Vacation Day 8- Disney Day 1- Monday

We woke up bright and early Monday ready to GO!! But by the time we got everyone fed and really ready is was like 9. I was a little antsy to get there, but didn't want to ruin the good mood, so I just relaxed.
We loaded up our stroller and found the weather to be perfect for jackets and then later on in the day it was perfect for the short sleeves underneath.  Really the weather couldn't have been more perfect.  We also found how awesome it was to be able to use the Disney transportation system.  We walked to our nearby bus stop at the end of our circle of cabins which took us to the bus stop for buses going to different parks.  We hopped on one heading to the desired park and it would drop us off right at the front of the park.  No parking and walking and walking and walking and then boarding a tram only to get off and walk some more- all before even arriving at the park.  For the Magic Kingdom, there was a ferry boat that picked us up at the dock for the cabins and dropped us off at the front of the park.  So Disney transportation was awesome.

We stopped at all the great shops just inside the park at Main Street USA because we knew we wanted to find some Disney fudge to take back to Jared's dad.  Disney at Christmas time is really just so beautiful.  What a treat to get to see it all decorated up.

While we were there and the boys were trying on silly hats, our camera started tripping out.

 

 I was kinda freaking out because I don't really know much about troubleshooting my camera and hadn't brought the instruction manual.  It's really a pretty simple little camera so there aren't that many things to go wrong, but I really wanted it to work so I didn't miss anything.

This is me kinda freaking out.

This is Jared not too worried about it.

This is Hunter just looking handsome.

Thankfully a helpful staff member there helped us figure it out.  While we were there socializing they found out it was the kids' first time to the park and gave us all these fun pins to wear.

Once we were finally on our way, our first stop was Tomorrow Land and the first stop there was Buzz Lightyear.  Boy was Hunter excited!!

Next was riding cars. 

We went at really a pretty leisurely pace, seeing everything everyone wanted to see, because we had scheduled ourselves to have Thursday to see the rest of the Magic Kingdom (knowing it would be almost impossible to see it all in one day in a pleasant way with 4 young kids). We spent the more part of the day on the right side of the park- Tomorrow Land and Mickey's Toon Town.  Just after lunch, we found a pavilion that had ALL of the princesses- in one place!  We made it pretty close to the front of the line and only had to wait for 45 minutes. We aren't big "stand in line" kind of people, so that was really saying something.  There were people WAY behind us, out the door and around the building.  They were probably looking at a 3 hour wait.  Katie was SO excited to meet the princesses.  She kept gasping and smiling from ear to ear with her hand over her mouth.  She could hardly stand it.  It was pretty cute.  

 

Having seen Katie's life dream come true :), along with the fact that we had no major melt downs or tantrums, we considered the day to be a success.

I had made dinner reservations for 1900 Park Fare which is a nice dinner buffet at the Grand Floridian Resort.  It was a character meal where Cinderella and Prince Charming came around and met everyone (the evil step sisters were there too- but who cares about them). So I had brought along Katie's Cinderella dress for dinner and she couldn't have been happier.

 

It was a pretty perfect day.