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Saturday, January 11, 2014

Disney - Day 2 {Magic Kingdom}

We planned to spend the whole day at Magic Kingdom.  There were Extra Magic Hours from 7-8 AM.  We tried to get there by 7, but 7:30 ended up being more realistic for us. 

We took the monorail there that morning and the kids loved it!

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This was an action packed day for us!  We were there for over 13 hours.  The crowd definitely picked up late in the afternoon and it was sort of a nightmare to get out of the park that night.  I had read about the crowds on this day so we were prepared to deal with the people.  This day was basically the practice run for New Year's Eve.  The plus about that was that the electric parade and fireworks times were earlier than usual!

Luke was super excited to run into to Stitch first thing that morning!

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Luke and Wally hit up the Tomorrowland Speedway while Paige and I had a snack!

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Luke met Buzz!

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We rode the Buzz Lightyear ride which was a huge favorite of Luke's (and Wally's)!

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and we had a dance party with the Incredibles!

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Luke and Wally attempted the Lilo & Stitch ride, but Wally pulled Luke out in the middle because he thought Luke was getting scared...

While they did that, Paige and I had some pics taken!  (I wish the humidity made my hair cute like it does to Paige's! Her curls were out in full force that day!) 

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Next up, was Astro Orbiter. This ride actually was a little scary as it went really high and tilted to the side, but both kids loved it!

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Paige was a huge fan of the People Mover! She really liked when it was pitch black going through Space Mountain - ha! She's crazy!

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Waiting patiently in line...

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 Waiting not so patiently in line...

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Magic Carpet Ride!

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Time to meet some princesses! We had a fastpass for meeting Cinderella and a visiting princess. We obviously had no idea who the visiting princess would be, but I was so hoping it would be Paige's favorite Aurora! And it was!!! Paige was SO EXCITED! I was almost crying because I was so excited for her! We met with Cinderella first and then moved on to Aurora! (She is Paige's favorite because she wears pink of course!)

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Cinderella loved Paige's bow!

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Paige was so happy to hold Princess Aurora's hand!

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Aurora loved Paige's sparkly shoes!

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Then we were off to Enchanted Tales with Belle!

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One of my favorite shows was Mickey's Philharmagic! Both kids did awesome with the 4D.  Paige kept reaching out to touch the objects coming at her!

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Prince Charming's carousel ride!

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A little rest with this cute little guy!

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When she got tired, she would just crash in the stroller!

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We saw a great show in front of the castle!

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Wally thought he found beer in the Magic Kingdom, but it was just some frozen apple cider with marshmallows - ha!

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We took our turn for some pics on Main Street!

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Mickey Ears!

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And Mickey ice cream!

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Both kids loved the Electric Light Parade!

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The castle looked so pretty at night!

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We considered staying for the fireworks, but the park was so crowded and Luke was getting really tired. We decided to walk back to our hotel and see if we could see the fireworks from there. Our parking lot was a perfect spot!

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Paige saw the whole show

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but Luke did not!

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It was another great day at Magic Kingdom! Here is some video of our day!

Monday, January 6, 2014

Disney - Day 1 {Travel & Magic Kingdom}

Our first day started bright and early - about 3 AM to be exact.  Our flight was at 6:30 so we stayed at a hotel near O'Hare the night before.  Both kids woke up fairly easy.  Paige was hilarious - she woke up saying "Ho ho ho" and thinking Santa was coming - a little delirious I think! 

They were both troopers!

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We arrived at the airport and awaited our plane!

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We were getting excited!

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Both kids did really good on the flight! Wally and Luke were a couple of rows in front of us, but Luke did great and only slept a bit. Paige slept most of the way, but woke up during the last half hour. We were heading through some turbulence then and that is of course when she said she had to go to the bathroom and wanted to see Daddy, but we weren't allowed to get up. It was a little bit of a rough ending to the flight!

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Holding on to Minnie!

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We made it - on Disney's Magical Express to our hotel!

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We did a quick check-in, got our double stroller and headed to Magic Kingdom! We stayed 3 nights at Contemporary Resort which is right on the monorail.  But we could actually even walk to Magic Kingdom (only 10 minutes) so we found that to be even quicker! 

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We arrived just as a parade was getting ready to start. There was no better way to start our Disney World adventure!

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We finally made it to the castle!!!!

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And of course we had to have some Mickey Mouse pretzels!

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And then we were off to meet the Mouse himself!   Paige was a little unsure!

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We were told to stand Buzz Lightyear style!

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Then it was time to ride some rides! 

The teacups were a huge hit!  We rode them many times over the week!

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Having so much fun!

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We met Ariel!

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Loving Dumbo!

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It's a Small World!

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There was some rain that day but we had our rain cover and ponchos!

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Under the Sea ride!

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She finally crashed as we were heading out of the park!

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But this guy was still going!

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It was a great first day. We did way more than we had planned. The rain didn't last and the lines were pretty short so we got on a lot of rides!

Here is a little video of parts of our day!