Disney Day 1

Yes, we went back. Yes, we have been three times in 15 months. Yes, I am obsessed. BUT, I can totally justify it. They are only little once. They are only little once. They are only little once. Oh, and it was Carter's birthday as well ;) Okay, I feel better now.

We did things a little differently this time. We normally drive in and get after the parks on the first day. This time we decided to drive in a day early and use some of Daddy's hotel points at the Waldorf Astora. WIN=WIN. We got to experience a very nice hotel that we may visit again some day, and we got to get up the next morning and be at the park at rope drop instead of 4:00 that afternoon. We spent our first day at Magic Kingdom. We always get there around 9 am, so we make all kinds of memories by noon each day.  First thing on the list was to see Rosetta. Rumor has it that the accompanying fairy may not be around much longer, so we definitely wanted to squeeze this in. Oh, and visit Think as well by the way...

I had to bribe Blair to get on very first Disney ride. I chose Dumbo for her. And she chose some sort of overpriced "prize" in the gift shop as her reward. She did fine and liked it okay, but she is just still not that into rides. She would rather exchange autographs with every character that Disney has to offer. And believe me, we did just that.

We were super excited to visit Fairytale Hall for the first time. We definitely used the new Fastpass + system for this. It works like a charm. Don't you just love Carter in the Rapunzel picture? She is totally trying to strike the princess pose.

We also stopped by to visit some of Carter's favorites. She loves Pooh and Tigger.

We stayed at Bay Lake Tower for this trip and we loved it. It was so nice to be able to walk to the Magic Kingdom in 6 minutes. Later that afternoon our room was ready, so we went to get settled and have a little rest. We wanted to be rested up for our dinner reservation at Be Our Guest. Carter-girl will forever remember the Beast. She could not stop talking about him that night, and she still brings it up. She says "I saw the Beast. I'm skeered." Well, Carter-girl, you were much braver than your big sister (who was hiding in the restroom).

We saw a few more princesses that night before leaving the park.  Again, we used the FP+ system to see the Enchanted Tales with Belle, and then we went to see our favorite New Orleans princess. The one thing we did not enjoy about this trip was that the fireworks were at 10pm every night. No way could my little ones make it for that, so we enjoyed the fireworks from our room every night. We had a wonderful first day at the Magic Kingdom, but of course we had to get our rest for Day 2!