Disney World 2015, Part 5: Magic Kingdom + Boardwalk + See Ya Real Soon, Disney World!

We certainly made the most out of our fourth and final day of visiting the parks at Disney World--we spent it at our favorite place, Magic Kingdom! The park opened at 8am that day, and we wanted to get there as early as possible to try to beat the crowds to the Princess Fairytale Hall...and we succeeded! We only had to wait about five minutes to meet Rapunzel & Cinderella--score! (We'd already seen Cinderella at Cinderella's Royal Table the day before, but the girls had never met Rapunzel before!) While the girls were meeting Cinderella & Rapunzel, Derek was standing in the longer line for Anna & Elsa. But by the time we were done meeting the first two princesses, we only had to wait about 15 more minutes. Yay! Every other time we'd passed by the Fairytale Hall, the waits were always 60+ minutes & we just refuse to do anything longer than 30 minutes. With young kids, crazy long waits just are not worth it to us! But getting to the park super early was definitely worth it in our opinions! :)

Shelby checking out how Rapunzel's skin & hair felt ;)

Shelby already had her eyes on Queen Elsa in this picture ;)

Shelby got a little nervous talking to Elsa :)  And I love how Hadley
is looking up at Elsa here!!

Still talking :)

Love Shelby's pose here :)

After meeting the princesses, we made a bee line back to Main Street to hunt down some breakfast before taking advantage of our Fast Passes. We had early morning Fast Passes to Splash Mountain & Big Thunder Mountain Railroad--two "big kid" rides that Shelby had never ridden before & that typically have long lines. We were super excited to have Fast Passes for these! Shelby LOVED both rides, especially Splash Mountain! And while we were in Frontierland for those two rides, we ran into Sherrif Woody & Jessie from Toy Story!

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad!

After one final ride on Barnstormers & the Ariel ride and getting a treat (what's Disney World without lots & lots of treats?!), we headed back for much-needed naps!!!

We had planned on going back to another park after naps, but we were all just done. ;)  We enjoyed dinner at our hotel, playtime at the playground, and ice cream for dessert!!! Our tired feet thanked us! :)

Nothing like wresting with Grampy before bedtime :)

Our last day at Disney World was a rest day/non-park day for us, and we went to the Boardwalk for the very first time! It was just a much smaller, less commercialized version of Downtown Disney in our opinion. But the bonus was we found another new playground for the girls there & of course another place to get ice cream ;)

That about wraps it up for our Disney World trip!!! But first, here's two random pictures that somehow got out of order with the others, but I still wanted to include them for our blog book! We always take the Monorail to/from Magic Kingdom, but we decided to try out the ferry one day! :)

Shelby enjoying the view :)

Hadley & Grampy walking hand in hand after our ferry ride :)

And that's it for Disney World!!!! It was such an amazingly wonderful trip packed full with memories that will last us a lifetime! My favorite thing is that Hadley is still talking about our trip & all the fun things we did/saw there. It was so fun taking her for the first time as a "big girl!"  And of course the other other huge highlight of the trip for me was experiencing all of my favorite rides with Shelby for the first time! And last but not least, we are SO thankful for all of the time spent with our families!

And here's Miss Hadley on the flight back to San Antonio....you know the kid that NEVER sleeps in the car or in the stroller and the one that can take or leave naps? Clearly, Disney World wore her out!! ;)  This is the sign of a good trip! :)

Until next time, Disney World!!!!