So my plan was to be at the Magic Kingdom at “Rope Drop” and see the characters come in on the train and do their little song and dance and rush to meet Anna and Elsa first thing since I could not get a Fastpass+ to meet them. Well…you know how those plans go. We were a little slow in leaving the house and it took us longer to get there than we thought and missed rope drop. Even when we got to the Magic Kingdom at 9:20 (it opened at 9am) the line to meet Anna and Elsa was already over an hour and half long. So we scrapped that idea. We went ahead and got our autograph books though.
We caught back up with the rest of our crew and made use of the shorter wait times. In my experience, the lines are the shortest right after the parks open and right before closing. We sailed through It’s A Small World.
Leave it to Averycakes…
We headed through Frontierland and met Chip and Dale.
The wait time on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride was pretty short on the My Disney Experience app but by the time we got there it had shot up to 25 minutes. We decided to wait anyway since we were already there.
I was so glad we had these strong men with us to push the strollers. They were a life saver to my sister (also pregnant) and me.
We had planned to do quick service lunch at the Beast’s Castle but they were all full when we got there. You couldn’t even wait in line…so we decided to have popsicles instead and try the Beast’s Castle later on. (They never opened the line back up though.)
Then the girls wanted to meet Ariel in her Grotto…so we braved the 45 minute wait. That was pretty painful but the girls loved seeing Ariel “in her mermaid tail.”
I think they were both enjoying the parade…what do you think?
After the parade the park was so crowded that we decided to head back to the house for a few hours and rest.
After a rest and dinner at home we changed clothes and headed back to the Magic Kingdom.
We also met Tinkerbelle (she’s moved her house to the Main Street theatre where Mickey is)…
Making silly faces with Tinkerbelle…
And we caught the end of the Electrical Light parade…definitely a must-do for everyone.
The wait times were finally at a decent level so we hit as many rides as we could before the park closed. I couldn’t ride the Tomorrowland Speedway so Chad did a Rider Swap with the girls. Avery drove the first round. Then McKenna got to drive in the same car!
By this time, it was 45 minutes until the park closed and meeting Anna and Elsa had a 45 minute wait. I had checked the wait time all day and that was shortest I saw. I saw the wait get as high as 210 minutes during the day we were there.
Okay. So I took this picture while we were standing in line waiting to meet Anna and Elsa. Do you notice anything weird?
Where are all the children??? There were not many. I’d estimate there were probably 8 adults for every child in line. I don’t get it. I like Anna and Elsa…but you can bet I wouldn’t have been waiting in line to meet them for 45 minutes were it not for my two little princesses who had dreamed of meeting them.
By the time we actually got through the line, it was 30 minutes past closing time but was still full of people.
I snapped these pictures of the back and front of the castle on our way out.
When we made it back to the entrance…two of the three children were fast asleep.
We had a great day but I think I pushed myself too hard. I was already sick and by the end of the night I felt like I had swallowed 12 razor blades and could barely walk. I wasn’t in that great of shape to begin with and being pregnant and walking 15 miles through the park was a little more than I could handle. The next day, I spent the 1/2 of Day 3 in Urgent Care begging for an antibiotic. True story.
You can read about the other days we’ve spent in the Magic Kingdom here.