This was the Big Day for Samantha! The plan was to get to the park a little early, enjoy a few rides or shows and then go to breakfast at Cinderella’s Castle with the different princesses from Disney. Well, we also thought that things would plan out well as the park opened an hour early for the guests staying on-site. Well, they had cranes up last night, working on the castle and something happened where the power had gone out due to the construction. With this, most…well, I say most as I’m guessing something must have been running although I don't know what…of all the attractions were closed down. We were a little frustrated as we had made it a point to get up early and get to the park early. Although we didn’t make it there by 8:00, we did get there before the general public at 9:00 – but nothing was running even up until 9:30. Trust me when I tell you we all could have used the extra hour of sleep.
In any case, Sam got all dolled up for meeting the princesses. She had on a gorgeous pink gown and couldn’t wait to see Cinderella and Snow White. Well, just take a look at a picture of my little princess with Cinderella for yourself….
See what I mean? In any case, we had breakfast in the Disney Castle where Sam had the most enjoyable time seeing and meeting four other princesses besides Cinderella. There were Snow White, Belle, Ariel and Sleeping Beauty (I hope I’m not the only one who forgets her proper name). During the breakfast, all the kids received either a princess wand or "for the knights among us", a sword. Then both the princesses and the knights received a “wishing star” for a ceremony they had where they would wish upon a star. The whole meal was pretty fun. Danielle and I liked this one particularly well as we were able to eat our breakfast easily without worrying that a character would come up while we were away getting our food. They kind of held the princesses off for a little while so that everyone could get a good start on eating – at least that’s how it seemed to us.
Now Snow White took a shining to Noah. She chatted with him and gave him a great big kiss. Noah was somewhat embarrassed by this though and a little after she left, he wiped it off. Well, he didn't get away with it. Later, during the wishing on the star ceremony, Snow White's spot to show everyone what to do, was right near our table. She did happen to notice that the kiss was gone from Noah and so she planted another right on him. Then after they all made a wish, she told Noah that her wish was that he would never wash that off his forehead. He once again was slightly embarrassed. As soon as she left the table, he was quick to want to wipe the new one off. As he didn’t want to hurt Snow White’s feelings though – he left it on until we left the castle. After about five minutes, we told him he could wipe it off – and he didn’t waste any time.
Just a side note, Sam was really upset when it was time to leave. She was okay the we were done eating and okay that we wouldn’t see any more princesses – but she was crying because she wanted to see Cinderella’s bedroom. Not quite sure why, but we had to endure the crying / frustration and continual request for this viewing for longer than Noah’s torment.
One ride that we had taken was the “Tea Cup”. You may recall this ride. It was a lot of fun when you were younger, but as one gets older, it affects you differently and it gets harder to “enjoy” the ride very much. Well, these smaller rides that spin quite a bit have not been my favorites for some time – but I thought maybe I could ride these once again. Not a great idea. I reminded myself that I don’t like the small rides like this any longer. I rode with the boys and Danielle rode with Sam. We spun that Tea Cup hard. Yeah, I felt a little queasy for a while. Turns out all the kids loved this ride and tried to get us to let them go on it again. Lucky for me we did do this ride before breakfast and we had to make our way to the castle so a second trip around the Tea Cup was kind of out of the question. (I guess lucky in another sense also – I didn’t eat before the tea Cup experience …)
Noah was initiated into the world of Space Mountain. He loved it and this ended up being what he loved the most today. Of course Danielle is super excited as her favorite ride is the Aerosmith's Rock-and-roller Roller Coaster – which is planned for tomorrow. Now since Noah loved Space Mountain, she’ll have someone to ride with her a million times if they could. I would myself except I’m not a huge roller coaster fan and someone also needs to watch Sam and Dawson while she rides. Works out for all of us!
Dawson’s favorite for the day was the Buss Light-year ride where we rode around in cars shooting things with our laser guns. Samantha, her favorite thing today would have been meeting Cinderella, but her most favorite ride was Dumbo - the flying elephant. She was really upset when we didn’t ride that ride a second time.
We did get done a little early compared to the other nights, but would have liked to have done one more thing tonight. Oh well, hopefully tomorrow will be a good day also. Looking ahead, there seems to be a majority of what we want to do that will be good for the whole family. These last few days we’ve needed to leave Sam with one of us while the others rode something, more often than we would have cared to. Tomorrow it should be less. Although we have had the melt downs from each of the kids at different times and different levels for a variety of reasons (my favorite so far is wanting to play horse shoes or with a hula hoop instead of looking for a new ride to go on) the day was pretty good and they days seem to get better from one to the next. To put things in perspective – Noah said yesterday and again today when we were done for the day “It was a good day today. No one got lost!” And that is the truth!
Now I just have to get the Lion King song out of my head and hope the tune from Winnie the Pooh doesn’t take it’s place again. I know what you’re thinking – “It can’t be worse than the “It’s a small world” tune. Well, that ride has been shut down for renovations so at least it's not filling in any gaps.
Hollywood Studios and Aerosmith – here we come!!
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