Day 3
(Kona, Magic Kingdom, Artist Point)
We decided to start the day at our favorite breakfast place, The Wave! Kona Café is a close second. Their buffet is just delicious. Hana got to try out her first pancake, the sweet potato pancakes. She loved it!
Loved it so much, as we left, she zonked right out from the full tummy before we even left the Contemporary lobby.
After breakfast, we decided to split up. Kyle went to the Exotic Driving Experience, while went to Magic Kingdom. My mom wanted to hunt down and find PUSH, so we headed over to where we last saw him in Tomorrowland and waited. It was cold, so we decided to wait inside Star Traders. This is where we met Patti. She asked us about our morning and was able to tell us when PUSH was coming out. She also noticed our lack of warm clothes, including Hana, and so kindly gave her a blanket.
This is now Hana’s favorite blanket. She snuggles with it and naps on it. So soft. I don’t know what we would have done without this blanket.
Since Patti told us PUSH was scheduled to appear in a few minutes, we went back outside. We waited, and waited, and waited, and she saw us waiting, so she went into the back and somehow, got him to come right out. What a treat!
My mom and Hana boogied on down with him. I have video of it, and will keep this video for the rest of my life. It was hilarious and was a major highlight for my mom.
After dancing with PUSH, we headed over to Frontierland to wander, and saw a photo-op with Chip and Dale. Hana fell asleep in the line. I loved how Chip kept gesturing to Dale to “shhhh” and pointed at her sleeping.
Shortly after, Hana woke up, so we decided to camp out somewhere and feed her. We wandered over to adventureland and saw a bench tucked off between two shops. Across from us was this.
I was curious why there were cameras all over it. My mom thought it was incase people wanted to steal the lamps. Either way, it made our quiet little feeding time into a weird situation. We had atleast two groups of people walk past us, stare at it, and glare at us before walking away. Finally, the third group asked us if we could move for a second and explained what this was.
There is a Sorcerers of Magic Kingdom game. Kind of like the Kim Impossible game they have at Epcot. You sign up at the Firehouse on Main Street, and they give you all you need to do to go on a quest for hints, clues, and you collect Spell Cards. Our friend Krissy did this and thought it was a blast. We might try this ourselves on our next trip. It did sound like fun. Anywho, this lamp cabinet was one of the places you go for a clue. We were right in their way I guess. Glad someone finally explained it to us. We were really dumfounded as to what everyone’s deal was.
From there, we wandered over to my favorite ride, but decided to just watch others riding it. My husband left me his fancy camera, which I was struggling how to unzoom. Here is a sequence of zoomed in photographs showing our journey just wandering around the park.
Never stopped to watch any of the performances in front of the castle before. Surprisingly, it wasn’t crowded at all. This camera makes me feel like I am right there!
Noticed folks were working on the castle. I tried to spy for a while, to see if they were painting or repairing something, but all I saw was them watching the performance down below.
Because of the crane, they blocked off the wishing well. Nuts!
Next to the walkway you would take to go to the wishing well, was a meet and greet area for Meirda from the movie Brave. I was so frustrated at the fact I couldn’t zoom out. I missed out on getting the whole gorgeous area they had set up! Well, either way, I did get a nice picture of tapestry.
The hidden work for the new ride coming, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train.
We saw another meet and greet area with Gaston in the Enchanted Forest part of Fantasyland. My dad’s favorite movie is Beauty and the Beast. For some reason, his favorite character is Gaston. Infact, his request was for me to name my first child Gaston, regardless of gender. I kid you not. So, it was only appropriate for my mom and Hana to get a picture with him.
Now this guy was hilarious. In true Gaston form, he was honest, sarcastic, and oozed confidence. A lot of the younger kids didn’t get his humor, but the adults that surrounded him were laughing pretty darn hard. This adult included. I would come back and stand around for hours, watching him interact anyday!
Hana didn’t know what to make of him, besides the fact, he was mesmerizing. He didn’t seem to mind and admitted that he enjoyed looking at his own reflection in her eyes.
We noticed it was time that Kyle should be done with racing, so we walked over to the nearest train station and hopped on the train back to Main Street.
Hana enjoys any form of transportation that doesn’t force her to be strapped down. Naturally, she found the train enjoyable.
After we met up with Kyle, we went on a few rides. Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean, and finally the Haunted Mansion. I consider myself fortunate that my kid is more interested in everything going on than to be worried about the dark.
As for the Haunted Mansion, she passed out before she could get in the “doom buggy”. Guess she doesn’t scare easily. We decided it was time to leave the park, but not before getting a dole-whip.
I kid you not, this was only half of the line. There was less than ten people in line when we walked past it two hours prior. Not sure why the sudden need for everyone to get a dolewhip, but Kyle was ready to wait.
Thirty minutes later, dole whip in hand, we moved on to our next adventure at the Art of Animation Resort. We are staying there in the fall and wanted to check it out.
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