Orlando Day 9

10:20 AM - Tracey comes into my room and wakes me up. TRACEY IS UP BEFORE ME!!!!! After quickly checking for other signs of the Apocalypse (no locust swarms or raining frogs can be seen), she goes to make us breakfast. This has happened once before, during "the great sleep in of '03". I remember it well.

After breakfast I head down to Publix to replenish our waning supplies while "The Process" begins. She insists it only takes one hour. That's pretty funny.

1:00 PM - The Process ends after about an hour and a quarter ( which is pretty good for my Medium-High maintenance wife) and we are off to the Magic Kingdom. This is an exciting day for meals, we are having lunch at Cinderella's castle and dinner in the all-new Be Our Guest restaurant inside the Beast's castle in New Fantasyland.

2:05 PM - we get our seats for lunch in the castle. The food is always great here and today is no exception. As a bonus, we get visited by Aurora, Ariel, Snow White and Jasmine. Well, Jasmine actually skipped us as she was ambushed by a little girl at the next table but whatever, we have lots of pictures with her from various places. As usual, the food is superb.

Between lunch and dinner we have lots of time to explore the park and we do just that. Lots of pictures taken including a few of the construction of the Seven Dwarves Mine Ride, the last attraction in New Fantasyland, which opens next year.

8:45 PM - we complete our day of  "castle hopping" as we arrive for dinner at Be Our Guest, in the castle owned by The Beast. Spectacular. I'll post pictures when I can. We do two things we've never done before:

1. Have alcohol in the Magic Kingdom, and
2. Send back a bottle of wine

First bottle we ordered, a bottle of French Bordeaux, tasted great at first but then got really weak, as if the air made it regress badly. I've never experienced that in a bottle of wine. They were very understanding and we exchanged it for a fabulous bottle of California Pinot Noir.

The food was first rate, and very reasonable as well. Our bill, including tip, was $180, which includes  the $75 bottle of wine, two appetizers, entrees and dessert. It all includes pictures with The Master (Beast) after your meal.

12:00 AM - Finally home and off to bed. Today was a fabulous, but long, day.Tomorrow we have no specific plans, except to sleep until whenever.