The kids woke up super hungry this morning. They had cold cereal in the hotel & the Quizno’s sandwiches on the way to the park. Hit the park with the plan to do It’s A Small World & then concentrate on seeing as many characters on The Daughter’s list as possible (all the while still making it fun for The Little Man). As we walked past Pixie Hollow we noticed the sign read 30 min wait. We hadn’t seen the wait less than 1 hour all week so The Daughter & I jumped right in line while The Little Man & Randy wander around looking in shops and people/character watching. We spent the entire line defending our spots as a large family constantly trying to cut their way to the front. I’m not sure what was more irritating, the pushy family that they where exempt from following rules or the others in line that let them pass and then murmured about it. Don’t worry, I held my ground and didn’t let them pass. Rar! After waiting for 50 mins (can't imagine what the wait is like when it reads 1 hr…)
We met:
Rosetta (the plant fairy?), 
Terrence and Tinkerbell. 
The interaction between Terrence and Tink was priceless. What the story with them? 
We met up with Randy, who had found the perfect nook to wait in on a small path around the castle. Characters constantly passed through the area. Cinderella stopped to chat with The Daughter for a few moments and of course pose with our princess before continue on her way to the ball. 
We went to Big Thunder Ranch BBQ for our 11:30 reservation. We ate way more than we should of. The meal consisted of all you can eat; BBQ ribs & chicken, coleslaw (vinegar based...so good!), baked beans, corn bread and a big skillet cookie sundae for dessert. Everything was delicious! 
We notified our server when we where seated that we had a daughter with a peanut allergy. The chef came to our table with a big binder of all the ingredient labels used in the kitchen to discuss the allergy. He went through everything to be sure which foods would be safe for The Daughter to eat. She could have everything expect the corn bread & the dessert because both contained ingredients that may be processed in a peanut factory. :( He took petty on her and sent out some fruit kabobs just for her.
The Little Man of course didn’t eat anything and was perfectly content to play with Buzz Lightyear and his cars on the bench. The servers would occasionally stop and play with him before going about their jobs. The service was fantastic!
While eating Ms. Chris sang cowboy songs & invited the kids up to sing along with her. The Daughter was a bit apprehensive about going up on stage but once up there had a great time. 
Afterwards we checked out the petting zoo. Washed our hands lots upon leaving. As we left the Ranch Woody & Jessie came walking by so we followed them to their spot & hopped in line to visit. 
Josh was super excited to meet them but didn’t want to have any pictures done. I held him for a few quick (& a bit crazy) pictures. 
Next we rode the Jungle cruise together. The skippers are always so funny and the kids loved seeing all the animals…except for the leaping piranhas. Those startled me too!
We walked over to RideMakerz in DTD so Randy could build a remote control Mini car, 
enjoyed some refreshing frozen lemonades, and went back to the park to take a quick rest time.
We gave up on The Little Man falling asleep and went back to the part around 4pm. Went straight to the princess Fair to see some of the princesses The Daughter was still wanting to meet. She got to meet:
Jasmine (again), 
Tiana from Princess & the frog, 
& Belle from Beauty & the beast. 
She (& Randy) stayed and watched the little show that taught the kids how to dance like a prince or princess. It was taught by Aurora. Half way through the show The Little Man was sick and tired of waiting around while The Daughter did princess stuff so we went for a little walk and meet back up with them when they where finished.
It’s A Small World had under a 10 min wait so we hopped in line. 
This was the most painful Small world ride EVER! A 1/3 the way through the ride the boats came to a complete stop. A few minutes late we’d move a few feet forward and stop again. It went on and on and on. We finally got off the ride 35 mins LATER! 35 minutes of the same song repeating over and over again all the while wrestling with Josh to stay seated, keep his hands out of the water, and by the end we had both had it. Had we known that it was having issues we would have never taken The Little Man at near meltdown point on the ride.
The Little Man needed to get away so I strapped him into the stroller (he was at total meltdown now), walked him to a quiet area and he fell instantly asleep. While I was doing that Randy & The Daughter rode the Teacups, Mr. Toads & Snow White. We meet up in TomorrowLand for dinner at Red Rocket’s Pizza Port. The Little Man slept the entire time we ate dinner.
It was Randy’s turn to stay late at the park with The Daughter so they went off to do the story book boats, the carousel and something else while I took a sleeping Little Man to look around in some stores, got a cream cheese pretzel (love those), and took him back to the hotel thinking he was out for the night. He woke up just as we left the park…silly me. I made him some Easy Mac (he didn’t eat anything at the park today), gave him a bath and he went right back to sleep. I was exhausted myself and fell asleep shortly later. The Daughter & Randy came back somewhere around 9:30 I’m told (I was that out of it) and also went straight to bed.
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