Are We There Yet : Part 2 Archive

The Magic Kingdom

We checked into our hotel this morning around 8:30 and we were off to the Magic Kingdom shortly after that. The weather was holding off for the most part early in the day. Even though tropical Storm Fay was hitting the south end of the state, the rain in Orlando was light and off and on.

Our first glimpse of Minnie and Mickey.

Nothing like a Tropical Storm threat to keep the ride wait times short. We were able walk right on to Space Mountain.

The first of many posing's for the Girls this week. The longest wait times in Tomorrowland was about 10 minutes and half of that was just walking through the line maze.

We headed over to Frontierland to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and then to Splash Mountain, both rides we were again able to walk on. Susan didn't go on Splash Mountain so she took a picture of us coming down the big hill.

Here are the girls with Br'er Fox, Bear and Rabbit.

it was over to Adventureland to ride the Jungle Cruise.

We took in the Enchanted Tiki room show.

The girls with the Tiki statues.

We watched the Country Bear Jamboree.

This was about average for the crowds through the day. This was around 12:30 pm.

We rode the Haunted Mansion, the girls enjoyed the hitchhiking ghosts.

Next it was over to Fantasyland. We rode "It's A Small World", but a lot of the other rides were the busiest we saw all day.

The girls inside the small world.

Cinderella's castle.

Our room was ready so we started our way back to the hotel.

Angela and Claudia with Donald Duck.

A balloon man on Main Street.

We'll be making our way around Disney this week on the Disney buses. There are shuttles from the hotel to each park.

It was back to the hotel for a couple of hours before heading back to the Magic Kingdom for dinner.

Dinner with Pooh

We had some time to kill before our reservation, so we walked through the Swiss Family Treehouse.

Halfway through.

The girls went on Alladin's Magic Carpet ride again.

We even had time to ride on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad again, the wait said 20 minutes, but we walked on as soon as we got to the head of the line.

As you can see it was still raining off and on. It wasn't until about 6:00 pm that the rain started with no intention of letting up.

We had dinner reservations at The Crystal Palace with Winnie the Pooh and Friends. Before dinner the chef came out and he took us through the buffet line and told us what the girls could and couldn't eat. The first to visit us was Piglet.

Claudia and Piglet are kind of dressed the same.

Winnie the Pooh and the girls.

Right after Pooh was Eeyore.

Eeyore and the girls, as you can see him and Pooh were right after one another.

Where Gillian was sitting the characters kind of sneaked up behind her.

The girls and Tigger. There was a little boy yanking on his tail when he was posing for us.

Susan and I with Tigger.

After dinner we headed back over to Tomorrowland. We rode Space Mountain and Buzz Lightyear again and we saw the Monsters, Inc Comedy Club. Claudia was flashed up on the screen with the caption "Daddy's Little Monster". Despite the weather, it was a great start to our week at Disney.