Magic Kingdom at Disney World

Syd's favorite Disney park by far is Magic Kingdom. This is perfectly understandable since it is the one totally oriented toward kids, especially young kids. There are six different sections of the Magic Kingdom: Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, Mickey's Toontown Fair, and Tomorrowland. There is also Main Street, USA, which is what you enter into. We spent most of our time in Mickey's Toontown Fair and Fantasyland, which are at the back of the park. So, we took the very convenient Walt Disney World Railroad train from the front to the back to get there faster and easier. We spent most of our time there because that is where most of the rides and attractions designed for Syd's age are located. Her favorite ride was Dumbo (we have no idea why) and in all we rode it 4 times. She also really liked the Peter Pan's Flight ride (again, not sure why) and Cinderella's Golden Carrousel and we rode both of those twice. The most exciting news is that she rode her first roller coaster - The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm. She loved it so much the first time that she went on it again. If you want footage of this, Dad recorded both rides. In the first one he sat in front of Syd and Mom and got our facial reactions. And in the second one, he sat behind us (we sat in the very front seat). Syd held her hands up in the air almost the whole time. It was very cool, since Zack and I love roller coasters and we had no idea what we would do if she did not. She also forced us to ride It's a Small World, the most annoying ride ever anywhere. If you're a Simpson's fan you should think of the episode where they go to the amusement park and Bart gets kidnapped and put in the ride where they all sing - it's basically the same type of torture and like in that episode, you don't want to drink the water. We also went on the Tomorrowland Indy Speedway, which was pretty fun. And the best thing we saw in Magic Kingdom (for Dad and Mom anyway), was the Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor. It's this really cool show that has animated characters doing a comedy show. But the super cool part is that even though they are animated it is totally interactive with the audience. The characters react to and interact with the audience. So every show is different. Syd liked this one too, because when it was done she said, "Is it over already? I want to see more." It was very cool and very innovative.

Magic Kingdom is also where the castle that you always see on TV and in the movies is... right in the middle. There was this very cool Christmas show and fireworks display at the end of each night. The first pictures are of the castle unlit and lit. It was very beautiful.





Here is Syd enjoying Dumbo the first and second time we rode it. This was on two different days. As you can see she is loving it.





Here we are on Cinderella's Carrousel.



And here we are on the Tomorrowland Indy Speedway.



They also have parades everyday at every park. Here is part of the Magic Kingdom parade.



While at the Magic Kingdom we ate at a place called Tony's Town Square, which had Italian food in the tradition of "Lady and the Tramp". It was really good.