Day Two at Disney World

Cartwheels started off day 2 into the Magic Kingdom.

Can you tell Bean was happy to be back?  All smiles while waiting for the monorail to come pick us up.

Day two was warmer, sunnier and more crowded.

We caught a parade and loved the people on tall stilts.

We saw the Genie and Mr. Incredible, as well as many other Disney characters.

Last time we missed going to the Haunted House, so we made sure to go to it this time.

Although the line constantly moved, it was long and had plenty of fun things for us to see.

Owen was trying to make serious and silly faces just like the statues.

This was supposedly a tomb, but was really cool.  The instruments would play when you touched them.

This spooky organ breathed out steam from the skulls.

Once inside, we were on a bucket ride and saw ghostly footprints walking down the stairs.

We saw many lights and apparitions on the tour of the Haunted House.

We made sure to ride the carousel for Chloe as this was one of her favorite rides.

Owen and Daddy even rode with us!

Chloe and I broke off from the boys to go ride the Mad Hatter's Tea Cup ride and she made silly faces for me while waiting in line.

She also spun us around super fast once we were in the teacup.

The wheel was hard to turn, so she had to work really hard to make it move and get us spinning.

After the teacups, we walked back toward Fantasy Land and met up with Daddy and Owen.  Chip and Dale were out walking around and danced with Owen.

And with Chloe, although she was more interested in just getting hugs.

The People Mover ride is one of our favorites and we were happy there wasn't a long line.  It is a relatively slow moving ride that takes people on a tour of Fantasy Land and Tomorrow Land, weaving in between rides and through the middle of Space Mountain where you can hear people screaming on the roller coaster.

We saw another parade and waved to Minnie.

And Mickey.

Prince Charming was with Snow White.

Snow White was the first of the princesses coming through and she waved specifically to Chloe and said 'hello'.  With each princess who followed, Chloe was yelling to me "She knows me! Snow White knows me! Cinderella knows me, too!"  With every princess.  It was so sweet.  Owen tried to argue, saying that the princesses most certainly did not know Chloe.  But Chloe stood her ground and remained adamant that the princesses knew her.  All of them, with the exception of the Princess and the Frong.  But the Princess from the Princess and the Frog would know her soon enough!

After the parade passed and the streets opened up, we headed to Splash Mountain so the kids could get soaked.  They looked pretty happy at the start of the ride.

It was quite awhile before I saw them start their descent down the falls.  They are in the very last row in the back.

At the top, Todd was smiling, Chloe was starting to scream and Owen was already ducking his head.

Smiles are gone and both Daddy and Chloe are starting to scream and Owen is still hiding.  

Chloe is starting to look a little terrified.

Now Todd screaming, it looks like chloe might be crying as her hair flies straight up and Owen is still hiding.  After they got off, they told me they loved it!

It was toward the end of the afternoon and we were ready for a rest, but not quite ready to leave the Magic Kingdom yet.  So we hopped on the railroad and took two spins around the outskirts of the whole park.

The kids picked out two large lollipops as we walked down Main Street on our way out to the ferry.

They had the prime spot for seeing where we were going as we approached the dock at the travel center with trams leading out to the parking lots.

There was a little grumpiness leaving the park.  It was a long day of fun and listening ears weren't working so well anymore.  A lollipop was taken away and a chat was had before we agreed we all wanted to return in the evening to see fireworks and the Electric Parade.