March 8

March 8 - Magic Kingdom, WDW

Once inside the gates of the most busy, I mean magical, place on earth, we took the train straight to Frontierland, with hopes we might avoid some of the crowd. It seemed to work... We spent most of the day there, eating, and moving around the back for some rides in Fantasyland, then on to Mickey's Toontown Fair for the boys' first real roller coaster and to meet the big mouse himself.

Unbelievably, there was a line up of 1 or 2 to meet Donald in Frontierland. Talk about good fortune and kicking it all off by meeting Logan's favourite!

Finally (in Liam's opinion), a REAL ride.

Big birds (alive), pretzels and turkey drumsticks (not alive!)
    

The carousel.

A break in the mini-water area at Ariel's Grotto, while Logan had a nap and Craig had a snack. Typically, despite everything Disney had to offer, this was all Liam could talk about for days!

On the way to join the line to meet Mickey; a stop in his garden. Also, more proof that everything at Disney comes Mickey-shaped.

The moment you've all been waiting for (and that we waited a very long time for...).

To meet Mickey at the Toontown Fair, you file through an incredibly long, boring and somewhat hot line that snakes around a deceiving number of time. You wonder why it doesn't take longer, given how many people are waiting to meet Mickey. Then you get to the front and are ushered in a group of about 4 families into an antechamber, where you proceed into either the green room or the red room. And there are Mickey and Minnie, waiting for you. And you get to be pretty relaxed about the whole thing and take more time getting a picture then you thought you would. And with that information, it's up to you to figure out why the line moves quicker than you thought it would ;) But don't tell the kiddies!

We stayed late this day and saw the SpectroMagic parade and the Wishes fireworks show. However, we were much too tired and uncaring to even attempt to get good spots to get good pictures! Dad, I did try a couple, and they're not bad, but I really needed to be in a better spot without a tree and stuff in the way.