Magic Kingdom, Take 2

Margie was doing Official Business Stuff again today, so I took Kitten back to the Magic Kingdom. Tea Cups were the first and biggest hit. We went into Mickey’s Toon Town Fair after it had opened, toured Minnie’s house (twice), and the less interesting Mickey’s house. Katherine declined to wait in line to meet Mickey, but instead wanted to play in the littel playground, followed by riding on the Goofy’s Barnstormer roller coaster — her first roller coaster, I believe, and a smash enough success that she wanted to go on it again.

We took the train around the park. Katherine, who had suggested it, found it boring.

We scooted out of Toon Town Fair (a pale shadow of the Toon Town at Disneyland’s Magic Kingdom, ahem), and headed off to Adventureland. Perforce we must go through Fantasyland, which meant another ride on Dumbo. Eek.

As a side note, yesterday, during the Playhouse Disney show, the Stanley segment had Stanley wishing he could be a gorilla, so he didn’t have to wash up all the time before bed. Dennis and the Great Big Book of Everything taught him that gorillas area actually very clean animals, and do lots of social grooming, looking for bugs in other gorillas’ hair, etc.

So standing in line for Dumbo today, Kitten was up in my arms, and started picking through my beard and moustache. “What are you doing?” “Looky for bugs!” Cute, kid.

Since when did the little Timothy Mouse atop the Dumbo ride wield a feather, rather than a little whip? Or am I getting it confused with the Disneyland Magic Kingdom version?

We got our picture taken with Snow White, then trundled onward. If Dumbo was a must, then so were Aladdin’s Magic Carpets. Kitten was getting pretty cranky, and I knew food was the answer. Unfortunately, nachos was the answer to “What food will Katherine apply more to her surface than to her stomach?”

A ride on the Pirates of the Caribbean followed. Then I discovered that she was enchanted by the talking bird in front of Pirates, so the obvious answer was the Enchanted Tiki Room which, even with its Newer, Glitzier, Updated Script (not as good as the Traditional Tiki Room the Way God Meant It to Be) was quite entertaining to her, and had her dancing around by the end.

We bought Mommy a Christmas present on the way back. Rather, I took us into the shops on Main Street, and Katherine wanted to be “outside!” I told her I wanted to find something for Mommy, so she immmediately beelined to something and said, “This one!”

“Are you saying this just so that I’ll buy it and we’ll go outside?”

“Uh-huh.”

Well, we bought it anyway. Consider it Kitten’s first gift to her mother.

Last night the KP folk Margie was attending with had their own very nice dinner at the Swan Hotel, so I got invited along, and Kitten was babysat by the 12 and 13 year olds of another coworker of hers. Well, that worked out so well, that they’re coming over this evening to watch Kitten here at the room, freeing both sets of parents to go off dates for the evening, and saving me from paying $13.50/hr plus $8 travel charge. Yippee!