Day 205 to 206 - Every kid's dream is to stand in line for two hours

Orlando

Day 205

Disneyland was on today's agenda, we arrived around 11.30am and took the boat option to get to the Magic Kingdom. Once inside we entered the first section we came across which was Tomorrow Land. The first "ride" was something to do with Lilo and Stitch whoever they are, it was pretty old, tired and corny, the best part was when a little kid got scared and started screaming in the dark - we feel sorry for the kid but it was still the funniest bit of the whole thing.

We decided to be a bit more selective in our ride choices, the Seven Dwarfs mine ride had been closed for "maintenance issues", but as it had just opened we thought this would be a good time as the queues should be short ....  90 minutes later we were going nowhere, it turned out they had been letting all the "fast pass" people in. We finally had our turn on the five minute ride around the two hour mark - Disneyland was fast losing its allure, we didn't pay all that money to stand in a queue all day!

We then figured out that we could also use the fast pass system for three rides, from there the afternoon went much more smoothly, funny how you like fast pass when it's you that's doing the passing.

Magic Kingdom is incredibly clean, everything is shiny and spotless, probably helped by their system of not selling much food (apart from popcorn and ice cream) outside sit down venues.  We waited until the end of the night to watch the fireworks and electrical light show before making a dash along with thousands of others to tackle the exit. It was handled very quickly and efficiently, the queues for rides might have spoiled things earlier in the day but Disney sure are efficient at moving a lot of people seamlessly out the exits to their cars.

Day 206

Today we drove in bucketing rain to the Kennedy Space Centre, September is known to be a bad month for the weather in Florida, but luckily at the space centre we were was pretty much indoors or on a bus for most of the time we were there - lucky we didn't plan Disneyland for today.

The space centre is huge and the bus tour of the area to see the various buildings and launching pads included swamp areas, complete with alligators right on the river bank as the bus passed.

The exhibitions, films and interactive displays were brilliant, the sheer size of the rockets and shuttles was jaw dropping. We saw a Saturn V rocket and the Atlantis space shuttle, and were also able to take a ride on a space shuttle launch simulator, The Kennedy Space Centre is probably one of the best museum/exhibitions we have seen, the five hours we spent there felt like only a couple - we had a great time here and enjoyed the  day much more than the one we spent at Disneyland yesterday.