Day 5: Disneyworld Magic Kingdom

Today is our first visit to Disneyworld on this holiday and we were both excited, its so magical we knew it was going to be another fun day. We woke up at 8 and was outside our hotel waiting for Fiorella to pick us up to take us to Disney (very nice of her). The ride took us about 20 mins in her truck and she dropped us off in the parking lot next to the shuttle tram for about 9.30.

As we got on the monorail to travel into the magic kingdom the memories came flooding back of the first time i came here and how exciting it was, that feeling didnt change as we rode into the station, i love this place ! We swiped our "passes" and got in no problem as we entered the main street area we noticed all the characters that were meeting and greeting and having photo ops, but that was for later ! we went to the hat-ear shop and priced them up to get them later, it had to be done. On our way down main street i got a photopass off one of the official pohotographers so we could get some good snaps of us both together and they were free ! my camera was sort of ok but not 100% but i used it anyway. Cinderellabration was just starting up ahead at the castle so Jayne wanted to see that, i didnt begrudge her that seen as i rode the Hulk like 5 or 6 times.

After that we made our way to the pirates of the carribean before i had my pic taken with captain Hook tho, the ride was empty and we walked straight on it, "yo ho ho a pirates life for me", after that next up was Splash Mountain, Jayne wa stoo scraed to come on this but it didnt half as bad as dudley do right falls, i went on alone and walked straight on, the ride was long but took a while for the big drop at the end, it didnt seem as scary as i thought and luckily i didnt get that wet, a little disspointed with it as this ride was being built in 91 the last time i came i was thought it was going to be spectacular.

Thundermountain railroad was next, we queued up for about 45 mins for this the longest wait we had had the entire holiday, as we got in the car and it started off half way round it started to pur down we got more soaked on this ride that i did on splash mountain, and wouldnt you know it the rain stopped by the time we got off the ride.

We made our way thry frontierland for something to eat and had a nice healthy big sarnie in a wooden cabin resturant there, onto the Haunted Mansion was after lunch i couldnt really remember this ride when last i visited but it all came back when we got on it, it was funny and made us laugh. Waalking into fantasyland the number of kids and prams were growing this was defintalely the most popular for the tiny kids, we went into Mickeys Philharmonic show first, not much of a wait, but wow what a show it was in 3D with great soundtrack and water effects and laughs along the way, a new ride as this wasnt open on my first visit, we were both really impressed by it. Next i dragged Jayne on "Its a small World" its a really tacky ride with dolls from all over the world in it and and the most annoying "stick in your head tune" ever ! i think i was humming it for about an hour afterwards hahaha.

The time was close to 3 so we needed to get our spots for the parade so we made our way thru the castle to main street and the roundabout at the top and got our spots (after an ice lolly of course) 10 mins to go the parade and yes you guessed the heavens opened, bloody typical, everybody took cover we did under the ice lolly stand right behind us where about another 20 people did too, as the parade started they were all in bubbles as not to get wet, a good idea so the parade went on rain or shine, fater it was over we made our way to Tomorrowland, this my fav part of Magic Kingdom, we went on Stichs greta adventure and Buzz Lightyear (where Jayne claims to beat me again at shooting aliens) first (both mainly for kids and fairly lame but fun!)

We chilled out for a bit and went on the monorail around tomorrowland it was nice to rerlax and sit on a ride that took in the sights, after that we went in the carousell of progress, this was an old ride and had been there yonks i remember it from last time, Jayne had never been on before, it was more of a show than a ride but it revolved as each time period went by to see how time has changed throught the ages, it was fun and we came out humming and singing a catchy tune that was also annoying. Space mountain was next, i was a bit nervous about this one as i remember last time i didnt like it but my sister did, this time however i loved it , it was all in the dark and we zipped round corners at high speed it was great !

After that excitement it was finally time to go meet Mickey and his pals, we queued up inside fir a while and we got to the front in another room, there he was !!! both me and Jayne got our pics with him i was soooo happy now i had achieved one of my goals of my holiday. After visiting minnie mouses house (for Jayne) we chilled out for a bit and decided to catch the monorail back to the main entrance to get our ears, ive never been on the railroad before so it was nice, we got our ears with our names on the back (i had chris and not joe) and we also picked up a huge strawberry cookie that was out of world, we munched it as we waited for the railroad to come around again and take us back to the toon area where i wanted to go meet the rest of Mickeys pals. Jayne went for a coffee while i went inside to get my pics with Minnie, Pluto, Donald and Goofy.

time was getting on now before park closing and the fireworks at 9pm, we decided to do Space Maintain 1 more time, as were in the queue we met 2 young girls from Atherton and got chatting to them about rides and stuff in the parks it made the wait go faster and they ended up riding the ride with us. On our way out it was now dark and pouring down, we decided to make a dash for the main entrance as watching the fireworks in this weather would be no fun so we thought we'd catch the ferry over nad watch them from there, we saw a little of them while it poured with rain a bit of a disspaointing end to an otherwise magical day !

We caught the local bus service at the tivcket center at 10pm and it dropped us off right by our hotel, we decided to go to Logas for dinner as it was late we were the almost the last ones in at the end eating, so we ate up and left and headed home after a long fun day filled with happy memories and laughs......and we still had our ears on !