Disney - Day 1

What a day we've had so far... It started very familiar to the past few days; Sam waking up a little earlier than usual and throwing up when we tried to make him take his medicine. Sorry for the candidness, but the blogging world is all about the brutal truth. Ron somehow talked him into taking his Tylenol around 8:05 am; this gave us just enough time to make it to our resort lobby and catch the bus to go to the Magic Kingdom. (Ron was standing firm: We weren't getting on that bus until Sam took his medicine.) We arrive at the gates at 9 after a fun ride on the Monorail. Obviously, if you're going to Disney World you have to meet Mickey. So we went to the back of the park where he hangs out and waited in a very short line. Ron had been preparing Sam for what he was going to say when he met Mickey: the magic words. If you have ever watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the Disney Channel, Mickey says the magic words to get the clubhouse to appear. Sam is always saying the magic words around the house, so we walk up to Mickey and Sam said "Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse". (I must be honest, he actually said Mooska Mooska Mickey Mouse but that's close enough.) Mickey gave him a high-five which suprisingly we got on film thanks to the nice people in line behind us.
Our family picture with Mickey. It was so adorable watching Sam. He was so pumped to meet his favorite character in the world. (Notice his hand on his waist...how cute.)
Here's Sam sitting all by himself on the boat ride through "It's a Small World". He enjoyed that ride a lot more than "Winnie the Pooh's Adventures". Although they were both a little dark, Pooh's ride had a few more scary parts.

Other than the sun in the background, I thought this was a precious snapshot of our family. We took this picture of ourselves while riding the bus out to the park. It was 8:30 in the am, and you can see in Sam's eyes that he's not feeling great...poor little guy. But he perked up once we got to the park.
Our first ride was on the Mad Tea Party. Sam enjoyed the tea cups spinning. Ron wanted to spin our tea cup (lime green one, I might add) but I told him he'd be cleaning up after me if he did. I didn't think I could handle a lot of spinning at almost 6 months pregnant.
Sam and Ron rode the race cars together. Sam enjoyed that a lot even though he was so short he couldn't see over the steering wheel. They changed sides mid-way through their racing adventure so he could see.
I had the enjoyment of riding with Sam on "Dumbo the Flying Elephant" (also notice he picked the lime green elephant, or ephinant as he calls it.) When this ride was over, he said "Again please, Mommy, do it again". Safe to say he had a blast this morning.

We had a very quick lunch at one of the restaurants in the park and made it back to the parking lot for our 12:15 bus ride back to the resort. Sam has been asleep for a couple of hours...we told him Mickey wanted him to get rested up before seeing him again tonight. Ahh, the powers of Mickey's persuasion. :) We're going to dinner with a family from Huntsville then making our way back to the Magic Kingdom for a couple of rides and the fireworks show.

We'll keep you posted on our trip...