Day 1-Part 2 May 8:
Our first park of the trip was: Magic Kingdom!
There were a ton of security lines open so despite the crowds pouring in we made it through fairly quickly. R was wearing a shirt that said “My other ride is a magic carpet” and the CM checking our bags asked where it was and I replied “We are about to go find it”. We got Mickey to turn green x3 (Z never did and the CM brushed it off-more on this later) and we were on our way. The park opened at 9 and it was now 9:26. The kids were quick to point out the details on Main Street but we didn’t stop for any pictures today. We passed by the Trolley and let them have a quick peek before veering off towards Adventureland.
My original plan was to rope drop Jungle Cruise and Pirates-two rides Z has never done at WDW and O hasn’t done since her first visit (we did pirates at Disneyland which is definitely better and they loved it there). Since we were behind schedule I scrapped that plan and we hopped in line for a meet and greet instead. I think you can tell by our attire that this was a priority.
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Aladdin and Jasmine were so sweet with the kids and quick to make a comment about R’s shirt and O’s purse (which she sadly lost later that day and we were unable to find-I’m stalking eBay for a replacement at a reasonable cost I paid only 10$ for it but the ones listed are 50$+
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We said goodbye to our new friends and headed over to find that Magic Carpet. Another first for Z and he enjoyed the ride. I’m pretty sure the camel was back in action after reports of him being gone on Instagram a few weeks ago, but I don’t have photographic evidence so I’m not 100% sure.
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After we found a whole new world our first FP were coming up. I had made split FP for BTMRR, and Splash. For anyone who followed my pre trip report, this was sadly due to the fact that Z didn’t quite measure up for either of these rides (not that he would do Big Thunder but he wanted to try Splash so badly).
The plan was for R and O to ride Splash and then for her to join me and ride BTMRR (which I don’t remember ever riding although I must have when R and I came pre-kids?). I was about to point him in the direction of Splash with the app when I realized it was down and we had a multi-experience FP in its place. I decided that he should just take O on Big Thunder.
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Meanwhile I took Z to the treehouse-there was a train of people in front and behind us so I felt bad for stopping and taking pictures but we managed a few.
Then we had something (or really two things) to cross off my bucket list. I wanted to put Dole Whip and Citrus Swirl to the test. I prefer Dole Whip floats so we went with both in float form. Don’t worry we shared with O and R when they got back from their ride.
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This picture is a highly embarrassing attempt at a selfie (while trying to not let the ice cream drip on me and also corralling Z) but the only proof I have that we had a dole whip float
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In case you were wondering here were the verdicts:
Me: Dole whip
R: Dole whip
Z: Dole whip
O: Citrus swirl (where did she come from lol)