so we were able to save some money on lunch and snacks. We did end up eating supper at the park but we had budgeted for that.

TIP #6 It might be prudent to take ponchos with you. Wal mart carries ponchos for $3 versus the Disney ponchos are more around $8 (which adds up quick). We took our Walmart ones and it actually rained on us the first day and we used our ponchos.

Well, I'm off to search online for more houses.

I'll post more about Disney as I get a chance.