Day 2, Sun 9/21: Magic Kingdom, Round 1!
My alarm went off bright and early at 6:00am. The goal for this morning was to be at the bus stop by 7:00 to make sure we were on time for our 8:05 ADR at CRT. DW and I get up and dress quietly, then go to rouse DD5. I rub her back and say, Come on, its time to go have breakfast in the castle. Her response? But I just need more rest.
First lesson of the trip - my child is not a morning person, even when its to eat breakfast with princesses.
But she rallied and got up, then we got the baby, who had been sequestered in her pack-n-play behind the sliding door to the sink area and was therefore still sleeping. She also does not appreciate being woken up, and she doesnt even know or care about princesses to make it better, poor thing. But some milk makes her feel better, and were all ready and out the door and its before 7:00! Woohoo!
We dont wait long for a bus and get to the park around 7:30, then head over to bag check. (Sidenote: I always forget about bag check and then am annoyed when I need to stop and have my bag checked. Someday we wont need to lug a backpack full of gear around the parks and I will be able to skip bag check.)
We get in, then head down Main Street and stop for some pics in front of the castle (the best one is in the intro post). This is what happens when you try to get a photo of my two kids together - but check out that empty Main Street!
By the time we finish with the photos and get all the way back to the check in podium at CRT, its 8:07. Oh well. We check in, park the stroller, and head inside. We encountered a long-ish line right inside the entrance, and thats when I realized that Cinderella wasnt there meeting yet. I dont know if this is typical, but I was kind of annoyed. But nothing to be done about it, so we waited. She came out a few minutes later, but we probably waited 15-20 minutes to meet her. She was sweet though, and Cindy was my DDs first favorite princess so it was fitting that she was her first character of the trip. The baby, on the other hand, was not so much into the strange woman in a dress trying to say hi to her. So this was our best photo.
We finally head up to the dining room and are seated at a table pretty much right in the middle of the room. Our server came over not long after with wands for both of the girls. The baby also had a Cinderella coloring page and some crayons at her place. I thought it was kind of odd that DD5 didnt have one too, but she didnt seem to care.
Okay, I am just going to say now that I dont think I have a single photo of anything we ate this trip. In between getting the kids to eat and manning the camera/autograph book, I just didnt think to photograph my food. Sorry, food pic lovers.
So we order drinks (coffeeeeee) and he brings the pastry platter. I try to take pics of DD5 and she scowls at me. This is a constant theme. Oh but look, I caught the pastries in this one!
I ate a mini cinnamon roll and an apple danish. Both were good and very fresh, not dry at all. The first of the princesses arrived - Snow White and Aurora - but they started greeting over by the windows so our food came out before they got to us.
I got the Healthy Choice because I figured itd be easy to share with the baby. She wasnt very interested, though. I think she mostly ate my fruit and the blueberry muffins from the pastry plate. She seemed into the hot cereal at first but only took a few bites. If I hadnt been trying to share, I probably wouldve chosen a different meal. The eggs were fine, the hot cereal & sunflower bread were both decent, but the yogurt was too tart for my tastes, even with the honey they gave to mix into it. There was also barely a sprinkle of granola on top.
DW got the cream cheese stuffed french toast. She said it was good but VERY sweet; I think she barely finished half of it. DD got the kids cheese frittata with vanilla yogurt on the side. She scarfed down the yogurt and then we forced her to eat a few bites of egg in between princesses.
Speaking of
first up, Snow White! She was so sweet, I love the little Snow White voice they all do so perfectly.
She tried to say hi to the baby too. For some reason when she gets shy she covers her ear.
Then Aurora. In retrospect I wish Id asked her to stand with DD but I didnt think of it at the time.
Jasmine
Ariel. She was the best as far as interaction with DD. Their posed photo didnt turn out well so heres a candid of them talking. DD just loved her.
After Ariel left us we were pretty much done eating and it was already about 9:15 - so much for a pre-park opening ADR actually getting us into the park early - so we settled the bill (aka scanned my MB to pay with free credits - LOVE IT!) and headed out to start our park day!
Next up -
MOAR PRINCESSES
(Oh, and some rides, too.)
for the day goes to the Jet Blue gate agent who, when DW went to ask her about pre-boarding to install the car seat, asked what seat it needed to go into then took that giant heavy car seat onto the plane for us. When we boarded it was sitting on the baby's seat, ready for DW to install it. 
