Day afternoon:
3.30 - Magic Kingdom for the main parade
6.00 - California Adventures for Electric Light Parade
8.30 - Magic Kingdom for fireworks
10.30 - Magic Kingdom for Fantasia
All the scheduled shows actually took place, and they were all good. Well
worth the four hours (or more) spent saving our seats for them to avoid
missing out on good views. During the wait for Fantasia we met some
holidaymakers that we were actually jealous of, rare seeing as most people
we met were only travelling from somewhere nearby or only for a week or
fortnight. However, these people were fellow Brits doing a similar tour to us
but over six months instead of three. In fact we are still receiving emails from
them chronicling their travels and think that they are probably on the run from
the law - lucky bastards.
When we returned to the Magic Kingdom the next day, our fourth in the parks,
we considered ourselves to be well and truly hardened to the crowds seeing
as we had spent the previous day visiting each of the two parks two or three
times. We were not however prepared for the sheer volume visiting Mickey's
land on this, the first Saturday after Christmas, and we nearly fled in fear
before we even got through the gates. We soon regretted the decision not to
turn tail and spent a very uncomfortable morning in queues. The highlight was
an 'all you can eat' character breakfast at which we each polished off two
Mickey's and shared a Minnie. No, that is not quite right but the amount we
ate was probably equivalent in weight to those oversized mice and tided us