Disney World wish

Daddy has a poster presentation at one of the Disney World resorts, so how could we resist Disney World for the kids and Florida in February for us? We flew in late last night because our flight on Southwestern was delayed over 8 hours! (I am seriously under-impressed with Southwestern's maintenance standards, and very pleased that our two boys were remarkably well-behaved while cooped up in an airport in the tiny secured area for the entire outrageous day. I would like never to have to do that again: instead of arriving in the afternoon and relaxing at the playground with sand between our toes, we arrived annoyed and exhausted and well past bedtime.) But today we got to go to the Magic Kingdom, that magical place!

Cale really enjoyed it's a small world this time, so we rode it several times including starting there. Most of our fun today was near there, in Fantasyland, where we also went to Mickey's PhilharMagic (don't sit in the front row, the stereo didn't work for me that close), Peter Pan's Flight, and the Windy Adventure of Winnie the Pooh before lunch at Pinocchio Village Haus. Cale found it very important to tell one of the Pinocchio greeters, I having fun!

The only disappointment was that all of Toontown Fair was closed for the Fantasyland expansion, so Karston couldn't ride his favorite roller coaster, Goofy's Barnstormer.

While Cale took a nap in the stroller, Daddy and Karston went to the Swiss Family Treehouse. We woke Cale up for the Jungle Cruise. We had dinner on the second floor at Columbia Harbor House before the fireworks show. Afterwards, we went to the Carousel of Progress (I liked the history bits best), had ice cream at Auntie Gravity's, rode the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover (more fun than I expected), rode Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, and went to the Monsters Inc Laugh Floor. Cale sat on Daddy's lap, and they were in the spotlight as "the two-headed human" and Cale was asked to say his name (he was very quiet, so Daddy helped).

In the evening, we watched the fireworks show. Tonight's theme was "wish," all about making wishes. Karston got very excited, told Daddy his wish, and insisted that Daddy say Karston's wish at the correct point in the show in case he (Karston) got too excited to get it out in time. Are you ready for his wish? Karston came up with this completely on his own with no prompting! Karston's wish is "I wish love was all around." He's very right! The world would be much nicer with more love all around. Some days I worry about his poor eating and his low-blood-sugar behavior, and other days Karston says such sweet things that I know he'll turn out all right.