Magic Kingdom At Last!

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So, after two days of only semi-happy boys, we finally headed to the Magic Kingdom!

We had breakfast with Winnie the Pooh & Friends at the Crystal Palace restaurant prior to park opening.  I find that scheduling character meals - where the boys can meet a bunch of characters and get pictures and autographs is much better than standing in a bunch of lines to for the same results.  The only thing the character meals don't have is a PhotoPass photographer to take all of the pictures, but given that I am not thrilled with their quality even on a good day, that is not much of a negative to me.

As anticipated, breakfast with Pooh was a very big hit.







Following breakfast, we hightailed it over to Fantasyland to start our day of rides off with The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.  The crowds were light, and moving from attraction to attraction was a pretty speedy process.  We quickly checked off Peter Pan's Flight, Royal Carousel, Alice's Teacups, Tomorrowland Speedway, Dumbo AND Goofy's Barnstormer.  All before eleven a.m.!  Tired, and starting to feel hungry, we grabbed popcorn and boarded the train, bound for Frontierland.





Samuel was reluctant, but I was able to convince him to try my favorite ride, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.  Sadly, he then declared that he was never riding it again.  Thomas, on the other hand, loved it.  Ah well, one outta two ain't bad!

Thomas wanted to ride Splash Mountain too, much to Chris glee.  That's one of his favorites and they both had a good time and hardly got wet at all.

By that time, it was time to head over to the Be Our Guest restaurant back in Fantasyland.  I had been lucky enough to grab lunchtime reservations.  Having FastPassPlus reservations at BOG is currently in a testing phase, but I got wind of it from the Disboards.com forums.  Research pays off!

The food was above average for "quick service" (i.e. fast-food) restaurant.  Nice turkey sandwiches for Chris and I on freshly made crusty rolls.  The boys had Mickey-shaped meatloaf.  Then, for dessert, chocolate cupcakes.  The lighting was a bit dimmer than I prefer, and the big room was somewhat cafeteria-like (which of course is what it is!) but it was fun to try it out.




Against my better judgement, we decided to try and stick around for the afternoon parade.  We did a couple of rides in Fantasyland, then headed back to Frontierland where we watched the Country Bears Jamboree show.  So fantastically cheesy, but of course the boys loved it.  Then we nabbed front row spots for the parade.  Fifteen minutes later, I was doubting my sanity as the boys poked, prodded and otherwise annoyed each other in the stroller.

BUT, I have to say that they really did enjoy the parade.




One quick ferry ride later and we were back at Wilderness Lodge and changing for the pool!


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