To see the expression on Paige's face and hear the excitement in her voice when we say Cinderella's castle was priceless. She absolutely loved it.
Our first stop was Dumbo. This is a very popular ride for kids and there is no fast pass so the trick is to get it done and get it done early.
We roamed through the rest of FantasyLand until lunch time.
I am a huge tea cup fan, Brad not so much. So, when Paige said she wanted to go I was all about it! We ended up not twirling ourselves around at all but it was still fun! And the 5 minute wait was even better!
The first of many times of riding the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (probably her favorite ride). This is a great kids ride. There are a lot of fun scenes and the ride moves right along with it, including the bouncing with the bouncy Tigger. Another side note about Pooh - if you don't have a FastPass there are activities for the kids to do along the way making your wait a little bit better. We, however, used a FastPass each time except 1 time because there wasn't a long wait. FastPass is the way to do everything!!!
Another favorite - Small World - another short wait! P loved this and still sings the song for us...not sure how good that is - ha!
Sportin' the sunglasses. The girl loved her some sunglasses!!
Then it was off to the Crystal Palace for lunch with Winnie the Pooh and friends. This lunch was great! I will do a separate post with pictures, but it was a great opporunity to cool off during the middle of the day. We also enjoyed eating the bigger lunch so we weren't as hungry later in the day and advanced dining reservations are must for something like this. After lunch we headed back to the hotel for a break and after a few hours of rejuvination we were ready to go.
Heading back after lunch
We started with AdventureLand this time and worked our way around to the other areas of the park we hadn't seen. Daddy took Paige on the Pirates of the Carribean. I think it scared her a little bit but she was so proud of herself when she got off. She told him, "Daddy, I did it!". Since we weren't sure how crazy she was about the characters we focused our time on rides and it worked pretty well. By the end of the night we had ridden everything we wanted to and then some. She was brave and did the Haunted Mansion (which we walked right up to and had NO wait), she loved the train ride around the park, and then there was Buzz. The Buzz Lightyear ride is in TomorrowLand and I think we all 3 loved it.
Jungle Boat Cruise
Flying Carpets - another favorite! Like Dumbo but can fit more people in/on the carpet. The front seat can move the carpet up and down. As you can tell I wasn't too good at it...seeing as how we are the lowest carpet out there.
Taking time to dance
So, there is the nightly parade. Maybe it is where we live, but we are just not too into Disney parades. Maybe it is because they don't throw anything at as, who knows! Anyway, we got trapped, if you will, and couldn't get back to FantasyLand to ride more rides so we watched the parade instead. This was probably a good thing because we were all tuckered out and pretty much done for the night by the end of the parade.
Heading on back after an AWESOME first day!!
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