Day 3 Magic Kingdom YAWNNNNNNNN
Ok, day three and this is one fast paced vacation. I love Disneyworld but I am pretty sure we are traumatizing my daughter's best friend. She is a Disney Newbie and this probably wasn't the way to introduce her. My daughter and I surprisingly jumped up when the alarm went off at 6:00am, her....not so much. We noticied her nodding off at breakfast, on the bus and throughout the day. Anyway..off to Pop Food Court for some protein. I got my western omelette ($6.99), daughter got waffle with bacon ($5.69) and friend got french toast with bacon ($5.19). We are still using our water bottles. Total bill was ($19.04). Magic Kingdom opened at 9:00am and tonight was their late opening which meant we could stay until midnight. We actually saw the opening ceremony which was really cute. The park was all decorated for Halloween, which is my fav holiday!
We head to the right, buzz lightyear, stitch, space mountain, carousel of progress, TTA..here is where things get hairy. I noticed that my digital camera memory card is almost full. It's an old 512 card so I walk back to the front of the park and hope that the kodak photo center. And thank you Disney..they sell memory cards..AND they are 1GB. So, I buy a new card ($25.54), load it up and head back to right side of park. We go to laugh factory, buzz again, stitch again, buzz again..basically we are walking on and off rides. My daughter does astro orbitor and her friend and I stroll and take more pics...this is when my camera starts flashing red and says 'card not formatted'. And it won't let me format it. I have already taken about 30 pics of the girls with Buzz Lightyear and Stitch plus lots of park pics. I am mortified. I think a lot of it was fatigue mortification, if that's a word but I give up on the pics. We head to the back of the park but it's getting packed. My daughter's friend really wanted to go on the Speedway but the line was wrapped around tomorrowland. We also noticied that fantasyland was packed. snow white, pooh, even it's a small world was packed. We decided since it was almost noon to do lunch and regroup. We went to Pinocchios for Cheese Pizza ($5.79), nugget with fries meal ($6.89) figaro fries ($3.19) and a kids pb and j meal ($4.49) Total bill ($21.69). After lunch we headed to Hall of Presidents. My daughters friend not only fell asleep, but snored loudly throughout the entire show. My daughter insisted on Splash Mountain. So, we got FP's for 2:15-3:15pm. We decided to jump on the Railroad for a relaxing 20 minute ride around the park. It was about 1:25pm so we were counting on some shopping before the FP was ready for Splash MOuntain, however, once on the train, we were stopped at Mickey's Toontown for almost an hour. Unfortunately, some poor mother lost her child while on the train. I don't know the details but they would not allow the train to move until almost 2:30pm. We were too tired to hike it back on foot and figured we would wait it out. We got back to Frontierland at about 2:50..just enough time for the girls to jump on Splash Mountain. It was around this time that the Parade was starting so the CM's were starting to rope off the area. I was also waiting in the wrong gift shop and totally lost them when they exited Splash Mountain. So here I am, wondering around MK trying to imagine what two teenage girls would do if they didn't see me. I attempted to meander my way through the crowds to the front of the park. I took this opportunity to take my 1GB memory card back to the Kodak store. No one could figure out what the problem was so they offered me a new card. Luckily, one of the CM's was able to get my pics off the other card. I opened the new card, inserted it in the camera and poof...CARD NOT FORMATTED in bold red letters. The only other option I had was to have the CM put the pics from my 512 card onto a CD so I could clear it and take more pics with that, since I knew it worked. That was another ($25.54). But I could now delete the pics off the camera and start over. Anyway, afterwards, I sat on the rocking chair on the porch for about two hours waiting for my daughter to wander to the front of the park, which they did at approx. 5:00pm. We were all cranky and tired and decided on a hotel break. We stopped at the Confectionary store for a sweet treat and spent ($16.89) in there for treats and some pops as soveniers for friends and my daughter had to have an ice cream cone at Scoops ($2.75). Back to Pop until about 8:00pm. We had dinner at approx 6:00 at Pop Food Court..My daughters friend and I just wanted nachos, mine were loaded ($6.69) she had plain nachos and cheese ($3.49) my daugher went to the arcade first but came back and had Pizza ($6.09), frieds ($1.99) and we decided to toss the water bottles and get two fountain drinks (2 x $2.29). Total bill was ($13.49). Back to the room for a couple hours, on the bus by 8:00am to MK.
We immediately watched the fireworks in front of Cinderella's Castle at 9:00pm then headed to Haunted Mansion which was fantastic, it's a small world, snow whites adventure, peter pans flight, and mickey's philharmagic. It was now close to 11:15pm and we decided that we had all had enough and headed back to Pop. Although I hadn't mentioned this before, all three of us were on a six hour tylenol schedule; besides the sore feet and headaches from sleep deprivation, we were all feeling the effects of trying to pack those four parks into four days. We missed a lot at MK like the tiki rm, pirates, thunder mountain, alladin carpets, etc, we also knew enough was enough. We got back to Pop at about 11:53pm...just enough time for snacks in the Food Court. We got a bag of chips ($2.39), four pieces of bread ($2.76), four peanut butters ($2.00), and two worms in dirt ($1.99 each) Total receipt was ($11.86). So today we spent ($51.08) on Misc and ($96.57) on food...this night is not over as tomorrow is checkout so I'll do a Part II and our Final Day tomorrow...here are a couple of pics...
