Day 11. Magic Kingdom, the most magical place on earth.
We woke again for a 7:30 start, and straight to MK for breakfast at Crystal Palace. Whilst they were only accepting disney resort guests I told them of our 9:15 book at Crystal Palace and went straight through. Perhaps a loop hole to get in early?
Whilst the general public weren't in the park yet i could see why its recommended not to got a park thats set to earth magic hours. The place was teaming with guests.
Straight to CP we were seated within 15 minutes. The food was fantastic, many of the character dining places we have been the food has been terrible, this one is the exception. Couldnt pick a fav dish, they all were great.
The characters were from Pooh, Tigger showed particular interest to Mia, dancing and skipping around the restaurant holding Mia's hand. She loved it!
I wish I had of thought to getting a FP whilst everyone was eating, as once we had finished we headed for Jungle Cruise. 45 minutes we waited. Its a fun ride though, "Attention guests, we are sorry to inform you the jungle cruise has not broken down"... fav annoucment whilst waiting in line. Its these little things that make Disney magical.
After this wait I went into Fast Pass mode and got fast passes for Splash Mountain, then rode its a small world. We have the 4 and 2 year old so we rode twice whilst the others rode Haunted Mansion. I could get Fast Passes again so I got them for Peter Pan. Kids started to get tired so we headed out of the park and back to he hotel for a rest. We ,ust have just kissed a bus as it felt like forever to wait.
After a short sleep, we were back to the park once more, it closes at 11 so splitting the day made a lot of sense. And we have our Fast Passes to use still. Remember, disney cast members only care about the start, not the end, it may look like you have missef the return window but they dont care. A good tip to collect fast passes as soon as you can.
Dimner was booked at 6:30 which I thought was fine but he Liberty Tavern had us waiting for over an hour! With the Electrical parade at 9 and planning to use our FP for Splash Mountain I got pretty upset at the cast member. Every hour counts and to be wasting them on something i booked months ago really peed me off. We had a booking! Anyway, the eventually gave me a Fast Pass compensation form. Cool, lobe Fast Passes! Food was ok, its hard to find nice food for lunch and dinner at MK.
We found a good spot for the electrical parade and those that could and wanted tobwe ran to Splash to ride before the parade. Splash Mountain is a great ride, even though it broke down a few times only for a few minutes we really enjoyed it. In fact it was a really good time to ride, the darkness really made the ride better.
Running back to our spot we were mere minutes from the parade start.
The BEST electrical parade, Tokyo was good, but MK's is even better. Only thing missing was beauty in the beast floats which is Mia's fav princess. Cinderella played a big part, the entire story was played out in floats. Fantasic!
As soon as the parade finished we rushed to get a spot to see the Castle. OMG what a magical show. I have never seen anything like it, Disney has somehow made it possible to project the entire castle onto the castle and make it change. You jave to see it, its hard to explain. Bricks were crashing out, top of the castle turned into buzz's rocket and launched, the entire castle looked like it was drawn by crayons, just amazing. SO SO AMAZING! Ohh, and all the photopass photos during the day were projected onto the castle so make sure you keep your eyes out for your photo!
Then the firworks started!!! Fantastic, I cant describe all the emotions and enjoyment experienced. What a great show!
Time to sleep, rest day tomorrow...