Disney World 2009 - Day 5 Magic Kingdom

Day 5 is the day Noah was looking forward too, Seeing Mickey's Castle (as he called it, you know Cinderalla's Castle).  This was the one day we decided to get up early, and make it to the park just after the gates open.  We also decided to that, because for the first time during our vacation, it was suppose to get HOT, well atleast for someone coming from snow on the ground.  If I remember right, it got into the upper 80s with a pretty high humidity.  Since it was going to be that hot, Noah and I decided to head off without Tiffany.  With Tiffany being pregnant we wanted her to stay cool for as long as possible.  So we got to the park, Noah and I enjoyed the overwhelming view of the entrance, to Main St., and to the Castle. 

And to play a little bit a fun with our Facebook friends, I posted the picture to the right with the quote "Where is the Castle?"

We got to enjoy many rides this day.  Using the fastpass, we got to ride the original toy story ride, where you fight zorge(sp?).  Also, Noah got to drive a race car, and many other rides before mommy was able to make it to the park.  When we were done riding, we decided to head over to the Castle to watch a Mickey play.  But on the way we ran into one of the Parades.  Shocking to me, the parade was a dance parade.  Noah got to dance with Mickey, Minney, Goofey, and Mr. Incredible.  Once it was over, then we watch the awesome Mickey show.  Then finally, we then went and met mommy at the resturaunt.  Where Noah got to meet more characters.  He got to meet, Winnie the Pooh, Tiger, Eeor, and Piglet.  Mommy decided to walk to the back of the park and ride the train to the front where with the heat, and mommy retaining water from all the walking she did already that week, we sent her back to the hotel room to enjoy the air conditioning and piece of quite.

Noah and I then road the train to the other side of the park and decided to walk around to see what else the park has.  We got to watch splash mountain, watched the boat to one of the Islands, and road some other rides.  We then passed Smokey Robinson's Treehouse; I decided to take Noah in.  Who knew Noah would love it so much, through out the rest of the day we went up the treehouse 3 times.  Closer to 5 o'clock we made it to the back of the castle where Noah found where Mickey lives.  And we found a ride Noah seemed to love, which kicked off him riding rides he didn't want to before.  See the ride to the right :-D.

The included rides was a mery-go-round, which before Disney he was deathly afraid of.  We then went to Mickey and Donald's 3D adventure (not sure the real name).  Noah absolutely loved the beginning, got scared in the middle where he took off his glasses, and enjoyed the end where Donald flew by us and ended up in the wall behind us.  He kept on asking questions about Donald.

We ended up staying for the Fireworks and meeting some great people.  Unfortunately we picked a poor spot to stand because of a tree, but we got to see a good 1/2 of the show.  After the fireworks, we headed off to the bus depot to go back to the resort.  During our walk out, Noah fell asleep - how sweet! 

But then I'm not sure what went wrong at Disney but for the first and only time in our stay Disney dropped the ball.  It was around 8.30PM when we made it to the bus depot, and the line for our bus was already long (and I was expecting that), so I sat at the benches and watched the disaster unfold.  After 30 minutes went by and only one bus appear, I started to see guests starting to get angry and approach staff.  Where staff shrugged it off, another 10 minutes pass and finally a bus appears.  By this time the line for my resort was wound through the normal area, and lined up pass ALL other bus stops, if I remember right there was 5 other bus lines it had to go by.  And that didn't include the people like me sitting and watching.  So in 40 minutes 2 buses.  Another 20 minutes goes by before I hear the Staff member use his walky-talky to call the bus management people, that is right an hour went by and 2 buses.  When people started to raise concerns, the Staff should of started to work with the bus management people.  But once word was out that our resort was that long of a line, and now I also notice the Animal Kingdom's line was also almost as long, I realized something else was going wrong.  Anyways, I made it on the bus by 10.00PM, the last bus.  And the bus driver told me that they were having issues with drivers just pulling off and taking time when it wasn't break time.  He also said, that situation caused the bus management people to redirect a lot of buses to address Magic Kingdom which is now (at 10.00pm) causing Epcot issues to start.  Since buses had to be diverted away from Epcot to finish the crowds at MK.  Amazing, when there is GPS chips they can put in buses.  Then make it easier for drivers to define their own "breaks".  The bus driver informed me he wasn't to happy about the GPS, because of his medical condition (many potty breaks).  Anyways, we were back at the resort at 10.30pm and Noah stayed asleep!  That is good, because on Day 6 we had a Breakfast Character dining!

I'm glad Tiff was already back in the hotel, Noah fell asleep, and I just relaxed as the bus disaster unfolded.  The could of really sent my blood pressure through the roof, but it was just another event that unfolded at Disney to remember.