Magic Kingdom - Day 1

Our 1st day was great!  We headed out about 8 to catch our shuttle bus over to Magic Kingdom.  Once we arrived we took some pictures and waited for the Disney Friends to ride in and open up the park.

 

We started off with a little character greeting from Pinnochio and then headed off to Adventureland. Mallary didn't want to meet him for some reason, but she LOVED the characters!  I did get her an autograph though!

 

Our 1st ride was the Magic Carpets of Aladdin which turned out to be one of the girls most favorite ride there.

 On the Jungle Cruise with our tour guide!

 Meeting Tinkerbelle

 

 and Vidia

 

We got through Adventure land rides pretty quick and headed to Frontierland and Liberty Square  Both girls were tall enough for Big Thunder Mountain so they got their first roller coaster ride and the LOVED it!  I was a little worried, but they were great.  We did some more fun rides, met some characters, took in some shows and then headed over to Main Street for the afternoon parade. 

 We opted for the "cemetary route" for the Haunted Mansion. 

The girls loved it and all the "haunted features"

Like Tombstones

 Magical Stone piano that played when you touched the keys

 Haunted instruments that played

 The Haunted Mansion

Riding the Riverboat

The girls loved the parades.  They waved their little hands and everyone and ooh and ahhhed over the floats. 

 

 

We did a Meet and Greet with Mickey and Minnie and the Princesses at the Town Square Theatre.  The girls loved it!!

 and it was time to start Fantasy Land.  We loved the rides over there too - and hit up some classics like It's a small world, Snow White and Winnie the Pooh. 


 The Spinning Teacups

Watching Mickey's Philharmagic - It's so cute!!

 It's a Small World - The girls loved it and it's just as I remembered

By this time it was getting pretty close to closing time so we trekked back over to Frontierland and rode Splash Mountain - maybe my most favorite ride at Magic Kingdom.  We left a few minutes before closing (7:00 this night) and decided to head back for a little swimming.  It didn't take the girls too long to fall asleep!

On last treat on the way out