Day 10 - Beautiful weather in the Magic Kingdom (with a gazillion of my closest friends)...
Category Vacation
Today was the day we hit the Magic Kingdom at 8 am after our character breakfast at Chef Mickey's. We successfully pried the kids (Cam, mainly) out of bed around 6:15 and got to the restaurant by our 7:15 reservation. Pigged out on plenty of food at the buffet and took the obligatory pictures of the kids with a few of the Disney rodents. We got to the gates of the MK right at 8 am and it was wonderful. The sky was clear, the crowds were light, and we were walking onto all the rides we wanted to see.
We were able to see the new Stich's Great Escape (replaced Alien Encounters) and the Mickey's PhilharMagic 3D movie. Neutral on the Escape ride (cute, but I liked Alien better) and thumbs up on the 3D movie.
By about 10 am, we had seen most of the rides we wanted to hit and we started planning for getting to our lunch location at 12:30. In very short order after that, the crowds grew... and grew... and grew. In fact, they actually closed down entry to the park today as it reached capacity. We've never been at MK when that's happened. *These* are the crowds we were expecting. I've got a few crowd shot pictures I'll upload after the vacation, but it was plenty crazy. We left there about 2 pm in order to drop the kids off at DisneyQuest and to head back to the room ourselves. It would have been earlier, but we got trapped on the wrong side of the rope during a Main Street parade and had to watch it. :-)
The kids returned from DisneyQuest, where they were able to play a couple of games before the crowds got too overwhelming for them. This whole *crowd* concept is something we've never dealt with at Disney, as we've always come before the major crowd times. It's nice to know you can see what you want early, and then take off for quieter locations...
We're going to head back to MK later this evening (around 9 pm or so) to catch the firework show. I think they've opened the gates back to admissions. :-) I'll make sure we stay close to the main gates so that we can beat a hasty retreat when the show's over. I don't want to be riding the monorail back with a cast of thousands (all carting cranky kids who are past due for bed).
Random shots...
In crowds, people need to have butt blinkers and butt brake lights. There's nothing more irritating than to be following a crowd flow and to have a mindless in-duh-vidual decide that stopping and staring aimlessly is a good idea. By the end of the day, I'm ready just to dip my shoulder into them, deliver a nice upper rib shot, and sweetly apologize for bumping into them. And with kids pulling the same stunt, I go for the head. :-)
Today was the day we hit the Magic Kingdom at 8 am after our character breakfast at Chef Mickey's. We successfully pried the kids (Cam, mainly) out of bed around 6:15 and got to the restaurant by our 7:15 reservation. Pigged out on plenty of food at the buffet and took the obligatory pictures of the kids with a few of the Disney rodents. We got to the gates of the MK right at 8 am and it was wonderful. The sky was clear, the crowds were light, and we were walking onto all the rides we wanted to see.
We were able to see the new Stich's Great Escape (replaced Alien Encounters) and the Mickey's PhilharMagic 3D movie. Neutral on the Escape ride (cute, but I liked Alien better) and thumbs up on the 3D movie.
By about 10 am, we had seen most of the rides we wanted to hit and we started planning for getting to our lunch location at 12:30. In very short order after that, the crowds grew... and grew... and grew. In fact, they actually closed down entry to the park today as it reached capacity. We've never been at MK when that's happened. *These* are the crowds we were expecting. I've got a few crowd shot pictures I'll upload after the vacation, but it was plenty crazy. We left there about 2 pm in order to drop the kids off at DisneyQuest and to head back to the room ourselves. It would have been earlier, but we got trapped on the wrong side of the rope during a Main Street parade and had to watch it. :-)
The kids returned from DisneyQuest, where they were able to play a couple of games before the crowds got too overwhelming for them. This whole *crowd* concept is something we've never dealt with at Disney, as we've always come before the major crowd times. It's nice to know you can see what you want early, and then take off for quieter locations...
We're going to head back to MK later this evening (around 9 pm or so) to catch the firework show. I think they've opened the gates back to admissions. :-) I'll make sure we stay close to the main gates so that we can beat a hasty retreat when the show's over. I don't want to be riding the monorail back with a cast of thousands (all carting cranky kids who are past due for bed).
Random shots...
In crowds, people need to have butt blinkers and butt brake lights. There's nothing more irritating than to be following a crowd flow and to have a mindless in-duh-vidual decide that stopping and staring aimlessly is a good idea. By the end of the day, I'm ready just to dip my shoulder into them, deliver a nice upper rib shot, and sweetly apologize for bumping into them. And with kids pulling the same stunt, I go for the head. :-)
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Posted by Bruce At 21:13:54 On 27/12/2004 | - Website - |
Posted by Duffbert At 03:42:53 On 28/12/2004 | - Website - |
Speaking of hockey we are up in Victoria BC. Kids lost their first game after giving up a 2-0 lead. I don't like to complain about the home crowd ref but here's my kid with his head stuck between another player legs and the other player trying to walk away. As the other player walks away with his arm up like nothing is going on and he walks 10 feet with my kid on his knees with his head between his legs. Finally his head popped out of the helmet. I asked him why he did not pull his head out - he said the other player stick was against his neck. It's those subtle things that make me wonder why he play's hockey. So it was not the smell that kept his head in there for so long after all. No call and luckly my kid did not get a foul or tossed for calling BS as the ref had to hold him back.
Marty
Posted by At 11:28:41 On 28/12/2004 | - Website - |