Well, I won't spend too much time on these pages, since most of you have been to a Disney park in the past.   However, bear in mind that the Disney properties here in the Kissimmee area are more than 10 times the size of the Disney Anaheim park, containing 9 separate theme parks, about a half dozen hotels, and equal number of golf courses, a gigantic RV park (sold out), and a highway system connecting the whole mess. 

Our RV Park sold discount tickets, and after some discussion, we opted for 4-day "Park Hopper" passes that allowed us to visit any park over any 4 days.  Since this was Thursday and we wanted to avoid the crowds on the weekend, we decided that Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday sounded good.  Now the bad news: one 4-day pass cost $207.00.  We personally added considerably to the Disney bottom line during this time, since our entrance fees alone were more than $50 per person per day.

During a pow-wow session that morning, we determined to visit the "Magic Kingdom" first, and to spent the entire day there (our park-hopper passes would have allowed us to visit other parks that day, if we chose).

Below on the Tomorrowland Autopia , Joya eagerly anticipates what driving a REAL car might be like.  Astute readers will note the odd halo effects present in the photo below (it isn't Joya's personality); our lovely Cannon Powershot 100 "Digital Elph" is on the fritz, and will soon go in for warranty service.    Pictures may become scarce in the near future, so please be patient.  On this day, this was the only picture that came out close to acceptably.

The park was incredibly crowded -- college spring breakers combined with grade-school and high-school spring breakers were apparent everywhere.  Even so, we did OK.  Disney has a new thing called a "FastPass" which worked really well for us.  It works like this: for "FastPass" supported attractions -- typically those with long waits -- one can go to the ride and, instead of standing in line for hours, get a return time (usually 2 or more hours in the future).  With a FastPass return time in hand, you can go view or ride some of the less-popular attractions, and then return at your designated time, where you usually get to hop to something close to the front of the 'normal' line, now called the 'standby line'.  The only catch is that you can only get a FastPass every 2 hours.  Even so, we used FastPass very carefully, such that we got to ride on everything we wanted.  We even rode "Space Mountain", our favorite, twice.

We stayed until the Electrical Parade was over, and decided that, rather than spend beaucoup bucks on some Disney Dinner, we would go home and make our own, and this is what we did.