Back to the Mousehouse

We got back on the Disney bandwagon last Sunday after three weekends off (between sickness and vacation). It was a homecoming, of sorts. Henry’s birthday celebration, hip hurray! His only request was riding Test Track FIRST (with no fast pass, unfortunately) so we got up and moving as soon as possible to hit Epcot bright and early.

It was a 75 minute wait (we do NOT do those waits, usually) but he still would not be dissuaded so in the line we stood, and it was fine and he loved the ride. I don’t really get the draw of it, except for boys and their car designing. The kids like to see who can design the highest scoring car. This round, Henry won 204 to 203, or something along those lines.

  

We took the monorail over to MK and rode a few things, stood in a few lines and had our packed lunch in Tomorrowland. I had set up FP+ for Peter Pan, Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain, and we also rode the Peoplemover (still one of the favorite rides), Buzz Lightyear, Thunder Mountain a second time and did Mickey’s Philharmagic. We did the Pirate’s Adventures for the first time too, which is where you get a pirate map and have to find symbols around Adventureland.

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All in all, it was a good re-entry into Disney weekends. We had dinner off-campus at Cracker Barrel with its many carbs galore and there was much sleeping on the way home. This weekend we’re hopefully hitting Hollywood Studios because we haven’t been since the Frozen stuff started, and it’s only got a couple more weekends left. I remember last year we went on Labor Day and there was NO ONE THERE so I’m hoping that happens again this year around right now. That would be magnificent.