disney: day 2

our second disney day took us to the magic kingdom! we arrived early, just after the first of two rain showers that would help keep the day relatively cool compared to the previous day, and faith's eyes were as big as saucers as we walked through the gates and caught our first glimpses of cinderella's castle rising into the blue sky at the end of main street.

nana & papa with the girls in front of the castle (in their matching cinderella outfits, thanks nana!)

as we made our way into the park, we caught the "celebrate a dream come true parade," where we caught our first glimpses of the toy story gang!

jessie and woody, faith kept asking where buzz was!

we made a general counter-clockwise circle around the park, starting in tomorrowland with the monster's inc. laugh floor and buzz lightyear's space ranger spin. we also saw buzz lightyear himself just as the skies opened up for the second time that morning, luckily we were sheltered under a little ledge and stayed fairly dry while we waited.

faith was a little nervous about meeting buzz, so daddy had to go with her :)

most of the day was spent in fantasyland where the majority of the kid-friendly rides are located, including the epic dumbo, tea cups, and it's a small world rides! i think we rode everything in this area of the park except for snow white's scary ride, which didn't appeal to the two little people with us.

cheesing it up on the dumbo ride

she thought that faster was definitely better when it came to the spinning teacups

she loved all the little people in it's a small world and kept pointing out little details to us

faith also rode her very first roller coaster at the magic kingdom, goofy's barnstormer! she ate it up and gave daddy (in the car in front of us) a big thumbs up when it was over. silly girl laughed her head off the whole time! i think we have a daredevil on our hands :)

getting ready to go!

thumbs up after!

while walking towards adventureland for pirates of the caribbean, we passed through liberty square and went to the hall of presidents.

faith took a nap there.

the girls with nana and papa, before the nap

after the cat nap, we went to the country bears jamboree (which i remember from when i went the first time over 25 years ago!), played in the swiss family treehouse, rode aladdin's magic carpets (watch out for the camels, they spit!) and the pirates ride.

don't you love the sunglasses in most of these pictures? they were obsessed with them!

we finished up our magical day at the kingdom with the "wishes nighttime spectacular" fireworks show!

the castle under the fireworks

this day was our longest day, and we felt it when we hit the bus line that night, but it truly was an awesome day in the kingdom!