Well, today is our first day of our trip that we are not traveling. We get up around 7am so that we can get an early start, well that did not go so well. We got to the breakfast at 8:30, so I had to leave because I was going to our orientation which is where I will get our theme park tickets, and other information that I need before heading off to the parks. I have to leave to the orientation while the rest of the family eats breakfast. The orientation was great and helped me learn about the parks.
Our family picture
So we drive to Magic Kingdom and I am expecting it to look basically like Disneyland. Well, we are on the free way and come across a huge sign that says “Welcome to Disney World. It is so cool. Once we arrive we park in the handicap parking, so we head to the park entrance or so we thought. It turns out that you have to ride a Monorail to get to the actual entrance of the park.
Once we got into the park we did our obligatory picture at the entrance to the park. We happened to get to the park right in the middle of a parade, it was pretty cool. Our next stop was Adventure land and we went to the Tiki Room and then road the Jungle Cruise. We had a great tour guide on the Jungle Cruise and he let Evan drive the boat during the whole ride. Of course this boat is on a track but Evan does not know this and he is so thrilled to think he is driving the boat. The ride operator is very funny and makes the whole thing very comedic.
Gabe and Evan on their first official ride in Disney World.
Next, we went to Fantasy Land which has Dumbo, Tea Cups, Peter Pan, Pooh, It’s a Small World, and other rides. We got in with little or no wait on any of the rides, everyone was so accommodating with our Guest Assistance Pass and even more so because Evan was in his wheelchair and also from Give Kids the World. And even though it states that the Guest Assistance Pass that it is not for character greetings, we did not have to wait very long at all to get to meet with the characters. The characters were also so sweet with Evan. I think the whole staff at Disney and the other parks have an understanding that guests from Give Kids the World are special needs in some way and they are just so sweet and nice to us.
Evan and Gabriel on Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride
We moved onto Tomorrow Land after Fantasy Land, we had so much fun on the Buzz Light year spin that we went on it twice. Space Mountain was closed. But Evan loved the race cars. I let him drive and the car went all over the place (on the track anyway) and Evan was just cracking up. full belly laughs because it was so funny to him. It was contagious and I was laughing as well. We got home around 10pm that first night and we were able to order pizza to our villa so that was great. We went to bed late around 11pm or so. But we had so much fun. I have to mention that it rained 3 times while we were at Magic Kingdom. Rain in the 90 degree heat is not something that is common in California. We had 3 ponchos that were given to us in our gift bag at the villa but of course we left them at home. Disney was selling them for $6.50 but we decided not to buy them since we had them at home. Of course it did not rain for the rest of the time we were in Florida except for twice when we were getting in the car. And it was those times we were prepared with our ponchos
Evan driving the boat on the Jungle Cruise
Our kooky tour guide
More of Evan driving the boat, he loved it and even shifted gears once after he saw the tour guide do it.
The kids with Captain Hook and Mr. Smee, they were waiting after we got off of The Pirates of the Caribean ride.
If you look closely you will notice Evan is shaking hooks with Captain Hook. A lot of the rides have you exiting into a store that is based on that rides theme. So when we got off of Pirates of the Caribean it was to exit into a Pirate shop, so Evan ended up getting a hook as a souvenir.
Evan loved most of the rides and did not seem scared at all. I think he is at more of a point of understanding what the rides are all about.
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