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Re: Florida 2014: Day 5, Legoland Florida
Time for more, sorry it's taking a while to get this done, lots happening plus day 6 was a long one...and the one I was most looking forward to...
Wednesday 23rd July: Day 6, Disney's Magic Kingdom, WDW
The day I had been looking forward to for over a year and a half. My first Disney park and it would be Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Sleep was certainly problematic the day before, that I can tell you.
We wanted to get to the park in time for the Opening Ceremony as I had never seen it so we were dragged from our beds at 6:30 and left the villa to arrive at the gates of Magic Kingdom for just after 8am. We had arrived at the the resort before the monorail had opened so we had to catch a bendy bus from the car park over to Magic Kingdom. I of course had to take a bendy bus selfie
Being our first Disney visit of the trip we got to use the Magic Bands which, after the bad experiences I had read worked exceptionally well and are a brilliant idea, but more on that later.
We pressed our bands to some moose ears at the gate and lights spin round and make a beautiful twinkling sound. So beautiful. I looked up and there was the entrance to Magic Kingdom.
But first, let me take a selfie...
After so much anticipation I was finding it hard to keep it together at this point but being the man I am I survived...for now. Before long an odd looking guy came from above and welcomed us to the Magic Kingdom, the Happiest Place on Earth. He was followed by several dancers to cheers from the gathering crowd.
Suddenly a train whistle sounded and a beautiful scarlet steam engine rolled into the station. Off jumped Mickey, Minnie, Stitch, Mary Poppins and Bert, Snow White. It was brilliant.
There was a finale with some fireworks and silver streamers, then on the dead of 9am the gates opened, the gates to a world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.
I had a very vague idea as to how Magic Kingdom was laid out, behind the entrance is like a town square which leads to Main Street. The gates to Magic Kingdom itself are in the two corners of the town square so obviously you have to walk around to get to Main Street and eventually see the castle itself.
I knew that once I got to the start of main street I'd see the castle for the first time, the epicentre of Disney, we rounded the corner and there it was, one of the most beautiful and mesmerising things I have ever seen.
I was unable to get a decent photo at this point due to my shaking...whoops
I'm not ashamed to admit I had tears in my eyes. Disney was such a big part of my childhood, and this is somewhere you always dream of coming as a child, yes I was 18, but where else can you be forgiven for feeling like a child in such a way? But enough of that, onwards and upwards.
The Maycocks have a tradition that Space Mountain is the first Disney ride they ride when coming to Florida so we made our way over to the back of Tomorrowland to ride it.
The queue was fab, futuristic lights and screens, it felt immersive, my first taste of Disney theming.
We rode Alpha first, the ride was basically walk on.
This ride is amazing. It is so relentless, it's fantastic. It is pitch dark, apparently it's darker than your eyes can comprehend so you have absolutely no idea what is coming next. It tosses and turns through corner after corner, throwing you around, but it isn't uncomfortable. I was blown away by how good it is. Have an ORP
As it was still fairly quiet we stayed in Tomorrowland for our next ride, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin. Again, the queue line theming felt so immersive it was brilliant.
It was very good. You shoot at Z's which are the logos for the evil emperor Zurg. I wasn't too keen on how the guns were fixed to the car so you could only move them on a fixed axis. I really liked how you could change orientation of your car by spinning it around to maximise point potential. The scoring was a little random, I was on around 4,000 and suddenly jumped to 12,000 in the space of no time, whether it takes into account accuracy of your shooting of whether there are just different targets, I'm not sure but I suspect the latter. I like pulling faces, what can I say?
Stitch's Great Escape was next, still in Tomorrowland.
Again, it had an amazing queue line with some pretty fancy animatronics in two pre shows, I didn't take any pictures because I was watching the pre show. We were new security recruits and so we were briefed of our mission but of course something terrible happened and a level 3 criminal was captured! *Gasp*. The level 3 criminal was experiment 626, Stitch himself. We were all taken into a circular room and sat in chairs that lined the walls. Stitch appears in the middle of the room being all sweet but he soon escapes. He made noises on our ears and tickled our hair...oh and burping creating a smell that was **** awful and made me ill.
Eventually he leaves the room and is seen climbing the castle while a notice with 'Days since an Escape' was rapidly counting down from around 3,000,000 (that's over 8200 years if you're interested). I really liked this, a ride that touches you always adds to the fun.
Next up on the agenda was Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor where monsters try their hand at stand up comedy... This was either going to be really good or really **** and unfortunately it was the latter...
Ok, so 'really ****' is perhaps a slight exaggeration, it wasn't too bad...I was just hoping for so much better. The idea is to get the audience to laugh enough to fill the 'giggleometer' with 'gigglewatts'. The jokes were ok but dated and mediocre (but like mine :lol: ). Children would be asked questions like 'is the Eiffel Tower in New York' and they'd answer 'yes' because they're thick as ****. It'd be fun to see what happens if just no one laughs for the duration...
Anyway, onwards and it was time to go to Adventureland. This gave me the opportunity to take some better pictures of the castle <3
And Mickey and Minnie's bush...
I also attempted a selfie with the castle because why wouldn't you?
So, Adventureland!
Jungle Cruise was up first.
We queued for a good half an hour in the hot CATTLE PEN OF DOOOOOM
A boat cruises around a river (as the name would suggest) passing various animal, and some human, animatronics, which worked very well, whilst guided by a smoking hot, witty tour guide. Our boat was called 'Amazon Annie' and before long we were off.
Although the picture doesn't show it, the humans were moving up the pole trying to get away from the rhino.
These hippos would just rise from no where out of the water.
I yawn every time I see this picture
The elephants squirted water at you
I thought this was fab, the idea of putting fake animals just worked so well.
It was now time to use our first pre-booked fast pass of the day, Splash Mountain. I shall now explain a little more on the Magic Bands. 30 days in advance (I believe it's 60 if you're in a resort hotel) you can book fast passes for up to three rides of your choice at any of the four Walt Disney World parks. So 30 days previous to us behind here, back in rainy England, Mr. Stephen booked three fast passes for this day, one for Splash Mountain and two others which I shall get to later. It does mean that you have to plan what parks you're going to visit on each day, for example the next day we went to EPCOT and did the same thing. Mr. Stephen found the whole process easy and was surprised to find that rides, including the brand new Seven Dwarves Mine Train, weren't booked up considering the fast pass system had already been open for 30 days for resort guests.
Anyway, Splash Mountain.
It just looks beautiful, how can Disney just get everything to look so right? We scanned our Magic Bands in the fastpass+ queue and walked the long queue line to the station.
We were in boat 37A which made me laugh because this is the house number I used to live in when I lived in Cambridge. The ride is based on the story of Brer Rabbit, a story I wasn't familiar with. The beginning of the boat ride is drifting in and out of rooms of a fox and big fat bear trying to catch the rabbit. It was all excellently done. I didn't take any photos this time round but I think I did later on in the trip so I'll post them then.
My favourite bit was the bee nests with bees buzzing around them, they looked so realistic. The first drop was good with nothing more than a minor splash, the second drop, the plunge part at the end seemed to go on for ages (this is why I liked Journey to Atlantis so much). The third and final drop is exceptional. It seems to go on for ages as you fly through the air, you get wet. At the end there's huge celebrations as Brer Rabbit is safe to the tune of Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Zip-a-Dee-A with lights an happiness and a **** off huge boat. This is by far my favourite water ride, just amazing. ORP time!
It was getting on for lunchtime by this point so it was time for a drink and a snack. We headed over to the Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe which is near to Splash Mountain. You can't just go and sit down and then order, you have to be carrying food before you can get a seat which is actually a really good idea as it stops people just coming in for a sit down or from bringing in their own food. I had chilli chips. It was tasty.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was next, my 2nd cred of the day.
I didn't really know what to expect but I was just expecting a cute +1. We had to endure the longest queue of the day, 40 minutes worth but the queue was pretty fab.
It gave way to some brilliant views of the coaster
These remind me of the pools at Pamukkale in Turkey
The theming was fab, all Wild West and once again, felt so immersive. I rode on my own and wasn't really expecting anything much. My god how wrong could I have been? It was so good! So much ejector and airtime and happiness in one coaster, it just didn't let up, it flew through the corners like a proper runaway mine train should, up down, left, right. Amazing. I can't remember where it ranks but it is way up in the top half.
Next it was time to use our second fast pass of the day, this one was booked for It's a Small World.
This was another ride I've been looking forward to. When I was little, my Grandma had a little train that went round a circular red track that played the tune so I was expecting the childhood memories to come flooding back. The station was themed beautifully. It actually felt quite Christmassy.
Once we boarded I took a selfie with the five of us
I think Angela fell asleep
It was a beautiful ride. Each room was themed to a different area of the world and in each room the lyrics to It's a Small World were sung in each respective language. There were odd looking animatronics doing various things as well as singing.
The penultimate room everything was silver and grey with the lyrics turned up louder and in English. It was beautiful.
In the final room were several signs saying 'goodbye' in a multitude of languages.
I really liked it. So beautiful and relaxing. Next up was Mickey's Philhar Magic Show which is basically a 3D cinema.
Mickey leaves Donald Duck to get the orchestra sorted and he fails, he loses his hat and the video is about him trying to get his hat back through many Disney films with their soundtrack, like Lion King, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast. It was so good.
Haunted Mansion was next.
We only queued for 10 minutes. The queue was quite fab with various different things to press and do. This is a dark ride with a continuous train travelling through various rooms in this haunted house. As you travel around you wake up sleeping ghosts. There's nothing dark or evil about it though, it's all rather fun! What they have done with mirrors and projections is really cool, the ghosts are actually real people (as in they had been filmed, not live actors) and mirrors had made them appear transparent. It worked very well. At the end you get a hitchhiking ghost. Angela and I had a ghost take off his beard and try and put it on me. It was a great touch.
We then headed back over to Tomorrowland for Carousel of Progress. We stopped on the way and had some dole whip floaters which were **** AMAZING.
Orange ice cream with pineapple juice, it's **** tasty
We also caught a little bit of the show that was happening outside the castle.
So, Carousel of Progress!
Another thing I had no idea what to expect or what this even was. A little background, Walt Disney himself came up with the idea for this in the 1960s and had it on show at the World's Fair in New York in 1964-65. You sit in a large room and the whole seating area spins around the stationary centre. You start off with the introduction whilst everyone is loaded, then you begin to turn to reach the next room. The first room is set in the early 20th century with new fangled devices like fridges and cars. A guy sat in the middle narrates the story and we get to meet his family.
The next room is around the 1920s. Ovens are new, everyone is getting ready for July 4th celebrations, the uncle of the family has developed a new system called Air Cooling. Electricity is in and of course, a fuse blows. Such fun. The next room is mid-1940s America at Halloween, more new technology, a small TV can be seen in the corner with some black and white people dancing. The final room is today at Christmas, flat screen TVs, voice activated devices, gaming console. It was all just genius and I loved it.
It was nearly time for our dinner time reservation but we had time for a quick look in some shops along main street before going to the Plaza Restaurant. Whilst on Main Street we got to see some of the parade.
I took a much better picture of the castle too
So, the Plaza Restaurant. It felt oddly posh and it was actually rather small, if you didn't have a reservation you wouldn't stand a chance. I had a pulled pork sandwich because pulled pork.
It doesn't look like much but it was very filling and very tasty
I also had a mint ice cream sundae with strawberry sauce, I don't follow no rules
Our last fast pass for the day was for the brand new Seven Dwarves Mine Train. On the way we walked through the castle. Daniel took my photo in front of said castle.
Disappointingly the inside of the castle is really rather bland.
A couple of mosaic walls and that's about it...
I'd been looking forward to riding the Seven Dwarves Mine Train because I'd been following construction throughout and, after seeing images/footage of the animatronics I couldn't wait to see them for real.
Just look at the attention to detail on the top right corner of the mine entrance, it's amazing
Before long we reached the station.
I rode back row with Daniel and took the compulsory selfie.
So the coaster, it is very smooth...perhaps too smooth as the coaster lacked character and there was nothing to 'feel'. It was also over way too quick, but the theming and the animatronics are **** amazing, they work so so well and look stunning, it's just a shame there are so few of them. I really liked it but I was left disappointed, I was expecting so much more. As for the tilting goes, I didn't really notice any until I was off the ride taking pictures of it.
You can see that some of the cars are at different angles
Our last ride of the day was Under the Sea with the Little Mermaid.
I've never seen the Little Mermaid so I don't really know the story. The queue is brilliant with some amazing (fake) geology.
Just look at those scour marks and honeycomb weathering they have themed in
So the ride itself, you travel to the bottom of the ocean and try and save Aerial from a fat woman with tentacles. I imagine someone having a field day writing a porno for the Little Mermaid.
It was decent, the theme, 'Under the Sea' I got to know by heart by the end of the trip with the amount of Little Mermaid themed rides there are across the Disney parks. Of course, Aerial is saved by a handsome prince and they live happily ever after and all that ****.
That was pretty much it. We waited an eternity for the steam train that runs around the circumference of the park to take us back to the entrance. It was **** boiling too and so humid. We caught the monorail back to the car park this time. I finally got to hear the famous words 'por favor me mantangese del ajlado de las puertas' which I have heard from the Maycocks an unimaginable amount of times.
On the way back to the villa we stopped of in Publixs and I bought a bright yellow lilo who I lovingly christened Milo, as he was my lilo, he certainly became the 6th member of the holiday.
An electrical storm that evening meant no pool so we ate crisps instead.
If anyone is still bothering, thank you very much for reading, that was a long one
day 7 at EPCOT coming up when I have a spare several hours
Time for more, sorry it's taking a while to get this done, lots happening plus day 6 was a long one...and the one I was most looking forward to...
Wednesday 23rd July: Day 6, Disney's Magic Kingdom, WDW
The day I had been looking forward to for over a year and a half. My first Disney park and it would be Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Sleep was certainly problematic the day before, that I can tell you.
We wanted to get to the park in time for the Opening Ceremony as I had never seen it so we were dragged from our beds at 6:30 and left the villa to arrive at the gates of Magic Kingdom for just after 8am. We had arrived at the the resort before the monorail had opened so we had to catch a bendy bus from the car park over to Magic Kingdom. I of course had to take a bendy bus selfie
Being our first Disney visit of the trip we got to use the Magic Bands which, after the bad experiences I had read worked exceptionally well and are a brilliant idea, but more on that later.
We pressed our bands to some moose ears at the gate and lights spin round and make a beautiful twinkling sound. So beautiful. I looked up and there was the entrance to Magic Kingdom.
But first, let me take a selfie...
After so much anticipation I was finding it hard to keep it together at this point but being the man I am I survived...for now. Before long an odd looking guy came from above and welcomed us to the Magic Kingdom, the Happiest Place on Earth. He was followed by several dancers to cheers from the gathering crowd.
Suddenly a train whistle sounded and a beautiful scarlet steam engine rolled into the station. Off jumped Mickey, Minnie, Stitch, Mary Poppins and Bert, Snow White. It was brilliant.
There was a finale with some fireworks and silver streamers, then on the dead of 9am the gates opened, the gates to a world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.
I had a very vague idea as to how Magic Kingdom was laid out, behind the entrance is like a town square which leads to Main Street. The gates to Magic Kingdom itself are in the two corners of the town square so obviously you have to walk around to get to Main Street and eventually see the castle itself.
I knew that once I got to the start of main street I'd see the castle for the first time, the epicentre of Disney, we rounded the corner and there it was, one of the most beautiful and mesmerising things I have ever seen.
I was unable to get a decent photo at this point due to my shaking...whoops
I'm not ashamed to admit I had tears in my eyes. Disney was such a big part of my childhood, and this is somewhere you always dream of coming as a child, yes I was 18, but where else can you be forgiven for feeling like a child in such a way? But enough of that, onwards and upwards.
The Maycocks have a tradition that Space Mountain is the first Disney ride they ride when coming to Florida so we made our way over to the back of Tomorrowland to ride it.
The queue was fab, futuristic lights and screens, it felt immersive, my first taste of Disney theming.
We rode Alpha first, the ride was basically walk on.
This ride is amazing. It is so relentless, it's fantastic. It is pitch dark, apparently it's darker than your eyes can comprehend so you have absolutely no idea what is coming next. It tosses and turns through corner after corner, throwing you around, but it isn't uncomfortable. I was blown away by how good it is. Have an ORP
As it was still fairly quiet we stayed in Tomorrowland for our next ride, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin. Again, the queue line theming felt so immersive it was brilliant.
It was very good. You shoot at Z's which are the logos for the evil emperor Zurg. I wasn't too keen on how the guns were fixed to the car so you could only move them on a fixed axis. I really liked how you could change orientation of your car by spinning it around to maximise point potential. The scoring was a little random, I was on around 4,000 and suddenly jumped to 12,000 in the space of no time, whether it takes into account accuracy of your shooting of whether there are just different targets, I'm not sure but I suspect the latter. I like pulling faces, what can I say?
Stitch's Great Escape was next, still in Tomorrowland.
Again, it had an amazing queue line with some pretty fancy animatronics in two pre shows, I didn't take any pictures because I was watching the pre show. We were new security recruits and so we were briefed of our mission but of course something terrible happened and a level 3 criminal was captured! *Gasp*. The level 3 criminal was experiment 626, Stitch himself. We were all taken into a circular room and sat in chairs that lined the walls. Stitch appears in the middle of the room being all sweet but he soon escapes. He made noises on our ears and tickled our hair...oh and burping creating a smell that was **** awful and made me ill.
Eventually he leaves the room and is seen climbing the castle while a notice with 'Days since an Escape' was rapidly counting down from around 3,000,000 (that's over 8200 years if you're interested). I really liked this, a ride that touches you always adds to the fun.
Next up on the agenda was Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor where monsters try their hand at stand up comedy... This was either going to be really good or really **** and unfortunately it was the latter...
Ok, so 'really ****' is perhaps a slight exaggeration, it wasn't too bad...I was just hoping for so much better. The idea is to get the audience to laugh enough to fill the 'giggleometer' with 'gigglewatts'. The jokes were ok but dated and mediocre (but like mine :lol: ). Children would be asked questions like 'is the Eiffel Tower in New York' and they'd answer 'yes' because they're thick as ****. It'd be fun to see what happens if just no one laughs for the duration...
Anyway, onwards and it was time to go to Adventureland. This gave me the opportunity to take some better pictures of the castle <3
And Mickey and Minnie's bush...
I also attempted a selfie with the castle because why wouldn't you?
So, Adventureland!
Jungle Cruise was up first.
We queued for a good half an hour in the hot CATTLE PEN OF DOOOOOM
A boat cruises around a river (as the name would suggest) passing various animal, and some human, animatronics, which worked very well, whilst guided by a smoking hot, witty tour guide. Our boat was called 'Amazon Annie' and before long we were off.
Although the picture doesn't show it, the humans were moving up the pole trying to get away from the rhino.
These hippos would just rise from no where out of the water.
I yawn every time I see this picture
The elephants squirted water at you
I thought this was fab, the idea of putting fake animals just worked so well.
It was now time to use our first pre-booked fast pass of the day, Splash Mountain. I shall now explain a little more on the Magic Bands. 30 days in advance (I believe it's 60 if you're in a resort hotel) you can book fast passes for up to three rides of your choice at any of the four Walt Disney World parks. So 30 days previous to us behind here, back in rainy England, Mr. Stephen booked three fast passes for this day, one for Splash Mountain and two others which I shall get to later. It does mean that you have to plan what parks you're going to visit on each day, for example the next day we went to EPCOT and did the same thing. Mr. Stephen found the whole process easy and was surprised to find that rides, including the brand new Seven Dwarves Mine Train, weren't booked up considering the fast pass system had already been open for 30 days for resort guests.
Anyway, Splash Mountain.
It just looks beautiful, how can Disney just get everything to look so right? We scanned our Magic Bands in the fastpass+ queue and walked the long queue line to the station.
We were in boat 37A which made me laugh because this is the house number I used to live in when I lived in Cambridge. The ride is based on the story of Brer Rabbit, a story I wasn't familiar with. The beginning of the boat ride is drifting in and out of rooms of a fox and big fat bear trying to catch the rabbit. It was all excellently done. I didn't take any photos this time round but I think I did later on in the trip so I'll post them then.
My favourite bit was the bee nests with bees buzzing around them, they looked so realistic. The first drop was good with nothing more than a minor splash, the second drop, the plunge part at the end seemed to go on for ages (this is why I liked Journey to Atlantis so much). The third and final drop is exceptional. It seems to go on for ages as you fly through the air, you get wet. At the end there's huge celebrations as Brer Rabbit is safe to the tune of Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Zip-a-Dee-A with lights an happiness and a **** off huge boat. This is by far my favourite water ride, just amazing. ORP time!
It was getting on for lunchtime by this point so it was time for a drink and a snack. We headed over to the Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe which is near to Splash Mountain. You can't just go and sit down and then order, you have to be carrying food before you can get a seat which is actually a really good idea as it stops people just coming in for a sit down or from bringing in their own food. I had chilli chips. It was tasty.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was next, my 2nd cred of the day.
I didn't really know what to expect but I was just expecting a cute +1. We had to endure the longest queue of the day, 40 minutes worth but the queue was pretty fab.
It gave way to some brilliant views of the coaster
These remind me of the pools at Pamukkale in Turkey
The theming was fab, all Wild West and once again, felt so immersive. I rode on my own and wasn't really expecting anything much. My god how wrong could I have been? It was so good! So much ejector and airtime and happiness in one coaster, it just didn't let up, it flew through the corners like a proper runaway mine train should, up down, left, right. Amazing. I can't remember where it ranks but it is way up in the top half.
Next it was time to use our second fast pass of the day, this one was booked for It's a Small World.
This was another ride I've been looking forward to. When I was little, my Grandma had a little train that went round a circular red track that played the tune so I was expecting the childhood memories to come flooding back. The station was themed beautifully. It actually felt quite Christmassy.
Once we boarded I took a selfie with the five of us
I think Angela fell asleep
It was a beautiful ride. Each room was themed to a different area of the world and in each room the lyrics to It's a Small World were sung in each respective language. There were odd looking animatronics doing various things as well as singing.
The penultimate room everything was silver and grey with the lyrics turned up louder and in English. It was beautiful.
In the final room were several signs saying 'goodbye' in a multitude of languages.
I really liked it. So beautiful and relaxing. Next up was Mickey's Philhar Magic Show which is basically a 3D cinema.
Mickey leaves Donald Duck to get the orchestra sorted and he fails, he loses his hat and the video is about him trying to get his hat back through many Disney films with their soundtrack, like Lion King, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast. It was so good.
Haunted Mansion was next.
We only queued for 10 minutes. The queue was quite fab with various different things to press and do. This is a dark ride with a continuous train travelling through various rooms in this haunted house. As you travel around you wake up sleeping ghosts. There's nothing dark or evil about it though, it's all rather fun! What they have done with mirrors and projections is really cool, the ghosts are actually real people (as in they had been filmed, not live actors) and mirrors had made them appear transparent. It worked very well. At the end you get a hitchhiking ghost. Angela and I had a ghost take off his beard and try and put it on me. It was a great touch.
We then headed back over to Tomorrowland for Carousel of Progress. We stopped on the way and had some dole whip floaters which were **** AMAZING.
Orange ice cream with pineapple juice, it's **** tasty
We also caught a little bit of the show that was happening outside the castle.
So, Carousel of Progress!
Another thing I had no idea what to expect or what this even was. A little background, Walt Disney himself came up with the idea for this in the 1960s and had it on show at the World's Fair in New York in 1964-65. You sit in a large room and the whole seating area spins around the stationary centre. You start off with the introduction whilst everyone is loaded, then you begin to turn to reach the next room. The first room is set in the early 20th century with new fangled devices like fridges and cars. A guy sat in the middle narrates the story and we get to meet his family.
The next room is around the 1920s. Ovens are new, everyone is getting ready for July 4th celebrations, the uncle of the family has developed a new system called Air Cooling. Electricity is in and of course, a fuse blows. Such fun. The next room is mid-1940s America at Halloween, more new technology, a small TV can be seen in the corner with some black and white people dancing. The final room is today at Christmas, flat screen TVs, voice activated devices, gaming console. It was all just genius and I loved it.
It was nearly time for our dinner time reservation but we had time for a quick look in some shops along main street before going to the Plaza Restaurant. Whilst on Main Street we got to see some of the parade.
I took a much better picture of the castle too
So, the Plaza Restaurant. It felt oddly posh and it was actually rather small, if you didn't have a reservation you wouldn't stand a chance. I had a pulled pork sandwich because pulled pork.
It doesn't look like much but it was very filling and very tasty
I also had a mint ice cream sundae with strawberry sauce, I don't follow no rules
Our last fast pass for the day was for the brand new Seven Dwarves Mine Train. On the way we walked through the castle. Daniel took my photo in front of said castle.
Disappointingly the inside of the castle is really rather bland.
A couple of mosaic walls and that's about it...
I'd been looking forward to riding the Seven Dwarves Mine Train because I'd been following construction throughout and, after seeing images/footage of the animatronics I couldn't wait to see them for real.
Just look at the attention to detail on the top right corner of the mine entrance, it's amazing
Before long we reached the station.
I rode back row with Daniel and took the compulsory selfie.
So the coaster, it is very smooth...perhaps too smooth as the coaster lacked character and there was nothing to 'feel'. It was also over way too quick, but the theming and the animatronics are **** amazing, they work so so well and look stunning, it's just a shame there are so few of them. I really liked it but I was left disappointed, I was expecting so much more. As for the tilting goes, I didn't really notice any until I was off the ride taking pictures of it.
You can see that some of the cars are at different angles
Our last ride of the day was Under the Sea with the Little Mermaid.
I've never seen the Little Mermaid so I don't really know the story. The queue is brilliant with some amazing (fake) geology.
Just look at those scour marks and honeycomb weathering they have themed in
So the ride itself, you travel to the bottom of the ocean and try and save Aerial from a fat woman with tentacles. I imagine someone having a field day writing a porno for the Little Mermaid.
It was decent, the theme, 'Under the Sea' I got to know by heart by the end of the trip with the amount of Little Mermaid themed rides there are across the Disney parks. Of course, Aerial is saved by a handsome prince and they live happily ever after and all that ****.
That was pretty much it. We waited an eternity for the steam train that runs around the circumference of the park to take us back to the entrance. It was **** boiling too and so humid. We caught the monorail back to the car park this time. I finally got to hear the famous words 'por favor me mantangese del ajlado de las puertas' which I have heard from the Maycocks an unimaginable amount of times.
On the way back to the villa we stopped of in Publixs and I bought a bright yellow lilo who I lovingly christened Milo, as he was my lilo, he certainly became the 6th member of the holiday.
An electrical storm that evening meant no pool so we ate crisps instead.
If anyone is still bothering, thank you very much for reading, that was a long one
day 7 at EPCOT coming up when I have a spare several hours 
. As we were making our way over to the safari trucks it started to rain again, but with no thunderstorms, rain is a perfectly adequate weather to go out in...apparently.
I took some night time shots from Main Street.
