Woke up very early this morning to a dripping sound outside the room I’m staying in.  With one of their roommates gone for the week on his own vacation trip, I get to enjoy a bed instead of the couch.  However, since it gets so cold here at night they don’t believe in air conditioning, so all the windows in the apartment are left open.  That didn’t bother me too much until I woke up at 5:30 to hear a dripping sound outside.  I tried to ignore it and fall back asleep, but that didn’t work.  Then I tried closing the windows in the room, but that didn’t help either.  Then I said “screw it” and just laid in bed until it was time to get up and get ready for our day at Magic Kingdom.

We got to the park before it opened, and then headed straight to Ariel’s Grotto so I could see the Little Mermaid herself first thing in the morning without having to wait in line.  I wasn’t first in line like I’d wanted to be, but it still started out the day in the best way possible.

We then proceeded to roam around the park taking pictures with most characters we ran into and stopping in souvenir shops to take pictures of ourselves wearing funny hats.  We did it last year as a way to pass the time and have a couple laughs, and it was so much fun that it became somewhat of a challenge to find hats we hadn’t already worn last year.  There weren’t as many as I thought there would be, but it brought about an extra feeling of accomplishment when we would spot one.

Because it’s fall and especially because it’s almost Halloween, everything around the park is decorated with pumpkins.  At first I thought it looked tacky, but it grew on me and by the end of the day I’d taken pictures of all the decorations that repeated themselves around the park.  At one point I made a lap around the town square on Main Street in order to get pictures of all the pumpkin scarecrows.

We went to see the 3D show of the park, “PhilharMagic”, and it was absolutely incredibly.  I can definitely see why it’s the most popular attraction in the entire park, and also why the line moves so quickly.  Disney is a very efficient machine.  ”PhilharMagic” takes you through a number of songs from various Disney movies including Beauty & the Beast, Fantasia, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Peter Pan, and then Aladdin.  The 3D effects are stunning, the music is magical, and the experience as a whole left me choked up.  I will admit to getting a little teary eyed when Ariel reached out into the audience and asked only me to be “part of her world”.

Brief pit stop for lunch, then it was off on the magical adventure again.  We hit just about every major ride and attraction the park had to offer, and did it in even less time than last year.  We must’ve been bookin’ it!  We of course stayed for the evening parade, SpectralMagic, and after that we were amazed by the fireworks show, Wishes.  The closing ceremonies as a whole are a sight to behold, and not worth attempting to describe because I wouldn’t do them justice.  I was in awe.

Tomorrow…EPCOT!

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