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Chapter 10: Magic Kingdom continued
Bella's POV
"Mommy I want to go on that ride," Nessie said polishing off her pizza and pointing out the window to a colorful boat ride below.
"Alright let's go get in line," I said taking her hand and leading her to the line with the rest of our family lagging behind.
The line was surprisingly long, we waited about an hour just to get into a tiny boat and listen to robotic dolls sing an annoying song in unusually high pitch voices. We climbed into our boat and sailed forward through a little entryway. Once we were through the doors, an explosion of color occurred. There were little dolls from all over the world dressed in eye popping colors and dancing on large platforms that sparkled. Doorway after doorway they just kept singing,
"It's a world of laughter,
A world of tears.
It's a world of hopes,
And a world of fears.
There's so much that we share,
That it's time we're aware,
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small, small world.
There is just one moon,
And one golden sun.
And a smile means,
Friendship to everyone.
Though the mountains divide,
And the oceans are wide,
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small world after all.
It's a small, small world."
The song was getting to me. I knew it was going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. We floated into another section that looked like a jungle. There were multicolored zebras, hyenas, a hippo, multicolored giraffes, a pink camel, and a pink elephant swinging its head over the next entryway with kids on its trunk and tusks.
"Penguins lovely," Edward joked pointing to a group of dancing penguins in funny hats.
We passed some platypuses and some large birds with spinning heads. There were also some koalas and a kangaroo with purple spots. The next room we entered was like a circus, there were clowns in hot air balloons floating up and down from the ceiling. A doll was riding a bicycle along a tightrope, and there was a giant Ferris wheel spinning in the corner. Since this was the last room, the song played in English instead of the other languages. Of course, we got stuck in the room behind some other boats and we got tortured for just a while longer. Finally the boats moved and we glided into a room with signs that said goodbye in different languages. Our boat slowly made its way forward to the loading docks and I couldn't get out fast enough. I really hate that song.
"Bella what's wrong, I'm getting anger from you," Jasper said looking apprehensive.
"Nothing I just really hate that song," I said giving him a forced smile.
We moved on to Peter Pan's flight. The front of the building had Peter, Wendy, Michael, and John flying over the clouds toward Neverland. We got in line. This line was a bit shorter than the one for Small World. We wound our way through the line, and quickly came to the front where we were ushered into pirate ships. We flew into the Darling children's nursery, and then we were off to Neverland. Our pirate ship flew over the streets of London towards the second star to the right, and straight on till morning. We flew into Neverland and swept past the Lost Boys camp, Mermaid Lagoon, and Skull Rock. We watched Peter Pan face off against Captain Hook aboard a pirate ship to save Wendy and her brothers. We exited the pirate ship after seeing Captain Hook straddled over a crocodile's mouth.
Mickey's PhilharMagic was our next stop. We entered the building and waited in the line for it to be our turn to watch the show. Along the walls were some posters advertising the Concert Hall's past productions. We entered into the lobby and picked up our "opera glasses". After a short wait, the doors opened and everyone flooded in and took their seats. The curtains open to reveal a sleeping Donald and a very rushed Mickey. Mickey yelled at Donald telling him to get the instruments ready.
"And don't touch my hat," Mickey yelled before dashing off stage leaving his sorcerer hat behind on the music stand.
Donald unpacked the instruments and decided to go against Mickey and try on the sorcerer hat. The instruments came alive and during his attempt to stop them, Donald got throw into a handful of different Disney movies losing the sorcerer hat along the way. He chased the hat through Beauty and the Beast, Fantasia, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Peter Pan, and Aladdin. Finally Princess Jasmine handed him the hat, only to have it knocked off again by Iago. Donald jumped after the hat, and landed back at the Concert Hall surrounded by the instruments. Mickey returned and grabbed the hat, restoring everything back to normal. Donald got knocked into a tuba, and the show ended with a bang. The tuba shot Donald out and he flew into the back wall. Everyone turned around to see a grumbling Donald's butt sticking out from the wall. He did eventually fall completely in.
"That show was hilarious," Nessie said dropping her "opera glasses" into the bin.
We all nodded in agreement, it was pretty funny. Nessie dragged Edward over to stand in line for Dumbo the Flying Elephant. The wait for that ride was five minutes. They climbed into their elephant and lifted off the ground. The rest of us busted up laughing at the sight of Edward in a flying elephant. We all pulled out our cameras and took at least ten pictures. Edward didn't look the least bit amused as he walked over to us after the ride. We were still laughing as we made our way over to Ariel's Grotto to meet Ariel.
"How come your not in water?" Nessie asked as Ariel was signing her book.
"Well I'm under a magic spell that lets me stay on land to meet little boys and girls like you," she said with a smile obviously having to answer that question a lot.
Nessie nodded her head signaling that she understood. Nessie waved and muttered a polite thank you before we headed off towards The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. The line was short and we walked passed large storybooks to the front of the line. We climbed into our honey pots and were transported into the Hundred Acre Wood. We arrived on a very windy day. We passed Piglet spinning around trying to keep hold of his broomstick, Pooh holding onto a balloon trying to reach some honey, and Eeyore patronizing him from his spot safely on the ground. We saw Kanga holding onto Roo as he begins to blow away.
"Whoa, what a mess," Nessie whispered as we passed through Owl's house where everything was strewn about.
Our honey pot started bouncing as we passed another storybook, where Tigger suddenly bounced out. We followed Tigger through the Hundred Acre Wood, bouncing along until we reach Pooh's home. Tigger pounced on Pooh, pinning him to the ground where he tells Pooh about the Heffalumps and Woozles. Pooh fell asleep and we were transported into a strange dark room. Heffalumps and Woozles began to appear. Giant Woozles popped out from Jack-in-the-boxes, and one Woosle lit a Heffalump, causing a smoke ring to come from its trunk.
"This is trippy," Emmett said as we came across more funhouse effects.
We finally exited the Heffalumps and Woozles scene into a rainy scene. The Hundred Acre Wood was experiencing a rainstorm and our honey pot began to "float". Roo, Rabbit, Tigger, and Owl were attempting to save Piglet from floating away, and we passed Pooh flying around in the wind. Our honey pot moved on to the last scene where we saw everyone apart from Pooh celebrating the rain going away. We moved past the party to see Pooh enjoying a load of honey, before arriving back to the loading area.
We were done in Fantasyland, and our next stop was Mickey's Toontown Fair. Nessie already had autographs from Mickey and Minnie, so she didn't want to go to their houses. We went to the Toontown Hall of Fame Tent. Inside the tent was a huge store, which of course made Alice very excited. She took Jasper and went off in her own direction. At the back of the tent were two separate meet and greet lines, one side was for the Fairies of Pixie Hallow and the other side was for the Disney Princesses.
"Mommy can we meet the Fairies?" Nessie asked trying to pull me towards the line.
I nodded and let myself get dragged into line. Edward followed after us, while everyone else wandered around the store. We got in line behind about fifty other little girls dressed as Disney Fairies. Nessie was jumping up and down with excitement as we inched our way down the long carpeted hallway towards the Fairies. We got to the end of the line and walked into a room decorated to look like a forest. Everything was made bigger, so it made us feel like we were the same size as Fairies. Renesmee took pictures and received autographs from Tinkerbell and her friends Silvermist, Rosetta, Fawn, and Iridessa. Nessie was beaming as we exited the building and met up with the rest of our family to go to Tomorrowland.
By the time we arrived in Tomorrowland, it seemed as though everyone in the park was leaving. There were hardly any people in line for anything. We started towards Space Mountain. Rosalie took Nessie to get a snack, and the rest of us got in line. We followed along the path and climbed down some stairs. We passed some screens with different stars displayed on them, before making it to the front of the line and into our "Space ships". Our car launched forward into a long tunnel with blue flashing lights, before turning into complete darkness. We were going so fast that it was hard even for my eyes to adjust to the dark. We climbed up some hills slowly, but the only thing I could see were tiny white light that were meant to be stars before plunging down the hills at alarming speeds. The ride didn't last too long and before I knew what was going on, we were already back at the loading station. I didn't know vampires could get dizzy until now. I actually stumbled out of the car earning myself some low chuckles from my family.
"That ride was rough," I said closing my eyes waiting for the dizziness to go away.
"Yeah, it was…but I want to go on again," Emmett boomed from behind me.
We exited the building to the setting sun. Rosalie and Renesmee were waiting for us by the exit. We went to the Carousel of Progress next. We just stood outside the theater doors waiting for the next show to begin. After awhile the doors opened and we shuffled into the theater. We took our seats in the back as the show began. The show was split up into four acts.
The first act took place during Valentine's Day around 1904. It featured a family using new innovations such as gas lamps, a kitchen pump, a hand-cranked washing machine, and a gramophone. The father of the family told the whole story, with a little help from the family's dog.
The second act took place around 1927. The family was using new devices like radios, a sewing machine, and a homemade cooling device. The act took place during the 4th of July.
Act three was set during Halloween in the 1940's. The family began to interact with new technologies such as an automatic dishwasher, a television, and a homemade paint mixing system.
The fourth and final act was set during Christmas and depicted the family interacting with the technology of the present day. The family had newly acquired a high-definition television, virtual reality games, voice activated appliances, and other recent innovations.
The show ended with the father singing the end to a song that was playing as we traveled through history, "A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow".
There's a great big beautiful tomorrow
Shining at the end of everyday
There's a great big beautiful tomorrow
Just a dream away
Great just what I needed, another song to get stuck in my head, I've been having enough trouble getting "It's a Small World" out of my head. We had about thirty minutes before the Spectromagic parade, so we hurried over to Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin. People were already starting to line up for the parade so the line was nearly empty. We got into the building and wound through the silver chains, and past the space station equipment and Buzz Lightyear.
"I want to ride with Uncle Emmett," Nessie said grabbing his hand.
"Awesome, then I will know your score the entire time so I can beat you!!" Emmett said remembering how Nessie beat him on the Toy Story Mania ride in Disney's Hollywood Studios.
We got into our Space Cruiser to begin our adventure as Junior Space Rangers. The Space Cruisers were equipped with laser cannons to stop the Evil Emperor Zurg from stealing batteries from helpless toys to power a weapon of ultimate destruction. We could control our cars with a joystick in the middle that made the car spin around so we could shoot the Z's to gain points. At the end of the ride there was a chart where we could see our ranks based on our scores. Our entire family, except for Nessie, ended up with the lowest rank "Space Cadet". Nessie, much to Emmett's dismay, ended up with the highest rank "Galactic Hero".
"I don't understand how you could have beaten me again," Emmett whined. "Bells, I think you should be worried about Nessie, she handles laser guns way too well," Emmett told me as he sulked past me towards the exit.
As we exited the building we tried to figure out the best place to watch the parade and the fireworks from. Carlisle suggested that we go sit on the sidewalk near Cinderella's Castle, and we all agreed. We found a spot where all of us could sit together and quickly took advantage of it. We were just starting to get comfortable when Jiminy Cricket announced that the parade would be starting shortly. About ten minutes later, all the lights around the park turned off and music began to play. We saw some of the floats coming from down the street and they were amazing. Everything was lit up with multicolored lights. The parade started with a float with Trumpeters and a large float with a screen with "Spectromagic" shimmering across in different colors. Four Spectro-men on multicolored Whirly-balls came out and waved while rolling all around the street. We saw Mickey's float and three floats for Sleeping Beauty and her three Fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Giant fish and some smaller fish rolled past before Ursula came by.
"Why did they have to put her in this parade?" Edward whined cringing slightly as Ursula rolled closer.
We saw the Little Mermaid and other Disney Princesses, and some dancing Ostriches and hippos. A dark evil looking float rolled closer and just as it was about to pass us the creature atop the float opened its wings to reveal dark red glowing eyes.
"Reminds me of Jane," Emmett joked poking me in the side.
I tried, and failed, to keep in my laughter. The last of the floats were coming down the road. One was a carousel and the others had various Disney character riding on them. The parade ended with Jiminy Cricket waving goodbye to us. After the last float drifted past I noticed how most of the people who were sitting by us had left and were now stumbling sleepily towards the exit.
"Yes that's right…leave…let us have the park to ourselves," Emmett said in a creepy voice.
"Emmett you do know that not everyone will leave, most people will stay for the fireworks," Edward said in a very matter-of-fact tone.
"I know Eddie, I was just kidding," Emmett said rolling his eyes.
We turned to face the castle, waiting for the fireworks to begin. The castle was covered in lights that changed from blue to white to purple at random moments. We stood there for about twenty minutes before Jiminy Cricket announced the start of the fireworks.
"Wow mommy look," Nessie said pointing to the top window in Cinderella's Castle where a small figure could be seen.
Right after she said that the figure hopped from the window and glided down to the top of one of the buildings.
"THAT WAS TINKERBELL!!!!" Nessie shouted clapping her hands.
I barely got a chance to nod before fireworks exploded from behind the castle. The castle changed colors as the fireworks exploded. The fireworks were timed with the music that was playing. They reflected the wishes of the good and the evil, when the castle turned orange it meant that the evil villains were wishing, but when the castle turned blue it meant the good characters were wishing. The evil villains tried to take over, but in the end good triumphed over evil and the show ended with the song "When You Wish upon a Star" from Disney's Pinocchio.
Once the fireworks show was over we headed towards our bus stop. Nessie was still awake from all the excitement, but I could tell that she would crash soon. The bus was there when we got to the bus stop and we took the only remaining seats in the back. As I predicted Nessie fell asleep almost as soon as the bus started moving. When we arrived back at the hotel I carried her to our room and changed her into her pajamas. I tucked her into bed and lay down next to her. Unfortunately we were going home tomorrow, but at least we had fun while it lasted.