Keeping up with...Family (Weekly Wrap 12/1 - 12/7 - Part 3)

Wednesday (12/6) After our day off yesterday, we were all up bright and early today to head to the Magic Kingdom.  It was going to be a very long day but we were looking forward to a lot of fun.  Magic Kingdom is my least favorite park, but I know the kids love it.  And it was for sure Zak's favorite park of the whole trip.  We started the day using our first fast pass for Space Mountain, which we all loved!  When we came out of there, everything had very long lines so we just decided to suck it up and do whatever we could.  We rode the cars on the speedway, the Goofy Barnstormer the teacups and a few other rides in Fantasyland before hopping on the train to head to the other side of the park.  But not before Zak got drenched in the splash pads, he loved it!!

 

 

We had a fast pass for Splash Mountain so we were able to ride that quickly which was great.  We waited in a pretty long line for Pirates of the Caribbean and then my mom and I saved spots for the boys in the front row for the parade.  Adrian took the boys to play "Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom" for a while in the area near the start of the parade.  As the parade was wrapping up, we ran to the Runaway Mine Train ride and caught a fairly short line for that.  Then my mom and I waited in line with Zak for the flying carpets while Adrian took the big boys to play the sorcerers game more.  We met up at the ride exit and headed over to the Haunted Mansion ride which the boys loved!

 

 

After that my mom headed out to meet up with my dad and we headed back to Fantasyland to do what we could.  We enjoyed the PhilharMagic movie, the Peter Pan ride (thank you fast pass!), It's a Small World and the carousel.  We also grabbed pizza for dinner in that area and tried to find the gray stuff for me for dessert (we couldn't find it).  We found a great place to watch the beautiful Christmas themed fireworks show and then used our last fast pass to ride the Buzz Lightyear ride.  Now it was about 10pm and we were all cranky and tired after waiting in lines in the hot sun all day.  So we decided to call in a day and head out.  Unfortunately, there was a 30 minute wait to catch the monorail back to our car.  It resulted in a funny moment when Zak threw himself on the ground screaming "I love this park but I hate all of these lines!"  I think he spoke for most of us in the late.  We finally arrived home after 11pm and everyone went straight to bed, magic is exhausting for sure!

Thursday (12/7) After the busy day yesterday, we took it easy getting ready and out the door this morning.  It was our last day in the Disney parks and we were headed to Epcot.  When we got there, we found our picture on the living legacy wall in the front.  I am so glad that we decided to put our picture on the wall when we were there for our honeymoon.  It's a fun tradition to find it every time we go.  After that, we headed to Mission Space for our first fast pass.  Adrian and Zak decided to sit that one out and went to play in the space themed play area instead.  It was probably a good decision as I was a little woozy after our trip to space.

 

After that we walked around a little and rode the rides that had very short lines - Nemo, Figment, Spaceship Earth and watched the short film festival which was great.  Then we decided to head to the countries to get lunch and start playing the Phineas and Ferb Adventure.  We had a stressful lunch in Mexico and then rode the boat ride there.  While there, Zak decided he wanted to start meeting characters so he and I waited in line to meet Donald Duck while the boys did the adventure in Mexico.  Then we saw a Christmas show in Norway and then headed to China where Adrian, AJ & Daniel did the adventure while Zak, Nana & I waited to meet Mulan.

After those countries, we headed back out to ride Test Track with our fast pass.  We had a great time designing our car and then riding in it.  We had no idea what the ride was going to do and had a funny moment when we headed outside on the track at 65mph and my hair was flying all over the place!  I looked like Medusa when we were done.  After that ride, we ran across to Soarin' because the wait dipped to 30 minutes for the first time that day so we got to ride that.  I loved it, it's better than it was in the past.  After that ride, we finished up by just walking around the countries waiting for the night show.  We did the adventure in France, Germany and Japan and also grabbed beer and pretzels in Germany for dinner.  And we found more Mickey Mouse ice cream bars because they are awesome.  We finished up our Disney time by watching IllumiNations on the water, which continues to be my favorite night show in Disney.  It was a great ending to our time in Disney!