Sunday morning came early after another night of Samantha deciding not to sleep in the hotel room. Oh well, at least the boys weren’t that bothered by it all. It’s amazing to me what kids can sleep through – especially this sleepy head!
Despite not sleeping well, we decided to let this little Minnie lover go with us that day!
We made it over to the Magic Kingdom early around 8:30 (the park didn’t open until 9:00) because we had breakfast reservations at Be Our Guest for 9:10. If you have breakfast reservations before 9:15 they’ll let you into the park early! The rides aren’t going yet but it really is neat to be in the park with very few people around. They did have the photographers out and we were able to get great shots in front of the castle!
We were then able to get into an early line to ride The 7 Dwarfs Mine Train.We were about the 5th group in line and it would have worked perfectly to ride the ride when it opened at 9:00 and then walk over to our breakfast reservation….if only the ride hadn’t experienced technical difficulties! They had to delay the opening of it so we had to abandon ship to go to breakfast. That was ok though because we had Fast Passed it for that afternoon!
We had a fantastic day in the Magic Kingdom. We rode Small World – which Samantha was honestly enchanted by!
We rode the carousel which all the kids enjoyed…
and I clearly enjoyed too!
We went on Peter Pan, Pirates of the Caribbean, Splash Mountain (well, not Spence – he needs 2 more inches!), The Swiss Family Robinson Tree House and a few others I can’t even remember. We also visited the all-important face paint station again!
Two leopards!! or were they cheetahs? I’ll have to ask Maxwell!
We also visited some of our Disney favorites! Spencer was much more agreeable this time!
We even managed to be over by Main Street during the afternoon parade and Maxwell and I had a front row seat while Samantha and Spencer slept in the stroller. It was just a great day all around. We ended the day with our last Fast Pass – The 7 Dwarfs Mine Train. It was a blast and well worth the wait! Through the magic of the our Magic Bands, these pictures showed up in my Photo Pass and I could not love them more!!
I mean…look at our faces! HA!
and look at Spencer smiling directly at that camera here!
It was the perfect ending to our Disney trip! We had one more night in the hotel and then it was back to Birmingham for Robert and on to Naples for the rest of us. It certainly was a wonderful trip to the happiest place on earth!!
Have a great weekend!
Outside of Samantha’s sleeping issues it could not have been a more fun trip – great weather, smaller crowds, beautiful Grand Floridian . . . . ready to do it all again!
These are great pics of a memorable trip for Maxwell and Spencer, as well as the other big kids.
If I could bottle and sell the laughs of those boys on the roller coaster, I would be a rich man. Love making memories!