Day 17: Diving into the magic…
Today we were all soaked from sweating! It was 23 degrees Celcius and it felt like well over 30! Kind of the opposite as at home I would say.
But enough about the weather for today we went back to the Magic Kingdom. Where it used to be the park we visited the least during our previous trips, this time it’s the absolute number one! Most time we spent in Fantasyland, strange isn’t it?
We started the day with a lot of traffic towards the parks and we feared the worst. In the yellow monorail we decided to split up! Team Mama to get the bag check done as quick as possible and Team Emily to get coffee as quick as possible. Only 30 minutes later we had both tasks completed and we were walking right down the middle of Main Street U.S.A.

On our way to find a less crowded spot for Emily to get her fruit. After she finished her fruit we changed plans because going in Mad Hatter’s Teacups and keeping her food in sounded as a too big of a challenge for Emily. So I switched the FastPasses to the Haunted Mansion and while we waited we took pictures with Princess Tiana. Tiana couldn’t stop looking at Emily and was surprised by her strong grip (she didn’t let her finger loose).

After Tiana we went to the Haunted Mansion and Emily fell asleep in the Elevator scene. And that was a surprise but I loved it having my little one sleeping on my shoulder for almost an hour.

After the Haunted Mansion we went to the Country Bears for a small concert in which Emily woke up with huge eyes. She couldn’t take her eyes of the Bears.

Afterwards we walked straight to the Tiki Tiki room to sing-a-long with birds! Emily decided to dance on my lap.
After a quick lunch for little Emily it was time for the next royal visit of the day! We had an official appointment with Anna and Elsa! And that visit was a private one… First we got a picture with Elsa the princess with the same color hair as Emily and Anna was already waiting to meet us. Emily loved her.
While we got ready to leave them Emily started chatting with Elsa and they both had the idea to do a spontaneous group picture.

Papa and Mama both got hungry from all those meetings and excitement that we went to the Tomorrowland Terrace for a Chicken Breast Sandwich. Here we found out that my MagicBand (the Mickey Bracelets we wear) had issues and that we missed some photos and movies from rides and the group photos with Anna & Elsa. We figured this out by calling the help desk and visiting guest relations. Here we got 2 free FastPasses for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train because my on ride video from last week was lost. This was our first stop after we left Guest Realations.

After Mama went down the mine we stopped at Ariels Grotto where Emily and Ariel couldn’t stop talking about swimming and diving and about how Flounder was a guppy once too.
This was where I left for my mine tour and Emily got her bottle.
After I got back it was time to find Emily the perfect Mickey Mouse! We went to Big Top Souvenirs near Dumbo the Flying Elephant and we started with the largest Mickey and when down in size until we found the perfect one for her.

Three minutes after we took off the tag Emily was sleeping in her royal stroller and we left the Magic Kingdom.

By that time it was already 4:30pm, never had we imagined that Emily would hold out in a theme park this long. We decided to take the monorail back and we got on the Orange one towards the Ticket & Transportation center.
At the TTC we decided to walk to the Polynesian Village Resort for a Pineapple Float while Emily was still sleeping. But as soon as I got to our table with the ice-cream Emily woke up…
We had some fun with Mickey and tasting Pinnaple before we left towards our car. We walked to our car via a shortcut which is a lot faster in the morning too… That’s good to know for future visits.
We took the car back home and decided to get takeout at the Chick-Fil-A for at home. We all had dinner together Emily had Chicken Noodles and we Classic Chicken pieces.
After a while it was time for another 5-minute story this time about Bambi, Faline and Thumper. We brought Emily to bed and had some time to rest after this really busy day…
We can’t wait for tomorrow to start!
Day 16: Lets go and sea animals…
Really early and before my two princesses woke up I looked out of the window and saw this, I thought it was something to share with you…

But let’s start with what happened after they woke up.
I gave you some extra time and by now you should have guessed where we went today, only based on the best blog title ever! So yes indeed we went to see sea animals and fish at SeaWorld! We left early in the morning and got our coffee at a Starbucks Drive-thru from a Barista called Emily.
With the coffee in our hands the last 1,5 minute to SeaWorld was easy and we parked almost at the entrance. After scanning our vouchers we had our Annual Passes redeemed in no time. We went through the bag check, I even went through the metal detector, and we entered the park.
First stop the Dolphin Theater where we watched “Blue Horizons” a show with…Dolphins. And some birds which I think they should cut out of the show while everyone is there for the Dolphins not some birds. Emily liked the baby behinds us, the crowd and some moments she watched the jumping Dolphins very concentrated.


After the show we wandered through the park to look at the animals. First stop the sea lions and Harbor Seals. And Emily enjoyed it and couldn’t take her eyes of the birds… What are all the birds doing here?


Next stop the Wild Artic with one beluga whale, two walruses and harbor seals. Emily didn’t enjoy this part too much because it was dark and way colder as outside. As soon as we put her back in her stroller she went into er wintersleep. So we decided to stay a little bit longer because we didn’t want to wake her up while putting her in the car seat.
Because we stayed longer mama watched the stroller and papa did some grownups rides. First the Kraken front row (5 minutes wait). I’m the one with the orange shorts. The video was only possible because I texted Danielle with my Apple Watch to tell her in which train I was sitting an in which position. And that while riding the coaster already while Danielle had my phone with her.
And after the Kraken I took a dive with the Manta. This coaster is truly amazing, the fact that you are hanging in the coaster and it being such a smooth ride gives you an amazing feeling. No pictures from this one because Emily woke up while I was going up the lift hill and she was hungry…
Soon we left the park to come back in a week or something like that. We decided to have lunch at the Outback near our villa. Just before our appetizer (Seared peppered Ahi) was ready Emily decided to add a diaper extra special king size to our menu. It was only resolved until mama was half way in her entree (Sirloin & Coconut Shrimps). And a lot of people looked at the most beautiful baby in only diaper ever. I ate mine (Sirloin & Grilled Shrimps) a bit faster to catch up. And we finished the lunch with a New York cheesecake to share. The Ahi and the Cheesecake where delicious the steaks were not as good as I remembered.

After the food we went home, Emily was put to bed and Mama went for grocery shopping at the Super Target. That’s a nearby supermarket.
After mama came back it was already time to get for some dreams, but first mama read a nice story about Dumbo from one of Emily her new books.

The rest of the afternoon and evening we took it easy and watched some TV.