Disney's Magic Kingdom: Tom Sawyer Island

 The highlight of Disney's Magic Kingdom was Tom Sawyer Island.  I remember loving it when I was a kid, and indeed, the kids all loved running around exploring the island!  We had to take a small ferry raft across from the main street over the lake to the island.  Once there, we found a fun playground and a very clostrophobic pitch dark underground cave.  Of course we had to go through the cave several times since it was so neat!  And Kaylee loved being able to walk around and explore the playground on her own a little bit!  

 Next, we encountered a rickety bridge that jostled and wiggled at each step, as if Tom Sawyer had made it himself.  The boys thought this was super fun! The pictures don't do it justice how awkward and wiggly the bridge was, it was tough to walk on, especially with a baby in my arms!!  We had to go over the bridge several times as well!  

 We crossed a real bridge to the other side of the island and found Tom Sawyer's fort.  It was a huge fort with look out points on all sides and corners.  And this was the most exciting place of all for the boys.  Each lookout point had rifle guns that were available for the kids to maneuver around and made shooting noises, as if they were shooting at bad guys from their fort!  Jaxton and Cooper went from look out point to look out point trying out every rifle!  For a while, Jaxton seemed to have disappear, but he was just hiding away in one corner, keeping an eye out for bad guys and trying the rifle out on trees and birds!!  It felt so real!!  We could have spent all day just at this one fort!!

 Since the fort was all enclosed on the upper level, Kaylee got to go walking on her own around the perimeter of the fort.  She loved the freedom and really enjoyed herself!!

 This "Escape Tunnel" took us out to the outer side of the island rock!  It was a tunnel/ cave-like trail that was pretty dark, apparently used by Tom Sawyer and his gang to escape when trouble came to the fort!  :-).  This was pretty fun!!

 Here we are on the ferry raft floating across the lake to Tom Sawyer's Island.