we entered into the buggy loading area
Maybe put some fly strips up or something.
Who wants bugs getting in your face when you're trying to go on a ride???
It was clear that they’d obviously been having issues that were causing delays but that they hadn’t figured out to stop letting people in so it was like being trapped with no way out. If I was slightly claustrophobic it would not have been a fun situation.
I always wonder about this.
I mean, it's not that complicated of a ride, at least from the doom-buggy aspect, right?
They just go round and round.
I always assumed that whenever the ride stopped like that, it was to let on a wheelchair or disabled person where they had to stop the ride for safety reasons.
And I could be totally wrong.
The ride began normally enough but it didn’t take long for the first ride stop to occur. Apparently it was “playful spooks interrupting our tour” – what can you do when that happens? Eventually we started moving again and managed to make it another 100 feet or so before we were “unavoidably detained by playful spirits”. As we began moving I figured that I could forgive them one more time – they are spirits after all. But it happened again. And again. And again. By the 6th time I was internally screaming to just let us off the stupid ride (I’m pretty sure I didn’t vocalise it but you never know). By the time we picked up our hitchhikers we had stopped at least 8 times! So let’s just say the Haunted Mansion and I were no longer friends after this trip.
Yep. You were right. I don't like you any more.
Just kidding. It would take a lot more than that to make me angry at a pretty young lady.
One thing, though. I
love when the ride stops. I take those moments to really look around and try to pick up things that I may have missed before.
The best was when the ride stopped right in front of the dining room. Awesome.
However, one thing the Haunted Mansion does have which is pretty cool is an awesome gift shop – Memento Moris.
And it's smaller cousin Memento Boris.
I made use of the free shipping to your resort and left my memento behind.
Well, no
wonder it too so long!
Most people get a memento of their face done! But you had to be different.
I guess that's one photo you won't be posting on the DIS!
I saw the meet and greet location for Merida. There were only two or three people in line so I jumped in. Apparently I’d just missed Merida because it was at least 20 minutes before the line started moving again, and for that 20 minutes we were out in the baking hot sun.
Ugh. That bites.
<20 minutes later> "Hi Merida! Got a towel and a cold drink by any chance?"
But the wait was worth it. Merida was one of the best meets all trip – she was absolutely in character and was super chatty. I definitely recommend leaving time to meet here in your in the Magic Kingdom.
Really! Gee, makes me sorry we passed her by.
After the meet I went up to the kiosks and grabbed my next FP – the next one available that I hadn’t done yet was Enchanted Tales with Belle so I took it and made my way into New Fantasyland. I thought this attraction was ok – I think it’s definitely one aimed at little kids rather than adults – and I’ll probably skip it next time.
Definitely.
I really enjoyed it when I did it.
The mirror is quite something and I was really impressed with the animatronics for Lumiere...
but it's still a Princess meet for the littles at the end of the day.
I too will probably skip it now.
All the spots on the shady side were gone but there was no one on the river side of the path. Yes it was hot, but I bought myself a drink and claimed my spot right against the rope.
Good location, cold drink... good plan.
It turned out to be a great spot to see the parade even if I got a little more tanned than intended (I’ll say tanned even though it was more of a burn).
Burn? What? You mean you don't get lots of sun over on the other side of the pond?
I had a few point at my first visit badge on their way past.
Nice! I've never worn one of those.
They tried... "What are you celebrating?"
"Nothing, really."
"Are you sure? Absolutely sure??"
My favourite float was the Tangled one (hello Flynn Ryder)
Really? Is that what it comes down to?
You have all these wonderful floats, all these colourful characters...
And all you can say is "hello Flynn Ryder"???
I mean, please! You seriously are going to take a wholesome, family enterta...
Hey! Where are the pictures of Ariel?
She's in this parade too, ya know!
What gives????
Unfortunately Woody was unwell so he wasn’t able to make it that afternoon
Nothing worse than an unwell Woody...
What?
but Jessie and I had a great chat and she loved that we shared a name.
Oh?
So I joined a few hundred of my friends and entered the Hall of Presidents. I don’t know what to say about it other than perhaps you need to be an American to truly appreciate it.
I appreciated the movie, sterilized (of course) but not bad. And I appreciated the very well done animatronics.
But yeah. Definitely no emotional upwelling of pride or anything.
It was about half an hour until I made the front of the line but thankfully it was indoors out of the rain and in the air-conditioning.
Two pluses, right there.
and we had a hilarious interaction involving a discussion of beignets and freddo frogs (Tiana’s clearly been to Australia as she brought them up!).
Or New Zealand... or Ireland... or.... Zimbabwe apparently!
Jungle Cruise is super nostalgic for me as it is the only ride I remember from my very first ever visit to a Disney park which was to Tokyo Disney back in 1990.
Awww....
And I find it interesting that a ride you went on when you were five had that much of an impact.
Unfortunately our skipper seemed to be going through the motions and on top of that no one seemed to be laughing at any of the bad puns (I chuckled I swear) so it was an underwhelming cruise this time.
Oh, well. Jungle Cruise is really becoming hit or miss, I'm hearing.
Pretty tough to sell it as a "real" jungle cruise (which was the original intent) when you have AK with real animals just down the road.
You're weird! Must be why I like you so much.
. At least I got two different scenarios when I went through – one in Hoth and one in Jar Jar Binks land. 
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rolleyes1) we made our way to the boarding area and onto our elevator. I thought the ride was pretty cool – the views are pretty awesome – but it wasn’t as terrifying as the name might suggest. 
