DECEMBER 11, 2011
Day 6, Part 7 In Which The Second Annual Splashathon Commences!
It was time to cross the park for a very important part of evening EMH:
THE SPLASHATHON.
For those of you who ride Splash Mountain once and then move on to something else... you're doing it wrong.
This ride is designed to for a minimum of 3 rides at once. Now I don't mean that you ride, and then you go get fastpasses and do something else for awhile, and then ride again, and then maybe again sometime later. I mean you sit on that ride and continue without getting out and getting back on line and going through the queue. This is unnecessary.
I realize not everyone can be the
Queen of the Polynesian like myself, but you can still get the royal treatment and have your own Splashathon during late night EMH!
When we got to the area, we realized BTMRR was only 5 minutes, so we hopped on that first. And guess what? THAT TURNED INTO ITS OWN -Athon!
Yup, they let us sit on the ride and just sent it on through the wilderness!!! Oh MAN it was such a blast! BTMRR has never been a top favorite of mine, but I gotta say, three times in a row after midnight while being Snack Drunk shed a new light on that puppy!
After whippin' our hair on the wildest ride in the wilderness, it was finally time for the main event! However, it wasn't prime splashing weather. It wasn't really that warm out. It was actually pretty chilly.
Like that stopped us.
HAH!
Livin It Up can not be halted by anything, especially weather. We would
Live It Up 3 times in a row on Splash even if there were arctic temperatures. That's just the kind of people we are.
Sadly, there were no crazy guys or silent girls with us on this trip down to the Briar Patch and back. However, some people did get off after one or two rides, which I thought was absurd. I mean, did they NOT know about the 3 times in a row rule?! Do they not know what a
Splashathon is?! DID THEY NOT RECOGNIZE THAT IT WAS I, QUEEN OF THE POLYNESIAN RESORT?!?!?! I mean, who wouldn't want to splash the night away with me?! It was weird.
My mom was SO tired. She almost didn't want to go on a third time. Thankfully, she quickly realized that was CRAZY TALK. Yeah, she wins for putting up with me. I'm a hoot, but I can be pretty exhausting. Some prefer me in small doses, but my mom gave birth to me so she gets the whole shebang! Lucky her.
After the third ride, she was pretty done. We were both delirious, the sugar high had worn off, the Splashathon had ended, and everything hurt. I mean, it was Day 6 of non-stop park touring. And the Magic Kingdom was about to close. Unfortunately, the EMH only went til 1:00 AM instead of 3. So obviously, for all those reasons, we left.
LOL LIKE WE WOULD DO THAT.
Don't you know us by now??? THE
LIVIN IT UP HAS TO GO ON UNTIL THE VERY END!!!!
There were still like 16 solid minutes of EMH craziness to be had. You can't just LEAVE the Magic Kingdom like that.
So we dashed over to an empty Tomorrowland for one last shot through the solar system. I think doing Space Mountain right before the park closes is gonna be a new ritual for us. Or maybe next time we will have Spaceathons. Only time will tell!
By the time we came out, sadly the Magic Kingdom was closed, and we had to go. These first few pics were ones I forgot to post before, that I love so much I had to include here!
Ahh, standing on the castle stage and staring down Main Street was so amazing. See the tree at the end? It's just so beautiful.
So on our way out, I could NOT stop taking pictures. We are always the annoying people who leave verryyyy sloooowly.
I think this turned out so cute with the mom & son walking down Main Street!
They had the shorts that used to play in the theatre in the old Exposition Hall playing in here, but it's just not the same! Sigh
I loved this TNBC Vinylmation display! Normally, I'm not that into Vinylmations but I just LOVE this set.
My mom and I were REALLY REALLY deliriously fatigued at this point, and she started doing the same thing she was doing that night in Downtown Disney, where she started doing hilarious poses in front of random things and demanding I take her picture. Again, she'd kill me if I posted any of them, but just imagine a woman doing the most ridiculous poses possible in front of various things on Main Street, multiply the silliness by 1,000x and you've got a shade of an idea of what this was like for me to witness. LOL I love my mom.
Bye bye, Magic Kingdom! See ya real soon.
Up next: Where the EFF is Pascal?????