Disney Parades at the Magic Kingdom

We were fortunate enough to be at the Magic Kingdom for the world premiere of the new Festival of Fantasy parade. It was exciting the park was at full capacity for the parade. We also had a front row spot for the electrical parade.

 There were a lot of princesses in this parade!

 Peter Pan and Wendy

 Captain Hook was hanging out underneath them

 The fire breathing dragon was beyond cool!!!!

 It's the seven dwarfs

 Jiminy Crickey- I expected him to break out into "When you wish upon a star"

 Love Goofy's pants!

 Mickey and Minnie wave to the crowd at the end of the parade

 Taking a break near the end of the day

 Minnie waves to us at the beginning of the parade

 There's Mickey!

 Pete's Dragon- a flash back from the past

Honoring America!

 The fireworks are shaped like hearts!

The Magic Kingdom

Greerson waiting to warm up for the parade

The Band in front of Cinderella's Castle

(Above) The First Aide Station and Space Mountain

The Beauty and Beast area of the new Fantasyland

The Castle as dusk and finally night time approaches.

We were fortunate enough to be at the Magic Kingdom for the world premiere of the new Festival of Fantasy parade. I will create a separate post for this parade with more detail. The park was at capacity for the parade and we had staked out a location on top of the train station looking down onto Main Street and the town square. We also had front row seats for the electrical parade later that night. Most of the morning was taken with the Midway High School Band and their performance. We had to get one of the Band student's knees wrapped at first aide. They had a very nice lobby, see the picture above.  We enjoyed the checking out the new Fantasyland. There seem to be a lot of changes in the works for the Magic Kingdom. There were cranes working on the castle when we arrived. The fireworks that night we awesome as usual, but the preshow projected onto the castle was amazing.

Midway Band Marching down Main Street at Disney's Magic Kingdom

We got up early Sunday morning to arrive backstage at the Magic Kingdom to prepare to march down Main Street at 10am. After everything was unloaded and the band warmed up they escorted the chaperones to the park. We entered by the Pirates of the Caribbean. It was exciting to see them marching down Main Street and then again in front of the Castle.

Epcot

 Daisy is checking out a butterfly on her flower

 Donald Duck

 These are the topiaries at the gate for EPCOT

 The flowerbeds were filled with colorful flowers

 Mickey, Minnie and Pluto

Greerson ready to explore EPCOT

 Sorcerer Mickey and the dancing brooms

 The butterflies in Florida were huge!

 Dancing osteriches

 Waiting in line to meet Donald Duck

 Norway

 A troll in Norway

China

Timon and Pumba

Canada

The Steakhouse where we had lunch in Canada

 This woman was in the audience of a Canadian band dancing while balancing a Coke bottle on her head

 Bambi, Thumper and Flower

 The Gardens of Canada

 Mathew and Carlos Mack joined us for lunch at La Cellier

 Daryl and Greerson at La Cellier

 Tinkerbell

 The flowers for the International Flower and Garden show were very colorful

 Germany

 Snow White

Sunset 

 Italy

 Lady and the Tramp

 Woody

 Japan

 Morroco at night after enjoying a conversation with Princess Jasmine

 Beauty and the Beast

 Cogsworth and Lumiere in France

 Captain Hook

Mary Poppins in an English garden

Greerson and Daryl set out Thursday March 6 with the Midway High School Band headed for Florida. Two buses and Suburban head east. We drove straight through and arrived 18 hours later. Daryl helped drive the school Suburban and Greerson was on the second bus.We arrived at the hotel and got settled in and ready for three days at Walt Disney World. The first day was at Epcot. They were having the International Flower and Garden Show. The park was filled with colorful flowers and topiaries of Disney characters.We toured the World and met Donald Duck and Mickey and Goofy. The pictures with them are not here yet, but I will post them as soon as they arrive. We took over 200 photos with the Disney professional photographers.