Marla’s Aunt and Uncle from southern Florida joined us at Magic Kingdom today to help us celebrate a couple of birthdays. Since we arrived late, we went and got fastpasses for Space Mountain. We diverged from our plan a bit because we had guests with us. No sense in killing anyone on our vacation, eh?<\/p>\n
Lunch was at Cosmic Ray’s, and it was one of the few disasters we encountered. We took our time touring, and then ate a late lunch. We figured by 2:00 PM things would clear out at the counter service restaraunts. Boy, were we wrong. We had to scout for seating for 30 minutes, splitting up and staying in touch by cell phone when we found tables. Once we found one, it had no chairs. Marla, Penny and Alfie guarded the table and scouted for chairs while I went to get us food. The food lines were not actually too<\/em> bad, although they screwed up our order and I had to wait too long for an order of fries with my kids’ meals. Finally, the food came, and I made my way back to the table. By now, the others had scrounged some chairs and even another table nearby, so we could actually sit and eat. From there, it went smoothly, but we were not happy with the seating availability at such a late hour for lunch.<\/p>\n After lunch, we did some more touring until dinnertime. I’m not going into detail here because I don’t remember it all – I know we finally went to Mickey’s toontown Fair and did the Mickey pictures and the big playground, and at some point we did the Tomorrowland Transit Authority and Enchanted Tiki Birds, but I don’t remember much else until dinner.<\/p>\n Dinner was great, at Liberty Tree. I must say, having reservations is a must. We saw several disappointed families waiting to see if they could get in "stand-by" – it was no good this night. They were booked solid. This was a character dinner that included Goofy, Minnie, Chip, and Dale. <\/p>\n After dinner, we rode a few rides but the highlight was It’s A Small World – by now the lines were negligible, and we rode it twice. We could have ridden it three or more times, but the kids had had enough. We had already closed this park once, so we packed it in and went back to our hotel. Tomorrow, we were coming back to MK again, so we needed our energy.<\/p>\n