Ok. So we went back to the hotel for a nap (a whopping 45 minutes). Then rode the escalators, ate lunch, and rode the escalators again. After finally getting ready to go back to the park, the heavens opened up for a brief but substantial storm. We waited it out under the bus stop awning then made our way down the walkway.
I know some folks have been reporting non security. At the walkway screen, you carry your bags through but you can’t have any electronics in the bags so chargers, cell phones, cameras, and also sunscreen bottles (if metal), need to come out - or just be visible in the stroller if you have one. Also, they did not take DS1’s temperature either time.
So we got to the park around maybe 3:45 and with lines still long, all the play spaces for kids closed, we grabbed some sorcerer cards. DD4 really attached to them and it was a good diversion. We would’ve kept doing them, too, except they kept sending us back to the beginning.
We did catch the villains cavalcade and a not so scary one as well.
Was hoping for a Nightmare Before Christmas since DD has just gotten into it. Maybe Tuesday.
We decided to head to Small World. Posted wait 30 min. TP said 33. We waited about 25. Plexiglass dividers inside were good - except that when you have a not quite two year old who loves to run away from you, they’re not so great because the bottoms are tall enough for him to fit under but not tall enough for me, so I wouldn’t have been able to catch him and drag him back to line like I did underneath the line dividers outside the building… so that meant I had to hold that munchkin for a good portion of those 25 minutes. And he’s not getting lighter - especially after all the ice cream I’m letting him eat.
Anyway, small world! DS didn’t go on it last time we were here but he loved it. In fact, tonight as he was laying in bed he started singing it and then I started singing it and he said, “Small World. This good song.”
We headed over to Under the Sea. Posted time 20 minutes. TP said 18. Waited 11. And then the CM proactively offered us a second lap so we rode it twice in a row.
I was disappointed that Pinocchio Village Haus had closed already for some reason because kids wanted pizza for dinner and I wanted the not poisonous apple cupcake. But I grabbed a turkey leg from Liberty Market and while this isn’t technically a cupcake, it’ll do:
I got the kids some Mac n cheese from cosmic ray’s and we ate in there. They got a kick out of the alien dj guy. I look forward to when they’re a bit older and can appreciate the droid dj in Oga’s instead.
And by the time we were done, we got to see MK at night - a first for both of them. And my first time during Halloween. I had no idea the Mickey pumpkins lit up! I’ll say, too, that the castle and it’s new paint job look awesome at night.
And so that’s day 1 in the books! Kiddos are finally asleep and I didn’t kill either one of them. I’d call it a success! Total step count was 13,044 but my stupid Apple Watch is telling me I only got 14 minutes of exercise. I wish there was some way to inform said watch that I was either pushing 80 pounds or carrying 35 pounds for about 12,000 of those steps…surely that has to translate into more than 14 minutes?!
To recap:
Rides completed - PPF x2, PotC, JC, Carpets, Contemporary escalators x7, IASW, UtS x2
Sugar consumed - pumpkin spice waffle ice cream sundae, dole whips, one Axe Bride’s Wedding Cake, and my kids each drank about a gallon of chocolate milk
Animal Kingdom tomorrow! Thanks for following along.
