Fairy Farewell

Today was our last at Disney World for this trip. Naturally, we spent it at the Magic Kingdom, Marina’s favorite park. Today Marina dressed in her Tinkerbell costume. So we knew we’d be seeing her today.

Once we arrived at the Magic Kingdom, we went to Liberty Square where we had our favorite breakfast, Mickey waffles. We walked around Cinderella’s Castle to Fantasyland. We rode the rides Marina loves there. Marina wanted to move on to Adventureland. On our way we met the Fairy Godmother and Peter Pan. We rode Aladdin’s Magic Carpets, the Jungle Cruise and caught the Enchanted Tiki Room show which had just opened after being refurbished.

I wanted to watch Captain Jack Sparrow’s Pirate Tutorial. Marina was hesitant, but she enjoyed the show once it started. During the show, he picked four children to train in sword fighting. He chose Marina, but she didn’t want to go. So he picked someone else. Later on, he chose more kids to come up to take the pirate oath. He asked Marina, “Are you ready now?” She was happy to go on stage then. She took the oath and got a certificate declaring her a “Pirate Apprentice.” She was quite pleased with that. Once that was over, we stayed in the area and met Angelica, the pirate who said she could train Marina better than Captain Jack. We wanted to ride The Pirates of the Caribbean, but it wasn’t working at that time.

We went back into Fantasyland where we took a final ride on Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh and the Carousel. We went over to Tomorrowland. Marina was still so funny on the Motor Speedway. She yelled at the cars ahead of us, making me think I was in rush hour back home! We rode the Buzz Lightyear ride and even got to meet him. We went back to Adventureland for more rides and we finally got to see Tinkerbell. She had Rosetta with her this time.

We watched the Main Street Electrical Parade one last time and then went to the Theater to say goodbye to Mickey, Minnie and the Princesses. We had hope to have an early evening, but seeing the Princesses took longer than we expected and we ended up staying well after the fireworks. It took quite a while to get back to the hotel. I think we’re both ready to go home now.