More of Orlando (take two)

As I promised - more pictures of our time at Hollywood Studios!
 
 
 
 
The boys with Buzz & Woody!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Just part of the light display - it was incredible!
 
 
I'd love to show you all the pictures but that will just take too long to download them all.  The next day we awoke even earlier than the previous two days to head out to Magic Kingdom.  Unfortunately we awoke to rain and cool temps.  We arrived in time to see the train pull in with a bunch of Disney characters welcoming everyone!  That was neat (something I didn't know they did).  We headed off to go explore the park.  I have to admit the rain helped a bit with the crowd.  I'm not exactly sure how many rides we rode where there was NO line!!  However, we were wet, cold and had bad attitudes.  I had mentioned to Jon - let's just go back to the condo and come back later in the day (the park was open until 1am).  We had decided to stick it out at least until 11 - there was a parade at that particular time.  We were told that it went up main street , goes around the loop by Cinderella's castle and then the characters get off the floats and have a dance party.  I'm so glad we stayed!  It was so much fun!!  It warmed us up, changed our attitudes and we were ready to stay and conquer more of the park.  We saw two more parades that day.  At all the parades we had great seats and were even able to interact with the characters at some points (the wicked step mother told Will he had nice spectacles!).  The evening parade is all lit up -very neat.  My favorite was the show they put on - on Cinderella's castle.  I don't want to call it a slide show because it was WAY cooler than that - but they showed and did different things right on the castle.  Then after that was over it was time for the fireworks.  Since it was a cloudy, rainy day they weren't the best - but we still thought they were pretty awesome!  Even though the rain had put a damper to the start of the day - we ended up enjoying ourselves and had a great time!  I didn't take as many pictures this day because of the rain - most of the pictures taken were of the three parades.  Anyway, here are a few:
 

 
In front of Cinderella's castle sporting our TJ shirts (nobody got to see them all day because of the weather)
 
 
 
Cinderella's castle at night - it was so beautiful!
 
 
 
On the ride back to the condo after a LONG day! (Anthony really is asleep!)

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