Day 2 - Sunday 18th April - Magic Kingdom

28 hours after leaving Melbourne Airport, Bubbles and Spanky arrived in Orlando Airport.

At 5.20am local time (7.20pm Sunday arvo Melbourne time).

Strangely, the airport was pretty empty! We picked up our bags and where at the Disney Magic Express bus 20minutes after landing. Straight onto a bus and we where on our way to Pop Century Resort at Walt Disney World.

We arrived at the resort at 630am, but couldn’t check in till 7am. After we checked in, we got our selves ready for the day ahead, had some food, and then headed off to Magic Kingdom.
We got to Magic Kingdome at 830am, watched the Opening Ceremony (Bubbles remembered that he is not a fan of crowds and people bumping up against him), then went through the gates and up Main St to Tomorrow Land.

We jumped into the line for Space Mountain and less than 10mintues later we had done our first ride. We then did all the other rides in Tomorrow Land (Astro Orbitor, Buzz Lightyear & Stitch’s great escape). Spanky beat Bubbles on the Buzz ride, which he wasn’t too happy about.

We made our way over to the good old classic Mad Hatters Tea Party ride. After the spinning, and spinning and spinning we got off the ride and did a nice easy kiddies ride in Goofy’s Barnstormer. Which lasted less than 1mintue, not a problem but we waited 4mintues to get on the ride.

We then went off and had lunch, even though it was only 11am as we got a discount if we eat before 1130am so Bubbles ever the bargain hunter suggested we eat before 1130am.

Off to the not so scary Haunted Mansion, The Hall of Presidents and Tom Sawyers Island. We found the park to be filling up and we were getting pretty tired, so after going on the Pirates ride and Swiss Family Robinson Tree house we headed out of the park and back to Pop Century Resort to go find our room and have a nap.

Once we woke up from our nana nap we returned to the park at 6pm. While we where napping, it had started drizzling, our problem with this was that we still didn’t have our suitcases yet and so we didn’t have rain jackets, not so much a problem while it was drizzling, but later it would be a problem.

Back at Magic Kingdom, we ran to catch the train that runs around the park. Earlier in the day there had been a 40mintue wait on the Jungle Cruise, but we saw there was only a 5minute one now so headed for that. It was a funny cruise through different jungles, with Uncle Pete/Dad jokes.

As we were already wet, we did Splash Mountain, with Spanky getting a lot more wet, due mainly to the kid in front of her ducking when we hit the bottom of the big splash drop. We had dinner after we did It’s a Small World, then got out of the rain on the Golden Carrousel (Bubbles made sure he got one of the big Stallions rather than the little kiddies horses).

Now very wet from the constant rain and cold from being in shorts (and Bubbles also without a jumper) we found a spot (still out in the rain) to watch Spectromagic, a light parade. It was a fantastic parade. Following the parade we moved into the shops to get warm and try to get dry, well as dry and warm as you can get in an air-conditioned shop.

Back outside into the rain, we watched Wishes, a fireworks show over the Cinderella castle. It was very good, although we knew that Tinkerbelle was meant to ‘fly’ over the crowd, but didn’t. Who knew that the rain was fine for us but not for her?

Lots of people were making their way out of the park after Wishes (it was about 1030pm), so we made our way quickly over to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. We went on this ride twice without waiting, and the only reason we didn’t go again as because we felt our tummies weren’t going to handle another ride right away (Spanky’s mainly).

For something a little tamer, we went on Peter Pan’s Flight, Snow Whites Scary Adventures and The many adventures of Winnie the Pooh. There was no wait for any of these rides, probably because lots of the little kiddies had left the park.

We were getting pretty tired and had done almost all the rides in the park, so we headed back to Tomorrow Land to repeat the rides we had done there this morning. Spanky beat Bubbles twice more on the Buzz ride, again he was not happy.

We left the park at 130am, we were pretty happy with that as we had seen everything we wanted to and a whole lot of stuff we didn’t think we would ride, and had lasted past 1am!

Distance walked today: approx 10.75km