Florida Vacation - Day 3 (Animal Kingdom/Grand Floridian/MGM)

With Goofy
With Donald
With Lilo & Stitch

Day 3...all I can say is WOW...we made it through. Whew! Our day started with Makenna screaming and crying for probably 30 minutes straight. I finally calmed her down by putting Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the TV while I finished getting ready. She has been a nightmare. She is overtired and on top of that she has a cold. She could be happy one minute and throwing a massive tantrum screaming at the top of her lungs the next minute. We always wonder which Makenna is going to show up to whatever we have decided to do. Because if she doesn't like it forget it. I also know something is wrong b/c she didn't eat well all day. We all know Makenna is my little eater, so there is clearly something off with her. Anyways, we finally made it to Animal Kingdom around 9:30 AM. We decided to head down to the Lion King show. On our way, we saw Lilo and Stitch and they were very happy to visit with them. After the Lion King we went outside and saw Goofy and Donald. They didn't want to wait in anymore character lines after that so we headed on to A Bugs Life show. That was okay too. Makenna really doesn't like sitting for shows, but the 3D ones were okay for her. Next we went on to Dino Land. All she wanted to do was ride a ride. She kept asking to ride Dumbo again or the Carousal, so I told her the Triceratops ride was pretty similar. She enjoyed it and then we let them run off some energy in the fossil play area. Even with scraping up her legs and knees she had a great time. Mark and Matt went on to ride Dinosaur (a roller coaster that Makenna was too small for). Side Note: Mark we have found is 43 and 3/4 inches. In order to ride most of the rides in Disney you have to be 44 inches. They weren't letting him ride b/c he was one pinky finger short of the line. So Matt wasn't willing to settle for that and put a pair of Makenna's underwear in each of his shoes at lunch to give him that extra quarter inch so he could ride and believe it or not, it worked. Mark loves going on roller coasters so he was happy about it. They also then went on to ride Everest. The huge roller coaster that as Mark described it, "Was a roller coaster that was broken by a Yeti. So you almost go off the track, but then you go backward instead." He had his hands up in the air the entire time Matt said. Makenna and I just hung out by a nearby pond and I took some pictures of her. After that she was in breakdown mode again, so we laid her down for a nap in the stroller. She was out. We decided to go on the truck ride through the Jungle, but since Makenna was napping I told Matt to take Mark. He insisted that I go, but then I guess last minute decided that he could go too and if he picked Makenna up that she would stay asleep. He thought wrong. Makenna Monster awoke from her slumber in a screaming frenzy. I got her calmed down (b/c she only wants me these days) and she enjoyed the ride. Next we went on to the Kali Falls where we hoped we were on the side on the raft that didn't get wet. We hoped wrong. Makenna and Matt got the worst of it. Mark and I were pretty wet too, but not like them. Makenna's face was priceless. She was in utter shock at first and then just got the biggest smile on her face and started laughing. She wanted to go on it again. We ended our time there with the parade and then hopped on a bus to the Grand Floridian Resort so we could have dinner with Cinderella, Prince Charming, and her Wicked Step-Sisters and Step-Mother. Both kids fell asleep on the shuttle ride to the resort. That was the best thing that could have happened. We sat outside the resort and let them sleep for about an hour or more. We had to wake them up for dinner or they probably would have slept forever. It took a lot of convincing on my part to persuade Makenna to put on her Cinderella outfit, but eventually she agreed. She was so happy to meet her at dinner as well as the other's. Mark had to dress up too of course and so we brought his pirate/Captain Hook outfit. He was having fun showing it off to the characters that came by. So from there we planned to take a shuttle back to MGM to watch Fantasmic. It was the only chance we had to see it b/c they only show it on Wed or Sat nights. We waited outside for a shuttle for an hour and by the time we got to MGM and literally ran to it, it was full. We were not happy to say the least considering there should have been 4 shuttles in the time it took one to come, but Matt decided that him and Mark might as well ride the Tower of Terror so I took Makenna to the Little Mermaid Show. She loved it. Mark and Matt did not like the Tower of terror. I'm pretty sure they were keeping their eyes closed on that one! By the time we got back it was super late and Mark crashed but Makenna was up. She kept feeling warm to me, but I wasn't sure if it was the 95 degree weather or if she really had a fever so I gave her some Tylenol and told her some stories and she finally fell asleep probably at 1 AM. It was a LONG night.