We headed to Mickey's Toontown Fair, where I guess if you were a 3 year-old would probably be one of the favorite parts of your trip! This is the part of Magic Kingdom that really showcases the Disney characters and their "lifestyles". We got to see Mickey and Minnie's houses, meet the Mr and Missus in person and ride Goofy's Barnstormer roller coaster.
We walked through Mickey and Minnie's houses, which were really neat. Tristan's favorite room at Mickey's house was the game room...no surpirse there, he kept wanting to go in and play the games! He also loved Mickey's workshop where al of Mickey's giant tools were hung on the wall and there was a model of his house. The whole place was really neat and the Mickey's garden even had life-size cactus statues of his friends...bet you wish you had that at your house huh?
Tristan absolutely LOVED meeting Mickey and Minnie and actually got to do it twice that day. The first time I took him by myself since Parker was asleep in the stroller and he was grinning from ear to ear with excitement, he could hardly contain himself. As we waited in line, he kept looking up at me and grinning, then he'd start jumping up and down. And as our turn approached to go into the area where Mickey and Minnie were, he got more and more excited. Then the door opened for us to go in, and he saw them and told me "Look Mommy, there's Mickey!", all with a huge grin! Then he got their autographs, a bunch of hugs, and of course some pictures, one or two which Mommy got to be in too!!
After visiting with Mickey and Minnie, we headed back over to Frontierland so Tristan and Mommy could ride the big roller coaster one more time (we had picked up our FastPasses when we first got to the park that day). Once again, hardly any wait in the Fast Pass line and Tristan absolutely LOVED the ride (and so did Mommy!), and asked for more when it was over!
If you enlarge the picture, you can see my head and the top of Tristan's head behind the lady in the nright green shirt near the front
After the roller coaster and some lunch, and an awake Parker we headed to the last area of Magic Kingdom, Tomorrowland, where we encountered some of Tristan's favorite rides at the park. Tomorrowland seemed to have quite a few rides, which is what our kids like to do, so it made for a great afternoon/evening.
We rode every ride we could, but Tristan's favorite ride was Buzz Lightyear's "Shoot-Shoot" game...it was actually pretty darn cool, and I must admit Victor and I had a pretty good time on that one. We each sat with one of the kids in cart/coaster thing and each person had a gun to shoot targets as you were moved through the Buzz's outer space and the cart kept score for each person. It was a lot of fun, but since I was so busy shooting and racking up my score, I didn't take any pictures of that one!
Everyone also liked the rocketship ride way up high in the air...we took an elevator way up top, and got to get on little rocketships that went around in a circle. Parker liked this one a lot!
Another favorite was of course the race cars. Although, I will tell you I am 100% sure I don't need to ever drive with either one of kids behind the wheel again...they were horrible drivers, lol!!!!! But, they had lots of fun!
After riding lots of rides and eating some yummy Disney popcorn (amusement parks always have the best popcorn, maybe it's all that butter!), we stood in a really short line and got to meet Buzz Lightyear himself! Ever since the trip, Buzz has become a favorite character of Tristan's.
At that point, it was starting to get dark and the crowd was dwindling, so we decided to go back over to Toontown so Parker could meet Mickey and Minnie. We got into Mickey and Minnie in no time and Parker was ecstatic....I think he might have been more excited that Tristan was. He took them his book to get signed and loved taking pictures with them...in the next few days, he became quite the pro at picture-taking with the characters.
Since we still had some time before the park closed, and we were in Toontown, Tristan got to ride Goofy's Barnstormer roller coaster a *few* more times. Actually, he rode like 7 times in a row! Since it was nearing closing time, most people had headed up to secure a place near the castle to watch the fireworks, so practically no one was out in the park which meant no line for us! This was heaven for Tristan, for like 4 times in a row he didn't even have to get off the ride and get back inline, he just got to keep going, and with Disney's Parnet Pass, Victor and I could switch off who was riding with him while the other one stayed with Parker. Unfortunately, Parker was about an inch under the minimum height requirement for that ride and I once again we were having too much fun riding the roller coaster we didn't snap and pics:(
So, after a ton of turns on the roller coaster and an official goofy's Barnstomer Frequent Flyer card, we hit up a gift shop to pick up a souvenior or two and started to head out of the park for the day.
Day 2 of Magic Kingdom was great...we had our bearings down and we got to finish seeing the whole park. And we even managed to get a family picture somewhat in front of the castle, and everyone was looking at the camera!!!!
Stay tuned for the next post all about Animal Kingdom!
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Wonderful pictures!! Geez, you saw that whole park in nearly one day..super woman! I bet the boys were zonked each night! :)
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