Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

On Wednesday we decided to rent a double stroller and spend the whole day at the Magic Kingdom. We had Erin’s single stroller, but we figured with a full day ahead of us the double stroller for Bella and Gilli would work well; which it did.

Bella and Gilli were collecting autographs and meeting characters as the mood struck them. Bella decided she wanted to meet Pinocchio, but Gilli decided to wait with Karen and Erin.

Meeting Pinocchio

We lucked out, as we got to Main Street in the Magic Kingdom a parade was starting, so we parked at the curb and watched.

Interestingly this was the only time we saw Mickey

Since we went right to TomorrowLand on day one we took a left to AdventureLand and started at the Swiss Family Treehouse. I took these pictures of Bella and Gilli as Erin was getting out of the stroller.

After the Treehouse we went to The Magic Carpets of Alladin and then Bella and Gilli got to meet Princess Jasmine and Alladin.

Then we walked on to the Pirates of the Carribean. We skipped the Capt. Jack Sparrow show that was going on and took advantage of the minimal wait to get on the ride. Gilli was terrified of the ride and the dark, but Bella loved it. Since there was no line Bella and I rode one more time. Since I respected the “no flash photography” rule (unlike some other people on the boat) I didn’t get any good pictures inside the ride.

After that we went to FrontierLand. Bella and Karen were going to ride Splash Mountain but the wait was very lengthy so instead we went on the Walt Disney World Railroad, which took us on a relaxing ride around the park. If we didn’t have the strollers parked in FrontierLand we might have considered getting off at another part of the park, but it was a nice ride and a chance to rest our legs.

After a ridiculous search for a restroom we found Peter Pan, so Bella and Gilli got to meet him.

Since we were in FrontierLand we had to stop and see the Country Bear Jamboree. I had never seen it before, but after seeing the movie I can understand why the girls were not that excited and Bella said “that’s not the Country Bears!”

After that we almost got caught watching another parade but decided to skip it when the opportunity presented itself. We stopped for a snack as the day began to take its toll on us. We decided to split up since the next ride we were going on was the Haunted Mansion and Erin wouldn’t be able to ride that. I took Bella and Gilli (I was surprised she wanted to go) to The Haunted Mansion while Karen took Erin to Ariel’s Grotto.

Both Bella and Gilli were scared at The Haunted Mansion, so we skipped riding that again and trekked over to meet up with Karen and Erin. We decided that we’d let the girls meet Ariel and then go back to the hotel. Unfortunately we did not anticipate the almost hour long wait in the increasingly hot sun being forced to listen to three songs from The Little Mermaid over and over again in a perpetual loop. That is when my ears got painfully sunburned and Erin kicked the camera switching the settings which I did not notice until later, resulting in the blurry picture below.

Erin almost met Ariel, but then decided against it.