oboedm
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2009
Great update! Sitting here now, it's hard to really remember how freaking hot it was in Sept... but you update brought it all back!I thought I'd have this update a while ago, but life got busy!
Now that I've finally uploaded the photos (which actually don't start till later in the day...), I figured I should get on with it. So here is...
Day 10: What a Disney park on the sun would feel like...
This day got off to a poor start. But hang in there- it got very fun (and a bit embarrassing) later on.
We hadn't planed much for our last full day, and wanted to use it to re-visit the attractions we had missed or needed to re-do. Since there wasn't a big agenda, we didn't set an alarm and looked forward to sleeping in a bit.
To our surprise, we were awoken at 7:15am. The people next door were having an early morning conversation, and we could hear every word. When a child started screaming and crying with no signs of stopping, Ben and I admitted defeat and got up to start our day. We popped down to Captain Cook's for a quick breakfast. We had a lot of snack credits, so we got a bagel and a cheese danish. Guess who had the danish? What can I say... pastry for breakfast is a vacation thing and I love it!
We headed back to the room to drop our refillable mugs off (have I mentioned that we don't carry a bag of any kind to the parks? We travel light!) and the screaming/crying was still going strong. Ok, we'll just skedaddle right on out of here, then.
Since it was only 8:15, we figured we could catch rope drop at DHS and therefor get a quick ride on TSM. The bus came right away and we were at the park at 8:30! Only problem is... the park had opened at 8. D'oh- it was EMH at the Studios. The wait for TSM was already 45 minutes and I had finally learned my lesson- we skipped it! So I may make bad decisions, but I do learn from them eventually
Instead, we rode Tower of Terror 3 times in a row with no wait at all. Then we took a spin on Rock N'Roller Coaster. We hadn't done the Animation Tour yet, so we headed there next. We were able to just squeeze into the next Animation Academy class where we ended up drawing Russel from 'Up'. Man, was that a hard character to draw. I don't have any proof, but mine actually came out pretty nice! We threw them away as soon as we left the building, though- remember, we travel light!
By now it was getting closer to 11am and we were ready to bid farewell to the Studios. We took the boat to Epcot... and sweated our way around the different resorts. Even though we were inside the FriendShip, with the door being open so much it never got very cool in there. When we finally made it to the International Gateway, we were melting! We popped into the gift shop there to try and cool down. It didn't really work, so we continued on.
We decided just to wait for the World Showcase to open as we were hungry for lunch and wanted to get fish n' chips from the UK pavilion. It was only a matter of 10 minutes before we were sitting along the lagoon eating. Being outside was sucking majorly, so we tried to eat quickly. When we were done, was ran into the Rose & Crown Pub and almost died of rapture when the freezing AC blast hit us. It was glorious. We ordered a couple of Bass Ales and cooled off.
Next, we had some important work to do: Villains to catch, alcohol to consume, a nap to take, strangers to meet
ToT three times in a row is awesome... and I am so glad you are plaanning on doing mini TRs for your beach trip! I am so tempted to do the tour, just so know more aboutg it and I can start saving. How did you find out about the gift card thing? I think I could convince #& to do a tour if money was involved...