Day 4: Magic Kingdom 1
Day 4 at Disney – June 9th, we went to Magic Kingdom.
The only thing I regret is that we did Epcot the day before Magic Kingdom. Next time, not gonna do it that way. We closed Epcot last night, and today is our first day of a park that you have to be very aggressive to tour – Magic Kingdom. The tour plan we were following was called "Dumbo or Die in a Day". But, we did it – and, I’ll admit, we had fun.
We arrived at opening and made our way to Dumbo – a cycle loader that pretty much has a 90 minute line anytime 30 minutes after opening. So if your goal, like ours, was to not wait more than 20 minutes for any ride (a goal we achieved, by the way) you have to hit the rides with long lines first.
So we rode Dumbo. Then Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, Tomorrowland Indy Speedway, Buzz Lightyear, and the Laugh Floor Comedy Club. All before lunch. Then, we took a break – went back to our hotel, ate lunch, and took a nap. These were all of our favorite rides amongst the most popular, and they were done.
When we came back, we took the pontoon boat (Disney calls it a "raft") over to Tom Sawyer Island and looked around. The younger kids loved it, but Aaron hated it (as you can tell from the pictures). Even though our plan called for it, by this time we didn’t want to do the ToonTown stuff (Mickey’s house pictures, Donald’s Boat, etc.) until we met up later with Marla’s Aunt and Uncle. So we skipped forward to Country Bear Jamboree, skipped It’s a Small World (line over 20 minutes, better time to ride will come later) and Pirates of the Carribean. Meanwhile, we had gotten fastpasses to Jungle Cruise and we took that.
Whew! What a day. Time for dinner, table service at Tony’s Town Square, fashioned after Tony’s in Lady and the Tramp. Of course, the specialty of the house is Spagetti and Meatballs, which we all devoured and then watched the parade and fireworks before going back to our hotel.
The pictures of every MK day are HERE; I’ll give you a little guidance on our first day at MK:
- Some shots of Magic Kingdom "opening"
- Dumbo!
- Indy Speedway – even a three year old can drive the cars!
- Tom Sawyer Island excursion
- Country Bear Jamboree
- Goofy Statue in front of Tony’s
- The SpectroMagic Parade (well, what I could catch of it)
- The Fireworks
At this point, the pictures move into Day 2 at MK (Day 6 at Disney), which I will cover in two blog posts from now.