Florida 2008 day 3:

Florida day 3: We planned to get to the park before “rope drop” because all the travel guides advise that the ride lines are shortest in the morning. Well, we over shot and got to the park FOURTY minutes before the park opened. We parked in the very first row closest to the park. No matter though. We put on our sunscreen while we waited and Disney World does a show starting 10 minutes before the park opens in which all the characters arrive at the park entrance via steam engine and do a song-and-dance routine complete with confetti and streamers. The day went great and we rode all the rides that we had planned to and some that we hadn’t. Chloe spent all her souvenir money from MomMom on a Princess Jasmine costume (Aladin’s wife). After she put the costume on she said “Daddy, you are supposed to bow when you see a princess!”. Everywhere we went the park all the employees greeted her with “Hello Princess!”. Grammy Barb sprang for lunch in Cinderella’s castle that has to be booked exactly 180 days in advance. Chloe loved meeting the princesses there and Alex loved the sword that they gave him. The kids were very brave on most of the rides except that Chloe didn’t like the dark on the Buzz Lightyear ride and neither kid liked the thunderstorm and hefalumps and woozles on the Winnie the Pooh ride. Alex didn’t want to get on the very small Barnstormer roller coaster until after Chloe had already been waiting in line for about 10 minutes, so I told him he’d have to wait until she was done and then we’d talk to Daddy about where Chloe was going next. It turned out that Chloe loved the coaster so much that she wanted to go on in again, so we all 4 went on the next time. Except for while Alex was over-hungry waiting for lunch, we didn’t any of the usual over-stimulated rotten-child behavior that we saw from other kids all over the park. All told, it was a great day.