A few notes about our day:
-we rented a stroller from Orlando Stroller rentals
-We had a monsoon come through midway through the day
-Cal was 100% completely fearless of every ride.
-Lala went on every single ride. Lala is in a lot of pictures.
-I took a TON of pictures. Be warned.
Pre-trip, when we registered, we selected our fast passes after consulting many friends. Of all the people we talked to, they all said it would be highly optimistic to get to ride many rides other than the fast pass ones due to long lines and worn out kids, etc. We downloaded the Walt Disney World app on our phones the day before we left. The app shows you the wait times for various rides. It really is essential if you are going to the park! We got a map and circled the rides that we would like to try for-- if at all possible....and let me tell you- we rode every single ride that we wanted to...plus more! And many of those we rode twice! We would look at the app and see that one of our fast passes had little to no wait time, so we would go ride that ride and then switch our fast pass to another ride. The app allowed us to get to sooooo many more rides!
Okay, enough back story...
Saturday morning, on the bus into the park! Please note the adorable shirts given to the boys by the sweetest: Sally! THANK YOU, SALL!!! We love you!
We arrived at the park in time for the opening "song" where the characters all come out and sing about welcoming us in. The kids were stunned. Completely shocked at it all. Eddie and I were SO happy right then at the kids' happiness-- I could have cried.
Obviously we took the obligatory picture in front!
Music was playing as we walked down main street and Cal started dancing. And smiling.
We saw the castle and the boys let out a gasp.
We headed on through the castle and into Fantasyland. The boys saw the carousal and had to ride it immediately! There was no line so we hopped on!
Right before we stepped on, the boys grabbed each other for a hug- they were SO excited!
Cal hopped up on his horse and gave me the thumbs up.
Andy was a bit nervous and held on for dear life. I tried to pry his hands off the bar to wave to daddy and Cal- wasn't happening! His little knuckles were white from holding on so tight!
We attempted a selfie- he was concentrating on holding on!
After the carousal, we saw the Winnie the Pooh ride had to wait time so we headed there.
Eddie and Cal rode just about every ride together while I got Nugget and Lala-- Andy was nervous and it took some coaxing to get him on rides. Once he was on he liked them, but it took some convincing!
After Pooh, we headed to Dumbo-- still no lines! We were in heaven, running back and forth, beating lines!
The worker behind me was trying to tell me Andy couldn't sit on my lap-- he had to sit next to me...Andy was mad at him! Lala really enjoyed the Dumbo ride.
Also, side note here-- you see I am wearing a tank top here-- but it was NOT hot. I had on a hoodie most of the morning, but took it off for about an hour and then put it back on. I couldn't believe how NOT hot it was there!
After Dumbo, the boys spotted the race cars and wanted to ride them immediately! There was about a 5 minute line there so we headed over.
Waiting in the brief line-- all smiles!
Andy rode with Eddie on this ride and they were all smiles as they were about to get in their car!
I let Cal do the driving in our car. I did the gas and he did the steering. The cars are on tracks to keep them in line-- it was hilarious. I was laughing hysterically the entire time.
After the ride, these two walked off holding hands and I thought it was pretty precious...
Next up, we saw there was no line for Buzz Lightyear ride so we hustled to ride that (seriously, the app is amazing.....amazing!)
Andy was a little scared on this one, but he kept pointing to Buzz when he saw him. We were in the car in front of Eddie and Cal and all I could hear the whole time was Cal giggling like crazy.
There was one other space shuttle ride that Cal and Eddie did while Andy and I rode this little people mover thing that took you on a tour around futureland. It took us through a bunch of different rides and then we heard screams as we entered into a black hole-- space mountain! We weren't on the space mountain ride, but the ride took us right next to that ride as they go up a huge hill. I thought it was pretty neat-- Andy shut his eyes tightly there! haha After that, we saw BUZZ LIGHTYEAR was standing there for people to come take pics with him. We got in the line to meet him, but then Buzz took a break so we left since we figured we would see him on the boat (we didn't) (fail.).
We left there and hit the tea cups-- again no line! Eddie isn't much for spinning around in circles so he watched from the side lines while I got to spin with the boys. Both loved this one!
Frontierland was next and Thunder Mountain! We used our fast pass for this so we didn't have to wait more than 10 minutes. Andy was too short for this ride-- plus he would have hated it-- so we took turns riding. Eddie and Cal rode it and then we switched Andy's fast pass with Cal's fast pass and I rode it with him
After some cotton candy and a little show with some singing bears, this one was off his rocker high on sugar. He was literally bouncing all over the place!
The boys spotted Belle's house-- I made them watch Beauty and the Beast the previous week so they could see some other Disney movies. We had to take a picture in front of it!
We grabbed lunch and the sky was darkening. Eddie was watching a storm roll in on his phone and knew it was coming quickly. We headed over to a restaurant that we saw had a big covering and planted ourselves there before the storm hit. It was a doozy of a storm with lots of thunder and lightening and even tornado watches.
We hung out under the awning waiting for close to two hours. It wasn't fun waiting out the storm, but I think in hindsight, it was pretty nice for the boys to have some downtime.
The Little Mermaid ride was next and we all sat in one "shell" together. It was adorable. Check out Andy's face- hahaha
We decided to do It's A Small World next and there ended up being the longest line of the day there-- almost 20 minutes. We were in the rain for a good part of it-- didn't bother those of us with hoods.....
Right as we were about to get on the boat, Andy said "peepee coming right now. RIGHT NOW!" and I thought to myself, are you kidding me???
I told him to hold it until the ride ended-- this is his "holding it" face.
He barely made it to the end of the ride. I may or may not have finished off a water bottle and encouraged him to pee in it. A mother's love, right?
After potty breaks, ice cream was in need to celebrate the ending of the rain!
I guess the rain scared some people away because the crowd thinned out even more. We headed to ride Aladin's magic carpet.
Eddie decided that since he was already soaked, he should ride splash mountain. So he and Cal rode it and when they got off, Cal insisted that I ride it too, We used our fast passes so we switched Cal and Andy's and I rode with him-- again, he is fearless!
Before splash mountain:
During Splash Mountain:
After Splash Mountain:
So fun! I had a death grip on Cal's arm the entire time. I was terrified of him falling out!
We saw more fun stuff and then grabbed some dinner. The boys were starting to get worn out.... but everyone was happy!
And then the parade started and Andy was not a fan of the noises-- homie has some sensitive ears.
They each picked out some glow swords
We had THE best day in the park. I feel like we hit the jackpot on the day we went with the short lines. I think it would have been really hard to have gone and it be 98 degrees and wait in hour long lines. The Disney Gods were smiling down on us, I guess!!!
Next up...the cruise!
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