Disney, Part 3 of 6 (MK)

With today being New Year's, you'll never believe what my New Year's resolution is... to take LESS pictures!  That's right!  I take way too many pictures, which is getting me way behind on my scrapbooking!  I took 2,041 pictures in '12... so my goal is to cut that number by 500... And, that's with me deleting the ones that didn't pass my level of expectation!

I am happy to report, I didn't take many pictures our second day :)  I guess that's a good thing, because there were some parts of this day that I would have loved to have removed!  This was the one day of our trip that it was quite noticeable that someone was apparently giving out free Magic Kingdom passes!!!  Not really, but this day would make me vow to never go to Disney in Nov. again!  First off, we were about 20 minutes later than we needed to be getting out to the bus stop.  Then, there was this line that was worse than any line you would see out shopping on Black Friday!!!  We were also trying to get to breakfast at 1900 Park Fare, which meant we had to take a bus to Magic Kingdom, then get on the monorail to go to Grand Floridian.  We actually should have probably gotten in our car and driven there.  We only ended up being 45 minutes late!!!  Which, for our 9:20 breakfast, put us getting there at 10:05!!!  We FINALLY make it in to MK at 11:45, while Aaron makes a run to the transportation center to look for his lost glasses.

 Getting to MK at nearly 12:00 was NOT what I had planned!  Lesson learned, no more 9:20 breakfasts!  You either schedule no breakfasts at all, or you do them at 8:30, meaning you leave your room at 7:30 trying to get there!  I ran us ragged doing things like that on our previous trip, so I wasn't making that mistake again!  Another suggestion would be to only do a breakfast that was inside a park.  We LOVE Tusker House at AK!  1900 Park Fare, where we were eating, is one stop away from Magic Kingdom on the monorail, but when you have to ride around the entire monorail to get there, it's not so grand when you're running 45 minutes late!

Regardless of how late we were, we enjoyed our breakfast with Pooh, Tigger, Mary Poppins, Alice and Mad Hatter!  I don't recommend being 45 minutes late to one of your scheduled meals, but in true magical-like Disney fashion, the hostesses welcomed us with open arms :) and didn't judge :) Or, at least they hid it quite well!

 As I was making an effort to get my Christmas card pic in these shirts that I spent 6 magical grueling hours doing... Kenadie ends up spilling orange juice all over the front of hers, and Berkley, by the end of the day, looked like something from a horror film with all the blood that collected on her adorable Minnie shirt...isn't that how things go?!? ;)

 Pretty sure I used an entire "Tide to go" pen on Kenadie's shirt... Yeah, that was BEFORE I knew Berkley was going to bite through her bottom lip while happily playing in Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood!

 Great picture here, right? :)  Thanks to our sunglasses, Kenadie's make-do shade and Berkley's snoozing! 

 Okay, so here is where I'm going to start speaking positive about our day :)  We did LOVE the new "Voyage of the Little Mermaid" ride!

 Happy girls, one who still has on a clean shirt!

And then the lip tragedy occurred... but she didn't seem to mind!  Her mommy, on the other hand, felt squeamish and faint!

Weeee... she loved the tea cups!!!

 But it was "Uuumbo" that was her most favorite!

They both gave out simultaneously at 5 pm!

 Reason #2 to go at Christmas...

 And here is where we ended the night with a great firework show/electrical lights parade, returned to our cozy beds and had a magical night's sleep!  Smooth sailing from here on out :)