Orlando thing 4

Our plan was to go back for more Magic Kingdom this day, but we decided to take it easy and go to the park later, getting as much sleep as we could after our gigantic roller coaster party the night before.  We had one more breakfast  with the Halls and sent them on their way home.  We relaxed around the hotel for a bit, too, making some plans and recharging batteries.

Then we went back to Magic Kingdom for a shortish day.  We went on the Winnie the Pooh ride a couple of times, which was nice because they had things for him to do in the line.  He liked the ride, too, which was funny because it reminded me a lot of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, which scared the pants off of him last time we went to Disney.  So he's growing.

I liked taking Tyler on the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse.  For one, he really likes treehouses, and I got to try and explain the story to him.  It's a fun story.  I got to do that a lot on other rides, too.  There's a lot of disney lore and Tyler hasn't seen most of it.  Peter pan?  No idea.  Brave?  Not seen.  Lots of stuff like that.

After a few more rides we had lunch, then had to wait out a bout of rain.  In the afternoon we got to meet Mikey. He talks now!  I don't know how they queue it, but Mikey had a few phrases he could say, and his mouth moved and everything.  Tyler was mostly silent, but we got some nice pictures, and when we were done Tyler saw some Mikey dolls and got really excited, like this was a Mikey Mouse that was safe to talk with.  He played with the doll and shook his hand and everything.  It was cute.

When we stepped outside we were in the middle of a parade, so we stopped and watched.  There were some really impressive floats.  I liked the Tangled one a lot, the princess had a frying pan, and the guys were on swinging hammers.  We made our second trip to Splash Mountain after that and then departed the park.

Afternoon dinner was a thank-you dinner to Grandma and Grammie for watching Casey all day for us.  They insisted that they didn't need thanks, and that the Grandbaby kisses were thanks enough.  Still, we went out for some dinner, got home, and all fell asleep again.  We did that a lot, it was a fun vacation, but quite tiring.