The first ride we made it to was Under the Sea Journey of the Little Mermaid. You honestly don’t use the stroller that much because you can’t bring them in the lines, but I am glad we brought it. I could fit this all in one small camera bag and we also brought our BOB jogging stroller as well as snacks for Joy and an ergo to carry her in. I decided to bring my regular camera ( canon 5d mark iii) and my 24-70 lens with one flash. I really didn’t take TOO many pictures but I did have to document some of the princess meetings because you know…Paisley and princesses are kind of a big deal. Talk about stress and crowds! And we went in off season…. I figured it would take a bit of time but I did not know it would take an entire hour to get to our first Fast Pass ride. We were trying to get there by 9 when the park opened but didn’t actually get to the parking lot until 9. I would recommend getting to the parking lot an hour before you plan to enter the park itself.

You have to park far away, take a tram to the monorail station, and take the monorail to the entrance. If you’ve never been to Disney World it takes a while to actually get to the entrance. In the minute we thought about it, less and less were available so you definitely have to think fast! We ended up getting a 9:15 Fast Pass for the Ariel ride, 10:15 for the Jungle Cruise and 4:30 for Belle’s Enchanted Castle. something that was earlier on in the day. So when we logged on and saw what was available we had to decide on something we REALLY wanted to do vs. You want to get your Fast Passes earlier in the day because once you use all three you can get more throughout the day. You need to log into your account at 7am and have some sort of plan about which Fast Passes to get.

If you are like us and stay elsewhere you can only get it 30 days ahead of time. So if you are staying at a Disney World Resort you can get fast passes 60 days ahead of time. We decided we were going to do only ONE day and so we had to make some important decisions and get all the things done! I will start off by talking about getting Fast Passes. With Day 1 at Disney Springs, we did Day 2 at Magic Kingdom. I talk about how the first day we headed to Disney Springs and how Paisley got made into Princess Belle at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. If you missed part 1 of our Disney World Experience, check it out here.

Shiver by Belle Aurora