Peabody Family Blog: Disney

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Disney - Magic Kingdom!

FINALLY, we made our way to the Magic Kingdom. Again, tried to get an early start knowing the kids would want to go back to the pool for the afternoon. This became a trend. They like the parks but after a while they started asking for the pool. It was hot and they were typically ready to cool off and play after lunchtime. Jay and I were not 12 hour in the park kind of parents. We did 6 hours tops and we were outta there. It worked out.

First walk down Main Street and the castle -

The Dumbo ride was the first ride for the day (or as Paige called it "Elli's Ride!")

It's a Small World ride which the kids surprisingly really liked. They picked to do it again the second day.

We ran into the wicked step mother and step sisters. I told Paige to ask them why they were so mean to Cinderella but she said, "No Mommy, that would be rude to ask!"

Of course the answers changed daily but one day Paige's answer to "which was your favorite ride?" was the carousel -

We saw a couple 3D movies throughout the week. When we got home Paige said, "we should have kept some of those glasses and watched our TV at home with them, that would be cool" She really loved the 3D effect. She would spend the show grabbing for the air in front of her trying to catch whatever was coming her way, very cute. This was a cute little Mickey show we stopped at in Tomorrowland.

We checked out Garcon's pub from Beauty and the Beast -

Time for a sweet treat -

We got to watch a bit of the show before lightning shut it down. Lucky for us we were safely on the bus before it started raining.

Luke picked his special gift at the Magic Kingdom. Perry the Platypus. Thinking this might have something to do with the fact that the animal he picked in school for his research paper was no other than the Platypus!

We had dinner at our resort. A seafood buffet. It was actually pretty good, by Disney's standards. Paige LOVED picking from the "fancy" dessert table and both kids felt so grown up having kiddie cocktails.