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Thanksgiving Day! But we still spent some time in the park. Not all day though. We had a big Thanksgiving dinner at 4:00.
We expected huge crowds today so we tried to make plans to work around them. And there were indeed very big crowds. But we were still able to do most everything we wanted. To make things easier we just stayed in smaller groups instead of trying to do everything together. Plus some people wanted to stay home to make the dinner.
When we got into the park we used the train to get around at first. We wanted to go to Splash Mountain and Thunder Mountain first and the train stop is right next to them. Tammie grabbed Fast Passes for us on Thunder while I got the kids some ice cream and frozen bananas. Then we rode Splash. It was going to be a while before our Fast Passes for Thunder were mature so we got back on the train and headed for Space Mountain. The line there was 90 minutes and Fast Pass return was after 7:30 at night (but we couldn't pick up any Fast Passes anyway). We decided to skip Space, much to Adam's disappointment.
On the train.
David and Tammie didn't want an ice cream but they did want a treat from the bakery on Main Street. So they went to go get their treat while I took Adam and Rachel on the Carousel then Small World. We wanted to go on Peter Pan, but the line was too long. We grabbed Fast Passes just in case we'd be back later tonight. Tammie and David made it to Small World just as we got off so we jumped in line on Haunted Mansion and they caught up to us there.
After Mansion we had time for Rachel to go pick out a parasol she wanted and then we rode Thunder Mountain. After Thunder we grabbed a corn dog (we were trying to save our appetites for dinner but we were all so hungry by this time that we were getting quite irritable), then we needed to leave the park. Unfortunately a parade was underway and make the already thick crowds nearly unnavigable. And we made the mistake of trying to walk our way out on Main Street instead of just going the other way and taking the train around.
Oh well, we made it out, and made it home just in time.
But we still had about 1 hour to kill while waiting for dinner to finish up, so everyone jumped into the pool for some Marco Polo and Sharks & Minnows.
Dinner was grand, delicious, and very filling. With turky, stuffing, and pie sitting happily in our bellies we just weren't feeling like leaving the house. So we took the rest of the night to just relax.
No idea what we might be doing tomorrow. Maybe back to Magic Kingdom just 'cuz it's our favorite.
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