Disney World Pt9

The Haunted Mansion was another much anticipated ride. Em, Trev, Joshua and I were all looking forward to it, and with a little convincing of Carter, we all 5 got in line our first day in Magic Kingdom.

We played around a bit as we wove our way thru the graveyard before boarding the ride.



Being worried just a little bit about Carter being scared, I'm sure one of us said something like "well, it's only a four minute ride, we'll put him with Daddy because Daddy always makes things more fun, and he'll be fine..." Can you read between the lines on this? It of course meant that about one minute into it, the ride promptly broke down in the pitch dark/terrible howling/scary banging section. And not just for a minute or two.  Time ticked by as we waited, and in the dark were instructed to stay in our seats...three minutes...five minutes...fifteen minutes...  At about 25 minutes the lights finally came on but we still weren't allowed to move.  So Trev and I snapped this...


And here's Joshua, Emilee and Carter...  Yes, Carter was fine.  Daddy let him hold his iphone on flashlight mode and they played games.


And we snapped a few pictures as we walked out.  We imagine not many people get to see the inside of the Haunted Mansion with the lights on.  There were some really cool details that you don't usually notice when riding the ride in the dark.  But then a very strict cast member informed us we were not allowed to take any pictures while be evacuated so that was the end of that lol!


And just in case you are wondering, we were able to convince Carter to ride the Haunted Mansion again and he really enjoyed it.  And for our trouble the first time through, Disney gave us all a special unlimited Fast Pass that lasted for two weeks.  We were able to move to the front of the line on any ride (even rides that didn't take Fast Pass) for the rest of our trip.  AND we even handed them off to a random family on our last day so someone else could enjoy them too.