Birthday Party continues

Wednesday January 9, 2012
Site 330 Fort Wilderness Campground
Walt Disney World
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Why not a birthday week…….considering

 

 

The birthDAY went so well so why not have a birthday week instead of just one day?  Heck Disney World gives you a Birthday Button if you have a birthday anytime during the entire month.   We forgot to tell them it was his birthday when we checked in but then after I saw people with buttons saying First Time visitor, Anniversary Visit and Happy Birthday, I went over and told them it was a VERY special birthday and with this pin, everybody in the park is wishing him a Happy Birthday.

 

We go back to the Magic Kingdom for a full day today for Birthday Day 2.

 

You can’t walk down Main Street without characters and dancers and party atmosphere even at 9:00 in the morning.

 

She’s practically perfect in every way.

 

 

This looks like a more fun way to make a living than what I did.

 

Makes me wonder if these are college kids on some sort of break or full time employees with pension plans and health care or ???   As I get older I look back on the choices I made and wonder if I was far too conservative and should have taken many many more chances and tried many more things in life. 

 

First thing up on the birthday boy’s agenda is…….pastry. 

 

I guess he’s taking real advantage of this birthday thing to have a year’s worth of sugar in the first two days.   I tried to take a long arm shot of us and the food which turned into a hilarious piece of fun with pictures of half of one of our faces, bug eyed looks, closed eyed looks, and I never could get anything with both of us and all the food.  If it weren’t so much trouble I’d have turned it into a quick slide show for your entertainment.  We were finally rescued by a sympathetic Disney worker.  Yes that’s a chocolate croissant already consumed while I was trying to get a picture.  The cheese Danish is mine and the GIANT cinnamon roll is up for grabs.  That is the healthy day after birthday breakfast.

It’s a great bakery of course just like you’d find on the Main Street of your imagination.  But they are closing it down after Friday and turning it into a Starbucks…………..really???   Sure hope they don’t change the building itself inside or out.

Here’s the plate about one second after the picture above

 

 

After pastries there is a totally unexpected and unpredicted rain storm. 

 

Everyone is rushing to get those cheap rain ponchos which, because they have Disney World on them, cost $9 for adults. 

Not in our budget so we just start strolling through the stores which seem to start on the corner and run the entire block toward the castle all connected inside.  Someone must have been planning for rain.  :-) The result is this fine parade of hats.

 

Next on his list is the Walt Disney Railroad. 

Just put a vintage train of any size any where and David is all over it.  As you would expect, the train station is the one you imagine in your small town America dreams.

 

 

You see all kinds of things from the train including Woody, one of David’s favorites.

 

 

After seeing the Thunder Mountain Rail Road from the Disney Train David concludes that we need to get off in Adventure land and head over there.  I’m not so sure about this.  Judging from the tilt of the car there on your left with the folks’ hands in the air, this does not look to be the tame ride that Carrie, who like me does not care much for roller coasters, liked so much when she was here at age 8.

But in my efforts to make this birthday extraordinaire, I figure if I could make it through Space Mountain yesterday, just barely, I should be able to do this.  Right?   Well all I have to say is that if you did this at age 8 Carrie I have seriously underestimated your roller coaster tolerance.  You went back again and again.  Not a chance I’ll do this again.  My stomach is talking to me about all the back and forth.

 

But as we leave Thunder Mountain I see something much more my speed.

 

 

 

Not sure this was on David’s list but it turns out to have been a good idea since you get to see a lot of the things you cannot see any other way plus you can see out over the top of the World.

 

 

 

 

One thing leads easily to another in the Magic Kingdom.

From the top deck, we see the Haunted Mansion and decide that’s next.

 

After the Steam Boat ride and on the way to the Haunted Mansion we notice the perfect lunch spot across from the steam boat dock. 

 

But it’s not time for lunch.  It’s time for the mansion.  Nice touch with the hearse outside.

 

 

 

After the solemn Haunted Mansion we can hear the brass band beginning as they lead the afternoon parade which has  nearly all of the characters from the Disney Films.

 

 

Leave it to David to notice the tires on the lead car.

 

 

 

 

By this time we are starving. 

 

Remember that nice round deck in the river.  Turns out it is a Great spot for lunch.

 

This time the steamboat comes by and sees us eating.

 

 

 

Disney World has its share of birds including these interesting beggars at the nearby food stand.

 

We walk off our lunch on Tom Sawyer’s Island.

 

 

 

The raft Huck Finn takes us over.

 

 

 

We do a lot more things before picking out what is getting to be a habit, the desert spot. But this post is too long already so I’m skipping to the end.

Here I had the same trouble with the one armed shot  that I did this morning as you can see.  Why doesn’t David with the longer arm take these???

 

I give up and just take the birthday boy and the cakes.

That’s one slice of double chocolate and one of carrot cake.  Carrot cake is a vegan dessert right?  :-))

 

 

When we come back outside, the town is lit up for the finale performance of the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These guys really know how to throw a party!