Florida 2008 day 5:

Florida day 5: Back to Walt Disney World. We went back and forth about whether to try Animal Kingdom on our 2nd day, but decided that there was enough left in Disney that we hadn’t done yet. This time we knew exactly how much time to allow to get to the park and we arrived just as the pre-show started. The lines were super-short all day and we saw over 12 attractions, some of them twice. Many rides had only 5-10 min waits and some rides we walked right on (no line at all). The kids were very brave and wanted to try all the big kid stuff. We had read that the haunted mansion is really more silly than scary so when the kids said they wanted to try it, we said ok. We walked in the door and they heard the 1st scary noise and bolted for the door. I don’t think we lasted 5 seconds in there! They also tried Big Thunder Mountain which is more of a mid-sized roller coaster. After we got off Alex said “I’m going to tell Grammy Barb that ride is WILD!” They were very proud of themselves for riding it, but at the end of the day when we’d done everything and offered to let them ride Big Thunder Mountain again, they both said “no thank you”. Chloe’s favorite ride was the spinning tea cups and Alex rode Buzz Lightyear twice because each rider gets his own gun to shoot bad guys. Again, the kids were very well behaved and we didn’t have any tantrums. We went to Margaritaville for dinner, an annual tradition. The kids had been asking “When do we get to go the restaurant where we get to yell ‘Salt! Salt! Salt!’?”