While we were waiting near the gates at the first, a worker that was manning our gate asked us what brought us to Orlando. We told her we were here for fun. Melissa mentioned it is Byron’s birthday. She jumped on this and grabbed out a huge pin that says “Happy Birthday” as she wrote Byron below that. Byron was not very happy about it, but willingly accepted the pin and put it on. She also gave “First Visit” pins on 3 of the kids. It was so funny how everywhere we went and saw employees, they would say “Happy Birthday” Byron (or Brian). After a while it was fun to see the spontaneous way so many of the workers just said it as they were cleaning up or just the gate workers. I was so glad Melissa said something – it made for a very entertaining day.
We headed first to Space Mountain with Melissa, I and the children (minus Bradley). We had about a 5 min. wait and got on the ride. It was so fun! I had forgotten how enjoyable and exciting that ride it. It has some differences than the Disneyland ride, but so fun! We then headed over to Buzz Light year, Winnie the Pooh, Snow White, Peter Pan’s Flight, It’s a Small World, Haunted Mansion, Slash Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Luckily we had an app to follow that got us through each line in 20 min. or less (most around 10). It was absolutely amazing! Most of the rides had a few slight variations from Disneyland. Pirates was a shorter ride, but great also.
For lunch we got 2 turkey legs and shared them. They were so good and every last piece of meat was eaten off them. I am always amazed at how much they can fill you on just $9.50 each – pretty inexpensive meal for Disney World where most are around $40-50.
After lunch we enjoyed the Jungle Cruise – our tour guide was amazing and had one joke after another – barely breathing between everything she had to say. She was awesome! We also saw the Tiki room, country Bear Jamboree, the Riverboat, Hall of Presidents and Mickey’s PhilharMagic. The Hall of Presidents was presented on a huge screen and also included life size wax figures of each of the American Presidents. It was truly amazing! I learned a lot from the short video and dialogue. Mickey’s PhilharMagic was a 3D cartoon on a screen – it was really good. We also rode Goofy’s Barn stormer – the line was one of the longest we waited (about 30 min.) It compared to Puff at Lagoon – roller coaster for much younger kids. Bradley sure loved it.
We ate dinner at a sit down restaurant. It felt good to eat a meal without sharing it. I had a cheeseburger with bacon. Camille & Byron shared a lobster sandwich – Camille absolutely loved it . The kids all shared meals with another child. They devoured everything. While we were eating, the workers let the kids play with hula hoops. Parker & Carter are all over that and were pretty good.
The 5 kids, Melissa & I all headed back to Space Mountain for one last ride. Melissa & I were in the front of the car and it was amazing how it was so much cooler. We even felt airborne at one point. There was such a huge rush of energy on that ride – it was so fun! Then we headed to Laugh Floor. It was so funny – Tanner submitted a joke for the show – they actually mentioned his name, but accidentally said another joke than he had submitted. The joke he actually texted in was “Guess who is the most vulgar character in Star Wars? It’s R2D2 because they beep out all the swear words.”
There was a DJ playing music with a lot of people dancing. Pluto, Goofy and Stitch were all dancing with the group also. Camille, Carter & Parker were all getting into it as we loved watching them. The music was really fun and had a great beat.
After the dancing, we went on the people mover. It was a really relaxing ride that just went through Space Mountain and the Buzz Light year ride. When we were almost done, it broke down and we were stuck in one place for about 20 min. It finally started up after a while – thank goodness.
When we got off the ride, I asked Parker where his Mickey hat was. He said he had put it in our stroller before the last ride. We had not seen our stroller since before dinner, so I knew he could not have put the hat in our stroller. Apparently had saw a stroller before the previous ride that looked like ours and he put his hat in. At this point we looked around and the stroller was no where in sight. Poor Parker was so sad. We started walking out of the park and then stopped at the next stroller area (about 30 sec. walk from last stroller area). We just checked in case we could find the stroller like ours. Just about the same time, we saw a lady walking around with a Mickey hat and looking for a stroller. I guess they had found this hat in their stroller, then ended up loosing their stroller and were looking for it. She was so happy we found her and was just so nervous that some kid had lost their hat. Then they ended up finding their stroller at the same time. Parker totally lucked out! Not sure how he got so lucky to find it, but he was pretty excited.
The electrical parade was going to start when we were wanting to leave the park. We ended up finding a small path way to exit. Camille wanted to go to one last store to buy some charms and a charm bracelet. Johnathan ended up getting a cute goofy hat while there also. By now it was around 9:40 p.m. when we headed to get on the ferry. We waited for about 15 min. to get on one and then it took a while to go across the water. After exiting the ferry, the fireworks started above the castle in Magic Kingdom. It was cool to see them – they were amazing and really fun to watch as they went with the music coming across the loud speaker. We finally were able to head to our van – it probably took us about 1 hour to leave. That was the worst part about this park – how it was surrounded by water so we had to take a Monorail or ferry. We had a great time and were so glad we had the opportunity to go. We are also so excited to be able to sleep in until 8:30 or 9 a.m.
Camille-Favorite show so far has been the 3D Mickey Mouse show.
Tanner- Liked Magic Kingdom the best. He finally got his Goofy hat there. Favorite ride was Expedition Everest. Favorite show was Bugs Life.
Johnathan- Favorite rides are Splash and Space Mountain.
Carter-Favorite ride has been Expedition Everest and Space Mountain. Loved swimming at the condo.
Parker-Favorite ride has been Test Track and swimming at the condo.
Bradley- Favorites rides have been Pirates of the Caribbean and Buzz Light year.
Byron- Loved being told “Happy Birthday” at day at Magic Kingdom. He even was sang to by all the workers at the restaurant we ate dinner at.
Tricia- Loved going on the safari, Space Mountain, Expedition Everest.
Melissa – Loved Soarin’, Expedition Everest, Test Track, Rapids ride and Splash Mountain. She also loved the air boat ride.
Mom Beck – Loved Soarin’ more than any ride she has ever gone on. She also loved the safari and the air boat ride.
Dad Beck – Soarin’ and Animal Kingdom other than Expedition Everest. The Laugh Floor at Magic Kingdom was also great.
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