Part 2: Magic Kingdom by afternoon/Night

On Wednesday we decided to finish up what we had missed at the Magic Kingdom as well as watch the fireworks at night. It made sense to rest up during the day and go mid afternoon to the theme park. In the morning Mike and Paige went swimming while I read a book and Rose napped. By the time Rose woke up, Mike and Paige were done with swimming, but we walked around the property for a bit with Rose in her stroller and took a few pictures (will come in a later post). By 3:00ish we were all rested up and ready for more rides!

This day was amazing. No clouds and low 20's. Perfect for t-shirt weather. We headed straight for Tomorrowland and reserved a fastpass for the Buzz Lightyear ride. In the meantime we went to the Monster's Inc Laugh Floor which was an interactive comedy show. Very funny.

Paige standing with the laugh collector.

Oooh blue goo!
Rose got to ride the Buzz Lightyear ride. Mike and Paige were in a separate car. I had to steer and shoot things while holding her. She just looked around and probably wondered what on earth was going on.
Buzz Lightyear himself! Paige said she was too scared to go meet him.

At the tea cup ride...




In Minnie's house...


The other ride we went on was Goofy's Barnstormer (Paige's first experience with a roller coaster--she was scared and excited all at the same time, and perfected my mom's scared/excited laugh perfectly the whole time we were on the ride. I think she was really shocked by how fast and twisty turny it was).

We ate a basic dinner at a fast food place. Actually, we are really impressed with the fast food places in Disney. Though not gourmet of course, the food is actually really yummy at these places. After dinner Paige and Daddy went to the Haunted Mansion ride in the dark. She wanted to ride with Daddy this time...her idea. I can't believe she's not scared of it. While they were in there, I wandered the magical lit-up night time streets with Rose trying to get her to go to sleep.

We got to the night time show just in time armed with a strobe light style glow stick. First, there was a projection show on the Cinderella castle. The entire castle was lit up in continuously changing scenes and colours. Hard to explain really. After this was the amazing fireworks show which has to be one of the best you can ever see. These fireworks were huge and really really loud. In the background they had character voices and music from movies. Paige was in awe. Rose was sleeping--after fighting it for about 10 minutes before the show started she finally passed out just as it began. She was way over tired.

Rose in the parking lot before we had to transfer her into the car...

Both girls were completely passed out when we reached the hotel and we carried our little sleeping family back into the room and got them into their beds.