Magic Kingdom

Minnie, Hunter, & Maisie

Mickey & Hunter with the picture

Hunter drew of Mickey, for Mickey

Hunter and his hero Goofy
Hunter and Donald -

they share the same attitude

Maisie & Piglet

Tigger and Maisie

The family - Scott

Somebody had to take the pictures!


We spent our final 2 days in Magic Kingdom - since this is the biggest and most crowded park you can definitely spend more than 1 day there. On Thursday it was crazy packed in there - if I didn't know better I would have thought we were there in July, not April! Like I said earlier Hunter has become a huge fan of the water rides and there is one is this park too, Splash Mountain, so we spent the majority of Thursday in Frontierland riding Splash Mountain. There is also a roller coaster that he was a big fan of Big Thunder Railroad; I think Hunter rode both of these at least 4 times each on Thursday, he just couldn't get enough. When he had finally had enough of Frontierland we headed off to The Haunted Mansion which they have added some cool new things to - they describe it as being "more haunting than ever". I just love going for a ride in a "doom buggy". After we were through there we made our way to the tea cups, after all you can't go to Disney and not take a whirl in a tea cup. Our dinner reservations were late Thursday night, 7:50 (okay, so it really isn't late for normal people but we eat with the blue hairs!), but it was so worth it. We ate at Chef Mickeys in the Contemporary Resort (Hunter was thrilled that he finally got to ride the mono rail) - all of these character meals are buffets, but I think this is one of the nicest ones we have been to. We dined with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto. Hunter had drawn (and even autographed) a picture of Mickey and gave it to him when he came by - he was so excited that he was able to give Mickey his picture. On Friday morning we got up, packed up, checked out, and headed back to the park. Fortunately it was not crowded at all and we were able to get through rides relatively quickly. The first place Hunter headed was back to Frontierland for some more Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Railroad action. We had late lunch reservations at The Crystal Palace - Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore were all there. After lunch we had a couple of hours until we had to head out so the boys went back to do some more rides and Maisie and I went shopping and actually got a front row seat to see the big parade. She was quite taken watching all of the floats roll by and the characters walking by that all came in close to have a look and wave. We got back into Houston about 10:00 and by the time we got our bags, got back to the car, and finally walked through the door it was about 11:30. It was a very long day but well worth it since we were able to squeeze in another full day in the park. All and all it was a great vacation (once we remedied the ear infection that is) and I look forward to heading back again next year (Hunter is already planning the trip). I don't know that Maisie will attend next year as she will be in that newly mobile stage where they never want to stay in a stroller - I guess we'll just wait and see - we can always check her in to Chez Nana's with the dogs!