The Volan family returns to the Magic Kingdom!
After many years The Volans, Greg, Ingrid, Erin & Lance spent the day Friday March 14th at the Magic Kingdom. A special return from long time season pass holders from years ago because Erin now 19 was home from college on Spring Break. She is a freshman at USF in Tampa, and our younger son Lance now 7 is involved in so many sports the family has not gone together as a whole family in approximately 4 or 5 years.
It was a real treat to go back and see the park after a fairly long hiatus. We spent the day catching all of the classic favorites like Small World, and Buzz Lightyear, and Lance got to ride on Space Mountain for the first time, and come to find out he had never seen the Country Bear Jamboree, we all enjoyed it very much—it just goes to show how timeless these rides, and shows are. I could not help but think as my son was cracking up at these Bears, I was doing the same thing at his age when my parents used to bring us down from Ohio many years ago to Disney World. We also liked allot of the newer changes they have made to some of the rides for example the new Johnny Depp version of Pirates of the Caribbean is incredible likeness to the movies that the whole family loves---and the new updated Tiki Room has newer birds that the kids really related to. Some great updates were also made to the Haunted Mansion since last time we were on it, which really made it a better ride from the past.
All in all it was a great day, the lines were on the average about a 25 minute wait, but we got to see everything we wanted to without having to rush around, also had plenty of time to grab a bite to eat, and on the way out Ingrid had her favorite desert place, the bakery on Main Street to wrap it all up.
Greg Volan is an on-site sales agent for Park Square Homes, at Encantada Resort a town home resort community on the south side of Disney
Ingrid Volan is a Realtor with Southern Realty Group
Erin a freshmen at USF, studying to become an Engineer
Lance sports extraordinaire, Baseball, Basketball, and Football, when he is not on his skateboard, and oh yeah studying for 2nd.grade!
