After a late lunch at BOG, I was ready to take on the LM ride! (What's the official abbreviation for the LM ride?)
I was swimming along with Flounder, Sebastian, and friends, when I came upon a certain sea witch:
About that time, Flotsam and Jetsam caused some mayhem and we stopped. Stopped solid. Stopped for AWHILE.
It's at this point that I decide to start freaking out a bit. I'm stuck on the ride and watching Ursula over and over and over and I start to panic. I'm claustrophobic almost exclusively in situations where I feel trapped, and as I sit with the drop down bar pressing into my lap, I continue to get more and more nervous. Finally, I text my ex and tell him I am having some issues, hoping the distraction gets me through. Right when I sent the text, the ride started up again. I was NOT getting back on this ride again anytime soon!
My opinion of this "new to me" ride? The queue gets an A; it's so much fun and the theming is truly exceptional. Plus, the line never ever stops, it seems! But the ride itself gets a D+. It's really nothing special to me, and even though TLM is one of my favorite all-time Disney movies, the ride is seriously lacking if you ask me.
Now it's time for more rides. I head over to HM, and am on the ride in 20 minutes. Then, though I hate to pass up Splash, I find myself heading for BTMRR.
It's now almost 4 p.m. and I'm also feeling a bit tired. I have been going non-stop (with a little nap break!
) most of the day and it's finally catching up to me. I get over to BTMRR and pull two FP+ for about two hours away, then jump in line.
For some reason, this queue is the one that I remember most from childhood - it and SM. Maybe it's because we waited in those lines the longest, or the most? I'm not sure, but something about this queue makes me very happy and also makes me feel very young.
I went over to ride POTC.
Crowds are fairly low but lines are still a bit long. I walk through a 15 minute wait for POTC, and at the end I decided not to ride (I was still so full from lunch, I just felt like walking around more. I enjoyed the queue and was ready to bolt). I asked where the chicken exit was.
"Back the way you came," the CM said, pointing at the long, thick line of people behind me.
"Seriously?" I said. "Through all those people?"
"Yup," she said, apparently not caring at all that I didn't want to ride.
"Ok then, I guess I'll ride!" I said, and off I went to row 6.
I was under the impression every ride had a chicken exit. I am no longer under that impression.
My PP FP was now valid, but frankly I was tired of MK for the time being and wanted to head back to my resort. I knew I'd be back the next day and I'd ride whatever I cared to ride then!
I then decided to head to the front of the park and get my AP and my
MVMCP tickets from will call. I had put off getting my AP a little bit, as I'd heard it could screw up my FP+, but I needed to get my MVMCP tickets and I needed my AP to do that since I'd gotten the AP pricing. Time to ante up.
I headed to will call at the front of the park. After a very smooth transaction in which I got my new Minnie-Mouse-clad AP and my MVMCP hard ticket (also Minnie!!), I was just about to leave when I looked at my Disney notes in my phone.
There was a **************.net meetup this day, and they were giving away Glow-With-the-Show ears (zomg) to the first five people. The meetup was right outside the confectioners inside the main gate, and I debated. After all, I'd missed the meetup by an hour. I figured I'd just find two people to take my BTMRR FP-s and get outta dodge.
But when I looked at my Disney notes, I saw that I hadn't missed the meetup by an hour! I actually was about 5 minutes early instead! Well that cinched it; I was going to go meet Steve and Dave and talk about **************.net, which I used to plan my first trip back to WDW after a decade not going. I've used the Dis ever since, but still love to read that page.
I arrived just 3 minutes early and met Steve and Dave. They were super friendly, and because I was one of the first to arrive, lookit what I got!
I'm in this picture, listening to everyone chatting.
I was now tired of being cold and the BOG meal had worn off. I wanted a bite to eat and to change into warmer clothes. And with my new GWTS ears, I wanted to go to Osborne Lights! Time to get on a bus and get outta here! I passed my FP- off to a woman who was there with Steve and Dave as a
travel agent who sponsored their sites; I asked her to give them to the couple who was talking to Dave currently (turned out to be Josh from easywdw!) and paid it forward, thinking of the new friend who got my the one-bedroom at BWV as I did it!
Probably worth something to someone!! A fresh Disney orange! (though I guess it would be rotten by now 
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