Disney Dispatch #1: Magic Kingdom

SUNDAY

We finished packing and left at ~10 AM to pick my sister and Miriam (6 year old niece!) up at the Palm Beach airport!! Their flight was on time (yay) and everything went smoothly. After stops at Panera and Walmart (we bought ponchos out of paranoia, so of course the weather has been perfect) we arrived right around check-in!

We’re staying at the Wilderness Lodge for the first time — all in one big 2 BR room (I used David’s Vacation Club to save a bit!). Disney hotels are always way pricier than they should be, but otherwise I have no complaints. We went straight to the pool (with water slide) until it was time for dinner at one of the hotel restaurants.

MONDAY started early because we had 8:50 reservations for a character breakfast which forced us to start our journey to the park at 7:30. I took WAYYYY TOO few pictures though in my defense it’s dark on a lot of those rides! But here are a few plus a list of our activities for posterity!

MK Experiences:

Barnstormer 

Breakfast at Crystal Palace with Winnie the Poo 

Little Mermaid 

Pirates of the Caribbean 

Mickey Band Performance 

Carousel 

Meeting Princess Tiana 

{Snack break #1: Mickey ice cream bars}

Peoplemover 

Buzz Lightyear (Preview Ride)

Small World 

{Snack break #2: Popcorn time}

Sarah / Rebecca / M: Jungle cruise and Country Bear Jamboree 

Josh / A / C / G: Tron Lightcycle and Tiana’s (note: I’m a tiny bit sad I didn’t go on Tron now, I think I would have survived, lol. But M was too small and my sister would have hated it so splitting up made sense!)

Haunted Mansion

Seven Dwarves Mine Train

Shopping on Main Street

. . . by this time it was ~6ish so we headed back to the hotel for another character dinner at Snow White @ Artist’s Point.

Steps taken: almost 20K

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Aaaaaand on to EPCOT! We were at MK for about 10 hours which for us is A LOT. Weather was great, crowds were . . . normal? They didn’t seem particularly excessive but maybe we always go around spring break time.