Orlando Holiday - Magic Kingdom

Dawn and the Kids dancing with the parade

 So the trip we've all been looking forward to since Christmas finally arrived.  We took a couple of days to drive to Orlando (1 on the way back) and arrived in our hotel (Disneys All Sports complex) about 3 o'clock.  The kids Martin and Grandad had a swim in the hotel pool whilst Nan and Dawn stayed in the rooms and unpacked.

The next day we headed to the Magic Kingdom nice and early, although in hindsight we caught large ques (lines if your American) and would probably benefited by being an hour or so later.  Another thing that was surprising was the heat, living in Louisiana we're very used to the heat but in Orlando it was so humid.  Luckily many of the attractions are inside air conditioned theatres.

 

Belle meets the children

One of our favourite things in the Magic Kingdom was one of the new attractions where you go inside Belles fathers house and are then magicaly transported to the Beasts castle where you get to meet Belle.

Bringing cartoon characters to life

It's really impressive the way the imagineers at Disney have taken cartoon characters and brought them to life.  The cupboard and 'Lumierre' the candelabra looked like real 3d cartoons, very impressive. 

To do the Magic Kingdom in one day is a hard task especially as it's probably the most popular of the four Disney parks.  On some rides the waiting times can be long, anything over 40 minutes and we normally didn't bother.  Surprisingly on some attraction there's little or no waiting time at all.

At every turn there's a bunch of photographers willing to take your picture that you can look at online (and of course purchase).  Handy if you wanted the whole family in a pic.

Needless to say after all the build up and excitement the kids (and adults) were all exhausted and ready for bed.

getting ready to put on a play for Belle

As night falls the castle is lit

Nan and Rayna walking back to catch the monorail