Thursday June 26th 2025

The rain has been more cooperative this week. It hasn’t rained as much or as hard when it did rain. The current forecast calls for the summer pattern with rain to return as the weekend approaches.

On Tuesday I made another visit to Disney’s Magic Kingdom. It was my first visit in several weeks. I enjoy the park, but it is much harder to visit than the other parks. The parking lot is across a large body of water known as the Seven Seas Lagoon. You need to take a ferry boat or the monorail to get to the park gate after taking a tram or a long walk from the parking lot. It takes half an hour or more depending on the crowds to get from the parking lot to the park entrance. Getting back to your car with thousands of others at closing time takes much longer.

The park was very busy Tuesday evening. The wait times for the popular attractions were over an hour when I arrived. Later in the evening they became more reasonable. In the intervening time I rode the train around the park probably for the last time for years. Disney has announced that it will be operating in shuttle mode between Main Street station and Fantasy Land station while construction is ongoing in Frontier Land and beyond. July 6th is the last day for full circuit train rides. It is also the last day of operation for the River Boat and Tom Sawyer Island.

Overall the highlight of the evening was watching the Happily Ever After fireworks. I watched it from tomorrow land and fantasy land. There wasn’t enough time to get back to main street after riding Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin. There was time to ride Haunted Mansion after the fireworks with a low wait time after fireworks, before making my way back to my car. It was about an hour and a half from the back of Magic Kingdom until I was home. The actual drive time was only about thirty minutes.