Hello! Welcome to part I of my Disney World vacation. I think I'm just going to take each day as it's own post because, let's face it, between the 6 of us, there were about a million photos taken! Our day started out nice and early. Mommy woke me up at 5 a.m. to say "Time for Disney World!" and I flew out of bed. I was very cooperative with my early wake up as it meant I got to go on a plane. After a bit of a parking fiasco, we made it on the light rail train to the airport and got to our gate with enough time to grab some treats at Caribou Coffee for the ride. Our flight went smoothly, our driver met us at the airport and took us to our hotel without incident. Our room wasn't quite ready so we ate lunch at one of the restaurants at our resort. This picture is me with my princess hat they gave me at check in. We were patiently waiting for our shuttle to come pick us up to take us back to the lobby. Due to some sort of issue with the shuttle people, we ended up getting a ride back from a random airport shuttle person. We got settled into our room and then hit the pool. It was good we did swimming on the first day as we were so busy the rest of the trip that we didn't get to swim again!
The next morning I was up bright and early ready for my first trip to Magic Kingdom. I was just in awe of how wonderful this place was! This picture is me seeing Cinderella's castle for the first time.
My first, and favorite ride of the trip, was the Dumbo ride. We went there first as we read that the lines get long for this classic ride. They even have 2 Dumbo rides now and it still gets really busy.
We went on a few other rides. I wasn't super crazy about the Winnie the Pooh ride but thought Peter Pan's flight was neat. Next we went on "Its a Small World." This one Mommy and baby brother were allowed to ride so we all went on it. There were so many things to see. My family noted that they had made some improvements to the ride over the years and enjoyed it more than past visits.
I was happy to find the carousel. Daddy and I went for a spin on a beautiful horse.
I used all my strength but still couldn't get the sword out of the stone. And then some fireworks went off near the ride and freaked me out.
The teacups were another favorite ride.
Enjoying the teacups. It was really fun to spin spin spin!
And no trip to Magic Kingdom is complete if you don't have a bunch of character encounters. This was so exciting! You just never know who you are going to see. Tigger and Pooh were really funny.
My family really enjoyed seeing the characters in the new circus tent because although it was a long line, it was in the air conditioning and we all got a nice cool break. And we got to see two of my favorite lady characters, Daisy and Minnie!
Daisy was really funny in her fortune teller costume. They were pretending to be part of the circus.
I was so impressed with Minnie's fancy outfit. I called it her princess dress. It sparkled and it was pink so that made it perfect!
I was totally thrilled to finally meet Minnie Mouse. She's one of my favorites. I was so so so excited!
After some lunch it was time for more rides and character encounters. The magic carpet ride was really fun. It's pretty much the Dumbo ride but only on a magic carpet.
Tinkerbell and her sister Periwinkle had their own little fairy home to visit. It was full of sparkles and pixie dust. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed.
I kept getting so giddy about meeting all these famous characters!
Periwinkle was so pretty and fancy!
Next it was time for the parade. I spent the entire time waving to all of my favorite characters and princesses! It was so impressive!
Belle!!
This is me going down the ramp to take the train at Magic Kingdom. I decided it was sort of like a roller coaster. Steve called it the strollercoaster.
One ride I really didn't like was the Jungle Cruise. As you can see, I spent most of the time gripping my parents and horrified. My parents aren't sure why I get so scared of things that are obviously fake and yet do fine on things like kiddie roller coasters.
The last thing we did the first day at Magic Kingdom was visit the princesses. This was AMAZING to say the least. I made sure to show the princesses that I was wearing a princess shirt.
Belle was beautiful as always in her yellow gown.
If you ask me who my favorite princess is, now I say Rapunzel after meeting her. It's basically because my favorite color is purple and she wears the purple gown. She was also really really nice to me.
My new BFF, Rapunzel
Last character of the day was THE Mickey Mouse. My parents let me pick out one souvenir each day. I got it toward the end of the day if I was well behaved. The first day I decided I needed "something for my head" as I noticed a lot of people walking around with various ears and hats and such. Of course I wanted the most sparkly Minnie Mouse ears we could find.
Our family with Mickey Mouse
This is me on the boat ride back to the transportation center where we met our shuttle to the hotel. Day 1 of Disney World was great and I couldn't wait to see what we'd get to do the next day! Stay tuned!
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