The Duncans Do Disney, Evening One: Magic Kingdom

I learned pretty quickly on this trip that taking good night shots was going to be very nearly impossible. Either you use the flash and gets lots of shadows and plastic-looking faces or you don't use flash and deal with motion blur. So what is an amateur photographer to do? Well, this one decided to just try a little bit of everything. I think that night time at Disney World is the first place I have used every single setting on my camera. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't - but it sure was fun trying!

As I have already written, we spent Day One at Animal Kingdom. After a nice nap in the afternoon, we packed it up and headed out to the Magic Kingdom that evening. I had never before seen the Castle all lit up for Christmas, so to be able to see it for myself and to experience Jack's reaction was pretty special. Here you see him riding on his Daddy's shoulders walking up Main Street, USA - taking in the spectacular view.

Also while we were there, we were able to take in the SpectroMagic Parade (which is amazing), ride several rides and play in the 100 Acre Wood Playground. It ended up that the playground was Jack's favorite thing to do at the Magic Kingdom, and on this first night he made a friend named Atticus. They had such a great time playing together and Jack kept looking for Atticus there in the 100 Acre Wood throughout the rest of the week. (I didn't have the heart to tell him that Atticus and his Daddy had flown back to California that very next day after we first met them.) And with that sweet story, here are some of my favorites from our first night at the Magic Kingdom: Jack and his Grandparents watching the parade (And hello? I am so going to have a problem with teenage girls in about 10 years. Do you see how casually cool he is?), Castle, sweet Castle (Someday, I'll stay there. Can you hear me Fairy Godmother?) and Pooh's Corner. Enjoy!