Disney World. October 2021. Day 4. Magic Kingdom Day.
Magic Kingdom day!! Woo woo!
I was up bright and early to book lightning lanes. I booked jungle cruise for 11am, but I wasn’t able to booked the paid lightening lanes until 9am.
Today we had room service breakfast again, and while we ordered it for a little earlier than Monday, we still didn’t make it out of the hotel until around 9:30. We arrived at the Transportation and Ticket Center and got on the monorail! This was the first time in like 3 years that the monorail was actually working! We’ve taken the boat so many times, which is much longer and painful. The wait wasn’t bad, but they “socially distance” the monorail cars, which just means they are packed to normal capacity, not NYC subway capacity. We got off and headed into the Magic Kingdom!
The castle is decorated for the 50th anniversary and looks great. We went straight to Jungle Cruise. The problem was we couldn’t actually hear the guide, so it was just fine, though they did add a new tunnel section, which was cool. After that we went on Magic Carpets of Aladdin and Tzvi broke the ride. Well, we don’t know for sure, but Tzvi was holding Madeleine on the ride and she was getting upset and tried turning around so she could see me and Hallie in the carpet behind them, and then suddenly the ride stopped and they brought everyone down, and when Tzvi asked what happened they said something about children facing forward. Anyway, then we got a Dole Whip.
From there we walked over to Fantasy Land and hit Small World and then Seven Dwarves Mine Train.
Then we had pizza for lunch at Pinnochio Village Hause, then did the Little Mermaid, Dumbo, Barnstormer, Buzz Lightyear and finally got milkshakes. It was a whirlwind. After that my mom took Hallie on Carousel of Progress while Robyn and I did Space Mountain. Tzvi and I rode Haunted Mansion, and then everyone but Madeleine did Splash Mountain. I was so impressed that Hallie did Splash Mountain. She was scared at first, but she seemed to really enjoy the big drop; she was mostly just worried about getting wet. From there we did Pirates of the Carribean and Winnie the Pooh, and then it was time for dinner.
Dinner was at Tony’s Town Square, which is supposed to be the Italian restaurant from Lady and the Tramp. Most of us got Spaghetti with Impossible Meatballs, which was actually delicious, and Tzvi had some creamy ravioli. After that we walked a little around Main Street. They re-did the confectionary and added a make your own popcorn station, so I got popcorn with white chocolate, M and Ms, and Twix. It was delicious.
We stayed for the fireworks, which were great, but as we were walking out people were complaining it wasn’t classic enough. I agree.
The line for the regular monorail was super long, so instead we got on the resort monorail and went to the contemporary, and took an Uber from there, which definitely saved us time.
Once we got the girls to bed we decided we still needed dessert (we hadn’t had anything at Magic Kingdom), so we ordered room service. We knew it was probably our only room service and couldn’t decide what to get, so we got the chocolate, the apple crumble and the crème brule. We also got a latte. All were good. Nice way to end the night.
Good day.