The big moment finally arrived today. Mom got a Fastpass for the Haunted Mansion, so we went to the Magic Kingdom first thing in the morning. In Main Street USA , we were greeted by a trolley full of singers and dancers in stereotypical gay nineties costumes performing songs from musicals such as Hello Dolly and Meet Me in St. Louis. There were Disney characters as well: we met Pluto who gave us hugs and kisses. Then we made our way to Liberty Square and the Haunted Mansion. The ride was creepy but in a fun and amusing way. The special effects in the ghost ballroom scene were incredible. My final thoughts on the ride were that it was enjoyable but I probably would have been scared by it when I was little.
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After the Haunted Mansion, Mom decided that we should take a ride on the Liberty Bell steamboat. It went around Tom Sawyer's Island and we saw Wild West forts and Indian villages. When I was seven, I threw a tantrum about having to go on the rafts to go to Tom Sawyer's Island, and I felt embarrassed afterwards because the rafts were not scary at all. Being a post 9-11 child, I guess I was paranoid about a lot of things. It was noon by the time we got on the bus back to the hotel, where we dropped off some of our stuff and got back on the bus to go to EPCOT. Mom got us a Fastpass for Journey into the Imagination. Even as a seven year old, I hated Figment, the annoying purple dragon and wanted bodily harm to happen to him. Then we made our way to World Showcase and took a boat across the lake from Canada to Morocco. At the border of France and Morocco was Belle; I wanted to meet her and get a picture and autograph but the line was too long and we only had an hour and a half until our dinner reservation. I did not get to do many of the things I had wanted to do in World Showcase because we did not have the time, so I focused on getting my World Showcase passport stamped. We poked around in shops looking for where each passport stop was. I was able to get Morocco, Japan, United States, Italy, and Germany before 4:30 pm which was when our dinner reservation was. We had to backtrack from Germany to Italy because our dinner reservation was there, at a place called Tutto Italia, where I had the ravioli in cream sauce and the meatballs, which were delicious. Tutto Italia was one of my favorite that we eat at. After dinner, I got my passport stamped at China (where I got a panda necklace for my friend Jasmine), Norway, Mexico (where I got an embroidered camisa and went on the Grand Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros), and Canada (where we watched a film on a 360 screen called O Canada.) It was between 7 and 8 in evening when we went back to the hotel and our last full day in Disney ended with us getting ice cream and taking a swim in the pool before going to bed.
