Day 1- Magic Kingdom

We were up bright and early for our 10 am flight to Orlando and after an hour long plane de-icing we were finally on our way.

The flight goes by much faster if you take a nap. :)

After a 4 hour flight we finally made it to Orlando and took Mickeys Magical Express to our resort, The Caribbean Beach Resort.


On to the Caribbean Beach Resort!

When we got to the resort there was another surprise in store for the kids... A themed room. :) And since we were staying at the "Caribbean Beach Resort" we got a Pirates of the Caribbean room to stay in!


This is what we saw when we got into the room. This is the divider from the bedroom to the bathroom. It is so cool!

Our pirate ship beds

After we checked out our room we decided to get some dinner at the hotel. There was an entire portion of the hotel filled with restaurants. When we all had eaten we made our way to the resort shuttle to the Magic Kingdom.

When we got to the park it was like being in bizzaro Disneyland! It looked like Disneyland's Main Street but when you got closer it wasn't quite the same. And of course the castle is completely different. I love Sleeping Beauty Castle it's amazing but Cinderella Castle is stunning (and huge)! You can't help but stare at it. It is really magical especially with all the Christmas lights.


Cinderella Castle

Bizzaro Main Street.

 We made our way down Main Street to the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ride. I was really excited to do this ride because they just redid the whole thing. The line for the ride is now completely interactive. It's great! It was late so the line was only a 15 minute wait but the kids had a blast!

This sunflower is in the music area of the line. There are melon drums, turnip horns and this sunflower is bells that you spin to play music.

This was ping pong balls that you had to get out of the gopher holes

The kids loved this. It is one of those things that you slide the beads along the tracks but this one was bees that you slid into the hives.

This was a very cool spot in the line where they had 4 giant touch screens that looked like dripping hunny that you had to wipe away to see the pictures underneath.

The ride itself is also so fun! It's the whole Blustery Day story. Loved it! After the ride we tried to make our way around the park. It was weird to be in a place that was very much like Disneyland and have no idea where we were going. We were those people! ;) We eventually made our way to some of our favorite rides like Big Thunder, Peter Pan and Haunted Mansion. Which are all different from the originals at Disneyland. Some better and some worse. We actually had a scale of how it compared to Disneyland. :) It was +/- 10, +10 being way better than Disneyland and -10 being way worse.

Haunted Mansion is way more scary on the outside and much better on the inside. We gave it a +3.

We hung around the park until 1AM because we were still on Utah time so we weren't tired. It was so cool because the park was almost empty! It was a great preview for the week ahead!