Disney Part 3 - Magic Kingdom

We spent 2 days in the Magic Kingdom and still didn't see all the things we didn't want to miss. Its funny...when you get hot & tired the things you thought you just had to see don't quite seem as important as they did before. So the 2 days we went there we ended up leaving around 2-3pm & spending the rest of our afternoon in the pool at our hotel.

We took the usual photo that I think everyone must take when visiting this park. You just have to have a picture of the castle right?

Personally I hate having pictures with people I don't know in them so I'm always looking for ways to get a photo without having a bunch of total strangers in it.

Nope...no tourists up there...lol
Our favorite ride here was the Buzz Lightyear one. This was such a blast that we just kept getting back in line & doing it over & over again as there was no line. I love the colors in the photo below that I took inside. Jake wants me to enlarge it for his room.
Jake had fun driving the cars around the track. For me, as his passenger it was a preview of him learning to drive a real car in a few years...eeek !!! And a trip to the Magic Kingdom wouldn't be complete without a ride on the jungle cruise.Jake really got into the pin trading at Disney. He decided on day 2 to buy 2 pins & a lanyard to attach them to and just have fun trading those with the staff members. (you can trade your pins with people working there if you see one they have that you want...Disney found a great money maker with that idea !!) 2 hours later Jake had 8 pins and he had so much fun hunting to people with pins to look at & trade with.

By the time we came home he had 2 lanyards full of more than 30 pins (can you say obsessed?)Luckily he was spending his own spending money on them & not mine.
He made some other friends along the way too... We were able to ride in the front of the monorail twice and the view was great. Jake loved this as you can see from the smile on his face.


We were also lucky to be able to see & have dinner with my cousin Jim & his lovely family. I love these people so much and don't see them nearly often enough so this night was such a treat for me. (and thanks for the recipe Val...we had it for dinner tonight...yum!)