WDW Parades

In general, I'd say that Mark and I aren't huge fans of parades. However, the parades at Disney World, like so many other things, are in a category of their own. Still, there were only two parades we scheduled time to go see, both at the Magic Kingdom: the Main Street Electrical Parade and the new Festival of Fantasy Parade.

We saw the Main Street Electrical Parade on our first night there, arriving early to secure a good spot to view the parade and fireworks. We had fond memories of the previous evening parade, SpectroMagic, so we were excited. Unfortunately, we both felt like the current parade (actually a resurrection of an older one) isn't as good as SpectroMagic; it must have a big following because of nostalgia. Also, it had really annoying music, which never sits well with Mark. Still, it's pretty impressive to see the number of lights used to create the floats.

The Festival of Fantasy parade just started this year, and we were all set to watch it one afternoon, but it got rained out. I do have this one picture from our first day, when we arrived to the park just as the parade was ending.

While we were a bit disappointed that the big parade was cancelled because of the weather, our consolation prize was this rainy day cavalcade:

We also happened to catch part of Mickey's Jammin' Jungle Parade at the Animal Kingdom. This was a bit inconvenient, because we had to slowly follow the parade with a big crowd of people in order to get where we were going. But since this parade will be retired sometime this year, I guess it was good to see some of it.