This was our last full day at Disney World and we spent it at the Magck Kingdom. All trip we've been having breakfast in our room and it was either an instant breakfast or granola bar which was always enough to sustain us until lunch time. This morning though we were scheduled to go to "The Chrystal Palace" for a character breakfast. It wasn't until 9:00a so we went on a few rides that were simple but typically had horrendous line ups in the afternoon. This included the Arial Ride and the Pooh Bear ride. (A must ride for Callie.) We also stopped at Arial's Grotto for a quick picture.
"The Chrystal Palace" is a buffet style breakfast where characters come to your table. It wasn't nearly as expensive as Goofy's Kitchen in Disneyland but that may be because it was a simpler breakfast with fewer characters. There was no Breakfast Sunday and it was just the four Pooh characters, Pooh Bear, Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore. The highlight for Callie was Pooh Bear and he cradled her Pooh Bear the same way he has every time we've seen him. I think she's seen him about a half dozen times now.
The Eeyore and Piglet visits were uneventful, though I did find Piglet a bit creepy. He seemed too pink. The Tigger visit however was a bit more exciting. For some of the costumes, the characters look out of their mouths and probably have pretty good vision. These characters however seem to look out their eyes somehow. You can tell because when they sign things, they have to hold it up in the air above their nose. As Tigger was leaving, Carter dropped one of his little stuffed animals and went to grab it. Tigger almost stepped right on top of him which resulted in a very animated apology.
We also had a Fast Pass for Elsa and Anna from Frozen. It's a good thing too because almost as soon as they opened in the morning there was almost a two hour wait. Elsa is apparently one of the oldest princesses so her real life character looked about 30 and with her make up and smile was quite frightening. Anna on the other hand was much more approachable. She was obviously played by someone in her 20's but she looked and acted very young. You could tell the kids liked her better. Carter even got in this picture where he avoid Elsa completely.
Since we had a big breakfast we skipped lunch though I did stop for a candied apple. They are very elaborate and not exactly easy to eat so I had to find a secluded corner near Main Street as I dropped bits of chocolate everywhere. My other job was to get in line for Pluto. We had tried earlier in the day but he "had to go for a biscuit" before we got in line. It was incredibly hot so the kids had gone for a lemonade and came back to switch off with me. Pluto was very excited to see Carter's mini Pluto and even tried to steal him. Carter enjoyed the visit very much.
After the Pluto visit we hopped on the Monorail to head to Epcot. We hadn't been on the Monorail and didn't have to take it but I wanted to try it out and by going to Epcot we made it part of the way back to our hotel and could take the bus the rest of the way. By this time it was getting later in the afternoon and the heat was starting to get to the kids. As you can see by Callie's photo she was getting tired. At one point we had to switch trains and there was no convincing her that it had to be done. At one point we explained that when they designed the train it was just to make it more difficult for her.
We decided we would stay late at the park on our last day so this meant we had to take a break at the hotel in the afternoon. The pool area for our new hotel is quite nice. It's set up as an old Spanish fort with canons and the tours are stairs up to water slides. Carter has one slide that I think he's gone on 30 times. Since it was St. Patrick's Day there were a number of events for the kids including kids Bingo. Callie was very close to getting a blackout but missed out by a square or two.
We went back to the park around 6:30p with plans to check out the fireworks. We had dinner in Tomorrow land and went on a whirl wind tour of rides. Surprisingly most tings had very short line ups and we managed to get on Stitch, Jungle Cruise, a pirate treasure hunt, the Barnstormer, Aladdin and Buzz Light Year. Buzz Light year was our first breakdown with it stopping about three times when we were in line and another couple times when we were on it. In the end I think they shut down the ride because the last half went pretty fast and we couldn't use the lasers.
We also went on "It's A Small World" which was way too long and I was a bit disappointed that I didn't see Canada, though there was a moose at one point that may have represented us. We saw part of the fireworks from the Jungle Cruise and the rest from land and finished up with the Electric Parade. Disney World was a very fun family vacation though I'm not sure we would travel so far again just to do the Disney theme parks. We head home on Wednesday through Chicago.
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