The Mad Hatter was quite entertaining...he made all of us laugh!
He tried to trick Bennett when asking his age, and Bennett's response was, "YOU'RE SILLY!"
After breakfast we went back to the room for some quiet time, and as the rain cleared up Elise began to feel much better. So much so that she was asking to go the Magic Kingdom by lunch time and so (fever-free) we headed that way. We decided we would just play it by ear and see how the day went.
We stopped first to grab a quick bite to eat, and Bennett imitated a Walrus with his fries. Then the kids fed the ducks some fries and just thought it was hilarious that ducks like french fries. EVERYONE likes french fries!!
Then we headed to Frontierland, as we had not been able to spend much time there thus far. Right off the bat the kids saw Woody and Jessie, and were dying to meet them! I explained to Lila that Jessie was a non-talker and she insisted that she didn't care and had to meet her.
While we waited in line David took Bennett on Splash Mountain for the first time- which he LOVED!
They came back just in time for us to take a cute pic of the kids and some of their favorite characters! And, Lila stuck to her word and went right up to Jessie and hugged her!
After seeing this drop, Lila was having no part of Splash mountain, but Elise really wanted to go try it out. So, Lila and I waited and watched while David took E and B on the ride.
And we got a great pic!! It turned out that they were in line right near some friends of ours from home, and the Muntans ended up in the same boat! I thought David was pretty brave to put the kids in the front seat on their first ride, but they loved it!
While I had been in line for the Woody/Jessie meet and greet David had grabbed two fast passes for Thunder Mountain (my favorite!). I love that it is an outdoor roller coaster, goes really fast, but has no "scary" (i.e. things jumping out at you) aspects. Elise took one look and said, "I'll go!".
So, just she and I went on it together. It was a great moment holding hands and riding the ride with just her. We had a blast!
Afterwards we could see that they were getting ready for a parade, so we went and found a good spot to watch it...
The songs are so catchy- Lila was singing along in no time!
About this time Elise said she wanted to take a rest in the stroller (NOT go back to the room!) and so David took her to find a shady spot to rest and Lila and Bennett and I got in line for the race track. They were so excited! It was probably the longest ride line we waited in, as fast passes aren't available. But, they both had a great time and Bennett is still talking about driving the red car. (You don't know how happy I was when a RED car pulled up to our spot!).
David took some pictures of us as we went around the track. Bennett drove and I controlled the gas.
For the most part I deferred to David to do rides with the kids if/when we had to split up for various reasons...since it was his first time to experience Disney I wanted him to do as much as possible. But, I did have fun getting the chance to do the cars with L and B. They both had such a great time!
After that we headed back to our room, picked up turkey sandwiches at the hotel deli and had a picnic. David and I had actually arranged for a babysitter (thankfully I had gotten the name of Theresa's babysitter, a teacher, who she has used for years) to come Thursday night. We thought it would be fun to go back to the park and go on some rides (Space Mountain, etc) that the kids couldn't; but, with Elise being sick we just didn't feel right leaving her with someone new. She had perked up quite a bit during the day, but by nightfall was pretty miserable again.
So instead, David had date with one of his other ladies- little Lila!
Bennett was exhausted, so he, Elise, and I stayed in the room and watched Finding Nemo together. David took Lila back to the park to catch the Electronic parade...
They had a great time together, and she passed out in his arms right before the fireworks!!
Little did we know she was coming down with the little virus as well. She has such a high pain tolerance and never acts sick! Other than the fact that she woke up a few times that night, when she had been sleeping really well, and had fever, we would not have known.
All in all, even with everyone not 100% we still had such a great, fun, laid back day.....what started off so dreary ended up fantastic!
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