Originally Posted By FenwayGirl Day 5 – Magic Kingdom/Animal Kingdom Up very early today as we had reservations at Cinderella Royal Table for 8am. I have been to this many times before, but not with a 2 year old version of Cinderella, a 9 year old Jasmine and a 6 year old Peter Pan! The kids looked adorable. We got on the bus at 7am and waited in line for only a short time. Chela was in awe of the Main Street that was basically empty! (this is why I book the early breakfast reservations in MK) We took loads of pictures (love the scenes in the Emporium windows) and videotaped the kids running to the castle! What a sight. Both Destinee and Airelyce were celebrating birthdays this week, so we stopped at the Town Hall and got their birthday pins. Things have changed at the castle since that last time I ate there. Cinderella now waits in the throne room for her guests. They take a picture of the group and then you go upstairs to be seated. We had Mary Poppins (she was terrific), Sleeping Beauty, Belle and Snow White. They spent lots of time with our little ones. No one rushed us along, so we once again took the time to really enjoy the atmosphere. Service was great. The servers brought birthday cakes to the girls and sang “Happy Birthday†to them. We bought the pictures (that we packaged nicely in a folder with a picture of the group and a picture of the castle)and went to get on as many rides as we could! Couldn’t miss Belle in the Fairy Tale Garden (?). Des and Airelyce got to be in the show (those birthday buttons are magic!) Des was Cogsworth and Airelyce was Chip…They were totally mesmerized by Belle. The CM who played Belle was beautiful and seemed to really connect with the kids. Being that it was early, we were able to get on Dumbo and all of the rides in Fantasy Land without any wait! We went over to Toon Town where we stood in line (only a short wait) to see Mickey and then the Pooh characters. Chela (27) is absolutely in love with those characters. She was smiling from ear to ear! She said “I can die now, I have hugged Winnie!†After we left the character building who should be standing in the street but Peter Pan and Wendy. Ty was dressed like Peter. Wendy and Peter couldn’t have been more attentive to Ty. He was in heaven. We have some really cute pictures, but I can’t figure out how to attach to these reports. We grabbed some lunch at Pinocchio house and headed back to the hotel. We wanted to change up and to the EM hours at the AK. I have never seen AK at night, plus wanted to see FOTLK and my favorite (so sad to see it close) Tarzan Rocks! So, over to AK we go…Got our warmer clothes on as it has been chilly at night. We got the girls their birthday badges and also got our EM bands. Our first stop is FOTLK. All first timers should see this show. We have all seen the Lion King on stage (broadway version) but this one is so up close that it is breath taking. The kids had a hard time seeing from our seats, so we asked a CM if we could move to an empty section across the room. She gave us great seats and once again noticed the ‘birthday badges’. She took the girls to the center of the room and everyone sang to them. I was feeling bad for Ty as all the attention seemed to be on the girls today. After FOTLK we trekked on over to Tarzan Rocks. We were first in line. This was one of the CM nights to try out EE. Heard a lot of screaming going on! We spend a lot of our wait time talking to the CM of EE. They chose Ty (thank goodness) and Des to be King and Queen of the Jungle. They loved the spotlight! The show was everything I remembered…so sad to see it go! We spent a little time just looking at AK at night. It looks so different with all of the lights. The tree was beautiful. By now everyone was tired, but we had a great day! Tomorrow was our long awaited trip to one of my favorite parks…Epcot!
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Originally Posted By Labuda "She said “I can die now, I have hugged Winnie!" Sounds like Chela is my husband's long lost sister. He felt the same way on his first trip to WDW after he met Pooh bear at DAK. hehe
