Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

After we unpacked and got settled we decided to hold off on eating and get some time in at the Magic Kingdom. We stopped down at the gift store and bought some hats and then caught the bus to the park. After getting in we grabbed a snack and headed to Tomorrow Land at Bella’s request.

While in Tomorrow Land we went to:

• Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor – This was a pretty funny comedy show. The girls really enjoyed this.
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin – This was an interactive ride where you had to shoot at targets as the ride went along. Very fun.
• Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress – I was surprised that Bella was as interested as she was in this. Erin did not enjoy it as much though.
• Tomorrowland Transit Authority – All three girls loved riding through the different parts of Tomorrow Land. I wish I could have gotten a picture of the looks of pure joy on their faces.
• Tomorrowland Speedway – We had to take turns on this one since Erin was too little to ride. Karen took Bella and I took Gilli.

While I was riding the Speedway with Gilli, Bella went with Karen and Erin to ride the teacups at the Mad Tea Party. Unfortunately she could not ride alone and by the time Gilli and I were done at the Speedway the park was closing. However, we met up at the Fantasyland Play Area and watched the fireworks show. It was funny because Karen left me a message that they were near the Winnie the Pooh play area instead of by the teacups. But when I asked an attendent where that was he would only tell me that since the park was closing Winnie the Pooh had gone to bed. I finally got directions once I told him I was only trying to find the rest of my family and not meet a character.

The only problem with watching the fireworks at the back of the park was that it took quite a while to get out of the park with everyone else at the end of the night. The girls were remarkable considering we didn’t get a chance to eat until around 10:00 that night once we got back into the hotel. The cafeteria at the hotel was great and we actually ate all of our meals there. (I’ll talk about logistical/advice stuff in another post)

We ended our first day at Disney with some well deserved sleep.

We decided to take the drive down in 3 days istead of 2, so we broke it up into 4.5 hours on Saturday, 9.5 hours on Sunday, and 4.5 hours on Monday without stops. We left Saturday afternoon and drove to Fairport, West Virginia. It was a fairly uneventful trip and we had a yummy dinner at the Cracker Barrel before crashing at the hotel.

On Sunday we had our long day, around 12 hours with stops. The girls liked the tunnels in West Virginia and we stopped at a scenic overlook to take some pictures.

Once we got to our hotel in Georgia we were exhausted so we got drive thru Burger King and called it a night. Luckily we didn’t have as far to drive on Monday so we took it easy and arrived at Disney just at the check in time of 3:00. It was nice to get the car unloaded and change into some shorts for some fun in the sun.